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I'm here at the eSports World Cup celebrating a wonderful match between DK and Team Secret
to get into that semifinal but the next best thing is being here with the super fans, the
ones that are following everything on full, getting hype and hold on something is about
to happen it's a 2v1, let me watch this really quick.
Obviously I can tell you're a face fan just by the jersey, what's your name and tell
Tell me your journey of coming to the eSports World Cup to be able to support this phase roster.
Hi, my name is Paul, so I'm from Thailand.
I came all the way here, like, along the flight, so, but I support space for a few years.
Alright, I'm here with the super fan of Secret.
What's your name?
My name is Arthur.
Now, what was your journey of getting here to be able to watch and support Team Secret?
Oh, it's gonna be great, man.
I'm from Brazil.
that are a fun travel to be here was going to be great amazing place I miss
people that's gonna be a amazing experience man for sure I think it's a
pretty nice experience because normally in normal esport even I only like focus
on one game like stage and everything here I could experience not just
proceed of course it's a good game it's a very good game they all experience
some other game that is also like have their own different experience I
It really much opens a world to the other in the esport world.
Esport seems to make us happy.
Also meeting in a community at every location, meeting new friends.
It's a wonderful time.
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I was trying to listen to the French cast yesterday, I'm still trying to figure rainbow
out, never mind listening to French.
So right, you need to actually teach me a bit of French here because I'm actually
struggling a little bit, right?
Okay.
What about operator in French, l'opérateur?
Okay.
That's nice and easy.
That's nice and easy.
What about C4?
Okay, not too bad, not too bad.
Fancy with that.
What about the map of the game?
The map? The game.
French is easy, bro. That's a thing.
It's easy, it's easy.
For the moment, if I talk to you like this, you don't understand anything about British.
Oh, you just call me?
Don't worry about it.
Why are you trying to learn French anyway, man?
It's siege.
Learn some Portuguese.
Oh, no.
Wait, somebody did actually teach me some Portuguese yesterday.
Stab in the crowd and...
I'll see if I can get it right.
Hold on one second.
Welcome to the battlefield.
Remember, we are the Huntses, pay out the price.
A real hunter always watching where he steps.
I'm closer, I dare you.
They said it could not be done.
They were wrong.
I trust my demons.
How do they trust you?
That's got to work.
I'm very close to you.
That's got to work.
Rainbow Six Sieges live in Paris, France, here at the Lenovo Legion.
Got it, and we couldn't be happier to have all of you watching with us online and in the building.
The Paris Expo, Port d'Aversailles, for a day of semi-final action.
It means that we're going to see our grand finalists one by one enter into the fray,
and the conversation will turn towards tomorrow.
But to get there, we're going to crush some keys.
We're going to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money,
And we are going to tell some great stories.
I've got two gentlemen alongside me,
Reinde, who will be your host on the panel, who
know how to do so.
Of course, Laxing and Alphama here.
Guys, as the jib comes down and sets the tone for narrowing
in on today's action, how do we feel just the environment
of the semifinals?
I've been feeling great.
I mean, even to get to this point,
the games have been extremely fun.
Even in yesterday's match, we talked
about that L-classico between Team Liquid Alienware
and FaZe.
I mean, definitely one-sided affairs from one map
to the next, but that's where FaZe really
came through the barrier and just to get themselves here in the semi-final, but every game has
really delivered.
Yeah, and that's what we expect from a game where you don't have the lower bracket, it's
directly elimination.
I'm still waiting to see that big upset in playoffs, because we've seen so many upsets
before, but in playoffs so far, I feel like Webu not making it to semi-final, classic
stuff.
We see Faye's overcoming and winning the El Classico, that's classic stuff as well.
And maybe the only big story is that underdog that we did not expect to see there
in semi-finals, that's Gike.
I won an EML team that I will cherish and love and no, I'm definitely not.
I'll do it.
I'll cherish it with you as well.
I'm going to leave you hanging.
I like it, man.
We I had to support with you because there was three Americans on the broadcast
yesterday, so somebody had to represent GK.
I tried to do it.
We're going to see if they do it for themselves today, of course.
Heading into today, yesterday's STC Rewind will catch you up as to all
that unfolded.
It was a day of siege to be remembered, but maybe not the way that you
thought it was going to go.
Laxing, you mentioned, you know, classical, but it was GKE sports
which start out.
What are your takeaways from yesterday's action
and kind of what we learned about the way
Siege is being played, the meta developing,
and obviously what set us up for our semifinals today?
I mean, it's every team just being
in this moment of understanding their opponent
and what they need to do in order to win their series.
And where we even saw a team like GK
come into their series against Secret
is they understood their opponent.
They played against them in the EML.
They had that familiar face, the familiarity,
just across the board.
And they just really put the pedal to the metal.
I mean, what?
It was only 14 rounds.
It was a fast series for you guys, a very fast game.
But that's the same level that they're going to have to bring today,
especially going against a big opponent like Vaze Clan.
Yeah, I would even argue that in the last two quarterfinals, especially the ones from yesterday,
I felt like it was way less of a strategy game and way more of a mental game.
I felt like in that game between Geeky and Secret, I felt Secret gave up at some point.
I felt like they didn't believe they deserved all they could reach top four.
Whereas for Geeky, look at them, they were fired up the whole time,
they were kicking that woman and going,
And they're surfing on that underdog wave.
Is it the hominy moon?
Is it the end of the hominy moon?
But I don't know.
They're still riding that wave and still performing high.
For FaZe Clan, it's the same stuff we know.
They're cool, quiet, collected, whatever happens there
in semifinals.
It's a normal day at the office.
They've played so many grand finals at this point.
So obviously that quarterfinal was an easy one for them.
And I think that also proved that there are teams coming
into this with more synergy.
And whether you remember the yelling from yesterday
because of the support on the side of FaZe
So where do you remember how different map one was
from map two laxing?
It was not the El Clásico we expected yet.
It was still the result that was anticipated.
Faze move on, they have a chance yet again
to get closer to a championship here.
What is exactly what you would expect
from two teams with world champions on it
that they were gonna be masterclassed?
Whether it was gonna be on their map
or their opponent's map.
But again, that's where Faze just always
gets it done in the very end.
We talk about that mental aspect.
They understood what the game plan was.
We heard, I believe KDS talking about it
in the interview they understood that Liquid wanted to play that aggressive game.
So what did they do on their defense?
They met it with a great aggression as well, stopping them from getting their foot in the
door, not really allowing them, excuse me, was Fellypox that was talking about it.
And you even heard of Fellypox also went 0-8, took a lot of the brunt on his shoulder
of why they didn't find success.
But that was also due to the pivot of Bayes just understanding what they needed to
do to get into that final map and how they could close it out and secure a semi-finals.
moment there cyber with his son crushing the key of team liquid something that both of them will
remember forever. I'll tell you that as well. I bet it due to my daughter today. So it's great to
have your kids in the building when you're performing at work, especially when the lights are
this bright, you know, the world is watching. What an exciting time for him. He'll look to
continue that because I think they'll be staying for the semifinals fury and dark zero coming
up to kick us off face clan and GKE sports at the end of an Alphama starting off though,
It's Furia and DZ, which two teams, I mean, how do you feel about them?
How would you describe this matchup off the top?
I feel like it might be the most intense, closest matchup we're going to see.
Obviously, on paper, we have the two-time world champions on one side
and then the one team that struggled or is an underdog from EML on the other
for the second semi-final.
So if you look at the first one, I'm looking at the two teams
that had the closest quarter-finals.
If you think about it, Furia and Wildcat delivered, absolutely delivered in intensity.
And even better, I think DZ Weibo was probably my favorite quarter-final.
I think it went all the way to the third map.
It was super intense, went to overtime multiple times.
So I think we're in for a banger of a game on that first semi-final.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
Also, for those just joining us at EWC, there's a common thread across all the games.
That's the club championship.
And Chris, if he's done screaming, has a chance to update us on what's going on today.
Well, the sweat is still dripping down my forehead,
and it might still be dripping down Falcons as well.
The admits in progress, of course, this week, of course,
Chess is looking very, very good for them.
a big semi final coming up also for AGL between the two competitors in the club championship who are
vying for that first place spot right now. AGL have themselves a 250 point lead after a pretty
decent points from Dennis Lazovic throughout the chess. But Dennis Lazovic is now playing up against
Hikaru Nakamura of Falcons today. It is a massive massive semi final which is going to become
no more than keeping you up to date as much as we possibly can. So that is going to be a huge
moment in the club championship. Of course in the Rocket League as well that's something
The Falcons are looking to continue to advance with and this week is remaining pivotal for
HAL with that performance and chess are going to keep it close.
The club championship is going to go down to the very final week, which I think, you
know, if we'd have that conversation a few weeks ago, you'd have called me crazy, but
I ain't crazy.
It's going all the way to the very last day.
Well, thank you, Chris, for the Ramp Go Club Championship updates here from all of
us at EWC.
It's exciting to say the least laughs.
This is coming down to the wire last week.
Yeah, it absolutely is. I mean, we also heard several times that AGAL is kind of in a waiting period where Falcons obviously contending across a couple of games right now could definitely get some points.
But even for our scene right now, I mean, what, they both fury as well can accumulate some very good points today if they get into that grand final.
So who's to say where they end up as well?
Here's the thing, guys. I mean, a thousand points for winning, right? We don't see Furia on here yet.
But if they were somehow able to turn around and win, well, they're in CS as well.
You know, they have a chance.
And there in Rocket League, I just saw them play there as well, so there are three different
games right now.
You have FaZe, like you mentioned, probably the favorite in our game to take it as well.
And as you said, 1000 points, you're just already jumping to the top 20, you're getting
a fair share of that cash price.
You still have a couple of days and a couple of games that remain here at EWC to grind
up that ladder.
75 million dollar prize pool across all of the titles here over the seven weeks.
7 million dollars to the club championship winner and the chance to raise that exclusive,
Elusive trophy at the end of this. What an exciting time. Stay tuned. We'll keep you updated later on this evening as things transpire
But gentlemen as we head to today's matchup and focus in on the head-to-head
It's gonna start off with our teams dark zero and fury at two teams that have had different iterations of their rosters
We've seen it's mainstays like in JR for dark zero
We've seen herds be the only kind of remaining member of fury after almost a complete re rewind
What is that theme mean to you lax looking at this now?
Is it a battle of consistency?
Is it a battle of who rebuilt better?
Is it a battle of the way they're playing in this tournament?
I think for me when you got to look at Fyria,
and I think it's the rebuilding aspect,
we talked about this pretty much a lot
throughout that series was,
if Heard's wasn't that IGL, he wasn't the leader
and people weren't following into his ideology,
we probably don't see Fyria reach the strides
that they've reached, even possibly getting
into the semifinal.
But it's also very a key element for him
and his own success that he's never given up
regardless of swapping roster,
regardless of having to restart that he picked the players, that he can shape with them, that he can mold
and follow into that ideology and again, it's paying off.
Yeah, and I feel like we're gonna see a big big battle in this game
and that is the battle of the most experienced player. You've talked about her at length already
for Fluria, great idea, right? I look at Fultz on the other side and I look at these two players
that's and I think, could they do it? Could they be the first ever player to win a major
on multiple, win a six-initational and win a sports world cup? Crazy amount of cash price
On one side, Herds with three major wins, one aside,
could he win WC Fultz?
He's won a major just now recently.
He could do it back to back
and he's already won an aside in 2020.
I mean, the pedigree is definitely different
in terms of the two, in terms of where they place
and how many majors have won.
But the fact of the matter is every one of those players
has won an invitation, has won a major.
Neither of them have won Esports World Cup
and they could essentially be one of the only title holders
throughout an entire year of the Esports World Cup
to be able to hold on to that to say I've won all three.
The big three, the big three.
So that would be very interesting story to be following along and kind of see where Dark
Zero or beside a fury of hers ends up.
This is going to be exciting.
And of course, it's kind of putting a test to all the stuff that we promised ourselves
as those rosters get shifted around one player.
You're saying we believe that this is the core centerpiece.
Now it is time to prove it as we circle in and narrow in on furious roster.
Everyone has performed quite well to get here.
DS, another player that we talked about multiple times in that game.
We had a chance with Andes to sit down with Herds, and you're already asked to say heading into today's semi-final.
We're speaking to Herds today, ahead of their game today, Herds.
You played against an NA team for the first time with this new roster yesterday.
Wildcard picked you, and still you're able to 2-0 them.
What do you think made you guys have the competitive advantage yesterday?
You played against a NA team for the first time yesterday, with the new order and the new players.
And we got you and you won 2-0, what did you feel about that?
I think it was a game we prepared a lot.
It has been a championship that we are very focused on the game plans, so we are dedicating a lot in this part.
And it happened all year long, we learned a little bit about that, leaving the console open.
We knew they were going to get us, so we got a map in our control.
And the Minis are adapting very well, everyone has a lot of experience, so I think that for this new year it is not so much a problem, because everyone already has an international luggage, and that's it, it's being very good.
they were going to pick, so it was a very comfortable game for us.
That's awesome. And her, she could become the first player that has both an S.I. Championship,
a major championship, and an EWC. What do you feel like maybe with this new roster as well?
It could be the key difference that you could be that first player who does it.
I'm very satisfied with the result, it means that I did a good job in my career.
The titles are a consequence of a good job, so focusing on the step-by-step, that's what it will be.
and play the three big ones.
That's awesome.
Now final question.
You're going up against the defending major champions.
What's the game plan for today?
So we're going to play today against the last champions
of the major.
Do you have a game plan?
Something to talk about the game that you're going to have today?
They are the last champions.
We prepared a lot too.
We have a very consistent game plan.
So they have won.
It's not something that scares us.
We're going to enter like any other team.
We are very confident and I think it will be good.
there after talking with herds.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I love Am's question right there, the very tail end.
And Herds' response to it, you know,
how are you going to go against a major champion team best
defending it?
And he's on the outside looking in.
He used to be on that side, where they were winning
everything.
That's what every team was being asked,
going against his team, going against him.
And to be able to have that experience,
to be able to understand what it's
like to be in this moment and now being on the opposite side.
I mean, that's what you want from your leader.
That's what you want from your captain,
to just be able to live in the moment, to understand, OK,
I know what it's like being here.
This is what we need to do to make sure our mental is right and to get over this hurdle and send us into a grand final
And I can already tell you why this would be special for him in the sense that it's a player that won everything
But with the same roster all the time. Yeah, he was abandoned by everyone. He's still active. They are not anymore
Yeah, and he could win and complete his trophy shelf basically
Yeah
Not by himself, but you know when all of his perfs image didn't do it
Yeah, and that's what a revenge tool what a comeback what a way to say
Hey, you guys have been with me and I did better than you.
You know, that would be insane for him.
I mean, even getting into a grand final,
they got knocked out last year from the grand final
and had to play a third place.
But it's actually against the majority of this roster
that was SSG.
So just getting into the grand final,
he's already hitting strides that the former Fury roster
couldn't do.
And standing up, getting excited,
jumping off from the equipment and just saying,
yeah, that's us.
We got that.
Every round that they won was a little bit more energy
for her.
It's he knows what's on the line.
And speaking of the team they have to go against,
not feeling concerned with Dark Zero.
But maybe they should whether it's singing a little Justin Bieber to get ready or maybe it's meditating
Thanks to coach call out this team has put together an incredible run
Alphama questioning if they can win two majors back to back that would set up a different narrative for North America for the first time
But of course we had a chance to sit down top with them to see if they're feeling the pressure themselves
We're speaking to fools ahead of their game today fault you played against rainbow yesterday
You lost the first map, but then afterwards to good recovery. What is in your opinion the highlights of the game yesterday?
I would say the highlight is our
ability to adapt to kind of what wasn't working versus them and figuring out them out as an opponent as the series went on
Then you could be the player the first player actually that has a major an SI and an EWC title
You've been doing this for a little while because you're a SI championship called very long ago
What do you feel like it's been for you as a player that's been able to help you do this so consistently?
I think it's similar to yesterday's game. Honestly it's about getting up, dusting off
and realizing what's not working, what needs to change and that kind of like explains my
career. You know I found success early and then it's been a long way, journey to where
I'm at now and the biggest thing is just not giving up, believing in like yourself,
your teammates and just continue to work hard.
And then playing against Fiora today, I feel like they seem a little bit more informed
than what they showed us in Salt Lake City. What's the game plan coming in today?
The game plan is, we know they're like very individually aggressive, but when I've watched
them play, I'm not really impressed by their team play yet because they are a newer roster,
so that's really what we're trying to take advantage of.
And then something we see with DarkZero, especially in the NA, he has all kinds of ways of warming
up for the game.
It ranges from singing Justin Bieber together to meditating.
Do you have a personal favorite, or is this kind of like game dependent as well?
My personal favorite is probably...that's a good question.
Maybe the meditation just because I'm not as extroverted as some of my teammates.
I like to have fun, but not in a singing type of way, so I like to poke fun and be a little
more sarcastic.
All right, awesome.
Thank you so much for your time.
I'll let you get in the zone and good luck with the game.
Thank you so much.
Well, this is an interesting one.
Says he's not a Justin Bieber kind of guy.
It's unfortunate, man.
I agree.
That's unfortunate.
I mean, he's...
I love the Biebs.
You can see it and he's done very well.
And if you guys know him a little bit, he's always going to quiet a little bit more.
Not shy, I would say, in Travert as I call, but at the same time, he's the ideal, he's the leader,
he has a lot of aura.
It's composed.
Yeah, it's composed.
I just thought of the fact that he just mentioned that, you know, the fact that he made his
career through so many years and stayed consistently at the top level was getting better every
day and having the sense, the presence in mind, to just reset and understanding
what's wrong and what needs to change.
I think that's the answer also in the game.
That's how they adapt so well.
I think this really stuck out to me, too.
You know, he's not focusing on the moment.
He's focusing on the journey.
And he definitely spotted very early
that he had very early success.
And he had to go through all the rigmarole
and have to try to battle the ups and downs.
But he was focusing on the journey.
He wasn't focused on any one of those moments,
whether it was positive or negative.
It was just how he can get to the next bit.
And again, now he's here at another semifinal,
pushing closer to a grand final
and possibly becoming the first player in Siege's
history book to win all three big events.
It's going to be exciting, guys.
I cannot wait.
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Is it going to be Dark Zero?
Is it going to be Furia?
And going back to the conversation with Dark Zero,
I think it's interesting because they beat Secret
to get here.
They lost to CAG.
They actually ended up losing a map to Webo as well.
And one of those maps that they lost on was Lair.
One of those maps, Nighaven Labs.
But this is a team that doesn't actually come in clean, as always.
And look, there's Lair right there, DarkZero picking it.
Defense on that, Furia picking it.
So what's our reaction to this first map?
I think it's very surprising.
I think it's very surprising, but Furia, we expect a thing, any surprise?
You remember the other ones that love the traps and the surprises in the map, Vito?
The reason why I'm surprised, I saw Furia play this map at EWC against DK and lose it.
I also saw DarkZero being incredibly good on it.
They killed Wable on a 7-1-5, it was a clean one, they lost to Kagami 7-2, that's why one
step dead was a misstep, but I do think that overall, I think if you really peek into a
map where they have two recent votes from Dark Zero and they want to counter them.
Okay, that makes sense.
Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you said, looking at the Night Haven Labs, we
also spoke when Anne was interviewing her, she said we got our maps, we knew exactly
what we wanted, I'm sure in terms of where we're landing on Night Haven Labs, that's
the map that he was talking about, but I was speaking to Kala before this and Kala's very
cuddling up. He said that the past two days they've been putting 70% of their effort into
these first two maps so they did understand of where they were going to play and I gotta
say I don't know how you feel about this and seeing Bank pop up, I'm honestly leaning
more towards and this isn't even just an AL bias, I am leaning more towards Dark
Zero in terms of this map pool favoring them more than I am on the side of Fyria.
I actually cannot disagree. I think I've seen, I mean you've seen a lot of
I think I've seen Furia beat FaZe Glam on Bank, two time world champions.
So I don't think it's a bad map whatsoever.
I'm just really worried about the two first maps once again, Furia.
They're not a great Night Heaven lap team.
I told you I saw Furia lose Lair against GK.
They also lost laps against GK.
You think that's why they're going attack first?
I mean, what's the conversation around that?
It's usually a surprise for them because arguably you would say that defense is
the easiest side to start on, a little bit more comfortable.
Remember what happened two days ago when they were in quarterfinals they chose to attack on console at the most
Defender which I question and and they were leading five one in that one
So I think they want to be proactive
They lack to attack first because they can set up their own plans and it's harder for you to react in defense then to adapt in attack
That's my personal guess as an ideal. That's how I always felt
So I think if they want to apply a counter strat starting in attack is always easier
I mean that's the that can also be a double-edged at double-edged sword though
starting on attack if you can't find your rhythm you can't find your pacing you
can't get the comms going then when you get on defense you're in a deficit you
can't work together so they really have to come out the gate strong and work
together here to make sure that they can have at least a three-three half
get to that defense and feel good. The little things may make a big
difference here in our semifinals as we open up the day after the Novo
Legion Gotland, R6 Siege is here!
Let's get this started!
You kept me over!
Savage 1?
I'm literally right next to you.
Sorry?
Sorry, I didn't see you there.
Wow, you look incredible in a flashlight, by the way.
Whoa, your pores look insane.
Those eyes, wowsers.
Beautiful.
Round here somewhere.
Milosh, is the script.
How things are going to end here.
EWC for R6 Siege.
Who's going to make the grand finals?
It's going to be here somewhere!
I can't f- wait!
Is that R6-
Savage 1!
Savage 1!
Moving on the target!
Secure!
Okay, here we are.
Um, do I, do I open it?
Where's this peely trapped, Milosh?
It's, it's a risk we're gonna have to take.
Come.
You ready?
Okay.
Okay, look.
Hold on.
What's the safe?
What's the safe?
Milosh.
Yeah?
There's nothing in there.
There's nothing in there.
What?
It's not been written yet.
We don't know who's gonna be in the ground.
Damn it.
You know what?
Let's just get the date signed.
Let me hack the store.
You, you can hack the door?
Yeah.
Amazing.
Dokemi gave me all the stuff.
It's going home. Alright, you know what? Let's get this day started.
Bonjour! Hello there and welcome back to the Esports World Cup live from Paris, France.
But we bring you again Rainbow Six Siege and a very very special day 22 teams began here
We are down to the final four, but who will go all the way to the grand finals tomorrow
We're gonna find out very soon. My name is Adam Savage and this is the brilliant Milich
Well, my friend, I think you saved his special day even more
So you know what? I'm just gonna say it right ahead. This is my friend Adams
11th year anniversary and you know what he chose to do he chose to spend it here
with us with his family in Rainbow Six so thank you very much thank you for
having me I even have a gift for you today no you don't stop it you rascal
what did you get me to the best semi-finals you're ever gonna say my
friend I love it I love I can't wait to see it this is gonna be amazing what a
wedding gift this is I can't wait to see how it's gonna unfold should we
meet the teams me I think even more so you should just go and do the
Do you think so? To be honest?
As it's a celebratory day, follow me this way.
We're going to go down here for a second because this is very special.
We have to really kick things off in this semi-final.
I want to go in here.
Here we go. Here we go.
First up, our first semi-finalist here today.
Would you please welcome to the stage,
It's Furia!
Ruthless, fiery,
Soul Lake City in the past. Back where they belong.
A roster of players that are competing in regions all around the world.
Can they do it here in the City of Lights and get themselves to the championship final we'll find out.
It's one they've been looking forward to for a long time.
We'll have to welcome on the other side champions of their own.
It's Dark Zero!
You might have seen one eclipse. They are definitely the one that's shown all over Paris a couple days ago.
Just after their matchup, the entire city, crowned in darkness, they take down anyone that ever comes up against them.
They've defeated the best team Brazil has to offer. Best phase of only a few months ago.
No one has been able to do such a feat, and here, against Spheria, it's only history looking to be rewritten just with a little different protagonist.
Friends, come on over, please. Players, you may go to your seats. We're going to bring in Laura and Foltz. Come on in, gentlemen, closer, closer, closer.
Let's go. Final words then to your opponent, Foltz.
Good luck.
That's it. Sean Sweep. Sean Sweep.
Lloyd, what do you want to say to your opponent ahead of this semi-final?
I'll tell him to try not to find me on the server.
And good luck.
OK. Here we go. Fighting words.
General Police shake hands.
This is it. Get your seats, please, chaps.
This is it, Milosh. We're about to get a semi-final.
This is going to be huge.
Very much excited for it.
We're all set. Anniversary is all over today.
And this one, an anniversary, maybe,
for yet another NA victory over Brazil.
Let's get this game started.
The roster reboot is working out tremendously well for GK with a really really strong result
over Team Secret 2-0.
The question will be can they capture the hearts of Paris as the last standing team
from EML.
KK, the unlikely representative for Europe will rise!
The team's guess will be the Mourinho for Faze!
Playing against Liquid is always very good, and winning is even better.
Most of us end up winning against them,
so I think playing against them is always a very difficult game,
but winning against them has a great taste.
Faze Clan are semi-final down in the Esports World Cup!
Bayes v Liquid, the El Clasico, ultimately an unconventional best of three.
The first two maps, super one-sided to the respective teams.
Ultimately though, Bayes were true good.
Their problem solving was tested, but they are such a strong roster.
Today's semi-finals, DarkZero, Furia, huge, huge matchup.
DarkZero coming off the back of their win at the Salt Lake City Major.
Can they lift another trophy?
DarkZero, chase the trophy into the semi-finals!
They're a little bit of a newer roster amidst of a lot of different players that I have played against.
Some younger blood, some older blood, but they're a capable team and we'll be ready for it.
And on the other side, GK, FaZe.
FaZe looks so hard to beat right now. Can GK pull off one of the biggest upsets we have ever seen at the Esports World Cup?
Holy text, a lot of damage! Grab me on the side!
I think everyone was a big face for them, right? Like, if you're going to be this deep in a tournament, you need to beat them to win the championship.
Like, they're the big dogs, you know?
So, I think we know how they play, we know how to beat them, and I think it doesn't matter who we play, I think we're a good chance at winning.
Vixão can disrespect them, but we also have to have the feeling that we are better than them.
Let's do it!
Well, one of these teams rebuilds around NJR in March.
One team did it against them with Herds, and now the journey will collide with one of those
teams actually making it to a grand final.
Gentlemen, this is a story around Dark Zero, validating that international win in a major
and now trying to do it here in Paris.
It's also about Furia trying to say that this rebuild works, but it's not soon, it's not
one day, it's now.
Absolutely.
I think it's between the two players we mentioned before, Fulton hurts on their shoulders, the
pressure of being the ideal, of course, but most importantly, I think like you said,
for NA, the first team ever to win two back-to-back S-tier events that has never happened.
NA, in my opinion, has always struggled having a legacy because of that.
We've never had that one team able to win multiple events, like G2 or Penta for
Blackface, or W7M for Brazil, Dizzy could become that team if they go to the grand final and win it.
And that starts today on the side. It hurts. He wants to prove he can win in a stair event without his pro-wrestling teammates.
Absolutely. He dominated all the 2023 and he hasn't been able to get back there, but similar to Foltz,
you know, starting out very strong in his career. He's gone through his hurdles.
He's gone through his ups and downs and now he's in a spot with this brand new team that he's built around him
him that he again can replicate that success and get to get another grand
final bring the title not only for himself but for the rest of his team and
become a eSports World Cup champion with those five it's elusive even members on
phase who we think could be maybe have been the best team that we've seen in
our six each have it gotten this title and so the eSports World Cup means
something not just for the cash prize of 750k but for the legacy that it
it adds to your very prestigious R6 career.
I mean, absolutely.
And there's a lot of pride, especially when you look at that SAL region.
I mean, they have the bragging rights when it comes to the 6th invitation.
Now they'll have the bragging right if they get the eSports World Cup.
And most importantly, guys, just as a reminder, there is a 6th innovation on the line.
Yes, that's a great point.
The very first one.
You win the biggest share of a $2 million cash prize.
Amazing.
You win the prestige of being one of the first holder of three of the most important
trophies in CG history.
And then on top of that, you're the first team to qualify to the most prestigious events
all your season, our world's sixth educational 2027 in Brazil.
And that's obviously somewhere where you want to be a beer on the side of beer in your home,
in your backyard, representing your region at the biggest event of the year.
And you're right, we haven't really talked about that, but there is more on the line
than just the eSports World Cup.
It's already hitting yourself and punching a ticket to the sixth invitational.
The approach to this game is one that both teams are looking at trying to solve.
How quickly they solve it could be the difference between playing for that third place match or having a shot at glory come tomorrow.
The question is, when you look at dark zeros, this is just the team that won't go away.
They have not been clean, they haven't two-ohed all the time.
They've lost sometimes their first maps, but they've found a way.
Is this more about how good they are?
Or in some ways is it more about how adaptable they have been when things aren't going well?
I mean, I really think it's the true testament of their mindset, their mentality, not just
in-game, but out-of-game, and you even saw in that quick little brief intro, seeing Jack
just meditating.
There's no other team in Siege that has this sort of brotherhood, that has this sort of
dynamic that doesn't have a regiment the way that they do, which is why they are
so lethal in-game and out-of-game, because it really is that foundation that call-out
built for this team.
Yeah, they have the champion mindset.
The one ingredient that FaZe has that other teams don't have.
They never give up, they always believe they can do it.
DZ is that one team 4&8.
Now as we go into the map, we're gonna see the first bands.
And obviously, like I said, I felt like Laird was a surprise pick for Furfurya.
Last time played it, they lost it to Geeky.
DZ have looked good on the map, and we're gonna see what we expect to see on the side of DZ.
Some target bands, and Furfurya getting rid of all of them.
And that's something to know when it comes to DZ,
especially when it comes to their maps and their operator bands,
as they target operators, they target the opposing team.
They don't play into their default.
They're getting rid of the information.
And we know how solid snake can be utilized,
especially talking about how aggressive the side of fear is.
You take away that little bit of information.
They're going to have to work a little harder.
Now you've got another piece of information away.
That vertical play is not going to be as easy
with Deimos being removed.
There's going to have to be a lot of information for a buck
that I'm possibly going to be used
over that vertical pressure.
But already, I like their targeting
the aggressive style from Fioria.
Get rid of Deimos.
Get rid of solid snake.
It's gonna be way harder to remove any rumors.
On their side, Fiora, they removed the two world
United operators in Chaitan Bennett.
They want to get those roles open as much as possible
as quickly as possible.
Fiora too owed their last match up
on Watt versus Wildcard.
They're trying to get off to a strong start here as well
in the drums.
If they're any indication of the fans
or maybe the heartbeats of Fiora,
they are ready to go.
It's time here in Paris for our Lenovo Legion
gotlet to kick off the semifinals for our six season.
for that let's send it over to Jeff and Pengu.
Thank you very much Rain Day.
A brief moment of quiet from the drums
as Dark Zero closed their eyes
and get ready for what could be the moment
that they booked their tickets
into their second grand final in a row.
Exactly, like the guest said,
Ryche's in their third and final trophy.
The major, the IdoC and the SI for a player like four.
So it'll be history in the making.
Same as well for Herds on the other side.
Fiora from Fiora was here in a grand final just a year ago at the Esports World Cup in
Riyadh. Could he book himself another spot, another chance? We also have players from both
of these teams that actually played three years ago in the G8 final as well. The spiritual
predecessor to this tournament. It is a huge moment now for Fiora to conquer the North
American major champions from just three months ago. While Dark Zero raised the trophy in Salt Lake City
it will be another task entirely before them today to conquer the Furious Furia.
We're seeing over at the band selection as well right it's all about the lethality of Furious
so you target band the Solid Snake, the demos as well because DC know this is necessarily
yet a great team of Fuhrer it is five great individual players that have
recently come together and they will only get stronger and stronger with time
so right now it's about respecting the individuals, forcing gunfights in favor of DC
and weakening the stagum that players pretty much anybody from Fuhrer can
bring to the table so I love DC's prep work going into this no surprise they
have really good prep work generally speaking but I think this is the two
most influential opera bands that they can bring here in the first map
DZ won their quarter-final against Weibo off of strategy.
They really outbrained Weibo. They mounted that pressure and in the crux of those tense moments,
Weibo could not hold their nerves.
In that 1 vs 1 on match point or overtime point, Hovind bottled it.
He missed his chance. DarkZero on the flip side.
They are the epitome of keeping cool.
As they look to do that on the defense, J9 kicks things off with a fiery start onto Boxzera.
the flora is going down we saw an early spawn pick out of the corner now aggression here from false
dc want to take the fight to the brazilians they see it right there just goes straight out the main
breach we're all right there from herds to expecting the window flying from the skybridge
with the smoke and it being tossed in forces it actually cannot commit to the clear cannot
support you in that 2v1 gunfight and i'm curious at dc will it try and out and frag it
outperform through here or play that layer the strategy force them to problem solve instead
Well, for the first round, a bit of both.
They got through the peak, they won the battle.
And now, strategically, they'll lock in there for doing the next step,
going for a ponderous, very risky business.
What? Those funds hurts?
Leaving just a bit here,
those who might get that shield with the grenade,
but I think I would say here, the damage is done.
They found two kills.
Well, and truly,
Falz is more than happy to lose his Clash Shield.
He's one of the most prolific Clash players at the moment in the game.
Now, Furia,
not typically used to fighting from behind,
a very aggressive team,
and they are the ones who have been aggressed upon by Dark Zero on this defense.
Kino continues to fall on back, another smoke.
There's a small gap, a little pocket of air and he stays alive, doesn't take any bit of damage.
That's good value there from Volts.
No one ready.
However, still fighting from a huge deficit.
Now Kino tries to escape, he will do so safely.
Crossfire on the bomb site for DZ, Fury might have whittled away at this defense,
but they are still no closer to confirming a plan.
All about using Lora downstairs in a perfect group right now, he's actually going to be up above with the main push. Flashbang goes out in 250 seconds.
Lora could go beneath them or go back towards that main breach.
Oops, oh sorry, force doesn't have to shield on the clash any longer, so it's down to just brutal gunfights here.
We'll be brutal indeed, Diaz tries to use the Grim's Beast to assist him, but he won't even be a single kill here.
Thaferia, a flawless round, is a hell of a way to kick off the series for the reigning major champs.
North America looking very good here in the semifinals.
I'm sure call out the coach of DC is saying, I love when their plan comes together.
When a good plan is successful, when the prep work is accurate, and when we show just how dominant we can be on the main stage.
And I think this DC's ability to control the pace in the very beginning round is such a statement.
Because I generally believe that at this tournament, especially for the teams left remaining,
and Fury might be the hardest team to control the server.
They are relentless.
They are brutal when it comes to the fights
and we saw them against Wildcard in the quarterfinals.
Wildcard, who's a very successful team
have taken the right fights together.
They are just dismantled by Fury effortlessly
around the Throne.
That's the thing.
We talked a lot in the DC versus Waybo game
about how Darks are so good at those setups,
they're so good at reading into their opponents,
banning away the operators
that their opponents need to crack through their setups,
and then just sitting back and waiting,
prevent that bunker from being broken.
Now, Fury are one of those teams
that doesn't necessarily need to outsmart you
in terms of your setup.
They can overwhelm you instead,
because firepower is Fury's best strength.
They haven't even found a single kill yet
in that first round.
So a little bit of a temperature check here.
DZ are looking to play a little bit more
of an aggressive game on defense
than we saw from their quarterfinal.
Double shield, the glass,
to kick off the second round in the tertiary bomb site no less.
There's a case where you go to use the Thermite, open the wall, run straight through the bomb site and go for a climb,
but I'm thinking like there's no thatcher for a C-Fold denial, there's no...
there's no real counterplay to any of the plants at all, no counter for the clash either.
So I'm curious how they're gonna problem solve this, to make matters worse.
A mirror window on the external wall, means that the Thermite has to be very careful.
Maybe once you block the anchor, you just smoke an edge of the shield.
Wow, enable the Thermite, Impact Grenade could still be successful, but in theory it will be.
Getting rid of the first Exothermic Charge, thank you Thermite got a buff not too long ago.
He has 3 now, so you cannot go 2 Impact Grenades to 2 Exothermic Charges.
You have to trade 2 for 3, so the wall will get open, but this is an expensive way of doing so.
It's gonna cost all the Heart Destruction in the beginning of the round on a single wall.
Yeah, well, I can't help but feel like...
Like, Volbs, which are...
They're gonna go for Broke!
Sometimes you just have to send it and see what happens.
Hers is gonna try and cover from inside.
There is no solace. There is no information.
Where that plant is going down.
And it will be confirmed here in the 5v5.
As Block Zero finally finds the first killer here.
For Furia, DZ are now forced
to make some moves.
Furia have brute-forced their way
into that bombsite. And this post-plant
looks no impossible now for DZ.
As the class tries to get active,
Barbed to Blitz will not be able to hold his nerve.
Will not be able to hold it.
Asking to use this.
In the post, and you're right.
The clash can now look for a chance to defuse.
It's up to Loira and Diaz in the post plan.
As NDRs found one.
The five versus five in the post plan.
Diaz has no choice, but he will not find it.
Oh, Dark, zero.
Not for a second, do they worry?
Not for a second, do they fret?
They will conquer it in the post plan.
Without a stress, without a care in the world.
Ridiculous how they played the entire game around the prep work there at the mirror window impact or make denial
And I'm thinking there's no way period of brute force this problem because any C4 going out on a toxic babe
She's gonna stop the pet will go down immediately
But they do full committed do not hesitate and again to a five or four man attackers alive post plant
That should be around victory. That should be easy
But it's easy they drop together they fight together
They call it the right angles at the right moments giving a shoot in this right position to deny the person outside
And even doubling down with the toxic babe countering the glass and swinging in a 50-50
So many small victories with DC and that goes to show the communication
This synergy understand that what I'm gonna push left my team is gonna push right because they cannot make five mini plays
Simultaneously and also communicating it. There's understanding your teammates at the highest level that's what
That is that consistency and the play style that called out the coach has been just coaching these boys through for years at this point.
It's quite telling that neither of these teams have a player rated in the top 10 at this events.
The new team we're going to is the highest rated player on DZ and he's down at ranked 12th over the course of the event because as you say, it's all about sharing a load, it's all about teamwork.
There are some outlets. We should have probably still like top five or whatever and he's out the tournament
Yeah, I mean most of the top players are out of the tournament go Bay with the cheery player
Souls is the highest rate of player who actually remains in the tournament number five. I grabbed it seven. Yeah, okay
But still I mean
I remember Neewer's first kid to tier one competition back in the finger them G
Man, the way this guy clears her room and checks the angles. It's a thing of beauty
Okay, this guy knows how to slice the pies to say perfectly every single time phenomenal entry player
Right now he's on the mute
Yet to find the kill because his team is a two damn good right now doing it for him
It's been in giant Kino kind of stealing the show with false three rounds done a row on the clash
That's gonna be target banned guaranteed by the way from curia
And then DC can play as I always had to say the real strat the thing that they've been preparing for because they know
They're going to try to bend the clash if Pulse were to play it out every single time,
especially given that we see the shields all through Natsum Furia.
That's right. And Falls played that clash to great effect in the quarterfinal against Waybo as well.
He is very much known for it. He's very happy to play it. And it's great at countering those
very aggressive fast pushes like we saw last round. Great for enabling retakes as well.
That's still looking. Yeah. And there is a roamer upstairs. They don't have the solar snake
or the daimos to try and hunt him down, but I sure hope they drone him. It is newer.
Oh, oh, oh, that a check record, my friends.
He was, looks around, he is gonna be able to get down the hatch safely.
Just barely, not sure if Sel goes out.
Good idea, but Volts doesn't ever expose himself.
I mean, just under there, 60 seconds left, and Neewer's still on the room.
I think he's gonna recognize now that they're gonna be watching him.
He does, unfortunately, I fully commit to the switch.
Goss gets taken down pretty early there.
That means the roaming presence has been shut down by Furia,
but they gotta speed up the second phase off the round.
Hop to the floor, try and get the hatch, and storm down the stairs.
but time is going to be the biggest enemy up against the clash, up against NTR,
Grisputt might not pocket, and I'm not sure if you're going to be able to go for a staircase push.
This might just be a hatch top of desperation.
Yeah, which is going to be a challenge when the clash is still active.
Try and counter that Monty.
Herds one Naden pocket, might be able to bank it off the wall here,
go for a kill against Kino, who's just waiting.
There might be catch available though.
Kino actually wins his fight.
I think Herds just went to the dry peek and he will lose.
There's also a flank meanwhile.
It's being watched by Boxerra.
DZ getting a little bit too active, but time is on their side.
Fiora now have just a few seconds to try and force this player down.
Volves has it ready, goes for the turtle, backs up, but no, gets swung from J90.
Worrying about the third, but there's nothing to worry about here for DZ
because once again, Fiora failed to get in the building,
failed to get their plant down before that timer hits zero.
Now the ridiculous, what should have probably been a post plant defense there,
but it doesn't even get to it. DC is so good at not overstepping.
They yellow ping where the Monty was planting at, and then they forced him off of it.
No one is down to look at the penalty. No one gets caught off guard.
The only risky play they made was forced flanking him with the Clash
because that could have been the Winged Edition on the bomb side.
And it just feels like every time DC do go for a play,
there's always a second or third step to it.
Like we saw, had a submission crossfire, Monty banned away,
and actually Mira. So Clash gets to survive.
With the months being bent away, those players are not going to have a good time.
Fear will call their technical time out quite early being down 0-3.
It's full green, but you have to do the preparation by talking as much detail as possible so that when we start the round we put the real speed, not just in the conversation, but in the attitude of the beginning of the round, right?
We have to go back with pace, when you go back with pace, you start with a strong start in the game and it's done.
question mark. I'm not sure if that's actually what it's he said or if it's a
satellite but look that was pretty much all I got unfortunately I'm still gonna
work on my Portuguese. We need to get Maria back in for a future broadcast when we
got these guys on again. But you know of course Redux who is the new coach of
Fury ever since they had their big roster reboot post-exhibitation. He was
the coach of Team Liquid back in the day. He's a very experienced player. He had
his own playing career prior to that. And Fury of course it's five players
There were on five different teams before this event rolled arounds
They will have their own different
Experiences different opinions on how to play it out
Why did it also hear the clash mentioned? I don't know if you caught that I did not
I mean, I think the fact that the left it on bad means that you need to expect it from coming
Of course, it has been very first round after
look, I don't mind seeing a
a clash left unbanned as long as you're confident that you can counter it.
But I'm also the kind of guy that after you lose a bomb side on defense,
you go straight back to it because you know exactly why you lost it.
But that's just me. Every player is different.
You got to do what feels comfortable, what feels right.
There are a lot of ingredients here to counter that clash.
The Nomad, there's a fear,
and even technically the Sledge,
if you can get that hammer up, it will knock the clash back on a feet.
Technically true, yeah.
I'm really worried about a theory, it's gonna be the early stage of a round, can they either
get the opening pick so they get man advantage or can they be swiftly enough in the building
to not have time to get a problem against them.
Right on the fishing for the Clowns downstairs with Sophia, the three big booms, and it's
very important here that you land the Sophia explosive, believe or be hide behind the
because he resisted to block some of that damage.
So the first shot from Fawcett on a lot of damage
and the follow-up to barely did any...
There's still a lot of damage there onto Fawcett.
Well, unfortunately for Loira, he's shot out.
Nura's using these Keeper barriers very well.
Block 0 tries to get active with the shotgun,
but he's forced back by the smoke.
DZ happy to peel back the layers,
happy to give up some ground on mezzanine
because they have so much late-round utility
with that smoke.
And of course, the Tchenka to deny the plant in the late-round.
Let's just check in with the teammate outside here.
From false no big deal, notice the flank backstep is now actually going to be removed from action,
including Barak, who Dory really wants to, but he's got places to be, places to go.
Roksera got the Sledge Shotty, primary, looking to take the rocket stairs control,
but being stalled up by Kino's toxic bait, he also has the same shotgun against him.
And if I got to take any bets here, my money's on Kino.
This guy's the best smoke shotgun player in the world, okay?
He's got another locking key.
I also missed the opportunity there from Hertz as he lands a few bullets.
This is going to be a big entry from him and he does finally take down one.
I'd be able to finish off Jaina in a second, but Fury immediately erupt into the bomb site.
They find most of the kills are up to Fulks and Neuers now on the retake
as Fury are poised to try and confirm their plant sooner rather than later.
And they don't have the defuser at the moment and Neuers has just ripped it back into the favor of Dark Zero.
Box Zero and Fulks now.
What do you do?
You don't have that defuse. How can you get it back?
Newest keen to take these gunfights boxer with the Reaper was trying close the distance wants to take the fight with the shotgun
The young gun for fear finds the first up against the old gun for faults with that clash
He's got the perfect angle SMG in hand feeling back to you
And the drums will sing for fear they finally make their way into the server
Finally, a small mistake there from DC, which Fury could capitalize upon in the 1v2 for Boxerio.
Nurez was on the floor a little bit too far to his left hand side, so it became a 1v1.
Post couldn't find the angle he was standing, you see right here.
If Nurez is a little bit far to his right, they see the angle at the same time and
they have that crossfire.
So there's a little bit of micro synchronization that they've been so good at thus far,
But Boxer landing those shots, taking the fight,
yet the reaper secondary in shock and primary,
neither of which you would want to take that fight with.
Big moment for Boxer as well,
at his second ever international event,
only four months since joining tier one of Rainbow Six,
after five years of playing in tier two
as an underage player from the majority of it.
He's also the only one in the server right now
that has never been in a grand final
at an international event.
Most of the players in the Serbia
have one or two trophies or even more in the case of a player like Hertz who's won four
trophies across his career and been in a grand final that he lost all those years ago, six
invitation in Montreal 2023 when he had vaults on his team now back in the W7M days. Box
zero very much new blood is of age. Top frag right now is of a fury. Yeah. Off a huge
clutch the thing is right DC they want some rounds that was a bit of a clutch
side on their behalf only for the fury get one back this time with a mirror
window being bent away the wall can be popped open but Diaz is very particular
about how he wants to approach this surely we don't see the same full command
push 20 times on the right smokes are going up the glasses there the fuses
there they're gonna do it again but will it work surely not two for two
Loira is watching avidly
How is this happening?
The plant will be confirmed indeed
Oh, the Christmas tree!
Oh, wow, genius!
The plant and I with the Grishmont line,
something we see so rarely,
but DZ have glued in the Furia,
want to get in the building fast,
as they are often want to do.
And that does pay out all four of the smoke gadgets from Furia.
That glass, essentially, just a gun from here on out.
Quite a good reed there.
Using Grishmont and Pectinile,
C4 also waspendo from newer,
so this list with a dealing of volts on the shield right now,
It all started Keena when forcing the Clash.
This battle here has stalled out Firiah, DZ had to expend their youth to early all three gas babes
just to prevent Firiah from getting their plan back to the breach.
And indeed it is now back to the breach, but this time it'll be raw with no smokes.
A few flashes to try and enable it.
That means that the Peaks can come through from DZ, a swing from Newers here, low HP,
but most of the info is being guarded by Foltz with that Clash.
Newers eventually will fall. He wasn't able to answer his phone safely.
Fiora in our so close to that box,
a big aggression there with the air jab,
as he finds the triple!
NJR denied the play, but he cannot deny Fiora!
A flawless response!
As the Brazilians find their second round.
The same execute twice on the bridge, countered in two different ways by DC,
but Fiora, they are relentless.
They go upstairs, they flip the attack and say,
You know what, that's not going to work either.
Back to the breach we go.
But they push together from the bomb site door, from the breach.
You saw a dark zero.
They weren't fully aware.
What was the bait play?
And what was the real play?
They were thinking, OK, if we commit two outs to the bomb site,
they're going to pick us apart up top.
So they're watching their angles above them,
instead of watching them, they can't reach down
towards the breach, unable to help force
their on the clash.
So he gets the shield away, goes for a gunfight,
hurts, goes for a counter swing,
finds three headshots and quick succession
and single hand lead finds all the kills
that Fury needs when that round.
And this is classic Fury.
Every round comes down to somebody stepping up.
Of course, a lot of team play,
but you cannot deny that two rounds ago
it was Box Zera that took matters into his own hands
with the 1v2 on the shotty.
That round it was Herds.
He found two on the bomb site,
including the clash of folds
and then quickly flicked around onto the flank.
Herds has been one of the most
prolific players of the last three years after losing that grand final with W7M in Montreal 2G2
He went on to win two majors a six
Invitational and then a year ago the reload finals the only trophy that Firae as an organization actually have in their trophy cabinet
Also been a two SI finals in which they lost for I wanted you to win one to face
So I mean there was a there was a world where that core of WCM would have won three SIs in a row and it seems to have a face plan
They also could have won three SIs in a row had they not been stopped in the comeback story from the WCM core
craziness from Brazil the last three years or so
Exit there we charge one is on the soft wall doesn't really get the job done
There's a secondary shotgun from her it's he can just that open maybe he forgot he has it
You know it's it hurts doesn't strike me so they might mean okay
You know he's a great player and all but maybe not the furthest guy I would put up their mind
Is he really brought pistol or has he just forgotten?
I don't know but it's not gonna go for it and that leaves that pressure open for general takes the fight to loyal
Who's taking a lot of damage on the twitch F2 now can be able to take many fights in the future
But it's okay. He has two twitch stones in pocket can use that utility instead help his teammate move forward
Yeah, but you're right. Jenna is looking very unfazed
He's here in Warehouse, eventually he will fall back, but he's delayed so much time.
Surely he's clued into the fact that there's a glass.
DS has been playing it a lot, we've had all of Fury it, sharing it around, third round that glass, third round in a row.
A lot of smokes are being spent here in Garage, that's the fourth smoke, fifth smoke being spent out of the sixth.
Actually eight, sorry, there are many more to go, eight smoke and it's a lot of pressure, DS succeeded on the glass,
And every smoke is a little bit further in the building but still being stalled on here in warehouse
Good angle to swing here NJR with the scorpion in close range should be favored in this fight
He will swing onto Diaz's head. That's goodbye to the glass. Wow. What a shot from herds
Big kill to weave it up the numbers again for feria
Question is is there a follow-up? Is there a second play right there was locking off the crossbar right now?
He's gonna go for a swing, does the fight, kills him, but a lot of damage due to lawyer groups and hurts.
They're all quite low on health.
Great usage of that Ryura door to open up.
Of course, he gets opened up very quickly by the attackers, much more slowly by the defenders.
Great bit of tech there.
Known by Loira, but he himself is low HP.
Needs to have a big impact with the F2 this round.
And Foltz has these narrow angles with the TCSG.
Goliathire, two toxic bips in pocket as well, only 30 seconds.
Time for the biggest enemy right now, Falthuria.
As it often is, but...
Swing!
Five of the kills very rarely will be an issue.
Four Hertz here is traded on back.
False and newers now, but they should know exactly where both of these players are for DZ.
Furia should be able to use process elimination.
Nuisus is snuck into a corner.
A couple shots.
Raditading out from Boxera, but he goes down.
Now it's all up to Nuisus.
Pops the fire extinguisher, but he can't cover himself for a second on one HP.
Low refines a third round in a row for Furia.
It's a comeback in a very big way on their map, as we go into the schedule, half-time, time-out.
I'm just going to talk to you guys about the defenses and the details of how we behave in each one
Remember, we're going to do the step-shock, because they usually leave a shock
but we're just going to fuck with our Tuba, you know?
Then we'll go to the lebs, and then we'll go to the double-dozer, and we'll forget about that
Well, you're a card, you have to hide in the Neymar, and Beto will go to her
She's going to the guys who are going to run the ladder
After that we go to Belit, 4-1 with Shock, Volsage with Mandit, Virginia with Batituba
And then you're done
We got it!
We're up to both.
We're on the Swagger and Subtle Junction ground.
And we also have something very exciting,
because we have a brand new
COP321.
Where is it?
I thought we pocketed that, now.
Something brand new, Colossus, huh?
Very exciting.
I love how they're kind of playing into...
I mean, they're assuming here from the communication
that we're in the IQ, the bulk of it,
the counts of it, the grime,
they're going to leave the bandit and orcaid open.
stronger, stronger defending operators to enable themselves to get close to the bomb site.
And then the issue is, if they lock down the walls, they can't get a step untone.
So therefore they take a hilly verticality with different operative bands to counter.
Yeah.
Yeah, interesting.
We do actually have a little bit of a belated translation.
Shout out Maria, who often works on the Brazilian stream.
She must have been watching.
She must have heard our cries for help.
And she said, what readup said in the, not this half time time up at the earlier
tactical timeout called by Fury, so the first half was to control the pace of the game and
you really use that prep phase to call what you're going to do in the action phase, get
as much info as you can so you bring the right operators to counter it, which is a great
little bit of inside there. And it's a double shield ban, and I really like this, a smoke
and nuke ban, the double, how to say yes, that does throw a curveball for Fury's setups.
It absolutely does, I'm a huge fan of this, the nuke ban, it's going to be very
trick right there's no ways now of like
circumventing the demos tracker except for
two-brow freezing which is very limited
in the hind cost same if you're laying out
like a dog can be later on if you're
you'll check the cameras as any of the
camera operators etc and i love how
these here go into this not doing default
bounce again they know that the bandicoat
two-brow could be a problem but they
did mention that they have a leader
to counter the only attack inside
with the new fan demos can get any
track through and arguably get any kill
would be speaking as well then they
bend the smokes all about the
I'm going to plant it now and stall it out the round and this is going to make it easier to plant later in the game.
Fury with a double shield and it feels a bit like, what's that going to achieve, you know?
I'm sure there are some great shield players on the side of DC, but there's four shields in the game.
That in two of them just means you'll play the third or fourth option.
They're not going to stop playing the shields.
It doesn't remove shields completely, but it does make you have to think about which ones might be the biggest problem.
And in this case for furia that I want to do it onto your blitz and I'm looking Kano's most played operators in the last three months
All three actually blackbeard blitz and then Monty blackbeard is favorite and that's not the one that's bad at all
Yeah, you get the fracunate with that as well
A little bit of damage to the gena. I know we did get a spawn peak himself in a very opening round using this in operator
Off the super round
But DC is going to be a lot different attack side space for Fuhrer.
It's going to be heavily only called like the step one, step two, step three.
And then the three, two, one, not magic three, two, one, where I started for.
And then the reason why the step one, two, three is so important is that when you're working together
with the verticality beneath and the lateral push above, you have to take the space below you
as you're progressing the map. So Kino in this case has to wait for the downstairs player
to push beneath him. Check it with a drone, hold the plank, etc.
So it's a lot about leadfrogging back and forth and helping each other progress the map.
Bob's is rotating downstairs expecting somebody to be here.
Currently there isn't anybody and that's why it's important to be so lethal.
Because DC haven't sent that player yet downstairs.
They actually went off the demos in the last few seconds of the attack or re-pick phase.
So perhaps they're not going to work it from the verticality after all.
Good little double job there from Folesi, manages to breach the wall with the Flores
but also gets him in front.
I believe he did say that player
That was hiding in display
Hmm a lot of measuring before making the first incision here for dark zero which does that up
It's very much their play style. They're slow and steady and then they're explosive and they bounce from up through them
Into the bomb site that's in jail find that opening pick but this is not gonna be the usual attack
It's all of a spit theory you see him window bathroom window off and back portion
They're tagging all different angles and kind of force inferior to pick where they're gonna send the majority of the guns
and then they'll attack the area that's weaker than us.
Good shot though from Box Zero.
Up in close range, he's taking the fight against the Blackbeard,
but he wastes his only impact grenade.
And now it'll be very hard for him to get enough damage on
to get that kill as the NAV forces him back.
He's about to try and take the 1v1 here.
Flashbang will force him back again
as Lawyer has fallen on the other side of the map.
DZ have multiple facets through their push,
but Box Zero able to juggle all of them at once.
3 kills looking for number 4!
The young gun once again!
Fyria have taken the lead on left!
Blinken you're missing, so many kills found quickly from Fyria and Boxerra, but DC did not have that push together.
Display with the jumping got double swung in the push from Kino and his teammate
did not have the other angle to go for a punish, but Boxerra finds it, 1v1 kill, turns around, a second 1v1 kill
Nick is a third shortly after DC were supposed to attack at the same time from different angles to guarantee that trade
They don't get it
Look at this completely. I said the fights despite having your bike here despite having the grim piece despite having the solid snake installation
Lot of energy from block zero standing up after his 4k in that round
He's popping off today a 1v2 to find the first round from Furia on the attacking side now
He's got 10 kills to just three deaths by far and away the top fragger in the server
Keeping in mind this is his first ever foray into tier one only having been on the team since the roster changes for Furia
Four months ago. It's his second ever international event
You could say he hasn't missed an event since joining tier one not bad
Not bad at all especially because Salt Lake City was a very forgettable event for Furia
They even lost to a C&L team at their debut and
Yeah, they were out first-rounded and now they're into the top four potentially even a grand final
Could this be their new 3-2-1 that caught up spoke about I see an armor in there
I see a possibility of a fast-tape
Oh, that's well a drone hole fight. Wow. You can injure from that. You can crawl away
That kill confirmation should not come through but what a way to stall things up and jargon good for two opening kills in a row
Yeah, good, but Jano no being taken so low means that he's gonna be so much more vulnerable in the late round
The candellas want to come out here. I wonder what the play is with the amaru from newers
We talked about this in the way, but they've been teasing or okay
It's exactly what we've seen in the past from a pack teams
But it doesn't work unfortunately for newers. He goes straight in to good trade the right
They're in the staircase. Oh my god, not again by the stairs.
Hear me!
On the drone hall, Jaina and all. First injured, Dinkill confirmed.
Like MTC taking ice at a 1v1 gunfight and falling in those important moments.
Yeah, and it's brought Fiora back into a winning position here because DZ had that number's advantage.
After that Amara play, even though Nus was trailed out, as you said, they took a lot of ground.
Now it's Vertime here for Volce.
And he's got to be extra careful that Volce doesn't throw up his C4
to take down that sledge, that would be a very costly mistake, but instead we actually have
Volts on for a flank in the first floor, seemingly aware of it, Daisy on the other side holding their
flanks. Spent that time in there, from force to find the angle, doesn't see the gun barrel off,
Laura hiding down in this filtration. Could honestly even go for reinforcement to risk,
I think with the very open up the bar for Neko's house, yes indeed way too risky now,
that means Kino can take that space with the Blackbeard.
What's the strong repeat? Get rid of the damage that went down.
He's so low on HP now.
He just wants the tiniest chance here to go for another shot.
The Blackbeard's staring him down.
Volk's trying to toss out a Nitro Cell.
Thankfully NJR backs up just enough.
And Kino doesn't take damage either.
But Loira, insistent.
Nade is actually going to flash him out of his position.
But no, he's dancing with death.
Two ways.
Want's to take the fight!
It's a double!
Loira is a demon!
Rafter, ringing in the server from Boxerra, it's false in a 1v3 and he's given no quarter by Feria, 33 seconds with no diffuser.
The drums are ringing out for Feria again and Vops will put the final nail in the coffin.
It is five rounds in a row for the Brazilians.
Once they control the pace they do not let go.
absolutely ridiculous performance and with that I think it's time to call it together the action DC will call their attack time out
Get on top of that second start tactic before
If it's bumps just sickly back on the prep side and then last thing I'm gonna say we go to reattack basement
Can I read what they're doing there like makes more make the right adjustments to the operators to you saw they brought a
Can you knock that let's talk about what that means to bring a batch out please something else like that
She just had a sledge hunt like that shit like that, for example
We're talking about parking base set primarily off that because it was a different setup
Just push the Jones key come up, which is a basic box
Second we talked about
Like I said, they will sneak me to a side dominate the rocket side then after that
If you want to, we can flip or we can just market it to what's up here at the center.
Perfect.
Let's go there.
Let's go.
Set the energy up.
Really interesting note there.
I noticed Jane I know typing furiously and when we saw his monitor for a second you
could actually see some text on the screen.
Now I actually have a monitor here which shows the all chat, right?
There's nothing in it.
Which matters is that they're typing in the team chat.
They're writing down the notes of what Colad is telling them in their tactical
so that only they can see it and they can always click that Y button on their keyboard to scroll up and reread the notes from the tactical time out.
You can see as many notes as you want. I think right now for DC, small individual mistakes and maybe I honestly lack of leadership.
You know, we saw Fools on the way to Galaxy, he saw the feet of Loire the entire time, went for the grenade toss which forced him to swing and get two free kills.
kills. They had four grenades in that previous round. They had a ying and de la who died on
the journal of course and they couldn't deal with just Lyra. Playing in a very tiny box
on the map. Curious individual players have carried them a five round straight and it's
been all of them except for Diaz arguably getting involved into it right. Boxerra had
two big rounds, Lyra had a big round, Hertz had a big round and for DC we talked about
them with so much praise but all that praise comes back to the same point they
are a great team and while they have phenomenal individual players they're
not a team that relies on newer stopping 20 kills for stopping 20 kills they rely
on teamwork coordination communication and then it's actually where they've
been falling short in the final or the final the last two or three rounds I
will say. The thing is Siege is a bit of a fickle game sometimes. You can be the
best team in the world you will still drop rounds right sometimes someone
someone will get a 1v2, someone will get a 4k, someone will have a life round.
You factor that in.
You just want to be more consistent because when you're playing a B03 or a B05, the better
team should win.
And it comes down to two things.
Come down to prep, come down to performance, prep performance and mental game.
And DZ are insanely good at all of those three things.
But they're starting to falter because they've lost five rounds in a row and it's starting
to get to them.
I saw in Giants there, these fistbombs, you can feel the frustration very aggressively
with it. Here comes the initial first push. Dokitela is going out. Dokitela is going out.
Full screen up a staircase but there is no real fighting happening. The only demo stones
Dokitela is going off. But Kandela hurts. Alex not to use his U2 to try and slow down
the push instead he just falls back quite simply.
Well done. I have...Jano is going to get info as well with the solid snake.
There are two players on this top floor DC. Want to try and clear as much of them
out as possible before they look for the execute on the bomb site.
Prevent that vertical denial in the late round.
Hertz gets injured through the wall from Foltz.
I'm not sure he knows about it.
Might be able to go for the finish off.
Foltz is warring.
Foltz is in fact refiring him straight back in DS
from up above on the hatch.
Foltz had the injured.
Whether he knew it or not now,
he's lost the advantage.
Our lawyer has lashed out as well.
Back on his feet, Hertz can spring into action
on the bomb side, but it's box error.
And he has together to put DZ in the most unenviable
Position of all, NJR can't find a damn thing.
The one player who was yet to step up for Furia,
it was Diaz, he had his moments.
That makes a six round straight for Furia
and every single member now is crouched off for the team.
DC once again taking one V1 V1 fights,
like you said, false.
Did he know he had the injure?
Maybe, maybe not.
But he gets caught downstairs, he falls first.
The upstairs push also, again, lacking that synchronization.
A player dies, three seconds go by,
a second player dies, three seconds go by,
the third player dies.
A lot of pro teams, they have this like rule
that it should only be a one second sprint away
from the trade when the fight is happening.
If three full seconds are going by
between those steps with DC,
these are too far away or they're hesitating.
That or simply a lack of communication,
which I keep going back to
because it looks like the comms are missing.
And if you have falls on an alert road downstairs,
while the roamers are trying to deal with the upstairs attack,
maybe falls finds themselves in the wrong spots on the map.
It is so challenging in Rainbow Six Siege
to call a roam clear if you're not a part of it,
because you're focused on your own gunfight,
your own positioning, your own play
in a different area of the map.
Now he said that these are the do have the mental game
and they have to do, and this is the best of three.
So you can come back in a second man, go to a third, etc.
But the way that things have shifted after a dominant 3-round streak for DC is a concern.
Yeah, I mean it's not having labs after this and the desk was saying Fury at not the best labs team.
DC picks that man.
Well my concern is exactly what you just said.
The fact that, not that this is 6-3, the fact that this is 6 in a row from Fury at DC
would dominant in those opening three rounds.
Since then Fury at have been unreal.
It started with a 1v2 clutch from Bob Zera at 0-3 down.
And then it just turned into an awesome tsunami of fear.
It's all taking a deep breath. It's got a reset going into this right.
Third operative, NSTC, target out the warden.
But we don't see a glass, we don't see a ying, we don't see any of the operatives that would work really well into it.
And I don't know if this is them not finding all those five defending operators in the prep
phase and then not having the full info to make the right decisions, but does feel a
little bit lackluster.
If you're in a good read though, they've been away the glass, so that's not going to
be in the equation along through, it needs just to be open.
So opening big is going to be so important, VC need a good strong start to this round,
then re-stabilize, get back together as a team, and then attack and bounce forward
together.
What are the utilities being expanded here just to try and take down his castle barricades no longer do we have three big
BIMS available for Jane I know he's just got to
Castle barricade wow timing now with an explosion or that's deliberate or not for newers
But modern master sound from him as he looks to go below some vertical pressure on those anchors on the bomb site for
Fira and with the castle getting
Fira
It's a beautiful base for Fiora, good trade from Foltz, the top frag from Fiora will go down
But GZ still are no closer to pushing into that bomb side
He's had the hauler control but NJR and Kino
Tano locking down the path from flank as well as they have a little space to work with but almost no half destruction last summer going out
Right now on the wall, but there's an impact trick in the pocket of Hertz waiting for it tossed on out
So again now DC forced to go for plan C. They gotta just brute force the door
Actually, no debris sticking opened up through the fire pop
60 seconds to play. Oh my god is if you get this done with the boss G herds to surely not be favored to witness
It's not impossible to win a fight against the black in with the boss G
Even when he aims you down sides, you need bread fire now. He gets the essence. He won't get taken down
But immediately
Furia back up. They still got the ass on the bomb site the fire will go out and slow down dark zero
And it's a flank from folks
He's going to play with Laura in bathroom hallway as well.
You see the guns turn around, but he got the crossfire loaded down.
MJR, forced to 1 vs. 3, diffuser, cold on the ground.
First period game for Wildcard.
Now they're coming for the rest of North America.
7, round 0.
Dark 0.
Need to get on their bike right now.
Otherwise it's goodbye to the major champions.
To make it even worse, the three-bounds DC did manage to win.
They were clutch moments. They played well, yes,
but two of the victories you could argue should have been fierce to begin with.
Once they found their way in the server, they never let go.
And that means for DC, adaptation would be the name of the game going into the second map,
but we saw none of it applied correctly on the first.
For the teams that never cracks under pressure,
How can you not acknowledge what stands before you?
The drums ringing out the cries of the Brazilian fans
who've flown all the way here to Paris to support Theria.
It is undeniable. It is un-ignorable.
And now Dark Zero need to fight from down once again.
They did so against Wave or in the quarterfinals.
They lost the first map. They came on to win the series.
Now they need to run it back again here next up on Night Haven Labs.
It's all about those important minutes behind the stage where the players can kind of relax
the mentality.
We saw Boxer of Euphoria taunting DC every single round in the Jack-Hombon Baters, saying
don't help your team.
And that final one was Euphoria's and Euphoria's.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Every single round of that defensive half Euphoria was a big multi-kill from one specific
player.
In the first defense, it was a 4K from Boxer.
Then it was a lawyer at 3K.
He has for a 3k and then Laura to cap it up with a 3k at the end of it.
This could be the end of the line for North America, but we have some N8 fans on the desk
that will be spinning you a yard to tell you otherwise.
Well, it's so good for North America here.
Yeah, you'd better believe it.
I'm just kidding.
I'm joking.
Of course, that was not North America's shining moment.
And despite everything that we're biased here, I'm trying to tell the correct tale
because that was all Furia.
That shifted seven rounds in a row.
They take map one, but Darkseer didn't start off that way as we welcomed back our desk last
day in Alpha Month.
It was a DZ performance that looked good at the start.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's exactly what we expected out of DZM, and they played very well into those kicks
and bans and being able to slow down the aggression from the side of Feria, but then
it just slowly started to slip away, especially after the timeout where we heard from
Reduct, and that's kind of where everything really changed from there, and then just
a dominant end of the half, and then carrying it on to their attacking side.
I'm in defensive side.
Yeah, it was a clear turning point in my eyes.
I think initially the game plan from Dark Zero is the right one.
Absolutely.
Try to control the aggression, right?
Try to slow them down, remove demos, remove solid snake,
and then play a bit slower, play behind utility,
and force Furia to problem solve.
But here's the problem.
Furia can problem solve, and they can gun them down.
And in terms of firepower, it was a no match.
Yeah.
I mean, we know that Furia is one of the most aggressive team in the world.
The firepower on that team, when they're fired up,
when they've got the momentum with them,
It's almost unsteppable.
In basketball, they call it a heat check.
Just like, keep passing the ball, let him shoot from three,
let him shoot from half-court.
If it's Steph Curry, you know what I'm talking about.
He might just make five in a row.
That looked like Boxerra there.
But let's talk about what did work well.
I know you prepared some TELUSFERATOR 4.
Skark Zero started off strong, three rounds in a row.
We thought the game was shifting that way.
What did they do well?
Absolutely.
I think the one thing that you're
surprised me with was the team play, the synergy.
And if there is one situation, I'm
going to play the round here.
And that's round two.
As you can see, the plant has gone down
on the side of Bunks.
And as you can see, we see here the glass, the smoke,
the Monty, everything here is planted.
And it's a 4v5.
In what world can Dizzy win this?
It's very surprising.
Well, the first thing is you need to find a target,
a victim, someone to kill to bring back the man advantage.
It's a 4v5, and they're gonna spot that herds here.
It's very deep into the Boneside.
Pay attention to what Fools will do to him.
He will be blinded, but despite being blinded,
he's both covered from the angle of the bridge,
but also still tasing herds here
so that herd's shield is completely exposed, he gets killed by Kino.
Second thing that happens instantly, the two guys that were above decide to drop together from the same hatch.
So when Aruni dies here, sorry Azami dies here, the trade is instantaneous from AGR
and that's it, from the 4v5 to 3v3.
Most importantly, this was the most beautiful part.
Pay attention to Volps and Loy right here on the bridge.
There are the two direct threats to deny basically anyone retaking the diffuser.
I want you to pay attention to Volts.
He places down his shield so he can go and directly aim towards the diffuser
and start defusing it safely.
Most importantly, Patention to what Kino will do,
he will send a gas grenade on the bridge,
killing bulbs here with the gas
and removing him directly from contention.
He sends another gas grenade towards Loira
and NGR on the back of the gas grenade,
look at him, hey hey, I can go and kill the second cover.
And now it's a 3v1, all they need to do
is make sure no one gets to come and kill fools.
Patention to the positioning,
Kino watches the punk store,
NGR can watch the vertical play
and the two of them cover the two entry points
And when Thermite runs in, he dies.
What a retake!
Honestly, probably one of the best ones I've ever seen.
That's the one good thing that works for DZ.
Teamplay is there.
But when you can't shoot back, it's not gonna work!
Yeah, it's definitely not gonna work.
And that's exactly what we saw.
They just could not shoot back.
They weren't able to convert those opening kills.
And that's something that we've highlighted throughout the NAL,
that's something we've highlighted through SSLC,
is they were always good at getting that opening kill and able to convert it.
We also saw Hurts.
They were punishing Hurts numerous times on their attacking half,
where they had the man advance,
But they just were not able to convert that.
And then on the side that you're talking about, for fear,
they were able to frag.
They were able to fight back.
And this is something that I really
like about the superior roster, especially
for Bean, a brand new team.
Typically, when you get this far into the tournament,
you're usually highlighting one or two or three players.
Not highlighting the whole team.
This entire team can frag at any given moment,
despite their roles.
And box there, it was no stranger to this performance
today.
I mean, a pop-off game from him, a big, big ace from him.
But then, three Ks across the board from Loira, from Diaz, and again, Loira again at the very end of the round.
I mean, everyone is firing on all cylinders from the side of Furia.
He was fantastic. I mean, six, three, and then that round, seven, four Ks that turned it into a dominant performance
and just made you feel like there was no stopping this Furia team.
Alphama, you kind of said there's really nothing to do if someone's outgunning you, outshining you this way from a mechanical perspective.
No, I know. I'm not a cool GG player.
So I will tell you that in our game...
You're not?
No, in our game there are ways to win a gunfight even if you're not the best aimer.
Okay.
So I will go back on my words and there's something to do.
There are not some playlists available.
Okay.
We have the ability with our characters to have some of them that are called crowd control fighters,
some of them that are going to help you win gunfights.
Yeah.
I'm thinking of Grim that's going to send these that are going to spot you.
I'm thinking of a glass that can kill you through a smoke.
Yeah.
Shields who are protected can flash you can bounce you and then make sure you can win those gunfights
Hmm, there are plenty of ways that we can win gunfights in this matchup
And that's what they need to abuse right now crowd control bears double shield ban on the side of fury are heading into the second
Half of that and it did like you said kind of target Kino made him a little bit less effective there
We saw the black bear come out as well
But it wasn't it wasn't the game through the dark sir wanted to play no absolutely not
I think they were targeting those shields specifically on a map like there world shields really can lead the way they can
really be born in your side.
And they also know Keena wasn't finding some success yesterday
or getting a lot of value.
And yes, they did have the Blackbeard,
but for me, what really stuck out to me on their attacking
up, they were too indecisive on when they should take control,
when they should go for these gunfights.
And then you would immediately see
Ifiria meet that aggression and then
steal the round from them.
Well, it's a great start out in this one.
But of course, if you're paying attention to Siege,
you know that Paris isn't the only location
that you're going to be seeing this year.
Check out our trailer that was done
by some of the compatriots who got actually casting
right now for the Osaka Major.
The train is bound for Shinsu Sekai.
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This is the APM Magnificent!
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MAKIN MYSELF!
You are so committed, Akiya Kuro.
Thanks, you excite me.
Naaay?
I can't believe I won.
I can't believe I won.
I can't believe I won.
I'm in Osaka.
He thinks he can come in here and play my game.
He knows nothing but gold.
Tyler Wine, you're done.
Rock, rock, rock, LXE, hop, hop, roll it out now.
Lot of people are haunted by their facts. I'm inspired by it.
They're not just playing for themselves,
they're really playing for their entire family.
They have defeated their demons!
They have crushed the curse!
Well, the Osaka major certainly had two names.
into, even if you're not going to eat some Takoyaki Crunch, which felt violent, by the
way. Zenox slapping Dev. I mean, how do you get away with that one? We'll have to find
out. I'll ask him a little bit later. But getting back into this series, it was, started
out Dark Zero, then it was all Fury. Seven rounds in a row to take map one. And for
those who've been watching Fury's journey, you know that they two out in their first
quarter-finals. So, Fury, up until this point, have not lost a map yet in our playoffs.
Now, it's been an incredible run for these guys and I think it's because they were battle tested.
Throughout SAL first, they didn't win.
SAL, they had a couple of losses there, they needed to find their groove.
And also because Sulek City was a massive failure.
0-3 in their first Asterovent, a loss to a CNL team, one of the first international upset from that region.
All of these things, I think you learned and you adapt and you grow and you come back stronger,
especially in terms of momentum here, when your main play style
It's about being confident about winning gunfights, it is so important to build that momentum.
Absolutely, you can make that exact same argument for DZ, I mean they weren't necessarily the number one team coming out of NAL, even in SLC.
I mean they had their trial by fire, I'd say the biggest one for me was obviously that hurdle of getting through FaZe Clan,
and they took them to that very last map with Chalet, being able to 7-1 them to put themselves into a grand final.
I mean now they're really being battle tested here against the side from Fury, I mean I spoke with Call-Out who's very comfortable with the map picks,
the map picks but if you looked at that map I mean I would have not guessed that you put 70%
of your effort into that given that that was the showing on again it wasn't the dark jail that
we used to see and it was again too much indecisiveness on their attacking side. Yeah the biggest problem
for me is that you're losing seven rounds in a row. Yes. Right? Whatever you do, whatever you
try to adapt, you you press them for their innovation their adaptation on the side of
dark zero. Whatever you do you're supposed to stop a team from winning seven rounds in a row
Anything you throw at them and I struggled to see the real adaptation on the side of Dizzy
It needs to come right now in between the two maps
They need to come up with a new game plan to be fair their quarter-final against Waybo
They lost night Haven 7-3, but then they ended up bouncing back on there winning that and then they won clubhouse
So adaptability they proven they can do it. I mean, that's the one thing you are not going to beat third zero
And then that is by far their mental game
And I was not surprised to see Darkzurg go back to a map that they had just lost
If there's one team that can turn around a map in 24 hours, that is DarkZero.
It's not a worry for me that they lost to Wave on the one.
And now we're going into one of the most traditional than that we've ever had.
Yes, wall denial and the wall operators.
So that's going to make, basically, secondary hard bridge, Hibana and Maverick very interesting on that side.
I mean, it's going to be a lot of fights, aside rafters, you're going to be getting open IT,
you're going to be getting open up electrical, you're going to be pushing over from the con side.
I mean there's going to be a lot on that top floor a lot of layers that were typically used to being able to see
So I want to see a lot of mirror
I want to be able to see a zombie being used here for setups depending what we're going to see and that's exactly what we're gonna
Get well in their quarter-final. They needed to bounce back
And unfortunately night Haven labs was not where they could do it
They're gonna have to do it here if they want to stay alive and have a shot at the grand final because Furia are one game away
Let's hit it back over to your casters dev and Pengu
Thank you, Randy, and you're dead, right?
Darkseer managed to bounce back after losing a map to Waybo to then win the series, but
what was that map they lost to Waybo?
Oh, hang on, that was right here, and no, and it lands off of it!
DZ lost this just two days ago to Waybo!
Furio on the flip side, they did lose this last week to GK in the group stage.
But I gotta admit, DZ, you picked this map right after losing it in the quarters.
You better back it up, especially after losing seven in a row at the end of map one.
It's also a matter of, it was a very close fall battle against Waco and Waco are a great
team for the best out of APEC in recent years and for the one run from the CIG, the reload
major.
But like, if you go really close against APL team and now you're going to be against Furia
who has found their stride at this event, I don't know if a close game is enough
in that sense.
I do feel like DC feels a pressure as we're going to play, there's a lot of issues
to work upon errors that was made in that quarter-final.
Night Haven.
A lot more default, as the desk said as well.
Without DC, when they were attacking on Lair,
ban out the Mute Jammer and barely played the demos,
almost nowhere to counter it.
He didn't feel like the strat came to life in that game, in that map.
That has to shift here.
You start on defense.
It's all about the paperwork and preparation.
It wasn't one of those matches for DZ,
where one of your players goes like, oh, and eight,
and someone else steps up.
No, I mean you look across the board the scoreboard from lair. You had njr 8 and 7
You had the bottom fragger being jnn and oh 4 and 8 like not the end of the world even
I don't know how to get an opening kill. He is very evenly spread
Not the best stats, but not the worst I've ever seen for dz
So it's not a story of someone just was having a bad map and needs to wake up needs to go to the bathroom
Get some water and maybe reset. It's the whole team something was not going well for them at the end of that first map
Skyra is going out, Higu is going to be low, there's a bit of damage to the falls as well.
Dukubi has to answer it now and he does so.
So he stays alive. DC already feeling all that pressure.
They got Vobs on the shield as well.
Progressing in towards the left-hand side of NGR.
He's going to walk straight into a shield in a second. There it is.
Oh, and they go for the jump in. It's a good read though.
A good bait from NJR.
Box 0, not able to confirm that kill.
It's Rain of Terror, slowed down briefly.
It's a great smoke from Key, otherwise I think the Vorgs would go for a ride.
Swing here, with the Monty, camera check and a bit of danger, then you don't get to be called with the IQ Scanner downstairs.
That's what the angle is going to be instead, so NGRE tanks the 40 damage,
can no longer be called to IQ more ineffective downstairs.
Yeah, not credit, as impactful as Heard's had wanted with that IQ Scanner,
but at least Slow is able to finish off what remained of faults on the bomb site.
An NJR low HP, has to make sure not to expose himself for even the brief of moments.
The second is for the expo is going to push out, you always get injured though before the push has to come.
If we have an overpeak here from Jano, it could be bad.
Time is ticking away, flashbangs will come out to revive from Jano onto new list to get him back on his feet.
Kino finds one, dig with the shotgun, one of the best shot he plays in the game at the moment.
DZ recompose and prevent that eventual execute.
Finally broken that streak against them are getting around on the board
Stubborn too close to comfort I think and I like these small sort of mini games a few they're implementing
Seen them at the door could be call IQ scanner downstairs. It's almost like a
One-way buck and a one-way Daniels because when they're blocking open the floor
They finish music against you as an attack downstairs when you're Daniels tracking
You got to find the right person that you're targeting and also they see you roughly where you are and people can watch down
but a penalty with the acutal could be there's no counterplay you can a shot to
floor that isn't broken yet by a electric scanning gacha in a pistol yeah
so it's quite cheeky and it almost found them two kills it's a great idea but it's
also very low damage so you have to land a lot of shots or you have to get
lucky and then a headshot and you're not likely to land a headshot because it's
the legs in the body you never know it hurts you never know he would have
gone ballistic if you found a killer to know that's for sure the tick damage
You can't for something
That's the one idea, but it's a nice one to try in ranks if you are want to coordinate with the player on your team a little bit of fun
But for fear the left to have more than that in the back of the tank
And at the moment it's next up for DZ a defense of control room and storage
So what is the play here for fury are most teams will look to try and take the top floor at the start of the round
the bottom floor to late lurk and then execute into the bomb site but with how
many hard direct hits we saw from Furia on the first map wouldn't be surprised to
see more of the same here.
That main wall of IT continues to be a problem for the attackers here of
Furia. The mirror window popped open, new jammer is behind it, the Skyros not
effective, got to get either in peace or go on the roof here, find the angle
through the mirror window itself but it's just slowing down the round
significant. Look, look, Diaz, he has no help right now. And it's right in the midst. There comes
DMP. Now they can open it up for a bit of pressure. But then it's actually cost him a significant
amount of time, even resources for the very first step of the round. It's a good kind of
maze of problems with DC. Oh, C-4 full-spin purge as well. Oh. It's big for Grim and the
brief snarly. Workable just yet. Mort's car was in the last two in pocket. And one of them
got shot I heard so I don't think they can walk in it no they cannot oh that's a
very awkward breach this is the whole strap behind banning out that ace
thermite combo you have to use the Hibana which can very easily be countered
with a nice combo good spot though from Laura doesn't expose himself to the
razor boom from the form so I think the wind condition here for fury with
that breach a little bit marked up the way that they get into this is by
lurking in as Laura intends to do especially if they're able to play
a good execute onto Kena at the top of the blue stairs.
So much time per the way, Boxera falls,
while they just take the C, locking them outside the building
and no one's to be the injured when they do it immediately.
This is much more of the flavor we expect to see
out of Dark Zero Volts, and one of the last two left
and falls continues from the top floor
to get information with that cardiac sensor.
We're not even able to find that kill onto Neewer.
It's not a lick of HP down onto any of the DZ players.
Volx 1v5, I mean, this one at this point,
you may as well just take as a chance to talk to the team
and say, guys, what do we do for next round?
That's Volx, so he'll give it a go.
Do his very best.
If any of you just find an exit frag or two,
get some more kills from the scoreboard
or just exit the building once again, perhaps,
like you said, discuss with the boys
what the problem's gonna be about,
how to fix it going forward.
Fury had a similar slow start to the first map of layer. They started 0-3 and then won every single round after so
Honestly, I have no idea what's gonna happen. Well, the one thing I do know is that Fury as coach has just said that we're gonna take a tactical timeout after this round ends
So Vulp's before the tactical timeout can just have a little bit of an impromptu one
He won't be able to talk to his coach, but he can talk to his players right now
He'll say as the KD maybe try and look to try and bait a bit of KD out of this one
I don't think Kino is going to fit. Oh, sorry, it's false. I think false will feed him.
There we go. DZ take the round. A good start for them tonight. Haven labs, but
now it's DZ figure out what their next defense is. It's a tactical timeout called by Feria.
Let's have a listen in to what the Brazilians have to say.
and then we play the enemy and we play split.
After we finish the wall jump, we will be much lighter and much softer to get into the fast entry.
We will focus on agility later, they just work on our first round.
They just talk about you not to start, it's to change a lot of things, because it will work.
You just have to do it very well, you have to do it very well.
You have to do it very well.
You have to do it very well, you have to do it very well.
You have to do it very well.
You have to do it very well.
Because it's going to work out, you just have to do it very well,
bring the full, put the energy in the things we wanted to do as a team,
don't stop the game, that's it guys, don't give up, let's go!
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Let's go!
that round. I think you were absolutely right about the Hibana really well
counted by DZ. I think after this next round we might see that mirror ban come
out from Theria because with that mirror ban it'll be much easier to use the
team counter openness. You might wonder why? How long they're just bringing the
secondary hard breach gadget and why are they running Hibana? Why aren't they bringing Maverick?
Well the difference is with a mirror window on the wall when you're
having a melee ranged hard breach you're gonna get C4. Yeah you are. Or even just shot.
like there's so many things that go wrong effectively.
And the new jammer has been doubled down with the mirror.
Then you can even explode the X-Cars to begin with.
So you're going to get the EMPs in there, but then it's like impact tricking regardless.
And it's like keeping like, it's just a mess.
It's just a big combo of tech.
I mean, so much has changed these days.
It's not about, we bring one specific operator.
It's about the combo and how they complement together.
I can see that Maria Benino, our Brazilian...
Woman on the inside, she is typing right now.
Now work wait for her costumation set there from the side of fury. I'm sure it's gonna be similar to the first time momentum
pacing control confidence because that's the whole play style
Looking for that right now buck up in a wall and send folks on in once it's a
Okay, you've all through there's a lot of map to take you of course the spaceman bombsite here
But they're fake bear it gets upstairs and know that it's gonna be clear
Check all the corners have learning so it's nick with the gadget check if we intel
DC are all in the first floor and they're a single player of course in the basement itself
If you're making good progress first six seconds
They got full top for control with the box that can break the floor and take it step by step
But he knows how to play upstairs and do a blitz
Almost gets damaged on the vaults with a deadly had he got that in Joe or at least a large amount of damage onto the blitz
But he had to back away or be vulnerable to the flashbang
So he falls on back
And it looks like the roam is going to be trying to retreat here for DZ.
We do have a call from Maria, they're literally repeating the same comp and the same order
they used before.
They're going to counter our split by putting a mirror down there.
I pause so we don't do something that was not our plan.
Let's go for a full hunt upstairs and after banning mirror, we'll do the split.
We'll find something more agile after.
Just don't get in your heads, don't change too much what we're doing because it's
going to work and don't give up.
That's a great call.
Here comes the execute and the hunt.
Reduct in that tactical timeout was put talking about and while it does find one kill on to Jane
I know it's not without a cost box here able to convert a second one as well as he gets active down the stairs into cargo
And the blitz is on the verge of the bomb site nearest smoke goes out and the plant looking to be poised for furia
This will could be a trap though because a bit of a gap in it
Oh box here finds all three kills her to the fort as well huge round from box here once again
He runs down the stairs finds his first pit Kino up against four is being hunted by the Blitz and the hunters on for the Panthers
The big cats are here to play and on the back of that tactical time out
They play it out to a tee here comes the operator bands and as Reducted mentioned
We know exactly what's coming here for Furia. It's good by Mira
Mera is going to be so done for on the flip side. What do you bet it's gonna be the solid snake from clear
Is it gonna be one of those few shoot operators?
It's gonna be you know, I don't know that then that's all I can think of right now because it hasn't been a matter of like
Capricut outgrim and regular utilities. It is about the fighting your solid snake your demos. There it is
It's gonna be a solid snake in response
I mean read up with such a good clear take on what the guys are doing wrong and also praising what they're doing
Well, do not change too much around. It's gonna work, especially with the mirror.
Don't get in your heads whatsoever. Just gonna survive this final attack around before the mirror is gone.
And then right here again, the rookie, Foxera, opens up with Volves, finds the first Interfrag,
and then covers the planter in two separate gun flights.
And I'm saying the smoke could be a bit bad, because the smoke grenade was so close in the door itself,
that you can be in the doorway, and Foxera can't see you.
And we see once again from the NGO right there, kind of slamming his chair.
On the first map he was this really aggressive bot language as well, so much frustration again and again and again.
Well, technically NJR has been on this team the longest out of anyone, five and a half years.
We have to admit that Dark Zero is a very different Dark Zero to what we had six months ago.
It's kind of a spiritual successor to that SSG roster that Nu'est, Jan and Owen Foltz, and call out their coach, has played on for a very long time.
It was basically like SSG moved to DZ and kept NJR and then shortly after that they also brought over Kino as well.
He was previously on an 80 for their major run in Munich last year.
They were like, we need a shoot player.
Who could we get, huh?
How about the second best shoot player in North America?
Oh, the second best.
Secrets, man.
Oh, okay, okay.
Fair play, fair play.
I'm just going to see.
Kino is certainly battling for that combat now.
I mean, is Spirit here?
is he playing right now? I don't know. I don't know. You can't deny the guy who's won the
last two majors. The only player who's won these last two majors in a row with two different
teams, by the way. Very few players can say that for any major or any event. Winning two
back to back from different teams. It's a good adaptation here for Fury as they
hunt for a little bit more. Again, I think the opening pig is always going to tell
The most important story about that momentum and Bob
is just slowly starting to suffocate your opponent in the server
and refiring commons through a genocidal spot of damage and barred down the stairs
with no kill confirmed, Volts finds Volp's throw,
that's a say it.
So Fury once again is starting from the back foot but operator-wise
losing the strike at the recruit operator, not the biggest loss to suffer.
The Grimm is there, the Demo is there, they still got four yingadillas
and the fighter trade at Ganbox Zero.
Yeah, good with that Reaper, isn't he?
Allows him to have a possibility, yeah, yeah actually.
It allows him the flexibility to run that shotgun primary as well and still be confident in mid-range gunfights with that auto pistol
Good drone from lawyer as well. It's gonna push NJR back. I think he's realized it's about time to fall out of that mezzanine
I'm gonna get a hold on to it for any longer
Especially after the Izami has gone down. Here comes the explosive
Execute from box 0 with the flashbangs enabling his team to take this space. What are you doing folks?
It's a very uncommon mistake for such an experienced player to expose his back to a common angle
And now Fury are have the numbers advantage
They are poised to pounds on the bomb site group retaliation though from newers as he gets detected by the day moss
We'll try and evade it to the best of his ability can't do so as of yet
Laura will look to hunt him from below and so he finds a safe haven on hard floor one issue right now is that
Diaz is the last final hard to structure, but it's the wrong side of the map
It cannot use it for cattle grafters and herds and stock in the back position.
Daemons are stocked downstairs and these themselves can't really go for a gunfight.
We mugged the fusers down instead of IT.
But you just thus find that one because of chemo that changes everything.
I think they have a bit of an idea of where Neuers is as well.
They saw him and now with the Daemons tracker, they're going to see him again.
They know he's trapped inside a con.
It's going to be a tough way to try and survive this year.
Neuers all the way punished inside of Electrical in a 1v3.
The pistol comes out, the DMR needs to be reloaded, he goes for it now.
This Hurts has picked up that issue, he's actually gotten him to the bomb site.
Hurts, why are you going to the kill?
You have the defuse, all you need to do is plant!
It's the biggest throw I've seen from Fyria in this tournament!
The clutch from DZ, unnecessary mistake from Hurts.
Damn boxed in.
Literally, in a box, they must try to frag grenade, but I'm gonna get on the door with full intel on the sound cues.
No way you should lose that if you fury up.
That is a blatant troll from Heads.
He walked in, diffuser in hand, looking for a fight, wasn't high on the HP meter either.
Super disadvantageous spot to take.
That could have been a simple round.
Walk in, hold F, win the round, celebrate, boom, you go next instead.
First traps!
I hit down one, two, three.
Look at it right there.
So unnecessary.
So uncharacteristic as well. I can't believe that.
And look for Neewis to not panic too much, not overpeak.
The fact that he was essentially like,
it hurts if played that right,
Neewis just would have lost.
Yeah, yeah. Right?
You know, he would have stayed and hidden
and then it's a post-plan
and then they're waiting for him, he has to move
and he doesn't win.
But because he kind of played slowly, played patiently,
didn't think, okay, I have to make a move now,
otherwise I lose, that gave him the chance to win.
And with that, I mean,
Fury has thrown away around
that was very convincingly theirs.
there was the opportunity tied up to two and changed that momentum that we keep speaking about right gain back some of that confidence now
It's gonna be oh my god. We want oh my god. We lost
Frustration once again DZ need every single defense round they can get they only won defenses on that first map and against
Waybo as well was their attack where they struggled so getting given that free round there for DZ
Thanks to the clutch from new isn't the mistake from herds is a gift a huge gift from the Brazilians to the North American squad
And now they take that gift and they wrap it up tie it up in a nice bow and go to kitchen this tertiary bomb
So we saw them play against Waybo. Yeah, they love to play this one again
I think it's only really playable with the
Put a clash on the board for one of this flash players act as maybe the best clash player supported by both
The Levi and the Eager for just counting any sort of projectiles coming his path
Early C4 as well from keynote takes almost the entire health bar away from both
down to about 15% of himself far now. Hasn't worried about every bit of damage so the first ring goes down.
He's down to Furia. Feeling the frustration and just doing screw it. Let's risk it all because that is not a fight you want to take.
No, I mean, there's two rounds in a row. We've had someone get completely ego checked here from Furia.
Okay, maybe shoot it. Maybe just get rid of that. Thank you. Very nice. ADS taken down, Furia.
After finding that kill on the Jano, no? In theory, yeah, it can recompose but be careful because Kino's retaking the top of blue stairs.
Yeah, those are diffuses right outside and shotgun in close range DS gets up close
I think the reading into it though
But yes needs help you can't just play this and the thing is he knows honor jammer
And he's all tank the first looker because it cannot be called again grim bees though will be at expose him and they will
Diaz needs to use it the new chairman no longer prevents the grim bees from getting that info. Oh
Wow what shot despite the air jet and they asked to weaves the angle onto box there
Hello there. Kino trying to retreat on back, Hertz is watching for his position. It's good night to Hertz again
Loran Diaz the last two remaining
DZ now on the tertiary bombsite with to surely finish this round off finally the bees come out
But it's far too late here for Fiora and Kino and Jara now save the dark zero 60 seconds to play with still win the
Although I will say especially if yours goes down inside our games room first
He's in a six once gone ready for a fight the drill missed him jumps up and now spots him
But there is a crossfire and right behind him is the bomb site.
NJR's got his back. Nuerz doesn't have to swing until he receives contact from his team mate.
NJR might overpeak a little bit too much. He certainly doesn't need to...
...revert from up above from Kino and shows another layer of the defense here for DZ.
Nuerz will find that kill. It's the crossfire played to perfection by DarkZero.
Now they start to run away with it. It's 4-1 in the lead. If this becomes 5-1,
Then that loss of herds from two rounds ago will haunt them for the rest of Nihayva Labs.
Maybe we're at a point where they have to change the gameplay approach because they're being shot down
in the early increase, not winning enough individual gunfights because that playstyle
maybe to some simplistic DC to have the adaptation had to read. And I really want to praise NGR
and Kino individually fighting back so much in that round during all the heavy lifting.
caught up watching behind the boys very proudly. 4-1 lead for DC as they enter the final round
in the first half and they bring out a new set of operators. They now have the Nari with
the Thorn with the ally, a lot of trap utility and they got a bit of verdict counter-tiental
in the post of Sorya Murki with the shotgun, Jena on the Asami as she must have an
every single bomb sight and it's giving Fury again a new problem that they might
not thinking that they have the adaptation to go up against.
And as you said, Enger, as you often say, every single game of the best teams in the
world play essentially each half has two halves in it before and after that third operator
band.
DZ really leaned into the ace thermite band by playing that mirror and making sure that
those walls were so troublesome.
They opened up, furious struggle with it, Redux in the tactical timeout said, guys,
it's okay, don't worry about that, once the mirror band comes through, our plan
should work like a child and it did that first round it still hurts through the
round away. Now DZ is saying okay now it's time to really lean into our plan D
which is this excessive uses of traps and especially on a split bombsite like
this where there is so much map off the grabs on the top floor and the basement
to try and deny the bombsite. Tyria have so many things to think about so
many avenues into the map to worry about and no solid snake to try and
take that free map control for Loira.
Alright, is that back on the glass?
The Teimos? The Darkbeam?
Different ways of finding information, but they require red ping or smoking to be enabled.
This is going to be more about that split theory.
It's attackers very much alone in many different positions.
All going for a bit of a fishing play.
Looking for that gap, looking for our kills.
Teimos trying to keep it back.
Oh, good job. It's your strings. Back with confidence now.
Oh, nice. It kills all those keynotes on this NGR.
They find three quick ones.
But only if you win your battles and easy at what every single one of them so far
Aggressive play Jane. I know outside the building. I don't know what happened there, but he gets punished
It's a lifeline for Theria, but barely Diaz inside the bomb site. No defuse
Because that's cold on the ground
They know exactly where he is. It's just him and Volbs again separated
NJR has an angle the trying to cross fire in his position now Volts could scan him completely
say he's right here just in that room here is says maybe I'll go for the swing
it's gonna be a 5-1 half a domination on the defensive side for DZ as Fueria they
had their moment they had their chance and they threw away for what's the ego
to go for the swing instead of to go for the plants and when the first stone
fell it only took a moment before it became an avalanche before DZ could
run away with this half and look for the comeback that they could not achieve on
there. 4v1 Volts good luck my friend it ain't happening today it ain't
happening any day. DarkZero dominate 5-1 in the first half and a well on their
way to a comeback as we move into the halftime. Roll swap timeout.
something that has already happened.
Let's do this, guys.
Let's be full focus, full focus on what we need to do,
full focus on what we talk about every day,
of doing what is on our side from now on.
I'm going to pass the points to us,
forget this shit,
guys, it's one in two where we say we win,
they already lost a double,
we're going to pause, we're going to win the game back.
Forget about the card,
let's do what we normally do,
you know, calm guys,
fuck this, you know, what happened so far.
I'm going to say what we're going to do,
just focus on my voice,
and let's do it,
let's do it,
We're going to do the guanthermite and the green, we're going to do the first round, we're going to do that little thing on top of the family, if you don't pass, you're going to mute, to close the preparation, you're going to do this, you're going to be in the character that plays low, it's a challenge.
You're going to warden, right?
Yes, you're going to warden from 12 to 11. Then guys, we're going to do the road of garage at the low moment, we have the amai.
on that basement kind of where you're going,
fucking crap that we have going on at XO.
He does like to put a mirror on like the internal wall
and close to that board, if that makes sense.
So like the one that can see-
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can just fuck with that with your mind.
That's all I'm saying behind the front for a year.
Yeah.
So just keep that.
Yeah, that was the only thing on this attack side,
I guess I don't wanna see where I fucking see something
we're gonna decide on.
I'm gonna repeat that every so and so and every so and so.
Yeah.
See who's talking, make room for feet.
That's it.
And we all feel like somebody's gonna go now or all.
Again, about that commitment from Dark Zero and a classic fashion, lose the first map.
We start questioning what's gonna happen next. They go in the second, they're much stronger, so adaptable, and an ability to survive.
When the backs are against the wall, they need that pressure to thrive, it seems like James.
That they do, they really do. Like diamonds be forged under the pressure. We've seen it from them before.
No doubt we'll see it again.
DZ up 5-1 and after that miraculous 1v3 clutch from Neuers all the life has been
stacked out of Fioria but not sat out of their fans who continue making noise
here in the arena at the Esports World Cup in Paris. We need that energy inside
the server to see them come back from the 5-1 deficit.
I am a fan of banning one Harpreeture and then one utility operator if you're up against
him there will play utility because that's the issue DC and not just good at breaching
or good at executing they're kind of good at everything most things are used right
where Fiori M will talk about their lethality their ability to get kills and create space
not about executing necessarily with like very accurate position
so they recognize DC, we can then across the board
the client, the early game, the mid game
see what they can do, they got the mirror on the board, hurts
got time denial on the Goryu and the smoke
they got a warden to counter any of those ying
nothing here is ass operator, nothing here is uncannable though for
And because of the lack of that ace ban, DZ won't worry so much about hard breach.
They can bring the ace and they can bring some tin can openers as well.
There's a fear, even the Ying if they want to, instead of smokes, which in this case in fact they will double up.
So you've got so much redundancy from DZ.
We saw this against Weibo as well. They like to bring a lot of hard breach.
Even with that mirror up, it should be counted pretty handily.
We do have a quick translation as well as the spawn pig looks to come out from Volx.
of the tactical timeout, or rather the halftime timeout, from Maria Amiga.
We can't go back and fix something that already happened. We need to stay fully focused and
concentrate on what we can control and what we can talk about every day. If we do win one or
two rounds, they're already going to start shitting themselves. What happened up until now?
I'm going to tell you what we're going to do, and that's it. Are you with me on this?
Play mirror upstairs. Mute Warden with a 12 on electric. I don't know what he means by the 12.
Hold garage on the basement bomb with one mine
So I actually have capital U2 to be mentioned there, the mirror with the little mine
The bomber is down
How is it not present though, that was mentioned
Changing max
I can't do it all right the first times
Now I gotta be special in improvement, okay? No one's a 10 out of 10
But you care about 9.5
You leave that bit of 0.5 wiggle room and you strive for or you
You look for perfection
Look, I am always down for a bit of a goya instead of a mute
It's just, the gun is gif, bro
That's it
I like this is that actually it's not even a vector. It's TCSG. I mean, of course I'm a TCSG
There's a V above happen recently with a third explosive charge of three big booms
I'm not a Lara to take down the smoke one of those valuable operators on different side for this round that
That is an uncounterable one-sided affair. There's nothing you do about it
Except for being worried about beneath you sending down a lurker or not being playing upon that soft floor
But the issue is with this bombs out of top. It's also for there's almost no air
It's actually going to be a hard surface so it'll be an execute on to Rafters
and he's right into the building for Kino. He's in the bloody bomb site.
Nitrocel needs to get active here for Diaz but he's been shut down. It's a 1v5
retake for Herds. This would be the moment for him to redeem himself but
it's not to be. He gets shot out shut down. DZ. Map points on Night Haven Labs.
It feels like we've barely got it started here on the second map and DZ are already ready to finish it
And they didn't de-commit
The opening peg three to one push together with despite the fact that one of those attacking members got fired off in the cattle grafters
They didn't stop the push. He knows that guys. It's too late
I got a full commit so they push Aqua they push that garage rotate to get another pick up and that's it
But the only death that happened on that attack and sap was a flank in the 1v5 and Perch was downstairs.
Not even close. I mean, that is a flawless round.
It is indeed.
That's exactly what DZ needed.
Now, Fiora are a very good team on Bank. They've even beaten a few...
Faze.
World champions just a few weeks ago in the SAL.
DZ played it just last week against COG, beat them.
So if we do get to bank, which at the moment is looking extremely likely, I think it'll be a very hard contest
DZ though, the end of the score line here is on map 2. We know that that'll affect the momentum of Fiora
Now we are a lot to admit it. DZ are not a very momentum based team
Despite what happened with the 7 rounds in a row against them on map number one
I think DZ have one of the best mentors in the game. They're very detached. They're very
meditative they love to say you know fuck the narrative forget about the
storylines all that stuff but fury on the flip side they are the most momentum
based team right like as soon as hurts through that round in the first half
like it has been mental boom absolutely you can probably make the
argument just for the sake of it that DC are momentum-based teams is that
they can't take control in a chain of rounds but they're not dependent on
momentum to thrive they do have that at that ability to survive ability
But I think Fury are so if you're exactly about 7-1 it'll be a lot harder for them to bounce back
One person if they end up coming back a few rounds here
We see a 7-3 7-4 in favorite easy
I would have a lot more faith in fury a talk about momentum and return for there's also
Emotional state of affairs right if you get a bit upset about the current results
You just stay mentally calm and composed as DC tend to mirror when they're not fully broken though
It kind of missed the mark there
There's a second Ash preaching pocket also maybe a teacher available, but it's different up the window a smoke goes through
They're gonna jump on anything to do. We'll send it very aggressive straight into the plant position here for
Kino still able to go to the plant, but no
It's actually the thorn trap there from bulbs that gets to kill and the confirmation with the weapon as well
DZ with the injured onto box here and now the frag onto both herds and Diaz
Have opened up the gates to look for a second attempt, but they will need someone to go and recollect that diffuser
which has been locked down in the bombsite. Two smokes on Jane. I know it's a bit
potentially enable that in the late round. But first they'll just mind their time.
This could be a free kill. Jane I know missed his chance. With the smokes
dispensing could just go back downstairs, go for a re-attempt, but at the same time
a bit risky getting stuck in the middle of a plant, right? So they want to get
forbidden on map control. They want to try and play for a pick on D1.
Oh no! Oh, careful there! Jane I know Chris Lee needs to win that fight
All up to Laira now to try and save the map.
How come to C4?
But no, he goes down!
And it is NJR to lock in a domination 7-1 for DarkZero.
At the end of the second map, we're getting need to go to a third here, Pengu.
Otherwise, we will not have a grand finalist.
One more map required, and you can take that to the bank.
Whole new gear found for DC individually.
Eventually, a player like NGR stepped, or sorry, newer's rather,
stepped up massively.
12 kills, right?
Only dying once or twice on that map.
Every individual player fighting three or back
on lack on their first map.
But also as a team, they have the timings,
they have the push, they have that full commitment
that Kallak mentioned during the halftime vibe check.
It's boating well with easy go to bank,
and now the script is flipped.
I'm sad to fear for the side of Tyria,
because you saw how minted he automatically became
and patrolling one or two rounds.
Yeah, I mean, that's really the story of it, isn't it?
And we're about to see that round that they threw away here.
I believe it was when they were up or rather down.
Two-one, they finally found that first round.
That was the next one.
And it was this next round right here.
Turea had everything they needed.
They fought back from the 4v5 into the three versus one.
Had that moment right there where
Herds, who had the diffuser, decided to go and hunt
for the kill instead of going for the plan.
Fiora did not win another round after that.
DZ voluntarily won the hearts of people in Soul Lakes.
They're looking to go back to back here now in Paris.
And they have a chance now that we can go to Bang with their heads up high.
So excited for it.
We've seen a lot of map control, room clearing, gunfire to Bang.
Generally speaking, what's more about planting a plant denial?
A reprisal for DZ and a chance to finish off the series on that number three
as our NA brothers on the desk.
I'm sure we'll be very happy to see well dark zero make the turnaround and while
it might have been in jests originally coming back to have the N.A. was on top
certainly seems like that story could continue here trying to prove that that
Salt Lake City major was not an accident it was the real deal this is a
team that could start a dynasty conversation in an end with one more
battle let's break down what happened and where we might be going here is
you welcome me back to the panel, Reinde with,
oh my god, Lax, Laxing and Alphabaugh.
The drums are throwing me off, gentlemen.
And maybe I'm European and you're a non-ame.
You're a non-ame, you're a non-ame, brother.
Lax, you know, that was a game that really set a tone
differently for Dark Zero.
We talked about their mental, they showed it there.
I'm glad you said it, because that's what I said
going into this series, if there's one thing
that you're never going to beat Dark Zero,
it is absolutely their mental game.
And to be able to bounce back the way that they did,
losing seven rounds in a row,
than to be carried into this series and win out the way they did that is the dark zero that you expected
It was the opening kills that I was talking about where they lacked in the first map
They were able to convert almost every single opening kill in that entire series
That is how you bounce back
That is how you get into a final map to set you up to push you possibly into a grand final and rain
I mean you made a finalists you mentioned it before thank you
They lost the first map against webo and then they bounce back and that's the strength of that zero
They need a little bit of time to fire things up maybe to read their opponents to figure out what's their play style and then suddenly
They start innovating adapting the first thing we say what was the win condition for Dark Zero?
It was to hit the reset button between the two maps learn what basically
Lesson they needed to get from the first map and then change their play style going into Night Heaven labs
I think they played it perfectly very very strong attacks and overall I think of you know
So, an ever-better defense side, 5-1s, controlling the aggression on the side of Fiora, making sure
that they were playing behind a wide barrier of utility, Fiora, Azami, all of this, and
for me, most importantly, one round that was a turning point.
Round 4, yeah, talk about it.
One massive mistake from Herds, and I'd love to watch that again, because, Amid,
we look at this, and patented to Herds on the left side of the screen here, he's
He's the one with the kit. He's the one who can go plant. 11 seconds left here.
And instead of going to plant, look at him. He's going for the challenge.
He loses the kit. It drops down. That forces D.A.C. into a gunfight he does not want to take.
He loses that gunfight again. Then look at Lyra. All the way on the other side, he has given up.
He's AFK. And that's it. You lose that 1v3. And the entire Momentum on the side of Furia is gone.
I mean, it's a little bit of confidence. Sprinkle them with a little bit of air against right there.
I mean they have the round right in front of them they have the vertical pressure to just be able to call for his rotate
They had the hold that all herds has to just go for that plant now
It's not to say that you know
They win that round and the series still doesn't end the way that it does with their DZ dominance
But it just helps you get that confidence when you lose a round like that where you should one it does kind of you know
Action to your mental of what are we doing? What's going wrong?
And then the next round falls apart they end up almost playing a practically perfect perfect or flawless rather
defensive half where you need these rounds and you don't want to let a team
like DZ kind of find their footing get the momentum back on their side because
that's an exact result of what happens. Okay so you know when I look at that and
I think why did that happen I mentioned the heat check sometimes you feel the
momentum this team seem pretty heavily momentum base when they're doing well
and those areas firing on all cylinders. They're a team that's
definitely hard to deal with but on the flip side it doesn't happen that's
That's where I start to worry about what Furia can do against DarkZero, who have such a strong mentality,
but more than that, they have such strong discipline for how they like to play the game.
They want you to make a mistake, to overreach a little bit, because they know how to make, basically take advantage of that.
I mean, they love being able to punish you, and Newers is a prime example of a player that will always punish you,
and any single gunfighter, if you give him the opportunity and the ability to make it happen.
I mean, he was by far the MVP of this series, but not even just only Newers.
The entire team just hitting those opening kills and collectively turning those into rounds 1.
Putting that guy right there on your screen that leads the charge a lot for this team.
He's always the spearhead. Even on defense, he makes miracles happen.
He can turn multi frags back. He can get the man advantage going into TZ's favor with it.
That can fall back into those players. They can force spearheads.
And that's exactly where you're seeing round half around on that defense to end it on the fight one half.
The worst is basically the spearhead of that roster, whether it is on attack as the entry,
whether it is on defense here, having to roam against some of the most aggressive and most
skilled players in the world, besides all of this, 12-2, a 6K AD against South, we've just seen it,
right? A crazy firepower on the Brazilian side and despite all of that, he has that firepower.
It was the question mark that we asked, right? All the way to the map, the map one, we said,
Maybe this is the better team collectively, maybe in terms of strategy, but in terms of
firepower. Can they really win these gunfights? Newer's proved they can.
Now I look at this next map, and this is the decider, so we're going to see who goes to the
Grand Finals here. Two different stories, Brazil making it. When we expect Brazil to make it on
the other side, but that's still to come. Don't worry about it, face GK up after this.
Or Dark Zero, North America having a chance to defend their second major
sixth tournament that they could be winning in a row. What does it look like now
if you are Furia, that you have to do to get back into this.
How crucial are, let me put a number on it, the first three rounds for you to have
give yourself a realistic chance of moving on at the grand finals?
I think the first half is always pretty cool, whether whatever the side you're
going to choose, you know, I think the main thing to me is they're going to play against
a perfect team. This is perfect, we've seen it, even in the map that they lost,
that retake that I mentioned before was a show of just how good this system is and how
good the team play is. Good news for them they have actually beaten the most perfect team in
modern siege on bank and that was faceclam. If you were able to beat faceclam to be fair,
this is the same thing. I think it's all like city to reach semi finals. But if you're able to
beat faceclam on bank you can beat dark zero on bank and that is by bringing back that momentum,
by feeling confident on those gunfights, by maybe doubling up on certain teammates and most
importantly by having composure in those late rounds when you have that amount of
advantage no more hurts mistake of not doing for the objective. I will say in
terms of the aggressive nature that Fiora brings a map like Bank can heavily
favor a brand new team because it is a very open map it's not as
constricted as a map like Flare as a map like Night Haven maps but because it is a
bigger map you have to work with your team a lot harder at controlling the
map getting map control understanding the positions once you get to that
mid to late round, where you can and can't go for these executes.
So they can have a very good early game on their defensive half, being able to stall,
being able to get these picks going in their favor, play back into those layers.
That's where I don't look after them on attack.
I have to see a lot of synchronization of just consolidating the map and getting to
those mid to late rounds.
So does a bigger map kind of help what was working in game one for Furia where
Pingu mentioned that one second rule, where you have to be within a one second
sprint for a trade once somebody goes down.
A bigger map, does that make it so that Furia can isolate a little bit better?
How does it work?
With a kind of chaotic, sporadic place how they have,
I think it can work against them, but I also think it can work well with them.
It's totally dependent on what Dark Zero's trying to do
and what they're trying to counter off of it.
I think the main thing in my eyes, I guess the learning curve here,
for Fiora, I look back at the tactical timeouts on their side.
Obviously, they're speaking in Portuguese now.
We're fortunate to talk to Maria, who's translating for us
and letting us know what's up, basically what's going on.
You can't speak Portuguese man, come on.
I can't speak Portuguese, only French, a little bit of Spanish and English.
Okay, alright. Only three, that's it.
More than three!
We've basically been able to listen to what they were saying, and multiple times the approach
from the side of Fiora has mentioned, guys, stop dwelling on the past, stop dwelling on
the mistakes that you've done, focus on the present.
And it shows to me that one team has nerves, and the other right now, Dizzy, is a
whoa, snowy system. It's the philosophy of throughout, and you can see it in the
I think I need to see a little bit more either of emotional control, or if you're already thriving on emotion on the side of Fiora, keep back that emotion again.
If you need emotion to win, everyone needs to believe in it. Stop focusing on the past. Reset. This is a BO1 directly for Grand Final spot.
It's going to be adaptation, flexibility. These teams both have potential. They both have shown that they can get here.
They deserve to be here one map of peace. But now it's about who can make these decisions that matter in these moments
that are so finite and so hard to distinguish one push when you should just try to plant means that you do not have the
Opportunity to maybe go to a grand final and earn
$750,000 fear and of course darks are both made mistakes to get here
But it doesn't mean that those big mistakes will allow any of them to go any further
There is one game now that will decide whether we see a North American team have a chance to defend
international titles back to back or if Brazil will bang those drums into the
final gauntlet on Saturday it all happens here at the Lenovo Legion gauntlet in
Paris France our final map of the series and let's send it over to none other
than Dev and Pengu. Thank you very much Rain Day and yes this is the final map
of our semi-final here between Syria and Dark Zero and as we look to cook
up a storm, DZ have been cooking all tournaments along. They weathered the storm of seven rounds
against them in a row on there only to respond in kind with a 7-1 on Nighthaven Labs.
Fiora have been ringing true with their drums between maps. As now we look for the operator
bandface here, Pengu, and it looks like we're going to see more hard breach taking
away from the furious side by DZ. Oh, I love this. We see this earlier in the tournament
from Wildcard. The double ranged Harbridge Bandit, the Ace and Hibana, enabling the top
four bombsite. It's the any special, I guess, at this event. And also, furious pain respect.
The clash finally being targeted here on towards Folds. There's only a matter of
time. I mean, honestly, I thought First Man was going to have a good one. I think
you have to get rid of that clash. Look, another point that you mentioned often,
Hengu about that double ranged high breach bandit ace, Kibana.
It's not just good on the top floor,
also very good on the basement
because it enables you to put these Vulcan canisters
from Goyo on the hatches.
When you put them in the middle of the hatch,
then you can't actually breach those hatches
with an exothermic charge from Furma.
Or with a two-counter opener,
the only way to breach it is to shoot the Goyo off first,
which delays 20 seconds.
So a great little time delay tactic
that I expect we'll see from NJR,
Particularly on that admin hash inside of the A bomb site.
However, he's a little bit later than set up.
No, actually he's already put down all of his Valkyries.
So he's actually not going to go for it. That's a little bit of a surprise to me.
You can only call that if you're a football player, and otherwise you don't want to listen to you.
Yeah, apparently not. Never mind.
Hey, I played the pro league qualifiers in APEC back in the day.
For the very first season of Oast Pro League, I played the qualifiers.
I couldn't even qualify back then when there was literally no competition.
Okay, technically I played all the scrims up until the qualifiers and on the day of the
qualifier I had a family holiday to Queensland and I was off in the rainforest.
So you weren't committed enough to become a pro player?
Well, yeah.
And then, and then I mean I coached like a top 4-0s team for like-
I coached a top 5-0s team one.
Really?
Which one was that?
That's a good question.
You know what's funny. Do you remember to name Scrivvie?
I do remember the name. Scrivvie's team at one point.
Yeah, you also actually did a VOD review for my team.
Oh!
Yep, I will have to look back somewhere if I have it in my old Discord DMs.
Yeah.
But that Pro League, the not Pro League team, the one that I tried to qualify with,
Yeah.
We sent you a Scrimvod and you sent us like your notes breaking it down.
And I will remember this to this day.
this day your note was you guys don't really know how to play the round but
Yeager just ran around and got a 3k so you won and that was me I was that Yeager
you're the Yeager you're running like getting all the kills but not
knowing how to play the game properly. So what you're saying is that my
coaching was bad? Yes. Well no not at all I mean I think I just realized
that I had a lot more fun casting and talking about people that will play
the game far better than I am. So I feel like a lot of people would ask
Like how would you figure out if you're like casting because you don't really get a cast until you do it?
Like how do you lose you? I did I did do it like I did community casts and I did I played in like the you know
Crappy community tournaments like cast at the crappiest community tournaments, and I why are they crappy?
Well, it's like we're not very good. Oh
Nothing
Not even like yeah, it was so fun
It was a fun. It was it was a good time, but you know like we didn't we would probably anything
I think my salary was a little bit below sports at that time just a little bit just a little higher
I mean sport sport didn't make it very far this event. I mean, I'm here on sorry final day and sport isn't no
And I feel like you should get paid based off the placement and tournaments very simple. Yeah, make it far
Make the big bucks you go home early. You don't make that big bucks. That's that's what price pull is
Yeah, but often like if you were to do that the comparison salaries as often probably also the case, right?
The best teams could paint the most money they make a furthest usually trouble for a belly and got first-rounded
They went to a grand final make it. Yeah, it's solid city, which are they now you didn't work something. So they made the grand final
Maybe you're the curse
You might get bought out. You're on the job soon. Yeah now. I'm here and they've gone
What can I say swings it around about what goes around comes around thank you
And we've gone around and finally rehosted this game. So we're back into it
Thank you for bearing with us and listening to a little bit of nostalgia
It looks like Daisy will go for the same thing. Where do you think he's gonna put those Gloria charges as a pro player Wow
Now now let this show us that they weren't gonna do in the hatch now
They will because it's about the mind game to change a little small adaptations
Right because they know that the attackers of here they drowned out the room setup
They saw there was not a canister on the hatch and therefore he will now do it
They're not even reinstating. She didn't have to Rio's space. It just seemed to see like I guess you're a hatch
and A hatch is both soft right now.
Yeah, they just...
I don't know.
Usually, you would get the server hatch at least,
because you very rarely can climb back down that avenue,
but it goes to be that if you don't have a player in server at all,
they can then backstab it.
But I mean, what's, you know, going to do nothing on server stairs?
It's always when he's thriving.
Yeah, and Furia can actually just open those hatches now,
the soft hatches, with their DMRs.
It takes just a couple of bullets to open those hatches.
You don't even have to worry about using the tin can openers
from Lord and Buck.
Solid Snake always high in value on the main staircase.
Look at it!
Oh!
He goes back down the staircase actually, all the way to the basement.
Very hurts.
He's going for the gap.
He does want to find the gap.
It's a drop down into the bomb site.
Skip the roam clear.
Bombs.
They are indeed completely skipping the roam clear.
He's now worried about that push.
Inside the bomb site, NGR finds one.
Trader back by Bombs.
But he can't go much deeper now.
Might better look for a plant, but the retake will be coming his way.
Very, very surely.
There is no safe place to plant.
A cover.
Look at it happen here from lawyer.
Volves will try and go deep, finds a kill, onto Volves now, 3v3, DZ, continue battling on the route A, Kino to get the Inja and the kill finally with the gas bait onto Loira.
Volves low HP, Valerie vulnerable, but Diaz from the backstab, Kino wasn't aware of his exposure and now it's all off to Diaz.
Jane Erno, who's finding what was remaining of Volves though, for some reason, Neuers looks for a bit of an aggressive peek, I think flushed out from the fire.
Now Diaz does find himself in a 1v1, after this time takes away, this is so winnable.
Hit the reset, 20 seconds of fire, burning out right now, there's so much time to work.
Diaz is a smart thing, option is drone that's outside the building,
can drive into any position that he desires, gets off the cam to play for sound cue,
okay doesn't hear a general note, gets back on the camera, I can't play it very smart.
He's got a final line scan to work with.
Ideally right now for Diaz, he has to get the drone in an active interposition.
Right now there's the hatch watching the hallway, so that's clear.
That means that either he's going to be able to be chassis on side of Golds who's right hand side.
He's got E1T as well to give him info.
Oh, he's got the read!
That drone work is perfection from Diaz!
So patient in the 1v1, he uses his last remaining drone.
He lets it go undetected, and his teammate pings out the final position in that 1v1.
It's beautiful.
Honestly, I think there's two big heroes this year that are attempting to be the hero.
NDR somehow traded one for one, impact grenade, took down hurts, then got killed by Volme
Chauvin after. Then Kino, shotgun swing on the Bums and in a 1v1, also giving DC a fighting chance.
It only really falls apart when Nuerz has to go into an awkward location because of the
golden fire being parked from the final grenade off DS and then it's DMR versus Slokchadi.
That is going to be a 50-50. Anyone can win that round. One has higher fire rate,
One has more damage, but Diaz was the better player in that moment.
Yeah, the info from the drones, perfection.
The coordination from his teammates there, the Furia boys on that cam.
No doubt giving him that call, that's giving him that ping on where our final player was.
Good start there from Furia.
We know Bank is an attacker-sided team, but if I'm not wrong,
DZ would have got to choose the starting side on this map
as they have the better round differential over the two maps he played so far.
So they want to go defense. Historically have been better on defense in the quarterfinals.
They also went 5-1 on their defense on Gahaven Labs. Didn't win a single attack on Lair so
perhaps it's just what they're feeling a little bit more comfortable on today.
Again, you can fold the paper, go for counter-paste adaptations. That defense will be a nice
spot to be and also you get the hard side out of the way in a way as well
because particularly we seem to attack our favorite as you mentioned.
Tyria now though on top floor attack these were things get a little tricky
because an AC Barnet Bandit is very unusual it cannot open up the top
elevator wall not possible so often seems to either go for one or two
play stars one heavy on the windows three people right now they're gonna
have both the Capra Fire, Sofia Concussions and they're gonna have the
Sends walls to kind of shrug them to give them away in towards the bomb site the other option you go for a dinner stock attack
But right now it's just gonna be from the exterior
Slowly peeling away the layers the major case the castle there in case for the misstep there for her
It's pretty does get the job done in absolutely was just checking for any extra of my magnets
But yeah, good work there the possible. Yeah, so if it's the perfect counter hits the castle
And the Arunni as it could burn through so much use ill the floor eventually detonating and opening up that wall
What a measuring here from Furia before they made their first sensation it's
Hertz who deals the first blow false exposed he goes down the clash band
out means that falls can't hide behind that shield like he would usually want
to do that is the thing that it's gonna make this defense so much more
challenging there's no assignment Casabarca's dealt with Diaz so could
you jump off the camera taking a little bit of damage from Neuers things
at a quad window room.
Good info.
Yeah, it's very good info.
These two different defenders in, guys, there's only going to be two members holding you from
the Skylight side, from deniers, probably from meeting.
It could be a Gavin stock, it could be a rappel in the bomb site, but for Fiora, I
think right now they're just risk assessing it.
Do you want to just go over the 3, 2, 1, all or nothing play?
Or do we try and stretch the T-9 just to be even bigger?
The more that they buy their time, the more that they look for different gaps,
more likely they will find the one gap that they can enter. But no, in this case, Herds
oversteps his welcome a little bit. Vulnerable to Newers. Here comes the Util into the box
side. It's a lightwars from Boxera on the Sends, and the Fire and Smoke Util from Volx,
but he still hasn't repelled into the building. They feel like they need one more kill before
they can make their move, but they haven't been given the chance to get it yet. Boxera
in the building takes down the most deadly player, the DM on from Newers, and here
Here come the kills, here come the Reigns for Feria, two rounds on the attack in a row.
Incredible, Feria they finally changed their playstyle, they took a good what, 60 seconds?
They say, hold, let's talk about this, how are we going to win the round?
There's gonna be hurts, I'm gonna try and go for a kill right now, he dies, then no hesitation.
The light wall, the fire, the jump on in, get the kill, watch the C4, then go for a plant while the other people are fighting 3D1.
Yeah, I guess.
It's hanged on, I just got told for DC.
Get it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, here we go.
Listen, we can go for the open-layer hard zone right now.
Quite frankly, on basement, I don't think they're in the inside again.
They may try to ice off garage, if you're comfortable, like rerun,
like a similar one pattern off that, I think it'd be good.
Or we could even go on the fucking, the actual problem with that.
It really doesn't matter, but I think they're probably in the clear.
and then for CEO, quite frankly, I would anticipate Windows should again and maybe
be paired with Square, the biggest thing off that, let's actually show a presence below
before we can make up top. Just like slide on the damels a little bit and then just
play desktop. Like they just milked for literally two and a half minutes to get it done.
Yeah, yeah, heard.
Pretty solid.
And then again, towards these late rounds when shit's like, you know, don't start
just like rambling about what the fuck they're doing, like just keep it calm. Like
we're going to be able to do something right now.
Yeah, fast. Yeah, yeah, it works.
Yeah.
Hurt.
Alright.
We're going in?
No, but we'll see about the open later on as we're back in the cave.
Okay, let me see.
Fall back, we call out some small notes on different bomb sites.
And just understand that, hey guys, they're doing a lot of nothing
down around for two and a half minutes.
They're just gonna float downstairs first, show our presence,
then fall back.
There's gonna be no underclock.
And I'll say, like, we can do similar stuff.
It's not massive changes needed from DC at small adaptations.
Yeah.
And all of it comes down to communication.
I thought that was a really interesting one.
Ramble yeah, yeah don't ramble about what they're doing in the later round because that happens sometimes like if you're sitting there
And nothing has happened for 30 seconds or you see some utils toss out you might start to thinking hey guys
I think they're flipping I think you try to read it you're trying to game sense it alright and call out said guys don't ramble
Don't worry don't overthink it. So I'm just gonna sit back and wait for it
It's very true thing in rainbow six
I mean it's the one of the the FPS games one of the e-sports titles that is the most split between
Mechanics and mental like the the strategy behind it. It's such a 50-50 split right like there are certain titles
We have here at the event which definitely favor
the physicality of them all like the mechanics are like counter strike or
Yes, right and then the opposite of that is the strategy of something like chess
You know it's not about the mechanics nearly as much as it is about that strategy
And here we have this thing where, funnily enough, one can distract from the other.
If you spend too much time thinking, theorizing, are they going to go for this, execute that, execute.
It actually affects your aim.
When they swing in the window, and you're not ready for the angle holding the DMR.
And the vice versa is, well, you spend too much time not thinking about anything, but peeking everything,
then you're not going to read the game right.
We share an agreement right now with the chess talent.
We study games and you've earned a conversation with one of the casters on that game,
mindless would I say and you described siege as chess boxing because you got the
strategical side of it and the mechanical side of it as well you need both to be
the best teams here at the event. Like I said on one of the previous maps the
trifecta of siege it's the mechanics, the mental and the strategy and
Fyria I mean they are extremely talented when it comes to the mechanics
They're pretty good when it comes to the strategy and they are learning extremely hidden miss when it comes to the mentors
Sometimes their mental can win them seven in a row. Sometimes it can lose them seven in a row
They seem to have found their gear off that first round on the rush
Here comes the Monty trying to farm that top four map control DZ on the receiving end of it
You've got three players on this top four trying to hold their crossfires
Bolton all good spot right now very deep into building as the Monty, but he's gonna be just fine
His teammates locking on the flank, they're hurling a bit of vertical damage.
I'm actually seeing the sitters of DC falling back from the top floor.
Surrendering in map space, kind of step by step, so when he falls to the ground, damage,
keep him alive, fall back.
I'm on top floor now.
Always watching that timer, 145.
I will say this is pretty good pace though from FuryM.
They got a little bit of soft destruction.
Thatcher bringing soft reaching charges.
Can I do enough vertical energy on this side?
He brought the EMPs of course on the Thatcher for the hatch itself.
C4 popped. The thing is, it's going to be Volbs on the 1,2,3, where as the can opener is, and he is going in a completely different direction.
He's in lobby right now, so the half's leading to open area. Not going to be opened up, James.
No, this really should be a free kill though for Volbs here in...
Yeah, Volbs is...
Gotta get the bird in there.
Completely exposed. This is going to be a free kill surely for Volbs, especially if he knows how low Volbs is.
Risky.
This is very risky indeed. We just need some pressure from the third. Volbs wants the chance,
chance but no on the exit it's a free kill with the pistol Laura can't take
these long-range fights as he breaches holes in the wall with that shotgun he
almost one tap you know as you had a little help already because he might have
almost one tapped him as ridiculous if that's the case got you three played it
off of that one lot of damage there in the 612 that weapon packs a serious
punch but only in close range I think is right now Monty couldn't feel it
just walk in this double door and start the ill-opening where the
defenders are and go for a plan it's only one counter play right now is
single toxic bait from Kino. That's not going to be another stuff, Bob's on the Monty. This
should be a plant round.
It should, but Boxerra is slowed down. Here comes the hard breach from Bob's as well onto
that cafeteria wall. The entry from Lawyer in close range, the shock under, he check
his corners, he does! Goodbye to J90! 4v3 now, Nuer's trapped in the bombsite, has
to make his flank as MTR and Kino are exposed. Nuer will find his kill, has he bought
enough time for his team. Vops looks for that plant, but the coverage is there, it's perfection
from hers. Kino will go down. Furia 3 straight on the attacking side. Bank is heeding up
and DZ are being left behind. Such a good read again for Furia. Again, massive respect
that they go for the plant, Barry. It's going to be one of those moments where they could
just go for kills and they get a bit of a lucky bad timing. They lose a single
GUNFACUS BUCKSERA did go down right before the gank started rushing the building, or rather inside the side itself.
So they leveraged the win condition much better.
Mind you, that was Volpe's taking so much damage early on in the round as the Monty.
He played it perfectly after that, even communicated with the gank, getting that kill into force, into the archangelors in a very safe fashion,
not going for a solo play.
It's a strange affair when we saw yesterday
yesterday, FaZe Team Liquid, a classic goal, super one-sided map 1 and 2.
Still relatively one-sided map 3, this has been a similar story, where one team have dominated
the map, then it flips, we go the third, you're thinking super close, no, not really.
I have to admit though, a lot of these rounds have been close in the round itself.
Even though we had a 7-3, which was 7 in a row for Fury, and then a 7-1 for DZ,
Particularly on that first map of Lair, most of those rounds were very close.
They looked very dire, and then a player from Furia would get an insane 3K or 4K.
On God Haven Labs, it was very close up until that loss from Herds with that throw in the 3v1.
After that point, it became very dominant for DZ.
And now, again, it feels like DZ are looking hot for a lot of the duration of these rounds,
but then Furia, at the last moment, come through.
I mean, Diaz, let's not forget, he started this map off with a 1v2.
It's been far more clutching here for Furia than it has been for DarkZero.
I did see the replay there. It was also slowed down for me in slow motions.
Thank you very much for doing that.
It was a two tap on Geno-No with the Link Shotty.
So two bullets at like 10 meter range.
Yeah.
The 95% of his health bar.
I mean, it was a Kairi as well, right?
So that would have killed most operators.
Exactly.
For a three armor or a three health operator.
That is 3D significant damage right there.
That's the magic of land. Land, siege, hit-rack is so incredible. You die so quickly in these gunfights.
We saw news of the nasty flick also from the bottom of main stairs in towards the road to the tellers.
It's a very, very fast-paced action game when you get into the battle.
And it's the beauty of the strategy that gets us there, right?
Dealing with the kite claw, the C4, peeling back the roamers step by step,
reaching over the necessary walls and or hatches.
It's the combination of all of those things that makes a great round of Rainbow's Exceed.
You here are leading so much more into utility and anti-utility than we've seen from them on the first two maps.
Now like a bachelor once again, a capital grim.
They're not playing for fights, but they are playing in ways that can help them get in kills in these avenues.
Oh my god!
Wow, Surely Heards wants to type in chat after that.
He watches his flank, he's worried about a re-peak, and look, that's not a bad call, DZ.
Want to go for it? False! On his retreat from that roam, looks to try and find one,
and Lora goes down through the wall, but the damage has been done, and now hurts.
On that day, Mars will target yet another player, it's Kino, who's still roaming.
All three players here from DZ. On that first floor, with NGR inside a blue bomb site,
is down at the basement, by the way, and there is no way that they can win this round
in the traditional sense. From the 3v4, BZ have to get creative.
Got to find that one more, because while it's sticking out for so long here in open area, also supported by the Echo drones,
right now they're using the Hertz demo striker. Just going once in every single defender, seeing they're going to be falling back.
Keto taking damage, full sticking damage, so much pressure right now on towards BZ, and they're being forced to fall back,
leaving just into our under-server staircase. So now, if he ends up going for that frontal attack that we used to see
we used to seeing from server, NGR could literally become the difference maker, but if he sticks
around on a staircase, once this hatch is open, he's going to be on his own island, no way
back towards the bomb site, so he's going to make that call now, NGR has joined them inside
the red hallway, they're giving up server, they're giving up open area, it's going
to happen in really full fashion on the bomb site.
This is starting to look like Forna row here for the Brazilians, and the energy
that they would get after that, the momentum they would take into the fifth and sixth
rounds to close up this half would be insurmountable surely DZ if there's
any time to clutch up it would be right now to win this round here finally get
on the board would be everything there no servers to listen to the watching the
thanks deal they could just go and server reach the wall EMP the C4 smoke
or echo before they start planting their own but they do not know this
they think there's a play on server they think you're tagged in 4v2 but it's
into a 4v3 with two separate attackers low on health finally that yokai drone
has been spotted, though DZ had so much information on where the push was coming from, a critical
kill there for AJR. If he finds the second, he might just be the round to be won by DZ.
Spam 6-0 running away at the last moment, time is ticking down, and so are Furia! As
one by one they drop into the bomb site, they will fall. DZ finally made their way
onto the scoreboard.
And this time, Furia's indecisiveness, taking that 50 seconds of talking together might
And I've lost them the round. They assumed there was a player server stairs. They thought it wasn't going to be clear, but lack of droning didn't have a shield operator and they spent all their demos trackers so much earlier in the round ensuring the map control for open area later on.
That could have been as simple as you go server, you plant with the facture and there's almost no counter play for the defense. Look, no trackers left here from hurts on the demos. They had no idea.
If MTR loses that fight on the main stairs, I've got to think Fiora win the round.
It's very possible. Credits are false as well. On that echo, he dibbles one Yokai very early and one with about 30 seconds left in the round, but it fed so much info to DC.
The count bodies figure out where Fiora were pushing. It's something we heard from Kola in their tactical timeout earlier.
Sometimes we don't need to overcomplicate things, we don't need to yap about what you think they're going to play in a round.
So sit back, even in a 3v4, stick to your guns.
If you go to your bank, it can just be the bombsite rotation to win one side and you go to a weaker one.
You're going to go for very uncharacteristic tellers and archives.
So it plays a little bit like you're playing CEO.
playing CEO you care about top one up because if the attackers get top control
they get divert the CD entire bombsite that's why they got the run here from
Boxera. The second thing is once you get top control which is like inevitable
you have to actually play away from the side itself playing main staircase
open area bottom square because the side itself is so vulnerable there's no
real good playable positions especially with a clash being counterbend the way
onto folds so DC have to get a little bit creative and dig deep in this
round and honestly looking at the current lineup I'm looking at faults or
information with the Echo and look at Newers who has that only DMR on defense
he has to be the difference maker he has to try and find a kill at some point in
this round because he's got the ACOCK scope he's gonna have a fair or maybe
even advantageous gunfire on his side but Kino's got SMG 11 shotgun he's
gonna only be able to take fights in very specific locations of the map.
IE deactive, sweet big perimeter.
With that last round won by DC it really does change the expectations of the context
for the rest of this half, right? Like DZ, if they just find a second round, that's too much enough, more than enough.
If Furia want to dominate like they were looking to, they need to win the next two rounds in a row, go 5-1 up
before moving on to their defensive side. I will say good adaptations from Furia. They've got the IQ, they've been spotting these cameras
and now they're actually targeting Falls with that cockabee as well. They look to try and get it to the bottom.
It was a curveball thrown by DZ to try and go to Teluzar cards, but Feria are ripping them a new one.
Hurts straight into the bomb site for two kills. Now Volves looks to try and get that plant down.
It's N'ew is being targeted by that Dockabee. Yet again another player will lose his phone.
N'ew is the niece to have an impact, a little bit of damage, but not enough John Asif yet as the retake is on.
But not on enough!
Hurts has found another one on the round. It's NJR and J9O to try and bring this one back.
with the players outside, repelling on windows, there's nothing through DZ to do.
It's a fourth on the board for Theria. One more to dominate this huff.
So this makes them sure exactly why it's such a problematic opponent to defend against.
You can always find the gap, you can always know exactly where you're playing on the defensive side.
That's all they needed. The initial kill, they're in the building, they find a second,
Echo off the board, the plan is free.
Boxer never entered the building, James.
He was on CEO of the Repel the entire time,
using the booted zone from outside the building.
And he even found the kill,
when he tried to go for a retake up above,
knowing that the win condition was going to be in the post.
And the Virkin used that to great success.
That is what brought the fourth round where Kurtz
absolutely popped off.
While he did sell a round on Nighthale and Laps,
he has redeemed himself here in the bank.
He well and truly has herds now leading the way for his team deadly on the
Deimos even more so on the Solid Snake. DZ throwing every strap they have at
Furia every tertiary bombsite. Quaternary bombsite in the case of
Dele's archives of bombsite we never see picked but the North Americans might
have bitten off a little bit more than they can choose here. They were pushed
deep in their quarterfinal against Waybo but they overcame it because they
They were calmer, they stuck to their guns in their prep.
Fiora have already taken down the NAL champions in wildcard and they did so without breaking
a sweat yesterday.
Now against DarkZero, they look to take yet another scout away from North America and
qualify the first team into our grand final.
Can I have your nine?
Please.
Two days to go.
Yeah, I know.
as I said that much.
We had two.
I had some grandiose.
I was trying to build up.
It was good.
You did a great job, team.
Normally, quarter-finals is four games for us, but at this event with EWC26, it's been
two separate days.
This entire event has been a fever dream.
There's been so much siege played over the last week and a half.
It's been some good stuff to think it culminates tomorrow.
A lot of upsets as well.
I need one more prediction for the weapon skin.
Two predictions.
I got nine out of ten for it.
Did you pick for this game?
I picked DC.
It's the problem, and it's looking the wrong way.
Like, I face it, and it got me, OK?
Don't worry about it.
They always show up.
They may well.
I mean, it could be a phase, Firi, a grand final.
Who knows?
It's looking possible right now.
DZ certainly want to have a conversation about that narrative.
They don't want to see that whatsoever.
But Kino taking a lot of damage.
Still the deadly demos down below of Loira.
Firi have slowly been making their way
to talk up the pressure on the DZ as a rumor all the way down in the basement though, false
biting his time, looking for a flank eventually, he'll have to back off.
Laro is downstairs applying pressure on his janitors and now they all know if we're going
to that room we're going to get trapped and we're going to die.
Laro's been to mental game, he's left the downsized area knowing he's playing
people but he still had that mental pressure of oh my god what if he did stick around.
So now DZ played much further back in the concert, things at a meeting, things
as the stock hold is, and not playing generators whatsoever.
The only issue is for Furia, they're at a bit of a standstill.
They're not progressing the round, they find the sole roamers,
they'll be falsely sprinting away.
He's fine, Boxer goes down to J90, and just like that,
DC in full control, as Furia are not making enough progress.
There's a lot more patience from DZ.
We heard the advice from Call Out after the last time they lost this round.
Don't sweat it, don't overcomplicate things.
Here comes the util, sending on in herds.
If he wins this gunfight against Kino, unaware it could be the round.
The fire comes in as well, heard somewhat blocked out by it.
But he's still much his way forward.
Fury now need to get into the building, but there's time.
They don't have to rush.
Volbs, they've forced down this plant.
Neuers is getting to a better position.
The flank from top square of Vols is being watched by the lawyer.
But he's got the 1x scope.
He needs to win this gunfight in the post plant.
DZ need to try and retake, but the lawyer goes to the wider angle.
Five's the kill.
It's J. Nino.
the only man who stands between Viria and a 5-1 domination!
The Brazilians are just two rounds away from a grand final here in Paris!
What if we say DC needs that second round and they did not find it?
And with that, we're to the hard time roll check.
Roll swap.
I'm just gonna do some things that we can do to make them comfortable, to communicate, to talk to them, you know?
Let's leave them alone, you know?
That's what we do in the first round.
I think we can do a safe, I'm gonna say.
I thought you would do a hidden master.
You know why?
They always do full server.
With the moment, with the game, with the patch, with the moment, with the moment.
I think it's good to start the game
After that, we can go to Alibaba, let's go to Alibaba, Transfucil
Let's go to Alibaba, because we are playing well
Let's go to Quattro
Let's go to Alibaba
Let's go to Quattro
Yes, do a banche and you do a trap in the first place
Because we like to escape from the bomb, you know?
Yes, in the first place, we like to escape from the bomb
Guys, they have the default that the map has
The map has the default that the map has
The map has the default that the map has
I like to do things like that in the...
...in the...
...in the...
In the garden, though?
I mean...
Just a note for like...
...uh... open area, CEO, or the low chance they go tell us...
...and you wanna call us up and get the Zofi on the windows they play...
...I should turn the castle.
It's like we can actually rip that channel off.
It's not a little mind game that will be pretty easy to get...
...so like one's over pretty much clear everything.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Oh, boy.
Oh, let's go.
Let's get some stern right now.
Oh my god.
moment that's just absolutely fun. I'll just give a little bank attack fellas. That's all it is.
I'll tell you what, I think we do a Jasmine Jessica. Oh my god. Oh wow.
What is that? A Jasmine Jessica? Is that, is that a shat? Is that a song? I have no idea what
it's saying. I like this, you know, guys let's enjoy the moment. I'm gonna go, it's just a
bit of bank attacks. It's fine. It really is about specific potential guys. The pressure
There isn't on us. It's another BFC.
Yeah, but the stakes are pretty damn high.
The Survivor, the Esports World Cup.
They're going to need five rounds out of 60 on the attacking side.
Six in a row to win it in regulation.
The Esports World Cup is one of the biggest events in the Rainbow Six calendar.
And it's one that neither of these teams have ever added to their trophy cabinet.
There's $750,000 for first place.
A two million dollar prize pool on the line less than half of first place goes to second place
And at the moment these teams have only guaranteed top four
There's a long road to another trophy for whichever of these teams has the goal has the bravery
to grasp it to chase it's
We caught a rapidly huge bigger from general actually finding this more gap did not realize how they found that pick
Sometimes the slimmest of gaps, the tiniest of moments is what wins around what makes or breaks a tournament for a team, especially in a semi-final, like we find ourselves in today.
Hold the phone. Maestro be picked the first round. Without the Brawler band, it's been Monty Glass with Fyria, an award in Kaip. What am I in Kaip for DC?
Well look at these prep-faced drones here from DC. Archives, Main Stairs, Square, Lobby. These are set up for the Rome Clear.
Rome clear not at all to get info on what the bombsite setup is like if Volts
doesn't go through any hatches but easily I'm gonna know that there's a Maestro on
the board and they might not bring enough counters for it. I mean right now
they they technically have to and they can EMP them temporarily and Sophia has
three soft destroying charges currently so that is gonna be a good
counter if you save them for the late round. It was also a bulletproof
camera on herds and a deployable shield on Diaz which you'll need those
explosives for. It's also safe all people. That's the thing about the evil eyes nowadays.
If you put them on any illogical position, you cannot melee them, especially if you look up
like Shrek into the air. So it does leave very specific pieces of neutral as the counter.
He did make a teeny tiny mistake you can say, right? He might have survived the drone phase,
but he stepped into dirt tanks with the barbed wire and was spotted. So they do know now
The maestro is on the board.
They just want to sack you with those bubbles
and the maestro evil eyes have been positioned.
But I mean, look at DZ setup.
I'm sorry, Furious setup. It's all plant analysis.
Very late round Rainbow Six Siege.
In fact, they have one sole player
not in the base of Bombsite.
And he's technically at Blue Stairs,
which is more on the extension of the Bombsite rather than a roam.
Very unusual. Furious love roaming.
They love getting aggressive.
This is a very passive setup but a very deadly one with a lot of utils stacked in their favor
Thankfully DZ have been extremely quick here. I don't have to worry about the ka'i
They open up all of these hatches very quickly and now the rest of the round will be all about making sure they can
Counter every piece of setup on the bomb site
I mean this is scary because DZ on paper are very good at picking apart these solid strategies
Fury wants them to just like burn down the time or not, but actually I'm not sure that's the hatch peak or whatever
But my Seraph finds me worries on capital as it shoots lost to supper this early on on the other side
Bob skip that evil eye open up
So they didn't really need to use any damage before they just shot it with the gun up
Do you know yeah, and that other evil eye deeper into the bomb site won't actually prevent a long plants
It'll only prevent the shallow blast in the hatch
And it was here comes an opening pick here
Oh my God this spam of you till both directions here the Sophia versus the T'Chanka
The Thatcher as well is the perfect counter to these evil eyes
DZ trying to bait up as much utility as possible. They have so much time on the clock.
Kino, lucky to go for a backwards total plan at some point.
MJR looks to try and cover. Will DZ drop a body down from the hatch?
Perhaps they will, watching for the nitro cells. There are none to toss on over.
Diaz, he's not denying this plan. Kino manages to confirm this.
And DZ looked to try and start strong with their attacking side.
It's Vops and Diaz in a 2 vs 4.
The Kino has the perfect position and his teammates are watching from on high.
This post-plant is undeniable and Volbs and Diaz have nothing to do for it.
Nice kill on the J9O but surely that won't be enough.
Kino, they've been a bit of damage onto him.
The fire though, it will not be enough.
As Fultz finds both of the final two kills from the server hatch and DZ find their energy back on the attacking side.
And that's what Audi had enough hard destruction for the default walls, they had to plant on the door itself,
a little bit risky, but the fire missed from Tashanka and I love the utility there from Sofia,
opening up the red hallway wall and the locker wall, they could see from server
all the way to vault, the other end of the building on that base and bomb side.
So Tashanka I think under so much pressure didn't have the safety to go for a proper lineup
and that changes the plant denial possibilities.
Yeah wow, sometimes all it takes is open up a line of sight and commit to a gunfight there.
It restricts Tachanka, he doesn't have as much mobility and that's probably part of the reason
why he missed the fire. Also add to that the fact that we did have the long wall breach
meant that some of the fires from Tachanka actually went all the way through the breach
too deep to deny that plant. I did see that as well. Also that was with Lucy Neewers
on Capitile right before Acair, that could have been even more decisive from Dark
zero absolutely. There was fire on the ground I mean no one's gonna push anywhere on that
bomb site. There's a lot of confidence in that half-time break there from call-out on
the boys. Perhaps DZ have it very much warranted. One five down on their defensive half is not
a worry if they have that same kind of energy that Fury had on their attack. So this
call-out set, just some bank attacks, it's a favorable side, it's all about the
processes in the server at Fury. I think they might try and go for like, you know, this rather
as well. Not going to be as passive. They got trappers, they got the clash on the board,
but I could imagine that they're going to fall back sooner rather than later. And if that doesn't
work twice in a row, it's going to be Fury. I'm probably going to turn up the aggression
to 110% say guys, DC are picking us apart, but we're going to fight back with the guns.
So I want to watch right here when and if Fury are going to be falling back towards the
the bombsite or if they've already made that call just switch it up.
Yeah.
Oh, well.
There's a bit of a fight from the blue stairs and aggressive peek as Fold2 goes down.
One of the best operators to take out being the Thatcher.
That's a lot of the counter too.
Well, actually funnily enough in this lineup, not as much utility as you would have thought.
The main counter here for the Thatcher is to force that clash back and to get rid
of that Nitro.
Actually, yeah.
You could hear P the warp and just sink through the staircase and now it's a free
But all of a sudden, you cannot go for your usual attacking take, so this could be a plan B for DC.
Yeah, and there are no frags or anything else to try and force back that.
No shield.
Warden, yeah, no shield player as well, which means that they will need to try and take that fight.
The candela will ring on out.
Bob's here, it doesn't care about it.
He's got the glasses, he can ring on out.
By this time, it'll have to be a double peek here from DZ.
Someone will need to drop the hash.
Or they will just ping in on back.
Yeah, it's a complete flip here for DZ.
What what are these have been two? I mean, I thought that I just hot stood it down the hatch
Maybe try and cast him by surprise, but again
45 no clash also on the board somewhere in the bomb site itself
It feels like they can't find the opening they can create the opening
They need to have somebody individually step up and it could be newer is trying to attack garage, maybe
Can't afford to make any mistakes on your attacking side when you only win a single round on your defense
So DZ look to make their way forward
It's a split push new is moving in from garage but herds finds a first kill with that
He buys a little bit of information as well on the main stairs DZ fighting two players in deficit
Nuis needs to have a big impact with their suspicious and they found him
Kano and Kano in the last two left now for DZ to try and prevent Furia from getting four match points on the verge of elimination
DZ have nothing to say
for all of us our Furia
One more round and they knocked the major champions from the tournaments
All through the need is one particular kill in a round.
The most important, a utility operator, is Stature.
You cannot take down the warden comfortably. There is no shield, there is no MP, the Ying is ineffective.
There is just no win condition as we love to save Rims and succeed.
It comes out to a staircase, 5-50-50, a garage, 5-50-50, a Kino wide swing,
and hoping that enemy will be looking the wrong direction.
But they were watching the walk-in from the living door.
the door, G2 gets shot down. That is the problem in quotation marks with utility attacking rounds.
If the wrong player dies in the wrong location, the wrong time, you cannot commit to the plan.
And that is the strength and weakness of theory on how they approach these rounds because they
like to brute force it. It's not always clean, it's not always super calculated, but it means
even if someone dies and takes that risk-keep decision, it's not the end of the round for
But 6-2 scorer on the bank here, not the scorer and I expected before we started this map.
That's the advantage of starting on the attacking side obviously, it's going well.
Brandy, you want to start on the favourable side, but what does that mean?
Actually, round by round, it means that you have the ability, the luxury of taking more risks.
Right now, DZ cannot afford to take risks, you lose one kill, like you said,
Like you said, you're going to find one pick and that could be GG, but you have to take risks on the attacking side, otherwise you become too predictable, otherwise the defense will dictate the pace of these rounds.
It's going to be four in a row here for DZ, otherwise it's the end of the line.
So also why wouldn't you have it up here like a solid snake or a daemose?
You are now the entry player.
You're built to go for kills.
Look at the current attacker lineup.
Right now, everyone is so valuable.
Once Nurez will spend his primary gadget, now he's a gun for hire.
Once NDR is done using summer charges, now he becomes the entry.
But at the beginning of the round to get that first pick, everyone is playing very passive.
No one can afford to die, especially players like your Fultz,
like your Kino, the Grim Capital.
They need that for the bomb site for the late round execute.
DC have done a great job here getting top floor control.
Fury have surrendered to space, they're falling back.
They're playing open area, they're playing archers and tellers,
they're playing inside the elevator on the main staircase.
And it's been an uncharacteristically passive fury here in these defensive rounds.
Happy to just slowly peel back the layers, force DC into an execute.
Do not give them any kills for free.
Like I said it all comes down to the first fight with DC progressing, Nuerz is almost there to become that entry.
His score is 2-8 but he is so capable we saw that on the second map with DC 171 on Knighthaven.
Now goes the last Boogie Drone, so Nuerz it's time to activate, it's time to get in the action.
I think in Gemma, I heard that half-stroke and Nuerz knows about a little bit of player.
DC one minute and 15 seconds to go put all the pressure on their side and they need this opening pick
So desperately fury has been dominating in the early game
They've had six of the opening picks in these eight rounds
It's been thanks to herds mostly and box era as well fight between the two of them chain
I know that is exactly where box era lies in way fights to kill
There's the opening for TZ so they need it EMP comes up
He's towards that side wall, but look at Volks looking for a flank. If he finds the kill, upstairs he dies.
Oh my god!
There's no one not through that drone.
Volks has found one, now Nu'ez has to go hunting. He says, where is he gone?
Can I focus up on the bomb site?
He might meet a desperate time to drop, but lawyer finds the double kill,
even though J.O.N.O. shuts down the flank and find a second triple in the round.
He needs to get that diffuser back again. Nu'ez sneaking inside.
If he can find lawyer up, then he might be winnable.
He heard him.
in the 1v2 as Nuerz tries to dodge around. J9O has the angle from the other side but Nuerz
just needs this last lick of damage. They will swing together and J9O puts up a 4k to
keep DZ alive. So many small moments where we go completely wrong for DZ. Laura gets
that double kill. It stops the entire push from bottom square. So it becomes Nuerz
Rolling into the small box looking for a kill channel holding on to love begin the first opening pick the second and the third all across main stairs
operator bands I
Don't know this like a soul operator that fixes the struggles for DC
There's a lot against them the smoke is very good the team ours very good the asami is very good
What do you get rid of right now?
It's gonna be the asami it plays into every single bomb site
So to fix the majority of the map and when you've down three to six you need to go for this so attack
Getting within operator that gets played every round it makes sense
And there are very few operators that have an impact on the
Unusual bombsites on the weaker bombsites of bank than the Azami
They have already talked about in the half-time Roswell. They're happy to play against that castle
They have a plan with the Zofia for that you could dance something that's really powerful on a basement defense
I get the chanker or smoke, but there's no point because you know even if Furia win
They have to go on to this top floor, right? DC need to chain these rounds together
The problem is for DC even after they win this next round
They will have to attack a basement bomb site for Furia once again
Again, it doesn't get any easier
I am curious from DC's perspective if they're gonna stay with these suits again or dead mirrors on a solid snake or a
So in this case, it asks for the mirror windows where you need something for the mirrors.
Which will need someone again to be the difference maker in this case.
There's a spinal segment, just understand, I love this from him.
Because it's with a big one here in bank, and it's all about the opening picks.
Once here they feel the pressure, oh my god, our strat is falling apart, they're going to get desperate.
Then they're going to start forcing gunfights.
That's when you hold angles with the DMRs.
But you need to get to that state first by getting that pick.
Yeah, the DMRs are so powerful on this specific bombsite, especially with that Hibana to try and breach open that canto.
Wolf, Urea decided not to go for ranged hard breach bans here today.
So NJR should be able to cut open that hallway.
There's a bulletproof, very nice he plays in some agendas that does watch the default.
It's fine, the bandit can be counted by the Kali, unless if he has Israeli to juggle it.
Which he is, in fact, he should be able to juggle these Hibana pellets.
Oh! The bait comes out from false on another angle and he finds a free kill.
The opening pick for DZ.
Successful, again baiting in that opening pick with strategy with a pure counter.
And now it also gives less pressure onto mirrors to become that entry frag on the solid snake.
He can actually play more of a useful role.
Be in the window of hell, get the scan out, see where the enemies are playing for,
and then shut the infotain to the capitol to be Ying trying to set up another safe way of getting a kill.
The mirror window. Next problem.
Gotta get maybe a smoke kit or a deadline there.
Get the X-Cyro's or get the Kali Lancer's.
Still three in pocket, Regina and Noel.
Step by step here for DZ.
Problem is, there's so much utility here to burn through.
And with the Castle Barricades, there's no...
Sophia picked this time from DZ, as was mentioned in the halftime.
And Kali's having to use her Lancer to destroy that barbed wire.
On the main banana stairs.
Box zero.
Just sit back.
DMR here by the way for Furia so they will be at a disadvantage and the gunfights here
comes a great way for the fire to come out from the bolt, however a second mirror window
hidden in the pocket for Vobbs he is not safe he will have to drop down below on the side
of the lives just barely to fight another day but new is sneaky up the main stairs this
could be easy to look for the plant however he knows he's in position plant denied
DZ! What's your plan B? When you shut out of the bomb site, can you go hunting? Can you find Volmes down below?
The fire caught up two attackers in 20 seconds, had to go for a flip, go for a rotate. Volmes still creeping downstairs.
Could fire on a tagger, sprinting into his arms. That might just be the round. He's looking the wrong way though.
He got stuff to know about Neurus. Should get caught off guard here. It should be a free kill indeed.
Volmes will go down. His bandage in theory for DZ, but that defuses. Still remains on the bomb site.
landing on Castle, no smoke in here, no fire, has to go for kills with DC, this is everything.
It's go big or go broke here at EWC for DC.
As they need to find these final Fiora players, Hertz on the floor.
What's the impact J9O can have?
He spots out that player inside of the elevator.
It's just box zero left, he's the last one standing, but the plant can go down.
Hertz has a little bit of information as he's trailing on the bomb site.
He can try and give info to box zero for the retake.
But this 1v3 would be a miracle for the young gun.
Little bit of damage, not as of yet.
New isn't Jane I know.
Both low HP, DZ, just need to survive to hold on for a few more rounds.
One more on the board, two more and we'll see you over time.
It doesn't get much closer than that.
Mind you, heavy capital fire, but a single tick more of damage.
Most of his time to be tactile I guess inferior because I hear their voices
They want to explain to us, you are being patient, you are going through the chaos, wait for someone else
In R10, they were a little bit desperate, let them, let us get the activity they are going to do, let's go to the point
If you get it wrong, I will make a 4-4-1
Exactly, perfect
Let's go guys
Let's go, let's go, let's go
Let's go guys
I'm going to go to the people
I give the energy up there, hurt server and blue be mentioned within all of that chaos
It comes of course all over the place because we understand what they're saying
But usually we get the translation is very accurate on the point there from you don't pull a player on himself
He knows what his players are up against. He knows what it's like in the server
and he does
Furia up 5-1, up 6-2, so many match points in their favour, but DZ, credit to them they
kicked us apart. A great counter for the down to Joggle with Volts on that narrow angle,
but the nitro cell almost meant the end of the line for DZ. The fact that Volts was
able to escape despite that capitol fire gave Furia a chance, it wasn't enough, but
the problems aren't gone. DZ are not out of the woods as of yet, Pengu, and you
You know why? They gotta go back down and attack the Spaceman again!
It's unlocked again for Theria!
This is where things get the most scary.
There are so many ways to lose this on the attacking side like we saw before.
Losing the match early, now you can't deal with the war on the server stairs.
That's a problem.
Don't bring enough heartbeats, or somebody dies in heartbeats in pocket.
Can't reach all the hatches.
Don't find the robes, it's hiding somewhere.
Well, you get flanked.
You have to be perfect on so many areas of the game.
In the beginning, walking down the staircases, clearing the whole map, constantly watching the flanks because it could be reattempted, and also break it hard to side-set-up.
The Hammer Drawing Server, the Seabox, Sarah's location.
They can't do much about it. If Newer sees him walk away, he will take Sarah for free.
But Sarah's been very smart at having a very good instinct here on the location of Newer's.
Edge falls, it's where though?
Wow, upstairs on the top floor.
Discovered early on for the top fragger of Furia, that is a very troublesome blow.
In a 5v5, I would say this basement still favours defenders, despite bank overall faving the attack.
It's certainly not in a 4v5, however, for Furia.
And again, all about Nero and Kino together. They can beat for each other.
If he takes the fight above, Kino goes in below, and vice versa.
He was also making his moment.
He's really moved on inside, the EMP comes out, Boxera.
There he is.
We'll have the information. No, he's blinded now by the cannella, in comes a shotgun here from Kino, but the clash right just saved his life!
Where's Neurus?
Oh, Boxera! Where was the flank here from?
He's being held at bay by Diaz on the defense. It's a perfect counter from Furia.
That clash coming in to save the day.
He rotated. Two players, one towards the door.
One towards the door, Adesia falling apart.
They have been outplayed, DZ who always have an answer, who always have a response.
What a rotate, what a read there from Furia having the right foresight.
The player has finally gone from the server staircase and they're going to try and go for it again.
However the smoke will keep them.
Just make sure a brief moment opens up the hatch now.
Finally, from NJR Bar, the engagements will come through regardless.
from NJR, Bar, the engagements will come through regardless.
Lora will fall, Volbs a little bit exposed, needs to try and fall on back safely.
However, the hatch inside the bomb site is still open, which means Vols will prevent his retreats.
There is no option here to fall back for Boxerra and Volbs.
They are trapped here inside of server. They will have to fight for their lives!
Boxerra! 10 kills for the young gun as he tries to make his way back inside.
DZ! They were the last of the Rene!
But even for a major champion, nothing is granted!
You can close your eyes, but you cannot block out the drums!
Another grand final calls for Furia!
The final thing that DZ will hear and see at this event
will be the drums of war and supportive recipients,
Supported through this entire tournament
Hard-fought battle, loss for the North Americans, Syria proving that solid-life was a fluke, the early exit
Losing to a CML team with this kind of roster that was their beginning, but not their end. This is them scaling
rising to the occasion
People have said that the age of Brazil was over. It was done and it was North America's chance to shine
And we saw that with two N8 teams in the grand final on home soil in Salt Lake City.
But here in Paris there's something in the water for Brazil again.
Tyria down from the lower bracket in group stage.
And now all the way deep into their first grand final with this new roster.
And it's crazy because it could become a Brazil V Brazil Grand Final.
GK against Spades is the next match later today.
There's no question it's fake, but they're...
That's going to be the expected win on face plan. This was DC's chance to go to the final, then take down the best there is in the whole world in face plan.
But the story ends a little bit too early. I think a couple of weaknesses was shown up against Waco, and similar weaknesses exploited now against Fiora.
The map B though was, I feel like a little bit one-sided, I feel like it was DC favorite,
Martin and Nut, but in the server, no doubt about it,
Tyria, he played the better style of Siege.
Herbs and Volts, know what it means to win a major trophy, hell, Herbs knows what it means to win almost everything,
except an Esports World Cup, but for Boxera, just parked from tier two months ago,
His second ever international event. It will be his first ever grand final
Diaz and Laura have both been there before in grand finals, but never raised a trophy and now
Furia they silence the major champions
They shut in a out of the tournament and they go deeper. They take one step closer to that elusive trophy
Every watch, everyone who won every gunfight, every opportunity, he seizes it.
He takes those risks, he finds every single time to create success.
What a story for him.
A lot of the Brazilian players, like JV, KC hurts, they're saying, this guy's up next,
this guy's crazy.
And when they're gassing someone up, you better listen.
And if there is someone to complete the trifecta or a six-tivitational, a major and an
WC champion it will not be false today no it could well be hurts
Theory are ready they're roaring and they are here to play as we go down to chat with Laura on the stage
Yes, my friends. It is done and that's it fury. I make it to the grand final and here with Laura for a quick chat now look
You're doing it. You make it to the final after defeating dark zero the most recent champions from Salt Lake City
Do you feel that this is redemption for how Salt Lake City went for you and the team?
Yeah, of course, we're doing a great tournament. Everyone thought we were terrible after Salt Lake.
We are just showing everyone how good we are.
Final, let's go.
I mean, it's a roster that was built six months ago to make it this far. It's pretty impressive.
It's in the final, not the first one that you'll be in it.
What do you feel that this is why do you feel that this is a team that can actually get gold here in Paris at the end of tomorrow?
I think we just do our job very, very well every day when we are in Brazil.
We just work and work and work.
We try not to lose our minds in the way and I think that's what makes us good.
Nothing special, nothing unusual.
We just do our jobs and I guess we do it good.
It's very difficult not to lose your mind when you have also the crowd here cheering for you now.
you know it's either FaZe or GK that you'll be facing tomorrow who do you
expect it to win the next semi? I expect FaZe to win and I want FaZe to win. I
think we'll have some bills, we'll have something to make a ride with them so I
hope FaZe wins and I hope that that will be the final. Very good then at
this point I'll ask you do you want to say anything to the Fury fans that
are cheering for you this whole day? They're just amazing like look at
I can't believe they're cheering for us, you know?
They're the ones that are here, but what about the ones that are watching you from home
and really cheering you on through your career? You played in different regions at this point
and back in the final once again.
It's so nice to have people back home watching us, cheering for us.
Like I said, I can't believe people were cheering for me, cheering for the boys.
It was just an amazing feeling, you know?
And thank you very much, guys. I hope you guys keep watching us on the final.
We're gonna need you guys, so thank you.
I tell you, it's gonna be a real loud tomorrow,
but for now, we're gonna get loud in the backstage
because I'm gonna grab the rest of the team
once they take their beautiful photos.
Come on over, gentlemen.
Let's come over and crush a key together
before I give you back to the squad.
Come on in, whatever.
We'll take the photo together.
Come on in.
Hey, call me part of the FURIA family at this point. Come on in. It's time to crush that
Dark Zero key. Remind everybody, Dark Zero, the most recent major champions, they are
out! And who's in now? It's FURIA. Could be an all-Brazilian Grand Final or yet to
know, but for now it's guaranteed is that the Dark Zero key will be crushed and sent
Into the graveyard
Laura doing the honors for this one as we go slowly, but surely snap it in half
Hurts is ready to celebrate and that's our zero out of the game
It's crazy how quickly things turn around
Furia
Congratulations to them. They'll be going to their grand final their first as their roster
Who faces up against them? Still is the question, but for now, celebration's all over, including at our desk.
Well, it was the best of times. It was the worst of times. A tale of two cities, more like a tale of two furious.
We lost Hermir on to Weibo Gaming in a best of one. They lost 2-0 to GKE Sports, but during this tournament,
we have seen them, very much like the French play and story that was so mentioned there in that quote.
We have seen an evolution, a change, a disruption to how they showed up to now where they are.
As they booked the very first ticket here for Rainbow Six Siege at EWC to the Grand Finals.
What a moment. And the drums of the cavalry beyond as you welcome you back to the panel here.
My name's Randy. Of course, I've got laxing alpha man with me gentlemen.
That was a testament to Furia's adaptation, but also a testament to their ability
to navigate a team like Dark Zero who had everything going for them going into that map.
I mean, it's also testament to their own individual prowess.
I mean, they are a brand new team.
They had a huge hiccup in Salt Lake City.
Everyone was down on, they, you know, they tucked their tails.
They focused on what was important, get through SCL,
fall in five pool here, have to go through those plans
and just fight tooth and nail all the way through.
I mean, it has to be rewarding to end here on a grand final.
And the way that they did it to go into this last map was tremendous.
My main takeaway is that we've been praising the firepower on Feria, right?
Yeah, we've got some of the best gunner in the world.
And that's true. But what I saw today in that last map, that was strategy.
That was decks. Absolutely. In attack.
How many clean executions have we seen preset plans on the very first round that rush with the Blitz?
Yes. All of these things are innovative. They are new.
And they are just adding layers upon layers on their playstyle.
Not even just executions. Being able to exploit DZ, being able to find those gaps and punish them round after round.
Exactly. It's the consistency and the level that you want heading into a grand final.
that you are coming into that series, refined, brand new, refreshed, revitalized,
and you even heard from there and they want to take on phase.
There is something to prove in that matchup, if it ends up being that way.
And again, so, so well deserving to be in a grand fight.
And this crowd, they let you know exactly what's going on.
You can see the results of each round with your eyes closed,
but you cannot block out the drums.
I love that line from Dev and Pengo on the cast.
also love talking about what this means for the region because he had also said Brazil may be the
forgotten best top dynasty it's hard to say that when they've won so much do you agree with that
because certainly now furia they have changed the tone i mean i'm definitely going to disagree with
that okay say obviously it was a bit of a stumble for phase i mean if you watch that dz game it
was pretty close up until that very last match where again dz did solidify their dominance but
but I would never in a million years count out Brazil as a region.
They're dominant for a reason.
But that's because you want to go to the beach in Rio de Janeiro.
That's right. Absolutely.
You don't want to because you might get shot out there.
OK, I got it.
And the head guys here, Herds and Buxera,
Alfa Mardis, two players for Novel.
Absolutely.
And for many different reasons.
On one side on the left, we have called a veteran here,
the one that won the three majors.
If he can't reload as a major, obviously 1SI as well.
and he's on his way to maybe win his World Cup on the other side, Borg-Zera.
That's the two best-rated players on the roster, but most importantly on the right side of your screen.
Best player on the side of Furia, the rookie, Borg-Zera.
So the veteran, the rookie, carried their way here.
Borg, many players were doubting him coming into Furia as the roster was being rebuilt.
He was one of the best rookies of SCL, but always had been a little bit of a vredge,
I guess, towards the against the best competition in Brazil.
When he played in Salt Lake City, he did not deliver well.
He found his best groove here at TWC in semifinals to bring his team to a grand final.
The first ever for this player, and he deserves it because he carried them there.
And he did it with so much swagger and finesse, especially in that first map.
I mean, big kills coming out of him, big momentum shifts that was putting Fyria in the driver's seat.
And he didn't even celebrate with the team to go crush them.
No, he didn't.
He was in the crowd celebrating with the crowd.
But I was like, I see all the rest, where's Bob?
But he was in with the crowd and very well deserved.
I'm sure they were all singing his songs.
Yeah.
It might be a move veterans make fun of you
for a little bit.
I know in the locker room, they might be like, hey man,
shake hands before you start jumping over there.
But he's like, listen, I was in tier two a few months ago.
You expect me to miss the opportunity at LAN
in France with this crowd?
Oh, I mean, I would say, oh, heck no.
You know the other word I would have said there as well.
I mean, this is one of those that just
feels so great for him. And I know on the other side of it, the flip side, it's difficult
as an athlete, as a competitor. You guys all know this as well. I know this, it's tough
to accept that loss, especially after it happened. So we always appreciate our players to do
our exit interviews. Foltz is standing by with him.
We're speaking to Foltz after our loss here at the Esports World Cup. Foltz, you guys
started well on map one, three rounds and then seven rounds in a lower loss. What
What do you think happened on map 1?
I think we hesitated on the opportunities that were presented to us on a couple of those rounds,
and then they did a good job of snowballing that momentum to end up taking the map.
And then map 2, you win that one. Do you think that's down to the resilience that you mentioned earlier,
or down to the fact that it's your own map and it's that comfort zone there?
Definitely both. I would say both.
What's a Jessman and a Jessica? Where did you guys talk about that?
I can't get into all that, but it's a bunch of funny business.
And how come you're using words like this, is it so that Eve shoppers don't listen in
and have an idea of what's going on and what's the reason?
It's just like light in the mood because a lot of times it can get very serious and
always about the game.
And sometimes the best things for you is just to make a funny joke and detach from
the game.
So that's kind of our idea with that.
It works.
We saw smiles on your faces.
And then talking about map 3 as well, finally you got so close to the comeback.
do you think happened on the final map? We just made like a really bad decision. We got
like a, I think an OPK on like a guy ratting and then decided to kind of speed up server
without even getting any hatches for some reason. So yeah, just an overlook on our
site. All right. Well, best of luck, of course,
with the preparation for stage two. Thank you for your time and we will send it back
to the studio. Thank you, Ann. Talking to folks there,
talked about sometimes you got to let it go. Just take it easy and reset mentally.
I just love the fact that he loved a little bit about the Jasmine and Jessica Cole and the strategy.
And I just love that insight because it just gives you one more idea about how different the system on Dark Zero is compared to any other team out there.
They've got a specific team culture and we heard it during the halftime when Cole was speaking with them.
These guys were on the back foot. They were struggling. The momentum was back to Furia.
And what did they say? We're going to lighten the mood. We're going to go for Jasmine, Jessica on the attack.
And everybody smiled. It worked. It's the kind of small tool, small detail, right?
But all of these add up on the side of DZ that makes this team so special.
They will be back for sure.
Absolutely.
I think they stumble against a really strong opponent with really high momentum today.
Any other day, I think they can also take on Ferian and win.
I think 4-0, we're not tired of seeing them.
We're going to see them in more events.
I love their culture as a fan now.
Just kind of watching them a little bit more in this week of Siege that I'm joining you all.
It's been a pleasure to see the way that they take on the game.
I've always loved more of the philosopher coaches the Phil Jackson's and you know in the great Papa viches those kind of people who get you
In the locker room ready to go in a way that's different than most of these other teams
Now let's put a capstone on this conversation because dark zero. They're heading out obviously, but six invitational
That's sorry not six invitational Salt Lake City. They win that major. They come here top four
How do we feel about Pena right now and and that performance? I mean obviously I'm still feeling good
But it's good to see that that read our my region is being able to get to the top
Got our judgment over here
And now you know I have to agree with what he was talking about and a team hasn't been able to replicate that same sort of success
And for whatever that reason is whether it's the competition whether not just hitting your strides
I mean down it is unfortunate to see dark zero go out the way they did because as a former competitor
It's hard to lose to yourself. Yeah, the team is just absolutely dummy not to take anything away from fear
but the amount of rounds where Dark Zero was just allowing so much space to be taken,
not fighting for certain control of the map that we talked about,
and then being exploited into so many gaps of their setups,
that's not the good DZ that we're usually used to seeing,
and hats off to Fury to be able to exploit it and find those and abuse it and get them that win.
But I have no doubt in my mind that Dark Zero is going to be able to show up.
And I have no doubt in my mind that Wildcard is going to show up for the next event coming forward.
I mean, both those two teams have fought very hard.
He's like I'm a little bit disturbing, but back to the matter is
SAL and EML seem to dominate right now so far until this next match not the ML
Let's be let's be clear until this next match until this next match
We gotta see what happens there. It's hard to argue with a guy wearing denim looking looking that good man
Come on up. Come on dog brought the outfit today. Let's take a look at what we got coming up next here on the schedule
Well, I will stick around iconical join is on the desk phase clan and GKE sports will be next
Another best of three the final one to close out what has been a great semi-final day so far
We went the distance on the first one
Will we go the distance on the next one all of that coming up in just a moment?
So don't go anywhere and in the meantime we got a fun little one for you. It's Dev Marta's confession. Stay tuned
I'm, uh, I'm, I hate to tell you, man. We've not really had too many conversations. I'm
a complete liar. Actually, I was just telling you this is going to be a nice little bit
of fun content, but it's actually a Dev Martins confession. We, yeah. Well, I, you know,
I was told to throw you off the scent a little bit, but it didn't work. No, it didn't work.
Did you just convince others? I was totally coding. Well, I'm just not that elusive.
Right. Well, we'll squeeze into it straight away at this production. I make a boss tend to arrive pretty early to these events.
As you know, most talent are usually on time.
How have you been in this event for your tardiness?
Look, I have a relationship with the clock that I would consider, um,
Flexible. Yeah. Certain times, you know, there is a requirement to be on a specific shuttle
bus. Sometimes that hasn't been met. But you know, like, it goes around, comes around,
right? How many times so far? Twice already. Twice. How many have for five and a half weeks?
You know how many I miss? How many? Not one. Please don't fire me. No, it's all right.
some of these videos that I've been doing on here. I haven't been fired. So James, I hear that you
love to travel. That's well known. What the hell happened in Rio last year? Oh, I had a feeling this
one would come up. A lot happened in Rio. But I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah, I got
Rob's. I got Rob's. Is that where we're going with this one? Yeah. Come on, give me the story.
So look, this is that thing. You always hear about, you know, you go where this kind of
kind of think it can happen.
But you never really think it's gonna happen to you.
All right, can I just say it firstly,
I love Brazil and I'm learning Portuguese.
Like I love it that much that I wanna go back.
But yeah, like everyone says the story is about,
you know, it's a bit rough in Brazil.
I jumped on the back of a moto taxi,
like back of a motorbike for like a 45 minute
weaving through traffic to go and meet up
with my friend at this hostel on the other side of town.
And I was like, my God, the most terrifying thing
that's ever happened to me.
I get there, I call her on the phone,
she said, actually I'm at another hostel.
You can see me down the road.
A wave at 100 meters and I'm like, oh, okay,
cool, start walking.
Guy comes up on a motorbike behind me
and grabs my phone out of my hand
and the guy still standing on the motorbike,
sitting on the motorbike, points a gun at me
and says, what's your code?
What's the phone code?
And his buddy's standing there holding my phone
and he's pointing the gun at me and yeah, no shit.
It's a great two-moment I've had in my life.
I don't think I've ever in my 15 years
had a gun pointed at me to be fair.
It went on for like 10 minutes.
They really wanted the bloody code
and I just kept saying, you persisted.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
And even up to one point where a group of people
from one of the hostels came up
and they were just walking between the hostels,
they saw the guy with the gun and they screamed
and they run off and the guys are still there
for a few minutes.
I'm like bloody hell leave me alone.
Not one of those people called the cops by the way.
Not one of them.
I was out there on my own.
And by the way, I did get my phone back
because it was a crappy old like,
oh, they just give you a back?
No, no, no.
They rode off with it eventually
after I didn't tell them the code.
They went off.
That's crazy, by the way.
I'd be like, I should have called just live.
No, no, no.
I mean, like, no, they would put it in.
Yeah.
They were like, literally like grabbing the phone,
trying to put it in front of my face to unlock it.
Yeah.
It was crazy.
But yeah, they ran off with the phone eventually.
I went back to the hostel and talked to my friend,
called my hostel, said, hey, go into my bag,
open up my iPad.
You can lock my phone remotely.
Yeah.
So they had my phone,
but they were off in the motorbike.
We were using the Find My iPhone app to track them, saw where they were going, and eventually
it stopped moving.
Called someone's mate was a police officer.
He went over them, FaceTiming this police officer, and he literally is walking through this
field of grass towards this little marker on the Find My iPhone app, finds it, and it
opens it up.
It's just a picture of my bloody dog staring at me, and I'm like, oh my god.
So I got the bloody phone back.
I did.
And they didn't like, no, because it was an old enough phone that it's not worth
selling for parts. Yeah. And it was locked. So there was no way that they could they could
unlock it. I don't like folded immediately. I wish I had everyone all my loved ones. I
haven't told my I don't think I'll ever tell my parents this story because they will fucking
hopefully they're watching. They won't pay. But yeah, I can't possibly ever. I can't
explain like why I didn't fall to that moment. I definitely should have. Oh, yeah, I would
have. Yeah, 100%. But fair play. So in our green room at the moment, we've not
just got us. We've got the chess guys in there as well. I hear you're a big fan. Where's your
favorite place to play chess?
So, you know, so many things go to do in a day, right? Hard to fit everything in. Sometimes
it's nice, like, you know, answer your messages while you're having some food, play your chess
while you're taking a dump. Like, that's really the only place that I play my chess,
to be honest.
I was really, really, really hoping. I was going to be so stereotypical here. I was
hoping you wouldn't have got to call it the dunny.
Well, here we are. That was the dream.
So, Pingu is obviously very well known in the R6 world.
Have you ever had someone ask you to take a picture of them and Pingu not include you?
If not, is there anything similar? Because this happens to me all the time.
This is not like it has this ever happened. It's like, when was the last time this happened?
Yesterday was the last time this happened.
It's fine, because the thing about it, between the two of us, we've won two world championships,
a major three pro league finals, one of the most esteemed and most accomplished Rainbow Six duos in the world.
But I mean like I didn't do any of it
It's the same I even get it when I'm walking around with miles and he's like oh, yeah
Can I with picture of miles and chance and I'm like oh, yeah, I'll just I'll stand here and just I'm actually his yeah
I'm his photographer. Yeah, I know I feel that bro. They have the brothers and sauce and that one well
Thank you very much that was a good one
I mean I feel like we really got a deep story there and instead of people just sitting and giggling like so anyone
Once to know how to say please don't shoot me in Portuguese. Shoot me at the end. Please
Welcome back to the Lenovo Legion Gauntlet. I'm your host Randy here for the panel. We're
jumping right back into our second semifinal of the day. One grand finalist already booked
their ticket. That's Furia knocking out your Salt Lake City major winners in Dark
Zero so one Brazilian team has already said we'll see you tomorrow on Saturday
But who will be the next to join them? That's where the conversation continues now face clan GKE sports coming up in just a few minutes
But I'm not alone. I've got my man right here iconic who has joined us lax has been with me already
But I kind of want to start with you man. How you feeling you looking fresh ready to go for a big game number two
I mean, I'm feeling a little bit heartbroken seeing my guys go out on dark zero
I was talking to them after the game console and let me know it's just hard being a competitor knowing the emotions
Especially after getting so close to another grand final. Yeah, and my heart goes out to them
Yeah, it is tough to see you know people that you know taking now
I mean you guys both played in the scene still playing and this is a never easy, but it's it's part of the process
Isn't it? I mean it's a competitive nature at the same time. Yes
It's sad, but it's kind of a bittersweet because that is just the nature of the game
We know what it's like to be in those moments. We know it's like to be on the other side as well
So it's just just the nature. I always said man
There's something about playing that you have to be willing to do this thing where you you volunteer that I will maybe lose this in
order to get the win it's it is kind of part of the sacred act of
Throwing it up. So hopefully these teams will take some lessons from that but moving on to today's PS5 story of the day
We've got an expected versus an unexpected team here face plan obviously the unexpected team. I'm just kidding. Obviously
He said it's meant to be here.
It's GK Esports to make that run.
And so talk to me about this theme of this matchup today.
Lax will start with you.
Yeah, I mean, the expected is obviously
phase being in another semi-final.
That's not going to be unheard of.
If you were to tell someone in the Siege community,
hey, would you believe that phase is in a semi-final?
No, it can be like, wow, that's a surprise.
But if you were to say, hey, GK is in the semi-final,
you're definitely going to be like, whoa, what happened there?
And they certainly weren't tournament favorites
coming into this event.
You would have thought maybe it was the Falcons.
You would have thought maybe it was secrets, fanatics,
Whatever, GK was not going to be on that agenda and they're here and they're ready to deliver.
They've had a bit of a miracle run in a way where the unexpected thing that's occurred
taking down Furia as well, 2-0ing them, and now Furia's in the grand finals.
That should show that they have the capability to be here.
But it's more so because this roster's kind of new icon.
I feel like they are new together, but there's so many experienced players, like
we say, playing all over the world, coming together to just form this amazing style
of siege.
I feel like if anyone can do it, it's going to be them because they play a very aggressive style of siege to break phases, you know, set plays on the attacking side, and to break through on their defenses.
There's hard setups, so I feel like if anyone can do it, it could be DK.
Is there a little bit of complication, a little bit more given to a team that can combine all those different elements than someone who knows the straight forward, same region, same players.
We just do it again. Is there a little bit of degree of difficulty that you're giving GKE sports to have even gotten to this position?
I mean, of course, I feel like, like we said, no one really picked them to be here,
but I feel like that should give them the confidence that they can go out
and show themselves to this, to this scene right now.
And when I say, when you look at the unexpected, I mean, just look at the stats in themselves.
Now, sure, GK, it's a little skewed because they've only played three games per phase,
played seven maps total. So it is a little close, but that's ghost show that they are
keeping it relatively competitive no matter what. And they can lean into those entries,
if they can lead into those conversions, especially we're talking about there,
They could realistically walk away with a win front-face.
Now, is that going to be an easy task?
Absolutely not.
But you can't count anyone out when it comes to siege.
Now, when we saw FaZe Clan introduce yesterday,
it was during the El Clasico, or El Clasico.
I don't need to be redundant there with it, though.
However, it was a different El Clasico than we anticipated.
Two brothers going up against each other,
but it was dominant performances back and forth.
And it felt like, who is going to come out on top?
Well, in that third map, FaZe showed their true class.
And that shows us that this team is ready to perform one more opportunity and they will be in that grand final yet again for a chance to do with handy and
Mini's haven't done just take on an EWC title. We had a chance to catch up with KDS and and before the match
We're speaking to FaZe ahead of their game today speaking to KDS as well. Yes, played the El Cusco yesterday against Liquid
It was a very close game, but I felt like every map was super dominant on either side
What do you feel happened in that game?
I think what happened in that game was like the strong side of the map.
So in Fortress, I think we played very well in the defense, and they played very well in the defense on Lair.
And we played very well on the border, so I think just the side of the map where we played very well gets the open kills.
So I think this is what happened in these maps.
Now FaZe is the longest standing roster that we currently have in the scene.
You guys have been winning a lot of tournaments.
Do you feel like this is what's been helping you guys as well, that kind of consistency
to always adapt to every single meta that we've had?
Yeah, of course.
I think we are going to be the first year together.
So this makes a lot of difference to play the different methods of the game.
So I think this is a good thing for us and bad for like DK.
like a new line-up. So, a lot more experience for us to win the tournament.
Speaking of GK, your opponents for today, what do you make of them as the first time
we're seeing them on the international stage? What do you think their main strengths and
their weaknesses are?
I think the strength of GK is like the new line-up, not more information of them. So
I think this is the difference they are bringing to the tournament and they are
very well, so it will be a tough game for us.
How's the team feeling today going into this match?
Very confident. I think we made a pretty good pre-game, so I think we're going to win and go to the finals.
Alright, also thank you for your time, have a good look.
Alright, KDS, feeling confident, Lax?
I mean, as we should be, you're always going to get confidence coming out of KDS.
Something that really stuck out to me is, you know, talking about the experience,
That's where they feel that they're going to be the strongest, which rightfully so.
They've been doing it for quite some time.
They're back-to-back world champions.
But something that he also gave them credit to is they're unknown.
They don't have a lot of odds.
They're a brand new team.
That can easily surprise a team like FaZe,
but it's going to be even more important for the side of GTA
to constantly keep turning the clocks.
And make that clockwork happen in terms of being unpredictable,
trying to catch FaZe off guard.
But that's always something so hard and something I spoke about yesterday
in terms of their match and how FaZe typically plays
is they control a lot of the temple.
They control the spacing and the dynamic of how the game plays.
You have to not play into that hand of phase.
And GK, you know, they've had four IGLs in their own rights of their own players.
I mean, that's a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
And when they can come together, have the recipes and make something beautiful happen.
Today will be the day to do it.
Yeah. I mean, how much credit when we start to look towards GK,
do you give to this roster coming together so quickly
and being able to do it with different personalities?
I mentioned different ingredients.
You mentioned different cooks.
I mean, that is a busy kitchen for sure.
but somehow GK have found themselves in the semifinals
and they're going up against maybe the most dominant team
in the last few years in Faze.
Let's hear what Anne had to say as she sat down
and chatted with them before the semifinal.
We're speaking to Ask ahead of their game against Faze.
Ask, talk about yesterday first,
you guys pick secrets, you two old them.
Was that how you expected the game to go as well?
Yeah, pretty sure.
Like the game was, the game plan we made
like was like pretty like confident
based on the secret play style.
And I think like me and Shepard and Groovy,
we already said like in some of the past interviews
and the stuffs, if we manage it like to counter
the aggro play from secret, the game should be easy.
And yeah, the game was easy.
That's awesome.
You've only recently started to play in EML.
You had to move to a whole new region.
How has that been for you with that whole process?
Actually, the first time was like kind of hard
because I need to understand the way people thinking,
We will play here, but after we get Groovy, Groovy teach me a lot of stuff, to be honest,
a lot of stuff.
And right now I think we have built some consistency, like Shepard put the VP play style, you know,
the slow play style, the basics work, the basics a lot with us and the boys.
And I put some like my opponent today phase, we copy a lot of phase stuff, like the Brazilian
stuff, and Groovy like implemented also the European stuff.
So I think right now we have like some good like consistency on our team.
So, how do you feel like the Brazilian and the European Siege playstyle differs?
Do you feel like you have the experience to help your team in this one as well?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have this kind of experience.
Because I don't know, past four years, I'm a glazer, or physical, to be honest.
I respect these boys a lot, like I know Vita King, I don't know, past my ten years in my life.
So, I respect them. But I already said to Shepa, the way they think about the game,
the way they're gonna play, the way Cyber is gonna play, Cyber doesn't think.
So, yeah, just cyber.
And yeah, basically that's it.
Right, and then you have a shorter grand final again.
I mean, the last time we saw you play grand final,
you're into playing 2022.
What's the game plan today
to make sure you secure another grand final?
I think the game plan was like stop,
handy and cyber.
Like we kind of have like prepare some stuffs.
And I think that's the main plan for us.
But I think in general, just play our games.
I think we are playing really, really decent siege
right now on the moment.
And yeah, if we, again, the same secret,
if we manage to play our game and counter-sibons and handy,
I think the game should be, yeah, why not?
Awesome, thank you for your time, good luck.
Thank you.
It's a big why not that he proposed there.
If they're able to do these things,
I think a lot of people in the world say,
if we're able to do these things, we might be phase.
The team that did that most recently,
they're actually out of this tournament and it's furious.
Now it's GK's turn to do it.
And what do you think, Iconic,
about how he's approaching this?
He talked about grubby and also his ability to learn from him.
I mean, that's an impactful decision in relationship that's playing into the game now.
I feel like that's really what you want from a team, being able to learn from each other
and really put your experience in the test and talking to them before the game too.
They seem very calm, very ready for it to go after it.
And I'm really excited to see it.
Yeah.
I mean, some of them, you know, me and Leo were talking about the other day, just
in the green room is their attack specifically.
And when I was talking about, you know, there's four IGLs in within themselves.
I mean, that was on previous teams.
they all were able to shot call.
And Leo talked about they kind of play like a spider,
like an arachnid.
You look at the limbs, they're going in different areas.
They're able to entry.
And that's what kind of allows them,
because as being former IGLs, they
can kind of pick apart, read it a little better.
But that's also could be a little bit of a double edged
sword.
Too many cooks can be a problem in the kitchen.
And if your phase, and they understand
that you're going to be taking the map one by one,
surrounding the map, if your phase, you read into that.
You understand.
You just double up.
You take the man advantage every single time
you go into those gunfights.
And as you know, it's hard for an IGL
You can't get into a building and if you can't make any bit of headway phase resins that you're gonna need to quickly be able to gap
So thankfully they have the side of eml in terms of experience. They have NA side of experience
They have sal side of experience
So they have everything across all regions to really cultivate a very good core dynamic and structure
It's just a matter of being implemented when it needs to be I kind of can't believe the drunks are back
He's like I thought furious wasn't playing anymore. Let's get loud. You mean I can't hear?
Let's take a look at these maps, gentlemen, FaZe has defense on GK's pick of Chalet.
You see Consulate response for FaZe and GK thinks to defend as well.
What's your take?
What's most important about those?
I feel like Chalet won a FaZe's best map.
Absolutely.
Like GK, they do have a strong record.
They're FaZe on it.
They're FaZe on 6-0.
So I feel like it's, you know it's one of FaZe's strongest maps, but it's one
of your also strongest maps.
Yeah.
You're gonna have a lot of information on it.
You're gonna be able to go out and just play your game.
Fortress Decider, but I want to go back to Chalet.
What does it look like for GK to be successful on that map since Faze is so strong?
Starting on the attacking side of Shallay, you really need to make sure you can get rid
of those operators, maybe like a zombie castle, maybe there will be a mine here to make sure
you can kind of make it so they can't shell up inside the map, make them exposed, and
then you can work it slow, work your opening picks, and then like I said, they're in
the Ragnar, they like to spread out, go for the gap, Shallay's a map where you
can start the round slow and really build your momentum throughout.
I mean you can end the map just being outside the map, and as long as they can
You know, cut off, block these rotates, get that man advantage going to the favor.
I mean, we also heard in KDS in that series, it was the man advantage,
always getting that opening kill going into their favor.
And you can do that pretty aggressively.
So just being outside the map, taking that control then from there
and using that man advantage in your favor when you go into that late run execute.
But again, it's going to be so important for them to understand
if days is reading into their play style, they need to adapt.
They need to rotate a play over to get that space
and then they can move the pieces around.
Then they can try to get to that mid to later on,
but they're going to need to get the opening pick
into their favor.
Doing their best phase to get back to a grand final
to add that elusive trophy, the EWC trophy
right in the middle of the stage,
into Handy's hands, iconic.
What does phase need to do to make it there?
I mean, phase, they already have all the answers.
They have all the keys.
They have all the tools.
It's just about going out there
and just shutting down GK strength
and making sure that they're playing extremely well.
They're staying calm and they just keep adapting.
Well, on that talk, on that note,
It is going to be an EML battle here that is set up to take away maybe the potential favorite of this tournament, maybe the best team in the world phase, GKE Sports, trying to do something special here.
And it is their chance on the main stage to kick it off.
Yes, you have heard it right, my friends. Fury are set in. They're going into that grand final tomorrow.
But that's story for then, Adam. We still got more to get through today. I made you a promise.
You did make me a promise, yeah, I'm gonna take a leaf out of Hertz's book here.
You promised me that it was gonna be a cataclysmic couple of semifinals.
The first one was amazing in every way, shape and form, but there's still one more to go, Milos.
One more semifinal, one spot remains in our grand finals tomorrow,
but who will take that final spot? It's all playful.
And there's a lot of stories in here. I mentioned it in Fiora before.
Diaz Lucas his first time making it to an international grand final in over three years
That is massive for him on this in this game here phase
They know their finals right GK on the other side never seen it before okay. This is gonna be absolutely
Incredible up Paris. Are you ready for this semi-final?
There's an energy in the room Milo's I say we get the teams out right here right now and first up
Would you please welcome to the stage, it's FaZe Clan!
Quashing the Liquid Stallions yesterday in a quarter-final,
now it's the turn to take on the Dark Horses in this competition.
Will they keep them at bay, and will they ensure a way into the grand final?
Here at the Esports World Cup, they're ready, they are focused, they're fiery!
And this is going to be a real, real test of phase.
Now we can't wait to see how they get on here.
For the millionth time they made it on the stage, though,
their opponents, please join me welcoming
GK Esports!
The only EML representative left here with us today.
What did they do yesterday?
They knocked out the Rating Champions of Team Secret.
It was an all EML quarterfinal to make it to this spot.
They burned it.
A lot of people have called them dark horses.
Nobody would have expected them to make it here.
This all international team has so much to prove.
They've already done so much already on the main stage.
This is it. These are your last two semi-finalists.
We're going to ask our players, go to your stations, please.
But our key bearers, please do come forward for this final phase.
So if GK, you can go to your stations.
They're asking Vita King.
Let's kick things off with Vita King.
Anything you'd like to say to your opponents at GK,
prior to this showdown.
They are a new team that haven't won anything yet.
They reached a very far stage of the championship and today they will fall for the best team in the world.
Basically, these guys have won nothing. We're gonna destroy them today.
I don't know. I'm gonna talk in Portuguese, like show some respect for you,
but inside I get the match, I'm not gonna show some respect for you.
I've already won two of you, I'm going to lose, I took the WC, reload.
I think I'm your father and today it won't be different.
All that I can get here is we seem very confident of anything, but we saw what happened to you last year in real life, right?
That makes sense?
Exactly.
Hell yeah, look at that.
Oh yeah, great work.
But as ShakeHands, please.
ShakeHands with you as well.
I love that.
I love that.
I'll get this exactly the same.
Best of lots of both teams here.
It's all very friendly here at the Esports World Cup.
Amazing.
We have got ourselves a huge semi-final.
Who will be the victors?
GK or FaZe Clan?
Let's find our reindeers.
One thing's up for us as we dive on in.
Thank you so much, Adam and Milo.
So the big question I want to answer
to is how many languages does Milo freaking know?
Too many.
Too many.
Is it really translate that in more to,
I mean, my goodness.
They had many talents right there.
I mean, it's just, he's too comfortable
and siege guys, he's been here too long.
He's got too much time to try to learn these things.
Shout out to our lovely stage hosts,
keeping the action as well
and setting the tone iconic.
This is certainly a great atmosphere to play a game like this and GKE sports
they won the battle of the ML, but it's not enough.
They want to go all the way.
Of course here, especially going up against Faze Glengen,
the Tories opposition in the history of Siege 2.
Talking in two before the match, very calm, very relaxed,
just ready to go out there and do it.
And I feel like that's what the best team show you,
talk about the eye test.
Just having that quarters before the match, going out there with the team.
You see them in their huddle right now getting ready.
Udyr King stretching the neck out.
Expect him to just be showing up for his team right now.
EdaKings showed up big yesterday, lax, and obviously, they need him to continue doing so today.
Yeah, absolutely. But I mean, you also heard from the side of Aska,
the players that they're looking to shut down specifically, which is going to be Cyborg,
and it's going to be Andy as well. I mean, both those players have been exceptional throughout this far.
And yeah, Cybers, he's very elusive. You don't want to be able to let him move around the map,
get those opening picks, swinging into FaZe's favor, because as we were just talking about,
the opening kills have actually been very well on the side of GK.
And they can swing those opening kills into their favor,
convert those into rounds when they can have a very good half
on this attacking side.
But then it's going to be switched onto that defense.
And again, you don't want to fall into phases game.
You don't want to play into their tempo.
You want to play your game.
You want to play at your own speed, at your own pace,
do not let phase take control.
Chalet will be our starting map as well.
Both teams deciding to defend on the opposing team's pick.
And so iconic, this sets us up
for a very important few rounds if you are on offense.
If you can get an advantage here, I mean, that's going to be huge any near about especially to a defense aside
We talk about defense is being able to build that momentum
You saw in the game yesterday in our classic out how defense sided those first few rounds were and that really just established a momentum
And throughout the whole game
So if you're starting on a deep side really need to put your foot down to make sure you're stopping what the attack's gonna do
Because if the attack can build that momentum and run away with some rounds
It's gonna be very difficult for them. How much do you think phase one of a void would happen yesterday?
I mean, I don't think they'll allow it. Yeah
I mean that felt like they knew they maybe made a mistake on that second map
They probably want to come out swinging again when you're looking at those fundamental errors of yesterday
They were planning against a former team that they constantly have played throughout all of SAO again those if you go sinkers
I'm talking about that is not going to be applied here if anything
They don't know what GK is going to do outside of what the laws and they wash and as we know
That's only a blueprint you have to be able to adapt and whoever's adapting the best is going to be the best team in
The server and that is where vitiquin is going to come in and shine and then to the other side of it
that the adaptation that we've seen in real life
in this team has been on GKE Sports.
Phase is familiar.
This roster has won everything.
GKE's the one who had to do all of the putting
these pieces together, finding the right ingredients,
and it's proven to get to a semi-final.
Iconic, does this finally prove that we shouldn't be
considering them a dark horse, that they deserve to be here,
that they are legitimate contenders in this fight?
I mean, I feel like there's still all the dark horse
this is their first time here.
So I feel like if we see them building this consistency
in the next EML stage into the next major,
I feel like that's when you start to strip off the dark horse title right now.
But right now, they're in this unknown.
They don't know what's next for them.
So they have to just keep moving step by step and not let any pressure build upon them.
Because like we said, no one expected them to be here.
So them being here is a gift.
Alright, already getting rid of the Black Reader,
taking away Yaga's ability to be able to beat that spearhead,
open up some rounds for them.
Getting rid of the Azami, I mean, you're talking about that defensive side.
I mean, great call from the side of GK.
Allows them to easily push through highway, get through all the way into fire as well.
And then the grand, yeah, I mean, these were already bands that you were already previously speaking about.
Yeah, perfect bands from GK.
Going to be a strong half for them.
Let's see if they can really just punish FaZe here.
Well, GKE sports have a tall task ahead of them.
Take some of the most top performing, most consistent players in Siege and not only win one, but two maps against them to earn their spot into the grand finals.
If they did that, certainly the dark horse title would be removed.
But that's a lot to do and a lot of pressure.
And we know how FaZe is ready to show up.
They bounce back from the loss to Liquid.
Now they're looking to book their ticket to the grand final
and face Furia for an all Brazil matchup.
But series will be determined by who can do it the longest
and the best.
So as we kick it off, we've got two players, two casters,
excuse me, who are ready to go with the action.
It's going to be Xenox and Guz.
Mr. Guz.
On semi-final, number two on the way coming up, it's FaZe Clan.
Seeking that EWC Grand Final spot against their Brazilian brothers in Fioria.
But for GK guys, the hope of EML and maybe the rest of the world on their shoulders in this series,
they do get Chalet, spoken about off the desk from like a 6-0 record that's not ever lost this match since this team was put together.
Let's get this semi-final underway.
It has to be a very heavy weight though on their shoulders phase.
The most formidable squad to face in Rainbow Six.
And if they are to produce an upset result today, this will have to be
the greatest couple of hours of siege that this squad has produced.
I don't know if I'm going to get to this point GK, but to go one step further
it's an almighty hurdle. Both as a team, as individuals, needing to be at
They're very very best expecting phase to well be at their very best as they typically are
They start on the defense
Very clinical series yesterday socks looking for early contact against cyber
Get back of course activated on to cyber such really should be better off for it
But the moment of stalemate over towards games
They're trying to pay a call from ask on to cyber will also be answered
GK fighting for this library side control forced into a bit of a U-Tool dump and
phase of call reinforcements KDS doing a good job to retain presence and control
and not forfeit his life resulting in an attacking stall at first fight though
it does go the way of GK and nice opening kill for U-Paw onto handy one
One of the top players, Fall FaZe.
He'll be down, caught, as Bitter King finds the trade pretty quickly.
Fall FaZe, knocked to south of the yellow ping, and it's Yoga that eats most of that.
He's down as well, low on health with U-Port.
There goes Sarkz, here comes FaZe.
A fine kill after kill.
The Huskers able to get one back, but it is all going the way of FaZe to begin in this opening round.
And one versus two with 60 seconds left for Ask.
We're not unachievable, Vitteking on an island, over towards Piano, but that opportunity now subsides as Solz rotate Solz off.
Solz gets himself over towards Solz, and with that close to the Vitteking, he does still have one gaspade available.
Husk needed to probably find that kill onto Vitteking quickly.
Got the chance, but Vitteking's just better on the swing with the SMG.
FaZe will take the opening round of Chalet.
And that's the formidable phase that we know and love, their ability to trade out of even
the most challenging of positions, especially defensively, massive strengths of theirs.
They stored out GK pretty nicely in the library side initially, and then even after GK found
the early pick, those power positions still coming into play as the round progressed.
And a solid start for the Brazilian outfit.
Well, that's what you're gonna expect from FaZe. JK are gonna have to be at their very best
They did get a little scrappy and maybe that is an element that can help JK here on Chalet
And it is their map picks 6-0 record over the last two months
JK Esports but it is of course a very high preference pick as well for FaZe a 7-3 record over the last four months
In terms of a little bit more information as to how we've gotten to this point, semi-final
appearance for GK, Grumpy's been leading the wide 53-34 KD over the course of the eSports
World Cup, 118 EPS, asking you, Paul, Sark's all 100 plus as well, as for FaZe Clan, while
Solce has actually been there best statistically up until this point with a 1-2-1 EPS.
I'm surprised the rest of them are all 105 plus, they've been absolutely perfect, no one.
He's letting the team down for phase here at UWC.
Second round coming up, bar games.
Once again looking like GK early here.
We'll look at the attack of the library side into this mirror and the really combo though.
It's going to be quite frustrating and require a lot of U2 lowering to clear that.
Keep in mind as well that the Kite Electroclaw also helping reinforce KDS's position over the wards mezz.
If GK had to force this play, it's going to require clinical attacking work.
Our game has been very difficult to attack into so far at AWC and even more difficult without the Capitao.
Lovely early kill from Viddiking on the poles, playing off that half-beat centre with the nitrosol.
Shots down a key piece of utility for GK Esports
Our game sits at a 71 defensive win rate percentage
Esports book off last going down and then younger as well KDS put in the DMR to good use
Well, the early warning signs are clearly here at the semi-final for GK
It's been a great run, but now you face the most difficult of tasks
They have the weight of expectation on their shoulders to of course perform and so far they're playing like a team destined to win
GK on the flip side need to find a way to inject a bit of life into this match that round a pretty good
illustration of if you put a slight foot wrong, it's going to prove costly grubby had that opportunity on
the cost mez to shut down KDS and
Again very challenging
Probably low percentage, but he then goes on KDS to find that double huge difference maker in the brown
It's gonna be very tricky for DK to try to solve their way back into this half
And Quad Nitrosol was walled for days in this next round, so they're gonna have a lot
explosive utility
You see GK really switched it up now they're gonna bring the Monty so first time since your play from GK esports
He's going to have his work out for him on the patch as well, if he wants to try and stop some of these nitro cells.
I think GK coming into a series like this, they know they're the underdogs, they know they got really not a lot to prove against Faze.
It's a pretty sharp back to back S.I. Champions, but these are the teams that probably have more pressure to win a series like this.
If you don't start well, you can find yourself in a bit of a whole phase and not the kind
of team that will let you back out of it.
They will stay sure to bury you.
Their goal is of course to win the eSports World Cup.
This roster since 2023 finalizing the Core 5.
I haven't won anything but a 6-invitational.
GK taking pretty good ground here courtesy of the Monty and pressure to follow here in
towards office. One of those four nitros utilized and Biddy King now goes for the trick, has
the coverage courtesy of Handy.
This order of course to stomp out the hard breach and so far so good for Faze.
Yeah a bit of space taken from Grubby on the Monty so he can counteract this mirror
shield, of course needs to be careful of the knife missiles KDS ripped one towards
piano and you can still get a lot of information as well playing behind the
mirror shield. He's on the roof looking for a rotate halfway through this third
round. Look at this rock, the shock wire batteries of the Vittagings and Grubby
has got himself into piano again. It's kitchen dynam you do want to clear this
top floor. You pull on the rappel outside of this bedroom window.
Time ticking down. GK needs to try and find a way to open up this map.
My hand is blown by the way. They might not even be aware of his position.
They've walked past. Never mind. Yonka over through the ego-bulk.
Got the opening kill. Has got rid of KDS, but it's a crucial jump out from cyber.
Another right position.
Bitter keeps trapped. Shawley can't get anything to go with him.
He almost got Grubby's knees.
McGrubby with the pistol hit the shot.
And GK might just find their first round on Shawley.
It's only Solz, that remains towards dining.
And so much time for GK.
And now spotted out, Solz in a rough position.
The power of the Monty on full display.
GK are on the board.
OK, we've got our Solz.
And that, Pierre.
The question though, B, as that was the third round,
Defey has just immediately banned the Monty
because Grubby made a lot of really good work on that Monty.
Great space, was able to counteract the mirror shield, pushed down library hallway,
get himself into piano, and eventually they kind of just continue to force FaZe back.
Now the band away to Blackbeard, I'm thinking this Monty might just go immediately,
and it does. Mirror to follow at least. As the Monty did help deal with the mirror,
that too will go. Does leave the Blitz available for GK, but it's a very different
to the Monty, bedroom office up next.
Yeah, certainly an intriguing tactic, then, from phase in the previous round, played Yutul
heavy on the office wall initially, then went to wrap positions through the mid-round.
A larger courtesy of the Monty was then sniffed out nicely.
Good work from GK to be disciplined and ensure that the clearance on that top floor was
clean.
clean and they finally get around on the board. Much needed just for settling the
nerves a little bit and being able to find that footing. Yeah I think that's
the main thing. I know they sent my final spot the grandpa on the line. You're up
against FaZe to the quality of the opponent. Something that's always
going to be in the back of your mind. You want to get around early and
especially after they just got flawlessed in the second round. A really
solid response from GK.
So back to Bedroom Office which we saw back in the opening round.
Newpaw got the opening kill on to Handy, but they're taking with a 3K.
I was able to snuff that round out pretty comfortably for Phase Clan.
Blitz will not be employed
for GK after the one successful round win
using the Monty Crossbow Band away.
exact same lineup by the way for FaZe, as they used in the opening round on this site.
But it is a switch up for GK. Most notably they bring the Zofia this time.
Definitely the kind of lineup they can go for the solo posture here. They're U2 for entry, U4 for coverage,
a triple impact for disruption down below.
Asuka's just sent it though.
by himself, didn't have the backup cover, long range punch from you Paul
he's successfully getting the down on the head, he's the plant going down inside a bedroom
it's a fast pace round from GK at the window
good cover from Sarkz, it's only Solz
but he can deny no for the timing, just a little off
and now into the post-plant, how did he deny that pre-plant?
this could have been far more interesting
but Solz needs to dash past this trophy window, get himself up
he can now and GK go back to backgrounds
Well, not the most clinical round of siege you'll ever see.
A well-identified wincon there from GK got nervous when we asked when the solo was sent,
but it was followed up nicely with the solo and the pressure double window.
Sol's down below on that solo is unsuccessful in denying the plant in time.
He was that first pick, but the follow-up was pretty good.
U-Port, Sargspurth got in on the action, and Sol's just a little bit late to the party,
allowed that plant to go down and we've seen this a little bit developing over the last couple of months on
Chalet especially bedroom office where you draw attention away from the site as the attacking team
slip in go for a plant and that's pretty much what GK did just then. Caused enough disruption in chaos
and keep the focus of the defenders away from potentially denying plant
and it seems as if it has been a successful route for a lot of attacking teams so back to
the background wins for GK. Barbed games for the fifth round.
Now, Chalet at the Esports World Cup has not featured a whole lot, does it?
It's actually the third least played map. Only six times we've seen it.
Practically sets it a 50% attack and defensive win rate.
For one side there.
Well, the two sides that kind of flip either way.
Kitchen dining, heavily attack-assided. Barbed games, heavily defender-sided.
Bedroom office 50-50.
Of course last time out didn't really get a good opportunity to see what GK really wanted to do on this site as they
They lost U-Paw straight away early on the Capitao who bring that again.
Okay, let's see this whole snake. I believe GK will have a strong read here as to the heavy
roam presence being deployed here from FaZe. We saw the early raid up. That was spot-vitticom
bar stock. And as evident by the player cards, it's a very well-dispersed defense here
from FaZe. Maybe there's an opportunity in which GK could look to exploit that.
But the longer they post shot, I think FaZe are probably going to get an inkling that a direct hit may follow.
Sark's go searching.
GK Eager to exploit the site. Easier said than done.
If you're looking to hold down the line, has bird control presence up above, and the rest of the FaZe defense is shaped nicely.
When they're trying to put pressure on their bar stop position, but no gaspapes thrown out from Viridking, he seems comfortable.
Therefore, they also haven't put a lot of time work into top library.
Andy also just still comfortably sitting live upstairs.
You've got KDS in the mezzanine.
Not a good position, still roll home, fall face.
Simon dropped down, little peek out towards main lobby entrance.
That's thinking about the clock over towards five-play stance.
Cormorant, window, no, that was a strange run back.
But Simon, KDS go down together.
That gives GK a two-player opening advantage.
Still need to deal with fast-stop position help
by viticking at Handi postures still towards library stairs.
Again, loving the time management for GK.
They've got a full minute here to deal with this two-player advantage.
Sark's looking for a cut off towards bottom library stairs.
He goes it alone.
Shot into the shoulder of Handi, but now Handi aware of the player.
What a swim from Handi.
Opens the back.
The round back up now for FaZe.
The soul shutting down asked,
Yoga needed that quick trade.
They find it, but here comes Handy up five play stairs.
Oh, but now he's all alone, one versus three.
Bitter King dying towards Fastalk.
Knows, that one has dropped down below,
but it's younger to get the kill!
Three in a row for GK!
Ho-ho-ho!
Things now are heating up inside the server, GK.
Turning it up.
And when you look at the numbers for a team
that has a dominant record on this map locally in EML.
It's actually defense that is by far their strongest side here on Chalet.
So they've given themselves now a strong foundation courtesy of this round streak.
Plays a good siege across the board.
They're disrupting the flow of FaZe.
And that's not a sentence that you say lightly.
Back above now, final round of half.
Ken FaZe stabilised.
That's weird, we're saying that after FaZe in the second round, flawless,
looked as if they were on their A-game, maybe even S-plus game.
Well, the FaZe clan crowd, trying their best to provide some voice here.
One thing that has really kind of shaped the tail end of this first half, I think is just
the way that GK haven't really been that easy to read guys.
At times they go really fast. We saw that back in the fourth round,
bedroom office
You got a two-minute and three-second plant down then they slow the pace down
Getting into bar games wait to try and get some pics. They do that at around the minute mark
Making it difficult for face to kind of ascertain as to how GK really want to play this bottom round of the half
Restrake and they make it full and give themselves a little cushion going into the second half
Back to bedroom office
This time the solos will be dropped for the Lossy.
It doesn't mean double Nitro in play for FaZe in this particular round.
On the flip side for GK, double Info, Gardler, courtesy of Deimos and Solon Snake.
In early rounds I feel like they've been gathering a good amount of info and then being able to push accordingly.
In some cases not finding much, which on a map like Chalet can actually offer quite a bit
it because of what may or may not all there all the timing that was close
and he takes a bit of unnecessary damage towards bathroom as the commander
crawls back past the window gets himself up a lot of information by the way being
came from grubby on the radar of the solid snake
what the information on the souls vittigang and handy Simon towards
be a no-cadious by himself towards Messinine. Again, GK taking their time, trying to just
hope that they can find that early kill. A lot of utilities still remain for the dislodged
sheer if they are to commit solo or side. That layering will be critical in dislodging
the defense. As you can see, the other double window, that's good for the backline, but
It's initial entry precarious for GK.
So, time to get into solo.
You fall down, but a king try.
That's one for one.
You'll take that if you're the attacking team.
Andy, though, keeping control towards solo.
But a little bit pinched now with the player at the bathroom window.
That was asked. He's dead.
Bit of help from KDS.
Sark's just going to be going into Piano now.
Split from Jogger, who's still outside.
He needs to get into the building.
Faze managing the sixth round perfectly.
The fuser at a backspot towards Sala and then Yoga tries to just go quick entry into the big window.
Fall back here from Cybers, clean and smart. Souls can then play the doorway angle.
Saks needs to be ready for two back players at the same time.
Cyber, toying with it. Well, he got the kill onto Souls.
Now it's a B-Line 1v1 and there's plenty of time here for Saks.
He has the death mark available but it's only onto Handy.
He doesn't have the ability to place it onto Saiba and Saiba catches the head!
All tied!
To close the opening half of this semi-final, FaZe were off to a hot start and GK tested them.
I'm good there, I wanted to do it as soon as I needed it, but I'm happy with everything, I'm happy with what I did, I'm just going to stop and leave.
Yeah, that there, like, the truth is, I tried to get the guy from a different team.
Yeah, let's stop, play square, the guys are closed.
Look at this, where I'm going to come now, it's here, look.
That's it.
You're going to break all the rules, right?
Uh-huh.
That's it.
I do think you've lost a certain position here, but the pick you saw for a while now,
because you've already started, it's a bit difficult to do.
Ok, then I'll pick you up, I'll pick you up next time.
We'll make a lot of money in the guy behind you, ok?
Literally, especially if you play Master Dora, we don't...
You can easily pick the guy Master fucking behind you and kill him, ok?
But he has a shit angle on you, you have to pick advantage.
Yeah, just take a deep breath.
And again, don't be scared there. Same here, most guys.
I think Harvey used to probably start with no ice.
Yeah, it's my fault, I'll throw it away.
Yeah, my fault, I'll throw it away.
And you see, I think...
Yeah?
There shouldn't be like, that's some like, really counter-strategic ruby.
If you want you can even start with your default setup.
The only one real thing that you should be...
...kind of proactive is about the reactions.
That's it, like, liberally, that's it.
Yeah.
I'll leave it all about that.
Yeah, I think it's like, I think we just need to understand that the game won't be easy and easy.
Well a lot of calm on the side of GK as they are tied heading into their defensive half
And you mentioned before defense has been a strong point of theirs on this map of Chalet over the last few months
Yeah, you're right
Their success rate is far above the average 82 percent 23 out of 28 rounds
We'll see if that's enough for GK to get a result across the line
I really love the messaging there from Shepard strategy aside. It was just his initial note in terms of mentality
Let's not be afraid. They're humans just like us and well
Maybe some of the guys on the face team are closer to terminator form than human
I think it's a really strong message to just reiterate there in this game
They're a real shout at being able to take this opening up
So the one my gets banned away along with the Montaigne's army grim to follow as we head into the second half
He's won the opening two rounds GK
then able to rattle off three straight before FaZe closed out an all-important sixth round.
Opening kills split three to three. That was a little topic conversation yesterday in the FaZe
Liquid match. We're dominating a lot of opening kills there. GK got wild to split that battle.
Just a little outmatched in that last round like a mutual layer onto Handy.
Start him down or 1v1.
Yeah, but if that entry is maybe a little more clinical it may not have been filtered down to a 1v1.
In some ways a little unfortunate there as well, no guess mark. Target available for the final duel.
dual. They also love the fact that you know in the first half we haven't got a single player
that's got less than three kills and we haven't got anyone with more than five. Straight up
5v5, everyone's pulling their weight, Aaron's performing well. Really solid first half.
Let's see what FaZe can do on the attack of Chalet because as you mentioned the
numbers for GK defensively, FaZe do still sit at a 60% attack of win rate on this
map of Chalet under the last six months. I think it's actually higher than their
defensive win rate as well by about one or two percent. We're going to strike back
to Bedroom and offers for the fourth time in seven rounds. This has been the
feature site. To begin this semi-final, we're going to reminder for this map of
Chalet. Here's the map pick of GK.
I'll just quickly noting that the ends as well.
FaZe go for W-Till with the Wami and the Azami.
And so we'll see how heavily GK looked to lean into trap U-Till over the course of this
half and how FaZe attempt to contend with that.
It won't be a main focal point though near round 7.
It's not majorly.
Oh, crummy!
Well that's one aspect of GK that they've looked really comfortable to take these swings, take these battles, take these fights that haven't looked scared.
Gaby has certainly started well, has to navigate another frag grenade, but has done a decent job of this. Still holds this mezzanine position.
A lot of you two already spent here by a phase. And not a lot to show for it.
Alright, this is a really strong position for GK, courtesy of some brilliant play.
Over towards Mezzanine from Grubby, U-Paw also quick-match support Sarkz as well, top library.
This is going to be a long battle.
This is where Grubby is going to be careful, but he does have the ability to get some help from Sarkz, along with U-Paw as well.
U-Paw speaking of found the kill on to Solz. He was inside library.
So now it's only the solo push from Cyber.
KDS outside Piano window, he really wants to try and help Simon Rapid, he also needs to
try and deal with those towards him close in Piano. KDS will fall! This attack was
absolutely torn to shred from GK! Flawless! How many teams at this event
will flawless face? Not many! GK Esports will take the lead four to three and
they send their own warning shot to FaZe that their defense will be hard to
Crack! Yeah, that's really impressive. Wow.
Great work from Groobie.
Here's a replay of that first shot.
Clean on to Viddicom, didn't stand a chance against that swing.
Groobie was filled U2.
The rest of the team came across to support.
And they shut down the efforts from KDS on the bulk to cut the cross and that work.
Over the board's library stairs in support of the library push.
It was a great read there.
From the email squad.
And while deserving of that first defensive round win.
Well, assessment phase as well. They're going to try and play that slow pace play style.
It may not work into the way that GK are going to set up defensively.
They have to look to maybe amp the pace up and...
As I'm saying, they've locked in. Well, almost haven't quite locked it in yet.
But they've selected the mind of the Ying along with the...
No, Kamara and it's gone. They're not electing to go through.
not have also been in try and never liked to talk about attackers until the locked
in they're not been a diggity of the director could have been quick take
the trim side for instance but work of the case and so we'll see how they look
to deploy this utility in the Maverick suggests to me was a garage lurking to
the bar backstore clear that then often will shape up into a double window
fault later in the round the critical key piece is there's gonna be this
Maverick when you bring the Maverick Bar games open up that fast-off wall
From try and play stairs it does make it far more difficult for the defense to hold inside of that position
It's a GK can actually deal with souls before even can accomplish that that's gonna be a big piece off the board
Grabbing over towards dining
Zeroga makes his way back over through Piano. There's a little bit of presence around the map for GK.
It's not just going to be the full five-man huddle on the site.
And he will make entry through Basement.
And with the nominating player, they can flank watch accordingly from that solar side and then eventually top library and the like.
the like once they obtain that control. The question will then be if GK fired or
forfeit. I think initially they'll look to contest the crosstop library mares as
you would come to expect. My goodness. Handy gonna go straight through the barbed wire to catch out Grubby.
Sends his opportunity and finds the opening kill for FaZe. That's what you gotta be so
cautious if you're on the defense and you're not gonna play trap heavy.
You've got to be ready and waiting for that kind of play style on cello.
And that pub boy is not going to stop him.
Yoga though, will stop KDS.
That then immediately traded by Solz, battle towards top library.
Ask will get the kill on to Hanby, knowing that he wanted to push back up.
Coming from basement.
Cyber towards eco-falcus, Solz is also pushing up fireplace.
Cyber, huge kill on to Ask.
Sarkz has taken a bit of damage, but he does still have a nitrosol.
Just over towards Barth, throws that match result randomly.
That's him nothing.
Newport though, still able to play Barstok.
And time, down to 35 seconds.
Sack somehow wins that battle against Saibar,
and we are in a 2 vs 2 with 30 seconds left.
Double stack from Baylor's behind.
And then there goes Vinikig as Newport clutches on for GK.
back to back rounds again and they take a significant lead 5-3 over phase on
chalet
phase did not use the Maverick on that backstore wall ultimately proving costly
as you poor was able to anchor and courtesy of a nice push up there from
sarks as well library stairs prior to that able to bring back round number
8. There's a strong lurk from Handy. Oh, Handy just wasn't ready for the pass.
And that got caught, yeah. But then that got traded. I mean, this was a 3 vs 2,
Vapour for FaZe, and that's that swing, that spot there. Sark's big battle 1,
that sets up you, Paul, who's playing Barstock. DMR, long range. And again, there was no
pressure on Barstock because the Maverick didn't go over the blow-sorge to open up the wall.
GK with a 2-round advantage against FaZe.
I think Manny would have come into today excited for Furia vs Dark Zero, expecting that one
to be a series of high quality, hard to say who would go on and win it, and I think it
largely lived up to the expectation, but Manny probably looked at this and thought
Faze will just get the job done, but GK are here to play.
they withstand the heat though here in the night round looking across at the line-up here from FaZe
execute heavy
Lies-ying blitz all in combination
We'll see how much in that presence they wish to gather
Perhaps some courtesy of the no matter although that can also be nice nicely utilized for layering on the side itself
Sucks for it's great pre-plastro in there by the attack inside unable to drop down hatch
That's costly for GK. Not the kind of position that can be traded.
From what we're seeing, Groovy hold nays really nicely, now it doesn't have as much of a support network.
In fact, that's actually going to prompt you for, you know, push across over to what's top
library stairs. GK will aggressively try and hold this portion of the map.
Sol successful on the glass, you're all going to fall as well.
Faze started to fire back now after a couple of rounds in favour of GK.
They won five and lost six.
This is more like the phase that we're used to seeing.
KDS caught though from Grubby.
Finding the angle from that office wall being opened up.
So from a two versus five to a two versus four,
and then you fall just unable to win the battle
against the Glyre's plan to go down for Vittor King.
All up to Grubby.
Shot's not quite landing, and now it's just a post-plant.
Grubby does find the kill onto Vittor King.
But the handy is there for the remonstration.
FaZe make it fall to five here on Chalet.
Now the kind of ground that GK will immediately be disappointed at.
His Sark's dying early over the woods library uncontested.
And they left a weakness that was nicely exploited by the FaZe attack.
Top floor broke down.
And never given a proper opportunity to fight in that round.
Still though, retain the lead as we get the additional and final Dan Faiz, Denari which has been played a little by GK, so some of that trick chopped you to now will be benched and the guys which was impactful in the late round also dealt with Faiz.
Two guys are low, one for you, and the other for me.
That's it?
Yes.
And we're going to kill the guy from the VW, over there, to make it work.
Are you going to play?
Yes, that's what it is.
You're going to play with the Blitz, right?
Yes, but I'm not going to play, I'm going to play.
I'm not going to play, I'm going to play, and you're going to play, and you know that it's not the Blitz, you're just going to eat my door.
You're going to play?
Yes, now we need to be careful here.
It was a really quiet bar.
We need to pass you to the final.
And get the faster one, David.
I'm going to get the faster one.
So timeout expires for FaZe.
I found it going for the...
We won a round. Let's try and follow up with another round winning to the 10th.
It's 4-5. FaZe finally broke a big streak from GK winning 5 of the previous 6 rounds.
Handy by the way, he's putting on a clinic guard in terms of opening kills.
He's got FaZe's last 4 opening kills, 5 they've got overall and he's got 4 of them.
He's 8-6 with the KED, 4-2 on the entry.
He's been a Difference Maker early on in these rounds, and for the 10th round back to Master
Bedroom and Office.
And this time, FaZe, that one I was going to say will go to the Zofia, they love an
attack and a re-pick.
I definitely knew they were going to switch off the Jack.
Riddikings not playing Jack, but I thought maybe they would play the Zofia.
That was not happening.
At least the nook was pretty crazy either, especially with the denarii ban, maybe trying to extract some of the trap.
But there's still so much up because FaZe don't full commit, as they initially went U2 heavy with their first couple of bans.
What an enemy!
So into the 10th we go. Can FaZe equalize or can GK?
Alright, be the first to get to that point.
Nose just walked up to me by the way, and he's got a sign that says, Ask me for help.
I don't know who he's helping.
Directions to the airport perhaps.
So, end of the time, out for phase.
Airport nitrosol ripped.
Slow tempo in this round.
Well, me phase can do that. GK did it as well in the first half, switching up the tempo, fast pushes, then slow pushes,
playing into the drone game a little bit more. Faze kind of doing that this round, especially with the twigs.
They'll bring the shock drones from Solz, look to get some utility, try to find some more information.
Because GK are playing a lot of the map here. It sarks over towards Library, Grubby's still over towards Mesonim,
so they are stretching his top floor, switching off Grubby. He does win the battle against Solz.
And he also making his way into library then gets the trade
We'll need to deal with socks top library stairs, but handy has been influential for phase
Yeah, we'll see a phase
Very for the hunt or instead like to cut socks off
Shallow the style of map where the ladder is certainly a possibility
In information yoga sitting
That even about doorway socks for spark death mark can't commit to that position good clear by face
He should be able to get back out West Main.
Does he recommit back over towards Library? I think he could.
It looks like he might. And if he does do that, he could catch Hand in the back.
If Sox were to push up Library stairs, Handy's probably dead.
Ask is the one that finds the kill on the KDS outside that piano window on the balcony.
Sox got targeted again, so he'll be kept to bay for now.
But the players dropping elsewhere.
He's over towards Games. Big kill again from Handy.
He turns around knowing Sox is still there.
And this arse will fall the time the U-Porn left he got a big clutch earlier will need to do it again
Has the information knows that video King's pushing so he got a shotgun got the kill
Cyber cyber cyber big clutch five five oh
That was such a close round it could have gone either way they're at the end with a shotgun up close
But the trade work from phase too good
But once again it was handy to be the difference maker, the Deimos U2 and his presence of mind
to cut off this flank attempt was huge.
Starks was in prime position to be a difference maker for GK, but handy is switched on right
now.
You take him out of the equation, FaZe would be in a much more compromised position.
He's dominating early kills, he's also getting big impact plays mid-ground, doing
at all. 5-5. GK need to win this map. They're playing really, really good seed for Faze.
They're now testing them again. 11-7 for Handi with a 1-30 EPS. Grubby 9 and 6 with
the 116, they've been the best two for their respective teams.
That's breakpoint round.
It is bar games though.
It is.
GK did win this last time and it is the most
competitive side on the map.
It's a really good opportunity for GK to get to 6
and at least have overtime secured.
Haze will not bring the Maverick again this time, didn't work for them.
A decent little change up, they won't have the Capetal Ivar.
It's that interesting cyber on the solid-stake.
Cameraman here by.
Again, every single round for Haze, they really just take that first minute,
drone, get information, open up different ways to get into the map. They're not looking to take fights on the attack.
GK as well themselves not really providing a lot of opportunities. They're not really peeking windows, not looking for any kind of
aggressive play early.
Sarkz has been pinged out twice here by the solid snake. The longer he stays around, the more challenging the rotate back to
what the site will be.
Sarkz has also just re-drawned him as well.
Nitrocell at the window.
He'll get two!
Oh, they're both KDS and Cyber!
Huge Nitro from Sarkz!
We thought maybe he was the one in danger,
but no, he was the danger.
That might be enough to secure them over time.
But Handy's still inside of the server.
We know what he's capable of.
But as Bidder King falls, they're losing troops.
And GK are looking far more likely to get to six.
Yeah, the fight back now, the phase in this round.
It seems incredibly unlikely.
And in fact, floorless for GK.
Another floorless for GK, they go and get their second floorless to get to six.
And it was all off the back of that natural self from Sark's.
Over to Ward's Solar.
Catches a good timing and catches two for one.
GK go to six, phase will stay on five.
GK get a map point here in the opening map of the series
Play what the confidence it takes to play that position for the nitro against this team
That takes a that takes a healthy amount of ego
That's the kind of confidence you need if you're going to take down this phase Rostock
Great way from Sark to commit it to the play
And they're now in a position where they could close out map 1 of this series.
And they're also in a position where they know we're going back and forth with FaZe.
We're meeting them head on. We're up to the fight.
There's always a bit of fortune with these sort of micro-sets.
How often do we see those get thrown, get nothing?
How often do we see the timing of it?
Usually miss a kill, but this time he gets two.
Now only fitting that we are likely to head back to
Petrimon Office but then re-host first just to call the nurse
just to give us a little bit more time
Let it build the tension at 6.5 in favour of GK
What a run this would be. They can beat FaZe here on Chalet at one map away from the esports
World Cup Grand Final. It really has been an incredibly close match when you look at
some of the metrics for Chalet so far. One plant each, a couple of multi-kills going
the way of phase but not a huge volume. In terms of the overkill as well as being fairly
easy, the conversion as well has been a little bit mixed.
It's come down to a couple of key moments where players on both teams are kind of stepped
up, made heads up plays.
A couple of key moments from Handy, we saw of course a crucial key moment from Sark's
in that previous round and that's more semi-finals and then later to come tomorrow grand finals
are all about. Key moments, individual plays, they can be the difference maker in an arm
wrestle and that's what this has turned into. You don't get to 6-5 against Bayes if you're
not hitting some good shots having a good day. Baby shark in the crowd there as well.
Yeah they're both playing a strap book that is reliant on those individual moments going
going large, and sometimes we see that on the map.
Stylistically, like Sheldane, it's made for
an entertaining but volatile game so far
when neither team has been at the game meaningful momentum.
All 10 players almost back inside of the server.
In fact, that's all 10.
So anything will be too far away from concluding regulation.
I almost said concluding the map, but maybe
the key will be required.
Well, maybe you might be right.
We'll have to wait and see.
It is a possibility.
Can't help shake the feeling.
If this goes over time, though, the experience of a team like Vaze,
it'll be hard to shake them here and now.
This is the chance and the opportunity for GKE Sports.
Up 6-5 on Charlotte.
They're map big as we head back into the server.
Can they close it out against the back-to-back SLI Champions?
A team of misfits that many wrote off probably going into EML Stage 1.
Then they caused some huge upsets.
they had an amazing group stage knocked out G2 qualified for EWC and are here in the final four
one round away from being one map away to a potential grand final spot.
Bedroom and office will be the site choice.
Do we go to overtime or can GK take the lead in the series?
So top 4 would go.
That's right, that has been 50-50 played in rounds 7 and 10 GK won at first time out.
FaZe responded on the attack on the reattempts.
Was though quite a close round.
Now it was handy that gave them a great opportunity to convert with a 3K on that
reattempt.
And what we've seen from FaZe though is a lot of slow play in the last couple of rounds.
Do they go for a little bit more fast pace?
They've got KDS on the stands, they can throw out some RU's, they can look to hit quickly.
Bedroom Office does a nape all day.
You draw the attention away from the site, throw a couple of shield screens out and
try and call some chaos.
It seems like GK's defensive setups have been really, really solid in terms of where
they've been sitting, anchoring key positions, they've been hard to break down, but
What if you just make it a bit messy?
What if they split the script and go for this clean clinical playstyle and go and get aggressive?
Got the solid snake, got the ROUs of the Sands.
But what if we've been seen the last couple of rounds of Drone Game, Drone Game, trying to get as much information?
That's keeping GK pretty well set defensively.
Yeah, I'd be pretty surprised if the ROUs are for the director, probably for Barthorne and Belk.
Facilitate that position, lay a more pressure-mesped piano.
So Hux is all the way over towards games.
That makes his way up library stairs.
It's one thing GK have done really, really well in the second half.
Really stretching them out, playing a lot of different positions.
Making it difficult for Faze.
Big route. Where are they playing?
They like to move around.
Smoke over towards big window.
Just outside office.
And of course for all, Grubby takes a little trip down fireplace.
Now, what's he thinking of here?
This could be a big play from Grubby if he can find a kill.
In fact, he just goes for a run out!
Crucial!
Oh, he just doesn't get anything!
Grubby went for the hero play, but turns into the villain!
Gives the opening kill to FaZe!
And gives them a gap as well to push in!
Yeah, very, very rough start to the round for GK.
Now I'll play it down.
Can FaZe exploit that weakness.
Are used for that coverage of it was Penawindow, Sol's diffuser still outside.
But it's handy, is in Sol with Ground, take it.
Get through to the default camera that was up a little longer than he would have liked.
Time had taken low.
And then eventually finished off by Yoga.
And he's able to also slip back over to Mezzanine.
Yogg is now also closed a defensive gap that was there for GK by finding that kill.
Evens up the numbers, takes some good space back over towards Mez. That's a critical second kill as well from Yogg up.
U-Paw 2 to double down and get rid of Handy.
U-Paw finished off by Solz. 30 seconds left here for FaZe and it's down to Peter King and Solz.
Very difficult to envision FaZe being able to win this round.
Doesn't look like Lee Solz, half power, GK on the verge.
But taking the opening map here in the semifinal against the SI champions.
Solz has got 15 seconds.
A hope for the prayer as he goes to the plant to try and bait anyone out.
But no one makes a move.
Solz is going to get one bit no more.
Ask will finish him off.
The opening map of this semifinal goes the way of the ML.
It's GK that takes Shalei.
They are one map away from the Esports World Cup Grand Final!
FazeClam are on the ropes!
Look, you can make whatever concessions you want.
It was their map selection, but still to produce that result against Faze.
It was a phenomenal effort and full credit they played.
Wow.
But it's best of three, Jake.
They need to play a lot better from this point onwards.
It's not a best of one.
No, it's not.
Marathon not a sprint, and the next map of Consulate is not going to be easy for them
but they've got the first map in their pocket from here.
In fact, already coming into today, playing as an underdog team,
little to no expectation against FaZe yet they go and take the first map.
No overtime was needed.
And now they can go and see Consulate for free.
They don't have to worry too much about what happens there.
Fortress the Decider if needed.
But it means for GK one map away.
from the NWC Grand Final. This is a Cinderella run which we see every now and then. It can
happen but this would be an almighty run for them. I would say overall a great team effort.
I think they can best be described in short of a certainly great individual moments in
GK which were facilitated by the Strat. Well FaZe haven't even left the stage by
By the way, if they're doing their strat work literally behind their monitors, GK going backstage,
Baze is still out here, they're not happy and expect them to respond the way that they
usually do.
GK should be ready for it.
They couldn't have asked for a better map to start in this second semi-final.
GK 7-5, a 1-0 lead.
Well, EML, we said they conquered in the battle for the region.
Now they're conquering just in the general battle.
It's face-clan who go down, but GKE Sports, who rise up
to the occasion, ask, taking a bow for the performance.
Defense goes their way.
And honestly, this is a great showcase of what
this team has done.
Surprised people again and again and again, Max.
The unexpected, I mean, now 7-0 on Shallow.
And you got to keep in mind,
Face has played that 22 times.
And they are now losing.
They won 15 out of those times.
Now they're adding another tally of a loss.
But I mean, what a performance from the side of GK, gentlemen.
We have a semi-final.
I love it because this means now FaZe has to go 2-0.
But it also means that we are on the precipice
of something pretty unthinkable with FaZe
losing this matchup and GK joining Furia in the finals.
I said it.
If anyone could do it, it's this team.
I feel like they're just playing
the release together right now.
And you see that in their game play.
I love the way that we're getting to this.
And we're going to have a scoreboard for you
in a moment to talk about what these stats were exactly.
But there were some key pivotal moments.
I think even on offense, we're going to highlight one in a second.
But when it comes to like, SARS and his amazing 2K,
Sarkson is amazing 2K, from like, I think it was maybe round,
I don't know, maybe around eight or nine.
It was just one of those rounds that really turned his favor.
It was an incredible performance from a lot of individuals
from GK and a good team performance.
Yeah, I mean, you were just highlighting, sorry,
but every single player on the side of GK
has been stepping up and putting in their effort
to be able to be here, be living this moment,
and take down a big powerhouse team like face.
I mean, all of them should be giving themselves
a big pat on the back.
I mean, this has been a great performance.
Honestly, I was unexpected of this.
I wasn't sure what I was going to think,
especially how it first started out.
But again, it was those opening picks
that I was highlighting going into this series.
They were going blow for blow.
They weren't allowing face to run away with the tempo.
Keep the pace.
I mean, they were playing their own game
and it was fantastic to see.
Yeah, they were clinical.
I know we were looking at some illustration
to try to break down some of those plays.
So iconic, what do you got for us?
What did you want to highlight from that?
I just want to show you guys how deep DK is right now
with their strap look.
Let's take a look at this right now.
Going to, after their time on Two Half of Shepherd set,
these guys are just humans.
Let's make them work for it here.
Going into Chalet.
Top Mezzanine's going to be the initial position
they want to clear out here.
You also see how the band's changed this narrative.
They double reinforce the Top Mezzanine wall.
And you're going to see FaZe.
They're going for a Top Mezz Clear.
Vita King being on the cut for the show on Eagle
Balcony, holding the cut through on Groovy.
They're going to have Kadeus on the pitch snow
about holding the cut through.
Cyber and souls are going to be coming through the library side.
So they're going to have a quad pinch going on with candy with a vertical
lurk of blue here.
Okay.
Grubby's going to get the initial opening onto Rita King on this balcony,
cutting off all of his pressure here.
He's going to dodge both of these nades beautifully.
And the key thing to here is he's not exposing himself to candy is on
that balcony.
Okay.
He's making them work for every step here.
And then to end this late round, you're going to see how the
strat gets so deep.
You're going to have U4 on the piano double with Crossfire onto the piano hop.
You're going to have Sarks on the blue stairs.
You can have that double hop too with him and new vertical lurch with the shotgun.
As to to be able to hold for KDS on the snow balcony, Yachter to have a great Crossfire
deep library with U4 too.
Andy's going to have Crossfire to mezzanine walk and towards the ego balcony all being
reacted off of Groobie here on this top mezzanine position.
Look at all of these angles you have to worry about if your phase going into
this clear here.
We're going to stop, we're going to pause, we're going to go through.
We're going to see the kill come through on souls from U4 from the piano double.
And then they're just going to walk into their setup.
Yaga from deep, it's just a beautiful way to make them get in the map and work for it here.
I mean, that was a beautiful teletrain today.
For your first ever teletrain, big round of applause being able to break that down.
And that's exactly what I'm talking about.
Not playing into FaZe's game, playing their own game, Ruby being an important piece right there,
staying alive, not giving up that position.
And FaZe wants you to make a move there.
FaZe wants you to peek into them, but they held their angles.
They held their space, they played their crossfires and shut it down time and time again.
Well, Yaga has been such an incredible player.
Candy is welcoming into this was maybe the most talked about member of phase.
And you could look at this head to head.
These players, you know, very hard to separate in terms of a cost,
but obviously the impact that both of them have,
they need to play well for their teams to succeed.
I mean, who would have thought Yaga being here?
One of my ex teammates, he's just an amazing player.
Yeah, just he's been around the world.
And I just so excited to see him really finding his footing and that success on this team and he's just a staple player
Why do you think it's working for me both? No
Why do you think it's working right now because he's been in moments like these
He's built for moments like these where he can step up and he can shine and again
It's hard to just highlight one individual on this team because if you look at that entire stat line from across team
Everyone was within one or two kills from each other
Everyone is putting their best foot forward and that's exactly what you want coming into a semi-final
But not only coming into a semi-final going against the two-time world champions
You need everyone firing on all cylinders and believing in one ideology one structured form of a team
And that's exactly what they're doing key thing for Yaga to his mentality
I'm gonna be the very stoic person doesn't really give too much about who he's playing against and you just see that the way he carries himself
It really doesn't look like he cares
He just loves the game of Siege. I'm sure he does care though
No, of course
Yeah
And I think the element is when you have that kind of game face you can take on some some juggernaut to expect you when they
walk into the room to kind of start reacting. You don't react and they go, okay, this is a
new ball game. Now you stay even pace with them. You make things difficult. You get a
couple rounds and you're in the map lead. Where do you go from here, iconic? Because GK Esports
again, many people going, that's right. That's right. Faze will come back like they
did against Liquid yesterday. But does this GK team have enough to shut them down
now again?
Of course. I think too, going to the console, it's a very big defense side of map. So
just making sure you can reset and establish that new momentum going in because Faze,
They're gonna come at you, they're gonna be aggressive,
they're gonna try to take the momentum back in the series,
and you have to be ready for them to fight.
Groovy said it's not gonna be easy,
so you have to expect that, you have to reset,
and you have to go again.
GKE Sports, they're on the verge of doing something special.
And now, let's get an exclusive sneak peek
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Welcome
back to our Lenovo PC setup here with our professional player, Yaga, from Rainbow Six.
We're going to go over everything that he does outside of the game to get him ready for the
end game. Yaga, let's go over these setups really quick. What do you typically do before you jump
into the match? Yeah, so the first thing that I'll do is I'll obviously adjust my chair. Usually
set it to the lowest height and then make sure the back situated properly adjust my desks.
And I don't have a specific height that I set it to, but I'll just kind of feel it out
and usually just right up on my belly button.
A lot of players will take out their measuring sticks and whatnot.
I'm not super particular.
I just, whatever feels good.
In terms of the keyboard, are you more of a slant or slightly?
Yeah, so I just do a slight slant with my keyboard.
A lot of people, you know, they put a straight vertical.
I'm not able to do that.
I'm not super particular about where everything's at on the desk.
I just kind of go off feeling what feels right to me.
Do you do anything with mouse settings?
Do you do anything with monitor settings?
Yeah, so I'll obviously make sure my mouse is all set up correctly, I'll set it to DPI,
don't really mess with the polling rate.
And then as for the monitor, I just make sure it's on the maximum refresh rate, and I like
to crank the brightness up.
Dark boost as well, I like to just really get the brightness up, so that way I'm way
brighter.
As you can see the difference here.
Are you more of a headset guy or are you more of an IEMs?
A little bit of both, so I use the headset to talk and then I'll use the in-ears
for my audio.
Like you don't change like to the default to make it like an FDS setting, movie
setting, anything like that.
Yeah, you keep that pretty standard.
I'll usually set it to like gamer one
or whatever the setting is on there
and then just kind of customize it until it looks right.
Do you change any NVIDIA settings or anything like that?
No, I don't mess with those.
Okay.
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Well, history and legacy on the line for FaZe, they don't really need to build any more
of it.
You know what they do, you know who they are in the Rainbow Six Siege scene.
But when it comes to GKE sports, Yaga and Yoper and these players, they barely join
together as this roster since June. So it was kind of a underdog story in a way where
you thought there's a lot against you. There's a lot that could go wrong, but things have
gone right at the CWC. They found their rhythm and they've been able to turn it into a map
lead against FaZe. And I kind of, we know how hard those things can be individually,
finding rhythm on a new team, but also against FaZe. If GK are to do it here,
because I know many people are wondering that question at home, what does it look
I feel like just staying calm.
I feel like Shepherd delivered it perfectly, taking a deep breath and really making sure
you don't let them sink too much out of your control because they are human beings.
Everyone makes mistakes and everyone has fear.
So you have to exploit that.
Going to see the Cade with Mind Man coming out.
Going to be difficult here.
Monty Grimm just stopped that initial pressure.
Grimm just to displace Adam inside in the yellow side here.
I'd like to see DK start out strong on the defense side.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, especially how they were using those attacks on Shalei, they were able to push and pull all of the side of phase.
It's going to be a little hard on Consulate, it's a very constricted map, but something that we see typically from a lot of teams on the defense,
they get that early aggression, they play into those layers, play into those traps.
So I have no doubt that we're going to see a very similar side of a defense coming out on the side of DK.
Well, here is the question. GK, if they have the answer, they'll be moving over to the Grand Finals,
but it's Faze Clan who's standing their way. Can they go 2-0 against the back-to-back six?
Invitational champions will find out as we send it over to Zidox and Gus.
So, heading into the second map of today's second semi-final.
Fiora already in the Grand Final tomorrow. I'm just waiting to see who's going to join them right now.
Right now GK have got their nurses in front after winning Chalet 75.
They start defense on Consulate as well because if that can get them off to a good start,
55% defense win rate at the Esports World Cup.
FaZe will be looking for revenge in terms of the map history.
Well, Simon has already found a kill inside 15 seconds.
Well, is that an ominous feeling?
And the last four months, a 1-2 record for FaZe on this map of Consulate.
The only win being against Wildcard three months ago, 8-7, 6-8 loss, 5-7 loss in the other two results.
As for GK, a 7-5 win over Twisted Binds, and a 5-7 loss over versus Pro.
A good start for FaZe, getting rid of the Tachanka straight away, 15 seconds into the map.
It would be very on-brand for FaZe Clan to go into this second map and
steamroll their opposition on their selection on their home ground,
and off to a great start here for the opener.
So ultimately what they shape up for here, I'm inside clear likely,
and then a lot of util layering on offer for the late round.
And don't discount KDS on the Zofia here.
Triple impact could be useful in dislodging some of this horizontal pressure laid out by GK
Turn right out there for GK is without the tachanka. You've got less denial later in the round
So this nitro cell that yoga has over towards managers will need to at least get something KDS down below and sign a visa
You're gonna know about impact right there trick as he said yoga needs to be very careful
Let's go for the nitro cell and does connect on the side but gets into the capitol gets away safely
Hopefully, KDs has still not used those impacts on the Zofia, as he left below inside the lounge.
It's going to be Solz to make his way into Admin, used one of the smoke grenades.
But that position's already been vacated.
GK are happy to just get that kill, fall back to play to site.
Saks and Newport have gone all the way back over the CO site of the map.
Back now, actually rotate back over towards Long Desk.
I really did expect the triple impact coffin to KDs as it put on site.
Just a singular for now and instead electing to go for more
third pressure and there goes your own courtesy of Solz.
Glamrs finds the next pick and advantage again for FaZe.
The good news though for GK is probably that the time is starting to get quite low.
Only 40 seconds remaining in the round.
Solz also low on howls for this Glamrs.
They'll be seeking a default plant with no real denial of A level for GK, no Dechenka.
Vulcan canister's been popped towards default so the flames are up right now as you can see in front of Solz.
U-Paw's getting closer. Solz has been taken down.
Can't give revive. No he cannot because Sark's finds the angle.
3 vs 3. We're getting very low on time.
1v1 trade's not bad for the defense.
Still need to get the blind out. Viddicking though hits the headshot onto Grubby.
U-Paw's going to have to try and kill Al-KDS. He cannot.
FaZe take the opening round.
A close one to start on Consular.
Oh, but a king just is that guy.
Some players may not have had the confidence
to go for that peek and instead try to stick the plant then a 1v2 cover.
As he sticks it, but instead went for the peek.
What about if I fight back in the round there for GK? All things considered.
It was a nice nitro and then some of that on-site pressure was pretty good.
I liked the sides as well, from vending.
Nice one for one, but right here.
Bang!
Great shot there, onto mirror.
With Grubby falling it was a very very difficult position for
U-Port to find him, for the final. Defended to find themselves in.
Solid start for the phase, certainly not clinical but
it was good enough.
Good deal. 13 second opening kill from Cyber, put them
in a very good position now as we go base with the second round.
This will allow GK to really extend the map, play into a roam game.
People will go onto the solos.
And a little change up as well for FaZe. They'll get Cyber on the solid snake, handy onto the box,
and they'll play top down with the buck and ram combination.
They'll play into this roam, sat up by GK.
This is where FaZe can be really deadly on a map like Consulate,
Consulate where it's basement site you're roaming around. They'll take their time. They'll drone. They'll get intel
Especially off the radar of the solid state from cyber
Please the kind of team that will be patient in the initial info gather and then formulate a plan to the council and to their opposition
Trying to exploit weakness.
Oh, handy.
Whoa.
Wow.
And he might get another one, no.
Body shot.
Never mind the head shot from Sarkz will do.
Handing's been finished off.
At least the train is down.
Onto the puck is pretty decent.
No more skeleton key.
Of course, a three-poor Yono breaches.
Kandies is going to use one on this meeting floor.
Top floor has been vacated from GK,
Simon towards Spiral, catches out U-Porto on the solos and that's the
suffocating nature of the phase attack. That double prong is so deadly.
Playing their own game against FaZe on a rather large map like Consulate.
It's not gonna work out for you well that often. They find themselves down a player
again second round straight FaZe and had the early advantages.
Look to the better.
Look if there's any salvation for the defense.
Nitro in play.
The Yankee positions might be fortified by them.
I feel like I'm clutching it.
She was here a little bit.
The GK Phaser.
I'm going to play Yellow Stairs though.
So it's just Nitro even going to be playable.
He's probably going to have to play Contax off kind of close.
Unless he can use it a little bit earlier.
I don't know if it's going to be there for the lane.
Plans denial.
Sons, by the way, over towards garage. We'll go direct.
Oh, foot has been spotted.
Oh, oh, oh! Damaging the cyber from KDS to be fair, cyber ran right in front of him.
The King's full white now, starting to turn their attention towards yellow.
Stairs are good timing on this window from Sarkz.
Got them down onto Vita King. That will delay them.
They'll go for the revive, but they'll only be 30 seconds.
No pressure outside yellow. It's a full stack through phase clan.
Flash jump over to clear out Yellow Stairs position, Sox is gonna play life, he does still have that nitrous out, he'll try and fall back, no he'll hold the angle, oh he got at least the kill of the cyber, and two low health members for FaZe, to push forward, viddicking inside of expo but it's a double stack Yellow Stairs, this is winnable for G-Cat.
Oh look, Gromby had no idea. It doesn't matter.
Ask has been able to help out.
Gromby, can you believe that it's just happened?
The holographic slide is quite big.
KDS, we got the plate, no gets off it.
What? What did it get off it?
What just happened in that round?
Not exactly the most clinical round of seed you'll ever see,
but an exciting one and a reprieve for GK.
They get given that round at the end!
Oh my!
No, no, no, no, please!
We'll look back at the round.
Strong from Handy.
They found itself traded, Sark did great work over to Wadjela's sails in this round.
He deserves a lot of credit.
Sark took a chunk of team inflicted damage.
And then the last 40 seconds of the round, Sark continued his rampage,
It was eventually then treated out and right at the end here.
KBS!
Look at the surprise of the planet!
We're gonna have to stare about as confused as we are!
It's not often you see that, especially in the team of this halibut.
No.
That's a...
That's a gimme for GK.
Ooh.
Well what about the holographic side tower on Grumpy?
To be fair, we had the outlines, and I didn't even notice initially.
No.
Five seconds left for fourth through.
We'll take anything that you can afford it to you in a series against FaZe Clan, one to
one.
Expo Piano for the third round.
A rare mistake from FaZe.
Doesn't happen often.
GK will benefit, but GK should also be aware of the fact that two rounds in FaZe have
looked better.
Being the better team.
Back to back opening kills, one from Cyber, one from Handy.
Those have been pretty early in the round, or both of those have been inside of the first minute.
Now, I wonder how Pays are going to respond after that last round. I guess probably most likely a miss on there regarding a Nitro, but...
... into a bit of a sinking feeling to lose the round in that fashion.
And they'll look to recuperate and refocus here into round number three.
Speaking of nitro's triple and plate here for GK looking to play in for heavy as well with the solos and the bulk combo
Cyber on the IQ in counter play as a phase. Oh, she stands continue to scream
They're common
Jogger finds the Dytropik onto Saibot, first open to kill at the map for GK.
Gets rid of the IQ, and sees Valkyrie's are still up as well. One visa, one spiral, and one lounge.
And with no IQ these may stay up a little longer.
A very slow pace round from Faiz, now down a player heading towards that final minute, and a lot of work to do.
do. They still haven't really cleared out this top floor either and they haven't
asked though it's gonna be a little bit careful because Vitteking is very close
to him. Vitteking has not made noise for quite a while so ask I don't believe
knows he's here. You're waiting for a dislodge elsewhere to maybe find a
playmaking opportunity difficult to go ahead on himself from this catering
position. All the time in kill and he knows then ask is close but smart.
Vidicum plays the safer option fallback expecting maybe for us to go for the
trade. And then you're gonna fall. The Vidicum is KDS, catches the head of Grubby.
Sark starts to find that kill on the KDS. Ask still inside of meeting. He knows
that maybe Vidicum has fallen back outside of balcony. Sark starts to
have a knife throw but there's a battle in the hallway. Jigglepeak swing is
He's so clean from Handy, clinical siege and only ask that remains and Viddikings still close by to him
Surely ask is dead in the next few seconds Viddikings is ready to bounce. He's got the angle covered
Ask can't get into a position to deny
And even though Viddikings didn't find the kill initially, Plant went down, then gets the kill
Faze find their second
That's why Viddikings is regarded as one of the best in the game
his ability to unlock that round for FaZe un-matched.
And that kill on to U-Ports of the doubt over towards beating
and then had the presence of mind late round to be in a position
to counter the source on Vert.
Great round from Bidder King.
Large reason as to why FaZe were able to win round number three.
We now enter the additional banned FaZe.
Let's see what each team will opt for.
FaZe will funnel in off directly.
directly take that solos out of play for the remainder of the half and solid snake which has been
some good info gathering on the side of the attack benched by GK.
Well, started well for GK with that early night to side of the side of it from Jogger
but then it fell apart pretty quickly there after and Vittekings positioning
with a wealthy breach and a big impact into the round
and then just came down to a lot of 1v1s, handy really good jiggle peeks, wing, kill and from there
Brown just got away from GK
So back to CEO meeting, GK does it go in the opening round, lost it though to FaZe
Definitely some more concerns though for GK, on a map like Consulate which you want to be
getting these defensive rounds, FaZe already with two attacking rounds puts them in good stead
5 solid and solid snake banned away. Even though the mirror has not been banned, Grumby
will drop it and bring the bandit instead. They also bring the warden instead of the
mute as the lineup changed from the opening round on this side. Change up to 4 phase
as well. They will not bring the Maverick again. They've actually played the Maverick
three rounds straight.
Actually, if four, I take a swap from what we saw them bring back in the opening round.
And Lizzie Zofia will remain.
That GK will be eager to retain that planted half potential.
The Tchenka in combination with the Goyo and double Nitro.
I mean that time management fall phase is going to be likely very important in this fourth round
We'll see there how the attack looks the posture here if it ends up being console side, maybe yellow drop
They must have positioned a contest but through that position
Okay, yes impacts elsewhere
See strong works already deployed here by phase they just get into such good positions
don't make a lot of noise. They don't really give the defense a lot of opportunities to figure out what's happening.
I was just taking some damage elsewhere, but it was top-slaw hallway. U-pawn first death, courtesy of KDS.
Two impacts were used as well from the Zofia. Find that opening kill onto the Izami.
That's Bidiking. Maybe expecting a swing, and there it was from Sarkz. Reading him like a book.
Well, FaZe are cruising at the moment on Consulate, her attacks have been clinical.
Really the one round that was won for GK was also off of a FaZe mistake, a rare one too.
Probably yet to find a kill.
Such a suffocating attack from FaZe.
Oh my goodness, how does Jogger not win that against the vaulted Procyber?
I mean, he was low health, asked to try and keep the round alive, but he too will fall to handy.
Wall's deathmarked, Grubby finds his first kill against KDS.
Can he get the second no? Had the chance, maybe, against Cyber towards Vending.
They're making a 3-1 lead for Faze Clan on the attack of Consulate.
We're going to see a tactical timeout from GKE Sports.
Yeah guys, I just think that you need to relax a bit more.
Tharvi, you keep forgetting to wait for them to come again.
What do you think about bringing the class back down?
I think it should be good for the top floor.
For Basement, you still do a good job.
You left Sark's for the death position.
It's time, just don't die.
You have a good road to come back to the site, even play a Valkyrie hide.
Yeah, I agree. I think we just need to find a solution to their opening kills.
Did they get all the opening kills?
The panic kill sounds like, I don't think we need to start the extended, if you guys want to start the extended,
that's like, say to your teammate you've got shotgun to throw, for example, the yellow stairs, you know?
And you're the same, for example, I think we like, just make sure that we bring guys, like, keep the different targets, and yeah, just keep the, yeah, no, just play flash, we're on the top floor, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Well, Jepp and Tane, you know, calm down, R's actually bringing up the opening kills, that's been an issue, and he's right, in the opening four rounds, three, one, split in favour of FaZe.
It's not just that as well, it's the way that FaZe are able to enter the building, get
into these deeper positions, and they're just seemingly one step ahead of GK, even though
GK is on defense consular, they've got to make it more difficult for FaZe to get into
these positions.
Yep.
Interesting, there was a little discussion there in terms of maybe bringing the clash
for counterplay, not to be selected here for at least the 5th round, and they're
Also not elected to go trap heavy despite these strong lurk positions from FaZe.
The kind of lineup that to me suggests they're looking to play late round.
But FaZe have been so dominant in the first third of the round by gaining that space,
forcing scouting from the defense, then being well prepared to dominate.
It's an interesting path that GK have elected to follow here.
To me, suggests that maybe they aren't reading into the play from FaZe as well as they would like.
But again, we'll see how this side goes because it compared a little bit differently.
And I feel like in terms of the clash that you mentioned, if you're going to bring it probably
see our meetings to site that you'll actually bring the clash, which is what they said.
I was just heard that they'd find a go back basement as well, so they got options, that's
probably the gist of things to close this half-hour two rounds to go.
The problem though when you kind of bring up that discussion, which is what I asked
it in terms of the opening kills, it means it almost inadvertently that the first
sense is to say then to be play safer yeah I don't know if that's the right way
to play against FaZe but they were already exploiting a lot of these entry
positions and getting into good positions early.
Obviously got to take the risks. I think those early fights. No early entry and
like from FaZe at least in this ground so they've been able to keep that at
bay whether intentionally or not here in round five and that will
Certainly a favour, I think GK and the lineup that they had presented.
Info from the VAL, good crowd control, smoke and Chancha and the Mirror as well for the old top floor.
Little lineup change from the third round of Expo Piano.
Atrocel from Yoga, well back in that third round it did finally open a kill on to Cyber.
This time a little bit of damage onto him through Admin.
Halfway through the round and the slow pace per face here on Consulate has been to their benefit
That's what one through the drone hole
Any assault to move through break
Just starting to close in towards that pending hallway
This is really good school out from GK phase have not been allowed to find
position. Again, because they are playing safer. And they can do that with the
Shemeiko launcher through a viewport. He can delay the ability to push through
this hallway. Yoga's ready. Close angle swing towards default. It would be a 1v1
against Cyber, and he does win that 1v1. There's no full-off trade potential.
Salzlek's front door. Handy was also baseman. They'll look to connect site
here potentially. Draw out GK. Yeah, but time is also starting to get a
little low here for FaZe. Grummy's nitro salz doesn't connect over
towards catering, but he can still outside of the balcony.
Soles now below inside of Lounge as you mentioned,
and that caught by Grubby.
Thru the fur, finds the headshot.
Rouga will fall to KEDS.
Still has two impacts available on the Zofia
and up through the hallway now, he goes.
Long desk hold by U-Pore.
Handy finds the headshot on to ask.
GK have still got a lot of this site in control.
Sark's on this first floor,
as Handy's going for the plant,
side of expo it's not a default plant grubby losing his life you pause on the
move the plant will go down though phase have navigated this perfectly good
swing kill though from you bought to be to into the post plant you bought to try
and play the first socks now try and play direct but it's you bought that
days from the first floor socks by himself one versus two one up close one
holding the doorway he doesn't even make a move as handy swing kill for
It's a phase onslaught on console at GK. I'm getting beaten down.
Oh, you gotta feel some sympathy there for GK. It felt like they did so much right in that round.
The whole top floor exquisite in terms of the stall-out.
Faze and the lurk wasn't really connecting as well as they would have liked.
The pick went the way of GK.
But then it was courtesy of the likes of Handy and 5v3.
His lurk, he was baseman, went up spiral, found that key pick.
Then got the diffuser planted in the blind spot.
Then he had a really gnarly shot on the vert you think up above.
And then was just able to play nicely into the 2v1.
That is a tough pull to swallow for GK.
Handy's up to 17 kills now across both maps.
Closest is Tide, Yonga and Cyber on 13 and he's also 5-2 on the entry.
A lot of round of this half but can't help but feel for GK they had missed to the boat, needed to get defensive rounds, clearly haven't.
It's going to be difficult for them in the second half, whether it's 4-2 or 5-1, at that point it won't matter.
Better fall two though of course but it's a long way back down here on the second
map of the series. Autra's looking more and more likely as a requirement. I have a
quick entry into Admin. It is basement though, it's not expecting a whole lot
of contests up above. Oh wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
And shut socks, dead. It's no idea Cypher's already deep entry through Admin.
30 seconds into the round another opening kill for FaZe. We've heard ask during the
tactical timeout talk about it as an issue and it remains as such.
Now we'll force some playmaking here from GK but the cutoff already deployed
from FaZe makes Vigas aside precarious for defense and will help isolate these defenders.
You know, the bird to activate, sledge ram combination, four phase.
They also then have double hard bridge for the direct onto site.
Oh, timing onto U-Port.
Good repig though from KDS, knowing that U-Port's five more out in the open, tough a shot for
him to hit.
And then a good kill though from Aske onto the running bit of king as he falls back
down through storage.
And then, elsewhere, Yoggup finds a crucial kill onto KDS, brings it back to a three
versus three.
Yoga critically able to get back down yellow stairs before handy could cut him off
They've been able to stabilize on the defense not a bad position for GK. Yeah, but handy still alive
He's the boogie man right now the way he's playing sure is
On that black beady can take some space
Handy will push down spiral already into basement cyber and souls have got good control
Next English will pop, block vision towards the hallway, cyber then gets rid of a ask,
oh Yoko, huge battle won, cyber the handhandy part combined, 5-1 lead for Faith Clan,
two rounds away from Fortress, an almighty dominant half.
I forgot, just focus on the game
You have to focus on his mind too, he's seeing that he has a fucking face
What?
He has to focus on his mind too
He has to focus on the game
This guy needs a chocolate, he's a fag
I don't know, he's a fag
He's putting his active skills in the cup
The guys here are playing
Chef I'm listening to both of you guys, and please do not guys
It's one fight guys, we're gonna fucking combat most likely
If not we're fucking fortress to play, we don't care like it's no problem
But make sure that we play at the team guys, we're going to play fast cause we play fast guys
This kind of place is gonna work, but we need to do it together guys
If everyone wants to fucking do the free pro attack, you can do it
If somebody wants to do the fucking team, team sakur
Let's go for it guys, make sure that we do it as a team
We're gonna fucking win it guys, like we have these situations against fanatic
When we strike it guys, it is enter price remember guys, enter price
It ended, like we started same way
What's the Tungtungse Herschkart?
I hope we see that one.
I'm probably taking over the half time talk at the end there, but Shepi brings up a good
point.
You can't just turn your attention to the next map.
They have 5-1 down.
It's going to be difficult, but played at the best of your ability and who knows what
can happen.
That's about keeping spirit high.
Well, you want to go down flying here.
This is not going to be much easier against FaZe either, and it's not as if there's a safe haven map on the other side.
I am getting the sense that the third map will be required. By the way, the record on Fortress for these two teams, a 1-3 record in the last two months for GK.
6-8 lost to G2, a 7-3 win over Secret, and lost to Virtus Pro 2-7 and 3-7.
The span of a week for FaZe, a lost to Team Liquid, 4-7, beat low 7-5, beat Liquid then 7-5
in a rematch and then lost to Virtus.Pro 2-7 of course last week and 7-0ed Liquid yesterday.
I mean, it's been a great response here on the second map, but it's an expected response,
right?
That's what you're expecting from phase.
You take a map off them, they want to rebound and they do so quickly.
The funny thing as well is the one round that GK has got is probably not even supposed to
have gone their way.
It really could have been a 6-0 half in favour of FaZe.
Yeah, it was the fall off on the plant late with the Miskom Nitro.
Well, they've had the chance of GK a couple of entries as well over the course of this
half that were not converted.
FaZe, in terms of their map manipulation in that first half.
It was really great to watch.
the lurk was so strong on attack.
Let's see if GK can
pull off some chicks of their own in the second half.
Seems to be employed here for their first attack.
Need to have clearance as well, care to see if the floor is
probably pottering for the admin across here.
Same bans as well, going into this second half.
Monty Grimm, Kaid and well my same as what we saw in the first half.
If you lose 7-3-7-4, you feel a little bit better about yourself going into Fortress.
Maybe you're like 7-1 here, that's not going to be a good feeling going into that third
final map.
The fort is clear in terms of the OP kills in favour of FaZe.
Nice impact there actually to keep Funtesk up.
That will aid FaZe later in the round if GK looked to push top spiral.
The final return we're going out from Grubby.
Entry yellow.
And entry over towards meeting.
So the groundwork here from GK has been pretty sound, but at this kind of level that's expected.
Now hop way through the round though.
If you face, I think you're pretty...
And they're on Vulcan.
Cyber is watching this position intently.
Over towards break.
Yoga on live camp. You can watch the camp. Who can you deal with it?
And you play off it
The cyber trying to he actually has been able to slip back into a space that maybe GK think is safe
Cyber has got a very lovely flank position inside of managers the timing takes the contact with yoga
Cybers position known should be able to get safely back
Although you fall are gonna cut him off as he slipped into bright cyber is then gonna go down in towards visa and look to play
the long way around. He can play from below as well with that yourself and those
vault camps as you mentioned before. Not only that, but it's also taken some time
away from GK. The vault camp is still up as well so a scary proposition now for GK.
40 seconds. A large portion of the team still on the exterior.
Yoga admin can those ROUs facilitate a plan. Getting concerned on the timing
front now as well for GK. They're getting quite low. They haven't even
cleared out long desk guide but they've still got to do a cyber down below.
and his souls that will go down first, the hands of Sarkz, up cyber comes through spiral, easy shot in the back and ahead of
Grubby, he was dealing with long death, that's now top spiral confirmed for FaZe,
one for one trade keeps it quiet even, heading into the last 10 seconds remaining into the round,
Yoga still has the kit, he also harrests an RRU over the water meeting, he's now been eliminated, there goes Sarkz as well,
so the ass that's left damage into KDS gets the down, two seconds to find the skill of the Viddiking and he cannot find it,
phase will go to six and not long to go until they probably find all seven here on Consulate.
Faze doing a good job to hold on in the tail end of that round, but if a chaos ball being
thrown there by GK, some of the U2 are lowering there from the ROUs and the back
hit yellow side just kept things a little interesting and kept Faze honest.
They're doing a good job there and communicating the wincon late in the round to get the
job done, defuser dropped, pity king won that kid duel and then immediately be
blinded as far away from ask as possible then ultimately it worked out.
Could be a kills hand being there for GK but the fail to convert three of the
opportunities, counts three, five and now seven and actually these two teams
the better conversion rate GK had going into this series has actually
been the one stat you look at for FaZe at this event that's a little compromise
I think low 60s heading into the day regardless though they're still able to find results
time after time
look at the conversion rates as you talk about GK said in the 76% for FaZe
67%
Because typically the longer you go throughout these tournaments the more of those numbers
will at least get to the medium which you will.
Looks like we will get to Fortress as well.
This has been a dominating performance from FaZe.
No person play for the match point round.
KDS the situating start on second four and does have support early here on the roam.
We'll see if the plan is to peel or stay.
Trying to absorb as much time and utility as possible here from GK who could potentially
try and throw bodies at this top four take.
They also might go direct if they want to as well.
No, saying they're going to be playing a rather roam heavy composition.
That means Viddikings go back down server stairs.
They only had souls initially.
Yeah, that's a triple primary heart bridge could even mean they go for the back pinch to there's lots of options here for GK
Do they avoid or do they can test this room? That's the ultimate question
Saks has just been lingering at the bottom of yellow stairs for the last 40 seconds
The longer this though
Kind of sits in the position where clearly GK haven't gone top floor down Banes will then give up that top floor play burst and basement
That's pretty much what's happened except for handy
Here's the soul exception everyone else has made their way back down for face
See the concern for groving even just trying to push into visa
It's the perceived pressure that's being created by the defense
Now GK have committed themselves now in avoiding the room
They're not in a position now to contest the room is pretty much coming to an end anyway though
Because there's only a minute remaining there. There is no room game
Still an archer still available. But what that also means is handy has the three being able to stay top floor into garrots
Goes ask he's gonna try and go for a sneak that's not gonna work. They're in the yellow pillar
He gets taken down a half HP goes for a reattempt on the plant. It's getting quite close
It seems as if it will be successful
4v4 post play but ask force immediately to handy traded. Oh by you poor put the advantage still with phase of that next kill
The trades are being in favor of the defense.
Sarkz still at bottom of Yellow Stairs.
Vittor King wants to get on this case.
Sarkz is close by.
Will look for a swing.
The Souls is also there.
And forced off of the kit temporarily.
Grubby over towards the breach does still have a flash.
He could have thrown in,
but he goes for the headshot kill.
Nitro connects.
This is the swing from Sarkz.
Scyper's too far away.
GK will find a second round and conceal it.
and Cyber searching for a kill. No, not to be.
6-2, we stay a little longer on Consulate.
Okay, but a good route from GK.
Yeah, they found a way to go for the direct route, credit to them.
Got very dicey there at the end.
It didn't feel particularly convincing,
but there was a lack of nitros towards that plant position.
And there was Contest up above as well there, to a limited extent,
in terms of the vert from GK.
Well, posture then in the post, then for the picks for free and did a good job contesting
the likes of yellow.
Nice Utah as well.
Did you see the sign?
I did not see the sign.
Let's go phase.
We're going to scream wow.
Oh.
Plenty to scream about here on map too.
Well, certainly has been.
I wonder if the GK, if that's just going to be one and done, maybe here on Consulate?
A really solid round, finally got to put it all together.
I don't think Paz are in the business of giving up a 6-1 lead today.
Arch attack a re-pick for GK, bring it to round number nine.
Expo, piano, lead the side choice for Faze.
Logo, we'll get onto the Blackbeard.
I'm seeing some shield played from GK this half.
He was contained a little bit back on
Chalet,
FaZe elected to ban out the Black bit and the Grim,
then followed up by the Monty, so constricted
Yogg's ability to play those shields,
one of his big strengths.
Now given the opportunity here, at least for
a couple rounds.
But if he does find success, we can anticipate that they will venture much like they did back on that first map.
Speaking of the Blackbeard, it's Admin's side entry and they'll lift the link up with the meeting half-reach.
You make a wall pass.
Top floor focus for GK but they don't really bring Ram or Buck.
Trying to open up, play some of the burp.
This is just more a case of trying to push back the top floor defenders.
Getting them back to the first floor, then look for the execute with the capitol.
Get some info from Ask on the Solid Snake.
They're all going to be the one to creep forward.
so that it can make contact into positions like this,
with awards meeting.
So I've made a little bit of contact
just to make sure that no one's just sitting inside a catering
with that final frag grenade.
And halfway through the round,
decent space taken on the top floor for GK,
but still defenders do need pushing out.
Over on the CO side of this top floor,
can I remind you of this first floor site?
Both teams in a decent position. Double Nitro. Still available for FaZe, KDSCo's Garage.
And Solz, no doubt, will look to rotate down yellow eventually.
Good tool and throw. Here in round number nine. Neither team significantly ahead.
Now GK happy to take their time. As we've seen so far in this half opening kills with the 24 second mark and the 53 second mark.
Still 5-5 heading into the final 40 seconds in this round.
And that information from Ask on a KDS and Bitter King over in basement.
I am starting to get a little concerned though for the time.
In fact, there are still basement present defenders as well.
Poor FaZe means that GK, this has to work the Ask.
He needs to find a way to contest the Nitro.
Well, it's a multi-level battle.
There's still defenders on the top floor as well.
GK could easily get pinched when they do eventually get to the site.
It's not just down to Ask.
There's going to be a lot of players that are going to need to do everything.
Nice to know, take it, he has a head-shuttle to ask as well, six seconds.
Gotta go grab this kit, start planting it, do it so quickly.
U-Paw's picked it up, will go for the plant, no more time remaining, will FaZe be able to find this kill.
Shut down Grumpy, good anchor cover, U-Paw gets the plant down successfully.
Winner and 2v2, both plant, as Grumpy finds the third in the round.
Handy on the top floor.
Does then find the kill onto you, boy. We enter a straight 1v1 and Grubby's low on health.
Handy is born for these moments. Grubby goes above.
Who can test the third handy will need to chore out the shot.
Handy's not entirely sure as to where Grubby's gone, but I think he's starting to clear one that Grubby indeed has gone above.
Pros don't fade, but this bro will die. Grubby wonderfully played round.
Two in a row for GK's, they make it 6-3.
A long way back, long, long way, but they're done well in the previous two rounds.
One by one for GK.
Yeah, look, I'm not entirely sure if that was the triple-t strap, but the way it was pretty well played.
Got nervous though there towards the end, KDS with a great early-night-shoken test
followed by a second kill below.
Well, it's three rounds in a row where GK and this is why you're feeling nervous to play these late round executes
Yeah, I know the colors as late as it could possibly get for the attack
It's open to kills 24 seconds 53 seconds 11 seconds. That's been the last three rounds played on the attack for GK
But they've got two plans down in a row
Just making this interesting
They're clinging on. They're still on the ledge but they're clinging on. Well, one operator
that helped them a lot in that round was the Solid Snake. It's got some really good information
down in basement. That has now been banned away by Bayes. The Izami also banned away
by GK, played in two of the three previous rounds. And then even if GK do fall short
They've made enough noise on Consular to suggest to FaZe that Fortress is not going to be easy.
CO and Meeting were successfully defended back in the 7th round to start this second half.
And FaZe will return there now, but you lose this site and suddenly it's 6-4 and 3 strength to GK.
Things will get very spicy if FaZe lose this one.
All righty, let's not back in.
They've got the pulse with Chandy to get information.
Of course with the Azami banned out this time, they'll bring the Allah instead.
So that's a forced change, but the unforced change, the only one being the mirror for the pulse.
will stay the same as for GK they drop the sends and they drop the floras from
round seven and they bring the capitao and the nomad
again it will be probably a slow haste round for GK they're in no rush
and then slide across they've had a really good read on these positions
Cast again blind back last time, courtesy of the bulk, they've now got the pulse.
Surely there is an appliance spot over towards break.
Same bulk cam manager, so might be the same sec here.
Can make things interesting in this round, especially with the triple...
Oh!
Big Nitro from Cyber onto Grubby.
And that feels like taking the heart and soul down this GK team here
in this 10th round.
Usually you can rely on Grubby to maybe salvage a round, it's going to have to be someone else.
And Yogg is low, Oscar already half health as well.
This is looking rather difficult for GK.
Socks is in a decent position here, quite advanced, but he needs his team to help dislodge either Saibot or Vidicke.
He'll need a multi-kill Saibot. Is he ready for this? No, it's on the back!
Huge double from Sarkz. Round suddenly alive again for DK. At the window he comes
souls, but he thinks better Roblet falls back, doesn't want to take the fight, and
also loses luck. He has Nitro and so does Andy. Play going down inside of meeting,
but the window is covered, Sarkz can't get across to Nitro.
Oh my word! That one is indeed worthy of a scream as Andy finds a crucial double.
He gets taken low, Yellow Pink swing from KDES down to the men that started it all for DK.
Sarts will fall to hand me, oh what a round!
The Faze crowd rock their feet as they close out, consulate a little scared.
But it's Fortress where we will go to settle this semifinal.
I almost started to believe that they were so close to putting up a serious contest there
on Consulate that FaZe again, proving that they are the team to be.
It's fortress to determine these two teams' fates.
What a round from Handy, what a round from FaZe, what a play from Sarkz.
a really solid round of siege to close out console it and also for GK
Competitive to close up that they were six one now
They could have walked away from the map
Probably being beaten up seven one going back behind the stage feeling a little sorry for themselves
But I think they can take quite a lot of motivation from the close of that map heading into fortress that this is not going to be a
A forecourt conclusion, phase no, they're going to have to fight their best.
Yeah, absolutely.
Nothing is granted here at EWC.
It must be earned.
Even a team of phases, tenure, experience and skill, they're yet to lift this trophy, Jake.
And no, this is must win if they want to get one step closer.
And for GK, the Cinderella story, what a run it's been, a third map required.
But again, showed that on Consulate they were not going to just bow out.
Loved that they kind of adapted a little bit.
Slowed their own pace down, found after news, went for plant focus to attacks.
That got them back into the game a little bit.
And honestly, it took a huge handy clutch to win that round per phase.
And if you go to big phase, you're going to have to beat them at their best.
And Handy right now has been at his very best in this series.
He's up to 24 kills, 14 deaths, 5-2 on the entry.
Andy is one of the old-time modern guards for a reason.
Map 3 is required.
Well, you know, that was one for the record books.
I think the way this matchup has gone, anything but simple,
phase yet again, making it interesting and sending us
to a third map.
But it was the heroics of Andy that I think
was appropriately mentioned there that really
turned the tide.
Without that, it would have been maybe
GK doing it in 2.
Oh, absolutely.
And I loved what Jake was talking about.
Yes, sure they did lose this map. They do have to go to a math table
There is something to be able to take away going to the back right there that you could have ended that in a seven one that you
Weren't getting any momentum behind you
But the fact is they were getting that momentum round by round and even starts in that very last round
I mean a big 2k to almost bring it back
We're really did come down to handy getting that massive c4 just to put the pressure back onto gk and not
not instill any bit of momentum or hope.
I mean, you need your big players and big games,
and he showed up for them.
He did.
That is a great rating as well.
One, three, three, top of the lobby there, I kind of.
No, yeah.
And also, to a lack of said, it's great for DKQ
to show they can have the moment to get back into it.
Obviously, it's hard just when you go into that leg
of a deficit to really build back,
because it only takes one round for Faze to close out.
And you saw they hit the pulse.
It ended up biting them.
Extremely great tack to Faze.
you see them just having that deep state win cons.
And I feel like it's gonna be a great match
going into the third map here.
I mean, this third map, everything is on the line.
One map to decide whether you're fighting for $750,000,
a chance to lift the trophy.
GKE Sports, though, to me,
so impressive the way that they bounce back.
Can you talk about momentum?
That's gotta give you a lot heading into it.
Certainly, and honestly, going into this series,
like I said, I'll put my foot in my mouth.
I thought it was gonna be a phase.
At least you got some nice shoes on.
Well, we can clean sweep.
Fact of the matter is they beat FaZe on one of their best maps, which, respectfully so, is also GK's best map.
But something for me, I mean, one thing that really sticks out for me is just the fundamentals from this team.
They don't let anything paint a narrative for them outside of what they believe is going to work for their system,
work for their players, and they don't give up.
And that's something that you need to go against a powerhouse, like FaZe.
So it leaves me very confident when we get into Fortress.
They haven't shown it at all throughout this event, where FaZe have.
They lost to Virtus.Prove.
2-7, however they did beat Team Liquid Alienware 7-0, but they do have that VOD
and that's where KDS gave them prez that they are unknown. They're an unknown
entity going into that map. They're gonna look at a VOD that maybe was back two
months ago maybe and there's a lot that could have changed from them. How
prepared do you think GK are for this third map? I mean you have to be
prepared. It's best of one now and Fortress 2 really does play into their
style of the attacking side making sure they can spread out and kind of
work the gaps here. So I feel like it's just really a test of the mental
Making sure you can actually get yourself back in this game because it's a marathon.
It's not a sprint.
Here, you have to make sure you can finish strong and not let the cracks and
system show and keep those plays going.
I asked what do we need to do?
And the reason I asked this is because, you know, I've noticed.
And again, I have much less experience watching Siege than all of you.
I've been here this week really loving it and it's community.
You guys are amazing.
But to me, when I look at GK, they look like a team that if they get a
little bit of a cushion, they are dangerous.
And if phase denies that, then phase has the upper hand.
But that first map and the second map, the difference is,
we had a lot of contests late,
but they didn't get those early rounds
and so they were always chasing phase.
Again, and that's why it was very important
and very crucial for that momentum to start
to be able to come back for the side of GK
of just even getting those last three rounds
to ended on a seven three instead of a seven one
because then they can believe in themselves
going into this next map of we almost were able
to do this, had that C4 not landed by handy.
Who knows if then we're pushing it
into an overtime and extending it from there.
And then it's left up to mystery from there.
that could look like. So if I'm in GK's seat and I'm a former player, this is the momentum that
you need to carry into a third map of just having the belief that you were the better team, that
you could have been the better team, had everything went into your favor. As handy shows us exactly
why he is, who we say he is, how I guess important is it that he has this performance going into
map three? Because I feel like as a teammate, you know he's fire. Of course, too, but I
But I feel like it's even more important for the team to be operating strong because I feel
like what happens when these players play the best, when the team is playing the best
and they're operating together and the game is just coming to you.
I feel like if he's just getting his solo kills, solo frags, and the team's not only
finding much momentum into these rounds, it's going to be bad for FaZe Clan.
But if he's just getting the kills in that engine turning and they're actually
going through their motions and they're playing well all together, that's a very
different story than him just solo fragging.
Yeah, kind of solving problems by individual skill versus as a reflection of the problems
they're solving.
Individual skill is showing exactly like phase engine is working as well on the flip side in GK
We saw Sark's have some good moments
We saw we saw I mean I think rubby have a big impact earlier on a map one
Who needs to show up for you and your eyes heading into this final map
I mean realistically the entire team has shown up tremendously whether it was map one or map two sure it might have been a slower
Start but that also is the beauty of not having the best start on the second map is it's just not on one single person
You just can't look at one person be like well you weren't finding your rhythm
We weren't fine around them. That really took the entire team coming together,
finding those gaps that you were talking about and exposing them when that
Sarkz was doing extremely well.
They're going to have to do the same thing now going into fortresses again,
just working together, believing in the system,
believing in their ideology of how they work around the map,
exactly what they did on Shelly,
where they were pushing and pulling phase around on their defense,
exposing them, getting that opening kill into their favor.
And then we would see them almost look flawless going into that execute.
I think key thing mentally for DK is who would have pictured them to be
one one with face a map off the
I would have absolutely not me because I have to represent because Alfa was not
here I have to say something positive about you have to use that and flip
that and just go for it on this last map and you also you probably can't just
treat it as if you're lucky you got to treat it like you deserve to be here
is one more win during the grand finals you're facing curia it's all your
game all right let's send it over to Chris who's got a club championship
update for us Chris
a genuine pivotal moment just have to hear the alliance ball over and
over and chess, of course,
a huge one, we had Falcons taken on AGAL
and just the, arguably the unthinkable just happened.
Yeah, a massive underdog, Dennis Larsavik
representing AGL has just taken down
Ikara Nakamura, representing Team Falcons.
So that is a pivotal moment in the
Club Championship, guaranteeing himself a spot
in the final. And it's not just that either,
because the other Team Falcons player
is playing against Magnus Carlson in the other
semi-final, so this might lock them down
to play off against each other obviously if they're in that third third fourth playoff against each other they get a guarantee team falcons 500 points anyway
But they're missing out on the big chances of getting those 750s getting those 1000s on the board
So this is a huge moment for AGL and it's Dennis Larsavik putting them on his back at the moment
And just to actually give a bit more context to the story obviously Nakamura's third ranked in the world I believe as well
I'm not too sure what Dennis is personally and do you have the chest on?
I don't unfortunately but he is a massive underdog
Yeah he is a massive underdog so for him to go through and do that is absolutely huge
That is a massive moment for AGL now in the grand scheme of things. That's Falcons losing out to them. AGL
Extending their lead at the top of the club championship. I said beforehand thought this is not done until the very final day of this
Right can't wait to see what happens my word one up dead here from the answer in advice back to you
Well, thank you so much Chris it was a fun one to see a little bit of a clip earlier
If you missed it on EWC socials, make sure you check that out also EWC extra across all
of our social channels that you can find conversation around this event.
There was a little bit of a mistake, but maybe not because he did put his key into the actual
trophy a little early iconic, but now he's taken down the car and Nakamura and is finding
himself in the finals.
I feel like when I saw that obviously thought never let your opponent know your next move.
So it was really funny.
Never let the tournament organized.
Rob was over there, man.
Hollywood Rock was like, hold up, hold up.
I can't promise, I promise that 10 times better.
AGL with that move, 500 points away from Falcons
at the top of the leaderboard.
And it is going to be a tight race.
One week remaining, we still have several games
that Falcons is representing in,
but that was a great sign for AGL,
exactly the cushion they would hope for.
Gentlemen, heading into our picks and bans,
all the discussion, all the analysis, it's so difficult.
And I know this coming as pro players
because your perspective is one where there's nothing to really talk about here.
We know what to do. We've trained for this moment.
We have to go out there and execute.
I mean, forget the picks and bans at this point.
On the side of GK, they just all need to look at each other
and believe that this is their moment.
This is their time to shine and rise above all expectations
that have been thrown their way and dethrone, knockout,
phase clan from this tournament and push themselves into a grand final.
I feel like too, as a competitor,
if you do the moments you always love,
the pressure fully stacked on you,
you have to go out there and perform.
This is really what you look for.
Well, FaZe has been fantastic.
These picks and bans coming up on your screen as well.
They've given us some drama, I will say.
They've not made it simple for those
who might be getting their EWC pick-ums in.
By the way, reminder to do that,
it's gonna loud in there.
It's getting loud, though,
but that's the way you like it.
In France, where it's all on the line.
Tomorrow's grand finalists if they win, they're gonna get $750,000 second place earns
$350,000 around that money that is life-changing cash and these players are one
Map away. It's time to go to fortress to see who either stands strong or break down the walls and siege
For our final map for our final series for our second and final grand finalists. Let's get it off
So the third map was required for the winner. Get to be determined.
Things will start on deep vents. The most defender-sided map in the pool.
Here at the Esports World Cup, it'll be a safe start for them, for GK.
They'll get the first half to see if they can steal a couple of rounds on the attack
and set themselves up for their own defended half to follow.
The Bands, Monti, Deimos, Azami, and the Mirror.
It deals as if it's all set up for FaZe Clan Guards.
But is there one last twist in this tale?
Maybe. No big surprise in terms of the Bandset here from FaZe,
for GK much more limited data, of course,
but this will be the first time that they ban out both the Azami
and the Mirror here on this map.
Again, they're very, very limited data.
I think at this event so far,
So far we have actually seen Fortress start to open up maybe a little bit more
For the attack of course over the course of stage one very much a grindfest across all regions
And in the eSports World Cup we are seeing the attack find avenues to just crack it open and increase the tempo a
little bit more full map sweeps
Haven't been the most in favor for a lot of teams instead with the try and go for the D2 and cut it in half
So we'll see what GK looked to employ here in the first half. They're the ones to be the tempo setters.
We have bathroom to begin. So Fortress, yesterday, actually quite a few attacking rounds were found.
It's not impossible.
We're looking to disrupt that return road from Ask.
We've got one more remaining in the blocker.
There's been a down all ready.
GK, a little bit of a flatback on Consulate. There was 6-1 down.
Got him back to 6-3, couldn't close out to get at least a 6-4, he's were able to finish the job.
Again it was the pacing that slowed down for GK where they actually found success.
I looked to bring that here as well on fortress but they lose Gromby immediately to handy.
He's been the MVP as usual.
another opening kill. Heard ask, talk about that earlier back on Consulate as an issue
for GK. It remains still to be an issue.
Oh, this one's going to complicate the late round now for this attacking unit of GK. Playing
into the bandit for wall denial, and there's good stall out on off lot. Razor blooms, gas
babes, Goyo canisters, and those FNOT minds as well. Why not throw those in the mix?
tricky proposition for GK. Minute to work with that was an opportunity. A difficult one but not
capitalized upon and in the meantime Cyber drops ask. He tells you players are ready for GK.
The defensive wall for FaZe is very very strong. This may end up being flawless. It's on the
yoga left. Well this round is definitely going the way FaZe clen. One nipple start here on the
third map. They've been tested by GK but it seems as if they're starting to pass that test.
It's only the first round but it's so dominant again from Faze. GK never even looked likely.
This is going to be a difficult half for GK Esports.
We haven't seen Fortress play 11 times here at the Esports World Cup.
Interestingly enough, the primary side of Troy's command of Arthur was actually the most attacker-sided
of the three that have been played.
45-55 split in favor of defense.
Storms are 63% in favor of defense, and waiting room cafe sitting at 70%.
So weirdly enough, that's the kind of side where for JK, you want to be trying to get off to a positive start,
and unfortunately for them, anything but.
He's going to have to try again and do a whole lot better.
Flawless in the open, three kills from Handy.
So the key tabs on him, he's up to 27 kills.
Next close, this is Simon with 21.
He's stuffing the snap sheet.
Andy 140 EPS 62 on the entry
Only player inside of the server with over one kill per round ratio over the 1.17
That is incredibly high. That's really good
Nearly the early pushing again here from DK suggesting full map clears and
I don't know if it's recency bias
But I can't help but check the feeling that from what I've seen it
There's a bit teams like to be picked up the map in half
you know, to produce the amount of map clearance needed, probably found a little
more success. Also the pace when executing towards the site, exactly,
gives you more breathing room later around and can help lay a more pressure
early in the round as well on to the defense.
A little bit of space being tanked in here for GK.
Simon will play dining on the souls to try and get some information. He's
This means gaining a large majority of this round and those where those drones are spearheading
from, Faze confront the defense accordingly now.
I don't think they'll be threatened at all by any kind of backhits.
It's important that the song's confines some information here on the radar of the solid
snake.
Oh, okay, got it.
Grubby with the shock drone missing initially on the Coyneclaw, but then follows up.
I'll go through the second round. Ask down the courtyard corridor. Northside push here from GK. Coming on down towards the site.
Laying.
Cyber just needs to sit away.
Cyber's on here for a couple. All drawn.
Not active.
Well, that's been heard. Ask is now turning his attention.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Ask is aware of this. Ask is going to swing and find the kill on the sidebar.
Opening kill for GK, but they lose socks. The Solskjaer will fall to handy, of course.
It's been handy's playground in this semi-final.
They need to get Jogger in, but he eats the Nitrosol, taken down to half health.
He's poking up this doorway.
Grubby finds the next kill, an all-important one for GK.
Husk though then falls, but he's always seemed to have an answer.
Grumpy trying to find a long angle in towards the site, they deal with handy, Grumpy then falls and back and forth trades, KDS gets rid of the Blackbeard,
Upoor and a 1v1 against Viddicking.
No read.
Well the read though, is there for Viddicking, he knows exactly where Upoor is.
20 seconds.
He'll go initially for the player behind the bombchatsy.
Viddicking, that was a swing! Didn't even look to try and bait it out.
All the nerve in the world.
A 2-0 start for FaZe. That was around that it was there for GK. They needed to capitalize.
And to the credit of GK, they were able to keep pace with the trade game late.
But 1v1 against Spokeshot got up close. It was low percentage for the attack.
Speed of brutal start here from FaZe. No signs of slowing down.
No signs of slowing down, but it did come down to a 1 vs 1.
We haven't seen many of those in this series across the three maps
People have time as well could affect playing go off of the doorway that it can just swung anyway
You're gonna be phase you're gonna have to beat them in all three areas
You're gonna have to get the entry battles to go your way
You're gonna have to be better in the mid game to establish a bit of a dominance
They get those 5v3 advantages and then you've got to be able to beat them in the
execute. You miss even one of those. They will probably beat you. Against a lot of
other teams you maybe can miss one of those. They throw in the air for that easy.
Down below the cafe, the tertiary. Selection here for the defense. You
You say tertiary but it's the most dependent side of the sign as you said, typically two approaches, whether it be horizontal to the arm side from the attack or top down facilitated by the vert, the lineup here from GK is flexible, they can go either out or in the vert, they can spearhead the horizontal as well as they can see the blitz.
I think that's a phase it's pretty heavy investment first for very difficult teams defensively
to invest on the top floor and be able to facilitate that and justify it very exposed
on that second floor.
So that should mean that it alleviates pressure early here for GK.
So Yogg will clear top floor, I'll be down to the bomb, I want to get this reaching hatch
over the dock.
So once we get to work with the X-Cyrus from the Hibana, it's going to be interesting
to see if the attack here of GK is susceptible to the flank, no gridlock, no nomad, we've
already seen it once before, cyber in the previous round, if there will be a
flank. I wouldn't be shocked. So hatch opened up. 20 seconds into this round. The fans above
are nothing to GK. They're happy to just contain themselves on this first floor. They have
done a lot of sweeping on the horizontal. They'll have a very, very good read on this
push from GK. I know that there's not much on that first floor from GK, everyone on the top floor,
but Yogg is trying to be inciting towards waiting over the blind now. Faye is looking to then
contest it and they will. Of course it's Andy, of course his nitro cell connects.
He does find a kill back onto Viddicking, but then KDS keeps the train going for Faye.
Saks got to win this battle towards Parkford. Clear down cyber.
He finds himself on the first floor, can get some help from Saks and U-Pork from
a bar but at some point they will need to drop down and help him out. This might not
be the kind of round for GK to get the kit down and play a post plant but they do still
have the ability to find the kills. They do that, they catch souls in the hallway. He's
down and handy spot inside a kitchen. Impact's available for KDS. Handy got the kill on the
socks and KDS will fall. Handy to one versus two. He is undoubtedly one of the most
clutch players this game's ever seen. He's got the auditory information but you
It's the body shot. GK on the ball. They take out waiting in cafeteria.
The most defended site at the Esports World Cup. That is a huge round win for the email team.
Well, they needed to hit the scoreboard and finally GK do.
They got a little dicey. They committed a hatch drop. They went for the follow-up.
The plan A didn't work, the plan B, not particularly successful to land down on the horizontal late.
And had that trade covered in the true versus one, regardless of whether or not U4 won that battle.
I like both of these bands, the Solid Snake being taken away from GK.
Little crutching in finding Intel, we saw it back on Consulate.
Only played once so far back in the second round, Tom's games, but really, really useful,
especially on a map where there's a lot of that horizontal play, less vertical.
Also on the radar scan you're going to probably find more than one of the defenders, but then
also getting rid of the Goya, getting rid of Volcanus there's so much denial.
Well played from you Paul to shut down Handy, it wasn't exactly a full health Handy but
who cares.
So two to one, an all important attacking round went for GK.
Yeah the pacing has been quite slow from GK and hence that's a series though hasn't
it?
a lot of posturing. It does mean though that the late round area denial from phase is going
to come out of premium. The smoke will need to be effective. We may see a bit of Tchenka
play. Another trap neutral as well is going to be very useful.
I got my two commanded barter.
I will soft bridge for GK to ram with the buck and the sledge, and I will replace the
Goya in the lineup for FaZe, otherwise everyone else remains the same.
the Sophia and the Blackbeard that have been dropped for the buck and the sledge.
It's not too regular you'll see the buck on this particular site, so that's likely going to be
deployed in terms of clearing a particular power position probably in mine here for GK.
Will that be enough to maybe throw off Phase we'll see.
Gotta get value there from that skeleton key.
probably does have it in play now and what's the kind of line actually traversing over that
verse that's gonna open up the route a little bit more over towards tower stairs position
and you for does take that space not a bad setup of the man some GK just got to continue
to get the most out of the utility that they're bringing this round table handy well that's
It's a rare error.
Just didn't see it.
From such an influential player to make a mistake like that.
And it gives GK the opening in this fourth round.
These are the routes that GK really need.
Again, Pays don't make a lot of mistakes,
but when they do, you've got to make the most of it.
You've paused me postering for so long,
waiting to be enabled.
gonna be still below as well on the buck.
Nogaruff, Asperkett, a lot of posturing still from GK.
They're looking to be disciplined,
but it's now allowed FaZe to just reposition
a little more proactively.
And so it was then to find the kill on to Nogaruff,
Saibot still holding the line,
and it goes down the hallway.
U-Porn was low, etch on anyway.
So as soon as GK wanted to make their move
close to the site, FaZe were well set up,
well ready, Saibot to retake this position.
Down the end of the hole, he catches the head of Grubby!
The trade quickly though from Sarkz.
To think that they got the free opening kill onto hand here.
Faze still are holding on.
An ass-court.
It's only Sarkz left as Faze looks like they will escape here in the fourth round.
Although a knockdown onto KDS.
Sarkz, if you can find a headshot onto one of Sol's Orvidicking.
This is a little more doable, but those two will play surely together.
Perhaps the kit heads in towards command will go for the plan and that's the immediate swing from songs
They hadn't covered never getting that plant down phase go three one up. That's a missed opportunity for GK
KK now take their attack time out
Made a comment that's all you know with you to shut up. You give me like 20 seconds
You just need more utility. You cannot let this guy be on this position.
You need more information on the books. For example, your widgets stick with the shields.
You can literally do the same direct, even if you wanted the Sark's plan with the young suicides,
all the exams on the bridge, or actions, whatever like this.
You can just play fast on the sides.
If they don't have electricity, I think it's good.
Yeah, for the end of the round, just play more safer, with the good comps, with the good utility.
They're literally the only way to win conditions for them is to win, I think, right now.
Let's go guys, let's go guys, let's go.
Make it fucking crazy, guys, I mean, we cook at distance, you know?
So it's tactical timeout, expires for GKE Sports 2 rounds to go in this half.
Is it fair to say one more attacking round is all they probably need?
I would agree.
Anymore with your bonus. They had a good opportunity though this round, handy.
You felt the claim or searching for info. GK then with a lot of staging through the mid-round,
but then they'll allow some of the injury positions, like beside the museum.
There are some other swathes though. There are all individual pushes.
There's no team play. There's no playoff each other. There's no trade potential.
Solo swing up to solo swing. It just beats into phase.
It's been so long in that first floor that by the time they got second floor, you mentioned
that Faze had been able to re-establish good positions, and GK left themselves a little time
then in dealing with it.
I've been intrigued to see how they play now with the back of the Tark, a lot of discussion
there about tempo, maybe a little more aggression and directness to be expected, with the
utility for a direct approach on the side.
The mention of electricity as well and what role that may play in the round, Khayyid
to be selected by FaZe and we'll see if that may follow the plan to GK.
It's a critical round to maintain touching distance.
Turn around straight, the opening kill is not being converted by the way,
so that's got a little bit of AY here on Fortress.
They're fostering for the direct.
I'd just like to see GK play a little bit more team-orientated with their push in.
Trying to overwhelm a couple of isolated positions. Use the numbers to their advantage.
Sark's vault in. Old Tower couldn't quite catch the timing and they lost ask.
ask, and he may get swung here on a bad timing indeed, that's exactly what happened.
Hellplay from Peter King, but he goes down, GK gonna pick up the pace, and it does mean
it's a 3 vs 3, U-Port, Cybert both on the same health as well.
This is equal.
And GK want, they can pull the pin on this fallback, they've got Yoga on the shield,
you can get the Jugger payloads out from Grubby, they don't have to keep this
going full steam ahead.
They want Yoga to be able to dash across here and get in that plant position.
Can GK cover?
There is still a nitro cell as well to deny yoga from handy and he's been really good with his usage of the nitro
So far in this series yoga is gonna go for the plant side of games handy is below
They find the angle though from KDS didn't even need him
Where was the cover not to be found now grubby to push solo as they lost you poor
The good news for grubby. He does have a chug of payload to go on to KDS
That will keep him occupied and cyber is very low on health
He pushes in
The EMP impact isn't really going to do a lot.
It does have a minute, so Grubby, you don't have to rush this.
But at that reinforced wall, sits ready and waiting in KDS, Cyber playing the longer angle, over towards briefing.
Probably needs to charge KDS. Cyber will not be in a position to trade that.
Oh, gets a little bit of a foul. Intel in Cyber's position.
And can't beat him out.
KDS, easy kill.
4-1 lead for FaZe Clan, 3 rounds away from the grand final.
This is a must-win round for GK. They cannot afford to go 5-1 down.
When they went for the game plan, the set play called and the tack time out got a bit of space.
There's about 50-50 in terms of the timings in the mid-round.
Hicks going either way.
But with that plant denied, it made it so difficult for GK to recover the round, a three-round lead in favour of FaZe.
This one feels absolutely critical for GK.
Must win. It's must win.
Hanging by a thread for GK in the EML region as FaZe are three rounds away from confirming
an all-Brazilian EWC Grand Final.
to be hidden in this round by a phase.
Viddikin will deploy those cameras late,
and so no direct counter-peer in terms of an IQ,
so I have to hear for GK.
There's the one on the side that GK have won,
back in the third round.
They saw them try to pick up the pace
in the previous round.
Didn't quite work, but could go again
for the pace change to close the half-out.
This is the exact same lineup for GK as they brought in the third round.
There's a big change up for FaZe.
The Castle instead of the Aruni, the Solace instead of the Goya, of course, as it was banned out.
Valkyrie instead of Kaede.
Get the feeling FaZe will be more inclined to take some gunfights here.
Now we'll see how they respond.
Yobir again front line thorns at a pre-replaced nitro.
He's going to want to get this one back.
Might not have a chance.
That's a bit of a waste. I knew one nitrosol remained in poor phase.
I'll be searching through the floorboards, but they've been found initially here as they've got full games controlled.
Wookiee, what a breach, we'll go out.
The damn thing for GK is we have seen the hatchcroft attempt once before from the attack.
It was the double dip from GK that time around and FaZe did a pretty decent job in withstanding
that initially.
And last time now FaZe didn't go for that flank back up top floor either so they might
look to employ that this time.
Yeah, of course GK did win it out last time but the plan A was not particularly
successful.
Oh, there was plan B really.
No, there was a plan C kind of around.
I think they're going to recommit though to a similar set.
Straight down the old tower for Yoga.
Throw the smoke to his right hand side to allow it to cross.
Oh my goodness, corner of the time, what a long angle swing from Solz.
It's not working out for GK to close this half.
They lose the blitz, 0-6 half for Yoga, but U-Pore says let's still go for Plan A.
He goes straight into the cafeteria at the bomb chassis.
It has been found and a nitro connects from Handy.
Great teamwork from Faddy's.
Sark's with a critical kill, at least onto Handy to keep the round.
A little bit more salvage of ball, but then two-four back-to-back.
It's only arts against these Brazilian brothers.
Five-one lead for Faddy's.
We'll set them up.
As Sark has got 20 seconds to pull off a all-90 clutch attempt.
Not gonna happen, that'll look likely and it looks now like FaZe will be heading to the grand final, 5-1 half, 2 rounds to go into the half-time break.
I'll make a path to the passage, to make a horse, a pelix, and a rainbow.
The kitchen is going to make that new one, which is the first to make the second one, the one on the ground, on the balcony.
The horizontal one is already on the list.
I guess one team.
Yeah probably Monty, Solisnikov, Monty Demis and Monty Grim.
Yeah, that's it special, just reset.
Play your own game, along with your friends.
Yeah, I think we have good defense, but I think we need to find the reset point, you know, like just play our game, you know.
To be honest, we're here, everyone will realize, we're kind of like trolled three rounds.
Let's be honest.
Yeah, so it doesn't matter, you know, let's start on defense, start with positive, start with good comms,
you start extending, if they go for the clears, let's fight, you know, let's help the group you're always fighting, you know.
Let's rely on our to play, you know. That's what makes us, like, stay, achieve, like, in here, you know.
So let's keep doing.
Yeah, remember Shalya again. Remember Shalya, I think you can even play the same way here, you know.
They play on the reactions, rely on each other, speak more about the wind conditions, about the most important parts of the map, how you need to play.
That's the difference between consulate and challenge.
Well a big second half coming up for GK, they at least get to go defense, but only managed a single round on their attack.
Phase will be brutal.
Interestingly, both have the same attack or win rate on this map of Fortress over the last couple of months,
sitting at 34%.
That has maybe indicated an opportunity for GK to go on a defensive run.
It's not impossible to think that that could happen.
Now here in the Monty, we heard of course GK talking about their bands,
the demos all the solid snake and it will be the solid snake as the bandit
follows the kaid as expected as well. GK just needs to try and maintain
belief that there is an opportunity to fight back if there's any map in the
pool it's this one on defense exactly this is where the intricacy of siege
if you look at the scoreboard and you see it's 5-1 and it's incredibly
one-sided but on defense fortress you also have the possibility just as FaZe did
to stream a couple of rounds together get that scoreboard a little bit closer
and then build that belief back up it's important though all important probably
the first two rounds have to go your way get it to 5-3 and then from there it
can go well if they don't it's gonna be GG yeah that's the problem that's
why it's such a daunting prospect to these guys know it's as much as
anyone else that it's defend decided but actually being able to translate that
against the best team in the world. And it also to FaZe right they come into the
second half and they know on the attack they can be a little bit loosey-goosey
if they want to begin that way they've got a couple of rounds that they can throw
if they want they can experiment they can experiment they can kind of see the
way that GK are responding if they play slow or they play fast in the way
that they flank and FaZe can kind of just use the first round or two to
Just sort of test the waters.
Cyber straight up all tower.
Yeah, very quick.
Could potentially be an early jewel onto you, Paul.
Whether it was games,
could be close pies as well inside of dorms.
If you Paul get searching for info,
he could get caught.
Yeah, Cyber has not made a sound
since he made his way in
for the lovely little jiggle peak.
Gets the information required as to his position.
That's a small win for GK.
Not a lot really comes from it,
But they get the intel on Cyber, he doesn't find the opening kill.
Lost the drone as well, that's nice.
Can fall back and play the second canister.
Mark from Cyber onto U-Port.
U-Port has fallen back outside of games.
GK often exactly rushing back to site, which is Command bathroom.
Slowly though, they do make their way back with the focus of the site in mind.
So their space has been gained for FaZe over the wards games and dorms.
This will be pretty direct as well.
Rago pushes over towards courtyard corridor. Does he try and disrupt this push?
And if he does though, he could get caught on a timing because he've got both Viddiking and Cyber together.
Here he goes with the Nitro Cell. Does get some good damage onto Viddiking. That's nice.
I wouldn't be overswinging that doorway though much more from here if I'm yoga.
You guys really can't try to catch the timing, there's the player, there's the swing and there's...
U-Paw, that goes down!
I respect the effort.
Just falls short though, and it puts the rest of G-Kane in such a compromised position.
Opens up the packet potential as well.
It does leave yoga by himself, caught Yarkod or Krabi, caught on the swing timing.
So let's get to crucial kill onto KDs.
A lot of the attention are phased down directly towards the site.
Cyber back here by the way is coming in quite late, might catch Yoga.
As Soles will get rid of Sox.
Asking Yoga, the last two left as Aspel also fall to Soles.
Yoga towards that corridor by himself.
Plank going down from Bitter King.
Nothing that Yoga can do.
We enter the post plant.
He goes shotgun up, but down the hall where he's not winning that battle again.
side up. FaZe will go 6-1 up. FaZe are looking as if they will be grand final
bound. They're so close. Not round to go for the back-to-back champions.
And a sinking feeling for GK. They came into today with little expectation to win.
Good glimpses, it must be set across this best of three.
And it's a tale as old as time.
Running out of gas against FaZe and
those exploits rearing their ugly head.
For FaZe though, they'll be thrilled.
They look great here on Fortress.
Well there's only one team left to stop them and that's going to be Furio.
Another all-Brazilian grand plan and we know how those can shape up.
Herds complete the Grand Slam, be the first player to collect every trophy.
Faze, can they win a trophy outside of the second rotation or 6-20-23?
Very tantalising storyline.
Not 100% confirmed just yet, though.
No.
This would be an almighty effort if GK could win five consecutive rounds.
Also reminder by the way just to let everyone know tomorrow there will be the third place
match so GK provided they do lose this and it's looking likely unfortunately for the
the ML fans will play DZ.
Scrumby finds an early kill inside 15 seconds onto Cybert.
Again, 6-1 down a long way, but you are on defense fortress.
Just got to find some momentum, and this
is a good way to kickstart that.
An early open kill, relieves the pressure,
no death marks from Cybert.
Good start to the round.
I can't lose hope if your GK inside of the server, a confident play from Grubby and then
that's an important kill.
They will go back to the checklist though, with the chip away on site U2.
They are probably the best team in the game, they can win from 4v5 positions and just
like that on the top they got the kill of a good one quick train from yoga with
his knife of salam and how many left and his gas loads for us control one out to
war talk tower souls posturing and there goes the kill of the yoga
vittakin got his it's gonna end in a flurry it's gonna end in devastation
for grubby and GK I think in final three had the chance to stop handy
but he gets into a plant position and then that's it now in the conflict
The E&L, the Glory awaits the SAO.
As the Grand Final is set,
FaZe Clan vs. Furia tomorrow.
Well, let's go for the Grand Slam,
or can FaZe add another trophy to their captain?
Unfortunate for GK as their run comes to an end.
They will play Dark Zero for third place tomorrow.
As we know at the Esports World Cup,
third place still offers quite a bit of money.
That's still a game you'll want to win.
But undoubtedly, no dispute.
Shaping up to easily be the best team of all time.
Win this event.
Looking for your third straight hammer in a row.
What a dynasty.
The phase.
The fury up.
The Panthers in their way tomorrow.
What a matchup that's going to be.
Cannot wait for that best old five.
Commiserations of course to GK.
They put up a good fight.
The deep run of this tournament sets them up for success for the remainder of their 2026
campaign.
Are you going to see if they can back that up going forward this calendar year?
The case which is so good in the end.
Will they be taken down tomorrow?
That's the thing for a team like GK, right?
In terms of how long the roster has been together to make Top 4 to play a couple
the games on the stage, how much better they will be for it heading into stage two.
With the next major on the line over in Osaka.
But right now for Faze and for Furio tomorrow, of course, their goal is the Esports World Cup.
As to who will take it out, I mean, anyone's guess, best of five.
Matt Paul's going to be tested.
Faze probably going as the favorites considering their overall experience,
But if you're in place of hot seeds right now
Let's start over to Adam on the stage as phase once again are into another grand final
Thank you very much, I am joined right now by KDS phase clan are in the EWC grand final
How does that sound? How does that feel?
Amazing because the first time we are going to the finals World Cup and we are going to play against Furete is a tough opponent for us
And it would be an amazing game
It's gonna be a great game. Let's focus on this one for a second GK
And we saw prior to this in interviews. You mentioned that they were they brought the unexpected
You didn't know exactly how they were gonna play. We saw that first map shall I you you lost
How did you regroup? What did the team have to do after you went one zero down in the series?
I think we just communicate tomorrow with each other, you know, because we are giving a lot of cues for GK.
So I think this is the main problem for the first map, and when we fix this, we win very easy against them.
In terms of this final tomorrow, obviously this was an incredible match up here, but Furia, you're playing next up in the grand final.
They're going to be a tough cookie, obviously stage one, you want to one against them.
What strengths do they have? What do you have to watch out for tomorrow in that grand final?
I think they have really good players like Llorida, Erz.
So I think if they don't play very well and we know how to counter some fast plays,
we can beat them very easily.
I want to ask you as well, we heard so much from your fans here as well.
Obviously you heard a lot of fans screaming FaZe Clan's name.
Is there anything you want to share with the fans here and around the world watching right now?
Anything you want to say to them?
Thank you very much, who is watching to which.
We appreciate that and for who is here.
Thanks so much. The crown is amazing and that's it.
Well thank you so much KDS.
As is tradition here at the Esports World Cup, it's time to crush GK's key.
Are you ready for this?
Yes, of course you are.
Let's bring the team in as well here with a family joining us here.
Who can nominate to actually crush the key?
he wants to do it. He'll do it. Okay, together with the young one.
Alright, mini-cyber as well here. Let's make our way towards the key-crushing ceremony.
This is amazing. The family affair. Everyone's here together, celebrating together.
As GK's key is officially crushed here at the EWC, we've gone down from 22 teams,
all the way down to only two. Furia versus FaZe Clan is going to be an all-Brazilian
final here. Tomorrow it's going to be absolutely unbelievable who will walk away though as champions.
Who will be the eSports World Cup winners 2026 here for Rainbow Six Siege. We're going to
find out very very soon. It's coming our way. We can't wait to see exactly how it's going
to unfold. We've got babies and young ones. This is amazing. This is incredible. Hi
Hiya, hiya are you? Hiya, hiya.
Gorgeous.
It's been amazing.
What a great semi-final, congratulations to GK.
For now they face Clint, all your winners
will see them tomorrow in the grand final.
Let's head back to the desk and wrap this thing up.
What a day.
Well, that's just lovely to see.
I know Adam and I've talked about our kids
and it's just so fun to see that representation
on stage.
The beauty of it is the fact that I do see this
as kind of a theme with Faze.
They travel, they're a group, they're a family.
both literally and figuratively, but they've got the history, they've got the pedigree and now
they've got the opportunity to do something that believe it or not they haven't done, which is win
an EWC title. Listen and Siege, three things are guaranteed, death, taxes and phase reaching another
grand final and a title shot. I mean yeah, beautiful scenes. I feel like they really do
travel together. You saw Katie as mentioned before, this is our fourth year as a team. So
they really happened to do so many different medals and so many different challenges as a
the team. So it's great to see them still reaching for new heights.
Yeah. The beauty of those types of moments when you can get them is
recognizing that you're in them when you're in them because a lot of
times you kind of look in professional careers and you guys have
had your own, but there's been there are ups and downs are different
rosters. And you don't always get these great moments with this
roster that lives on for years and years.
I was going to say, I can't really relate to the side of face.
I mean, they're so used to being in this environment.
That's normal though.
to being in a grand final.
I mean, you even here in KDS's interviews,
we always kind of make jokes about it.
He's just so nonchalant,
even when we interviewed and when he won that last invitation.
And he's like, yeah, you know, it's kind of expected from us.
We deserve it. We work very hard,
but it doesn't really speak how well this phase plan
does play together and why they're so deserving
of these titles.
And how rare it is.
It really is, whether you're in sports,
real sports, just life.
It's just having a unit like that
that can be successful year after year.
You talk about two, six invitations back to back.
Now they're in an EWC Grand Final iconic.
I mean, that's probably the best word
to describe what this face team is.
Of course, and I feel like too, they really do just play
a great style of siege team base,
and then too, they have the individual skill
to just really come out and just,
it's just such a dominant style that they play.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,
it seems like, each individually great,
but put them together, they are that well-oiled machine.
And you mentioned it there from the fan base,
And, you know, the the celebrations that we've heard all throughout this tournament to the smiles on the young son
seeing his dad do something that's incredible.
They'll remember for years face clan have done it.
And that means they booked their ticket into our grand final.
The winner of that is going to earn seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a lot for one game.
I mean, that's pretty good.
I mean, a few maps.
That's that's a lot.
You can do it.
I'll take it. Absolutely.
He's like, yeah, I'll take it, but he got to get there.
I mean, I've been there.
It's been close.
And yeah, right when you get there, like I say, sometimes
the farthest you'll be from it.
So yeah, you have to reset and lock back in because it's
been a long term.
But it only gets longer and that best of five tomorrow.
Well, you know, you've seen him in this stage
and environment.
He's succeeded at some of the moments
that clutched up the rounds for face or MVP handy in this series.
Really, they could not have done it without him.
And you guys do mention how well this group works together.
But let's be real.
I mean handy had a couple of things that saved the rounds and really I mean kept the momentum in their favor
I mean you got to give the guy a hand, right?
I mean he's always in the right place at the right time even in that last round where we were watching
GK on that consulate start to get that comeback and all of a sudden where is handy using his hands throwing that seed for getting a
2k to close out that series and just putting the nail in the coffin and not
not allowing any bit of momentum to fall into GK's side.
And you look at what he's doing this for,
because they take down his brother and Nate
and Liquid Alienware, and so it's not just like,
hey, let's go and see what happens in the semi.
He knows he ended his brother's run,
his brother's chance at something like this,
so he's probably taking that on us on more,
like now I gotta do it for both of us here.
Of course, too.
You see in his interview too,
saying that they're here to win the championship.
There's no other option.
And like I said, as any other player,
you want to hear that from, who will back it up?
It's handy.
to talk about his wife just being the absolute goal,
the biggest supporter in the crowd.
I mean, obviously we saw the chat saying some things
about it, but I mean, I was getting hype.
And to be handy in that situation,
you have your woman across hyping you up
in every single moment, every single kill.
Maybe that's the reason, maybe that's the recipe,
why he has this MVP and even the two MVPs
for the six invitations.
They're all his behaviors, so he's got to keep doing it.
Absolutely.
Yeah, no matter what you do, right?
No behaviors, no matter what you do.
In fact, as he gets to look over there
and see this person in my life that I'm, you know,
leaving and coming with is here supported me the lattice.
That's a beautiful thing, beautiful relationship as well
and great to see phase.
We'll see more of that.
You guys will see more of that obviously in our finals also
quickly, you know, iconic just for me.
Does this make you think about phase differently?
I mean, we come in and we've seen them be successful.
Is there something different about this roster?
Do you feel like this is just almost set in stone
for them this year?
Are you a little worried about that fury
match up with the count. I mean, no, it's standard issue. I feel like they really show that
they can handle Feria, but it's going to be a great matchup. I remember talking to Volpz
two after their win just recently saying he saw it in the stars. He know they're going
to face face plan. He predicted a three to victory for them, but we'll set to see how
that goes tomorrow. But I feel like it's an even matchup here. Listen, I'm just
glad email can't walk away from this and feel like they're superior. It's still
NA for the majors. It's going to be Brazil when it comes to these big events. Alpha
I tried man, but you left the building early for the first time. It's because you're on all the set
But anyways, let's sit and over to an interview
We've got an exit chat with of course the other side and you know while one side is celebrating one set
Obviously kind of trying to find some lessons from this defeat and they're with him
We're speaking to ask out of the game ask I want to talk about consulate first here
You pick defense and then it was a bit of a rough time was very attack or favor. What do you think happens?
I think to be honest like it was like our first experience like playing the map
We're kind of have the map like on the screams
But official on the matches is a far first time and we could handle like the not a pressure
But we could handle the the attacks in their push like be like able to be proactive or communicate with each other
So I think that's the reason like we're kind of choke the defense side
All right now for this being your first event together as a team
Do you feel like you met your own expectations or are you a little bit disappointed with how far you got?
I think everybody's happy right now, but the way we lose today, I think nobody's happy to be honest
because we're kind of troll some rounds, important rounds. If we have a different side on the consolates,
then probably everything's gonna be different. Even on Fortress we troll three rounds on the attack,
planting and stuff. But that's why I love Siege. If you change just a little bit one team,
everything could be different but that's why I love this game and it's fine, you know, it's a game.
And you've got to give yourself credit. You said you were a glazing face, the current world champion,
she still brought it very close. What is your main takeaway as this team from your first international
event together? I think the main thing for everyone here on us, we should copy the way
FaZe play. They are really, really something. The way they play together is beautiful to
to say to be honest you know so I'm being here glazing here again so I think
that's it I think that's the main thing like a bit more consistent on that point
all right of course it'll take some time as well another word GK fans in the
crowd today anything you want to say to them supporting you or maybe even the
people at home of course I think just thank you guys for the all the support
tomorrow we probably have like the match for the third place so we can
still like getting up on the on the bracket so supporters again and tomorrow
everything can be different.
Of course, thank you so much for your time.
Good luck tomorrow.
And we will send it back to the studio.
Yep.
We will see GK and DarkZero tomorrow in our first match of the day,
our third and fourth place matchup.
And that leads us to a bracket that is finally locked in.
Furia and FaZe Clan, DarkZero and GK.
We'll kind of reverse the order for that.
But let's take a look at the schedule coming up,
because of course that means that when we start tomorrow
1130 or 130, I guess CES T on our side dark zero and G cake e sports will be taking on and that matchup
You may think okay, it's third place
But there's at least
$80,000 on the line and the difference between that so definitely also a very profitable game of rainbow six seeds
And then of course we'll have our finalists and balloons pop behind us
You never know big blood pops, you know in public places, you're not exciting
But it does happen and you say you say cool. I like that. I mean I try to keep my composer
the
Screaming from the phase fans. I think I agree with you and catch me off guard at this point
I agree with you so we're cool over here, man
Hey, we stay cool man and the fan is hitting right now to get hot up here a little bit
But the van is keeping us nice and relaxed. All right. We got a club championship update with Chris
I hear he's standing by with Lauren aka glitter explosion. What's up guys?
CC update here with the Lauren of course everything been going on for PUBG mobile over on your side of things
a couple of days off here and there.
We don't get days off on our stages, of course.
Just want to rub that one in again.
But realistically, look, two weeks of competition,
kind of a couple of combination now
in the next few days.
How are things, love it?
Yeah, I think it's gonna be a really fun weekend
for us for sure.
When it comes to the CC side of things,
the two teams that we're paying attention to
in our lobby are Aurora Gaming and Vitality,
which if they do well, could be a big week
for Vitality and heading into PUBG Mobile,
they are one of the teams that are expected to do
pretty well, could take the whole thing home.
And if they do be massive for them point-wise.
However, there are also some non-CC teams in this finals lobby that could take that away from them.
Only four matches in so far, right now Vitality is in sixth, and Aurora Gaming is in fourth.
So they're both in pretty decent positions, but need to do just a little bit more than they want to take the whole thing home.
So I think with Vitality, it's pivotal, isn't it? I mean, the next two weeks, there is a lot of potential to pick up some points.
I think when I was looking at some of our documents that we have, they still have the potential to actually go in and win it.
It would take something quite miraculous at this stage for that to happen, of course, but if they can win over here, maybe when CS...
Yeah, you're in the conversation. Maybe things can start happening. So this could be a massive week for that another big week
though for the two teams in the very very top
Falkins, Agl. Yeah, okay. We haven't really got much of them going on our stages, but it's stupid not to talk about it
I mean what a crazy result there for Agl to win and send themselves to the final up against Nakamura Falkins
He falls out now, of course
We've got another semi-final going on to it could be Falkins dropping out in third-fourths
Not as many points have we realistically thought they were gonna take absolutely and I think a
a surprise on the side of AGA AL as well.
Big win out of GM Dennis.
They're able to kind of keep them in the competition
and that's massive, not only for the club,
but definitely for him as an individual as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's going to be crazy to be having the chance,
but we're going to be keeping an eye on that.
I'm checking in with you over the next couple of days
as well. Lauren, but back to the siege
and back to you guys on the desk.
Thank you so much in our Ramco Club Championship rankings.
If you two weren't telling us all the details
would have given us this information,
Sentilating stuff. I don't I don't mean that sarcastically. It is true. This is a very big deal
There's literally millions of dollars on the line for one little thing
But it is looking like a two-team race for the win with a jail of Falcons
Yeah, I mean I thought from what I heard in previous games
I you know a GL was gonna be sitting on ice but getting that win in chess was definitely big not
Falcons player. I believe they still have one more Falcons player
Yeah, and they still have CS going on for the side of Falcons as well
So, I mean still a lot of opportunity for Falcons to be able to pass AGAL,
but I mean, that's still a lot of games to be able to walk.
It was like that two point, you know, the four point switch where you miss a layup
in basketball, but then the other team makes it.
So instead of tying the game, you're down four.
That's basically what happened in chess.
And so that was a quite an interesting one to see.
Guys, let's get our final thoughts here to close out our day, a great day,
our grand final set for tomorrow.
We're about to go get some rest.
But Lax will start with you.
How was it?
I mean, it really was a great day.
I mean, obviously a little disappointing for my embassy in NAL.
team go home, former teammates similar for you, even on the side of GK, I mean similar
teammate situation there with Yaga as well, but I really want to give a lot of praise
to the boys over on GK.
I mean, I went into this tournament thinking that they weren't going to be able to fight
the way that they did and to be able to take a map off days, to be able to push them
to a final map.
I mean, those guys really deserve a lot of praise and I really can't wait to see
what they not only bring to this next EML stage, but then even further to see
what a major could possibly look like for this team.
Yeah, great showing here at EWC.
I got it.
broken because on one side easy is gone but also to one of my old teammates Diaz
Lucas we were in the grand final together a couple years ago glad to see him
back we were talking to after the match said get it done finish it push it over
that line said it's gonna be different this time also to just being close to
face clan but I mean both of them close to both sides so it's gonna be just a
very close matchup so I'm excited to see it both those scenes looking
fantastic gentlemen you look fantastic today did fantastically alfama as well
on the desk all of our casters and crew everyone behind the scenes we
appreciate you and all of you watching as well. I'm going to keep it toned down because
we're going to have a great closing last night. We're going to crown a champion here
at EWC for Rainbow Six Siege. So with that, we want to remind you to never give up, never
stop gaming. My name's Randy. Stick around for the STC recap to close this out for the
night. And of course the EWC spotlight, which is coming on right after this. Goodnight.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the EWC Spotlight!
Get it?
Because we started with the Spotlight.
Do you understand that I did? I cued that.
That timing was incredible.
Usually there's someone with a light switch or something. It's under my chair.
So if I just do one of these, everything's fine.
Careful that I didn't waste this place off.
I know, right? But oh, I forgot we're doing a show.
Ah, yes, it's the EWC Spotlight.
We're going to cover everything that you have seen so far.
I've got Johnny Boy and Glitter Explosion joining me today.
Johnny Boy, do you have your own theme song whenever you walk out onto the stage?
I wish I did I don't think so I've never heard on before so I'm gonna I'm gonna safely say no on that
Could you select your own theme song? I'd have to think about that, but it would be boring
For example, I am quite boring so it wouldn't be that exciting. Oh, show him up if he's gonna be boring
What your theme song be that Bonnie?
That bunny mm-hmm what song from bed pick any literally any and I'm golden the entire Super Bowl playlist
Yes, it's just you coming out. I love the whole length of it. They have to wait in that
Mine is colors by flow and there is no if stands or butts about it
But we got to talk about what we've seen so far over at the STC arena
We've had a little bit of rocket league and oh boy. There's some some surprise
Surprise surprises surprises surprises. I mean most surprising what we've just seen the draw the playoffs have been drawn
And they're all same region quarterfinals, so there's no cross region
quarterfinal at all to you versus you one meaniverse me a one NA versus any
Just like this thinking how how have we avoided even one cross region matchup, but that's the way it is
Is that allowed?
It is.
It's in the rules.
It's going to be spicy.
It is, well, shit.
Script writers back there.
It's matches we've seen before, but then it's also a chance to do it online, because you
don't get those matches on land that often.
So it is a bit different.
We get to see, are they really, really the best team in the region?
Because if you give it to the team online, that's one thing.
But to do it online, of course, that's where you really need to prove your point.
I love that.
But walk us through how we got to the draw, because of course we did get to see
a little bit of overtime. Yes, yeah, lots of overtime, lots of close matches, a lot of close games,
and you know, even the teams are again eliminated. It's not all bad. So I'm thinking NRG had a big
regain today. They like started the tournament with the worst possible result they could have,
and you know, had a bit of a regain before being eliminated. So it's you've got to take the
good with the bad if you're an energy fan. I think that's the story for a lot of the
teams at EWC. Okay, then circling back to the draw show for a second, what did you think
about the technique when selecting the balls where we had like a little bit of like a finger
little finger kind of like I'm curled up, curled up, but I don't know, how would you rate that
technique? I don't hate it. You kind of have to go off vibes. You have to, you know, go
for whichever, whichever ball you're feeling really. And, uh, clearly they were feeling
regional matchups what would be the alternative methods if you look into you
you got a like dunk in like you're digging for the king-size candy bar and
like the Halloween bag where you just go in you have to feel it there's none of
this like this one maybe this one it's a buy yeah claw hand style claw hand
style yeah also four options I mean it didn't really seem like it was doing
much when we're mixing them we're not really mixing them already we're just
spinning them around I don't know if I'm ready to take any type of like a
a tech advice, theme song advice or anything from Johnny Boyz.
So, Glitter, I'm just gonna come to you
as we talk about our next stage over at the Catia City grid.
Sure. We had some PUBG mobile.
Sure did. We're four matches into the finals
and just beginning, really.
You know, there's still many games left in the competition,
but when it comes to the storylines
that we're really paying attention to,
at the top right now, we've got Arena, then CC side.
We're also paying attention to Vitality and Aurora Gaming.
Fourth for Aurora, sixth for Vitality.
But I feel like that isn't painting an accurate picture, right?
Because only four matches in out of 18, that's nothing.
So we still have a lot of action left to go.
Excited to see what happens there next,
but moving on over at the Lenovo Legion.
Excuse me, rather the Alliance Vault stage,
we got a little bit of chess going on
and some surprising faces are maybe on the way out.
I mean, yeah, I'm surprised, am I?
I think chess from the games that are currently happening,
that's the one that I'm second most familiar with
after Rocket League.
And I was thinking, look at it this well,
it's gonna be Magnus vs. Akaru in the final, right?
No, Akaru eliminated, which I'm very surprised to see.
I'm thinking, you know, I'll go along and catch that,
you know, match when it happens,
and now it's not gonna happen.
You saw you were gonna get what you were looking for,
but it was AGL, it was GM Dennis,
who I feel like kind of qualifies a little bit
as an upset with picking out GM Hikaru because I think a lot of people were
planning on Hikaru being in the top after the performance last year still at
top four for Falcons so it's still a really good performance but AGAL top of
the leaderboard in CC now they're actually getting pretty far in chess.
Yeah I think that I have it in my notes here that AGAL have become the
first club to break 4,000 club championship points so far.
That tracks. Hello.
That tracks.
Hello.
So what's that done for the chances now to just straight up win?
It's tough. It's gonna be really tough because Falcons still have really good chance. Obviously, they still have Alireza.
So there could be some potential points on the board that they've already secured at least top four points minimum.
And then of course it depends on how they do in Rocket League over with you guys because that could be another big chunk of points coming their way.
And they're still an entire week of competition left, but they've got a decent amount of teams flying.
So yeah, I think as of this moment as we're speaking,
AGL is currently 500 points ahead of Falcons.
At the moment, at the moment,
of course anything could happen.
But yeah, very interesting.
But again, let's go ahead and move on to our final stage,
the Lenovo Legion gauntlet stage,
where we had some Rainbow Six siege.
And you heard the drums.
Yeah.
You heard the people going crazy
because there's something to get hyped for.
And if you're wondering who was going crazy,
it was Furia.
Okay, because they were able to win in a decider match against DarkZero,
which is actually a really big deal because DZ was trying to get two S tier event wins back to back.
That now, that dream has been crushed also North America out of the discussion.
Furia getting one of those spots in the finals, the only South American or left.
I mean, this is really big.
Yeah, I'm excited to see where everything goes and to see if we get maybe any
kazoos brought into the audience they look like they've brought a sword at the furia fans they're going
absolutely crazy when they're walking past it's interesting i think this is actually for me one
of the coolest things about esports world cup is earlier on we saw furia get eliminated in rock
league their fans you know obviously very very big support over there as well no problem they
just nip next door get to watch another game get to watch a win so you're much more likely
to see success as a fan but also failure more chance for both so I think it's just really cool
you can go between the two go between three four even at the same time. I just want to see a Vuvuzela
brought into the audience okay yeah that's what they're called the Vuvuzela the ones that kind of
like have that curve yeah or even a didgeridoo. That's a dangerous suggestion the Vuvuzela
you gotta be careful with that that could be just a constant drone that we're just gonna
to have in our lives during the show days.
I feel like we can make that sacrifice.
Ha ha ha.
Putting out the call.
Putting out the call for right now.
Right now.
In the audience.
But okay, we talked a little bit about
club championship points and what that means
for AOR, AL, and Falcons at the moment.
But Glitter, are there any other teams
that are potentially looking like they can
make a run to some of these higher standards?
I'm actually pretty excited about the scene
that I'm about to say because
one of the scenes is absolutely vitality.
They are a favorite out of PUBG Mobile.
They've put themselves in a decent spot,
heading into the rest of the matches,
and they feel like they could potentially also do well
in Rocket League, right?
So this could be a huge week for Vitality.
I like their chances of winning.
Bots, and you're not gonna like this.
They are up against their Nemesis in the Quartz or Final.
That's CarmenCorp, who have a winning record against them.
And I tell you, have beaten them.
But Casey, you've got a winning record over.
Also, it's a tough quarter-final.
If you get past that,
they can absolutely win the whole thing.
I'm messing with my ultimate plan right now.
Ultimate planning.
Fallen crumbled to shambles,
but that basically brings us to the end of EWC,
a spotlight Johnny Boyd before I release you and let you go.
Is there anything that you'd like to say
about what you've seen so far?
I would just say that if you are here at EWC,
if you're walking around the venue,
be sure to check out the other games
because I'm a rock only guy.
I don't know much about the other games,
but it's just amazing to go in and watch the competition,
the action and it's all happening at the same time so go around if you're online go around all
the different streams check everything out and then you can get the recap right here with you guys
every single day look at that he's already flowing back in the show amazing so should we should we
bring him back should we keep him yeah okay okay we'll consider it we'll consider it i don't
know we do have a long list we do you know we do always he's still listening uh everyone thank
you so much for watching the ewc spotlight and we will see you all next time for more games
Don't tell them. Just shh. It's okay. We can't tell them.
I