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50% of the APL have now qualified through to Paris, leaving only Asia and APAC North
to remain.
And tonight, we will decide the final slot in Asia, a very important slot with the three
things that we have left and where WABO has been over the last 12 months.
There's no question in our mind where it needs to go, but there's a long time between
then and now.
That's the damn show.
Welcome back to the desk, gentlemen.
Oh, it's good to be here. What a day yesterday. What a fun day. I mean, we finally got a couple of two zeros. Yep
And the best two zero possible eight seven eight seven. I mean, unfortunately to change really you better give them
Some kind of convinced the ratio can you lose in that matter? They could have easily just wanted eight seven eight seven themselves
Yeah, but congratulations as well to enterprise. They were fantastic and still very much best team in the region
Maybe even cross all the way. I mean that was a discussion coming into stage one was where they actually sat where all the regions sit
I think we could only really get that answer ultimately from Salt Lake City. It's really hard to do it anywhere else goes without lands
It's really impossible, but are you feeling okay today?
Unfortunately a little under the weather the folks a bit scratchy, but we got some good siege on offer tonight
So that'll pull me through really excited to be back in Asia and the big talking point obviously is Wavo
Yes, do they get the job done? It would be a catastrophe for them and a massive upset if they don't get that win
Yep, there's no reason to think they won't but you just you never know they could have an off night. Maybe. Oh
Maybe
There's so much to say right now
Yeah, I mean
Decent sure that we should see that but ultimately we are coming off the back of an incredible night in those Jake just mentioned it a
Little bit earlier. I mean the performance that we saw in that upper bracket and not upper bracket
Sorry, just the grand final in general was
Honestly, possibly one of the more entertaining matches I've seen in those for quite some time.
8-7, 8-7 as you've already alluded to and it really took us, it took us tooth and nail to decide this.
I said on the broadcast that Chiefs needed to win that up a bracket final.
For them it was more on the line. They wanted to qualify for EWC.
They probably didn't want to have to go into a lower final with nerves.
And then in verse, because I think the grand final is the opposite.
I think Enterprise needed to win the grand final.
They're a team that have got aspirations of making top A and making main stage of these international events
and qualifying as a two seed just wouldn't have been good enough for them.
So I think they came into yesterday with a bit more on the line.
Yeah, I think it's really important to remember that there were two big carrots dangling on the line in this matchup, right?
But Winner got an additional 120 SI points for the global standings and that can make a big difference towards the tail end of the year.
of the year and then as Jake is suggesting both of those teams get seeded and can do two different
parts of EWC and the run out of the first phase now four cheats as they ultimately finish second
in that matchup it's pretty challenging they have some really stiff competition and there's only a
very selective amount of teams that even make it through then to the next phase so it's gonna be
pretty brutal for cheats but as you were alluding to your right AP had a little bit more pressure on
them to get themselves in that good position and they ultimately converted and in a 2-0 fashion
The other thing as well is you probably want the best team to be
placing that number one seed to try and get two slots for
the Suck of Asia. Correct, correct.
It must have achieved, I'm sure, would love to be that
best team and do it themselves. There's probably a small part
of them that's like, well, look, if we're going to be able to
have two slots in this region, Enterprise is a pretty good
team to maybe try and get us that slot again because they
did that for them in the first place at Salt Lake City.
So, um, by Enterprise being in that position, they'll, they'll,
I think it's matched with the Asia slot. Yeah, they're either Asia or A factor. I can't remember.
Yeah, yes, but you are right. I think it does come to that. So we'll obviously once that's all
locked in have a bit more clarity. But nevertheless, I think actually, Pengu brought up the fact that
for Chiefs, it might end up being a good thing to play some extra games internationally in that
earlier stage, maybe against teams that aren't the very best of the best either. So I don't think
it's going to be too bad for them. We think about usually what the O-cycle is when we usually get
a new team that goes overseas. We're not used to having two slots. Usually that new team goes
over seas and it takes them in a bento too. They're usually bombed out.
And when we spoke to Bap and yesterday he even conceded it so I said look I'll probably go over there
mature a little bit, realize maybe certain strats won't work and then come back to bento.
It was calling a constant rush meta right, like he was really playing off what the cheese were able
to achieve. I think it was exaggerating a little bit. I think he was too, but ultimately that's
just where it lands. Speaking of exaggerating a little bit, Xenovs goes pro. It was probably a
literally the exact direction of the segment isn't it mate?
To be the best segment we've ever had in APL?
I think it is, I think it clears nearly anything we've ever done in the APL.
Yeah, I think the key storyline for this particular 1v1 is that
Waybo, I've probably bought a 95 plus percent chance to win tonight in Qualify.
It's the investor Jake, he's got probably a less than 5 percent chance of winning this 1v1.
There is a bit of pressure.
Yeah there is.
Look, I don't think I don't think we're doing one tomorrow because I think we're doing another behind the sea
Yes, I do believe that is so
You mean they tilt a bit recently as well haven't you?
I've lost a few games. Well, I you know look progressions bot linear
I thought I was getting a bit better and then you guys decided to give me blood
Do you want to know why I was fine with getting leverage until I saw him say do what he did
I'm here to absolutely
Oh boy, give me mercy!
AHHHHHH!
No!
Give me what was back there!
Oh shit.
Oh, where, my friend, how you doing?
That's about how you?
Yeah, mate, we're living, laughing and loving.
I can't believe.
How did they get you as the last person
for him to burst to this stage?
Oh, that did, that'd pay me a pretty penny,
English girl.
Yeah, I thought so.
I thought they might have to pay you out the arse
for that one, but look,
Look, have you been watching the segments?
Oh mate, of course.
Anything to thank you for sending us.
So surely, surely this is the best opportunity you've ever had to actually hit on this general?
Oh look, you know, just come in and have some fun.
You know, try to make him a bit more salient than he already is.
So, there you go guys.
Mate, go, he's got an old man.
All I'm saying is, like, I need to leave one round. Come on.
I think you'd be lucky to get one.
I've been with him taking the piss.
I will say.
I've been on myself now, so I'll probably get one.
I will say where.
I did a little bit of trading yesterday.
I did come into today to prepare.
I think we've even got a little behind the scenes.
Oh, what's this?
That looks like a music video.
What are you talking about?
Maybe.
I walked into the studio today.
APL, man.
He's even in the play deck.
He's wearing his chocolate bars.
Yeah.
How did you see that?
Like your bars earlier in kickoff?
I don't know why you followed me into the toilet this is a little bit strange but he
did help at least set up the microphone and get me ready for the broadcast oh he loosens
you up and he also turns you up as well yeah this was good I tell you they can edit quick
down stairs we've got a good pod team here don't know stuff about yeah no they don't
they don't have fun here do you stuff about sometimes yeah I think you're gonna have
stuff and that today. I mean, let's cut the up the handgun.
Can I just say, by the way, look, a banter aside, it may be just to soften him up, but
let it was it's good to have you back top three this day. It's pretty good. I think
you guys will go into next stage knowing hopefully there's two slots again that you're going to
be contending.
Yeah, you know, I'm happy that he did, like you said, is the one going deeper. I don't
hate to change, but if you said if you want any team to go as deep as possible, it's
going to be enterprise, you know, they're the fellas who will be spirit. So I have
to high chance but coming back in top three being like as competitive as we can with all
the shit that happened so like I think overall it's a good stage for us and just now time
to knock it down and lose the stakes obviously there.
Yeah and to obviously beat Zell speaking of which I have to one-flog out, one-flog in,
let's go.
Take your time, take your time.
I'm locking in, I don't have the pen but imagine I'm just signing here this is the last one.
This is the sign-off, isn't it?
Yeah, good luck.
Aren't you meant to sign off for your win?
Maybe I will.
Maybe I will.
Alright, solvery, girlie.
Alright, well, what's happening?
As Jake starts to prepare for himself and starts to make his way downstairs, this is ultimately
the greatest opportunity he's ever had.
Wettables, do you feel like he could beat you in this?
I'm limited to what I can say here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, at least some of us.
This is a fun segment.
I'm not a shabby too much, mate.
No, I'm limited to what I can say here.
Forget it, be honest.
Ah, okay, okay.
Prod's worded you up.
I understand.
I understand.
Oh, here he is.
He actually moves quite mimbly for a man,
if you say.
He doesn't even like it.
Yeah, he does.
Oh, wow.
He's got a cheer squad as well.
squad come on it's time in the shooting range he's that full woman up in there
he's preparing for this mate he has been waiting for this for a long time
Jake Xenox and Diddy have you got me down there? I didn't mate I did you see LPL
man's in the pipe over now he's everywhere I think was there a campaign to
free him or something? I know we've had all kinds of technical issues few before
you're feeling a little bit better now? yeah definitely feeling a little bit
better mate I'm feeling well I don't feel good fair enough fair enough wet I
will just ask you go easy on the poor guy he is old and he is getting back into
it I love this though I don't know if we've seen much of this out of Jake yet
looks like he's been steadying up since he played against Labyrinth he's taking
the Shrugged Unmetter into his own hands spoiler alert for him he's trying to get a taste of his own medicine
I love the pace about this
Watch out Jake. What's looking pretty keen Jake? What are you doing?
That's part of the shotgun met us
Did take some things from Lebron
I would say it a little bit lucky.
I know you're a man of mind games, and from my experience playing with Xanox, he is susceptible.
I would recommend getting in early.
Just tilt him.
Getting in on the tilt early, obviously hard to do 1-0 down, but I believe mate, you got it.
Look, we tried set up some stuff where, you know, he's like, a bit what the hell is going on.
Yeah, so like 90% of things that happen to you.
Haha, just like Jake on a broadcast.
Doesn't take much to confuse at all, man.
It does not.
Oh, God.
I'm actually keen for this.
Yeah, Jake's calling me.
You bet he goes too far.
Are you going to just sweat for this one, Jake?
No, I'm not.
I don't really want to say too much and give anything away,
to be honest.
OK, whatever that means.
Looks like he's going full sweat to me.
I'm seeing some drone work out of you, mate.
OK, well, you don't have to give things away.
I don't think that's going to need it, mate.
This does feel like the most sweat we've seen.
Out of two flasks?
No, out of two flasks, I would say both.
Oh, I don't know, Levy was pretty bad, yes.
He was in the shooting range when I got to the studio, Jack.
Oh, really?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Jack, what are you doing?
Oh, no.
I think the traps have caught him out.
I don't know what to...
Oh, here we go.
Nice, mate.
Our tables come on mate. This is your moment
Oh, no
Where did you lock in a little bit there?
I'm not even wearing my glasses. I'm half blind. Oh
60 FPS
You need to see that's true. Well, well, that's definitely debatable pretends to say
You were in your glasses Jake. No
No, so I don't need my classes for close range, I'll give you that.
I've got something for you in this round though.
Oh, do you?
No, you don't.
You stick the tongue out of it.
You walked in there for half a second, shut up.
I just let my traps through the work, but...
Alright, let's see about attack though, 100% defense win rate, come on guys.
I haven't seen jake on this one before
It's been gone for a high-skill operator and a high-skill weapon
This is not the jake that I know and love
Learn some stuff from Lebron's mate
Maybe stick to the shotguns buddy
Yeah well if you were going with Lebron's strats then I would have expected a lot more
Oh
My come on Jake. Oh, Jackie
Mades I still I don't know how you're pulling off some of these pigs, but
That's not a bad C4 trick, I've seen those ones before. Back when the Jinx C1s were going on, that's the main thing.
He probably didn't know that, I think he just randomly threw it.
Jason, were you Jinx C1 B1 prepping on your way into the studio today?
Not really, no. Well, I mean, look, as I said, I did try to lock in, but right now it's not going great.
You know when you think you're ready to go, you think you're locked in, and then it all just goes to shit anyway?
Yeah.
Now I'm tilted.
We've been there a hundred times before I want to get to the point where it's just a fun round
to chat, just call when you should.
This is the opportunity way, you never had a better opportunity than now.
Where's APL man? I'm half expecting him to come out of the woodwork any moment and stack.
There we go, that's it.
I want to see more of that. But yeah, look Jake, if you don't have an opportunity, you'll be looking at a match point mate.
I might look in it, we'll look here, hang on.
I wonder what jakes and oxen did he locked in looks like Michael. I don't think I've ever seen oh, no, that's a lie
result 24
Look that was not in the server very different very true. He was on his hands and knees though
Knees before where this keeps going the way
Come on Jakey
I should have won that last round.
Yeah, I know right.
I can hear you tracking mate, just like that.
Oh, okay, we got contacts.
Ben's using his util.
Yeah, I love this.
Oh, here we go.
Nice idea there, Tables.
20 seconds jakey these fights are scared
oh
what
what the hell bro
tbf it wasn't really good drive i just didn't know you could treat like that
I guess we can't even say that with shotguns. I guess every now and then, you know, broken clock is right twice a day.
I would say broken clock is used up all. That was a one in a billion shot.
Like that's sharper than some of the pro players in this region.
That was just luck. That after a very long time.
He didn't even see him on your screen, peek is a bad idea.
Drops not done, drops not done. I need three. I haven't got three against anyone.
You need two more of those, Jay. I don't care at four, I don't want three.
Look, that's a round of attack as well.
Holy crap, that's just my juice.
Alright, now the table's as keen to finish this.
Come on, way out.
Jake he's gonna steal the the similar strat here from defense. Yeah
Well keep in mind that look I don't think anyone has dropped three rounds
Jake this is your chance you might actually get three he shut up, bro. Why are you peaking him? It's where the
The mind game!
Why are you holding that angle?
He's gonna ace the shot!
He's gonna ace this shot!
No, I'm shot!
Oh, Jake!
Jake!
Oh, God!
All right, all right, all right.
I'm never gonna cue the end of this.
Now I'm starting to feel bad,
because I'm about to send him back into retirement.
Oh, Jake!
We can't.
No, we can't.
I'll go easy on you this jam, where it's fine.
Okay, Jake, look, I'm genuinely impressed, I have to say.
to say that's two rounds in a row where it's not been cheese it's been genuine
good aim two rounds um yeah like have you actually been playing recently like
you're on the right so we finished a little early last night thanks to chiefs
that's I went back home and it did a little bit of did a little bit of prep
he actually did I think I actually saw a pop up on my on my steam so maybe he's
I'll search for you in the next one, bye.
Alright, well it's match point.
He keeps coming in with new ideas.
Yeah, he'll just do half of this.
I'll tell you what, like from the Amari strategy had the last time he played as well.
He's got some ideas.
Oh, nobody's been spotted.
He's working it, you go.
Do it, let's just check.
Oh, no, wait, wait, what?
I got the three. I thought that was good enough. But now I kinda wanna win.
Weddable's is gonna lock in here Jake if you're not careful this is this is much point
Nothing to lose everything to gain he has everything to lose
He's already lost everything
Hey, you can't you can't mention it's gonna be in the DMs immediately
All right, this is it mate. I've got you here. Don't sweat come on Jakey. This is the one mate
Yeah, I don't mean to I don't need to
How what was he
What's going on there?
Oh, no, he's back. Okay. Did the camera delay them? Yeah, the camera frozen
Look like he was snacking on some
I don't know what it was, some peanuts or something.
Well I can see it on the back, he's got some like, definitely not peanuts.
Jake, come on mate, less snacks, more flying, come on.
Yeah, I'm on my way, I'm on my way, I'm in the building already.
Oh he's screen cheating!
What?!
That's what he's been doing!
He's screen cheating!
He's sitting on the screen!
What are you doing mate?
Alright, now he's getting on it.
I actually feel...
I'm sticking with it, yeah I got the test.
Is this the moment when Jake wins his first one?
He's playing for it.
Oh
Let's see this from you
Look you fall valley and leave but you got out class
Are you, like, is your kind of freezing downstairs?
No.
I just had a couple of issues, I don't know what to say to be honest.
I was just going to ask something like, what, how did you think I went?
Honestly, like, your brain for the game isn't that bad, but I hope so since, how long have
you been like, casting bosses?
Like, genuinely you thought?
Wait, where would you rate me in that game?
You got me a question and then you cut me off!
Yeah, I know, shut up!
We've got a show, we've got a show!
Where would you rank me in pro league?
Oh, you ain't making pro league, you're like T-shirt, that's better.
Well, unfortunately this has gone a little off script.
I do have to unveil the curtain for all the wrong reasons, but you weren't playing me wet.
Yeah, that makes so much sense!
So hang on hang on!
Oh that'll take, that'll take!
Play as a T3 player telling you...
for the second...
players lost another one in OT438
8x7, 8x7, 8x7, 8x7, 8x7, 8x7...
But it said rex gnobbs, like...
hang on, the players account!
Did you look into the rex gnobbs account?
Oh my god, it's...
all I say is if Chris is gonna go to AWC losing to Mina one beyond
then we ain't going very far, dude.
Ohhhh, player, player, player.
Ah, fair enough, fair enough.
If that was meant to be the script, what happened?
Better 1v1 playoff, but I think I'm still actually a 1v1 player.
Yeah, you know, everyone's still actually a game.
You know that's not true, mate. You know that's not true.
Jake, I'm not gonna lie, mate. I'm pretty disappointed in you.
I'm pretty, I'm pretty disappointed.
I'm happy.
Nah, nah, nah. That was absolutely atrocious for me.
You're trying to bring in a 1v1 expert like player?
That's filthy.
I can't believe I pressed your right.
I'm sorry, you shouldn't have leavened my bad.
I wouldn't say that's my first one, but I think I've ever done it in this game.
That was fun, that was fun. I was lucky getting a bit nervous, because I was gonna have to burst but...
I'm surprised he couldn't tell me that it wasn't that bad.
They were just that bad that he couldn't tell that it wasn't done on spot.
I can't lie when I got one cap, I was like, no, that was the best set of his life?
That was crazy.
That was filthy.
I do feel a little bit bad to deceiving everyone.
You should, man.
I think that's a pretty...
But you know what?
You also gave me Leverent.
Well, look, I mean, we didn't give you Leverent, did we?
The production did.
So if you should be mad at anyone, for snakes with the people in front of you.
I think you should have to play Leverent five times in a row now, just to earn his
right to be back on the broadcast. Don't throw snakes at the people beside you. Not at the
camera. Not at the camera. Look, playout wetables. I'd love to keep chatting with you boys, but
unfortunately we're going to get this show back on the road because player apparently can't win a
1v1 to save his life. Oh boy, thank you very much. I'll speak to you soon.
So wait, you're telling me that Jake orchestrated this whole thing to cheat
and he still loses. That seems fitting. If Xerox can't go pro, what hope is there for any of us?
Very well. All the hope in the world. I mean, surely we need something more. Like that has been,
it's been fun, right? Last couple of days of doing this, but the fact that Jake cheater,
he's given up on trying to get better and he's just cheating. You know what? You can have your
a spot back on the catch because I'm I'm disappointed in you no you're a dirty cheat
that's dog you're a dirty cheat I didn't even win you had us believing for a second for a
second it's a shame to call you my co-caster oh for a second okay for a second now I thought
Jake's an awesome dude of a great Jake you cheated in the one-to-one your path to go pro
This is super low even for you. What then you lost you still couldn't win
So you're winless you're bitchless
Okay as a punishment okay as a punishment I will want you on you for real
What no cheating this time tomorrow not for the last grand final no no no no no no no no no no
Enough one we want even in the ones I didn't play one more
What about a 2v2 and I get to pick someone to play with Nick
So you get to bring a 2v2 player, I get to call someone else up, yeah from Europe then.
So EU vs OZ.
Yes.
Oh no.
I'm so excited to call.
Okay.
I'm excited to call.
Buggle up buddy.
Alright.
Oh no.
We're going to be riding.
Kidding up baby.
It's so much time.
2v2 coming back at ya.
I kind of feel like I need to do this because I wanted to, I was practicing before.
SUNDAY, SUNDAY!
Monster Truck Rally and Jason Ochsendini!
And there's also...
Oh, there's one there!
Who's on your contact list?
And it's JP!
No, it's not, it's not player!
Sorry, I want Chris, but...
I might get Batman.
Yeah, yeah!
I think he's tired for that.
That's filthy, of course!
That will conclude, Zen Ochs's...
What do you call it, Pastor Pro?
This is...
Must-See-TV.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what? How about pay per view?
What? You're going to sub?
Yeah, what are you thinking?
How much are we thinking?
In terms of how much people are going to pay?
Well, it's up.
How much? How much for people? Just a sub?
No, free.
Come on. What are we? OK, OK, OK.
No, no, we will do this for free.
We are for the people.
We are for the people.
And so for the people, we will move on.
Let's go ahead and start talking about what we're actually here for today,
which is Asia three teams left in what has been a pretty stressful
bracket for some of these teams, but Labo, they've seen him on top of all of it, I'll
tell you that much. They lost their opening match against Daystar in that upper final
and then very quickly, well they swept it pretty cleanly, I'll say that much. But it's
where we kind of draw our eyes to in the lower bracket that we start this venture and it's
an exciting one, guys.
Oh, sorry, just need a minute to rewind for whatever the hundredth of a place in the last
five minutes that was wild.
Um, okay, let's recompose. Yeah excited to jump into this bracket again
Crystal clear the expectation is we're gonna walk away with the one and only slot for Asia to EWC
And then hopefully the rest of the region would have been they can do actually do well at the event
And then maybe reclaimed two slots
But as for that first matchup awkward day start in its own way Jake even that one probably tilting to be a little bit
one-sided of course in favor of Daystar but I think Orc could potentially get it done in three.
Yeah I mean I agree with you and not disagreeing with you at all. I think that...
Not disagreeing.
He's a reminiscent a little bit just a smidgen of last year. Stage two,
Elevate versus Daystar and I think the general consensus then would have been
you know the whole year was kind of hanging out as Elevate versus Swaybo who's going to be the
best team and then in the end as we evidently found out Daystar go and get the win and they
and they had two slots, so it meant quite a lot.
And then from there, they start, you know,
have been able to go internationally
and do a lot of amazing things.
But I wonder if Orc could play the Daystar role
and against Daystar as last year.
You know what, it's been said,
they have the heart of a lion.
And up the lion, let's get into it.
Team Orc, they don't have an insurmountable task
in front of them.
In fact, they have a...
How do I piece three here?
Well done, he's on the ball there.
This roster has been here for a very long time.
They have gone back to these playoff series more times
than I dare count.
And when push comes to shove, this roster, well and truly,
I mean, they could still go to EWC.
There's no question in my mind
that they are still good enough to beat Daystar.
And if Lebo don't perform to the standard
we've seen in the past,
Orc could absolutely catch them out.
Yeah, and you look across at the numbers for team Orc,
and they've actually cemented themselves quite firmly
and quite concretely as number three in the region.
Number three attacking win rate.
Number three defensive win rate.
They equal second on entry percent conversion as well
with Daystar.
But unfortunately for them being concrete in third,
it goes without saying that they are a little bit behind
certainly training second, which of course is Daystar
and there's a pretty big goal to Wave-O.
So whilst the seeds they played over the course
of this stage is good.
And if they catch Daystar on an off day,
don't get it twisted, they certainly get a result.
But I still think to truly go in as a competitor in this matchup,
we need to see a little bit more refinement
and the team play overall to just up a group and after 5-10%.
You know, I think that what they have up their sleeve
is actually the fact that I think they genuinely have.
If you were to consider who are the top three players
across all 10, they've got two of the three.
I think the number one player in this is probably Suflay.
He goes a little under the radar in the Asian region.
Sure, but the next two is Chris James Pips.
Yeah, you kind of look at the stage so far
in terms of who are the top players.
I know that Peeke technically is rated seven
and Peeke's is eight,
but I love the upside of Peeke's
in terms of where he's going in his career.
Peeke has been around the block, et cetera.
And so if Peeke's and Crit J can do their thing
and they can get just enough help from the rest,
I think they can overwhelm Daystar on a good day.
They will need those two to play to a mega level.
Speaking of the latter,
Daystar come into this absolutely the favorites
as you were kind of alluding to before, guys.
There's definitely a real consensus going into Asia,
that there is a clear defined first,
then there's a clear defined second,
and then there's a third, fourth,
and continue to fight for that opportunity
to kind of take a stab at the king.
And I feel as though with where Daystar has come from
and where they're at now,
I mean, guys, there's a bold to say
that this might be one of the best iterations
we've seen in them.
I don't think it would be too far fetched.
And we saw a good science as we look at the replay package,
that was the match against Wayvo in the upper bracket.
Final Wayvo of the back of the seeded themselves,
but it was a 2-1 over the course of the series, they start collecting the first map of lads pretty close, 7-5,
but then unfortunately lacking the depth to go deep in that series, lost 7-2 on Chalet,
and a similar scoreline 7-3 on Chancellor to round off that series.
So they've been playing pretty well, Yao is probably going to look at as somebody that's still trying to find their footing on the team,
and this is going to probably be the most high-pressure situation that he has found himself in so far,
so far. So a good test for him. He's had good moments. It's just about piecing that together
over the course of Festa 3. That's kind of the storyline for Daystar as a whole. And
the benefit for them today, Jake, is that provided they do go on to win, they get that
ever elusive warm-up buff provided it doesn't prolong for too long and go a really, really
marathon effort.
Yeah, and it's just not to be harsh to you, but he is the lowest rated player in this
series in the slow or final. So I do wonder if there's a world in which Orchid will look
to exploit that obviously the rest of Daystar is quite a high level of role so he will stand
out but he's also newer into the team, he plays shield ops, he plays the support roles,
he's strong, isn't to frag out so I don't think that's an issue. I also thought he played
actually quite well against Weber too in that series quite a lot. Might have been his best
performance with the team so considering it hasn't been on the team that long you give
him that leeway and Harambe I think always usually very good with his timeouts and they
typically respond to him.
Yeah, clearly they start going to go into this is the favorite.
Yeah, it is our job to build this up is being closed.
And I do genuinely believe on the night,
if Orc could play to their very best,
they could do something,
but it might require also Daystar
to actually play a little bit below themselves.
Yeah, whilst he is the centerpiece of this roster
to the region, they are looking to take a stab
at what is only known as the Big Bad Dragon,
the Big Bad Wolf of Asia,
the top of the mountain. They have not fallen off that purge since they signed with that
team. So the entire time for the last two years, Waybo have consecutively consistently
won every single event that they've been to after action. No, there's a caveat in there
for like your APAC cups and things like that. But within stage one, stage two, within the
blast ecosystem, they reign supreme, they reign dominant and don't get it twisted for
both of these teams right now they know that winning this match gives them that
opportunity it gives them a chance to take a shot at the king but you know
what we always say it is a dragon you know what they say if you come to the
dragon your bed not miss because it'd be shit in the atmosphere
oh he's gonna go to eat that take one for the dragon today unfortunately he did
Did I?
Yeah, well I didn't.
I would call it.
I think you did.
As a former technicality, yes, that is very true.
But yeah, I think building this up to be where it's at, it's fair.
Daystar will definitely go into it, the favourites, maybe the maps might start to twist our opinion
a little bit.
It's going to be difficult to do so in this series, with Daystar on their current run
of form, especially with how well they played against Waybo in their first match up against
them.
This one is going to be tough to sell.
Cafe, Chalet and Clubhouse.
Gav's gonna be off on me.
Cafe is a crazy kick, right?
They start, it's their permaban.
And so I guess there's a little expectation for them to do well on this opening map.
But they start to fill me with a lot of confidence either in the sense that we haven't seen it for over 160 days.
It was last played against Falcons and that would have been at SI, given it was on the 6th of February.
So that was so long ago and overall an O3 record so that's gonna be super intriguing if they start being able to workshop effectively on that map
Shelly ton of data both things to be strong there out long for me is a pretty close contest
And then clump house should be a star. It's a very comfortable map for them
So I think the platform for day star
They've got a couple of options if they cafe strong shally 50 50 clubhouse should be good for all good
They need to hope that there's only about the cafe strong get it done
Any thoughts there, Drake?
No, I agree. I mean, Shallow's going to be the big swing one for me.
They typically play it against likes of Waybo and Daystar.
That's the map that Orca go to when they want to take it up against the big boys.
They don't obviously always win, but they're typically not also beaten comfortably either.
So really, as I said before, on the given night, Orca play for their best.
They could win that. I don't think Kafe is going to go their way out.
I'm pretty confident that Daystar should be able to open up the account here.
This is just a full tournament ban for Orca, unless they have been workshopping it.
and it's a surprise that Orc could have kind of played as we had in the band.
They started me win this, I think Orc might then get Shallow and we do get to see all three maps with Glovehouse and the Cider at that point.
It would be anyone's game. There's another Worldwide Band.
Yeah, that is a list.
I'm pretty certain has been a band every single game in Asia since the change.
Yeah, it could well have been. It could well have been. I think we only saw maybe one or two maps yesterday where it wasn't, so just go to the show.
No, that is very true. But if we thought about it as the Asia Pacific League, it does technically
classify within the Asia Pacific League. But a matter of technicalities, you cheated today.
I hope that Penguin has calmed down and is prepared for this cast ahead. Nick, have you got me? How are you feeling?
I got you. Just want to point out here that Jake is a filthy lie. It was not Ben Devin, single map in Asia last time.
The first game between Wable and Daystyle was actually not banned the way so that's a false stats
Just gonna expose you but except for that singular map. It was actually banned every single time you tell him
He really upset you when he cheated by getting play to play for him again
He did but you know what at one point I was looking down to his his point of view
He's a stretching an attic and he was not having his hand on the mouse
I was just thinking what's happening here. That's when I clogged it up, okay?
You might have as much praise as you can give this man right now for the shots. This is not right anymore
This is so wrong. Yeah. Oh, but I will say he actually went over my heart with the countdown
Introman- uh, intro set, like, you know, him and like the little squid suit going 5, 4, 3, I thought it was beautiful
Yeah, no, I was a big fan of that, big fan of that. I hope I get to say a little bit more
I hope I get to see a little bit more of that after this.
Let's dig into this though.
It's our low bracket final.
Only one of these teams will meet Weibo in our grand final to face off for that final
spot in the Esports World Cup for Asia.
And whoever it is at a Daystar and Orchid Fighting Weibo for that spot, they've got their work
cut out for them.
But I'll tell you what, Angru, it's really looking like in my eyes, Daystar should be
that team. They have been the hands down second best team in Asia all year long and if we look
throughout the entirety of 2026 half a year or could have never gotten a win over Daystar they've
played obviously already in the playoffs here and in the upper bracket and then of course they
played in the group stage they played back in kickoff as well Daystar has won every single one
one of those games could play
spoils be upset as spaghetti but yeah
they start off hot here actually pizza
the good smell of the cigar takes a
player down beachy men's same story
based on the back foot very quickly in
this one
heartbreak shirt soft destroyer and from
a strategical perspective now they
start to go fishing you can't get a
child out correctly anymore yeah and if
peeps finds this kill surely that's the
day of the coffin today start he gets
cornered and cut down by yow however
Critchey is still upstairs hunting for peeka.
That comes to you till Critchey decides it's time to vacate.
Oh, but he's actually being caught. Sufley downstairs.
Desperately Critchey needs to win this fight as the peek comes through from the
Sands.
Peek it gets him, but XR lotting. Quickly flanks and finds a double.
With that, Orcid are about to claim the first round of defense unless
The new kid on the block for Daystar could pull a rabbit out of the hat.
It's a very strong way to win the very furry strion. One you're just playing for map control as
the roamers but also look at the bomb site all the way downstairs in kitchen. This like on paper is
super hard to win on defense right? The attackers will clear the map, they'll do the vert, they'll
open the hatch and they'll go for a plant attempt. And usually the attackers across all the regions
will be super successful in terms of win rate on the attack but by going with this aggressive off-pace
Rome they have completely changed that conversation, Jago's time as well it
doesn't even look in the right direction a convincing first round here for
Orchid. In a very unusual way as well for Orchid, going for such an aggressive
Rome not a typical playstyle we see from them. We don't see much cafe from them
at all I mean looking back ever since they became Team Orchid I haven't seen
any cafe out of them and you could say something similar for Daystar. Last time
they played this map. Pengu was five months ago and they actually played it
three times back then. This was at the Six Invitational against Falcons,
Furia and Wildcard. They lost all three of those games. They only got four
rounds across the three of them. So historically not a Daystar map, but of
course it's been a long time. It's been half a year since then and Daystar are
looking like a much better team. You know they went through a few different roster
changes at Six Invitational. They played with Jogor. Of course they benched him
he moved over to elevate afterwards and then they got Binbin for a little while.
Binbin didn't have a great individual performance and only coming into stage one
did Daystar Binbinbin and bring in Yao and he's been great. I mean Yao is a player
from the Southeast Asia region which is kind of just not really been known by
flowing onto the radar if you will and we asked Karambe like how did you find
him? He's like yeah man just haven't been ranked and said hey do you want to join the
second best team in Asia. And he's been phenomenal. Not necessarily a frontline player, not necessarily
fragging out like a jigsaw would, but that doesn't matter. Daystar overall look like a better team
because of the space given to Pika and Souffle with Yao on the backline. Yeah.
It's about fulfilling your role and playing for the team and that's very much what he's been doing.
Yao has also been a relatively flexible player. He doesn't just play like one operator. Right now
Now he's putting the finger to boost P.G. He can put his shields himself like Blackbeard.
He can play the cut-offs.
And you are correct, I also think that Daystep and the better team because of his efforts.
And when you have a very inexperienced player, Shia, out of range, I also think there's a conversation about the longevity.
There's a lot of potential here and now, right? He can learn a lot, get more reps on this belt,
and come into becoming his own sort of 40 player with the experience of his team members that can help him out.
Lion charge going out, the finger boosts the boot.
And a push inside of Mining here for Pygion, the blade's going for a plant soon, right away.
Wow.
Yeah, very nice from like, Hollis.
Cheeky, aggressive idea there from Daystar, but doesn't work.
It looks like Orc are very much ready for the rush,
peeps to find a double Daystar, very desperate on this attack.
That's the temptation with this Mining bomb site.
You think you're so close, you can simply jump in that Mining window,
but it's never quite as safe as it seems, especially when you've got a player on site
He's wary with the C4.
They miss.
I mean, if you're not going for this kind of attack,
should we bring the Thatcher, right?
Because I can catch that one C4, the Plant Denial,
and pocket off the Mira.
I also think that they start this sort of roam game last night,
and I thought that's going to be difficult to deal with.
This go-kart, they're very close to the attack,
but they got bit into it again, so two rounds in a row.
I mean, this is going to be over.
There is no chance of Sufley on top floor
with almost no help to his name.
He's going to clutch it out.
So Team Orchid, with their playstyle, and their choices in positioning in the early stage of the round,
they've completely locked out these styles, both from taking map control and from taking the site.
So if they find one, they can straight right back by the colors who started the round and will finish it
a great two rounds in a row, you know.
Wow, off to a rip to start here for Team Orchid. It is defensive cafe, one of the more defender-sided maps,
so I don't want to get too carried away yet, Pingu, but there's some really good order.
Is it really the Fender side of these days?
Maybe not at the very top level.
Oh, it's this conversation. Okay, I like this conversation.
You'll have this conversation.
We should check it out here.
I think these two teams in my head are more likely to struggle on attack than the average team.
I feel that.
That would say attend the Six Invitational.
And look, I'm gonna try and get some stats to back that up, of course.
These two teams are the second.
And Kefe right now has only been played eight rounds.
interesting. Right Asia is they only been to the ones I guess in there twice. Well, it's
only, let me check here. Eight rounds is just one game actually. Eight rounds is only one
game. Yeah, but it's, oh, but I guess it's counting this one, right? Cause this one,
I mean, I'm not sure how up to this is, but it says two times play, but eight rounds.
So I guess it's counting the first and this way. It has a 62.5% attack on win rate. But
again, it's a single again. Eight rounds. Nothing to back this up. That's totally. Look,
if you do look statistically a day star on awkward, they actually have a slightly higher
Attacker win rate also days die as a slightly higher attacker than defender win rate 60% attack less 58 defense
Or could has a 49% attack win rate to 55 defense. So of course, that's not unique to any specific map
That's just their overall win rate
But in general teams that are a bit slower a bit newer a bit less experience
And maybe just a little weaker tend to favor defense just because of the coordination required on the attacking side
I don't know, look I don't want to get carried away too early, but if Orc can have a really
good half here, that's quite a statement on Daystar's map pick.
And I think just the way in which Orc can have been winning is the bigger story, like
they've been so comfortable with the roam game, taking the flights, having the right
viewtube by the bombsite for plant denial, they have not made a single mistake so far,
and making no mistakes in two rounds on KFDF is honestly not that easy.
There's a lot of map to worry about. There's a lot of strategic depth. Like are you gonna play in piano?
You're gonna play there with the ASI. You're gonna fall back. You're gonna play the castle for example.
No, you're playing right now about the verticality, the C4s, and the information game.
And they're doing that with the combination of Val 3 and Mira.
He's locking on top 4 limited hold. C4. I thought he was gonna get a kill, but didn't.
In y'all goes. Nice job to shoot that thorn trap.
He's about to find a player just around the corner from it. It is the thorn that just him down and finishes him with the scar
Exile a lot of cool fall, but orchid and not all about just giving up like holis fights back onto a zoo key
Very aggressive start here from day star, but they don't check their corners
Crit J has allowed to get aggressive
The black beard takes the fight and yeah does shot him down excellent work from the new kid on the black beard
He's brought it back into the rumble possibility here for Daystar 3v3
Winnable, but I will say losing the stretch and the Hibane is too opposite to a bitter vertical destruction
So they're gonna be forced into maybe not the usual attack here
You know you break the floor you walk in library boy go for a default plant and to make things even more difficult here
Demo could have a rotation on the bombs at a wall leaving from pillar into the library site
He gets good though finds like colors mirror in the grave now
They could just bring you down a rune, and peeps on the ward, and all of a sudden Peeps are, they could just bring a fight to them.
Yeah, it peeps actually, goes for a flank, he does finish off Peek, uh...
Seemed a bit of damage though.
It's now BG and peeps.
I like that from BG.
You can't plant now.
No.
Ideally, you want to destroy that cabinet, but I'm not sure if Okadawa would actually have the defuser, as I say, that Yow's gone back and recollected it, it was outside on the balcony.
The Blackbeard being the player to get in position to plant is perfect. However, Peeps has managed to sneak up really deep.
If Sufley doesn't know where he is, he will single-handedly deny this plant, and there it is.
YOWACI finds one kill! It's a gamble now, and Peeps doubles up for Team Hawking!
Daystar had a moment and opportunity that Peeps said not today.
It's very well done. Again, understanding how the win conditions will change throughout
the entire team around for both teams, right? It starts off with a 1-4-1 trade, attackers
hit a bit of map control top floor, but they lose the Hibana trying to cut the map at half
downstairs. So it's a 4-4, completely playable. Then T-Market, they aggress, up the wide staircase,
they take the sledge out of the round, that denies them the verticality. So now it's
3v3 because he outchirts him back. That means that the attackers cannot destroy the floor
so they cannot go for a vertical into a plant position.
T-Market, they then lose a player, which they're not supposed to. They actually go down into a 2 vs 3 and now they feel desperate.
That's where assault peeps, walk up the red staircase desperately saying,
I'm gonna conflict the whole round. If peeps wins that gunfight, they have a fighting chance.
If he loses it, that's gonna be a 3v1 against the Blackbeard, round is completely over.
But the reason why it is such an important kill is you cannot go for a plant in a 2v2 as the attack inside
because you have one guy planting, now you have one guy covering, you're effectively one versus two
and you saw what Orca did, one player flanking pillar, one player pushing through the bomb site
they're forcing a 2v1 guaranteed to deny the plant and time was running low
So really good understanding in every team market
I'm impressed that Yaw either managed to get another kill with the Blackbeard as he took the fight inside
You know, like you said didn't feel like he could safely just plant with Souffle covering him
He took the fight even got killed so it did come down to peaks clutching six and one by the way in the first three rounds
Look it's early days, Bangu, but I had a look back
I wanted to find the last time that this team or could roster
Beaps day star and you have to look pretty far back almost a year ago way back in stage two of APL
Last year when they were known as fury that had an overtime win
against Daystar. But I look further back and I cannot find the last time that
Orc could beat Daystar in a best of three. I can tell you for sure that it
wasn't since Team Orc were known as Fury and Daystar were known as Direwolves
and that gives you a pretty good idea of how long it has been. Okay, but like
Hollis and the world at a different time. Yeah, but like Hollis, Kritchie and BG
man have been playing against Sufley and Pika for, well, ever since 2020. It's been
a very long time that these two familiar foes have met in the server, but it just seems
to be that Daystar always have their number, or could look into change that narrative as
Yaw takes a hell of a lot of damage trying to execute into Bakery.
That's a very low HP and very vulnerable blitz, but he's still able to get a kill aiming down
sights onto Lycolas.
Yaw continues to be the star player for Daystar.
is 6 to 5 1 HP by the way. The issue of the Daystar is they lost the glass so covering
and protecting that plant from going down is not going to be almost impossible. It does
feel like to me the Daystar that got a group of plant B once again. Maybe try and get a
single or kill or get a bit of vertical control because there's a player, it's a lot of upstairs
who has both a C4 and a shotgun. That means he can deny most of the plant positions. While
Yaw being so healthy on the bits already, he is super vulnerable. Just any putter will
confirm the injured. What are they going to do here? I walk on in and the lay
round two C4s are up as well however all could have both of their C4 players
upstairs here come the smokes. Will there be a plan of shooting nitro cell to come
through the floor? Is this close enough to deal damage? It does get to be in all.
Poor guy so low on HP after that initial exchange with the traps and I'm not sure
if all could are aware of it they will try and force the issue it might give
the Zuki and Pika are way back into it. Oh, Pika has just found a pick as well. Quickly
into the 2v2. Orchid perhaps didn't know that they had down that blitz. They should be able
to finish off that kill now. Indeed, Xylota can do so. As Kritchay has to rotate back,
he might be given a chance though. Pika overextends in the hallway and looks the wrong way at
the right moment for Kritchay. It's a patience game. I don't know if this is read or information,
Pika is watching the perfect position.
Azuki starts to go for the plant.
XRLotik needs to put some pressure vertically,
but I don't think he's able to do that.
Pika reveals his position,
and now we're into a post-plant for Orkid.
XRLotik and Kritche have to play this together,
and XRLotik finds his one,
is now onto Pika, but they've cornered him!
He's bouncing him down four kills for XRLotik!
And Orkid, four rounds in a row.
I was going to say maybe the first couple of mistakes there from Orc and they will lose
the round because of it, but no, they find a different solution on one scale, the hero
plays.
When it came down to a 2v2, there is one spot you can plant in as the attackers, exactly
where they went for it.
When you vault that prep window and go a little bit deeper into the bomb side, it's the only
angle that can't be seen from the verticality up above.
So it means that having a player, you know, coming down the brown staircase, having a player
still up above, you cannot deny the plan.
It's guaranteed to go down.
And they knew it where the capital was based on the in-game sound somewhere in the red
hallway.
So they went into individual fights, actually stopped the first plant and clutched the second
after it was planted down successfully.
It's been, uh, not the game of cafe I expected here from Daystar, they're a bit slow in the
server.
It does feel like Yao is fired up and he's taking some risks and making some plays with
Everyone else almost like they're hesitating every step of the way
Yeah, I was a bit of a gamble here for day start going to cafe a map that like I said
We haven't seen them play in half a year. They've been at a decent amount
But all could have banned this almost every single game that they have played I mean they've got what 13 times that they've they've had it
Banned in series that they play 12 of those they've banned them
They ban it themselves only one time has a band against them that tells you that orchid
Typically don't want to play this map, so I think you can't blame day star too much for saying all right, you know
Let's take a gamble. Let's go to cafe. We've been working on it
Or could clearly don't like it and now they're getting a little bit more than they bargained for if they can redeem themselves with two rounds of
Attack here though, perhaps
It's okay, perhaps they can still make cafe work. Otherwise if orchid still day stars mapping next up we go to chalet
and then I'll be very scared for that stuff again just this the pressure of
knowing that oh it's a B03 we can lose the first map sure but when you start
losing in the second as well you're gonna get inside your own head and it
can make a big difference the fact that it's Yao the rookie who's looking to
sharpen in the server they start might be my biggest worry because we can talk
about how he's teammates the experienced players here they can help Yao thrive
They can help him get better, but it's y'all so brookie supposed to be like guys. We got this
Whoo, don't worry like can you be that kind of player while also playing this shield entry getting opening kill trying to plant
There's gotta be a limit for this individual and that might just be what's stopping base
I can get in that first on the board. Someone else has to step up
Yeah, it's usually picker and suit play that do a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of the frags
We need them to make an appearance
Yeah, as we talked about on the black bear taking a lot of ground here. Okay, so I mean for the building. Yeah, he's taking so much
Or could have laid a lot of tracks
Yeah, but a walk pass every single one of those thorn traps
Really quick pace also
Since it took all the C4s only one has been tossed on out was still like he's he survived a full HP
They got plenty of times of work
They got the snatch also now for the verticality like this is the first round where strategically
Daystar on an even footing and they should be able to go for a win plant because they are very planned or entertaining
To do the three to one they work together
To pre-placed if on the ceiling here we heard from like Carlos. He's waiting for the
That hammer to go down. Yeah
But they're opening cocktail right now instead and the backsides to take life right or control for a back step
But Tim has did actually good double kills looking good here for DeSpawn.
Exalotic finds one of them. That's Pika going down, but he's about to be dueling Yow on that Blackbeard
Doesn't have any utility to try and fight that Blackbeard. And so he decides to fall away
If it's a long-range gunfight and Yow takes the gamble of going for the ADS
I back Exalotic in to win the fight, but now he's cornered
His trap between two players each comes back for his flank not only the DMR
But rather the MPX on the two brows an interesting choice. He can land a headshot
It may well be worth it as XR Lottic falls all the way back through a place like Colus's position inside a train
And yeah, the time is ticking away. Daystar might have numbers
But they need to start moving now great flash combined with seal finds a kill into XR Lottic and
Sufley has the flank locked down
The question is can critch a deny the plan on zero seconds to go
He needs to find where that diffuses going down, but it is too late
and Yao has rotated downstairs to hunt down the Solus and claim the first round for Daystar.
Yao again takes full map control, will walk down, get a kill, help him take library, get another kill later on, get the information
and denies what could have been the plant denier downstairs inside a bakery kitchen.
The other guy. It's beautiful. Daystar finally gets it. Yeah, apparently.
I mean they picked him up for a reason, right? But finding a player in ranked and just kind of gambling that yeah
And this kid he can make it and probably don't worry about it. And then having this kind of performance is phenomenal for day store
Yeah, dream come true after trying so many different iterations of the fifth player a day star and spending sadly quite a bit of time
Kind of in that mid-pack overshadowed by other teams
And if for a while they're overshadowed by the old fury by souls hard
and let's not forget about that elevate roster with the Brazilians with Psycho and everyone else.
They were such a good team and they were easily the second best in Asia after Weibo for a long time until
Baystar climbed their way back to the top. Now they've done so with a player who is exactly the missing
piece of the puzzle that Baystar been looking for for quite some time. Admittedly though,
It's been a little bit of a rough start in this game losing the first four attacks in a row
But if they can conjure up a second attack before they close the half
I think that you can say that all of their woes have been
Alleviated all of those problems the first half can just be in the past and they can focus up on just having a river defense of their own
I'm reloading!
I'm surprised I'm on a musty actually, but the cafe is a very kind of linear map when
it comes to droning.
You go down the hatch usually, then you go through a single doorway and the musty pins
can't stop you.
Mind you, musty was buffed like what, two or three patches ago, a slight increase in
the radius of the musty pins itself could now cover a full doorway and a full single
which again face heavily into cafe
but it's gonna be about the u2 in the game again
there's gonna be 4c4s vertically, mirror window, pipe claws
there's this team all good saying hey we're sick of the gunslides here
try and properly solve these rounds instead
and if any of those 4c4s takes down yowna by a beard
I mean that could be the whole round with that
yeah public enemy number one is yow right now
as he closes the distance and nullifies both of these mirror windows
windows immediately. Yeah, it smashes both of them, could even go for a kill he really
does. Continues to be deadly, does Yow and Seal of Peek have joined the fray at the drop
of a hat. Deystar have turned this game on its head. A missed nitro cell as well for
Lycolas, it's all falling apart for Orcid. Deystar have brute-forced their way back into
this game and a knife flawless round caps off the half.
I feel like we're following very similar storylines to what we saw last night in the Grand Final
with Chiefs and EP, Chiefs go up 4-0 or 4-1 and it's that down to the last round, last
two rounds, so hypercritical for both of the favoured teams if you will.
If they start go 5-1 there, I mean it's a completely different conversation, but they've
locked in Jake.
Well, it's interesting because we were watching the first couple of rounds and just just believe yeah couldn't believe
And then we're like four nil. Yep. What's going on?
I think we expected they started obviously to get back in towards the
The tail end of the half and at the very least they were able to when and did so pretty comfortably
I mean those last two rounds weren't really too close, which you know two attacking rounds cafe
Not the end of the world at their mapping. I expect them to be just as dominant and on the defense
So I don't think there's any panic for Daystar.
Certainly the alarm bells may have been ringing at 4-0, but I think that's put on ice now.
Hopefully it's put on ice.
Yeah, I mean they finally got reward for effort though.
Like, rounds 3 and 4, opening kills, one player alive, and then two in the next.
Like, the rounds were pretty one-sided holistically for Daystar.
They just weren't really being rewarded.
And that's a credit to Orkut, who finally could win conditions and actually staying alive in those rounds.
And I was so they're coming in preparation for this half-time break is how we're gonna
Justify this school line in the open fashion a bit at a two-four. It's stable
The first two rounds. I think we're all could very much getting off to a great start
Sure, and and they start at that point of pro like okay
We need to lock in pretty quickly and then the next two rounds after that kind of like we're looting to is those rounds were all
What day star have made it close, but they're still losing and so it doesn't matter whether you win with four live
for one alive winnings winning and so for Auckland to go 4-0 up that's when it could have been for
Daystar well do we just go wave the light fly things aren't going our way or do we buckle down
and they buckle down they get the two rounds and now going into the next half they're back in a good
position yeah mainly because I think defense is going to be the the better side to be on here in
this game. Yeah 100% I mean we said a lot in Asia where the sideswap does impact a lot of the
conversation I feel like sometimes in O's mainly because of how chaotic O's gets and they pack north
in the same vein. Sometimes we look at timeouts swapping like, I wonder how much it's really
going to impact them. But when it comes to Asia, it seems to have quite a big impact.
And just circling back to that first half, shout out to Yao. We highlighted him on the
pre-match in terms of a player that showed really good promise. He's typically been playing
tricky roles and his numbers haven't been great. Well, absolutely put that story to bed in the
first half. Eight to four. He's been the shining light for Daystar and a large reason as to why
they've been able to get themselves back in a good position.
And Solotic as well, you're talking about the two players that are at the lower end of their
respective teams. So, you know, I think in the past a lot of, we've always maybe felt for Team
Orchard, is he good enough? Can they go to the Promised Land with him? We love Critchey,
we love Peach, the rest of the guys on the team, we've got a wealth of experience,
but it wears Solotic out. Well, he's had a good game, seven and four. He's a big reason why they
even got off to the start that they did. I think he even got a 4th round, one of the
rounds? No. Yeah, he did. Sorry, yeah, back in the fourth round. So, yeah, ultimately,
it's nice to see those two be the ones to stand up as we head into the second half.
The real question is though, will the real peeps stand up? I'm expecting him to dominate.
I need peeps to get to 15. Will the real cheques amongst the video ever stand up or is he just
keep cheating. Only time will tell as it will in the second half here let's get back on the way.
Yeah well nice one Rob. I was gonna say it's Jake Vendita would say
winning is winning, not that he would know anything about that but it feels like today
we're just going in on this guy, it feels unfair at this point we're through wanting him.
I'm sorry James, but I'm in his position by cheating blatantly in our 1v1 so I think we
we can rip into him as much as we want.
I will say, I wish I was the in person, you know?
Yeah mate, come on, we'll get you.
Today, being there in studio, some hands would be throwing, you know?
Maybe that's why we couldn't get you in.
We just know that if you're here in person, there'd be no chance for Jake, you'd be all over him.
I mean, I would go over him, he's a handsome man, that one.
Oh man, we can hope and pray for stage 2 and we'll see what happens, but for now we've
got to focus up on this little bracket.
Final day start, came back in a big way at the end of that half, found their two rounds
and now they're getting really aggressive.
Just look at the way that Seal has been contesting that hatch, tosses up his C4, doesn't fight
target. They still have the Rateros though. That's a nice start. Speaking of Souffle with
a TCSG on the Sentry. Holds down the foot. That was a rappel angle. Wow. Deep all the
way onto the piano rappel player. That is a gnarly shot from Souffle.
There's the soft wall. That is a very, very gnarly shot indeed. I like that there's a
lot of confidence and aggression early on. That's the wall right there by the way. All
the way towards Nubuck. That's insane by the way. Yep. But I like the aggression here.
the confidence we're seeing players like your seals to flay getting into the action
hold on to the outer sea force should be put downstairs as at least one there it
is peeps goes down who has been the hero for orchid a couple of times and now
they too have to spin the layers the house will be stuck in freezer it's got
the razor blooms to a system and a gun and souffle just right behind so try to
create a trap upstairs and bait team orchid in bomb site is not on this floor
as well keep that in mind so it is not orchid uh just doing step one which is clear the top
floor and it's proven to be extremely difficult souffle is found a second with his tcsg and now
well third as well my god tearing orchid a new one it's up to bg now and he goes down it's four
kills for souffle on the sentry with that tcsg from cocktail bro how is he getting that kill even
even while affected by the Grishmore effect from the lifeline. Bro, it's untouchable.
Three rounds in a row here for Daystar. At what point do we start getting a little bit
worried for Orchid?
The Vendor Sider Cafe, mayhaps. You did say at your cell, James, that it could just be
a case of it. I did actually look just for fun seeds into the SAO stats because they
take cafe seven times so 61 rounds it has a 37% attack or win rate so an
SAL very heavily different our favorite if you get two rounds of SAL on your
attacking side you're doing well yeah let me know if you managed to find what it
is in any other region I'd love to know or even insult like seven
seven times you're gonna stage one because of the slide changes right but
700 played in the EML, 40-7% on attackers, so a little bit more even, Steven.
Then let's take a look at NAL as the final metric here.
NAL played 8 times, and 53% attack or favorite.
So it goes from heavy defender favorite in SAL to even in EML to attack or favorite in NAL, all played 7 or 8 times.
Complete toss off, by the way.
interesting if we look at the Salt Lake City Major it's exactly a 40% attack
win rate so of course that's the most recent like top level event that we've
got because the nature of like your NAL, EML, SAO, APO is you end up getting
some one-sided games where it's like Waymo versus HLTARI. It's like you don't
get many good stats out of that game because Waymo is gonna win all six
attacks anyway so that's why I like looking at the majors themselves I feel
like they're the best true test of what the best teams in the world say about the
sideswap. However, Solid City was a couple of months ago, we've had some patches since then.
Haven't seen any Womai today after that ban, haven't seen, oh, we've seen a little bit of
Zope, I guess. Haven't seen much Dockery since the changes. What's your overall take on this
patch, thank you. I mean, I like it when things change with a bit of a switchup.
The fact that my is now being banned away Yeager as well and the assumption here is that we could lead into more utility heavy matter
We could deploy with shield and Yeager or my I find it quite interesting
And I think even if you're a player who plays this game or watches it and you don't like the show matter or don't like the utility matter
I think change is good. I would rather have a new matter every let's say six months or so and some of you gonna like
I'm gonna dislike and have the same matter for two full years
Um, this gets a bit stale to me, you know every team playing double shield for a while and she'll define everything
Shields are still strong, but they're not at the the number one kind of way to play in the game any longer
Yeah, I'm a big fan of that. So could be this way as well. It was a bit of a frustrating operator for a while
Yeah
Looks like it's a hunt downstairs to try and find a zoo key here
But finally not the first one to fall from all because the shield the player that should be the hardest to take down
Azuki low HP and eventually finished off by Kroj. A second one looks to try and peek. It's peek.
He actually wins the fight out onto the balcony. That's huge.
Okay, he's woken up. He was quad in the attack and side, but after that shot, yep, he's here to play.
That's the SMG-11 on a wrong-wings fight based on the 4v3.
3 and as you said token the black be it away from the board earlier on makes the pushing power here
Orchid a lot weaker who's gonna walk in first who's gonna take the fire can even try and go for a plant probably not
So it's fancy for a kid walk down the hallway try and go for some crazy kills. It's gonna be a very challenging attack
And you can see Krijae is so keen for a gunfight
He also has two nades as well still remaining but souffle
just made some vert with his impact. Another sentry pick from Souffle and Pika rounds the corner
to find Critchey at just the worst moment for Orchid. Now the plan's going down but this wall
is soft and a shotgun for Pika makes it one and a two as well. Quad kill on the round for Pika.
Daystar have closed the distance four rounds in a row two on the attack and now two on their defense.
beautiful again just different individuals now stepping up to the
challenge and like I said when pika is hitting that shot this in g11 he's gonna
be feeling very good about taking future fights and he has four kills in the
round this is more like the days that were used for watching and it could just
be a slow start to cafe in the best of three it could be the attacks of your
being problematic a modern time is certain but if they're gonna play like
this on the defensive side I think they can very easily take this one back very
convincing two rounds now.
Yeah, I feel like my question is can Orc really show much more face here.
They had so many good defense rounds in a row but I just haven't seen anything from
them in these last four. It's been very one-sided towards Daystar.
Daystar got their confidence back in the individual fights, you mentioned it,
Pica, Soufflé, both have had rounds where they essentially just owned themselves and
with Yao being such a standout performer on the first half, it feels like every player has woken up.
Also, I saw a tweet last night, I think JV92 from Brazil, he was retweeting it saying that
that Munti is the most banned operator across all the regions right now.
Bar none, like he is the most banned, which is interesting because
just like off the vibe check, I would say it's true,
we see it being banned almost every single game,
and if it's not banned in the first rotation, you know,
the first round is a player who's into an attack,
it'll be banned in the second rotation, that third operator ban,
because players will pick it up, they start winning with it, you target ban it.
Monty really has become an operator.
Teams have finally started to play at a super high frequency.
Monty has always been incredibly busted.
Ten years from the very beginning of the game,
but only played in the last two or so years at a very high rate
since the shield rework that happened.
Yeah, I mean Monty is just so simple.
It's in with Clash.
Right? I think Clash as well, but yeah, I mean,
because one of the biggest problems.
Before the rework, how about it?
Any single, any round of attack.
What is one of your biggest problems?
We need to take ground we need to get information Monty just makes those two things so easy and classic
It's uh, it's funny because before clash got reworked into our current state
She was obviously very very strong. He's like do damage you couldn't kill her
She had to shoot up 24 seven
Everyone started playing her then she got reworked and it kind of changed around a bit
She's not frustrating and hard to deal with some times
But she doesn't do infinite damage without any real time to play in the long-term. It's a sapping
There's all sorts of electricity now, banded, high-eat, clash.
It doesn't do player damage.
That was changed about a year ago or so at this point.
So it's funny how if you're a little bit too slow at picking up an operator and utilizing
them, they might just get reworked or nerfed and then it's over.
And that's why the best team is no longer working on adapting.
Yeah, they do.
And then the best team to figure out the strong ops the quickest, I mean the fact that everyone's
jumping on them on my train, that was a big surprise to me because often it'll take a
few weeks, sometimes months before a meta shift happens after a patch note. What might change
happened, and literally the first game after the first series was sort of banned or played.
It was incredible how quickly everyone was able to jump there. Oh wow, look at this.
There's an aggressive rush in, there's actually an attacker already inside.
Yeah, like Hollis has gotten all the way deep into the plant spot, and I'm not sure if they
start aware of it. But he does have a little bit of work still to be done, and because he's no
longer upstairs he can't use his fuse charges anymore the cluster charges three of them still
sitting in his pocket would have been nice to try and use them to clear out coffee where pika
is playing the plan is going down and pika has been left undetected he finds a double kill before
he is traded back on the floor as azuki can now come in and support with his smoke speed gman
desperately needs to find this gunfight against suit play but he's looking far too high up and
Daystar can easily swim past Orcid. They saw them as they went by, but a 5th round a row
means that they finally take the lead.
Ridiculous. Again, it feels like Orcid having the exact same struggles as Stasthal in the
attack. They can't find an easy opening pick and play a 5 vs 4 advantage position. So they
just either simplify the round and go for a straight plant attempt. One thing goes wrong,
the round is over, few die without adequate cover, that's the whole round, or they try and go for a full
Mac player to go for a proper setup, but they will die to the roamers of Daystar. It's the exact
same thing, flipped on the sideswap, T-Market will call their own technical timeout after the
operator bends, it was Solid Snake and Warden. Now in Warden Bend, we've been debating a couple
of times when you do this and you can play operators like your ying, you like your glass,
That could just be the saving grace for the attackers, because there are now so few operators that can actually counter those smokes.
Maestro, funny enough, could be one of the counter picks, because you get three evil eyes that can see through the smokes with thermal vision.
Other than that, you've got to be playing vertically with C4s or get killed with utility, which is quite tricky.
So, very keen to see how much to use this warden weapon.
Oh, okay, can't afford to lose any more rounds here.
5 in a row for Daystar, 2 more and the map is done.
Oh I saw an old tab onto some Blueprints there.
Some strats, very cool, very cool.
Now all could have had a chance to talk to their coach, Producer Boom, but I didn't
see it.
I think it was actually BGMad doing a lot of the talking there from what I saw.
I expected it to be like Hollis as well.
Always has a lot of input on how this team functions.
they're on the attack as you say warden ban I'm seeing a ying already of course
we've got repicks could always come through but your question was how a
day start gonna deal if it ends up being a lot of ying and glass and other
utility that's flashes and smokes what are they gonna bring to deal with it are
they gonna bring bulletproof cameras or my story answers no they're gonna bring
a hell of a lot of C4s and info gathering from that pulse.
Here's the way you need the attack, a repix to go through.
There is a ying, but surely, surely you want to double down with a
glass, right?
What are thoughts?
So is that it?
You get the finger black beard also good?
Even if you just bring the glass, you don't necessarily like
both people who bring glass feel like they need to.
It's a very old school way of thinking about siege.
You bring all your utility in your glass your smoke and you dump them all and then you force a plant and
In the modern meta that's extremely predictable
Sometimes it's better to play your glass because you have a really specific power position you want to contest or maybe
You want your glass to put down his smokes make a presence known, but it's actually just a distraction for what's happening elsewhere
Yeah, I would like to have that glass even just as a distraction because when the warden is banned that glass
Certainly can make people a little bit scared
It's also not even a distraction but if you make your presence known, you can either hide
the glass so that when the smoke comes out, boom, you get a free kill or you shoot very
early and say, hey guys, we have a glass.
Now every single smoke unit, you have to respect it because you don't know if it's a glass
peeking it or not, but you know glass is in the round.
Yeah.
So by the fact that you see five attackers, you go, oh, there's no glass in the lab.
A smoke unit is just a smoke unit, there's nothing scary about it, it's just plain cover
or a line of sight denial.
So there's a kind of mental warfare you can add the extra layer to it
But it's gonna be the shield the finger boost with x-lotic on the yin instead again
There's no war here. No soul or I could deal with these cadela's but getting in the building a cafe
That's the trickier part. So like all this a lot of heavy lifting to do here on the back here
Yeah, as we continue feeding it for two of them using his oh nevermind. He's dead
I cast a curse in big time he decided to jump out using his all-scattered for info. That's a big risk
clear he didn't know where crit jay was or maybe he did I think he got a little
bit of damage off with his shotgun but not enough that was arguably the most
important operator here for day stars defense the pulse to gain information
about where this plant may be going down now orchid are given free reign
so I apply a bit more pressure on the remaining defenders now to try and go
for a kill just sees those gunfights 1v1 and seal who is 3 and 4 could win one
them here in the pillar door. Team Market are being very patient. I gotta give them that.
They don't want to overstep and lose a player to a silly C4 or a player ratting in the corner.
They're watching things, they're joining them, checking them, and because they've spent all
their drones at this point, besides this one I guess, they have like Carlos's face,
he's the rest of the Blackbeard on the staircase. What is that? There's a little bit of a
Waco left-right center against the kill, and all of a sudden it's a 1v4, 1v3.
Yeah, I mean Zufla can win these, never put it past him.
Dockabee calls about to come on through, he decides not to answer, he'll take the damage, be forced to keep on moving.
I think he's got an inkling of where Peeps was, but he looks the wrong way as he rounds the corner and critches, shuts him down finally.
Team Orchid, after losing five rounds in a row, get one back, and now they themselves are just two away from taking Daystar's map.
a little bit surprising that poles ops for a jump bar that's one of those you think it's a freebie
you become the freebie instead but as she said James a very important operator in the poles for
the information game for plant denial is c4 and pocket there's definitely more that you wanted out
of that operator and it really has been a story of the shields for this one now yow when he was
playing the black beard phenomenal game the map control not like colis exact same story
They do a back and forth dance.
It is funny how we saw the warden ban and the ying was completely ineffective, like
it wasn't about the ying, it wasn't about the flash of the smokes, it ended up being
about the blackbeard.
But even though, you know, warden can see through smokes, you're always going to have
great guns, shotgun, smk12, all that MPH, you have a c4 in pocket usually, or deployable
shield.
So even if you're not talking about the gadgetry of the warden itself, you still remove like
like a very strong operator from the server every single round to come.
Yeah, both teams are so good with that black beard.
Do you wonder if Daystar maybe made a mistake by banning a snake?
Solid Snake's good and all, but...
Yeah.
We don't even really thought about this, but Solid Snake is kind of like pulse on attack,
really.
He's better at getting...
Better than that.
Yeah, he's better pulse on attack, good at getting information, but only in a close range.
We're seen from both of these teams. How good the poles can be on
You also have to
Make the argument that diminishing return right they stop already bent the blitz and the Monty
Do they really spend all their operator bands at times in three different shoot operators and still leave the few should open for like all
It feels like a
It's hard to argue the worth there
I like that they went for something else, but if so this thing is I chose on I couldn't tell you
It's one of those operators that are a bit cheesy because you can be on the rappel outside the building and scan half the map of cafe
And then you can just be on the piano window and check top floor
Rappel down for like one or two seconds. They can click check red flank train and mining from the exact same position
So you do just get a lot of map control knowledge with that solar snake. That's so true. Yeah, always forget how good solar snake is on a pulse
Sufley, or a seal, is in a really cheeky spot. Would have been nice to have a solid snake to know about his position.
I wonder if Peeps might give away that his team is dropping red hatch. It's going to be a one free, but not a second.
He gets very greedy, but yeah, also re-aggress at the exact same moment to refrag Peeps back.
very much a worthwhile trade here for Daystar and now Orcid just when they
finally broke Daystar's momentum get slapped in the face. They even did damage to
like Colors and the Blackbeard as well so it's two and a half kills with the cost
of one it's a must see like it's purely just passive things in pocket I mean if
it died with a C4 but let's be honest it's still going to be super super worth it.
It's loaded with the yin and the ru, not again having the most amount of impact on
on the ying, but doesn't matter, they get the bomb site or the site control, but I see
it back.
Oh my god.
So it was hiding above the bomb site, so they don't get that control anyway.
He gets one more kill, feeds away, they're 2v4 now, they got the ram, they got the bv,
they can still go fishing for a couple of kills, but again, I am seeing it should not
be possible.
Yeah, especially not in a 2v4.
Dg-man trying to get as much vert as he possibly can, but Pika is just waiting there with the
shotgun.
Like Hollis doesn't seem aware of it, otherwise you'd think he would be using the maids and
Pika shuts him out of it.
jump scare like all those get stabbed in the back never saw it coming here come
the flashes now from BG man as he needs to focus up on that diffuser but there's
four players to find Azuki's now scanning him out and Paker is hungry for
kill number 13 and there's no fear there's no risk right now he's got so
many teammates alive in case he goes back and loses it because shotgun is
successful it's easy it's free he'll find it they start again that
disruptive play style and it's not solo plays like I thought because I was thinking okay
Mars is gonna re-aggress into red staircase not just go for one but go for a second kill
that's so greedy but then we saw the play Yaw was swinging all some of the piano soft wall
that was already open dog it was actually a 2v2 fight effectively so it was calculated it was
communicated and because of that I will back they started that play I mean you look at how this
game started right four on a road from Orchid and Yao is the only player from
Daystar who's stepping up. At this point now we've got three of their team on 10
plus kills. Pika is 13 and 6. Sufley has hit 10 kills as well as has Yao after
his performance at the start but it's funny because we talked about how Yao
joining the roster gave space for Pika and Sufley to play more aggressively on
the attack especially and and frag out they're doing so on the defense it's
really quite a story of two halves but funnily enough it felt like the second
half of this game started as soon as Orchid were up 4-0 and started to let
Daystar back into it. Six of the last seven rounds won by Daystar by the way.
six seven yeah no why I like how does avoided that yesterday he said the five
plus one six plus one did a great job at not dealing with you there is no escape
and now you made him sick oh yeah I feel quite bad for him quite bad for him
But on the flip side, Nick, I feel great.
Oh yeah, you feel better now?
I mean, I'm still getting this.
I'm still a bit sniffly, but yesterday I
started feeling a lot better.
You don't sound as nice anymore.
Yeah, I feel a lot better than I did.
Definitely hit the eye of the storm
on our third playday this week.
And when you have six playdays in a row,
you really need to get over it quickly.
yeah woke up this morning and my feet were feeling cold and I was thinking
oh no if I get sick now it's so over oh one benefit of you not being in this
you do yeah yeah yeah yeah but I know I feel like what I can I can you should
feel like a big before I get ill that it's coming it's arriving but my body
doesn't know what it's feeling anymore I'm getting old all right well I want to
see what your instincts are like. What do you think, Nick? Do we go over time here?
For all kicks.
I actually don't think so. There's no... Okay, if they had a cavatata for this round,
like an easy way to deal with the bakery hold, or even a glass for example, statistically,
Timorca was in a great position, but they're just relying solely on guns, like, what is
the life if you do it all? And that's when we get back to freebie, they didn't breach
the wall, they're not watching it, they're already progressing their rounds, it's been
After 12 teams went away from staring at this double door, Asami's keep going out.
Someone has to be the playmaker and step up right now and into the damn building.
And the TCSG's from Daystar have been so good. There's a good shot from XRLotic.
Azuki though takes his position very quickly with the TCSG.
Starts to feel that pressure but XRLotic signs a second from the exact same angle.
Also, peeker has caught off guard from the top of red stairs, or could have a way back into it.
Four versus two on the attack, 50 seconds, tons of time to play with.
How does Sufley, and see, well, just Sufley, how does he clutch it?
Doesn't.
They got the red staircase, they got BB the bottom side, smoking it, it's going out to sharp the plant,
and they can go get the corner as well.
Actually, they can't, I haven't spotted him.
Oh, well.
Either way, that's going down, line scan.
Oh, he just popped. I mean, he just cooked.
Yeah, man, he's gone.
That's Orkut pushing us deep.
It's overtime.
Daystar might have looked like the better team
in these last eight rounds, but Orkut
extended their lead at the start on their defense.
And it's given them a lifeline here.
Into OT, we go.
And Daystar remain on that defensive side.
It's such a shame how that round played out, it's like I was saying, Team Orca didn't
have the tools to deal with Daystar and Bakery, but then two separate defenders would die trying
to shoot at a Blackbeard shield and then just the attacker boost spotted on the red cow outside
gets both kills in the exact same way.
They could use kind of AFK, the Blackbeard is not a threat, as I said, no capitol, no
to force their movement. A little bit oversell, a little bit too eager to fight. Harambe gets
active now with a tactical timeout. I think guys, just chill, just relax. I know you guys
want to fight them, but sometimes not fighting is also good. You got the opening kill. Kill.
It feels like both of these teams have been really good at getting aggressive, getting in their
opponent's faces, especially using that BlackBid, the Alpha Daystar, and who is it on
on or playing the Blackbeard, it's like wholess.
It's played a shield every single round, by the way,
five Blackbeards and one Fuse.
Ironically, the Fuse, yeah, the Fuse was one
of the rounds that didn't work out for them.
Blackbeard in the last three rounds,
has been instrumental.
Now, Daystar have taken their tactical.
Horanbe has had a chance to talk to the boys
as they go back to a defense round.
This time, they decide to go mining.
Interesting choice to me.
The reading fireplace was actually the only bomb site that they successfully defended
both times.
The second time Daystar went back to mining here, all could one it.
I like it for the simple reason that you can play more layers on this bomb site.
You can start top floor, you can fall back, you can start playing the C4s downstairs in
kitchen to deny the plant vertically because that's kind of where the warden band comes
into effect.
When you're playing the more central bomb sites of reading and mining, you're going
I have a lot more fights inside the building. You know, top floor defense, you're playing
in piano, you're fighting the repels, you're fighting the red hatching cigar, etc. It's
very instantaneous fights. On Bakery, like we just saw, your defender are fighting people
often outside the building. On Bakery, double door, outside garage. So now, they're doing
in the middle of the building, the units gonna get in there, the shielders gonna get in there.
How do you deal with that more comfortably? You play the C-force, you play the utility
game. Is this day start trying to play strategy over individual gunfights? They're a ton of intel,
they have four C4s and then they have the Luci Benchies for a little bit of intel that's going
to staircase perhaps or where they're going to take the fighting. They start now have to have
the right players, the AFK in corners and say, hey look at me, hey look at me, bait to mark it in
and then second defend there somewhere else, we just C4 birding you, try and get that kill.
I'm not sure if it was a spade that's lured peeps inside the bomb site, but he's so close already,
He does a lot of damage onto Azuki, like Hallisalmos finishes him off, and Nade might
actually finish Azuki off completely if he can land it in the right spot.
Peek, it does take down X-A-Log, that's the yin going down.
Azuki has no choice!
He had to answer his phone or stand there and die to the Nade.
Either way, he was dead meat or could have a peek.
Thanks to that doggy call and that grenade, but Daystar have fought back valiantly.
Crit J, the lion, eliminated as Peebs looks to try and get a little bit more damage on
to Seal.
BG Man actually must have heard that phone call.
He seems like he's got the audio cue of where that position is.
And Peebs almost dies to that C4.
Seal now aware that his retreat has been cut off by BG Man outside and Peebs eventually
falls to Sufley.
Again, another kill with the TCSG.
How many of Sufley's kills have been with this slug shotgun?
Now Orchid just have BG and Lycolas left, two of the OGs, the two longest running members
of this squad in another two versus four.
There is now the day start so they get a rotation from pillar into library to avoid
that outside door which BGman was playing the entire time so he was wasting his time
effectively.
Now he goes into the building, dies immediately, Lycolas dies alive, comes up with a Black
Peer by 24, and there's a crossfire, Yao gets that final kill.
They start a great setup, but I also want to praise Orchid, great attempt of the attack.
They said, we see the setup, we see the top floor, we see the C4s, peeps right up the red
staircase, toss a smoke and jump in the windows and try and take the fight.
Had they found the kill onto both the poles and I think there was a souffle behind them,
now you got the bomb site in your side and you have beneath control for the C4s.
A plant is super possible, but they lost one gunfight to many and with that the whole round
kind of crumbles, BG man who was caught off the rotation from the snow door looking into
pillar was super ineffective because no defenders walked into his line of sight.
So very small things going on there for T-Market, but not a bad attempt of an attack.
Not too bad, but Daystar now have to do an attack as well or could get a chance to go
back to their defense. Remember they won four in a row before they finally lost one round
of mining in one round of fire of reading so instead they go back down to
kitchen where they won both times fairly convincingly as well the first time
they played this bombsite only dropped one player the Valkyrie has been banned
on out here by Daystar which restricts the info gathering somewhat for orchid
I'm looking back at the second time they played it they did actually have quite a
different operator line up to this they ran Ella Fenrir Mozi Arunin Hu we have
almost every single operator being different here it's only the Ella and
the Mute that remain so instead we've got a deployable shield from the smoke
we've got Crit J with the traps and Lycola so very much leaning into time
denial here from Orca with both the smoke and the Goya
I've done this trap myself before and right a couple times, I'm a big fan of it.
You can use the Raora in a couple different ways here to just kind of limit where the
defenders can see in the angles.
Often as you go to the single LaRuny, they're droning right down to the right hand side,
close off the bottom red double door to jump in and take back control from the direct
attack.
So that door right there you see in the little box.
A big counter place to have a Rune defense because the Rune orscope was punched will
break it immediately like a Castle Barricade as well.
They don't have that right now.
So if and when that Rourke goes up, you can jump in with one of the shields, all the glass,
and just take full control of the red hallway once you get wet in control.
But actually it can be a bit of a flip.
They're going upstairs and mining first, and we're worried about the verticality.
It's that our base star have faked the directed push, so then it forms the defenders back
towards the bomb site, just to go back upstairs and do a full map take.
Because seal and dookabee is top floor red stairs.
Yow and Blitz is in second floor reading.
You're playing for full map control without any vertical operators.
It feels like they're looking for someone here.
Yeah, this is weird.
There's nobody up here.
Very strange call here from Daystar.
Making for maybe?
Even if they do take control of the full map, as you said, there are no vertical operators here,
so they won't be able to really put the pressure onto Orchid on site.
If they're going to come down and clear in these power positions, you would think that the...
the Rayora and the...
I can't even get the hatch.
The Blackbeard would be perfect for trying to take Bakery, but no.
And we see Kritche aggressive inside of Smallbake now.
Very strange decision.
They cannot go for this obviously attack. I mean it on paper. It's a hatchery in force that believe it is they can't breach it
There's no heart destruction. They have no self destruction. They can't break the floor pot either
So every single position on the bottom side is gonna be super strong
Defuser.
They're gonna walk down the staircase. If you just ask the building, what is this attack?
Very risky here from Daystar. Here comes the ray aura. It does start to isolate that position on VIP
I think he did.
He had a lot of them behind.
Xylotic never dealt with.
Now he meets the Blackbeard who will take him down.
One of the shields is full, but the other one very much alive and well here for Daystar.
The time is ticking away.
The suit play on the glass has found one kill, but as you say, that defuse is still left on
the balcony upstairs, which means Daystar have to go for kills.
They could get it.
They're push jumping out.
Wait, he's not going to take it.
Oh!
Critching!
They have to go for kills?
They have to go for kills now and they find Critchey finally trying to come back.
It's Peeps in the 1v1 against Souffle to try and keep Orcid alive here on cafe.
Souffle doesn't have kit.
He has to close the distance.
Does he know where the smoke is hiding?
14 kills, looks for number 15.
Nockin is finding as Peeps simply stays alive.
They're going to 15 rounds here as Orcid just barely hold on.
input or something don't get me jumped out the red window next to the case looks at it for a short
second goes nah drops down the balcony with about 10 seconds left in the round they willingly said
we do not want the case we do not care about it and they picked so many strong attacking
operators for a bakery push maybe they saw the goya fire and thought it's too risky could go wrong
They go for our map clear, but like we said and like we saw they can't get the hatch
They can't get any vertical destruction whatsoever
So one of the rarest moments of any cafe defended around you can play anywhere on that kitchen
Bumma side not worrying about the floor buff you not worrying about bakery knowing the hatch is gonna stay close
That almost never happens
They start to have that final parachute thankfully they go back to defense on 7 7 and that could be what matters
in the end, because between these two teams, the attacks in 2-3 have been such a challenge.
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, but at the same time, how did Daystar get that down to
a 1v1?
It's never been possible.
Orc could have to buck the trend and win out on the attacking side now.
Now, we've had a lot of 8-7s, haven't we, in APL.
These stage finals have been rife with competition.
I never expected to push Daystar too hard. I thought maybe we would see three maps today
I didn't think that awkward would get this close on Daystar's map pick next up is
Chalet and then clubhouse should we need it?
Chalet is actually where Daystar beat awkward penguin just ten days ago in the group stage
And it was quite a dominant seven four
However, awkward picked it knowing full well that they lost it to Daystar previously
And I think when a team picks a map against you that they you've already beaten them on
I'd always be a little bit scared here for the day star. I think you know, I think all could be cooking something
For shall I so I think they start really need to dig deep here
Often going to all the time we see the attackers play a bit slow and a bit more
Scared in the server nobody wants to make that risky play and it's not payoff
And you put your team in a very hard to win position and in response to that often the fingers will play more time than alops
Right you go you your smoke shanky, etc. Not the case here for day star. They've picked fighting characters, right?
TCSG on seal on the century. I got a Dmr. I'm running for y'all. They can take fights
They got traps for information
Creech is getting a fairer at that next door and he's been seen going up to my staircase
and he's gonna go all the way up actually.
On the top floor.
They might not be aware he's all the way on the top floor as he decides to go deep.
He does find...
YOW!
What?
Deep inside of Freeza on the bloody bombsite.
Risky play here from Dayside.
They go to the top floor on the very final round of this game.
The first time they decided to take us to this bombsite here on cafe and they do it
in round 15.
There is still players alive here from Orca on the bombsite.
like colas check the imperative angle with it he does but the black bid outdulled by suflate
we need to see the trade critchey happy to oblige now two players left alive for daystar
herjie fires up in the final moment of this game on this map
the finest tool huge inter-killers gets bombs like control calls that roamer downstairs and
that's the problem days dive at a suki and p get downstairs the entire time they're on the
the window appels they locked down the white staircase only one flank is open
but on the flip side it's bgmen holding that exact flank with the fuselage
he has to get off that angle and try to get into that the building.
Ah peeps is cut off pica on the retreat back to the bomb side all up to
azuki and while he finds the first one surely he's not gonna be good for all
four that's number two critch aim decides to swing take the gamble and take the map
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you know Michael has a great man once said if there was an animal a spiritual animal
the team walking in body it would be the lions and after that kind of match up what we didn't
take we didn't take we didn't put it on the set no no we didn't put it on the set I promise
I promise we didn't put it on the set.
We need to put him back in the box.
He has got to go back in the box at this point. I'll tell you what.
It's just like, you don't see behind the scenes, you don't get it.
He's trying around with the hashtag freeAPLman.
Has anyone ever stopped to ask should we freeAPLman?
He's got himself a pair of pants now.
That's actually a better one, should we? You know, generally it's how is that known.
hashtag put him back in the box put him back in the box get it go get a
trending but as I was saying my so what were you saying up the line of the
animal line up the lines no look to be fair I think team Walker has done a
tremendous job there after such a momentum shift happened toward that
middle of the game you know we saw five six rounds in a row guys where they
start just dominated and then just out of nowhere team Walker just look at back
Yeah, look, I think the way I would sort of summarize that map from a day start perspective is they took a bit of a risk
They took a gamble they took a pump going to a map that has very little data
So they for themselves
We had to go all the way back to SI the last time they had played it and the results were quite poor and on the flip side
Orc had nothing at all. So day start took a shove in the dark. It didn't quite pay off
And unfortunately for them as I said during the video with a plate out for awkward their best path forward was going to be a 2-0
I still am very skeptical in terms of clubhouse and so
Chalet, it's their map pick. They should be feeling comfortable both teams have mixed results on this map
And so it's gonna be a case of I think just carrying across that confidence from the first you asked pitch to stand up
You think you did so well
He was supposed to stand down and in kitchen and what he did
Who stayed down?
It was pretty funny when you were saying,
Peebs, it's time that we were jerking off there.
And you're like, it's time for Peebs to stand up.
And I was like, oh, he needs to stand up.
Let's make it happen.
Let's make it happen.
Hey, what a way to start.
I mean, you want more finals.
And it's the embodiment of what we've
seen so far this entire stage across all three regions
that we come into a game.
Historically, you look at this matchup on paper.
And it's very easy to say, Daystar should be the favorites.
And then Orca go and win the first map.
And it's why, in the pre-show, I emphasized
on what we saw at the end of last year,
What could Orca do to Daystar? What Daystar did to Alivate?
Well, so far, job done on the first map, and now they get to go to their map pick of Chalet.
But, did you hold the reservation? Yes, it's their map pick of Chalet, but I mean,
Daystar have beaten them the last few times on this map, but later.
So, I mean, close games, admittedly, you know, on the 7-4, 7-5 scoreline.
But, you know, I mean, it's still a tricky one. I still think Daystar get us to that third map.
Look, unfortunately, just given recency bias, just given where Daystar are.
moment. I do think we do go to a third and I think I echo Gus's
sentiment here. If we do go to Clubhouse, it's going to be quite
odd. But I look, Team Orchard, we said it in the pre-show and
it's not just kind of filibuster. It is true. Team Orchard on
their day are a very dangerous team. They have so much
experience on that roster, especially within this region.
Domestically speaking, they're a very stable roster. They're a
very good roster, but it just really comes down to those on
the day performances. So, we moved to Chalet. I mean, this now
kind of yes it's it is team orchid's map pink but I don't know how much that means in a map like
shall I again and being a rematch from that upper bracket so maybe have the data that
a rematch on this map it was in favor of daystar last time out so you could almost question
why orchid have allowed it as their selection and you'll learn from your losses that's the way I
look at it they just cut in and switch my point but that's that's right jake um in terms of what
the takeaway is well from that one though they start attack they were really really strong in that
second half and so if they have learned and can look to transform defense back to me is going to
be the difference maybe if all going to finish this out in a 2-0 refine that defense make that
style work a little harder on attack that could you know shift the momentum and potentially
he could walk away with a 2-0 victory. You don't always learn from your losses though I will actually
as you have as you have demonstrated. If all could do win there's someone checking PC because
it might be someone else. You just know that maybe it's APL man oh we really need to put him back
I don't know what's happening on the desk, but as they evolve into chaos, let's focus up on what's before us Nick
It's a banging law bracket final and as you said the one my pants are incessant here in APL
These teams are just loving it. Nobody wants to play against that one. I
It's kind of ridiculous at this point actually guys
I'm more curious to see how teams are gonna play the one my exactly when no one was to get in played
All right, why are they betting him what what if people learned in scrims that we're not seeing well
We're not gonna find out. Yeah, obviously what my is not gonna be
you know a kind of I don't know like mirror window back when she first got
released where oh where can they put the mirror to like get the best angles and
like what not. Well Mai is a very simple operating since that you can protect
yourself in a team with grenades, flashbang, smokes, etc. it kind of
was capital it is fought in fights as spot almost like a Sarmine away makes it
more challenging to attack it but I am curious just how impactful it is and
something that I've been theory crafting and I think I saw Hungry also
about it from the the eml scene is the very small piece that happened to a mine
right here generates that this faster you can now have one more at the at the max
total I think it's seven from six but the activation time of each magnet went
from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds and that is actually less time than it takes
now for a grenade or flashbang to go off so if you see the indicator of something
you throw it in your direction and you toss down the magnet it's gonna catch
that projectile reset the timer before it explodes and you can save yourself very proactively so I
could really see what might be incredibly strong for that specific purpose because even if your
foot is blinded you'll still see the grenade indicator and could then just juggle the grenades
with the magnets. I did see that tweet from Hungary and I thought man this is so inside football
this is Pengu is gonna love this I'm glad that you saw that I would be amazed if I see a play
like that happened because it is very hard to pull off. Yes, the activation time of Umiah is now
0.5 seconds, but you know you think about the reaction time you have to have to be able to
toss that down just as soon as that nade lands at your feet. We'd love to see it. I hope that we
get to see it, but no, unfortunately he's going to get banned again and again and again. So instead
we'll see more Blackbeard, which we've seen plenty of so far. As like Hollis has tended to get on
inside. This is not a bar defense by the way. This is just a bar extension on a master bedroom defense.
Yeah, again, they started to challenge the map control just like on calf face, very similar story.
So I guess look upon the same saviour, continue to walk around the tags like colors on the
black, what can he do right now to kind of get in there and force them away.
When a single adorn is forced to the yard from leaving library, down towards Messingen,
Now of course into was bar itself as her peeve skins the action that I popped across the circle for a kill
You saw his back. Yeah, he's got a gap here surely but the Ella does look his way
However, yeah, not quite aware enough of peeps position in time
Free kill for peeps on the dock would be no damn it off almost no damage done
And now you can hack the cameras as well from y'all's body and let's try and call the rest of the players on this team
peek on the smoke roaming so far away from home is about to get contested with
that SMG12 but maybe not a wise idea to go up against the shotgun at that range
even for a player like peeps look at peeker though he's tempted to continue
fighting here awkward now consider hunting him down for a brief moment I
really feel like they need to just take that information and run with it the
smoke is off-site let's start putting some pressure on everybody who's up on
master. And the reason why Pika has no hurt to get back is because he has no toxic
vapes left, he is just a gun for hire, he's not a plant denial operator any longer,
then it means that the bomb site is super vulnerable. If Orca could get there in
time, they have the advantage but the timer is against him. 25 seconds, two
defenders below by the way. And Pika fanking gets that first pick, that's the
blanket of the board, that can change everything. He's gonna make that first push,
maybe there's a lot of it, no, he just onsets as well. Yeah this is so scary now
They had every chance to win this round, but now they have to rely on heroics for players like pizza BG
Man both of them fine kills soo fly on the bombsite with the scorpion is helping out, but guess who's down below
It's seal. He's done enough damage. He just needs to finish off critchy
And it turns out it's the player on the bombsite that gets aggro and does so himself day star on their defense
find the first round
very good job there playing the different win conditions and yeah Piga
roaming on the smoke having no toxic babes left ends up winning them the
round low key by taking down the Blackbeard it's a very very big thing
that I've been seeing more and more from Daystar understanding what players
should be making what kind of play solos could easily have been the one
flanking and playing aggressively but that wasn't the case solos was playing
and waiting inside our kitchen dying the entire on saying hey I recognize 40
30 seconds, 30 seconds, this could become one of those zero second plant in our rounds. That's gonna be how I win.
Pee-Doo Wastlow smoking this left, he's just a gun. He can make the defensive play instead.
And then the defenders who were staying by the bottom side, they were just talked away in corners,
pulling on the ground, trying to just stay alive for as long as possible.
Everyone played their role perfectly from day start, and it goes to show the level of communication for that to happen.
Because of that does not occur in the server, someone's gonna make the wrong play, the whole thing falls apart.
10 seconds to insertion.
We know that Daystar beat Orchid on Shelly in the regular season, group stage.
So Orchid took a little bit of a gamble, they made a bit of a statement by trying to take
Daystar back to this map.
trying to get the stats from that game recent matches Daystar vs. Orchid, Shelleys, 4, oh
sorry this was actually in the upper bracket I forgot about that it wasn't in the group
stage hang on nice shot there like holas peeka always a little bit of a tough one to take
down really shot from him I'm looking back at when these teams played it last time uh
Daystar went four rounds out of five on their attacking side after a 3-3 B offensive half. That would be very terrifying
So I feel like Orca, you know, they can't afford to just sit back and say okay three rounds on this attack is enough
Because when we switch sides at the end of the half Daystar are terrifying once they themselves get on that attack side
So that of a roaming clash game right now is holding library control
There's so much time here for Orcato just to work down all the angles and they got good operators for this one as well
Well, it's gonna be there were all our closing off the lines of sight or the DMR is going to action the solar snake for the Intel gathering
There are many different things they can use right now to pick up this rather swing gets punished there
Yow over steps and that is they start feeling a bit desperate in the server
But every single number falling in these individual fights the players behind them are gonna feel even more desperate
split, she was with Torres though, so effectively a one for one trade with Lule Suki and a bit
of trouble there on the main stairs.
Yeah, I don't love that. I'm a little bit scared though, look at this play from Lycolis.
He's trying to take the fight against the clash in the air, the air jab knocks him back.
Critchey, able to trade after Lycolis will fall, leaves it all up to Souffle now. Three
gas babes in pocket, but he's all alone on the blue stairs. All could have so much time
They just need to sit back and wait, let BG-man join him up.
Yeah, then poise for a plant.
If you look at the U2 left right now, Orc did a great job of spending as much as they needed early.
No more lion scans, only one grenade, one raw panel, one concussion.
They have spent everything to get to this point, they're not holding back at all.
The stun goes out, but doesn't affect Sufley, but they know exactly where he is.
Bottom blue, or inside the bomb site.
They scout three toxic babes, and maybe can ice it some gunfives with them.
Plants starts to go down, Sufley waits for the swing. It's ex-R-Lotic, he does a lot of damage, but doesn't get the kill criched quickly to swing.
Orcid, a great reply.
That attack looked dicey for a brief moment after Peebs swung on that solid snake and died after he got his initial kill, but Orcid really thanks to like, Hollis on the Nomad pushing up the stairs from fireplace directly onto that clash.
that clash. Once the clash fell, it was a bit of a skirmish back and forth. Orc could
find themselves in a 3v1.
Just the confidence to go for it. Mind you, they didn't really have information that the
clash was completely alone or something. It was maybe playing deep library or maybe playing
inside a deep blue staircase. But that's where the roar comes into play. You can close
off some of those doors and you get a couple of seconds of freedom before the defenders
can open them back up.
I see the replay right here. I mean getting opening pick on Shelly is always gonna be a huge moment.
I mean you get two of them like this. They almost certainly get you the round.
So they have a lot of map to work with and with every single player deaf on defense you lose the map control as well on top of it.
And that final 3v1 is perfect to play crossfire, pre-fire, and have planned in a very safe position.
I'm looking back at the last Sunday's teams met on Shelly. There were two rounds actually where Orc have got the opening pick on their attack and Daystar still won the round.
won the round. Now we already saw that happen in the first round of this game.
Peeps got the opening tour to Yao, and then Daystar still managed to win the round. 4v5.
Daystar actually surprisingly good at winning 4v5s on Shalei, because yeah, you would think it'd be
extra difficult. This map involves so much on extending, playing power positions, and trying
to fight for numbers. Exchanges like how on earth the Daystar continued to win from 4v5s.
It's me.
I'm right there.
They just got backpouched, I suppose.
Getting good at striking first, but getting punished two rounds in a row now, Exalotic,
takes down the Ella of Seal.
So again, maybe they start trying to make a play a little bit too early in these rounds.
Half team is still waiting for a pick.
The half is looking at the windows, trying to go for a kill.
And it's gonna force the players like Pika playing the smoke, having to retake what could be a dangerous spot here on the blue stairs.
Because the more kid they love sending one player deep in the building going hunting its peeps again on the lion.
This entered library, they have like Coloss on the masonine right in front of him.
Pika finds the kill going to Blackbeard, so successful roaming smoke twice in a row.
Yeah, how does that keep happening by the way?
Pika always allowed to just roam aggressively wherever he wants.
Like always being the Blackbeard to die to a headshot means he must have been holding an angle.
A risk that doesn't pay off for him.
Bombsite's down in kitchen and dining by the way,
which typically means step one for Orcid is to take top four.
But look at two-place position, very unusual, and because that door was not opened up at the start of the round,
he felt like he had that freedom to play deep inside of fireplace.
As you say, a rat, but a rat with a kill.
That's the issue. You lose out the shield player. They're so reliant for the black people to get that information
They spend so much effort in the prep phase losing them great shot from crick jay
Gives them a bit of pressure towards that bums that may be forcing back more players in the top floor hold
It's peek and who's back in kitchen a suki and yow on the top floor trying to hold on for as long as possible
But they're playing far back. They're not playing in office and master bitch when they're playing bathroom and in their closet rotate
So it does feel like these those wind come right now is peeling back the layers again
You just must talk to work in their favor. They don't want to take any more fights
It's about just letting to market triangle for a plan to kind of bait them a little bit
3v3 is always an awkward spot to try and plant they need to try and get that info bait out that time. Oh
That is so poorly time there from BG man
However with critchy find that kill on Topeka or at least a down it might be enough a zuki still upstairs
But he's falling it's all up to you now inside of West Main to be one here for awkward with peaker on the floor
Or could just need to be patient here. They don't need to try and force the issue
But they do look for a plant and the cover
All could find a second round in a row on the attacking side
Very well played down the two versus three
So it's they know that the down to smoke inside a kitchen and it did no toxic baby
So I didn't worry about him getting back to the ceiling dad's watch that appearance
That's gotta put a shirt on if you want to take a shirt off, for God's sake.
Oh, man.
It was one of those player jumpscares where like you're parent watching you and you're like,
no, I'm on camera, I'm on camera.
We got BG, man.
We got BG in the background.
I think it was actually a lot like somebody cleaning with a broom behind him in a previous
player day as well when we saw the player again.
Damn, good for him.
Time to go time out now for Daystar!
After all, could find themselves 2-1 up. Time for team Captain Pika.
And long time teammate Sufla to really have a think about this one.
They've just fumbled two rounds in a row. They haven't found a single opening pick so far on Shelle.
They know that they're good on their own attack, so when we swap at the halves,
It won't be the end of the world
That's a time to reset but you can't afford to let this game get away from you too far on that defensive side last time
They played orchid here. They've got three rounds
We've only found one of three so far
You can't see flee I miss you flee miss mode please
Well, you're gonna really teach you how to it's it's as a Kai
Hi, Su-Fly Su-Su-Fu, it's Yeyo, Sal, and uh who do I miss, I miss Pykenzu.
Okay, there you go, that's my new pronunciation, that'll be a challenge, you know sometimes
you cast a player and maybe they're new to the sea and they're like I don't know in a
different region that you're going to be watching and maybe don't speak English and we just kind of
assume how you say their name like how we would do it and then you learn years after it's not like
that at all be fully accurate no so a good example right oh i know what you're gonna say
yes scyther who played for team empire is scooter i'm like there's nobody ever like five years
we're gonna use the russian way of saying it and say scooter because fans are gonna go
Who the hell is Scooter?
I know this name Scooter the server.
Do you remember that old Weber player, Ape?
Obviously his name is Ape, which spells a very different word.
But it's not at all how it's meant to be pronounced.
He's not named after the animal.
He's named after Ape, which is an Indonesian slang word.
So that's, I guess, time out.
I didn't know that when I first started casting.
Yeah.
When I was told, I was casting a tarot back then.
I go, ah, Ape is going for the jump out.
It's like, no, no, no, it's Ape.
I'm like, oh, oh, my bad
One of those we've had a few
Magnetine, my funniest time was when I first casted Scars and there's a guy's name is WQS0WAP
And I'm like, what the hell am I meant to say here? Turns out it's Washiwi
All right, the Japanese really and there's like three crazy names on that team as well
look first opening kill for day star hallelujah the title time now worked
because second painting but never mind oh my god could have been we'd watch
there from cricket J's been very sharp today pretty being the sole hero to
actually take that map on 77 like a faith oh yeah I was for no clutched up
when it mattered. Now he's delivering on the ZOF.
Wow, shot through the wall there from like hole-less, yow.
Little bit overextended. Skopo says time to get out of there.
Bar defense here. Oh, you better check this next corner though.
Better check this next corner. Oh no, oh the shell, okay. It's just the shell.
I got scared. Yeah, I thought it was a real player as well. It did take down the shell.
I think peeps is running back to get a flashbang or a grenade there from the trophy stairs
We're gonna take top floor.
Closing off the door towards the short hallway and they can actually just walk in the fire please double door
Maybe and take an easier five later in this round not yet. They're not ready for it
But it's just a way of using for or to give you less angles to worry about but maybe a distraction game
They're gonna be taken top four instead of the grenades
would be a jump in here. Yeah it is here from like all this he finds the shield
takes the gunfight and gets him. Meadly finishes him off as well but he's
about to get swung from behind him there's a player on the mezzanine and a
player inside library. Azuki caught in a real awkward spot he's gonna decide how
to play this is he trying to impact into office and re-aggress he's gonna worry
about critchey as well. I like the way that Orca is slowing this down they
can't afford to do so for much longer 15 seconds Azuki gets aggressive finds
One retakes into office. Goodbye to Critchey like Hollis upstairs trying to recompose, but Asuki's gone massive
Huge round upstairs on the top floor as like Hollis desperately goes inside the bomb site one kill, but not a second's
Daystar recompose and they tie up the scoreboard
Very big hero player there
We saw him kind of thinking do I impact the window to impact the wall?
What do I do when do I do it?
But perfect timing can run back into all this use the holes that the attackers made with a dmr's
Against him and get a couple of kills towards top blue and just kind of stall out the push
I will say like colors in the back. It has been instrumental in so many of these rounds
He's really getting the rounds going just jumping in with the grenade also good utilization of it
He jumps in the window to top blue and instead of just like you know fighting the guy behind the deployable shield the phone
He tosses a grenade behind them. So if the phone were to run away
the grenade will more or less get the kill. If they stick around and go for a fight,
when our Blackbeard is in close proximity, can use the gadget, go for a bonk, and then get a
confirmed kill afterwards. So it's a very good train of fault there from Michaelis.
The fact that Blackbeard has gone unbanned for the second map in a row is very surprising.
But then we go back to Daystar's upbans, right? It's going to be the Monty, the Blitz, the Grim.
We're not going to ban triple seals. Again, diminishing return, probably not worth it.
But I just feel like I've always been so so good with this operator and it has not been answered
And that is no Zof locked in for this round
But the cast has been picked so for these days with the recent boss getting a one extra explosive and one extra
concussion I feel it's extra good against something like castle who's bringing what five pieces of bulletproof utile
with that bulletproof camera as well but no instead
critch a jumps on the daymars it's peeps though who's the first in the building on this dock could be
surely he's gonna find a freebie here I think sue you'll must have heard him
yeah he's got a feeling I think
I think.
There's two players.
Wow.
Oh yeah.
They're going to try and refrag this out.
I guess.
Surely, Pika's good for one at least.
He finds the first killer, decides to back out immediately.
The lion roars.
Good call from Peeps.
He knows it was Sufley.
He got a glimpse of the castle, but Pika comes down to support.
Wow.
Impeccable team work there from Daystar.
They commit together.
Sufley does have to answer his phone though, can't afford to take 40 damage now.
But even exchange here, to be honest, I mean, the Dock could be, pardon me, there's a lot
of Util to lose, but so is the Solus.
Yeah.
Solus is going to be one of those win conditions of playing the Nile, which actually won them
around previously on this exact bottom side, where it still could be.
You're about causing chaos and a distraction.
You have done that.
You've gotten the kill and four skills are overrooted to transfer you back.
So I'd say we're a favorite team market, but they're chasing the approach back and
4 from big winter master to try and go for a fish play now going back to
Larian for a back step instead perhaps they don't have any easy ways in we'll
have like cozen's light bit on the roof I feel like wherever he's gonna go that's
probably gonna be the main push not to create a taken library balcony in his
control he flies straight in doesn't put into the corner I mean the glass
cannot block his vision I guess but he saw the two cast a barrier and thought
Oh, this is completely free guys. I'll just take it. Oh, that wasn't yeah, that's a big mistake there from like Holis
Also the blackbeam one of the few operators that can easily clear those castle barricades with his dash
so without that
Orchid are in a bit of strife. Thankfully crit jay's found them a kill back, but
Yeah, they won't hold the numbers for much longer. It was souffle finding one Haker is still all the way down below
He feels his position when he doesn't actually have a clear shot on for a roam or could now know that's one less player on the bomb side
I try and force it
It also might be just printing straight back up the trophy stairs to get back to his teammates fear in a exact same rush
20 seconds to go
Time to a rack some more demos. You can't actually sorry yet on left. It's gonna walk on and check the fights
Yeah, Chris. Hey, though. He's so good at doing that. I'm a cast of course didn't souffle shots him out three kills of the
UMP make that four day start well and truly back into it on Chalet a third round in a row as they take the lead
Not in a row. Sorry a third round in Chalet a second in a row. Hey nice. Good. Good catch. Good catch
Speaking of maps I spoke to to Jake when I was working with him. He thought they were your sickies
Theme park back in pro play
I have my hot take is that I always love theme park like back when theme park was like a common ranked map
Back when I was a maverick main when Maverick, you know at the peak of Maverick's power with the old maids
I love going theme park because I thought it was very attackable if you knew what you were doing and you could look at it
And I love playing Valkyrie on defense also something good pre-placed runs on that map problem is if you play to the high level
There's just so many choke points and so little ability to do that on that map
I feel like these days with Deimos docker be it might be a little bit more achievable
But yeah, I just I don't want to have any map in the game
That is so attack or defend decided that nobody wants to pick it in the best of one
And that's what happened with both skyscraper and theme park
And I got so sick of it because you only ever see those maps in BO3's and even then both the teams aren't particularly this and playing it
My short answer is no my long answer is I would love to see a theme park map buff
And I would love to see it back in in pro play
I wouldn't mind this idea that you know you have your nine maps in Pro League and then
You will have some sort of rotation. You know you'll play maybe a stage with a new map in I mean I see new but
How often do you think we should get a new map or like a map change not necessarily like a new new map
But like you know a change in the map pool every year every six months
I
Think once a year be great like you know after a second or reset the year start a new one
Yeah
But if you don't have maps like really make a return a theme but make a return maps that people already abstract
So I have played for years in a row you could probably do it every six months take one map out
Take one map in and kind of get a feel for it
Yeah, and the thing is most games online updating this the ones you can easily bend the new map if you don't want to play it
It's only going to be a bit of a drafting issue for the map video in a bit of three environment
All right, here we go
Fortress community every year after six rotational one new map as it hasn't been in pro league before like your fortress or your
Calypso and then every six months halfway through the year after EWC we get one old map coming in
So that's two to replace another old map. Yeah, so two changes per year
I'll be done
Then we got to the point where we can see natural a long time in all the angles like this one right here
Successful for souffle
Finds Peter's been that spearhead 40 more kid
Well, it's another round with the attackers and not playing out the black beat as much as before because you saw clearing top floor and Ivy
He tried to take piano control perhaps while teams are pushing the bomb side.
It's such an imperative round for Orcid as well.
Like we talked about last time these teams met in the server, it was three rounds apiece
when Orcid were on defense and then as soon as Daystar, sorry, when Orcid wanted to attack,
and then as soon as Daystar switched onto the attacking side, Daystar won four out of the
next five rounds.
Orcid cannot afford to let Daystar come away from this half with a four.
I need to go big right now before we finish up on this half
As a back if I did that with open up that bathroom angle to a now like bullets in
There are list crossfires to watch his position now
Or could they have to top of control that they need to go for a plant downstairs?
They sure is really needed a sole player about fighting three defenders. Oh, hello there. That's a castle
Yeah, the BG man further back finds his looking for a second now is critchey. He sees the down player
like colis is on the floor on that black be a BG man forcing down that plan as you
know the plan denied where to pick it come from BG man is out of it it's all up to XR
lotic now he's got one player on the floor but two players still to find he can't afford to go back
and spend time picking up Lycolas. Unless he pulls off some magic here, it's going to be Daystar
finding a fourth round and that was a team kill from Critchey on to Lycolas. It's a disaster for
Orchid at the end of the half. Yeah, once again, we're having that same conversation we did before
when we were like, you know, they're all good and well, and then teams just tend to flick it on,
and I feel as though right now that I couldn't agree more with, I couldn't remember who said it
either devil penguin but does that that desperately needed to finish 3-3? Yeah I think it was
dev in reference to the last match up and it links into the point that I kind of made
before we headed into the map which is that Orc and Nick would need to be really strong
defensively in comparison to that last performance and whilst that point isn't necessarily relevant
to the first half it will be for the next six rounds and a round going one way or the other
can make a significant difference and have big influence so yeah credit to Daystar being able
to fight back defensively looking really strongly across the board some of their hard hitters were
locking in and it was all shaking and it was similar momentum to the to the last map in fact
where Orc had got off to actually fight a strong start they found out it's 2-3 and a day start
were able to lock back in and re-adjust. As you can see our camera operated just on the wall back
in the room. Oh no. Blood's got my back unfortunately man. I feel like it's a missed opportunity kind
and a half. That's the way I look at it. 3-3 probably would have been about right. 3-3's
maybe what it should have been. Yeah, and it's not. And so it's going to leave a big
hole now going into our second half as James was saluted to last time that they played
on this map. It's not a very good defensive half or all good or you know, really good.
Attacking half a base, however you want to claim it, it's irrelevant because it ends
up with the same end product which is now likely Daystar should go on, do some good things
in the second half and we do get the clubhouse. I will say again, good positive, winning a
a lot of the opening duels.
So a lot of having a very good performance
for the first probably couple of rounds of that again.
So in terms of the overall series,
you kind of look at the numbers.
So a lot of 15 kills, Pete's 15, Crypt J 17.
But I posed in the pre-match, I said,
who's going to go with those two?
Well, So a lot of it's the one that stepped up.
Beachy man actually have only six kills going.
He's usually the one that's probably with those two.
But he's got to get to a better level.
Suflate, obviously doing his thing, 22 kills,
has Pika with 18.
And then in fact, all five members for Daystar above 12.
So you're getting a really good spread performance.
Overall, Daystar's been the better of the two teams
across this series,
but as we peel back the curtain,
Orkut are missing an opportunity to, you know,
actually win this series.
They could do it,
even though they haven't been the better of the two teams.
Not in this map, certainly so,
but it is time for them to lock in.
They've got a good opportunity here
to close this out and to, as we said,
It's close to clubhouse and it gets a little bit more dicey.
The, I think the pendulum will swing way too heavily back in the day,
stars favor, but speaking of pendulums,
how about we go from the desk to the casters?
Thank you very much.
Mr.
Monday now on to Tuesday.
How are you doing, Nick?
Skibbity.
It's pretty good actually.
I'm a, I'm a bit distracted.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I, uh, my family just rocked off out of nowhere.
family just arrived at your house. So every time we get like a minute break I'm like running outside
to like so I'm working for my living room. Don't your family live on the other side of the country?
Not trying to doxy or anything. Yeah, yeah. I knew my brother was arriving because he's an
nutritionist and I'm trying to help me fix up my office and whatnot but my mom turned along so
I'm like okay now my mom is here like what am I gonna do? So I'm running back and forth trying to
figure out that everyone knows what's happening. But now I think we can lock in for a little bit.
Can we get your brother on the mic at some point you think anyone will be able to tell that it's your brother?
No
Okay, people have watched the only way these are people do you mean the production people I I think that people back home
Hear your brother's voice and immediately know that it's not you
Also, oh, yeah, your brother is a very quietly spoken man, whereas you you're a bundle of fun
Okay, unless now I'll describe myself, but I'll take a bundle of fun to do that.
I'm not sure how I'll describe myself these days, actually.
I haven't thought about that in a while.
Maybe something, just some reflection.
Get the notebook out.
Becoming more Australian by the day is how I'd say it.
That's not a bad thing.
Let's take that.
Heapstone.
This has been a bit of a struggle.
Now, two rounds in a row.
It was Ash in the previous, trying to make the play, and Al Solis in a simple fashion goes down.
A little bit too early, playing an important operator.
And all could also I think worth noting the target band the dog to be mmM. They did not want to deal with those calls happening throughout
There is half similar to money, but that's no surprise at all
Oh my will never get to see ever again by the way. It's permit bands. It's incredible and
Forza the last two like buff defenders right and talk about the way I'm all about the phone band
You know my hatred for that operator
Yeah, oh see you light of a G man
Yeah, wow shut out of it as well. What an angle there from a zuki on the zephyr speaking about buffed attackers one of my faves
I call us though says hey don't forget about her sister Ella can still
Be a miracle worker peek it goes down. I think he must have peeped with the hive launcher
Now here comes the glass of yow
Does get the injure as well you've talked Pingu about how yeah despite me the least experienced player on day start
He's trusted with these big roles on the team, like playing the Blackbeard, playing the glass.
And he does so very well.
Yeah.
Very consistent player, that's for sure.
He's playing with swings and gets shut down and playing the big with the rear of the stock.
Yeah, he has to win this gunfight.
Really nicely played there by like,
Kola's getting aggressive with the Grinchbot, however, Yow is just better.
Brings out the very 9 in close range.
And now Critchey can't go back inside because he's being tracked by Sufley,
Detected outside trying to pay down shots doesn't know for sure that y'all was brought on the other side and waiting for him to
Enter Jesus another round for day start another one on the back of the new kid
And they find their fifth only two rounds away from sending us to clubhouse
What a way to play that you day was tried to play here on the outside balcony
He cannot jump back in the window because vertically you'll die the demo striker
But he also can't walk back in the bombs at door because y'all was waiting for him
But you're right. Yao literally was the hero once again
They trust him with the role of the glass was gonna be you know the plant cover the kind of entry
Utilizing the smokes, but it's all down to him. He's teeny to dying all around his area
He has a tick to fight in bathroom. He's victorious. He's the winner final
One fight as well because his teammate the demos of seal was downstairs. He is the rookie
He's the newest addition to this roster, and Anshalei, he has probably one of the most challenging roles,
and we asked Harambe about it in a winners interview in the previous playday, and he just said,
yeah, you know, Yao likes to play his operators, he's a good player, we trust him with it.
It was a very kind of relaxed way of thinking about it, because I was worried that Yao might crumble under the pressure,
but just like Anshalei, you give this guy an important role, and he would do his very, very best every single time,
and you should get the right result.
Look, you can't fault a player like that, he's slotted him very well.
But despite that, I still can't deny it.
I was really expecting Daystar to have an easier goal of it today.
Yeah, Shilay's looking great.
I think Orca maybe got a bit of a head of themselves
picking this map after losing it.
In the upper bracket to Daystar,
maybe thinking perhaps that they were a bit more on the ball than they were.
But, uh, look, I didn't think Daystar would lose cafe.
And now that they have, I mean they've been forced to go a little bit harder throughout the rest of the series
They're looking good on Chalet. Of course if we go to clubhouse on paper, it's anyone's game
But yeah, I just I did not expect Orcid to win this series
Like maybe take a map but not win the series
Daystar have looked like so clearly the second best team in Asia right now
Orcid and Sol's heart have kind of been fighting out between three and four very tightly
it. Daystar have looked really good. And they're starting to show a little bit more of that
on Shelly than they did on the first map today.
Or it could be everything. Get that early picked. Make that a little bit easier.
Faris don't go south. I think he's looking down the hole. I might have seen it. I don't
know what he was doing there. He's dancing back and forth. Two bar freeze goes south.
That might actually cause an issue with the C4 depending on the exact radius. The timing
is everything here for our colors and he's very patient.
Hey, what's his teammate died behind them?
Gotta know what happened there.
So play snuck.
So gap find from the capital.
Yeah.
Snuck really far.
That might be so must have been read somehow.
They start seem to wear off it.
Or could have really confused.
I think I mean, we've lost control so deep towards the bomb
site.
However, finally, they've managed to hunt down souffle.
I don't know whether they got aggressive or whether Souffle maybe tried to make a little bit too much of a play, but both humans seal will fall.
Which kind of puts Daystar back on the back foot, doesn't it?
3v4, yeah, now boots are in the building here, we've got control of...
I was gonna say mezzanine, but no, apparently not.
His peeps is there, lying in wait, now a proper retake, a fall back into sight, consolidating their numbers.
Daystar have control of above the bombsite but they are severely outnumbered.
Time to go fishing. All team organ at the do is just hide and seek.
Don't want to push so to a long angle or a hatch. Burn down that timer.
They're playing in stock and they're turned by the bar.
And they're flanked at the same time from the crit, Jay.
But this guy can't notice it still. They see the barrel as well.
They can't do anything about it.
And Mr. Shot as well. Azuki had a chance.
Still on for a flank crit, J.Bides. This time eventually does, and BG Man on the bomb side jumps up to find a round for Team Orchid.
Much needed one. After four in a row from Daystar, Orchid finally get back into it.
Still trailing behind by two rounds, however.
Could become a bit of a marathon.
You feel like it could.
I'm a little bit like thinking about Wable, right?
The game after this.
If you're sitting as Wable watching this game right now, both on Café and Chalet, I feel
like this would be a very hard match to prepare for with the external analysis.
You know, when you're looking at how these runs are playing out, there's a Kavitan base
in a walk of the blues staircase getting an opening kill.
That's just a gap that the defenders have that Wable probably wouldn't have.
We're not seeing them go for a 3-1 execute, where the fire is going, where the main push is happening.
A lot of these rounds is, for example, you know, peeps die in two times in a row, making a very aggressive solo play,
and then that goes punished, a 5v4 with the attackers, and it changes how the violence is going to play out.
So, if you're a waibo, obviously they are expected to be the base team in the region, they're expected to qualify for the EWC from Asia.
But if you just look internally, you look at what you want to do, what your game plan is going to be,
because I don't think a lot is going to apply from this game, from either team, going into that grand final.
And it is going to give the winner of this game not an advantage, but it's going to put them in a stronger position because of N'Kaku.
I think the win, obviously, we can't string this any other way. Like Waybo is the dragon.
They are the obvious kings of Asia.
Asia neither of these teams have beaten them ever since that way but became way
boats since the bleed days but that does also come with a lot of added
pressure way but I've been able to live up to that pressure a lot of the time
when it comes to playing domestically here in Asia but they weren't able to
muster up that pressure when it came to playing against their APAC rivals in EP
in Salt Lake City which is why way both find themselves in this position look
Today, yes, Weibo go up against the winner of this match for a spot at EWC, and yes, we expect Weibo to win that 2-0.
But Weibo have all this expectation on their shoulders, and for the first time, Pengu, they don't have a second chance.
Every other time Weibo have qualified for an international event, like pretty much every single time, there's been that lower bracket ability.
In the grand final today, there isn't that whatsoever.
I'll be facing a warmed up opponent with no parachute
I'll follow that for a second. It's gonna be a fly out the window kind of play
But no y'all elsewhere gets a kill to like cause my pie
The day star style strong but getting inside and taking the map control is so challenging against the denarii lasers
So they look elsewhere, they go for the bombsite instead.
Yaw is literally in the kitchen hallway, just about to get to that case.
Look at that one defender and there he is, behind the half wall.
If they can find that kill, they'll give him the whole bombsite.
Got the player down on the bombsite, Seal waits patiently on his position
and does cut down the player on the rotate down.
Kritcha though, oh nice impact, he's gonna double up!
Lot of damage, see you later, Yaw!
Big play from Kritcha, 14, or rather 12 and 4.
So far, 3.0 KD. He's popping the hell off for Orchid, and he's brought it back into the
realm of possibility, but swiftly shot down by Azuki, BG-Man, in an off position. 1v2.
Azuki's the man with the defuse in his pocket. Seal's got to be the one to cover, but no
concussions remain. And I don't expect there's a lot of droning left available for Daystar
either ironically the drone is in perfect position to find where bg man was hiding this whole time
and now bg tries to weave the gap between the two players can't even find a zuki however and day
start put themselves on that point ready to send us to clubhouse beautiful done again instead of
attacking the problem you just kind of walk around did hit the bomb site where all that
that utility is up above and you make it completely irrelevant.
Operator Benwise, not sure what you're really going to be going for, honestly.
Like if you are on the attack, what defender is the problem?
They're probably going to lose.
They're pretty straightforward so far.
I mean, I think if you're awkward, you get rid of that black dude.
I think that's the big thing if I'm awkward.
That one I see.
Now the glass.
Ah, what?
I eat.
Glasses picked one round.
Yeah, but it's a Yao pocket pick, you know, it's so the only reason why I said it is
In a previous game that we witness I believe it was banned against them on the on chalet
It's not mistaken and I think other teams just have more inside knowledge from scrims and practices than we do
It I think it's a much bigger pick for day starting for Yao then then what we believe it is
Well, he once in a while. Yeah, I did play it twice against orchid when they beat them in the upper bracket
But yeah, still, I mean, that's an operator that's only going to be impactful once every
now and then as a pocket pick.
You know, you get rid of the Capitao, that's been picked every single round.
You get rid of the Zafir, that's been picked often.
You know, same with the Solid Snake.
I think the Blackbeard is an old deers one, just because our press has been, unless if
they, maybe, all could have just happened to play against the Blackbeard because they've
been running so many impact grenades, they happen to do that tick damage.
We saw a lot of LR.
Yeah, I don't know if that glass band is gonna be that impactful
Daystar on the other hand getting rid of the kaiid and that's been brought back to backgrounds now by orchid and just getting
Rid of one more step in the process for daystar will only expedite these already fairly quick attacks
One thing I am liking here from orchid though is the usage of the castle and the mirror
You combine those two with the Izami and you create a lot of obstacles that Daystar are forced to clear.
It works well, please, alright? They can attack you, whether it's a Kassel Barricade, but they also can have a Cross-Fist and a Finder, if there's a Kassel Barricade.
It does, of course, to your point with the Mirror window, it does me the first step of these rounds, a lot more challenging.
Attack and Labyrinth head on with a quiet, either a Heart Destruction or an Ash or a Kali, and they only have fought out the Hibana and the Skizanese.
and this is an ace so it's going to be ranged heart destruction yeah there's a
lot of ability you can just smoke from the capitol then ace slash Ibane clear
the mirror instead of you send in Yao the BB and try melee but no it will be
that by next Kyros impact trade out in response and also a crossfire from top
blue so they can deny a lot of heart destruction here this might just not
work I feel like daystar will be able to get this done surely I mean especially
the capitol comes on over.
Wow, the Selma's being detonated.
I feel like Daystar are using their U2 way too prematurely,
and now Souffle's been peaked out from inside a lobby.
And grow play, but Azuki gets aggressive, finds a double kill with the M76,
too hungry for a third, but shut down by Ex-StarLotic.
A much needed lifeline now for Orc.
As they run back towards the bombsite tail between their legs,
just in time for Beeps to jump outside and claim one more life from Daystar.
They start, seal and Yao now.
Must clutch up on the 2v2 to send us the distance.
They start overheated.
Asuki didn't have to go for a third five but he really wanted it and he gets shot down
in response and then jumped out.
From Peach was successful and now we're back at even numbers.
Now Yao does have the Blackbeard but there's no more heart destruction, no flashbang.
So they have two guns and a singular grenade to work with.
Thankfully that reinforced wall has been opened up already.
Can you plant up against a solace in the 2v2? Probably not.
So Yow and Sil have to work together and try and find that one kill.
And the final frag grenade could be the way to do it.
If you know where the both are, grenade one, fight the other and try and force that 2v1.
Daystar bite in the time deciding how they're gonna play this.
You're right, the nade will be instrumental.
If Peebs hasn't revealed his position yet,
then maybe Daystar won't be aware that the solace is close to the bomb site.
But no, it's a trade directly.
Peebs now has to try and survive up against Yao.
Low HP on the Blackbeard. Yao cannot afford to run through any of those Suria gates,
and he can't afford to lose any HP damage to his feet.
So instead he takes the fight, Peebs swings the corner, and keeps his team alive.
Or could have not done yet on Shelle.
They have a few more things to say, and they will need two more rounds to send us to OT.
I'm not sure what's going on, we'll update you if you can, but it's turning up the heat
here in the server, or kid are refusing to die.
1v2 from Peeps.
We've seen a hell of a lot of clutches.
He had a 1v2 as well at the start of Cafe.
A 1v2 at the end of Cafe.
He's been the clutch king at the moment.
I don't know if you noticed, but after one of his clutches earlier today,
he was wagging his finger at the camera.
I think he's a bit of a player that has flown a little under the radar for orchid since joining the roster of course when orchid move from
Fury to this new organization with the core of
Cricce like Hollis and beachy man that they left dark behind and they picked up pete. Here is that replay Wow very quick on the sticks here
One of the replays from Pete's. He's had a few he's been playing it up to the camera quite a bit
And he's had good reason to three 1v2 clutches in the series
Definitely fallen to the radar for me in terms of his
Performances on the team, but I'll have a look and see where he actually sits
within Asia in terms of his EPS performances
He's yeah, he's a top 10 player so many actually 8th ranked in the league
above speakeasy and seal and i9 which is pretty impressive even above neon as
well from psychic company a pretty bit of standout player yeah the only one of
his team members who's a part of him is critchett
first creature on that like top four yeah well top top five top four if you
don't count the number one technically the number one player in Asia but I feel
is a bit of an asterisk there because he's only played seven maps because it's N high Cal for elevate
Oh, so he's got a really high EPS but keep in mind his his team. Yeah, didn't win many games
He had a 1.54 KD across seven maps, but if you think that is good the number two player in the
the region and the real number one is actually Hovind 1.92 KD from Weibo Gaming 12 maps played.
Okay that's absurd by the way also because when you're in a Weibo you have so many strong players
all hunting for the kills and being so capable and then somehow one guy is 2 KD almost like
yeah I mean it's funny because the next best player in the league is Turdster who is 1.87 KD
and REAPS isn't that far behind 1.65 KD.
Okay, wait. Can you do me a funny one? Can you, can you sort by survival and tell me if Gotti is first?
He is. Yeah.
Yeah.
So if you, if you sort by survival, right? Can you guess a percentage? What's Gotti's survival percentage?
Keeping in mind that like, you know, most, most players are dying like most rounds.
I know.
Okay, so I'm gonna go with that my brain instantly was a 42%
I think I had some 7 0s, 100,000 in loses, I think it's higher, but really I'm gonna guess 42%
Alright, so it's 52%
But 52%
Get this, the top 5 players in Asia right now for survival rate are Gotti, Reeps, Turd, Speakeasy and Hoven
They just don't get to the 7-0-7-1, that is incredible actually.
But look, not far behind them is Souffle, Seal and Pika, so like the top 8 players for
survival rating are actually from...
But what's theirs?
Pika, Souffle, what's their number at?
Souffle is a 44, Seal is 43, Pika is 40.
Which is...
Oh, okay, okay, still very, very high.
The start that I'm most interested in is clutch win rate percentage.
And can you guess the most clutch play out?
I'll describe them for you.
I want to see it's turdster.
He's number two.
He's number two at 40%.
Oh, he's number two.
So that's four clutches out of 10 attempts.
I'll give you some information about this player.
So their clutch rate is 67%, a much lower sample size.
They've won two out of the three clutches they've been in.
Who is it?
Is it in high count?
No.
player on turds his team wait they wait is it got you no no it's he's that he's
the 10 wait am I telling it's it's read is it reaps it's reaps he's one two out
of these three clutches lots of talk about for us here on the cast but I've
been told that the the desk are really just desperate to get themselves on the
mic what have you got me right we're fangin in mate we're fangin in I thought
We're gonna have a yet back and forth. Oh, are we Jase? Well, Jase. Oh
Come on, I know the reason
We're back in here. We're locking back in. Oh, it's a real host
After a while
Shall I I hope I hope we haven't slept in a funhouse right not yet
I think honestly, I'm quite impressed to see more good. Are you I am I am I didn't
The thing with day-stars is when they get on a roll, it's really hard to disrupt them.
And they did it on CAFE and they've done it again here on Chalet.
Four rounds straight, day-star was starting to look way too dangerous.
Way too dangerous.
Just really back in a little...
We need to get Winnie-Mac.
Oh, we definitely need to get Winnie-Mac, mate.
I will say that for Orchid, it was looking like they were going to absolutely just get smashed.
Yeah.
Two of the last three rounds, six boards, the impossible can they stream the next two?
Yeah, possibly I do feel like they might have to win it here and now if they're gonna win this series in
Clubhouse, I think if they start get to a point where they win this they're in form
And also mind you I'm pretty sure they would have a bit of rather potential so they would start the offense club
dangerous
Territory to be in yeah
Yeah, if I'm all kind of gonna get it give everything I've got here looks like we're getting back in I will say again
It's good to see Crit J peeps because we've got consistency from the team's best two players
Where a Sufle 8 8 has been good, but I think you'd rather be in Sufle's position. He is 8 8. Well, he's got seal
That's got 8 killed. He's got y'all with 7 kills. He's got a zuki with 10 kills
It can't always be Crit J and peeps who else is gonna stand up BG man like all this
Where are these guys?
Look at that.
I don't know how deep we want to get into this now that we're getting into it.
I mean, I'm ready to go. I'm deep.
You're ready to go into this.
You know what, Rob? I think you can do a round.
Let's go.
I don't think anyone wants that.
Give me your analysis here, prep face.
Match point six four.
Look it on defense.
We're going bar games, go.
Some great rotate holes being made.
Oh, don't you dare.
Don't you dare!
I'm walking straight down stuff.
I'm coming straight to you.
Back to the guys you do know what they're talking about.
But I think it's more fun
if people have to listen to us for a final round.
You really?
That would be very true. No one wants to do that.
Let's go back to the professional, shall we?
Thanks, Rob.
Always appreciate you.
Rob lasted for four seconds.
I liked his analysis though.
analysis though
All right, so
Finally through that tech pause. What have we got here day start? We know that they're pretty damn good on attack
Or could have just kept their heads above the water though
Yeah, they've been fighting back. We're doing a good job honestly for working that.
I know it was a struggle in Cafe 8 to the victory, but here in Chalets, by being down in numbers, down on the round scores, they are never giving up.
They've calmed them out and speaking of that, crickety. If you're here once again, taken down now from the Blackbeard, that's going to be a huge pick in this one.
It's going to slow down the attack quite a bit and just give them these options to work with later on.
Yeah, we really of course that's gonna be
You go James. I was gonna say we really sung the house prices losing the black bit is a expensive. We have stopped very expensive
His glass is bent away as well. I mean it's a lot target for a spin count him individually
Yeah
You're in playing operators like your finery or your ally that makes a shoot life a little bit harder
a little one step through the barricade of the wall. I'm not entirely certain right there,
but Critchey gets as surprised as I am. And now he's fighting the player on the window,
or perhaps also right up the staircase. Oh, come on, Critchey. Is he allowed to get away with
anything here? He's being hunted down by three-plus players. Does he try to sneak back towards
Piano? I don't know how he's managed to double back here. They're aware of his position thanks
to the solo snake from Silly Joe. He's very drunk outside. I get swung on by Seal. Eventually
traded back but at what cost look at that clock Pengu Daystar did not have a
lot of time left. I do not and again with the flag going down I can't just speed it
up magically and just start taking all that controls and step by step and
actually the solids make scanner and finding okay is there a player blue
stairs is the guy methanine okay let's push together guys three two one but
there's no more line charges three five spring five spring jumping and push
together they just kind of win their fights. That's a good flash good entry
from Seal as well with the FAMAS, 4v3, BG man cornered all the way back at library
but they know exactly where he is. Another kill comes through for Seal with that F2, 4v2.
Now for Daystar as they finally have a chance to put Shelly to bed but Peeps has been the
clutch god for Orcid. He's found one looking for a second. How has he just stolen that?
He finds three kills! It's another clutch for Dean Orchid!
How does he keep getting away with it?
What do you mean he hits that?
He just one-taped to flick off the angle. I don't think he saw the guy.
He was on a pixel on the chair. He's just walking in the door.
The she-walk is ripped after and they actually don't stick to the plan.
So they win the round on time, not even by getting the kill.
I'm telling you, there's always a fight left in Orchid, never a counter-mode.
Yeah, look, if Peebs keeps playing like that, then maybe there is a world where Orchid
would win this game.
You know, it settled in for me.
The Orchid 1 Cafe, where I really didn't think they would win.
But the reality hitting of Orchid winning the series, even in a potential 2-0, that still
seems like far too big of a pill to swallow. Daystar are in pig form, Pengu. We kept talking
about it. This is potentially the best Daystar we've seen. Yow, we've been seeing his praises.
They finally see what they have, the five players they need. Orcid on the other hand,
it's been a spot of bother for them. We were so disappointed when Daystar dismissed Orcid
in the group stage. We thought that was going to be a real contest. We thought that Orcid
were maybe just in this rebuilding phase, but today they've played some of the best
teams we've seen out of them.
Yeah.
Look, if they push overtime, anything's possible.
I think they might just have it if they go into OT.
The whole thing with Dave's Star since he started playing better and better on cafes
is also like their own confidence in how they're showing up on the server, you know,
if he get game kills, if they get in kills, getting double-digit territory,
Org is the one kind of stealing the show-fall majority of this, I would argue,
which has been the opposite story.
Especially when it comes to individual heroism, I mean,
Peeps has had so many clutches, and if you count that last one where it was a 2v4,
he found three of the kills, and his teammate essentially forced the final player to give up by getting off that deep use.
That would be a fourth class for Peeps.
Here comes the close range five, but well played from Daystar.
So well baited by Yao and the Blackbeard.
And Pipes, the clutch king himself,
has been taken out early from Orchid.
Daystar haven't advantaged.
Though they have lost one of their shield players in Pika,
they still have that Blackbeard alive and well.
I did a double down.
You know, if Yao dies early, it makes the whole push
that much more challenging.
We saw that in the previous rounds.
They did two shields.
Pika can go over the aggressive, over the setters.
maybe dies yours there and vice versa so they have a second way to win the
round in the exact same fashion double down with a grim the capital they got
stronger utility to get a bit of half destruction left still being used right
now for the office wall I think you can see for just waiting for them only one
tin can over the bomb site however that's a bit of a risk here from day
start no thermite they're not gonna have a lot of hard destruction here they're
gonna have to go big on the back of y'all on the blackbeard slowed down by
the banshees from the Lucy but the Grim does buy them a bit of space as yeah
starts to make his way forward he's clearing face-tracking everything the
Mute Jammers have made droning a headache thankfully the Blackbeard can
alleviate however here comes that nitro cell pre-placed does like all this
happy info as seal starts to make his way forward the nitro cell blind and seal
finds the kill like all this gets punished and now like all is going for
flank it's just him and BG man left a 2v4 again for awkward they've been here
before just send the bombsite you know what the one guy is throwing just take
that oh no actually I thought it was deterrence but yeah shut down immediately
on the third BG man's gonna be careful cut off from the third again takes a bit
of damage does he know where that plan is going down doesn't matter because day
star cannot be fooled twice they push us to a third map and clubhouse is required
to settle this lower bracket final.
I feel like there are quite a lot of characters in the game, and I think that there are quite a lot of characters in the game.
But if you have a character style, you will have a group that is different.
But there are many different types of music,
so I think it's more fun to play music.
I like to play with the sound and feel it's good.
Like the one in the OJ.
I like to play with the sound and feel it's good for the team.
So I like to play with that.
I think it's something that has a lot of characters and has a lot of abilities.
I think this is a good thing about C because it has a lot of updates.
It's a good thing that everyone is playing as they like, but if it's a competition, everyone is serious, everyone is serious, everyone is serious, everyone has a plan,
different from playing a game that everyone is playing as they like, it's a serious game.
Well, if there is a team that is good, there is a team that is serious, it will be a good thing for me, because if the team is not serious, then the audience and fans will not remember.
I think that if we have a good relationship with the team, we have to give time to each other, give time to the team, to be together with the team.
What do we have to say to make the team stronger?
I
I
Well, that's what we're talking about. A nice little comeback on the train. Four day
star. That's a big one for them to drag across the line. Michael, you tell me when to stop.
About that. Okay, fair enough. That's how big it is. It's a pretty long piece of screen.
Pretty big, but I don't think it's a footlong. Yeah, I think a bit longer than a footlong,
you know we're getting there we're getting closer to it now I think
unfortunately for Team Hawkin we're watching that final round there's
locks and just jake we were watching just a final round
yeah just jake actually that could go hard just jake
no one would ever forget just jake now but it was when peeps died that we just
looked at each other and said well yeah that's it game over and then i said do
you quit jake also died too and we're like oh that's definitely
It's interesting because in it as sweet and sure as analysis as that is yes on the money
isn't that in a six five round as soon as peeps and critch a guy we immediately look at each
other and we say that and for all the jokingness of it it's so true that as soon as those two die
that's it for all and it's both a good and a bad thing it's good that they have players that are
capable of clearly being so influential and so talented that there's a reason why this has been a pretty close little final
And they're in this series, but it's so bad that we just don't trust the others to stand up and you kind of look at the numbers in the
end guys
It speaks for itself. Did you see 13 7 13 7 and then 5 9 4 9 and 4 9
And that's not without even finishing the entire map either we
Our start has come cut off.
That is.
Oh, no, no, no, technically it's catching up.
Maybe not the last round.
Yeah, it's catching up somewhat, but it still goes to show.
There's a whole lot of green with three reds.
It's not a great look, but I think I was moving into the third map.
This was the unfortunate part of our analysis that we were talking about,
but just prior to map two,
Clubhouse probably not the greatest look for Team Orca here.
Yeah, we don't have a ton of data for them on this map specifically,
And I think tapping into the point that you're making that if they're not playing as a ball rounded five-man roster
Clubhouse can be very very difficult because it's the style of map we're having one or even two pop-off players
Is pretty rare?
Especially on the attacking side where you need everybody pitching in and having an impact in the round so
Yeah, I don't have the greatest of confidence in them. I mean teamwork if you take down salt heart seven three
that's confident. Daystar haven't touched it in over a month so I certainly don't want to sound
like Daystar are absolute like otherworldly favorites. I think if I had to give it like a
split probably looking in the realm of like a 70-30 with Daystar having a firm grip on this final map
but it's not maybe as definitive as maybe I was making it sound like it was a absolute
chewing before but yeah all good now trailing yeah and we need to see all five members I mean
Oh, no, I love it when it comes to understanding when you've got two winners in and you hear
Jake Zonoxsen, did he go, you know something big is coming.
Jake, for yours.
I'm going to say Orc would be going to win this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And what pray tell is the analysis behind that?
Well, firstly, they're in a pretty big match as well against Zoll's heart, who I think
we would usually say are the same level as Orc or at least.
Yeah, it's either of those two are very close.
dropped the first map needed to win Clubhouse and that was a statement. They came into the gates
they weren't being fenced and they just smashed it. They got the four rounds and then there was actually
most impressed me was their attack. They get three out of four
packed rounds and it was peeps and crypt jay that led the way.
But they also did get a lot of help from BGmen in that game.
So the way they win Clubhouse here, third and final map, well fine. They're gonna need BGmen.
It's not a big joy. It cannot be a joy, but I think more importantly it needs to be BGmen.
and secondly I think what they're gonna need is like what you were saying that
team play so even if you're finding kills be impactful helping out with
rotate balls sometimes they're huge man sometimes you just don't know they may
be the balance of the game between light and darkness good and evil it feels
like we have somewhat of a red light saber blue light saber kind of dual
here but who's on what side yate who's okay well then I guess that's as close
as you're gonna get is that it absolutely I think all three win this
what do you think of you really so this isn't like a minute of the trilogy this
is like at the end of the trilogy what I mean I'm in a life is a third match so
it's the end yeah return of the day star they're gonna look at it seven three
I walk at eight seven. I wish I had a good way to throw this in a star wars bit. Unfortunately I don't
Actually, you know, I'll try one up
This one are you gonna get this?
Da da da da da da.
That was good.
Da da da da da da.
I would have gone with, you know,
Rockwood has said,
let's see which team the fours are favors.
Ah.
You know, that could have been a decent way to stay away there.
I'm not going to argue.
May the fours be with Day Star.
I'm looking for a pun here.
I'm finding nothing whatsoever.
I feel like return of the day star from cars
was probably where it's at.
that was a close one man
why is he yelling like that?
I don't know, I can't hear what these guys are talking about
oh I think Zenox is trying to do a Chewbacca and it's not going down very well
hahahaha
don't let him up
you must
peeps
I don't know, I was trying to be young, it didn't really work
what do they say?
No, no, no. I thought you got it. You got it. What are the quotes and we got twice the pride double the fall
Was the count do keep on my sister pride
It's when Anakin says my powers have doubled since we last met count
Render this is here. You were revenge of this injury. I need to watch those movies again. It's been a very long time
fun fact there was a cut scene from that where
Well, I don't know a spot anything to watch him, but there was a fight sequence as well as everything Anakin and can do
We're Anakin I counters him into a movie. He lost to previously
Do we want to just start at Star Wars podcast instead of casting Rambo six is that what the direction we're moving at the moment? No
No, I feel like I wouldn't be as passionate
Great, it's not quite
Here we go
Azuki loses his head a little bit cut down just like quite gone and have
I need to stop. I need to stop. Somebody run me in.
I was going to say that when we were a 3D major, we were told by the production back
then to get as many wet water drowning jokes as possible. And James's brain couldn't turn
off for like two weeks straight. He was making water pun after water pun. And when we returned
back home to cast after the event, his brain was still fishing for more.
Yeah, I was in pretty deep, I was in pretty good deep, couldn't get my head up on it.
You can get in the water.
Alright, second pick now for Orchid and I'm starting to believe Jakeyboy.
I have a feeling that the tie team is ready to dominate.
Peeps has locked down an aggressive attempt at a flank from Seal.
It's not a good day for day star as on the bomb site now. It's just seal
Or rather, sorry souffle. I cannot read souffle and yeah, I'm trying to desperately hold on
5v2 so much time in the world
Hey, it's all the same seal or souffle is very tough position again the odds are very much against them
They're gonna be attacked from the hatches and third tunnel from blue the main staircase and here comes a close on the black
He's saying, hey, I see one.
He's staying still around third box trying to take him out.
Linescash.
I spot him.
I'm going to follow through as well.
And so he goes behind.
He does Lycolas.
Peeves will find the kill.
Yao, who we've talked so much about now at a 1v5 all the time
in the world for Orcid.
But this is a situation that Yao cannot talk himself out of.
It's a time for action.
First kill found.
Scorpion rings true.
But not for the second.
Lycolas is there.
And they come out of the gates, sprinting down the line.
Orchid immediately make a statement at the start of clubhouse
that this game is theirs for the taking.
The conviction in that round as well.
It's been a bit of a back and forth,
but I will say this, Orchid,
they just have these rounds where they turn up to 110%
where every single player is sprinting in the building
and is taking the fights.
When you get that kind of confidence behind them, you know, let's say they get a second or a third round here in a row, they could just completely steal it away from Daystar.
And the thing is, Clubhouse is a very execute heavy map, what we're thinking, often like four or five attacks alive, three, two, one countdown, go for a plant.
That's a playstyle for Daystar, I think they're very favorite in when they're on the attacking side.
So I think right now, what Daystar are defending, or this is where they're going to put up their rounds.
I have an easier time attacking clubhouse than they will defend it not because of Orcid themselves as a team
But because of what they start are so good at so every single round here on the second side is gonna be so important
As the guys on the catch talked about we saw a very important win for Orcid over souls hard on clubhouse just three days ago
go and for day start well I haven't played clubhouse for a month since they
beat elevator on this map back two months ago they beat the C&L team for
AM lost away bow and beat fury so a bit all over the place for day start but
nothing recent or can have that result against souls heart fresh in their minds
But this is the first time either of these teams have played this map on this new patch.
Will my band out by Orcid and for good reason too, will my will be to create a fortress
on that position where Azuki himself is playing with his ADS's to assist him.
But no keeper barriers from the Azami.
How will Orcid clear him out?
No Capitao, just flashes and nades and a black beard.
There's one of those cases where you might even take CCTV away from them first and hit
them from the window and from the reinforced wall and they can't walk after us cause, or
the one way angle that we spoke of with Scatman a few days ago actually.
This is how you can win if Azuki goes for a swing, but all you have to do is do what
he's doing right now.
Stay prone, don't take any risks, the only way you die is if you make a mistake.
BGM is just waiting for Azuki to stamp a little bit too far back, time and bit of damage onto him.
There's also an Injun to Yau who tried to swing inside the bomb site a little bit too much,
here come the Nades and the Blackbeard, but he's taken a hell of a lot of damage.
And Azuki actually wins his gunfight against the Blackbeard.
Ex-Sahalonic though to punish some aggression from Seal on these windows.
They start burning a little bit too bright after they found that pig and now they're suffering for it
Yeah, still on the floor. It needs to be revived, but I think that ship has sailed look at orchid now
They've taken control of rafters. They're looking to try and mount this attack
But souffle lashing out onto XR lotto. He's taken a bunch of damage out from the breach through that breached wall
Pika back on the bottom side orchid
poise to look for a plant
I think they recognize there are two defenders in his area and the bombsite is very vulnerable.
They've rotate it over Beechman and breach it out of Dutch Guzzi.
This can force one of two things. Either it's going to force the defender back towards the bombsite,
which we know that it has, or it gives them a back step potential later on
if they see that both of those defenders are still roaming inside of CCTV.
The only issue is time. There's 20 seconds.
They've got to find these players with the last few drones that they have available.
Three to one, commit together.
together. We see there's a player just hiding by the jacuzzi breeze. I could easily get a
killer too. Oh no. It's Sufley. Yeah and he's found one. I don't think there's anyone playing
breach as well. Gritje straight into the bomb site looks for a plant. Pika and Sufley. Jastny
denied this plant and the round is theirs. Pete finds one but guess who sneaks up from
behind? Sufley to clutch up the round. 1v2 and Daystar are on the scoreboard. So close
make a good push there together. Just one guy going for Master, one there from the
gym hall where he only catches one. The timer works in favor of the defense always.
I gotta say, I mean that might have been a suitcase round that he won for his team.
He got a kill on the Calorrafters and he solved so much time, burned a couple of flashbangs
and grenades. That adds up. That was with Yao getting injured and bleeding out over
the course of about 40 seconds. That could have been a much easier run victory if one
small detail like on Disney for Daystar, but they are still victorious, that all that matters.
Now they go to actually CCTV, it felt like most of that last round felt like a
CCTV cash-drawn bombsite defense just because of how much presence we saw from Daystar over on
that extension, but now all kids, they've had their practice, now they have to go at it again,
and hopefully for their sake they'll have a little bit more success because like Hollis shouldn't be dying
to that Jager. Ideally we need, the big thing is the black bit is the one with the grenades, right?
But he's not in a position to use those grenades because if you want to be the one throwing grenades
up at the Jager you need to be standing directly below him at bottom garage, which means there's
so many other things you have to worry about like getting flanked from lounge. And of course you
need to burn all of the ADS's before you throw those nades, each one of those Jager's ADS's will
catch one gadget before it recharges and there's also with the one my band
imagine they have doubled down with both the eager and the one my I mean this
would be a completely impossible to attack directly hit on if you give
themselves a chance now if they were my being removed same with the kite it
also means they gather all the stronger bears available but the assam is gonna
to live on. They got the Echoes account to pick right now as well. Shoot counter if you
will, a bit of information. Well, that callus has to be careful. If they know Echoes on
the board, this can overstep and go to challenge those defenders too aggressively.
I want to see how active Daystar here are on the defense.
Trap from Yao.
Triggered by Lycola.
Spaded out.
BGM is just waiting for the swing to come through.
It does manage to catch Yao.
On the retreat.
pick here for Orchid. Oh, oh, oh, oh, get off your camera, Critchey. There's a player right above you.
Oh, this is so unfortunate. Critchey was on his drone that whole time and completely
sold like wholists. That's poor timing there for Orchid. Gives Daystar a way back into it.
Good unlucky hour. I mean, a bit of a chaotic round again between these three teams. There's
This is not a usual clubhouse, it has not a usual chalet or café.
A lot of just individual players looking to disrupt both the defense and the attack,
rather than those three-to-one style executes.
60 seconds to go and we are all over the place.
We're downstairs in Barre still, we're somewhat looking towards Master Bedroom.
The defender is nothing from day start, I've also, okay, we don't care about the roam,
we'll hold Gareth around player, people can watch towards the bomb site,
make all kids burn down that timer second by second,
We have an Echo, but there's no C4, there's no more toxic babes, so outside of Echo stopping the plant momentarily, they have no other way of dealing with it, but...
DICE!
...Bitchy Mandaise!
Yeah, I don't know how Beachy Mandaise, but thankfully, Exolyte gets able to find one back.
Especially because it is the smoke, it's a lot of utile, now burned away, speaking of burning, the fire used by Peach to try and flash these players from Daystar into Krije's lines of sight, but Sufla actually lashes out aggressively through the breach!
finds one at the same time as Uki goes for a run out and finds his. Now Krijay is in a 1v2
big, it comes up from behind him, vaults over the banister and takes him down a dominant round
from Daystar on a cash defense and it's back to the drawing board for Team Orchid.
Do you bend the Yeager here? Is there actually a chance?
Genuinely, genuinely, I'm just disappointed that Orchid even
even ignored that rafters hold. Surely they could have gone back to it. I mean, capital
is not banned.
Okay, this could be a capital and a Yeager ban, to be honest, with how things have been
playing out so far, if you're expecting it especially.
Wow, capital, you're right about that.
Capital ban, okay. I mean, so now they get to double dip in the wave, right? You ban
the capital and they ban the bandit. So now they have no capital, you keep the Yeager
and the Asami, that's going to make rafters so easy to hold on paper compared to the usual norm here in 12 pounds.
You know another thing that you could do without banning that Jager is play the Thatcher instead,
and you'll be able to see exactly where those ADSes are using the EMP scanner, and then just detonate and deactivate them all at once at the same time.
You deactivate those ADSes and throw one Nade over, even if the player playing there dodges the Nade, that Nade will then destroy all of those ADSes.
And you'll be free to throw any more flashbangs and nades afterwards
Of course, we're not gonna have to worry about that for now because we're going down to the basement
But I really think thatcher is an underrated pick here for rafters Clis
No, it's a good point actually and it kind of goes into a mini game of siege them because if you play the Yeager and you're uncontested
You know no thatcher no direct counterplay
You stack them maybe but then because you put those two together now that the thatcher the EMP all the three ADS's
For the next round, you know they have a Thatcher now. You space those idiots quite broadly around the area
So let's see if they counter rafters. You don't stack them all in the same corner
You put them Catwalk 1, Catwalk 2, 90, and while the Defender does have to move around a little bit more to get that protection
It counters the Thatcher a little bit. So there could be an interesting back and forth here later on, not to see
It's more relevant on CCTV and June defense because that's where you take Catwalk rafters typically speaking
for now we're going to be enjoying the beautiful few shoot gameplay from like
holis as our pop house for the few maps where it does have some value maybe
seems bank you can do it on the soft floor and hatches or reinforced walls
often pop gadgets like your goial canisters or a bit of you to like an
hour later in the right occasions etc so I'm trying to get a shot down
hatches for a plan yeah true we did not that it was successful but yeah I mean the
big thing is like you say using that shield to drop down the hatch and you can hop right
here yeah of course no it's not a bad combo I mean we've got the triple tin can openers here
from orchid, Zofgrim, Fuse each one bring their own really valuable primary gadget and then those
secondary tin can openers to make sure they can breach as many of these hatches as they want
and I really like this pick as well this fuse charge will destroy all of the utility underneath
this hatch critically those denarii lasers as i say that it actually doesn't destroy it the funny
thing is if like colas had actually placed that fuse charge on a 90 degree angle i think it would
have destroyed some of those because the way a fuse charge detonates is it creates a horizontal
line from right to left am i right is it still a roma no i read that one sorry i thought this
player was quick for a second i sadly he opened the hatch so he can't go for it again so mortal
not to be maybe. I call this taking a lot of damage. Asuki doesn't know it, but instead of aiming for
the half inch destruction, you can just aim for the college's feet and he'll die. Fuse has to go
out while the watch diverges, could hit the McKill. It could, here comes the second Fuse charge,
he tries to run away, Kritsche finds Azuki. And eventually the hatch will be opened as well,
but all could have to be careful. Like hold is still very low HP, even a single bullet to the
foot and the shield will be down.
Still though, a tough position to be in, with just one shot until I call it a fuse and he
will get injured.
But there's so much intel, they see two players inside a church, they can have that
close to the shield, probably see a third player by AAPs or third box.
Because they have numbers of vintage, they can attack from blue, main stairs and the
kitchen hatch all at the same time.
can continue getting information here like Hollis is actually going to try and down main stairs.
I think he's going to try and go through the rotate that they made but unfortunately for him
he gets shot from the feet and he was already low HP. Seal has gone double down a bottom main
and now Orc had to run for the hills desperately trying to drop it to the side. Critchet will
find one but he's traded one back. Seal has been dominant in this round. BG man has nothing to say
about it. It's a 4k from Seal and Daystar make the world tour three rounds in a row on defense.
All right, one of those small decisions on clubbers that are so hard, right?
Can you drop the hatch? Do you walk down bottom main? What kind of attack do you go for?
And when you have a shield on very low HP, I feel like you should take the path of least resistance,
like where you're not going to get body shot as commonly. Walking down is there a case,
is where you're going to be the most vulnerable. Your feet are sticking out. You can be pushing both
the motor, the bridge and the long corridor itself, because there was a reinforcement at the end
with the time he was playing so in this moment I call his dies that's the plant
gone now you got to get maybe two kills in response then they're on his back alive
but they don't they can't go for plant and lose all their bodies last minute
stock upstairs force a drop with everybody watching that does not lead to
around victory and now me my theory is that they start was going to be quite
strong on their own attack inside when they get there so this three one
position that they start right now is looking mighty fine to go into that
Grand Final.
Attackers have discovered the location of Obama.
We talk about it all the time.
If you come through that lower bracket and you have to play back-to-back games in the lower final,
into the Grand Final, is that an advantage that you've had a chance to warm up?
Or is it a disadvantage that you've fatigued?
And to be honest, I think what really matters more is how you get there, how you win that game.
game. If Daystar build out that momentum and despite losing in 15 rounds on the
first map, despite Orc had given them a real run for their money, if Daystar
come through on Clubhouse, I really do think that they will have the best
chance they've had perhaps ever at taking down Weibo. It will take some
mighty bravery and talent to slay the Dragon of Asia and I'm not sure if
either of these two teams are ready for it.
I guess the bandit bandit is going to get poked immediately, nothing can stop you.
Now there is a world you can do like a two-brow mirror window tricking,
but that's not going to be the case with this one.
It's very effective against the three-mile charges and just slowing down the attackers.
We're seeing all the silhouettes here that are blue,
the sprinting back towards the bonus side things that are construction, office and gym.
This means that they start with 5 defenders and close proximity are going to feel very
squished together and it makes it very uncomfortable in the server because you get a word about
all the angles from the windows outside that pre-sector will open up eventually.
Before you ever see somebody go downstairs and farm, maybe go for a flank later on because
you don't have that many strong spots on the side itself.
You have bathroom and office, maybe a guy playing by that master figure master, that's it.
These mirror windows are going to be a real pain to clear, however.
Good job on taking out that far away. Yeah, oh.
I guess they asked it.
Just deleted from the server with the ash.
I like the ash pick. Very uncommon these days.
We don't often see ash, but very powerful against those mirror windows.
There is a play all the way down in oil pit. It's the LR.
Oh, Pika came for a flank, played in the rounds.
Yeah, though, he's picked off.
Orc could have a gaping hole on that bombsite. They've nullified the mirror windows and they're eager to make an execute happen.
The question is, what will be achieved by Pika on for that flank? He needs to move now.
As his bombsite players are falling, it's only Azuki now left on the bombsite.
Pika finds one from his flank and Azuki supports as well.
Now Orc is back on the back foot, but BG man finds his nice shot from Pika. 1v2 so winnable here.
Critchey has to force that plant down, because on low HP,
and his cruise smart does not find its target,
does not find the player planting.
However, his spray will take down P.J.
It's a 1v1 Critchey.
You've got the best damn weapon in the game,
and you only need to land a single bullet, and he does so.
Orchid are much needed rounds, shuts down P.K.'s heroics,
and gets themselves a second attack on the board.
so close and that's a flank by the way from all the way downstairs into garage into cctv and he
was actually figured out very early on the first killer peter gott was in cc on the outside balcony
towards the master bedroom of gym window they had three different people just watching that single
door he was pushing from he took down every single member good use of the final grismat taking
away the game sound from the attackers rotating to office to get a new angle but that clutch
unfortunately was not meant to be. Sadly all his teammates died before the flank came to life because
this right here when he gets the first kill that's causing that chaos in the server and maybe during
that chaos if the other defenders were alive they can start taking some fights swinging into
construction fight by the windows and something can happen but when the flanker becomes the last
defender alive it's it means the site didn't hold for long enough all of the flanker didn't flank
fast enough but Piga had to be cautious because if he died first trying to flank then they run as
over for sure. I gotta say I'm really impressed by the way Orchid really picked apart that defense
there were a lot of different layers to it from Daystar but look I don't often love seeing both
the bandit and Kaeyi band teamed up together I know you often talk about the diminishing returns
of double dipping on the same class of band the same archetype but it really did work for Orchid
because it allowed them to abuse the thermite and the ace together.
And sometimes you've just got to play it like it's year one.
Open up walls, expose defenders, and then the kills will come.
That's exactly what Orca did.
They opened up the walls, they counted the mirror windows,
and sometimes you've just got to keep it simple.
Stupid.
You pick hard breaches, you pick the ash to count of the mirror,
and in this case, Daystar, they themselves are looking to make this complicated.
Unfortunately, though, they cannot get that mirror window quite high enough to counter.
that exothermic charge and as such the mirichick will not land
unlucky didn't even have impacts on an operator on the map to then open the mirror window
toss an impact and deny further and is it worth using c4 for that maybe maybe not
the issue is if you throw a c4 the two bow freeze also emps that it explodes the device so you
would need the impact grenades that means that a big play for this round to try and deny that
Reaching has been stopped immediately today. So always dying on the back foot a little bit less utilum pocket
One new one active mirror into an arc can be seen through
If create J looking down or looking up rather to have to downstairs fishing for a kill
There are at least a new plan if you're staying on a jammer you look at track by the demos
But if you're on that roam game, you probably don't have one
Tracks to meet himself was in construction. He'll be safe for the time being
I don't know what you're saying man, I'm such a simp for Thermite these days, two exothermic
charges with Banna and Kaidban, it's free real estate for BG.
Whoever critches goes down, BG actually has a chance to find a kill here as well.
He sprays at the right time, tiny bit of damage onto Azuki, that tells the Jager time to get
out of there.
He's now cautious, or could I have rats in the rafters worrying about players hiding
in corners as they go for these clears.
Final round of the half here, Pengu, all kid looking to try and tie the score line.
They have a problem, they spent all their extra thermal charge, so I mean they have
Selma as a backup, but if that breach isn't perfect then they can't get in and they can't
go for a plant.
So once the triple freeze is over we gotta keep an eye on peeps here, can he open up the
wall successfully?
It cannot be a vault angle, this right here is a vault angle.
This guy used the very final summer charge on the very bottom part of it to make it a plant spot.
And there's still a mirror winner to deal with as well.
He's not gonna do it.
No, I had a very bad feeling about this round here for Orcid.
Nitro Seldo gets tanked like Hollis Low on HP, but he does survive.
Critically, that gives a chance here for Orcid, but they will have to be aggressive and erupt into the bomb site when they go through this plan.
BG man on for the backside, he finds his kill.
And now a second as BG man goes deep and aggressive from the bridge, Pica will trade him on back,
but two of these day start defenders are all the way up on rafters, unable to deny the plant,
but Pica will still land the shots to take down Peeps into the post.
It's a 2v2, both of these teams fighting tooth and nail as we look down the barrel of the end of this half.
Ex-Ilotic and Lycolas fall back to post-plant positions.
Pika so deadly with that DMR slowly makes his way forward a zuki to support a quick shoulder pick here as the crossfire is
Maintained exalonic to find one. It's a quiet kill for Pika as he goes deeper
But like all us says not today a third round found at the end of the half from team orchid
Once again, we find ourselves talking about how impactful the last round will be in an overall series
that is close Jake I mean it's you know it really isn't a nice edge I know we
love to say the 50-50 game but Jake I tell you what they are they are really
digging in when it matters. I certainly did and again another situation where
once Daystar got out to that 3-1 lead and it's probably fortunate for him that
they were able to win that opening round because if they don't win that opening
round they would have been in a bit of a strife three straight for Daystar they
looked pretty comfortable then on the defense and I thought they were gonna
to get at least a four and four two. I know that we usually say in club that's about even
that's where you want to be but I in this kind of matchup I think that would have been
much better for day star than awkward to get it to three three now it's in this is good
or could go defense we know they can certainly defend in the second half and the fact that
it came down over one be one people almost getting that ace that was pretty critical
that round maybe map defining and therefore serious defining could be massive for them
And I think that a lot of the woes that we were talking about in terms of individual plays
goes kind of washes away when things go as well as they do for Team Orchard.
There's been multiple rounds here that I think they've won purely based off those minigames
that we talk about so, so frequently. Yeah, it's been the minigames and it's been the fact that
it's been a pretty well-rounded team effort. It was a bigger walking point, especially from the
Team Orchard perspective. If this was going to be just a two-man effort, it could be G-man
get in on the action and funnily enough he's actually top-fragging at the moment
popping off. Crit J.Pete's and even like Colossal was also impactful in that
really important critical last round there where he stayed alive on the bike
bit he's been really really good so in terms of that well-rounded performance
from Orc that we needed to see for them to be successful that's exactly what
we're getting and I'm getting a little bit nervous for my prediction now I'm
not just because I'll be wrong but because Jake might now be right. Well I
mean the Dominator the opening kills they've gotten two plans they've
obviously gotten two out of the three clutches. There's a lot that they did
right in a clubhouse, a clubhouse. Clubhouse? Half the day. On the air, on their
attack. Like I said, Orca before the game, I feel more confident now. So that's a
good sign for them. It's not a guarantee and we know days that will be more than
capable on their own attack. But if you had have said three match, three, three
at the half, and now Orca go defense, because I think you probably would have
Maybe change your opinion. Yeah, absolutely. I've been really impressed from the team play perspective that we've seen from them
That's exactly what's super critical. Yeah on defense as well
Of course, but crits especially on attack when you're trying to be the ones to dictate tempo and you are the underdog in the matchup
So they put them now sell them souls in a really strong position
Yep, it was the bands that have played out here for the second half
So Kaiid and Merus suggest that we could even see bandit to round things out and it'll be full warden are from
the side of D star and then all could electing to take shield and grim up the
board does they mean that the capitals in play and also I guess circling back to
the defense that means that the Wamai is going to be available and that's a
sentence I didn't think I'd be saying this year in terms of it being notable
but especially on map like club with key checkpoints to list some of the power
positions whether it be like basement AK's or top floor bathroom top floor
rafters etc where the Wamai could be really strong having that available is
It's going to be quite impactful for the team.
And the Thunderbird makes it through as well.
How? How on earth has it happened?
Didn't think I'd be saying that sentence.
Never thought I would ever say a sentence.
Just like that. Unfortunately so.
Actually, in fact, the exact same as you do.
Who do you think, Rob?
Look, I want to say that if Team Orchid can
stop Daystar with their small runs that they've had,
if you look at the way Daystar have played,
they've played with a lot of momentum.
When they win rounds, they win a lot of rounds.
I think if team orchid can keep them on their back foot if they can utilize the one line it could be good
You know, else he's got a lot of momentum. That doesn't matter over to James and Nick bring it home boys
Thanks
Look if there's one thing I want to talk about it's not the Thunderbird
It's nothing at those guys who yapping about the desk
It's that family might actually get to see a little bit of what my here not in the first round
But he has escapes the operator veto unscathed
Yeah, that wasn't the exact same thing and is this day so I say orchid you don't know balls
Allowed you to try it
They show how much they could do with the acre but neither up to this one for the first few things
Now I said before that I think they start on the attack
They have a very big advantage of strong at executing and setting up their attacks very effectively
Which are a couple of us all about what orchid can do is play the game of disruption, right?
they play aggressive, they play roaming, they try and go for kills. Look at the attacking lineup.
If you take down any attacker but lose yourself in the process, it's a worthwhile trade.
It's either going to be about the health destruction or an important utility operator
or the only self-destroyer. So it does not matter if Critier is deep roaming the Naurian,
he dies as long as he kills somebody from Daystar and take him with him.
Well, it's room clear time here for Daystar and yeah, is the tip of that spear.
Crit J may be on the receiving end eventually.
He's using this scenario adaptively mid-round, get spotted.
He's reasonably safe in this position for now.
If the Blackbeard tried to hunt him, he would always of course have the support of that
gas pipe to detonate by a little bit of time to escape, but it looks like Daystar is actually
rotating.
I see multiple players running towards exterior dirt tunnel, is this going to be a glass black
beard pushed close to the site?
This isn't going to work I don't think.
There's Aguayo.
They might have overcommitted.
There's Aguayo kind of still on the door into dirt from site so once they pop that barricade
as they now know they're going to be kept at bay for 20 seconds.
That's where they're going to force shift to just straighten the bomb site and be countered.
Maybe they thought the roam game was a lot bigger than it actually is, it's just going
to be two people peeps and bar and critique on top floor Korean side of the
business office oh wow guys by the side oh my god like it's punished with the
Reaper as well and you're inside a blue now and they got dirt tunnel pressure
critique good for one of the flank though chaos in the server yeah it's a
huge shot from a zoo key however a nuclear nitro on the bomb site from
like colas both of the final players from day start pushing from blue and
Crit J puts a stop to the first peek and now the last one standing
AR 33 hand good flash but peeked directly into it. It's BG man reprisal as Orchid take the leap
And it's beautiful aggression
The bar flank is unsuccessful or Crit J will then get a kill elsewhere instead on the main stairs, so
Again different win conditions for team Orchid
It's also why Goryo is such a strong operator, right?
You can put down the Goryo canisters and prep phase, start roaming, play a bit more
on the offense, and then the anchors still have a chance to pop the Goryo fire, stall
for 20 seconds as the backup arrives.
It looked very much like Okra, we're just happy to take the fire.
So it wasn't going to be about the plant denial, it wasn't going to be about the late round
execute.
It's going to be about who can go for that opening pick and who can disrupt the other
achieving their goal.
That nuke of a nitro as well. Massive great way to counter the glides. People forget sometimes.
So many different ways to get rid of the glides. And a C4 is often one of them. If you see that smoke, you often know he's peeking through it.
So good start to the Orca defense. That makes three rounds in a row by the way. They came back from a 3-1 deficit here now to take the lead.
can they further it Jim bedroom up on the menu and guess who's back it's one my
crit J finally showing us this newly buffed operator so remind me penguin
exactly how was my buffed in the recent midseason patch what okay so what fire
bug wait what interesting so I think there's a lot never seen that before
Hopped it gas. I've never seen it, but I've heard about it
It's very well. We just burn to death and I think it's based off the explosive canister. Maybe that's inside a connector
But I guess it's just
Yeah, I was like we're trolling yeah, um, so essentially
Well, my
Recharge rate has been half. So it took 40 seconds per one my disk now takes 20 seconds
Wow, that's so quick.
This means when the drone phase is over,
you start with two in parking,
you'll get all of them at the halfway point or whatever.
Instead of cabing out at six magnets,
you cab out at seven, so you get one extra as well.
And the activation tire has gone from 1.5 seconds
to 0.5 seconds.
And the activation timers,
when you toss it down on any surface,
it's gonna have that kind of wide ring.
And when it fully expands, that's when it's now active.
That's when you can catch something actively.
And before it being 1.5 seconds,
you couldn't react to a flash being on grenade midair
when you see it coming in.
It would take too long before it would explode.
But now it's 0.5 seconds, you can see a grenade.
Pause that map in the ground, it's gonna catch the grenade.
And whenever it might just catch something,
it's going to reset the fuse timer on that grenade or flash.
So it can save you, it can redirect the smoke,
the flash, the grenade, whatever.
And it can honestly change a lot about those
play to die positions that we've seen of the Lord of the Nazgoth Lyrus.
Yeah.
Yeah, wow.
Oh, and it's got C4 on top of the shield.
Well, he's got fun on the utility.
I love this, I love this, like, we don't just buff a little bit these days.
We're just like, you know what?
Oh, you got a shotgun that passed before that.
Yeah, true.
Let's not just do one little thing.
Let's just go crazy.
Like when Thorn got buffed, it's like, let's give her another gadget.
Oh, let's also make it so that the damage is changed.
And let's also make it so we have this whole limping effect as well.
It's just you gotta you gotta go crazy
So look we said before that we want the meta to change every few months and I'm
Wholeheartedly in a grance with that. I want to see operators getting buffed
Or to see operators getting nerfed as well
That's maybe a bit more of a controversial take people don't love to see their favorite operators get nerfed
But people have to realize as well if everything is constantly getting buffed
That means that whoever hasn't gotten buffed recently is getting a relative nerf
stuff. There's something to keep in mind. You look at some operators that haven't been
changed for a long time but are still like losing their power just because they haven't
been buffed in the same level as all these other operators. With Sledge for example,
Buck for example.
Yeah, Buck. Both my homies Sledge. I was low gonna say. That's crazy.
I think we just need a full hammer throw.
I think there's a lot of throaty.
That'll be, that'll be a good one.
like a like a ranged mechanic sledge there. I think it's all about beauty in the yield one
upgrade. If you think of like Frost, Valkyrie, Sledge, Bog, Pulse, Castle like almost every
single one. They are so simple in nature but they work so well. Of course there are some
ups like Sledge and Frost where they're just much stronger versions of them you know Bog
and Ram for Sledge and you know any other chop-up rate of a Frost. But I think that simple design
has just been such an enjoyable and logical thing to play around with over the last 10 years.
And if you started playing the game on release, that's what you have to work with.
Look at today, Denari, super cool operator, don't get me wrong.
But understanding how he works and getting max value off the gadget requires custom game
research or looking up guides online because like certain laser connections and max range and
lines of sight and whatnot. It is just make the game more beautiful in some ways and more
trick in others and if you're a long-term fan I think it's a credible but if
you're a new first-time player you're just gonna be overwhelmed a little bit by that.
For sure I mean look I didn't even play the game from launch I actually started
playing during Skull Rain when Capitao and and Kvera had just come out and
even for me like you know I often think what would it be like if I just joined
the game right now and we've got what 75 plus operators in the game and we have
so many different archetypes. I'd be impressed if you remembered the exact number. So many
different. 77, 77, wow. I'm impressed you got that close. Yeah, there's just so much
to learn, right? And if you started from scratch right now, you're learning all those operators
from zero. Like, I played other games with lots of different characters, and I just give
up. It's so complicated. I'm lucky that I was there from when we only had like 24 operators
back in the day so I've got to learn them as they come out one by one but even
now it's hard to remember like look if you if you ask me what secondary gadgets
doc has I probably wouldn't remember because I never play that off and it
keeps changing I'm gonna say but why a bulletproof is what I was thinking yeah
but rook has a C4 now right yeah you should be done
Rook has a c4 and a reaper as well, it's so weird, so that's yeah that like when
when Sledge lost the SNG 11 or Mute was given the SNG 11 those were like lore
defined like yeah game defining things the lore of the operator I'm thinking
I'm gonna be Sledge of SNG 11 oh he can't anymore, Yeager ACOG, SNG 11 had an ACOG
Double ACOG I guess, not the 11 he gave me one, I remember that, that was so much fun
ridiculous there's a lot of shifts and changes now we're going to DMR meta a bit
here is the only defender weapons that has an acrox scope is going to be
blood, shlock, shotgun and GCHG and kai that is to be at DMR fuel that has an acrox
scope or is the attackers all get them but it has cause and source of DMR
meta that we see quite frequently not really see like the capital but also
that's a new primary DMR weapon that was added this year actually yeah very true
So, a lot of changes, but there's going to be Kapital and Deimos, so we're better than 9 less than DeMars,
there's going to be a squad to score into the ERs.
Oh, wow, Lycolas just misses his chance there as he flashes out, Gaw is behind him.
Exalotic is trying to hold a crossfire fairly passively, but I think
Lycolas decided it's about time to leave. A good moment to do so as well, jumping inside,
It's Sufley who finds a cure with that new DMR. Yeah, there is a second player, but guess who's hunting him down
It's the hour the blitz my god the explosions from the flora's
Drones keep forcing orchid back critchey low HP try and protect himself with those were my magnets as much as he possibly can but
It'll only help against the flashes. He needs to come and support his teammate as well out goes a magnet
He has no idea where is safe to stand?
the reset then they start doing the
mistakes right now they got a good
advantage divided bomb site c4 is
good but I'm gonna kill it's a lot of
trying with the shotgun to find angle
onto the feed a lot of damage but yeah
still finds him with the pistol now
azuki has come in to support orchid
are falling apart but pizza won his
gunfight azuki finds the gap and in
office they start with go bg man
This position revealed. He has no keeper barriers to hide behind and is about to get stabbed in the back or shot in the head
Sue play is the final nail in the coffin for orchid as Daystar continued to overwhelm this defense
Beautiful push working the windows the breach and just getting that three two one together
That's what they start are so good at if they can get into that position the round should pretty much be guaranteed theirs
But it all lingers in that opening pick. If our kit are gonna get the extension to get the roam and they get the first kill
They can play that same game of hey, you can't execute
So I think a lot of it will come down to that
And so we're gonna keep seeing the shields from them most likely one way or another because it helps you in that opening duel
All the operators are good at that are gonna be stuff like your demos your solid snake that can get a bit of information
Because if you can set 5v4 it makes it rest around that much easier
Now I'm going to see CCTV, not with the Yeager, but with double-blind action from BGMEN, with the Asami as well.
I'm very curious if they're going to be using the magnets in the preface right now, just kind of slapping them about,
or if they're going to try and keep something in pocket to reactively use them when they see that grenade come in,
when they see it is actually going to be a catwalk attack, or if they're going to just go for a master-pissing push instead.
Yeah, good question.
I think I've noticed that we haven't seen at a daystar so far as the re-pick under the
capitol.
It's actually the Twitch.
I wonder if that Twitch is specifically to counter the Wamai.
Must be.
But really, I mean, once you clear out all those magnets, you've only got two sets of
flashes and one set of nades.
That's really not a lot to try and hard clear that Wamai.
I'm sorry, two sets of nades.
Last round.
Didn't see the striker.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
A striker always throws me up because when you look for a grenade, you can hit the bottom.
Exactly.
Don't look at the primary gadget.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the other thing is, a striker can choose what's the primary or what's the secondary.
There are some strikers who have secondary grenades, but some have primary grenades.
So it's very tricky at times.
I love Stryker.
One of my favorite operators.
It's a fun concept to recruit.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's the fact you can mix match any secondary utility but you have no actual primary gadget
and you have a selected course of like weaponry as well.
I think Stryker is actually one of the best ranked solo queue operators by the way guys.
Yeah, solo queueing out there.
You can bring EMPs and tin can opens.
You can bring flashes and nades.
in this case the EMPs to help if it was needed to clear out any, you know, mute jammers or
bandit batteries, I guess we have no kaiju because it's banned. We still got the NAITS
support with the execute under the site. I tell you what, the day start don't seem to be
focusing up too much on going for a rafters take. It actually poised very early on and already lost
a player. Khrtche dealt so much damage and killed Yao. Terrible start for Daystar, though they do
managed to recompose and finish off Kritsche. Damage is done.
On one trade is worth it though. Whoa.
Shield is so low so the player is dead and the garrison is all run by the BG menace.
Well again, ultimately they're giving disruption and not allowing him to go for execute.
Yeah, continue to get up and daystar's face. Sweetplay low HP, vulnerable to the fire from
the Koyo and the smoke of the smoke himself. Seems like Pika is also vulnerable to Pete
with that vector. Desperately nowadays starting to go deep. Two players inside the building,
Peeps looks for number two, going for number three. He finds all of them. Falkett continue
battling. Back and forth. They take the lead again.
Complete chaos in the server. All the fire and smoke, toxic babes, the blackbeard is dead,
no intel for the attack. And that's a CCTV. And this is the strength of operators like you or
my and your Yeager, you can dictate what push the enemy is going for. A lot of teams in Tier 1 play,
they will see the Assamino Amai and go, let's not bother with Garage. It is not worth the effort,
it's way too challenging, let's go for Master Bedroom. But because you're playing the Amai and
the Assamino, that's not my bet immediately, they got two rounds with it, because that you're playing
the Amai and Assamino yourself, you know there's a very high chance that they're gonna go for Master
which means you can send more bodies, more reinforcements, maybe more utility in terms of like the Gorya fire and such
and because Umi has a throwable gadget unlike Yega who has to put it down like a mute like where you're standing
you don't have to use the magnets in prep days, like I said, you can keep them in pocket
and when you see they're going for garage, then you toss them out to help the Asamiyan Raptors
and if you don't go for garage, which they didn't, you can now just turn around and fill them inside a CCT instead
So, it's such a strong way of flipping the defense in the middle of the round, but it's
only really a warm-up that allows you to do that.
That's not been banned the way, like we said.
That kind of strategy is now going to be used up.
So if you want to play the acre, you've got to commit them in the prep phase, and that's
going to make that rotation of this utility a lot harder for good.
Not impossible.
We've seen teams juggle their ADSs before, but not in the current.
The current is far too fast-paced for most teams to get away with doing things like that.
But now that Daystar have banned out, that will my, it does open up a lot more opportunities.
No Jager brought to the table, of course, a very different bombsite down in the basement.
Orc had very much won this on the roam game last time.
Daystar started by going for a roam clear and pivoted to going for, not quite a rush,
but a hard hit, mostly through dirt and blue.
Orc was so ready for that though, and I think they'll be ready for it again.
You look at the number of traps brought to the table, the amount of time delay here for
Orc.
It'll be very hard for Daystar.
Also, little note here, Critchey being the Roma on the Denari, unusual that he's using
all of his Denari lasers for the Rome, but because he's got that secondary slug shotgun,
he can make himself a lot of rotates and hatches and escape routes mid-round as well.
We supported by Peeps at the moment, who still has tons of his U2 with him, that'll be especially
useful up against that Blackbeard.
Oh, hello.
Goodbye.
Bye.
That's awkward.
No, that's awkward so far.
We're gonna have to get in the grave.
Okay.
Orc is striking first.
Kuchae's gonna hold on for a little bit longer.
He's got so many gadgets in pocket.
Oh, he gets dashed by the Blackbeard.
Oh, he's clean.
Yao takes him back.
Takes him down.
And with that, J-Star, dominate on the roam.
Orc might have found their freebie against Pika,
but I think it is time to cut their losses
and fall back to the bomb site.
to the bomb site.
Yeah.
We still play with a 4v4, but if one more player dies from ORC, then that's going to change
a lot.
We're going to have to glorify, edit mines that can lock down certain entries that give
you information if you were to push it, back into our area and your guns are like where
to aim them at.
On the flip side, they still have a singular Selma charge lift available.
That can be used in the bottom main trigger wall, for example, while Sukun's a fiat who
get their last few catches with the secondary can openers.
So they start very much with punch and attack and here's seal on the base.
Oh wow.
Going down the main staircase.
Wow.
There's no way that you take down the Blackbeard from the third tunnel wall into the main stairs
window with 60 seconds to go.
That's your planter.
That's the diffuser carrier.
That's going to be the way you win.
It's also with the SMG-11, by the way, against the shield.
I don't know if Yaw was vaulting out the window or where he was just caught with his pass
down inside the hallway.
Regardless, big kill for Orc, and however,
Peeps immediately throws away that advantage.
Thankfully, XRLotic is able to trade.
After Seal does go a little bit too deep,
a little bit too early there.
Deystar had a chance,
and unfortunately for Peeps, he's thrown it away.
Here comes the fire, though.
Might slow Deystar down a bit.
Orc do not need to swing this.
Two players in the same angle.
Azuki's now opened up another avenue into the bomb site,
and he wants to peek for info here.
Out goes the concussion, but remember all the way back to the bombsite orchid still have be know that don't beat your man's fallen
He's been backstabbed from blue. This is a good shot for a day star now into the 2v2 another beautiful angle from a zoo key
One V2 for XR lotto. He doesn't have a nitro cell or any you till whatsoever. He's not the plant so close
Oh, the defuse goes down and souffle pre fires him. They start have no rights
No ride whatsoever, but they continue piling on the team orchid and we cannot separate these two teams
To find our second grand finalists, we will need to go further five rounds each on the final map here in our lower bracket final
So illustration there from for Miguel and the side for leaf and his team on the wrong thing. Oh my god
they did it I'm so sorry that I missed up because he was gonna be the one to win
the run for them. This plant spot accidentally found there from Daystar
avoiding the Goyo fire using that pillage as a way of blocking the bullets.
I mean I would argue that Orky were a little bit too happy to go for those
runfights and overswing. There are two defenders willingly taking a fight. Then
they had Axelotic hiding in the corner, proling on the floor doing the complete
opposite. So it's a mismatch on how they want to play out that man advantage
round. We all know that Daystar have no business planting in a 1 vs 2 or taking it to 2v2 but
the guy planning it becomes 1 vs 2 but yet they fully let them and they did not have that teamwork.
I don't know that's orchid feeling a bit of exhaustion and it's just the nerves getting to
them I lack of communication but they have to sort it right now on 5v5 because if that continues
Daystar can keep stealing rounds. And we're at the point in the series where you had
Cafe is separated by one round, 8-7.
Chalet is separated by two rounds, 7-5.
Now onto clubhouse, five rounds apiece.
These teams are so neck and neck that, yeah, one individual mistake,
one tiny miss, played 3-2, and the rounds are over.
You're losing your games, and therefore you're losing your spot in your grand final.
You're losing your shot at the Esports World Cup.
This is only the beginning of what could be a very long day
a very long day if either of these teams are to hold a candle to Wayboat in the Grand Final.
I cannot imagine that happening in a two-mapper. That will have to be a long series, long and arduous one,
after a very long and arduous day between these two teams.
It's already been a mammoth of a series, and for the winner, there's another one to follow.
Yeah
And it's gonna be a lot against a much stronger for what has to say right against way
Oh my god, it's like a lot of happy all my days
From good title as well. It's gonna be the counter
Cheeky little light colors in a row. Oh
Man, he is the mini games man. He loves it
I can't believe he goes back for more after doing with the SMG 11 last round against yow
Azuki falls for the same little trap
So what now? I mean, losing the ace here, not the end of the world, but again just starting
off in the back footers and ideal yaw, one point of HP on the slap, it's a flanking damage
on the cap of tau. This attack is getting honestly completely stuck.
Yeah, so having a good time, low HP. The opportunity spotted there from BG. A gap around the keeper
barrier, he finds that kill. How much more time can he survive on one HP? Peeps is just
around the corner that BG man does not want to expose himself, he wants to force Daystar
to make the first move and I don't think he knows just how low that black bead is.
One shot anywhere on the body and black bead will go down.
They're saying he can be sent to BG, he's found another one, I can't f**k believe it!
How is BG man owned cash room like that?
Team Orchid has series points and they're on the verge of knocking Deystar out of the brackets
He's dancing by the journal on a soft wall almost no support in the server swing to his right the left
He toss out a keeper barrier is gonna protect him wrong. It creates a tiny gap
We have to
Oh my god!
Take me to 7-7 already, fast forward.
We have had so many overtime in this stage finals.
Yeah.
We have.
I looked it up early, right?
I'm looking up early, right?
Every subregion has had multiple days with overtime.
Wasn't yesterday at 8-7, 8-7?
Obviously.
Yeah, that was 2-8-7.
Yeah, 8-7, 8-7 in Abyssal 3.
So like, just going full equity, right?
Chiefs Rival, first cannot bracket, had an overtime in a 2-0 fashion.
The game after a Chiefs EP had an overtime in a 7-5.
Oh my god.
EEP Menonet4 did not have an overtime.
Chiefs EP, 7-8 in it, as I said.
Rival EP did not have an overtime.
Ramanet4 did not have an overtime.
So half of Stage Finals was overtime in Space B.
And every single game when A-Pack North has been a 3-mapper, I believe, as well.
Yeah.
And A-Pack North can have it.
You got the LOL final and the grand final that's more. Here's a replay of BG man's heroics in
Cash, and there's his reaction. Peebs is so goddamn stone cold today.
Finger guns man.
Like Peebs's been alright, but I really haven't given him the credit that he deserves until today.
He has been such a showman
In the server and on his player reactions as well. Absolute legend. And for all kid, this would be such an upset.
Like we haven't really had any huge upsets I would say as of yet in the APL stage finals
Like look you could argue argue that rival taking down Manila foe was a bit of an upset
But eventually they fell to EP in that lower final
You could argue that KineTrap taking our scars is a bit of an upset
But you know of course their story is not finished yet
They've got D plus coming up tomorrow as well orchid to take down Daystar
Right when we thought Daystar were peeking turning a new leaf with you out
Daystar have looked like the best version of themselves that we've seen all year
and that's a team that I'm talking about went to Paris six months ago for the
Six Invitational and then to Seoul Lake City and now they've lost their chance
of getting a second spot for Asia because Waybo could not beat Enterprise in
SLC and now all of these teams in the sub region must fight for just a single
slot and it looks like Orchid will be that team to try and slay the dragon in our grand
final later today.
Look at what they brought out as well.
Like Coles on Clash, a very low picket operator for these 15 turns, they pick an A-share overall
and what better time for that curve for them right here.
After making life hard for Daystar as a stealing couple of rounds, as it almost caused me
upset and being fully successful. Duke the Nades, step forward, stun Yao on the back
but we can't do a damn thing about it. Now if you are a shield operator, you can't put
the shield on your back and just have it done out. Then you're not gonna get gao broken
and force him to where I can't do anything as a sort of animation, but you're also exposed
if you don't have that shield like I mentioned. So they look elsewhere. Undeviticality. Try
to break the soft floor. The only problem is, they're wild arcane openers, they gotta
get sealed over there he is the problem the hats for him now there's no hats
denial no impact so see force or nothing so it should just be opened up
there it goes they star have all the right tools they're in a great position
to execute the big question mark is going to like college on the class
because that is the one operator that they can't easily deal with and follow
colas and bgman and critcha it has been two years since they last made it to the
top two in Asia when they lost the grand final to bleed in stage one of 2024 of the Asia
League. Back then they were two rounds away from being the champions. They get another
shot at their old rivals. If they can lock in right now in this round, 30 seconds still
to play as Daystar. Look for the opening kill, but cannot find Kritchey. And what is this
from like? He's all the way outside the building. He's marked the way up and he's making Daystar
I think twice about challenging orchid today like all a straight back up in the kitchen
He's marched his way up the dirt tunnel and he's found the opening kill
10 seconds to go and day star have fumbled the bag
Orchid have climbed their way from the depths of APL all the way back to the top
But the plan is going down from now the new kid looks to try and give a second hope for day star
But Orcid now must retake like all of us up above and shut down!
Azuki forced a 1v2, but he cannot find it!
Orcid have a chance to slay the dragon in a grand final for the first time in two years!
And Deyster are done for stage one!
I said that's my piece! That is your piece! Will the real piece please stand up and let me do!
I mean he kind of stood up, it wasn't his like, great as well. It's not like he got 30 or anything.
It was actually a bit more of a team effort and one of the results of Team Orchid, I think...
Look it's unfortunate that they start absolutely and what a series. 8-7-7-5-7-5.
We got a battenlob bracket final. Team Orchid, they get a shot and that's the way to really frame this.
They get a chance. They get a shot at the king and the dragon
Disappointed clearly for day star who you know
Come leaps and bounds over the last six to 12 months
But they're gonna have to learn a little bit from this because the boys from time while
They're in the grand final. Yeah, they certainly are and deservedly so a very hard fought three-map series
Like there's not a single round that's gone by that hasn't been fought closely at the very least
I think that you really got to give props to team orchid on that second half guys
I think that many of us might have come into today expecting them to be on the backflow a little bit
We put day-star in second for such a long time, but I will say their ideas their strategies that they were playing on clubhouse
Super impressed. Yeah, I really enjoyed the defense half
Especially just had dynamic and aggressively they were playing even like like holis for instance
I mean the last shot obviously some recency buyers running outside of the clutch
But he had the last three opening kills and he's not the kind of person you look to to have a lot of entry into
Well, it's even been hugely impactful in terms of Frank
He's much more supportive and brings a lot more of the tactical side of the game inside of the server
So credit to him. Yeah, and again, it ties into the storyline that I think completely right out all good
But I was skeptical of their ability on clubhouse because we haven't quite seen them play as a full team
I agree for the majority of the series up until that point
But clubhouse they have would have really turned it on and I think it's very difficult to discredit them in this series
They are or at least today were the better team and they deserve the job
You look back at cafe peeps critjay salati so they got salati to help them out
You look at shallow. Okay, they didn't quite win the map because it was just peeps and critjay
No one else got about five final map clubhouse and guess what bgmen and as you mentioned my call list
They both stand up surprise surprise. I mean clearly there's a team there a solid team
They get into the grand final by Asia. It's just all about trying to find that consistency and get them all in sync
And on the same page in the same map about we get on the same page with like Hollis
Let's not waste any time Jake. Let's welcome him in like Hollis. What's a win? Are you buzzing right now? Are you feeling good?
Yeah, do you feel excited and a bit nervous? Yeah, look
I want to say like Hollis the last three rounds that you played there peeking dirt running out with the club
What is going through your mind in those last three rounds?
You found such instrumental kills throughout all of those three rounds?
We feel like both us and DeFi are kind of getting scared of doing whatever is outside of the people.
So like after a couple of rounds, we kind of do the same thing that they have been doing in Clubhouse.
So I just kind of played like a 50-50, you know, like I hope it worked, but maybe it's not, but
somehow today I made it work, so it really did help out a lot during the round. Yeah, and a lot of
like a lot of like person on our team show up today, so I really get it. Yeah, we get it.
Yeah, congratulations on the win. That's what we were saying on the desk. It felt like everybody
it was really stepping up in this matchup but you're talking a little bit about the aggression
in particular that you guys were able to use in the upcoming game against Waybo is that something
that you try to implement try and be aggressive and unpredictable inside of the server?
For sure yeah there should be a few things like that I would say as compared to Daystar I believe
Like right now, like the team that performed on the average are performing good on all the players they have, and we're both for sure.
We kind of feel like not performing always good sometimes, you know.
We're all up and messed up, but yeah, we're trying to do our best.
And of course, I do think that if we just play normally default, we probably couldn't beat like Wave 4 on the default team.
I believe they have more solid game plan and like better structure planning ahead more than us. So
of course we
We have some plan, but
We need someone to step up to over like the whole the weekend. Yeah
Yeah, that's pretty much it. I think
Congratulations like Hollis to you and the team and all the boys
I know it's been a good couple of years since you've been able to now be in a grand final content for an international event must be
great. Do you use this now as a platform where you can clearly get the idea, hey, we're pretty much
around the same level as Daystar and Wavebot. And like you said, maybe the difference is the
consistency in doing it more often. Does that then give you the fuel moving forward to find that
little bit extra, to actually find that consistency when you know you're not that far off them?
Good question, but I would say that we probably didn't think much about it, like about consistency
or whatever.
I would say we just focused on what map we're playing and play whatever we think was right
and just doing that is really hard to do.
So all the other things that need to work on before we're going to go without the way right now and just play all like what we what we think it's right to play RFC today.
Yeah.
It's a shame there's not the two slots for this stage, like Hollis is unfortunate, but obviously best luck in the grand final.
Thank you.
Like always, obviously a huge performance for you guys.
Obviously super happy for you and the team.
And I think that you'll go on to do a fair bit of damage
given the opportunity that's in front of you with Wayboe,
regardless of the context of where they are, where you are.
I think that you still have the grit and the server.
So I don't want to take up any more of your time
because you've got about 40 minutes
to prepare for that match, maybe even less.
So anything you'd like to say
before we let you go and prepare for this match?
No, I'm just gonna go up to go up some like my my head a bit and come back to keep we will
Wow
Hope you kick some ass mate. I hope you kick some ass. Like always best of luck mate. We'll speak to you soon
Thank you for you
Yeah, we will see you we will be seeing you in the damn server like call us and code in to the grand
final for a spot at EWC but first a big bad boogie-nan the dragon in front of
them Waybo if ever there was a titan of the region if ever there was a task that
would seem somewhat insurmountable guys this is probably it yeah hi we constantly
refer to them as the gatekeepers for a reason obviously team Auckland will have
a very very brief opportunity to start chatting things over I'm sure they would
already headed into the play day with preparation ready for Wayvo under the guys that they beat
Daystar and they're massive underdogs. We can really emphasise just how big the gap still is.
But exactly, I don't want to look at it from a negative. I think I look at it as just a good
opportunity for Orcid to give us some fun siege. We saw that in the last series. They were,
by all accounts, I think most people would have regarded them as underdogs,
still even in that matchup and they didn't shy away especially when it got
towards the tail end of the series they weren't playing like a team that didn't
want to lose they played like a team that wanted to win yeah and so I think
if they can capture any kind of momentum or have a couple of good
moments here or there a key wave on there so is if they continue to play
positively you just never know how it could actually shake out I do one of
these or how long is a piece of string probably like not not like this
Look, I just want to close this line before we go to the break.
Clearly, you've got a team that in Orcid is the underdog.
They're just going to... It's all up here. It's a mental.
It is a mental.
It doesn't matter whose Wavo, whose turn, reaps these names.
Look at what we saw earlier today in Xenox Go's Pro.
Wendervals was not feeding play out in a 1v1.
If he knew who he was playing against, is mental.
But he didn't know who he was playing against.
He thought he was playing against me, and he wins.
That's the mindset Orchid need going into this Grand Final.
Don't worry about what your opponent's names are
and what they look like.
Get in the server.
You're gonna get this analysis.
I trust this.
Bring on the ramen, baby.
You know what?
Jake, you do the honors, mate.
This is your time to shine.
We are going to be heading to the point.
Now, when we do come back,
and this is an extended break,
don't worry though, we will be back very shortly.
It will be ramen time featuring Nicholas Morison.
What was your first impression of the event?
It was a competition of the past.
In Thailand, there was a competition of the event that took place before Covid-19.
I was in the competition at the event in Antip.
When I went to the event, I was in the fourth place.
But it was a very fun competition.
I went there and watched the show.
I think this is one of the many spots that I have been playing.
I think this is good because I have a lot of experience from watching this.
Because I've been to 3 or 4 or 5 shows and I feel like I'm playing with it.
I don't know how many people will like it.
The goal that I want is to win the prize and give it to the fans.
I'm very strong. I've won the prize.
One thing I want to comment on is that the first tournament I played was Rainbow Sixty, Operation Leak Tynan, which was the first tournament I played.
The players that I played with were only me and the rest of the players, except for me and the rest of the players.
From what I've seen, I've been playing against many teams that are different from the other teams.
For me, the team that I've been playing against is a team that is very good at playing.
I've been playing against many teams that are very good at playing.
I feel more fun when I'm playing against them.
When I'm playing against them, I feel more serious.
When I'm playing against them, I want to share my experience with them.
I think he's a good cook, he's like this, like this, I will make him full and make my team better.
The players that I feel have an impact on the game are Kit Jai, because he's a very good shot.
He's the one who shot and came on that day and no one stopped him.
He's a player that I feel has an impact and is one of the best players in the world.
I felt that if I met my brother, I would make him full of me.
I wouldn't let him, no matter how he would shoot me, I would be full of him.
I felt good that Fully was interested in me.
Because I didn't have any interest in him.
When Fully came to meet me, I was full of my heart to be with Fully.
Fully is now a fan of Fully.
He may have hair, dark hair, curly hair, redness, and beard.
My style is still the same, I'm still the main character
Very nice support, Dark is the second factor,
Balort is the third factor, and Bill Minispect
So this year I will show you how we play, and then we will see
I feel like if we are a team that is clear one, and if we do our best, I feel like Ock will be disappointed because he is full of us.
If we do our best, he will be disappointed. I will do my best and not make Fully the wrong person.
They come out wind-billing like an Englishman looking for a scrap, the talking of a scrap!
Dino!
If he goes uncontested, if the kid goes cold, that would be devastating.
The grenade goes through that, the swing!
Cyber and Bullet are able to get one of these with the kit so far away and Canadian down
upstairs.
Wow, that was special.
It's a one versus three to hold, and their push is from behind.
He's far one.
He's got to get the vertical as well.
They get pulled off, sit, but down to the last three
and four seconds.
Ryder's got it together.
He's held on.
He's going to do it.
And B and Q take the two up win.
Both players spotted, but the Reds can be made successfully.
Oh.
Oh.
But the solid team.
Inflation from the Bs.
He goes ditch.
They cement themselves as one of the greatest of all time.
He's starting to get cooked alive, but he's using his dim pencils.
Look at this from the dark. Surely not. Brilliant.
Last play of the year in my book.
He plays the game, hits the old body, doesn't quite catch it.
There's the- Oh my God, sir! It's the DOS!
He doesn't have- Holy, that's an ocean!
He's going back. He's not quite sure.
That's good, let me go.
You second stick it, Ness.
Stick it.
This is an angle that he might be able to contest.
No, unfortunately, he takes just a bit of damage here.
A walk, I guess, to the second one.
Eclipse, though.
We'll get one.
Turning it into a 2v2, 90-day pushing on the side.
The bandit will lose out on this.
Eclipse, the last alive on the Ella.
Spots the head, and take that.
The ace for Wanda.
He willed down the EC Canadian position to pick up,
but that's going to result in a double-dead vertical.
Oh, poor for him and the round.
Necrux, the final defender against vertical, the ace absolute domination.
You'll believe in Magic, Michael.
Team one does as they win the Mexico Major.
Round of time.
Let's put them in the ground.
Fall back!
Team 1, report.
Alive and wasted.
Reload comes with the other team.
They have their orders. We need to go for Nix.
They'll come in. In my eyes.
Mute, cover her.
Oh, they said...
Oh, sorry.
It's not that you're payload.
Your corner, bitch!
Surrender!
I see one old man.
One old man about to die!
I see your front end, seven.
Three rows out.
Pack my phone!
Huh?
What if any of you know?
We're safety bear snakes.
We trusted each other.
Paid off.
Unable for extraction, team one.
I still feel so low
Feels like home
Feels like home
Feels like home
Feels like home
to you
I see your eyes to make it matter
They'll come be different from what I'm used to
You see us on our phone
I
Be a star
Be a star
Be a star
Well, it might be the most important time of the APL Asia show.
It's Ramen Ranking Time, baby!
Dad, can you give me a little, like, beatbox, like, a little, yeah, ah, ramen time.
My name is Zeno, and I like to draw, and I cannot fox, and I cannot play, see, at all, but I get in other players to try and play for me, and they still lost anyway.
Well, they did, but now it's time to redeem yourself with a little bit of ramen.
Down you go.
I don't know, let's go, let's do this, let's not take any longer shall we?
Guys, we should probably like, make a band, you know, make a band or something.
Is that a 2026 version of make a podcast guys you should make a beatboxing
Then all rainbow six armchair. What's on the menu? This is very strange. So this is from you want to take it
So this is actually how this is this is how it comes and then
you get to make it which it's not as exciting but I think the branding is
actually really good and the ingredients is very short so that's quite good.
This is I believe where are we in the realm of Malaysia at the moment I believe.
We are in the realm of Malaysia and what's the name? It's called MeePok.
MeePok. Where was Nick? Nick, have you got us?
You're allowed to clear up. There we go. Just wanted to make sure that we had you
mate I'm so glad that we've got you. This actually broke me, of course I always need it, there we go.
All right so may we, before we get into it we actually have some, I've already forgotten the
name of it, some sambal, you can tell I'm really really cultured. Now we actually had this one
I'm ready as a man can be okay now. I'm gonna cheat just like Jake. I had written downs that can read it from the script
Okay, the daily words of wisdom
I've got that loving feeling hey see that girl in the distance I've got that loving feeling hey
It's giving song lyrics. Not sure why not sure this is
Where a chimpton park trees goes oh where shim pitock tree grows without the fence
Go proud of them gently with a stake a youthful learner. I so hence
Be pleased to point out each mistake
stake. With golden plaintiffs sail away, wiles in a chest, lies, lies one's ripe. The depths
of gold we can repay, but depths of kindness last through life. For today's words of wisdom
I was not meant to be the last bit. I must take it.
Well done Nick.
No, I must take it.
Can I just say this is bloody tasty this one.
Can I just say this is awful.
You don't like it?
I feel like I'm eating popcorn.
Are there mushrooms in here though?
I don't see any mushrooms.
I'll just eat this one. I think I'll take mushrooms.
I actually think unironically, but the noodles are made of mushrooms.
That's why you don't like it.
I think this is genuinely cardboard.
That's a hot day.
That is a hot day flavor.
This is a terrible take.
We'll see if the...
Sorry, what is this called?
Have you had the sambal?
It's very good.
It's very spicy though.
Well, Jake also had...
You buy the glass jar separately?
What'd you say, Nick?
Do you buy that glass jar of spiciness separately
or is it like one box together?
Yeah, someone brought it in.
Someone brought it in to spice up our lives.
Kind of like what we do with you.
Can't bring you any spice up our lives.
This is a ramen ranking.
Not a chili ranking.
Yes.
isn't it a bad thing, and I want to stretch the getting ball here, that you need to add
chilli to the ramen from a separate jar to make it better. Come on.
When you go to get ramen, like at a ramen place, do you add the chilli that they leave
on the table? Because I always do.
Are you asking James when he goes, when is, I'm asking Jake.
When do you think Jake is going to a ramen place?
That's a great question.
You entered Japan you had ramen in Japan. I did and did you add the chili that was on the side?
Jack sheesh. I look I see where he's coming from. This is not a
Sambal chili ranking. Yeah, I think you can especially because we're talking about cuisine here
We're in the realm of Malaysia. Yes, I think you can absolutely add the Malaysian
Condiment on top and give it some credit credit for that some points speaking of credit
I haven't been
You know what time it is next I was gonna say like Jake when you have cereal do you not add milk?
Is that also unfair?
Do you tell him, you tell him
Like I'm just curious
You've just cooked me there or you are
He's I think he's got a point like when you have french fries do you have salt?
That's like saying when you have a burger do you put the bread on top and the bottom?
No, because that's the burger. Yeah, but when you order french fries the salt is on the french fries
You don't have to buy
When you go to Mac is you don't have to buy
But if you make it
You put Tom's sauce or aioli on your chips when you go to the pub
He's got you there mate
He's got you there
It's now time
I think it's our time for you to give us a bit of a ranking here
So this is kind of like
This is the small
Sorry
I can't say much. This is the smaller version of I'm trying to make sure that I don't get much place
So that's that's the outside packaging nick. However, wait for it. I think
I'm looking
You're gonna miss calling as a I gotta keep it a buck here. Okay. Yeah, I think this is ist here
But I think this is gonna go all the way up. Yeah. Yeah, I do
It's a very professional looking brandy how many ingredients on the ingredients as you mentioned before it's a very small
Ingredients that makes me feel like it's very legit noodles are gonna make a kid are made of four ingredients
Which is also wheat flour water salt and sodium carbonate
The soy sauce is also like five ingredients and the oil is four. So that's very simple. That's good. I mean, I don't know
You don't want to know what they had so we've got s tier for the the brand ranking Nick
Thank you very much for that and I think that I would very much agree you now
I'm not gonna go to Jake first because Jake's opinion has
He's he's slowly dropped down the ranking list for me
His opinion before we started right around the ranking s tier for me and as we started to go he's dropped down
He's probably a D tier
Shall I kick us off then?
Yeah, please do.
Alright, so I know for sure that this is better than the Lao Tai Tom.
Yes, definitely better than the bulldog.
Okay, interesting.
I think it's better than the Shin Ramen.
Absolutely.
Sorry.
I think it's as good if not better than the Miko.
That's my time.
Okay, I think this, okay, also a little bit of context here for everyone at home.
Okay.
Started I have been really excited for one specific brand of black ramen
Japanese star black ramen that I know we have somewhere and
I I don't think we're gonna have time for it during our our stage finals
So I knew that that already was gonna come in above the meek orange for me
Okay, and in its absence. I was prepared to be disappointed and today I have not been I have been impressed. It's really ST
Don't forget the stage, too
We're gonna have to add double S at the top.
I think my favourite black rum.
Do we just keep adding S?
Alright, so we're gonna nose tier from James.
Michael, your take.
I think the noodle quality is by far and away the best we have had.
Yeah, I would agree.
The taste is controversial because out of the box it is quite bland.
In terms of the taste out of the box, it's de-tiered.
That's maybe a C.
So it really comes down to whether or not we can settle the chili as to whether or not that is fair.
How's this? I'd say D tier out of the box, C with the chili.
C tier? No, you're stinking, mate. You are stinking. You are absolutely stinking, mate.
Fight back, please. Fight back.
A tier without chili?
S tier with chili.
I'd be happy to sit on a B.
Okay, Jake, Jake, you can you can give your you want to try and get me to a B
I'll give you a C because I think this is the most mid thing I've ever eaten. Are you seriously telling me that the Bulldog and the Laotai
Tom are both better than this? Well, or as good as this and that the Shinramen is absolutely better than this. Right now
If I was to re-rank the board, the meegarang is like in S, there's about 10 S's
Then the Bulldog is in like the three S's. Okay. I agree. I agree.
No, I get two of them.
Yeah, you're pulling yourself for the next two days.
I what?
It was running around, brother.
It was all liquid for the next two days after that.
Out both ends.
I'm not doing a post-Roman ranking.
It's just a flip post-mortem.
It's just what it is on the day.
Congratulations.
This is mid. CT for me.
CT. OK, CT.
We've got a...
I'll go B.
B-T. James has got an ST.
I think unfortunately, I do have to fall in the middle here. I think it's a tier with the oil
I think the oil makes it or not the oil the chili makes it unbelievable
I think that if you took the chili or the oil the chili holy crap away from it entirely. It's a C tier
So I'm gonna I'm gonna go on the B tier. I actually think this is B tier because
Michael mentioned
Distancy of those beautiful noodles. They are the best noodles and the ingredients list will is not a carcinogenic
It's it's just unbelievable. It's it's perfect. So I'm gonna be I can always against us
Thank you by the way you and me said as everyone else is just here to be negative
The only thing we've agreed on is that
Yeah, I was the only we've agreed on is that the Australian ones
Oh, you missed out on the mushroom one. I did. Yeah, can I get you to don this in the B tier along
sign bulldog and then once you are done with that you may kindly oh oh what's this okay
I'm out absolutely. Yeah, that is disgusting. No
Hey, he's a cheater, he's a cheater, he's a cheater, he's a cheater, he's a cheater, Nick is a cheater, you're a co-caster, he cheats.
You'd know one if you saw it.
Oh, no comment, now who's the villain?
Oh, all of a sudden we can't hear him, no, that's a bit interesting, but more interesting than that, what do you think it is?
Grand final.
Now it's EWC Tiki.
Yeah, what, you're close.
Oh, this is so weird with me, I love this, I love Fena, that's right,
EWC is just around the corner as the finals take place in the later stages toward the middle of August
Where's the event Rob?
Paris expo potate
the
Oh
And see what I think Leo would really love me to say
I don't think so, I don't think so, don't do that, if you quickly unwrap it, but as you unwrap it, I'll wrap this, R6 S15 for 15% off your order at check out, that's right, or manic 10, it will not work, why would you do manic 10 for 10% off when you can use R6 S15 for 15% off?
because 15% is weak, 10% is gangster.
You get a really solid handshake,
but of course we know where it's at,
but how do the players get there?
That's the bigger question.
Well, they've got to win the grand final first.
However, of course, there's only one slot for Asia,
one slot for APAC North, which seems brutal,
apart from the fact that Oce is the greatest lead.
How did we get here?
How did we get here, Jake?
That's a great question, Jake.
Okay, we cannot let him talk.
Michael, how did we get here?
Seems like an unfair strategy to get out of here.
It does.
Well, it's pretty simple.
OS performed better at the last international event,
being Salt Lake City.
And so therefore, earned the right
to earn the two slots going for this four total for APL.
And four doesn't go into three.
Because that is always one subregion.
That is going to have that advantage.
And so here's a replay package of how
EP were able to earn that right for OS.
And critically for the broadcast,
and I take that away from Asia.
So, Wabo, unfortunately, off the back of losing that, their region now, 4th Stage 1, only have one slot available, which means there's extra pressure on this grand final.
But Wabo will probably not be too deterred as we look back at the bracket in their run to get here, and just how they've played over the course of the last 12-18 months, they are by far and away, the top team.
Yeah, it's not even close either. No one has won the league outside of them. No one has represented the region better than they have up until Salt Lake City.
So on that note, on that note, I do tend to agree.
That's S tier.
That's S tier, is it?
Make sure you get your ice cream.
You know what, S2 gets a little closer to the summer time.
It does.
To a little...
A little sum of it, an ice cream ranking, that could go, that actually could unironically go pretty well.
Post-Ramen ice cream ranking board, we can get two boards.
A ramen strafe. They do, two boards.
Unfortunately, you have to do it so much quicker.
Everything.
We take a bit too long of those ramen ranking.
Well, sometimes you're going to take that, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose,
sometimes you start in the lower bracket and you run all the way through to the grand final and take it all.
That is what Team Awkward must do, if they are to complete what would be an unbelievable feat here
on the final playday of Asia. What we're looking at here is the explanation of how sometimes
the warm-up going into a grand final is far more important than sitting cold, sitting waiting,
sitting watching, Michael. And we've seen it around the world. Cherrypicture.
Don't you dare. Don't you dare. Hey, 62% of all stats are made up, Michael, so I don't care.
Look, it certainly has its place, but as we saw yesterday, sometimes it does not,
with juice failing to go with the graphics
okay you want to explain it no he's got a mask in his mouth again um the warm-up up we've seen
it uh this graphic of course displaying it for ap l locally yeah the idea really got cemented from
what we've actually seen internationally where it seems to be even more prevalent but yeah i
don't think it's what happened last night though michael didn't the team come from the uh lower
bracket win the grand final? Oh yeah they do that. I'm happy to be the punchy bag, I'm
happy to see this up to you guys. Run with her. How about we tee up this match up because
this match up is going to be so important. This grand final right now, yes, Waybo are
feeling good but team Orcid, are they feeling better? Are they going to be able to do the
unthinkable here and beat Waybo in a best of three Michael. I mean it's a tall order.
Jay. Yeah it is going to be a tall order. Orca did place a good team seed though earlier tonight
and it wasn't just a case of them being fully reliant on some of their keyfraggers being
their snow bleep peeps and crick Jay. There are a couple of occasions where BG men stepped up
particularly in map number one, so pardon me, and then clubhouse as well, we saw like
colas jumping on the action, and he was actually very aggressive, quite proactive, particularly
on defense, certainly not the role that we're accustomed to in playing, so look, there is
depth on this awkward team, the problem is though, the way I've kind of framed it is
that over the course of the series earlier today, with the case of two or three players
stepping up, you can't have any point of weakness. No, it's maybe all five probably need to put in
the best step that they've seen over the course of this team's history if they either get a result
from that. I think my favorite part about the interview with like colas was when we asked him
point blank what he thought of the last three rounds and he said yeah it's risky 50-50 so in
other terms sometimes it may be good sometimes it may be shit unfortunately and right now going
into this matchup they are good they are looking all guns are blazing however by god talking about
looking good talking about who's looking all guns blazing jakes and oxford bitty this roster should
take it by storm what we need to make sure we do is don't get sucked into the fairy tale right it's
very easy all good of surprise to stay we're able to beat day start don't think many expected at kudos
but these are the champions of the dragon why we have that dragon graphic
No, that's my bad. I should have held it together. I needed to be more professional.
It's why we had the dragon graphing. They are the dragon. And sometimes, you've got to beat the dragon.
So true, Jake. I tell you what. And they could beat the dragon.
That's what I have for this matchup, right? We saw Jake pop the ice cream five minutes ago.
What's going to take longer? This team or that ice cream development? Because he got that down.
I developed that one well to be fair if you're looking at a team that's going to devour an entire region
It is absolutely the dragon
It is but it genuinely is
It's more to look but if there is a
Look if Waybo are the dragon, then what does that make of them?
I mean he is on another level. He is a beast among man dragon rider
He is the dragon rider. That's a fantastic way of putting it. He he writes to
The highest rated player coming into kickoff kickoff. Oh my god
He is unbelievable Michael. Please bring some brings some composure to this segment right now. What makes him so good
Is this a genuine is that a genuine question? What makes him so good? I think to be fair
I think he probably has benefited a little bit in terms of the roster change, right?
They've clearly undergone some change under the surface and he I think has been given more of a
responsibility to, you know, be impactful in a lot of these moments. We're seeing him play a lot of
really critical positions and that's been enabling him to be in the right spots at the right time
and then it's a matter of conversion and make clearly his number show that is super impactful.
That is yeah, that's really impressive and I think it's very easy to get sucked into the KD for instance
But for me, I look at the cost and that's that's the one second rated in the lead
83% that's huge. Yeah, and even the OP kills department as well in the top five
Come on, hang on. Poppin has been super impressive over the course of this stage
But I guess just to maybe put a dampener on things
Maybe there's a snow where today. He's not at his best right and that's a big cost
But there's someone who's got a bigger one. I don't think it's third, right? Oh, I think it might be actually
I if it if it is anyone it has to be on this one. I'm looking at it says turn there you go
So it must be turn which I
Mean that I know this is the Holman segment at the moment and look he's the best entry player
Which is strange to think on a team with turd and reads
I think for those that watch international siege and maybe don't follow
and I'm not sure if you know,
uh, APL as much, which I mean,
if that's you at home right now,
hit subscribe and keep watching
stage two to come later in the
year. Turn reaps. Maybe the more
household names, but I believe
that we've actually noted it.
He's the best if we have. I
shout out to production like
nothing else. They really,
really know how to make sure
that your mic is not working.
No, we can hear you. The audience
very lucky because that's the best decision I've ever made.
Well, something that we should talk about very, very desperately here, guys, is the
Mat Vito. Now, all jokes aside, look, we do like to have a bit of fun in the APL, but
this ultimately, this is where we come to the crux. This is where we come to the pinnacle
of this league in the finals, when it's the best of three, we get to see the best that
we have to offer. And right now, Chalet, Bank and Fortress.
Shalei is a 7-0 record for Waybo and it's one that they haven't even
Shied away from banning themselves. In fact, they have on a handful of
Occasions awkward their selection of bank. It's a little more even for both teams
Funnily enough both going in with a 2-0 record, but it is the insta-ban for Waybo
21 times
Now, Fortress as the decider also pretty intriguing, a strong map for Weibo and limited data for Orcid, so based on what we've seen and giving Weibo the respect that they deserve, it will most likely be a 2-0, but I wouldn't be shocked if Orcid pushed it to that third, and Weibo will be significantly better on it.
Jake, you kind of faded out there a little bit.
I did, I did.
Look, there's a couple of ways you can spin it. I'm gonna say exactly the same thing that does just say. So I'm gonna preface with that.
Orcid have not ever, ever lost Bank Fortress this year.
They're gonna win this if you want. You reckon they back him in 2-1? I'm trolling. No, I think Guadalupe's gonna win.
Their shallow is far too good. Record speaks for itself.
Genuinely, though, for Orcid, if they're gonna have any chances, it's gonna be Bank. I think Fortress is to
to fundamentally sound as a map that Waybo should beat them structurally. But Bank is
the very intriguing one, like I said. It's a second preference for Orc. It's not a map
Waybo play. It's actually their perma-band map. They've banned it 21 times. While having
a good record on it, that speaks more as the team itself just being a really good team.
As we head into this grand final though, for Orc, the way that we set this story up is
they are a team that's quite fortunate to even be here to have this chance, but they
cannot take that for granted. You have this opportunity, you have this chance, you must
now be the Dragon Slayers.
Well we asked, we prayed, we hoped that Orcid would kind of bring a more cohesive, more
well rounded roster into that final mount of Clubhouse and they did do that. They got
all players firing on all cylinders. Exotic was not even required at that point but now
This is when every single member of Orchid, they have to go big.
They cannot afford to allow Waybo into this matchup.
Let's get underway with our commentators.
I know you're going to be surprised by this.
Stepmina and Pengu. No way.
Thank you for government naming me for once.
That's us.
That is us.
And look, thank you.
It's the grand final that we certainly didn't expect.
Orchid with a big upset over Danestar,
making it through the grand final, but of course that just gives them the opportunity to take a shot at the dragon.
Weibo have been the champions of Asia for at least two years straight, ever since this team first formed under this organization.
And now that there's only one spot to EWC from this region, Weibo need that championship more than ever.
And another big surprise that all of you did not opt to ban out the Monty, it has been
like the most, I think like, people for Operator fall wable on the attacks, it has almost
been the way by every single point because FDAC is such a good shield player, and the
entire team is wable of good players and utilising their shield information, like that turns
the fast and the build thing, it's easy to down charge to help him actually, so 1-4
in trade, not the end of the world, never mind, they're great, it's a kill, it's a 2-4
phrase just like that. Harbin from outside the building will balance the crazy screen
of all time to get a kill in the blue staircase.
Yeah, very nice, Nate. Goes to show the value of that One-My-Band as well, since the One-My-Bus
we've been seeing him band constantly. I think particularly on Chalet, he's extra powerful
because of how valuable those shields are, and because of, of course, how valuable those
power positions like the blue stairs are, you can protect yourself very well with those
Also a very dynamic map, which means that Wamai is a little bit more useful than the Jager.
Now going to Chalet, of course, first thing that comes to mind is that Orc had played earlier today
and did struggle against Daystar, and the Weibo have been so damn good on this map, as Guzz said on the couch.
But another thing that comes to mind is these teams met on Chalet in kickoff, and it was a 15 round, 8-7,
87, Waybo just barely winning it. Perhaps that gives a chance to Orc at his ex-Sylonic
has taken down the best player in the APL. Back into a 3 vs 3 with a minute now for Waybo to get back into it.
Good call there from Orc. One player was walking by the window and caused a distraction.
Meanwhile, the other player could swing the bar at the window and get the kill.
Whether it was the telegraph, I'm not sure, but it did pay off in the end.
Great job of you killing Jones, falling back, step by step, and Wable putting a lot of
respect right now to walk off in the first round.
They're not always swinging over, committing, they're just kind of problem-solving it, and
they're starting to plant.
Plant going down from the Korean bot, so reliable, and I don't know where that Nitro
Cell was targeted for, but it certainly did not land on the plant, so Reap's finding
a pick as Wabo fade away into blackness.
Three versus one is ex-Sarlottic, forced to clutch, and turd stuff.
him off with the F2. A slow start but a flourish of a finish for Weibo as they
take the first round with three men still standing. And this is one of the things
that since Weibo are part of other teams that they can play the fast, in-tree,
chaotic, aggression, confidence kind of play style. They can also just go for a
super late-back, three-to-one, start planting, they know what to cover, they
know the win conditions, and then play a nice and safe post. And when they're in a
very strong spot, they'll do a mixture of both. For example there, they get the plant down,
doing a 3v3, two players are going to go super passive, turrets are that third member, he's
going to go on the offense. So they have two people playing a safe postman from far away,
answers their rank and hammock in the middle of the bomb site. So they're always playing
kind of both sides of the coin. That was his biggie to die early on the monty, they still
make it pretty effortless. I will say Orc made it close and had that C4 been thrown towards
that default plant location that could have been a difficult conversation for the first round
but it did not have the intel and therefore the plant was successful
Gotta do it when the Wamai is banned right? Bandit and Gager
Oh what is this year one? Where are the air cocks bringing back?
I mean I I surely bring the bandit for the single wall towards bar stock from basement and maybe for the one of the library walls upstairs
Why not Cuy what's the value?
And the bandit
What's the value of the bandit for Cuy?
I mean I would say Cuy with the TCSGA call could be pretty good. Yeah, I don't know either
Perhaps just to come to pick
I'm not entirely certain
I mean you can cover four separate walls of bandit in different areas whereas Cuy they got to be clumped together
Could be that difference maybe
This could be a gap James look at that. I lost the camp bulletproof camps spotted turds to however look
I've got to say way but already showing that they've got a very good fast entry lurker on turd with the solid snake
And they've got speak easy on the monsee which is very early on in this game
Giving awkward a few things to think about what to ban critchie somehow sneaks behind turd
Looks to try and take the fight we speak easy, but hoven quickly pre fires him well played and we do trade back
Not the worst situation for Orcid. They got rid of that solid snake and turds
their top frag is so far 3k in the first round. Losing critch a bit frustrating
that Defender Air can't change his witch of his dreadmines are active but still
not the end of the world. Gotti outside bit of damage onto peeps after he took
down like Collis. Looking for a repeat though. However all XR lot it gets is the
drone. What? Okay. For a speak easy. I'm afraid to take the gun fight. And BGM is now left
all alone. Hovind shuts him out of it. My God, the DMRs are so deadly. It's a simple
equation for Wabo. You march the Monty into the building and you sit outside with your
DMRs and pick up the freebies as they come.
The disc spoke about why it is that Hoven has been such a good player at this stage
and Goss made a point about the role swap with Gotti joining instead of Appi and he's
been giving more resources and more space playing those beautiful moments and it's true.
And I think this right here shows that Gotti is literally a century turret on the main
door with a sole job of cutting the map in half holding the dining hallway.
He is saying if anyone's in dining fighting you guys, I got there run back towards the
bomb site and if anyone's looking to go from the bomb site to go for a back step, I got
that too.
Huffman can focus on what's directly in front of him, especially because he replaced Terz
Tess position as being the plus one after the Monty.
So it just means there's more firepower in the roster now, because Gati is always going
to bring a really stable foundation and doing a really boring but super required job in
every single round.
And when you and I were talking while the desk was still yapping about the game, we're
thinking should depend like the Monty and the Lion maybe on the attack inside
here because got you or to be honest with Wave one general they will play the
line as much as they they would like they love to get you to love the DMR and
it's a global gadget same story for the Monty and you got fried grenades too
yeah and the Monty's a no-brainer every time it's left open it has like a 80
plus percent pick rate for speed easy then she will realize oh snap we should
have banned it that'll be the third operator then then you can play
something else. So it does feel like to me a little bit that the Dokka B band in particular
was quite a weak one here from Orcid, especially with the most recent changes. It hasn't seen
a super high pig rate. And we also know that if you ban the demos, they're just going
to start paying the solid snake. So you're going to give Wave Boards a ton of different
power ups and that's not even talking about the Cavit Tying anything else.
That's the thing, Wave Boards is so good at so many different types of siege and yet they're
not really forced to delve that deep into the Strapbook because they can just keep hammering
away with the same setup that Monty and all those DMRs. Not to mention Turth on the Solid Snake.
Between him and Speakeasy, that's plenty of info for Wayboat.
And time to just set up for the fundamentals. Hoppin can get to work breaching the main wall.
Mission accomplished. A breach on dining and a breach upstairs on office.
Now they just need to identify how many players are on the top floor and whether they need to
start flushing a few out before they go for a plant.
Ooh, Kertre starts things off.
They have a trade there.
Nice.
Yeah, look, Wapor happy to restabilize even though it does cost problems life.
Going for the pig though, risky from Speakeasy.
It costs him his life, but they do manage to get the kill.
Problem is, losing that Monty really threatens their ability to plant in the late round.
Yep. But look, every single time he's speaking he's got into a questionable position. They were there with an answer, right?
He gets melee, Tersek is the kill. Goes on ADS, he dies, Tersek is the kill, again.
So it's very well communicated. Now they know a player is stalking us upstairs because he's got to saw him through the drone hole.
That's gonna give himself one member. Really leaving two question marks. Maybe they're not ready for it.
They're starting to swing some, seems like Terz back.
Should've been aware of it. Grape has a grenade in pocket, but somehow Beachyman gets aggressive on Gotti outside.
unusual that Gotti will go down playing one of those passive positions. Now it just comes down
to one of the greatest players that APAC has ever seen.
Reeps, the Chinese demon now with the DMR in hand looks to try and take down the OG duo
of Lycolis and BG Man. Slow but steady, checking each angle, pre-fire with the DMR. But look at that
from BG. Artidist respect those for the swing in the 1v1. Here's those pre-fies and he doesn't
care about it. Great reprisal from Orca. They find their first round.
All right now we ban the Monty surely or the solid snake depending on what his biggest problem.
They're in a Monty. I agree with you but what's the response here? What would we ban?
They'll just play Blackbeard if you ban Monty to be honest.
Honestly, I don't know what you bet. Probably been mute. You could ban Fenrir
brand Lucy saw me
Solace all this
Okay
We're a curveball for that one
But if they expect them on to ban where they can't just like you know go in anywhere
Just keep moving forward now you found the solace and they want to make second with a drone star
There's possible air jabs clean boys, etc
It can actually make the defenders rather a bit more passive in the server and go for less opportunity place
So it could be a read into that
I'm not entirely certain but you're right if you ban them on seat
There's gonna be a blitz a fuse and a black beard free for the picking instead
But it will change how aggressive speaking can be when it comes to walking the faces of orchid
Because if you get meleeed as any of the shield you'll likely die immediately after so yeah
She's still done the pacing a little bit.
You're also going to be worried about feet shots a lot more.
Which does mean that getting rid of tick damage is important, which is why I would have thought maybe you'd get rid of something like the Thorn.
But no, the Thorn is going to be picked here for the first time by peeps, and I think it's the right play.
Knowing that you're going up against a shield that likely won't be, or can't be that long to you now, but you're probably still going up against some shields,
you want to prioritize as much tick damage as possible.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that means that you consider picking something like a Sentry.
You bring impacts and a Nitro self.
That in itself is enough to kill a Blackbeard on its own.
Even if you haven't had any limb damage, or landed any shots from Thorn as well.
The weakness here in my mind from Orchid is no Jager.
If they want to keep hardholding his position with the Wamai Band,
they're going to need some kind of protection, and I don't think the Izami is going to be enough.
Oh, eyes on the opening kill right now, oh so important here in Shelly, he's not stuck
in a corner, he's lucky to get away and he will.
You hear that grapple sound, another guy upside down just watching.
Not sure what toaster is trying to cook up here, but we saw that he was one of the first
players since the Sofia buff when you got the third Sofia soft breach, he just popped
somebody through the floor with a yellow ping and get a free kill.
If there's a guy, yeah, if they have a guy playing top Solarium
You can actually some fear stun them from below and just hit the form if you get a kill
That could be the longer thinking but there's no one there just yet
Also, no one's inside just yet for a rainbow, but here they might just go in
Problem is peaky is if we walk into a 90-degree crossfire
Angle from inside kitchen. It's also got that diffuser by the way. It goes inside
Gets affected by the thorn trap. This is what I was talking about with that tick down in front of the thorn
Now Waybo asked it aside. Do they go and hunt peeps downstairs and continue walking into more of these traps?
Wow almost loses his life lucky to have survived takes down another drone, but they would have seen him escape now
Waybo can start to mount their push on to solarium from here on
So now it was beachy man race man in the mass between closet right now if they know this and
Turrets that can get right beneath him. That's a boom boom boom and he's gonna be dead very quickly
See if our redtossed out or Solarium doesn't do a single thing.
He's been spotted now has to worry because you look at this, Terzda is so ready,
but so was Treepz who was on that big window of hell, catacodding off the rotation.
Yeah, good. However, Waco gonna lose Gotti again, unorthodox, unusual to see Gotti go down early.
He was on the roof, an aggressive peek from Peeps.
Now the Blackfeet starts to make his way into the plant position. The Grim is gonna
to enable this, but look at that. Very aggressive from Peeps. He has to go straight back in.
The Goyo fire seemingly not detonating in time. And even though like,
Collis has gone big for a double, he himself will go down to the fire.
Who knows? The fire he himself detonated. Now Turts are from down below, still has three
explosives. And he's found two kills. He can single-handedly win this from the verticality.
At this point, you just hope that Critchy picks it. We're going to see the counter-diffuse
disabled by Terz is surely on the verge but Critchey has to go downstairs
hello kills Reeps trying to sprint away Turret can still hold on to his
position he's on for the clip this is cheeky though from Critchey if he can
breach enough he's got enough time Terz it doesn't deal the damage he needs so
he's got to go for the kill Terz it doesn't know where he is but sprays through the wall
to clutch up for Weibo.
Cloyx but no cigar for Critchey.
Beautiful post plan.
And often they played that
unloosable spot, right?
It could be a counter fire,
it could be a Sophia,
it could be a grenade that's lined up.
You just don't miss the chance
of a gunfight.
That 50-50, we saw a great attempt
there for more kid jumping over
the solar railing,
going for a hit fire,
pistol kill, but they did not
consider it.
Hey, maybe Terz,
that was also creeping down below.
So instead they go for the long arm,
hoping that Terzler would make a mistake, but he doesn't.
He sticks it, he runs up the staircase, they get that final kill.
Back and forth though, Orc could have not made these rounds easy for Wabo.
And if he hadn't made it to Terzler with a perfect positioning downstairs also to deny him the flanker,
that would have been an easy round win for them.
It was way too close. I don't know if you noticed, but when
Critchey jumped on that can of defuse. There was like seven seconds. It was yeah
It was now like seven seconds point zero four or something. He was so goddamn close
Almost as close as turd was to missing his chance and losing that round
Now would have been a real kicker if
Wavor had missed that
Third round of attack
You can still worry about grenades now.
Look, I gotta give them credit. Orc are playing well here.
They just...
You gotta play better than well when you're up against Weber, who are, you know,
a top 12 team in the world, I would say.
You know, maybe not quite top 8. I think that answer may come at EWC.
But on their best day, Weber absolutely could be a top 8 team in the world.
Just top 8, yeah? What's up 4 for them?
I mean, I have faith that I, the thing is, Bangu, I know you've joined the APL in these
last two years, which has been lovely.
I've been here since the start, since everybody was telling us, since everyone was telling
us you stop, you're just an APAC shield, Fanatic's never gonna do anything, Bliss is
never gonna do anything, CAG are never gonna make it out of group, so I'm never gonna count
my stars until they're here. Weibo are capable of great things I know up, of course they've
got to become champions here first, once again in order to earn their spot at the WC.
Oh hello, it's a try.
A bit of a mini-game there. The EMP did the assist, used the smoke on the window with
last a peek through and a grenade to follow up, but they couldn't quite get the kill.
Nice try though, they get the library control, they can enter things up, smoke, EMP and maybe
and maybe try and go over the right plenty with the smoker needs oh and look at this the lurk from up
down below turns out sends it straight up the stairs came from blue but he meets the shotgun from
peeps reaps will find some cover on the crit jay as the plant starts to go down speak easy able to
confirm it and we go into the post way bro have enough as advantage and wow he killed from speakeasy
make it a double. Oh man, still got hands. Now it's peeps and it's 1v4. Speak easy.
Shots them down one by one. And to close it up with the shotty, no less. Four rounds
on the board for Weibo.
And again, it's these small things that Weibo do a little bit better than the other teams
in ASCEN. Most of the teams also need Thai GF APL. They do many things at once, right?
They pick up the glass and the thatcher, and not only just for the library corner clear,
but also for the execute later on.
And then they also do their third step, which nobody saw coming until they got that opening
pick.
Third step, finds the gap, walking up blue staircase, and instead of fighting the bomb
side with the glass and the smoke so he's not gonna be fully effective, he's gonna
go all the way top floor.
Either he gets another free kill because I'm expecting it, or they gotta turn the attention
away from the library where they're gonna try and play for retake.
80 degree flick watch their own flank and even if Tristar dies he buys enough time and space in
the server the plan to go down and that's the real win. They know they can win from the outside
of the building on the post plant if it goes down successfully but if they don't look backwards to
what Tristar on the flank upstairs he would get two or three kills in a round and they will win
regardless so it almost feels like it's impossible for able to lose that round even if the C4 was
post in there was a guy that was got to you with the fact you and P rich catch it
Yeah, I love that. I'm a huge fan of that show. I feel like he's really underutilized in the car
When he first got
Re-released with that rework we saw a lot of that show we saw a lot of really clever interactions back and forth
We saw the infamous surfs Shopify rebellion
Proxy alarm fake to try and bait out the EMP and then following it up with the real C4
We saw so much tech and these days. We just don't see that much stature
I feel like we even saw a lot of rounds today where I'm looking at them
I'm thinking maybe if teams got a little bit more creative and
Went for the fact that they could have achieved something
The very face-throbber right you can also use thatcher as a mini IQ
Yeah, I'm just looking around the ceiling for Val cam or Yoka
Don't you see a question like I can and about oh it's in the ceiling
It has to be you know something throwable
Even just sabbath and shoot it. So a lot of flexibility there
Reeves in the braver support operator by the way. He's in the building already
That's not supposed to happen
He's supposed to be in spawn read using your drones and hack things at the night information
But he'll do that plus get the first kill for his team and be suited a thank-watcher now as well
Final little detail there about the facture is it pairs very well with day moss and doc could be because once you do scan a piece of
Utility reveals that player and therefore adds them to the possible operators that could be tough
Oh, how long could by another early death from Gotti you can't blame him too much
That's a very nice C floor from like all this in kitchen up through the floor boys out onto that double window
Why you going a bit of strife now this one is
This step was okay for Gotti, but it's about the previous to right making it three in a row
He's supposed to be the one that doesn't die ever
Not die is everything around first jump out very aggressive. There's the intro
Confirmed to tank your player of church staff and reaches into it earlier. How do you just hang a bunch of glue fire?
Where is he's an office? So you must be taking ground upstairs that means we will get map control
But they've lost a lot of bodies in the process
Last round of the half way but go up five one. There's no way all could can come back
But if all could find a second one here, I
Would commend them their valiance as they continue fighting even when way below looking good
I love that from Hoffman and speak easy together. They timed it well so that already
was speak easy keen to peak the angle as Holfenbrink should open,
guaranteeing that they would win that fight.
Worried about the Goyo fight, there's only 33 seconds.
That Goyo will burn for 20 seconds after Lycolis detonates it.
Surely no one is coming down the bottom of trophy stairs now.
No, not happening.
That means that all OK, while they have three guns available,
only to worry about West Main, the basement staircase,
and the side window.
Oh, he's found another one.
But nowhere.
Critchey though, trying to find his dual, but weeps.
Confirmed the second one.
Spiky's debating just in time!
And Beeps will fall as well, trading himself,
but it ain't enough.
Five rounds and a half for Weibo.
I mean, on that, it's just,
this is the kind of level of dominance
that you expect from a team like Weibo.
And I contextualize it going in.
We expected this from the person.
I know, crazy, Guzz has dropped all his hair, he's put on a bit of KG, a lot more handsome,
far more successful in pretty much every aspect of his life.
But I think that this is what we expected, this was what we were trying to give the viewers
the context for.
This is the kind of waybo that comes out grand finals.
10 from third, 8 from Reeps, so we've been talking all day about Crit Jane Peeps, that's
dynamic duo for all good and what they've been the lower final absolutely
tremendous and you know it's interesting actually both of them even pretty decent
in that first half five kills for thieves four kills for Critchey clearly
they've been putting in a decent showing there's just levels to this and and for
reefs and the turd they're just the level above and the men that we actually
highlight in that pre-match and then on one red player coming into this 4-3
having a good game 1-12 EPS versus her at one point was like 2-0-1 there was
187. Clearly for Wayvo there's a gap and look I still don't think the gap is
like absolutely massive in the sense that Orc can have zero chance. Orc could
just have to play literally the best game ever the fight if they're gonna be
rolling. Wayvo can roll in like it's another Sunday. Orc cannot do that. I
think when you actually look at like a lot of the fundamentals here allowing
far too many plants, 2-0-3 in the first half, got it twice,
Honestly, easy multi kills 4 to 0. That's so one-sided the one and only clutch we had turd gets it opening kills 4 to 2
So while some of the rounds were
Fundamentally closed to a live one alive to a live in a three alive
The general feeling has always been throughout those six rounds that clearly wave over just the better thing
Look, this is this is what the conversation kind of has been in Oce right about individual players being
incredible at what they do but when you mix that with what Waybo have like I
think that Waybo is probably no not probably I still stick to this Waybo
are the most well-rounded team we have in the APL in its entirety through all
three regions and you're seeing it on display right now not only can their
individuals pop off when they need to but they also have the team play to back
that up and that is why for this kind of matchup we were saying that if you are
not on your best you're just not going to be good enough yeah and also speaking
to those opening kills, the two that Webber didn't get, but funnily enough, they actually
traded.
And interesting, we don't see the quote-unquote trade, all that often written down the way
that it's mathematically calculated for our record keeping.
I don't agree with the way that it's done.
I think there's so many more times where I feel like I've seen a trade, but it doesn't
count it.
But to see here, it is very much being the trade.
So they've been pretty much all over this five-one lead, absolutely, while it's really
set up here on charlie but going back to what we spoke about in the pre-match charlie was not the
map that we expected orchid to be as ultra competitive we thought that was going to be
obviously bank bank still will be there they will get that chance and if they can win bank fortress
who knows so clearly for orchid all they've got to do in this half is see what they can get away
with on the attack that maybe they can actually take the bank so try and poke and broad find some
information you're not going to win this map but maybe you can get some detail out of the way that
way we want to defend that might translate to the next map. Look where I said in the last match
that Orcid what they have to do is break day stars momentum. I think you're gonna say make
rotate holes. More rotate holes and we'll be okay. The problem is for Orcid right now is the wing
conditions are just rapidly diminishing. Yeah well I mean there's just how many wing conditions do
we really have for Orcid right now. There are so few and far between that if it's not coming down to
What are they?
Perfect plays, well this is the problem. Perfect plays or individual performances
You're just not gonna beat Waybo in their game
Unfortunately, it's just the way it works, Jake Xenox and Biddy, and welcome back, James Devin, Marta Stewart, and Nick. Thank you
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Thank you very much
I was waiting for the last thing to be said
I mean I can't date with him if he forgot your last name, man. I'm sorry to say I think he forgot you
Oh, you don't know you like that, bro
Nah, I'm more the Kaiser to him.
I'm still not sure where that's from because to me that's a League of Legends character, but it's a way.
I thought it was Mortal Kombat, but...
I don't know. I'm more the Kaiser.
The game goes down, so apparently, or any of the performances, they try it because you want to trade it back.
Peeps was instrumental in the previous game, finding those kinds of kills, but...
It does go traded.
You can take it on Speegy, see?
You know, that's the old man that got hands.
Taking on Terps, that's the young goner, that's the real difficulty.
And if it's not Terkster clutching up, it's going to be Reeves, it's not Reeves, it's going to be Hobbin.
And then Gachi's just kind of vibing the server, right? He plays the passive, he's still on the attack, plays the Narky on defense.
He's got the mirror window sitting by the bomb side, checking the camera, so he's not seeing any enemies, James.
Because Reeves finds another, making it a 4 vs 3 in favor of Wable.
And I call it, it does have the Monty right now, but you don't really want to have the Monty.
And if you don't have enough gun support behind him.
Oh man, and Reeves is doing so much damage quad kill!
One with the gas one with the sng finally put to rest by bg
One v3 becomes a one v2. Hey look on paper. This is winnable and then you realize you're going up against
Player number one and player number two on the stats leaderboards in the APL and you think hang on a second
Maybe it's not so doable after all
To turn over though quite separated
They have somewhat of a crossfire, but most importantly bg doesn't realistically have a way inside
He's now EMP'd towards Hoven. I wonder if that'll achieve much.
Oh, there's an archer herself. Prefire manages to take it down. Thankfully, that would have landed right on his lap.
How does he play this? 45 seconds ticking away. He doesn't have that defuse.
He needs a kill. Just like, oh, he goes down.
He's got a laptop and a player cam as well, he knows.
Oopsies.
He's on the default cam, right?
You got it.
Shut down the information game now from Wable.
I mean, surely you try and go for this?
Yeah, he doesn't have time.
There's a yellow ping towards blue, so not sure what that's about.
He doesn't have time.
There's somebody over steps here for Wable and he finds the hatch.
He thinks it's a player on blue stairs, but there isn't.
Yeah, he's just playing a little bit too cautiously.
And at this point, he just knows that there's no way to win it.
I mean, he doesn't have the fuser, which is upstairs, bombsites down below.
Now the fire extinguisher is going to block his path.
Unfortunately for BG, a round that was possible
ends up going down the toilet.
Waybo found their sixth and with it,
Chalet is well on its way.
A seven-one.
I think it awkward round.
Yeah, I mean it was.
And I mean for awkward, it was a nice start.
Trade back one player, not the end of the world,
but then Reeps decides to just get full.
To Sydney are thinking like,
what is the win condition in Asia against Wabo?
I do believe if Wabo are playing at 100%,
which to be clear, they've been damn good this stage.
I don't think there's been many moments where they've been
slacking.
If they're playing at 100%,
I don't know if anyone can actually beat them,
especially if there's a three setting.
I know it's soft to set the mutations that,
Orchid cannot beat them, there's a 0% chance. It's not 0, but it's certainly low and I think the system score line very much showcases that.
But across the board, they replayed the entire competitive year of 2026, just in Asia.
Unless Weibo have a bad day, I don't think they lose. They just have so much more to offer than other teams.
It's true, but look, let's not forget that in the upper bracket final, Daystar took a map off of them.
That was a very competitive series. Weibo didn't just wipe the floor with Daystar like they are right now with Orchid.
I think the big thing is if you want to take the fight to the waiver you have to be at the top of your game
You have to be making no mistakes. You have to make the perfect
Map selection operator bands. Everyone has to be landing their shots. You got to have the read
Yeah, like I don't know
Games can't afford to be faltering on any of those steps
And look, but that's the thing right sure a day star very experienced roster
what not you know despite the one lost attention whatever else they might be able
to do it on a good day but anybody else it does this feel like there's too many
things that have to go right there's a chance at beating Wabo and they gotta
throw him behind them as it turns to get the damage as well
hovin coming to try and bait him in well played by Wabo they scare like hold us
off like all us thought he had a free kill thanks to exxotic BG though actually
manages to catch over thankfully he is quick to rotate into position to try and
prevent that second player from way boat from getting back to safety nice shot
on the speakeasy as well here for peeps two player advantage for all could best
chance they've had so far second round could be on the cards
not a map controller so all right there in basement they're upstairs during the
Hallways they're just keeping way, but guessing as to what the push is actually going to be
And if the next picture would take up all the default cams on their track as well
Come on
I think the Nate might have killed it for him
All right, here we go Reeves is revealed thanks to the concussion
But immediately could Jay has taken down and 3v5 becomes a 3v3 for Waybo
How is it that Waybo were allowed to have so much map control despite being two players down on bombsite?
He doesn't have a bar doesn't have defuse though
They've changed the defenders are attacking and the Tigers are defending right now
They have two players above the bombsite though
Which means that there is almost nowhere safe to plant here for Waybo and keep in mind
BG man is still in the basement Thursday can get info where that plant is going down and peeps
Lebes loses his fight to Reeps up above the hatch.
Waybo now in that 3v2, they brought it back
three kills in a row after that rough start.
BG finally in the bombsite with the defuse,
but he doesn't have a safe place to plant.
Like Hollis has already low HP as well.
It doesn't have any more air jabs to protect them.
On Fakes it, he drops the defuse
and hopes that that Fakes turn doesn't do
a good enough job though and still turns stuff,
finds the angle and the double.
My god, nobody can slay this dragon.
7-1.
As gaming continued, there are ascendancy.
One map away from the eSports World Cup.
I feel good that the Thai people have been competing with the country, making it feel like they are giving back to the country, giving back to the sport.
I want them to give back to the sport, because they are doing their best to make the country happy.
I feel that I have to be ready for the game and don't get nervous, don't do the outside game, and play like a coach.
If you play like a coach, you will be the same as me.
I'm sure everyone will see me playing as a member of the team.
I'm going to play the same way, with the first and second players as the best MGM.
The team I want to meet the most is the team of Kit J team.
Because the other team I used to be in this team, I want to make the board that we didn't make a mistake in my table.
There was a tournament after the S.I.Cut event happened and I saw that if we won this tournament, we might have a chance to compete in the S.I.Cut event.
So I decided to join the tournament.
I never had a tournament before and I never played it before.
It was the first thing I tried and I felt fun.
I was a good player.
When I was playing, I was a good player.
I was a good player.
When I was playing, I was the best.
I was serious.
I was fun to play.
When I was playing, I was good.
I was good at form and shooting.
When I got to play in Japan, I thought it was a good feeling to play in Japan.
When I moved to Japan, I didn't know that I could play in Japan.
I thought that I could play in the top 4.
I thought that I could play in Japan.
I didn't know that I could play in Japan.
When I moved to Japan, I was surprised.
I feel very good that I will be able to compete in Japan and in the A-Pack Cup.
Because I have never competed in any of the countries before.
And when I got to compete, someone came to see me.
I like to compete in that way.
And I feel that it is not possible for me to compete.
There are people who watch me.
I feel very good that I have Pee Pee Sohan to watch and cheer me up when I compete.
Even though I will lose at first, I have to compete again.
I feel good that I have Koi Share in front of the stage, when I went to the party, I called my parents and said that I went to the party, when I was ready to watch it.
And the scene that I prepared for the party was, I said to myself that I was still the same, the one who played the song, the same vision, the same shadow.
When I was on the big stage at Paris, I felt like I had a real strength.
There was a moment when I felt good and excited.
When I met Salim Shady, everything was planned.
Everything was as I thought.
I won the first round and I got 3-0.
But after that, I realized that I wasn't playing as I wanted to, not as I wanted to.
I didn't feel like I was going to lose.
I felt sad that I lost.
I might have cried sometimes.
I might have felt sad.
But now, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
Everything that I lost, I will let go and look forward to the future.
I don't care about it, no matter how much I think about it, I will regret it, but if I let it go, I will look at it from the front.
I feel like the fire is still there and I want to go to the stage.
And I'm sure if I have a chance to come in, I will make it as full as possible.
I'm sure that when I saw that there was a Japanese Major, I saw it.
I think if I didn't go, I would definitely regret it.
I will do my best to make it happen and try my best to be the best in Japan.
I want type of deep and see just the light make you feel all I feel
In the sky, you'll really talk me like you're in a cloud
continue to just be the best team in the region as we head to bank will we have
an opportunity for Auckland to get back I'm pretty sure it's how to train your
dragon so I don't know if you've watched the bitleg version or where you got
wires mixed there but in terms of the map I don't think so yeah I think we need to
rope it back from I think he's got a bit early to bank there as a host you
probably want to start on the map that's just been played oh it wasn't much it
wasn't much of a map played though it was a rather 7-1 it was not the wave and
they add it to a long list of success that they've been able to garner on this map.
To be fair, I probably didn't actually fairly expect it to be quite this dominant.
I thought we'd maybe see a little more fight 7-2, 7-3 from Orcid, but unfortunately for
them, Waybo fired up and they showed the depth that this roster has.
Obviously we put depth.
The depth?
Yeah, what's wrong with saying that?
Let me finish my point first, because we're talking about Hovind in the pre-show and
how he was just going to go in, a double A, B, the top right of player. He was fourth.
He was actually pretty quiet. All things considered. But then, as we often refer to,
turd, reaps, and even speak easy, had some impact as well over the course of this matchup.
It was obviously turd and reaps of the top two. They were just quite incredible. They
were thrown in a couple of interesting situations over the course of that half and they produced.
Which one looks more depthful? The two or the five? Well, I guess it depends how far back
you hold in the two and how far forward you hold in the five.
While I'm getting out here at third and reach, just with absolute tenacity.
13 and 13, actually both 13 and four each, both two entry kills each, both 100% cost
to each.
The only thing separated them was third actually got a clutch.
Very true, he did get a clutch, but I think that ultimately like just where this roster
is at, there is such, there are so few teams that could actually go toe-to-toe with them
in a match that really matters, you're probably looking, I mean, you're definitely looking
to your EPs, you're looking to your CAGs, but in respects to this region, they are so far ahead
of every team. And I mean, there is a multitude of reasons for that. One, you look at the big names
they have, right? They've got some great names. Two, you look at their, I would say more, not
mechanical leaning, but they're more strategical leaning lines that they've got on this roster.
They've got some of the greatest minds in cjna pack and then you move forward and you go ahead and look at their international
Performances they have so much experience so much knowledge so much know-how and then you mix that with firepower Michael
It's just it's a concoction that is deadly to anyone including Jake
Yeah, it felt like when I was watching that match
It felt like especially in the first half of course that was a walk from in half at the two
They were just able to combine any part of the map that they wanted it's kind of a case
shall we a map for them where it's like this is our game plan we're not going to
shy away from broadcasting that to the other team because we simply don't care
we just have the confidence to take any part of the map we want they can
split it with the information that that they were able to find and it was just
a classic way both performance on that opening map but that's kind of what we
expected so I don't think it really changes the storyline as we established
it before there's an opportunity here for a little bit I'm not done there's a
small opportunity which I think is what you were getting at a small
opportunity for Hawkeet to fight their way back, but more of an advantage.
I just wanted to shout out, Pips. Pips was pretty. Pips, a hell of a zone. I think when
you back during the competition, your opponent, it's important to add that as context. So he
still had 110 EPS, still went 7 kills, almost went neutral, had 1-0 on the entry, 88% cost.
That's actually a pretty high figure. In a 1-7 loss to have an 88% cost, that's actually
quite ridiculous. He's still a young player, he's still, you know, learning. He hasn't
got that international experience and yet in a big game,
the grand final game, he stood up on a map like Chalet.
If Orc could out to get back into this series,
again, peeps is the man.
Yeah, but outside of peeps, I mean, like being seriously, Jake,
like where does the depth come from?
Where can Orc could find their way in?
Well, unfortunately, that's all we've got time for.
Like, well, it's a big game, man.
We're going to have to be the ones that are very much going to help out,
because we know Chris J is going to be there, too.
So as we look at the band certainly crit jade not having access to things like
What do we got here that were my and and the echo? Yeah, that's not gonna help Rob
I was really having production to just cut your mic off. That's a real shame. That's a damn shame
It's gonna be our two best casters in the region it's Nicholas
Moritzon James Dev Martis. Oh, Nick. It's not
Nicholas come on me can't even pronounce his name, right?
but he did end on a decent point though right crit j question mark right keeps
someone held his own crit j the other stop here if you will has not really
been having a huge amount of success on shell a I would like to see pretty in
the action for this one thank you I would like to see that as well I think
or could need it. They need every single player standing up, standing tall, like Hollis had his
moments earlier today against Daystar, Pete's as well. Look, BG Man hasn't been half bad. It's
Xalotic who's maybe been a bit quieter, but Critchie has the expectation of being one of
the greatest players that Thailand's ever seen. Early damage onto Pete's, I don't know where
that happened. A fight early on in the round as he is playing in open area and Waybo set their
It's on a map clear bank is one of the more attack a side of maps that we have in the pool
Waybo are such a proficient team on this attacking side
They're born oracle spend the month you have been as big
Instead because he finds one treat wait he got both
You get you get he 180 spray through the smoke on the second one as well. Oh my god
Oh man, when they're all dead, they're all dead. Everyone is dead, everyone is dead.
Speakeasy jumps in kills two with the pistol and the blitz and then out of nowhere, the
other Orchid roamers are swift to follow. XRLotic 1v4. That's not happening.
They're trolling him. They're trolling him.
Bro, imagine try hiding in a 4v1.
Oh man. God, what are you doing man? Stop using damn discipline. You gotta blitz. You
I mean, look at this. It's aim training time.
Kandela finally does go off. Exotic blinded.
And he's about to meet Gotzi with the shotgun.
Speakeasy has forced that diffuser down. I think Waybo may as well hunt him.
He's just looking at bait. Lot of damage
on to Speakeasy, but the Blitz still goes for a third kill in the round.
He is insatiable. You can ban that Montane, but you cannot get him off the
the shield. After a seven one
domination on Chalet. Way boat
continue that momentum into
bank. Left the month's young man.
He walks on extended and he's a
pacifist in the server. Now he's
unleashed on the Blitzman. There's
no winning against the easy right
down. That is honestly such a big
value that it brings to his team.
still find impact on the 4th. But then the issues are all safe. They can play the sense,
they can play the game, they can play the glass, they can play the capital, they can
play the grim. Wave War is a super flexible team and it's only gotten more disgusting
with Gotti because he too plays a variety of operators and because he can do that he
frees up everybody else on top of it. So it just feels like from the operator selection
phase already other teams will just feel that difference in skill level. They've been hiding
the clash here for like colis from orchid side and they are gonna bring into
action but there's gonna be a big counter play in the Sophia three
concussions three explosives we just span the the clash like right by their
feet with the Sophia gadget next you almost kill them entirely with the
self-destruction you have to land it kind of very hard to land correctly
the same with impact rings against the blitz right you don't want to hit the
shield itself because the shield grants you explosive resistance so you want to
hit them right by the side of the toes yeah I guess it depends if you want to
go for guard break or you want to go for the kill true because if you hit it
directly on the shield it'll knock the shield back and you can finish them with
the weapon but risky both ways very risky depends on what your preferred
flavor is only one set of impacts though in this round they're on critchade
Reeps actually not going through a DMR pick on the sense he's electing to take
the the new weapon forgot the words called now I used to know when it came
when it first came out K-23 I believe okay it's not it doesn't that sounds
alright oh I think you missed it I think you're right it's
It's not perfect, he's having for a spray, just misses his chance, got's he straight
off the stairs but actually misses his chance to take down the clutch.
Thankfully, Colvin doesn't miss his to get up onto that top floor and turd finally stabs
like Holis in the back, just around the corner, it's XRLotic, he wins his fight, bring it
back, parorkid, but swiftly he will fall, turds to three on the round, it's a blood
bath on the top floor and Wabo looked to finally put a dagger into the heart of Orchid.
Critchey into a 1v2. We've said he was quiet. It's his time to get loud. Big kill
onto Reeps. Now into the 1v1. Terzda hot and hungry for it. But the defuse in his
pocket. R4C in his hands. He knows he's up against the solace. Planting might not
The best option. How does Tercer decide to play this?
There's a concrete floor. Everything's hard of a crit gear because there's a concrete floor inside a meeting that you can plant on effectively, or it's just going to beep.
Crit gear with that closed portal weapon, SNG-11, is forced into a long engagement.
He's trying to bait him out.
Critchey can check, he will have seen now the turrets there is planting, he will have also seen the turrets that has faked it.
Turrets that cannot have the luxury of faking it forever like he would against another operator.
Critchey checks again, he can see it, he might actually be able to find the angle as well, turrets to sprays it and fakes again, the time is now turned to enemy.
Critchey holding his angle as he wins his 1v2.
We've been needing him to stand up for Rocket. Finally he will.
Hold your nerve. Again I think Khritji had the harder position to play there.
You can go downstairs and just purely play that final impact on Nate and go for a kill,
but if you mess it up then try to get your stick in for seven seconds as you're
going back up the staircases and you can just lose on that point alone. So Khritji
chooses to fight, chooses to stick around and has to just play that bait and switch
game trying to get closer and closer without suffering the death to a pre-fire. This early
execute though I gotta say, really beautiful from both teams fighting back and forth,
but Owebo's ability to clearly communicate where all those fights are happening,
that's the thing that impressed me the most. This is a team that speaks in English,
but they all come from different nationalities, different primary languages, etc.
Yet it's so clear from our point of view, they all understand what angles are clear,
what angles aren't and it's how they're finding so many trades in such a chaotic moment.
I never really even thought of that but with the recent roster change on Weber we now have five
players with five different nationalities and in theory five different first languages. I'll put
him asterisks on there because I'm sure that a lot of these players will have spoken English plus
another language at home but like you look so speakeas he grew up in Singapore I assume he
grew up speaking English and I'm not entirely sure whether he would have been speaking Chinese
I'm not sure where his family is from and then of course turd stuff from New Zealand. So he grew up speaking English reaps
I believe he grew up in China. So mostly speaking Chinese. I'm not sure which variant of Chinese as well
Havan grew up in Indonesia primarily speaking at least Indonesian got he grew up in Korea speaking mostly Korean and
All of them obviously speak English very well, but it's yeah
It's so rare that we get to see teams
Especially in APAC with five players from five different nationalities like sometimes it'll happen in Europe even then it's still pretty rare
That old team secret roster from the six of the taste was one of the few teams
It actually had five different nationalities on the same roster way
But are probably in a very small club of only a handful of teams at the tier one globally from five different nations
I can I can say with my personal experience I've earned a five different nationality roster back in
early years and it is yeah we did right we had a Finnish Swedish Danish Spanish in German yeah
so five different nationalities in Europe that was your picture it's one s.i. you won an s.i. with
that roster yeah yeah and and we had a caller that was called thingy magic because we had a
Finnish player who couldn't pronounce a drawer or dresser because that's how like in Finnish it doesn't exist, I guess
So a theme of you over there on the thing and everyone must put what that meant because we're all foreign speakers
And I think if you're away, but what all these different mixed nationalities odds are they speak in a pseudo broken language
But it makes sense to each other because so it can relate to it
Freeps on the rappel finds a freebie onto peeps who was so great on chalet
But had a slow start here and bang crit Jane steak
It's loud and takes down problem on the ash so those mirror windows shattered already at least one of them
But the second might live. Yeah, I love seeing a bit of ash play. We've seen it quite a bit
I think it's at least a third ash pick from an operator that once upon a time was to lock every single round
We're now seeing teams pick it not just because hey ash has got a good gun and it's fun to play ash has the aura
It's because of the usual that brings to the table the glass is a nice idea
the turd, but like Hollis reads it well, here's the jump in, takes him down through the smoke.
However, Reeps is quick to trade. Don't count out Waybo, especially not when Reeps starts
chaining them together like that. How's he managed to get Exile Lonic from outside the window?
I'd love to know. He's hungry for another. Critchey rotates back to site. It's him and BG. Up against
three players from Waybo. Hell of a lot of damage from Reeps. And finally, Speakeasy puts him down.
Another one of his speak easy on the entry with the AK
Labo take the lead back again
Again like Teresas on the glass is supposed to be the playmaker
Jumping in the open-air window in a smoke window because spanked straight back through the smoke because the element goes off showing
Exactly when he's jumping in and then it just reaps in the show and that has always been the issue when you're up against
way bow is not just one guy got a shut down or two it's basically four
individual players and then there's still got he has that final backup he is
never meant to be last alive he's never meant to be in a clutch position but
got he is a clutch player in his opening game with PSG town when he first joined
the tier one level of siege he had like a one versus two clutch unconsciously
playing Hibana he has always been a kind of guy with absolutely needed he will
short for his team and I think it was was it with a day star
Wave will match up on Shelly. I think God she also won a 1v1
clutch is lying to send him into another map. Yeah, so God she
has been that player on often for Waipo but in desperate times
appears. Yeah.
Oh man, it's been a long road today to get to this grand final.
It's been an even longer road for some of these players. I
remember when Hoven way back in the day before Waibo before
the old Indonesian gaming gladiators roster.
He played for a team in the Challenger League
that ended up being called the Last Dance.
And we had never heard of them casting the APAC Challenger
League at the time.
I believe this would have been 2021.
And we all expected, I can't remember
if there was an Australian team.
I think it might have been, it was actually Bliss,
the old Bliss team.
We always expected them, coming from a show,
that they would be the ones to make it into the APAC
South League.
Hoven's team, at the time, joined.
And then six months later, they were
at the Berlin Major. You yourself can sign up for the Challenger Circuit, which is starting
in just a couple of weeks, if you wanna grind and get to where the pros are, it all starts
at the tier two level.
Alright, let's start at bootcamp boys. The O's crew, all the cars, minus Rob, maybe, but
you know, gosh, Jake, you, me, we get like, Widdable, somebody involved as well, you know.
actually the fracker
and uh... i could be a fun little bit
uh... we could play right but there's no like rules stopping us
from from then
uh... i mean i'll find will bootcamp i'm sorry let's do it then
a hundred percent
i need to i need to crush up on my skills i look
at my best i've been okay
i think i could i could play t2 at my best but uh...
I would need a bit of practice. Maybe you can coach me.
All years ago.
I don't know. I feel like I'm the washed one here.
But I gotta shoot at myself for some practice.
Your wash is still better than 90% of players in OCA mate.
Hey, I got a 2v2 tomorrow with Jake Venditti.
So I gotta boot up and get ready for that one.
But here comes the push into a flashbang.
Hatch is closed by the way.
Wasn't popped open by Slotix though.
He can't even fall back down.
It's forced to fight while we have the ability to see rather.
Because it's flashbang.
Don't think he was expecting.
And it's like these guys...
On Orchid to strike first and get the opening pick, they don't have the ability to fall back and keep the numbers.
And look at this, BGM now stuck in another corner as well.
It goes down, so that opening kill doesn't mean anything.
It's a fake stat. All that got the opening. Yeah, they lost two bodies. Smoke and the Goyo. Not worth it whatsoever.
My boy, Hoven. Glaced him in the prep face.
Here he is, with that 5-5-2.
A main machine on this roam clear, and now Wabo have the advantage.
They've slowed things right down because they know how aggressive Orcid are playing at the moment.
If it comes down to that late round, Orcid also have two nitros,
and Beepz has just lashed out from the main stairs, found Turdster, 3v3.
Very unorthodox round here for both of these teams.
Orcid do not want to let Wabo execute in a 5v5.
They're giving them so much respect, but hang on a second. Look at this drop from speakeasy. He had the diffuser
He dropped straight into the bomb site traded back directly way
They look at a player game of team deathmatch, but Hoffman will happily oblige
Cricce 1v2
He knows that diffuser should still be down and cctv just to his left and he knows that Hoffman is low hb
Got either from the other side
Hunt him down with the smg
another round for weibo
beautiful again their ability to trade themselves in a one-for-one or just get
back crossfire when it gets into what could be a loseable position you could
use the bees clean up the angles three to one timing and look at the upper the
bands but I didn't mean to touch it but earlier Speedy's is soaked out two
different shoot bands on bank it is so uncommon that we see any other shoot
being taken away. Fuck the Monty. They fear it. I mean, I do think that Orchid could do
well at playing an unorthodox round of siege because expectations of Wabos can be better
in general, so in a round that makes sense, it's logical, it's flowing, Wabos will often
win that. But Orchid needs to be an unorthodox round of siege and still play together. Still
do things where they can strive in a good way from it. Having a player die early, forget
to open the hatch, have a pick, it's stuck in the corner without any ability to support
him, that is not a group kind of orthodox, that is solo queue style siege.
We gotta have that teamwork in a weird way, not the solo work in a weird way.
I don't think they're gonna have much more luck on this top floor bomb side as well,
It's such a bloody annoying bomb side.
Especially with the way that Waybo likes to play.
Like, you look at how Waybo played Chalet.
A lot of their attacks are sitting outside the building.
They have one or two players trying to force the defense to move,
and outside of that, they really just focus up
on having most of their players watching angles.
That's exactly how you're so vulnerable on this top floor of tank,
because there are so many long angles you can die to.
It comes down to a lot of gunfights.
We need players like Critchey with the DMR to really land their shots.
I don't know why he doesn't want to use his parmig, but people are hiding it right?
I guess, but like...
Well they know there's nibana, that's the barry9, so people can freely use that weapon
and it wouldn't make sense to the enemies, so they're hiding the smoke grenades and leave
it later on.
And they're not building on the glass, the glass is like a niche pick, no smoke grenades
to support them, not a big win condition, that's why they're also hiding it.
But peeps going down early, there's also a C4 removed, and we're losing a 1 and 2 now for Crit J, giving a higher chance of speaking easy to be successful.
Yeah, interesting. Crit J actually decided to fall on that, and not continue supporting...
Oh, the boom, boom, boom!
Wow, the triple stack from below! That's three big booms for Terzter!
And an extra kill on to Legolas! 5v3!
Disgusting.
The vultures are circling!
Now they can smoke and line and go.
wounded orchid today. Weibo are hungry for their ticket to Paris and they can
taste it. They're getting closer and closer. They'll be having a coffee and a
croissant before you know it if they keep this up.
It's getting that final drone in. Checking down stairs right now. The
waiters be easy to finish that drone to work. Once that's done they can start
using that lion charge with the green fees with the smokers with glass. He
He's the rappel on in and the soul see what we could get is the only way to stop them. Oh good angle
Good damage onto got see any from it comes the flash bang
And the lurk as well from terms of near the side
I don't think that all got the manpower to deal with this part the timing is good
They finish him off a little 2v1
This sport does cover the fright. No this seaford does not lands
1v1 trade oven and crochet both on the floor
It's up to BG and XR to get it active, but Speakeasy decides it's worthwhile for him to fall back, go for a revive.
And now two players on the rappel with Reeps instead playing top square.
Waybo have dreamlike post-plant positions now and Orc could still have to figure out how they're going to revive.
Krije, their dead teammate. Finally gets back on his feet. 17 seconds left on this diffused timer.
Reeps sees one cross. They know where he is.
but Orc could are gonna have to commit and with speakeasy watching he's a last one watching
He just needs to deny it the round is done. Oh
Waybo can thank their lucky stars
They can thank speakeasy because there's nothing that Orc can do a
Fourth round on bang for Waybo
This series has been dominant
11 rounds
one by the dragon and just two
from Orc in the challenges
It has been a tumultuous challenge for them today.
Look at the player camps there, it's pretty easy. No smiles, no big celebration. He is locked in today.
Honestly, if you're away but when you saw a day star lose to Orchid, you know, the opposite happens.
Do you actually have more of a lock-in thinking, oh my god, we're expecting a day star.
star we know how to beat them but then the opposite occurs okay we're getting
auto overshot and that could be weird it does feel like we were just playing at
their very very best they're not cutting corners they're not skipping
strategies they're not hiding anything they're using it all right here
guaranteeing that spot and they're in a very convincing way even things don't go
according to plan they got a good plan being over it they get in there the
problem solved that this is in the post plant that a stand who's covering what
Orchid, they need that second defense ideally. They need a bit of a parachute to go on to the attack inside themselves.
And this is their final chance at that now.
Uh, Wayboe have won five attack rounds on Chalet today and then three, sorry, two defenses.
Now they've won four looking for a fifth attack round.
Their offensive side is so terrifying, so deadly.
Or can't afford to lose this round like you say I mean they went 5-1 down on
Chalet they didn't bring a single round in that second half as you say weibo
holding nothing back some teams say that they look to save strats but no a new
tactic employed here by Turd as he's looking for a lurk with the nook as the
push comes in upstairs, no nitro cells brought by Orpheed to contest vertically, and Wavebird
will lap up the free real estate.
Take back control, get the redpink scoring as well, Terus, but watch the tanks that
lob at the entire time.
So Orpheed, they don't even know exactly what's happening, but they feel the pressure from
everywhere at the same time.
Beepstas find one before he fades away, that's the black bit going down, big kills to finish
off.
However, Turdster sneaks in behind enemy lines, finds a double kill!
The nook with the SMG, so deadly, three for Turd!
There's half, may well come to a close
with not a gasp for air, but a whimper from Orchid.
It's up to Peeps and Exxar-Lotic, the two new kids.
On Orchid, to have an impact, and it's Exxar-Lotic on for a flank, is Turdster, gonna be aware of it.
He seems to have an inkling. I don't know whether he heard it or what, but he's been followed and hunted down by Hoven.
Beeps, you've been a dream for Orcid today, but a 1v4 may just be too much to ask for.
Finds the first, that's Hoven going down.
Diffuse being planted now as the Candela's ring on out.
Got him! We'll get killed by Turdstar.
Don't give him a chance here Turd.
Peers now for a 1v4 into a 1v2.
Reeves will fall back.
Reloading.
Turdster as well.
Looked to play the vertical game.
He still has needs.
He even has a thrown-in pocket that peeps, starts things off.
He knows where both players are coming from.
The SMG here is not enough.
Turdster locks in a fifth round for Weibo.
Well, here comes another, just like the other.
It is unbelievable once again from Weibo,
a solid performance and um okay that over here mate that's over here no welcome to the
class ladies and gentlemen check yourselves in we're about to get something special up
on the screen it's the one and only round that we actually got from Orchid unfortunately
so we're going to bring it back second round 1v1 this is some masterful solo plays now
this was just after crit j got the kill onto reaps and so basically what we're seeing here
It's just straight up how to play solos get information be able to play there's a minute on the clock by the way
Now this is the hardest part about this defensive position in the 1v1 is there is so much time to fumble the bag
The biggest thing that crit jay clearly doesn't do is panic
He waits he knows after having just got the kill that he's gonna obviously have turd go for the quick trade
Turd is clearly peeking around. He knows he's main stance
We've both players basically know where they are the barbed wire helps him anyway and crit jay says I'm gonna give you the space
I'm gonna let you go for the plant because I'm playing the solar so that's exactly what crit jay does here as you can see
Slowly puts up now. He knows that turn has gone back to site bam immediately start sprinting that gets him off the kit
Crit Jays pretty much aware of this by now next plan attempt straight up gadget time information gained
Bam spots him again off the kit crit Jays at no point has panicked
He's now wasted 40 seconds of turds time and he's gonna wait one more time this time though turds gonna look to commit right
So now Cripp Jay, what is he through instantly sprint over towards janitor?
He's gonna get him at the bonchats. He know turk gets off it only one way for him to come long desk Cripp Jay tucks in
Good angle good hold really well played in the one versus one the unfortunate part of all of this though
Well, that's the only round that they got so that's
Doesn't get much worse than that and I'm gonna sit in the big boy chair
Please sit in the big boy chair is that because there's a big boy that sits in there or because it's a big boy chair
It is. It's also not a big boy grand final, unfortunately.
Two rounds for Orkut is a little bit disappointing.
I know we prefaced this, Rob.
I know we spoke about this in the pre-show.
We wanted to hype it up, but we also wanted to be realistic.
When you show, it was going to be one side at Banker
has been a little bit disappointing, but it's the golf.
It's the gap.
It's not so much Orkut.
It's just how good Waybo is.
Yeah. And that's, I mean, that's always been the story for Waybo.
And there's always been competitors that can kind of look close.
They can kind of get maybe a map off them. Maybe they get a couple of rounds
Maybe they're surprised way boat, but ultimately when it comes to best of threes
You are going against a Titan that has I would say wave I have the deepest map pool in the entire to the APL
You look at what they achieved last year. They played every single map in a single stage
They continue to just take that along. It doesn't matter where they go. It doesn't matter what event they're in
They're constantly at the top of their game and right now the gap between
between everyone else and Waybo is so large that it really doesn't matter what map, it
doesn't matter what side, Waybo are going to dominate. And with that Jake, where are
we going?
Defenders, protect your bombs from being defused by attackers.
Back to the Custis?
Thank you Rob and Xenox. Great analysis as well of that 1v1 from you Jake. I'm not sure
I'd trust your analysis of 1v1s with the Xenox Go Pro segments that we've seen recently
Attackers have discovered the location of a bomb.
But look, I'll take your word for it. Maybe you'll have a little bit more luck tomorrow against you, Pengie.
Is Gus working hard or Harky working? I didn't see that all day.
Yeah, I'm not sure. I think he's chowing down the loss of those noodles that we started earlier.
Ah, okay. So Harky working, I got it.
but hey look we move into the second half we could be just rounds away from
familiar territory I say familiar territory because this would be the
fifth time that Wabo would be champions here in APAC in Asia not to mention one
time they were champions of the entire region of APAC as well they are very
familiar with the crown and it sits very lightly and comfortably on their heads. Or we're
an unlikely challenger. By upsetting Baystar earlier today, gradually they're spotting
this grand final, but surely they can muster more than two rounds? I hope so. What do they
do now? Well they're on the attack, they ban out the smoke, an unusual one. I quite like
to see it. You ban out smoke and echo, not the most common bans. But that doesn't make
He's still playing against Weyburn nonetheless.
I also think Weyburn are a great job here, counter banning strong operators.
Why? You ban Echo and Smoke, what's strong against that? The Monty and the Glass.
It's almost like a direct counter read here from Weyburn Gaming.
And if you really want to win now as an Orchid, you gotta shut down Turds that.
Like, I think he's been so disruptive playing many different operators,
and he's got an impact with the drawing attention, you know,
outright just getting a ton of kills, and that has been a problem.
And that's about the U2 game though.
My disc here in bank, enabling the mirror with the position to be offensive.
Critic gets injured and that is going to be the mirror with the counter.
So the whole round, the pulses, as we're waiting for Critic to get revived.
But does he even dare go for this?
I'm going to call, he's going to answer. Critic is going to get revived.
Oh, he's dying for the story, but he's not going to kill trade.
Yeah, Gotti still I believe is able to protect his mirror window.
But not able to protect himself. It's the triple zone from down below.
Three big boom for Lycolas, Pengu.
Boom, boom, boom.
The beautiful Zofia Tech.
First showcase by Terzda.
It's coming up in spades here.
Not just for Weibo, but for Orcid.
It forces the defense back.
Gotti will get revived. Very rare.
Have a look at this.
Aggressive run from Hoven.
In through Lobby, loses his head,
burns a little bit too brightly.
And maybe Orcid can indeed fight a second round.
Have a reprisal on their defensive side like Hollis on the floor big nitro cell from Gotti
And XR Lottick is down and now finished off is like Hollis
All of a sudden the round is flipped on its head in favor once again of Wabo
Just critchey 1v3 no diffuser speak of and no teammates whatsoever
round starts with him getting injured and might just end with him as well low on
time look at the hunting no Jones can I run away actually
Terza says give me my kill and he will claim it's with that match point is way
both for the taking 6-1 and this may well be one of the most dominant grand
finals we have ever seen in Asia, if they are to finish it right here.
That is the upsetting part, right? Like you have the first game happen between Daystar and Orchid
and you can argue that the number two team in Daystar lost to the third position team in Orchid
and that's a great opposite story. It was a great matchup, super intense, very close,
but when you get an even bigger gap between the first or best team to the opposition,
You get this kind of scenario because I truly think now they start while they might not have beaten label
I do think that I take him all rounds and one on chalet and one so far here in bank
You say that penguin, but do you remember what happened in the kickoff grand final?
We played clubhouse and not haven labs
Wabo seven one day style clubhouse and seven zeroed them on not haven labs
So while I'm maybe now they got yow partly I want to agree with you man
But this would be the second grand final in a row where we both have dropped less than two rounds in the series
That is the main issue of this team
Okay, new point then for my sake that's not about who the opponent is it's about who we both who they are
Okay, and they are the better team
There's so many categories and look the fact that way bow
Slowed down not even for a second after they made that roster change. We're up. They moved on maybe is retirement
and they picked up Gotti.
Sounds like they're sped up.
It feels like it has only accelerated this team's success
and it makes you wonder what they'll be capable of.
Once they head internationally, it's inevitable
that we will see Wayboat,
not just at the Esports World Cup,
at the Osaka Major,
but actually taking names,
going deep at these tournaments
and fighting to wrestle that spot back from OCE,
burning for revenge against Enterprise
if they are to get that opportunity.
Also mind you got to ESPN internationally man, the time is before a PhD talent so it's not like he's going to be a new person to go into that territory either so I really do think that they have the ability to keep up that pace.
For now they're making a decision do we stay on server stairs and play Acro do we fall back and just keep the numbers game because that is the big question right now do you dare lose a member early?
Well, Terza's being thrown shotgun the best spot for him to be yet. It's gonna be that staircase
I'm gonna hold on to it. Reaps the asami down below to support this could get very bloody if orc
It's not with the round
Looking for a refrag now low on HP is like holis reaps does a lot of damage
Look the true finishing of London have shots to do son
His reaps able to get out alive or with at least surely doing a little bit more damage
They didn't reach that. They still haven't opened it. Chris J's gone down reaps
Damage and oven is a large still falls back down to site
Way by taking no chances here on matchpoint
They find themselves in a 4v2 and orchid have all but lost hope
Reaps to the server
Catch finally open Chris J maybe thinks it's over as well
but they're still fighting Jens here.
BG and Peebs can isolate Reeps, get that kill for free,
then play the 2v3, but it's gotta start right here
with this man.
Is there Util to clear out?
Reeps's position, out comes the Ney.
Does he find one?
No, well played.
There it is.
BG confirms that kill.
But Weibo still have all the Util in the world,
a C4 in pocket for Speak Easy.
And perfect positions to get this done right here and now.
BG to breach the wall.
Weibo just lying waits.
He's at prep C4, just waiting for that sound cue of the plant going down.
Waybo also know they cannot cover every angle, so as C4 and a push together, they can guarantee
take down this planter.
As C4 pre-rips from Speakeasy, Gotti on the long angle, Hoven finds it, pushing in from
behind, peeps will find nothing, and atop their mountain, Waybo remain untouchable.
Simply cannot hold a candle to a fire breathing dragon
By a breathing dragon, I don't think we've ever had an analogy so good as that because that is exactly
What this team are to?
EWC that is where they are headed and with such gusto it's unbelievable
it's disgusting it's ridiculous
sorry we're just here at the most I just saw you stop wait wait wait me yeah I
sang goodbye to the castings I sang goodbye congratulations away but I
think we take them a little bit for granted sometimes when teams win all
of the time you take it for granted.
Yeah.
It feels as almost as if they've dominated this region forever,
which is not true.
But it's nearly true that way.
And I think it's just a testament, though,
to their ability, to their determination.
I think they're clearly the kind of team that still
has goals they haven't reached.
And we'll find out a little bit more about that now
at the Esports World Cup.
So obviously, congratulations.
But Alcatraz is disappointing.
To make it Grand Final, that's such an achievement.
He had a set at the start of the stage,
Alcatraz and the Grand Final.
I don't know why they would have also gone because they had two slots.
But to lose 7-1-7-1 I think there's also a highlight of like, wow, we are still so far behind the top team.
Yeah.
Look, I think props have to be given through the region of Asia.
I think generally speaking, it's a competitive region.
You always see good matches, but it's just at that point he ends.
When we get down to business, Michael, I'll tell you what, they get jiggy with it.
Yeah, and following on from I think what Jake was alluding to there is it
Could have been a possibility for Waybo to have over this period of time either lost motivation
Or become overconfident and just expected it to always land on their lap and a complacent
I think maybe in a couple of stages gone by they got a little bit of a wake-up call and now it feels like they're really at the
Point now where they're motivated
They're committed and they go in with a ruthless attitude
I would say when Elevate came in, I look at that as a moment where there was some rude
wake-up moments.
Once Elevate started to get better, I think there was one of the stages Elevate knocked
Wabo down to the lower bracket and it was like, oh, and I think they would have taken
a step back and realized, yeah, we really can't get complacent, look what happens if
we aren't staying in our best.
And since then, I think they've continued to learn those lessons and have clearly been
the best team in the region now for the last couple of years and for their sake, hopefully
So they can have a really strong performance at the Esports World Cup and they make a main
stage now.
Because clearly, it's not like City losing to Enterprise.
That would have stopped.
Yeah.
And the thing is whilst we don't have questions about this region in specific for them, we
definitely have questions for them and there's one person who can answer that right now.
It's Gohan.
Let's welcome him in.
It is the Super Saiyan of a region.
Gohan, Nate, I mean, look, I really don't know what to say at this point.
7-1, 7-1 in a grand final, I mean like what is the mentality for you guys at the moment?
So the thing is, maximum respect of course to working, then they start that are the contenders right to the spot
but we are working here to beat the best things in the world you know, like Falcons, Faze, Liquid, Furia, so we are preparing for it
So for us, like being humble, I can be humble to say that, you know, so job to win, they start an organ.
We see it that way, you know. So yeah, we show that today.
You say be humble, how do you keep someone like Terran humble?
Yeah, it's hard.
That's great. Congratulations Gohan by the way.
And we say it all the time and congratulations, you've made this and that.
It's a testament to you, your team, all of the players for continuing to put hard work.
It's actually not easy.
I know when you're so good, well, when they're so good, you're so good, it almost seems easy
on the outside looking in, but it's all of the work that you guys clearly put in.
So congratulations.
I do have to ask though, obviously, we always speculate about, you know, what do Waveboard
want?
Top A, main stage, these things.
You obviously have the mindset of, no, we want to be the best in the what?
We want to beat the Furious.
We want to beat the Phases, et cetera.
How do you now take previous experiences such as Salt Lake City into eSports World Cup
and look to build on that?
So like you said, we are working to be the best team, so to be our champion is our goal.
Of course we know that we are a team that are struggling to make the playoffs, but the
thing is, last tournament the team was kind of broke by insight, the players were not
They're just each other, the level they need.
So that's why they make changes in the team, right?
We've got to hear.
So I think that's lost for our enterprise
was bearing below the average, our performance, you know?
It's more up to us than for them.
I mean, they play very well.
Of course, I'm not saying that they are a bad team,
but if we play again,
of course we're gonna beat them easy.
And what I can say is, what was the question?
Sorry, it was...
Well, just to be obviously the speculation around,
You kind of answered the question in terms of playoffs, etc, but the mindset really is to be the best
Yeah, the thing is
Of course
The teams the other teams that screen against us when we go to international
You know how good we are, but we never
Are able to show that in the day we need, you know
So it's not about all we can't be the best the world one of the best
Oh, we already are one of the best in the world
These teams are top 1, 11-1, 11-0, 10-2, many maps, so the thing is, what about, we are going to be able to show that in the time we need, and I think we are reaching this moment, you know?
For me and for the team, it's not about, oh, we can build world champions, no, it's about when, when we're going to be, you know?
So we work with this mentality, you know?
I just want to follow on a little bit on Jake's question because we've seen Waybo now do really well overseas. For the most part we expect them to sort of finish top 8 etc.
Is this finally the best iteration of this team to go all the way? I know you talked a little bit there about maybe some of the internal issues.
It feels like Goddy has slotted in really nicely to this team.
Does it really feel like this is now the best opportunity that Weber have had to go all the way?
Oh, no doubt, no doubt.
Talking about performance, we have one of the best performance.
We had the many months, I think since I started team, we are in the best performance.
And the most important, the mentality, you know?
When I come here, we start with this mentality of playing every round, giving 100%,
100% don't care about winning or losing, just care about playing the best we can in this
round and solve the problems and try to solve the problems the faster we can.
So have good reactions.
So the thing is we are building this mentality day by day.
So I expect that now on this AWC we can reach a new level and show you guys that we are
able to be the best teams.
Gohan, my final question was actually it was kind of going to be posed with exactly what
you've just said there.
So I don't think I'll dive into it, but I do just want to give you the props because
obviously we talk about the players a lot, talk about the turds, the speakeas, the goddesses
that have just come on, but I think for you specifically, you know, we kind of got to
know you a little more on the back end of last year at the events and throughout watching
you guys play.
What you have brought to the team, and I think this is a huge testament to what you've done,
have matured a group of individuals that were a champion level team, you've now taken them
into a position where they can be champions. And I think that not enough people give credit
where credit is due. So I want to take the time because you've already just said the
answer to my question, which is it's about the personality, it's about the mentality,
it's about how you perform. So seriously, from a, you know, from someone who's watched
this region for such a long time, I want to give the props to you and give the love to
you because I think there's not enough love thrown your way for what you've done for this
team and and that's kind of I'm just gonna make that a statement I'm not even gonna leave a question
there I'm not gonna allow you to say anything to that because I know how humble you are and on
that note I will give you however the space to say whatever you may do you have anyone that you'd
like to shout out do you have anything you'd like to say maybe into retort of that don't actually
say anything retort just let him speak wrong thank you thank you for the words and yeah I'm
I'm working very hard here to honor first label that believe on us, right?
Give us the opportunity to play on this credible work with good managers, good, you know,
CEOs that give us all the support we need.
So every time we're going to play, we want to honor this organization.
And of course, thank you, everyone who cheer for us, every fan,
every, everyone who would like to watch the games.
And we are always working to give our best.
And I hope we can reach the peak performance on this ZWC, the Zorg World, you know, at least
the top four, top two, top one, we're working for that.
And the world is only starting now, right?
We have one or two weeks and we're going to give 100% to reach this ZWC in the best
shape.
Mate, you are a true champion inside and outside of the server.
There's not much more that needs to say before people start saying I'm glazing, which I am,
unfortunately.
Thank you so much for joining us, congratulations on the win and best of luck at EWC.
Thank you guys, thank you, it was an honor to be here to participate in this interview
and I hope to see you guys soon.
Thank you, say a name.
Good luck.
Oh, God.
Just like to have the maturity being brought into the region, regardless of whether it's
outside the regional home, growing, we see it across the board now, it's pretty incredible
and Gohan really does exemplify what it means to be a coach, what it means to be an individual
inside of this community.
It's been a fortunate team for coaches.
Oh my God, hasn't it just?
That's seriously and look you do have to give props where it's due the players are the ones that keep doing it
But holy crap. They've had some lucky
They've been very lucky to have the coaches that they do but we're also very lucky to have the players that we do
So on that note MVP boys
I'm actually gonna let you guys maybe contest here. Do we think turn or each turn?
I'm gonna go turn. Yeah, I think I would tend to agree. You're locking turn. I'm gonna get to lock in the turn
Redmeister, let's have a look and see whether it is indeed the turn, Redmeister.
It's you.
Oh, shit, I am the turn.
Oh, no!
Yeah, look, honestly, he takes the clay now as the best player in the region for me.
I know we had the Hoven picture, and interestingly, there was very close in terms of numbers.
But I think this just now tips him over that edge.
And it's a testament to him as a character, as a player, as an individual.
You think about the start of his career, scucks, you know, and going basically over, well, not going overseas.
Well, yeah, actually, when overseas, technically, to make his career, and he's just continued to mature year after year after year.
I think he started out as that sort of flamboyant, fun, entry kind of bragger and just wanted to badmouth.
And while he does still do a lot of the chirping until he's told to stop, I think he's got more maturity in his gameplay now that's seen him rise to be one of the best players in the world.
And he does it on the global stage, so, yeah, Turd, Reed, their stuff.
I think Turd actually probably exemplifies the maturity character arc that this team went on, right?
It doesn't feel like it was that long ago that he literally got dropped, and that was kind of the rocket to the end.
He was a bit all over the place for that short series, very tumultuous, and the same could maybe be said by extension for the team,
and I think they've really been able to turn things around. Obviously the introduction of Go-Far, young players, and things like that.
The reasoning was his lack of operator pool. Well, guess what here on bank in the grand final to go to these boys for a cup
He played eight rounds eight different operators. Yeah, exactly pretty crazy
I think look where we're at now in Asia. It's so clearly defined
Waybo are the best team that we've had in that region potentially the best team
We might have ever had in a pack. I don't know might be too bold to say it's hard to say that because we need a pack lands
Ah, very true. To clearly define.
We did. We had two actually. But no...
Oh, well actually, sorry. We've got one coming out. We had two last year.
So, you know, I kind of got caught off there.
But ultimately, you know, Waybo finished out the champions,
which no one would have had all blinked an eye out at the start of today.
I think just the fashion in which they did it just clearly goes to show
that there is such a defining line between everyone else and the dragon.
of the three some regions they are pretty definitively the top of their
perspective right obviously I mean he's great but she's not really trailing
eight seven eight seven exactly you look at D plus we got the closest margin and
then you look at APN and CIG are great again in their own right and still a
pretty large margin I would say but comparatively the way both ages like so
far ahead it is insane I don't think it I think the only world in which we see
way-based dominance reduce it's probably not gonna be off the back of other
teams catching up at least not anytime soon it would have to be an internal
rupture like I think it's just so that such a significant gap yeah and it's
interesting with that though that if he went and beat them it's not like city
yeah exactly it just goes to show that within a pack the best teams really can
compete on any given day and sometimes you get a beat the best to be the best
And Jake you have not been the best at all so far of course that may change the 2v2 coming
That's a real grand final no look I'm excited for it. I mean Nick has have you been calling around scouting for
I haven't had the opportunity. I haven't had time yet. I'm hoping someone will come and save the day
And step up and be like I'll be your champion. I currently Nick's already got someone he's already he's already
No, at the end of the day, look, I think obviously had an incredible career.
One of the best of all time, some would call him the G.O.A.P.
What's that?
The Goat.
Oh, yes.
But every Goat needs a wash and he's very washed.
Oh, yeah, very fair.
Sometimes they can get a little stinky, but obviously tomorrow, coming into the final playday,
we actually have something special for you afterwards.
It's going to be the first ever edition of APL After Dark.
Michael.
We have been teasing this for such a long time, we've wanted to show what we can do.
Not a podcast, basically is what it is, but this is something that we're super excited to bring everyone.
Have you got your talking points ready?
Well, I hope I'm there. I hope I'm not bedridden tomorrow.
Oh, I want to die on a moment, but...
I was thinking of a better name.
Yeah?
Five guys.
Hang on, hang on, I've got a better one.
Five guys after dark.
Oh, that's good.
Jakey boy anything to conclude Asia for this final day here, mate. Thank you
Yes, oh my and speaking of tomorrow gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. That's all we have time here for Asia
However, let me tell you right now. This is not something you can afford to miss
It's a pack north in their final playday before we reach
EWC and you know what I'll just let this play we'll see you tomorrow
The second we set the BG he's found another one! I can't fucking believe it!
He's got enough time!
Tursen doesn't feel the damage he needs so he's got to go for the kill!
Tursen doesn't know where he is but sprites through the wall!
On the long angle Harvon finds it, pushing in from behind.
will find nothing and it's up there mountain. Wabo remain untouchable. You simply cannot
Here comes the
I didn't think I could change
Like the weight on my shoulders was part of me
So I had to find an escape
Now I feel like it's waiting for me
I see the life you can do when your clothes disappear
Now it's burning in color
I've got no time left to waste
There's more life that's still waiting around the corner
You