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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the first or the final playday of the South America
League. You did not come in late to the matchup. I promise you, all in our filling in for Anne
and the box say today to take you through the last two matches for stage one of the s a l and I have to say for the final three teams we have Ali I have to think well you might have some thoughts on one of them but I think for the most part we ended up with the best teams well the quality always rises at the top doesn't it you can't argue when you get to this point in the playoffs because we've played too much seeds to get here we're past the best of threes now we're past those 5050 dice rolls where we can often see upsets and upsets become far less likely the further we get into these playoffs we're left with teams.
team liquid. We're left with
phase. That's going to be our
first matchup. And then, of
course, Furia is waiting. Yeah
and then, of course, I'm sure
I'll have a lot of thoughts on
Furia later. But for this lower
bracket final that we have team
liquid Alienware versus phase,
the El Classico that you and I
long debated on merging to settle
the debates unequivocally. What
is still always going to be one
of the most exciting matchups
in Brazil? That'll be our first
match of the day, of course,
with the fear grand final
All these teams have already made it to the big international event of the of the stage so far that we always end things with
We have EWC with all our teams qualified there and these matchups are for seeding
so if you want to take a look at the teams that have qualified so far made it to the international tournament of course
that's going to be Theria, it's going to be Team Liquid Alienware going to be FaZe Clan and
Obviously joining some excellent teams all across the world. Well exon teams all across the world
There is a little bit of a black sheep here Ali team secret obviously being invited because they won last 2 ZWC
But a much different roster so that will be kind of kind of an odd one to see the ghost of team secret pass
Yeah, very different roster. I think we've got to give an honorable mention to team loss as well
Obviously making it into this EWC finals beating out on teams like fluxo w 7m leaving other teams behind here inside of South America League
and I P as well a big contender from this region that isn't making it to the main stage
Yeah, and then of course from any as well that you and I have seen that we saw qualify
I think definitely well certainly three of the best teams shop for rebellion
Well, we would normally say is the clear top four
struggling a little bit in the stage to qualify as well
But definitely still such a big name
It would have felt weird to have an EWC tournament without those teams and while the big three regions that is exciting
But of course, we also have Chinese teams coming in to play.
Tylew, all gamers, all gamers upset one of the teams that we'll be watching later today in Salt Lake City.
So a lot of regions coming to play, both in the playing stage and beyond that.
So we hope you all are able to tune into the Esports World Cup.
But those are the matches for later.
We have some matches today to talk about.
As we mentioned, we have two final matches inside of SAL Stage One, our lower bracket final and our grand final at the end of the day.
first up will be Team Liquid Alienware versus FaZe. The L Classico have played, you know,
eight billion times since the game first launched. And then of course, the winner of that will go
on to play Fiora in our grand final later. Yeah, a lot of bragging rights on offer here. And more
importantly, a heck of a lot of SI points, 420 SI points for winning your region, respectively.
SI points are going to play a sort of obviously an important role for SI. But in the short term,
that's a good thing. You know,
the team that plays an
important role for the seeding
that for EWC as well. So when
you look at all those teams
that are qualified for EWC,
you're going to want to be
going in a reasonably high seed
because there's a chance for
some fairly easy games. Dare I
say it in the first couple of
play days of that, and given
that, you know, the wide spread
nature and of course a lot of
cross-pollination. Lots of
different regions getting
involved. So teams teams are
going to be fighting for seeding
to it. Well, maybe not contrary to the intro, but Brazil has always been quite a strong
region. SAL has always been quite a strong reason to throw up the bracket and look at
some of the teams that haven't made it this far in the bracket, but might still be at
either EWC or just ever so slightly fell short. We had 16 this, of course, qualify from the
round robin stage and then make it here. We do have a fifth and sixth place game, but
that was being played off of stream. All team liquid Alienware and FaZe and Fiora made it
this far into the bracket. If
you want to again throw up.
16's that made it in from the
round Robin. Those teams would
be, of course. Ninjas in
pajamas and loud just
unfortunately falling short of
that later stage in the bracket
Ali and I think, honestly, if
we saw anything from those
teams that really impressed, I
would say NIP kind of surprising.
We didn't see them make it
farther. Yeah, you know, NIP
I'm going to be honest with you, I mean, the problem is with Brazil is that historically it's been such a stacked region that you've needed almost top six in some cases. I think now we're probably getting more towards an area where a top four is more appropriate for this region because some of the quality has started to drop off, especially in some of the roster changes that we've seen and some of the teams that are maybe struggling to recreate some of those previous success and sort of previous dominant streaks.
success and sort of previous dominant streaks. Obviously Salt Lake City Major is the most recent
major in our memory, but we can't forget. We can't not look back a little bit further back
toward SI where Faze was still doing really well. So, they still definitely hold their own,
but I don't know that the sort of dominance in the rain that we've seen at SAI go on is going
to continue forever. Right, of course, you talk about dominant teams. You've got them in this
first matchup of the day, starting with Team Liquid Alienware, a team that of course has
such a high reputation from the street they went on a few years ago, but trying to reach
the domestic heights that they had last year and struggling to do so had a rough pick off
did not qualify for Salt Lake City while they qualify for EWC here, especially in the most
recent performance Ali team liquid alien we're still quite good and deserve a lot of deference,
but definitely some worrying signs sprouting at the worst possible time in the playoffs.
Yeah, and they're not in the best of positions right now. Obviously looking deeper 26 at the
the moment in terms of global
standing. So not where this team
wants to be necessarily. I think
back quite heavily. Obviously a
game that's very recent in our
minds is of course the fixture
that we played only a couple of
days ago against Furia where I
just felt it was there for the
taking so many rounds lost to
clutches. So many rounds lost to
multi kills. It just felt a
little bit sloppy for the
quality that we know is on this
team. You know, you've got KZ.
You've got my JV 92 a very
he can give us big moments
though and is often calling
those shots from that backline
and made as well again with
some of that more supportive
play and that clutch back
today really got a very well
rounded team here and it is
frustrating sometimes when you
see some of those holes start
to show because you know that
they're capable.
And the one player we haven't
releasing holes from is KZ.
I mean obviously top rated
player in the league 123 EPS
for this team has been the
most consistent player and has
always been the most consistent
player on this roster when
when the team has been up and down, down in 2024, up in 2025, KZ has always been there.
A lot more to say about him later, but of course their opponents will be the two-time world champions
FaZe Clan to see who will go on to play Fiora in the grand final. And what a worthy opponent that
would be. FaZe Clan as another opponent, Ollie, is always going to be a crazy matchup. And we say
that, but sometimes also, even for maybe not worrying reasons, but for example, that matchup we
we just saw against Los, a pretty close two to one.
Faze being given a real run for their money by Los.
Well, I wouldn't say they're necessarily coming
into this series looking weaker.
I think the point for SAO that has carried through
into playoffs is that it's not a clear phase fury a game
like it was in 24 and 25.
This playoffs has become quite competitive
and even Faze is showing some bruises.
Yeah, not coming unscathed after they got put
to the test against Los.
And I think again, it's where there's some of these cracks
starting to show at some of these higher level Brazil teams
we're used to seeing go out there and win it all, teams are starting to figure it out a little bit
more now, teams are starting to understand the weaknesses and there's only so many times that
FaZe can pull themselves out of a bad position. They were fortunate against loss and I think that
loss could have done a better job at closing that game out and giving more experience and more reps,
maybe that's something that they would look to do in the future. But FaZe got punished, they got
tested and it might be a bit of an alarm bell here. We often see FaZe need a little bit of a kick
the back side to really get
them into gear because without
it, and if they just sort of
float through the stage and
things go fairly straight
forward, they can trip up at
the final hurdle. That when
it gets lost, the fact that
they were able to get that
over the line in a 2-1 is
going to give them that
reality check of, okay, you
know, we still need to fight
for this. And this is typically
where you see FaZe turn it on
anyway. Last day of the stage,
this is where they're going to
leave nothing on the table.
And you talk about players
turning it on, I think one
that we've really seen slowly start to increase in performance. That is a very worrying sign
for Team Liquid Alienware is Cyber, a player who really seems to lock in these big playoff
moments and while KZ has been consistently at the top, Cyber has been creeping up in
the past couple series, and that's going to be a big problem for any team, but in this
case just happens to be Team Liquid Alienware.
Yeah, Cyber wins the head-to-head on the stage, long stats, but realistically his uptick is
typically towards the end of the stage. These last couple of play days is where you're expecting
in cyber to really come alive.
KZ has done incredible work for Liquid
and often it sometimes has felt like one of the only players
with a pulse on that team because of his performance
and because of that contribution,
especially when you've got players like Maya, like JV,
that you would look towards to support him a little bit.
His head and shoulders been stood above the rest.
Today, it's gonna be a battle of these two.
And of course, I mean, we've seen KZ
still put up good performance and to not be sufficient.
I think that Fury game, a great example,
constantly getting entries,
or Team Liquid ailing or constantly getting entries.
casey bailing them out of rounds but
enough always being good enough here able to win a lot of those clutches and
what he might be the top performer if it's still not enough to get the team
over the line which
really outside of the best of one good enough for one player to really get the
team over the line
you are gonna have some problems if you're not able to convert your
advantages face plan rather strategy that's you know cyber doing his own thing
in four players ready to recover on the site that's
the exact gameplay face of one to world championships off the back of
In this matchup, of course, I think both these teams quite good.
FaZe Clan may be coming in the favorites, but definitely some worrying signs that seem to line up quite well for FaZe.
Of course, we have the Veto coming up as well to see what teams get their comfortable territory and what might be a bit more uncomfortable for both teams, depending on what that decider is.
It's a start, of course.
Cafe and Consulate taken down, but then our first map of the day, Ollie, will be Nighthaven.
I mean, it goes hand in hand,
doesn't it? It's really got a
bad map inside of the whole pool.
You're going to struggle to get
them somewhere that they aren't
comfortable. Labs is being picked.
Their board coming in as a second
choice. And of course a bank as a
decider. We do love a bank between
these two teams as well. Not even
labs. I think it's quite a bold
pick really from phase. Obviously
it is a map that they play. It is
a map that they're very capable
on six and three on it at the
moment, but six place preference
liquid on the flip side, eighth
in this match. We're not
going to see players have
been able to see the
eighth place preference and a
two one record on it. Currently
Now we're not going to see much
of a repeat of the previous
matches that we got from these
two. Obviously liquid
responsible for putting phase
down in the lower bracket in
these playoffs way back and on
on day one of the playoffs.
Something to bear in mind
there is liquid kind of had
that have the edge in recent
history in best of three
against phase. This is going to
be a repeat of the first game
that we saw at the top of the
bracket. We're not going to be
going to any familiar
That's been one of their strong holds for a long time.
You can see that coming in as the last ban there for liquid phase.
Happy to go back there.
Just given their record on it of late, it's been fantastic.
So trying to mix things up a little bit.
There's correlations that we can draw between the labs
and the clubhouse both very step by step.
Both in a lot of ways, suit both of these rosters
because they can play that step by step style of siege
exceptionally well.
My worry is the reps for liquid.
They've only played it three times.
It isn't a lot of reps really when you go in up against phase.
let's bring in our casters real quick to get some quick thoughts on the matchup
before we send them into night Haven Labs as if there's any series inside of the
SAO that everybody wants to talk about it is whenever T-Law goes up against
FaZe Clan we have in Tarot and Jesse to talk about it I were just about again in
the game so I just want some quick predictions two of the hottest names in
Brazil Parker who do you have winning I mean I think you're a fool if you bet
against FaZe Clan but I have a soft spot in my heart for T-Law so I'll end my
statement by sipping this beautiful coffee because that's what I'll be doing
through most of this match while I enjoy yet another Elclasico and let me tell
you beautiful mug as well really like the design on that Jesse how about you
yeah I mean Parker's fence sitting I have to join him I think up there on
defense do you look really we're having the edge though in recent best of
threes and I have to pick one maybe I give it to them but this is a pure 5050
in my mind oh pure 5050 Ali I've what are your thoughts on this cuz I you're
never 5050 you're always one way or the other yeah I kind of tend to come down
pretty heavy on one side. Don't I think I'm going to give it to phase. I can't get over
the mistakes that liquid are making the other day. If you continue to make him, it's going
to be phase all day. If you tired it out, it's going to be a different story.
Well, we've got phase favorites on the desk. We'll see what the matchup entails. We've
got team liquid, ailing, we're in phase night Haven labs right now.
For what it's worth. I wasn't sitting on the fence. I said you're in you're in not smart
if you bet against face. And I mean, you read between the lines there. That's a prediction
without an actual prediction being made.
I think face clan will be called to practice matchup.
Just based on pedigree and the way that these teams are performed.
The only nagging doubt that I have, Jesse, is that face clan
have had some very obvious struggles from the last two days of the groups onward.
So face clan can absolutely bleed, but this T law team seems to be a little cursed
half the time. Yeah, fine.
I think just like very tricky for us to know which one is actually going to show up.
Yeah, I agree 100%. On one hand, this is the best rivalry in Rainbow Six Siege. Team Liquid Alienware and all their previous organizations they've had versus FaZe Clan.
The best game in Siege history has played between these two cores. Of course, they've got so much history going back for years and years now.
Three world championships between just these two teams in the last three years. You could talk about that for ages, but now another chapter has to be written.
Even recently, I mean, Oli touched on it on the desk, but you go back through this season.
FaZe Clan won in the group stage of Stage 1, but then Team Liquid Alienware won in playoffs.
In kickoff, it was reversed. T-Law won in the group stage, and then FaZe Clan won in playoffs.
So that's why for me, this is a Pier 50-50. It just feels like the recent results have been
so split between these two Titans. And it's also 2026. The world is moving on a little bit from the
core to that had dominated South America for so long, you're seeing hot teams like
Fioria rise above the rest and really start to challenge the big dogs of South
America. So it's a new era. Things are always changing. It feels like here in
SA and it's going to be really exciting to see who comes out on top in this one
between base clan and Tila. I believe when you say you have to say the big dogs,
the big dogs. So that's very important that you get the branding right. The
The best test touched on this right away three or sorry, three players in this lobby make
up one, two and three of best-rated players in Brazil.
KZ has been a cut above sitting at a 122 EPS.
That's quite a jump down to handy in second with 112.
Maya rounds out the top three.
That's it for them in the top 10.
You have to go down to Cyber who had a sensational game against Los just two days prior to get
him to the position that he's in. I think both these teams match up really well stylistically.
Again, I think the two things, the two questions that I am going to wait for an answer on because
I don't have an answer to them yet and we won't until I would argue we're about midway through
map one if not a little bit longer. Do FaZe Clan, does FaZe Clan and their struggles,
are these actual issues with the team or was this system not taking maybe weaker quality
opponents all that seriously. That's question number one. And number two, which T-Law roster
is going to show up today? Is it going to be the team that has failed to make it to a number
of international events or is it going to be the team that gave us that incredible matchup at the
SI Grand Finals here? So far on kill number one, Jesse, it looks like maybe a bit more of the
latter is Jamie92. As long as he kills three people, nearly finds a fourth. KDS rebuffs him
with the sidearm in hand but so much damage is done.
KB92 is supposed to be your worst rated player.
How did he find such an opening?
It's all up to KDS now with a minute left in the round.
A little bit of do-si-do and he's finished off by Filipehawk.
Says T-Law, waste no time whatsoever taking the first round.
Joao Vitor in 92, top left of your screen.
He gets things going for Team Liquid Alienware Parker
and you're right, lowest rated player coming into this matchup.
But hey, everybody can have some big frags here
for Team Liquid Alienware. He actually battles with his support players, Fleetbox and Nade,
but Lois rated it the big three that you tend to see popping off on Team Liquid Alienware.
Good to see him getting active early in this game. Everybody can find value. Everybody can
be deadly. And it's interesting to note Team Liquid Alienware winning their very first
attack here on Nighthaden Labs. We didn't get to really talk about it, Parker, but this
is Space Clan's map pick, meaning it was up to Team Liquid Alienware to choose what side
they wanted to start on, and they choose the attacking side. Now, I would argue, and I
I think most would argue that defense is generally easier on Knighthaven, but for Team Liquid Alienware they are just a much better attacking team than they are on the defense.
Sub 50% win rate on their defense side this stage, despite the fact that they're here in the top 3, that's carried by a 60% of offensive win rate that's the highest in the leagues.
So be really careful about this Team Liquid Alienware attacks, they're really proficient on this offensive side and really good from JV92 to get things going.
I know that people might kind of bat an eye at the fact that he's one of the lowest rated
player.
Technically, I believe it's actually Nade that is the lowest rated player on this team
as of this exact moment.
JV92s had a nice bounce back as he sits in 18th overall, but his numbers were really
quite poor when they first came over to this organization and had to make some minor adjustments
with Maya on the squad.
I don't think anybody can ever count out JV92.
It's not like a situation where the juice just up and disappeared, right?
It was just his role, really.
So he's always going to be a force to be reckoned with, and on this map in particular, you see
a lot of fragging thatchers, just because of the way that the operator is played, so
it doesn't surprise me very little to see him that aggressive.
I was just a bit taken aback by how quickly it happened in round number one.
So sure, with it, he found the opening, he gets the kills.
Team Liquid Alienware, pommeling phase clan through round number one, but I don't expect
to see that level of domination carry forward. I'm abated. I expect to see a pretty nice
counter punch from FaZe sooner rather than later.
The Thatcher of course is staple anytime that Kaid is unbanned when you have Kaid on the
board. Thatcher is your best counter that you can bring. So as long as he's not removed
that's going to be seen every single round unless we get that Kaid banned later. Now
here's an aggressive move from Handy up on the IT breach. There's nobody directly out
here. Of course, Nade just opened this up. His twin brother, JV92 man of the hour though
looking around the corner.
Andy's surveying the situation for a kill.
JV92 holding that angle does not give him anything, so...
If there's somebody there, Andy was completely unaware of it, they've got a drone on him.
He was looking down, not up.
JV92 in the exact same position where he slaughtered three people from before.
Will now be a bit more assertive as he starts off the killing.
just a little bit over a minute left in the round,
but Handy had a premonition, he reads one and two,
gets KZ, gets JV92, and the fade away, and the drone.
Oh, he was hoping for Maya,
but now one's just a little bit too far out of reach.
Final minute, and neither team with a numbers advantage.
That's huge from Handy, you keep things even.
This'll be a very close final minute,
but Parker's cyber actually has different ideas.
He finds Nade before they can commit to this push.
That's gonna really shut down the dimensions
of this execute.
They really only have this XO push now.
FleePox leading the charge finds the opening pick onto the opposing captain of Vidicang.
He is linked up with Maya, so they're looking to play together and get their trades when
they try to force a plant.
I say that though.
Maya's going to rotate over to the main breach.
This is going to be low on time Parker, but I like this reposition.
Bad call here from T-Law.
He's 30 seconds down and burned off of the clock.
Tension building inside the site, but no real urgency now as the two remaining players
on either side will do battle in just a matter of moments.
and KDS. They see Filippox. He's on the bulletproof camera. They know Maya's gonna be holding this
cross so they will rotate. You need the perfect pinch here. Diffuse kick goes down, but Maya's
caught looking the wrong way. Accidentally played by FaZe as they get both of them enabled by the
bulletproof camera. That is tax book FaZe Clan and we've got a tie game. Little surprised that
plant goes down, but ultimately the post plant is really strong there Parker. Nicely done by FaZe
plans to be able to react to that they didn't send somebody up above and nine times out of ten
you'd expect somebody like KDS to try to flank up those cargo stairs get inside of storage and get
the vert denial on that plant but because there was a capitao Flee Pox was using his smoke bolts
to block those angles so if they had gone above they probably wouldn't have been able to get that
kill instead KDS flanks in through XO they get a pinch onto Flee Pox he's got no hope of staying
alive in that moment and then of course my I just unable to cover from the breach which was opened
quite large by nade on the thermite. Sometimes it's better to have that opened a little bit smaller
by a can opener or by Habana so that you have a little bit of a safer angle to hold. It was really
tough for Maya to play that with the hole breach opened up like that. We saw in the NAL just a
couple days ago and I've seen it in the ML as well as bring an ace and use a single Selma on either
side of the panel. Now of course the problem with that is that if everything goes belly up, you can't
vault through a single Selma, you're going to be using it basically as a reverse mirror window at
at that point that's been ejected, right?
It's gonna be there solely as a window
for you to fire through.
But I mean, T-Law had good strategic depth
and they were able to cut through that top floor.
They could have very easily gotten away with that.
But of course, if an operator not in their wheelhouse,
so sometimes those breaches give it,
sometimes they take it away.
And in that case, for Team Liquid Alienware, it take it.
They extended Rome now upstairs for phase clan
as they held this part just two rounds ago.
That's where the bomb site was,
but these clan melted like a stick of butter on a hot day here.
I don't know if a team liquid alien where they're going to be
quite as efficient this time around.
But I'm looking at you, JV 92 on your black beard.
Let's see what you can do from this position.
Yeah, I like the shield play coming out.
You don't see JV 92 on a shield all that often.
He has just a 1% shield pick rate on the attack.
So very rare to see him burning it out instead of full epochs,
but excited to see how it goes.
Handys walked over to the Wamiya as well.
This is a very standard phase clan strategy, but the Wami is new and no doubt being brought thanks to those buffs that he received in the mid-season patch
Just a little while ago Parker, so it's sad to see what he wants to run with this
You've got this shield plus sniper combo that I'm really intrigued by JV92 and for Leapox
Usually if you're gonna go direct you kind of have to plant into the storage window
That's the only real space where you can safely get a plant down
As long as that IT breach gets opened and all that so that should be the strategy
but they are coming into top floor now, JV looking for some kills.
Oh, KZ shot from a direction he wasn't waiting on, Maya also down for the count.
So FaZe Clan striking first two rounds in a row.
The man that I said we need to take a look at, JV92, still here, still alive.
And Team Liquid Alienware just by giving up two of their players
have taken control of this top floor.
These rounds, Jesse, flying by just a little bit over a minute to go.
And this is the worst restart so far for T-Law.
Yeah, they've really stalled out if you're losing those two picks.
Myo is trying to push Garage with his Blackbeard,
but he just got slammed by a good angle from Solz.
Now they're going to do their best with 60 seconds to try to make some vert,
but all you've got is the sniper. You didn't bring a ram.
You didn't bring any of the shotguns either,
so they're just hoping to be able to fish for a pick.
The leapbox has the fuse kit. If he dies here, it's really bad,
but of course, they've got some time still to work with the fish for these kills.
They know they have to get one. Two Nightercells dodge so far,
bars. That's all of them out of the books and face clan can play with tons of confidence
from above made with a single kill immediately traded out by cyber who follows up very quickly
on for leaps outside of the building. And oh my goodness, a full court press from phase
clan. They looked like they have absolutely no signs of slowing down and are putting
in better results. The longer this one goes on from great to good to not very good at
at all for Team Liquid daily
where with it, face takes the lead.
I like that pulse play from cyber.
It's not necessarily an operator you associate
with one of the most aggressive players in the league,
but it is just go to here on the storage bomb site.
He played at seven of the last times
they played that bomb site now eight of nine,
including that previous round.
So, you know, cyber likes to get that information
for his teammates,
was able to clean things up really nicely over there.
Not so confident about that entry that we saw.
KZ looking a little bit lost entering over
towards cafeteria, maybe just assuming that
because all of this team were focusing more on the site side of things.
Now there wouldn't be as many defenders over there, but the information was just flowing
from Bayes Clan and they'll do a good job of being able to lock that one out now.
2-1 first quarter, and there goes the Kaid ban that we were waiting for.
So expect Thatcher to be picked, basically not at all for the rest of this half.
Now I stare at the bottom left of my screen quite intently, hoping, well I'm hate watching
for your sake to see if the Thatcher pops up just so I can tell you that you're wrong prior to the start of this broadcast.
This is for you the chat to know if you wonder why there's some animosity between us.
Jesse with a straight face successfully rage baited everybody on the broadcast by trying to tell us that Edmonton was a superior city to well anything, frankly.
And it's not a rage bait.
It's a beautiful city and viewed with nature and walkability.
Yeah, nobody's looking at Edmonton and calling it walkable.
So.
Because you've never been there.
I've literally been there, I was just there.
I will never forget my trip.
And you struggled with how much you had to walk, anyways, we can move on.
So anyway, just in case, if you hear a little bit of hostility between Jesse and I, as you
can even hear, he's still continuing, he hasn't fallen off yet.
It will be present, and if you hear some shots being thrown his way from X and Lynx on the
desk wall, because they were also goaded into this utter nonsense.
X was on my side, let's just be clear on that.
had a brain. Back to the top floor, obviously this is going to be a defender stronghold from
FaZe Clan, but the last time we were here, JV92 just ripped the roof off of this site.
As expected, he's not sticking with that factory, he'll go to Daemos this time instead.
Could be going to play down below, maybe try to force some of these players out with the
verticality that pistol can be devastating from downstairs but instead he's entering meeting side gonna have a little bit more of this
Opportunity to try to choke in or on towards connector as I say that he does go below those
So this is kind of more where you'd expect a game was to be playing there is a player down here hunting him down
It's handy and it's the one player JV has not scammed
So he can't actually get a read on this Fenrir they need a ping on him earlier else
There might get caught off guard. He's walked up the fish stairs now
So it's not as threatening, but he has the potential to go back down
So close when you go fishing for that door but then also hope for a kill through the
wall and silhouettes, reinforcements, etc. can always get in the way of that.
Cyber very intently guarding this IT wall, the Nitro cell almost gets KZ2.
One thing that this phase clan has been very good for, Jesse, is getting kills in bunches.
They got two in the previous round.
They got two before that and almost find two here as well.
Nade's been having a really rough start to this matchup.
KZ almost joined him in the afterlife.
There'll go JV92.
Literally all the offense from T-Law that we've seen
starting in round one with JV walking in
and taking over the bomb site.
And surely there's a tactical timeout called by T-Law
as they just got flawless round.
Every single round has steadily gotten worse for the horseman.
Yeah, it's not a good trend to see for Team Liquid Alienware.
I wouldn't be surprised at all for the tack timeout, and you did call it correctly Parker.
It'll be played out now by Igor, the head coach of Team Liquid Alienware.
Again, tough bombsayers trying to break into you.
You really got to be credit to the old man on the side of faceclans, cyber and souls
who were able to pop off for two kills apiece in the midst of that.
I'm really glad the desk highlighted cyber before this game.
Of course, when you look at his overall stage stats, he's not been the best player.
He entered yesterday's best of three actually at a negative overall KD, but yesterday he absolutely blew up the server
He played so well in those playoffs
He continues to play well today starting six and one here on the defense finding value on a multitude of different operators
So the battle between him and KZ it's been kind of lopsided so far
Cyber has definitely been the better of the two players
We need some of the superstars to start coming alive on Team Liquid Alienware
It's nice to see JV92 early in round one, but KZ and Maya are where your heads are usually going to turn towards.
And we haven't really seen either of them have any big moments yet.
Attackers need to locate and diffuse as many bombs as they can.
Now number one, Team Liquid 1 with three of their players still alive.
Zero players survived for FaZe Clan.
Round number two, FaZe Clan 1.
Two of their players survived.
Round number three, four of their players survived on FaZe Clan's side.
Round number four, all of their players survived.
So at this point, you're gonna regress
unless you just continue to put up flawless rounds,
which I think is quite unlikely at this point in time,
especially against a team like T-Law.
T-Law have had some struggles here so far on Nighthaven Labs.
I think that goes without saying.
They are on the stronger side of their opponents map pick.
So T-Law should be doing very effectively,
and yet they are not.
So a couple of things that we can really focus on.
Number one, these attacks here on Nighthaven Labs
have not been structurally very good.
They are getting picked apart by FaceClan.
With FaceClan taking most of these engagements,
Jesse, either outside of the building
or the moment that T-Law steps foot inside the building.
So action is occurring right away.
It's like it's some deep roam
and it's the middle to late round
where you're getting felled.
No, you're getting picked apart immediately.
And my question has to be, where's your intel?
Where are your drones here?
You look at the operator bands.
Grimm, Monty, Thermite.
Snake is on the board, thank goodness.
Adokabe is on the board, thank goodness.
But Deimos not used anywhere near as frequently
as we would expect.
Snake only shown up for the second time now.
You are losing because of information.
I'm surprised T-Law is not working more
of those Intel Ops into the game plan.
Well, you're right though, the Snake and Adokabe
are here this time.
They've been a little bit missing so far,
but they've got both of the pieces of the puzzle here.
So they've got a little bit more,
I think of an ability to find those players out the one change they've made to this bottom floor attack is made of
Forces there might got banned so he's moving over to that striker and now those breaches will be a little bit smaller
Just because they're can openers
So if we end up in a similar post plant situation watch out for that on the main breach
But first it has to be the roam clear Maya has snuck his way into the building down fish stairs now
He will be unnoticed by that offenders
They shouldn't know these here unless they catch him on a cam or something
But seems like he has gone a mystery finds the cam here
I can go for the cargo play. Let's see how this goes. Oh
Remember what I said about information
Me they had Intel bro. They had his exact position and then my gets slammed like
That's unfortunate. I still think that is a bit of a failure on the info side
You had the information. How are you not capitalizing off of that?
You've enough to in your hands just pre-fire the situation for crying out loud
That is one that Maya frankly should not have lost and I mean Maya is a great player again
statistically one of the best third overall in the entire league he has been
so damn good since getting picked up by Team Liquid irrespective of the
supporting cast around him and he is having a very rough time on his role
FaZe Clan are making him look like chopped liver Jesse well they still go
for a plant Parker they've got exit control just like last time but without
control of storage this is gonna be really difficult both cyber and souls
sit right above where the default plant is going to go down.
If Leapox doesn't make a decision, does he go for the default plant and pray that his
smoke bolts in the ceiling are going to be enough, or do they try to mix it up?
Oh handy handy handy handy. Did he assess that there was somebody there did he see him through the wall?
This is a daunting task now for handy and co is cyber and souls are still very much alive as well
But they are non factors at the moment Tlock completely blocking phase clan out of a retake here handy is with an arms reach
But the flames from the capitao
Keeping him at bay cyber takes out nade running out of time. They might be able to get these kills who hops on the diffuse kit
It's handy T-Law now battling from behind KZ somehow needs to clutch this one
And he gets handy in the last second
Not enough coverage from FaZe Clan
That was their round to lose but KZ is the savior and wins it for Team Liquid Alienware
We were hyping up cyber highlighted by the desk earlier and KZ the other player the desk chose to highlight has a big moment
Exactly what we were waiting for he plays so well with the clock Parker
I also got to give so much credit to Philippox in the midst of that that is textbook perfect
capital play to come through from the capital team liquid alien where again use those smokes
to block some of the vert angles.
I believe made was also upstairs on that storage window harassing those storage players of cyber
and souls.
So they made it really difficult to deny that plant.
It was obvious what they were going for.
Base clan knew what was happening, but they just didn't have the ability to stop it because
team liquid alien where covered every single one of their bases.
And using that firebolt in the post-plant was absolutely genius to come through from
FaZe Clan, KZ on a sliver of HP, just us to walk in, have perfect timing and clean
things up.
It was really well put together from start to finish, and Team Liquid Alienware, still
alive in this first half because of it.
There's still some dog in that fight, sorry some horse in that fight here.
If I may use that, if I can rely on those puns.
I don't know if you've noticed this Jesse, but I noticed this actually the other day.
liquid's logo is a horse. Oh you're right definitely is yeah that's really does explain
why they do so much horse and around. I've been wondering this whole time yeah that's
good get catch Parker. I've been watching a lot of Norm McDonnell these days.
I was only for this but I hope I don't understand as well as you don't know
nobody okay you're just pissing me off today aren't you just saying every
started off the Marvel Avengers doomsday trailer drop today and I said oh I
want to watch this and Jesse goes I hate to break it to you but there's no
minions in it everything you've done today has just gotten under my skin and
I hate that it's working so you know what gets under my skin Parker you're gonna
I still be in one and four because this is again been the best player on Team Liquid Alien where bar and KZ since this season began
He is known as one of the best entry fraggers and he's just not finding that value so far for the team
I think you're right that Intel's been a big part of it
But you can go back to that last round they had perfect Intel and Maya just missed his shots
Which you said it not really what we come to expect from a guy of his caliber
This will be his final round on the attack half to try to make something happen to get some value for his teammates
Maya is a much better attacking player. They is on the defense historically as well
138 KDR versus 104. So
This kind of has to be his moments his last opportunity to help out his team before they swap to the harder side
Not a single player positive on the side of T-Lock. KZ was until he was just put in the ground by phase clan
You yet again, we'll get another opening pick and they suffer nothing for it in the process
Their credit the horsemen and the aliens I suppose it's a weird mix for this current squad
They've been able to take top floor control pretty quickly
It just cost them Kasey in the process a pretty large blow for this team
But they have to keep up this momentum now for the final minute or else
base clans round to lose
Yeah, you're right Parker. They didn't get nothing from losing that body. They have this control which is good
They've got fully pox on the ramp so they can start opening up more of these floorboards
They've already done a good bit of working the soft destruction so far, but they have to be able to fish for a pick
They're worried about a flank it is viticking up there in the hallway
But if viticking plays this slow, that's not going to be a pick for you
So you've got to work other angles. You can't be pushing 4v5 expecting the win
You can win in that position
But the expectation as you very correctly pointed out is the greater issue here
Ace clan have shown very little weaknesses and even the most previous round that was won by T-Law
probably should have gone in FaZe Clan's direction, but it should have woulda coulda.
You can't rely on that moving forward and FaZe Clan are ensuring that the same
mistakes do not happen twice in a row.
JV92 is in the basement miles away from the bomb site going on a heroic run back to the top floor,
but no universe in which he comes even close to the objective.
FaZe Clan take the first half of their own map, 4-2.
And I have to say Ali while team liquidator of the rounds
They won certainly won them off the back of big plays and highlights face clan
Really seemed to win that half off the back of broader place. I remind have had the most kills
But that was a full team performance from the world champions. It should be a 6-0. Shouldn't it?
Let's be like a year. Oh, yeah
Totally real with ourselves JV 93 came round one does it happen again? Well kind of yes
I mean, it's a good idea. It's
a good idea. It's a good idea.
Yes, phase do slip up twice in
the first half, but aside from
those two slip ups, aside from
giving opportunity for JV and
opportunity for KZ phase have
played a beautiful game of siege
there. We've got a great clip on
our screens just showing the
pace that cyber is able to play
with given the fact that even
due to the bands team liquid
Alienware of band the black
beard. Sorry, the band, the
They haven't had an ace band. We didn't see until round six. I believe when my start to play the ace and with that comes so many blind spots
You've only got these two to open a holes
So it's very difficult to challenge on play like cyber doesn't need much of an invitation to retake some space
And there was a countless amount rounds where it really came down to a flurry of kills in the final few seconds
This is where we seen something from Team Liquid though. They were able to get this round five over the line
They got the plant down for leap ox some really good utility in that capital fireball and so on an awful lot of areas still someone outside of the breach
But again look at it. It's only a hard breach charge
It isn't too big a hole and handy as such is given a chance here
You can actually transition across you can make this challenge can wait for the fire to go and in in another world
If leap ox isn't in the right place
It's sorry if KZ isn't in the right place at the right time and is able to pick up two kills
It's another round that goes phases way the swing there perfect plenty of time on the diffuser
It's just KZ comes out of absolutely nowhere and is able to clean the last two up good target prioritization
Making sure he's getting the plan to first and unfortunately souls there not able to cover
Aside from that very very small margins in the rounds that team liquid alien where we're able to get away with I
Don't know phase is just playing a brilliant game today
Well, yeah, and it seems like going back to that point you made out the breach is it seems part of a broader plan just to deny as much
space as possible, face giving a very aggressive look over towards Team Liquid Alienware. Do
you think we'll see that on the attack or do you think we're going to see FaZe go more
that step by step route that, I mean, also is a bit more favored on Nighthaven?
I mean, FaZe have seemingly had the perfect counter at every turn, right? They've dominated
that opening kill statistic and you would expect them to go still very step by step
with the bands that we're seeing. We're actually getting a Twitch ban here from T-Law. So a
very targeted piece of utility that getting removed. That's going to give FaZe a heck
of a lot of tools to play with. No information has been banned. We've got a full complement
of, you know, Dokeby, Deimos, whatever you might want. No hard breach banned either.
Leaving all hard breach open on labs always spells disaster.
Well, it faces plenty of tools and plenty of rounds as well. We'll see if they can get
more to close it out in regulation. Thank you guys. Indeed it has been a great
game from Face Clan so far, but now they've got to finish things out on the attack. Team
Liquid Alienware vs. FaZe Clan represents the best attacking team in South America versus
the best defending team in South America, Parker, with a 60% win rate for T-Law in the
offense and a 63% win rate for FaZe Clan on the defense. Now, they'll swap to their worst
sides though, so anything could happen on this changeup. These teams are very evenly
matched. I think it's fair to say we didn't see the best of Team Liquid Alienware in that
first half where they didn't find as many attacking Radoans as they would have liked,
now on to the defensive side the harder side 14 liquid alien where how are they
going to make these rounds come through very question and nice to be joined by
the the other NAL duo that we have I didn't know links was a host but listen
I'm gonna say this very especially links can be whatever links wants to be so I
think you did a very good job and nice to and nice to see Ollie in the in daylight
hours that's very cool as well so let's get underway with this second half
FaZe Clan very much the favorites to put this map away the presumption now being that they are on their preferred side
But obviously team liquid on their preferred side
So we will see what chaos now unfolds as we saw through many of these team liquid Alienware advances the main focus will be taking
IT that is one of the most important parts of this map because of the pressure it puts on so many different rooms
upstairs and really does hurt to rotate and
and refrag ability if you want to call it that from the defenders.
Again, both teams on their weaker sides now, Parker, so we'll see how this one goes.
We do have the Maverick being brought out, no Kaid being played at all from Team Liquid Alien,
where it's crazy how the meta has evolved here on Nighthaven Labs,
where you used to always see Kaid getting banned out, so that we switched it around,
where Kaid would slip through those first set of bans, and you'd see teams bringing the Thatcher to counter in,
but now not even being played. Cyber on this Maverick will open up the wall with no issues.
for Team Liquid Alienware, targeting Captain and Vitteking.
He's moved over here onto the floor, as instead,
as his primary two operators have been taken off the board.
So, really excited to see what this push amounts to.
It's been a lot of work on the IT breach, but look at those outlines.
Still plenty of players are depressuring over towards the opposite side of things.
KZ will be vision number one.
KZ looks spend so many bullets in the process, as expected.
Souls to be maybe a bit quicker to the punch.
You got to get the glass nestled in, entrenched, the word that so many would use for that position, a very tough spot to get rid of this glass once he has become so entrenched.
You will be joined by KDS now as it's a one-two punch of FaZe Clan up above Honor Afters.
They are very concerned with what might lay below, so Solz's job will get a little bit easier.
Down goes Viddiking to a Nitro Cell tossed out by Maya. It's been a very quiet day for Viddiking.
Mastery kills, haven't really said his name much.
KDS outdoing JD92, but it's T-Law dominating the field.
Cyber with nine kills will not break double due to this round.
Nade throws him out of the server
and the gap between these teams shrinks to just one round,
as T-Law takes round one of the second half.
Very tough bombsite to be able to crack open.
Both teams having some struggles with the sole exception
still being round number one.
I like that defense from Team Liquid Alienware
where they're just not reinventing the wheel, right?
They're not bringing the Kaid, which a lot of people would say is a maybe a bit of a mistake for them,
but they still have really powerful operators.
The Goyo and Azami combination to sell it on rafters was really smart for them.
They seem to almost know that that glass play from Souls was a possibility because of the way that they set up that Goyo canister.
The second they saw the smoke grenade coming through, they were like,
now we gotta get out of here, we gotta play safe, we gotta play to preserve our lives.
And that's exactly what they did on the side of T-Law, so excellently done by them.
That should be the easiest side. It's gonna be uphill from this point forward
But still getting rounds on the board early is important to keep yourself alive in this first not for the best of three
Undeniably so we knew that this would be a dog fight between these teams a horse fight some could say
Oh
It's clans logo now face those letters in F and then a team look at alien. That's what I said
that's what it says on the top of the screen. So you know me, I'll read anything you put
on the screen. So, Team Liquid Alienware's logo is a horse. I don't know if you've noticed
that. How is it really? We knew it would be a dogfight. We call it El Clasico for a reason.
So if you expected a quick 2-0, you're a bit foolish here. And I don't mean foolish in
a bad way. I mean foolish as in like a soft lighthearted way. IT wall now opened up is
phase calc. What? What's that? They'd be cooking them alive in the tish chat, by the way, but because
Vinikin didn't know he's gonna bat an eye. I'll find those two more kills very quickly. Jesse,
we're a minute in and there's only two horsemen still remaining. Vinikin often called the Canadian
of the south, so it's good to see him following in his mentor's footsteps.
Two of the most passive IGLs that we have here in Rainbow Six Seed, but Vinikin hasn't been more
active over the last couple of months. He will go down in the first player to fall on
FaZe Clan for this defense, but probably does get recovered. Nade in no possible position
to get that finish off, and now that he's in a 1v5 Parker, he's got a hope and pray
that he can find some early picks before they execute.
Now, I'm not on Nicholas Pengu Morson, but I don't think this is a good spot to be in
for Nade. Certainly not now that he's died to Souls.
Alright, well, FaZe Clan regained this two-round lead and a lot of it, again, comes off their early kills.
This has been the major sticking point for Team Liquid Alienware.
They have really struggled to get on the board early and keep pace with FaZe Clan.
And, you know, Parker, it almost comes back down to what we were talking about in that first half,
where Team Liquid Alienware weren't really able to get a lot of the information they needed.
They struggled on the roam clear, those opening duels when getting into the building.
FaZe Clan had no issues with that whatsoever.
They're bringing the snake of course on souls and not sure the exact value that he brought to that roam clear
But in any case the information was clearly flowing on the side of phase
They had some really nice picks in that early game of course fine and KZF towards IT breach
But fully pox and Maya falling early as well
Just makes that execute of course oh so easy in the 5v2 and so you have to credit those roam clearing information operators being played by phase
Now they'll have two more rounds to be able to close this one out
They are very close to it and they can go to the tertiary bombs right here of storage face
Couldn't be a very good spot after they win that round
The reason why they picked this map Jesse and I hear that's because they're pretty good at it
Indeed so they have a six and one record this season their last game was their loss
It was a six and oh record and so they felt a loud just a little while ago
But you compare that to Team Liquid Alienware who have only played this map three times this season
and there's no doubt the face plan will come in as the favorites.
An ever powerful position for the Izami.
She proves to be too much of a handful for this face clan team to deal with.
Imagine sending her into that list of band operators joining the bandit and the Mira.
Intel Ops not really being favored by face clan the same way that a lot of other teams will do.
And what I will say about face clan.
Yeah, they won two world championships, three consecutive assai grand finals finishes, they've
always marched to the beat of their own drum.
This is not a team that have been beholden to whatever the meta may be at the time.
So if you think, oh, we're going to bring a lot of snake over to bring a lot of doka
bean face cleanses.
No, what if we bring a striker instead and people scratch their heads and then face playing
wins a world championship and they can.
Kudos to face clan for always thinking a little bit outside the box and again not having to be chasing whatever trend is in I
Love cyber on the maverick here
He usually plays the ace on this bomb site just to open that it wall
But the maverick just gives him a little bit more of a sneaky angle to build a hold makes it a little bit harder to fry him off
That angle because you never know what should those lines he'll be watching for
Okay, never mind he gets slammed off that angle anyways good stuff by KZ
Winning our head to head here and I'm number nine
There's KZ still holding this position, FaZe Clan have their backs against the wall.
This Team Liquid Alienware squad has shown up today.
If there were any concerns that they would completely implode, those concerns have yet
to become realistic.
KZ still holds this very powerful position.
Down goes JV92.
Despite all this, Jesse, KZ is the only player with a positive KD on the side of T-Law.
Basically now with their work cut out for themselves.
They stared out of three before with the last minute to go.
Yeah, no map control at all.
Really from face.
Clan, they've got a little bit of this hallway control, but even this
without the aqua stairs, this is going to be really difficult to get into site
with you're going to have a flank coming at you immediately from Filippox.
It diverts being held by Maya.
Like they just do not have a way into the bomb site, despite the fact
that they're right outside of it.
You're going to need a quick pick or two here as the time continues to bleed away.
Almost 30 seconds passing since we last noted what the.
Steps were for FaZe Clan to get back in this.
Do you all just need to wait?
They have the benefit of the time, they have the benefit of the side.
FaZe Clan are not a team that you would ever call quick.
They found KZ, though.
Handy still outside of the building.
How on earth is FaZe Clan going to be able to pull this off?
Biddington has the diffuser, KDS and Handy will cover,
and KDS's coverage has been mighty, mighty good.
Waiting for the pop-up now for yet another target.
Another target somehow face clan have turned this one around and with the diffuser down the odds for T law getting mighty worse
That's a mighty good pick taking care of vittacang, but KDS has been white hot so far
Down goes handy KDS will need to clutch in a 1v2
Let's test that heat that KDS has been bringing to this team. He's got a good read
He will reposition the call made now for him to take from above and she going off will give information
He's overtop of that diffuse kid. Can he shut it down in time? Nate's still on the case?
KDS somehow pulls it off. Maya running at a time, a second to go,
just as FaZe Clan struggled. In the inverse, T-Law will now struggle the same way,
and KDS finds the final two kills to propel us to that point.
Incredible, absolutely incredible Parker.
FaZe Clan are the best team in the world when it comes to playing with the clock,
using every single second in the round to take an unwinnable situation and make
it winnable. There's 30 seconds left in the round Parker. They're sitting right
outside the bomb site but what do they do? They leave, they reposition, they start
drawing attention this way and that way and all of a sudden a push that looked
very obvious where it was gonna come from looked like it had to just come in
through the cargo hallway. It's a complete mystery to team Liquid Alienware.
They've got to look this way, that way. They don't know what's coming for them
and they just absolutely stopped, they aren't able to stop that push from
getting into the bombsite so well done by FaZe Clan, they end up pushing warehouse side
and getting a couple of picks over there at the same time full epochs, or Vittacan
sneaks into the bombsite to start a plant, so that was just crazy.
If there's ever a round I'd like to watch back from the top down POV, that would have
to be the one, because it felt like FaZe Clan's control of Team Liquid Alienware's movement
was absolutely crazy in that one.
Really well done by the 2x world champions, they secure three straight opportunities to
to win it out and call their own tactical timeout.
This is a really weird tactic
about giving the position they're in.
Yeah, quite a, quite an astonishing position to be in.
You don't just get to benefit it from yourself, right?
This is something that I feel like
a lot of casual viewers forget.
And it's that when you call a timeout,
your opponents also get to talk to their coach.
A lot of people think all the timeouts
are for teams to send them themselves.
No, usually it's the coach calling
time out because the coach has a particular vantage point that the players may not have
maybe small things are being missed. If you're a Leap Hawks, if you're a Vita King, if you're
the one largely controlling your teammates, where they're going, what they're doing, etc.
You're going to be missing a lot of it because you're playing yourself. That's the whole idea
behind having the coach behind you. And as you've seen in the player cams, a lot of these teams,
now that they're not playing on land, have a dedicated monitor with all five of the feeds
put up in the coaching staff will watch that as the game goes on. So, Faze Clan obviously
didn't like something about what they were seeing that last round was maybe a bit too
close for comfort and it was a very loseable round for Faze Clan to be completely clear.
Overall, Faze Clan have looked like the better team. There's no doubting that whatsoever.
The score on the top of your screen is accurate. All he thinks it's inaccurate because Faze
Clan should have taken the first half six. Oh, I do love his spirit and I do love his
I don't know if I necessarily agree with that one, but there was a round or two that I definitely think could have broken in phase is
Favourite two, which would have sent us away either way
Keyla did not have a timeout face clean doing them a great amount of help by calling it
But the idea is is that you are helping yourself more than whatever window of opportunity you're giving your opponents
I'll say this Parker face clean and of course their coaching staff are aware that this bombsite will be the top floor
This is the one bomb site where Team Liquid Alienware were successful.
If you're the coaching staff of FaZe Clan and you feel confident on your other attacks,
maybe just call it here to say, listen, let's end this right now, let's get a really good push
together to attack this top floor so that we don't have to worry about those other couple of sites
anyways. It's a great idea in theory. Now, will they have expected to clash? That's my concern,
because Nade was ratting and hiding through the entire prep phase. FaZe Clan have brought this
Ophia, which is a really good clash counter, but they have to be able to use it effectively to stop
this operator from just slowing down the push. It is no doubt one of the best
ops to bring here on the soft floor of Nighthater Lab, so they have to have a good way around it.
I have to get Casey out of this position again. Rafters, Azami, peanut butter, jelly,
horses, aliens, usual things that you put together. Jesse and his love of minions.
Just all the things that you come to expect. Casey under fire immediately as there are bees
going out tracking his position cyber has been such a force to be reckoned with
for the space clan team that don't count out KDS single-handedly winning the
round and dying moments previously and with it he's broken double digits the
only two players in the lobby to do so are him and cyber and they are still
very much alive as this execute is getting under way in a hurry but the
king showing everybody how he earned his crown down goes made down goes Maya and
and FaZe Clan might have just won the map, right man in there.
KD has another pick, finishing off that one, finds KZ here, now it's a 2v5,
Fleetbox and JB92, not even close to where this push is coming from.
Almost able to secure this one, finds the final frag here,
but 1v4 from JB92 and Plant will hit the ground.
Oh my.
Jal Vitor, you said his name was, in your best, uh, Brazilian accent.
He was the first person to get kills in this map and will be the last person to die phase clan
Dummying team liquid Alienware and L Classico
Not looking like a typical classic so far Jesse as base clan demolish team liquid Alienware
Yeah, they crush it is their own map pick here in the best of three
So very long series ahead of us team liquid Alienware lots of road to come back
But for now definitely face plan coming out on top
We've got map 2 coming up for you right after this break.
I'm not a fan of him.
You're a fan of him.
I'm a fan of him because I played with him in the league.
I wanted to play in the league.
Say guys before the call.
I don't say guys.
I don't say guys.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't say guys.
We didn't do that last night.
Do you record the bass players' docks?
Yes.
Record the bass players' docks?
What is that?
How do you record the bass players?
Do you know what the bass players?
The guy goes there with the camera and records it.
It's the bass player, it's nothing related to the song.
We never use the word bass player, we never use the word bass player.
How do we use the word bass player? You've never seen a bass player.
He's dressed up, dressed up, he's hot.
Take the network on Twitter.
This one is cool, this one is cool.
You know this one a lot, you know.
What's your own experience?
A little pause.
A little pause?
No.
Wait a minute.
What?
No, this one is not.
Really?
No.
Pausão?
No.
Doigão?
No.
Oh, no.
You already had Paus do Igor CTG.
Like this one?
Pausão?
Not this one.
You already?
Never.
No.
You already?
I never.
So?
No, so we only had one.
Maybe what?
Two.
Pausão doigão?
Three, four, four.
Great!
Three bullets only have three?
Better than this one, there's no way.
I'll choose this one.
Because it's lighter and easier to handle and I think it's better to press.
Look, two weapons here for you.
This one is more style.
Two weapons here.
I'll use the pistol because I trained a lot with it, I won't miss any.
Six bullets for you, no chance.
To hit these three bullets.
Shit.
Man.
Shit.
I'm gonna do it
Nice!
That's it
The first one is a little lower, where are you going?
One of three, it's easier to win the server
I don't know
It's much easier than I thought
Fuck, what the fuck
But the door is the first one
The first one was the test
But look, the bullets are making a curve
The bullets are making a curve
It's the last one, I can't believe it
It's hard to use weapons
the first one is not worth it, it's hard to stay still
two hours later
no wait wait wait
wait wait
there, ready, cut
everything I missed, cut, just put these three
with this one
to remind those who did not pay attention
Lance, let's show them again
with the magic of the replay immediately
great, the three bullets, you have the three?
the best artist, there is no way
Who will play this?
Production
Paul Barnett
Interesting
Let's see what we will play in Chalet
We will play Chalet
Saber will play in Miratriangles
Exactly
Cadastra will smile
Exactly
and Vita, who will play in Montaigne
And maybe, maybe, there will be Clotimiu
Now Pedro, Adaptsetian, Pele, Danico, Tomaça and Zerma
And then this Ganaix with our face
Wow, you are brilliant
Who will play this?
Production
Paul Barnett
I hope I won't miss the champion
They's completely demolishing Team Liquid Alienware on their own pick of Nighthaven
Labs and Corp of Team Liquid Alienware's pick of border coming up, but Ali on a map in
which most of the opening kills came at either the halfway point or later than the halfway
point of the round, this was a slow one between these two teams.
I'd say we got on the right side of things today, Link, so that's all I'm going to say.
We're happy and comfortable on the desk today because some of those grounds took a hell
of a lot of time to get going and it wasn't just liquid that was slow. I think phase was slow and
considered in their own way but the speed just worked a lot better for phase. They were able to
control the tempo of the game far better. Obviously, dominant scoreline, we've already
mentioned it at the half. Two rounds coming over to liquid just based on the back of clutches.
Granted, there were some clutches thrown in there on the side of phase as well. They weren't without
the clutch factor today. What they were kind of not without but with in a lot of ways was KDS
because that was a player that I don't really think we were expecting to to pop off as as hard as
he necessarily didn't this we were sort of focused on it being the cyber show and for the first few
rounds we were kind of right with it weren't we could see there round five round seven seven and
one kills. Fantastic KDR at that point in the game the defensive say side of things the phase
was extremely kind to cyber here today
one and of course we're gonna see this in the uh... in the stats at the end
but kds and cyber basically about the same scoreline by the end of it and of
course one space got on the attacks you mentioned the slowness and the control
i think control was probably the greater factor for face plan than was for
t-law because
rest you know only had those couple clutches or one clutch one multi-kill
on the attack
phase at least we're able to put together a couple of convincing rounds
It did, of course, come after this excellent 1v2 from KDX.
That's the thing about Phase Clan for me is that they're able to just apply the perfect style of play to whatever the matchup requires.
And I think that this matchup did require a slightly slower pace, and it also required getting the plant down in a couple of rounds,
which is something that we did see Phase do and successfully hold on to.
Gonna have a look at the stats then. This is, of course, a best of three, so there is at least one more map to come.
KZ seven and six a play that we highlighted coming into the day did a reasonable job on the entry two and three
So he's still gone negative
But it's the flip side where you want to be really paying a lot of attention KS
Outshining cyber
Basically in the front that he was able to get two plants down and achieve a hundred percent cost to cybers measly 80% cost
Which is still incredible and still far higher than anybody on the side of T-Law
But we were an often that was on the bingo card really was it links?
No, it wasn't. Also, no, the bigger card.
Vitaking 4-1 on the entry. Early, early round, airquests, not really a position we often
see Vitaking, but doing quite well in what was that slower game. But of course, we have
Border coming up next, and if they are shooting like that, I don't think this would be a quick
one, but they'll certainly put up a good fight. But given that, Border is Team Liquid Alienware.
I believe it's their number one preference map, Ollie, and given the style of these two
teams, I have to believe T-Law are going to put on a good show and not two.
You've got to believe it, haven't you? I mean, it's a whiplash series. We're going from one end to the other night. Haven labs step by step really methodical can be played out very slowly as both, both teams demonstrated.
There's not really a lot of room for slow on border. Border is typically a very quick map and a map that requires quite rapid response, rapid action and holding a lot of key areas of the map, which is something that went on the defense.
Team Liquid Alienware really struggled to hold on to some of those more extended areas.
They were kind of just getting picked apart by FaZe, and kind of on the contrast, on their attacks,
they were equally struggling to apply that split pressure, often losing players like Myra on the Solid Snake,
excuse me, early on into the round, and really struggling from there because they weren't able to generate that control in, you know,
these areas of the map all over the place. Border obviously is a lot smaller.
You're mainly going to be focused on those these stairs. You're mainly going to be focused on that CCCV area.
So, there is a chance there for T-Law, but with the way that they've been playing recently,
I don't know that they can just shift the load of gears and immediately find the speed
to be up to speed on there.
Well, in kind of a similar situation to the Furia game, we were going for a bigger map
where we saw a bit more gaps in T-Law's play to a smaller map.
And I can even remember Leo talking about, hey, it's Clubhouse, Team Liquid, Alienware
will be more forced to play together than they were on a bigger map like Cathay, and
they ended up losing it at a more dominant margin to Furia than not only we expected
on their own pick, but then I think even Fury or T-Law might have expected. And it's the same
situation here. And it wasn't an 8-6 with a bunch of clutches like we saw in that Cafe Fury game.
It was a 7-3 phase handing it to Team Liquid Alienware on Night Haven Labs. And if we've got
the same thing coming up next, Team Liquid Alienware might find themselves out of the playoffs. Well,
I say sooner than we expected. It's still the lower bracket final. They've come a long way.
We'll see if they have a couple more maps left in them. Border coming up right now.
Thank you so, so very much.
It could be the end of the road here for Team Liquid Alienware in the lower bracket for
those that are curious of the stakes of this match.
If you haven't heard the desk mention it as they've done a few times and you haven't
heard us mention it as we've tripped over ourselves time and time again.
This is for an opportunity to play in the grand finals.
This is the lower bracket final.
Team Liquid Alienware punched FaZe Clan down to the lower bracket all the way back.
On July 16th in the upper bracket semifinals, FaZe Clan looking to have their revenge, Furia
waits in the wings for the victor of this one.
FaZe Clan comes in with a one map lead, they won their own map.
Will they snipe Team Liquid Alienwares away from them or will we have El Clasico?
Go all three maps, Jesse.
the question ahead of us Parker and it's gonna be really exciting to see what Team Liquid Alienware
really look like on this map because always right they do like this map but they haven't really
had the chance to play it very much recently. Only one play this season that was against Imperial
last month and Imperial eSports frankly not the cream of the crop when it comes down to South
American so I think it feels like Team Liquid Alienware probably could have won that on any map
but I digress that still a 1-0 record this season. FaZe Clan of course undefeated on
border going back to the Six Invitation finals when they beat Team Secret here on
border they beat Fluxo, INTZ, and Loud since then. So it is a good map for
FaZe Clan, maybe not as favored as a map for them, they don't choose it as much as
Team Liquid Alienware does, it doesn't get banned against them as much as it gets
banned against Team Liquid Alienware, but the record actually better for FaZe Clan
despite the fact that it is a little bit less favored for them.
I feel like it's cheating whenever we get into a phase clan matchup and we talk about
maps and operators and all that because phase cleans numbers are better than most teams
in every single direction.
So it's just like, yeah, it's another good map for phase, yeah, it's another good map
for phase, yeah, it's another good operator for phase.
What a shock.
Two grand finals, wins in a row at SI, three grand final finishes.
team has just been a cut above everybody else and even with a top four finish at Salt Lake City
being an albatross around their neck there is no reason to doubt this phase clan team.
I kind of like Cyber's position down here. It's very rare to see a team go for a bottom floor
roam on Armory Lockers Archives but Cyber is going to do it playing inside events. He's one of the
few players that will do this consistently here on the Ella just trusting his teammates to hold
things down and what a shot from handy. Straight onto his twin brother to open up the second map
of this series. It's a long angle fight on T'Nade that pays off.
Metro Cell prepped and ready and he'll find it. Fully pox now down as well. JV92 started off map
number one with three unanswered kills. Keylaw might not even find a single one here on border.
This is their map. This is comfortable territory for them. Souls now has his hands full as he and JV92 come to blows
We'll lose some of his protection here in the hallway
JV92 baited in and it's a flawless start to map number two. Goodness gracious
Bay's clan
Desperately want that fight against fury in the grand finals
Absolutely incredible first round Parker
I don't know if you're aware of this, but Team Liquid Alienware's logo is actually a horse.
And people don't really associate horses being in the ocean too much,
but today they absolutely are, as faceclans are fishing for these picks
and coming up with everything they could ever dream of.
Just swinging, tossing nitros, getting aggressive in the early game.
We were worried about how slow Nighthaven Labs was in their very first map,
but Border is a different beast, and Faceclan have instantly switched up their playstyle here on Border.
team possessed that again has shown some small regression nothing really to
start sounding the alarm bells over but Brazil as a whole has not really been as
successful I think as they wanted starting all the way back at the Paris
SI in February continuing on to Salt Lake City where every single team not
named phase clan from Brazil failed to make the group stages with some teams
like Furia, for example, being flat out humiliated, especially when the expectations for these
squads were so high.
Bay's Clan went right back to their typical reign of terror here in the group stages,
starting off the group stage 7 and 0 before dropping their final two matches, which we've
speculated because they were against Black Dragons and Loud, that maybe they were just
coasting into the playoffs and didn't really just show that much.
If that's the case, their complacency got the best of them. They lost the team liquid in a two-map screamer a couple days ago
Or I suppose last week at this point in time
But since then it has been a pretty good run from phase taking out loud to oh and then honestly
Having some struggles against those two days ago, but still sticking the landing this particular round is gone by in a hurry
We are 30 seconds into action tealaw have site control
full epochs as the diffuser down phases lost to players and dreadful go of it
and frankly one of the more dominant rounds from Team Liquid Alienware up to
this point. The souls have an opportunity here to go for a long arm. I think it's
there especially if they can take care of the sends. A reposition but Vitteking
and KZ will do battle KDS with one expecting a play over by the main door
a great shot from Maya and now it's souls upstairs only about 10 seconds ago
taking care of by NATO and upside down repel by sandwich and Team Liquid Alienware
have a round of their own to type again welcome to border both the inshallah they
can play with some pace here Parker really nice rush coming out from Team
Liquid Alienware they recognize that there's only one player actually roaming
on that bottom floor everybody else was up above and it was cyber the one man
that wasn't actually part of that top floor roam. And when they went for that rush, he was quite far
away from that vents window, had set himself up over towards Workshop, over towards that blue connector
area, into the middle of that main floor. So Cyber was nowhere near enough to be able to stop that
rush as it came through, and it came through really hard. You had Candela's being tossed out by Nade,
you had Sen's Walls being tossed out by KZ, Flee Pox on the Blitz was going for a plant just inside
the window. I mean, every piece of utility that Team Liquid Alienware could have wanted,
They brought to that push, clearly expecting a rush to be on the table, and that's exactly what they had in front of them.
So, good spotting by Team Liquid Alienware to recognize what that defense was looking like, see the opportunity for a rush, go for it, and execute it absolutely perfectly.
They tie us back up, won a piece in this game. Very much exciting for the first two rounds.
Certainly a heavyweight bow that's for certain and border is going to be a map that will
continue to give a spectacle after spectacle after spectacle.
One of the smaller maps in the pool at this current point in time.
It shares some similarities with some other maps that are in the pool of differing sizes.
The one big standout on a map like borders, how much action will occur like this at doors
and windows.
Early action breaking out in a moment's notice.
a lot of this was popularized by that W7M core, which is where this T law team originated
from realizing that if you play very aggressive on defense, it does not allow the attackers
to settle in and be able to use the full rhythm and all of their utility. Border is a map
where if you are too passive, they can eat away at your floors, your walls, all your
utility and it is just simply too small of a map for you to be able to fight back successfully.
You will get smothered and you will get overwhelmed very quickly.
So FaZe Clan being very active on defense, no surprise.
This is how teams played border in the big 2026 and they'll find a first kill with
Handy taking an engagement with Nate and you guessed it, Jesse, Nate dying outside the
building.
This is the exact same engagement we saw in round number one where Nate swings and kills
his twin brother on the vents window.
It's the exact same position, the exact same players and again it gives the open and pick
over towards FaZe Clan.
time they did this they just kept on with the aggression they got some
nitrocell picks they kept on swinging over towards the stairs and they made
that man count so much more decisive in their favor this time it's been a little
bit slower of course you don't have as many roamers up on the top floor it's
just souls and bit of king who remain after they get that opening frag they've
given up a lot of space directly above the bomb site and they're just kind of
holding inside of offices now souls and bit of king will be together they likely
have the bathroom hatch open so they can retreat back to site if they need to but
If they want to stick around as well,
minute 15 on the clock, it could catch them off guard.
I am ever present.
He's had a bit of a quiet day, again,
playing below his own standards.
A fourth kill right here, right now,
as he's got souls on the run.
It'll be a joint effort, but somehow,
Vinikings got the cross, cyber a kill of his own.
T-Law thought they had the upper hand here,
and they're all still fighting.
They get souls out of this position.
They finally will do that.
They down him, take care of Vinikings as well.
and fleapox or kz will confirm that final kill in the office upstairs now handy in cyber the two targets you need to find forty seconds to go kz and fleapox both very low on h p
it is not bode well for t lost chances of getting the diffuse kit planted
there's one nitrocell still remaining in three gas canisters from phase plan so
they will easily topple
the horsemen as they attempt to diffuse kit
should that be the plan
there might be a call right now for team liquid
Violence is the answer and then go for these kills. This is a winnable round
No rotating in the bomb site
So KZ will instead take some damage from the barbed wire and handy does it all a
Three cave from handy to win the round and phase will retake the lead
Really cool round coming up from face plan again Parker after that opening pick
You'd almost expect phase plan to be a little bit more passive on that soft floor roam
You'd expect them to fall off
I think Team Liquid Alienware thought they had them slacking when they had that information on souls inside of office
It felt like that was gonna be a freebie to come through for the team in blue
But instead there was that crossfire vittacan and souls the support through or from FaZe Clan
Stayed up on that roam and they stayed there together and while they were eventually cleared out
The fact they were able to get a couple of picks back the fact that Team Liquid Alienware didn't expect so much aggression coming out
From those players up on the top floor
It was really cool to see FaZe Clan commit to that and it actually pay off to
to pull things down to that 2v2.
You mention it with the toxic babes
and even apparently the barbed wire,
that low HP situation that T-Law were in
with both KZ and the Leapox
made it really difficult to go for that drop.
So instead, they rotate over to the front door.
It's a decent call, you know,
they're trying to catch their opponent off guard
when they don't have a whole lot of advantage
just to play with, but just not good enough
to come through from Team Liquid Alienware.
And because of it, it'll be 2-1, first quarter.
This is what it was with map number one because this is team liquid Alienware's map phase
clan.
They're starting on the side that they prefer, it doesn't necessarily mean it's their better
side, it certainly doesn't mean it's their most comfortable side.
But it's the side that they think is typically most advantageous.
The team on the left side of your screen, they play in blue, their colors in blue, how
coincidental for this particular matchup.
Have gone on record before saying that they actually like to start on the harder side
Because they feel it makes the remainder of the match a little bit easier now
That was an old roster where Paul who was on the team and that's was on the team
Yeah, I don't think the same mindset is there with fully boxing co
But there is definitely strategy into it so you can never just safely assume. Oh
They explain are gonna do really well in the first half and then fall off
That's not always the case
But again base plans one of those teams Jesse where doesn't matter what map it is doesn't matter what side it is
They're always in contention for a dump. Yeah, again, I'll repeat myself from map one team
single Kudalian where are the best team on attack in all of South America.
FaZe Clan are the best team on defense in all of South America.
So I would expect every single map to start with FaZe on the D and T-Law on the attack
because they're both just going to pick their respective sides.
So I would say this first half is always going to be a case of teams battling on their better
sides and then the second half is likely going to be both teams moving on to their weaker
sides which means it should be even on both sides.
But of course I thought always the case FaZe Clan had been a little bit better of the two
So far through this series now hoping to do so once again souls in an aggressive position his phone blows up
So he has to slightly reposition the magnets are catching the grim bees
Oh, there's my shot beautifully placed on the head of JB92
If I had a shot I'd be telling my friends about that for the rest of my lives for souls
It's a Monday so with that he punishes JB92 with a great first map and has fallen back to earth and cratered here on map number two
He is playing a lot harder of an assignment on boarder. I will say so the likelihood that he's able to amass the same number of kills
That he could on a map like labs is very small
But he's still again an offensive threat
He said in map one and every time JV 92 is in a position to fight. He can do so effectively
He's just getting very soundly shut down by phase at this point in time
Maybe looking to get aggressive they brought good information
They will use that Zoto canister to stop the Deimos track and then handy hits it with a nade anyways or a Nitro
So finds that free pick up the metal stairs goes nade to try to make something come back
But
Everybody's falling off on the side of face plan the team play has been impeccable here in the mid-round
Not a lot of gaps to exploit with this phase team as they've all lost their phones
By the way souls and vitaking not able to do anything handy will now lose his as well
But they've managed to find nade and Maya schools is just having an unbelievable round just
Just absurd what he's doing, Jesse.
Six kills, a seventh here for Fullybox.
Yes.
My God!
Souls is a one man army and that's three rounds of the first half for FaZe.
They are in such good shape moving forward.
Just so annoying to deal with this FaZe Clan team, you never know how aggressive they're
gonna play it.
You never know how they're gonna have teammates to swing around them to use those nitrous
cells.
Great opening pick to come through straight into JV92.
Not technically the first frag of the round I suppose.
There was a kill right before that onto Cyber, but afterwards it was just a massacre as souls
found kill after kill after kill.
I liked the way that they were able to work with Handi again over towards that security
side playing with the Zodacanister from KDS.
It just felt like the coordination was fully on point from FaZe Clan and on display for
all of us to see.
Souls so incredible with that PCSG.
one of the best players that we have in this game to play with the Slug Shotgun.
I mean, it was, I feel like it's fair to say that it was Brazil that popularized TCSG's as a viable option.
It was Ninjas and Pajamas all the way back in 2020, if people recall when Kairi was being played with the Aug,
the Vector was in the hands for Goyo, and then it was Kamikaze and Pino,
we're just like, you know, what if we just bring TCSG's instead?
and it worked very effectively. They were able to use it to make a grand finals appearance.
One of the final SIs that we had in Montreal was the last one before the lockdown struck and we
went quite some time without Siege and its fans. What do you do there? Like what do you do there?
I just don't... I mean it's a weird window for somebody to be holding. The bombsite's
vents in the workshop you expect most people to be up above but still a little bit sloppy
be from Team Liquid Alienware, you gotta check your corners.
It's a rough one, and I mean,
if you're Keylaw, you're staring at that second half going,
all right, we'll be able to make up some of this ground.
We'll be able to get back into it, we'll find our footing, it's fine,
we just need to try to save as much of this first half as humanly possible.
But when do you pull that parachute and call your timeout?
Do you save it for the second half?
Because with the way FaZe is playing, a five-one-half is very likely.
I don't think T-Law has a fighting chance of staying in this if they're staring down a 5-1 score line. Hold on, hold on.
Suddenly, T-Law finds two kills, answered back very swiftly by Cyber. He's punished by Maya. A good rotate from Team Liquid Alienware.
That's a 2v2 with a minute 45 to go. Far more winnable for Team Liquid than it was just a minute prior.
My big concern, Parker, is Mr. 7-1 is still on the board. Handy lurks down below, hoping to be able to find these players as they go through the conversion down towards Sites.
There is really good information inside of T-Law, though.
Dokeby and Snake, maybe the two best operators
that you could have alive for this final 2v2 execute.
No mute on the board.
They bans that out at the very start of this game,
so they'll know that this Snake information is correct.
They can play really confidently.
They'll know where these couple of players are.
Both Handy and KES still have their phones in their pocket.
They haven't let them blow up just yet,
and they have exactly two charges.
So if they time this right, get information with Maya
on the Snake scanner, and then call them and push them with Nade,
This could be really good for T-Law.
No handies position.
Neal completely repositioned from it
as he takes some damage from his phone,
but nobody from the side of the horsemen
are able to do anything.
Faze now fading away.
They'll hunt down KDS with the logic bomb too.
Or sorry, the Jiggy-O payload.
Old habits died hard.
That's a bit of a missed opportunity for Nade
as he lets one of the defenders slip through his grasp.
And Maya has died.
Now in a post-plant, Nade will need to win it from above.
handy. Eight and one is quite the score line and he'll
aggress upstairs. Eight and two is the best he's going to get.
KDS and Nade in a showdown with now KDS taking the top floor.
This SMG12 in pocket will surely do him well and Nade does not
let the rounds slip through his fingers. A huge bounce background
for the horsemen and the gap between these teams. Just one
round with one to go in the first half. A very close round,
One out by Team Liquid Alienware Parker.
One of my favorite party games to play with my friends.
A little game called Overcooked.
And I think that's a game that FaZe Clan
have been playing a lot of as well,
is they kind of overcooked on that roam game.
I have to say, they got some really good frags
where a solid man advantage,
and then they just stuck around a little bit too long,
too eager to take some of those fights, I think.
They just fallen back after they got those two picks,
even after getting that third, right?
It felt like there was opportunity
to just play with man count advantage,
fall back to the site,
let the attackers waste their own time but instead baseclam kept fighting the trades came frankly really quickly
from team liquid alienware so you gotta give a huge credit to those guys for being able to find those kills as quickly as they did
but phaseclam just a little bit over eager i think to continue fighting on that top floor
they felt that 5-1 that you were talking about parker certainly the momentum was going their way but
maybe a little bit too hungry for it
and because of that now
Facing a potential 3-3 if they lose this final round of the half.
But a few times and their matchup against Loos two days ago,
where it would seem like there were rounds where FaZe would have no problem whatsoever closing it out,
and Loos surprised us with good individual performances from players like Dash and Daffo in particular.
Dark had a couple good looks as well, so FaZe Clan are capable of bleeding.
We've built them as a giant.
And for good reason, back-to-back hammers, three consecutive grand finals at the six
Invitational that is almost unheard of this day and age, you know, it harkens back to
that G2 Penta run that we saw, but even then, this FaZe Clan has just been on a whole other
level and yet doesn't really get the accolades they deserve in large part because they don't
play a flashy style and a lot of these players don't really make a lot of noise on social
media.
That's one thing you can't say about that G2 Penta team and then the W7 Amphuria team
as they love to talk on social media.
KZ goes down, so T-Law will suffer the very first casualty,
first minute, about to expire in FaZe Clan
with a numbers advantage.
It's Cyber versus KZ, the head-to-head
that we highlighted at the start of the series,
Parker, that ends up giving the opening pick
over towards FaZe Clan in this critical sixth round.
It means it's gonna be really difficult
to find that information again on Team Liquid Alienware.
They do have the Lion and the Dokeby combo,
but Dokeby, not even as good as she once was
in terms of finding player positions
that you're not already aware of, certainly much better at encapsulating on those positions
and really falling onto those players, but so far, it's a battle of finding that position
that's being held.
Souls and Vitaking once again remain as the only two roamers inside of the office.
Last time they did a great job of playing around each other, but it seems like there's
intel on T-Law.
They barely missed the shots and don't punish Vitaking, but still, you've got info on these
guys.
You have to be able to punish them.
both fall off the site so that's going to be full roam clear falling off and a
nitrous off and KDS perfectly done by FaZe Clan.
What a depressing 15 seconds for Maya has the perfect read on two separate
players of FaZe Clan fires through the walls enabled by the lion scan almost
gets them dead to right.
You look in the bottom right in his corner your screen so much damage done
to these FaZe Clan players he misses every opportunity and they get
blown up by Nitrozo. That's a really tough one to be in.
They still are not in the strong of a position as they would like to be, I'll reference
Souls, VitaKing, and Handy's HP. Yes, they all have guns still in hand, but they are
very easily punished by the firepower of T-Law if T-Law are able to find them in the next
30 seconds.
Working down these stairs, JV92 would love to get active for the fun around the half,
yet to find a frag fishing for these players they know they're over towards customs, but
not giving him the opportunity. He can get into site, doesn't have the fuse kit. That'll be outside
the building still from Fully Pox inside of Tellers now going for the plant.
Do you all get away with this? It can be a tough post plant for FaZe Clan to deal with.
More damage being done across the board now. KDS on borrowed time. Cyber the only one with a full
coat of paint unscratched by this Team Liquid squad and there's one kill. They managed to get out
another one too. Team Liquid perfect so far on this post plant. FaZe Clan being punished
for their transgressions. They found a single kill but it's a meager one at that. JV92
in the ground as he just picked up kill number one and it comes in the final round of this
first half. I cannot believe what we just witnessed. Vittacan and Handy clutching out
and FaZe Clan somehow salvages the round. Unreal, unreal performance to clutch that one up.
I mean, Unreal only begins to, I think, describe part of it, Olly. I mean, obviously,
shifting hands a lot in that last round, but while both teams might have been on the clutch,
hot seat in round six, it might be Team Liquid A and Rear's pick, but Night Haven Labs and the
problems they experienced in those attacks haunting them still on boarder.
are absolutely another four to
half not quite as dramatic this
time. I'm not going to come here
and say it should have been a
six zero. There was one clutch
in there from Nate. Nate was
good for three kills and two of
those came in the one versus two
clutch at the end of the round.
That was round five. Ventilation
workshop, a site that really
plagued this phase roster at the
moment. Something that I would
say though is that for all that
we're good for winning those
couple of rounds, some of the
same struggles still remained
and a lot of that was trying to
deal with players that are
routed into position. Sol's here on your screen. Just going to be that player silhouetted
inside a fountain. He's able to pick up a slew of kills from this very position. And
it wasn't the only time that this happened for Team Liquid Alienware, where there were
struggling to displace players that should very easily just be dealt with. Now we've
got a single solo swing. Maya just unaware. I mean, you've just died. You just had a teammate
die at the top metal stairs and the calls fountain. And he's still trying to transition
into CCTV for Leapox. I mean, he knows where he is at that point, but even then it isn't
going to be enough. It looked as though the utility was starting to suffer a little bit
from Team Liquid in rooting out some of those phase defenders because as we've seen, this
phase clan team, they don't need much of a chance. They were great for that clutch to
end round six. Could have been a 3-3 half, but they've snagged it.
And clearing out power positions, a consistent issue, as you pointed out. Round one was a
big problem clearing out east stairs round four like we just saw clearing out
CCTV and fountain and even when the rounds were coming closer I mean as we
just saw that 3v5 into 3v2 post plant for Team Liquid Alienware they still
have that clutch gene where it counts we saw on Night Haven and at the pace we're
at Ali I mean obviously a tax side border can be quite different maybe we'll
see if Team Liquid Alienware good for those duels but if we're at the same
pace and T and T-Law are having the same issues this one might be over phases
way. Yeah it goes deeper as well doesn't it you know it goes beyond the strategy we're
seeing issues in the scoreboard now as well JV extremely quiet one exit frag in that first
whole phase KZ only good for three he was the player that we highlighted he was the
talisman that we were looking toward on this liquid roster to really step up the only one
that's really there at the moment is nade and a lot of that is padded due to the clutch
that he was putting and that he was able to win gonna see the bands now then a blackbeard
and a nomad both being removed here by T-Law,
countered by the Wamai and the Mirror of the Wamai,
being an increasingly popular band.
Some instances, Faze, feeling comfortable
just to run the Wamai and actually foregold the Azami.
That's how strong it is,
so they know exactly what they're gonna be going up against here.
But T-Law, bringing that clash out,
honestly, the clash didn't work on Lobs
and I'm not sure it's gonna work here.
Well, a lot more things have to work for T-Law
if they want any hope at facing Fioria in the grand final.
Faze 1-0 in this series with a lead on map, too.
We'll see if they can close it out and be our second team in the final.
FaZe Clan, just three rounds away from the spot in the grand finals, Parker.
They finished third back in kickoff.
They finished third in stage two of last season.
It's been all the way back to stage one of 2025.
The last time they made a stage finals and you got to go to 2024.
The last time that they won those finals, it's been a minute since FaZe Clan
have dominated domestically like we're so used to seeing from this team.
but now very close to getting that match up up against Furia.
I have to mention quickly, I love these operator bands coming out from Team Liquid Alienware.
They banned the Nomad, a staple for Souls, probably his most famous attacking operator
that he's played this season.
Really good on that off, forcing him to kind of move around now and try something new.
This round right here is going to tell us an awful lot about what we should come to expect
between these teams if you venture all the way back.
The very first map we played of night Haven laps. We saw similar score line identical one actually through the first
Six rounds and even though Ollie says that this one has a bit of a different look to it
It's still the same scheme score line at the end of the day
Team Liquid Alienware took round one of the second half and we thought to ourselves
Maybe a bit foolishly. Oh, this one's gonna be a ballgame before face-clam took the next three rounds and sent us
Here to border so if teal off can show that same level of poison
They will trade kills immediately as FLEAPOX takes out Vitaking before getting traded right back.
That's a huge boon for this T-Law team.
If T-Law can bring the heat really early on, with this being their map and them being on the more comfortable side here,
I much more prefer their chances than what we saw out of Night Haven Labs.
But if FaZe Clan take this round, who boy, that's a tough hill to climb for the horseman.
You've taken out the most important operator already for FaZe Clan, though, Parker, the Monty off the board.
That was going to be used by Vinikin to take so much space for free here over towards the east side of Border,
but now with him going down, you're worried about stalling out for FaZe Clan.
No doubt one of the best teams in the world, they know how to get past these difficult situations,
but it's exactly the start you'd hope for if your team liquid Alienware.
They can now start to layer their defense a little bit, they're falling out of Break Room,
they can fall out of security if they really want to, Mya's still holding that down for now,
but you're doing a good job wasting time, over half the round already expended.
and FaZe Clan no map control to speak of.
Survey the wreckage now.
Look at all those debuffs on the side of T-Law,
but nothing found on the hands of FaZe Clan.
No follow up as a reinforcement goes in.
I guess the benefit of having Filippox dead here,
Jesse, is that he gets to watch cams
and give you information.
They certainly gained it from that 90 cam.
Absolutely, they're able to call that one out.
So Team Liquid Alienware know about where this push is going.
The pace of it has been pretty slow so far.
45 seconds still in the clock.
Looks like the pressure is over towards off the side.
This is what they wanna go for their execute.
Messy gun fight, but Cyber wins it.
Mandy finishes it off,
and now this pushin' comin' full force.
I-Exchanging bullets for HP,
Jamie92 also much worse for wear.
He's not wearing it very well at all.
It's all up to Maya, and he's punished by Souls.
An unstoppable entry by FaZe Clan
puts them two rounds away
from a grand final fight against Peria.
Handi and Solz on track to have two of the best games
that we've seen from them in a hot minute
playing so well here on board.
Our Handi at that entry player
are able to get those early frags,
open the round up for his team,
and then Solz locking things down
despite the fact that his primary operator gets banned out,
still finding so much success over on the line.
And again, this is kind of a big strength
of FaZe Clan, right?
Even though they lose that opening pick of Vitacan,
even though they lose their shield player,
trying to push through and make that space. It doesn't change much for them.
They're still able to just walk in, find those kills, read the movements of Team
Liquid Alienware. That's the biggest thing for me, Parker. It's handy having a
really good read on where these players are going. After someone runs away,
reinforces that wall just inside of Fountain. Where are they most likely to
go? Well, they can't really go anywhere because we're holding their cross. We know
these movements. We know these paths through the map. And because of that
phase clan, they always have somebody in those positions. They're always ready to
them as they rotate. Now a 5-2 lead on their opponent's pick. Already up 1-0 in the series.
Team Liquid Alienware needs to massively turn things around or this game is going to end
way faster than we expected.
Here they are just sitting here licking their chops. Panthers, as their logo would suggest,
have been mighty good
at a great run during kickoff but they were really not tested by some of the top
teams and then when they got to Salt Lake City it was a
I guess a bit of a rude awakening for them
you can make a pretty credible argument that Furia
a team that still hasn't been tested by the best
ignoring the group stages just for a moment the playoffs
had them going up against ninjas and pajamas
who they defeated 2-1 before Knit then got beaten 2-0 by Loos, not a single victory for Knit during the playoffs.
And then Furia beating Team Liquid 2-0 in very close maps, that was an 8-6 and an 8-7 scoreline on Caffe and Clubhouse for Furia that really could have gone either way.
And frankly, it could have very easily been a 2-0 Team Liquid Alienware series as well.
So I think Furia are watching this phase clan and whether they'll have enough time to dissect and encounter them as anybody's guess.
but I'd be pretty frightened if I was a Furia fan.
I agree 100%.
This team Liquid Alienware,
they're not putting up a great fight for FaZe Clan,
they're not tiring them out the way you would hope,
and Handy continues to just put on a master class performance.
It's another opening pick from the young entry player
on FaZe Clan, 12-2 now a ridiculous stat line.
KDs is planting in the site despite the fact
that there are still defenders in there.
Cyber gets the drop!
And he transfers over to get Nade as well.
the fuse kit does not go down it will need to be retrieved in a goes off in
that after he's just really something else cyber almost gets them all
he just runs out of bullets
that the king the final kill and phase plan or a single round away from the
grand finals here in brazil
they just look like they're playing with so much confidence parker it's handy to
open things up at cyber with the perfect positioning again the way they read these
defenses is truly incredible. They've played Team Liquid Alienware so many times that they
can kind of see the setup, see where a couple of operators are positioned, and then know
the majority of this setup and how it's going to be placed around the map, recognizing that
a workshop push was going to be so powerful there, they push really quickly through the
bottom floor of that map to get themselves in a plant position, maybe rush the plant
a little bit sooner than they should have, the fact that there was still a defender sitting
inside a bathroom when they go for that teller's plant, maybe not the best call in the world,
but it forced so much panic to come up from Team Liquid Alienware, and Cyber was really able to capitalize on that,
fighting players dropping down through the hatch, swinging inside the site, flanking him in through workshop.
He was ready for all three of those movements, get to triple kill because of it, and now in a very dominant 6-2 position.
We'll stall out for a little bit here, Parker, as we do have a bit of a tech timeout, but for Team Liquid Alienware,
this will have to be far more than just a brief pause if they want to turn this game around.
That's a bit of a frustrating one when you're potentially three minutes away from a resolution,
but something has gone wrong and we will need a rehost.
I'm going to be anything it's a timeout being called and not picked up on, but I don't know
if my speculation is accurate here.
The head-to-head being shown on your screen right now is FaZe's ownership of Team Liquid
alienware has been really quite a sight to behold. Faze have just been so good in Brazil,
you know, when you talk about teams like W7M and Fury, when we look in North America, we talk
about teams like Wildcard, for example, the narrative is always very different, whether
you're really good interreginally or you're really good internationally. There are very few
teams that can say that they do both at the same level. Faze clan is the team that completely
box that trend phase dominate Brazil they've been copa elite champions multiple times they've been
BR six champions multiple times they have been world champions major champions just about isn't
the outside of maybe e wc and i guess just deciding to go to another region to win there
what more is there for phase to win for crying out loud i mean listen they only got top 16 at
reload parker that's a huge state on their record
i'm not taking the bait no real reload actually won at the current core of team liquid alien
we're back when they were under the furia banner so a lot of different uh names that you can
recognize if you go back through the history books here in south america and champions of
international events both of these teams have had their share in the spotlight before phase
baseclane, one on the run of three SI Grand Finals, two of the victories, a lot of people
would have told you that this Team Liquid Alien core was the best team of all time.
You know, I don't think it's out of the question to say that these two cores are the two best
teams ever to play Rainbow Six Siege.
Certainly people will argue Pentagee too, and I think that's a valid argument, but like,
it's a conversation that you could have one way or another, right?
So to see these two Titans heading off now once again, battling it out for a spot in
grand finals of South America it's been a treat to watch so far but I want to see team liquid kind
of bounce back right we know this team is better than what they've shown so far this is supposed
to be their map pick it's a map that they're supposed to dominate on I mean Ollie talked about
it number one preference when you look at the last six months but I mean it just doesn't feel like
we're seeing that same dominance that we've come through expect from T-Law we've seen them do well
in this map in the past but the fact they've only played it once this season before today and the
the fact that it was against one of the lowest rated teams here in South America,
maybe has shown that they've gotten a bit complacent on it.
Maybe they haven't had the practice that they need.
Certainly not the game they practice that they need to dominate border like they
once did and FaZe Clan might have just gotten away with this by crushing in them,
in the map feed-os and now inside the server as well.
We'll get back into it.
Is this the end of the road for the horsemen?
Do they go to the great glue factory in the sky?
That's the real question here.
FaZe Clan sitting on series point and we could have an even more dominant second map than what we saw
all the way back on Nighthaven Labs. It was a 7-3 score line for FaZe Clan to win their own map
and they are now beating that in terms of pure numbers and timing on T-Law's map. It was also
highlighted by the desk as much as we've called this Team Liquid Alienwares map because it is.
But this is also a very good map for FaZe Clan.
So again, just because it's your opponent's map pick does not mean that you are expected
to lose.
And frankly, we can decide to play Rainbow Six Mobile, and I bet you FaZe Clan would
still be expected to win for crying out loud.
So at this current point in time, there's very little that's giving me confidence that
T-Law will be the superior team in this series if the stars align.
we do need bank as the decider it will be an improbable and incredible run one
for the ages for this t-law team because they will need to win four
consecutive rounds on defense and then win two more in overtime for people who
own a clock that's about 20 to 25 minutes of straight winning very few
times at phase clan lost for that long of a stretch of time so I guess if you're
if you're a betting man make sure you're make sure you're putting your chips
down now because phase clan are three minutes away from a grand finals appearance
so in the series at this point Parker we would need to see maybe the second
greatest comeback of all time the first greatest comeback of all time of course
being when team liquid alienware this core did it in SI grand finals versus
phase clan when they were known as flux though W7M or not flux it at the time
But listen it is very much possible with this core of players
They've done it once before to do it now online with slightly lower stakes quite a bit lower stakes if we're being real
Certainly is in the cards a phase plan worth a choke against any opponent. It would be these guys
Four straight rounds is what it'll be
They actually go to the top floor here Parker to try to lock things down to look at Alienware did just play this bombsite back
in round number seven they were not successful in holding it but this time
could be a bit different. There's Ophia being used to counter out this clash but
also any player who might be able to get below.
All the members have reset. Wow. We can tell you who's being who's been the heavy
hitters here. Cyber starts off the killing but Alepox holding court on the
stairs Maya firing away as well. All of these kills happening with an inches of
of the door frames and outside of the building and with one in twenty five
seconds left on the clock
kbs looking around going
where'd you all go
kz the only one to die from t-law that was well coordinated by face plan but
really not much else has gone right for them in this round kbs swings on in
he's handled quite effectively by made in they will stay alive for at least three
more minutes is team liquid alien where win their first defense
beautiful performance by Philippox Parker, playing on that East Stairs.
He does a really good job on the Denari despite the fact that most of his
utility was still in his pocket, didn't put down his deployable shield, didn't
put down at least three of those trip connectors, but still finds a triple kill.
So that's all anyone's going to remember from the round, plays around as teammates
really nicely.
They saw that pressure coming in from the south side of the map, cyber down
below, did a great job getting the opening pick on the KZ, winning that head
to head that we were talking about at the beginning of this series.
But it just doesn't matter when the aggression comes through from the leapbox and Maya
They swing out from those aggressive positions around break room around east stairs and they catch phase clan before they're really able to enter in the building
That's how you play border defense, right?
And I think team liquid Alienware before the before the tech tech pause
Maybe forgot that a little bit. Maybe we're playing a bit too passive on a lot of these defenses
You're playing on border. You have to be aggressive. You have to take the initiative
That's exactly what we saw T-Law do in the previous round if they can put together three more rounds
It looked just like that one Parker do the math that ends us at overtime
You're absolutely correct and you're the numbers guy not even me so if you're saying it must be true great
Great state of Edmonton. Sorry great province of Edmonton on a state yet. Jesse the great province of Edmonton
educating you so effectively and I
Don't fall you with stats. I always trust mr. Check
So, that's the stage now set for Team Liquid Alienware, but FaZe Clan often times run away
from the numbers.
Again, you have these huge pop-up moments from guys like KDS, like Cyber, like Souls,
all three of whom have had huge highlight reel plays today that have slowed down T-Law
and resulted in improbable round victories for the defending world champions.
We'll get underway now with round number 10 and
FaZe Clan are looking to close this one out
There will be a break between this series and the grand finals played between Fiora and the victor here
The loser will still be an EWC
So if you are a fan of T-Law and you think this might be the end fear not you will still see your team in Paris in just a couple weeks time
But for FaZe Clan fans you're hoping to see them in one more matchup today as they fight for the crown here in Brazil
No early aggression like we saw in the previous round parker. This time the players on T-Law staying inside the building for the time being.
Good Uto Clear coming out from FaZe Clan. They'll spot out some of these thorn traps that can make clearing security oh so difficult.
Vick came back on the Monty. Last time we saw this from him they did not go so well. Got slammed up there in the East Stairs but takes the same position.
Trust his teammates so you'll be able to help them out from this spot.
And it's a run out attempted by KZ, but caught by handy.
They're trying to do the same thing as last round Parker,
but it's not successful.
FaZe Clan are expecting it.
The Ruff-Go a bit for KZ.
He's been completely ineffective for the last little bit.
Jamie92 will now also bite the dust.
A Ruff-Go for T-Laws.
They look to hang on to this map.
It's their own map.
They're hoping for some success.
Maya with a kill on the board against handy.
Cyber been felled much earlier on.
So that means it's a 3v3 game, liquid Alienware sitting at the halfway point of the round.
They need to wait out this phase clan aggression.
Very spread out still KDS outside the building, viticking in the top floor, souls pushing passport.
They need to group up on the side of phase. The Monty by himself isn't able to do much good at all.
So that's what KDS is doing. He's regrouping with his captain, moving towards East Stairs to play behind the Monty.
Makes it a very dangerous push. What do you have to stall him out? Not much.
It's already used by Maya the nitrocell from nade all they have to deny this plants the best player from the previous round is now gone
Nitrocell is what they will hang their hats on you nailed that one
They still have information from made but he's not able to do both at the same time
So it's a nitrocell or it's the cardiac sensor
You cannot have your cake and eat it too in this instance good cross now being held by souls has been a king's found an opportunity
To get the diffuser down he's blown wide open and suddenly T-law turned this around
But Solz has a couple clutches of his own, can he get another to win it for his team?
And deny T-Law this fairytale ending that they are hoping for.
Zofia getting ever closer, out-dueling it and the Spray Transfer gets them both!
FaZe Clan knocked T-Law out of the playoffs and it's FaZe Furia for the championship
in Brazil!
Old man Souls does it again and again and again one of the best players to play Rainbow Six Siege in those late rounds
He is so good. I don't know how he wins these rounds Parker
But despite the plant that I'll coming through despite everything looking like it could go team liquids way
It's just not quite enough
They will win the lower bracket finals and advance on to the final match of the stage
And you know what as much as I want to get to that matchup
There's things we got to do first and foremost
most. You're wonderful friends.
Links and X breakdown that series.
Yeah, we got some housekeeping to attend to, especially since we have a lot
more time on our hands since both teams could clutch today, Ali, but only one
team really showed up to play 7373 for phase clan and they were the ones with a
clear vision for what they wanted to do this game.
Incredible score line for phase coming into it. Obviously, this is a match that
we have seen countless times and in recent memory, it seems to be edging this phase
the game. And that's the
game that really matters too
much as far as phases concerned.
They want the championship. They
want to be the kings of SL and
that this is the game. They had
to win it to make that happen,
and we kind of saw that one and
need come from them from a fairly
early point in this picture. They
were clearly going to play it with
a very different strategy as to
the approach some of those
previous games in particular that
last time that they faced off
against liquid only four days
only four days ago, and they are the perfect recipe today.
Yeah, they did. If you want to throw up some of the highlights from that match, of which
I will say there weren't a whole lot of big, crazy multi-kills that we were watching a
Furia game. That's the main reason we were a bit lacking on the clutches and the multi-kills.
The FaZe Clan came in on boarder with a very similar game plan, not to their broader series,
but very similar game plan to Night Haven Alley. You can see them contesting early,
quite aggressively, really trying to take these fights to T-Law.
Yeah, they weren't really giving it away any sort of control for free where they would be happy to contest on the windows happy to challenge at the fringes of the map and really make it difficult for
T-Law to gain any ground and we commented at the halftime how T-Law did seem to find a lot of trouble in actually getting ground and getting rid of some of these more stubborn players souls and fountain.
He was the highlight that we did at the halftime and again shown here in the end of game highlights because it was deserved.
So, but it's these positions, it's CCCV, it's Eastairs, you know, these are areas that you need to be able to take with, you know, sort of very little costs to yourself, and it is very possible to try and do that.
But against this phase team, where they've just seen we've got an answer for everything, and then when they don't have an answer, they've got players that can just step apart and know where we weren't expecting a massive day out of handy, but he gave us one.
Well, and you could say that for anybody really on phase even big came to some extent is every player seems to have a takeover game in them and have that possibility
But we didn't really see that from T-Law this stage. We saw it from KZ who as obviously, you know, post three hosts, you don't quite see a lot
That made the only one who's meaningfully positive by the end of the game only two players on T-Law, T-Law positive and of course, I mean, like we said at the top
Both teams definitely had the clutch factor, but with phase able to boost up their score with some well played rounds
Them going pound for pound with T-law in the clutch department
It just makes the series as dominant as it was and as you can see with the two overall
I mean Casey barely even in the conversation whereas everybody from phase had a part of it
Yeah, you know made the only player that reaches 100 EPS on the side of T-law
Everyone exceeding the hundred EPS
I mean viking on a hundred okay, so he didn't exceed it
But everybody else, one, two, seven, one, two, six,
one, two, one, it's a very, very team-based performance
that for me from Andy Sabra and Soles Devol
put the team in the back pocket at some point
and carried them up the hill.
Fantastic on the entry as well.
Another area where we really saw T-Low struggle today.
That's, you know, part and parcel really with these rounds
because they're not great at fighting from behind,
but KZ, someone that, again, that you looked to on that entry,
three and six, made one and four.
So not really having that desired impact.
I mean JV92, just the invisible man on boarder for a lot of it.
Well, and a lot of T-Law invisible, unfortunately, and given that, of course we will see them
more at EWC, but I think kind of runs out of stage that don't get me wrong.
Very clear improvement over a kickoff, I mean, making it all the way up into the third place
position where they weren't even able to qualify for the international tournament last stage.
We're very much grading them on their own curve to say that this is falling short, but
I mean, especially with how FaZe are playing, I don't know, even if a good performance might
had been enough. Phase came out shooting a 10 out of 10 performance from every single
player. And of course, handy might be our MVP and he certainly earned that on the second
map. He could give it to cyber who is one EPS off. You give it to souls if you really
value that map to performance. KDS is map one performance MVP where the Ali, you could
really give a medal to everybody on this team for their performance in the lower bracket
final.
I give it to the team. Give it to the team, the MVP. Give it to the coach. I don't mind.
give it to anybody. You could just close your eyes and pick at this stage, couldn't you?
Nobody caught lacking. Nobody caught short. Everybody performing exactly what you need
in a lower bracket playoff game.
Yeah, and of course, I mean, we'll see more of them later today because now we do have
our grand final teams all figured out. It will be Fiora versus Thais Clan. And I don't
think we could have two more diametrically opposed teams for play style in this series,
Ali. I mean, we have a fury a team that is somehow more crazy and split apart than the old
fury a roster who kind of really made a name for themselves playing with that style. Then,
of course, phase clan who are unknown quantity. And I don't just mean that because we've seen
them play so much. There's so much tape of them. But just because they always play that similar
style that very set step by step play, but they're just the best in the world at it.
Yeah, I think you you look at this and you've got to look at the momentum that phase are on right now
Okay, they lose to liquid in that semi-final in the upper bracket since then to zero loud to one against loss
To zero gains liquid
They've played a lot of maps to get to this point and they are very ready for the fight
But not so we're not seeing any fatigue
We're not seeing them start to make silly mistakes if anything
they've gotten better as these playoffs have gone on because
the first performance was the
last one because they lost it.
So my worry for Furia will be
that you're coming up against a
very hot phase team now that has
made that lower bracket run.
They've got an extra, what is it,
five, six, seven maps under their
belt at this stage as opposed to
Furia's four, five.
It's got to be something that you
bear in mind at that stage.
And as we've mentioned, that
Furia team, I mean, we cast that
up a bracket final only a couple
of days ago, Team Liquid against
against Fiora and oh my goodness was it a game like Fiora clutched their way
through it by the skin of their teeth and T-Law really should have been walking
away with a grand final spot here and just avoided entirely this lower bracket
final against FaZe today that didn't happen my worry is can Fiora clutch like
that against FaZe because there's not been as many gaps today on this FaZe team
well that way big question and of course you are gonna have a very quick
interview with JP from FaZe coming on in so if we want to pull him up and we'll get some quick
thoughts as they do have a matchup later in the day. Hello JP, how are you feeling?
Hello, hello. Pretty good. Finally someone stopped their core on border. They were 23-0 and we finally
stopped. Yeah, I kind of wanted to ask that to start off the interview. I mean obviously you
you guys had a great performance on both maps, but it seemed like you had kind of a similar
game plan on boarder and that was don't let them take any bit of control whatsoever.
Was that kind of, did you have a similar game plan for both Nighthaving and boarder or is it
something specific about that map? Honestly, not at all. We just play our defaults and we
change it and it's likely that we played in the last border to not like be exactly the same thing
we played. But yeah, Barra was a map that we were confident, but they were the unique
team that we respected. We were like, we're not playing against them, we're not playing
against them. And today, half I was like, today we're going to play this map. I was,
honestly, I wasn't that confident to play Barra, but half I was and we won because those
guys were literally 20 trio on the map. They were like for three years without losing the
map and we beat them. So I'm very happy for that. JP, obviously, big results today, two, seven,
threes. And obviously you say that you know, you're a little bit worried about the border. I'm
sure that that victory on border will give you a bit more confidence on that map moving forward
because you guys look fantastic. Something that always impresses me about this phase roster
is the ability to play at pace, whether that's where you play quite slowly and really just sort of pick away your opponent, almost like death by a thousand cuts sort of situation, or other instances where you ramp that tempo right up and you're immediately running through them.
What's the what's the main trigger that you guys look for when you're playing because it'll happen multiple times across the same game against the same team in a lot of times?
who set this base is basically beat the king during the game, he's the one who sets the base for the team so if we want to be more aggressive, he is on his call, if he wants us to be a little bit slower, he's the master inside the server.
because I think that's going to play a big part in your game against Fiora coming up
because obviously I'm sure you'll have watched the game that they played against Team Liquid
only a couple of days ago and I'm sure you yourself will have seen that there was plenty
of gaps and plenty of opportunity there for T-Lota to do a little bit better maybe in
that series but the clutch factor on Fiora really can't be ignored. You've got some good
clutches of your own though, Handi had a great play today.
Yeah, for sure. I hope we win. I guess, Jury, it's a team that we always play against.
They like to trash talk, and the game always is like very entertaining for the public,
but we love it to play against them. Let's see, I hope we win.
Well, we hope it's a good match, certainly. I hope you guys have a fun time in the Grand
Final of the SAL. We'll see you guys a little bit later. Of course, we don't want to take
up too much of your time because we have that best of three later on today. So thank you
very much JP and good luck in the final and I mean of course it is very
interesting that the trash talk is very entertaining for us obviously JP cannot
like it all he wants but for us the audience please can find it very
entertaining but we are gonna have a bit more of an extended break to get face
clansome time to rest and freshen up for their grand final against Fiora later
today so don't go in here we got the final best of three of the SAL right
I have 3,000 kills, so I don't have anything.
I'll give you the highest point and choose which one you want.
Which one?
Let's go to the top.
Let's go to the top.
Martina, how is your aim?
It's good, I think.
Is it good?
Let's see if it's out of the series too.
Which one do you want?
Which weapon?
This one.
This one, look.
Two weapons.
Which one do you want?
This one is bigger.
It's bigger.
There's a chance for someone to accept it.
You have six bullets, three rounds.
You can hit him.
I have a bad feeling, but I'm taking the better one now.
Calm down, calm down, there are four more chances for you to win, three more.
You have to be at least 2 to not be ugly, for God's sake.
Ah, it was low, it was low, it could have been a lot better, but life is the first time, sometimes a team
It's not that hard, but I have 3000 kills, so I'm fine.
This is crazy, it's worth it.
It's really easy.
I don't know if you can see it, but I'm taking it off.
Wow, you're kidding. Who could do this?
The production.
It's cool, right?
I'm going to play a lot of games in Chalet.
We're going to play Chalet.
You know, you're going to play in the right angle.
Exactly.
The KDS is going to smile.
Exactly.
And the Vita Kingdom is going to play in Monten.
And maybe, maybe, you're going to have my clutch.
Now, lose the 17n, lose the liquid, take the 0-0.
Then this ganache will be in our face.
Wow, you're kidding me.
Who's going to do this?
The production.
Paul Berné, the champion story that was stopped.
you win
then I will fall and the daughter of the b***h
damn, the KDS is a lot without...
connectivity
I don't even know what to say
he is a bit careful
this one I will...
tell me what's here
how many?
how many kills?
where?
here
he formed aura
0-3, 1-1
You have to use 4 maps
I did
There's a guy, there's a guy
And if it wasn't for him, he wouldn't have taken the f***
It's from someone from Popuria
How do you have all the links?
You can't specify too much
Ah, I don't know
Ah, I don't know
Fuck
I don't know
Thanks for taking the Major to do that shit there
I still owe you two jantars, I love you, and I love you, I love you
He wanted to bet with me the two matches we played with them, he wanted to bet, I owe you two jantars
I bet more, I bet a car from the next one
You're going to win, you're potencing, you're going to win until today
I want to say goodbye to everyone who has never won, who has never won
Let's see who wants to be hunted
Here I already understand the lyrics, good afternoon, mister Aura, be careful that I'll find you at the base
I want to see it, it's easy.
You are a good ballon.
Zagheiro.
Training rival.
I don't even know how to respond to this.
I don't even know how to respond to this.
I've been training for 6 years.
I don't know who it is.
Thank you for the message.
If I found out who you are,
there will be more chat in the training.
Good luck.
Dear STK, you are a great team.
He would come to think of playing forza.
This is a fact.
This is a little clown.
So, focus on the gigantic one!
So, you get a light that had a lot of strength, from the arcades, from the Afros.
They weren't playing, they were a totally new team.
FURIA, despite having more experienced players, is a totally new group.
Boquiseira was shooting and everything.
And then you take the NIPP itself, which is a more formed base,
and it's only the first half of the Basseto as a GM.
So I think this ended up bringing a slightly bigger weight,
and obviously added to the improvement of other regions.
And about not having many changes, you can go on it,
it's because it's a very short tournament,
We've been through 2 weeks of the game, you know?
In 2 weeks we can't define a future of a team, so we have to remove a player and everything.
And when results like these happen, changes usually follow.
At least, that's how it's supposed to work.
Because out of all 10 SAL teams, only black dragons decided to shake things up.
So, whether we planned it or not, this video has basically turned into a full-blown Black Dragon's roster move special!
To put things into perspective, since 2024 and counting the current lineup, no fewer than 17 players have worn the BD jersey.
Doing some quick math, that's roughly one roster change every two months.
Yeah, that's a lot!
I believe that changes were necessary, and I think we saw that we reached a ceiling there as a team, even if it's too early.
And I think that changes are when it's necessary, you have to do it, you can't stay taking so long, because the Team Secret itself made more than 20 changes in the team until we won the EWC.
It's not that we like it, but sometimes it's necessary.
As for these latest round of moves, Miracle and Landa are out, while Guuto and Romeo are in.
And Gustavo Vieira is no stranger to the dragons.
He previously played for the team between 24 and 25,
and even represented the organization as a Montreal Major.
After that, he took a little trip through tier 2,
absolutely forming the competition with StoI Gaming,
and now he's back.
Hopefully to help push black dragons toward their first ever eSports World Cup appearance.
I was very excited to work with him since I was in BBR, I wanted to work with him.
I was very excited to work with him since that time.
He's a very good guy, I think it's going to be a great edition.
Oh, and fun fact, you could say Romeo already knows one of his new teammates pretty well.
That's because the two of them shared the stage in last year's tier 2 Grand Final, just on opposite sides of the server.
more teachings, but this is only with time.
Man, my gaming function is in GameLeader and Sup1.
They abuse the same dolls, as we call them, which are more stolen in the comps.
So, they play a lot of styles, play with Maing and Glace,
and with MGL, being a sup 1 is much easier to get the team,
as you have a more behind view, you can coordinate very well,
you could get the triangulations during the round, and so on.
during the first stage of the SAO.
Best of luck to the boys,
and thanks for watching everybody.
We'll catch you in the next one.
Bye!
five
check
and go
ok
give us the plate
next one
20 minutes
40 minutes
40 minutes
I just finish
That's it.
You're done.
That's it.
It's not gonna work.
Oh, nice, nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Hmm?
Hahaha.
It's not gonna work.
It's a good one!
One!
One
One
One
One
Thank you, Burge!
Thank you, Burge!
Thank you, Burge
Thank you, Burge
Uuh!
Big laughs
We're really good
Uuh!
Uuh!
Uuh!
Fuck
untu
Fuck
Fuck
Fuck
What the fuck
What team did you choose from?
And why?
That's it.
This is Piscaria Maldita, let's see what I can do.
I'm a little worried.
I want to try to stop here.
Which player would you beat in the race?
Why?
The question is which one I wouldn't beat, right?
And why I beat everyone?
If I had the choice of the worst player in the race, who would I beat?
And why?
This is a complicated situation, it's very complicated.
You made me feel complicated.
Who would win would be Flasthrai, one of the worst players.
Which team would you choose to save? And why?
I'll send Imperial away, because I don't know, but he'll leave.
Great, three bullets are only three.
It's better than three.
Because it's lighter and easier to handle and I think it's a better person.
Look, two weapons here for you.
This one is ours, this one is more style.
Two weapons here.
I'm going with pistol, I've already trained a lot with it, I'm not going to miss any.
Six bullets for you, no chance.
To accept these three bullets.
Damn.
Man.
Damn.
I threwored away.
Get out!
Hahaha!
Get out!
Get out!
I tryed to hit it on the bottom, but it worked...
Blue emptiness.
So, what happens if we throw it away?
It's much easier than I thought.
Damn it!
Well, but also...
Cut the first one there.
The first one was a test.
Oh, but this one...
Oh, the bullets are making a curve, man!
The bullets are making a curve, man!
It's the last one, I'll hit it.
It's hard, man, to use weapons.
One more chance, because the first one is not worth it.
It's hard to stop the gun.
Two hours later.
No, wait, wait, wait.
There, ready. Cut, cut.
Everything I missed, cut, just put the three with the key.
Don't harm those who didn't pay attention.
Lance, let's show them again with the magic of the immediate replay.
Great, I...
Three bullets with the key, three?
Better than that, there's no way.
What was it?
What was it to buy the team you already had in the game?
Why?
Hey guys, who wants to play Maldives?
Let's see what we have here in this Maldives fishing area.
Look, number 6 here, huh?
If there was an election of the worst player in the game, who would win? Why?
Wow, you have to answer this one.
You have to answer it yourself.
Legend 1. Why?
Look, look at the aim.
What was the worst part of the team that you ever had in the game?
Why?
Dude, I think the worst part was Darkman, the worst for me, because he didn't teach me anything.
I didn't have any will, but it's not a problem.
But today he's doing well, he's got a lot of skills.
But today is a good day, so I'm going to play a lot of games there.
Choose a sincere nickname for a player from Sao and justify your response.
Oh man, I think Pauluzão. Pauluzão, when he played in the liquid, he was just too much of a water.
That's it guys, this was Fescaria Maldita, top of the list. Let's go.
Pauluzão do igão. Pauluzão do igão. Wait a minute.
I'm sure.
Another thing, I lost face.
It starts with Portuguese.
Because you lose...
I lost face.
I lost face.
What did you lose?
I lost face.
I lost face.
0-3 now in the middle.
The front ban is a big ban.
The ban against the guy with the name of the player.
I wanted to play.
Say guys before the call.
He doesn't talk, guys.
He doesn't talk?
He doesn't talk, guys?
I don't know.
Vale, he doesn't talk either.
Let's say we didn't do that.
Yeah, let's say so.
Is it recording bass players' docks?
Yes.
Recording bass players' docks.
What's that?
How do you know it's bass player?
Isn't it a bass player?
It's a documentary.
The guy goes there with the camera, the team and records.
Yeah, it's a bass player.
Nothing related to the afternoon.
We never go to the championship.
We never go to the bass player.
How do you know it's a bass player?
in the video.
I was like, I'm gonna be shot, I'm gonna be shot.
Before that, I saw a tweet.
This one is cool.
This is pretty much it.
Paul, you got your own experience.
Paulzão do igão.
Wait a minute.
What?
No, this one is not.
Paulzão do igão.
No.
I already had Paulz do igão or CTG.
Not this one.
And we are live!
Yeah my friends, the system override updates are already online, so let's dive into some
of them.
The first one, even the great Gilberto Barros knows already, we got the Casino Map Edition,
more specifically Calypso Casino, and probably only the Brazilians will get this reference.
Launched just now in Operation System Override and inspired by Rainbow Six Vegas, the new
scenario is set in Las Vegas and features spots that scream a real gambling pit.
Old table, roulette, bar, tobacco shop, aquarium, internal security circuit, and even a vault, actually.
Now that we're listening to it, there's a lot going on in this map, right?
I thought it was a bit exaggerated in terms of size, but I didn't think it was a map that would fit this competitive game well.
Because it's gigantic.
I have some negative opinions, I think the map is very big, it's a lot of room, it's a lot of sand, it's a very different map.
And the spawns are going to be very long, because they are very far away from each other.
And this part is going to be a very easy map to change.
So this is going to be a fun part.
I think that to be part of the casual part of the game, it's going to be a very fun map to play.
From the first impression, I found the time.
It seems to be a map that can explore a lot of entrances, a lot of tactical styles.
So I liked it, but you have to see it when it comes to the competitive side, to see how it's going to be.
Alright, in talking about controversial changes,
We also got the Dokubi Remastered with the main tweak hitting her signature ability.
It's no longer the logic bomb, it's the Jaguar Charge.
The gadget job is to trigger one enemy phone at a time, not all of them at once,
forcing the defender to stand still and restart the device, because if they don't,
they'll take a nice 48p damage. So, the question is, is this a buff or an earth?
Doka Ebi was the biggest buff in the game that existed, compared to the shield.
It's very stolen, very OP.
It has very little counter, basically only the milk.
And I'm sure it will be nerfed again, because it's very appealing.
It's already a meta, I think it will continue even more in the meta.
I think it changed a little the intuitions of the doll, but it's very stolen.
It's already a very strong doll, and now it's extremely strong.
It was a weird buff, you could call the operators individually and even if the guy didn't turn on the phone and break the phone, the guy would take a damage and it would be much more annoying for those who are defending it, but I think it's really cool for those who are attacking, you can do a lot of resources combos,
It's a feature that you can turn on in a time, like you don't have a shield, you have to turn it off, or something like that.
So I think it's an operator that gives you too much time, man.
in 75 RPM in a 35 round mag.
It's a solid loadout big, but maybe not enough
to hype up the SA-L pros.
Perfect, lastly, and definitely not less important, we got the launch of Infamous Rank 3.0, basically, it works like this.
First, you don't start from zero.
Your rank depends on your previous season rank and your result in the best of five qualifiers.
Each rank has five divisions, and you need a hundred points to advance.
Game points when you win, lose points every last.
When queuing for a match, the system only looks at your actual rank, so no more hidden
MMR, and team balance is done by squad level.
If you win against stronger teams, you get more bonus points.
If you win against weaker teams, you get less.
They also changed the matchmaking criteria.
From bronze to emerald, you can play with friends within 3 ranks.
For Diamond and Champions, it's only 2 ranks.
All this makes your progress slower, based purely on wins and losses.
No KD affecting your score anymore, which intentionally makes everything harder.
I think that the revamp of the Ranked was very good, the concept they brought,
they still didn't have the opportunity to play enough.
We needed this change in the Ranked, it was very monotonous, the champion was something very easy,
so all of this that is bringing again is very cool.
The new Ranked, I would say that I like to have the old MMR,
if you don't keep pulling the Ranked down with a very low guys, even with the champion,
these things that, both for them in the bad experience and for me it's very easy, it's boring.
That's it, my friends. These were the main seasons updates so far. Thanks, squad. See you next time. Peace!
You have to mark it
I only mark this one
You have to
I know
You already know
We won't be scoring because it's changing
Instagram?
Instagram
I think I'll do it all day long
It's ok
If you score 7-0, we'll bring it
If you score 7-0, it's cheating
I won't score
I don't want to play in the faffet
I don't want to.
Bro, the boxing situation in Cote Epoque is a markup.
Markup.
Bro, the exposure of the reduced, I think it's a markup.
I think it's a good cut.
You give a push because the pock is getting it.
Bro, I think so.
And the suicide tactic, who doesn't like it, right?
There are several.
There are several.
It's a markup, bro.
The strength of the hole there.
It looks like suicide.
Damn, you want to weigh it down.
Only in a phase, this bad guy here, let's see what she does with us.
We have 3 players from the hall who are mono-operators and we have only respawns.
You have Jace, he only plays Jace.
You have Pox, he only plays Shield, now he became a mono-binded.
And you also have...
The mono-operator is really awesome, the guys are all flexing.
I like it, I only play the harmonium, only the bacon, the bono, that's it.
What is the most ugly player of all?
You always want to be heavy.
He is ugly. He is too ugly.
We have many ugly guys.
I think he is a bastard.
It was bad.
You can fix the lottery.
I don't know why.
What is the most ugly player of all?
It's heavy.
It's heavy.
It's the World Cup, baby! Okay, okay, take it easy. We're trying not to get the video copyright struck here.
Anyway, we are here to talk about a World Cup. Just not that one. We're talking about the nation's Cup, or in its full name, the eSports World Cup of Nations.
First things first, let's go over the basics.
For Rainbow Six Siege, the tournament will take place from November 18th to November
22nd.
24 national teams will compete, including both invited squads and qualified teams.
With one spot, the so-called Solidarity slot still up for grabs.
The teams will be divided into four groups of six.
They'll face off in a single round robin of the best of one matches, with the top four
teams from each group advancing to a single elimination playoff bracket.
From round 16 onward, matches will be best of three, except for the grand finals, which
will be played as a best of five.
Pretty easy to follow so far, right?
Well, here's where things get interesting, because if you've got national teams, you've
gotta have a call-up, a roster announcement.
So let's take a look at Team Brazil.
We have Vita King from Face Clan, support, Palo from Fluxo da Rusexhemi, Handy, Face
Clan, JV92, Team Liquid, Cyber, Face Clan, Loura, Furia, and last but not least, KZ from
Team Liquid.
And the masterminds responsible for selecting these seven absolute demons were coaching staff,
Igor Cetige, Rafael and Eudinho.
Now, instead of us doing all the talking, let's hear directly from the people involved
and find out how this roster came together.
Professor Igor, take it away!
In a summary, the process of the selection was that they selected a manager who was Weldinho.
After some conversations and all the more between them, they ended up interviewing me.
I was selected to be the main coach of the Brazilian team.
I was already very clear about it, if I were selected,
that the person I wanted to be there with Miguel Raffadel,
because to be honest, for the recent history, I think that's what I liked the most.
Basically, we had a very big list of good players that we had to be able to reach the list for 7-9.
It was very difficult to reduce this list, to be honest.
There were people who were in a very good phase, there were people who had a very good history in R6,
there were people who were at a very good time, so reducing the list was a very complicated job,
so we ended up doing interviews with some players, the system that they presented to me.
I had to mount a line with 5 players and 2 reserves.
I think they made a format of 15 players and each one mounted his own line.
I gave the interview to Deytar on camera and the guys all on PC with webcam.
And some questions there, apparently he answered what they wanted.
off-scenes resident giga-chat.
Fair enough. Now, before we wrap things up, let's talk about the favorite teams.
France looks scary, the United States looks scary also.
But what about Brazil? Aren't we the team today?
Look, we're working hard, but obviously it's going to be a very difficult championship.
There are other good elections, but we know that we're taking all the weight of a nation in favor of it.
There are good teams and it's our preparation that has to make a difference.
I think Brazil has a lot of chances to win, and there are also good selections to compete,
but I think we will be very solid, we have a lot of time to prepare and we are already preparing,
so the first thing I can expect is that nothing more, nothing less than the Baitachou of Brazil.
Brazil has a lot of chances to win, right?
I would say that nowadays we have compared the roster, which is the lineup of Brazil,
compared to the roster of France in football, and I am Olyseus.
And honestly, if there's one guy you remind me of, it's Olyseus.
Because man, that French dude is an absolute pain in the bottom.
Start getting your watchpots ready, figure out where you're watching the games,
and while we're waiting for the ANC to kick off,
yes, we'll have to settle for that one little tournament called the FIFA World Cup.
And of course, keep hanging out with us, here on SAO.
Thanks for watching everybody, we'll see you next time!
Levanta, que o ninja tirou todo seu prinjama
Que o panterim agora come grama
E o nosso nome já caiu na lama
Lá na farmes ligue amanhã
Deixa o mergue vem pra cá
Que o sol raiã
E agora é hora de pinar
There's over through the barbed wire and there's gonna go for a peek. That's gonna be a wonderful shot by Cameron!
He cuts it!
He's on forward.
There's some more shots now before he walks out through this door he should have pointed out the heartbeat sensor he's not going to.
Instead, it will be a nice clutch by Cameron!
They die on the stairs, not the lines, and we'll be aware of the nice and bright coming out of Nico again.
He's just on freaking things man.
He's gonna be fine. He's gonna be fine.
He dropped down the night, comes out the top and drops stigs as well!
What a nutty ram from him, he gets two grenade kills and a nice peek and closes the house.
No way! I'm fucking the clutch! That's the one versus five clutch!
Rise from the ashes to blame the hammer at the 6th institutional 2021!
I'm not gonna complete BD by the huge pocketing giftbook!
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I
the last three years. These
two teams and organizations
really have been juke it out.
You can throw liquid in there.
If you really want to go all
the way back to four years ago,
but predominantly over the last
three, you are really looking at
Furia and you are looking at
phase. Fury, of course,
successful in both stages one
and two last year and phase the
year before that successful in
both. So history does have a
little habit of repeating
itself, and it is going to do
that here tonight, given that
one of these has to be crowned
inside of SA L and of course walk away with all of those wonderful SI points. 420 of them up for grabs.
Well, and especially since of course, you know, obviously they've been eliminated,
but Team Liquid A, we're not making Salt Lake City. There are some big teams across the
regions that are rich trap for SI points right now that you wouldn't expect. But while Fury might have
a little bit less than phase clan phase, certainly do their deep run at Salt Lake City, but starting
off with our first team in the match. It is the team that first entered the grand finals with their
to win over team liquid Alienware in the upper bracket final. Buria K-Men, of course,
new roster, big change at the beginning of the year, Oli, but still able to be in the finals,
both kickoff and stage one. In national performance aside, this game has been quite dominant domestically
since they formed. You have to give them credit, don't you? They're good at a certain brand of
siege, and that brand of siege for my money is clutching. It's relying on talisman players
and big moments to get them over the line. Heard the player on your screen right now
is a bigger part of that as anybody on this roster. You look to him when you need help,
you look to him when you need a load of kills, and someone to pull three, four kills out of thin air.
Diaz Lucas, another player that we throw into that category of clutchability,
and I really think that that's where this team shines. I don't, but we all know that that isn't
a winning strategy. That isn't going to be a strategy that they can take all the way to
a main stage of a major event, but will it be good enough to win the region? Quite possibly,
because they have shown us that they are capable of that style.
And we saw they were capable of it in that Team Liquid Alienware game a couple days ago, right?
I mean, Cafe basically entirely won off of the back of individual capabilities,
and at that Team Liquid Alienware, by all rights, should have won. And the map, too,
was a bit more in furious favor, but what should have been a three-map series was a 2-0 off the
the back of his individually stacked and supremely talented roster. But as you pointed
out, there are some clear flaws in the Fury a play style. And if you want to take a look
at our other team in this matchup, I have a feeling FaZe Clan are going to be pretty
good at capitalizing off of those mistakes because if you talk about teams like Team
Liquid Alienware, for example, who are playing a bit out of sync, playing a bit split up,
that's Fury a play style and FaZe just dismantled T-Log.
Yeah, FaZe coming in hot as well. Like you say, lower bracket run. They made a lower
bracket run to get themselves a position at Salt Lake City. And look how that ended up
for not too bad in the grand scheme of things. Maybe an underperformance from FaZe's standards,
but still a brilliant finish at that international event. And here they are now on the cusp of
another. Obviously, EWC is locked in for these four teams. They're fighting for pride and
they are fighting for those SI points. FaZe, a team that can play at any level, whether
They want to drag it back play really slow like we've seen them do against liquid all with the put into
Situation like it's lost for example where they need to really amp up the pressure and amp up that speed
We've seen big performances today already out of handy souls and cyber
So those three players coming into this series hot really could be a difference
I do worry for furia given that they're cold
They've not had a series to get warm
I know we've had a little bit of a break and know they'll have had a warm up
But I just know what this phase roster can do when they get a bit of momentum behind them
Well, you know, one important thing as well
We even saw a good game from KDS on map one of my favorite rate of player on the team
We had we've got not only four good individual performances at Vita King as well four and one on the entry coming out of map one
It's like a five-man show for phase at the exact right time
And Fira might be feeling a bit worried about that because of the phase we saw in the lower bracket final appears here
The saving the best for last might have to be waiting for stage two because both these series might go pretty quickly
We have the veto coming up though to see where we're going in this best of three
The two maps we saw in the first one were night haven in border with Bank as a decider left on the table
In this one Ali our first nap will thankfully be something different
Well, thankfully for us, but maybe not thankfully for furious shall I is a stronghold for phase at the moment now granted
They have suffered a blow on this map recently
but their overall success on Chalet cannot be ignored. They are incredible at this map
and they're going to be starting off on that attacking side which in my money for my money
and them is probably their favorite side on this entire map. We switch things up to Bank which is a bit of a
Fury a favorite. It's a little bit less played by phase if still of course gonna win record on it just because of who
that's what we're doing. We
are going to do this. He is.
And then we go to the ultimate
step by step in a clubhouse
decider. If we get there, I
must admit, I was a little bit
surprised when I did see the
bands. Obviously cafes face
permits were always going to
see that taken away. The labs
is something that I thought we
might, you know, let's slip in
inferior might play a little bit
of counterstrike because that
is something that kind of fits
into their play style a little
bit very clutchy very
one of the best maps, if not the best map for FaZe Clan to start this series,
Barker and Jesse, you have a good one to start off.
Long since T-Law and FaZe finished up their bouts and now we launch into something that we
hope Jesse is a little bit more competitive because, well, T-Law FaZe, was it? FaZe doing what FaZe
do best being the ever so dominant team and now they find themselves in the grand finals going up
against feria who are hoping to prove to people after salt lake city that this feria squad is the
real deal a victory here against face clan would certainly quell some of the concerns people have
yeah i'm no doubt about it i think this feria team is incredibly talented but still unproven
they did not do what they wanted to do back in salt lake city they haven't really shown themselves
at an international level and while of course this is a domestic competition it's a domestic finals
here for stage one it would be good for them to be able to put their best foot forward
heading into the esports world cup finish off with the win enter that tournament as the champions
here in south america it's a real fun battle of old versus new parker you've got the youngest player
in the league bogs era going up against the oldest player in the league here in cyber a roster that
has been around without any changes for years now in FaZe Clan versus Furia who
three months ago five of these players had never played with each other like
brand new team just put together for this season and then you've got Chalet
I'm not the FaZe Clan are playing for the tenth time this season six wins three
losses and only one of those losses coming in regulation by far one of
their best maps I shouldn't say by far they have a lot of good maps but no
No doubt one of their strongest locations, and a map that FuryA have never played since
assembling this brand new roster.
So I'm super excited to see how this one goes down.
Certainly FaZe Clan have a lot of things going for them in terms of experience and legacy,
but this FuryA team, they are scary when they're on.
This is the one thing that we said quite frequently in Salt Lake City, and in the run up to it,
commentators from across all regions also touched on was that the tools for FuryA are
all there.
about getting them all together and making sure that they're on the same page.
Though a postmortem was likely done by the team, it might have even been done in Portuguese
and published for us in the English speaking world.
We didn't really get to see what all went awry with Furia during Salt Lake, unless you're
using Google Translate or watching the content.
You do speak Portuguese.
It's very tough to figure it out, but some of the speculation from fans of Brazil and
some of the players that are formerly from Brazil was that there were too many cooks
in the kitchen for Furia and managing egos and tempers was a bit of a problem now. When
you've got players on this team, all of whom have had some varying level of success, there's
going to be a bit of an ego here and I'm going to look at one of them on your screen right
now. Why, Redeem and shutting down two players of FaZe as they get into the building, you
know what they're capable of from a kills perspective. You just got to manage the emotional
energy as well. And for Furia, that's a huge boost as we're halfway through the round
and FaZe has already lost two of their best players.
It's a big round start from Loira here.
He's still inside a bar, hoping to get some more frags.
He's taking this fight against Viddakings.
Looks like his teammate, Voxera, will go down,
but he remains alive down on the bottom floor,
fighting for his life, being collapsed on by all angles
from players on FaZe Clan.
They're focused on clearing him up,
but they just can't do it.
Loira for three now.
They're still focused on finding him.
Bolp stills one, but it's traded back
and just KDS on the 1v3.
It doesn't even last long enough to cast it.
Dude, Corn Pop came in real big there for the clutch.
I gotta say, what a great set of casting from our good friend, Corn Pop 16.
And of course, round number one goes to Furia here on this map.
There was really no doubt about it after Lawyer was sprung out with those first two kills,
FaZe got flat footed.
One thing we did say against T-Law was that FaZe marched to the beat of their own drum,
which means excluding a lot of those Intel ops
from many of their attacks.
I know that there is still operator repick available,
but with what's being brought by FaZe,
more information is always better.
Blackbeard and Monty Band out are great bands
against FaZe Clan.
They play these shields so frequently,
Viddikking in particular.
So that allows you to play operators like Gamus,
like Snake, two of the strongest operators in the game.
It also means that your auxiliary ops,
like Nomad, like Grim, like Capitao are on the board,
and every hard breacher can get brought as well.
The big obstacle for FaZe Clan, Jesse,
is getting over the hump of, quote unquote,
no shields because Blitz is doable.
But you best know that Vittikin's gonna play the Monty
if he's available.
Huge for Lawyer, and it'll start off in particular
with that triple kill Parker.
You go back to Saturday's victory
in the upper bracket finals versus T-Law,
and that was a game where Lawyer, despite the 2-0 win,
frankly was invisible.
I mean, he had almost no impact on that series.
We were waiting for him to show up.
He finally did at the very end of that game,
but Loiro just wasn't a very impactful player
in the last best of three that this team played.
So to see him get off the bat
and find a triple kill in the very first round,
I think it's huge for the confidence of Furia.
It will feel in themselves that they can do this,
absolutely, but just proving it to themselves
in that first round, I think is critical.
as he sits almost plus 30 in his KD,
which for a player who frankly didn't really get the level
of respect in North America that many suspected he'd have
must be feeling pretty good about this renaissance
in his career now that he's back in his homeland in Brazil.
Period down on the bottom floor too.
I mean, this is not a bombsite we see very often Parker,
but as a team who has never played this map before,
it kind of falls to them to redefine the meta a little bit,
take their own spin on it, bring your own take
and we'll see exactly how that works on the bottom floor.
So far, they've done a good job in the side of FaZe Clan
of taking the map control.
They forced a lot of these roamers
at least back down to the mid floor,
but they haven't cleared out Kitchen,
they haven't cleared out West Main.
That means they're useful here on the main wall,
is not doing what they hoped for.
Now, longer on the run,
Souls will find the very first kill.
Souls was one of the big difference makers,
clutching round after round against T-Law.
If he can have another incredible series here,
furious fraggers will need to level up
deal with him and then you've got cyber and handy waiting in the wings. Excellent pinch
onto lawyer as cyber credited with that kill but it was a joint effort as souls was involved
as well. Also put Furia on the run. The one thing that doomed this T-Law squad and might
now doom Furia too is that when you win a round Face Clan tends to bounce back and bounce
back really hard and they do just that. It's over yet again another round that ends before
It feels like it's even really begun cyber two very important kills and it's a tie game through two rounds
Tough one there where they're holding so much map control for such a long period of time Parker
It felt like fury had what they needed to win that round
But the fact that they're just not able to keep their top floor players alive really comes back to bite them
Hurts there on trophy stairs. I mean he's good for one
He's the only one that really gets any value for his team
But he's also kind of baiting them right like he's not able to get in the gunfights and help out
Doesn't actually engage until both box Zera and Laura have fallen in the middle of that push
So you got to imagine if herds a bit more active maybe he can support his teammates a bit more
Even still that bombsite is so tough to win as a defending team
They had to hold that top floor and win some gunfights
Basically, I'm just very well coordinated on that clear with cyber and souls working together to make sure that they have that top floor
Control and then handy. Why not just blasting players inside the site tie things up nice and even here all at one
We should have a good series on our hand Parker despite kind of the differences in these two teams
I'm really hoping we get a long grand finals in front of us
I hope so as well
But the thing that makes me most curious is it was it was speculated on by links and X and I mean we have to pretend
To bring it back here is this chalet map for face clan is
Inarguably their best map and it was allowed through the band phase now
Furia statistically speaking are a much better defending team on this map
But it's been a long time since they've played it here.
So I don't know, maybe it's just that they've waited
and they've workshopped it and they're bringing it out.
But I mean, this seems almost like a freebie for FaZe,
which then obviously sets us over to bank as the decider.
You never wanna let one of your opponents best maps through.
And the fact that we're seeing Chalet
with FaZe Clan playing this is a bit of a headscratcher.
Well, again, Parker, they've never played this map
the side of Furia. The old roster, I'm not sure, but once they actually assembled this
5-man core, this is a completely new set of circumstances. So, showing it off for the
first time versus FaZe Clan is kind of a fun, grand final surprise for Furia. FaZe Clan
clearly not intimidated by it, they'll still take it, but we get to finally see what Furia
looked like on Chalet. So far, it doesn't look bad, despite that second round not going
their way. I'd imagine they play all four sites. Cyber, a free kill, was right at his
fingertips, but he owns one of those utilities and then dies to box there afterwards on the hatch.
So a rough start to come through from cyber in round three.
Xerra sees one out on repel those position known hopes there now for the assist right you are.
But the last time feria played it by the way, it's all the way back.
The six invitations when feria last played this map, their last win came during that event versus
Elevate of all teams so a very different look that furia team is now team liquid alien wear
So again a hell of a debut and a run out from herds does not net the success
He wants he does get back inside of his life intact. Whoops
Also equally lucky is now herds will try a second time through the window now in West Maine
face though sinking their teeth into
fury and it's left herds down below
with Diaz upstairs inside
office as a very integral part
of this defense final minute now
fury will hang on.
As face clan have a huge
advantage. Diaz Lucas one of the
best clutch players in the entire
world. He's done tougher clutches in
this before he's got herds to blow to
to call if that diffuse kit does start
getting planted to the information is really
good 40 seconds still to play around
but Solz finds the head and that's gonna make this so much more difficult.
Herds can impact trick this nitrosil or this plant as it goes down.
You'll find it here, but even this they should have plenty of time to reposition it.
And he doesn't even deny it. That's brutal actually from Herds.
Oh, he gambled so much down below.
They did keep FaZe busy to his credit, but unfortunately for these Fury of teammates,
it was not the right players that he was keeping busy.
takes one down before he's traded out very swiftly by KDS as FaZe is locked in
in the post plan and they'll take the lead on their own map.
Tough for Herds, I believe that was a plant on the bed so it would have been really difficult to
get an angle to deny it anyways. Not much he could have done differently in that position,
but smart from FaZe Clan to choose that plant spot. Really just dealing with these players
before they help be over the execute is the biggest thing, right? Even Herds they kind of
dealt with by dealing 90 damage to him outside those West Main windows and at the same time
viddicking, handy, most of them outside the building, able to find really important picks
in the mid-round just to get them that big man advantage on the top floor.
This is the problem with playing on the chalet of the defense, Parker, is there's so many
strong window angles that you can fight from outside the building that it makes holding
map controls at a fender really, really difficult.
The Azami in theory should make that a bit easier for you, just because you can block
off some of those windows, but it didn't do a whole lot for Fury in the first three rounds,
and it certainly won't be doing much of the next three rounds that has now been banned
out by FaZe Clan. Grim the Operator Band, that was one operator that we talked about
going in favor of FaZe if they want. Grim does function in a lot of ways. He's an Information
Operator for a lot of teams. He's very good in the post-plant, can be used for scouting
missions effectively. I like the Azami Band as well from FaZe Clan, but something really
too surprising about these two operators being taken care of. Iria has had some, what I would
imagine are some communication issues in these mid to later portions of the rounds.
They will now go back to the bomb site that did them so well back in round number one.
It was lawyer us starting things off with those two picks that base clan didn't really
seem to see coming and very only lost two players in the process.
If they can replicate that success to have a tie game, but obviously not ideal for this
team is again, we don't really have a lot of data.
The organization, aka the old roster, had great numbers on defense, but that's the T-Law
core now.
They're no longer with Furia, so we're kind of flying blind here as to how Furia approaches
this map.
But again, with the being phased as map back, you have to assume Furia started on their
better side.
It's not good if the only site they can win, Jesse, is this kitchen dining site, and even
then it remains to be seen if they can replicate that.
Oh, boy, or a barely stays alive.
He's hard on drones.
So despite his 3k last time they were on this bomb site, Parker,
it's going to be very difficult for him to accomplish the same thing.
Tracked by the game most now, he has some teammates nearby,
but this is a very awkward position.
FaZe are throwing everything they have at clearing out Loira.
He's being hunted down.
There's no business, and Loira is staying alive that much longer.
This FaZe team might not be quick, but they are thorough,
and they've pinned him down, yet he still takes down Cyber from his spot.
All right
That's a bit of a devastating play especially given that that was the day most that was so doggedly tracking him
Lawyer is fearless Jesse. He's got backup from the Thorn of Wolves, but lawyer is not giving up this position at all
They have to get a trade on him sooner rather than later
They'll call him with the doke be charged and take the fight
There's other angles that hand he's worried about of course up above there's some players inside the site, too
Here's the swing, a second for Loire up playing in bar, a third right out of KDS. How about it?
Finally they trade Loire up, but it's way too late. Parker Bittiquin in the 1v4,
and there's nothing else that he can do. Loire dominating on this kitchen bomb site.
I don't- alright, okay. Loire is almost single-handedly winning both of these rounds.
So let's let's let's step back for a second here. Jesse and talk about Furia as a team and and all these times
We say things like oh look at this bombsite. Oh look at this
Well, really, it's just the lawyer a show at this point single-handedly keeping this team in this fight
I mean when he was on that G2 roster, he was able to do this as well
for reasons that were explained by some of the team members some of them vague and some of them a bit more
or a well, I guess straightforward,
lawyer just didn't fit the team
from like a vibes perspective.
And they wanted to bring in other players for that role.
So lawyer goes all the way back to Brazil
and has now been a pretty decent force for this team.
But isn't having the statistical best year,
he's 23rd of 50 players, but he's in good company
because Volts is 25th and Boxer is 26th.
So there's a bit of a log jam there.
But what we were casting the phase team two days ago,
What we said is that if the worst rated player in your team is somewhere in the mid-20s,
that's really damn good.
Feria can say the same.
Boxer is their worst rated player and he's 26th out of 50 players.
So Feria's dominance is from a statistical standpoint.
They finished second in the group stages.
Now they're here in the grand finals as they march their way through the upper bracket.
And well, all of their players are playing very, very well.
I safe to say this will be their big test.
And if they can overcome this days clan roster, they will enter a live event, which is EWC with more confidence than I'm sure they had when they went to Salt Lake.
Yeah, this will be a big moment for them if they can get the upset win.
Tutu tied here on their opponent's map pick.
If somebody other than Lawyer has to step up at some point, you have to imagine.
Right now, Lawyer has been great.
They go to a fourth bomb site.
The first time they were seeing bar games here in this contest.
So we'll see if this one makes any difference for Furia.
Top floor and basement.
both not doing the many favors they weren't able to win those sites to keep
on the mid-four track keeping similar very heavy top-floor room coming up
from fury at the moment the space-clan trattle luring these players and up and
down six kills for lawyer and he's got two silhouettes just outside of that
piano window with the scorpion in hand it makes very quick work of whatever
finds itself in your way box era takes KBS down and that looked like it was a
kill the lawyer really wanted herds on the board to for phase as well and there
those herds. Lawyer and Diaz last two standing, but lawyers starting to fire up
this war machine. Jesse down goes cyber two still standing on the side of phase
clan. A showdown half of the round to go over half of the server dead and gone.
Not a lot of utility here for either of these sides. A nitro cell for Diaz, a
gizmop mine in pocket for lawyer. Still two of those Jagio payloads and flashes
for in souls pocket than vitteking has smokes of his own. So it's kind of a
wash it'll be mostly coming down to gun skill as face clan advances towards
furious position yeah I like how much time face clan have but they also have
a lot of maps still to clear they don't know where these players are at anybody
on fury it could be ratting around any one of these corners here comes the
dope could be called spot BS he's sitting on blue stairs blower and not too far
from him as well so it feels very even in the 2v2 50-50 I still think I like
faces position better because they have so much time on the clock to hunt these
guys down, but really it's going to come down to the individuals.
Vita King now, as he searches inside the lobby, looking towards this bomb site.
Fury far enough away at this point in time as Lawyer is inside a back bar, still scouting
time for this face claim team, again, not a slow team, a methodical team.
the Eson Lawyer with good guns in their hands, side arms out on the side of FaZe, and Lawyer
is about to do it again, isn't he versus Solz in a 1v1. Solz, Mr. Clutch, but Lawyer has
got the genes today. Goodness gracious, one man on a rampage to shut down FaZe, and Furya
takes the lead.
Parker, I don't understand how there's still so much snow out on this map because the demon
is heating it up here in the server.
Loira playing so damn well right now.
Every round they've won has come off the back of his heroics.
Of course, Loira, he's had a journey.
You mentioned his time on G2.
He played his rookie season back in 2023 with Black Dragons.
Spent the latter half of that season with the team,
the first half of 2024 with them before being signed
to G2 halfway through that season.
Played in Europe for a year and a half before just coming back
to Furia at the beginning of this season a few months ago.
and I think he's really been able to find his footing.
You said it, has had some stumbles this stage,
has not always had the biggest of moments,
and even their last game on Saturday
was probably the worst player on this Furia roster,
but when he's required to come alive
in the grand finals of SAL stage one,
this is where you wanna see him shining in nine and three.
He's done exactly that defending on Shelle.
10 seconds to go.
Oh, you wanted a great series,
and so far map number one is not disappointing.
Loira being the main person with a pulse
on the side of Furia.
Could you believe that he's got nine kills
and the entirety of the rest of the team has nine as well?
Wolps was hoping for him and his three other friends
to hit 10, just to topple Loira's lead.
And it's making FaZe Clan pause a little bit.
Viddokang is trapped in this position.
Wolps has him pinned down.
And nobody from FaZe is there for the assist just yet.
Volps will try for a third time.
This is some serious cojones on this, man, Jesse.
One of the most aggressive IGLs in the entire world
is hoping to find one of these picks.
Looks like FaZe that have gotten away,
their own IGL, survives the encounter
and will start working on these windows.
But that's a crazy 45 seconds
that just got burned off the clock.
Even though there's no kill from it,
that's a lot of value being brought by Volps
in terms of the damage he dealt and the time that he just wasted.
Okay, the Candelas.
If FaZe Clan can draw even here on the first half,
presuming that they go to their favorite side in the second half,
that is a big boon for them.
Fyria's wincon is to persevere and succeed in this position.
They'll lose Loira, uh-oh.
Now it's up to the rest of the team, but FaZe Clan taking no prisoners,
three unanswered kills to Wolps stops the bleeding.
It's him and Herds.
Both can make so much noise, but there's a blitz on the board.
There's still a candela.
There's still smokes.
There's still nades.
Oh, boy, Faiz have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to ways to tackle this site.
And they've still got the glass up as well.
Soals picking apart, Volps herds to try and clutch it, but he runs right into the blitz
and Faiz will survive the first half, denying Furia any advantage whatsoever.
And Ali if two words why yes three words technically you want to be fully accurate three words describe that half
It is bar games and
Lawyer out because while this might be a tie game one player on fury. I really showed up
In a massive way. I said this talisman team
Needs to have talisman players because that is what it is built around it is built on big individual performance and
and standing up when your team need it.
Lawyer for me was that player in the first half.
He absolutely owned Barton Games,
and it took FaZe a long time
to try and really figure out a way of dealing with him,
and they never really shut him out
in this area of the map in particular.
Barton Games, of course, a big entry point
onto the map of Chalet in general,
not just for FaZe,
but for a lot of different teams out there,
and FaZe consistently having trouble dealing with him.
It looks like they were, you know,
a little bit more liquid that's really in the way they were struggling to do
with players in power positions that was a criticism that we threw to tealore's
direction and was something that we sort of thought phase did really well at
previously and it seems like it struggled it also took them to around
six to even think about bringing a shield and as you can see when the shields
brought things start to happen a lot easier for this phase team
especially on show they were so much can come down to the window play and if
that's not working the shields are off the normal fallback coming quite late
course as you said it does get them the tie half, but Laura holding down that position,
Faze finding difficulty clearing that position. Big reason why this game is as close as it is,
though, if you're coming way out of that half, the leader's on the opening duel as well, so
plenty of good statistics going their way. But as we move to the opposite side, Ali, obviously Faze
were extremely dominant on both sides of the game earlier against Team Liquid, Alienware,
but those attacks, every time they switched them, winning at least I think three out of the four
that they attempted on the back side you think we're still well I suppose now that we are seeing
these defenses should we start getting worried for Fira given the streak that Phaser building earlier
it's a difficult one to say isn't it because Fira's defensive record on this map is very good it's
near 70 percent their attacking win percentage it's a little bit less it's around 45 so yes we
are expecting to have a bit of a tougher time as we transition on to these attacks as always the
the bands will play a big part.
They're gonna get a mirror and a Monty removal.
So kind of following a lot of the trends set
in the opening half of this fixture.
The shields being a big focus
as they should be against both of these teams.
Both teams have great, fantastic shield players
and you will expect them to be rocking shields
given that chance.
Now with Blackbeard taking off,
it really does only leave you the blitz.
It's the same tools that FaZe had
and they were still good for a 3-3 split phase
continuing to target that area.
And Fury on the flip side with that one-by-ban.
Now, obviously with Wama being so strong right now,
it does kind of open the door a little bit
and you're gonna have things like an Azami available
that you can call on if you need.
Yeah, some operators that normally we don't get to see
on Shalei that make things oh so complicated
for the attacking team, but Fury with some good tool.
Oh, but that's for Parker and Jesse to break down.
Thank you very much, Lynx and Ollie.
Indeed, we have the second half upon us
and this is gonna be a fun one, Parker,
because we've got the best defense team in South America moving on to their better side on their map pick.
This has to be where FaZe stand up and show why they chose this map, show their dominance up against a team like Furia.
Second map of course is going to be Bank, that's one where it was chosen by Furia.
It's been played a lot more often from Furia than what we've seen from Darker from FaZe Clan, so...
Got there.
I'm hoping that this can be FaZe Clan's redemption, this can be their time to step up and take the lead over,
but we really have to see that from them first.
I was impressed admittedly by Furia's defenses. It's always a it's always an eyebrow raising
moment when a team brings out a map for the very first time and while we have the statistical
numbers for the organization it's a completely different set of players. The only existing
member of that old Furia squad is Herds, who I guess in this case just takes up the mantle
for his former team as the other four went off to Team Liquid Alienware and I would say
greener pastures, but T-Law's not in the finals. It's Furia that's here, so Herds I suppose
having the last laugh and T-Law didn't even qualify for Salt Lake either, so Herds has
definitely been succeeding in that regard. Foxera was the first one to come to blows
with Handys. It was a run out from the smoke and gambling your smoke that early on is also
so an Ibarra raising decisions, so,
Face Clan must have known something that we don't.
Clearly had some kind of information going on in the midst of that,
but not able to capitalize on it, that's okay,
more opportunities, who else?
But Loira finds the opening frag of the second half,
takes down Cyber roaming down here in the basement,
despite playing on that mute jammer,
the information was still good enough for Loira,
so, get that man counter advantage now with 90 seconds to go.
This mid-floor has been mostly cleared out,
holes remains as they start to collapse on the top floor as well.
Down goes Boxerra.
After Cyber had died early on, Handy wanted that kill a good minute ago.
He will finally see his patients rewarded.
Lawyer and his 10 kills also now dropped as there goes KDS.
Furia showing some real aggression here on attack.
Surprisingly so.
We thought that FaZe Clan would ride this better side and numbers wise it would seem
to suggest that and yet Furia is bringing a whole whack of new strats to deal with them.
plan will keep these numbers close as lawyer is still bleeding out.
Vidicang with one and he will be tasked with finding the rest now as he's lost
souls by his side. Lawyer is being retrieved so three players from fury and
now all holding weaponry. Vidicang up top, Jiggy O'Paloid going off and he will
have to silence his phone or take some damage in the process. He chooses the
ladder. Thrasped by drone he knows that there's one over by library stairs he's
still being watched to lose some of the wall to the Selma.
30 seconds left falling away.
They've repositioned over towards Piano Window
and Vita King is on the run.
Time for Tyria, an issue.
20 seconds remain, they don't have the defuse kit
and they will both link up and look towards this double door.
Vita King's got to read,
he just needs to square himself away to the fight.
Very limited HP and Loira, of course it's Loira,
pops up and shuts him down.
Furia, regain the lead.
Well, we're on the bottom-left part of your screen
if you're not 100% sure.
Drinking out of that red bull cup,
making sure that they can have all the hydration
in the world for this series.
And listen, Furia, I know that the stats are correct.
I know that they haven't played this map before, Parker,
but it does not seem like that
when you watch them play in the server.
Just the way that they're clearing this map,
they've got isolated players clearing through down below
instead of basement.
that's fine but then even up above everybody working together build a
pinch on these library players will find this space around games make sure you
have good map control before going to your execute
it's really really impressive and other tools that are being brought up by
fury you know
i think we always talk about this on shall a but that trio of docabee
plus demos plus the snake is so oppressive to play against it gives
just some incredible information
over towards the attackers it's gonna get some things on some guys
Tracking them and calling them at the same time while having their location and POV spotted for you on the snake scanner is just impossible to play against so
They's kind of doing their best here in the roam game, but fury I have great information
They're hitting their shots today mostly lawyer up but also some good value out of herds and bulbs today as well
Just feels like they're really practiced on this map despite the fact that they've never played it
Very very impressive for this fury a team and I
I mean I really can't underscore or I guess really in this case really can't overstate if
Makes more sense here. How poorly furia did at Salt Lake City?
They look like one of the worst teams that made it into the main portion of it not through plans
Because obviously it was lost the team in Brazil who got to that position and fury it just immediately got sent packing
It was a really rough go of it. Obviously kickoff was relatively short
There were a lot of teams with new looks, but that dark zero team was a brand new look and they ended up winning the grand final
So really no excuses here just based on the amount of time you had to succeed
This particular round for furia starts off quite poorly. They lost loyera about 20 seconds ago
They will trade cyber out so that's fragger versus fragger now down for the count
Furia has to their credit been able to keep so many of these rounds really close
The demon temporarily slain now you've got to find someone else to get some impact of course Hertz has been good
The only other positive player here on the team five and four has had a player crosses the site line twice now
Holding the long angle, but trigger discipline has kept handy alive
He's not been able to find this pic just yet for the information again is flowing to the team
They're really good on a fury at just collapsing on these players waiting for them to walk into their line of sight
a tent just playing with their food. KDS, he knows these angles just as well as
Fury does and he's gonna be careful not to walk into it. Does for a moment there
and loses some HP but is still alive. Fire will shake him off of his position now
as KDS waltzes away from that one. If he wasn't aware of the flames coming from
the capitao the telltale sound of the para would have given him away. KDS does
eventually get found by that para in hand by DS but not before Hertz has also
died. So you've only got two of those Intel Ops and both of them were the first two removed.
Now it's Boxer in pursuit of these FaZe players, but he hits an untimely hatch drop. Diaz has died
upstairs, so FaZe Clan with the advantage in a minute still to go. Wolps has the Diffuse Kit.
You're really going to have to trust Boxer here in the coverage if objective play is your focus,
with three players from FaZe still alive. Maybe not. Wolps will have to settle the score now with
two players as he expends the rest of his munitions into the corpse of handy drops through lobby
a man on a mission as phase hope to lock him out the support players on phase still largely
remaining souls i suppose you could call him just a a fragger these days but he's going to be on
pulse calling on that cardiac sensor gas canister's going out from vittacombe it changes where folks
can go and he was hoping for the main hallway now has to go back to the b-bomb door he'll be able
able to get in there whether they're taking any damage from the gas but the
moment he waltzes through the door face clan will likely pounce on him he's
giving himself away by shooting at the wall running at a time he's not even
attempt to bait out the plants the crossfire established very well
vittacombe the final kill and face clan will tie things up could not have been
played more perfectly from the support duo of face clan vittacombe and souls so
well in that 2vx situation and we'll make that happen information lacking a
little bit from fury in that round I know I was just praising it but they
They didn't catch Handy's flank up through Solar, pushing the top floor.
That's a huge miss, they already had a dead player, there should have been a cam watching
for that, they didn't quite catch him in the flank there.
And then in that final 2v2, just not checking the player inside of Mudroom, little bit sloppy,
it's a wrap position, it happens sometimes, you don't have time to clear every single
corner, but it's that lack of information that really came back to bite Furia so far,
Parker.
And I've got kind of a crazy stat for you, 8 rounds deep into this matchup.
the four rounds where Furia have won.
Lawyer has been responsible for at minimum two kills.
He has three triple kills and then a single double kill on the four rounds where Furia
have won.
On the four rounds where Furia have lost, Lawyer has either been the first or second
person dead in the server every single time.
So it seems like the game plan should be clear from Furia.
Keep Lawyer alive until at least two other people are dead.
You'll go off and get a multi-kill and you can win the round.
Five seconds left before insertion.
Surely that easy, isn't it, Jesse?
Simple as that.
Too simple as that.
What I don't understand when teams start to lose is why they just don't get more kills.
I mean, it really does seem on a service level so simple.
Like just kill your opponents, you only need five of them.
Well, they're not as tactically genius like you are, Parker.
You know, I think a lot of pro teams just haven't figured that out yet.
I think they got the best minds working on it, but for sure.
I hope they discover it.
There's a lot of good out there.
These teams go to my, you know, you know, I'll call out over in Dark Serra as this whole
coaching academy.
Yeah.
What they really need to do is they just need to listen to my coaching advice.
Boxer's got three kills.
Here's how you can improve Boxer.
Get more.
That'll be 50 bucks.
The Intero Academy where results are not guaranteed and it's mostly just a scan to extract
money out of the players, but you never know.
i feel like you're saying the part that i'm trying not to say out loud and
that's giving up the game and i don't like that very much
that uh... admitted in here by the way in
information ops being brought yet again
that could be swapped out
bring a day most of the snake this time around lawyer the first casualty yet
again i mean that's incumbent on his role
to get kills but
you expect him to be in the light of fire really early on herds refrags kady
asked the ds's died elsewhere
Herd's very selfishly using this gadget as we see a lot of snakes do and put it away quickly, pull out the F2, Herd's taking care of Viveking.
That's a bit of an unfortunate one, as Boxera survives, cannot beat the Nitro Cells, two of which, unashiefed, finding their targets.
And they land in the laps of the area.
Now it's Herd's in a 1v3, cannot control the recoil so pistol comes out, but FaZe just have too many players staring in that direction.
that phase will take their fifth round. They regain the lead in the seesaw match that we've been seeing with Furia.
Well Parker, the stat continues. If Flair is the first or second player dead in the round, that's
going to be Gigi in a round for FaZe Clan. Nine rounds in a row where that has been true. And again,
you really come down to that top floor hold. Such a powerful position to be playing with that
Tuber out Kaid combo. It makes holding office so, so strong. And I thought Handy played absolutely
phenomenally in that spot. The same time you had Cyber down below. Cyber, not always known as a
sight player, but from below where that push was coming from, from inside the bomb site, he was
able to land those nitrous cells, get a couple of vert picks. He had an early frag onto Diaz through
the floorboards, which was absolutely critical to stop that push coming through. Diaz, of course,
on the Ying would have been massive to use a bit more of that utility to clear the top floor, but
he didn't get to send out even one Candela. No, he sent out exactly one before he got killed by
cyber so is that a huge lack of utility there from fury as they lost a couple of important bodies early
now at a 5-4 scoreline phase plan on their map picked two rounds away from taking it there will
be a tax timeout called by fury hoping to write this ship and find their answer in the end of
regulation i mean when else would you have an opportunity to call this timeout for fury right
i think this is pretty perfectly timed i know that we've been critical in the past when teams
want to call the timeout but in your next best scenario would be next round by maybe you lose
that then we'd be critical of them for calling it with just a single round to go. So I do say
greatly appreciate Furious timing on this and they are they are an organization that funds
their team well seems to never have a problem with coaching staff that old Furious squad had a
ton of coaches around them and oftentimes we talk about the head coaches but we don't focus so much
on everybody else and how much goes into that your analysts your assistant coaches so on and even
some teams have like chefs and sports psychologists and stuff like that and it does go a long way for
player comfort and allows them to focus on doing the best in-game for Furia. This is about as good
as you could help for so far this stage. They found themselves in the grand finals and despite the
fact that they are going up against FaZe Clan who seem like a runaway freight train at this current
point in time, Furia can still derail them at some point. I'm certain of that but it really does
come down to Loira if he continues to be ineffective on these entries way better on defense so far
than he's been on attack if Loira is not able to fix this your greatest asset a player who you could
argue won three of your four rounds for you is gone with phase being so good on this map Jesse I
just have you get no worry for feria so for Loira that's the big thing confidence and being able to
enter and take down phase without getting thrown right out of the building well they brought the
the best gun in the game, here at around number 10, the F2 on the Snake can be so devastating
when used in the right hand that it's hard to argue that his hands aren't right.
Got a little bit of alert going on from Cyber down inside of the basement, definitely a
bit of a rat spot coming through from the vigil, is going for a spawn peek as he so
commonly does, but didn't find anything with it.
If here you have the tools to go for a bit of explosive rush here Parker, I'm not saying
they definitely will, a lot of their bodies are still over on this library side of the
But you know Volts on the splits is looking to make some kind of explosive entrance at some point in this round
The library extension really just being held by handy who's up there
I believe in the hallway and then you've got vittaking back in piano KDS on mezz maybe the other aggressive player that they're trying to clear out at the moment
And we'll go those smokes lawyer a hops on in a minute and a half into the round and he's still alive
It's obviously confidence inspiring as Wolps charges right past him. They almost collided with one another. Wolps taking some damage hurts dealt with by cyber the vigil roaming and not being spotted by fury as a bit of a blunder. Outgo the nades. Wolps taking even more damage. Handy takes care of Wolps, but there's a lawyer to get the cross. There's no opportunity for cyber to ascend those library stairs alive.
Well, here's on the board, Jesse. What more can you ask for for Viria?
He needs one more for the stats remain true, and he needs Viria to win this round, so we'll see if that continues.
3v4, they've got to dig themselves out of this man disadvantage.
Diffuse kid is dropped, but it's not too far. They can pick it up if they go for this execute.
What I'm worried about is just all these different positions being played by FaZe Clan.
KDS is down below. They saw him drop. They had him on the B, so they should know.
So excuse me, revicking going down, the site slept a little bit weak.
It's a concerning sign, as the lawyer is going to get some information.
Boxer walks, slow peeks handy, takes him down, now back to get to the bomb site phase will
come, but KDS is shut down effectively, Loira having another monstrous round.
Solz was so good clutching against T-Law, he started to clutch, why'd he draw, oh almost
draw, Loira.
It looked like he might have been able to get him, and Diaz was also on the door frame,
took a little bit of damage in the process that a fuse kit taking away an
office.
Area wants to send us to all the way to round 12. If they win here, we will need
every round in regulation. Souls has no information, though.
It's winnable, but souls is gonna need some mistakes committed by fury. And right
now that is just not happening. Diaz entering the bomb site as the timer was
It's almost the point of no return.
Fury a tie things up.
5-5, we will need all 12 in regulation.
And the stack continues to hold Parker every single round.
Loira either one of the first two people to die
or getting at least two kills
and that always determining who wins the rounds.
That time it was a double kill to come through
to help out his team, but really I think he got to focus
on Diaz and Bok in that 3-D4.
The gusto, just be able to walk into site,
find your picks and be able to force that execute to happen.
I think FaZe Clan a little asleep at the wheel, frankly.
That push came in pretty early, around the 60 second mark.
And at that point, FaZe Clan maybe weren't expecting all of the angles to come in at once.
We saw really good control of Office.
Of course, the players back on Mez trying to take some space, pressure in towards Piano.
Like I said, KDX was down below the site, so they knew that he wasn't going to be a problem
unless he still had that nitro cell.
So really good, I think, call coming through from Fury.
Just to spot out those site players, push forward, take them out when they're not expecting it,
and take a bad situation and turn it into a round win.
Ash being swapped out now for Furia.
There we go.
Only a single Intel, true Intel off being brought
and that's the snake in the hands of Lyra
that operated has been passed between him and Herd's
to varying degrees of success today.
He has also planned Intel off of his own
that info will come through the Grim.
I do find it a little odd that Boxer has been playing this
Twitch with the F17 or the 417 instead of the F2.
I do wonder maybe that's a caliber based destruction thing.
DMRs are traditionally much better at making holes in walls,
floors and hatches than any assault rifle will be.
Or maybe he's just more comfortable with the DMR.
The funny thing is, is that even with the F2 buffs,
the 417 is still a damn good weapon.
So it's not like you're really losing, it's just,
You're not using probably the best gun on attack currently in the game, which is the F2.
Yeah, I agree 100%. The 417's still very good.
I know some players that are like less confident with their aim will run this,
but that's usually not what Boxzera is concerned with.
Alrighty, pressure on the handy. He's got to get a dodge ASAP.
Uses those keyboard barriers perfectly to escape, but KDS not so successful.
There's the 417 firing for Boxzera. Another one back on a cyber,
and this map control they've taken is so good.
Lawyer, it does go down to jump up from handy as he gets back into the building, but what a start for furia
Huge map control taken in the first 90 seconds first bloods relatively even to Jesse five for face clan six so far for
Furia as we are in the 11th round that math does add up case people are curious looking at what's only been 10 and impact from
Handy secures the remainder of volts and face clan have turned their own bad situation
situation right around. This is far more winnable, but I do like the guns on the side of fury a bit more than when I see on phase.
If you can keep the pulse of souls alive, though, that gives phase a massive advantage from an information standpoint.
Losing the snake, losing the blitz means that this execute for fury is going to be a lot more challenging.
It's going to be more of a direct hit with less concealment and less ways to deal with these defenders.
Lots of soft reach though, you see herds using some of these charges to open up the floorboards.
That makes the site really claustrophobic. They have to be careful about the angles they're playing.
Everybody's got to worry about that verticality and there's no flank coming through this time.
Last time when the site was a big flank from Handy that made them win the round,
now he's stuck inside the site, he's down inside a binem, so he's either going to commit to this flank ASAP,
or he's just going to be holding an off angle from a little bit far from site.
Oh my goodness, there's Handy with another floor for Handy!
Who will be credited with this final kill onto Herds?
Should Herds fail to clutch out?
Vittikings gas, keeping Herds at bay.
Herds is very much the type of player
who will not try to fight this just
to keep his opponent from getting an ace,
but Herds knows that this is a must win.
Vittikings steals it away, the ace denied,
but FaZe Clan won't care at all.
An ace is a small thing, Jesse,
when you've lifted two hammers far less.
Of consequence, Space Clan moves to map point.
Huge round from Handy.
Put up 14 kills to just four deaths
in the second map of that best of three on border.
We witnessed not too long ago Parker.
So he is on fire today,
having huge value being brought in for his team
and that 4K just goes to cement it.
One of the reasons why Boxerra
might have been running the 417 there
is specifically to counter those Kiba barriers.
But Handy just didn't seem to care,
Even if they had good DMRs to clear up that Azama utility, we still saw Handy getting so much value out of them.
There's a world if Handy's not as good of a player as he is, where he's the first one to die over on solar stairs,
as that blitz from Wolps rush at him from down below, but he used his utility smartly to get away with his life,
and then he had impact throughout the round, early to equalize that man count back down to a 3v3,
and late to just play inside of kitchen, not play predictably like going for that flank he went for that last time.
Instead just sticking inside of the hallway sticking around dining finding those kills as they flood on in so perfectly played by handy
11 and 6 now very close to his 14 fill total from the last map
When we're picking things up herds picking things up they are far and away leading this team
But they are it's a heat sink of kills Jesse 5 10 for box era 5 8 for Diaz 5 10 for volts
It's crazy. Those are the kill totals for this Furious squad given what we're seeing of the scoreline yet for FaZe Clan who are just
ahead by a single round. They've got only one player with a negative KD and that's their worst rated player
all-stage in KDS. He's not the one tasked with kills. You guys like Cyber doing that who just ran out and killed Loira
in the first 15 seconds of the round. That is devastating and Furia might not be able to recover.
It's basically a match point, Jesse. They cannot. That's it for map one.
Yeah, that is a huge loss. They have yet to win a round on this map where Loira has not gotten at least a couple of kills.
So the fact that he goes down early could be horrible for Furious chances.
They still have four very capable players, but we just haven't seen what we're used to of this Furious squad in terms of clutching up.
They've thrown Bok-Sara onto the blitz. Volp's just not finding like it was his operator.
Of course, Wolps is supposed to be kind of the flex IGL box there are the young flex fragger that's supposed to be joining this team
But changing things up as their opponents hit match point. They've got to find some other way to break through
Clearing this office position with handy on the two where I was impossible for them last time
The Maverick will be a good answer to it this time, but they have to be good on their angles
Every keep a barrier that goes up there as well and gets dealt with relatively fast
That's information for phase clan that there is an attack or directly on the other side of it and
Make no mistake the way that the keep a barrier breaks is different depending on whether you're mailing it or shooting it
And you know exactly what's there really good coverage by KDS to talk about his KD
But he's providing valuable utility work for his team shooting the Selmas that were thrown out by Diaz taking care of the blitz of
Boxer who's not able to advance the way that he wants
Down goes Volpz. The main that will have to save this round for Furie is gonna be
Heardz. He's the only one who's been able to stand up consistently to this
FaZe Clan aggression. Keep in mind he as in Bogs Era are still there for support
too but it's gonna be a rough go of it. His FaZe Clan still has every player
upright and there's 50 seconds left for them to ride this out. They know the
Handys in this corner. They'll flash him out and hopefully get a free pick on him
but there's no shield here. Finally comes in Bogs Era. They'll get the kill but what
does it cost? They lose one more body of cyber. Hits the deck now. Vitikin will get
the second kill leading herds all alone trying to push through this top floor.
Big swing from Biddicombe, closes out the game and that'll be 7-5 per phase then on
their own map pick.
It was a close one from Furya Parker but ultimately the two-time world champions are successful.
Now I think it was a 7-5 scoreline when these two teams met in group stages as well.
Not on this map of course on Clubhouse but still you know it's going to be exciting and
you know it's going to be close.
Furya have made steady improvements here and the fact that they were able to take five
rounds on FaZe's best map is really quite the feather in their cap, but now we turn our
attention to map number two and we wonder can FaZe Clan get this done without Fury getting
back in the game.
That's our speculation, but well, we're gonna have to go to a break before we see what happens
in map number two, set time.
What is this one?
It's the one from Fux.
It's this one.
We won't be able to score because it's changing.
Instagram?
I think I'll score every single day.
If you score, we won't be able to score.
If you score, it's sad.
I think I'll score.
I'll play in the cafe.
You don't want to?
The block is in a situation where I had a knock, I would mark it,
but the exposure of the return is not marked.
You give an exposure because the point is taking.
And the strategy I have been given is who doesn't like it, right?
There are several, several.
You can mark it.
The strength of the hole.
Well, great.
Three balls for the three.
The best artist, there is no way.
I'm going to choose this one.
Because it's lighter and easier to handle, and I think it's better.
Look, two weapons here for you.
I think this one is more style.
Two weapons here.
I'm a pistol, I've trained a lot, I won't miss any.
Six bullets for you, no chance.
To accept these three shots.
Damn.
Man.
Damn.
Ok, I'm going to get my own, I'm gonna get my own, I'm gonna get my own, I'm gonna get my own.
It's easier than I thought.
Damn it!
But the first one was a test.
But that one...
Are the bullets doing a curve?
Are the bullets doing a curve?
It's the last one, I'll accept it.
It's hard to use the weapons.
One more thing that the first one doesn't work.
The weapon is hard to use and it's stuck.
two hours later
Let's see what we're going to play in the chalet.
We're going to play in the chalet.
You know, you're going to play Miratriana.
Exactly.
Cadete is going to smile more.
Exactly.
And Vita King is going to play in Montenegro.
And maybe, many times, you're going to have my team.
Now, I lost to Adapte7M, I lost to Alic, we took the 0-0.
Then, Zaghanay is going to play in this face.
No, you're kidding.
Who's going to do this?
Production.
Flavor, right?
Champion history here in the words.
He gets a nice frag there, over through the bar's wire, and that's gonna go for a peek.
That's gonna be a wonderful shot by Cameron!
Until he cuts this!
He's on forward.
There's some more shots.
Now before he walks out through this door, he shouldn't point out the harpy fence, or
he's not going to.
Instead, there will be a nice crush by Cameron!
They're dying on the stairs, not the most important thing to be aware of.
Nice and rat coming up, Niko again, she uses on pretty many of these nades.
This must be a fight, this is a huge fight.
Now the nade comes on the top and drops stigs as well.
What a nutty round from him, he gets two grenade kills and a nice peek and closes the house.
No way! Oh, fuck this, the clutch!
That's a one versus five clutch!
The eyes from the ashes to play in the hammer at the 16th position on 2021.
Come on, to the complete, Biggie T!
Finds a huge partner in Gifford.
Go on and do whatever you can.
They're trying to get the diffuser down.
They will be on the pretzels.
The virtue goes absolutely wild with the shotgun.
And that is pretty huge care for him.
And the blade also, yeti will fight foxing at 50% by the MP5K.
Laxing will now get into an encampment.
Yeti is just an absolute...
Yeti with 4 kills.
Goddess uses a tiny bit of health, and yeti will get the ace.
Both Kodan and Katzang.
Watch it from this angle.
Kanzin, are you a miracle worker?
You only need one more!
And there it is!
One of the best plays that we've seen at this tournament.
No, but no, there's the best team in the world, never having that distinction until today.
Pensa on your world champion!
We choose practice alone.
Sorry for that.
Hey, dad!
It's Sparta Vivo, guys.
Well currently stands at three maps in a row for phase clan and while the first two were
seven threes and this one only a couple rounds closer, Ali it felt like while phase clan
were in control it was a bit more tenuous even if phase still came out with a win.
Phase have been pushed there again haven't they you know I think cracks are starting
to show here and there was an opportunity it felt like for Furia for a brief time to
take a lead in this game but it wasn't meant to be the quality just too deep on this phase roster.
You really don't have to look too far to see it but like we said they've been forced to adapt a
little bit. It's a map they have played a ton. 14 times to be precise in recent history and as such
there's tape, as such there's counter striking and as such Giriott gave them a very good game. However
It will only ever be remembered as that 7-5 isn't enough for Furia in this fixture.
They need full map wins if they want to take the crown here in SA-L.
They still have a chance of that, of course.
However, they will be looking for their own map because they think more seriously
than what they can do on Shallie.
I think the fact that they've stood toe-to-toe with FaZe on this map
is a great start for the series and wants to come.
Well, especially as Shalei has become such an important map in FaZe's pool,
you know, you think back into like the 2024 SI invite area, you know, the maps like Skyscraper and
Oregon that were firmly in phases column those dropped out. Shale has become one of their marquee
maps and especially with how competitive Fury were on the back side, you know, taking the lead in the
first half, I think going into bank with this kind of performance, even if, you know, you would have
liked more, we could have enjoyed more, certainly much different feeling than we had coming out of
that Nighthaven game just a few hours ago. Yeah, it has to feel at least decent for Fury, you know,
the competitive players, they're going to be hard pressed at the minute. You know, they'll
be wanting to win there, I'm sure. They'll have felt like it was potentially there for
the taking as well on occasion, but best of threes, simplify them down, win your own map
pick and win the decider. And that is what phase, and of course, now, Furia, are going
to be looking to have to do phase of one there, map pick, they're going to be looking toward
this bank. And of course, with an eye on the decider in case it's required, but from Furia's
point of view, I just didn't need to accept they've had a really good start there, not
quite enough to get them over the line. But what do we ask for from this team? We ask
for big performances. We ask for Talisman players to stand up. Lyra, top of the pops,
13 and 8. He had a blast on the defensive side and still had a good impact on those
attacking rounds as well.
One, I mean, he might only have a 58% cost, but when quite literally out of five rounds
were up one, he bought three of them with that play and bar and games. You can't, you
can't really criticize them when it comes to results. He put in the work for them,
but we also wanted to see depth from FaZe Clan. And I think we're still continuing to see
that today, handy at the top, but also something we kind of saw at the end there.
Mitterking having a really good day, second rated here, but constantly in the conversation,
if not though, not in the spotlight, through the three maps today.
Yeah, you know, doesn't get himself involved in any of the entry nonsense.
He leaves his teammates to that.
They're better at it.
He's just there when it matters.
He's there to pick up big important kills later in the round, and he's been doing it
across both series here tonight.
It's been great to watch.
At the top of the day, we highlighted Cyber, and we said, Cyber is the player that needs
show. Cyber performs in playoffs all the time. This is where he shines. And we weren't necessarily
wrong. He's done a great job. I've got no complaints of cyber overall. However, what we weren't
really anticipating is a big show from Andy and Victor King, and it is definitely propelled
phase forward in the series we've seen so far tonight. And so far, a big show from everyone.
I mean, quite literally now we have highlighted performances from all five players on phase.
That wasn't certain. That was not the case for T-Law, but it still could be the case for Fury.
That was FaZe's pick and Fira gave them a very good run on Chalet, all 12 rounds of regulation,
on the most comfortable territory for FaZe Clan currently in the map pool and now we have their
pick of bank coming up. It's entirely possible with the fight we saw in Chalet that this could
be a three mapper and Ali, I want to get a prediction for you. Do you think this will be a three mapper?
Has the potential to, doesn't it? We like to poke a lot of fun and we like to say,
oh, FaZe haven't got a bad map. FaZe have, you know, you could take FaZe anywhere and you're
you're going to struggle. Bank is on the end of things where they're not that hot. Um,
they took quite a beating on this map against, uh, all dark zero. And I don't know. Um, I
do feel like this is where fury have a chance. If they keep playing the seeds that we've seen
them play so far, which is this togetherness, not that a heavy reliance on the clutch is
rounds being won through genuine team playing, genuine big performance. I really think we
could go to three.
Well, let's see if we do. Fury's pick a bank coming up right now. Will we see the third map after this, or will we see FaZe lift another trophy in the S.A.L.?
An excellent question to be asked as we head our way into map number two. FaZe Clan has been quite efficient getting through so many of their adversaries here in Brazil.
They only dropped two games during the regular stage, and that was to two very unlikely teams
here, Jesse, both Loud and Black Dragons, then after getting punched out of the lower
bracket it's been a triumphant run.
They're hoping for another 2-0 to match what they did to Loud and Team Liquid Alienware
earlier today, but it will involve them for the third time in the playoffs, stealing their
opponent's map.
Yeah, that's absolutely correct, Parker.
Of the eight maps that FaceBan have played since falling to the lower bracket, they have
been victorious on seven of them. If they can go eight for nine, they will be
SAL champions here in the winter stage of the South American League. So it's big
stakes going through from FaZe Clan, Furia, the road ahead of them is long, but
it's not one that they haven't traveled before. These were the kickoff champions.
Don't forget beating ninjas and pajamas in the finals back during kickoff. So this
team has done what it takes to be the best team in South America despite the
fact that they are so new here on bank it's an interesting map to go to phase
clan do not play a whole lot of bank parker they've only shown it once this
season that was against dark zero in Salt Lake City and they got blown out 7-3
so hoping for a better result now against their domestic rivals Boyer
obviously was talked about quite a lot by the desk winning three of those five
rounds on Chalet by himself but the player who I feel like didn't get enough
talk was Diaz, the second highest rated player on this team throughout the entirety of the group
stages. And he was really not that far off of Volts for worst rated player in the lobby. Volts,
of course, was the worst rated, but if Diaz cannot pick it up, I just kind of worry about the
fragging potential here. Lawyer, though, starting off with the very first kill of Bank, actually
He plays and he fights a second in his position, almost a third as well.
Chasing these phase clan players off of the top floor.
What can't Loira do?
Alright, I know how this one ends Parker, back on Chalet, Furia won the round if and
only if Loira got a multi-kill at some point in the midst of it.
Here's the multi-kill early on round number one of banks, so you have to imagine this
will spiral out of control.
Vitakind is looking to make sure that doesn't happen as he lurks his way back up these main
stairs. They have to be able to catch somebody off guard here on the side of
FaZe Clan. They know if they just sit in site for 90 seconds they will
eventually lose so that's why some aggressive plays are being made by
FaZe Clan. They've got good utilities to play with as well if they do manage to play
this one in the clock for a bit of getting aggressive on the corner the
demos. Hers will hit the head and it's a 2v5 now for souls and KDS.
The Tressel goes out. Alright, alright. Two kills so far for KDS. Making things a
little bit easier they really do not love this position though for phase so
one nitrocell is gone souls has the three gas canisters in pocket you can
delay the time but not the entirety of the round
they'll have to be KDS to clutch he's got two kills to his name he just lost
souls and I believe souls died with every gas canister in pocket KDS is a
bit vulnerable from the hatches above but he seems to have an idea of where
the last two players are coming from. He squares his body away. Oh my goodness, narrowly avoiding
death from the frag grenade dropped by Fioria. Kardo's Wolfs. No, he's still alive. He's
on the ground. Pistol out. KDS and Dostido around the column and Loira wins the round.
KDS in near clutch, but three for Loira Demon. Jesse, are we back on Chale again or are my
My eyes just misleading me.
Parker, I don't think it matters at all what the map is.
Loyra is on one today.
And again, it's a triple kill to start off the map for him.
It will be a round win from Fury to follow it up.
Just an incredible performance coming through from Loyra.
No doubt, one of the best that we have seen from him
in his entire career, certainly since joining
this Fury Corps a couple of months ago.
I mean, it's incredible.
He's working alone a lot of the time too.
Not that he's necessarily completely by himself, but like he's always coming in at a different angle.
In that previous round, most of Fury were pushing Squareside.
They were pressuring the stock windows, they were walking in Square, they had a lot of the attention drawn towards them on that east side of the map.
Lawyer just crept his way in through ATMs, crept his way up those spiral stairs, and got two big kills to give them that massive advantage that eventually spiraled out of control.
It was really impressive to see Lawyer pull all that off, and then also to clutch up in the 1v1.
Both players a single bullet away from death.
I mean, you couldn't have written a better first round
to go through from Furia.
It comes down perfectly as the story would have liked.
And now they get their first round here on the attack.
A good start on bank.
This team has been really something else today,
again proving why they made their way to the grand finals.
The road here was quite short for Furia, if we're being honest.
It took down News of the Jammas in a 2-1 contest
was a little bit harder than I'm sure they had anticipated and then a matchup that, as we explained
when we saw Team Liquid Alienware in the previous match today, could have really gone either way.
Furia taking a 2-0 victory in the upper bracket finals, 8-6, 8-7, one round, a couple kills go
T-Law's way and it's Team Liquid in the grand finals, not Furia. Oh boy, what that would have
potentially meant for the lower bracket run that FaZe Clan has been on, but Furia only needed five
maps to get to this point. FaZe Clan played a lot more than that. You mentioned that earlier on,
and well, FaZe don't love Bank that much. That means it's very likely that we will end up going
all three maps, and well, I'll be clubhouse. That was the map that FaZe beat Furia on,
Seven five during the regular stage
Fury have played bank three times since forming as a team and they have never lost a top floor attack
They're five and oh attacking this bomb site have an opportunity to push that over to six
They know that cyber's down below the gopher attract with Laura here on the demo spotting out that yokai can so information goes both ways
Cyber surely he doesn't peak this and give lawyer a chance. He's gonna just waste this time
Hopefully stall things out and indeed bait for his teammates. That's exactly what he needed
he gets the finish off as his teammate got the frag from up above.
Tricky for Furia to win around with Lyra not having really any impact whatsoever.
But again, we will cite these numbers.
Herds and Diaz for the two best rated players on the side of Furia.
Herds almost turning back the clock as he found himself in the top 10 Diaz just
outside of it for players rated in this stage.
I know it's been the lawyer show today, but he's not been the guy through this
entire stage that they've relied upon. So maybe even over performance from
lawyer is buying time for the usual suspects to get a little bit more
comfortable box there with one folks one of his own folks in particular can
dominate around two. He said a bit of a quiet day. Herds on the board. So
everybody trading kills on the side of fury, except for Diaz. He needs to find
one as he's the only one on his side without one to this point cyber on
face clan also without a kill. Final 30 seconds and a bit of a pause here Jesse
as there's two gas canisters in pocket for Vita King. Solz is completely
unaware of the angle. Boxer taking full advantage of that. All the Jegeo payloads
still in pocket for Diaz. As Vita King hits one on the herds immediately
pivots towards the bombsite. Boxer holding the defuse kit Diaz to cover. But Boxer
says how about kills instead of objectives? I seem to find one more of you and find him.
he will. A 2-0 start for Furia. Well for the first time today Barker, Furia will
win a round without Laura needing to contribute to the kills and instead it's
Bokzera who steps up. The youngest player in the South American League, he opens
that up by finding the pick on the Cyber, the oldest player in the South
American League who is playing on that Solis down below the bombsite. After Bok
got that first frag, he's able to regroup with his teammates up on the top
floor. They push through that square side, they get the picks they were looking
for it in and around that bomb site. It's clear FaZe Clan wanted to play a very objective
focused utility style of gameplay there, but Fury just did not give them the chance. They
had so many good ways to deny a plant. The Solace down below, the Echo up above, C4s
being held by Handy and potentially Solace, although I think he had barbed wire on the
bandit instead, the Toxic Babes. Everything they could have wanted to deny a plant, but
it never came. Fury had just played guns up, they shred through the bomb site with really
good angles after opening all the walls that they possibly could. They get away with the
victory because of it. 2-0 now here on Bank. If FaZe Clan want to 2-0 this, they really
need to start winning defense rounds. They cannot afford to let this game slip away.
I'm not even correct. Bank's a really, really big map in the map pool. I know that we spent
a lot of time talking about map-keeping labs and clubhouse and yada yada yada and lair for
crying out loud, but people do often forget just how large of a map Bank is. And it can
make it really tricky to defend, especially with all the tools that the attackers have
right now. You've got a lot of drones, you've got a lot of operators that can bring drones,
you've got a lot of intel operators, you've got a lot of great guns on attack right now.
Another terrific operator on attack just got buffed too, which is the Zofia. Bank is seeing
very little play here inside of Brazil. Don't really have a lot of data on it, admittedly
only 34 rounds have been played up to this point. It is an attacker-sided map, that is
certain the only bomb site that is favorable for the defenders is down below the other two sites
which is the top floor which is lounge and office and then open areas we have yet to see
atellers archives are both quite decidedly in favor of the attackers so furia i've already
done the toughest job jesse that's win the bottom floor bomb site it should be easier from this point
on until face clan decides to go back down to locker cctv yeah it makes it all the more devastating
and that FaZe Clan didn't win that very first round when we saw Lora get that triple kill, so
now, not choosing to go back to it in the first quarter, they will only get one opportunity to
win it there in the second quarter, but Cyber starts us off nicely with an opening pick on the
Herds. He finds the Blackbeard, he gets traded, he dies for it, but there's a hugely impactful
pick from Cyber coming through. You take down the tip of that spear. Volpsus is essentially in
the bomb site, by the way. He's made his way into Printer, past the footholes that is playing around
this reinforcement. His teammate drops in and gets a kicked pick on the souls. This is a fast round
Parker as they're already in the site. And Viddikking somehow escapes, but Vulps will sit him down
area looking for a 3-0 start, causing dissension in the ranks of FaZe Clan. And I have no doubt
that FaZe will call a timeout if they end up going down 0 and 3, but they've got themselves a golden
opportunity as Boxer is the last one left. Box now walking his way towards the bomb site.
Faceclan are sitting here. His vulps retrievable.
Park's there has to give himself away.
And with it, one of these defenders from Faceclan right now, KDS, sitting and waiting,
could capitalize off of this. He knows exactly what's happening. Great play by
Bogzera.
And he will need to save the day and he will do just that.
They called for a miracle and he appeared
as a mausoleum by the bomb chassis phase clan finally on the board really cool push from furia
despite the fact that it doesn't work out parker i still could see attack timeout coming through
just based on how that round ended for phase clan but they at least walk away with the point
they'll keep this game close and competitive two to one as a scoreline that rush from furia
they had herds immediately enter stock and drop down the hatch into open area that's where he died
as the opening depth volpsen jumping in the printer window at the exact same time it was clear
It's clear that Furia wanted to hit that site hard and fast.
And while they were successful, a couple of the players went down.
They bled a few too many bodies in the midst of that execute.
And those players that weren't involved in the initial scuffle on the side of FaZe Clan,
were able to come back, have really big value, handy in KDS, of course,
able to make sure that they can clutch up in that 2v3 situation.
So really good stuff coming out from FaZe Clan to save it.
They will not use their attack timeout, despite how close this was to being a 3-0 in favor of Furia,
instead they'll go back down to the bomb site.
most favorable site for the offenders hoping to tie this game. This is really where it is.
I said at last round this is the only bomb site that tends to have a favorable win rate across all
regions for these defending teams. It really does come down to how you go about this bottom
floor bomb site though. Because it's a big map it's not uncommon to see teams roaming up on the
top floor. You can also completely seal off all of those hatches and bunker down in the basement
bomb site. Stylistically, you can play a full anchor setup and maybe have one
roamer, but force them on the attacking side to bring hard breach. Or you can do
what FaZe Clan is doing, which is open up all of these hatches, try to waste as
much time as possible, usually about 45 seconds to 90 seconds into the round, and
if you're lucky, get a pick or two when the attackers go for open area. But just
as we say that about the defenders, you can also completely for go open area, go
go for a direct side hit, take lobby, take elevator, take escape tunnel and force the
defenders to drop through the hatches that they've opened up themselves. It's a really
nice call and response of a bomb site and it frankly can be played so many ways by both
sides that it's always fascinating to watch.
I like Volts on this nook parker. This is an operator we don't see very often at all
in Siege but Bank is definitely one of her best maps because there is that garage entrance
where you can really make a sneaky entrance into the bombsite.
That's what Volpz has just done.
He's gonna be pushing that garage side while the rest of his team works on clearing some
of these roamers.
Bit of an information being gathered here by the Snake.
I believe this might be about a mute jammer.
In fact, it certainly is.
So they've got him to find souls here inside a staff room, but instead, if their players
were hitting the floor handy and cyber get one apiece, it's two shields dead on the attacking
side and they're gonna have to really rethink this push now.
And now you have to walk into open area with limited information, limited utility.
Volps will catch KDS and he's in the site by the way and not going through garage straight
for the throat of this defending corps.
That's exactly what Fira has done with Volps in this position.
Diaz and the lawyer will either need to wait out Volps' position or very hurriedly get
into the site to assist him.
Diffuse kid in the hands of Diaz.
a disappointing first map has yet to find a kill here on bank though he is playing a much harder
support role so he's not being tasked with getting the kills the way that you'd expect.
Here he is fierce full side control right now Jesse with a minute to go they are going to attempt
to get the plant down. No information at all on this Parker but it's not successful Diaz pulls
off at the last second I think he could have finished it but thought he was getting pushed so
So now they've got to recommit the full seven seconds.
That might have been a mistake from Diaz.
I think if he'd stuck it,
that would have been a golden opportunity,
but frankly, they just didn't have the information.
Diaz gets one pick.
It's his first, he'll square his body up
to the B bomb chassis.
He's aware, Faze having a player over by vault.
There'll be him and Cyber in a 1v1.
The lawyer goes down.
He sees the tracers go through the wall,
but Diaz is not able to capitalize.
Cyber and Handy will fight for the last kill.
And it's Handy again.
The hero for FaZe Clan saying, guys, I do not want a map 3.
And boy, oh boy, is he making his dreams a reality.
Tie game as we head into round 5.
And he just feels like he's playing at the peak of his career, Parker.
You go back to that second map against Team Liquid on Saturday.
He drops 14 kills and is the MVP on boarder to give FaZe Clan the win.
Then you look back at the, not even on Saturday, sorry, a couple hours ago.
And then you go on this game against Furia.
to Chalet, he drops 12 kills and is the MVP for face clan to get them to win there as
well.
He is now just 4 kills away from breaking double digits for the third straight map.
Handy has been so impactful for his team here and especially on these roam games, right?
He's been really good at shutting down some of these off angle pushes that Furia really
loved to play with.
In that previous round, we didn't really catch it on the camera, but Herds was solo pushing
ATMs on the Blackbeard and he ended up dying to Handy as the second overall frag in the
round.
not really focused, not really around where we were focused, but like getting that pick
onto herds, trying to get the Babs, the Lula, and then those late, of course. So important
as well. Now FaZe Clan have tied up the game in Aferia. A little surprise to see the tack
timeout coming this early, Parker. They're still not in a bad situation, but maybe something
in the comms or something in the mental is starting to spiral out of control is that
Reduck wants to fix.
face clan called their timeout when they were winning against
he law for crying out loud. So lots of times teams will call
timeouts based on things that we don't know. One of the things
that we often do references that coaches can hear team comps and
coaches can see all perspectives and advantages of their
players, whereas the leaders might not. So maybe something is
slipping through the fingers of Wolfson. He's not particularly
seeing it on the side of fury, but coaching staff is or maybe
they starting to fight maybe there's some frustration there again one of the
things that seemed to plague this feria team and was touched upon by other
players in brazil was that was maybe a bit of interpersonal difficulties in
salt lake city maybe too many cooks in a kitchen maybe that's happening again
nice shot by Diaz and the man who saved the previous couple rounds for phase
clan is no more handy how dual is he was going fishing for a spawn peak with the
DMR and he is swiftly shut down by a DMR on the side of Furia
That's kind of brutal as well because now Diaz gonna hack that phone and that's gonna give away all the positions of these yokai drones being piloted by
KDS, so that's a lot of information that'll be given towards the attackers after that opening spawn peak comes through
Of course with new doka be rework you don't keep that information permanently
But even still if it allows you to clear up some of these yokai cans
That's a hugely valuable pick to come through from the guys on furia
They did win this bombsite last time they came here, so I can understand FaZe Clan,
just trying to spice it up, trying to make some kind of a difference, so that they can
get a better chance at winning this round, but now Betaking goes down to the window angle
as well, and just feels like it's falling apart once again on the top floor.
After mounting an impressive comeback, FaZe Clan falling off, oh well, but again, this
top floor bombsite is usually prime opportunity for the attackers to get the upper hand with
these defenders all the window play they can paralyze you from the lobby as
well and you have very limited moves as a defender. This is also a bombsite that
tends to favor those with long range weaponry which of course is always
going to be in the wheelhouse of the attackers. Solz is doing his best to keep
these players at bay particularly from the ATM side and he loses his phone as
Diaz had used one of those payloads still four in pocket fire as well there
from Volp so he can paralyze even more of this bombsite. I really like what Furia has
going for them. Yeah, this is a great round coming out so far. They've got a lot of utility
to enable this plant as well. The Capitao, the one new operator they've brought to this
push. He can use these firebolts and smokebolts to enable a plant. Early death from KDS. Finally,
one back from Cyber, but he has to do so much more good information here on Loira, but can
he win the gunfight with another player lurking down the hallway? Gets two. Looking for the
the third. Oh, time ran out, Jesse. And also, well, most
importantly, bullets ran out. I think that was the bigger
issue there was just, you know, it is a bullet hose, that's
scorpion, but sometimes you've got to reload. If you're able to
take three rounds, they are not guaranteed a victory here just
yet on the first half, they have one more round to secure a
fourth and put phase clan in a tough position where phase will
have to do the same on attack in order to propel us to overtime. This is Furia's
map. They should absolutely be the better team just based on that. But again,
FaZe Clan is always a different beast. Attackers do have a better shot on this
map. Despite the low numbers, the attackers tend to excel. Furia is
obviously on that side. So the fact that FaZe Clan opted to start on defense
makes me wonder if they're attacking. They're attacking us. It's gonna be
quite poor. I mean, why not start on the side that statistically is better unless you feel
that you are just not up to snuff on that one? If that's the case, this could be Furia
running away with it, but of course that's just idle speculation. All told, they've
relied a lot less on Loira for this map. It's been a far more of a team effort and Furia
are flourishing because of it.
Just going back to that game that they played against DarkZero on Bank Parfor
and they did choose to start on the attack that time versus DZ.
They got a 3-3 split and then lost every single defense round against DarkZero.
So clearly something has changed for this team.
They're feeling like that defense aside might be a little bit better by choosing to start here
and if they can get a 3-3 split, it's not bad at all because they've shown in the past
that they can have good attacks on Bank even against one of the best teams in the world as DarkZero.
So we'll see what face clan look like we don't have to speculate for too long as they'll be attacking soon enough for now
They're just trying to get to that point in a tied game rather than down by two
Back over to the open area bomb site
This is the one that they were successful last time
But it was a weird rush play by furia where they tried to drop down through that stock hatch as soon as possible
This time it looks like the push is a little bit more standard
They're gonna work their way through his top floor players
Horsies roamers back towards the site and then eventually go for an execute a little bit later in the round
I'm glad to see the DMR, this new DMR, one of the newer guns added to the game, getting
some love from these players.
I know that we are still very much heavily in a DMR-favored meta, even with the F2's
resurgence, and their credit Ubisoft buffing a slew of other guns, but that new DMR I feel
like is slept on from the broader community, at least if the games that I play are any
indication.
I don't think DMR's in general or something where they can be hard to control after that
first recoil maybe players just like the fact that a higher rate of fire will land a headshot
more but obviously do some serious damage and of course DMRs are great for maps like
bank where again long range bullet drop off not as bad as it is for an AR you can open
up hatches and floors easier it's a great choice here so yeah I can see why fury is doing that
I'm assuming vulps is using the F2 I don't know what gun you've seen but no he's got the 417 okay
Again, sometimes just for those longer-range gunfights, the 417 is the better choice.
Already through this hatch, he got a little bit of messiness going through.
Loyra hoping to be able to work himself an opening pick, but he didn't actually find
it in the midst of that.
Now his position is known, cleaned up by a bit of king, and he goes down those stairs
to find the first frag of this round.
60 seconds left.
Five and four for Loyra.
Those will be his stats to hang on to through the first half.
He's been very good through both of these maps today.
Now we'll rely on the rest of the team to get the job done.
Herds attempting the defuse plant shut down by cyber.
No coverage there from Furia to deny the nitro cell,
as Volpes is outside of the printer window,
circling and fishing for a kill that is yet to materialize.
Boxerah now picking up the defuse kit and will attempt it all on his lonesome.
There are still two more nitro cells that can be done,
but Vivik is full coverage of the hatchabomb.
Volpes standing there.
There must have been a plan that Furia had,
Volps is not a part of it. It allows this FaZe Clan team to be so nestled above. KDS goes down,
DS finds scuba there, completely impactless as Volps is right back to where he started outside
a printer window. FaZe Clan win the round on time and it's 3-3 for the first half.
And for the first time today, Ollie, it feels like FaZe not fully in control of their theories,
Obviously, Furia with the lead going into round six. It might be a tie-half, but these rounds have been close
But a slight edge toward Furia
Yeah, I think you could argue for both sides. Couldn't you, Furia, because they're on the attack
They've done a really good job in those rounds. FaZe, again, some really good recovery rounds
But it hangs in a fine margin at the moment
You wouldn't know that FaZe have just won the round there looking at the player cams as we end the round
We've got a little bit of an insight here as to just how Furia are options to try and play some of these rounds
This was round number four where we got vaults in super deep very early on and the attackers very quickly became the defenders and vice-a-versa
And I think this is just gap-spotting from furia and trying to leverage those gaps that phase are leaving open in some of these defenses
It didn't work out for them admittedly
But there was an opportunity for it to now you could look at this from both sides and you can go
Well on the one hand our furia sort of skipping a few steps that they maybe need to check off their list
to be taken in. Is there a
chance you can come with
around when absolutely it just
so happened that phase were
good in the heat of the moment
here. Overall the first half
I'm very enthused for the
series because it does feel as
though fury are back in this
fight, although still with big
performances out KDS handy and
vissaking. I mean KDS starting
to join onto that fray of
players that have had a
multi kill on the side of
face so far, so it really
on the side of face so far.
So it really is anybody's.
And of course, in this round,
again, talking about small mistakes,
you have both shields being lost early.
You have other times where the Intel ops
aren't having quite the effect they would like.
It's a lot more smaller moments
that are causing problems for both teams
rather than any broader problem
like we saw in the T-Law game
where the attack seemed consistently out of sync
and phase were consistently able to exploit it.
And so as we go into the second half phase,
moving more to the attack,
We often talk about on bank that the attack is a bit more room to breathe on this map
of the defense, even if they end up contesting a bit more control, has to kind of walk a
fine line between extending too far and creating gaps in what is a very large map, or not defending
enough and giving the attack basically the entirety to work with, say, on a basement
defense.
Obviously, Ali, FaZe, we normally don't think will make those kinds of mistakes, but this
is one of their least favorite maps, or one of their lesser favorite maps in the pool.
territories uncomfortably this one. Yeah, quite possibly. And I think, you know, looking
at the bands here, you can see that there is a little bit of trepidation here by phase.
The chosen stretch to remove the WAMISO, a load of utility now available for these defense
defenses to play with the attacking bands, I think are a little bit better here as well.
A target onto the Monty and a target onto the hard breach, really trying to dial down
on some of that kit that phase is going to want to try and bring. Well, it's another
33 half like it was on shall I will see if it's faces fourth W in a row
Potentially the final map of the grand final right now
Bay's clan four rounds away from closing this one out Firiya the same distance from map three clubhouse will be the decider if we need it
But until then all eyes are focused here on bank and sunny Los Angeles, California
Firiya on this defensive side Parker. We've talked about it. They might not be favored overall
But the thing about bang because this bottom floor bomb site is usually so good for the defenders that it should
Realistically be a guaranteed two rounds for the defense, and then they just have to squeak around out here or there
I want these other couple of sites to tie the game
Yeah, I mean definitely within within reach at this current point in time and
Really appreciate
Links and X also providing some context to what we saw
Jesse we're looking at clubhouse this map number three
I'm eager to get there, because I want to see if Furia have learned and grown from when they did battle against FaZe during the regular stage.
You know, that will disappoint FaZe fans because they want this one to be over, but I mean, hey, we don't cheer for any team.
We cheer for the theatrics and we cheer for the fun, and it's always fun going to the third map.
Well, what's also fun is two and a half minutes of no kills, because it's probably what we're going to get here on this full bunker setup of Furia.
Unlike FaZe Clan, they have chosen to bring zero roamers to this and instead they've brought the Chonka, they've brought the Smoke, they've brought the Goyo, they've brought the Aruni.
Everything they could possibly have to slow down this round and win it based on time has been brought.
Here comes the Aruni trick most likely.
No, they'll get the hatch open anyways, so usually you'll see that gate activate. They might have burned it already at that point, but I think the Goyo canister was on it.
So if you just misplaced a little bit as the thermite charge was able to go on
In any case this is gonna be face clan speeding things up a little bit here in the top floor clear
Deciding now if they want to pop this go-yo canister
It's always gonna come down to the utility right burning out this clock taking your time with it
And it looks like again, they're gonna just get past this a really go-yo combination and get the hatch open with that thermite charge
It's a bit of miss utility play by furia
really good pacing there as well by face clan. There are very few obstacles that I think phase
would be caught off guard by Jesse. I think that there's some small things that need to be changed,
but very rarely do we see this phase clan get bogged down by anything and their ability to
maneuver around two operators were the gadgetry really quite commendable here. Oxair has got
to be a little bit careful about his rump as he looked back his way into the hatch that had been
opened up instead he presents himself to souls and the first kill will go in
way of phase clan would you say two minutes and 15 seconds until the first
kill would come in by Joe he's got it pretty close here we've got still 35
seconds on the clock Parker my worry is all this utility even with the man
counter advantage I don't think this favors the attackers I don't like it
either as they wander into their undoing a drop and everybody dies the kill
a beautiful shade of blue as
Fioria take the lead and we'll take the first round of the second half.
Really nicely done to come through on that defense again just anchoring up
knowing that there's gonna be so much time waste. It was weird those Arunni
gates again they were blocked off by the Goyos they did activate after the
hatch opened so you kind of have to waste time wait for those Goyos to finish
burning after the hatch blows up then you've got to clear up the Surya gate
it was definitely a good time wasting maneuver to come through there by Fioria
Even if it didn't directly burn that hard breach that they might have been hoping for but that's totally okay
They're still able to play the clock and at the end of the day bank basement the clock is the most important thing
So if you're a player on it really nicely, they get themselves that wind down to the basements
And now the hard part here on the defensive bank really begins
Well
The hard the hard parts gonna be playing because
I think we're going to have a
rehost Jesse, but that does make it extra hard to win rounds.
It is a little challenging when you're down a player.
I don't know about you.
On your screens, the head to head results between these organizations, and again,
Furia is not the same team it was six months ago when they played the Six Invitation,
they did it with a completely different lineup.
It was the majority of which are now with Team Liquid Alienware.
Heard's the only remaining member on your screen. You see Loira who's in his fury of Jersey
But for many players you will know him best for his time on G2
Unsurprisingly phase clan has a positive win rate against just about every organization in Brazil
So no matter what team they're playing and every time we show this head-to-head graphic
Even the most casual observers are gonna look at it and go well face claims pretty good there
Yeah, and if you want to isolate just to this roster of furia these teams have only met once they were in different groups
Back during kickoff they didn't meet in the kickoff playoffs
They didn't meet in Salt Lake City
The only time they played was that best of one in stage one and of course as you've mentioned Parker 7-5 on clubhouse
Was the result favoring phase clan so?
Technically they've never lost to this team in their current iteration or anything close to their current iteration
but very low sample size and a very close game the one time that they played against each other so
it really is kind of a
An open book a big question mark as to where these two teams do lie in respect to one another
FaZe Clan again have the history they have the experience they have the veterans
But the fury accord that was assembled a few months ago and now make up the team that they have today is so scary
The individual talent they have is just ridiculous. It's always kind of been a a question of can they put it together, right?
can they make these five pieces work as a unit? Couldn't do that in Salt Lake City. We'll hope
to do it once again in Paris and domestically again. Binding lots of success so far, but this
would really be their biggest domestic result for sure. Did I have to sell? And again, looking to
avenge their result in Salt Lake City, we were by far in the way the worst team out of Brazil,
one of the worst teams in the world at that event. And the sky was the limit for the Furia squad,
right? If you looked at a lot of smart people's picks, they had Furia finishing top 4. It was
largely just based off of, I suppose, the vibes of these players. You've got Herds. He's a world
champion. You've got Leura, consistently one of the best fraggers in Europe and on G2, playing
really tough minutes against some of the best gunners in the world. Volps has been good on just
just about every single team that he's played on both as a leader and as a
fragger Diaz again Diaz was a bit of an interesting choice I think for a lot of
the more casual audience especially North American fans who got to see him on
a lot of those quote-unquote friendship rosters as they were referred to as but
Diaz has inarguably been one of the best players on this Feria team and then of
course box era was a player that everybody was looking at as a prospect
and thinking that this guy could be the next fantasy this guy could be the next
you know, JV92 sort of deal. So the way that they handled kickoff and the results that they had,
people were saying, you know, Fury is going to make a deep run. So for them to be one of the
first teams to go home at Salt Lake City was quite devastating and they have definitely turned things
around. Whatever the reason may be, they are in the grand finals, they are bringing the heat to
FaZe Clan, they have the lead and there is a high likelihood that we see a third map, which will be
a best of one showdown on the exact same map. These teams played each other on just a couple weeks ago.
Well, we do appreciate your patience. It looks like everything has been sorted out down in
South America, so we are getting back into the game now. Furia lead phase clan four to three.
I'm glad you brought up Boxerra Parker. I feel like that's a name that English audiences aren't
familiar enough with just yet. There were a lot of talks about him being rookie of the year last
year and if Stompin hadn't made his debut, I think no doubt Boxer would have been rookie
of the year last year.
Tactically, he played in the Hispanic league back in 2024 for one stage, so maybe not actually
a rookie, but I think close enough that he would have gave it to him.
Played on that ENX core that didn't do really anything down in South America, didn't make
it to any of those international events, but Boxer was still able to stand out among the
rest and really showcase himself as a top prospect here in South America.
Now on Furia, on this new core, he's made it to an international event before, was playing
in Salt Lake City, hopes to do so again in Paris and should bar any crazy decent situations.
Now making his debut here in the season, hoping to become a champion of stage one.
Back to the top floor.
This is supposed to be what's so difficult for Furia.
This is supposed to be where it comes so tricky to defend.
FaZe Clan were unsuccessful on this bomb site the first time they came here, so what's the
change up gonna be? Well, you're bringing this mirror window from
bulbs, you're not relying as much on stuff as like the Echo,
you're gonna try to play with these Goyo Cancer slow things
down, and lots of window denial, both Herds and Bach Zera
playing the Azami Castle setup, I like that.
I have to imagine that was Cyber's pistol as he was just shooting away.
30 seconds in, yeah, it absolutely was.
Very quickly trying to pick away at some of these defenses that Furia has set up on the
double panel window outside on repel.
Our speculation as to why FaZe Clan opted to start on defense, which statistically speaking
is the weaker side at this current point in time on this map in Brazil, is because FaZe
Clan would struggle with their attacks.
That first attack was a big struggle.
I think that's fair to say, Jesse.
Their pacing was a little off.
They didn't look like they felt very comfortable based on information and then when they had to go for those death drops the final second
Fyria were just they were dialed in and they rebuffed them. They handled them took them out through them out
Here as we hit the halfway around face clan largely still just outside of the building and a lot of them are angling for a kill
But Fyria is not taking it. Oops. Here is not taking the water early engagements
lawyer will as cyber gets tossed out of the building. Herds dies at the hands of souls. So
the teams do eventually find opportunities to go for mutual strikes and nobody ends up coming out
a little bit better off. KDS now as he emerges from that lobby towards the top of the stairs.
He's got to read, but the flames are keeping him at bay and he does need to be worried about the
control that's had inside of president here. KDS really being stopped at the top of these spiral
stairs he's out of utility parkery can't find any more of these positions but he already knows
where most of these players are at same time as teammates are trying to assist by jumping in the
windows but they're getting cut down by bach there a lawyer hits a brilliant shot to get his
second kill around and now handy and vitticking the only one still alive to break into this site
it's just a lockout right lawyer with a triple kill how many multi-kill rounds does he have now
jesse this five so far in the series a really sensational day for lawyer a demon and it's
It's going to leave the king outside hanging on repel.
And Maft go imagine he's calling his own timeout here.
His face clans still has one in pocket.
So if they need to, they can talk to their coach.
Ever since Furia called their timeout,
things have trended upwards.
So for whatever particular reason,
the Furia called it.
It's been working out in spades.
Vitaking will give them nothing
and Furia doesn't need to do too much
as they will just let the timer elapse.
Nature cell goes out and it's about a second too late.
Vinikingsurvives, FaZe Clan do not.
Here we are, 5-3, and they are screaming their way
through their own map.
I felt like they had all the tools they needed
on the side of FaZe Clan Parker.
They had really good utility to clear out
the, what was being brought by the defenders.
They had the Twitch to try to break through
some of those mirror windows and Goyo canisters, of course.
They had the Ash plus the Zofia to try to make their way
past some of those castle barricades
and mirror windows as well.
Like they had a really good tools coming into it,
but it just felt like their push was really well read
by Furia. That push with the spiral stairs was an absolute nightmare. They were never
able to get the cancel wall open because of course the Habana was banned out and the
ace just wasn't being brought. That's something where you kind of look back and you think
man if only we had one of those ranged hard breaches. It wasn't banned so why not bring
it through. It wasn't decided to by FaZe Clan and I think they kind of got punished because
of it. It made clearing that top floor lobby side really really difficult. Just seeing players
peek out of so many different positions. And Furia now in a dominated position five to three,
they will force attack time out of the phase clan. As we go to the tertiary bomb site,
it feels like this is do or die for phase. They have to be able to win around here.
Going three straight as your opponent can just play any bomb site they want is complete misery on
bank. That's been total domination on the second half of the field. So for Furia, they're winning
these rounds, but they're doing so without really needing to sweat too much. This has been a pretty
easy second half. Theory might as well be lying on the beaches sipping their
beverages right now, even though I do understand it's daily winter in the
southern hemisphere. Forgive me for that one.
Some people heard you earlier say something about winter in Brazil and I'm
sure they were like, what the hell are you talking about?
The winter stage down there? Yeah, the hemispheres are different.
It's summer up here in North America and it's amazingly still winter in Edmonton,
but you know that's year round. So,
But yeah, I mean, it's the FaZe Clan have looked quite frankly quite terrible over the last two rounds
This is a very good map for Furia. This is a map that FaZe do not play all that well
And while FaZe definitely does have a deep map pool, they do not have a nine map map pool
I don't think really any team at this current point in time would show the same prowess on all nine maps. So
If you go into a best of three, especially a grand final
The assumption is always that your opponent will win their own map
That is a safe assumption at this current point in time phase clan got the job done back on chalet
But fury made them bleed face clan on the second half are
Still in a position where they need to make fury a bleeder else the Panthers will run away with this
This is the moment to change our minds
This is the moment to make us believers for phase clan that they can steal their opponents pick and go to an O here in the grand finals
course this bombsite downside in open area trying to make sure they can extend
up above they've got three players up there box era herds and loyra committing
to the roam game up above the bombsite I don't see any fast shenanigans happening
from face-to-face like we saw from fear of actress never mind here comes
viking straight in bed is opened up by cyber it'll go off razor bloom in the
corner it's a rough spot for viking to be in fire extinguisher blows up in front
of them so no visibility. Does give a window opportunity for Fury yet to reposition should
they want they opt not to do it down goes handy to box there at the UMP pitter patter
let's get at her and down goes the first player from phase lawyer losing a lot of HP
as well but he's still upright. Lawyer's been so good if he can survive to the dying moments
of the round fury is odds of winning skyrocket.
But I can desperately wants to get in for a plant Parker but he just can't the shield
doesn't cover enough of him he'd love to be on the block on the onesie but instead the
Blackbeard is the only tool he has thanks to the bands.
Nice shot by Cyber, but not nice enough.
Unable to find Wolpes inside of Archive,
so they really just have a standstill.
They have to be able to work a pick
before they can go for this push.
I dropped 13 kills all the way back on Shallay.
After the re-host, much harder for us to assess here,
but I believe he's broken double digits
at this current point in time.
If not, he's really, really close.
He might've just done it there.
C&D has fine two,
FaZe have only been able to muster a single kill
in this round. This is a death march for this FaZe team.
Vulp's doing what they've been able to find.
Furia will now compete for the final kill as KDS unsheaths the super shorty.
You can still pack quite a punch.
Diaz and Lawyer will figure that one out, but he is on borrowed time
and BogZera will ask for it back. Furia, map point.
It's a disaster on these pushes Parker. FaZe Clan, they want to go for a fast
They want to get in with the Blackbeard as soon as they can but they stall out and then what happens?
They just sit there for two minutes outside of the bomb site bottom of square hoping that something will open up for them
Hoping that they will work a pick somewhere, but body after body just falls for the attackers
They're never able to get themselves an advantage KDS has some fun at the end there with the super shorty
But he really has no hope of clutching out that 1v4 furia just so dominant in that position
They read where the push is coming from the push never really changes. It continues to just hammer at one location over and over again
And eventually Furia find ways to flank around they find ways to pick off players
They don't let face clean in on the one direction. They're trying to push through and it just feels like these defenses are easy for Furia
They make it look so simple. Obviously, it's not they're playing incredibly well on this defense aside, but
Almost feels like there's nothing face clean can do at this point
their pushes on bank are not up to snuff and Furia feel like the better team on this map.
We've been in full control this entire time and every single attempt by FaZe Clan has ultimately
failed to work out. I mean the numbers for FaZe are just so bad at present point in time.
By my count again really tough to go by because of the rehosts. I don't believe there is a single
person on FaZe Clan who at this moment is positive. Handy is the closest and he's had
some good showings especially in the early portion of this map but that feels like ages
ago. FaZe Clan perfectly capable of bleeding. Furia has hurt them on every single bomb
site on attack and on defense and huge credit to this team. One turnaround it's been and
so far Furia looking like the better team in this best of three with how they were able
to give the gears to FaZe on Chalet.
And he still sits at 6 kills overall.
He has not been in pack for these last couple rounds.
We mentioned when he hit 6 kills that the last two maps he's played, he's broken double
digits, 14 and then 12 kills.
To fall back down to 6 now is certainly going to fall from grace.
We have to see him get active here in the fourth quarter.
FaZe Clan needing to be perfect through three straight attacks now if they want to win it
in two.
Otherwise Clubhouse, nearly a guarantee.
We will again have probably a slower battle some players, but no, it looks like everybody will fall down those staircases, get back down towards the basement.
Really passive on these bottom floor holds from Furia, and it worked well for them the last time because they installed out so much of the clock before the execute came through.
They will play a very similar style of defense where they just let FaZe Clan take these top two floors more or less for free, but the site is filled with utility.
utility night interest there uh fire from the tachanka of bs still a little less utility i guess
on these other players but evil hunkered down behind dread mines behind yager ads is behind
thorn traps it's still going to be really hard to go for an execute for face clan
this first kill is going to be so impactful here jesse
if it starts off with the way furia has been doing for the entirety of this map that is very likely
Curtains on what we've seen here on bank
These clean can still turn this one around but it's looking more and more likely that a third map will be the place for it
It's kind of funny because the underlying numbers actually favor phase to get these opening first picks
It's just their conversion has been quite poor
They can find a foothold but that's about all they can get the rest of the way. It's very
dominating them. Vitikings searching for kill number one. Me and the demos of cyber side-by-side
now as we hit the final meet. I'm not gonna come for a very long time of course down to 45
here to fight and some way to break through a capital W. I just haven't been enough especially
with all the utility that's being held on the side of Fyria. Kadeus now inside of the elevator.
Vitikings first kill but it's gonna get real messy real fast both bleeding out too. This is the best
opportunity for FaZe Clan to pick up a round. They've lost KDS. Diffuse Kit getting planted by
Souls, mid a king off the ground. He's gone. Cyber now dropped two. Souls' only coverage is handy.
Who's going for the long run around? They will get the Diffuse Kit down.
Viria doubling up on FaZe, providing they can get full Volts back as he bleeds out.
What can you muster in this post plant? Viria have not relinquished control of this main floor.
That is a rough go of it for FaZe Clan.
Time, of course, in essence.
Here I need to be quick with this one.
Down goes Herds.
Volp's picked back up, so it's 3v2.
FaZe shutting them down.
Handy will need to clutch out.
One of the defuse kid Volp's will go.
How good is Diaz at keeping this one in it?
Oh my goodness!
Not good enough!
And with a hair, does he get the defuse?
Oh my goodness!
What a wave for Furia to win the round, win the map, and we are going to Clubhouse!
My God, Jesse!
Less than .3 seconds left on the clock.
DS has to get the kill on the hatch and then jump on the diffuser.
What a clutch to come through from DS.
They let it go down to the wire.
But one of the hardest post plants in Siege goes the way in the defender, absolutely well played by Fioria, they dominate those bank defenses and they'll send us to a third map coming up right after this break.
How are you gonna do it?
It's gonna be bigger
I have a chance to try to get out of there
You have 6 bullets, 3 rounds, you can do it
One went
I have a pistol, but we're doing better
It's a little bit
Wait, wait, there's four more chances to get out
Three more
And in the middle
You have to be at least two when you get the job, right?
For God's sake
Ah, it was lower, it was lower
It could have been a lot better
It's the first time in my life, sometimes I just shoot with a sniper
That's it
Dude, I have 3 thousand pins, so it's okay
This is crazy, it's worth it
Really?
It's very easy
I feel like I'm shooting, how the guys can't do it
Oh, I want several
Can you make my network for the first time?
It's a beautiful ticket.
But it's not a very good ticket.
Oh, I knew it would be this one!
My head hurts!
It's a test class with these guys.
What's up, bro?
Is it a medical prescription?
You can get it.
I put it in his friend's bag.
Aeca and Pira.
Hahaha!
I don't know if you want it.
Aeca and Pira, son of a bitch.
But KDS is very...
without...
Connectivity
Connectivity
I don't even have to answer him
Be careful
This one I'm going to...
Tell me what's here
How many? How many skills?
Go get him, go get him
I'm going to get him
For the guy here
Any day you want to come
Formed aura, haha
0-3 on Major
16 skills on 4 maps
Dibby
There's a guy, there's a guy
And if it wasn't for him
I'm taking the ****
It's a fucking game of football.
How do you actually play all over there?
Like, you can't...
...specify too much, right?
No, man.
Don't do anything.
Thank you for taking the Major to do that shit over there.
I'm still having two games left.
Tio.
Tio is dead.
Dead?
He wanted to bet with me the two games we played with them.
He made me bet.
I won two games.
I bet more, bro.
I bet a car from the next one.
You're worth it, Lauren.
It's happening.
It's going to be even worse.
I don't want to say anything to everyone who won.
I don't want to say anything.
Let's see who wants to be hunted.
I don't understand the lyrics.
Good afternoon, Mr. Aurora.
Be careful that I'll look for you at the base.
I want to see.
It's easy to say.
You are a good ballon.
Zagueiro, rival of training.
I don't know my gf here.
I prefer the letter.
I don't know who it is, thank you for the message, if I find out who it is, you will have more chat in the training, so good luck there.
Dear STK, you are a bunch of people, and you should think about throwing a farza.
This is a fact, this is me or Paluzão, focus on the giant.
I like it, man. I only play with harmonies.
Only with a good necron. And that's it.
Which player in the team is the ugliest of all?
Why?
You always want to be heavy, man.
Man, the guy is ugly.
Too ugly, man.
We have several ugly guys, man.
Man, I think you're the bastard there, man.
It was bad, bastard.
You can fix it up there in the bathroom.
Why do I have to think about the bastard?
Which player in the team is the ugliest of all?
Why?
because it's heavy too. It's heavy too. I think I'm playing like this, man. I think I'm
strong, man. I respect Guardiola, he's my partner, but playing makes this my life.
Well, FaZe's streak on the last day of the SAO is finally broken, Fioria with a victory and looking
sharp while FaZe look out of practice on bank. Yeah, FaZe is starting to show some some gaps
in the army there aren't they you know it's been a while since we've seen this phase team look
unstable inside of a best of three it was way back at Salt Lake City where DZ got the better of them
in a three round or three game gorilla and there was some sort of arcs back some ghosts of that
game at present here as well it's not often that we see this phase team uncomfortable in the server
however bank isn't somewhere that they look pretty comfy today and quite on the contrary it was
is uncomfortable all the time for them. Furia on the flip side really come out of the gate
swinging. Obviously, I'd said, you know, they'd suffered a defeat on map one. It was Chalet.
It's kind of expected to go phases way, but they'd sort of been giving themselves a great
fight. What better warm-up than a best of one on Chalet with FaZe to get you ready for
your own map, okay?
And I think just making good of that promise that we saw on Chalet, that it was a close
game. It went all 12 rounds. But of course, Furia constantly really challenging FaZe's
control of that map even though it felt like it was in FaZe's hands and here this was kind
of the follow-up to that in which Fury in control pretty much the whole time might have been
a tied half but especially on once we get to these defenses I mean it was just completely
lights up performance from Fury and I also think as well when you look at a lot of these
attacks Fury with a lot of good ideas as well that we kind of highlighted at the half time
with the intel ops with the lurking Fury clearly coming and ready to play and then like I said
once we got these defenses Ali it just wasn't even close. It took theory a bit
time to warm into it on the on the attack didn't it that much should be
said and it's fair but like you say as soon as they got onto the defensive side
of themselves and as soon as phase of put under the pressure of that clock we
start to see them crumble we start to see you know an unclear idea of how they
really want to try and go about things. Yeah they got a target in the band phase
everybody gets a target in the band phase that's what it's there for. I'm not
suggesting that Amonso would have been the difference maker here today for
the last round. I mean, it
was a very, very, very, very
difficult phase, but they weren't
able to find that answer. Until
it was, you know, essentially
too late in the last round,
coming down that close. I mean,
it doesn't really speak to how
close the game was because it
wasn't in a lot of ways. But
the last round certainly being a
bit of a nail by a photo
finish their lawyer again
continuing that good
performance on shall a over
onto bank being supported this
time a little bit more by Diaz
And I think that what does that make that what like at least over 25 kills for lawyer right throughout this series so far an
Extremely good performance over
Shelly and bank and as we have clubhouse coming up right after this you can see in the top right corner of your screen
Obviously if you're coming online at a good time
But also Ali both these teams with really close results on this map in recent history both with overtime games face also with a loss
In the playoffs on this map. They have a great record on it to be sure
But recently it's a bit checkered in the playoff specifically. Yeah, it
Like you say for both teams obviously team that could only wear beat fury on this map a couple of days ago
It was an eight seven and spoiler alert loss beat phase on this map only a couple of days ago
And it was an eight seven so recent performance on this map
Isn't really there for either side the last time these two teams played against each other was about two weeks ago
of the assail no seven three seven three like we saw earlier no final that's you
know over and done with within a couple hours clubhouse should hopefully be a
banger especially since the series is starting to give a little bit more in
the t-law when we saw earlier do you think that phase gonna be able to come
away with it I know you are kind of more nuts that's what's partial for face or
partial a bit against furia I don't know I'm not necessarily partial against
yours partial against him in that particular fixture I think the season
play today has been fantastic because it hasn't relied on the threads that we saw in that
T-Law game. That was very clutchy. This has had clutches, yes, but that hasn't been the
whole picture. There's been a team backing it up here today. So I think, I don't know,
it's either teams for me, links, I really can't decide.
Well, either way, best of one. It seems like it's 50-50 going into clubhouse. One of the
most default maps, one of the best matches in the SA-L. We'll see what Parker and Jesse
at the call.
Thank you so, so very much.
The score has to be settled between these two teams, two of the most well-known organizations
in all of our eSport, oh boy, Inferia, huge in Brazil phase, huge the world over, but
starting to get their own set of fans in Brazil, just starting, you know, after three
SI finishes in a row, Jesse, they're a young upstart team and they're really going to be
taken it to the to the order that everybody knows. No, I mean, FaZe Clan have to be the
favorites in this best of three, but here he has played spoiler before and they've
been the better team so far through these two maps. How does it fair on Clubhouse?
There's no doubt about it. Parker FaZe Clan have been the best team South America has
ever produced. They have been so good over the last couple of years, so dominant. They've
not made a single roster move in over three years, but now it feels like things are starting
starting to change while FaZe Clan are the favorites, FURIA are the future and they have
been getting ready to take on these giants ever since they formed as a team. They have
never in their history since forming at the start of the season taken down FaZe Clan losing
7-5 the one time they met back during the group stage. On this very map how poetic would
it be to take them down for the first time a rematch on Clubhouse in the grand finals
of stage one domestic here in South America. Obviously their initial debut internationally
was Salt Lake City, but it was an event to forget and it feels like Esports World Cup
will be the first real showcase of FURIA on an international level. They would love to go there
as the SAL champs. Absolutely. All the EWC qualified teams were shown on our broadcast earlier today
been shown a number of times as the stage is set.
Play-ins locked in as well.
Loos, the team from this region that will have to compete
through play-ins just as they did in the same position
back in Salt Lake City.
Two teams, in fact, from Salt Lake City
will have to compete in play-ins.
As Shopify Rebellion found themselves
in the same place in North America.
So this is familiar territory for some of these squads.
I mean, hey, Loos made a pretty deep run.
They came close to making main stage,
Closer than I think a lot of people had thought of them.
They thought that Feria might be one of the teams to make it to the group that make it out of groups into the playoffs did not happen.
Chopped by rebellion made it to the grand finals from playing.
So anything is popular.
The only thing is is Brazil doesn't tend to usually do that well at EWC for reasons that we really can't quite explain.
Feria after putting in a clinic on the last two maps, one victory, one loss.
They've suffered two big losses here, losing Wyrm and Vols, Jesse.
Yeah, a couple of those romers getting taken out early from FaZe Clan. Something they weren't really able to do back on Bank Parker was get those
roam clears and get them done cleanly. This time on a full, not even a full anchor, but a full extension, really, from Furia.
It hasn't gone the way they were hoping for.
Bax Zera will step up to be a hero entering in through bottom garage.
Knows that there's a player just outside, but caught on a drone and has to retreat back towards the site.
He hasn't been able to find success here on the aggressive move and because FaZe Clan were so fast to clear those romers,
They still have plenty of time to just wait out these flanks and put together the perfect push
Now go cyber at the hands of box era furious first kill will come with just under a minute left in the round
They'll need to hope that phase has some stumbles as they look for hatch drops
They look for a push over towards church side. There's a split take now coming in blue being a big focus
But there goes vittacan there goes souls handy and KDS suddenly last two standing handies found an opportunity for a backstab and box error
We'll need to save the round 30 seconds to go KDS does it all my goodness and
phase clan wins a
scramble in round one
Parker I won't say that bank was easy for the area
But there's there's no doubt that that was the weakest version of phase clan that they'll have to fake today
and it's nice to see one round deep that FaZe Clan are back to their old form.
They are a great clubhouse team and they're showing it in this very first round.
It's clinical on the roam clear. They absolutely demolish
Lora and Volpz there on the top floor.
Gets a little messy for sure down in the execute.
Much like the bank basement in fact that we just watched,
the execute was definitely the weak point for FaZe Clan,
but they're still able to put those frags together.
Handy and KDS working really well on that 2BX situation with Handy coming in
through Modo, through Church, and then KDS pushing that blue side of the map.
They're able to really pinch those anchors nicely and give FaZe Clan that first round on the board.
Here we are a good team and they came close to winning that one out,
but this will be a harder task for them than winning on Bankless.
Undeniably so. Moving when we talk about rematches, you see,
you say that the team that always lost the first time around has a distinct advantage
The second time, FaZe Clan lost to T-Law in the upper bracket, just defeated them earlier today to be in this position.
Fyria lost their initial matchup against FaZe Clan on this map a couple weeks ago. It was a score of 7-5, favoring FaZe, so...
Just as we saw in the very first map, FaZe's pick of Chalet, Fyria pushed them all the way to 12 rounds and looked for several moments as if they could have been the better team.
Now a lot of that was of course, Loira, papering over their weaknesses, but Furia got their map done far more efficiently.
This time, it means that Furia should win the rematch here on this map, but of course, not quite that simple.
While you got a very new look coming out from Furia on the CCD cash bombsite, this classroom bolt was not something that was brought out in their first meeting back during the group stage.
stage. Boxer on the rafters will not be a surprise. He's here on the Azami, if that gets banned out,
we'd expect him to move to the dock based on previous history, but has different options
available to him. Often they will like to play with some of this Util Denial too, and so we've
got Diaz jumping on this Wamai after it's been buffed in the mid-season pass to try to lock down
some of these important positions, whether he's put some of those magnets over towards rafters,
whether he's keeping a lot of them kind of over on the site side of things as well to lock down
red. He's got options with his utility. There are some roamers down below. Herds is in the basement.
Lawyers towards the bottom of Eastern Lounge. So there are some players you've got to worry about
at your face clan taking a lot of this map control, but it seems like they have good intel.
Look at the read here now. Oh, Cyber, how do you miss that? Herds, shiny dome,
presenting itself for you and you can't follow up effectively.
That's a frustrating one for him.
Handy will fall.
Opportunity slipping through the fingers of FaZe Clan.
This has been a reoccurring theme.
They are a great team.
We have no reason to count them out, but slowly and steadily these small mistakes are adding
up and costing FaZe.
Good intel, but bad aim.
KDS hits the ground as well.
Will be picked up by Vitakins, so they have still a 4v5, but what's the map control looking
like, Parker?
They have almost nothing except for just a little bit of master, and even that's being
being contested by the Clash.
Flash is now pushed into a position, the Ying unable to secure, a frustrating one for souls as he watches most of his teammates die.
Now he's in the Lions den and Laura will devour him.
Neither of these teams really seem to be able to shake each other at the start of all of the maps today, and this one is no different.
Furia tie the game after round two.
Great rafters play by Bach in that round, Parker. He gets the opening pick on to Handy.
I believe it was him who downs KDS in the midst of that as well. Obviously, he wasn't finished off,
but oftentimes what you'll find from a zombie player on rafters is when the attackers don't
commit to clearing that side of the map, when the attackers are focused more on construction and
mastering getting below the bomb site, the rafters player doesn't really have a whole lot of value.
Bach was still able to get some really good picks in the midst of that round despite the fact that
he wasn't receiving the bulk of the pressure.
It got that early man count advantage,
favoring Furia, favoring the defenders there
on the top floor, and then they were really able
to just slow things down.
The class player from Bolts was aggressive,
but not overly so.
He still got back to the site with plenty of time
to play with, those Candelus just weren't quite enough
to crack open the bomb site.
So, nicely played by Furia.
Everybody contributing in that second round,
and we're all tied up after two.
10 seconds left for the board insertion.
people appreciate that we move today's playday to monday and well let me tell
you this much this is already a much more exciting game the world cup final
that we saw yesterday I don't know if you bothered to watch it at all Jesse but
watching Spain just kicked the ball around for about a hundred and thirty
minutes by themselves was really well it's really quite something I gotta say
crazy that they televised a practice with one of the worst half-time shows I've
ever seen in my life in the middle of it, but that's okay.
I was a little busy. I did not watch the spectacle. I heard the third place games did though.
I mean, that was a hockey score. 6-F-4? That's crazy, even if that's the score in a hockey
game that's high. France, England did not disappoint. I obviously wanted that as the
finals when I saw the final four teams in there, but I will say I am very happy that Spain won.
And, oh, I've had a lot more fun casting and watching this series than I will say I had
at any point yesterday watching the fun, so.
And because they were South American, I assume all the fans of our broadcasts were cheering
for the South American Argentine team in the finals, so.
But don't think you understand what Brazil is in South America versus the rest of the
continent, Cassie, but you, I'm serious, like eSports, like you cheer for your region,
right?
South America strong, united.
You have just pezzed off so many Brazilian fans, you have no idea.
Loyer with the leadoff pick, down goes Cyber, FaZe Clan suffering early in this round.
Halfway point about to be reached as the clash providing itself to be quite an impediment
just as we saw in the previous round.
A dumbfounded FaZe Clan and now Boxer is hoping to replicate that success.
So far so good as he's denied entry for FaZe into cash and is now requiring them to use
as much of their utility as possible.
Cash secured, so construction now the next chance for FaZe,
but they are getting picked apart by Furia.
This aggression just, oh, so good!
Diaz does not move, a muscle finds two kills from that perch,
and suddenly the last two players from FaZe
are outnumbered two to one,
and Boxer on the shield is still there
to slow them down even further.
Lawyer does it, Diaz does it, and Fury takes the lead.
Really strong defense from Fury again, Parker.
That clash was actually something they showed
versus FaZe Clan the first time these two teams
been on clubhouse a couple weeks ago,
but despite that, there really weren't any good answers
from FaZe.
I like the idea with the Nomad being brought out by Cyber.
They clearly expected this clash to come through,
but they still could not find a way past it.
Surprisingly, we don't see it getting banned.
they're gonna continue to allow it to be played out. Obviously on Clubhouse, the walls are so important.
So banning out the Mira so that of course you can't play with those strong angles and they can't use it to deny the main breach.
It makes sense, but it must feel so bad to have to leave that operator still on the board.
Boxer doing a great job in that previous round, keeping them contained after they got that cash extension control.
Phase Clan, I wouldn't say they're so pressured.
It was Fyria who got to choose their side start and certainly on Clubhouse, you'd expect the defense side to do well, but
When these two teams met it was phases attacks that made the difference
They got a 4-2 attacking side for phase clan and then the second half with phasing the defense went 3-3
So it was that extra round on the offense that allowed phase plan to win the matchup the last two times the last time
These two teams met if you're it can walk away even with a tied first half here
That starts to put us on a bit of a different course and maybe a different result to end up the gate today
Well, three are expectations out the window here because Furia have decided to be a team
possessed.
And I'm liking what I'm seeing box air has woken up Diaz who we were critical of through
map two for not showing up at least to the potential that he has and the stat line that
he's provided for this team through the entirety of the group stages now through the playoffs
has woken up as well.
really good numbers across the board for these fury players and of course it's
been lawyers day he has dominated phase clan in every single map breaking double
digits in well pretty easy order if you think about it all the way back on
chalet lawyer finished 13 and 8 on bank 14 and 6 and now here on clubhouse well
as you can see he's got five kills to his name is already halfway to double six
kills to his name, already halfway into double digits, so can't even speak fast enough to
match the kills that lawyer is getting. It's a problem for us on the cast, it's a bigger
problem for FaZe Clan in the server. They have to find some way to break him down, but
as handy goes down, they've lost their best tool to find his location. He'll shoot the
Selma off the wall, which keeps that bathroom spot even more deadly. They can't break
through. It was the roam clear that was so successful for FaZe Clan back and around
number one, but this time it's a different story. They're stalling out outside the building
They're losing the opening duel, Cyber gets an answer back onto Herds.
Two former rivals as they were previously both in the top two teams in the world, but
now it just feels like this team is stalling out a little bit more, Parker.
They rotate back towards the site, we'll begin, Bulbs gets a free path back with that scope
of stability.
And Lawyer looks like he's found a safe way back towards Kitchen.
If the hatch is closed, he might be going for a rat play.
He doesn't want to leave the roam game.
I'm losing the Deimos is really so tricky. Hold on a second here Jesse because they've
lost Loira. It doesn't matter what role he plays, doesn't matter what operator he's playing.
It's been punishing them. It's been favoring the Scorpion quite a bit. Secure it to buy
cyber. Sorry Jesse go ahead. I cut you off. There's very root of me. Also a great gun.
Corbin's been really good. I mean we've been seeing a bunch of Denari as well on a number
of maps. He gets played on Chalet, he gets played on Border. We've seen him played both
of these matchups so far today. He's a good operator and there's honestly a lot of potential.
If you are a solo queue player and you are hearing this, Denari can be used really effectively
as a selfish operator. If you cannot rely on your teammates, which frankly you need to
to rely on your teammates in the game like Siege,
but there are some times where that's not really possible.
He's terrific for you to find your own value.
Cyber with a third kill,
but he might have to ace clutch at this current point in time.
Jesse, it's just him and Vittacombe remaining now.
10 seconds to go.
Furia can walk out this phase, clan aggression.
There's Diaz taking care of Cyber,
so then Ace can be had.
Vittacombe, who's had a pretty decent day.
All things considered, might just run out of time,
but Diaz toys with him.
Goofy to watch, but hey, it gets the job done.
Furia's lead continues to grow as they are slowly
but surely running away with this map.
Diaz, one of the most annoying anchor players
to ever go up against.
It's a 3K from Cyber that starts us off Parker.
The Rome game again is actually pretty good from Furia,
but when they get down to the site,
they've got to deal with Diaz and Boxzera,
and it feels like that's just an impossible task.
Diaz is so good at isolating those fights,
knows exactly when he needs to get aggressive to try to stop one of those dimensions to the
push, stop one of those extra angles from getting out of control, and it just feels
like Furia have done a really good job of dominating from start to finish in these rounds.
You go back to the opening picks as well, sure they lost it back in the first round
when the lawyer went down, but since then it has been all Furia winning four straight
opening duels and winning four straight bomb sites now, or sorry three straight I should
say.
themselves up really nicely though with box arrow winning in round number two,
lawyer winning in three and four. A full site rotation will prompt the tack
timeout to come through from FaZe Clan in a very scary situation where they
could go down quite heavily at the half-time.
Concerning sides for FaZe Clan as we have to go all the way back to Bank to
start talking about how they've been able to successfully win rounds with I
I guess you could say confidence. Yes round number one here on this map went to phase clan
But Furia took bank with four rounds in our row
If you add it to this tally right now
That's seven to one over the last eight rounds for Furia phase clan have only been able to break that streak by winning
This first round and it was a good round. Don't kid yourself
It was it was well done, but certainly not the dominance that we're used to seeing from phase
is it brings back a lot of memories to when we casted them
for Los the other day, Jesse.
Los are a decent team, they are good.
When I say they are consistently a top 14 in Brazil,
I would not, and this might anger some Los fans
and that's totally fine,
but when you look at the other teams that are in the region,
I think Los has had, you know, a bit of an overperformance
and they've had a bit of a lighter schedule as well.
Now, the reason why I say that is not to denigrate Los,
but it's to show that up against an opponent
that is weaker than a lot of teams in this region,
FaZe had their hands full.
And now, going up against Furia,
we are seeing mistakes being committed again.
It starts to answer the question that we asked
with the Black Dragon and the Loud Losses
that FaZe suffered in the last two days of groups.
Was it really them taking it easy?
Or were teams slowly starting to figure out
this FaZe Clan team,
finally figure out this FaZe Clan team, and beat them?
It seems like FaZe have maybe regressed a little bit, and the rest of the region has caught up.
It feels like a bit of a changing of the guard between these two teams from the old to the new.
Still plenty of time to bring things back for FaZe Clan though, and they've got one of the best coaching staff in the world to try to do that.
Rafael, of course, head coach of FaZe Clan, as he has been for years at this point, uses his tack time to try to get them back on track,
Again, the youngest player in the league will find the opening frag onto the oldest.
Cyber dies here on the rafter's window, the garage, door even.
And here comes the tachanka strat, this is popularized by NJR, hoping to slow down
vidikings advance on the rafters as long as bot can stay alive.
It's going to be really tough to take this space.
Oh my goodness, there goes Cyber, there goes KBS, vidiking, huffing in so much gas!
The fire is there as well!
Furia
beating this stuff thing out of phase clan inside of garage all of the bodies buried in that position
It leaves handy and souls in a 2v5 and souls and handy through four rounds
Jesse have just one now two kills
This is dreadful for phase they're often sputtering strategy is bad map controls bad
There really isn't much good to say about this phase team
And they just don't have what they need to clear out that rafter's position.
It was played so well by Bokken Volps.
Now of course the man disadvantage, they'll have to six-touple their kills combined to
be able to win this one out, but they're watching every angle.
They know exactly where FaZe Clan want to push, Sol's alone after Handy falls.
One V4, he has apparently an enterable breach here on the main wall, and finally goes down
to Volps in one of the cleanest defenses we've seen on that site in a very long time.
Oh my goodness from bad to worse as it certainly appears like they are in freefall.
That is a devastating position for them to be in and what does face clan do with this
current point in time?
Just slow things down, Furia again in full control of the last hour or so.
Last time face clan one back to back rounds were rounds three and four of bank Jesse that
I was well over an hour ago at this point in time since then they have won two rounds
which was round six on bank and then round one here.
Five rounds were won by Fyria on bank and now four rounds have been won here on clubhouse.
This is absolute domination in every single sense of the word and it's not even just
the lawyer show because he's looking to go three for three on breaking double digits.
well-poised to do that city at seven kills right now and there's still plenty to play.
I mean the only thing that seems that I would say would stop him from hitting double digits Jesse
is if this match ends too early. If it ends up going in theory over the next three rounds there
just might not be enough runway for a lawyer to be able to land the thing especially with the fact
that Diaz has six kills, Boggs there has six kills, everybody on period finding their targets and
finding them so easily. FaZe Clan are putting in one of the worst performances we've seen from them
them at the best of three in quite some time.
Oh, we're just not slowing down today, Parker.
A lawyer is getting aggro on the secret window.
Finds handy to start this one off.
That's your primary hard breacher off of the board.
Brutal loss early to come through from FaceTime.
They do still have can openers, but still,
the Habana will be a big loss off of the board,
and it's just going to continue to imbue confidence
in the side of Furia.
Lawyer at eight and two now.
Box there at six and two.
These are the youngsters, once again, 21 and 20 years old, respectfully.
These are the young guys who have not really had their time in the spotlight.
Certainly, Loira on G2 has had some big moments in the past, but he's never really lifted a trophy.
He's never been at the very top of the scene like he wants to be in.
We're seeing these two youngsters really start to shine today, start to showcase what they're made of up against what is the best team in Rainbow Six history.
They're making them look like silvers.
absolutely this is like me watching my own gameplay Jesse it's really quite
horrifying stuff but I mean some of the worst performances from phase that we
see quite some time that includes their O2 loss that was what ultimately pushed
them down to the lower bracket in the first place phase are just desperately
swinging at everything and it somehow don't even net a single kill what on
earth is going on here a flawless end of the first half furious six minutes away
from being the best in brazil
sprinting it for the finish line right now fury uh... obviously demolishing
phase on clubhouse so far but all you one piece that you and i and i think that
fear received a lot of criticism for in the s l is their inability to get those
entries are at least being negative on the entry so drastically not the case in
this map
i mean look at the entry the lawyer was able to get on to handy in that very
last round he takes out the heart breach he just straight away spawn peak
call it what you like. It's effective and it's working at the moment. Faze are struggling.
I have not seen this team struggle for so, so, so long and yet simple positions like
the one occupied right now by Boxerra just trying to keep control of rafters. He's got
a Wamai. Wamai's just been buffed. Wamai's meant to be amazing right now. Bok, he's
there playing on the Azami. What do you do? You walk him down with a Monty. You try and
get a bit of utility there and you try and get somebody in their face. KDS, boom, taken
down. Down by someone else I believe, finished off by a bot. Vittor King, left with very
little choice there but to try and make a play. You could see Heardz, he was right in
through Oil Pit trying to get involved in that action as well. You bring a Monty and
a Capitow to deal with that player on Rafters and okay we've not got the Capitow, it's
been banned out but there's other tools that you can bring. You've got the Zephyr, you've
got the bees, you've got the Nomead, whatever is that you want and we're not seeing FaZe
join up the dots right now and that's the real arm and thing because this is a
team where they just usually flow through a map and everything works out for
them and they make decisions and you don't even realize that it's a decision
because it just looks so natural to them at the moment boy oh boy are they
struggling especially when the old tricks like the montian working and how
often is that operator banned against vitticam doesn't have the opportunity to
play it he does so here and he's just met with a metric ton of utility and
isn't able to have any impact on top rafters
Fury converting every single one of the opening picks they've acquired completely shutting out face clan on clubhouse so far and based on the pace
We've seen I mean
Bank obviously was the 7-3 victory for fury that looked quite good on the back half
But with the beating that faces took here the momentum is is miles away from face Clans camp
Okay, I mean quite literally expect to be hearing from us again in what six seven minutes time
So who are that because phase have shown really no signs that they're in this game at all obviously
Obviously, it's getting on in the series a little bit for them.
They played a full best of two before this as well.
OK, it was 7-3-7-3, but they're still
getting on the thick end of playing quite a lot of Siege
tonight.
And I don't know if they've just run out of steam
or run out of desire or what it is,
but they can't match toe-to-toe with Furia right now.
Well, Faze are running out of time
to make this a competitive clubhouse.
We have potentially the last couple rounds
of the grand final coming up right now.
Faze clan, desperate to extend this map
to force it into overtime or hella even a regulation seventy five so
technically in the cards but
they're gonna have to play so much better than what we've seen from them on
their attack in half parker
they moved to the defense and this is where they have to mount their final
stand
is the best defending team in south america sixty three percent overall win
rate on this second half
it's got to be even better than that if they want to be able to close this out
if they want to be able to force it over time
Feels like too tall of a task, it feels like too much, and it feels like it's already a foregone conclusion, but this is FaZe Clan we're talking about.
I mean, surely this team is not going out without a fight.
I want an unceremonious end. Words are hard. What an unceremonious end to this stage it would be for FaZe Clan now.
We are being
Negative but we are definitely venturing into territory where it sounds like FaZe Clan are
The worst team we've ever seen and I want to just kind of recalibrate our expectations here
Because at absolute worst FaZe Clan are the second worst team in Brazil
I don't want to fall victim to the same narrative that a lot of people did with Shopify Rebellion when they lost to Dark Zero in the
SLC finals. You lose Salt Lake City, you finish second in the Grand Finals, people should be praising you in your performance.
Giddo what they should do for FaZe Clan. The only difference between the two is that FaZe have been so consistently good.
Frankly, we expect them to win or at minimum lose with a very competitive score line.
That latter part is not materialized yet. This has not been a very competitive series.
is map number one is each down a victory on their own map.
They got blown out on map two and they're currently
being blown out on map three.
So the loss is not the big story.
The story is how they are losing.
Yeah, exactly.
It's the expectations, right?
For Shopify Rebellion, second in Salt Lake City
was the best result that team has ever had,
even going back to when they were at the Sonics.
For FaZe Clan, first in Brazil, it
used to be a foregone conclusion.
This team won per years straight
without dropping a stage and now here they are lost a couple stages in a row maybe gonna lose again the fury
It just feels like things are starting to change
But again the game is not over. The history is not yet written phase plan can pull things back
They're not going for a Rome strategy
They did this a lot on bank where they extended out of the basement they tried to win fights early in the game
And it didn't really do them any favors this time
They're gonna reset and try to take a page out of the fury of book where they just rain things in a little bit try to play with
their utility inside the site. They brought four nitrocells to this defense, which many
establishment will tell you does bode well for their chances to win things out in general,
but you combine that with the Goyo canisters and this time is going to end up being a big
problem for Furia when they get to the execute.
All right, all right, all right. You started off with a nitrocell, taking care of Boxerra.
It puts more weight on the shoulders of these Furia players, lawyer in particular, who the
third map in a row is poised to break double digits. I think it's unlikely that over the
next two plus rounds, Lawyer ends up with zero kills, but again, Caster curses a real
thing. It's entirely possible.
Then it can get svolte, svolte's not supported at all. Herds trade cyber out, but the damage
is done and Handy will now retake from above as Diaz has no clue whatsoever. That phase
have retaken the main floor. Handy takes down Herds and now it's all up to Lawyer. Nine
kills to his name for players to be found on FaZe Clan and even secure one.
If you get out of reach 10 seconds to go, doesn't seem like a lawyer wants to give them too
too much, struggling with the recoil and gets nothing for it.
KDS shuts him down FaZe Clan, desperately needed that round and they got it.
That's exactly what we expect in the two-time world champions Parker.
They anchor things down, they play with their nitro cells, they bring four of them
They only get one pick by my count on those C4s. It was the very first one, but that's all that they really needed
They took down box Zera early on that Virk play and then what did they do? They really group up
I love the way that face clean were able to play together down in the bottom floor that pick onto volks playing the blitz was so critical
He had a full blind straight onto KDS on the mirror inside of blue
But then vitaking was right there around the reinforcement to get that kill onto the shield making sure that they're stopping these aggressive plays coming through from
I like that from FaZe if they're gonna bring this game back if they're gonna have any hope at winning this grand finals
They'll have to do it by playing together
Doesn't take long for FaZe Clan to settle in and start to gel
There have been only a couple opportunities that jumped to mind where we can think of FaZe Clan falling apart at the seams
one of them happened in the SI Grand Finals when they were within striking distance of what would have been their first hammer, but
We had one of the best matches in Rainbow Six history, if not the best match in Rainbow
Six history, depending on what your qualifications are there for your games, and I will take
it for face fans.
Obviously, they weren't particularly happy after being on the press visit greatness for
so long.
But you know what?
They can cry into their two hammers that they got in back to back SIs after that.
These have really not had a serious implosion at a high level.
Certainly nothing was spot like this big on them.
So it is a bit abnormal to see them performing the way that they are.
Their fragger's just not doing very well.
Again, so many times they wandered in without intel, without information at their disposal.
And I do have to wonder if what we praised FaZe on just a couple days ago is actually
working against them, Jesse.
They don't like to play whatever the current meta is.
They play their own Siege.
Not abusing intel ops could be catching up to them.
Well, it's certainly abusing the meta in this round, Parker, to get KDS on the Wilmae, locking down Rafters at the same time, Fioria, deciding where they want to push with this.
Because they've got Borg's Arrow on the glass, they could use that to try to work a pick over on Rafter's side, but based on where everybody else has positioned it, it looks like they are going to try to focus on this MasterClear and Diaz,
get the opening pick on that side of the map, finds Vidikine, who is challenging on that Logi hatch, and ill-advised moves to come through from the phase clan captain.
faceclan captain it starts things off in the right foot for furia somebody can
get a trade back though if souls can find some value to get some kills
backwards he could be the savior of the faceclan need this round
you hear a lawyer a spot at least one defenders now souls would get flashed
inside a bathroom handy guns down volts and there's lawyer breaking double
digits Jesse it costs him a pretty penny he's on a single point of HP right
now. Ace Clan at a disadvantage. Fury just needs a single round to move to championship
point. They're primed to do it, but I don't like the HPs of Diaz and Loira, and now they've
lost herds as well. The remainder of Diaz found out Loira on borrowed time, Handy, finding
his third kill. Multi-kills for Handy coming in quite handy for this phase two.
That's a crazy play by Handy on the thorn. He uses the gadget to force the player off
and then comes in slams on his down the rappel. That's a really nice little piece of the utile,
but they've still got more work to do Parker. Still just a two man versus three attacking
in towards the site. Boxer has this smoke up for cover and mortar is going for the plants.
They're going to continue to fire away and somehow Furious turned this one around and
Nitro fell from KDS led a rip and he gets them right as the defuse kit was about to go down.
Boxer will take up place as KDS swirls around. You see the mark there and the glass has no
chance whatsoever. Two rounds in a row for FaZe. They have very quickly got themselves
back in this series. KDS, not a man who always wants to jump on Rainbow Six Siege, but he's
desperate to keep this game going as long as possible. And he plays that 1v2 perfectly, Parker.
I want to replay it. We won't get it, but I want to replay on that night yourself,
slow-mo to figure out how close that plant was to going down, because that changes the
entire course of the round right? If that PtC4 is a split second later, the
diffuse kid hits the ground, all of a sudden the glass instead of having a
plant can just hold from outside the breach. It's a way more favorable
situation for Box Zera but instead he's forced to do it as teammate couldn't
attempt the plant. He's just sticking it a little bit too long and KDS plays that
really well. He and Handy get every single kill in the midst of that one for
phase plant to continue keeping this game going. 5-3 now is the score line
and Furia starting to feel the fear of what might be approaching they call their tac time out.
The comeback is very real here and what a fitting end it would be Jesse to this final map. We know
that the end of the road is fast approaching four stage one. For those that are not working or
watching EWC or being involved in any capacity it will be probably a two months maybe a little
bit less than two months. Admittedly I don't have the schedule for when stage two will begin but it's
pretty fair to say it'll happen sometime in early to maybe mid-September at the absolute latest.
So regular stage play and for all of those teams that again are not participating or
involved in EWC in any way we won't see them in action again until sometime in September unless
of course there's a goofy schedule change coming up that I'm not aware of and we're back at the end
of August or even sometime in October who really knows at this point but yeah it's uh what a fitting
end this would be. Brazil has always marched to the beat of its own drum period and of course
they've always been a little bit behind in the schedules and it always allows them to shine
as all eyes go on them in their region so if you're here enjoying phase versus furia as a neutral
observer you're probably clamoring for phase to continue their winning trajectory. So what was
that mirror window from KDS? He just put it inside of CC facing the top of rafters. I guess it makes
It allows you to play kind of aggressive into that raptor's position
But now the main bridge is open over on the platform and it just feels like that's not really gonna be so impactful
Herds will spotted out now
Face Clan no doubt one of the most creative teams that we have in Rainbow six seeds
They're always willing to try something new with these mirror setups, and I really respect that about their game
Even if it doesn't end up working out so well for them
They'll get past it on the side of fury and start their cash clear
just making an unholy racket now as KDS will start off the killing down goes
herds and they will chase KDS in his position at top red nitro cell goes out
Volbs watches it blow up and somehow survives Jesse I think in real life
half the building would be gone but we are playing a video game and Volbs is
very lucky that he is still here and still fighting but has to be worried
about below and of course Red Stairs has not been taken away from FaZe yet.
I believe it's being played at the moment.
They did just work it all the way down those stairs so they're in the site park and they're
already quite deep.
It's a team kill from Andy but they can finally finish off Bulbs pressuring in towards the
bomb site.
They knew a couple players were off so they wanted to hit it quickly but with their blitz
going down can they really still commit to this on the side of Fury?
It looks like there might be another team kill but this time on the side of Fury from
outside FaZe Clan one of their biggest criticisms was not killing enough, the other killing
Everything including each other. You know what? I'll take it as a win. Jesse. That's a big boon
Boxer it takes down cyber there goes handy and face clan were helping for more than two rounds in a row
KDS with the improbable clutch coming up as he sees box error on the window down goes lawyer
He'll be chased down by Diaz
And he's as good as gone fury a move to championship point
So well played in the mid-round Parker. I can't believe that call that they just made
Seconds after clearing out that cash extension with their blitz
They said let's go straight through construction hit this bomb state and start causing some chaos
They spotted the player ran down red right we saw it from Volts POV
There was a guy at the top of those stairs
I believe it was Katie asked on the mirror who wanted to get back as quickly as possible towards his towards his teammates on site
But theory really took that as an opportunity
They said we might be down in numbers, but there are a couple of players that might still be off the bomb site
Who might still be lurking down in the basement and indeed when they went for that site hit KDs was still not actually on site
They got a really good pick on the souls who was player on David King
I should say who was playing up towards gold. It was really well executed from Furia
It's a split second decision that makes the difference
But it is good for them to hit match point and now three straight opportunities to close this one out and become champions of the stage one
What a feather in the cap of furia that would be Jesse as phase clan is the team that we always expect
To be one of the best in Brazil and best in the world
Any nagging doubts that people had about this fury a team before EWC begins would hopefully be alleviated
Providing fury is able to take this
still
decently long road ahead for phase clan if they want to turn this around but it has been a
striking difference between attack and defense. Up to this point, the attackers
have only won two rounds on this map. It has been an incredible going for the
defenders. For those that go into the visual aid on your screen, FaZe Clan are
defending. It does bode well for them. Furia took the first half 5-1
defending. Now it's FaZe Clan's turn to do the same. If we can see joint 5-1
five one halves. That's just the overtime where it's really anybody's game because we don't
tend to see that same attacker defender style of gameplay hold over. My goodness. Loyer on
drone outside of the main door punished by cyber and if you need to stay alive and stay in this
match, that's the kind of thing that'll get the job done. Old dogs, old tricks, cyber with the
spawn peeks, thumb things, never change, Parker. It'll be an opening pick onto the best player
for Furia today, and Cydor will head straight back to the basement after getting that man
advantage for his team. You lose the Twitch, that's going to make those mirror windows much
more difficult to clear out. The glow canisters as well will likely stay up a little bit longer
than the otherwise would, so that's a really important piece of utility taken off the board
for Furia. Also, of course, a very talented player with a great gun, so you've got a really
good player taken off early on the side of Furia. Now what do you do to try to equise
this man count? You've got to dodge three nitro cells as you start to work on these
slow boards and open the hatches. Then you've got to get past the utility in sight, like
Kiba barriers, Goyo's, and Miro windows. They need something to attack to go in their favor.
I've pipped through the vertical, catching someone not looking, maybe tossing in a maid
that catches a defender or another team kill favoring Furia. Something has to go their way
because I'm worried about all the useful that they will have in sight for this
push here the blitz expending is many of his munitions as is humanly possible
with the pistol in hand still firing away at this current point in time of
vulps is not hitting any of these targets that he wants he could be picking
away at some utility that we're just not seeing at this current point in time
as we're riding along with box era. Lawyer's 13 kills by the way will match his tally that we saw
back all the way in map number one he has been just oh so good today and we can talk about that a
little bit providing that we need another round. If Fury is able to pull this one out they are
champions and right now they have a numbers advantage. Nitrocel will go off, Volpe's was
largely unsupported nobody from Fury able to stop that explosive from going off and now Faze will
swarm him. Herds missed an opportunity for the few defenders that have been within reach,
but I mean, Herds is playing this about as effectively as you could from this spot.
Boxer, I drop in, he'll meet his fate at the hands of KDAS, that vector shredding him. Who is
next from Furia to meet their fate? Down goes Herds at the hands of Cyber, and now it's Diaz.
He has the savior of the last round. Here are some strips out of these Faze players,
but he is running out of time cyber on full HP nowhere to be seen and there's no way Diaz is
going to even give them that he will wait out the remainder of the round stay alive and phase
clan close the gap but it's still championship point for furia one of the things that makes phase
clan the best team in the world for the last two years has been their ability to play any style of
siege and in that round you got two completely different styles it starts on the mechanics
starts with cyber having the wherewithal to peek that billiards window get the open pick and then
fall back to site for an early man count advantage favoring phase clan and then after that it's all
about the time denial it's all about the utility. Volx was dropping on that blitz and I think the
calculus was clear he said I'm running a shield we know from a couple rounds ago I can survive
even if the lands directly at my feet and he was right in that calculation. Vidicine chucks in
the nitro cell Volx blocks it and survives with 50 HP the problem is phase didn't just have one
nitro cell they had three and while Handys didn't get any value both Vidicine and PDS chucked those
nitros into the face of bulbs and eventually it was enough to down the blitz and stop the plants.
Fioria I think did a great attempt trying to clutch that up and the man count this advantage.
Their bird play was quite good but ultimately it just wasn't enough against that site utility.
Really good restraint by faceclan not using any of those C4s until the plant had actually
committed to dropping and going for it. Axially summarized on your end and now faceclan have even
greater opportunity to send us to overtime as they will now defend this top floor bombsite
to the utility being brought by fury to handle this rafter's position the grim the Zofia on the
board no needs so if you want to open up some of that wall with your thermite get into the building
you will need those explosives to take care of whoever's going to be up there usually this is
handled by a capitol or a set of frag grenades,
neither of those being brought by Fury to deal with this.
And you know how powerful that rafter spot can be.
There also exists the possibility that Fury
just decides to forgo it and instead goes
for a construction execute taking red stairs.
And when they open up main breach,
you can leave rafters to their own devices
and have somebody outside, especially if Fury ends up
with the numbers advantage to babysit the Izami of KDS.
But that is cart very much before the horse,
We are only 45 to 50 seconds into this round.
Yeah, of course, the way the CC pushes work, you generally need construction or you need rafters.
You don't necessarily need both, and it's very obvious what fury I want to go for in this one.
It'll be a construction clear. That means taking Master.
That means taking Lodgy. That means taking Jim.
Already outside the jacuzzi, we've reached their applying pressure onto Souls 1 and 8.
It has not been a great map to come through from the Eldar on FaZe Clan.
Pandy finds Lawyer at Town Polo, though, also not been a great couple of rounds for him,
as he's been the opening depth a number of times now here in the second half.
Still pressuring these construction players, Parker. This roam game has to get cleared out
sooner rather than later, but they're playing so well together. Everybody grouping up with
the shotgun, Biddy King with another one to support souls, and everything's coming together for FaZe.
The defender sided map, baby, and that is exactly what we are seeing as it's over in the pulling
of an eye, FaZe Clan continuing to prolong this matchup.
5-1, the scoreline that we saw, and it tightened ever so slightly, but in round number 9, Furia
moved to championship point.
And now FaZe Clan have an opportunity to do something that frankly seemed unthinkable
20 minutes ago.
And that's when this match, they've just got to get to overtime and then take the next
steps.
No unlimited OT, only three rounds if you get there.
The FaZe Clan of the owner is tasked of doing so.
A reminder, the first half, five rounds won by the defending team of Fury and now FaZe
Clan have won four of their own.
The attackers have been unable to win more than a single round despite multiple operator
lineups despite multiple attempts changing things up. Timeouts called. It does not matter.
One other thing to keep your eye on Jesse. The team that has drawn first blood has gone
on to win all but two rounds so far. So hugely important that you strike first your chances
of winning over 80% here on Clubhouse if you can get kill number one. Keep an eye on FaZe
clan as they've been playing continuously more and more aggressive against Furia and they've been
searching for opening picks pretty early in a lot of these rounds. I'll remind you as well,
Furia got the initial side choice of defense which means FaZe Clan would have gotten to choose
what side they wanted to start on in overtime. I don't have official confirmation what their choice
was but I would be flabbergasted if they didn't choose to start on defense Parker so you have to
imagine if we get to overtime that'll be a phase clan focused affair where they
will have the advantage getting to defend twice and only having to attack once
but as you said cart before the horse let's get there first Fioria will like
to close this one out seven five still a possibility for them on the offensive
side they won this bomb site the last time they were here gym and bedroom came
off of a really fast push through construction after getting that cash
clear successfully but this time they lose the opening duel handy finds that
one on the bulbs. The stat you said Parker ringing true this makes things very difficult for Furia.
So challenging.
In Furia not really having much in the way of intel other than drones and the grim on the board.
Same cannot be said for FaZe Clan. Deployable shields, mirror windows, traps galore.
It's really not been any individual heroic performances from FaZe Clan too Jesse as this
This game is tight and gets really good a team effort and that is FaZe at their best.
Yeah, no doubt about it.
I said it right when we won that first seventh round.
They won their first defense.
They have to be able to win it by playing together.
That's exactly what they've done.
Here comes a nitro cell to eat up Box.
They're a two-man advantage now in Furia.
They're stalling out.
They've got map control inside of Pawn.
They're outside on Highway, but they're eating nitros again.
2v5 and the swings don't stop from the captain of Vittaking.
Finishes them all off and it's a huge 3k to be able to end out a flawless final regulation round
How many people would have believed you if you said when it was
5-1 that phase clan would win the 12th around
Flawlessly to send us to overtime you would have been laughed out of the room and the defenders
Doing what they do best on this map Jesse you said it just moments ago
face clan gets to choose their side here in overtime and well while traditionally the
side that dominates in regulation doesn't always have that same level of success in
overtime face clan is going to do their best to try and guarantee it so they will pick
defending twice they might not even need to do it twice if they can break that streak
that the defenders are on at the moment next round. It could be over in two, but it's getting
ahead of ourselves. We know that there is roughly 10 minutes remaining in this matchup. That is it.
And by then, we will have crowned a champion here in Brazil. It's been an incredible best of
three, map number one, going all 12 rounds. That was FaZe's pick of Chalet.
Peria with this current core has never played it. And yet they pushed FaZe to the brink. Now,
Now, obviously, I say that with Loira going nuclear in a number of rounds.
If Loira was not as good in a couple of those rounds,
I think that's more of a phase blow up, but that's not what happened.
We go to map number two of bank, and FaZe did not look comfortable there at all.
Furia beating them 7-3 and setting us up for a clubhouse that looked like it was going
in Furia's favor in a hurry.
5-1 the first half, 6-3 the score line when Furia finally moved to championship point.
And as you can see on your screen, FaZe Clan have clawed it back,
consecutive rounds and they are oh so desperate to make that four and move to
championship point themselves. Back in around six when Furia were closing out
that five-one first half Parker they did it with a flawless round and we worried
that that was gonna be the nail in the coffin that that was gonna be just all
of the momentum favoring the team in black but FaZe Clan were still able to
answer back that show the experience that they have as a roster now with their
own flawless round to end out there a favorable half we have to see it again
from Furia this team is a lot younger they're a lot less experienced but they
have to have that same grit that same resilience to pull things back here and
not let the game spiral out of control another nitro cell they just don't stop
with them Parker but that one doesn't land still one more in the pocket of
Katie S to try to fish for a kill but for now it's slow and steady side with the
only player still roaming he had a really important opening pick the last time
They played this site, but now we get to it. They're expecting on the side of furious
So he falls right back to the site and starts to play the clock with the rest of his team
And to fade away as the home wrecking up top from box era begins
Very important that you paralyze these defenders take away the ceiling the roof above them put them in
Disadvantages spots and that's exactly what fury is doing at the moment
you best know that they will have players lined up to exploit FaZe. As to whether it
succeeds, well that's up to FaZe Clan and the way that they handle the adversity that's
being thrown their way from Furia. So far, nobody from FaZe has found themselves in the
line of sight of the attackers and with one minute to go, every single player in the server
is still very much alive.
This is where things get tense. You've got $4,000 from Loira. You've got flashes on the
side of Volpe's. Five cans of bees for her to walk into this bomb site. A nade being held
by Box Zera. The utility on both sides is immense. It's gonna be a crazy final 40 seconds
Parker as these attackers look to get in the site.
Nade gets dropped. Here comes the Blitz. Volpe's gun down immediately. Herds will join him.
Volpe's still technically bleeding out. The Ying of Loira is in a 14th kill, but FaZe shut
them out so effectively. And it's championship point for the world champions.
FaZe Clan, the team that you can never count out,
the team you can never doubt,
it doesn't matter the score line,
always willing to step up and bring things back.
Now one away from closing this out
against a young Furia team who surely
thought they had it in the bag.
Seven to six, the one lifeline that Furia will get Parker
is that they get to go to the defense.
Round 15, if we need it, will be a different story.
You'll have to find some way to get an attack, but for now, focus on doing what you do best.
Their first half was great.
They know how to defend this map.
As long as they can stay out of their head, they should be able to bring this 1-15.
They should be able to win on their defensive club, but they have to keep their mental strong.
This is as close as you're going to get.
feeling the effects of this team this phase squad even we were starting to
count them out we noted that our language was very obituary ask if I may
say that I may not say that it's not a real word but I made it up anyway I'll
allow it of course well I appreciate that phase clan though will now go on to
attack. Only two successful attacks in this map. Furia got one. FaZe got one.
That's it. Overtime things tend to break and again, mental is going to play a huge
factor here. FaZe Clan definitely look like a team that has been rejuvenated.
They are taking far more chances. They are swarming Furia and it really does
seem like if FaZe sets the tempo, which is something FaZe doesn't do all that
often, Jesse. Furia cannot answer it. If this is something that FaZe has picked
up on, we could have a completely different attack from FaZe than what we saw through
all six rounds when they were attacking half an hour ago.
Boxer, the 20 year old superstar for Fury yet has grabbed the clash for potentially his
final rounds here in stage one of the SA-L.
Good impact trick coming out to keep this jacuzzi wall closed, that's part of the reason why
this map has been so defender sided is the walls have not been the easiest in the world
to get.
They did ban out Kaid, Bandit, and Mira, so you have to imagine that they'll be successful in opening these walls eventually, but still,
slowing things down is the name of the game for Furia, making sure that you don't allow face plans to take space for free.
Right now, they have full top floor control. Faze have not decided to commit to that cash side clear. Instead, they've got KDS up inside of Lodgy, they've got players outside of Jacuzzi, they're ready to go for an aggressive move.
take that bathroom wall down with it as well so effectively cutting through those reinforcements
used by feria just as we mentioned in the previous round when you take care of the floor it gets
rid of the roof that the defenders can rely upon if you're going to be extending out to gym and
bedroom side of this map or if you're defending the bomb site over in that part of the map the more
walls closed the more security you have if reposition box era now is cybers walking up the
the stairs and he's missed an opportunity but he doesn't dare finding
herds. The King on the board as well. Oh, he's falling by the wayside. Big Daddy
Cyber with two. Diaz tears through him so his rampage will end but Handy is
there for the assist. All has fallen apart for Furia. FaZe are your champions of
stage one.
back to back don't forget it phase clan remain the kings of South America what a show from
the best team to play this game phase clan from the brink of defeat clawback somehow
against furia they were the champions back during kickoff when they defeated nip in the
kickoff finals but phase clan is a different beast parker a fantastic showing from them
massively deserve for the victory in stage one. Incredible stuff. I mean, underrate them at your
peril. This is a team that has stood the test of time easily one of the best cores we've ever seen
in this Esport. And with that, they turn their sights to Paris next month and hope to do something
that Brazil hasn't really been very good at. And that's when EWC congratulations to FaZe as the
champions of stage one here in South America, but before we close up the broadcast, how about
we bring in our great desk and maybe hear from our winners.
I can tell you we'll be hearing from our winners and frankly, I got to say Ali,
I after now that the day is done, I really don't envy the desk because here you and I were sitting
at five one thinking interview questions. We were going to ask Fiora and then you got to deal with
a seven round comeback and switch things up. I do not envy Leo and Anne, but we do have
JP on the line just after this. Of course, face clan are your stage one champions. And
with a performance like that on the back half, Ali, pretty much unimpeachable.
I'm, I'm almost embarrassed for us that we doubted face at any point through that JP.
Like, I'm sorry. I need to apologize. I need to kick off the interview with an apology at
side swap at the halftime we were coming in and we were thinking where is this team where is this
roster you guys just pulled that out of seemingly nowhere yeah we were struggling on attacking
the map and since the game against against liquid was it has been a problem for us and today again
but um happily that we could win at least one attack on the OT and we could end the match on that
And I have to ask, who's responsible for that comeback?
Was it the Maestro?
Was it Rafa and the Maestro cooking up something at the side swap?
Or is that a full team kind of locking in?
Honestly, it was more of a comfort side of the Mephorens defending.
And adding to that, it's like each round, we won at the time, we got like more confidence
and like it got snowballed basically.
and when we got confidence and the kills are, we are killing the guys and things start working.
It's basically like my confidence boost and a comfort on the map basically.
You could definitely see the confidence starts as well, you know, just taking things around
at a time. And I mean, we know this face team, we've watched them win pretty much everything
at this point. So, you know, we expect that of them that ability. It's just nice when
you get to watch it come out in the server. JP, speaking of winning everything, let's
you know, let's let's be real here phase. They've gone out there and they've done it. SIs,
S tier events, you name it. EWC is always somewhere that not only phase but Brazil
as a whole has tended to struggle. You guys best finish is going to be around seventh place at EWC.
What's going to be different this time? This new format of IWC, I think it helps us. We
Warrant we are not a team that usually goes that's well in short tournaments
So now having a long tournament on the WC. I think would be benefit for us
And we're going to do the best prep we can so we can try to lift this different trophy
You guys like a lower bracket. That's for sure
And uh, and the last question before we let you go
actually wanted to kind of pick up on that obviously you guys are i mean the longest running kind of standing five-man roster inside of
Rainbow six guys been together think like what three and a half years now since before si 23 and
Definitely the long-term tournament thing has been quite apparent majors
Struggling to win with this new roster, but si's that you always seem to have them in hand
Do you think you guys loving the longer tournaments is part of this roster just being together so long that it maybe takes a
bit of time to set in but once it does
phase are just kind of inevitable? Yeah, for sure. We've been together for so long. It's like when
we are facing some problems during long tournaments, it's easier to fix those problems. When you're
trying to fix problems during short tournaments, even when you're with the same roster for a long
time, it's very hard. That's why we go so good in long tournaments than short tournaments. But like
since the Munich Major that it's like majors are shorter than SSIs and we're trying to improve
our way the way we prep to be able to be better in short term. So we got a third place in Munich,
a third place in Southlake City, we'll see you on WC. Well we will see indeed you guys continue
to play, lights out another SAO championship for the teams. Is there anything you want to say
before we send you off. Just ask someone, everyone actually to buy the face bundle.
I'm going to thank you every fan of Faze that cheered for us and keep the hope.
This is WC. Hopefully it will be different than the last one.
Hopefully they can win the one tournament that has alluded to Faze Clan in the past.
Hopefully the rich keep getting richer inside of the SAO, but thank you very much JP. You really appreciate it and
Hope wish you luck in Paris
serious
And Ali I mean to be fair we joke about the rich getting richer, but that is where we're working at for phase
I mean JP's talking about
Optimizing the team's prep so they're better for shorter tournaments versus longer tournaments most people dream of hammers
They's already as to and now they have what like the fifth or sixth at SAL domestic trophy
And I think JP's interview there obviously it felt like a bit of a sigh of relief at times
Didn't it was like who we got that one over the line?
We got a little bit lucky there
Recognizing clubhouse attacks is somewhere that they are struggling at the moment
So I'm sure that'll be something that teams are clutching to as precious information and precious intel
Because the struggle was real at times are here
I mean Furia they'll be kicking themselves because there was a big big chance that we could have been sat their interview and one of their
Players or coaching staff at that point
But it wasn't meant to be phases quality has risen to the top and eventually they did find a way
But it wasn't an easy path that they had to tread
It was extremely difficult and I think that really comes across in JP's interview
And and also come and also speaks to the cave builders a phase of team
of course they can make comebacks like that but also just understanding that
they are a team that i mean i can't think of a team that is better at
getting settled into series then phase army how many times
have we seen them come back from deficits like this because
like he said when you are a poor five-man roster for so long
it's not just that the play becomes muscle memory instinct but even how you
go about solving and diagnosing issues becomes
muscle memory instinct at that point and that's just something that
phase and phase alone have because of how long these players have been together and
especially once you get to OT and as you said when the momentum builds up Ollie it's just
the game plays itself at that point.
That's the dangerous thing, you can't give this phase to momentum, I think Fury needed
to ideally shut this down in one or two rounds but at that point it just fell a little bit
too late as soon as those two have gone awry.
You can just see the kill feeds in these last couple of clips, they've just been stacked
on top of each other, it's not one kill coming in, it's usually three, sometimes even four
all more to really end these rounds out because as soon as FaZe hit that go button, they are
just storming on through. Player of the day that we sort of said keep an eye on was Cyber.
Now, rightly or wrongly, I mean, Cyber's always usually a pretty safe pick for that sort of
thing anyway. You did have a fantastic series against Liquid. Here, didn't necessarily go
missing but just coasted by 102 EPS. For me, the standout has got to be Vittor King. Handy,
sort of have come to expect it from, right? Handy is an incredible player in their home,
right? And very often puts up ridiculous amounts of kills. But seeing him come out of Vitaking
himself, it was almost as if he decided in the fixture, hang on a minute, boys, we're not losing
this one. I mean, like, we've got multiple Vitaking, we've got four Vitaking 3Ks in this series.
I don't know if I've ever said the phrase Vitaking 3K in a game I've casted. Like, I don't know
what he was doing today but the kind of performance he had and you know we're
kind of going crazy over a 29 and 3-3 mapper but like when you have a team
that is as stacked as FaZe Clan, Vidiking is always in that fifth place spot still
doing well but of course the MVP this guy top of the rich getting richer
Handy's got like 18,000 of these MVP awards he's always been such a consistent
player for FaZe Clan and the other thing I want to highlight as well Handy
obviously great period one lawyer would be in this spot and with performance he
had the fact that a win doesn't come of it that one's gotta hurt. Yeah, it does. And
you know, he was kind of on his own a little bit today, wasn't he? In that Furia line up,
there wasn't anyone that was by his side on his shoulder, egging him on and trying to
snap at his heels and catch him up in terms of kills. It really was a bit of a one man
show at times. And he getting the MVP, like you say, he's had a ton of these so far,
flies under the radar as one of those players that, you know, will highlight when when necessary,
but it's so crucial in picking up those kills, very often picking up one, two kills at a
Nice positioning as well and that defense and always doing those thankless tasks and and honestly at this point talking about phase
Is better thankless tasks because we always have to make the same points and it's only because this team just keeps winning this team
Keep showing up this team keeps impressing us just because this kind of dominance for this long through one of the best if not
The best course in rainbow six history, but that is it for Ali and I inside of the SCL
Now that's it for the S.A.L. this stage.
Only thing we have left coming up is EWC in Paris
in just a short little while.
And then of course, we've got stage two right after that.
So while it might be goodbye here,
we'll see you right before you know it.
So don't go anywhere.
There's a whole lot more Rainbow Six
in just like a month.
We'll see you then.
I