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A champion will be crowned today in R6 Esports, and if you're in Paris lucky enough to be
at the venue, the Lenovo Legion Gauntlet will have one team lift a trophy that will
will signal the beginning of their legacy.
Or maybe the continuation of it is a better way to describe it.
From Furia to Faze, Brazilian gods in this game,
can one of them cement that they are the best, not only
in the region, but in the world?
That will happen a little bit later on.
To start us off, we've got a third place match
that will also bring fireworks.
A battle of North America versus Europe,
EML, NAL going toe to toe to see who really
had the breakout performance.
Is it the new constructed GK roster who has proven the doubters very, very wrong up until
this point?
A third would certainly submit that conversation or will we go back to Dark Zero who recently
won the Salt Lake City Major to say they were so close and it could have been North
America on top again except for a few maps from yesterday.
All of the stories to unfold, all the action here in Paris and for those of you watching
at home, we love you, we appreciate you, and we welcome you to the finals day.
My name is Rain Day and I'm joined here on the panel with two lovely gentlemen
and you'll see throughout the entire day,
and of course, to kick us off, iconic Alphama.
When it comes to a finals,
when it comes to a moment like this,
this is the stuff you dream for as a player
and as a person to be a part of.
Of course, I feel like that final day always
just has a little bit more anxiety
and a little bit more fun to it.
You come in with your music blaring,
you got the fans screaming
and I feel like it just really sets the tone for the day.
It's a day you'll remember forever, winning or losing.
It's right.
I didn't play many grand finals in my life.
I was only on minor events, but I will say this,
There is something where, you know, you're in the player hotel
and you watch the other players that are eliminated.
There's a little bit of an aura.
When you know you're playing at Grand Finals there,
you're like, you know, I'm the better one this time.
It's a special day and for those who are gonna be joining us
throughout it, you're here just in time.
All the stories will unfold, we'll continue.
Stories that started last week here at the group stage
as well, and as we go to our STC Rewind
to tell you how we got here to this moment.
It was so many different, I think parallels colliding.
Deems came from different regions
and also similar regions.
You see Brazil, we have a final,
we'll be doing later on in this afternoon.
But when it came to EML, two EML teams
had to battle against each other
just to get past themselves in the quarterfinals.
It was GK who would take that spot.
And obviously falling short yesterday,
it was a great performance from a team
that, again, had less expectations
than I think they've proven
to the people who were watching at home.
Of course, and I feel like they're just doing really well.
You saw Ask, he was very light in the interview,
knowing just how respected he is of face playing
and knowing that every team in the world
should be aspiring to play like face playing.
So it's just highly good to see
you self-respecting your opponent even in that loss.
When it came to the semi-finals, I felt like it was a very surprising day.
Yes, we did go all three maps on every single one of them,
but so many maps were heavily one-sided.
We thought teams were responding to each other, we're innovating in-between maps,
but not really during the maps, and that's why we saw so many one-sided ones.
But in the end, I think we do see the favorites,
like FaZe, the two world champions, two times world champions,
obviously making it to the grand final.
Furia, the most experienced team, obviously,
and probably maybe upsetting the major champions
in what we could call, I think, yeah, an upset
because, obviously, I was expecting maybe
a easy phase grand final.
Right.
Two very interesting matchups,
and yeah, as I said, very surprising
one-sided during the games.
Bugsera, Diaz having fun.
Bugsera just left the stage
and just started partying with the fans there.
Had no concern for the handshake,
but he's been here from tier two
now to a grand final.
That's going to be exciting, but on the other side of it, it was GKE sports going up against
FaZe.
Admittedly, while maybe the proven debut that has kind of been like, wow, GK are here,
it still was maybe the most difficult task to get through FaZe and they weren't able
to do it.
Yeah.
I mean, you see this unknown, you saw us talking about them playing Consulate, they
had scrimmage, but it was one of the first times playing it on game day, and
you really just see that and you have to learn all those game day reps and experiences
of playing the map to really just get the best out of yourself.
Yeah, Bidik King was phenomenal in this game as well, but when you look at the way that they played from Cyber to
Handy taking over in some rounds, it was a team effort all the way out from that.
Yeah, that's the truth with FaZe, is any single player on that team can carry the team on that one day.
They're incredible when it comes to teamwork.
And whenever you check the stats from that roster, you're always like,
there's not one big player, everyone does his job.
And I think looking back at that semi-final, DK, they've got a weird playstyle.
That can get them maybe the first map, but FaZe, they've got the brains in Vyta King to come up with a counter on the two last maps.
Such a rarity and blessing to be able to have a team that good,
that stays together for that long.
It's going to be a challenge for Furia,
but they certainly are up for it.
These two Brazilian teams are going
to put on a masterclass for us to end the day.
But to kick off today, we have our third place match.
Now, the last match, the grand final, will be a best of five.
This is still a best of three, gentlemen,
and kind of starting to look at Dark Zero and GKE sports.
They come into it with two different lines of thought.
GKE sports after that rebuild.
Dark Zero trying to kind of keep momentum after Salt Lake,
and both falling a little bit short.
So now, where does that leave them?
And Iconic, I'll kind of raise this big question to you.
What do you think is at stake for both of these teams
and their continuity?
Their kind of themes as teams going forward?
I think what's at stake is just seeing the systems.
How can you bounce back after extremely tough loss?
Because I feel like you're not bouncing out of the tournament,
but you're going into this third place match.
It's not what you wanted.
You wanted to be in the grand final.
But you have to take where you are
and see what you can learn from.
they can capitalize on the mistakes they made yesterday
and have a good stepping stone going into their off season
and then into their next stage.
So it's going to be able to just keep building that momentum.
I truly believe they don't approach these games the same way,
right?
On one side, you've got Dizzy who won the last major
who are maybe more expected to make the grand finals.
So this is more disappointment for them.
You see, they're still playing for $200K, so that is massive.
But I think, really, the guys that are going
to try to prove themselves, that's Geeky.
I mean, so many of them were amateur players
a couple of months ago.
Some of them never got close to grand finals.
The only player that played an S-tier Grand Final is Ask,
and I was all the way back in young shopping in 2022
with Team Liquid, I mean, for most of these guys,
that's the peak of their career so far.
So winning that matchup is just as important
as winning the semi-final yesterday.
Yeah, of course, bidding a major winner as well,
and Dark Zero, that would be a nice cherry on top
for their performance here in Paris.
Speaking of, if you heard some crowds chanting
in the background, that's because there are other games
going on in other stages that all have an impact
on the club championship race,
as it comes down to our final week.
Chris Thun, standing by with an update.
CC update to kick off your day about this little trophy
because this trophy hurts now in the hands of AGAL.
They now have themselves a 500 point lead,
something that we never would have expected
at the start of the seven weeks.
We still have a week to go, things aren't decided,
but yesterday's result with Dennis Laszavik
making it to the grand final,
he will be going up against Magnus Carlsen
in chess later on today.
That is gonna be a tough game for him to find,
But I mean with the way that he's been upsetting players across the board over on the Alliance
vault, there may well be an opportunity for him to take down Magnus, although a lot of
people are poo pooing that idea.
But the big reason as to why it's important that Dennis was able to pick up as many
puns as he has done in chess, as mentioned, gives AGEL that 500 point lead, heading
into next week, which is the ultimate showdown between Falcons and AGEL.
For AGEL, Crossfire is master for them, going into that as favorites is going to
huge in the club championship for Falcons. It feels like they're going to have to pick up a win
somewhere along the line. When that's going to happen though, I don't really know. There are so
much still to play for here in the club championship for the AGL team and squad. Very much have their
hand on it at this moment in time. Thank you Chris, standing by at the trophy area which
we will see that Totem have one new key in it. Of course after we do our grand final this
this evening. Also another key you think is going to be crushed. It will be crushed,
but it's unfortunately already been crushed for the three teams.
The two teams that are going to be playing first, they did that yesterday.
So it's like not going to be that quintessential key crush we have at EWC.
Here's a little bit of the leaderboard that you talked about as well.
Falcons looking for 500 more points, AGL in the lead.
Of course, none of the teams that we're really talking about here in
Rainbow Six Siege are in that top five.
So it would be a little bit higher stakes if they were,
but the six are still high, $85,000.
Financially, that's a difference iconic
in terms of winning one game in Rainbow Six.
Yes, and I feel like too,
we talked about DZ saying they might not be as in it,
but I feel like DZ's culture,
the opponent, they're gonna be going for it
no matter what here.
So I feel like this would be a great game to siege.
It's meant on a mission, whatever the game is,
whatever the mission is, they will be on it.
And they are probably the most disciplined team
in our ecosystem.
So I think they'll fight for it.
I do think that when you start playing professionally,
you're not doing this for the money,
you're doing this for the passion.
And I think that most importantly for the guys on Geekay, winning that title, proving
to everyone that that rebuild was the thing to go for, proving that they're here, Falcons
season, G2 isn't, Virtus Pro isn't, the best teams of EML, they're not here.
So if they make top three at EWC, that is a massive statement for the rest of the season.
I love that.
And it's a great way to start off stage two as well for these teams.
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as we narrow in on our third place match, Guard Zero,
GK Esports.
I mentioned the $85,000.
That's a part of it.
But also, the fact that these two regions are clashing.
North America, Europe, EML.
There is that iconic, and even on my desk,
Look at you, you know, staring each other down, you know, Batman versus Alphana.
How do you guys feel about just the regional pressure? Is there any?
I mean, is that even a real thing? Do you feel it?
I feel like it's it's all narrative at the end of the day.
I feel like we're speaking some yarn here.
You want to beat whoever is in front of you, no matter where they're from,
especially if you are playing as players that you know,
it's going to be a battle.
And I feel like they know Yaga very well.
They're going to want to beat him from back in the day on the set these days.
So they're going to know the point and they're going to go for it.
uh... was that true at home are you guys watching and going
uh... it doesn't matter if north america beats
europe is i can see some chat
it doesn't matter i think it doesn't matter they know their fans are watching
as well and so that's something that might be a motivational factor i love
how you mentioned dark zeroes
because i'll follow you were immediately like yeah that's right i think
that you know they're looking beyond sometimes discipline is about taking
the ability to do something now
improves your future much farther in in in front of you and so that is
kind of the quintessential DarkZero mentality
that they bring to each and every performance.
Yeah, I mean, we were both teammates of Colots before
and we've both heard him one day say,
you know, you get slightly better every single day
and you much rather have long-term progress
than trying to jump any step.
And I think, although they won the major,
you know, a couple of months ago,
it's not because they're third place
or fighting for third place today that they're worse.
I think they're still trying to use this opportunity.
They're on the stage, there is a crowd,
They're playing for a big cash price.
This is massive training for these guys to get better
and already looking at Osaka at the major,
trying to repeat another title.
I've seen a lot of teams,
and as we focus in on Dark Zero,
have a mentality when they lose
that the first thing they wanna do
is actually get back out there.
Like that, cause that's the way
that you change the narrative back.
You don't sit with a loss for several weeks
and then wait to get on stage.
So this could be the opportunity
that coach called out as you mentioned,
with his father having a military background
bring in that ego is the enemy mentality, the meditation, the focus on the long term
that could be the difference in Darkshadow getting the edge of this matchup. We had a chance to
talk with Jane I know and Ann earlier before this head to head. Let's see what they had to say.
A quick chat with JnL before their game today. JnL first off let's recap yesterday.
What was your main takeaway from the loss against Furia?
I'd say my main takeaway is probably just we just got to focus in on the details and
being decisive on what our plan is and executing.
Now most teams when they win a tournament they come in with a next tournament with a
big target on their back. They tend to not perform as well as with the first
tournaments. You guys don't really seem to have that you still got really far
in the tournament. Why do you think that was?
I think that's because we just don't care about like what happened in the
past and yeah we're always just trying to be in the present and
focusing on the next game, the next round, the next play, whatever.
And now, listening to you guys' comments, I've heard a Jasmine and a Jessica and a 41 and a 50.
Fools was talking to me about how you guys have these like code names, so that A, people call
the keyword, but also B, to keep the spirit up. How do you guys come up with these and how do
you make sure that everybody still knows what you're going on about? Yeah. Well, the 41
and the 50 is kind of strategy stuff. But the Jasmine and Jessica, that's all just like purely
for vibes. And yeah, we're just trying to like be happy. And I think it cut off like
as we were like doing our spiel but yeah it's like some ridiculous stuff and I usually put some
smiles on people's faces so that's always good. Yeah we absolutely saw that and for today then the
gameplay a game plan because this game has a difference of about a hundred thousand dollars
that must be a thing that's in the back of you guys's mind. To be honest I didn't really know
but now I do but yeah I mean we don't like obviously we want money but we're just trying
to be the best versions of ourselves and go out and execute to the best we can.
That's a very good vision. Thank you for your time and good luck. Thank you.
Some nice words from Jaina. I know there how we feel about that iconic. I mean just to show you
how much they don't care asking you didn't know how he feels about the money they didn't know.
And even to when they qualify for this event, I remember I went in their comms after to congratulate
them and folks was like, what do you mean we qualify? He didn't even know. So they say
so detached from what is ahead of them. They only say focus on the current moment. Yeah.
There's a little bit of that that I can relate to. I also can relate to knowing what's coming
and and seeing that as a positive thing as well but on the flip side knowing what's coming is not
something GKE Sports fans have been able to have this year because in June they added three of
the members that you see on here Gruby, Yaga and Yover to really make this the roster that it is
and now they've proven that not only is this roster ready to go but they are potentially the
third best team at the biggest tournament right now in Siege Esports. We'll see how they
handle this pressure and if they can do it as we had Ann sit down and chat with them as well.
We're speaking to Gruby before their final game today.
Gruby, I quickly want to talk about yesterday.
Charly, you're disappointed with a loss against FaZe,
but then again, you still brought it close to the reigning world champions.
Somewhere, you must also be proud.
First thing, hello.
I think the game yesterday, obviously, we were kind of disappointed
that we lost to FaZe, but at the same time,
I don't think you can be that much disappointed
when you lose to back-to-back champions.
I think we still put a fair fight.
Like we won our map, like Shale pretty convincing and 5 I think we could close the game a bit faster
and I mean the other maps I think there is way way more experience in the whole situation
that like we had to face I mean it's it's face at the end so the more mistakes you do
they just don't punish you because they have 5 best players in the world so the game
will always be tough to play in.
Yes and they played better I think the console it was way closer than it looked
on the result in the scoreboard I think the game was really close but we didn't
They didn't make it work like they want. They played well.
That's all.
And in general, for your first experience here as an international man with this team,
what was your favorite moment so far?
What do you feel like is something you're most proud of?
I think making it to the playoffs and also taking the map from FaZe,
I think proving that we can play the game on a good level,
but we still have a lot of things to work,
but I think just going there, playing our game against FaZe on the first map,
We knew this is our map, we knew that we can beat them and it paid off, I think just
overall the hard work that we put for the whole year I think, not maybe a year, just
a month I would say, it paid off and we're all happy because of that.
That's good, that's good.
I mean you get to pretty tough matches for your last two games here, you get to play
against the reigning world champions, now against the reigning major champions, what's
the expectations for today?
The expectations for today, I think we just need to go there on the server and
play our game like we had you know there's no pressure for us you know it's
obviously everyone wants to win but we won't say no to a fair place as a first
even for the whole team so obviously want to win we just want to go on the
server do our job play our game follow it and hopefully we can win.
Alright that sounds great thank you for your time and good luck.
Thank you.
You know I do like the atmosphere that's happening with these players they feel
relaxed Alphama they also feel confident that what they did yesterday was kind
of a worthwhile result from all of the hard work leading up to this moment?
Yeah, it's a journey that matters really, these guys especially for young teams that
change a couple of players only a month ago and just to remember everyone, they did kick
some really popular players, so the players that they brought, first importing a Brazilian
player, importing a US player, it sends a message for the other players in the region
and so certainly they knew to prove that it was worth it and I think they've done
that.
the maps come up in just a second,
have taken a map off of face.
He mentioned that in the interview.
They beat Furia, and they actually also beat Team Secret,
who many people saw having this run
over defending EWC champions, albeit a different roster.
What do we need to see from them now to prove it?
As we take a look at Knight, Haven Labs
is the first pick from GKE Sports.
Especially DarkZero starting on the defensive side,
on the attacking side,
you have to really make DarkZero uncomfortable.
Yeah. And like Jen and her,
so they're gonna be looking to get into their plays,
making sure their end sink is being decisive.
So GKE could have to be decisive back
how they want to break those plays and how they want to counter their defenses here.
DarkZero, they play a very heavy style of rotation like the other side.
They really challenge you and they make you uncomfortable, so you have to be ready for that.
And like they said in the game yesterday, no, it's not going to be easy, and it won't be any easier today.
You know, they have a lot of history on this map off of them.
Yeah, it's a bold move. I mean, I know GK are on a full win streak on the map,
but we saw DarkZero 7-1, Fury on the map yesterday.
Now we see DZ pick Café, obviously.
A bit of a real one in my opinion, because we both saw DarkZero and GK play at this tournament.
It was always close, I think 7-5 victory for DZ against Skag, 8-6 on the side of GK, so not a huge map for these two teams whatsoever.
What's interesting is that now as we take a look at these bands, you see where they've gone, Nighthaven's been a big feature.
Chalet is our decider map, he mentioned Chalet, the hard work they put on, they took that map off face.
And of course, to forget to remember two back in the Solid City Major, DZ also taking down phase 7-0 on that map.
I feel like it's two big dogs on Chalet coming to the face.
I mean, you're managing to beat the world champions and on top of that, five win streak on the side of DZ.
the Z7 win streak on the side of DK, one win streak ends today.
If we get to a decider, that's going to be a banger.
Wow, that would be a lot of fun as well.
We mentioned they both took down FaZe.
So you think they might be even from our side.
We're surprised to see the 70%, 30% GKE sports.
Why do you think that is?
I mean, I know Leo's happy about that one.
Even if I'm biased, I'm surprised.
I mean, clearly, major champions versus DK,
a bunch of guys that just got put together a month ago.
You know, Fury, obviously, they beat DarkZero and GK beat Fury, so is it a match-up thing?
Is it a timing thing?
How these two teams are playing?
What do you think?
I think maybe there's a story about momentum, who wants it more?
GK really want to prove that they deserve to be here, they really want to get to the
peak of their career.
Dizzy, they've already won a lot of stuff, so I guess maybe that's where it comes
from, but even I struggle to explain that result.
The Dark Horse might be in the light now, so I feel like GK fans trying to show up
for him, so...
Okay, you plan.
Hey man.
You play?
I see you.
I see you.
Hey man.
You either die a hero or you live long enough
to see yourself become a villain.
That's a Batman quote right there for you.
He just told me that he's called Batman.
I'm like, how are you going to wait this long?
It's telling me that you're Batman.
He said Batman never reveals himself, you know.
I'm in the shadows.
Right.
Do you know my last name?
Rubin.
You mean I got Batman and Robin up in here?
What does that make me?
You're driving?
Are you Kefou?
I'm not cat woman I will I will actually reveal that that is not me but in terms of finding
my footing on the stage I'll say maybe I have some of these attributes here it's been a fun
week gentlemen we get to kick off this amazing Saturday and this third place matchup money's
on the line but there's so many other things iconic that these teams are fighting for
Especially to I feel like again, like they have said as a competitor,
you have so much driving to this point.
Your whole life has really been building towards this moment.
So I feel like you kind of came out a week yesterday.
You had a bad showing.
Can you close out strong just to build that momentum going into your later
half of the season?
Important to get better.
Important to get the reps when you're in front of a crowd.
When you're on stage, this is exactly the kind of condition
that you want when you're a pro player.
We are handing out over a million dollars of pricing today, Saturday
in R6 Esports.
We've got our third fourth place match
and then our grand finals closing out the day.
To kick it off, it's gonna be a banger.
North America versus Europe here in Paris.
What more could you ask for?
Let's get it started.
Milosh, the crowd yesterday for the semi-final
was unbelievable.
The sound was wild.
I mean, you told me the R6 crowd can bring it
and they really did,
but I need to prepare myself for the grand one.
This is gonna be nuts.
Look, there's been multiple instruments of your will
that have been brought forward here.
Shall we do some testing? I got a decibel meter and even have a feed on it. So perfect
Give me give me what you got. Well, I think I've got some claps and clappers clappers. I think that way. Let's see how this works
86 decibels pretty good pretty good. Oh, there was there was some screamers some yellows in the audience one specific person on the face
I'd be just going I'll try I'll try
Yeah!
Chase Cat!
Ah!
87.
What's that wrist?
Really?
87.
That's pretty good.
We've got one more thing here though.
Trance.
That's pretty good.
87.88.
That's pretty good.
But it's not enough.
I don't think it really replicates what happened yesterday and what's going to happen today.
Adam, you're missing the force for the trees.
All three of them combined with an audience.
That is not something you're ready for.
I am so not ready for it, but I cannot wait to see how it looks.
Milosh, let's do this thing. Here we go, grand finals! Let's do it!
Yeah that's right Paris my guy gonna see you here welcome back to the e-sports
World Cup where today is grand finals day for Rainbow Six City it is all about to
go down as one scene will walk away as champions by the end of the day my name
is Adam Savage this is the magnificent Milosh and let's not forget here ground
from a later but we still have ourselves a third place showdown coming your
way club championship points up for grabs tons of money up for grabs as well
here there's still lots and lots to get excited about but I'm just gonna add it
here third thing very very important you get to see which region is actually
better sure Brazil is best we've all kind of adapted to this over the past few
years but it's a classic NA EU matchup NA L EML going up against one
another and I will 100% a buy-buy result of this game to see which
region is the best. There's no way I am gonna change my mind or adapt it in any way shape
or form. You lay it down, Milosh. You lay it down. Sure. You know what? You mentioned
Europe and NA as well. I'm back. And after this is all over, Dumb and Dusty, you and
I, imagine this. We're going a road trip, right? We get, let me go backpacking into
Europe. Maybe a little cargo around the whole of the NA as well. Check out North
America. It'd be amazing. Sightseeing together, you and I buddies. Yep. I'll give
you Ian's number. Ian's number. Thank you. I wasn't that fussed anyway. Nevermind.
What we're focusing on right now is this third place showdown. Who will walk away in third
place? Let's find out. Let's meet the teams first up. Would you please welcome to the
stage? It's Dark Zero! They came so close to a second final in 20-26 on the balance,
but they play now for pride.
A huge chunk of prize money up the grabs
and a chance to show the world that the NAL can dominate the EML.
How will they fare?
Will they manage to dispatch their opponents?
Let's find out.
I won't allow you to talk so much smack
about my region on this stage we're here in Paris,
but that's just fighting words.
Let's bring out their opponents.
Please join me in welcoming GKE Sports!
The last DML Hope have made it here into the third place.
Yo, you wanna talk about on the other side,
you got major champions there in third place.
You know who's playing on the other side?
A team that did not exist only a few months ago.
All together, the Plucky GKE have made it
to the third place matchup.
So what no one would have expected,
they've defied all of these expectations,
all these thoughts and ideas and feelings that have had over the past few months now they're
here to prove themselves in their own region oh yes they are should we ask our teams milosh
to make our way forward you guys can go forward folks to your gentlemen to your uh places
come on in here asking two players representing our teams to come forward and uh two players
with a bit of history oh yes indeed uh some last some last words milosh come on come on
Come on, come on.
Fighting words, and fighting words.
All right.
I was going for a Chicago.
No, I got nothing to say.
You know, we both got our keys crunched yesterday,
so we're just going to have some fun today.
And in response, we're getting very close here.
By the way, I like this.
This is really intense.
Any opposing words?
Keen help.
You don't like this guy?
Hey!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Break it up.
This is getting heated in here.
On that note, on that note.
Let's send them out to the seats,
Gents, before this gets too crazy.
We're not even shaking hands.
Now we're not even shaking.
Let's shake hands.
Shake your hands, shake your hands.
Yes, we all.
Oh, okay, okay.
I was getting warned for a second.
Oh, fellas, incredible scenes that I like this.
It is obviously a relationship that
does a rivalry, but it's also a friendship that's it.
It's just how it is.
Once you get into the server,
that is when things change.
So let's get this one started,
a third place matchup, Darkstero GKE Sports.
Let's get it on.
I mean, I might have just seen,
I might have seen my boy Keyon over there
up on stage, man.
I remember Keon being a little taller though. He's about 6'3".
So, at the end of the day, some fun trash talk here.
Kino steps back with the squad. Dark Zero guys.
Batman and Robin as a McCallion now forever.
We get to set the stage up, man, and it's fun. Both teams seem ready.
And that's exactly what you need to be.
I think there are two ways to approach this kind of matchup when you're in their shoes.
You can, you know, dwell in the past and you can't be disappointed that you're eliminated.
Or you can choose to have fun.
And I believe both of them have made that choice.
I think it's exactly the right approach.
You're there, there's fans, there's a stage,
there's money on the line.
Let's just have fun!
The pressure of making SI 3WC is gone.
You can't do it. That dream is gone completely.
Let's just have fun. Let's just enjoy the moment.
I love it. It's kind of a tough line to draw
because it's kind of hard to have fun
if you lose on a stage like this.
Would you agree fun is winning?
But I feel like also too fun is the approach
and I feel like having that approach,
you can also win right now too.
And then that winning, like we said, gives you a lot of money, too.
That's right.
They're not playing for the money, but you see the trolling kind of coming out from
Kino and Yogg, both being ex teammates, both being ex teammates of mine.
I know the personalities very well, so they're in a very fun sphere right now,
so it's going to be a good game.
I know why you don't care about money, because you're Bruce Wayne,
dog, and now I understand.
Now it makes sense.
Oh, it's always toured.
I'm Alfred, man.
I'm trying to get some paper.
I'm like, I'm taking some overtime.
Guys, this is fun as well.
I love the statement of this is a game
that you are kind of battling your expectations
from coming into the tournament
with what is present in front of you now.
For me, that does lean towards Dark Zero having the edge.
I think this is a very mental game.
I've seen five weeks of these third place matches
and it's very hard I find for teams
to come in with the attitude you would expect
if you want to perform.
So what do you need now?
Let's talk tactically for Dark Zero
to make this work against GK
because you got some maps you favor,
Some maps that both of you are very good on.
Yeah, so I think for me it's the reading to Giga's playstyle.
We've mentioned it multiple times.
That playstyle is very unique.
They like to lurk a lot.
They like to find gaps.
And when there are no gaps, they will like to create them.
So for a team like DarkZero,
they need to take a page in the book of what FaZe did,
which was getting close to each other,
not having enough big gaps
and making sure that there's a trade potential
every time you face a Giga player lurking around,
especially on attack here.
Well, getting rid of the Habani here,
gotta hurt the IT breach.
see a lot of teams like the Habana where the mirror is to counteract not getting C4.
Getting rid of that let's see if they get rid of the mirror off of that earlier with the bandit here.
Getting rid of the bandit right now, getting rid of the Thermite too.
You're gonna see Ace coming out from the breach, gonna have to carefully impact trick.
Yeah, look at that. They bring the mirror or they bring the Azami. Azami will I'm sure
have the impact. They'll place the mirror on that hard bridge and will be all the
impact trick here. They're probably gonna factor two for the C4 counter. Look for that.
Well, of course, what we needed to do in a battle of North America and Europe is bring
in some representatives from Denmark and Australia.
That's why we got Devin Pingu on the cast here.
Gentlemen, what do we think heading into this one to kick off our Grand Finals Day?
That's a great question, Reinde.
What do we have in for us in a third place matchup when we thought we're about to
enter the era of North America?
Now it really just comes out of Doctor to try and salvage a bit of pride.
We have two Brazilian teams in the final and now we have a classic NA versus EU matchup.
Usually salvage pride for NA. What about you getting back some of their own pride teams, right?
EU's been in the doctor for a way too long now.
In GK, not the team of thought that we left standing here at the very end.
Representing Europe.
No, not at all. I mean, Team Secret from Europe.
Alkins.
Team Falcons.
They were both top three at the Six Invitational.
We're fanatic.
They were there.
Fnatic appeared like how is it that it's GK the last ones standing for Europe
But they can still salvage a third place finish here at the event now for GK for the e-sports club
They played with three main rosters throughout their history in Rainbow six first in the men a region and then in Europe
And then recently rebooting their entire roster after six of a tational this year
They have never made it to top four before penguin. This is a huge moment for them
That's why I think this third place match is going to not match the modern usual because it always matters
But I think the teams are going to take this a little bit more serious because they might get that third spot
We're to the money the fame the glory of winning putting to your all that this is right decision for the roster
Iconic was right that you brought out to deny any sort of
Seaford tossed their way on the breach, but it's gonna be impact when it's instead there from Gina
I know and this is to spin the classic at this event so far all about the mirror window on the breach
playing around with the heart destruction, the impacts and C4 and so much of the round could be determined early on
because if you're successful to shrub in that first step off the attacker, it's going to make the entire run from the afterwards so much more challenging.
That's right, that hard reach ability becomes so much of the battle here, especially the way GZ liked to play with those bands.
Jeno continuing to try and hold on to Rafters for as long as possible, but he can always peel back that next layer.
He might even be able to reinforce top rafters if he uses that key to barrier to cover him
However, we do hear some breaching going down from the Selmas
He will not get a chance to reinforce his wall of rafters as you poor has made his way inside
GK inch their way closer to the bomb site. Yep looking pretty good to get IT
They are Cal walkers two of the three areas of pressure that they need
But I feel like often you want that first spot it could be a player below for example fear
That's not gonna be the case right now. Oh, I try later on. Thank the C4
It could be good for one at least gets popped up, but they took it
They walked straight past it unknowingly despite having found six more in his pocket not needed just yet
Unlucky timing there for fold spot now. He gets out the shotgun tries to continue fighting him with the verticality
But now he's receiving some fire himself. He'll need to get out of dodge
We need to rotate now the dark zero while he's downstairs below
He can continue to the pressure to deny the plant as we see another facet of this attack come into action here from us coming
Into con you poor and grubby together get active as njr is forced back to that bomb side down
But no doubt as of yet all up to false the man who wanted to pose for plant denial now has a 1v4 grubby
With the pistol to finish off the two final kills GK swimming into the first round on I haven't labs
Such a great strategical understanding there from GK, though again there's a young early roster here for the organisation but in the server you understand the pressure points when to push together and also where their attack should be mounted from.
It starts off on the bridge, it's slow and steady but they get the wall open up.
And then very important detail, they have Can opener, that second layer of understruction on Jock, who's been to Sophia,
and he walks into Calografters right here, opened up the left-hand side wall,
that applies so much pressure on the side itself, and he falls as both Jainano and Kino,
deep into the Aqua hallway, and that gives GK a way into the bottom side to get the first couple of kills,
and just stop prodding and plying with those DMR angles.
is where it's at for GK here. DZ chose this map pick, which means that GK wanted to start
on this attacking side. Now DZ, in most of the games that you and I have cast at Pangu,
they've actually been much more of a defensive favourites to have. Their attacks can be
strong, but their defence is where they really shine, especially when it comes to
denying Russia's denying Platinar. We saw that a lot in their previous matches in the
series that we played here on the main stage here, whether it's against Weibo or against
Fyria. Of course, eventually DarkZero did fall to Fyria yesterday. Funnily enough, GK
on the flip side, the only team at this tournament who has actually managed to defeat Fyria,
our grand finalist, and that was all the way back in the group stage. It was a convincing
7-4 on Lair, and a 7-4 on this same very map of laps.
Shipper just, I don't know, support of work there adjusting ask microphone without asking
for permission it will die because what are you doing?
It's my microphone.
Now something that I guess isn't talked about very often, small little inside of your player
right?
The way that you handle your team speaker audio setup at LAN events is so different
from team to team.
So you might think, can you hear the crowd at LAN event?
Usually no.
in ears, you got the soundproof headset with white noise being spanned in the background.
However, when your microphone is picking up your own voice, the background of the crowd
kind of bleeds into it.
And in other words, you can tell what they're saying, it's just a lot of noise in your ear.
So some pro teams, they will have push or talk, we get a hold on the button and somehow
support in a six finger to hit that key, to then speak to your teammates.
Some they have talk or mute, so you will click a button, now your microphone is
muted, you will click again, now it's unmuted, that's what I would do because
I can't hold on the button.
six fingers you actually do that or did you that was some events where it was
either the headset or the speaker setup was just very sensitive and if we didn't
do it could be the game sounds yeah because the issue is you got a balance
the in-game audio to hear the footsteps of C4s etc. what the patent sounds but
also balance it where you're the T-speak hearing the teammates going for
the callouts right and you have different players balancing it
differently but the other option is that some people will just play open
microphones and you cannot hear a damn thing all the way open microphone
with such a high threshold on the gate that you got a screen for the mic to pick it up.
Yeah.
And I've already played in one team, I've played in Penta, that became G2.
I'm honestly so curious what like the average outcome is.
Like what do most pro teams go for because no one discusses this.
I never hear people talk about it.
Talk, toggle, talk.
Yeah.
Voice activity where it detects you and then you have to have as you say that
threshold and if the threshold is too low then you're going to hear all of the crowd noise.
Exactly.
It's too high then you're really going to have a screen to make
Make your callouts.
Yeah, interesting.
I do wonder.
I would love to talk to some of these teams.
Of course, a lot of the players are quite the opposite to you.
A lot of the players in the server right now
have played on various different teams.
I mean, very long careers.
Yoga, for example, his career has been over eight years long,
similar kind of duration for the Falts.
A lot of the players, I mean, everyone on Dark Zero
has been playing professionally for five plus years
some way or another similar for GK.
We've actually got a lot of ex-teammates
on these two teams.
3 of the players in the server right now actually played for that old Oxygen roster.
OXG, of course, Kino, Neuers, and Yoga.
We got to see a little bit of the sass on the 1v1 on stage when Kino refused to shake Yoga's
head.
All fun and games for these players that have quite a history together.
How crazy is this though?
Yoga has actually played at 11 STF final events on North American teams before this
one where he's playing for a European.
Yeah, I mean, you used to make a lot of tournaments. Yeah, I mean, for example, a couple of years ago, 6th invitation of 2025 in Boston, newers and yoga were on the same team. They made top eight with OXG after coming through the LCQ, by the way, they knocked out G2 shopper firebellion and they beat SSG, which was false.
This Jaina now on Cola's team at the time.
Ridiculous.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Second round, second time the Mirrand on IT wall is successfully impacted 9.
This is why you leave the ace open, it's the operator that you can easily impact trick against.
With Excara Pillars you just do two at a time, or do a bunch at a time and open the whole wall.
With the ace salva you've got to pop the first layer, then you can impact through it and then add the second layer.
That means throwing a keekhole upstairs, not like an inch apart forward for late round usage.
And then the next way you have in the building as an attacker, well then this pressure points you have to enable yourself
And then this area is easy have to be worried about. The third Selma went out. That one was not in fact trick there from J9O
So IT now is fully under pressure by the attackers
So efficient here from GK. They are such a well-oiled machine so much experience on this roster from different teams
I'm gonna ask in Yogg with their own history. Even Grubby now is becoming a bit of an experienced player
He's played a number of international finals now socks and you poor sign of coming to form as Jan
I know spots at Yogg on the Monty trying to make his way up the rafters stairs
Really pleasing a bit of a threats
Can't afford to look away from the Monty for too long as Yogg would just go for the ADS fight
Swing the fruit the action see focus on six-time job who actually the Monty injured as well tree
Very nice here from DZ. However they do lose a player. Will they lose another node? Kino with a quick shot on the U4, big kill.
Monty down, the Grim has been taken care of. DZ maintained control of the top floor. Three players still up a stairs.
One in IT as well, and all the progress GK thought they had made has been for nothing.
Kino really just said, fine, I'll do it all myself. C4, shock and kill, finds the two openings.
Now he's just kind of play the corners to play back the layers
But I think there's a radio Robbie on the pre-sus meadow forces better stands up
Clean scrub his head right off now. They got the virtuals bombsite up
Kino finds another force finds the final player and ask who's playing downstairs jumping in the bombsite window and
Easy around there from DC
Because the very start of the round looked like a perfect dry run from GK a breeze open the wall
They took some map control they opened up the bird
But as soon as they lost that skirmish on the top floor it was over
It's so rare that Monty will die to C4. Taking about 75-80% of your health would have perfectly landed C4.
That's very common, but outright dying to it.
Unless it did a double C4 toss, cause Fools also lost C4 earlier. I'm not entirely certain, but I didn't catch it if they did.
Either way, perfect counterplay on the stand. And hey, if you just deal with the Monty, that's pretty much the entire push that we stopped.
Yeah.
That was a good plan from GK, but DZ, they're good on their defense. Like we said, 1-1.
On that pick, and there's a classic DZ. They just love leaning into specific operators for as long as they possibly can.
The hope that it gets baited out and banned, and in this case at the moment it's been false on that mirror.
He's often playing these power opts on defense that then tries to force out that tertiary ban.
We saw a lot of clash.
You know what he's going to play when you ban the mirror?
He's going to play the clash, and he's going to be really good with it as well.
He's a scary force to record, especially if you want to play shields.
GK haven't been relying too much on the shields, obviously they played Monty last round, but all the three main shields, past few, is available, should they want it?
I think the beauty of the way that DC and FOLSTY play the clash is that it doesn't feel like they do it as a shield countermeasure, they do it to enable a style of their own, so it's not that they are dependent on GK or playing to it or not,
It's about now, well, when we have the clash, we can play the kitchen bomb side here at Nightingale Labs.
We can play a fourth option to go for more counters or more specific knee strats in the server.
I want to think that they've been doing twice now as well as the post, using the verticality against DK.
Because when DK has been on the attack side so far, they like to say,
we're going to attack IT, we're going to attack Catwalk, and they send two, three, four attackers.
The more people that have come together, the higher the chance for a C4 to find a kill.
Which arguably probably should have happened in the very first round, but probably just kind of sadistic at last second.
Wow, what an angle.
There's so much MTR's turn on the course.
That's a really cheeky angle from Jane, I know.
He's standing behind one of those cabinets in IT with a one-way angle over the cabinet and then through the mirror window.
He can't be contested.
Onto that angle, it managed to do a little bit of damage on the Yogg, who's now taking a little bit of damage from his own
Boogie joint, I believe, as he's made his way into kitchen.
Deathmatch fails, those new jammers helping DZ out, avoid detection from the Demos, the
roamers continue peeling on back, still two on the ground floor and one fault all the
way upstairs in service, but it seems to be a push onto the bombsite, GK have realised
that this roam from DZ is extensive enough that it leaves the bombsite vulnerable.
No, it's new, it's meant to kill though, she's so much pressure up there, it's in
the wrong game but here's just better, finds two then finally trade it back, but
they know this bombsite is relatively weak.
They do and false is a three armor one speed operator all the way up in service
He must have some kind of vert angle to try and help out as the push comes into the bomb site
But MJR from behind can take down ask
two versus four for GK sucks and
Yogg try and get active try and make their presence known
But they will have to recollect that diffuser before too long as well
SMG 12 in close range keynote. He's usually trusted with that shotgun. Yogg does find NJR
Maybe this is winnable. They've got that diffuse. They've got the pic
Retake could happen here from DZ as the phone is ringing on our socks will go down the verticality
Works out in favor of DZ and the August force to go into the 1v1
Bit of damage on the Q and not enough us have yet worried about the play for behind pistol comes out 1v2
30 seconds still got to get that diffuse and both of his opponents are upstairs false
So patient the whole game. He was roaming upstairs
Finally finds the last kill for DZ from above.
Very well done, only one thing missing there from the attack inside.
No hot breaching whatsoever.
So single breach was closed off, enabling Kim's cleanse up in that small box,
and the double wall leads to the bomb site.
Same story, it wasn't open.
That means that GK have so few ways in throughout the bomb site,
and the further they did above was used against them because they lost the round battle.
It's been an awkward position.
Upper defense expecting the Mira on the flip side, maybe a solid snake, maybe a Monty.
Serious Monty and the Maria.
I was thinking you could solid snake for room clip if you're in that kind of gap finding play style.
Or you take away the Monty because now again the clash gets a higher value.
If they do play the shield it will be huge lids on Blackbeard, all of which cannot exist against the clash.
And if they would abandon the clash and not the Mira, you just keep doing the Mira stuff.
This again DC forcing their enemy into a loose, loose position.
It's classic DZ, they have so many good tools on their defensive side, they know how to
flip between them.
They have a very deep strap look.
A lot of good shots though from the GK players.
DZ though, those setups, too complicated, you can't use them, but you're right, that
solid snake not getting banned does mean that there's more likely going to be opportunities
for gk to quickly find space for free and get in that building get in the
bombsite like they did last round the problem is solid snakes weakness is
actually there because this gadget only tells you what's happening on the
current floor that you're standing they should really boss that shit right
why would it only try before that you're on I feel like solid snake is a
pretty tough guy right you should get a hold to f2s at once and they have the
same recall right he's got one in each hand so it does double down what
I mean if you have two weapons, right, I would argue that they can't they recall counteract each other
That's right. You get even one upside down on the other one. Yeah exactly. They go into each other genius
We all know that when you wear a backpack on one shoulder
It's awful if you're two backpacks one on each shoulder. It's equalized the weight distribution. There's four
Yes genius love it
It's the kind of 300 IQ strats that you can only get when you've won two championships and been washed up for the last six years
I was gonna make it one actually almost every single player in this lobby has had a longer playing career than myself
Counting both tier two and tier one because you four might be needed to see my condition. I've been a tier two tier three for years
Yeah, yeah as Yogg one of like I said before the longest running players
Remaining from North America no longer in North America here in Paris playing for a European squad
He finds the first kill Jane I know goes down a regenerative utility of the Azami
A good one to take down early, reduced the value the defense can gain from it, the DZ.
And no strangers to fighting from another's deficit on the defense.
All in matter of how DZ can re-stabilize.
The DZ is going to be that top floor bomb site, so on to the options.
Kite's going to go for a kill somewhere.
Could be Q-no-forcing a shotgun fun inside of the E-box.
Could be newer, it's going for a flank.
Playing by meeting the Vector, mistroaking him so far.
Could double back.
But I think still as Folt Gapion founder doesn't matter Nuerus just drone falls on back
NGR elsewhere did find the kill so back to even ground being that now Nuerus has
to value his life a lot more and really escape back to side which he would do
successfully. He does indeed good shot though from Jogh.
Done Folt. Another big one with the commando. 4v2 now with Folt still on the
floor and separated he is dead meat as soon as GK realized they found that
pick it should be over Nuerus going for a flank he is shut down good
patience now from the European squad as NJR has it all to do. I think I've seen this before.
I swear I saw this just yesterday. Surely not. Asked just needs to go for a plan. Don't pull
herds on me right now. NJR continuing to jiggle peak. GK know I believe that this is a 2v1.
In fact it's now confirmed. Now Yogg goes down. It's after Astor clutch and he will
Well, thankfully, so, MGR was so close.
The second round is found for GK.
And then, MGR, disgusting, getting that lean tag in there.
That could be a new way of teaching me a trigger too,
I think, because I looked like a new way of playing.
I will say, watching DC for as long as they've been around,
I think MGR, having to be on the thermite
for so many years and the hard playing team
supported both.
So, I'm going to say,
what is this guy doing to play supportive characters?
Because there's been so many times,
like, going back to Shattered Nature even,
D.C. Ostratovskian final. When Inge was forced to become an entry in like an
around-gone van for D.C., this guy is nasty. And now on D.C. with a little more
freedom of the play style, especially in defense, he's really comic into his own
now. Seeking those moments, seeking those plays. For sure. And look, Inge, what a long
career he's had, but funnily enough, the entirety of his tier one career has
been with Dark Zero five and a half years. In that time he's won two
Two mages, two completely different Rosses, Charlotte way back in the day with the Canadian
DZ and nowadays with Tulsa's DZ as well, a long career, especially considering he is
only 23 years old, 23 years of age and he's spent his entire adult life playing for DZ.
That's impressive.
Not many players end up in just one spot for so long, I mean, Mint was also a player
Back to the day that kind of stuck around one team that came in our team and then you know he retired
Hey, don't forget about mince esteem coaching career with unwanted top-performing team
At Boston as I suppose gonna give my boy minutes and credit. I still haven't all the flip side charm on that
I was gonna say say my collection
It's in there
One of the old Jesus team one of the OG shoot players as well from any yeah
You guys used to steal their strats and do them better as well back when I was a flip side fan
And I had to become a Penta fan because on the OG clubhouse, CCTV, where no one played,
they were the only team that went to it and then you stole their strat and did it better.
And you're like, ah, these guys are the better flips I played.
I was like, yes, I have to be a European fan too, man.
I love how much the OGs have done with the senior men.
We make the joke that, you know, this player walks, that these players could run, sort of thing, right?
And it's really true.
And speaking of NGR, learning from Troy, the way he started his career,
And now teaching the Goat Generation properly,
that he's gonna have around him later in his career,
same things as well.
Totally.
It's beautiful.
A lot of young players that are on DZ,
well, young, depends on your perspective, right?
23 is the youngest age player for a DZ player,
and most of them have had already very long careers
in tier one because they were,
those gunners picked up at 18 years old.
Every single one of these players falls into that category,
and now they have the experience to be major champions.
And so they have done so a couple of months ago. Now they need to fight here to score as an aggressive run out from false
Does not pay dividends good trade. However, GK restabilize
Sark's manages his pick on IT Kino wants to latch out again
As DZ fall back again, they're happy to give up top full control to GK
There's a good two-fanged attack there the catwalk windmill with the IT breach working well together
The time has been taken away here from GK and the slivertec outside the building.
The Ambrogress close enough to the bomb site itself just yet.
I mean, if they want to go for it just like jumping in the side of the window, they're free to, but super risky.
Jaroski covering one side, but the Swingson actually gets shot down.
That right there, losing them a bit of control by that B bomb site, forcing Kino for a rotate to retake that position, as best as he can.
GK is so patient. I love that from them.
They're so quick at the start of the round with their setups. They've drier on a hundred times,
But when they're in the advantage, they don't overcomplicate things.
It's a 4v2 right now, 30 seconds remains clear.
But this bombsite is very hard to plant safely,
and because you can be denied vertically from above,
or below, both ranked on the bombsite.
Both players on the site here.
4dZ, GK.
No, be careful.
Don't expose yourself one by one.
Why are they exposing themselves one by one?
Starks makes it a 1v2 now.
He has to get that defuse back again.
Thankfully, Grubby doesn't let Kino get away with a clutch,
GK will take the lead.
Again, way too close for Comfort.
Neewer is doing such a great job fighting back
and isolating those skills, but I will also have to say this.
Swinging to the third, as the adrenaline moves,
I'm saying, oh, I got this. I'm going to keep going.
I'm fired up and then you get shot down.
He's kind of mid-air, bolting down.
Not a great spot to be in.
He had a crossfire with Kino.
He was watching it all with him.
So I could look at there unnecessary for that final third swing.
Good end of the round from the young guns of GK, those sacks in particular, a young Italian
making his debut onto the main stage here at EWC. One more round left in this half-pane,
who DZ picked the map. Tell me what you told me this morning, because we've been talking
about DZ a lot during this tournament. We've been saying, well, Major Champions,
one of the tournament favourites, DZ Wildcard and FaZe were our few Major Champion,
sorry three championship contenders as we saw it coming into the event right but you were telling me
you actually think GK have a shot in this match today I do think so I mean DC they haven't been
always I didn't watch every game of software because we didn't work in as casters I watched the
past of me I was a content creator whichever but looking at them having cast against here DWC
it does seem like they're a slightly weaker version of themselves and face have shown
It's not really in the tournament. I think Furious start off should look a very weak and vulnerable too
And I think GK right now having that same kind of Cinderella story as you know, your wild card
The team secret where they're running off just like passion the fumes and they're just like so
Excited to be here so happy don't not feel that kind of pressure or is DC
They are probably in their own minds let themselves down by playing for third place
They should be in the grand finals as a next matchup
shop trying to play for a trophy.
100% but look DZ they've been really good.
We've seen a lot of high quality
seats from them but there were also two rounds from
elimination to CAG in the group stage.
There were two rounds from elimination
against Wabo in their quarterfinal.
Exactly. It hasn't been all sunshine
and rainbows for DZ and
right now fighting from behind on their map pick
is not a good spot to be in especially on
their preferred side of defense.
Got that pocket big right.
The fourth bomb so it unlocked clash enabled
that's well finaling the sixth and final round and a half, it's going to be kitchen, it's
the classic day's day, we love kitchen. DKFC and there's probably 11 times in the last
three matches that DCF played in this map because they do go through a high frequency,
they're tagging a very unusual way, doing a full sweep from catwalk IT into what's
pillar to then get the verticality above the bomb side. What they want to do is
box DC into a corner in an unfavorable spot and then take the cycle to the 5v5.
The only issue is, by going for full map control, the timer is a much larger problem as there's
so many areas to check, to drone, to clear, and so much map to keep control over.
And there is a small gap right now, I think Kino has gone more or less unnoticed here
by Tobacco.
There is a flank watch drone, but nobody is watching it at the moment.
I saw it placed by Ask early in the round.
And indeed, there's a flank watch player.
You pull the potatoes a little bit, thankfully he still withstands and finds the kill.
Now he's continuing to watch up on the top floor as DZ have this roam up above with the ADS's and the Keeper Barriers
but bedded into movement here from NJR.
Krobby poofs all the way from the other side of the map to sneak up this staircase and cut off DZ.
GK are reading them like a book and now DZ must rely on some hero players on the bomb site to win the round.
GK ran out of handspid because it goes Yaki's outside the building with the defuser playing as a capital player.
But guess what? They got the full map control. They got the turret up above, yaw game position on the window.
If they can figure out where two or three defenders are, they can use the smoke and fire and just guns together
and just brute force the bomb site because they have significant number of advantage.
Because Nuerz is short on health, they'll take him out. He has to answer it.
Yeah, you're right. He has to answer it. He can be spammed again shortly by Saks, but Janna finds a critical kill.
Nuerz will fall to Grubby into the bomb site now.
False on the clash has to have an impact but he is shot out of it. It's J-9 on trying to save the half for DZ
But the plan is going down from Yogg. Good damage though. How does that happen? Yogg team kills. It's never one to one
Yogg can not afford. The clash shield against J-9. Yogg has to land this shot. J-9 looks for the rotates
He might be able to move around going to the other side of the bombsite
Look to try and take the advantageous position boosted up in a damage one HP now for Yogg
He just needs to buy more time
Yogg clutches around for GK
4-2 in their attacking half
With the clash shield as well, what an incredible way to find it
But then to the halftime side swap, let's listen in
For supply and command, we have to keep in mind that all this guy is doing right now is he has a cannon setter after
He's waiting, Jackie, as soon as you get aggressive towards the rapid door, as soon as you lay out the hop and take that space
So if we want to play the pulse off that bulk or we can, you can look for a micro there
Basically, they'll have one guy on the roof holding the water door and then he plays close off the window in which for that hop
So if there's no guy on the roof, you can call the counter to swing that or we can just say fuck it
And then you can solidly back a little bit closer towards the globeside
That's pretty much for both supply and command
It's got to be kind of one of the other, because they're just ripping that gap on a scene of time and Jack's by himself, so either we go with Jack, have two there extended,
one helps for like the RAF to go to the south, the other one holds for that, or we do the pulse micro, we just consolidate back, it's kind of one of the three.
But we can't really just do the solo extension like that, it's on Vanden Heuphors right now.
Turb.
Yeah.
On the attack side, just a reminder what I talked about.
First.
I understand. For Basement, it's probably going to be the first floor of the explosion.
For storage, they usually jump with the tature on the site and be prepared for that.
Think about how you're going to play against it.
Start close window against Jogger. I'm going to do the bandits right on the Basement,
because they'll probably be very open.
Let's see the bounce. If the bandits are open, then just play it and skip it on the top floor.
I think, and play it only like basement and if needed on the storage, because otherwise they will have like the extra for it to counter it.
Yeah, one more thing, I think for the top, I think we should like expect like crazy stuff, so in the early rounds.
Guys, the one thing, one thing I'm gonna...
The voice of a very deep man right there from Shepard, again, the most I've heard this man speak throughout my entire career.
And again, very statistical about the operator pens, the possibilities, nothing guys.
We must play the damage.
You guys can play them, I played the damage on the basement.
But also, let's watch the Operator Benz vs. Wuln, right?
It's a no-over-commit to the plan until we know it for sure.
And whenever we talk about how much he measures before he commits to something,
you said this last cause, it gives that old Empire vibe.
Because they have one strat, and they perfect it on the attack and side,
and they're always just used to know exactly how to counter their enemy.
So Shepard would never call something without the full intel.
So the Operator Benz will show exactly what they're going to do in the final int.
For sure.
And I really do love the way that Shepard gives so much freedom to the players of GKS.
And to the same guys, you have to do this because I said so, it says,
Oh, think about this.
Think about this.
Here's an idea.
Here's an idea I had.
You know, it's up to you.
Bandit actually gets banned in the end of it by DZ.
So I guess Shepard will not be able to be getting his teammates to play that.
But do you want to know how that works?
Do you want to know how it works when you have a coach who gives you a lot of freedom goal?
Is when you have players take initiative, right?
Shepard starts seeing what he wants to share and then asks,
Oh, I think, oh, Yogg, I can play the bandit on this, whatever.
Yeah.
OK, but that wouldn't work if you don't have players to pick an enemy.
Totally.
And I do hear immediately after Shepard finished speaking,
I heard a voice getting active in the console.
I wasn't sure if that was Asked.
It actually sounded a bit like an Italian accent.
So I thought it might have been Saks contributing his opinion.
I couldn't quite tell.
I haven't spent enough time with Asked, Saks, and Grubby
to be able to tell their accents apart,
to be able to tell exactly who's speaking.
But yeah, interesting to hear the weight of the comms pan out in those halftime rollsflops also notable as well
We talked a little bit about this
But the DZ they spent the first time half of their tactical
It's so creepy because they're talking about what just went wrong
Yeah, but I did notice right at the end before we cut over the GK comms call out says okay
That's the defense for the attacking side and then he starts talking about what's about to come
Yeah, but it's interesting like almost like a mini one-minute debrief of what happened last half
So that if we do get to overtime you have that back in the fresh back in your mind
You've already there's nothing on
What's the word like unresolved? Yeah, you've still talked about it
I think it's an interesting concept because obviously I never played during the hard time
I'd like when there's this up or this player didn't take responsibility for the mistake that he made or I don't know
What we're gonna do on defense and that's he's kind of out of the current present
So you talked through it deep brief start like you said then you talk about the last 60 seconds of the two minutes
what about our tanks? And then, God, I said, just to reiterate what I said already, you know what the
P-Board was going into the game. Yeah, very much so. Funnily enough, FOLKS actually got to play in the
third place match last year at the Esports World Cup with SSG, as did, of course, Jane Ido,
would call out, and funnily enough, they lost it to Nauria. Oh, didn't they? They did. I thought
they won it. They did. No, FOLKS is a funny point. I mean, when you want to track the
continuity of this roster. You could obviously look at MJR and the old DZ squad, but most
of this Dark Zero really is the spiritual successor to that old space station roster
that Foltz was the leader of, especially because Call Out is still coaching. Foltz himself
has actually been to the last 15 events in a row, STR events, and that includes with
DZ and Space Station before it. Most of those with Jane, I know a lot of them with
Newers, and while he was champion at the most recent one in Salt Lake City, he's
It's been very up and down prior to that. I mean top 8 at SI and then bottom 16 at Munich
and then Esports World Cup last year, top 4, but only fourth place. Reload, first round
at SI the year prior, top 6. It's very much up and down, up and down for that old SSG
now DZ-Corp.
You have Ember and asked him a question during the previous interviews about his career
where he goes, oh you know, I came to the game
and I got better, I had my victory.
And I was about to relearn it.
And he goes back up to that level again,
so he goes up, he wins.
He goes quite far down, fights way back up,
gets another win, but there's so many years between them.
Well, his first ever event was the space station
when he was a very young man.
In sixth major rally 2019, he got top eight at that event.
He won the next event, SI 2020 in Montreal.
His second ever event at a professional Rainbow Six level, he won.
He was a world champion.
What did he do since then?
I mean, he proceeded to do pretty much nothing for six years, no championships,
until finally getting that second championship of his in the major in Salt Lake City.
He's had an extremely long career.
He's a player who's always at these international events.
You would have thought that he'd have a few more trophies.
I thought there was one more, actually, but I guess not.
No, no.
And then SI 2020 and then a lot of top eights, you know, like almost every single major he went to he would make it to the main stage
There were a couple of outliers where they got groups like SI 21 or
Copenhagen for example, they actually got grouped by scars. I remember that very well
Tastered that game great match and then reload very bad performance
Munich was probably the worst performance we've seen from them in recent history where they didn't even make it out of the top 16
But yeah, I mean obviously there's a lot of potential from Folts and from his team
We've seen that we've seen the depth that this daisy team have and yet they fell just prior to this match
To the semi finals to feria who now make it through to that grand final
But this also the story for most esports pro players even in regular sports athletes
There are so many people has to go without a win for a long time from someone else to enough for obviously
And in Siege you and I had this combo this morning's breakfast
We have had depending on how you define it between three and like five era
And then everyone else either had a single or victory or no victories totally
There are so many players been around for five to eight years
Who's never won anything totally because we've had so many of you had teams just dominate for a long piece of time
So I mean we had continuum and then we had Penta G2 and then we had Empire and then we had W7M
Fiora and then we had face and that's like that's like a simple obviously a simple version simple version is those five
And then every other tournament that has been won, you know, TSM winning and Sixth Infantation
and DZ winning a few majors, these are all one-offs, right?
Like even Space Station's SI win, like where was the consistency aside from that?
And I think another team that really comes into this conversation is Falcons because
of how many times they have been regarded as one of the best in the world, maybe
even the best, but not making it into a championship, not actually raising the hammer
or raising that trophy.
And it makes me wonder, what is more impressive?
A player like Foltz making it to 15 events in a row.
A player like Canadian who's still playing 10 years
into every SI.
Exactly, every single six-invitational.
What's more impressive?
That's, or you know, Penta G2,
winning everything for a year and a half,
or W7M being the undoubted best team
for two majors and a six-invitational.
Or Faze being in three six-invitational finals
on a row, winning two of them.
But what is more impressive to you?
That, I feel like there's,
actually it's a bit of a subjective,
I don't think there's a compact answer, right?
I always have measuring, for sure. I have always valued consistency along David's end.
It's why I have so much respect for a player like Joe Canadiens.
He might not be going on stage, dropping 20 kills in a game and winning every single Grand Finals,
but the guy is qualifying for a win. He's still there, still having an impact in a presence,
and seems like your face-clamp will increase the H3.
3DS, I try to concentrate a little, right? That's one thing.
But if you go back 7 years, they were in a top 4, in the Coding Final.
You go back to, you know, 5 years ago, they were in the Major Final.
And sometimes the win, sometimes the lose, but they are always at the top chasing the trophy for such a long time.
And then like we said, we have teams that, I mean, look at B-Scoops, right? Out of nowhere! Bunch of rookies! They were the major.
Sure.
Obviously we had Munich with the Quartet again, but it's like, no one expects that to happen.
But that's been the score of Siege. The team out of nowhere, he didn't seem secret recently. They will win the tournament, surprise everybody, and they kind of disappear.
They'd be good for 6 to 12 months, and they're always a different array of reasons as to why that happens for Team Sager.
For example, they've got POTS to pieces.
Unfortunately, the conditions at Team Secret, the salary,
whatever, can't compete with these other organizations
like M80 and Falcons and Wildcard even.
But yeah, it's a funny situation, isn't it?
But I think there is no correct answer
about what's more impressive.
But I value it.
I think you need trophies, though.
Like, you can't be like,
can you be the best player of all time
and have never won a sign?
Because that's the big difference.
Shaka. I mean, I don't...
Yeah, Shaka's the best example.
I am like very much... I think there's no right answer to a lot of these questions.
I think there is a right answer to that.
No, you cannot be the best player of all time and not have won a World Championship.
That is just impossible.
If Shako won the next World Championship, maybe he would be in that conversation.
But right now he is not eligible.
It's like our club champion.
Well, he's in the conversation now, but he's not stamped on the letter.
It's like the EWC format with the club championship.
You could have the most points out of any club,
But if you have not won in any specific game, you are not eligible
We have to have a win to all that's right
You have to have a win and you have to have a certain number of top eight performances as well
Well top four performances
We'll get our our club championship reporters to get you to 100% detail on that. There's something there for sure exactly
You know like I don't care if your falcons
Let's say there was second place in every single title. That's not good enough
I you cannot win the championships unless you have one of the championships to your name
I think that's very much the case. I don't care how many grand finals you've played in
Especially Falcons because they have been in so many grand finals
The at that point you were the favorite team so many times
There's got to be some kind of curse and look I'm not a superstitious man, but but the number of times Falcons have been to a grand final and lost it
I am certainly feeling a little bit superstitious. I think they they've been gunning for a truck and against record
I used to be the man who had suffered the most grand final losses before and I feel like we're probably in a pretty equal area now at this point
Well speaking of Shaka G2, I saw Shaka yesterday. He's here. Yeah, he has been. He was in our greenery. He just spawned in. I was like, hello there
What are you doing here?
He's hanging out
Yeah, no Shaka has been here the whole time. I actually saw him riding his motorbike the other day
Oh, he has a mean-looking motorbike
Very badass living it up on G2
Gotta be careful
Yeah, do you motorbikes kind of cool until it gets too scary?
No, I'm too scared to do for that. You don't even have your driver's license. That's my point. I'm too scared man
I got a little scooter that's you know not license required. It goes 20 dollars an hour
All right. Oh, you've got you've got like electric scooter like a lot of what's good. Those are dangerous. They're not broke his arm
This shouldn't be talking then right? Oh, well, we're back into the server. Thanks for bearing with us guys
We're into it. It's 4-2 and we move into the second half
So now DZ for the first time show us what they've got on the attacking side
This is their map pick those so they need to bring a little bit more energy than we saw on defense
Otherwise this could be yet another fairly disappointing result from DZ
Hold your horses right now side swap here the black bit shield that's gonna put well for them
He's a phenomenal shoot player this man
He's waiting for the right call the right time mind you is the shield on his back as the play be giving less
sound cue as to where he is. He doesn't sound like a shield operator, he sounds like a regular
dude in the server, but he is not regular at all. He's going to jump in there since he
went to seek the fight towards Grubby.
Nice little fight there, close range, Kino takes a little bit of damage from the barbed
wire but he should be able to smack that away. And once NJR destroys his Kevlar, he'll
be able to contest and prevent Grubby from continuing to peek aggressively.
Very nice, the air jet from NJR. It knocks Grubby back and allows Kino to go for
Look at that AVS 5! Early advantage now for DZ!
Air jab wasn't hurt, different guard because I have too much sound too much cast in the server
Smoke canister, explosions
Oh! The drone hull could not do some damage here, but Sox does not fire at the opportunity and the wall being broken open here
A lot of pressure if I once again pretty hasty to go for a swing, awful backhand key back
That's only temporary cover, once that gets shot, it's going to be the pulling on the floor or force to fall through the back
Looks like DZ are in good stead now. Even though Kino is low HP, he should be able to withstand
a few more bullets in the feet before he goes down. He's actually rotating the top blue,
so he's likely to try and fight. Ask in just a moment at the top of the CC stairs. Knyu
is fine, so very nice angle. Nice shot from Saks, but now he has to worry about behind
him because he's lost ask at the top of the stairs and Foltz will work together
with the Blackbeard to finish him off. Wow, very explosive split push from DZ,
avenues towards the bomb site. They deal the damage and they rip GK to shreds.
Like how simple it was. It wasn't about a ton of different layers and utility encounters.
Good crossfires, pushing together, utilizing the black gear, playing on the air jabs and just
three to one connecting. And we saw some of the players, I'm not sure it was Foltz or Jane,
I know, I think it was Jane or actually, saying that yesterday's loss kind of came down to
small details and we know we did wrong. We fixed them for today and this was a much better
better look on the attack inside. They've always seen from these even last days.
Yeah, indeed. Indeed. Now moving into the second attack, they'll have to go down
the basement and GK have thrown a few curveballs here. Unusual to see a castle
pick. I wonder what the plan is here from Grubby. How much these will be on the
bomb side to slow down a potential rush? Because I think if I recall correctly
at the halftime swap, Shepard actually called watch for this rush or watch
that rush and sometimes the castle is good at slowing down the rush of course you can destroy it
with the black beard or with there's a fear in this case both are being brought. Sheppard also said
be careful of the Thatcher. I know black beard here is the rapics come on out. A lot of options
here for DAZ they've got bird they've got explosively on the bomb set they've got some
hard breach. I think they brought the ace instead of thermal at least basically that's
not going to be a rush because you don't have a lot of space to work with using the ace
operator but it definitely feels like a later bound plant execute the fact you're
getting in there the ram for the verticality the blitz room clear
indicator on you to see what the plan is gonna be
they see all about the the process the step by step action that's the number
one and it's it's free because bandit and kaita benderway and mute doesn't
even stop the summer charges any longer and also why there's no me jammers
on the water itself because what's the point?
G-Police Jammer is also here for drone denial and catch denial.
They might enable them to roam a little bit longer on their top four.
GK on the bomb site will use the mirror windows, but that's Selma.
Oh wow, great usage, that is 100% worth it there for ask.
It's a huge cost, very expensive to waste your only C4,
but it does keep his mirror intact and there are no Selmas left now for NJR.
If you were to lose the mirror window, the roamers have to fall back to support them because you cannot solo hold the bombs without it.
But without the C4, it can't go for 10 denials. Minus was created by DZ, they got the EMPs as well for the boss.
Bit smokes, no nitro, sell them out for R, so try and deny this.
They're all going down from short to middle, and they don't have information of where that plant's going down.
The gas goes out to a C4, it's too late.
Had that been slightly earlier there for U-Pore, the plant would have been denied, and DZ would not be in a post-plant position.
Now the retake is not impossible for GK, DZ. Just outside. The smoke there will go out.
Ars will try and long arm this. Will try and get the angle with Yogg and Sarkz will try and cover.
And it's working. Newest taunts in the all chat, but this seems to perhaps be working for GK.
Ars will continue. Hold it! Nerves of steel for GK! The ninja defuse!
And TZ might have had a nice rush, but they got to be careful for those retakes from GK.
Oh my God, the usual is going to be a freebie, but playing a little too far in the left hand side
with the long arm was somewhat possible and DZ didn't have the verticality for the post.
Awesome, the old chat made me not a good spot to plant.
He also said, nice job. In the middle of the 5v5 action, it was pretty neat.
I think Nuis was the one that said that.
Nuis was saying after he died, Nuis said that, and I'm like bro,
You're 3v4 right now, and it's not a good post plan whatsoever.
That is incredible retake, though I gotta say.
I mean, if DZ had two players upstairs, surely that's unloosable, but they didn't have anyone on the vert.
I think the only player on the vert was Neewers, and he was the one that got taken down.
It's one of those games where it's such good strategy to go teams, right?
The Selma charge baits up the C4 as a possibility.
She doesn't recognize guys.
Flanders will be quite straightforward.
Only you have one C4 now, Navy and Smoke.
But they're both roaming.
So you can get like half of the plant duration,
then they arrive by the bottom side.
And we got thatcher as well to kind of go for the counter.
Only thing is, have Kino been two, three steps
further to the right-hand side.
The angle is much more on their favor.
So a strat successfully executed,
just to post-plant it.
Take it, take it, Mark, please.
I mean, we talked a lot about this in the DZ versus Fury game, and in the DZ versus Wave-O game,
you can have good macro, but sometimes games are won or lost based on tiny little moments.
Like, does that plan go down?
Does that DQs come out? We saw that especially in the DZ Wave-O quarterfinal.
There were a lot of smoke plants, and DZ were really good at denying them.
Yeah, they were.
And DC usually the team to win the retakes themselves, but this time it goes against.
And ask, I mean you can say it's one of five in the Skull Board, all I see is that he
defused the defuser last round and got his team around victory.
And there are so many ways of gaining value that's not shown you on the Skull Board
in the killed department.
Xeno right now for some things he's killed operators, I mean he's doing such a big
job everything off of map control, clearing player positions, gaining information, even
if you might not get a kill.
Oh.
Two rounds in the lead now for GK on that defensive side.
DZ, a lot of work to do. Now this Top 4 attack last time was impeccable.
Then he started with control of IT, control of rafters. They quickly pivoted, took Top Blue very quickly.
Now, not a C4 for us to try and... Oh, actually, the impact almost works.
The second impact will destroy the Selma, but not before a hole is opened up underneath it.
The mirror is still there, technically, but you can't really play on it safely as you'll be exposed.
Yeah, almost. Not a good time.
It's a GK. I think they've read the situation. There's gonna be a backside take right now
because Jock is clear caliber after he's peeked the IT outside and he said,
okay, there's no one there. Oh, wow.
Big booms downstairs, C4 knocked off that reason because his dead player is C4 at the end, he's actually down.
Uproar on HP, Saksa really dead, he's actually starting off with his statement.
And J.R. Khan's sprint, thanks to that Thorn Trappy is limping.
Now that air jab could actually be shot if Upro perhaps gets close enough, or perhaps if he wide swings it might actually deadmate.
And force him back, now he's just prone on the floor.
And it looks like J.R. might be moonwalking, is everybody moonwalking?
I think everybody's- I see him do a walk as well James. I don't like that.
It's a...
Ooh, that's actually a tough situation. I'm gonna have to assume
that the players also don't want to see them with their hands in the air.
So, this is a tough situation to call.
There was a 5v4. It wasn't like nobody was ready to-
I'm not sure what the angle is here.
Do you play it? Do you have to talk to the app?
You know what's great? You know what's great?
It's not our job. It's not our job. It's not our job. It's not our job to make the call about what we do and we have to rehearse.
Well, this team might have had the advantage. Well, this team would argue the opposite.
Well, okay. Do we want to give our opinions on how they're damaged?
I think we should get a player who's seen to lead their case to why they should get the round victory.
That's true. Like a debating battle.
That's a great idea, like both of them stand up. You know what? If we get like, called out on the front, you know exactly what he's going to say?
say, I don't even care, I just want to play the game. Let's just replay it.
That's the most terrifying thing there is to do, right?
I think we're probably going to end up replaying that round. Like, look, it was reasonably easy.
Sarkz will be happy with that. He died early.
Upo was going, you see? But the tag's had no time.
I don't know, had like one and a half kills with the three big rooms.
One and a half.
Because he killed Sarkz and he got a ton of damage under Upo.
I think he was like half HP on the warden.
I can only assume that we'll probably replay that round,
But we'll get the call from the admins before too long.
Don't worry, everyone's loading back into the lobby.
I can see that almost all the players are back in the lobby,
so we'll be starting again very soon.
Did you get my Michael Jackson reference?
When everyone was moonwalking, I started seeing the thriller.
Yeah.
Did you get it?
Yeah, I was very good at copyright strikes, so I didn't wanna...
Oh, you think I'm that accurate?
Weren't you?
Well, I mean, I caught it immediately.
You're a spot on.
Well, thank you.
I'll tell you.
I don't know if you can see the dance moves you're doing at the same time.
Oh, that's a little music video right there.
People are ready for my dance moves.
Yeah, it's because we have the top-down view on a second monitor here.
And you look at the, you know, what everyone is seeing in the streets, it looks like a
game is happening.
Yeah.
It looks like the middle monitor is like, everyone's been walking.
Yeah.
Everyone's standing still.
A little bit of a man walking, a little bit of a man walking.
Oh, I see someone getting active in the chat.
I can see the game has started.
We're back into it.
Back into it.
find it really interesting when I see players typing in the chat and then I can see on how top-down on it up that there's no
Convo in the chat because that tells me they're typing in the team chat
Which means it's just notes to their own players on their team. I always think is really interesting
We noticed that the other day after the tactical time out. I believe it was from cooler
There's DCL was from BZ doing a little typing taking some notes in the chance. It's a cool idea
I've never really thought about it. I only ever use the team chat to say, you know like you say rush B in the
chat and then bracket in the team chat actually rush a
Okay, that's the job for black guy. Oh guys if you come up to tango at the event
Oh, you say can I have black guys? He will personally give it to you. I will not
Here is say this slander
But I know of other games we are used in game chat as a tool. Yeah one of those game from here
Oh
I see a lot of smack talking is it legal though?
Was League of Legends here? I don't know what it was.
It was, I believe.
I mean, it's very early weeks then.
I think so. In League of Legends, you will type down in the in-game chat the cooldown of summoner spells.
Ahhhh.
Last for example, and then until the board, whatever.
That way you're kind of tracking in-game exactly when they come up.
Because there's no school build into the game that tells you.
And another small thing that used to be the case in Siege.
Yeah.
Now it's age of a drone counter, right?
Yeah.
Back in the day you didn't.
You used the type. You used to say it, so like drone phase 1, 2, 3, 4, and then when the print phase would end, if you're a team that's a dead fill, you just type 4 in chat.
And then when you start killing drones, you just ask them, what's the counter again? You click the in-game chat, oh, it's 4. So that's 5.
LeoLegends was actually playing already. Do you know who won it?
I don't. It was D-Cross.
Oh, random.
I think I saw the quarter, I said, well, I'll defend myself.
I mean, D4's winning is not random, by the way, to say.
That is not random.
They're pretty good.
Oh, Carmichael came second.
Oh, did they?
I didn't see that.
I saw T1 losing.
That's the game I was watching.
Yeah, they came fourth in the end.
And DG through.
Okay.
Interesting.
Wow.
I like some League of Legends.
You know the game is still to play, so obviously we've got the championship of Siege
today.
We've got Chess today as well, the Grand Final, which I believe is...
The case match right now as well.
Oh really, which is...
Necaron up in the mirror of us is the other guy.
And then we've got the young 19-year-old in the grand final up against Magnus Brass.
Oh, he think he was gone, no?
Yeah, that's the third-past match.
Oh, so yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right.
Anyway...
Of course, back into it.
DZ still fighting from behind.
And this time around, it is a tray back and forth.
Grubby finds...
Uh, nothing, as he is taking down.
But Kino also falls, and then Nuhez has been shot out by Sark, so you're right.
Sark's very happy to get a second chance, a second life, DZ going quick, but GK seem to be putting a very fast stop to their push.
Of course, it's the control room bomb site, very different to what we saw from the round that never got finished.
And GK very active on this defense, they don't need to make a move, but Sark does anyway and he gets a little bit silly with it.
It's taken down. 2v3 is very winnable here for Falts and NJR.
And off on a team they have a bit of a re-hose right and they both go in to take guys, this
control the pace, go fast into it, they're both fighting back and forth.
The Nari trip, why right there, jockeying in GR.
Team mate literally pinged it for him.
Hey, hey, relax buddy, okay?
Oh, you got, you got stacked again, you can't fight the laser!
Beep, beep, beep!
Start to move there from NJR.
20 damage every time, by the way.
It's a nice and slow, if they find a second kill from Volts, that could change everything
into even numbers.
There's still time to work with
They have to drone watching this player of you poor. He just has good game sense on this
Landing though, I'm not sure it honestly could be possible. There's no C4s or snow for the penalty
Daisy really need this round prevent the last point and indeed he will go for the plan
He was trying bait that flying from you poor. He saw him. Wow. Yeah, he's got three great
But no misses the shot needs to win this fight so critically
but he doesn't now NJR doesn't have that diffuser it was such a pivotal moment
there for Foltz and NJR needs to get back in a position you boys just run all
the way back NJR doesn't know where he is he doesn't have time to chase down
both of these kills notice you have time to get that diffuser DZ are gonna go
down in such a significant deficit it's six rounds up for GK for three for
DZ map point here on DZ's map pick as we head into the operator bands and I already have the call after the operator
Bands to finish doctor will take the tactical time out. All right, so I see the bands first. Yeah
What's the library feeling? What is the problem? I frankly couldn't tell you
There's been so many different obstacles here. Maybe it's a Ferrari
Can we bend an hour please? I'm sick of it. Oh
Ah
Tommy is a very standard good move
It's only been played one round so you're pretty sure that many players
Yes, yeah
Thanks, I'm at supply we can send out a similar pressure off that I want to make sure we're getting hot pressure off
We go more likely than not they didn't send off that job
But no matter how big the floors are fucking calm on the side, you know there
Rip all the shit they have probably feel attention center
I want to open up the weed side and then after you'll quit side you can just out from the front back into a pocket
I'm the horizontal right now look like a water or like a bucket for grab from under get
Shit like around cut out the game so I'll I want to use a fly we press the cat out of this fucking
Man what you call this fine. I don't really like
Doesn't really matter one way or another only thing I'm gonna say is make sure that we're very decisive
Once we do take that water set how we're going to transition into taking the raptor if you want to get hurt
And then for a basement which keep it simple why side pressure here in these days
The good old gift to break down for all three bombs, where DC have to go flawless now.
Three rounds in a row, they know the rotation here from JK, and right now it's about round by round.
Yeah, three map points is a lot here for JK on their defense as well.
Yeah, I dig deep. I mean, this gunfight on TK, I honestly thought the force was on the man, the mouse slam.
The thing is, Pulse played this so well, so he went to the bomb site, started planting, there's a pre-placed C4 that was popped by the default plant position, when that happens, Pulse gets off the plant, goes back.
He knows, he must be down first.
Exactly, chases the kill, does the first bit of damage, and somehow loses that fight.
On the other end, NGR found the kill on to ask him, bought some garage rafters.
That should be the round.
That could have been a 2v1 favor in DC with the plant guaranteed to go down shortly after.
Also, if Fouls' fight had happened like five seconds after...
Andrew, I guess I killed it. Fouls probably thinks, maybe I won't take this.
Yeah, exactly. Maybe I'll play the 2v1 on site and wait for that flanker from below.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
I think that was a very telling moment when we saw Fouls slam his mouse just there,
because DZ are known to be the team that says, you know, screw the narrative, we don't care,
we meditate before every game.
Even yesterday, as Furia were slamming their drums, the five players sat before the match,
all the match started with their eyes closed they're meant to be the kings of
mental this is just another game it doesn't matter to us but clearly it matters
a little bit it falls as having a reaction like that after a missed gunfight
is this spot from grobby like actually playable the bottom catalog winter they
just look towards the repellents are down outside the door he plays a lot
though I know but with this shield I I mean you have a little bit crazy to
play that spot right but sometimes you need that bit of play a bit of a I'm
I'm going to use a mixture of Koso completely out rages.
The enemy wall didn't be ready for it.
Sometimes you have to take a risk.
It looks like DZ want to do that right now.
Senji are going to make his way up the stairs.
Pressure from outside the balcony.
The Mewchammer. No, it doesn't stop.
The Blitz and Kido will find that kill.
Onto ask in this common position that he's been playing for most of this game.
Now DZ with the numbers advantage can be that they don't have to hard commit
to this one directional push.
They could go for a split push like we've seen from them before.
DK, don't know what the pressure is, jump on half into the room still, just hold the angle,
NJR gets a freebie, and how Kino on full HP all begins just a single C4.
That means that Kino has almost no ways of being counterplayed, he could just walk on in with the smoke in it,
with the Incadir, the fire from Capitao, and this could very easily become a plant or a kill around.
DC don't need to overcomplicate this, but they do need to make sure they don't just fall into the same play across fire from Grubby.
Nuerz and Kino's on the floor! Surely not!
This can't be the way the DC let it fall out of the hands and into GK!
It's Waddle up in the series for the Europeans as our major champions once again find themselves a death star!
Out of nowhere, as I was saying, only a single C4 to counterplay Kino,
The pressure from Garret Store, IT Breach, Cowboy's Window and the Aqua Flang.
And yet we didn't get to see the utility fully come to life.
No smoke grenade, no capital fire, the Gargify's not going the way of DC.
GK, crossing another bit of an upset, taking on a big team in the first map.
It's happened yesterday though.
And despite getting that first map we trapped against Faceplant, they did not win the series.
That's true. Even the greatest teams could come back from a map down.
DZ did it against Waybo and they looked good against Fury up for so much of that game
But today is a whole different ball game and GK are here to play a 7-3. That is not a close game
This is Dark Zeros Matt Pig and GK
Rinsh it out of their hands they grabbed it and they've run away with it now
They're looking to take down our major champions here on the main stage
Again, one team, maybe disappointed to approach the Grand Finals in DC, and GK so to speak
happy to be here, already causing offsets, already beating expectations, and taking down
so many big enemy teams either in a map or in a series, and I feel like if we're looking
at the in-game server, GK are just, there's something about them for this event.
They wanted a little bit more, their willingness to fight back in unwinnable positions like
that we saw in that retake. Their ability to find picks out of nowhere. Not just one player,
but all five have had their moments in this map.
Look, DarkZero, the only team at this tournament who have actually gotten a win in a series
over FaZe Clan. GK on the flip side, they're the only ones that have done it in a best
of three over Fiora. Now GK 1-0 up in the series, let's toss it over to LNA and
EU Split on the desk.
Thank you so much, guys.
It was a great game for the European representatives here
in France.
GKE Sports take the win in map number one on that even labs.
And while it proved to be successful for both teams
in different moments, it was GK today who sealed the show.
Welcome back.
Batman and Robin, I'm calling you forever.
Iconic and Alphama.
Guys, that was one of those matches
that just seemed to go in GK's way,
and it didn't ever shift.
Yeah, it was a lot of tight rounds right there.
Luckily for the Dark Zero squad.
But I feel like GK showing off great on their map.
really coming out and settling those rounds out and they run a lot of rounds
that weren't in their favor but finding a ways very important for a new team
just to get their footing. Admittedly there were a lot of technical pauses
there was a lot of slowdowns there was a lot of conversation. How do you think
that helped GK or hurt DarkZero? I think in general you know it really
didn't help that DarkZero come back into it I think the momentum all the
time was on Geeky's side. I think if you look at the performance I think
it's a really good collective one on the side of Geeky not a single player
really stepping up compared to the other one. I feel like Sarcso got grubby, everyone was stepping up
here, especially the the kings and makers of that 3v5 in the last round. But I think I was waiting
to see an adaptation from that year. You know the way that Gike is going to play, you know they're
going to lurk around and in defense, DarkZero was spreading around, they were having huge
extensions, because sometimes two to three floors, that creates massive gaps on the
side of Gike to exploit and quite convincingly Gike were able to pick up part DarkZero
on these defenses, and I think the biggest problem was the lack of, I guess, adaptation
to that playstyle on the side of 0-0.
Would you like the GK did?
I feel like they were really patient, especially on the attacking side, you saw a call on the
communication the time I was saying that, you know, they're waiting for us to give
up the space and going off of that.
So if they're not going to give you the space for free, you're going to wait
for them until they kind of drop their guard and then you take the space off
of that.
So really just playing off of your opponent, and that's the key.
Coming into this meta in R6, it was well known that Shields played a pretty big impact.
You saw some of the Blackbeard play there, and it's been one of the consistent band choices
in certain maps.
How do you feel, especially as we might hear some more information around characters and
cool things coming up in this next phase of Rainbow Six later on, the idea of this
impact in this map, how much are Shields playing a role?
I think so far it was not really like high impact.
I think that the way that DK plays, you know, Shields are really good to try and
break up certain crossfires and have the rest of your team push towards that area.
I feel like the way DK plays, they much rather have lurk operators.
That's why you see them abuse DK, that's why you see them abuse Deimos, that's why you
see them abuse Solid Snake.
Disappearters that will have intel by themselves that they can abuse, and that's why you
see them basically lurking on three different floors completely individually.
A shield there would be kinda useless, so I think it's not really as strong and
as used for the side of DK when they're in attack.
Okay, and I think emotionally, when you look at two of these teams,
we've talked about the mental from Dark Zero, but was it important for GK to take map one?
We've seen them take map one yesterday against Faze, didn't end up working out for them,
but is that a team that kind of, if they're going to win this series, if they're going to
take two maps, do they, do they kind of need this one here?
I feel like it's okay because Shalé is a strong map for them, but obviously in a series,
when you pick your map, you want to make a statement, you want to win that map.
Going on to DZ's map, pick now, the pressure's off.
If they win that map, it's okay because it's their map pick.
But making sure that you start off strong on your map with the momentum is huge and that just gives you a chance for the 2-0
Both teams have a win streak on Chalet that DeSidre, Alphama, that's huge
And now the pressure shifts to Dark Zero to try to do something and take it away on GK's map
But sometimes we have these matchups that end up being just that matchup dependent
It doesn't necessarily play to the traditional strengths
We mentioned kind of the balance between Furia where GK was able to be Furia, Furia was able to be Dark Zero
These teams have taken different games off of different opponents
So how does this matchup feel now heading into map 2?
Well, you know, I think DarkZero needs to adapt.
I think I have a couple examples in mind in the previous map where I see DarkZero fail to basically control
the lurk playstyle of DK.
And if I just take a look back at, you know, the way that DK was attacking, for example,
you have this round 6, for example, where one of our Kino is getting caught up here on the top floor,
the bomb site is on kitchen, two players are still up top.
up and look who's coming from basement here we have Grubby on solid snake so they just get two pigs
one all the way to the top floor one all the way from the basement and then later on they just
don't care about the extension they just go for the side directly again finding gaps and here
that clash is completely isolated they take the 2v1 and that's my problem with it that's my
problem because DZ they keep having these big extensions and that's this way too much space
we're in a scenario where it's a 3v5 DZ they've got a massive manpower advantage
And what happens once again, the three men players on the side of the game are able to go and find the one V1s.
And that's an issue because Dark Zero, they're known to have the best discipline outside of the game.
I couldn't, they should have the discipline in the game as well.
And what do we see? The two guys that were pushing here, Aqua, both of them die.
Here one player just pushes into garage, is isolated.
Suddenly from a 3v5, it's a 3v2.
And look at this, it's a 3v0.
This is going to be one of those where Dark Zero have to adapt.
They have to show us why they are so effective in that mental.
in map 2 otherwise going to be GKE sports running away with an $85,000 plus to their prize in here
and the third place at EWC. Chris Khan actually has an update for us on the club championship
over with Freya. Chris?
I've come down the Gideon City
battlegrounds to check in with
Freya on CS2. I mean, you guys
have been down here. You go up
on the STC arena next week, of
course, but there's a big
incursions when it does come
down to the CC side of things
over here. We got a lot of big
teams, right? Yes 100% I mean,
yesterday we saw Tharkin
securing a spot through to
the player, so they're
guaranteed to be in the top
16. I think that's kind of
been breathing a sigh of relief
for that. Yeah, I think
I know it's looking a little bit
hairy at the moment, but obviously
coming off the back of the I am
color major Falcons, the major
champions. Finally, Nico getting
his it feels like they've begun
this season kind of what they left
off in Cologne. I guess the bigger
question for me is vitality. It's
not often that we see them lose
they lost out to bait yesterday in
a best of three. So it wasn't a
kind of, you know, best of one
offset going down there. They
looked incredibly dejected on
particularly for Apex, Zairu, being on home soil.
There's a lot of pressure for them to make it through.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think by Tallyo and the teams
that really need to start finding some wins as well.
I think I was looking at,
we have a little graph back in our documents,
and it's like a 3% chance that they could still win it.
The fact that they still have a chance though,
it says a lot about their chances within the last week.
So any other teams kind of lingering around?
I know FaZe have kind of made it through your G2,
that kind of thing.
Any other teams kind of on the precipice a little bit?
Yeah, I mean, yesterday just touched upon the elimination.
So 100 Thieves, unfortunately, saying goodbye to them.
made it through the LCQ but it kind of felt like they reached the ceiling when it comes
to these more top teams. I guess I want to turn the attention to the players who aren't
playing anymore behind us because Na'Vi just won the first map in that best of three versus
the Mongols. They looked pretty solid there. I would put them as maybe one of the dark
horses to be potentially taking the title here.
Oh, excellent. Well, that's the end of Na'Vi do for it. Thank you very much. We
We'll check it out with you next week, guys, talk to you.
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Well, Dark Zero lost their map one against Webo,
and they had the opportunity to come back.
This has been a team that's been resilient.
GKE Sports on the other side also, like Dark Zero,
into it having lost the map and the benefit of this guys is that you get to see one team continue
that kind of losing streak and one team kind of break it here in this third place match.
Yeah the main thing is we're starting to see a pattern of dark zero losing the first map
picking up exactly what kind of playstyle they're facing and then adapt and come back from it. So
I'm not too worried about dark zero they're gonna go on to their map pick now especially
I think the fact they're gonna stop attack is a blessing in these guys. I know this map is
is usually defended side it, but this gives them the opportunity to not have to deal with
that little bit of warring of the lurking playstyle of Geeky that especially is strong
in attack, they will start by being proactive. They remove Azami that will make obviously
the piano side much easier to attack and now as we look at this, obviously Geeky does
not want to play the shield on the side of that zero.
Kino they were talking about second best shield player in the world, so some of
of those bands coming through.
Iconic, what are you seeing here?
You know the Grimm.
Grimm's gonna be a great displacement awkward,
just to be able to shoot the Bs
and get information for your team.
Do a mind too, just gonna hurt the extension.
A lot of times you see the C1 being a pivotal position here
with the Aruni, Gains, or the Nager.
So to hurt that extension right now,
you should see a lot more Aruni slash,
yeah, you're coming out on the top four sites.
All right, gentlemen, well, the round is set.
The map, we already know where we're going,
should be cafe.
And this one could be a big one North America trying to bounce back or will it be Europe that reigns supreme in this matchup?
Let's send it back over to your casters dev and penguin to kick us off back to
Thank you very much reindeer. Welcome to cafe penguin. Can I take your order? I
Was thinking about for a second. Yeah, well, I'm not that hungry. It's really well
But how about this morning? Do you remember what you ordered this morning at the cafe?
And you're in the coffee you ordered?
I got a creme profi.
Caffe creme?
Caffe creme?
Caffe creme?
And Caffe creme to be played?
We got some bread with the butter and the bread.
Bread?
Bread with confiture?
Yeah, something like that.
It's like something from...
From what?
I don't know.
It's pretty good.
Sorry to the French.
We have a little cafe near the hotel.
We've been going.
Most mornings.
It's good.
I mean, I was going to order a banger of a series, but that's just me.
Oh, that would have been a good answer.
would have been. I allegedly just...
Lead a horse to water become a kitchen.
Yeah, I wasn't ready for that.
I was in my own head. I was thinking about like,
making a point about the bunty, the salmon award.
How much influences,
my rather, how much influence it has
on the piano aspect of the map.
And then we're starting downstairs and kitchen and kitchen.
I'm like, this doesn't matter.
Hey, piano is still relevant.
Jay Nino has just made his way upstairs.
Ready? Go enemies. Is this Tim?
Money's lonesome. Money's handsome. Walk it on the red staircase.
Finding for that map control.
Nice little way to use the ram, obviously you want to use that to get vert, but you can also use it to hop reach as you saw from Jena, no?
So nice little way to start the roam clear, once you finish the roam clear you can start getting to the main job, which is the vert for Ram.
Shadow of Kino by the way, Brawl is playing Fuse Shield, I'm a huge fan, dedicated.
This is one of the few bomb sides I think in the whole game, where it actually does have significant value, up against others like your Maestro, you know?
Consider our great value of every turn and all fights are very comfortable for as the Warden and the C4 is maxed in
But the thing about the fuse here is that you can pop it down on the soft floor
Break apart the walking canisters from the glial any sort of setup with the barb wires that the fun
Okay, we're hitting that's a bit of DMP. Fine. So the second one keeps the correct mark
So right now as the clean utility dodging C4s is staying alive
They can put down the sense projector walls staff using the floor
Maybe prep one for late round dropped on the hands go for a plan. This should be for DC
100% about playing for the plant and the post. Yeah
What's question is where there'd be any fires?
Beautiful as their coverage from the sense wall comes on out new as we'll go down however
And there is still the presence here in VIP held by Yogg
Plan being confirmed by Kino at the moment as the plan comes through from gravity finds one
This will need to be a big flank opportunity now from GK in the 3v3 coverage upstairs
By MJR on this flank watch and it gets grubby dead to right
So now still needs to make a move from VIP as ask anis to detonate that fiery keeper
Rather the Vulcan canister from Goyo will be traded back with a 90 degree angle from Jnano
Now Yogg the 1v2 and NJR is up above on the bird beautiful plant beautiful cover from DZ
That right there's just strategical knowledge of like where can we plant this absolutely safe and they do it smartly
They jump into the bomb site window to plant simply. It's a mini croissant
And with that the C4 cannot reach the smoke can is it cannot reach the plant is guaranteed to go down because it's
No line of sight with the set projective walls either
So again perfect understanding good. Thank a tender from grobby. I'm not gonna lie
But it doesn't matter JNO TV the bomb site and NGR did retake that talk over
Or upstairs for that. I have to wonder if you're a player like Kino and how many rounds of CG playing today, right?
Screaming like how many rounds of CG playing at least a month, right?
At least that it's a lot more than 10. Okay, so on average
You know a scrims it's a 12 round three maps at least
six days a week and
You do more than three is the minimum. So let's say average of like 12. Although we got probably go don't taste much
So 12 rounds of the scrim, right?
Yeah, those scrims, yeah?
Yeah, guarantee 12 rounds, you'll be 62 rounds, 12 rounds.
Pardon me, I just had to cough for a second.
12 rounds of the scrim, 3 scrims a day, 36 rounds, 6 days a week, 6 times 36, is an undulably large number.
I think it's 300 and something.
But yeah, I mean that's a crazy number.
What percentage do you reckon he's playing a shield?
A pretty damn high number.
Pretty damn high number, I mean.
Most of his attacks.
Honestly, I think the number isn't like that depending on the meta at the time whatever
But I probably like in the 50 to 65 percent category if you're attacking side is not and say like that's the attack inside
Probably like a hundred a hundred or so rounds in a week of shields
And that's not counting for rain come whatever else you do on your own time, right?
So yeah, and this is why exactly the reason why some players are phenomenal to shield
Really to play that many rounds often and learn the weaknesses and the strengths
Then you have players who started playing shields recently because the shield meta was only clocked a couple of hours
And they'd be only a couple hundred rounds in the shields and all they use a pro plate
That right there is a difference made between a great shield player and a decent your player Kino one of the all-time greats
absolutely
How many do you think you've played how many hours do you think you've played on non see for example?
Well, I have like so many accounts I've played on and you know your main account
Which is I'm guessing is paying you to see it doesn't try custom games. That's the issue
It only tracks ranked games this point but she was usually at my most plate operators in rendering multi blitz and fuse are all top three
The last couple seasons that I played disgusting
so
There is that
Well, we got the review coming in a not too long and there is a question mark about it
Are the shields gonna be useless?
Shield busting operator coming out. Very excited. That's coming. I'll let it today
Wow big double kill making a triple for us with the LMG on the maestro
Love to see that from GK, bit of energy, a DZ. Try and dominate this top floor with a bit of aggression but it doesn't work out.
And really they're just fighting one man who's solo holding with his LMG.
81 for all that's tax apart, not about the cameras, not about the utility, it's about the fight, he gets shot down.
Crossfire status you got, and from cocktail, the Gino finds that frag.
Now, the benefit of having the Sonic Snake in the late round with so many deaths that
every single member that dies, your teammate or your opponent, will drop a little satchel.
You see that blue icon on the floor?
You can run across them and pick up any piece of secondary utility, with the exception
of Harpy's gadget.
So you can get up a frag grenade, or a flash grenade, or a smoke grenade, or any
one up each in pocket.
Kino goes down, leaving Neuerson at 1v3.
If you made this out 1v1, you might have a chance, good weapon in the F2.
Saks waiting on the close angle with the shotgun
The views are just behind us wall bang right here very possible here
You just got to have the better reaction time against the shotgun. Wow. It's a crossfire. He reads it
But you poor still finds the kill regardless good response from GK convincing round and defense
Just fighting fighting fighting
Was having here James. Oh, please
It is.
Really?
Crossy?
Can I get one as well?
Come on, get me in here.
Can I get an Eiffel Tower?
Get it next to the camera.
We'll get a little picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Beautiful.
Massy basketball?
Wow.
It has been
a game of distractions.
It has.
What's happening? There are players in the server. There's a cameraman roaming around.
There's also... He's getting the stickers ready while carrying a huge camera by them.
I was thinking what is happening.
I was like, are they gonna just like take something to your phone or something?
Alright, back to the conversation we had before, thank you.
What do you think your most played of three operators in Ranked Up?
Of all time.
Yeah, and they're all attacks.
On attack?
Uh...
On attack. Aces on there?
Yep, that's your number one.
So, oh, there's a caveat here.
The rank system doesn't track until after year 7, so you have to keep that in mind.
Okay.
So the factor wouldn't be on there because it's in the past.
I'm gonna go 1 team.
Yep.
Now I'm gonna go 2.
I'm gonna go Bits.
Yep.
Bang!
I knew it.
Dirty shield player.
I knew it already.
Eric's going to go 2.
And there was a season for future skirts in the base.
Because Ace was perfect.
You also have a 1.65kd on Blitz with 654 rounds played.
You absolute demon.
It's not bad.
That's disgusting.
Look at my all-time win percentage record.
It's all of all time.
On what?
Back to my main profile, not the Operators.
Sorry, self-glows here.
0.8% is 79.6%
Oh, shut up.
Lifetime Ranked? Hold up, hold up.
Lifetime Ranked 82.5% with a 2KD.
Over...
1.94KD, okay, come on.
Okay, over 5,000 games.
That's not bad.
Yeah, that is not bad.
5,000 games with only less than 500 losses.
Machine, alright, let's see what's this from Grubby.
It's a log game.
From Cigar Lounge, he actually finds a double kill.
I think they must have realized that he was tucked around behind the minibar and he feels exposed
He still finds that this nape. I don't think that'll flush him out of his position
He's happened to just tank the damage
It also doesn't even destroy the minibar but those explosions go both directions a nitrous cell
Cost out from down below in train by sars gets the injure onto newers
I think they have an inkling good pre-fire from false almost straighter back newers will get back up on his feet
DZ
Try and pick up the pieces of this very grim looking round
Early disruption time and time again was asked previously now grobby finding two crit kills news and low health to
Do evan job for ready counting, but he's walking down the white staircase looking for a fight instead
So that hammer not gonna be used downstairs job was waiting for him an absolute freebie
DC not having a ton of track right now in the server
No step one step two step three because they fall early in the round
It'll have to come down to fishing for picks here, but look at GK, two players right next
to each other in dining hall.
There's no way that Foltz can find both of these kills and they're keen to peek for it.
Arse takes a lot of damage to that LMG, but Foltz cannot deliver the killing blow.
Walking through the flank tracks, Stingers, Sarkz will put the pressure on as Arse
gets aggressive.
DK feeling confident today on the defensive half of cafe. It's another round where DZ with more loss than ever
Yeah, again, DZ is gonna slow down the game right now to get step by step
Don't fall early those gunfires get the drone where it going
I do think that Monty Ben has been super influential because it's so hard to play the other shields
They're ready to catch you the C4s the long-range gunfire that's gonna be happening
It's such an uncomfortable map to play
You know the black beard the blitz diffused with some bombs and exceptions of course like that kitchen and kitchen downstairs
Valqa could bend away here information over the counter to speak about it
We game combining with the Grim we can stay execute and DC will call their attack time to prepare the second half of the attack
It's like the Valqa extend out towards looks Cali to our kind of rent whatever does the calls back if you want to go fast
That both are part of the intro why just want to make here though
Just let's bring this make it early to like the piano south side windows get things across for like whatever the fuck they're doing right there
And then we can go in here. We want to have to put in general mid sites
Let's just slow down a little bit we can start with the spread and then if we want to go on the piano over off that we can
If you want to go again just slow down like these guys are not playing very good cafe defense right now
We're just taking advantage of us not being ready for the ranch. Yeah, it's all this
Yeah, I've heard. I've heard.
On this, anticipate the 90%.
If we see it again, we can run again with the dope, or we can flip into something else like a 32.
I'm sure you guys see it.
They're not playing a very good defensive half on cafe, we're just falling for their rat bleep.
And they are doing some rat plays, it is true.
But, they see themselves are not droning all the corners.
They're not slowing down enough to stabilize the corner.
Look at this, I know.
They're rambling in completely, there's the fact that Ramirez is there in the corner the entire time.
time and that's the second time in a row now where the entire on has been
determined inside piano and when you have the asami and what mine as a month
event I guess in the beginning it really plays some heavily from both sides
about cigar and piano because those are operas that heavily get utilized in
those positions DC haven't seems to be aware of that they've been skipping
some steps been punished but with that call out being mentioned from that
been taken by Kola, that's an awkward, awkward sentence.
Hopefully he's gonna switch it up.
Yeah, this is the thing, right?
Like you have to play the game that's before you right now.
You can't try and play the game that you prepared for
if that's not the one that you're playing in the server, right?
If you've voted GK, you know they like to play certain
bombsites, this guy roams here,
this guy likes to fall back at this time.
They have this set up here.
That's great.
And then you television on that
and you forget that you probably should drone piano
before you have two people swing inside
and Grubby is there to get the free double.
I mean the round was very much not your typical ground stage after that had happened
because of Grubby getting that early 2P.
Now DZ looked to try and attack onto Kitchen.
Now this is where the map started.
DZ were very good at attacking this bomb site.
Now if A is quite defensive started, if DZ win here and then win one of the next two rounds,
they could very much turn this game around.
There should be a pocket pick here from GK to change it up though.
They clash and ask HID in the breakfast and doesn't care as much about the verticality from the attack.
You kind of walk below it with the shield covering. You can walk into the plant spot, put down a shield, go for a kill.
So GK having a different win condition.
There was a thing, a ton of different time-denial operators.
You know, the fire, the smoke, even the two brow, they could use for a hatch.
We don't want to commit to it.
But DC, I mean, they are great at executing in a 5v5 fashion when they can get all the right pieces together.
We saw that the last time when they found the first round victory,
there should be a similar story.
So there's a CK doing a handshake, you were decent thing.
We will take the 5v5 late game,
and we believe that we can win it this time.
I like that.
From DZ,
the adaptation to use the Hibata,
and then you've got extra vert, no more sledge,
but it's much safer to breach that hatch.
Also gives you more options on the lay-round for additional high breach,
should you desire to do so.
The question is, with no fuse, how will DZ look to try and clear the Vulcan canisters on the bomb site?
No grenades either. No Twitch, so no real utility to try and counter it.
I think they might have...
Yeah, go for a big take.
I see Kino upstairs on the roof, there's two players outside.
First they beat it, Gonsid goes south and falls to the first fire, store for 20 seconds.
Kino should that's the issue?
That's right, oh!
Big in the second one for you, quarter follow up!
He's using his clash perfectly as the arc protects him.
Nippor could fall back right now, but I think he wants to continue holding on to Bakery for as long as physically possible,
with no shield left for DZ, and with the Hibana taken down,
there are such few options now for the North American squad.
Perfect arrival there from ASK. All about putting the clash in the execute position for counterplay.
For 35 seconds to go here easy outside the building
No wheel openings and as long as you do you get over to a bad swing solo like it should be a lockout for a 3-1
Yeah, good Bob. Why here as well forces news to clear it with the grenade
He will be walking to a three-way crossfire if he swings here
It's easy for socks to take that one be one knowing that he's got a teammate holding this crossfire and the york quickly
Swings on the falls Jane. I know one be five make it a fall as
Big ground from you poor in the bakery and it looks like on kitchen GK finally figured out how to cook
Frustration from dark zero players now can only match and again. They called attack timeout again
It falls apart way too early in a very simple
fashion as well
It's again the small details not coming together for DC and we saw the effect of it off the Monty ban
It's like this is such an insane counter play because you're sapping the shield with the clash this shield doesn't get the
Explosive resistance of Q dashes with single a C4
And they push straight into it straight into the setup didn't have to correct read there from DC
I'm not sure if even knew the clash was on the board until it arrived at a career
Not I don't even know I didn't seem like they had that figured out
I mean you look at the lineup there from DZ that last round you've got gridlock
Kibana, Blitz, Capitao, and Ram. The only thing to try and deal with that clash was the Capitao and
the fire arrows were not placed in the right positions to try and deal with it or suppress it at all.
DZ got outplayed in the operator selection phase, and now they have two chances before we say goodbye
to their attacking half. To try and find a little bit of redemption, the final bands have come on out
Before the prior rounds, the clash was left through DZ decided to get rid of the Valkyrie,
but that's fine here, I mean, GK is showing that they're happy to play the Mozzie, which has a double effect.
You can use those cameras, but the Hax drones like Valkyrie cameras, but also it's just more drone-tyle,
and with the recent buffs that have come through to Mozzie's gadget, it's such powerful drone-tyle,
especially on maps that are so centered around windows.
Yeah, and singled always. I mean, Cap is with the number one mozzie now right now, C4,
to get a shotgun in the gadget I should mention, so a good bit of value there from Sark's.
And again, what can DC do? They can slow down the game, drone more, get more intel. Well,
Mute's nice, Mossy completely plays into that again. They got the mirror windows as
well, which gets protected by the mid-jammerers and by the Mossy pest. DC, they are desperate
for an opening pick. They are desperate to make this round easier, more consistent.
As he comes down to high-risk gameplay, GT is 5 in that area.
Oh, wow. Electing not to shoot.
Hey, gridlock tracks.
From the old, he's actually gonna tank damage from them as well.
He's standing still in it, so he's kind of just livin'.
It's very strange. He couldn't be knifing him, even.
But he's gonna have the debuff while he's in the tracks thing, is?
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like he should just shut them.
He's got the debuff now. He can't sprint.
a few seconds as he falls on back.
Well, he goes in.
NJR needs to find his kill as well.
Being contested, but it's a crossfire, well played.
It's got to be guessed the injure.
Solo push.
Are you kidding me?
Falz is running Twitch shotgun.
Is this deliberate?
I've never seen this before.
This can't be deliberate.
He has attachments on it, so that's a good sign, I guess.
I mean, it's a good shotgun, but he doesn't have an automatic weapon now.
And the pistol for Twitch is not particularly powerful.
He looks to go,
Dude, hold on.
I have to kill with the Twitch shotgun.
I don't think I've ever seen that in a pro match before. Hungry for more, looking for a second in close range.
Now this is where the shotgun really comes to play. Never underestimate that French shuddy.
You poor though, he's got a shotgun of his own. This one fires slugs, takes J9O's head, clean off, 3v3.
He's trapped here, in laundry. Oh, he's gonna take so much damage. He's gonna die.
Grubby now on the vert. Might find an angle onto keynote. The plant will start. Grubby can deny this though.
This is very risky, a lot of damage now on the fault, as asked.
Finally takes him on down.
It's up to Kito to find a safe haven to plant, but he has no utility left.
Neuers must do the majority of the work here for DZ.
Holding into the post-plant, Kito's taken down very low.
The retake is well and truly on for asking Grubby.
As I say that, the Brazilian will fall.
It's all up to Grubby now as he wants to try and drop two players watching him position.
I just don't think he's got it in him to make this one work.
Into the crossfire he goes, DZ. They had a drought of rounds but finally after a very unorthodox attack
they looked to finally get themselves back into it. Kino to close a second round on the attacking side for DZ.
Nice try there but with no intel for the defense, Gobi couldn't figure out where to the verticality to find that planter
and Kino, very good job there. Not going for an ordinary default plan spot, knowing that Gobi was chasing on the verticality
the currency, just into a random corner in the bottom side, much more an ulti box, works
off very well, but in the way the DCs start around, NJR solo flying in the building with
low trade game whatsoever, either he was playing a calculated game of distraction,
or garbage, different that's called, either he was playing a random game of distraction,
hoping that the other teams would have pushed more successfully, which they did do thankfully,
but I don't mind the fact that they are doing these solo plays in DC because
they've been falling apart so early for so many of these rounds.
Yeah, they have another strange round.
Surely Falz isn't going to be running the shotgun again here on Twitch.
Hey, it was good for one.
It was. It was good for two.
Honestly, if he had gone, he absolutely could have killed.
I think it was you, Paul, the one playing inside of the laundry.
Absolutely could have taken the fight on him with that shotgun.
I don't know, yeah, strange round from DZ.
I really don't know how to read that.
Kairi comes out here for GK.
It's going to make that hatch a lot more difficult.
to breach. It's also gonna protect this mirror window. The twitch is picked off off as is
the ash, so view account is here for those mirror windows and I mean no EMPs either.
You are, but there's not. Yeah well no EMPs either. The only arguably only account of
that mirror window is the smoke from the capitol. The no EMPs here to open up those
electricals and get that hatch, get that mirror.
Hmm, I see how DC did play this, again tertiary bomb side, mining is on paper, gonna be a higher
chance of winning here for the attack but there's gonna be a mirror window in place,
probably the kite close in the hatch, DC again, they're, might struggle with time
If you go for a full clear, again, they want to be cautious.
They don't want to die early, and that means play a bit slow, a bit bit safer.
And if you do that, plus a full map control clear,
again we're talking about the timer working against them.
NG on the same window as the previous round.
This time it's a Castle Barricade protecting his arrival inside the building.
We'll break it open.
Oh, now it's the end of the exterior.
He's the perfect operator doing this though, he's got flashes to burn.
And now the nade comes in.
He's on in.
Hey, you thought though, meanwhile it was found not only one,
But Yoga jumps outside from the white stairs window with that TCSG claims a kill. He's actually looking to try and contest
This is so dirty as if Yoga continues fighting. Geno wants to take this gunfight
He's got essentially wall hacks onto this player while he's detected outside
But Yogg knows the angle here, but Geno is not easy and as he tries to swing around
Yogg will take him down from outside
insults
added to injury by GK as they look to swim through
So cleanly on this defense it's gonna be a 4-2 split
Newest tries to 1v5
But I think that we have another flawless round coming right up for GK
He's talking still us at the building is all waiting for a second fight
You're just gonna take it on the corner just like his teammate. Can he come up?
Get the injured finally
Come on. I like hitting me
He can't get the kill eventually goes around the corner, but now worried about the player above him
I think he's going to get baited trying to go for the finish-off and he takes some
damage all the way from the balcony on the other side.
Get your kill, get your one, pad that stat, get that KD, it doesn't matter, ask is coming
for you, Shidkay are running DZ down.
First they took their Mephiko labs here on Kafe, 4-2 in the first half, a rise smile
from Sheppard and it's time for the halftime timeout.
They're giving up like, you guys are kind of identified. You listen to what I'm saying now?
Yeah. Yeah. They're giving up like the tarp area like they're coming in and out of like cocktail
back and forth and also we've shown now twice that we're going to go over the
try to over cave that ignore the over cave for now if you want to go slow on
the piano side you can just call the basements you guys and out of these
rounds nearly as much as I thought they work and like we just bring the
patch for the cave work the walls across and just keep it slow and so on
like that mid-safe freedom however I will say out that last one if you're not
thinking no piano for whatever reason the rush did look like it was there like
on the actual sites that rush and then kitchen you just clear we go copy
side if we see the clash bring it on that like just bring it on that no
matter what you need all done by the last opera just boxing all you can do
and songs.
Hard.
Hard that.
Hard.
And on this deep suicide, make a pretty quick read.
It is a different map than Night Haven.
Kind of like what you were saying.
So like there's like a real rafter on this map, for example.
But if, like they're just absolutely dominating that first zone,
you've got to be a little more decisive.
And if we're going to like fall back to the second one,
we're going to fight there.
If we're going to fight for the first one,
we can't really get caught like that bridge kind of like was on Night Haven,
Jack on Rafter.
For the anti, like the newer special, anti-Rana.
I think we just do it now
Put this anti-route
I'm gonna cover
Yeah and I think otherwise
We need to take piano
Shaco guys, don't stand still
When we have talk for control, take it guys
And set up for the execution
Don't panic the comms guys, they're gonna go basement
They're always one roamer
So we can do the first or split and the guy will always walk down brown
He's always gonna walk down brown or gonna walk down white
So if the guy wants to walk down brown
I'm gonna always take the co-checker out
I think he's applying to Barraho Longbar to the 90 cents.
Yeah?
If they're paying, if they're paying, like I'm just gonna, I can choose.
Like I can either walk on the guy Longbar and kill him for you.
I think you'll, I think you'll just...
The shepherd.
Interesting.
Not hurting the crowd there.
But his grobby taking control is saying they're very specific about Piano, Shyco,
Don't stand still on the soft floor.
I love the way that he said, look, if you need, in this specific situation,
if you need to kill these guys, all can walk by Longbar and kill him for you, like
it's...
It's one thing to think, oh, I can get a kill here.
I can do this thing for myself.
It's another thing, if I do this,
I will enable you to do that.
Like that team right there between Grubby and Sark.
It's very specific, which I like.
I think it's easier to say, guys,
very simply, find a piano, find a shaggle.
Mindful, do not stand still and soft forward.
It's very simple, but it goes a long way.
And so much of this comes down
to the first step of the round of cafe.
You offer myself on the window appell,
it's fighting for cigar, fighting for piano.
And if you get a foot hold in the building
and you get that first step accomplished,
round is looking super solid. On the flipside, like we saw how DC lost the majority of their
attack rounds, they never got that foothold. The second they tried to enter, they were dead.
Whenever Appels were getting seatboard, they could never stabilize the rounds.
So it feels very European taste style of GK to go for those focus points and talk so much about
it and they've been both the mirror and the womai as well, which supports the same story
of the piano and that niche of footholds. True, but it does leave the kait on the
the board here picked up by Kino which brings another nitro cells when already
deadly lineup three nitros here aided by the pulse to get those vertical kills
for DZ the kite as well it's gonna be hard to count so Yogg will want to
breach open the hatch in particular in the J9O's reinforcing in piano but it's
gonna be very hard to do so especially look at Kino breaching a lot of the
floor around the hatch to make it so that it's not possible to put an
exothermic charge next to the hatch. It's very nice. People, I don't really know how
you get that electrocleroth without you pull sneaking and push throwing and decide though
which would be very hard. You could, massively, get a grenade in between the layers of the
floor but if they are sent out as hard it might not reach. It's a bit tricky. Right
now it's actually in the soft one next to the hatch at least for one of them.
Oh in which case that is winnable. Yeah. That is very...
You gotta peek the right side. That's the other issue.
I mean, you can also just use a bonapalice and destroy that part of the floor if you get a...
You can keep that fish in your software again, that's why they broke it, so what was the, you know, they played out?
Oh, and the second electroclaw is actually downstairs protecting the mirror window upstairs.
On the third floor, pretty nice.
New aboard has so much of scaffold though.
Raise up the rooms, go to the candice stairs.
General information, default camps, and the kite claws.
And yeah, I really picked your targets right now and obviously,
the big part is gonna be the kite claws you can find it.
Actually, I'll take it. The back, the big hard seat there was deliberately the Volcanisters.
I got three of them though.
Yeah, and he's got the fourth as well.
Yeah, good value. So now Nade will take down the fourth for sure.
Grubby, I expect. Wow, a lot of damage.
Unusual to see a player expose themselves to the skylights early on, but Grubby will go down.
The player that said he wanted to go for a kill.
Take down a guy along by, she's the first one to fall on, and it's...
I'm sure.
...from false to himself.
Had your own back there.
I will say the DC off that pick, they give up top control entirely, letting GK get closer and closer to execute.
It's not all about the verticality, 3 C4s, not until Xcares here on the corners, looking for the Ka'i, they should destroy them.
And they should get it, one of those Manic Xcares.
Very nice.
Just pop it open, oh they're ending, they're skipping a step, let's go, go for it!
Yeah, straight into it.
They have no idea!
Yeah, there's no info here from DC, they really should be.
Nitro cells are not used in time. There's only one left. Yung finds his NJR looking for the retake.
The post-plant here is wearable for DZGK. I've lost all the manpower and now Kino is looking to try and get on that count of defuse.
Is there anybody there from GK? There is no answer! It's a retake from Dark Zero!
GK completely pounced and the North Americans steal the first rounds on that defensive side.
So the way they get into the plant is going off pace, pop the hatch, straight planting.
But then likewise DC also pushed forward very quickly, take down the guy who got the defuser
down and go for an instant counter defuse.
GK then caught by surprise themselves thinking that was really quickly, didn't have the
bird, didn't have a gun outside on the bomb side window and didn't have a player inside
a pillar either, fall the line of sight.
The sad thing there is, there is probably a world where you can see that defuser from
From Pila Window or Pal, from Red Staircase, from the softwall,
or down there are so many positions there,
but none utilized by TK.
They had you perp in top wide watching the flank,
but you're 10 seconds into a post.
That's the lack of drone that should be replacing
that position.
DZ very quick, they're good at retakes.
You saw a lot of retakes in the last week, really?
I think DZ have the most retakes at this event.
I'm very sure of that.
That would be a very interesting step to have.
That we don't have.
One thing I'm seeing a lot of here from DZ
is the pulse actually coming off.
We saw a lot out of them as well on labs.
I wonder if GK will see it as enough of a threat to ban
come the third round.
But there's a lot of very powerful ups on defense now,
like getting into, you know, the pulse is one.
I think the pulse is a bit like bait, right?
Cause like, let's say you bend the pulse,
they play the Valkyrie, they play the solos,
like there's a lot of stuff that shoots
for the pulse operator,
or you bend the Assami, that's a very niche,
very unique operator.
And a great example of an operator that they haven't played as of yet, which is one of the most popular operators on Caffeidea's army, still yet to be played.
You can also see DC, this would probably not happen to their sideplay if they wanted to do a curveball.
Ben Brava is stopping Maestro. Caffeidea is one of the few Maestro maps that we see, especially in APL, from Kinochop.
I'd like to bring it here.
My honey, Kawa.
Yep.
They have had pretty good success with it.
Seriously, can't argument that against GK is placed on their explosivity on the attack, I think Maestro did too slow pace in the server, unlike the post-arker, etc. So, maybe a bit risky.
But now, though, all about the layers. We got Yeager on the board, the triple ABS tag in Shaifu and Pienaal.
This goes back to what Gromri spoke about. Fight for Pienaal, fight for Shaifu spot, fight for Pixel as well.
Step one, do not stand still on soft floor. That's what all this will cover.
The drone work here from GK Yogg, getting a lot of info on this setup.
Spotted out of the power position spot, it's the three new jammers that are meant to try
and stall that drone, haven't successfully done so.
Sark's looking for a bit of a lurk from down all the way below in pillars.
And now it's time to move.
Bombsite is actually reading, and he's almost inside of it, especially with vaults
going down.
Actually, I think he's here.
Imagine.
gap they could send ask in their triangle probably so far away in the
roof it doesn't you present there oh my god shawty comes out traded back by J9
oh you poor those done a lot of damage and you're right GK still have a plant
opportunity I mean socks has gotten so deep into the objective still with no
diffuser this ask is all the way up on the cigar balcony he could try and enter
the bomb site oh I think socks might have been spotted now indeed he has
well done from that bulletproof camera in the bomb site however GK have
enough kills here that they are still in favor.
NJR tries to make his way forward, but the M762 wins true for Yogg.
It's Jen and Owen at 1v3, and yeah, it just ain't happening.
Not happening today, not happening any day of the week.
It's another round on the board for TK, 5-3 on their map pick,
and DZ starting to feel a bit of pressure two rounds away
from losing this match.
DZ kind of is playing into the randomness of TK's playstyle
right now, you know, Sark's men at the bottom side didn't realize they fight top floor.
They now, they allow you to print a new balcony, giving a feel before you turn your attention
towards him, leaving gaps open for the attack.
So both new balcony, brown staircase, the bottom side taken completely for free.
And the boss was downstairs but ineffective.
Was walking towards the white staircase, not scanning anything, and that's where
the gaps were left open.
DC it looks like a bit of a communication problem right now in the server
They also don't contest GK in piano like we spoke about in shine group in the skylight or inside a cigar
So they're giving up so much for free falling back step by step on the back step by step and GK
Do not care you give them ground being happy me take it. They do not care about your setups
It will win their gun flights
When you have NGR playing the Reaper secondary on poles taking a long distance gun fight
but you know something is wrong, it's probably the worst guns in the game
for that sort of battle, like the DMFG attacker or any ACOCK simscopes.
So I want to see DC getting to better fighting positions with the right guns,
with the right overs, with the right person behind them.
NTR Akina now on the DMR slash Slug Shuddy, looking to get a better percentage in their gunfights.
Probably against 3 out of 40 Mars themselves.
It's going to be a good old bakery take, right?
You roll off the double door, bottom red.
You can jump on in.
There is a huge counter, which will be NGR on Aruni.
The issue is he's the bakery player, so he cannot go into a webbing and punch this
barricade, so instead, explosions will happen.
Not Tracell.
Yeah, not Tracell used to try and take down that Ryora.
Three more doors.
Yeah, the door can be redeployed here.
Impacts from Nua's could potentially rotate into position.
And Jail is still actually fairly safe here.
EMP from Thatcher misses.
I'm just standing for it right now.
This electrical is still off and active,
which means that Grubby cannot deploy
another one of his Selma's.
I mean, if it gets a fire, it gets into the mix right now.
That could force the Jail off this position.
Therefore, they can run bait to kill,
but finally off into the action.
Fire in hand, they're waiting for the push.
Vols just waiting, biting his time. He's got a crossfire as well with NJR as they do fall back.
They sacrifice control of Bakery. The fire from Yorg.
Gains the ground in theory, but not in reality because GK have not actually moved into Bakery as of yet
and NJR can always just rotate back inside.
Now he's using more Rorothors either, so they're not committed to jumping the wedding window.
They can't fight for prayer.
There's no shield from that pushing power, so this is GK finally being stuck outside the building.
The braced spot possible so far for DC.
Here it comes. Flashbang, we need to go out.
It's time to get active here into Bakery for Grubby.
Let go D. Pistol comes out for us.
Fighters kill! Backs up from Stalks!
Oh, J9O, new as in Kino. Be careful.
You're losing all control.
You're losing sight of this game.
As GK starts to run away with it, Stalks, another one.
A flank from J9O to take down Upoir is not enough as of yet.
GK still have that Bakery control.
Ask for the DMR, it starts waiting for the close-range engagement with that shotgun as he gets back rifle in hand
Jaina no needs to take that fight sooner or later to him and you as lash out if they wait patiently
It's a hard spot to be in right now as separate plans across the both of those teams 25 seconds
Nearest as long as he's alive a planking knuckle down. It's up to us to win this gunfight
That's what he needs to do right now knows exactly where he is
Now he has to find both of them. Out comes the pistol! Another one for him!
Jano and O will trade back 3k. The big man on dark zero.
It's enough to keep their hopes alive for a little bit longer.
Well done MGR, finding a fake staying alive. Side stepping the fire, the EMPs, all the counter-util inside our bakery.
Stag put VZ in a winning position. No one overstepped, it took the fight relatively together, for the first time here in Cafe's defense side.
Operator Banz was spoken by the brief earlier. Asami worked for every single bomb side, that was like one of the logical ones, that or a specific niche countering like the pulse of the balcony for inclination.
And on the other side Grim being targeted away, which I don't think DK will be too bothered to buy
But with the Sonic Snake band paired with the Grim it can be triggered to get information from outside the building to the inside
With the exception of drones
Look if these rounds are gonna come this close for a DZ
So a little bit scared for them. GK got in so quickly
Can I just say, ask man, going with the pistol for two fights, mechanical confidence to sacrifice
an automatic weapon and go with the pistol.
I mean, you're realistically only winning those fights if they're headshots, which they
both were by the way, but he chooses the pistol because he can sprint faster while it's
equipped.
Also no super score for the first close call by engaging fast, there's a lot of
upsides there for the pistol, so Grubby was seeing the thing as well earlier.
Look in here, tertiary bombs have again, attended by DC.
Middleware is getting on the solace again.
They always want something in the information department.
Will is going to oppose the Valkyrie, the Maestro, the solace.
And it's about finding where the plan is going down and when the plan is going down.
Also, it gives Middleware more roaming freedom.
He'll figure out where the drones are.
It's being watched as an air jet or a claymore for a jump-off and to do that destructive playstyle.
So this could just be DC getting a bit more active in the server.
The thing they need to do is to fight for map control and not put up the space and just keep falling back.
A lot of work to be done on Cafe, especially with these new jammers and the Solus.
It's very hard to clear this entire map.
On the top down, they will begin, as is often done on Cafe.
No new jammers here in Sagaz, is it, though?
which is typically where we see DZ put them so GK get a lot of free info there
split up the two of them and a second player the smoke all the way on that top floor of cocktail
Grog makes his way inside how much will GK look to try and actually clear this top floor
and how much will they look to just pressure it they really do love going to these split through
style bushes these three two ones probably a halftick right he takes cigar upstairs locked
down the fangs of the middleman they kind of work their way down to the stairs he
his pressure to the bomb site and just kind of look for a gap.
With the Selma going off though, I either want to fight for top 4 control or just apply
that fake pressure, say hey guys look at me, B-Mile Grubby sneaking up below cocktail,
looking to caught the top 4 in half, Bolt's waiting, Sivort downstairs, P placed with
a cap corn to pop it, DC know that they're ratsing around but they're unsure of where
the push is coming from and when it's coming.
Oh, this is a critical gunfight here. Grubby misses his chance, goes for the repeat, but DZ will fall back regardless.
Downstairs, and Grubby eventually goes down. I'm not sure whether he can be revived here, backstabbed.
There's all-nighters cells finished off now for DZ, as they look to try and play Plantanal.
And they drop all the way down into the ground floor for Gino and Nuis.
It's a trigger round to break in for TK, and they spent two minutes doing so, but I will say, this will say successful.
You're only getting injured from Brabby, now revived back to 20 HP, they have 4 calls in pocket and plenty of utility as well
But getting into a plant spot again will be challenging. Newers downstairs can solo lock that down
They have to bring away all the C4s. Only one top to pick here left from Geno Smoke
But I think you get they have to get a kill to get comfortable enough to go for a plant attempt
Yeah, you're right. Lay round plant will be likely to die by Newers in the basement. He's all the way in practice at the moment
So yeah, he can deny a plant inside mining two players and dining at the moment
DZ really falling back wanting to play plant denial as the main priority
They've got info on where it's going down. Is he gonna deny this plan newest?
You're gonna let it go down instead. It's gonna be a retake. They're favoring the information
But DZ marched towards the bomb site slowly
Newest buys his time instead of exposing himself early, but eventually he will go down
It's a two versus four post now. The Saks and U-Port all the way on the top floor.
We've seen DZ get these Ninja diffuses before and bad timing from U-Port puts all on the Italian 1v3 now.
He gets swung by the first player, Kino will go down a 3k in the round for Saks.
He just needs to buy his team a little bit more time.
Jano will say not today. It's a retake for DZ and a chance now to tie the scoreboard for the North American squad.
Such a hard round once again. GK gets into a plant position by U-Port unsure about the top four.
They were fully cleared. DC V took Piano, controlled it, has a verticality, and then he gets caught bad timing.
Swing between the cocktail beast that they made themselves and the top-right rotation.
Sox, I mean, was making magic happen, finding those three picks, but such a challenging round.
Plant goes down, Yogg dies immediately after. Such a tough spot to be in.
What did I say? DC, amazing in post-plans.
DK in response will call their own tactical time-outs.
I'll go with you.
Yeah, yeah.
You have very open to actually make it faster, so it's going to be reading right now, right?
Yeah.
I think you can play heavy utility because they're not like taking the top floor heavy.
They are always leaving, even playing the shields, but watch out for this force.
And do this simple execute, I think it's going to work out.
And always remember that they're flanking pillar, flanking brown, flanking white, and red.
That's it.
Okay, let's go guys.
Okay, listen to Charlie guys, that is fucking sad.
First switch up, get on the shields, stabilize the rounds, recognize a DC,
they keep falling back and surrendering, map control.
The thing is, it's a lot easier said than done at Cafe.
You're in a very small box because hell in a cell once you drop down the red hatch and we saw it there from GK and grobby
They spend so much time
Slowly inching forward you can see for is trying to stay alive
And it was just wasn't enough time at the end of the round to get down a solid game plan for that plan
Yeah, and DZ really love giving up that ground and then going for retakes
Which is what we've seen too successful retakes now on that exact same bombsite play out very similarly
So, GK, just because you can see a plant doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work for you.
Even the fact that Neewers didn't rush to try and deny it just tells you, speaks volumes,
without how confident DZ are on those retakes.
I have to admit that these rounds have been close and there have been a few there that
DZ have won where I really feel like GK had the upper hand, particularly that kitchen
bombsite defense earlier, which is where DZ will have to go next round.
We don't lose this bombsite.
They could likely go back to kitchen.
GK, a chance now to win on the other middle floor bomb site, which in this case is reading.
And again, they got baited into entering the bomb site very quickly last time on this site.
But then DZ made a retake work. Again.
Since we had a playstyle here for DZ, I wonder what they talked about in that tactical timeout.
I will never know.
So, prompted here, Perneurus wants to jump out the window and go for a play, but you're 5-5.
Playing the solace, like, your value goes off and on for your life over this light ground is where you get to shine.
I saw a razor bloom there below the red hat, so if Tiki aren't careful, dropping down could lead to a death or a lot of damage happening.
There is no Twitch drone to simplify that situation.
DC, though, and much more front four positions, falls beneath the scallop and cigar blocks.
Logan to stop the initial drones from entry, to shut down the storm as well.
Socks and outside, Rappel looking for an angle.
GK didn't get in that shield either.
So, someone has to go into the building and make that initial play, and right now they're all just going fishing.
Yeah, I do wonder for GK, what is their linchpin?
Oh, I run out here from Newell's, I think that the player has...
Oh, no, the player is still on the Rappel, U-Paw goes down, could read there.
Well played from Newell's, that is a worthwhile risk to take at the start of the round.
GK have already struggled on his last two attacks in 5v5s, now they're fighting from one player down.
I'm not sure about this attack though.
It doesn't feel like it's any, like, thanks, no tooth, no, there it goes, drop it, just injuring cigar, because Jenner just retook it.
From piano, just walked on in, because no one's on the window of hell, speaks of falling apart.
Very clear for GK.
Next kill needs to come out now from J90, 10 kills to his name so far, going up against Saks, but...
Yeah, I'll fall asleep, we'll win the battle.
So does the Thone Trap as well. Sox looking good now and Osk finding one, low HP on two players here from GK.
They've even up the numbers.
They're so low on health to ask that one will live. Sox maybe two will get the job done.
Yaga might have stood up as the Ibanah player. Oryx, Kyros in pocket.
The irony is that I'm using Harbridge and will match this round because all of these C1s again they fall downstairs.
uses C4s for the penalty, C4 tossing up, doesn't have the scanner, they can wait for the right call to
right timing, then he's just one extra corner on the corner of the edge of himself.
Now low HP on both, ask and Sartman's extra vulnerable to those C4s, however both go out without
doing any damage to it. Surely a plan here, slow and steady, is not possible for GK, 24 seconds,
the oldest try and make it happen. DZ, we've seen this, so good at retakes,
it's gonna be a white stairs flank here for NJR with a shotgun in hand, he will take
down socks and yoga his plant will be denied it's asked in a one versus three
he has been read he has been taken down and DZ have run three straights to find
that point of their own running the gauntlet down but not out DC finally
fighting back and finding the momentum on the defensive side so Rob's timely
attack but there's one thing these guys can do from North America it is
setting up obstacles and playing the game of adaptation and that early disruption
they're getting newers on the soil has been such an instrumental play then they
got the layers the C4s into the canons in the final round in the 3v3
there's a good synchronized push. Injured pushing above taking down the
cover, enabling Kino to push downstairs, tech down the planter that is
exactly how you want to leverage it in an even numbers situation as a
defending team. The third member was flanking pillar so if one of the
Flanks are open, that's a freebie.
And even if you're watching all the angles, you're giving yourself the best shot possible at coming out victorious.
And it's all down to vacation and timing.
With DZ, they're looking sharper and sharper at it.
Yeah, they've gotten a lot more on the same page in these last couple of rounds here.
Really just the pacing.
Like, knowing, okay, all at the same time, I fall back here, I contest.
All together, we get aggressive.
That's what's really impressed me with DZ in these last couple of rounds.
And now they've got the confidence to lash out.
Niu has a teammate on that default cam.
He almost lands shots into the body of that player.
Coming from the Chris's market.
Let it know.
Doesn't land in the ends.
The wall opened up from Garage.
Against the pilot, Phantom pressing.
Hey, maybe a backstab.
Maybe not.
Probably on the braver.
Then for the Aruni gates, much more effective
at a trit stone. Yeah, the problem is, I mean, that
arena gate can actually still be reactivated by the
defense. So, you know, you're still gonna have to, it
does expose like, particularly the, the, a rune
barrier on the main bakery wall, right? Once that gets
hacked, if the defense activates it, then it's
still burning. Well, yeah, it starts to be burnt, or
if the attacker walks up to it, it will disappear,
which means you get a warning when you're getting
So it kind of acts like when you sometimes see a player's shadow, you get a point and they're about to peek.
It's your warning indeed.
Yeah, like this orange one right here, like that's a GK one. As soon as a GK player comes up to it and it's going to open, and GZ will note there's a player there.
Oh, this is an aggressive peek from Grubby.
Be careful.
He's in a crossfire right now, but I don't think they realize it. Why is he actually falling back?
Surely not. Surely he's not able to sneak all the way through here. They're passing each other.
Like ships in the night, newers need to win this fight, but it goes down.
Big one from Grobby to try and send his team to overtime here.
Kino also under a lot of pressure, which I don't know, wins his fight.
Assisted by that Goumain, by the Grishmont, will not save him.
As Grobby goes down, I'm fighting his kill.
Nitro itself misses.
NJR all of a sudden, is the last hero.
The Dark Zero, 1v3.
And the OG of this DZ roster must take matters into his own hands.
It's a full slip now from GK as they flip over to the other side of the map.
Saks with that defusing pocket.
Open up the free-side wall to get it safe way into the bottom side,
knowing that he must again start cutting across in half.
Jager finds the final frag and always the grubby,
who just finds himself in the middle of the building,
middle of the bottom side,
open up the round for GK.
That was the exact pick that they needed.
Over time on the docket for DZ and GK here, the North Americans are not given their chance
to send it to our third map, not just yet.
Chalet is calling for GK, want to get it done in two.
At this point we don't know what to expect.
I really wanted to see the shield come to life here for GK on the attack because
it changes the possibilities of a push.
The way that Grubby finds his opening and a second shot the after, that gives GK a realistic shot at this.
But that's thanks to him timing it correctly, finding the gap and saying,
guys just wait a second, I'm gonna get this kill, then we push together.
Full commitment, it was beautiful.
But right now DC are used to it and they just didn't have an element in that location to shot down Grubby.
So I'm thinking a little bit, what if they start playing the shields on the attacking side?
That gives you a different win condition, a different way of playing the game,
a different of taking down fights and gaining information, especially with that Solid Snake
banned away.
Shepard mentioned it too, ASK right now is hovering the Fuse, it could be a shield, it could also
just be a gun.
I think the Fuse is a huge pick here, not going to commit to it though, ASK, there it goes
for the flank watch, looked fair enough, double flank watch with the way that DC have been
playing retakes, I'm not surprised at all to see GK wanting to lean into that.
over time and DZ remain on this defensive side and we've seen six rounds of it in a row. A lot of
which they've looked very strong was a 4-2 defensive split. Remember for both of these halves so far,
DZ in theory favored here. You never know, GK they have such an aggressive split way of attacking.
It can be very hard to predict. Niu is still on this solos, wants to go for a run,
knows as an air jab there. But one is if he can impact it and then go for it regardless.
So they are reading into Nearest's playmaking, thinking of disruption, we're about to get
into the garage door, we're about to be through the door.
And if the air tank is in this position it can get shot quite easily.
And I think Asus is just kind of checking for it, he knows it's something that's up,
one of the drone and himself actually.
So Nearest is in the bottom floor looking for a disruption.
It's going to be in the middle floor looking for a C4 kill.
And GTS is still all outside the building.
No way in yet.
Tunnel visioning, I wonder, from us on that flank watchers there.
Watcha call gets EMPed on out by the Thatcher.
GK can focus up on that hard breach from Yogg.
I'm not sure if it has actually opened up the wall, they're intending to do so.
No, it looks like a jungle here from Kino as well.
EMP hasn't come out yet from U-Port.
Yogg got preparing.
He has the EMP, and Yogg does toss out that.
Perfect!
He tosses it out and immediately goes for the P, while Nyu is well...
Eventually, Kill asks who perhaps focus a little bit too much on that flank.
Contesting Bakery itself, it does leave things even, but Jika have made good progress.
That's all about getting further and further into the map.
Going one for one straight as long as you gain map control and get further in strategy
is going to be worth it.
Asked, had already spent all his utility.
He might have had some flashbangs to talk about.
Okay, air taps were replaced.
Now Sarsha broke apart the floor on the ceiling, looked in towards bomb site,
in towards the hallway supporting them.
When we saw G-Git planned previously and the run still fell apart,
Neuers, low on HP,
could always fall back towards Bakery, look for that Paganali,
he's out of impact grenades.
Doesn't have a primary shotgun,
he's limited in exactly how he can find those angles.
There's only one, sorry, 2C4s remaining,
for one being on a post shotgun.
Yeah.
That said, we see there's very deadly with both the Reaper and the Shotty.
All the way down to the basement, it's false.
That's an angle.
back again like you said those C4s in pocket. Late round it's going to be a
headache here for GK whether it comes down to a plant win condition or the
post plan. DZ are so good at denying both. Flash bank comes out in for the drop
closer to the bombsite now. Yoko is actually on safe floor but a C4
toss on out could still kill him. He looks to try and fake it out. Kino gets baited.
He goes down. Two C4s still up and alive. NJR might just save the round!
Yogg goes down, GK are so close, but they need to get that defuse back up again.
Saks looking for the plant, the re-attempt, Grubby finds one, Kenny finds the second.
NGR has just got to deny the plant, the DZ, to get themselves yet another map point here on CAFE.
It comes down to the wire once again, it's so stressful, and Aksk falling early meant they didn't have another plant that could watch the downstairs floor for the C4.
So instead, Jogger's running back and forth, Duke in them, Bayton in them, etc.
But Dustball eventually...
DC's Baystyle switch up has worked tremendously well on the defensive side.
The big question that lingers though, can they get this done on the attack?
Or will there be a defense cross to get it all the line?
Oh, question remains indeed.
Look, the attack was very rough.
They won the first round of this map, which was that really perfect,
thorough attack onto the kitchen service, the basement.
And then they won one reading room attack as well, which was pretty close.
They got the bomb down and then there were two players still alive at the end of the GK.
Bring out all the stars.
We see a maestro make his appearance on the basement here.
You see the combo of the smoke and the Goyo.
It's going to delay a lot of time as well.
The Tuber Al, the Warden.
Ask is actually hiding his maestro here.
There's a lot of private picks from GK on their side, but none yet from DZ.
If they don't have a braver, I'm not sure they'll have many counters to try and deal with these evil eyes
And as we see the operator picks the all the confirmed here from DZ
They don't have many picks here that will help out with those Maestro evil eyes
They're gonna get locked on in
Little bit curious on the approach here giving the operator liner because it's showing a lot different things
Yeah, you always look damaged a lot with them. I'm started. Is that team don't I'm not entirely certain
That's one Chris is back. It's a must of this
Yeah, that will be although that being said he spawned solo
It powers a two-ground shot a yoga one for a spawnpick very nice yoga and you know those
teammates back in the oxygen days went to SI 25 in Boston and
Well, it's a few scouts knocked out G2 knocked out shovel fire, but he'd SSG back when false is playing to that team
Rivalry continues in the server
I guess it goes back to the first kind of execute, right?
Take top floor, do the bird, and then try to make a decision to go for a back attack from the half of the AP,
to go back towards Bakery.
Last time in Bakery, there was a clash in that way.
That stopped the entire round, but that's not the case for this one.
It's gonna be a mind-share step from the same player of ASK.
So, I would say DC of all the options, because both attacks can completely work.
It comes down to execution.
Can they be perfect? One more round. Can they get this done on the attack?
They have so much time to work with, they got full map control, the roam game, doing the
bird, getting the heart destruction done, they even have air-tips and flight watch late
round.
That's open, and a soft breach on the floor, perfect, so much redundancy, breaching charges
for NJR, interesting to see that Kino has actually brought breaching charges as well
for extra redundancy, it does mean there are fewer smoke grenades on the DVC lineup,
They're not looking to try and use smokes at all with the water in play and also with the blitz while you got a safe shield
Just get into the action and block the lance of sight
Also, I think they were fearing that the ram bookage wants to get an impact trick because there's four impacts in play
And you don't was no vertical dance of this gift. Yeah, a lot of it
Taunt over it right now now they're ready for the attack the question is which site will they go for and there's two ways to play it
Kino can drop the handscroll for a plant, we can walk down the stairs and fight the
two brawls inside of VIP, and with that kill, they can push forward, but Yuba finds the first pick.
The two brawler though will slow down this push here with those Zoto canisters he also has an
intro cell he could use, and here it comes. Tom Sonew gets frozen by the two brawl freeze.
Can he get enough damage here on the Blitz? Can he peel back enough to try and stay alive?
NJR certainly cannot survive, as Kino finally gets damaged and taken down by Yogg, the masterclass of the Tuber Rao in VIP.
And something that manages to survive as well. After the newest shot in the feet, NJR not likely to be picked up, the defuser is still on the ground.
Yogg has held his position to perfection. It's going to be a flawless round here from GK, as J9O getting tatted by that Maestro Evil Eye.
There's nothing for him to do. He can't much forward. He can't much back. All he can do is hope for an exit frag
But Grubby says I don't want to give you the chance. I'm gonna hunt you down
J90 saves the KVG K though. They save the rounds
So we're gonna go all the way to 15 some final round here cafe
It is gonna be the Fender's Paradise
But the issue is this is the end of the road the final moment a chicken will be on the attack
If they want to be victorious and take this 2-0, they have to win, or it seems like almost an impossible side.
And no matter which bombsite DZ decide to go to on the defense here, GK have not successfully won it.
They've been so close, they've even planned it twice. They've been like right there at the finish line and then countered by DZ.
It's because of that playstyle switch up from DZ that you mentioned playing really slow, playing to fall back, playing to retake, playing that clock.
It has been the sixth player in the server
This is such a classic we go 7-7 and clash gets brought out as the wild card is the curse ball to change things up here
And they get the echo as well. This gives DC
retake options on the staircases
Reaggression to VIP into bakery to try to die plant late run etc
It gives them many different ways of playing it
Which would be a surprise in fact because this shouldn't be about falling back step by step
These should be about DC choosing where and when the fight will happen as the defending team
I think it really deserves which means that they're not gonna have that
Concussions to try and kind of the clash. They're also getting rid of the capitol
So GK do not have much util here to kind of the clash. You get argue the Thatcher can help
That doesn't do a massive job. The big target hit the socks. He won't know it yet. Are those yokai drones
He's probably gonna be focusing up his brother drones on getting those arooni gates
But if he could hack it a yokai drone that would mean everything the yokai drone could actually then be now to count on the clash
And the side is I think a lot of price you hear on y'all why because this setup with the
Raora with the brava with the EMPs they want Baker control like we've seen so many times attempted from them y'all who has
Fragrant eats okay
So he has the Frank grenades because he gets smokes against Raora and the brava
Okay, then they get a bit of everything but you gotta enable him with the smokes and get in bakery and probably try and take a fight
Because that can just walk on in they won't see where he's attacking them from
There's so much pressure on a single operator. She's gonna jump into right now. Oh y'all
Finds the opening kill. Thank you to the smokes
GK have their chance the best chance we've seen from them
5v4 against DarkZero who have looked to try and delay these rounds as much as possible
Well, guess what your smoke is gone?
As those smokes in pocket now for the attack three more in fact, but you're so low on health any pre fires through a smoke able
Like they kill or enter him. Oh, no, and that is a big win con for GK
They have good intel those socks have so many drones positioned inside the building of VIP for that backs that potential they bounce with
Distraction and bakery smoke grenade try and breeze to wall get that pressure
It's all about make a DC movement buy into the fact his attack will be a fun
until when they're having somebody rotate later on.
They're all fired here by Bakery.
Problem remains, what do you do about that clash
once you get up nice and personal
when you don't have your Thatcher anymore?
And found NJR. NJR has been traded on back.
That was the Erudy.
Now, Saks tap-stapping.
The back-stap from Saks must have a big impact
as he tries to make his way to reception,
but I think Foltz has rotated over to watch it,
which means that it's on Yogg
to try and make his way forward on the bomb site.
GK still have the numbers advantage
And they can't figure out how to go in and plant because DZ keep on retaking.
Malo joins Lyft and remaining, no easy way to push on in.
Sars is gate waiting for him, but hacked by him himself and need to sell his attack on the front side to enable the speech of Sars to get this back to kill.
But Saga force finds Yawkin.
Big play from the clash.
Fultz knows how to have an impact on this operator and now he's been baited back again.
As Ryorogate opens up, maybe they can get a line of sight, but no, it just allows the clash a little bit more vision.
and a little bit of a flank, they might be able to close that door behind his hatch and trap him.
Then there won't be any escape for Foltz.
Surely that's the play here for Yupo, he needs to try and close that gate,
tries to get the damage out of the clutch,
Bikino jumps up, sarks a trade.
Kruppi and Sarks now have to have an impact,
but Foltz still continues pushing deeper and deeper.
J90 needs to help him out as the damage comes through onto the shield,
but J90 will prevent Sarks on the bomb site from hunting him down.
Gobi has no choice! DZ! I've done deep on Kafe!
We're gonna meet all three maps in this series!
Chalet is a cold place to go to if you're GK and you want it to get it done in two.
But it's not over yet for North America.
Sarge has a way to do it as well. 7-7 gets on the clash and what do you know?
Holt starts to take any bit of damage.
He's getting meleeed. He's gonna swipe away at the shield.
He's backing off and he gets his team and kill himself in two kills off his positioning and the Intel game
GK was so split there do we push the gap on the bottom side?
Do we push the clash both times the wrong decision was made and they went punished?
Such a momentum stealer off a game of a map here for DC because that was GK's map
They cannot engage, storming, they planned in the first couple of attacks, but then they retake after retake the comeback start for DC
But Chalet, you cannot play the strats in the players from the same level as cafe, it'll be a very different approach, very different pacing compared to this map.
GC managed to reverse sweep against Weber after losing the first map handily, and they look like they're on track to do the same thing again here to GK.
Next up is Chalet and Pengu look at anyone's game. The major champions are showing their quality here after GK had a ripper of a start on cafe.
But it's not over yet for either of these teams. GK have one last chance to dig deeper.
DarkZero there, I mean what is showing on that defense. They gave us a serious masterclass. It did.
There's something about this core note that SSG going back as many as you can.
They've been strallessly dominant team on KC because they know about the layering
and know how to play those close areas together and it's about utilizing the Intel game.
Intel game, the second the newest got on solos, and another layer was opened up, game of disruption.
Before that, NGR on the post, the synchronized push to deny the plans, the successful reaches that I mentioned before.
And the only time GK got in, is when Grubby found a gap like that, somehow scoring in the middle of the building,
5-2 quick kills, and that didn't happen, GK wouldn't get the round.
So many of these rounds were determined by DZ making plays, and playing with the team chemistry that we know they have,
that we know that led them to win the Major just a few months ago.
We'll break it down for you with our experts down on the desk.
Well, Dark Zero continued to fight another day, North America, not out of it,
just yet, as we welcome you back to the panel.
My name's Randy and I'm joined by my voice here, Batman and Robin,
iconic Alphamunk.
Guys, this is one of those where I feel like shields.
I asked the question, how important is it?
We may see meta changes soon.
We may see different tactics here as we go to Chalet for a third map, but that shield that clash in that final round
That was a game changer instrumental and you feel like I was listening to the comms to
Made the column switch to the class stop the push and I'm glad to see that found so much success for them in that last round
I mean it's it's incredible the way the dark zero rebounded because GK
We're in many ways very successful on this map also is a quite a tight contest. Yeah, I absolutely believe it's got to do with
The map I think if you think of night heaven labs most of the bonsai are not strong enough that you can just hold on to them
Yeah, and even the top-floor bomb site that they tried to play turtle most of the time DK was winning it, right?
So they needed to extend the problem is whenever you extend you leave a lot of gaps and for a team like Ikea
That loves to exploit gaps that really favors them when they reach cafe that defense is perfect from dog
Zero because what they do is they play much closer to each other
So that any time that you have a lure coming to you
It's a 2v1 and a few times that extended and gave away the bomb site very takes were absolutely crazy good
You said GK was a team that needed to find that space.
They needed to find those picks.
And it was difficult on that second map as well.
But this is a roster that has kind of done things
that we thought they couldn't do before.
Even making it into this third and fourth place,
we found them find success to be here in this moment.
So, you know, I don't know if it's right
to look at Chalet and say, you know,
do they avoid something that they've been doing?
Because everything they've done has got them here.
I mean, they've been very successful.
Yes, and it feels just like a battle
of these two teams adapting to each other.
I feel like in the Alex round you saw DZ on the front foot too especially when
Shepard called that timeout. Shepard called it not playing too much
extensions or playing for the fallback but in DZ's reaction to that and the
timeout they're talking about playing more aggressive so you see that they're
trying to counteract what they saw but DZ's changing that up and that through
DK4 loop so just constantly trying to just read your opponent and see what's
going to happen. And they can clearly see the difference in play style and
and the difference like the take away from back zero from the first map
into the second map. A couple of examples was on that defense side when we start looking at some of their retakes.
I think that's really when we see the later on composure.
This is a 2v4 on the side of DK, but the diffuser is planted.
Pay attention to how many players on the side of DarkZero are going to challenge this player.
A first one dies here upstairs. There were two to play this player.
And look, three players are coming towards Rester as soon as he gets one kill.
They're going to make sure one guy is below him, one guy is above him.
So he's going to be stuck in a 2v1, one guy comes from above, another one swings from below
and they go straight for the diffuser. That is clean iconic.
And that happens again in a 3v3, DK are gonna go for the plant here on reading, they're gonna go at the doorway
and they do exactly what they need to do.
Yeah, one player upstairs holding the cover from above for the laundry swing
and at the same time one player that's towards pillars holding the swing here exactly that you're gonna see.
But what they don't pay attention to is one player retook upstairs, one player retook the plant
and boom, what was a 3v3 is now a 3v1.
And just very calm again, just making sure they can identify their one taunt and going for the gap.
I want to talk about Yaga here and his performance. He's been really strong today. He was strong in that map as well
But couldn't find it done. Do you feel like GK's had a couple of that ask as well? I think with positive KD
Do you think they've had some nice individual performances?
Of course, but I still feel like they're doing well as a team
You see a lot of their plays especially on that map on the attacking side that one bottom floor round in OT
Where they made the back push work when it didn't look like it was gonna work
That's a lot of good team play. It was just great team play from dark zero to counter them out
It's really hard to separate them because you look on one side one team's doing well here another team might be doing well there
But you go down to 7-7 you have an overtime
On cafe and now we switch gears towards chalet. Where does this conversation lead us because alpha?
My nose this is a map that both teams like I'd be absolutely like it
But for very different reason and I may in my opinion Shelley plays completely different from cafe
Okay, I mentioned that cafe the maps the map is strong enough in defense
that you can just most of the time turtle in that basement you have the first floor extension same thing on the top floor and
Even when you do an extension on a reading or mining bomb site most of the time you cannot stay towards that cochlea side
So most of the time you place in a closely group. I think in chalet. It's completely different
Chalet is is so strong for the attackers because you have so many viewpoints directly from outside
So you have to fight for every inch and you need to fight for even I guess
Really only extension, but you've known it now. Yeah engines means a lot of space
That's right. It's another free space while you get to use and that's exactly what GK wants on the side of dark zero
What do they want having lost the first map and going into well?
This is exactly what happens for us because first map we bounce back. We've done it all tournament long
We do it again here. I imagine confidence you played with these guys for around these guys
Confidence is something that they're carrying into this final map
I mean of course you just see it doesn't really go anywhere for them
They keep the vibes going. Yeah, especially on like even labs. They're in a pretty crucial position
It was I think it was 3-5 when the lag happened there in a 45 you know to go on the execute they lost out
Not lost out with the game draw and you see them instantly be like hey good
There's more reps more opportunity
They ended losing for the end of bouncing back and that's the mentality of not always putting yourself in the back foot
But just staying even grounded and ready to keep going in this game where you're switching sides so much and you have
First half's you have second half's you have timeouts and tactical pauses
What do you think is the most defining moment in this game coming up on Chalet?
Since it is that knockout game, is it gonna be the first half?
Is it gonna be the first three rounds?
What are you paying most attention to Alphalo because these games have sometimes gone late and in this last one
It would have been the final three. I feel like at that point you've two teams that are quite experienced with being on that stage
We've seen that Dark Zero doesn't care. You can get to 7-7. They will close of that round
Especially with the nerves on that clash just playing it perfectly fine
So I think it's really there isn't like one big half yeah, and the other one because yeah
You know if it was an experienced team
I would have told you that gaining a strongly in the first half make pretty much guarantees that you're gonna win the map
I just don't think that's the case with the caliber of the team that we have here
When you look at the difference of maybe how some of them individually are playing let's focus in on grubby because he's been
Instrumental he's been instrumental in teaching asked bringing him into the way that they do things on this team
And it's a new iteration of GKE sports a lot of people again
Realizing that this team three of the members formed in June to come and get it to this moment
How big of a moment do you think rubbing needs to happen to smile now?
I mean, I feel like he's been doing great just spotting the gaps getting into it his team on the attacking side
They really find that success when he is in the flight the crucial gap
And he's in the kind of the hive of the defense and just working it
So I feel like that's really the crucial point just him getting in it and active
But I feel like for dark zero on the defense aside
They really need to make sure if they're playing these deep extensions and they're isolating the solo players like they were on cafe
He didn't use opening kills to help fall back on their layer
Yeah, play for those deep brown win cons. So they were finding this outside here
Yeah, and I'll be honest with you to me like the first and biggest question mark is on dark zero
How do you change your play style?
I mean if you're if your game plan was playing turtle or playing towards your retake on cafe
You've got to change it completely here
You mentioned being more aggressive in those gunfights taking them and winning them
They're gonna have to do so on Shelley Manistar defense and that's gonna be a hard one because you know most of the time those gunfights
They're in the favor of the attackers
Yeah, I'm really curious if they can completely change the playstyle that they brought on the previous map from one to the other
That's a really good point because it was defense that was successful for both teams in that map to on cafe
But it just happened to be that darks are about to pick defense and rotate back into it and win that map again
I question shields that question met up
I wanted to know what was showing up clash did play a big role
Is there any other operator that we go into that you're looking to either get rid of right now or do you think might have a big impact here?
Maybe some envelopes. Yeah, I would go for craft control bears like the greens the capitals that are gonna be so strong on
Chalet because despite this big extension. Yeah, really rebels are on some strong position
Obviously, we think of fireplace towards that library side
You think of maybe what's gonna be in front of master window solarium all of these positions are gonna be removed
I kept out by a green this time off operators
Well picks and bans on your screen here final map coming up for GKE sports and
dark zero but eighty five thousand dollars added to your prize pool if you
take third place get under the castle just to make it a little bit easier from
the whole blue house like positions off the rotated ground as much to get to
clear them off. Yeah, GKE have abused the castle crazy like crazy on the ML
they have all these castles set up stores library so it's not a surprise
to see it ban and as we mentioned before iconic the Grimm is getting
We moved so strong those Bs to remove library top solarium
Torz master window bathroom as well. So all of this it's pretty much classic bands, but at Castle band
That is 100% a target ban on geeky
As I'm is gonna come out here in full force expect to see that a lot on the inside of the geeky
Kind of already talking a little bit getting ready for the strats, you know callouts got the boys ready on dark zero
But GK esports, it's not a mistake that they're here in this moment fighting for third place at EWC
Let's send it back over to our casters for our final map
Thank you very much. Yeah, it's time to get into it
We already know that Brazil will take the crown here at the Esports World Cup. We do know that
I have two teams in the Grand Final are Brazilian
But who of NA or EU will stand beside them on that podium will it be dark zero representing North America or GK?
Representing OCEU a little bit of NA. Thanks to y'all a little bit of Brazil. Thanks to us sneaking on
in there. It settles it on Chalet. Of course, it's been a bit of a wild series so far. Each team taking the opposition's map pick as we dig into the first round.
Bands have flown by as the analysts picked apart already. Not common to see the castle band. DZ throwing a few curveballs. GK's way.
I love it. Again, all about the structure and sitting on the map. And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if a Sami could be a third option later on as well today.
Trimble down to that strategy. It wouldn't make Chalet just feel impossible to play any strong positions on defense.
Maybe forcing out a clash or a mirage that I kind of substituted.
But for now, we're the two operators.
My and the castle.
And again, the monster they're going through every single time.
So much lethal to hear, though, from DC.
The vingat, the cabotown, the southern snake.
They can get very explosive in this area very quickly.
Prefer to smoke it at the club.
Selma, they're getting impact trick denied by Grubb.
Well played. How much?
I heard it being tossed down.
What was that? Electric club?
Alright, I heard a round of electroclaw, eh?
Yeah.
Interesting.
No utility on the attacking side to try and counter electroclaw, but...
So that's all it takes is an F2, and the R-square swing by it.
Nice kill.
Also the frost going down, I mean that reveals to DZ.
Be careful of your window jump pins, otherwise you may fall.
Ooh, I like this.
Yeah, I know, just like holding down the middle of the building here from Waste Main,
just kind of snuck in, seeing I got so much map control guys.
We can now flip the attack towards an area, maybe, because we got Trophy, NGR Punch, Robbius,
Wotos, Mezzanine, Seville, Groom extension here, it's completely falling apart, and this
is a DGK, we'll feel pressure from every angle.
Oh, well, Kaffee was very defended side of cell A, it's very much the opposite story,
DZ starting out on what many would consider the favourites side, and they are looking
very good at picking apart these defences, picking apart these players, it's a second
kill with the LMG thinker, as U-Port finally gets the first one, low HP on both
and Kino now as DZ have to slow down for a brief moment you pour out right next to each other you
managed to find one before he straight it back to 3k with the LMG very nice round there from Dark
Zero. Off a bit of finger. Not sure the stream saw it but um MZ this whole magazine took their
body afterwards so uh you know you know how it goes a bit of being in the server doesn't hurt
anybody nice as we said these teams know each other very well despite playing in
different reasons we thought former pro players we've also got a brazilian
squad an american on each squad four americans on dvd one american on june
k this is such a party member
to be fair wouldn't you count he know i think you should ask him that's a
fair he's only played siege in north america would you would so let's let's
you would like make a team and you had like very specific like region locks. Yeah, would you not say that
El Amal would count as the European player in you know? Yes, because he would. That does not make
him not a Brazilian. No, no, he is not a Brazilian, but for the sake of like, I guess that's a
different conversation. Well, when we've had conversations about having like region locks,
because obviously we have some, we don't have no input rules, right? No, but we do have like,
for example, we used to have a Brazilian, all Brazilian team in the Asia League, and we
We still have an all-Brazilian team in the APAC North League, and so people have talked
about should we have a regional.
If we did, would a player like Alomar or a player like Kino, would they count as Brazilian
or would they count as European or North American because that's where they play?
And I think I should be where you've played for the last three years, where you've spent
the most of your time for the last three years.
Definitely a bit of a clock saying after XNAR time you're now a native player to this
region because you've earned that spot because of the speakers, again, other titles
do seem to be the legends.
of Alomar wanted to go and play in Brazil, he would count as one of the restricted imports.
Oh, so if you go back, you win.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh!
Yeah, because you just moved.
Like Virtue would no longer be an APAC player after he spent that long on G2.
Interesting.
Doesn't mean he's not Australian.
Apparently, does.
No, it doesn't.
Oh, okay.
Virtue, it's higher instead of what you make it quite, it makes it easier.
Doesn't have to denounce his Australian citizenship just to go and play for G2.
You think he'll be trade at all?
Did he get it?
No, I think he got upgraded.
of building as well. They're just doing a bit of nothing, but it feels like for GK's perspective,
they're doing a bit of everything. They're everywhere in the server. Nothing feels free.
But look at this. Oh, a cross camera. Right by the bomb site. Droining it,
checking out the scanner as well. And because it got nearest and barred, you can go for a back
step once the pressure bomb site. Yeah, NJR is using the SAM cams as well from the zero to
try and get information. Put one on the bomb site. It was as deep inside. What about timing?
Just retake for GK. It's going to be the name of the game here once his plan starts to go down from DZ.
5v5 with GK in some pretty unusual positions.
If DZ overplayed their hand, GK would walk into it.
They know that you're in the bar. 100%.
And they got reticulatio in the problems of denying the plan.
So don't worry about that either. But now Kino and Jell make their way into deep kitchen.
When the plan goes down, well, they need to try and put some pressure on the top floor.
Jeno will do that. He'll take down two players on that top floor with DF2.
You need to try and escape. However, the jump out from Sars would take him down.
Plant has been confirmed, but GK actually still hold the numbers advantage.
A retake is very challenging though, with how exposed this map can be.
The nitrocell expenditure created means that he can't use it for the player on the window.
Good cut from Foltz who can now quickly rotate down to Trophy.
Is this defuse possible to be counter-defuse without exposing yourself to outside?
I'm not entirely sure.
Faults and NJR both in the building now.
NJR just around the corner as Yogg and Ask need to find this kill,
but they all need to get on that D.Fuse. There is no time left.
Faults finds the first one, looking for the second.
Oh, the trigger discipline!
NJR will claim both of their lives and the round with it for DZ.
So beautiful again, just playing.
Talked to him in the corner, didn't even move at all, didn't make any sound in his server,
letting Faults do all the havin' this thing.
Solar repel, rotates down, goes into trophy winters.
Guys, I'm over here. Look at me. Megan NGR the playmaker. He is now the win condition in the play around
GK honestly great attempt there, but it didn't find the plan denial thanks to the outside window pressure finding two injured almost a third kill
As army that to cut off the windows would have been a huge difference. It would have been nice to have
But both teams
They are so stuck just waiting for the other team to make the first move for a good what 90 seconds in that round
The Indian News is a bar, they knew about the people in Trophy, but they only knew they had to plant denial
and it came down to just one small mistake or one big play from the EC side to force a difference.
DZ are a lot better on the retakes on the defensive GKR.
I think a lot of that comes down to understanding that most of the time the first priority when you're going for a retake is to find kills.
It's not to try and get control of the bombsite back again.
Alright the first target should be those people outside the building who are trying to deny you from Canada diffusing like the players on the pals
the players waiting and
Then you really need to hunt a little bit before you go for that kind of diffuse unfortunately gk
We're a bit too slow in doing so they also lost both of their players upstairs
So that was the really titular moment for gk in the round now two rounds through and they haven't even found a defense I
I just saw josh mills walking by oh I mean you must be getting ready for what's
the comment on that means that the new season's being revealed very soon you know
I actually forgot that was happening when I arrived here how could you forget
aren't you ready for the shield buster I don't know how are you ready for your
two of your three into my career is all the time that what's your what's your
katey in rank 1.94 not happening it's gonna drop man well I haven't played
mug seats this season for the first time ever so I thought I was in the
the game of the season, but at the end.
All right, here we are, DWC, for our finals.
Finals today, yeah.
It's time.
I know the Grand Finals coming up soon,
because I just saw Handy's girlfriend and Cyber's family
walk on past.
OK.
Getting ready to cheer on Faze with that Grand
Final against Feria.
Usually, drums arriving not too long either, that I'm sure.
Also, second round tier of a thinker on NGR,
it's a bit of an unusual pick,
but he's 5-0, he's feeling good.
Got fragments, got the healing capability.
You can actually tank the really good scout.
Think about what you want to.
Faster ADS speed as far as underrated.
You get everything, man.
It's all global gas, I think all 5 or 10 agres.
Fire, smoke goes out, Kino chuck it down,
so the fire is actually in his palm right now.
Yeah, Kino wants to try and push his way up from below,
but he can't, and wow.
They're going to get us.
The fire falls, kills himself with the fire.
Very minor mistake, but a costly one.
DZ though, still erupted on the top floor successfully.
Kino should be able to get that diffuser back
with that kill on to ask that should be it cut off completely Kino finds a second it sucks
the one before as he finds the first Kino finds all three with the Reaper and it's a grim sight now
for GK three rounds in a row they have failed the final ban of the half will come through
and we need to see your appraisal here for GK sooner or later there'll be a trap operator
You already know their playstyle, we just understood how they're going to play, so this is like end of the teaching, I think we just need to bring more something for the solo role,
But we didn't ban Ace, and that means they're gonna steal like a building that.
So it means someone has to start all, or...
I don't know, like, playing something.
Play with Azami, please, someone play with Azami.
Yeah, thanks for the group chat.
Okay, do a bit of play, just play like the hell, yes, I'm gonna play the...
I maybe bring more solo-spin kids, like you watch their spot, what they're going to do, you know?
Alright.
And play against, like, together.
Like, Yoga don't swing the highway before Harvey tell you stuff like this, you know?
They play against, like, together.
Don't swing alone.
Should I change them to Faisalis?
No, I'll play Faisalis.
I can't help but feel like Faisalis and Upo on their main stage debut.
This team, we're starting to see a little bit of nerves creep on in.
Things that are getting desperate.
Sark saying, please, somebody play Azami, please.
Alright, like that's the sound of a team that is panicking.
They won the first map very handily.
They were pushed deep on Kafeid.
Now on map three, they are completely lost on defense.
defense and you can see the GK jerseys in the arena are feeling the same way, but it's
exactly what we were talking about, Pengu, like if you're not playing with a castle,
you're not playing with the Lamai, like you need the Izama, you need the Miri, you need
to create power position, you need to give yourself some safety.
And like GK know it, but they're just not doing it.
I will say this, this is the great thing about being a castle at home site, you
have that, you have top-down perspective.
cafe not trying a single attack around to play the shoot for GK, Jiren Shalei
and refusing to play the Mira, the Clash, not playing the Asami every single
round she probably should. I'm not sure if that's because they're uncomfortable
having a player take that responsibility or take that role or
disrespect of thinking that they need it up against Dark Zero but Shepard set
the same thing we've been saying, they're just fishing, they're putting up their
feelers, they're taking what's free and DK start panicking, the round falls apart. DC gets into the sit-up
location, three to one fight together and the round is over. DK have to either disrupt them
early on by fighting the kill and aggrace themselves by choice, all they're gonna have
tools to hide behind and protect themselves with, like I keep saying, the mirror of the
Asami, the clash. For this round, you got both the solo second disrupt and the Asami, they can protect that.
Oh good nitro on the Kino though. Hard breach done. No secondary tinkana. NJR probably should win this one.
Up against Yogg. Oh it looks away. If Yogg swung now, that's a free kill.
Oh man. If only he knew. He can surely hear any things that NJR is looking his way.
The timing. Yeah the timing is very unfortunate there for both players.
I guess, fold so. Manage to hunt down Ask down below. That's the soloist critical operator in the late round as NJR finally takes a little bit of damage.
But against the Reed! One tap! Good night to Yogg! 3v4, GK again! We start to see the cracks forming.
DZ looking for their fourth attack in a row. GK solo swinging, looking desperate for the server.
NTI is better right now. Six and zero, finger boost pop, throw it. Killing back, newest alive.
Oh, he's striking a plate on the buff.
Vault's from the vert.
Oh, he's gonna get a pink kill, surely.
He goes a big boom.
This yellow ping should enable the vert, but no, the timing is a little bit off.
NGR not able to peek at the same time.
But they have gone fishing, and they found a few trout.
Grumpy though.
Does shot.
You was out of it.
Almost find a chance for the second one.
That should have been his free kill.
Under vaults.
The bar's not doing him any favors.
And a free kill starts exposed, just not realising that Jaina I know is taking control of the mezzanine.
DC, just when GK thought they had an advantage, DC rip it back again.
So once floor broken, office wall opened up as well, exterior window so much pressure and GK liked the information.
They have no clue where the attack is coming from or where the case might be.
It's downstairs in Trophy, which means DC are forced to play for kills right now.
They've got two players working together on Ivy, now inside a piano and off the store,
with false backstabbing in the very downstairs from Trophy Stacerlarium.
Entry time for NJR, but U-ball finds one.
NJR, now chasing him down slowly.
The LMG.
Here's Split.
False is also coming from the other direction, no more vertical pressure now,
but he would pretty far on the back of the yellow ping, puts it all on U-ball.
1v2.
False is low.
But he can't isolate the fights easily, and NJR will swing to win.
It is four rounds and a roll for DarkZero.
They are taking no prisoners.
Chalet is their playground.
No parachute, no tag time I've lived here from GK. The players themselves in this server have to figure out their issues and their struggles right now
Why are we swinging this in where Yogg?
I know that they got to play the game in the shop ship, but like Shepard said, you got to peak that fight together.
Have a guy contest that off his window from the balcony, then have a guy go off his floor, do a 2v1 play.
Something like that. His solo hero plays there great when they're working, but they have not been working so far here in Chalet.
Maybe GK overconfident because they had a victory or phase on this map, but mind you,
Shelly is not a map that phase, generally speaking, is like world beaters on.
And I could give them some false hope for this map, but I sure expected more, at least.
It's a 0-4, heavily favoring DC, and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.
But do we see the mirror finally? But I think the mentors are a bit shattered on the side of GK.
It looks shattered. You look at the players in the server, you listen to that tactical timeout from two rounds ago.
even seeing GK in the crowd, you know, like it's so hard to fight back from O4 on your defense.
And look, I said that Chelae's attack a favor, I do stand by that, but I'm pretty confident that GK would have been the ones that get to pick it,
because you look at the round differential from the first two maps, right?
Like GK only lost three rounds in the first, and DZ lost seven on the second,
So I would have thought that GK would get the map pick
Or rather the side stoppage
What if they did? And they chose defense?
Bit of a mistake in hindsight
That's what I said as casters, we have the fortune of hindsight
Is he going to man?
He has the hit confirmation right when he hits the camera from the wall
I hope so at least
You know a NGO he's doing some some goofy roles right now right playing the finger playing the zero
This guy has not died yet. He has been a huge playmaker in every single round
Always last alive when it comes down to a low player count find the most final frags
DC again, they haven't changed up their playstyle is again fishing getting doors in there getting into
Information and what that are operating than zero such a low pick rate operator
But if you can get all those Samcams across the building you can just lock down so much and yellow piece you get with it as well
Mr.
Pigeon they've got numerous could have had a freebie, but he is having good presence and they might think the window is clear
So they step back towards the window itself. You could still find the kill
This is army is perfectly placed from grubby as well. Oh the exposure
Of you Paul a little bit answers pains, but socks with his his fight shot cut up against Kino
One HP, but he survives nonetheless.
Nitro is self-prepared now, waiting for the push, waiting for the calls from someone that perhaps they are pushing in.
Up above he doesn't have the info, he blindly blows it and now Falz is hunting him too far away.
Low HP, Sark should not survive for much longer, but he manages to cleanse it thanks to the new Jammar.
No, it's crazy. If you get a Sam Cam, you're gonna have to injure Sark with a serial gatter doing 5 damage right now.
Crazy it's happening. Forces inside, it's time to plant down actually but almost no cover.
Yogg should be at it tonight, there's plant, but it gets red, false.
Goes for the fake, plant denial.
Divert positioning now from Yogg.
There is a information, can they find this plant positioning?
It's once again next to the hatch.
False is gonna be able to confirm this plant.
Surely DZ in the posts will be able to lock it up.
GK, once again, left scrabbling, almost a shot landing
but Foltz managed to get out and survive and Nuis has taken down Sarkz.
It's an absolute disaster for GK as Askis then discovered, Foltz will go down,
but Yacht cannot have the impact that was required.
Nuis mops up the final two kills with the R4C and DZ have made five in a row on Shelly.
They are making mincemeat out of GK.
It's getting very quiet right now inside of GK in the server and outside.
The dream feels over, hope is lost and every turn it's DC opening up the kill, getting
the clutch, getting the plan, getting the better of GK in every single engage.
There was four kills in that round by the way.
You see how DC they are so far off finally showing some signs of positivity on the
player phase because it's looked a bit frustrated early on cafe it's been a
hard-fought victory in this comeback but to think that GK were only one round
away on cafe that changes absolutely everything and the very final round was a
3v2 in their favor that pulls it in terribly they clutch back to win the
map. NGIs still deathless. He is quite literally played five rounds gone
7-7, a lot of engagements happening and he is winning every battle he's in and
never dies by getting caught off guard.
I think is a rare sight but a very welcome one for DZ fans here. NJR,
Detless, 7 kills, GK, left running for the hills. Time to get on your skates
here on chalet because DZ are looking to plow through them. It's another one
from newest jumping in the window with the pistol. Incessance! Oh, what do you say for
GK other than it's Tilt City?
No state right there. It's Grobby now can sit back and watch his team boost this round
without him. We see Yaga go for this and spin the bottle.
Oh, another one.
The mental is chopped completely. There's no cheaper left in the server. And Yusuke's
gonna think it boosted back to higher and higher HP, revving him for another fight
lead in the round.
He asks us once his chance to go for a run out, he sees the info, sees the repel, but
he second guesses himself and now up on the roof, newest is not exposed but always catches.
Another player running back, sobs answering his phone.
He's stuck out later now.
Theory traps.
He doesn't go for the swing either.
Knows Kino since I'm piano watching him so it's my time he does a bit of damage.
Oh my god, somehow can you stay alive?
Yeah, there's so many moments on this map where GK have surely had the advantage in the gun fight, but they just fumble it and dizzy.
Somehow get to survive!
They look to survive every single round of the attack!
You poor musko down! He will fall!
Ask in a 1v2, the lone man!
But GK is the Brazilian.
As Kino's back up on his feet, thanks to the finger boost from NJR.
Nitro cell finds nothing, out comes the M1014, the shotgun.
and pack a punch in close range.
Can I get the multi-kill Caesar for this one?
Hello, ask!
Did you not see them?
Turn your goggles back on, mate.
Can't see anything.
Time to get some glasses.
It's a 1v3 on the retake, and DZ have gone back outside.
They have evaporated back into thin air.
Might spot the first one, but MJR, untouchable.
Eight kills, and not a single death to his name.
It is six rounds in a row for Dark Zero!
Yeah, that was fucking awesome, bro.
That was fucking epic.
I'll tell you what, fellas.
Last fucking day of Hale again,
past 10, it was a good pull on the Crankshaft.
Good to see you.
What do you know about that?
Yeah, what do you know?
It's a great, it's a great last stack app right now.
What do you know about taking it serious?
It just turns into absolutely flow.
Just turns into...
Bro, I was just...
Straight contact here.
Like you would've guessed, bro.
I would've guessed.
More and it's just like...
I just hopped in with a...
We'll talk about it though. It's a new thing.
Yeah, we haven't really talked about it before, you're right.
We'll debrief it after the break.
Wait, yeah, we'll go over that a couple more times.
Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it if you don't mind.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Poor cap, again.
The only thing I'll say as well is on this defensive side,
they're gonna be playing with emotion,
so just be a little more hyper aware,
just like the crazy shit early.
I mean, honestly too, it'll be a great round to spawn this first round back,
just because they're gonna be flying on a spot, but like they're gonna be trying to get it done right now
yeah yeah i mean yeah
do you think they're gonna be trying to get it done or do you think they're gonna be trying to get it done?
the road is like so ready like we play bad so that's you can order that i mean bad half but we
still have one more half to do yeah let's go guys it's time to shine baby
yeah i think the best we can do is like treat like serbestine as as a screen
G we got 6 more rounds.
Don't forget to communicate with each other and let it...
...and get this overtime.
Bro, forget this. They are not playing like this, this threat.
I don't want to check.
I mean you're gonna check the ghost threat. They are not doing that. Of course they prepare stuff.
So just treat like a scrim. Get your info with your drone. Communicate with your teammate.
Try it like a scrim is what asks us the most experienced player on the team
That's all GK have to do right now
Look, this could be the last round of the eSports World Cup for this team
It could be the end of the road
It's hard to be motivated right now and the stark contrast between these two Rosses dark zero on the other hand having a laugh
He said hey, how about that turns out?
All it took was for us to not take things very seriously and then everything would come easy the GK
It's much weaker spirits, but you do just have to treat it like a script
This is a
It's a very tough spot to be in and you know the silence and GK side it was deafening
They're sitting there in their own hands and someone's got a break that silence and was asked like you said say guys
Treat later scream do these things and not gonna do this chapter. We prepped for gonna do whatever on the other side DC
laughing
They're going to say it with a bit more emotion, so expect it and expect it, but it's such
a good point because it's not going to be coming down to a regular run-off season anymore.
That was going a long time ago.
Yeah, for sure, and especially 6-0 up on a DZ attack, right?
Like now on defense, they can afford to take every risk.
They can afford to neem a little bit.
You know, you've got six matching series points, a lot of money on the line and
a spot on the podium here at the Esports World Cup, and GK in the crowd looking
fairly dejected. The club championship points up for grabs of course means something, but
the difference between third and fourth place is almost a hundred thousand US dollars.
Also, there is a world here where NGL will finish this game deathless.
Oh, that would be a flex.
Signed deaths. Signed kills. Zero deaths and five assists.
This game is crazy.
Yeah. I mean, he did play zero. Maybe he got a little city sabbath.
There's no way.
I don't know how he's getting five assists. That's actually almost a more obviously busy
But he still has nine kills. Yes, he's also hidden
Pretty good tagging everybody up and not dying
So it's all like he gets your son's you're getting a lot of assists because you're losing a gunfight
Then someone would they be
big
And it's the Americans
Both says cheese in the chat new is also during that half-time swap said in the chat
How you're feeling right now? I give you a clue GK not feeling too hot and his yard
You know, once on the same side of the corner for the Americans, he's 0-7 himself, yet to find his first kill and it could be the final round and he is again, he's killed his first die.
Oh no, oh!
Last goes down to the Crop, he finds the gap once more.
Great gap, and a great play to take down, falls to the leadership of DZ.
No one was on that camera to support the clash.
Aw, bitch.
Grubby gets completely swung.
A very cheeky pick there from Neuers.
Time to go DP into Sark's, but the smoke catches him on the outs!
Jane, I know it's spawnpeek to kick things off, now he's got another one, good shot from U-Port, but he's now low HP himself.
2v2 with two minutes to play. Complete chaos in the server.
Asked if he's going back to spawn because someone left a diffuser there, I guess the guy got spawnpeek in his yoga.
They gotta retrieve it. He went onto the rock!
Oh, that is a mistake.
You do not go into that rock, not in ranked, not in pro play.
It is a death sentence.
Winnie-Bohel from both sides.
Mind you, Jarad did suffer his first death,
so that's also gone now.
It's Kino and Neuers playing together,
or as Asken-Yupor got one landscan,
two frag grenades, and a flashbang.
Just wait.
Sit back and relax, Daisy.
Let's see if GK can handle the pressure when it mounts.
good name from us as he tries to peek on through isolate these angles but
keynote's got this a code from the other side he's got the crossfire it's a
perfect show of the TCSG given the second why don't you pull long HP and
it's utter dominance from North America's golden boys on their quest for
redemption heads held high and for you and GK where the unlikely hero but
Every fairytale must come to an end eventually.
Today it was DZ's moment to finally get another win here on the stage.
Not the win they wanted.
Of course that was last night.
They wanted to go into the Grand Finals and play for a trophy,
but still ending in a win makes a hell of a difference.
For TK, yes, unlikeliness of him to win, a dream that comes to an end.
But they were the final team standing for Europe, which surprised everybody,
and they should be proud of themselves for getting this far, even.
And for Dark Zero, what they're looking to build is longevity.
They won the Major in Salt Lake City a few months ago,
but what matters is becoming one of the greats,
forging their path and inciting them,
trining them on the legendary stage of Rainbow Six history.
We've named teams that have done that in the past,
EG Continuum, M2G2, W7M, and FaZe Clan, but very few others can boast the same.
Dark Zero, that's their goal to win, not just once, but again and again and again,
and they didn't get close enough this time, but they can work from here.
They can take the next steps and look forward to the next event in Japan,
and look to take the trophy there, and then to take it in Brazil, at the Six of
and every event from here on out. This is only the beginning for Dark Zero.
It's all about scaling and peeking at the right moment.
You don't want to play your very best in a stage game.
You can't be very good until like stage one, stage two, the best of three.
And I've played on the real big stage in a grand final here
because that is where you've got to be after very best.
And a third place finish isn't the end of the world.
It's not that you go from winning to getting first rounded, and then it's a fluke all of a sudden.
Of course, and this Derby, the battle between North America and Europe,
and Europe the constant question which region is on top it's finally been answered back to the desk
for Randa and the boys to break it down. Thank you Dev Marta and Panku great call on the game today
and great call over the course of this tournament and we're going to switch out some talent in a
moment so well done Blats. It's been an amazing time being here this third place matchup puts
North America on top in the conversation against Europe and quite convincingly Alphama as much as
I try to you know help you out and be a speaker for you be a voice for you when you're not here
There's really nothing much I can say at this point. I got it. So we're going dog. Yeah
You know what all I can say is I'm really happy for DK. I mean just take a look back at our journey
It's absolutely amazing so many of these players, you know, they struggled a little bit in their careers in the past few months
They were given the opportunity to go on DK. No one expected them to even make it WC
They didn't only make it WC. They made it to the main stage
They surprised everyone by winning quarterfinals. They make them four that in itself is an achievement and that's only to stop for this team
It certainly is this is just the beginning of the legacy for both of these rosters and you know as Deb was perfectly mentioning
This is trying to build continuity and trying to build something for dark zero that can stand to the titles of
W7m and and and Penta g2 and to be this one of these great teams these great
dynasties and you know one more win one big final win that might do it I mean
again but you can't let anyone else put expectation on yourself you know I think
W7M when they did that when Penta did that they won't focus on anyone who did
it before them each of those teams have to go out and build them for themselves
and I feel like you know we talk about these trophies kind of like the
McDonald's collectibles that you go and store in a library you know it takes
real power to come to these tournaments where everyone else is working to
every day year-round and it takes a lot of willpower to come through it
in the East Tournament. So, respect the face of what they've shown.
Absolutely. It's a different side when you're having the conversation and when you're playing
it. And obviously, at the end of the day, there's only so much for people watching at home who love
the Esports to talk about. This would be one of the books from North America and one more
added to the legacy of DC. Alphama, you mentioned GKE Esports. Final note on this rebuild.
Successful for you? Successful going forward? Absolutely. Super successful. Out of every
single expectation I had on these guys, revive the carrier of us. Revive the carriers
of Yuga at the same time revived the care of Grubby who played a little bit at tier
one level for Secret, for Fnatic and never really reached those heights.
For all of these players it highlighted also some Routies in U-Pore for example.
So I think I look at this roster and I'm super happy about the performance, I'm really
proud of them and I think honestly they outwit so many expectations.
I can really hurt Voldegrud on these guys losing this match.
I think it's all fine.
Congratulations to our teams who showed up for our third fourth place match.
the easiest one to do but Darkseer will claim $85,000 more to their prize pool and they submit
themselves as third place after taking the solid major prior to this. Coming up we've got our
grand finals and a special reveal panel you do not want to miss so pay attention to our
Saudi radio comms and we'll see you on the other side.
I'm gonna kill him, I'm gonna kill him
He's talking to the smoke
F**K!
F**K!
He's going to be shocked!
You've got him!
Gonna walk your car
You're gonna get me here then
Yeah, definitely
I'm blind
Get me a power
Get me a power
I'll do that, do you touch
I'll do that
That's f**king nasty
Very good
He was full blind, bro
He was also full of vermin
I'm gonna try to see if there's a vermin
I'm gonna try to bomb you back
I'm gonna try to bomb you back
I'm gonna try to bomb you back
what?
RAAAAAAMM
RAAAAAAAMM
PLEM
PLEM
FU-
Nice!
PLEM guys!
We have the camp, we have the camp
We have Cristin blue, Flicky blue
Nice, Cristin blue
We still have the camp, stay there
One lobby
We hold to hold the tiny angle lobby
Rusezki
I'm trying to find out
I'm trying to find out
Can we play aggro?
NOOOOOOO
Let's go!
Let's go! Let's go!
They got this with my dana
That's the DMR bro
Oh hot!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, bro!
Stop!
He got out of the box!
Baby!
He thinks he can come in here and play my game!
No!
He knows nothing!
But no!
Tyler Mwan, you're done.
Raw, raw, raw, raw, raw!
And then see you!
Hot, hot, hot, hot!
Go to house now!
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The battle for Brazil and the battle for the trophy at EWC, which has become a mainstay
on the siege roadmap throughout this competitive season.
Not only do you have $750,000 to first place, but for the course of this day, we have given
away and will continue to give away over a million dollars in pricing for the teams
who earn it.
And here in Paris, of course, everything is earned and nothing is given.
And that's why I've got two guys who know about earning and know about giving
and some great analysis joining me as well.
Laxing has joined the panel.
Iconic taking a break here.
Alphamist is with me.
Lax game set one went the way of Dark Zero.
North America on top.
As a North American, how do you feel about that?
Listen, I absolutely can't complain.
You heard me yesterday.
Leo Uncorsing wasn't here.
You know, I'll take it that EML
didn't advance into a grand final.
And I'll definitely take it that we take third place
now.
You know, it's definitely a little bit of Copian,
a little bit of NA Hopian there.
But overall, I mean, that series was really good.
In the end, it does come out to Dark Zero, just
Winning that, what, 7-0?
Yeah.
Just really showed they wanted it right in the very end.
It felt like if they had won that first map,
maybe we could have seen a very early set.
But today we expect, in this best of five,
coming up our grand finals, anything but.
And that's what leads us to our PS5 story of the day,
which is the Triple Crown Contenders.
Now, the Triple Crown.
A lot of people know that from maybe some horse racing.
But in this term, in siege, what does it mean, Alpham?
What are they fighting for?
It is the three biggest tournament.
The most prestigious ones you can get into this game in the modern enough siege.
You think of the Sixth Intentionals, you think of the Major, and you think of EWC.
Now the three men on your screen, what they've done before, the two on your right, they've
won two Sixth Intentionals and one Major.
Heard, he's won two Majors, one Reload, one Sixth Intentionals.
All three of them have one common point.
They have never won EWC.
One of them will win it today and become for the first time, enter the legend of
R6 because they will be the first holders of that triple crown all three tournaments
EWC major in a side.
Laxing, how does that feel?
I mean, I love Iconic talking about, you know, people act like these trophies are part of
McDonald's collectibles, right?
But there's so much more that goes into it.
I mean, yeah, I mean, you're collecting every single big tournament trophy and for
both of the Lord, all three of those players and even for these teams to be able
to collect an EWC trophy to seal out the day, to seal out these past two weeks.
I mean, that will really cement their names even further into Siege's history.
I talked about it before.
I'll talk about it again.
These are exactly what all these players are going for.
When you look on that side of Fury, again, this was a team that was put together five months ago.
The fact that they are here at a grand final.
We saw Herd's Twitter post online.
I mean, he was talking about, he just believed in the process and he didn't read it really.
He wasn't really sure what time was going to look like.
But the fact he's right there in a grand final, ready to take this stage, it's a beautiful sight to see.
Also, not wearing his jersey, you know, I like it.
Just setting this up, setting this up and do a little contrast with the team, getting ready.
That's kind of what I would do.
Alphama, there's a bit of a history between who wins and who doesn't,
and who goes on to do well in the tournament.
Yeah, I got a couple of fun facts about this.
When Hurds face-face, we know there's a big deal coming on,
because last three times in modern Siege were Hurds face-face.
Every single time the winner of that matchup ended up winning the event.
that happened as PSI 2024, they met obviously in the grand final
and here Hertz won, became a PSI champion, they met again in Boston at PSI
and this time FaZe won the matchup and they went on to win the event
and finally at widows one year ago, three at bid FaZe initially
in the playoffs and ended up winning the event, that's just to tell you just how big
Titans of CJR because they know whenever they face each other
whoever wins end up winning the event. That's gonna be really true today
because whoever wins is going to be winning the grand final.
So it's going to continue.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's always nice to see a Brazilian final.
You always will expect the best out of them.
I mean, they are the best region for a reason.
So I'm really hoping, once we get into this best of five,
that they really are trading blow for blow,
taking each other's maps or taking their own maps.
And we do see a full best of five.
I don't want to see a quick series.
It doesn't feel like we are going
to get what we might have gotten our quickest series
already.
And many people think on the quick side,
it could not be phase.
Many of you might think, oh, yeah, phase 3-0.
Some people have already been saying a Furia 3-0.
We'll see how that ends up working.
Either way, it'll be contested.
But if you go back to how these teams have performed,
specifically Faze, they have surprised us a little.
They've gotten here, which we expected.
But the way they did, losing dramatically on several maps,
but also dominating on other ones,
means that, of course, they're
looking to clean up their siege heading into the Grand
Final so that is no question that they're
going to get a victory.
We had Anson down on top with them heading
into the big matchup today.
We are chatting with Laura ahead of the Grand Finals. Laura, I feel like we had to get you
the VIP treatment with the cool car because you're the back-to-back finalist for this game.
Apart from being in a different team, how does this Grand Final feel different to you?
I think it's completely different because first of all we are in another country so
without it it feels different because of this. But speaking in Portuguese like when
we're playing it's also very very different we have a different culture on
the team also so it's completely new experience like playing for other guys
also so it's just another feeling and this time I'm feeling way more confident
I think we're a way more solid team than I was last time I was in the final so
pretty confident this time. Hey that's good stuff you you played against
FaZe in the SEL finals it was a close game but but you did lose what did
you learn from that game that you used today? I think we learned a lot
about like honing on even when the game is on our side like we lost to them on a
final map it was 5-1 for us I think and we still lost the map so we learned a
lot from this and we're not gonna slow down when we are at this point
at the game again. That makes a little sense I want to talk about your teammate
Boxer as well when he started playing in the SAO last year everybody said he
was the player to watch he's been enjoying playing on the stage for what
looks like with the trash talk and everything? What do you feel like he adds to the team?
I think he's like a balance for our team you know like our team has so much ego like we are
like big names on the scene so everyone has their own opinion and everything so
sometimes we're like discussing something he's the more chill guy so he balance our team a lot
and I think he's enjoying so much like playing at playoffs his first playoffs playing
if the crowd there are cheering for us or he's just enjoying himself and hyping us all.
I was going to say because from what he shows on stage it doesn't look like he's the calm
one with how he's been debating but I love that.
With a win here today you would log in SI.
That's of course not a tournament in your home country.
Does that play in the back of your mind at all?
Yeah of course.
We already talked about this.
Even before we came to the tournament we said okay guys let's not just think about
SI points because we just have to win here and we're there ready.
And then what are your expectations for today's game?
I mean, we hope we're going to win.
We just did our job like all the games,
so we're just confident.
And that's it.
Everything can happen, but we're very, very confident.
That was great.
Thank you so much for your time, and of course, best of luck.
Thank you.
Why does Ann keep getting driven in a Rolls-Royce to the venue?
I mean, I'm in a bus.
We're in a bus, guys.
What's going?
Has Ann really got it like that?
Ann, come on.
All right.
You know what, at the end of the day,
around box Zara and him balancing out this team. That's interesting, but clearly plays that vital
role for them. Yeah, I was something. I mean, there was many things that stuck out there,
right, that they were talking about. I mean, him talking about their conference very clear
and a grand final. But when he was talking about box Zara kind of being that equilibrium,
that balance where everyone, you know, they kind of have their own little egos in some ways
and respectfully so. But it is funny when you think about box Zara, that he's, he's
the balance of that team. And honestly, I'd have to agree. I mean, when they were
celebrating, getting ready to cross that creek, he was in the crowd. He was in the crowd.
He couldn't care less about Krasniki. He was enjoying the moment and being in the moment to be fair a very good crowd to jump into though
Awesome. Absolutely. I've been driving with the guys
I was having a little bit of fun
I'm definitely not biased I definitely did not drum with the three of them
They're a fury. Don't worry about it. No, the main thing that I want to take away from this is I have the chance to
Meet wolves in the hotel today and just still talk to him a little bit about about the matchup
And I was telling him, you know all the pressure is on phase
They are the two-time world champions. You guys are a young roster. You've got a rookie with you
And he told me you know in any other team that would face I wouldn't care
Yeah, but I think is with face pressure never gets to them
So I know we don't have the pressure that they don't either and that's not an advantage
And I thought that was such a clear view for him because he knows them very well
He knows that's not gonna be an advantage coming into this matchup. So interesting all these regional matchups giving these teams
Different ways to go
We're going like three or four layers deeper because they know each other so well both from the Brazil region Siege
Brazilian Siege, it has just been phenomenal at this tournament.
EWC has made it clear they are on top.
But which representative will it be?
When you look on the side of Face Clan,
many people expected them to be there.
Furia talking about their journey.
But Cyber has been maybe one of the most talked about
individuals coming into this tournament and during it.
Not just for a support or having his family here
behind him, but for his play.
And had a chance to sit down on top with them.
And I hope it's not another Rolls Royce.
Ann?
I'm so glad we get to chat with Cyber.
ahead of the grand final today.
So we're good to speak to you.
First off, let's talk about yesterday a little bit.
You guys lose map 1 to GK, then a big comeback.
What do you think caused the comeback?
Yesterday we started losing the first map,
but we managed to make a comeback.
How was this game? How did you feel during it?
Well, we were very confident.
Chalea is a very strong map.
We knew it was their strongest map.
We ended up losing at some moments there,
which costed some rounds.
And we let the victory escape in the first map,
but we were very confident with Apu, who was in China,
who was on the side of the team, and Fortress,
so we were very confident in this game.
You and Sousa can be the same people to win the three big championships, WC, Major and ESI.
How do you feel? Do you know what you can do today?
Well, we are very happy to know that we can achieve this dream.
I believe that we are together for a long time, so we always believed in each other and dreamed of being a multi-faceted champion of several championships.
So we will work hard to achieve this dream.
And also KDS and Rafa, who have already been the same champions.
So it will be there four people at least being champions.
So yeah, I'm very happy and very proud being playing with Stills for a long time. So it's a big dream for us
So we are very confident and we are super happy the rest of the team as well
It'll be very nice for them to get the major and the EWC and the tournaments. It'll be amazing
Now the big thing is we don't really have a name for it yet because it's so new
How would you go about calling it? Would you call it the triple crown? Would you give it a different name?
I don't have any name yet in mind for those who win the three big championships.
Do you have any idea or something in mind that you have to recommend to them?
Well, I think the only one that I can recommend is the TRIP of Corolla, which is not like the football part.
So that's it, I think the TRIP of Corolla is the best team of the year.
So I think Triple Crown would be a great name, you have a little bit of football there.
So I think Triple Crown would be a great name.
Alright, awesome. Now Saber, we've also seen you cross keys already together with your son.
What does it mean for you to have your son here, have your loved ones here,
and be able to perform so well in front of them?
You broke the key, you were with your son, it was a really cool moment for the broadcast, for everyone.
How did you feel at that moment, being able to break the key with him?
Well, having my son in the championship, I'm very happy.
His first international championship, he can really come.
So we had a question about bringing him.
For him to live this moment with me, it's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time,
but because of some championships I couldn't, because of the age.
And thanks to EWC in Paris, or ECMAKE, an event in itself,
I can bring him to see the game.
And, man, I'm very happy about that,
and he's watching, he's cheering, it's something that motivates him even more than he wants to win.
today you would lock in an SI appear and so it'd be yet another tournament in
your home country is that another big motivation for today?
You guys can already guarantee the Vagapro SI, right?
What do you feel? Are you excited? Are you already thinking?
Well, we're not thinking much about the invitation yet, we're more focused on this
part of WC, we really want to leave the champion, we have a lot of
struggle to reach the level that we were at the beginning of the year, so
We came back to the level we were and now we want to score again.
Cyber has been phenomenal and of course face hoping that he shows up big to help him get the way
Oh, and he absolutely will and there's one thing right we always talk about the mental
We always talk about the big physical aspect of having to play
But we never talk about the emotional side and you obviously heard him talking about his son his wife being here
Just being able to play in front of your family
Just add so much more to the pot the first time ever the first time ever
He gets to be here with his son as you can see him here
He even went and crushed the keys of the semi finalist there with his son in his arms
It's just it's so beautiful even obviously handy with this girlfriend
I mean it's just the close ones being here
It means so much to them being able to share that with his son creating
Life-changing memories winning life-changing prize money at the same time. It's so important in the career of a player
I mean even for both of them whether his son or cyber you look back at this when they're older when he's all grown up when cyber
Is getting older they both can look at this moment and share that piece of history together being able to crush that key
being able to be on stage, being able to look up to his dad, look down on his son and be like,
this is going to be you next. And also just family photos and videos. They've developed quite a lot
over the years. 4K, 8K camera instead of a traditional selfie or, you know, what were my
childhood videos on, you know, something that I can't even digitize anymore. So that is an
incredible performance that got them that moment. But they're looking to do it again. And as
we head into a best of five gentlemen, this is one of those things that we haven't seen yet
in this tournament and also for a situation where you know the team really well, a best of five means
even more because you're already three layers deep in terms of familiarity now you got to keep doing
it again and again on more maps. Yeah the mind game is absolutely crazy on this BO5 and very
refined it's really you come down to a flow state and you reach a moment where you basically
throw away this threadbook you're not thinking of your default and you're adapting live every
single round and at that game FaZe will have the advantage they've played so many more BO5s
than the four other players and herds on that stage.
They will have the advantage.
They won't feel the pressure.
They will have the experience.
And whatever, how good Furia has been playing right now,
FaZe will definitely be the favorites in this matchup.
I mean, you also got to think, how many times have FaZe been in a grand final
where they've had to play at Best of Five?
They've had to endure that tenacity,
that intensity of being in this match.
And then you also just think of on that side of Furia,
there's really only been one player that's had to do that
and that's been in the side of herds.
So it's also going to be important for herds to rally in the troops
and make sure that they're all mentally and physically ready for this.
And yeah, we talked about this being a clash between the same region and you have it.
I think you made a very great point.
It's really about throwing that strap book out the window
and you're going to have to be adapting at every single step of the way in order to get it done
and get to be able to call yourself an eSports World Cup champion.
It feels like adaptation.
That's a big theme obviously going five-matte deeps, maps deep,
but also with FaZe having those swings against Liquid Alienware coming into this grand final.
You feel like they're aware that they're going to be making decisions on the fly to get back into this.
And a big loss might not mean as much, Alphama, because they know they can bounce back.
Yeah, and that's a big thing to me. If you look at a recall at Grand Finals,
you think of the two Grand Finals that have lost in Major.
You think of the Bearlin Major in 2022, that was Cyber and Solar ones that were already there.
You think then of Assign South Polo in 2024.
They also lost at Grand Finals on the last brink of the fifth map after crazy comeback.
Wow.
from herds in front of them. And since then they found the winning formula. They've been winning
every single Grand Final and they thought that formula went for maybe doesn't have that one.
So in my opinion that experience all of that wealth of experience, two years of winning everything
that's got to help them here. It feels so difficult to do. Well if everyone's here and you're
watching online or you're here in the building you know that there's something special about
to happen. We have a reveal panel coming up and in just a few minutes we're gonna go to the
stage live and start talking about what you can expect from the new season. Now the cool element
guys is that we don't quite know yet. There's been some rumors, the excitement, maybe the biggest
topic to start off with is Shields. Characters, Shields, they've been very effective in Rainbow
Six Siege for many, many years and maybe we're going to see something that I don't know,
disrupts the balance. What are we thinking? I mean I'm sure hoping so. I mean the
Shield meta definitely has been very prevalent with every step of the way and I try to limit
myself from the teasers. The last thing I saw I think online was on Twitter. It was the new operator
sitting inside of the order lobby. I saw some shields on the newspaper. So it's definitely
leaning in the direction that there might be some changes towards shields that I'm very excited
to be getting into. So fun fact about that asset. I wrote it. So I wrote what was on the newspaper.
So I know exactly what it is. All I can say is that we've seen that it's a counter to shields.
We've seen a little bit of fire as well. So we anticipate maybe that the counter is going
gonna be about fire and we're gonna see all of this really soon. So just tell me
real quick. I'm not gonna tell you, I'm not gonna... No I can't hear you.
We're just going live. We're just going in studio. No one online here's what you're
saying right now. You're not gonna cheat me into that. All I can say is that
we've seen the abuse of shields for so long, especially at top level. We're
gonna finally have someone that can deal with them. Alright, well that'll be
exciting. On the flip side of the operators is where they play and
those are the maps.
Heard there's maybe a map adjustment.
Is there a full rework?
Is it a new, I don't want to say anything.
You got, what's, you might know.
What do you know?
There's definitely a rework happening on the map.
And they did announce it, I believe.
We've seen a little tidbits of what's going on with Vila.
We don't know exactly what's going to happen,
but we know it's on Vila.
To be fair, Vila used to be one of my favorite maps.
So I'm always happy to see a rework
because they're always game changing.
It always makes the maps even better.
When you even think to clubhouse back in the day
when they reworked it for the first time,
they made the top floor be able to connect it,
even on that bottom basement.
You couldn't play basement,
but when they added just the layers on top of the boxes,
basement was viable and easy to be played,
so I'm super excited to see what we're gonna get out of Villa.
Villa, Chalet, I mean,
is there a map called Presidential Suite?
That's, there's a, there's a site.
There's a site?
I mean, there's a site called Presidential Suite.
You let me think of vacation,
when I go to Rainbow Six Map, I'm like,
where's my next vacation?
You definitely want a vacation at Villa,
specifically with a beautiful map.
It sounds great to be a part of. I know many of you familiar with all these places and locations that are iconic.
We haven't revealed our maps yet for the Grand Finals, but those have already been picked and decided and we will give you those information very soon.
The other thing is the DMRs. What do we have to say about the DMRs? Because they've been strong.
So we've been following the community checkpoints and for whoever has been on the live, it's quite clear that the DMRs have been very strong in the meta right now.
Obviously the main thing in my opinion at the top level has been the time to kill.
Yes, very strong converts well the assault rifle. So right now. I don't know which DMRs will be changed
Yeah, but for sure they need to attack this group specifically of weapons because we need to balance things a little bit
I think okay, I agree. I was gonna say it's definitely the time to kill and even the recoil for me
There's barely any recoil on those so I am curious to see what the changes are going to be for the DMRs
We've obviously and Siege gone through many different matters. We had our LMG meta. That was always a fun one getting 150 bullets
Spray it around the corner. Don't really have to do much there
But I am curious against see what these DMR changes are going to be if they do get nerfed
Or if there's some shift that takes DMRs away from how they play now. What do you think the next rise is?
What do you think the next wave will be in a minute? I'm hoping there is no big wave
I'm hoping yeah, absolutely balance. I'm hoping that the DMRs
Possibility no actually
I just hope that it's balanced in a way that the time to kill is the same for the DMR
as well as the rifle that the skill that he takes to use one is the same and it's just preference to the player.
As a pro player, have you ever seen that happen ever in any video game?
I feel like there is always a better thing.
Most effective tactics available in your pro, you can't do the second best effective tactics.
Well, Siege is also a forever evolving game.
That's true.
And you constantly have to adapt.
So it doesn't matter if it's a meta, it doesn't matter if a new operator comes
and you are always constantly having to adjust and adapt.
And if you don't, you fall behind very quickly.
And there is one more thing that I'm quite curious about obviously I don't know about you guys
But I've been playing quite a lot of ranks 3.0. I know that's a right
Oh, you know right now. I'm a diamond and I'm just so close with champions. I'm just like I know
It's it's frustrating as a former pro player to not even be champion
Yeah, and about the first week
I feel like a champion even. I think the frustration that many have felt maybe is that we don't gain illo quickly enough
Or that's a little bit tricky. I'm hoping that that is addressed
I know in some of the community checkpoints Ubisoft has spoken a little bit about maybe
We'll be working ranked 3.0, helping towards that.
So maybe there's something in the season
that they're gonna announce around this.
This is probably one of the main thing
I'm looking at as a competitive player.
And then I think one thing that was announced
was Legend Division as well.
For the very top, like, the very top of six,
the very top of six, the very top of six,
the very top of six, the very top of six,
I'm expecting some news about this.
I love that.
So Operator made the most exciting Legend Division
for you at MAP, or are you most, most...
I'm excited for it all.
I think everything across the board is great.
and I am very curious to dive into it.
I love it.
Well, it's time for the year 11,
season three reveal panel for Operation Splitfire.
We have some market. Move in. Confirm and contain the biological threat. Watch your fire. We might be survivors, but I'll be there.
No, don't.
Civilian indistress on the east side. Leon, I need backup.
I suppose so.
Good afternoon everyone!
everyone! It's so good to be back here in Paris. We had our incredible six
Invitational in February in this very city and thanks to the EWC we're back
here with all of you. Now this community shows up every season and every season
you tell us exactly what you think and that matters more than you know so thank
Now, it's already been a huge year for Siege, and with our second season closing soon, I
think it's time to talk about Year 11, Season 3.
We're bringing a lot with it.
A brand new defender built to break the shield meta wide open.
An update to Villa's basement, and a brand new event where speed is everything.
But before we get to all of that, there's something I'd like to address directly.
Since the launch of Rank 3.0, we've been listening closely through our seasonal surveys and the
feedback you've been sharing across the community.
And a few topics have risen to the top, progression, placements, and ranked standings.
Let's walk through those changes right now.
New placements, they're still five, but with bigger rank point swings, where you
land is a better reflection of the how you played.
a soft reset at the season's launch,
which we know can be disruptive,
but this is designed to be a cleaner
and more accurate starting point
and to make sure your placements are better reflected.
As an example, our highest ranked champion
will be reset to Emerald 3 before placements begin.
Base ranked points are also being adjusted
from 25 points to 30 for a win.
You're better rewarded for your effort.
Also, Emeralds can no longer bring platinum or gold players into champion lobbies.
And for those who want to go to the top level, the Division, the Legend Division is being added
and those are for you for the compete at the highest level.
Now if you haven't filled out that seasonal survey, please do because it's one of the best
ways to shape what we do next. Now we put together a full look at everything coming.
Let's get into it.
Here's Season 3, Operation Splitfire.
For the past two seasons we've had a great reaction to the 1v1 arcade.
Players have shown up and have been playing that playlist.
And this season, it's time to try a new arcade.
The 3v3 arcade is coming to Siege in year 11, season 3.
It's still going to be fast paced, it's an arcade after all, but each person on the team actually holds more weight.
If you lose one of your teammates, now you're down to 2v3, you're already in the end mode of that round.
You don't have all the utility you have for the five stack, so you have to keep everyone together, coordinated, play off each other,
and think about which ops you're bringing
and what type of synergies that you want to use
to expose the weaknesses of your enemy team.
We will be applying attrition settings for 3v3.
Once you win that round, all three of those operators are gone
and now you need to imply a brand new strategy.
So think a little bit about when you bring your hard breachers,
when to apply a shield, what about electricity?
In 3v3, you only need to grab two friends
and you can still feel the thrill of a siege round
and the energy that you're able to bring
to just coordinate with your buddies
and close out that round, it brings a lot of excitement.
It's the perfect blend in between the 5v5 and the 1v1.
It's a great time to jump in and play
and let your voice be heard through our seasonal survey
to let us know how you'd like to see the mode improved in the future.
This season we're making a number of balancing updates
focused on some of the most discussed weapons
weapons and operator in the game. The sidewood weapons, the AR-15.50, the MK-14EBR and the SMG-12
have been dominant for a while now. Often overshadowing the operator's gadget. So we're making adjustment.
Adjustment to the damage, recoil behavior, and ammunition capacity. We're also removing
the muzzle brake on defense for Tiberhouse and Aruni's DMR. From there, a few more changes
across the roster. Lion scan, warning time is coming down slightly. More opportunities to
to catch the Fenders on the move.
Cap-in and True Denial devices get so small damaging effects,
so a good trap placement pays off even more.
It goes your chidrones, recharge their Sonic Burst faster
so it can bring consistent value throughout the whole run.
Now, low-key me.
We've been tuning her since her remaster launch back in Season 2,
watching the data and listening to the feedback along the way.
This season, we're replacing her Impact EMP grenades
with Pre-Charge.
It's a real shift in how she supports a push,
and it helps us define our role more clearly going forward.
We're also bringing back a familiar counterplay to the GVO Paelo.
The upload now requires a continuous connection between Dokibe's tablet and the target's awp.
Break that connection, and the upload is canceled.
New signal disruptor, and you can now sever that link,
making him a direct counter to Dokibe once again.
Initiating jam.
While an upload is in progress, Dokibe's tablet stays active,
allowing Solace to track her for the duration of the upload.
Now just when it starts.
At the same time, IQ can detect the target's phone throughout the upload,
making her a strong partner for coordinating pushes and following up on active pendants.
Outside of an active upload, Dokimi's tablet remains hidden
from electronic detection just as before.
But together, this keeps what makes her remaster strong,
while giving defenders an actual window to notice,
disrupt, and stop the upload before it lands.
Last but not least, Callie.
She hasn't seen much play lately, so this season she's getting a real buff.
One aim at making her stronger and more fun to play.
Her sniper rifle gets more practical.
CSR-X200 moves from 5x and 12x magnification down to 3.5 and 8x,
which gives Kali player a lot more flexibility across different engagement ranges.
We're also cutting the time between shots and increasing her total land,
so she can stay in the fight instead of disengaging after every hit.
On the gadget side, activating or deactivating the LV explosive lands
no longer interrupts your aim or your lead.
Or you can manage your youth intake without losing your sight.
Adding it all up in Cali face mooter, it's harder and holds her at long range angles with
a lot more confidence than before.
And with the new 3.5 scope, faster follow up shots and increased ammo, she's much better
equipped to end the close range fights when she has to commit indoor.
That's balancing for season 3?
Well, at least for now, as we will have another big update like this one during
the mid-season.
Over the past few years, we've heard players asking for more frequent map updates.
We heard that loud and clear, and our answer is to bring a twist to the maps you already
know and love or hate.
So this season, we're introducing something new.
Targeted map updates.
The idea is simple.
Make smaller, meaningful gameplay changes that shake up a map.
the door to new strategies and keep the map feeling fresh without touching his core identity.
Every season that does not bring a brand new map, he'll bring one of these, so there's
always something new to learn.
First up, we're going to Italy with Villa.
If you've played Villa, you probably already know this.
The first floor living room in Library has always been its least played bomb site,
so we're moving it to the basement.
We work the whole layout to build a brand new defensive site there.
New bomb locations, new rotations, new destructible walls, patches, and updated cover.
The biggest single change though is the garage.
It's been completely redesigned and it now plays as an interior space instead of an exterior approach.
That alone changes how attackers can move through the whole side of the map.
Put together, this bomb site is something completely fresh.
New defensive setups, new attacking routes.
The most strategies nobody's had to think about on this map.
The basement objective is the headline, but it's not the only thing changing.
You'll notice supporting layout updates throughout the surrounding area too, in that improving
flow, droning lanes, and overall gameplay.
That's what targeted map updates are all about.
Focus changes that meaningfully shift how you play a map without losing what makes
that map feel like itself.
So every mid-season where we aren't shipping a map, we'll be testing a new micro update
that will add new gameplay and new features
that we can't wait for you guys to try out
and will be monitoring all of the feedback
and reacting accordingly.
Before we move on, modernize map continues season.
This time, it's Stadium Alpha,
Stadium Bravo and House.
The tutorials and shooting arrangement
will also be receiving a graphic update.
So as always, we can't wait to see what you guys do
with these targeted map updates starting this season.
In Season 3, we are introducing Legend Division, a fully visible leaderboard to the entire community
about who are the top players within Siege.
So, Legend Division is a new solo queue playlist which opens mid-season as part of our new
content cadence.
At the beginning of Legend Division, you will confirm the region that you will participate
in that season.
During a season, the region is locked and you will participate with all players in your region competing for who's the best of the best.
When the Legend Division opens, there will be a set of requirements that you must follow in order to participate in the Legend Division.
One of those is to be a champion player.
Another one is having a ranked history, meaning that you had to have had Platinum or above in Season 2.
Additionally, you will be required to pass different security checks, such as our new R6 Shield Guard Secure Platform and also have your account protected by 2FA by application.
This season introduces R6 Shield Guard Secure Platform exclusive for the Legend Division, which has Secure Boot, TPM 2.0 and many other PC security features.
features. We also have a team dedicated for monitoring the leaderboard meaning
that if you are participating in the Legend Division and you're doing well
especially you have eyes on you directly from the dev team looking over
the leaderboard and flushing out any bad actors. All the top 100 players will
receive an exclusive charm with the final position on the Legend Division.
Thank you for your continued support. It really means a lot to us all the
feedback that you've been able to provide.
And we're excited to see what happens next
when Legends are made in the Legend Division.
This highly visible leaderboard is viewed
not only by every player within Rainbow Six Siege,
but also those eSports teams looking for their next star.
You've been asking for it?
It's here.
Drone Race is finally coming to Siege.
Voice Line Circuit is a free-for-all drone race
game mode.
We have a Grand Prix, where we're gonna test your skills over 3 tracks.
The first one is of Fast and Furious, the second one is Close and Personal with Gadgets,
and the third one is a beautiful display of the map while we test your skills.
This event will run from September 23rd to October 13th.
It wouldn't be Siege if we didn't have Waste to attack your opponents.
The event might be in a Waste then, but I assure you, you won't be wasting your time.
Arm your drone and see you on the track on September 23rd.
We've covered a lot already today.
But if there's one thing I see come up again and again, season after season, it shields.
Now whether you love them or hate them, you've definitely had an opinion.
And that's what makes seeds great.
The meta keeps evolving and it's our job to make sure every strategy has meaningful
counter play.
This season we're introducing a new defender built around exactly that philosophy.
Not to erase shields from the game, but to force new decisions and create new opportunities.
Let's meet the newest defender joining Team Rainbow, Noor.
Stay calm when the pressure rises.
Okulnuten.
Don't shoot.
Don't shoot.
Meet Noor.
Born in Egypt,
Ahmed Mourad followed his father's footsteps
by enlisting in the Egyptian military
before joining Team Rainbow.
His experience shaped him into someone
who looks for practical solutions under pressure,
a mindset that defines both his role on the team
and the gadget he brings on the battlefield.
That mindset is reflected in every part of his kit
and nowhere is that more evident
than in how he deals with shield operators.
Over the last few seasons,
shields have become a big part of the siege meta.
And the feedback from defenders
has been pretty consistent.
Once a shield takes space
and starts to be pushed onto site,
your options start disappearing fast.
Same goes during a 1v1 post-plant situation against a Monty.
So, we wanted to give defenders a dedicated answer to shields.
One that changes how shield players
have to approach an attack.
Noor comes equipped with the Horus Lance Launcher,
loaded with five Horus Lances.
Fire one into a surface and it attaches,
Drills in and after a short delay, releases flame on both sides.
For shield users, that's a nightmare.
Stick a lance into a shield, and the countdown begins.
The shield player has a brief window to react before the flame engulfs.
At that point, they don't have a choice.
They'll have to stop to remove the armor's lance,
exposing themselves in the process,
or they will burn fast.
Very fast.
As nor, your job is to capitalize on that hesitation.
So keep the pressure on, maintain line of sight, and don't let them escape.
Either way, the push they were leading just called that,
giving the rest of your team the opportunity to retake map control.
That's the moment we wanted to create.
Shields have been able to dictate the pace of a push with very little resistance,
nor flips that.
And that's just against shield.
The Horusments attaches to any surface and compares to soft surfaces as well as reinforcements.
This includes Castle Barricades, Hazami Kiba Barriers, and Detroit Osa Shields.
So, picture an attacker panning behind an Osa Shield.
They're sitting behind cover, confident no one can touch them, nor can break that confidence.
Pair that with an intel operator like Pulse Ovaltri, and the Horus Lance turns into one
of the strongest planned denial tools we've ever given defenders.
Crowd control operators like Tobarro and Nelusi can slow enemies down, making them
easier targets.
barbed wire and also be a good option.
Nora is a two speed, two health up burger
and is load out this build to support either play style.
For primaries, the command line is for players
who want mobility and who wants to win close quarterfights.
Or you got the LF556.
That's for players who rather anchor a position
and finish anyone pushing through.
As for secondary gadgets,
it's a choice between a deployable shield
to keep a strong position or the barbed wires.
The secondaries are the TACOPS 19-11 or the BALIF 410.
The BALIF is especially useful to help with side-setup and creating new lines of sight.
Noor wants to make the ship player hesitate.
Make the position that they'll save feel unsafe.
Noor joins the roster in year 11, season 3, and the operation split fire.
We've had a lot of fun creating this operator, and now it's your turn to bring up the heat.
That's Operation Splitfire.
Now, one more update before we wrap up.
Operator Mastery was originally planned for Season 3.
We're moving into Season 4 to make sure the team has the time they need to get it right,
and it's the experience we want it to be.
There's still a lot in this season.
A new Shield Defender.
New ways to compete at the top with the Legend Division.
An update to Villa, rank 3.0, enhancements built directly from your feedback and a lot more in between.
Now if you want to get early access to the NOR, right away, the best way to do this is with the battle pass.
This one's stacked. Early access to the NOR, black ice packs, operator bundles, weapons skins and more.
And here's when you can jump in. The test server opens August 17th.
Operation Splitfire launches for everyone on September 1st.
This community has always been the heartbeat of Siege.
Everything you saw today exists because of you.
And because you show up season after season.
So thank you.
Enjoy the grand final and we'll see you in Siege.
Well, with all that's new coming to Rainbow Six Siege, it only makes sense that we leave
You with the tried and true, Brazil at the top of their game,
at the top of this game,
and one team will take your grand finals.
That trophy in the middle of the Lenovo Legion Gala,
will it belong at the back-to-back,
six Invitational champions,
or will they find that the Panthers of Fyria
have shown up with the drums beating loud,
ready, two pounds.
The chase for a trophy
and the elusive Triple Crown begins now.
every clutch, every decision, it's all led to this.
The eSports World Cup Rainbow Six Seed Grand Fire!
Oh, Paris, you look gorgeous out there.
This is going to be incredible.
Glacier Mind's back.
22 teams began in this competition.
We start with 22.
We whittle down to eight, down to six,
and then down to four to make it all the way down to two
to this moment right here.
moment right here. We have ourselves a $2 million prize pool, $750,000 going to our top team.
But let's not forget as well, that coveted ticket. The key goes into trophy and the ticket
to the Six Invitational 2027. An all-Brazilian showdown. It's going to be on home soil in
Brazil. Paris, are you ready for this one?
It's special, it's special, Milos.
It's special in so many ways that we get to have an all-Brazilian grand final, so let's
just get right into the beat of things.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paris, from all over the world, join me in welcoming our grand
finalists, Face Clan and FURIA!
One side, or back-to-back world champions, the others are looking to burn the whole
dam's thrown down.
It's no secret how far Brazil's domination goes, so it's only fitting to have an all-SAL
Grand Final.
For all their accolades, none of these two has ever lifted an AWC trophy.
But for one here today, that all changes as they earn their spot at SI 27 and in eSports
history.
Let us introduce our teams.
Mr. Furia, we have hard, sports era, Volves, Loyra and Diaz.
There we have Faze Clan,
Vineky, KDX, Cyber, Handy and Sold.
These are your teams.
Paris, one more time, give it up for your grand finalist.
Gentlemen, it is that time.
We're going to ask our players to go and take your seats, but for our key bearers, please come forward.
Nerds and VitaKing, this is the last opportunity. The last chance here to the final words.
Take a moment and breathe. We're going to start over here with Nerds.
Any final words you'd like to say to the opposition here, and VitaKing?
Everybody remembers back in the day when we faced face-to-face plan in the grand final what happened
Everybody's gonna remember this day also like they do that one a long time ago at SI 24
Anything you'd like to say then mr. King
Cara, I've already lost the times
Caralho I've already lost all the times of you
Beauty but how many times I've won you too and today will not be different
We will kill you
beat new herds and today is just going to be another number on that topic.
Gentlemen then, shake hands.
Let's get on.
When you're ready, take your seats, fellas.
This is in me loss, the Grand Final here.
Esports World got Rainbow Six each. Are you ready?
Absolutely ready for this. That's it from us here.
Go! Time to get started.
Face Clan, Fiora, all Brazilian Grand Final. Let's get our game right on!
You can close your eyes, but you cannot block out the drums!
Darkseal, the most recent major champions, they are out! And who's in now? It's Fioria!
Nailing the culp of the EML! As the grand final is set!
It was a very good game. We ended up taking the first map, but it was a very quiet map for us.
It was the best team that played in the club because we adapted a lot more, we had a bigger place.
It was the best team that played in the club because we had more helmets.
but it's more resilient than them, so I think that's it.
Well, the message for Fugue is that he has to be fast, he knows the team is capable,
we are convinced of everything at the end.
Fugue is coming hot with blood in his eyes, he wants this championship and he's getting ready.
Well, another grand final for FaZe Clan, of course. Big quest is gonna be pre-inter弱, but Furia, excited to see what the Panthers can bring today. So excited for this grand final to get underway.
Well, you already know, Faze Clan is gonna be a WC champion, so, it's us. FaZe.
Let's go, Furia!
The gloves are off, herds his glasses are off, and the battle for Brazil begins in the
middle of the Lenovo Legion, Gottlet as Diaz grabs onto the shoulders of his men as the
drums of war lead us to what has been a historic run up until this moment.
Gentlemen, you do not get an atmosphere like this, unless it is two Brazilian teams fighting for an eSports World Cup title.
And honestly, I cannot wait to jump into this game.
I just love the drums on the side of FURIA. They're already kicking.
And I can feel the nerves on the side of FACE. They're reacting to that music.
They know it. They've been in Brazil many times. They've FACE heard in Sao Paulo.
They've heard the drums against them. And despite all of this, they're still here.
Two years later, still fighting for another tier title.
And speaking of what they're fighting for, over a million dollars in prizing.
Given to both of these teams here, the split, that's still needed to be decided.
And of course, the map, well, bang, pretty appropriate after that.
As we were talking about that money, and like you said yesterday, Leo,
in that match, where it's easy for fear.
If you're going to be any team that is going to be comfortable going to a map like
It's going to be fury because they got the win over face plan, but today they are going to be starting out bank
They chose me they are confident that they can take this face plan again
And one thing what was the win condition for fury against dark zero on that same map yesterday dark zero hesitated right?
They hesitated all the time, but the thing is this time they're playing the most perfect team in the world a team
That does not hesitate. How do you beat a team that is perfect?
you disrupt the perfect system and how do you do that we talk to JP in a cell he
said we cannot react to relentless aggression let's say I have a question
for you what's the biggest strength on the side of fury a relentless aggression
exactly they have the right tool to take down face plan well sometimes the
right tools aren't enough sometimes you need to use them in a way that hasn't
been thought of before maybe hasn't been prepared for but that's the problem
with these two teams because they know each other so damn well and that's
That's exactly where it goes back to what Leo was talking about the opening of this.
Throw the scrapbook out the window.
You have to live in that moment.
You have to adapt when the obstacle is in front of you.
And yesterday in their match for Star T-ero, there wasn't much of an obstacle.
They were getting free map control.
They were able to go for those site executes practically for free.
Base is not going to give you an inch.
It's all about reaching that flow state.
And I'm looking at two specific players on the side of Fury on face.
the leaders, the veterans, I look at herds and I look at cybers, the guy with the most
experience in these two rosters that can help reach the flow states for their teammates,
that can help with innovation.
And then I look at Pyke the King, the IGL on the side of face, I look at Volts, the
IGL on the side of Furia, and I think we're in for a banger of a grand final between
some of the brightest minds this game has known in all of recent CG story.
There will be losses, like Odysseus trying to split the path away between Scylla and
Corridnes.
You choose one, but you lose on the other, yet that's what you have to do in the best
of line.
You might have to sacrifice a map to get all three at the end of the day as we head
into our picks and our bans.
If stated before these two teams, they know each other by heart, they've played
each other so many times in so many different events.
Every time whoever won eventually won the event.
We're going to start on the side of Furia by removing the famous Montagne from Vyta King,
one of the best shields player in the world.
On the side of FaZe, they drive a nut play against Amir, one that has been abused, mainly
on that basement on the side of Bank.
And it goes to show that FaZe is looking to go for that execute, getting rid of that
Amir, getting rid of that information game from the side of the NADZ, you said, already
getting rid of that Montagne, not having to deal with that.
And then the Havana, pretty default into the Cade.
We're going to see a lot of hatches still being soft, still being able to be opened
up by removing that elastropa.
One quick thing, one wrench hot
mature is still up guys.
Ace is there and that's he's going
to be very important on the side of bank.
Well, don't let the drums and the dancing fool you.
It's serious over here in Paris because $750,000
a chase for the triple crown and the chance
to call yourself the best in our six siege are on the line.
And with that, we have two men ready, prepared,
And going to give you a call to remember it's Xenox and Gus.
For the drums of war beating behind us, Garza just gets the block flowing.
But we're here, Grand Final Day, Furia versus FaZe.
The first time an old Brazilian showdown in the Grand Final since that fateful day
in Sao Paulo, S.I. 24.
I'm sure that might be in the memory for FaZe as well.
No, it's only in my memory.
Cannot wait to jump into this series.
FaZe have looked formidable as always, but to be fair,
If there's any team that can take them down in a duel like this, it's Buria, and let's jump in.
Oh, so the moment has arrived.
Haven't we been waiting?
Buria, just under five months since this roster was put together, constructed by Heads himself.
The FaZe talk about a wealth of experience.
They're not shy to a day like today, but for both these teams,
It's a coveted e-sports World Cup trophy that is not in either cabinet
Furia will defend first here on bank of course a best of five Grand Final to really
separate these two teams
Very much a marathon and certainly not a sprint
Both teams would be eager to get off to the best of starts
Faze looking at XZ Heavy in this round with the glass and the sense combo.
And with the Kayaid out of play, expect Hatch Heavy emphasis here from the attack.
Interestingly, Feria electing to forfeit this first floor control with little contest.
All four to five members, Basement Box 0, a bit of a wild card flew initially.
He though is able to scamper back to red.
Feria happy to play at safe zone in the opening round.
Bank there, Matt Pitt, 4-1 record for Furia over the last four months.
The only loss being to NIP three months ago.
One-two record though for Faze. I haven't won it for six months.
So even though they come into the Grand Final as most likely for many,
the favourites are being tasked first up.
And it's 20 remaining on the clock and still five versus five.
It's Bayes will creep closer to attacking this basement bomb site.
but now with the exothermic to open up the server side drill.
A long angle, KDS with a black bin holding close.
They do have the ROUs from Biddy King on the sense to help get this plant down.
Two smoke grenades still available for Solves to play off towards main stairs as we enter the final minute.
Three gas babes and 20 chemical launchers still up for Fiora.
D12 plant is not an option for FaZe.
They'll need to go for an off-med position or the flood and the sense will facilitate that.
I think the flood will be probably their goal as you said with the sands of the ru's they can very much push down
You've got soul pushing main stairs fury and need to be ready for action rather than just playing denial
It came with the kit is over the wards admin hatch 30 seconds
So time starting to really get low now for phase and they find the entry souls is trying desperately
And I love that little work from handy over North Drive for the King teases player
Souls will be the first one down they get rid of the glass hurts as found to what a way to stop for him on the
Federer out.
Didikin will get the plant down, but FaZe did lose two for that, but then handy backstabbed
herds.
The late creep in towards garage.
And now into the post-plant, this will get a little bit scrambling for Furia.
As Vodz goes for the first swing from Red, he falls to Bitterking, expecting more, but
loses the battle to Diaz, and suddenly, it's only KDS left up, 25 seconds, 3 vs 1
for Furia.
Can Furia trade it out?
20 seconds, they need to move.
Just move his numbers, move his 1, and it is Diaz that finds the headshot.
shot. Fury and me have allowed the plan but they will get the counter to fuse and take the opening round of this grand final.
Ha ha ha, hurt his feet already. We've seen that energy from him on the stage at his eSports forward cup on the regular occurrence.
It's going to be a great back and forth between these two but a solid start for Fury up.
There's been an awkward engagement over towards Vayne initially. The stage opened up site.
Handi got value with his work, but then in the post viewer rabbit isolate those pits
Always nice to get a retake of the board early
But it is the second round to follow
One thing that Leo mentioned on the desk guys was of course the ace has been left up
To add further context of that the canto wall of course in the top floor elevator
The primary objective is in opening that up and making it more difficult for the defenders to play that way.
And it will come into effect as the attacking re-pick for plays will come through.
But it can go on to the ace.
Of course, if you don't have either the ace or the Havana available, pretty much can't get it opened up.
They'll make the most of that here in the second round today's play.
They'll get Sider as well onto the blitz.
Staff open area the second round.
In terms of expectations setting for this opening map,
we'll have to look back at some of the numbers between these two.
Best of three was played in SAO 4, stage number one.
The second map in that series was bank 7-3 in favour of Fury.
Started out nicely on the attack, it was a 3-3 half.
Then went on to win four rounds straight, defensively.
So despite being the underdogs going into the series as a whole,
Fury have certainly posed a good numbers against FaZe on this map.
and the phase also like to play with that slow tempo, especially on their attacks has benefited them certainly it did yesterday.
I think actually a map that is the fourth fastest for average entry time in the eSports World Cup so far.
far. But it does sit at a 50-50 split overall, although slightly more in favour of a tag on
start open, top floor CEO executive, standing over towards Talos. It's not much of a first
floor presence, although Valves caught through the tron-hole. I don't think he was expecting
that one, and then Simon at the pistol will get rid of herds, lovely attacking clear
from FaZe. They find the first two picks, they get good first four presence and this will throw
the defense of Furia into shampoos. They must find the next pick. Yeah, low risk entries there from
FaZe and they find it. All the trade immediately from Syvers, switched on, catches Diaz on the
trade after he got the swing kill on Zavidekin. Lawret knows he's getting pressured here by
the Blitz, goes for the guard break, couldn't find the headshot and then in the end as
It's handy and cyber-combined.
Faze will get the second round.
They strike back.
Slow, methodical, and clean.
From Faze, that is their hallmark.
That's their brand of siege.
And that is what makes them difficult to deal with.
Alps gets punished on the drone hole.
Faze just get themselves into good positions.
And then they strike.
Yeah, pretty textbook round there, by the phase standard, two unanswered entries, and
then picking apart the remaining pieces of that defense and not allowing Furia to aggress
back into the round.
Top floor for third, and the phase are going to experiment once again in terms of this
It's taking POM, the zero to be selected here for top four.
Hang on, you've gone early.
You heard the rules.
It is with the Kings.
I was about to note they didn't play it at all the last time they used your face.
Well I think the Ace makes a lot more sense to be honest overall in this third round.
It's probably the last chance you may get to use it.
Open up Canto, put pressure in the back line.
It's available.
You two clearances while we're going to be critical for hazing this round and so the
flora is into both the castle and the azami.
Also a standard pick and with Zephyr now having three impacts it'll be intriguing to see
how few you're trying to sustain that U2 on site.
We see this drawing quite a few times with the eSports walk up so far, you get a lot of
really good information towards front desk for FaZe, not just front desk but also the
elevator position so you can usually get two for one.
Although this line is a pretty default setup for the defense most of the time.
Cyber will go for the look up main stairs on the solid snake
Yeah, it could look to connect with the push Lobby maybe able to catch a defender if they drop down catch
For now though will suit and wait and allow the rest of the team to focus on the util check points in this round again
With both the castle the is army and the catch up as well pretty quickly clear that
Bonus points if they can deal with Goyo canisters as well, which will be dispersed around the objective
Patience at the moment from phase it is still only cyber inside of the map
So for all of the damage though has been from phase on to furia hurts look a little bit over towards their lock now lower a two
towards top main
Souls just running through top square into CEO
See function self outside on the terrace lawyers starting to get a little bit nervous about this potential work
It's getting later in the round. He knows that one's probably lurking main stairs
But then there's also the push in towards square which has been pretty much vacated
It's a pretty comfortable entry for face if they want to go square side of the map bulbs buying self inside of janitor
Hasn't got a lot of help lawyer up goes down to handy sales wins
He's battle to on said push in from top square towards janitor
He's got janitor control herds is in the middle of the side though by himself
They do still have box era playing front desk and elevator has not been cleared out sidebar
Watching that position as he pushes in towards long desk and he even slips on by he finds the kill on to herds
They need these trade back quickly D as those losers to handy
It's only box error left critical kill on to handy to keep this round alive for Furia
But one of the new rising talents in this game for box error
This would be massive
He gets another one on to cyber and souls will go for the plant. Is he ready for KDF? He is not
the experience will outshine to one lead for phase such a suffocating brand of
attack there from phase in that round great build up they made the double
stack flood over towards main work out and whilst you could certainly argue
that the very tail end of that round got a little compromised they were still
in such an advantageous position that really was theirs to lose to the
The credit of Furia, they are reading in to the kind of playstyle that FaZe want to execute
as expected.
Flo was positioned main but was susceptible to the flight elsewhere.
The U-Tool was still standing late round.
Despite that though FaZe doing a great job to find win conditions.
The additional bans have come through as well.
We'll see those pop up on screen in a moment's time.
As expected, Furia, they've elected to double down with the range hard breach. Ace, no longer available, and FaZe, sensing that the utils critical will deal with the one line.
Of course, with that ace band pairing with the Hablana-Kanto wall, he'll stay reinforced for the defense.
Although for this particular site, Locke's CCTV won't have as much of an impact.
My played twice in the open. No, actually in all three rounds so far from Purehead. They will not have that
Available now flexing over to the two-round instead four herds
And must win round I think early on here for Fury a basement is the most offended
Objective here on bank wanted in the opening round
He's a little change-up in there. Line-up as well, they'll drop the sends, they'll drop
the glass so they're going to give themselves probably more of an ability. It's a clear
in this first floor, a bit quicker. Play off the ram. Souls can get some pressure on
the Daymorse, didn't bring that in the opening round either. And he can get some
good info with the Gwanhive launcher from the Grim.
The Furia, though, guys, they're playing this really extensively on the road.
Only Diaz still inside a basement and got two on the top floor,
most notably Herd's prone long desk.
Yeah, has Herd's been drawn?
That's a critical piece of the puzzle for Faze.
If he's unchecked, it could be a disaster for Faze.
He's been very patient in this position.
I don't know if Faze have a direct read.
Cyber has actually just joined on through to Warthlong Desk, so they should know that Hertz is around, and they got the kill not only on to Hertz, but also Loira.
Wonderful drone from Cyber. Then to play off that information, this is really bad news for Furia.
They do get the revive on to Loira, but that's not good enough. The 4 vs 5 now, and he's low on health.
It's going to compromise the massively in the trade game some good drone work has identified now that there are defenders still over towards first floor
Drop to follow lawyer as well. So fury will consolidate on site
Rely on the smoke and the to change it denial
But this is a really good position for phase player up lots of time
pull bulge of utility
It's now just about going through the check list identifying the defensive structure and then
and synchronizing a way to break it down.
And didn't bring the Goyo.
So you don't have all the canisters that, you know,
FaZe have to deal with.
It's all pretty active denial from the gas babes
and the Shamiko launchers you mentioned.
Straight shot!
Roy was gonna have to be very careful as well
with his positioning.
He had a bit of damage and he will go down.
50 seconds left, plenty of time for FaZe.
So I was actually rotating out from blue stairs
back through square.
He's gonna change up his approach.
And so will Handy.
The only asterisk is that FaZe cannot go for the default plant once again, and that does
introduce risk for the attack.
You say that, but they probably can.
If they get a default plant down, it's a massive failure by a curio.
They've got four candellas available for viticking.
They can go for a trade middle of the site and allow KDS to then try and go for a default
plant.
Making it difficult though is D.A.S., Boxer, Crucial Kill, and then Loira follows up.
For FaZe, might still be able to go for this plant, but they're losing the
the fight's elsewhere. KDS is indeed getting that plant in the bomb chassis. Inside of the
site, handy knee to in his battle, he falls short. As KDS gets up in the 1v3 post plant,
the Blackbeard will move away. Saw this script once ago in the opening round and it did not
end well for FaZe. KDS needs to hold on for as long as possible. Give himself the
long angle 1 vs 1 and he couldn't quite connect on that initial shot. He's positioned
towards the bottom of blue stairs. Buria though need to be a little quicker here
with their decision-making. Where's that flamethrower Boxerra taking his time now
on the move towards square but they find the kill from lawyer up. The demon hits
an almighty head shot. It's time we're starting to get a little too close for
comfort. Buria find their second that successfully defended Basement twice.
And now FaZe don't look super comfy on that baseman execute.
Interesting, the top floor clear was phenomenal.
Herds far without impact.
Warrior was revived and came alive in the late round.
Good drone work facilitated.
That opening kill phase had been a lot of time in the player advantage.
Just got a little messy there.
The U2 layering for the defense was clean with the Shamiko launch default.
Gaspape to use the back, it just reduced the ability of FaZe to split that attack and ultimately it was once again KDS last man standing
Fury up, too good to let that advantage slip in the post.
The Ultras are happy with that one, arms are vagging, two rounds to go.
In this opening half, one thing Fury would have liked though is the ability to defend above outside that basement site.
That's going to be tested back to Stafford Open area.
It's also three straight opening kills for FaZe.
We've been following FaZe's journey over the last few days
and that's an area that they've just completely dominated
all of their opposition.
These entry battles, fighting these early kills,
that just gives them such a significant advantage
across the majority of rounds that they play.
And especially in the best of five, that will come back to Morgzhu.
You really need to do a better job in the entry battles.
It has been though that conversion number that's just been I don't want to say a red flag bit of a yellow flag when you're getting so many
It's not sure that the conversion rate will be a little lower, but
It'd be intriguing to track that of course to well when you get so many open kills, it's very not gonna be at 100% conversion
Getting to work on the shop during his sidebar
I'm a three star for him six and three for handy top growing zero floors. I
I don't think there'll be too much util standing at the later portion of this round if FaZe play it correctly.
I mean, you would hope not, otherwise they indeed have not played it correctly.
This is just going to be a util game for the next, probably, minute.
And what that does is just sets them up there for the ability to see a little more come focused as they head towards the site.
But what it also does, I guess, for the site of Furia is it is delaying a lot of the time in the round.
Cyber lurk activated, this time square to arcides.
All spots one, Valkz. Not ready for that arcides here.
Rufnikil again for Vaze! Oh what a shot on the lawyer.
So clean from Cyber.
Probably expected a run out towards him from site.
It didn't come, D.S. holds towards Starve.
Almost every round it feels like it's been a fight versus three, four phase.
They're trying to answer back and corral Cybert towards Arkhlas for the longer it takes to deal with him and they can't.
He's got three.
Almost a fourth there towards Ashman on to Herds.
And I think he has the chance. Everything to go for the ace.
And Cybert's tournament so far.
With four alive, surely Diaz walks in for Alphai.
One word is only needed.
It's Cybert.
Wow what a nice deadly entry. We know how great these South American teams are on the attack
work phase of course leading the charge straight through archive. Bang Fox never stood a chance
and because it was so isolated the trade was nowhere to be seen.
Theory of force to scatter the remaining defenders desperately trying to
pluck the kill back, but they're also low for Sandidion, Cyber, completely locked in.
Now FaZe are looking very, very good to start the grand final.
And the one round really on bank, and you don't necessarily need to win as the attack continues
baseman, and that's the only two rounds that fear it, kind of won. Final round of this half.
So it's facing a really strong position.
Four straight rounds, Faze have had the opening kills, the early advantages, the black versus three.
Cyber now with a 3k monster, the ace.
As he goes to 10 kills in just five rounds of play.
So back to top we go.
go and with the ace now banned out we'll see if that compromises Bayes' ability to attack into the site.
I don't think they really used it that much last time either.
Oh, Loira careful. There's an headshot towards Stark. He'll get out. Oh please, so lucky to be alive.
It's back, headshot! Okay, still some confidence there for Loira and for Furia. Just their second
opening kill of this half and it's come in a timely manner. And with that ace banned,
They're probably going to force FaZe into the direct, hence the ROUs on KDS.
That will be susceptible to the Zodos on Boc0, top square focus, probably with the exothermics from the Thermite.
Which is even more important where I won that battle, because if he dies there, there's less defensive pressure for Furia to stop that square hole.
Volts was hit inside a janitor.
That's Vidikin slowly droning his way through on the top floor, solved with the Ratero.
This is a very difficult attack down for Faze because that top square here down a player,
little area around the map for the attacking team, sort of much then for the defensive
team all the way back over towards elevator, front desk, they can kind of sit a little
bit more comfortably and then backfill in if those front defenders do lose their
battles. This is very tough. As it stands, Fuhrer in a perfect position to draw out the
half. There's good info for Faze, but actually converting that into pressure into picks, preventing
the plant denials, so tough. Aura used to be deployed from the main repel. Vittigang
still with the Fuhrer outside top square. The only space they've got is square. Handy
has got into stock he'll offer a different point of difference but then immediately pushing down that
hallway loyera finds the kill and he can he get a trade. Ops also very low and loyera getting
taken low as well. Good information from handy on the green. He has got a double kill from solz.
Takes over this long death position. Loyera now stuck over towards main stairs. Can't push back
up the greenbears have kept him at bay. This has been a great push by solz. But where's
Where's Boxera?
He has to get involved towards front desk.
They'll still have a nitro cell if they go for a plant behind the RAUs of KDS.
Made a rotate instead, over the woods long.
Trying to get Lawyer back into play.
Lawyer is back up main stairs.
Sol's going for the plant behind the bomb chassis.
Boxera found a kill on to KDS.
Sol's off the plant.
One versus two.
Boxera has got to come up clutch.
Has he got it in him?
That's a big kill on to Handy.
Tests to resolve the Sols who sticks the plant.
Nose nose behind the bomb chassis, what a flash, what a play!
The experience shines through again.
A learning moment for Brock Sarah.
In his first grand final, that it doesn't come easy.
What a way to top out there for souls.
It was such a difficult position for Faze to go for a structured hit.
Some good YouTube layering in the Sanjan was perfect.
They didn't actually threw off the structure they were fearing and they couldn't fight back into the round right here.
Phenomenal push, plus the re-pick.
Solz was aware, Lawyer was cut off by the peas.
And then he clutters up with a massive pop flash in the post.
Isolated, cut off.
I see these veins to go, stick the plant, play off the flash, then get up swing kill.
Without the flash, he's not getting out of there.
I want to play half-time break of course so we're gonna go and hear what the coaches have to say
but you can use it as a comfort, just remember that we don't use it anymore
we have the fast green, we haven't used it for 2 games
so we can do it, it will be very nice if we have the fast green
when we open it, we have the horizontal and we don't use it anymore
so we can use it, it will be great
when we go down, we will let it open
so we have to buy it for a long time
and you can use it
you can get the green, you get the one you got
you can get it
It's open, it's short, it's not open
That's right
Let's see what happens, we'll see what happens
We can do the first rotation, it will be faster
Let's go, let's go
Let's go, let's go
We have to be able to react
Well, it doesn't speak Portuguese, guys, but I think it's pretty clear for Faze.
All smiles, pretty happy with that first half, job done.
They get four in the attack, they go defense now, and the jury are a little bit of work
to do.
It's the opening map of the best of my grandfathers.
You do have room to kind of ease your way into a series such as this, but unfortunately,
they are versing an opponent who is so experienced, you don't want to give Faze a head start,
That is what feels like is developing
You got the decibel
On stage at least for the most part it's probably not too foreign
in a position to be in amongst the crowd so loud and so passionate.
Well, you imagine this.
In fact, a couple of years to sell power to 10,000 Brazilians in an arena.
Still the best crowd I've ever seen.
Passion and energy unmatched.
I think it's broken.
I don't know if I can go any higher than that.
I think they need to get a stronger reader.
Just a little delay getting back into the game here, going into the second half.
For to lead four phase.
Really winning again in a lot of the ways we've seen them win throughout the last couple
of weeks here at the Esports World Cup.
They kind of just pick you apart, very surgical with their gameplay.
You know, it's not everyone's cup of tea, I think the way that FaZe play, but you have to respect results.
And the pad, a set of results that many over the last couple of years have to back their side champions.
And if anything, I think this little delay, this little break, probably benefits Furia ever so slightly.
Just a chance to calm the nerves, recollect the thoughts, focus ahead of the sappy car to follow.
It shouldn't be too long before we get back into the action.
The action?
There he's looking comfortable up on stage.
This is their element.
Okay, so hang on.
The world record for the loudest shout by the individual is 122.4 decibels.
So we either just broke a record or there's something fucking going on.
I don't know what to believe anymore, so I'm going to get out of here, fishers.
It's on the close to jumping back in, so bear with us for a couple more moments.
If you are just joining, in terms of recap for the five maps that have been selected
for this series, we'll thank our first border fortress, lair, clubhouse.
Don't mind that, Paul?
Yeah, we didn't really get an opportunity or not we, but on the desk to kind of discuss
the maps a little bit more in the length, I'm sure they'll get the chance to do
that after the opening map, but we were kind of having a little bit of a look at ahead of the
Grand Final starting boarder for phase 7-0 record over the last six months. They're not lost on the
map. That record starting all the way back to Paulson, the Grand Final versus Team Secret,
if you remember, goes that one going 10-8. They haven't lost since then.
If you were here, it's not a good map at all. 1-2 record, 8 preference losses to
to MIP 1-7 three months ago and they lost to Botanic 7-8 just last week.
So I can't help but feel for Furia just to add a little bit more context to this map of the bank,
which we promise are getting mapped on their way, we're into the vans now.
If you lose this, the water's going to be incredibly unlikely.
Then you suddenly find yourself two-nulled down in a grand final versus fate.
Don't envision a straight comeback from Furia.
Not at this point in their journey as the collective team formed just under five months ago.
That would be a tall order.
So they need to find a way back here off bank in this second half.
Bands are coming through the mirror along with the Echo, Botsy and the Ying.
We will start baseman and we are getting back into the game.
And certainly a different approach in terms of the attacking bans hitting into this second
half.
It does mean that full hard breach will be up and available for Furio.
On the flip side as well, the Kaie can be used here by FaZe, although not elected
to be selected for this first
basement defense. And so, yeah,
the dynamic of these rounds should be a little different to what we saw back
in the first half. Some more playing
opportunities potentially available here for theory, especially
top floor.
And defensively for
FaZe, the onside denial, perhaps
a little more compromise with the echo
not going to play.
We'll see as well if the forces are into
to will upside play in defending. Some positions.
See, they currently have reinforcements up on the first floor.
And presumably they'll be a little bit more pure to be employed here by base.
Well, most importantly, for Fury,
it's got to start fighting these opening chills on their own attack.
That's what phase did in the first half, set them up really, really nicely.
I like this quick entry for her to get in the live drawing.
maintain some space quickly, make sure that this clear around the map is
precise but quick. The phase I don't think will give them too much and some of
these hatch positions and stair positions fall back. Never mind Cypress not
falling anywhere. 99 Hertz he cops one of the phase and for phase hatch drop done
you can go back playside. Five versus four another opening kill for phase.
Theory of finding it oh so difficult the early portion of these rounds
Sure off and it's going to prove costly here on bank if not tied it up
Phase will be ruthless from this position and cyber continues to contest main stairs, but
He's looking to play for life. He's just playing like a man who's so confident
Difficult to fault that.
Focus now elsewhere, open area 4, Fury out.
Cyber has actually elected not to fault that man. Hold it up close with Trucker.
Why not?
Who's going to get past Cyber at the moment?
Why has he been playing back yourself in good key position?
It means as well for FaZe, they don't have to stress about main stairs and the likely push.
It also means likely for Furia, the only option is probably going to be to serve up.
And that makes it easier of a read for Fates.
Again, this is the tough side to attack into.
It's the only solace to be taken if you're Furia.
Of course they defended at bow time successfully in the first half.
Fates are looking likely to do the same.
Volts trying to find a position to get this player down.
Flames though coming from the Shemiko launcher of Soles.
does actually find the kill on to Cybra as he pushed back from me to come help out towards the site.
No real backstab threat though, on off with a fury, it's a big stack.
Nitro's self from Vick in, connects though onto the planting vaults.
Wall flames at the feet of Loire up, he does collect the kit.
KDS goes for one last look towards Gara to nose, no one coming that way.
Under 20 seconds left as Loire needs to find a safe plant position,
but again the flames of the Shamiko launcher making it difficult he vaults over finds the kill and somehow on one HP
He gets back to safety here come box error, but KDS will slip away
Also on one HP as been a king will find the bomb chassis. There's no time left. That's it. It's round done
base hold on defend basement go five two up
Syria almost cooked at the end there some heroics from lawyer up
Unfortunately, they were transpired to just be a little too one-dimensional theory of time-out.
And now, when we're playing against Open, we can play two plays quickly, but we have to play with a good speed.
We're trying to play a lot of games.
If we're trying to play with slow play, trying to play with advantage, using mid-round,
they'll be comfortable playing in the map, because they're playing more static.
We play, we make a plan, we play directly, we play directly on the open side, on the horizontal side.
On the open side, we have to play the game.
And when we play after the bottom round, I think it's a bit of a mess.
A guy playing 4-0 quick to get the back of the goal.
You have to get this guy, the guy with the silver flag.
I'm getting the silver flag.
He's starting to use the red flag.
You're going to be so stupid.
Let's get it.
That's a good idea.
It's a shot.
That's the ability for you to get this guy.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
Well, if I'm reading out to non-curia, I'm thinking, okay, base was probably
not what we're going to get, but we can get Starf open and CEO executive.
Essentially look to mimic what phase did back in the first half win the first four in the second floor site
Don't worry about basement and if it does follow that same path period can get us to overtime
That's got to be their goal from here to five doesn't look good on the scoreboard
And certainly you don't have a lot of room for error. You're losing the entry battles
You're finding it difficult to really get a good footing so far here on bank
But when the next two rounds and
Suddenly it's four five
FaZe will then go back to Basement and it's game on.
So the next two rounds, super critical for Furia.
Are you losing even one of them?
It's not only FaZe go to six, but then they will have Basement to close this map out on.
Attack a repick for Furia, they're going to bring the Sands, Blitz and the Deimos along
One with Docby and drawing the ashes.
Full flyer power from Furia.
And Pox here are eight seconds into the round.
He's coming to get the kill onto a sport-peaking cyber.
Blowing the Solas, no better start to a round that you could ask for if you're Furia.
All right, dreams made of this kind of setup to get yourself back into a match.
And so Faye is now on the back foot for the next couple of minutes, we'll see if they can
fight their way back into the round defending top floor, Feria bringing the line up for the
direct hit courtesy of the sense and electing Not-to-Bring-the-Range-Hard-Breach despite
being available, maybe sensing that with the Gennet and the Kaiyid available that
that may be tricky to contend with.
Oh, Vops goes deep.
Yeah, Vops already inside a janitor.
Hurt to play behind him.
Loris also taking stock control.
Duria picking up the pace.
Gatsby thrown out from Biddiking to retake janitor
and has done so successfully.
He pushes, there's that gap, retakes the position,
forces that back over towards square.
Moira though still lurks inside a stock.
No elevator presence, four phase,
but they do still have one playing Long Desk in KDS with a deployable shield.
So he actively is still helping Vittor King.
Heard's though, who gets rid of Handy towards airlock,
bombs to the pistol, finally gets his first kill in the grand final.
Hostile tech.
Furia making quick work on the top floor, showing what they can do
with their chaotic attacking prowess.
The Banffers strike.
Lawless on the top floor of Bank.
We may still have a contest on this map after all.
Maybe.
Of course, it was a perfect setup with Cyberfalling first on the Solus courtesy of the spawnpeak
temp top square.
But fear top play though from block zero to read into that as well.
Fear could read and then they convert it.
I really like the tempo adjustment there mid round, able to send it top square courtesy
of the blitz.
it up nicely over the board stock. They drew out some new tool initially, didn't go for the full commit
and eventually were able to settle, apply meaningful pressure on to the defense and
he's ultimately cumbling. Peri is still trailing by two. That's the problems while you lose one on
that particular site. You just enable the gaps to be opened up for the attack to eventually
then exploit stock. No one's defending it. Janitor's it's pretty much a two on one, three
on one if you include the stock player. You have to bring players over to fill these gaps and that
kind of just set base off on a bad note. See if you can replicate though going into the ninth
round as we go start an open area. We will go the Blitz again for Volves. It does enable
the top down clear but also enables if you want out of electrical to go straight in towards
staff. Investment up about from the defense. There is a castle here. There is but there's
also a sledge. Herdstone is eliminated from sidebar by the Wards Archives. It was clock
zero and got too aggressive. Losing the battle front desk against Andy. Another two-player
staff of FaZe. Well, this time the base with Furia has been met by FaZe. They're
more ready for it, more active.
Gotta find a way to get herds back up in this round,
otherwise this could be 6 for FaZe on the board.
They can fall back, play site that's given up the top floor.
Essentially saying, job done,
we've already severely wounded this attack.
Fear able to achieve their goal of vert, but at what cost?
Oh, Simon's hunting again.
He'll probably just play a safe blue position for the late flank.
I don't think he'll be too eager to move out of this spot.
And again, he can play that too because if he discounts himself,
it's still 4 versus 3 elsewhere around the map for FaZe.
Yeah.
Very strong position for the defense.
We might see the rapid dirt, so Cyber could be isolated.
Herd's almost tied to the barbed wire.
He's evolved to the background. Can he find Cyber?
Is he ready for Cyber?
Looks as if he is very much ready, but then caught from Handy.
Love the double play for FaZe.
It's looking really, really back down for Furia.
Herds low on help. Diaz needs to do quite a lot of heavy lifting in this ninth round.
I think all hope may be lost for Furia in this round.
FaZe dominant.
Just about being disciplined now. 60 seconds.
That's the fuser as well by the way, and if that's what, I think that's the least of the
concerns right now for Furio, practically hoping that Cyborg will continue to be aggressive
but he's actually been quite reserved ever since getting that kill onto Volx, he's
just been holding and holding and waiting, same with Handy, he got kick control, he
and hers trying to find a couple of other kills they've even also just draw
out this blue stairs hold the phase are giving them absolutely nothing and it's
just a walk-in death trap six on the board for phase clan all too comfortable
in that ninth round too early opening kills set the tone early three
Point to wait for Faze.
Not all hope lost for Fury up.
Given the nature of the best of five beasts,
but Faze are off to a formidable start.
The game plan that they're renowned for in the run.
Now, same time and time again,
is producing results here on the first map.
Well, not only that, but to Fury,
there's a contrast in the way that these two teams can play.
Not every round, but for the most part.
Furia can bring a lot of that chaotic fast-paced aggression.
We saw it in that round.
Faiz met head-on.
Faiz liked the slow, methodical, strategic freestyle.
And they also have the ability to read into what Furia wanted
to do, and then play fire with fire.
Saibur up to 13 and 6.
But not just that.
He's also got the last four opening kills for Faiz.
CYBER is 4 and 2 on the entry, 13-6 with a 154 EPS.
You know, Handy steals a lot of those MPP accolades, but as thing stands right now,
it would go the way of CYBER. Long way to go.
But much to the chagrin or fury, we are also now going base with Faze
in a very comfortable position to close this opening map out.
Border is up next and that's a very daunting prospect for Furia.
Border is a map that FaZe have not lost in the last six months. 7-0 record.
Every chance that they can go 2-0 up in this grand final.
Furia must dig deep.
Half to the 3-0 is...
Suddenly a possibility for FaZe. It's a tantalizing cross-back.
Man, it would be one hell of a statement if they're able to achieve that feat.
Let's see how this round plays out though. Number 10 with the Wami and the Grimnaut band out.
So a bit of a split push here from Fira. Hands on the snake to gain info.
Loira has found himself inside of Tellers initially.
side basement though and there's not much in the way of presence up above from
FaZe. Fall off positions on that first floor you can see KDS drop and he's still
elevator as Cyber has the cross from main.
Again, Cyber just knows he can play aggressive, he's hitting good shots, Fury
haven't really read into this as well so instead of sitting more main
He stands, he sits a little closer to beepers and bulbs should have been dead.
He does now eventually die.
A thought of no second chance from Cyber.
Another opening kill for him.
Make it five straight just from Cyber alone for FaZe.
One hurts foul over towards that third entry position.
It's ruthless from FaZe.
So close to taking map number one.
theory running out of answers on bank bringing back this round will be tough
that should be brought back to his feet 60 seconds of player down into the smoke
Goyo and Tachanka I mean you can forget about plan A and around like this now
it's all about probably plan C I don't even think plan B is probably in
play at this point. 50 seconds left. There goes Diaz as well. Just pick up to pick as
Cyber goes to 15 kills to start the grand final. Words may be back up but I
think Furia are down for the count on this map of bank. Handy. Insulted injury
with that headshot onto Moira. When this team wake up to play there's not
many in the world that can stop them. Solz with the Shumiko Launcher to lay the
fire at the feet of the area. And Hertz cannot stand in that fire. It's a rotating
box here, a down main stairs, but this too is flamed. As he stands in the flames,
he then dies the handy. A flawless way to finish the opening map for FaZe Clan.
So dominant, so scary!
When they're at their very best, there's no stopping this team.
It may only be Map 1 at this grand final.
But they are switched on already.
Viria will need to dig deep, going into board and about back.
They have sent a strong message in map number one.
Cyber, 16 handed, 10.
10 and as a team the seed was absolutely on point they were switched on ready to go
outpacing Fyria on that first map and now it's really on Fyria to somehow produce a response.
I'm going early here but wants to kill Raccoon for a grand final.
No, that's the five.
The Scythe has got what's 16 and the opening map alone.
The way that he's been playing so much confidence you can see that with his
positioning his movement his feeling list to go for those early kills and he
got rewarded for it Cybers opening kills around four five seven nine and ten no
other face member in that space and time got an opening kill was all cyber
he finishes five and two with seventy percent cost 16 and six and as you
said as well Andy played the perfect foil on that map ten five two zero
on the entry to the 130 even yes cyber and handy the dynamic duo lead the way
to phase who's gonna stand up for fury going into border it is such a strong
map for face undefeated could fury up find a way to get themselves back in
the grand final if they do win out on border then we're back right in
otherwise two zero lead for phase and then from there it's so so difficult to
Vision can break it back three straight order is such a snowball-style map that entry brilliance continues and shines through for phase I
Don't foresee a lot of which fear it can fight back
Well, we'll have to wait and see again these are best of five
It's a marathon not a sprint a lot more see still to be played in this grand final
And with that phase, take game number one.
That one goes the way the Brazilian team dancing.
Well, that's pretty hard to distinguish, isn't it?
If you see the background, they're both dancing.
However, it's the red and black that come out on top.
And in dominant fashion, this was phases tournament
many people thought to lose.
They're in the grand final and they're kind of proving
that statement right at the start.
There's still much more siege to be played.
And gentlemen, when I look at this,
This is a team that is dominant in a way that makes you almost feel like where do we have an angle?
Where do we have a shot? Where do we have a peak to even break through?
We mentioned it before. They're playing the most perfect team in the world. A team that feels like flawless.
Whatever you throw at them, they will always find a solution. And I felt like initially I told you,
I took to the analyst of Face Clan. The one guy that maybe has some clue about what's the weakest link they have.
Well, one weakness, one weak spot he mentioned was if we play against aggression we struggle because it disrupts our system
What did FaZe bring here in this matchup?
Aggression.
Exactly. And that's the biggest thing. They're matching the aggression on the side of Furia.
And even when it doesn't happen, I felt like Furia was way too passive in his defense side.
They just give way too much space.
It felt like we were watching a DZ versus Furia game where they were DZ this time.
They were on their back foot. They weren't the one on the precipice of getting aggressive.
Taken the engagement, winning those gunfights, and then playing into those layers.
It was FaZe just right out the get-go, taking every single fight to Furrier,
where then they were falling back.
They were almost questioning their own style, their own play.
And that's not what you want to see in a first map.
And, you know, as we've said, this isn't a sprint.
This is a marathon.
So they easily can bounce back.
They can go into that second map understanding where things went wrong.
But you cannot allow FaZe to be this comfortable going into a second map.
So comfortable as well.
Viking standing up and talking about how good they were.
You see Cyber there as well celebrating.
Andy also in the Samba from the family members there.
You see it right there again.
This is a moment that they have been waiting for.
They want to crown themselves.
Part of that triple crown conversation,
we mentioned Soles and Andy and Cyber who have the chance
to do a KDS also has a chance to get that triple crown.
So there's a lot on the line here,
but Phage is looking so good.
And tell me why they're looking so good
or at least an aspect of it with that
illustration you prepared for.
I was one of the best example of what
makes FaZe truly special and this is going to be in round three now 120 left in the round
and we're going to notice something all the players on the side of here on the top floor
and you see here Loira standing on those white stairs he's going to be the target now pay
attention to the positioning on the side of FaZe they've got cyber who can go up the
stairs and maybe challenge him and they've got by taking on those trading windows who
could maybe jump in now that was if it wasn't FaZe FaZe they've always got one
step ahead now pay attention to the utility usage here absolutely exquisite pinch
They send the flashes towards the watch stairs.
And why do they do that?
They do that because Loire has to go down the stairs
and you may think, OK, it's so cyber
can take this one, V1 and win it.
Well, I'm surprised for you.
Faze, you're always one step ahead.
How did he die?
How did he die?
I think he was there upstairs on the roof upside down.
And that's why the flash was there
so that when the player ran down,
he would be in his angle.
Now, you may think it's special.
Look at Source 1.
He's ready to punish anyone who comes to our trade.
He punishes Volves swinging out of that door
And that's it, 5v3.
At the same time, if you needed any more reason to believe that FaZe are truly special,
well look at what Cyber will do here.
With Solid Snake, from those white sares that he just got the control onto,
he spots a player in Elevator.
Now instead of challenging him, what he does is,
he's gonna go towards him,
he's gonna shoot a few bullets towards Elevator,
in a way so that Snake can sneak into meeting room,
1-8-T and BOOM!
Free kill onto the bomb site.
Now you remember that one player that was cheeky upstairs on the roof?
Yep.
That was Andy, right?
Right.
Well, he's still on the roof and is ready, this time from the main skylight, to challenge the trade once again, coming from Elevator.
And that's another kill.
And that's what makes FaZe truly special.
They find ways to get kills in ways that no one has thought about.
That three-weaponch initially, absolutely insane.
And I look at these guys on the side of Fury.
I look at the veterans and here like seeing I'm disappointed.
I absolutely am as well.
I mean, you have to think about these two have been in these moments.
They've won events before.
They know what it's like in order to win.
but right now they are not showing up and especially for the players on the side of Loira,
Boxzera and Diaz, these are the two, your captain and your IGL, that you are looking at for the support,
looking at for the help to just be able to find that momentum, get that shift and you even look at round six,
it was Boxzera that was trying to bring that 1v2 back and if he gets that 1v2,
that momentum shifts wings into their favor.
Of course, they have to rely on their rookies, all the youngest players,
Loira, Boxzera, you mentioned them and if we think of the veterans on the side of Furia,
And then we see of the veterans on the side of face.
I just keep looking at cyber.
I mean that one round and the guy is going crazy right now.
The amount of kills and then you spotted this.
An incredible ace from the guy.
Yeah, it was a beautiful ace from him.
But again, we have to go all the way back to us.
It's not the physical aspect.
It's not the mental aspect.
It's the emotion.
He is playing in front of his family and he is putting on one hell of a performance.
I mean, this is what you expect out of cyber in a grand final to cement your name here at the Esports World Cup.
And that's exactly what he's doing following up with this beautiful ace, but it's been great from the team across
I mean even that Telestration users did you see how in sync this team is and why they close out that series in a 7-3
And now we look at the two returns on the side of the phase exactly how you mentioned rain
I mean you see the big difference in two statistics right here
We've mentioned before the players that can reach that triple crown on the side of fury
only a single player's herds on the side of face three players souls one and
obviously cyber who won the Berlin who didn't win the Berlin Major who won the
Sweden Major who won a 2S size and who can now win the WCKDS all the way
back at a Mexico Major also a major champion so all of these guys here in
the running in full force. 16 and 6 as you see there cyber having a heck of a
day you mentioned playing in front of his family they've been watching this
tournament up until now you've seen them celebrate with them on stage
Or down below in the fans with the fans, but coming up it is border
This is a map that even the casters talked about feeling a bit wary
And especially if you're fury and a fan of this team, you know losing map one and now going into a map that phase
Has it lost in what five six months is not a good proposition
Yeah, I mean they're currently seven and oh and out of those seven matches that they played six of them
They beat their opponent seven to two or three so they have absolute dominance on that map
You even remember you look back and when they played liquid
What was the attack strategy or the defensive strategy to go against liquid?
It was to play aggressive towards exactly and what were they doing on bank to beat feria playing your dress it again
Fiora has to adopt a different sort of place all if their aggression isn't working if phase wants to play aggressive
They want to take those done by suit then maybe you need to slow down
You need to force phases hang get that opening kill going into your favor and then punish them for getting over aggressive
But that's the difference in the stylistic matchup between these two is phase knows how to play both sides of the
Coming up next we've got Fortress as well for this phase going to be defending on this. This is Furious pick
What do you think? I mean exactly you just said it phase gonna be defending on this and Fortress alongside cafe and alongside
Consulate some of the most defined decided maps in the meta
So we might be looking down at this and we're reminding everyone right you just mentioned it border phase
Seven win streak most of those being seven three seven two not even close and after this if they win
They go on to fortress decided to close it out in full force full momentum on the most favorite side
I am scared for fury. I want to see them fight back
I'm absolutely scared for fury as well
And I'm kind of pushing to pass the layer and looking at that clubhouse
We need to get to that map 5 to go to a clubhouse to decide the e-sports World Cup champion
I mean it is the Colosseum you're being tested on all of your fundamentals and if we can get to that best of five
I'll be excited I cannot wait and you know it's interesting we mentioned KDS because his KDS
It wasn't that great. It was like two and five coming out of that
But his role that he's playing the way that this well oiled machine is working in phase
It's hard to fault anybody because they're playing their role so well
And they're making it so hard for fury to find an answer
Hopefully as we get closer to these picks and bands and map to on board or despite phase of success
We can see fury and make some adjustments and maybe it is the aggressiveness that you both mentioned
I think we're needing to see the Agile on their side, Volpe steps up finally. He's such a good player, he's carried them so far.
He's got such a specific vision of the game, maybe a little bit more advance, maybe a little bit more fast to pace.
It's exactly the kind of Agile in that can be successful on such a small map like Border.
We said it's going to be a massive challenge to break that 7 win streak on the side of phase and it starts with the upper other box.
Again, getting rid of the shields, a great start.
We know how pivotal shields can be on the map-like border,
especially when you're pushing into that top-east,
you're pushing into break.
They can really be a thorn.
Getting rid of the mirror early as well
is going to help with that site execute.
A lot of those fast takes over on archives.
Now, Fyria, they start in defense.
It's a very small map.
We've mentioned it before.
The way you fight here is going
to be so aggressive towards the entry points.
And that is the main thing here that requires confidence,
because you're going to need to challenge some angles
that you don't want to challenge.
That confidence needs to rise on the side of Furia.
If they may think they can take phase,
it starts here by building that confidence.
This roster rebuilt around Herds,
involves in the veteran leadership role,
IGL needs to get Furia to bounce back
because staring a 2-0 deficit down the road
to phase going to another map like Fortress
just isn't a good look.
But of course, they'll have the support to do so.
Our second map gonna do a lot of work
for this phase plan.
Roster, if they can get it with a Furia,
we'll see if they can bounce back.
Because we had to map number two here in our grand finals for our six seasons.
And it back over to our casters, Zinus and Gus.
Well, a massive obstacle in the way for Furia heading into border phase.
7-0 undefeated and get to stop on the attack.
For a map, Gus, that's been the most attack-assided map in Esports World Cup,
sitting at a 60% attack of win rate.
Not only that, it has the slowest average entry time,
That's a benefit to a team like FaZe and their play style.
Yes, but FaZe are just a whole different beast
on this map, arguably the most chaotic
that we have in the competitive pool.
And after reaching flow state, back on bank.
Gonna be a case of trying to transfer that
to the second map in this series.
As the guys on the desk are alluding to.
Now, two-zero deficit, as likely as it kind of works,
It's also going to be very devastating for Furia, so they need to find everything that they have here on map 2.
Well, that's for Furia. Fortress, of course, the map that will be played next, they have an 8-2 record and it's their number one preference map.
So they'll feel confident going into Fortress, so if they can steal border, get this back to 1-1.
They may even have the chance to lead the Grand Final going into Fortress after Fortress.
It would be an almighty steal.
Oh, that's a huge ashram.
It would be a big steal if they can win this map.
all odds against them. And expect, again, more of this slow, methodical attacking playstyle from FaZe,
especially on a map like Border. They want to be surgical, they want to find time to get these
picks, use the air jabs, take some space. But that's where for Furia, they've got to be cautious to
not go over a vest in aggression themselves, because FaZe what we're ready for, they're holding
these kind of angles, they're expecting to Furia to want to get aggressive, and Lawyer will
go down to QDS as he slips into security. Another opening kill for FaZe. That is something
I think Furia will need to work on.
Oh, slammed.
Completely slammed.
DS will be next.
Dead. Wow. This is face, baby.
This is scary.
Paul Furia.
Voxera had a very good map back on bank.
He finds a kill on to Handy and then falls immediately
because the space in the sign has already been taken.
Three from KDS. Make it four!
Well, forget about that slow surgical play style.
they can switch it up as well. They're the best for a reason. This is going to be brutal
for Fury up. That is by the way the best offensive site on the map and they got slammed. They
said it perfectly. They got re-slapped. Great you're delaying security, Capitown, Nomad.
And whilst the clash did stand for quite some time, didn't have huge impact here.
They tried to play around,
thought standing up.
The FaZe were ready and waiting, pounced.
Tears then on an island.
And the rest of the defense completely capitulated.
Goes down as four picks to KDS, so a great start for him.
But there was the team player from FaZe that got them the win.
What a fury he would do to adjust here.
If you try and pick up the FaZe,
the bends of the left and out play border,
and the way that FaZe like to play it,
they'll hold the balcony positions.
They're expecting run-outs, they're expecting window play.
Gonna kind of take that away from you.
They phase wanna eat up a lot of the clock,
keep you inside of the building,
guessing and then they find the way in.
Maybe lawyer onto the pulse can help get some more information.
They didn't bring the pulse in the opening round
as we go bathroom and tallows.
They've just gotta find a way, Furia,
to disrupt these attacks of phase.
Counter them at the right times.
Maybe just play some off-rhoam, off-meta positions,
try and keep FaZe guessing a little bit longer.
That may be someone like Lawyer over towards supply on the pulse.
For someone else that can get information, there's Cyber on the solid snake.
So it goes both ways.
You can see him, but he can see you.
I don't know if I want to be peeking into cyber the way that he's going.
Lawyer is playing a very very dangerous game.
Yeah, such is the nature of the board of defense.
We split in corners, he's not going to get a lot of assistance either.
It will be indirect pressure generated by the area, but yeah, Lawyer needs to be careful.
He doesn't put himself in too much of an island.
I mean, that's a small win, I think, for Fury. The way that this has played out so far, they've respected the polls and the information that's being provided for the defense.
I mean that's a small win I think for fury the way that this has played out so far
They've respected the polls and the information that's being provided for the defense base then can't kind of just rush in unannounced
Lucifer bathroom towers you do want to work over towards this office side of the map as well on the top floor
Hence KDS towards security souls inside of armory getting a live drone
As a pretty intricate setup off the side here as well with the deployable shield and the clash for Furia to potentially play off.
Otsura drops down, KDAS 5-0 for the kill, on to Herds, he starts with 0-2, on board.
Oh, but it's a double at the same time for Furia. Get rid of both viticae and souls.
This gives them a lifeline heading into the final 50 seconds.
With the way the play is applying, you almost still back them in 3v4.
Now Peel from Furia largely, Vols will remain above for now.
Diaz will lead the jug of payload, Cole from handy as well, Cole now on to vault is active and KDS a second kill, he's up to six
And it started to get a little nerve here again for Furia, late into the round
Got to try and force away the phase to have to play into the plant, Halt's creeping back over the wall top first, the timing
He may still find a kill top east and indeed he will, onto KDS
That's the fuser on the front, that should be the round, should is the key word, but you never discount a team like Faze
But with Volk still top floor and no one for FaZe even close to top floor,
although Volk's decided to drop, doesn't matter, got the kill on Decyma.
Hand in to 1v3, no time remains, they get the kill and the round as well
as the drums beat out around the arena.
Furia will get their first round on board up.
And they bite back.
Maybe there is a bit of fight between here from Furia on such a dominant FaZe map.
Well, a better round from Furia.
I think the pulse information certainly helped, just to have a bit more of a whereabouts,
the way that plays, the kind of positioning early.
You didn't really see a lot of fighting until around the minimap.
That was the opening kill from KDS.
He's gone back to back, by the way, on the entries to start here on border.
Of course, that's 6-1 KD2, so he starts hot.
That being defensive round win for Furia on that side of bathroom tallars, that actually
sits at a 67% attack win rate and they were able to get the round as the defensive team.
It has got to be the mentality for Furia.
One round at a time, don't worry about the overall objective of the map, keep
The phase record out of your binds and let's play some siege.
Down to
the workshop for the final round, this initial rotation.
And we'll see how FaZe look to shape for this particular round.
If the temp will remain similar or maybe are in response to the last round
where if you are gathered quickly they could look to maybe switch up a little bit.
I presume they'll go full force ahead with the original plan though.
We're dropping the pulse into this round, they do the low-hab source for some info gather.
Interestingly, the clash will persist and there will be an interesting talking point
at the end of this round.
It's being played across the five first three, false and majority in D as in one occasion.
They're not just info gather to the solace as well, but helps if they want to go for
a fast plant attempt over towards vent and then you can of course get the intel
If there's a smoke layering
Just get the idea there from face
I don't think that's going to be the overall plan a I think they want to try and see if they can sneak into the map
You can see cyber towards passport on the solid snake and a couple of pigs
I know that furious probably gonna be moving around the map a lot
Beauty of border is a lot of the map is pretty much always played regardless of the site
Also means the bulbs he's gonna have to be very important with his positioning on the clash making sure he's in the right spot
to get in the face of FaZe.
Yeah, they brought a Nomad and the Capitow again
to try and contest that.
And last time out, it was very successful for FaZe
in dislodging this clash.
Volbs go shield down.
KDs might take third straight open and kill.
And back to back onto Herds.
Diaz with a crucial kill back as well.
But he loos two again.
Cyber sneaks in from bathroom into workshop,
finds two kills.
And the only Volbs and Diaz left for Furia as FaZe again.
They find the gaps better than any team in the game.
Cyber will remain inside or close to the objective as the rest of FaZe
rotates for the final blow.
60 seconds of KDS to plant.
Now the clutch is not working clearly for the area of FaZe.
They're just able to circumnavigate around the KDS.
We're getting the plant to work.
Shot there as we've dead.
Fiddler can't catch up again.
Surgic call from FaZe.
They go 2-1 up.
Yeah, it's only bad up three straight open he kills the KDS as he starts off hot here on board up
Now the clash is not working we saw it in the first three rounds which makes me wonder to phase still like 30. Good thing you ban it
They might try and take the souls of the false-air for info instead. Yeah, unless they sense that the clash could still be a problem
No, they're not.
They have warden instead, so warden played in every round as well, and that's going to enable some of the more utility-loving.
I've seen Kaptao, Ying, etc. Theory up, time out.
I think we played the game, we talked about what we were doing on the chalet.
Fissure, battle, Fissure, battle. Let's fight now.
We tested, we played safe, now we'll fight against them.
You're going down, you're going to talk to the other team.
Let's go guys, let's go.
No, no, I think we'll take it.
clearly some stuff that they need to work on and improve on and adapt to and need to do so quickly.
But the multi-phase is quite intriguing. Three hours to go, we haven't seen that we played yet
by a phase clan, but I guess just taking away the option of for Furia they will drop the clash.
I think that's the right call.
The robots are started a little bit cold and sometimes when you don't start well,
you almost instinctively want to go and play shield.
Well the problem has an in my eyes for the majority of the rounds being humanist before
the match.
It's the fact that FaZe aren't over-investigated into it and keep finding gaps elsewhere that
are exposing onsite.
I'm also mean when you start 4-11.
Yeah it's easy to have a negative mindset.
To be fair if you want to point anything out right now, Hertz, Grim and 12, 1-4 on
entry, across the two maps.
Is anyone that needs to really stand up and step up for Furio?
It is Herds.
We know he can start slow in big matches and then get going.
Doesn't want to leave it too late, though.
Don't leave it too late.
Fantastic start from FaZe.
They bring the Blitz this round, first time
seeing Shield play from FaZe.
Totally enough the first time.
Of course, Furio will not bring the clash.
Armory arclimes once again.
But this was one blind phase in the opening round.
It is this side that Fiora need to be winning.
But to be honest, this is set up for a quick hit.
Go straight into archives, go for a plant.
It's glass to cover.
Yeah, currently still structured as a full corner defense,
largely here for Fiora.
So could leave them exposed,
but I don't think Faiz will hit the go-pot in too early
point in which they can't fight back. It also plays into the Warden band as well because
Warden is a good counter to this sort of setup strategy. Yeah, it do have double nitrosolvered.
Oh, he's early. And then rushes out.
Type R double with the pistol on the blitz. And then caught Metal Stairs, his lawyer
I'm looking to re-join his team on the top floor but instead joins them in the
grave. Well Faze didn't even need to go for
play-in eh. Boxera and Diaz to defend the side but Diaz will fall off to
fighting that kill onto the glass leaving Borough Boxera by himself getting
aggressed by the Blitz. Overwhelmed make it three for Cyber and make it three
for FaZe here on the border!
It really is incredible how many rounds across this series so far.
FaZe have made it look like we aren't watching a grand final
because they have just been so clean, so dominant,
and fear has just not given any kind of tools to fight back into the round.
Vops left the glitz unguarded.
Cypher got 2, Herds is now 0-4, and it was a complete steam roll for the rest of the round.
Well here's the fact, Bayes in every best of 3 here at the Esports World Cup had dropped a map.
They lost Fortress 7-2 to Verda's prior back in the upper bracket semi-finals in the group stage.
Obviously you ended up winning all of these by the way, but still lost 7-1 on Lair to Liquid
and lost on Chalet to GK yesterday 7-5.
Right now I just don't see them losing the way they're playing. We are somehow seeing Faze step up their game even more.
They are playing some ruthless siege. Giving Fury a nothing. Switching up their tempo. They can play fast. They can play slow.
And it's a repeat bombsite attempt for Fury. They know that Armory Archives should be defensively sound, but it's been already broken twice.
They do change up their strategy though, they drop the Goya, they drop the Solus, they bring
the Thorn and the Alar, so they're going to double down on Trap Utility, but in response
FaZe will bring the Twitch for the first time.
I thought maybe we'd see the double commit from the Blitz this round.
Four FaZe, not the KD, Spock 0, small kills.
On the KDS as well, it's been running rampant.
Yeah, if there's anyone defined, might enable a bit more aggression now around the map
with the AirJabs down.
I'd say that, but if you're Fury, I'm fine versus 4, you probably might just want to shut
up shop and look to really lock down that site.
Park the bus.
Park the bus.
But you can't be too negative about it either because FaZe will take that space and exploit
and somehow find that way back into the round.
It's a delicate balance for Fury.
Find the balance.
First opening kill of the map for Fury, courtesy of Boxer.
both bank and border he has been their best 11 and 10 the only player going
positive for fury on
again this is where the phase they'll slow the tempo down they'll see if you
real want to play aggressive on that early kill and they're trying to find a
low potential vitticombe spot ace at the moment he sees way up unlock long
corridor maybe Bob's has just made it safely back in towards office wouldn't
want to be taking him to that DMR spray Bob's will go down a cyber he
He finds his way up to seven kills and overall 23 kills in the two-mounce plate already.
Anything right now that's going to stop him from breaking the record is probably the fact
this could be done in three.
Handy, shuts down Hertz who starts 0-5.
Hertz has had no impact in this grand final.
And Bay is now with the extra player.
So much for Bunker down.
The boss has been rolled over and it's been flipped.
Lawyer in a rough position now needs to find a couple security.
Oh, he looks a little panicky. Lawyer wants to get back to safety, but he does opt for the swing.
And the right call made is he collects the kill on to Solz.
Evens off the numbers, heading into the final 45 seconds of what feels like a pivotal round.
If you are Furia, you need to be winning this.
A chance! Oh, Diaz! I thought he might have got a good timing.
But Lawyer up, does get a good timing on to Bitter King.
Handy and Cyber though, no slouches in a 2 vs 2 if Diaz will be finished off.
8 kills for Cyber and plenty of time still for FaZe to take this round.
Oxyra at least has Nightshark, could be critical into dying a plan to tank here from FaZe.
Smokes available for Handy, no utility for Cyber, he'll stay gun up.
Tidre and Handy together over to Walsh Fountain.
Boiler up and Boxerra, Boxerra's going white shop down below with an Antracell.
Replace for the bomb, Jassy! Nevermind, Rips it immediately!
And with that handy will fall, hits on the ground,
Saiba will not be given the chance to clutch up.
Here we are, with a much needed second round.
Here's a good read there.
Decision-making from Boxer on point.
Alex to go below, higher percentage to go for that play
than risk the Nitro being shot out
or exposing yourself to Saiba who was on coverage.
Here it just maintained touching distance,
but still a shaky round where
had an advantage early in phase still found a way to get also close and then
never out of any round are they faze that's the problem you never feel
comfortable final round of all the half so we look back at the end of the round
it was that Nardjussel and honestly heads up play for box era to rotate
workshop in anticipation of the plan to tend to the bomb chassis he finds
That's it. Unbelievable kill on to Handi.
These two rounds enough. What a fury I need for you on the defense.
I'd be taking any round I can get in this style of map against FaZe. That's for sure.
Barf and Talos for the final of the half, the zero, in combination with the Twitch for
FaZe, looking to gain info, clear U2, Goya in play, raise the green dot lines as well.
Again trap utility focus for Furio, they've got to run back the yellow along with the
thorn, you've got the Vulcan canisters from the Goya, soulless to help as well in getting
some more information.
There are plenty of ways to deal with a lot of this trap utility between the Xero and
the Twitch.
All phase.
So we've got five rounds, the opening kills being converted, four to one, and the round
it wasn't converted was the second round which was on this bomb side of bathroom
tellers.
So FaZe will work the map, either to gain information and potentially exploit an entry point.
They favoured passport through waiting on a couple of occasions, may look like something
similar here in their final attack on behalf.
Zoyra expanding all three gas babes before the midpoint of the round.
Zoyra on the window!
He went for the swing, he went for the aggressive play, but he's the one that ends up dead.
Well, didn't get finished and Vops is still Toppies.
He has been drawn to his position known.
Herds, by the way, finds his first kill of the map.
And onto Handi.
Zoyra has also been able to drop down to get that Revolve from Vops.
And the Razorblink prevents itself from pushing me.
And Cyber gets called on the timing looking to punish!
Boxer, a good angle held.
Lidikin keeps the round alive, though, for FaZe.
With that kill on to Herds.
And then finds a second on to the low-health Loira.
Three versus three.
Heading into the final minute of this half.
And two-one split from the defense.
Feria, advantage.
Can they make this opportunity count?
I mean, what's the play right now for FaZe
as the duo?
Anything over top waiting?
Hobbes is going to be downed.
And then Wittiging though wanted to go for the clear.
And Boxera had him covered down the hallway.
And Diaz will filter back down.
A trade site here for Furia.
Solz, he's positioned known after he collects the kill onto Bob.
So the 1v2, not out of the realm of possibility.
An impact available for Boxera.
Honestly, Boxera has been pretty good in the clutch so far for Furia.
Solz, does he think about going back to grab that kit?
It doesn't seem like it.
instead wants to play off the yellow ping Intel that he has, knowing they're both probably towards bathroom.
Knows at least one is, and I do like the way that this is being held over Blockzera and Diaz.
Solz seeking for a 1v1.
Now into red time, needs to pick up the pace, needs to find the double, gets one, but then Diaz has the cover swing!
Furia, for the first time in the grand final, will win back to back rounds as they tie it up 3-3.
Now we are going to learn the game's shit, this is the real shit, guys!
Let's just remember what we have to do, without fear of playing fast, without looking for any problems, we already know the tactics of the guys, there is nothing better than that.
Let's remember that we have the...
I think we can do it, we will get the bottom of the ocean and put the mud on the ground in two, then guys, without fear of any, we will do it, as it has to be played, in the fish it has to be played, we will look for multi-problem, prepare the map, return to the ocean
I'm courageous now, now the same thing will happen there
Guys, I will say, you have already won 900 Borders, the Borders you win much more with the heart than with the tactic, with courage, with attitude
I'll try to hit with the headshots
I'll try to hit with the headshots
You can play with the headshots
You can play with the headshots
I'll hit the headshot
That's it
I'll try to hit the headshot
I'm getting all the shots
He has risen to the occasion. 15-11 across both maps.
Again still the only player positive for Furia.
2-0 on entry with a 1-19 EPS.
Rates him as the second best player in the series so far, only behind Cyber.
He's risen to the occasion. What about the rest of Furia? Where's Hertz?
Well he found an open kill in that round. It was his first kill of the map in that round.
They got back-to-back rounds for the first time in the series. They got three
Defensive rounds on the most attack-assided map tied now at three to three
Heading into their attack looking to break this streak of phase on a map of border
This could flip the Grand Final on its head
massive second half coming up
with my mute
Monty glazed the bands as we headed to Armory and Archives to kickstart the second half
Now I'm curious to see how few are trying to activate her to get him back into this map.
Graded 15th at the Esports World Cup this year.
It's been a solid tournament for him up until this point, 111 APS.
A 1.22 KD.
Positive entry.
And he's netted quite a few multi kills as well over the course of this event.
So far today, struggling to find his footing.
Given the IQ role here for round seven initially,
probably going to be useful into the U2 set.
And with the solos here from the side of FaZe,
if they commit to it.
And intriguing to see, is there going to be a contrast
in terms of the pacing and the tempo from theory of FaZe?
Quite slow on many occasions.
Midpoint of the round still plays as the whole team
outside trying to exploit a pocket of space.
Fury might just step up that pacing a little bit.
Well, what they also might be doing in this round
is look to play the verb.
Off of the jug of payload calls from Laura,
you can impact trick with the Zofia.
Hertz can also play off those calls on the IQ.
So I would be surprised to see them kind of go
first floor first, establish where these defenders look
to them play off of that positioning and information.
So players like TDS towards security
will need to be careful.
That's the way that Fury,
Imagine they can maybe find an early kill or two playing off of this bird.
Straight away Diaz and Herds will go first-four.
I'm in love with the triple impact here on Porto.
It'd be a tilt of a phase, but...
Oh!
Six-wheat from side, but onto Loiror.
Shots down the jug of payloads.
That does eliminate the ability for Herds to play off of that.
Diaz impact below.
He's thinking about it over to security to enable the play from Porto.
He has sent it out, he gets KDS down to 1 HP, didn't quite finish him off, but he gets him very low.
Oh, now the Voltean purge is just going to send it, no longer needing to play the bird, they've got site control, they've got phase wounded, they've got phase on the ropes here.
On the best defensive site, Volts will go for the plant, there's no answer though from FaZe.
Volts will get off, as Cyber makes his way back down main stairs, he gets a bit of intel and souls, gets a big kill on the box here.
The boss is now the end of the black!
Oh, Faze always adds it back!
What?
That looked so promising for Furia and ends though with them losing the round.
Oh, you can't help but feel a little sorry for Furia who put themselves in such a good position.
Faze, fight back again.
And then, the good, clear security side herds was unable to go deep, Volks considered the
plant got off and it opened up the window for Solstyn at a double.
And then Cybert took clean up shot.
How quickly it can flip and turn.
Just what it looked like maybe FaZe were a little bit vulnerable on a very strong defensive
side.
doing well. To adapt, it clearly wants to lose. The docker bee and the impacts from
the Zofia don't fully connect. At that point heard, senses an opportunity to just
go straight for sight and it was working until it wasn't.
It is also three straight opening kills in favor of Furia. So starting to do a
a little bit better in the early battles. That's a big sign of success for them
struggling up until this point.
Then workshop for the eighth round. And cyber... Oh! I thought he was gonna be on
there for that kill. Saw the elbow. Do you think he jumps out? You wouldn't dare.
I mean you 12 and 2 maybe you've got that license but it's probably the
wrong call and it would have been if he vaults there into the DMR, surely dead.
That makes the calculated decision to fall back.
Sledge here from Fear suggesting Furt to be part of the game plan, or it could even be for the horizontal lurk
enabled passport through customs rotate.
See that from herds now.
So it will need to be mindful of the rotate up above through break.
And the eyes.
Oh, my God!
Heard's not ready to take the battle against the man that's on fire!
A second quickly from Cyber gets him up to 14 kills on border.
He's now up to 30 kills across the two maps already.
He is such a factor in this grand final.
The factor that Fury have not worked out how to stop.
It gives Faze a two-player advantage.
Just when Fury thought they were getting themselves back in on board up.
And it did jump out as well from Handy. They're so clean, they're so good.
As Diaz will fall, this round may be flawless.
up to Furia, we're able to strike to close. The half-faze will strike to start the second half.
Back to background wins. Season goes 5-3 up here on border.
And the party continues for phase.
Just when it started to feel like Furia could pull off a massive upset
On this particular map, FaZe once again regained ascendancy.
The drummers on the chairs and FaZe fans on their feet says it all.
There's just no stopping this fan.
Slybert has been and he's very, very best.
If not, maybe found a new level.
If that is something we didn't even think was possible.
He's got 31 kills and only eight deaths.
7-2 on the entry
This is shaping up to be an all-time individual performance in a grand final. He has a hundred and seventy eight EPS
Again if this were to go all five maps, he's breaking the kill record. Not the kill record, it's 63 Gunner at Manchester
He's already halfway through. They're not gonna play enough maps. They're not gonna play enough maps. That's the problem
Conferior, fight their way back!
Tertiary site in play.
Marth and Teller's heavy roam deployed by FaZe.
At this point you've got to feel like pretty much all the individuals, maybe minus blocks
error.
What's the mental like?
Because no one's landing shots, not everyone's negative, nothing's really working.
The team is a whole lot working clearly.
but also individually outside of Popsera.
No one is really finding good shots
and dealing good presence around the map.
Even a little moment there, Cyber just escapes.
This timing's been impeccable.
Oh, oh, oh!
Hardage just got stuffed!
No!
There's no stopping Cyber today.
Another opening kill.
8-2 across the two maps.
He's too good for his own good, otherwise he'd probably be going for 7 in plus today.
Now Fury just looks stuck in the mud, the outside of the map stranded Laura the only
one with presence inside of the map towards customs.
Well that way you have to beat Faze as a team but right now you have to beat Cybert.
Yeah, they turn sight largely clear, getting towards objective though, tough, strong, focused, second-fall skill from FaZe, we commit to the vert.
And we'll be able to rotate down at a moment's notice.
Triple gas fade as well, still up the hand in nitro for KDS.
They'll look to launch you to attack custom sights, and FaZe will they have read.
Okay, that makes it intriguing.
Now with 60 seconds remaining, 4 vs 4, feels more like 4 vs 5 still with Cyber up and timing
is perfect.
The man's playing as 2 or 3 players at the moment, not just a single individual.
And he might get another one!
I'll just stay on him!
Observer's no need to move away from this man, he's already got 18 kills on board
up.
And back on Bank. He only had 16. He's already beaten that. That's incredible. 4 vs 2.
Oh, shut down. Okay, Lawyer keeps it interesting. But they need to pick up this pace.
And then he finds a second but falls. Leaves it down to Diaz.
Both above for the defense.
Got to go grab the kit though. Does he go for the revive? It might be the best thing to do.
But he needs to be cautious of the third being held. As you said, both still. Top floor.
Four phase, Loire back up will go for the plant, makes his rotate in, tucked into the corner, old tellers.
Drop down from KDS, where's the cover? Souls as well, Loire up, look at the plant down, Diaz finds the kill onto Souls.
Furia might just steal this round.
Nitro KDS.
Nitro from KDS and then gets the kill onto Loire up.
Nitro blows, but doesn't find Diaz. Diaz.
What are the nerves like in this one versus one?
Does he have line of sight onto that kit? KDS might be able to draw him out.
Close a few shots and he's expecting Diaz to be close to this kid but for now
he's not he's fallen back. Taps it once gets on it and forces Diaz forward! Big shot from Diaz!
As KDS got off the kit to pick and take the battle and Diaz that wins it!
Furia stay alive here on boarder!
Well well well don't speak too soon.
Big moment for Furia.
Cyber continues his grand page on the side of Faze but it still wasn't enough to get
it across the line.
Well, as soon as Cyber died, honestly, the belief was maybe that Curia could win the
round.
Funnily enough, they go on and win the round.
Deal with Cyber, maybe today you could deal with Faze.
As Armysoul Snake will be the bans.
Curia just keeps this interesting on board up.
4 to 5.
Armory Archives up next though will be difficult to attack into.
But they almost were able to crack it back in the 7th round.
If we look back at some of the cyber highlights, another 3K from him,
Heard's just nothing working for him today.
No, that was a rough one.
Heard's just got completely slammed.
Well, you can see what it meant to...
But maybe winning this round, Heard's mentally look defeated.
Fury are mentally look defeated.
But you go and win this round and maybe that just gets the energy flowing again.
Still a chance, there's still hope, there's an opportunity for Theria to steal this map.
And we resume the rotation and it's back to second floor for FaZe.
34 kills for cyber and still only in the 10th round of the second map.
You know, you get this to five five things are so good at closing out these maps.
After a little streak of three rounds, that fury got the opening kills.
It's back to cyber shenanigans early in these rounds who we want to watch early again
on the solace towards break.
That's not a peak battle, Laura, that you want to be testing.
But he may test it.
The first shots don't land from Cyber.
That is something we haven't seen much of today.
And he loses the one versus one against Leira.
It's a perfect start for Furia.
They will see that name down in the kill feed
and be filled with hope for the remainder of this round.
That's the belief, surely, for Furia.
We've dealt with Cyber.
The Zolos is gone.
We find the opening kill.
And they do so rather early.
Only a minute into the round
This will stretch the defensive phase a little bit here. They've actually double stacked towards security
So there are gaps and those gaps are over towards east-air side of the map full rotate archives
I think they just hit our guys here. They should be good
Our guys has been vacated Vita King though is still close by inside of our times handy
Could cause help out as well towards lockers
But that would leave KDS stranded towards security solves towards fountain. He get involved
They can push a lot of areas and try and navigate their way into the building.
Not to be IQ!
Heard the playoff, Nicole.
And the pistol shots are fully connected to him.
Boxerra says, I'll do it myself!
Good enough.
That's the warden dealt with.
And again, with this second kill, Furia have opened up the map and Boxerra!
Massive headshot!
As Sol's falls to the Demon, Theria will look to tie up Borda
and do so in a very dominant fashion, might I add.
This is getting very interesting.
Handy on calls, he pushes up, he stares now, also death marked.
They know exactly where he is.
The drums are just getting a little bit louder here in Paris
because Theria are making it happen here on Borda.
5 to 5 and it will be repeat Bonsai as well for FaZe back to Armory and Archive's
Well, God is it as simple as deal with side but deal with FaZe today at the moment is that the script
Maybe out of it maybe
It's got Laura fired up
But the job's not done
Round 11, 5-5.
Phase is bought a streak now.
On the verge of being broken by Furia.
From 3-5 to 5-5.
Phase, 7-0 record.
And he's on the line.
Fortress a very strong map as well for Furia.
This feels pivotal in the grand scheme of the overall best of five grand final.
these next few rounds can determine quite a lot.
So the twitching play here,
theory of responding to the mirror,
and phase in anticipation for the Deimos,
to the route in play for the counter.
I wonder, do you tell Cyber to just settle a little bit,
ever so slightly?
What do you just back him in the way?
He back him in.
If he dies, he dies.
It was really off the back of a nice clear in the last round, so I didn't play it.
Not particularly poorly, it was really good from Lerop.
He's getting good impact. Boxer falls though, the twitch on the ground.
And finished off by Handy. That's another open kill for Baze.
Just calms the nerves for the defense.
He has though, has one trapped.
Handy.
Handy gets himself down in this little situation.
He crosses the window safely and at the same time they lose lawyer up
From standing at the end of the last round to sitting down out of this 11th round
Pays up five versus three
The fury at half a big clutch in them
It's about time Hertz gets involved in this grand final he's been awfully too quiet
It's about trying to isolate the rest of this defense now.
Oh, fuck balls.
Easy kill for Solz.
Diaz finds one of the other keepers.
Couldn't fully connect the shots.
Difficult shots to land.
Verde still struggling to get involved with each stairs.
Flash third in from Diaz.
That's his last one.
And he will get finished off as well.
Well, Andy, who started it all in this 11th round.
Well, we've had two full-less rounds in the last three.
We might have a third.
His face on the verge of getting to the map point.
The Herds will get a free beat on to the sitting duck of Solz.
I don't know if he's ready for side bump.
You'll have to pre-fire swing and extend.
The slow walkthrough is his demise.
FaZe have got map point here on boarder
to keep their streak alive.
Furia now needs to send this to overtime.
And it's a harsh reality check for Furia.
Who, if they are to get the job done, will need overtime.
Decimated here in the 11th round.
At every point of entry, FaZe met fire with fire.
And on every dual, nearly another flawless to add to the growing tally here on-boarder
phase looking recomposed and ready to force out this match.
That might be the first round of sighter has not going to kill it.
Yeah, it's actually stole that kill at the end.
It goes to 11-5 as well.
Been a really strong grand final from KDS.
Yes, both of those who have gone positive across both maps, of course, and some of them have been stealing the spotlight.
So second go round for phase, ends up working on Armory Archives.
Now that workshop plays very similar.
In terms of defending on that locker's position, it will be an attack or change up for Furio.
Xero will go onto the Twitch. Just a second time seeing this site in this half.
They've been playing a lot of day-moss in this half here in the hands of Lora.
This time he'll go onto the Grim. First time seeing Grim in this half.
In fact, that's the only change that they made from one of the earlier rounds which was bathroom towers.
it's a very similar lineup. Yeah they'll probably layer a lot of useful gear onto KDS trying to
dislodge that security position they can use that thing as a front line for the rest of the attack.
So KDS with DMR in hand needs to be effective and be an isolated position there are the planes.
Oh KDS! Massive headshot onto Herds. It's not been his day. It might not be furious either
they've just been taught to shreds losing far too many players too quickly KDS will escape as well
back to the safety of customs as Bolton box error need an all-time two versus four clutch to get this
to OT otherwise they're two nothing down in the grand final oh and I tried but I could seal the deal
and it looks like it may blow KDS delay but all the same as the result
I'm sorry both but I don't think you're going from 2-9
to 6-9 it's got 90 seconds for a one versus four clutch no flames available
not going to be given any free opportunities
Oh, another nitro, another nitro.
Should get this map done.
And it means for Furia, they will need to come back from 2-0 down in this grand final.
Sol's perfectly placed.
This just feels inevitable.
Even with that kill, Sol's was always going to pop the dagger into the heart of Furia.
The back-to-back champions go 2-0 up here at the Esports World Cup Grand Final.
They got tested on board, but they passed that test.
And certainly the deepest balls vote for Fiora.
They snap back.
A 2-0 lead.
And you need a lot of optimism to envision Fiora fighting back.
Fortress is not a bad man for Fiora.
And that's one of three needed against FaZe.
Look, you never want to call the Grand Final early, but FaZe are looking very, very sharp today.
Their border streak now goes 8-0. They look formidable. They look so dangerous.
And even though Fortress is a good map of Europe, it also wouldn't surprise me if they go for the clean 3-0 sweep.
Here's what's walked up for Rainbow Six Siege.
Have a history of fade-out grand finals. This may be another one.
Here it will fight back 750K USD on the line for the winner of this series.
They won't bow down without a challenge, but they have fought pretty violently up until this point.
It's mainly a case of FaZe just being far too good.
I guarantee it's spotless, it's invitational as well, but I don't think that's something FaZe care about.
They know they'll be there.
If anything, that might have been more of a helping hand for Furia, but to be fair, the way they're playing, I don't think there's too much of a concern.
There's a brilliance of FaZe today on full display.
The gallon effort for Furia, and honestly, when they got it to 5-5 and they won those two rounds, Barthrew Talisman, Armory and Archives,
I'm starting to think maybe, just maybe they could pull it off.
But as per usual phase, they find that next gear. They have more gears than any other team in this game.
2-0 up in the grand final for phase. Their fans celebrating. Let's throw it back to the desk.
Well, Vittacang and Handy shaking hands and celebrating. They feel like it's almost theirs and it certainly is two maps.
One more to go before they lift the trophy here in Paris, France
What a moment for face plant fans and what a moment for you at home watching
What could be the beginning of these players getting that triple crown as we're so calling it now the elusive
R6 invitation all the major and
EWC and these souls have a chance to do it herds on the sign of fury and KDS as well
But when it comes to fury of getting into this game, it's looked so difficult
It has been all phased all the way despite that last one coming down to a few maps
I mean I feel like we're watching it's the beginning of the end for the side of here
I mean granted it was a 5-7, but I mean look at that scoreboard Leo
Look at the two players that we highlighted from their previous series of being the leaders being the captain the IGLs of both
Herds and bolts only
Combined putting up six kills in that map. You have to look towards lawyer. You have to look towards
They have to look towards Boxer, they're the ones trying to keep this alive!
Yeah, the worst thing is, it's exactly the same trend as the last map.
Wolfson hurts, all the way at the bottom of the scoreboard.
The idea and the leader of the veteran on the side of hurts as well.
I mean, we need some players to step on the side of Furia,
and so far I'm looking at the youngest player.
Look at this guy getting animated on the screen.
Loira, we've got to thank him for all the trash talk.
He's not even carrying the energy on the side of Furia, keeping them in the game.
And that's what I was talking about back in the green room is Loira is the only one who was getting animated
We've seen her numerous times standing up versing his opponents yelling at them screaming
Even after their clutch that big clutch that big one big two clutch from Diaz
Nobody got animated outside of lawyer
You have to treat every single round when you're in a deficit like that like it's your last
Everybody has to be getting hyped and feeding off that momentum. It can't just fall on lawyer
You have to look to your veterans for this
And in the same way we do have to come to reality which was if you're a staring one map away from defeat all the work
That they've done to get here $300,000 short, but you can tell on their faces. There's a sense of emotion
There's a sense of an escalating difference between these two teams and now
Three maps in a row against the phase team that is playing this well
It looks almost impossible and when you add what cyber is doing
individually guys how hard is that to maintain pressure your sense of what
willingness to win players popping off like that I mean I've been there before
you've been there before I mean I've met prime just take admin prime cycle I've
played against prime penguin afraid against climb can't oh I can tell you
when I play against these guys and they're dropping 20 bombs on me and I
it's so hard because strategically you don't have an answer to this you can
try and target that player you can try and think which operator is playing in
which area maybe your analyst can give you that position but you can
basically a pinpoint that player across every round and it's so hard when he's
getting fired up when he's wall-banging you when everything works his way it's so
hard to shut down can we just talk about cybers performance throughout these
two maps I mean he's had eight multi-frags of 3ks with one ace and to
keep in mind eight of those three case came from one single map on border he
is playing out of his mind right now it's something like 57 to 63 for the
overall lan record for how many kills. The only reason he wouldn't be getting it with the way he's
playing right now, Fama, is because we don't have enough maps to play. Exactly, he's at 34 kills
after two maps, so he's already more than halfway there on the BO5 kill record, with only having
played two maps out of possible five. That is cyber that you're seeing on your screen, the
multiples that you mentioned last. Absolutely crazy. At least six, what's maybe seven multiples
in that map on the border, running out of CC doorway, I mean doing stuff that you don't
see, he doesn't care, every single gunfight he takes is someone outside and he wins it
anyway, it's disgusting, I mean this guy has been doing it for so long, I played against
him in 2019 in Italy, in Milan and he was already some of the best player in the world.
Seed seven years later, seven years later and he's still carrying his teammates.
What a legacy and we talk about the other teammates and I think it's a great segue
to somebody that we challenged said you know your team won they were flawless but you went
two and five for that first round and now you look at KDS pops off with a 4k the first
moment he gets a chance to do it what a response but also what a lift from phase knowing we're all
playing well you're the only one we can point to and now you're carrying us to start absolutely
and that's the way you want to start the second map is with the player that might not have
shined in that series and it's hard to when you have a player like cyber just absolutely
put up up to be able to pop off on a 4k to open up the round and have the series the way
that it has handled. I believe he dropped a total of 12 or 13 frags in that series, but that's the beauty of phase.
Any single player can pop up. We have highlighted every individual throughout this tournament on that team of just having a stellar performance.
So it's not a surprise if someone might not be at the top of the leaderboard because someone else is just that much better playing at that moment.
And you know what's crazy? I just realized the score, right? Yeah. 2-0.
We've not mentioned the best player in the world right now.
Who was the MVP of SI 2020?
Who is the MVP in almost every single tournament at Fatesland Place?
Andy, man!
Best player in the world in my book, MVP of SI, MVP of SI, and they did not need him.
In this matchup, look at this, season stack plus 16K, the 67 cost plus 16 entries.
We look at this match, really a very good performance.
They are not even needing the best player in the world to win against Feria right now.
That just tells you about just how good FaZe is as a system, as a team.
Anyone can play well with this team.
There's one staff that's not on there, which is the Decephal meter that his girlfriend blew, which is 131.
So that's another staff.
She also broke a record.
Apparently that's like a jet engine flying by.
My goodness, that is some strong support.
Alright, we've got Chris Dunn standing by with a club championship update.
All the stuff happening here at EWC in Paris.
Chris, what's going on?
I'm going to show you how to do it.
to be done in chess. Magnus
Carlson taking things away kind
of as we expected heading in
this week. Team Liquid actually
getting some points drive, so
that was a positive as well.
But realistically, AGL are the
big story as far as the club
championship are concerned, not
about second place. All things
considered. Yeah, absolutely.
Obviously they're going to have
wanted first get that extra
250 points a little bit more
of a buffer in between them
and team Falcons just below
them, but team like are just
too strong. It's Magnus
Carlson two straight sets,
really convincing chess at
the end of the day and a
very earned win. Yeah, big
the one. But, Ginny, there's other things. I feel like I haven't spoke to you this week, Ginny.
The time difference has been crazy, but not for Rocket League. It's been going on all week.
What's the current situation there, CCYs?
So, CCYs, Vitality Falcons, Twisted Minds are all in the top eight.
KC as well as Gentlemates have qualified for the top eight, so that makes them CC eligible.
Twisted Minds, right now, playing Falcons. This is an elimination match.
So, favorites, I will say are Twisted Minds, but anything can happen at this point
because a lot of the teams in Rocket League that have been losing were not expected to lose a single match.
So we're going to have to wait and see after that.
Yeah, everything finishes up tomorrow for Rocket League.
So I'm going to have to catch up with you next week, Jimmy.
But yeah, I'll do my best to grab a hold of you.
But guys, that was all. Thank you very much. Back to you.
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We have so many beautiful moments that we highlight time and time again and with cybers
performance 34 and 11. There's three things. It's the pride of playing for
face plan. It's the inspiration of being a husband, a father to his son, and it's
the moment to be able to cement his name in Siege's history not only with
winning a major, not only with winning a six-invitational, but winning an e-sports
world cup title. He'll be able to be a three crown champion after this
And look at what it means for the family, right? The emotion on their faces.
I've just seen the players on the side of the face. Look on their left side.
Look at their close ones here as they go on to the third map.
They could very much win this after this.
And obviously they would punch their ticket.
The first team ever to make it to 6th international, 227.
That would be in Brazil, 100% in front of their close ones.
They could become the first team ever to win not only an SI,
a Saig, a Saig on a Saig, but a third one maybe in Brazil.
On top of winning the WC here today,
that would be absolutely crazy.
And it all starts here, Reign, by winning this map.
You see the faith, eyes closed, hands pressed together
because what FaZe is doing in some ways is a miracle.
They have performed so well so far
and that foundation has been set by this organization
by being back to back six Invitational Champions.
Now they look to do it in front of their family.
Son in the crowd, husband in proud.
And of course the map with one last hole
before they lift the trophy will be none other than Fortress.
I'm done waiting.
Send it over to Xenox and Guz for what could be
their final call.
So to Fortress with Go,
Bayes, can they get a three zero sweep against Furia?
But this is the reason why Grand finals
Best of fives to give the team like Furia a fighter's chance to claw their way back into this grand final
Well fortress be their safe haven. They've got an 8-2 record over the last six months on this map
The phase 4-3 buff recency bias cars over the last two days. How about this 7-0 against liquid 7-1?
Yesterday against GK for phase. They're more than ready and they get to start on defense
to take the Kaid banned a
Comma out of play alleviating
some of the pressure on to our
breach and phase not wanting to
contend with the Monty and the
Glass on the trick points that
Fortress will naturally present.
Fury it might be able to find some
salvation on this map but I think
I look at it from the perspective
of phase getting a complete free
shot. The result of this should be
of this series and so you say that but you want to close it here and now tell
you you want to slam that door shut you don't want to give fury a hope going into
there
certainly a fair counterpoint you never know what could happen in great final
stranger things well a long way to go and fury haven't probably showed enough
to suggest they could even take this map and certainly attacking first off
isn't going to be easy, they've just got to throw caution to the wind, a couple of Hail Mary plays
trying to be a little bit more divisive, a slow start though for the attack of Furious Herbs will
make his way through games, it is command bathroom the opening rounds and they're going to sweep
across south side up to the north side, nothing too crazy from Faze top floor hold and around the
site. Sean prepped and ready for cyber. That's quite fine the opening kill but a little
damage onto vaults and now they look for a double swing with handy. But it is handy
that loses out the battle to Boxera. Pass is activated from cyber as the candela starts
to rain in. Two more available for Boxera. We'll clear this deployable shield and
SIPER gets caught. Good clear, FOLKFURIA. A good start here on FOLKFURUS.
Yeah, the use of clearance has been strong here from the attack, but it's a matter of converting this position.
Defining a route for PLANT.
FOLKS still deep. Isolated a little bit here. Needs to be careful. Where's the HALF?
ADS trying to win the battle against FOLKS. As he said, where is that HALF for? The Blackbeard.
They did lose lawyer up. That's one truth down.
down, Volts inside all of the side, it's D'Ang's that will catch out Solz towards
the courtyard corridor. Enlis hasn't really gotten too involved as
Vinikin will fall to herds, it's a good start for Furia, but when you 2-0 down in
the grand final, such a long way to go. KDS, as Volts got off the plant, it's
box zero, that gets the kill. They start well, but it's one round and you 2-0
down in the grand final. I just got to take it one round of the time.
Positive takeaways though for Fury out. Good work in converting that round.
And the clearance of some of these power positions overall was actually pretty clinical.
We did see Bob's get left on a little bit of a temporary island over the
over towards Bartholomew on that black clear, but he ensured that he played
reserved enough that he didn't fall for his life, then allowed the rest of the
attack to reposition and phase worth very much on the back foot for all the
majority of that round. That's where you can build confidence off though, especially
attacking into Fortress, get a nice early Revenous the way you did it as you
mentioned with the utility clear, able to dislodge cyber, get the first two
kills. But a map like Fortress, I think the Fury hit, not only of course they've
got to win it, but it would then build confidence going in to lair you with
Lair Settlers 2-2. 2-0 lead, as it feels as if you're a long, long way back, but
win this and then it's a contest on lair and who knows what can happen.
Fury, they cannot, at any point here on Fortress, draw their attention to the
Max map. They have to stay focused. Another good start for Block Zero. I think he's been
able to hold his head high in this Grand Final. He's first Grand Final.
It's going to be interesting to observe as well as this map. Maybe give off an opportunity
for Herds to find his stride. It's been a very, very quiet series by his high standards.
the lowest rated player in the server, 52 APS, 6 and 20 for him.
Well if you recall back to 16 potential 24, he didn't have the greatest of Grand Finals
eye though in terms of the star, and certainly on the last map of labs, but then he was very
instrumental in the combat for W7M, back in that trip to the Grand Finals, as the
kind of player that if you just get a couple of kills and get some momentum, you can
carry that pretty easily. First minute goes down, dorms games the side so again
top floor the focus. A little bit more horizontal spread this time from FaZe.
They're looking to play directly into games and DKDS and Solz will contest on
the north side of the map which is where the push is coming from for Furia.
They're very map sweep dependent at the moment from Furia.
Oh good timing, good timing.
Xorath thought he had a chance with the pistol, and he has then ripped the head off, and lawyer all that fault to KDS.
Played this nicely in a third as well!
Couldn't quite get the fourth on to Volbs.
Does keep the round of line for he and Diaz.
Two vs. three is not impossible at all.
Cyber Nitrosol throw now and connects on to Volbs.
He finds his first, I'm sure of many here on Fortress.
There's poor old Dias now by himself with a 1v3.
Good luck.
Has a minute.
You turn out to be laying though from FaZe.
All chance.
I don't know if you'll be afforded a second.
Behind that deployable shield is Cyber,
and he is very deadly and exactly the reason why.
face-track back on dorms games 1-1 on Fortress that's a little bit better
as we prepare for round number three test recite
Will we see a CSL effect here on this map?
We'll look back at the replay package from the second KDS to start loss in it and then
finds that third to probably almost seal the round.
And he didn't even have to do anything overly aggressive.
He was mid-heel and just found that window of the opportunity to strike.
80mph will get himself up to 20kmh in the series. 22kmh for Boxer, 36kmh for Cyber.
10 seconds remaining.
As we go, waiting in cafeteria for the third round. Bands after this.
Nothing is granted and everything is earned is the motto here at the Esports World Cup.
These have been earning very nicely so far.
The trophy in their sights six rounds away.
What did we go with? The triple crown? Was that...
Hey, we can't say we get the trade pocket. Whatever you say, Steve. Whatever you say, Steve.
I do like triple crown.
Well I was referencing the quad crown if you want to count reloads for herds, but I don't
think many will agree with that.
And the slope may start in the opening minute.
So here you just get to work.
Balls, all spot one, that Nitro Salt shot out.
Good reaction time for the Nitro of Biddicking.
All more available for Faze at Walsh, no longer.
As Cadeus falls, he had the Nitro left.
Good DMR kill from Solz.
Now trying to find the headshot angle onto the black bid.
But it is Balls that wins, the 1v1.
But as everywhere else on the map has gone the way of Faze,
it means he is the only one.
Another capitulation for Furia on the attack, it's Cyber to finish it off.
Two in a row for Faze Clan. A comfortable third round victory.
Five rounds away.
It feels inevitable.
What a story it would be as well for Clay's clan as an organisation yet to lift a trophy
here at the Esports World Cup.
Hard to believe that in the last three years they haven't lifted anything but a hammer,
Which of course, it does wise, back to back, no mages, no eSports World Cup, they're so
close to adding to that trophy cabinet.
And will be Alot and Ying going into the next three rounds.
Okay, we're being honest, I think two attacking rounds per fury might be enough on a map
like Fortress.
They need to get three or more.
That's just a devastation that we've seen in the last two rounds again from Pays and what they're capable of.
They can just deny your ability to win a round so quickly.
Two, three kills all in the span of about three seconds.
So into round four we go ally Ying, both band out.
I'll leave you at some of the pressure for Fury and contending with shields of the frontline
in particular.
And with Ying unavailable, FaZe will be better fortified in some of those key power positions
Which to be fair here done a pretty decent job in clearing thus far
Once again posturing for the full map clear and all things are ready and waiting
Cyber currently laundry down below in a position to pinch bulbs
Bolts is also already taking a bit of damage directly from souls
Here comes cyber
In his tournament
It's his MVP at the moment. Oh my goodness
We get the overhead view of the damage that Cyber can do. He crosses 40 kills now in the three maps.
He will be shut down though by Diaz, but in this grand final we've not really seen these two versus four comebacks.
It's not really being something that Faze have given over to Furia. They do not relent.
They don't give up these sort of advantages. These leads in these rounds will take something very special from Diaz and Boxer.
It was like hope is fading really quickly for Furio.
There's a blown bomb.
Can't make your way back there, buddy. You can't park there.
And I can't get brought back up, at least.
It's all about dotting eyes, crossing teams for phase.
You can stand into your player advantage
And all the momentum their way
You very rarely see you phase for for these kinds of rounds
What do you do here if you're fury? I mean box era is very low on health. He does have two jogger payload calls available
In the king of the moment targeted
It's my grenade throwing out from box era. I'll just play together
This is basically a hope and pray
Intercache a good timing on a swing trying to clear out this corridor position KDS has by the way moved into bathrooms and could over a back hit
The shot angle onto the is army not probably ready for solace prone in the middle of the corridor and indeed he is not very one lead for face clan
Fall away
Proclaiming the e-sports World Cup trophy and crushing one more key tactical timeout for furia
I'm going to say, if you turn on the camera, Sanxon, all the NET tracks are passed through, pass through the BAMs, pass through SOLID.
I think that now it will be perfect to do semi-horse, I'm not going to extend much on that, you will agree, how the kitchen will be, I think it will be very good to do that.
You know what you have to do? You have to do the post on the portalob and you from SOLID enter the cell or in the tower,
I'm sure that Cyberbaker will start on top, he will take a moment for us to gain the full space of the map that will improve our myth, you know?
We are going to go in here, we are going to be better than them, if you spot them, they are going to be in the other side of the battle, you understand?
Guys, let's go for the first kill, and let's go for the attack little by little, we know we have to be careful, the attack is on the map for us, let's go!
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!
They're going to need at least one more attacking round.
Cyber has been the difference maker in this grand final.
Nothing is working for Fury up.
It gets to a point as well, and mentally it's so easy to just shut up, shop and feel as if you're not going to be capable.
You can't bring this back, you don't have the ability.
The Fury have got to find a way to mentally make themselves believe that they can do something miraculous, even if it does seem far-fetched, they have to believe it.
For the perspective of Fury, you have to remind yourself that the other five on the opposing team, they're human, just like you.
Nothing is impossible.
It's going to be a challenge though and they'll need to play well, if there's a doubt saying.
Fulls games. Up next.
Must fight their way back into this map.
His phase continued their steamroll.
Cyber up to 40 kills in this series.
And the only reason he's probably not going to get the kill report is because phase are sprinting towards the 3-0.
3-0. Simon's got more kills than Herds, Wolves and Leroy combined. By the way, Leroy's got 18 kills.
Zero clients and opening kill, though, on to Handy.
Does that breed some life back into Fury? Out of the tactical time now.
This is only the malusia. It's been a decent grand battle for Handy. It hasn't
point being his high profile best only 17-14 it's all been the cyber show today.
He's going to be the real boogie man that Furious still need to contend with later in this fifth round.
They still elect to peel back despite being a player down. They'll look to play into the
late-round U2 on Offi here, Nitro, triple smoke, and canisters from Cyber.
Well they have got information on Cyber, KDS towards the point yard corridor, courtesy of Moira on the solid snake.
He's been able to ping out their location, so they've got good intel of two of the four members.
Cyber's also in the Dragon Paleo course, so he's very low.
Liking the pressure that they're putting into Cyber, making it more difficult for him.
But not of impossible, and he creeps in towards briefing to try and find an angle.
This is going to have to be very cautious.
Oh, Simon does find Vols.
Of course he still has an impact.
Of course he still has a say.
Lloran needs to find his kill on the KDS.
He can't.
Despite the opening kill, Faze are still just
too good defensively.
Simon to get the last two.
Another three from him.
Four straight rounds.
Four Faze.
as Fury are now so close to that knockout blow coming their way.
Waiting room cafeteria the last side of this half.
5-1 down will not be a good sign.
They must win this round.
I feel like at any point now in the future
where we reference a BF5 kill record needs to etch in the asterisk
that if it wasn't for Faye, he's being so good.
It may well have been beaten, he's on an absolute hitter right now, 10 kills on the map, he's getting pinged by the solid snake, he's eaten a strawberry payload call, doesn't matter what he did below, and he still then finds 3 kills, they're light up at the end.
He's on 44 kills and we're only into the 6th round of the 3rd map, 20 shots of the record.
We lost the best of three record, or the three map record if you will.
Looks like we do have a rehost, so give me a moment and I'll...
Triple check.
Rehost will be in progress here going into the final round of this half as Bayes
to be able to string together four straight defensive rounds.
And honestly, that's also within that turning to opening kills from Fury
and not able to convert the early advantages.
So it is a 50 kill record B3 LAN shared by KeyZ and Dan.
And Cybers on 44.
But do you count it?
How does that work?
Who decides these things?
I think we need a new category.
I did three on the entry as well, by the way.
So it's not like Cybers just kind of getting these like anchor kills and everyone else
is dying and then he kind of gets the freebies.
No, he's fighting from the get go and get this.
10 players in the server 9 players do not have a KPR above 0.86 so the
highest being pop zero at 0.85 Simon's got a 1.63 KPR that kills per round he's
almost averaging two kills per round that is insane to add extra context in
the league so SL, EL, etc. across a particular stage you might have anywhere
for one to three players average around that one to one point one KPR is on one point six three
in a grand final it's an all-time performance it really is
maybe jagu92 was on to something
the lobby being rehosted
bays
three rounds away
Oh, the theory off.
They're just having fun.
And he's got the Jedi mind tricks on the camera.
I don't think we're going to see this dancing subside from the FaZe Clan fans.
And look, honestly, in Grand Finals or even just as regular Vesta 3, sometimes you can
kind of see the recipe for the team that's losing.
You can point to good positives and say, well, they can just do this a little bit better.
You find the avenues.
There's just nothing that I can envision here for fear of them.
In their chance, certainly, Bank was very disappointing and maybe playing one of their
top maps first up in the Grand Final.
doesn't help them or that they were actually pretty decent considering the
mastery of the Bayes, Bordras. Look, I will say they can get this second attack
around close to half-doubt, go defense themselves, there is that pathway back.
Look, that's it, that's all I got.
I'm well struggling to find belief on the side of Fury and I wonder what's
running through the lines of those five players on the stage. Do they have
have belief that they can fight back in this best of five.
We are loading back into the server.
It will be the final round of the half.
It is must win for Theria.
Yeah, I mean, must win.
No underestimating that.
Win this round, you get your two attacking rounds.
That's part of the course.
That's kind of the expectation
on a map like Fortrucy.
Then go into the half-time break,
you get another message from Redux.
Go onto your defense in the second half
and one round of the time.
That's the path forward.
Use this round and find one down, no room for error going into the second half, and I think mentally at that point you're probably shocked.
I don't know if they can mentally then recover. This is the big one.
So you head into the front phase and head into the bottom round of the half.
Back down below.
Let's see how this one ends up shaping out.
It's been pretty mixed in terms of the epicometric over the course of this map.
Bit of seesaw effect. Each team trading glows.
In rounds 3 and 5, Fury of Half-Hail 2 Converter has proved costly on-site.
The lead ground anchor plate from FaZe has been exquisite.
Especially in that round 3.
Oh no.
Cybers, thinking you had the right out, no?
You think better Robert.
That's another aspect as well of his gameplay across the Grand Final.
Cybers' ability to kind of know when to be ultra aggressive and then when to fall back.
He's just done that to perfection.
Doesn't throw his life away.
I think of too many occasions when he's been caught out over aggressive.
Oh, exactly.
The drops may be beating from the crowd, but...
The half of Furia is fading slowly in its beats per minute.
Simon Tarsgert taking down the early frontbombs there and Volk trying to battle up the watermark against Solz.
He goes gun up. They also dealt with KDS. Solz will die to Volk's.
This is a much better round for Furia. All inside of the opening minute.
Well that was rather quick and that was rather needed.
A sign of life for Furia after all to close the half to get the much needed, much required second attacking round as we head into the halftime break.
They're getting the guys out of here, they're getting the driver
Gringão, you wanna see a good game here?
Gringão, I'm just gonna say, this Brazil is crazy
Crazy
Hey, that guy with the yellow shirt on the back of the floor, right, Yuri?
No, right?
Oh my God, I know that he's like that, he's like that, right?
Like that, right?
Of Juliet?
Yeah, he's like that a little bit
Who is that?
That guy over there, he's like that
I'm going to go to the other side.
Oh, he's going to go to the other side.
All hope not quite lost just yet. They need to probably start well. Get a couple of rounds together.
That's one thing that's been really lucky in this series. You go back to Bank, couldn't even string two together.
Back on Border, the best they could do was two rounds in a row. So they've never won three straight rounds and got a good momentum to be built up.
Let's see what they can do now heading into the second half to try and stay alive in this grand final.
Syriacore defense this feels like their last chance their last opportunity to get something going
It's great work in the last round quick sweep horizontal and phase given zero opportunity to peel back towards site
Seems like there's still a little bit of belief inside of fury up
We've elected to go to
Equinoquo territory side of leave from this event. It's actually being one of more defend decided but
Regardless the lessor plate of the three, the Vans Monty Deimos alongside Kai Bandit
has been the most defender-sided site on for for us at the tournament, that does
combine ball through that's being the closest to attack a side at a 44 attack
Wind percentage, 70% for wedding cafe.
Defence.
All the metrics are there to support Furia.
And Quast to get a combat going here in the Grand Final.
The way the phase of playing, the way that Cypher's playing sometimes,
you can throw a lot of these statistics out of the window.
We've seen how strong these lurk entries for Cyber have been.
Limited trap-util up here for Furia, but they have gone heavy on bar fly, which may still
have seen his progress.
So I'm frequently checking his radar to ensure his flanks are clear as barricades will
skill at his initial progress. I can barely hear the game at the bottom with the way the
drums are going behind us. Oh, for the players on stage, good luck. Oh, they're all dancing
now on the stage. I don't know if this is a grand final or a dance concert. Simon's
getting some good information on this radar. Three players ping down Bob's lawyer at
Diaz and he slips into a kitchen. He wants to get aggressive, but Diaz wins the battle
with the DMR to his advantage opening kill for Furia and it's on to Saiva.
That'll be a comforting feeling for the defense and no direct follow-up from FaZe.
Now a little stalled out.
Oh, good catch on to Handi as Volk from Loira.
Great start for Furia on the defense but it's Volk caught running.
Down the hallway from Solz.
It's too careless and it's those kind of kills that FaZe have been getting in the grand final
where Furia and Murlocly haven't been getting those sort of freebies.
Hit it left.
You've got to close this round out if you're Furia.
You cannot throw away a five versus three.
And FaZe swarming.
There'll be a lot of ones to be taken here by the attack of FaZe.
Can they win enough out?
Earths wins the battle holding the doorway cover.
Catches KDS, sold.
Bitter King together.
Bitter King, good head.
Hatches the swinging herds, throws his life away.
The drums subside a little as they lock in as well.
This is now very winnable for Faze.
Can Solz think about getting this defuser down.
Can Vittor King cover the crossfire in Firmary?
They know exactly where Diaz is as well and he's slow on health.
Need to try and play the clock here if you are forced Faze into planting.
Vittor King Razorbloom, active on him towards infirmary.
Lawyer on a swing, hits the headshot and means now Solz needs to push forward.
Still knows that Diaz is caught, 3-5 is gone, but Lawyer outplays for the trade!
Fioria, hold on by the skin of their teeth! Back to back rounds and it's 3-4!
Yeah, Vidic King was considering a rotation there to try and link up with Solz and maybe play for play in pre-capture
But he did get caught by that razor bloom.
A couple of lights blown away from Fira in that round.
Vops caught, sprinting, and birds with a very delayed trade attempt.
Also got caught, left it in the two versus two.
But Lawyer off.
He blunts us up, hits the trade.
Fira now trailing by one round.
No Lawyer could be a div in the server.
He's going to have to activate his very best capabilities.
So they hold on, could start to the round, start with Cyber, had the fight versus three, yes it does come down to a 1v1 in the end of the round but it's irrelevant, it's a round win, it's in the board to move forward.
Two in a row for Furia, they have yet to win three rounds straight up in this ground final and obviously must do it now for the first time here in the eighth round.
Command bathroom, can be a tricky beast though on fortress as we've seen at EWC thus far.
It hasn't been all that easy to defend compared to the other sites.
And the shock drone aside, but already immediately getting to work. Good counterplay available onto the goya, which we've just seen on display.
the display, the mirror as well, not to mention the Griswold lines, the magnets as well from
Volks and Hurds respectively so Saab will have his work cut out for him in the U-Tool
department and once expanded can then get gun up and active inside of the map.
Rateros will be available as well from Jitterking, so I've drawn heavy rounds from Faze, imagine
They'll slow the casing down.
And then look to in the late round, execute with the glass.
They've got four smoke grenades available from the two vaults.
Smokes as well from Andy.
Doesn't need no souls to get quite active on the glass.
Three round.
He's so crucial for Furia though, for Baze, well they're not sweating at all.
Already two maps up in this grand final.
Every time we have switched to Sava, he is taking down so much key utility.
A lot of trick as well.
Executed perfectly.
Oh, Hertz called by Handy.
It's been a really rough grand battle for Hertz.
He just hasn't got going.
First smoke pot now for souls to play off. I think Bayes want to get aggressive.
Cyber doesn't catch the angle though, held by Boxera.
He gets then the kill on the KDS as well.
Honestly, running through the flames if I was not on low health, just to finish Cyber off, you don't want him back in the round.
Boxera will make the trip down, follow the blood trail. Gasp, Baye to finish him off.
Simon Fett, 3v3, Oxerotho,
Handy has got him covered,
Laura falls, Fahy's on the verge of finding a fifth round,
all down to Volts.
We need a big play from Volts here for Fury
to win that third straight, it's not happening.
Handy to finish the round off
and get Fahy's to five rounds secured,
two away from closing out the grand final.
Yeah, you don't often see FaZe losing rounds in that kind of fashion.
The ability to fight back, whilst this duel was taking place, inferior even then, Count
FaZe took nice space.
Boxer of Hatch himself cut off.
The onsite hold from Loire fell apart and Vox stood no chance in the one versus three.
Just haven't seen those sort of comeback rounds, those clutch rounds, this Grand Final has been lacking in seeing a lot of those play out 2v4s, 1v3s, etc. It's been very, very rare.
One clutch back on bank, which was a 1v1. Couple of 1v1s back on border. And of course the lawyer and technical 1v1, but wasn't really.
Yeah, a lot of them, as you mentioned, 1v1s, right?
1vx is hard to come by between these two chains, because they're such high quality.
Well, Faze haven't needed the 1vx's, but that's it, it's probably been a little missing to Furia.
So again, stuck, though, at not being able to get three consecutive rounds.
They'll have to settle for two straight, then back to the while they go, Dorm's games.
Round number nine.
Cyber has been tamed ever so slightly in the last couple of rounds, but others were Faze stepping up.
Vittor can resume the twitch in this round, first shot to end up with still one in pocket.
Once again, similarly to the last round, a lot of utility that he can kind of play into.
And maybe even a little more versatility around the map for the attack.
Returros for handy, useful into the double deployable shield here.
New defence inferior, Fox finds the first.
They did that one early in the round, they haven't always converted their on their opening kills here on Fortress.
Get into the quantized launcher, that's information obtainable for FaZe.
Actually now they've had four of the last five opening kills out of your room.
you're in.
The information that holds the lawyer up.
He's shown a far better capability of bringing these four versus five rounds back into their advantage.
It's under on the low.
Will you vary up or just block him at the doorway?
The reposition from longer, still has one more in the pocket as well.
Not just available for herds, too. Gatsby is still for Diaz, so there is plenty of utility for the defense heading into the final minute.
Yeah, they're playing into that U2 so nicely at the moment.
Good positions hold here at the moment by Fiorio.
Not overpeaking. Disciplined. Cannot afford to feed ones to Faiz.
Also, Flaps thrown as well. There's a little bit wasted.
Good swing from Loira onto Saiba. Backed himself in and won the battle.
Two player advantage for Furiel.
Sol's hoping that one more will go for a swing.
Here a window has been broken.
Here the king has the chance.
Leira goes for the jiggle pig.
But then her is well positioned to deal with Bineke.
Spray will not connect from Sol's.
And he did find the kill on to Leira.
Two versus four. No, done.
Two quick kills for Furiel.
They'll find their third round in the last four.
Starting to build a little momentum here on Fortress.
four five they're looking locked in and focused there in round number nine one
more band per side it's got to be the mirror has to be the mirror band here
what do you get rid of though if you're fury off
It's all a snake, we'll be the answer.
I'm wanting to deal with cyber in one way or another, as fakes call attack time.
We're going to play in a play-down, but we're going to do this before we eat the KT,
because it's the person from that side who's playing the bomb.
So, we're just going to play the red, go to the red,
invest, get the spirit up there, play the game, and we're going to kill everyone.
Are you ready?
Yes.
Try to come there to the left.
On the paner's bomb?
How long have you been playing the game?
I've been playing it.
It was to get the ball.
It was to get the ball.
So we're going to do a split, we're going to do the same thing as we did in the 2nd half, and we're going to double the map, and then we're going to end up with...
I'm going to solo.
I'm going to solo.
I'm going to solo.
Because then he's going to jump on L and...
And then he's going to show up on L, right?
Yeah, I'm going to switch to where you're going to.
Winning four of the last five opening kills as we head into the 10th round
Can they go back to back grounds again tie the scoreboard and put a little bit pressure on to phase to close the grand final out
Here and now on this map of fortress this feels like furious last
Hail Mary
And at any moment it's easy to think that face could find the sixth round and probably put the male in the coffin
So let's see then how FaZe in particular pivot around the solid snake band.
It seems like Cypher will once again resume duties on the Twitch, flicking back on the
floor as so heavy as this still will remain in terms of U2 clearance despite that mirror
being banned out.
Still quite a useful tool in dealing with razor blooms to enable work so they lose the
mirror on this side of waiting cafeteria instead that they now bring the
water that's the main change up for fury along with bringing the asalmi instead
of the Goyo losing the salt snake of course for phase they will change up a
little bit mainly going to be bringing twitch again this round didn't bring it
over waiting cafeteria along with the striker which will be double flash and
double frag grenade forehanding.
More than likely going to be a traditional slow build up into the round for phase, contending
with keep of barriers and other various pieces of utility that will naturally slow them
down.
There is that switch on to form interaction mentioned previously and souls can get to
work hard breaching on the command side of the map maybe draw the attention here
if you let's not to blow that straight away as phase is still staging elsewhere
I'm gonna do this round but I mean that's the face special isn't it yeah
everyone outside classic face and one of the few teams where we don't concern
ourselves with worrying about the clock too much they know how to use it so
efficiently. Oh but Hertz fights at angle onto KDS. It's Hertz slowly getting himself
individually off the canvas for what's been, to be honest, a terrible grand
final up to this point but it can change. Another opening kill for Furia. The
starter to dominate in that area. And Cyber, he's been stranded on 10 kills
now for a while. This may be kill number 11 but stolen away by Pitykin.
He won't care about that. He's happy to see the end of box error.
They sent it back.
So they start to push through that courtyard corridor.
And it's the house that captures handy. No trade potential either.
Simon up close enough. Still at the doorway.
So didn't have the chance to get the trade on to handy advantage again for
Furia heading into the final 35 seconds.
They still haven't dealt with herds over the water's dining.
This is a tricky position now for FaZe to problem solve their way out of.
Burya so close to tying up fortress, hurts the duck away from the flush. Another one though, he goes full white.
Has Llora got a long angle though from that main hallway, with the DMR Derooni to help her.
She does seem a little bit stuck, Volta, but it solves!
Bitter King won the battle against Diaz, but Llora did have a big save!
Huge headshot from Llora, folks to finish!
Furia are fighting off the canvas!
They've won four of the last five rounds!
We are tied on fortress!
Oh, some huge individual moments in that round for Furia.
We're standing so much pressure from Faiz.
And again, in the late round, made a real challenge of that round.
15 seconds, a player down and it flipped on its head in an instance.
Vops and Lohren hold down the line and that DMR getting to good work.
Courtesy of the Arruding, we're all tired on fortress.
Is this a false storm though? Or is this a real combat potential?
The groundwork laid for Curia, four of the last five rounds.
Getting a really good team effort now as well, Herd starting to find a couple of kills but
what's obviously been a very difficult grand battle for him, 8 kills though for both Box
and Loira, 7 for Tiaz and Boxerra, so they've got multiple weapons that can have an impact
in the rounds.
10 slivers, they're treated at 10 kills, now 10 and 7.
As he's going a little quiet, so have Faze.
And the loudest comeback.
Faze were up at 1.4 to 1.
That's such is the nature of, I guess, defender-sided fortress.
See the deniery for the first time as well from VOLPS.
Yeah courtesy of the VOLPS we see the transition away from Twitch in this round from FaZe.
IQ instead.
Strong tool in identifying where that info gather is and then being able to formulate a way to deal with it.
Although may leave them a little more exposed to some of the U-Tool clearance game.
And byproduct of that may mean that some of the low potential here for Paze is a little trickier
Then has been the case from the majority of this half
So as the main state once again back in the hands of Hiddicking
Just the bond deployable shield in play this time round for Furia
So I have a task with the initial battle against Fiora
Stopping a streak of opening kills for Furia now must do a 4 vs 5.
By the way, the opening kill conversion in the last 5 rounds sits at 100% it's been a determining factor.
The drums go quiet as Furia needs to navigate a 4 vs 5 in this final minute of round 11.
The man bathroom of course was won by FaZe last time in the H round and the setting themselves
up to do it again. Heading into this last minute. Diaz has got to be so careful but
finds the angle on to Handy. Handy is revivable.
Microsoft available to Diaz, double gas pay for Boxera.
Are you layering herds down?
Cyber on 1 HP, Andy's back off as well, so it's a straight 5v3.
Gaspipe connects and souls will go down.
It's a crucial double from Boxerra.
30 seconds 3v3.
Overtime to be secured for the winner of this round.
Long rotate KDS, they're going to double stack this position,
trying to trade their way into bathroom.
Got to recover the kit as well.
KDS the vault over, claim it.
Bob's loses the battle against Bitter King,
but Bob's then gets the last laugh against Andy,
Why connector gets the kill plans to go down from KDS can box era find the way forward
He's trapped by minigame. Oh
Massive explosion
That gives fury a map of point on fortress from form on down
down!
Wow, they looked down and out at that first half, but Fury up, somehow a fighting back.
Not even in that round in particular, not off to the best of starts.
As you said, the second half, the entry has been converted at a 100% rate.
It was this kill right here, Cyber drops, goes bang, we'll never see the chance.
The Fury are grabbin' a subvert expectation
holding on in the late round.
A massive nitro cell.
Same little time as Wally.
The Fury have the chance to close this map
and send us to Lair to extend this grand final.
Another big map from Boxer as he goes double digit kills.
Double digit kills with 11 back on border and he led the way with 8 on a bank where
they've got resoundly beaten.
But don't just count phase, don't think that this one's tough just yet.
And he sports one on his chop drone.
The Ophiria with a big extension on the opposing side of the map at the moment, perhaps in
anticipation for the full clear from FaZe. So the question then will be, does FaZe actually
elect to commit once they gain this info? Or do they go for the rotation more than
right? Oh! Cyber caught on a tiny bit somehow, but
he doesn't get the kill! He had first shot! Cyber, the reaction time is next level. He
has been wounded. But it's the opening kill again for FaZe. Cyber is a machine.
His vault now lurks here on the first floor, but he gets thrown out, position known and
forced to fall back.
He was eager for the trade attempt, but won't force it.
Oh lawyer, almost dying as well.
Furia testing their fate here in the final round of regulation.
Need to win this next fight.
It hurts.
Again, another fight that Furia have not been able to win.
And Hertz has got the information on Cybers' position towards tower.
Handy finishes off Loira, 5 vs 3 for FaZe.
And they are typically good at closing these advantages out.
Diaz needs the ace.
This one is seemingly going to overtime, but that's a big kill.
That's kicked down.
Gives Diaz a small chance.
As he gets tagged up, Cyber, Handy, got a flow.
Not impossible, but really improbable.
And he's been enclosed.
FaZe have been able to gain ground.
A lot of time to work with as that diffuser's collected.
This is where, for FaZe, they can just kind of double up.
Nitro's Sal is not going to connect.
It does.
On the drone, they know he's games.
Double push, but it's handy that has the angle covered
as we go to overtime here on Fortress.
So much composure. Can't help but feel it was a missed opportunity to box their onto
cyber recording off guard, got the initial shots. The cyber so quick with that reaction
was able to punish him. And off the back of that we go OT, Duria on defense still,
the side choice and this is a site that FaZe could not win on attack from two opportunities.
Yeah, Fury picked it first out, back on round number 7,
doubled down round 10 when it came back into the rotation
and as you are alluding to winning out on both occasions,
found the open kill on both occasions.
Gonna bring Balquerie as well this time around
and waiting for him to do that.
No IQ either, wall phase.
Alcams could have an impact in this round to start over time.
You know, I do wonder maybe it was hidden or Pat's phase just electing not to bring it.
They have in the past so we're back in round number 11.
And that info gathering gives Furia an edge in this round.
From an information perspective, it will be important in identifying what's clear what's
not.
I think most critically over the elite's mid-portion of the round, trying to identify what kind
of lurks might be employed.
Now they can try to shut that down, speaking of cyber, already inside the mark this time,
lobby.
Obviously one Volcan already dealt with, one lobby, one museum still up the herds.
Here's that lobby vault cam, box zero, trying to play off this ping.
Cybert making an entry through front.
He's looking for the cams.
He knows something's not quite right.
He's taking some time though out of the attack of Faiz in searching for these vault cams.
He hurts.
Can't imagine he's too confident in his swing game at the moment.
4-9 here on Fortress.
Last to grand final for a man so experienced.
And in towards that final minute again, but as we know his pace,
as you said earlier, they don't need a lot of time when they go for that side execute.
Any king to get to work in games open up the floorboards from above no one on the
top floor for Durian. All horizontal hard to walk the side on the first floor so
FaZe will have the vertical advantage. Yeah just flushes that defense a little
deeper. Leaves infirmary now a little exposed and FaZe are circling on that
corner of the map. He's going to be so careful with your positioning. Danger
everywhere. He can sense the
inculpability of Boxera. He does hold his position in the
February. He's done a good job. He has been able to stay alive despite the
amount of frag grenades thrown his way. Keep it buried up and it's Diaz that got
the Nitrosol kill on the Cyber. That's kicked down towards the Coronel.
Yeah really good from Boxera. Aiding all of that utility. Giving his team a
chance. 25 seconds now for the recovery from Vaze. He does die but as you say
drop down Diaz then planes off his life with that kill. Trade back
from Vittor King, Flurry coming now from Babe, Herdslow, big kill with a headshot
on to Solz, 15 seconds, Kip will be acquired from Vittor King, back into
infirmary, he goes, wants to get a position for KDS to cover, but Lira shuts
that down as KDS finds that kill, needs two more and four seconds,
he'll hop for the plant instead, but here comes Phobbs, seven on the ball for
Thuria, two more chances for Matt, three to go their way and get us to
Oh, they ate so much pressure in that round.
Hear out. Hold their nerve.
Another opportunity
to win this map.
And head us to Lair.
But what a round for Boxer up to
do his best to dodge the amount of utility
coming his way. Got some help though
If he has that nitrosol onto cyber that was kicked down that throws a bit of a spatter in the works for pays
They've got to go get it get themselves out of position
What phase do get now though is the ability to win their own defensive round and get this to seven seven and wouldn't that then put
The pressure on curia
The phase it's whatever if they lose seven seven if they lose the seven seven 15th round and we go to layer
I don't mind. They've got two maps already banged in the back pocket
But you would imagine Furia will be a little nervy even on defense if we get to round 15.
But as Furia had the chance to close it out in regulation, two more chances here to close
it out in overtime.
And it looks like they're going to go double shield as well.
Blitz and the Blackbeard to be selected for Furia.
We haven't seen them attack for quite some time.
but there were two rounds that they did bring both the Blitz and the Black
bit lost one that was on dorms games one the other that was on Blading
cafeteria but we go command bathroom
now see if you get drawn into the map clear here with the double shield I've
probably anticipate that to be the case play front front line and being
up a break some of those key choke points unless they find an opening elsewhere and then can exploit
to view the in-the-hands of Phalps who will drop the whole tower.
I think they just want to play this quick trying to catch phase off on a timing.
Worst case you lose the round you go defense next.
Now look at the space but phase are nowhere to be seen on this half.
No but we're emitting into the round we've already got full dorms,
game's control get a little bit closer to command bathroom they're playing this
with real pace it's either lurking first floor
still waiting to send box error in by the way I've ever set up a play here but
it is into the mirror config from handy I think they're gonna be looking for
this double swing box error through the doorway Bolton hurts then over
of wards and bathroom all pushed together trying to overload the position that handy's holding over
the wards come on this mirror window hurts still waiting for those flames to extinguish now they
can move now they can go now the defense is responded with you till they have been stored out here
that has also allowed cyber to make his way back up he's defending on the north side don't like
It's a white Uriel. Hit time like this.
Doesn't matter how pretty it is, as long as it's effective.
Oxera eats that knight to sell, and then the bullet from Vittor King.
Gun up from Volks.
Couldn't find anything on the initial swing, but Heads just found a double!
Onto both Vittor King handy.
Yeah, the double spade.
And Lawyer can still have an impact as well. His position not fully known.
Cyber over-the-walks that long way.
Needs to get involved now to help out FaZe, 40 seconds.
The defense does have good deep positions here.
FaZe could clutch up the round.
They can still use that mirror window as well.
Frag grenade onto Cyber's position.
Now knows that Lora is close by.
Lora is still stuck outside.
Cyber, turret of the fire.
That is defending his position.
Volts is pushed down the hallway.
Perch has found another one onto Cyber.
And may just get Furia to Lair after all.
He's been so quiet, but so instrumental in this round.
Volts to go for the plant, gets off that shield up, KDS, it's Solstice, it's the headshot!
Will they crumble? No they will not!
Lyra and Hunch combined!
Theria will get themselves to Lair and will not bow out of the grand final just yet!
They close out Fortress!
And who knows what's to come next? We won't know until Lair is done!
But Furia, give themselves a fighter's chance!
And who asked but Herz just to get a little active at the tail end of that map.
We've been waiting for that individual star to activate.
They need him for the rest of this series.
Herz will be eager to carry that momentum forward, just like the rest of that Furia squad.
And Herz could carry that momentum forward, build his own self-belief back up.
They lose to say they can't go and win.
Larry's not impossible.
They can build the believe.
And then from here, it's just one round at a time again.
Get this Grand Final back to 2-2,
head into map five,
and have all the confidence in the world at that point.
A really solid fight back from Tyria.
Don't forget they were 4-1 down
and looked completely at scene.
This then chanced the closing regulation,
but when afforded that second chance
did not mess around in overtime.
As they closed this map out, they did so winning.
Five of the last six rounds, that is momentum.
That's a platform they've built
to now launch themselves into Lair.
Ahead with confidence,
who knows what this grand final may just bring.
Yeah, Fiora played a great brand of siege on that map.
The question will be, how well will it translate
to the rest of the series?
Faze will bounce back.
They will not be deterred.
Fiora need to play even better for the rest of this best of five.
Is it even possible? Faze have been so good, so clinical.
Fiora just get the edge past them all fortress.
I think you're right.
They might even have to play a bit better than going into land.
But land is exactly where we are heading.
courtesy of Fiora.
Let's see what the boys think back on the desk.
Four of those rounds went in a row the way of Furia, and five of the last six to tilt
this back to a series.
And while Faze were using everything in there, my family, Faze Foundation, and even on Fortress
to be able to try to close it out in three, it was Furia, another half that would put
an end to that and keep the conversation going to maybe what could be the beginning
of something special.
Of course, that is a lot to say and maybe a little too early,
but they've opened up the door, Lex.
I mean, what a show of resilience from fear.
Going down 2-4, yes, it is a very defender-sided map,
but you still have to earn those defenses,
and they absolutely did.
And I want to talk about Volbs, because obviously we've
been highlighting him in the negative,
to be able to find his way, find his momentum,
find his rhythm, to really put the nail into the coffin
here to close this series.
Then you look at Herds, that last round,
And that was the defining moment for Herds to realize he's still in the fight, he still
has impact.
It's all in the head, all in the head.
When your two leaders come back into it, when finally they start, here they're still at
the bottom of the scoreboard, but still they had a few critical rounds.
You just mentioned the very last one for Herds to be able to get that double key on the
horse with which to finally cover the plan.
They're making all the difference.
And most importantly, I don't know if you quoted.
hurts stood up at the end of that map he went straight to hug all of his teammate
and started pointing at them touching their chest getting them right up they
can do it because he's done one comeback before he's done one comeback before
when it mattered most at a site 24 and he's done that come back again the
exact same lineup of face clan he believes he can do it again with four
different teammates and maybe I start believing a little bit more now I think
so too and his crowd certainly still believes you at home might believe many
people thought well of course phase are gonna win I call it a miracle the 3-0
because these teams know each other so well because there's so much talent on
the side of it it's not face clan chasing that triple crown only it's
herds on fury up who this team was rebuilt around if you go to Sarah's
very burst grand final in his career and to do this in these moments he's
played phenomenally by the way and I think been a shining light even in a
couple of dark maps for Fury. We absolutely have to give box their praise
I mean this being your first international event going against the
likes of face here on a main stage in front of a grand final and still putting
up the performance and the numbers he is that's not something you expect out
of a rookie that's something that catches you by surprise and I'm so happy
that he's been able to play and keep the level of consistency that he
continues to show each and every single map. And not even her it's not even
You know box zero think of folks. I'm taking a trip in the memory lane here
2023 Atlanta major
W7n with Ops at the rim wins his first major. That's almost three years ago
Spiting ever since then. He's never gonna close to it
Finally he becomes the ideal of his brand new theory and he can do it again
Grasp the victory have a more cash prize than that major even more prestige and most importantly as size fall on the line
fall boops, what it means today is so much in front of his girlfriend here in
the crowd. Close ones are here on both sides, but finally the hope is there. And
just to think about it, I mean when you look at him being the IGL, yes he's not
having the most beautiful performance, but to be able to find his way back into
the game, and you have to think about being the IGL, you are taking the front
of everything that is happening to your team and to still maintain your focus,
Maintain your composure. Allow yourself to find your comeback into map 3.
This is setting us up for getting into this game 4.
Look at the difference between these maps.
Absolutely crazy. Look at the EPS. He doubled his EPS.
He's finally back here in the server.
It's the impact they made.
In my opinion, the main wing condition.
UIJell is there. He's back. Finally.
And as we've seen here, a couple of highlights on the side of Furiya.
I look at Moira, I look at Diaz, I look at the back line that's been there that had the late round composure.
They're still very much there, but on top of that, Hurtz, the entry, the one, a flip coin player that gets aggressive and nice chaotic is finally working.
Bobbs, the Agile on the shield is making the right pulls, and that's it. I can start believing in them.
That's it. Finally, they've used the defense side on Portress and it's bringing back against base.
They have that little bit of compsion that they need.
I love the way that this team has fought with belief they thought was something bigger because many people would have counted them out
That's not what's happening here
This is the atmosphere for a great historic comeback and it's one map at a time now
Switching over to Lair after an incredible defense forcing overtime winning five out of the last six rounds
Furia have a chance to keep this momentum running at a team that clearly operates best off on the win
The momentum is in their favor phase gonna try to stall them out try to make us to
to counter rhythm out of it, but if they keep listening to the drums, it's gonna be hard to not keep dancing.
Absolutely, and I just look at these players and I think, you know, looking at especially Diaz and Loira,
these two guys that are on your screen, they've been basically the nail and the hammer.
Diaz is the one player responsible on the back line for winning all of these rounds,
where they're not at the man advantage.
And that's because Loira on that side, Volps, Hurts, they're really aggressive players.
They will take risks.
And in some times, very often because of that playstyle,
Furia will be on the back foot.
DS is the one that's able to clutch that.
DS is the one that's able to win those leg-round situations.
And so far, I'm seeing Furia beat FaZe at their own game.
It was a much slower pace fortress.
It was a strategic fortress where everyone
was close to each other, where most of the time,
you would see leg-round executes.
And Wu is usually winning at us a leg-round execute
in a very tactical way.
That's FaZe.
That's the heart of the playstyle.
And Furia, they're beating them at their own game.
And that's beautiful.
You know, we talked about adaptability and because these teams know each other so well,
because we rarely get best of vibes and siege, when we get the chance,
you almost want it to go the distance because you get to see layers of adaptation that just aren't available,
not just the extra gains, but now the familiarity with these two teams and identity is a word that I want to pick on,
because they kind of disrupted Faze's identity and they took it on themselves.
Whether it was being aggressive or not, maybe even being more passive,
but they seem like they were in control of this.
Is that the answer now, Lax's they head into Lair and how can they repeat them?
I mean it's absolutely the, it's the key.
It's the reason why they won that series, they didn't give up, they believed in one another.
And I think the big key for me also is going to be have to look back at lawyer
a hyping up. He never altered, he never gave up on a scene.
He was always trying to get everyone hyped and get them back into the moment.
And a really defining moment outside of Hurds Big 2K was also the moment you said
After that series is won, Herds gets up, looks at everyone, hugs them, points to a let's
them know you are the best, we're going to win this, let's get this next map.
Those are the keys that is going to be the element, that is going to get them back into
the series, get them back into the fight and bring it to FaZe's doorstep.
We started speaking about the 20th big end, right?
It's all in the flow, it's all in the head, especially in these moments.
Very often it's not really tactical, but if I have to say 90% is the mental, then
let's focus on the 10% actually here.
You've just seen a fortress that is a heavily defended site and now everyone here you know
it.
When you defend fortress, you have the advantage.
Now that was great on the side of Furia, they could finally play towards that time crunched.
When they were in defense, they were trying to bait Flay's into losing as much time as
possible and then win on the last minute because of time.
Great.
You go on Lair, completely different setup.
Lair is much easier to attack.
You have multiple ways to go and execute.
You can pinpoint multiple weak points all around the map.
It's like a big square.
You first you get the initial control and then you have two minutes to start working the bomb site
Playing that very slow laid-back game and just hold inside against a team like phase against a team that was 100% of the time
Is super good at execution. It doesn't work
Yeah
So the same playstyle that got them to win the last map is not gonna work on an S1
And this is where we go back to what Hertz said in an interview with Anne
Yeah, when he began he said I believe we have something that they don't we have more depth
We can play even more different styles than FaZe, guys.
I need to see the proof right now when they're gonna go on there,
because they need to change that playstyle.
And in a way, the map sometimes, I've seen,
has changed the playstyle and dictated it.
But with this setup, I feel like it has to be Furia,
that just regardless of the map, and especially now,
one map away, they are out.
It is no longer their game.
It has to change the playstyle of FaZe.
Even if the map isn't the same as Fortress
to be heavily defended, where they get to pick defense
and overtime because they were able to see that in terms of their pick rotation.
Who picked first and who did that?
I think the bigger thing, Laxo, is my question to you.
What person, what star that we've seen?
Both of these teams have stars.
You mentioned Loyra.
We talked about Wolves.
Diaz in the back line.
Who needs to show up?
Who is the biggest impact here?
It has to be hers.
Hers has to be the player that I'm going to be looking at on the side of Feria.
Being their captain, not their IGL.
They're captain, the leader of this team, to be able to get that momentum,
Get that rally, get that ferocity. When he looked back at the 6th invitation, he broke kill records.
We need to see that exact same herds going into this map, to push it into a map 5.
And now we're going back to Faze. What do they need to win?
Well, let me tell you into another memory, and that was this side, just a couple of months ago,
in front of a French crowd in Paris, exact same location.
These guys are playing a side grand final, and they're facing a really good team secret.
and they're leading and then suddenly they settle upon a problem they lose fortress against these guys
they've been here exactly the same spot one map away from winning suddenly they lose fortress fortress
and they bounce back they bounce back they wound the map after that that team mentally has everything
they need to bounce back in this that's why i'm saying you the pressure is on the side of furia
not of phase currently it's one B01 to make it and to win they're still alive they're not worried
On the side of Furia, I need to see that tactical depth that Herit has been speaking about.
One of the reasons it's so difficult to come back from these 2-0s, these 3-0s
is because the other team hasn't won a game.
But 3-1, there is a possibility if you isolated it, we just have one map.
And then it's anybody's performance.
But the amount of adaptation that is required to take face two more times to the distance,
it is going to be tough. There is pressure on Furia here.
A comeback starts with a single round.
That's right, and that single round is about to be on your screens here picks and bands coming out for our operators
Alphama, what do we see?
It's gonna be an important one
I think because we've mentioned it before the playstyle is not the same the way the map is being played
That's not the same and on Osara furia
You want to once again stick to the game plan that work remove the shields from by taking don't let him get
Comfortable on there and then remove the one execute a better that is the strongest in the meta right now
If you remove glass, that is ying and that is done already.
They're making sure they can play into that late round, especially starting in the defense.
But when you go into lair, you don't know who's gonna come out.
And that's exactly what we have here.
Furia trying to push us to a fifth game in phase.
Trying to close it out and lift that trophy on stage.
Cyber and the rest of the squad has been phenomenal.
Can they do it?
We'll find out here as we sink you over to Lair, back within us and us.
Well, the beauty of map 4 means it's one of two things.
Either phase, we'll claim that trophy, at the end of Lair, or Furia, send us to map 5.
It's one or the other, in terms of heading into Lair.
A 3-2 record for Furia, but most importantly, of course, a win versus Dark Zero.
Jax yesterday, 7-3 on this map, and on the flip side,
the FaZe, if you recall a few days ago in the quarter-final,
they got decimated by Team Liquid, 1-7 loss for FaZe.
That's the last two times these teams have played this map
in such a short span of time.
Furia begin defense as well.
Can they carry that momentum from Fortress
into this map of Lair
and seek out that fifth and final map of Clubhouse?
I think a good opportunity as well to be mindful.
We are now entering map number four of this series, best of fives, a rarity in Siege, often
only played in the most important of games, especially in this kind of environment.
And so that's naturally going to give FaZe an advantage.
The stamina of Kiria is really going to be tested to its absolute limits.
They did well to grind out Fortress Lez, going to be a whole different story.
So Master and R6 top floor to begin with the defense of Fury, I'm going to bring the Clash
and Diaz to hold over the wall tops at the moment, and now the focus for FaZe, opening
up Belkieside breach.
Cyber is a bit absolutely fantastic and he continued his run of form, running into the
fourth map of Lair.
Now Wolfay's respond after losing Fortress.
It hurts.
Came alive at the end of Fortress as well, carried that into Lair for himself individually.
He gets going, that's a lot of firepower that he can add to the arsenal for Furio.
D.S. makes a bit of contact with Cyber towards Ops.
He would barrier thrown out from Hertz.
It's a lot of Northside Bustering here from FaZe.
Very patient as he would come to expect it.
It looks like our 6th room will be their final destination.
Gettikin through storage, box air up, call,
and White also tied for the Rittero.
No, gets away.
He's so lucky to be alive.
He has also used all three of his gaspames.
Heading into the final 55 seconds,
Mask is still blocked as Cyber now makes his way over. He's got no solvers remaining
They'll need to get handy over to open up the wall. He's at the moment first for security looking for the rotate up main stairs
Yeah, a lot of moving pieces to this attack from FaZe. Can they connect the dots?
It's gonna be very late to this as well. Vops is also down here too
This is gonna be an intriguing 1v1 late in the round. A little pivot here from Vittor King out in the courtyard
looking for the rotate over towards the breach souls get through the lawyer up
and handy won that 1v1 against volks he can push up main stairs as well towards
the mezzanine alongside cyber hurts over towards masked by himself box era still
alive but lower and now they've dealt with her they can get this plant Diaz
and box era need to deal with handy very quickly because the plant will be
successful from bitter king they've slipped on in they've got the plant
down and Boxerra now in a one versus two. Up close with the shotgun against
Handy, they couldn't find the contact and Vittor King now slips on out playing
towards the courtyard and Handy playing inside a server has not made a
move. This should be all too difficult for Boxerra. Low on time spots the gun
barrel, needs to be quick, needs to win the battle. He cannot. It's phase to
You can take top 4 of the attack!
How many teams can pull off an attack like that?
So ridiculously late in the round.
That's a very 30 second pivot.
Still comprehensive.
They are one of the few teams that got the early one that could pull that off at such a regular basis.
I'm in a very solid round though in bringing a lot of that attention serve aside
and then the left hurts by himself towards mask in a 2 vs 1.
kill her suddenly mask is a plantable position and that's the win condense
of phase this battle here though was crucial because what this means is by
handy beating balls he's straight up main stairs that's more pressure server side
he didn't go and double down the cyber of it to mehs because they already had
someone coming from the balcony he went to bring again more of that pressure
bring that clutch over towards server and draw it away from the plant
position a really good play from base solid teamwork gets them and
and attacking round on the top,
Floor Master in our Sins,
which usually is the defender side at side,
on-layer.
And they're firing on full cylinders.
That style of attack,
you have to be so in sync as a team,
the comms need to be spot on
and everyone reacting
with really, really good timing.
A great display.
And it could be giving us an insight
as to just how strong FaZe may look here.
On-layer.
It is only one round though.
It is, and Vera interestingly will head us over to the Territory
for the upcoming round, Bunks briefing their side of choice.
And the defense electing not to bring the solos.
A common tool for the denial, but the warden though is in play.
Deftay is ready to go for the U-Tool layering, but you look at the lineup.
There's no Capitao.
Are they going to go for the top floor clear?
Bunk's briefing featuring one of the highest plant rates in the entire map pool, not just on this side.
It's beat by reading by a place on cafe and that's it.
They don't bring descents, usually does highlight the plant.
On green.
Yeah, as goes the nitrocell.
I was getting a good chunk of damage onto Viddik, King Pops will be the first one to fall for the pistol of Cyber, and now Alphaze will pick up the pace.
I've just got that ability to flick that switch, go from slow pace, to then brute force in your face.
Now Fiora now has susceptible to the crunch on the top floor. This mirror window can Fiora play off it effectively.
Effectively and Laura is now low and kills a bit pitch because a KDS at the window
Try to get some damage into cyber birds needs to try and help and he does good night yourself
KDS then was able to slip in and caps lawyer in the back
They do get this server hallway position under control for phase
Fury are not for fitting top floor easily they are holding they want to fight they want to win the round right here right now
No one going towards the site.
The night the team, no fallback from Furia.
Oh, that's almost big. It's going to force her to out.
Diaz and Herd still playing close by together inside of R6, but it could clear onto Herd's.
With that wall being opened up, he was stranded.
Bit of a rotate from Bitter King, Diaz caught though.
Falling apart for Furia, down to Boxerum.
As he gets one kill, three more required with 30 seconds, maybe the best play for him would be to rotate to try and deny this plant, but doesn't be afforded that opportunity, finished off in the end by Solz.
That's a 2-0 start for FaZe.
Alon Ball's ringing early for Furia.
And it will be a tactical timeout called already by Redar.
We are trying to make the mistake of the guys, instead of waiting for them to make a mistake.
If they make a mistake, even if it's a strong one, we are just going to do the square reactions of the map,
without getting too much of a change, like in the middle of the round,
and the guys are just giving the kills without getting too much of a change, you know?
We have to follow the same plan, don't leave the plan that will work out.
Let's do the Labs Focles now, we don't have a problem, then we ban the ace and go back to the top.
Guys, remember the square reactions of the map, which is that the kill will come,
Let's see, the round will be easy, we'll feel the communication and focus on what we're going to do on the crossings of the tactic, that's it?
Let's do it!
We're going to do it on the crossings, then from the A to B, we're going to follow the plan of the strategy that we're going to take, guys.
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
puts immediately Furia on the back foot. Don't forget it's the second best
defensive map in the pool so far these boots woke up only behind Fortress.
As we saw back on Fortress needing 14 rounds of action there was only five
attacking rounds found. There's not going to be probably that many eyes
they're on lead but the way things are going to the base it's all too
comfortable. It's all too easy. Back to back opening kills they got plant down
in the opening round, didn't need it in the second, and they brought pace and aggression,
which is rarely seen from FaZe in that second round.
And I think they caught Fiora off guard.
Now it looks like Fiora looking to experiment here in round number three.
It's the scope post in play.
That's a brazen call. It is.
Probably sensing that, especially on-site, FaZe are just too strong in being able to
being able to lay at that U2 and break down those positions, trying to disrupt elsewhere.
Cyber...
On the search for kill 50 in the series.
They have the clear potential with the Solid Snake and the Deimos.
They don't bring the Ram or the Buck.
Which does mean for Baze they can also decide if they want to go
around the horizontal, direct towards Baze when they can, or if they want to play the Clear Arc game.
Leave them flexible in this third round.
find himself in a precarious position second for that all the attention from
phase at the moment is directed towards basement and you can see the first set up
here from the scope post it does also the limit the play for volps terms of
being played into good ping on the radar from cybercatching where ideas of
herds of location does though mean for volps if they did a going fully
direct, he can be the one to backflank for Furia. In fact, he actually has transferred
back down into basement. Oh, that's a tiny low from Poxerra on to Cyber. Catches the timing
on the rotate to find the first kill for Furia. Feels desperate. He's up to five kills. He
does not want this Grand Final to end just yet.
And to the final minute, Herd's taken low, but Valmstar has fine contact on the Scopos
dealing with the Blackbeard of Souls.
Two player advantage for Furia.
These are the rounds you absolutely must be winning.
Herd's into the corner, Flash is coming his way, couldn't avoid the second, but hasn't
been cleared the push through, not just there yet.
He will get cleared though by Vita King.
Finds the tight angle, betrayed immediately, comes from Diaz on the smoke leading,
in KDS by themselves to try and snatch this round for FaZe.
And in this grand final, even from the side of FaZe's 2v4s
have not been common.
Easy one for Loira, spots out KDS, gets them both.
Furia, find their first round on where.
Yeah, it ended up being quite one-dimensional there from FaZe.
The lockers all in.
Brutfor's play does not work out.
Furia, they withstand that pro shot.
a couple of picks in their favor.
They still have good Rome presence in play.
But Xeracord a good timing as well.
They hit the scoreboard as the additional bands will roll through.
It's the ace and the mirror.
Now the mirror has been certainly causing some disruption on the side of it.
Not at all, but I haven't been able to counter it.
But by just taking that off the board,
it means they can invest that utility elsewhere
and might aid in some time management as well.
There was that timing and there was a couple of positions on the side. It's
self-co-compromised late, the one-dimensional nature of the push here from Faiz.
And then the fury up. I don't remember the same at all.
There's a lot on the side anchor there.
They've just got to keep pushing the boundaries though for Fury up.
Intermittently trying to get into the heads of Faiz and Faiz to think,
How are these guys not going away?
Never at one point in this grand final phase,
Handy playing with the camera and all smiles,
but the longer this goes on, those cars will evaporate.
Back to Master and R6.
These are the sides of Candy.
You've got to be winning.
They did it back in the opening round.
You can see the Maverick this time from Handy.
hands the ace and the mirror.
Probably in response as well to the
bandit selection.
Last time Alphaze didn't really go for an OXCLEAR,
it's that sort of north side here, a lot of courtyard
pressure.
The second half of the game.
This time, though, with the
Maverick selection, it will
eventually go towards an ops
push and get this mezzanine
control. Judging by the
initial positioning on phase,
that should be the case.
You can create line of sight,
generate a cutoff point.
It's difficult for herds to
continue to hold.
This is very fortunate of this
table in front of souls.
If there's anyone inside the
server that you probably
in the server today. Gets away with one.
Tested in has kind of been a little bit dealt with already.
It's more difficult now for Moira to play aggressively there.
Bob still wants to kind of hang around main stairs,
but he looks a little cautious.
Faze can completely forfeit ops.
It's perceived pressure for the end of the round.
No one will be confident in rescuing that on the side of defense.
An early pressure, no way of really getting information.
And now they bring all of their players back over towards this courtyard breach.
They just go for phantom pressure again here and then rotate off again.
Go R6, maybe the full flip, they put forth in pressure as well.
It'd be so unbrain if I thought you had to go for that.
Just keep fury at gassy.
And again, evidently as we've seen in this Grand Final, they don't need a lot of time.
And they're the one team probably they could just continue to execute 20-30 seconds left
and always look comfortable.
Done well to do with a lot of these molten canisters as well.
Lead out, blind block, Sarah.
Oh, but he catches the timing on the KDS and suddenly becoming a coming-coming of age grandfinal for Blockzera.
He's been there best all grandfinal long.
Viddiking take it a little low on that Blackbeard too.
And an impact available still and he will throw it out and it gets Viddiking very low,
but he's still then down the kill on to Handy.
And Solz will throw a 1xp Blackbeard and Cybers all that's left to phase.
Now getting low on time but Cyber is the criminal that could put Furia to bed in this fourth round.
But as Bitter King falls, Cyber will need all three remaining.
Gaspapes are in his way, forces him back from there, down the server hallway with Lawyer and Diaz close by.
To lock this round up for Furia, Diaz will find the kill. We are tied on there.
Yes, we are.
Phenomenal workman from Box Zero in particular.
And in fact it's so good, it prompts the timeout from things.
Across the 50 kill threshold here in the grand final
Someone's getting a little close behind him in box era. He's up to 36 kills now
The only one even remotely close to the performance of what we've seen from Simon, he's also eight for an entry
Easily being the best for Furia
Someone so young of age and
As inexperienced he has not been frightened on the on the stage in the spotlight. He has been the man
Full fury up.
Absolutely, it's been a real standout performance for him today, but also by extension.
The Esports World Cup.
An opportunity for him to prove that he has a spot at this level.
And it's not like this is just any kind of grand final.
You're playing a dynastic team in phase clan, and what they've done over the last couple of years.
This is a difficult task.
You found yourself 2-0 down early.
He's risen to the occasion rather than being, let's say, shying away from it.
All tied up, two rounds to go in the half. Rafferdell's time-out for FaZe expires.
Redux already used his. Neither will have any time-outs going into the second half.
Bunkz briefing the site again.
It will be double hard breach for FaZe, still electing to not bring the sends and look for a quick rush plant.
Again no capital either, they also dropped Blitz, Furia not bringing Solace.
Hoping to dissipate him again.
Heliborotropin, maybe some penta pressure courtesy of this Maverick and then base to invest elsewhere.
Force of flush.
Try and play the round on their terms top four.
I'd be fruity surprised if this ends up formulating as a direct hit for FaZe.
Saying that the way that they're positioning at the moment may suggest otherwise.
Or is it back to that sort of phantom pressure that you create and then you rotate off?
Saw that back in the last round.
Oh, someone wrote the window.
He might look to duo here with Fiddler King.
Solz as well has quietly crept topside.
FaZe circling on second floor.
I think Fury are getting the idea that FaZe wanted to clear out this
sort of a sign on the top floor.
What does he have to do? Does he stay or does he fight?
It looks like he just wants to reposition. He does have Volts for cover, but Solz has made his way into Ops.
So Diaz and Volts need to be very, very careful. Solz is by himself, lowest trade potential, handing down below.
Solz trying to find an angle. Diaz is going to be very careful.
Volts are taking a bit of contact, so they aren't where in the positioning.
It's making the fight back onto Diaz and the second on the herd.
He tried to play off it.
That's forced Volts back as well.
He got thrown out to water six and this is opening a big gap now for faze on the attack
I already need to find a multi here a challenging position
Couldn't win the 1v1 against KDS who then makes his way a little bit more forward for Bob's to find the kill of the trade I
Don't think he's gonna be afforded the time in the space to go for that rebound onto lawyer
But he may just go for it anyway blocked up the door of the window, but that shot from here
He down below finds an angle. Here comes box error
He only gets the 1, 3 to go, 30 seconds. Could this be an all-time highlight moment for Boxerra so early in his career it will need to be.
As he gets tagged up, he knows that doorway is not going to be safe to enter.
Two above, one below, cyber to make his push in with the kit as we enter the final 10 seconds.
They're going to go back in front.
Again, the way they're just able to creep those chess pieces into position and then bounce,
it was viticking that one.
a swift double
It puts so much pressure then on that sack the layer of defense lawyer was forced to swing
He dies once got caught with the keeper in hand and whilst he still found one
It wasn't quite enough
Boxer isolated green and phase are just so confident in their ability to deny his position
They hold two above one for clamp below
Faze surely marching towards a series win
That feels as if that's a script that's presented before us.
Three attacking rounds on land.
There's a three-time good half.
And sets them up perfectly going into the second half to follow,
where they will be difficult to attack into for Furia.
And not for the first time in this grand final,
but this feels must win for the Panthers.
They need a third defensive round.
down to basement where they were successful back in the third round and it
was a very good round for them this will be a little bit more top-down though for
phase to provide more avenues it was all two one dimensional last time to
direct they bring KDS on the ramp no look to get that first floor control
Speaking of first four, Fiora investing the clash currently
over towards Armory. A joy hold here alongside Herds who's gone
quiet again here on map four. We touted this as an opportunity
for him to transfer momentum that was gathered at the tail end
of Fortress but today so far has been a real grind.
All eyes now on Cyber who's been deadly on the entry in this
series once again resumes proceedings on the solid snake green side should be
clear for him. Open to kill conversion so far at last it's at 100% all five
rounds the first pick. That team has then gone on to win the round.
I've seen that all follow true to close the half. Simon on the solid snake will
ease their ability to get this first floor control so the one the auto
breaker available for KDS. They test Herds and his hold towards Blue Stairs. It's
not been the day for Herds outside of probably one round back on Fortress. A
day to forget so far. Cozira makes his way up to help him out towards Blue
Stairs. This is probably the last player I'd want on shield at the moment, the way
he's been playing in the series for Furia. As we know in this mod mage the
clash can still have an impact. What a nitrous off from Herds though! With
The safety of the clash and more information found from Boxerah, he goes shield down.
But then immediately loses his head to Handy, maybe overcooks.
Puts heads on an island.
Hertz has got to hold strong.
He does get the down and the kill on to Solz.
Knows there's one more still close by in Handy.
Handy though wins the battle and pushes down quickly down Blue Stairs.
That is two impressive kills from Handy, but will it be enough for Faze?
40 seconds filled the side here.
Bob still has two Vulcan canisters, by the way, that he has not even used.
With 30 seconds left, we'll even have the space and the time to get that utility down to maybe help defend this side.
Probably too late now.
20 seconds, three versus three, the most crucial round of this grand final so far.
Fall, Furia.
Must win. KDS will fall.
Bob's finds the kill.
T has to follow up. It's only handy left with 10 seconds.
Needs all three kills. In such a short span of time, as folks will find the kill tight again. We are on this map of Lair.
Three to three heading into the halftime break. And what a big second half to follow.
They are going to be very good, they will be very good, they will have a lot of shield, you know?
And then they are going to be very strong, they are very useful, we are making the first contact with the vaccine
You have to discipline yourself to make the first contact with the vaccine
I think it's worth it that we make this contact with the vaccine and bring it to the hospital
Of course, it's not the same as we did before, but today...
Today, they are very good, they know that they are going to be there from the room
I think it's the same.
If you want to go there, you can go to the hospital
What's going on?
You call Bonsu this?
Down there.
Look at the left side.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
A chance to reset.
Pays strong out of the blocks on lairguards, winning the first two rounds.
Fury then responds, three of the next four.
But I question this to you, is that enough?
Is three three at the half enough now going on to your own attack?
I think you take it against FaZe, but there's one man that they need to keep in line, which
they actually have for the most part here on Lair and that is Cyber on screen now.
50 kills up until this point across the series, the best of five record, of course, Haldweg
got up at the Manchester Major, 63, can he achieve that goal as FaZe continue their
much towards the trophy. Oh boy. Again, sitting at that 100% opening kill conversion. We'll
see if that follows through into the second half. There's the one that found that opening
kill onto Cyber to close the first half. As we head into the bends, Cyber starting
a little cooler here on left is the three kills on his way towards that kill
record. If I event it, Botti and Grimm will be the bands. Faze probably wondering
how have these guys continued this far into the grand final. Just holding on
Arfuria and if you hold on long enough you might just get to map five.
Leo was saying back on the desk no pressure for Faze but if you do get to
map by all the pressures on base yeah it flips immediately and a good moment there
as well from herds having impact he's been under the spotlight over the course
of this series and for all of them reasons but his history has taught us
he can turn it up when required with a lot of the top pros though is it's
very easy for them to start you know one six or one seven or whatever it
but then once they get a couple of kills they can get going.
The team up from Herbs.
But it has to happen sooner rather than later.
He's 17-35 across the four maps.
Bob's 20 and 31.
They've gotten quite a bit out of lawyer at Diaz
and certainly from Boxer who's up to 37 kills now.
So as we head into the second half,
All tied 3 to 3.
This is not going to be an easy challenge for Furia.
The scoreboard may be tied.
But attacking into Lair against FaZe Clan is not an easy task.
It's going to take their very best.
Maybe better than anything we've seen from Furia up until this point.
and R6, the opening site of the second half.
Really hard breach pressure here from Theria.
Will they go for a similar approach
in terms of phantom pressure and then a rotation late
as they look to exploit a weakness from this defense?
Or do we see a more committed play style
at the moment, a heavy shape up over towards green side?
That'll be a signal for phase
Yeah, but they've also then got the ability to continue to control mezz
Service sign hallway and gives them a lot of confidence on the south side of the map for phase
Also, I was peaking breeze there. Oh, it's not a kill
Feels really strange that the actual you've seen so far and yet the damage done to both herds and vaults is really minor
It's mark activated from lawyer on to get a king who's been
shooting that shimiko launcher
Well, the opening kill is just gonna be pivotal and it really probably needs to go the way of Furia.
Frag graded clear, that deployable shield forces handy back.
Alps are trying to swing off of that shield clear.
Get a little aggressive now for Furia.
Live drone going through as well from Blockzera.
It has shifted a lot of the defenders over for FaZe.
Server side, side, side, it's opened up, Mezzanine and Alps.
So Alps is going back to double check and make sure this is still in control of FaZe,
which it is the reset.
FaZe have still got a lot of control of the map
heading into the final 50 seconds.
This will need to be an onslaught from Fury up into the site.
Yeah, Shamika launcher and triple nitro.
Skill in play for FaZe.
And this mirror still up as well for Zoltz.
Lawyer on the timing is perfect!
Still lost the battle though!
He had the chance to net the first kill.
Keeps the mezzanine control in favor of the defense.
Shamika launcher being spanned now by Duda King.
Volts trying to make his way into R6, provide the space for the rest, but Diaz falls to Handy.
Boxerra needs to get involved on the south side, Plank going down from Volts.
Will it be successful? Cover is there. Plank will be successful.
The two players left. Volts will then fall to Vittor King.
Vittor King to get immediately off for the counter defuse.
That is take the lead as they defend top floor.
They ran into it so well there.
And whilst they did allow the dash deep for the plant, they had all aspects of the rest of the push covered.
Making that post a piece of cake.
Fazing the lead, they'll go to basement next.
That was certainly an opportunity for a lawyer at the time. He there is those
very much aware of his positioning staying grouched. Good turnaround shot.
If Wayne gets that kill, he's got Ops control, can push mezz, can force a couple of phase defenders
over to his side of the map. That will then allow a bit of a gap to be created for Furia.
That was a big battle. One for Faze.
Yes, we go to basement.
Well successfully defended twice by Furia in the first half. Has proven to be actually
a difficult sight for teams to attack into at the eSports World Cup.
Basement sitting at a 68% defensive winner at the highest of any of the sites on this map.
41 rounds played.
And so it features the lowest amount of plants successfully.
1 in 10 rounds. That's not great.
It's a win condition not available as much for Furia.
You bring the Reora along with the glass and we'll be cooking up something in this eighth round
That's taking a little bit of time a jelly that ever to traverse over towards the lane where warehouse breach and
expose that
very intrigued to see how furia can employ the rayora into this lineup and
sometimes be used to facilitate more direct hit through basement and cut down
in that traversal time in towards the side and in some instances as well
throughout the U-Tour from the defense in counterplay of that the nitros the
impacts as well likely to be a lot of moving parts to this attack for furia
up. Fox is currently deploying some of that utility from the exterior. As the util play
in here by fury off. Some of that though getting caught which may compromise the ability for
the guys to get value. And Diaz is hopeful and praying that someone just walks into
his line of sight. But with the information afforded to KDS, can he get a good timing on
this swing? Yes he can. Shots down herds and they lost Boxerra, lawyer up to four elsewhere
two. Falling apart for Fury, I've never had a chance in this round. Volts, a bit of
damage onto KDS but it feels as if this eighth round is almost a certainty to go
the way of FaZe, to get them to five, two rounds to go.
Edging closer to that, he's bought more cup trophy.
It's been fun, but you get the feeling that FaZe have almost got the job done.
It's an unnervy feeling for Furio. Completely outmatched so far in this second half and surely
a phase complete the full rotation. Getting themselves onto map and series point.
You can feel like they know what is going on.
That's it. Surely there would be no comeback potential from there. It would be improbable.
Still at that 100% conversion rate as well on the open kill.
Trim of the last four going the way of phase.
Well, no surprise. Three last four rounds and gone the way of phase.
This is what I was thinking back in the first half.
Did Jurya give up too many attacking rounds?
The re-picks here from Fury up.
The Thatcher plus the double shield.
At least single shield, suggesting we could see more direct approach.
Counterplay onto the solace.
Viria may elect to go to the all-in play.
Capture to deny.
And the NICRA cells looking to throw the way all of the plants up.
His bunks briefing.
How crucial of a round this is now for Viria to deny phase.
Capture to see his points.
As expected, it's a full investment second floor from FaZe.
Plantanal in position.
The three Nifers, they've got three Gasplades and the Solas.
I don't know if Urea have the ability to go for the rush plant.
I'm most concerned about the Solas, the Thatcher has to land.
I think this needs to be a top floor clear.
They can still use the Blitz for that case.
Good information as well gained from Herds.
Nifra out early from Cybert.
Diaz in through storage hallways.
Got the flash, couldn't get the kill, Laura gets the trade, Mira broken, pistol out, hasn't got the space all the time for the reload, but now will be afforded said space and time. Reload successful.
Gets Diaz back on his feet but low on that blitz.
It may be 4 vs 3 but don't count our phase.
But Vinikin falls.
Angle found from fault straight immediately from Solz, but Boxerra one step ahead.
Furia have been able to win this top 4 battle leading KDS by himself and found and caught by Boxerra.
A fourth round acquired for Furia and they're first on their attack.
Not done with just yet.
Get those drums bangin!
Haha, good pivot.
And I rather clean clear up above from Furia.
They maintain touch in distance. First rotation done.
Let's see what the next two bands entail.
Can you just see what Furia I like to...
...chill?
Take off the ball.
Yeah, the mirror.
Understandable here on there.
Well, the Hick Van is interesting as well.
Haven't really seen it at all from the side of Furia.
And it leaves the shields up, and if they want me to sort of hover temporarily, maybe the idea of Blackbeard Blitz, that is a possibility later in this half.
half. Well back on water it was 5-5, back on fortress it was 5-5 and here on leg
can it go to 5-5. I think really now in hindsight is the only map that's been
incredibly one-sided and that was still 7-3. 7-3 to phase 7-5 to phase 8-6 to
Furia and now 4-5 on the fourth map.
He's what's woke up in the Siege Pro Thorns,
not provided, let's say, the best of Grand finals,
but this one's been pretty decent.
How much longer will we go?
10th round, can Furia get it to 5-5?
Or can FaZe get their first grand final points?
Master in R6 is a very difficult site to attack into.
Furia will have to bring their very, very best.
but no more to contend with this time. Instead, the Azami will be pulled over for phase, just
as much of a difficult operator to deal with.
Yeah, certainly Kenby will cyber lurk in reception on the first floor.
Has been contained quite well though over the course of this series. Has Nitro ripped
currently
So the pre-placed in position for that ops entry
All with a land
He doesn't have the info it's a little bit too late. He has was on the boost
He has fortunate and also same on the timing for box in his positioning so that nitro goes astray
It's the only one they had those of them are they still have the shimiko launcher of viti king the three gaspapes of handy
And the push-up from Boxerra! He goes for the long-range shotgun down the hallway!
Boxerra opens up the round. It's been a 100% conversion rate up to this point.
Faye's starting to just move around a little bit. Disrupted here by this attack.
Albueria, full mezzanine control. Falsing out the Shemeekalaur,
Trivita King to keep them at bay. Herds has also opened up the balcony bridge.
Oh, he could read but doesn't land the shot on the solid skybridge.
At least Force pays his hand.
Faze is starting to just move around a little bit.
Having to backfill some positions.
Gaps have been opened up.
Now it's all about waiting out these flanks.
12 thoughts in the Chameca launch are still left.
Good news for Fury though, they've still got an entire minute.
Bad news, they've just lost her.
He's trying to make his way in through that breach to get over to Mask.
And he's going to try his utility, there's a still win, a win condition here for Fiora if they can go deep.
Boxerra again down the hallway as the rest are pushed into the site.
Box has got the kill on KDS, KDS being dead has allowed Boxerra to push through.
Bitter King and Solz, low on health, here comes Boxerra though again! Good flank! Solz in a 1 vs 2, he falls back.
DS has got three kills, needs to go for the kit. Solz doesn't want to allow them to grab this but a good death mark from Boxerra.
signifies the position of Sol's box there up to cover.
Well Diaz will go for the plant.
He's got the position known of Sol's.
Diaz will get the plant down.
1B2, post plant for Sol's.
We've not seen many come back.
There's a chance for Sol's to cross Furia here and now.
But Diaz stands tall.
Oh, what a round to Furia.
That was so close.
A respectable attempt, so difficult into the Deimos.
Ferox in that round from Fiora, Boxeroo with a huge sand lobby.
What a grand final, this feels like a coming of age for Boxeroo.
Vox as well with a big sand on the front fair in that round.
They had to make some big calls in round 10.
breakpoint. For the third map straight, we're tied at 5-5. The first time I went the way of phase.
Man, Viria, eventually in overtime, got the job done and here on where? Round 11, 5-5,
and basement we go. Could Viria do the unthinkable? And win two map straight to get us to map five
and give themselves a chance, a fighter's chance at completing a full reverse sweep against FaZe.
They're so close, two more rounds and they can get the club out and do that and all the pressure
goes back onto FaZe and honestly some of that perceived pressure of that fifth map and its
potential may already be there on the shoulders of FaZe in the back of their minds. They realize
what could happen if they lose this map of lair.
back themselves in though on this basement site which has been very difficult to attack
into. The two straight for Furia give themselves a chance. Still by the way 10 rounds in. The
opening kill has decided the round every single time.
to put a foot wrong, but it's
quick map control from fear.
This filter flight is massive.
Over the wall. Blue stairs, but
the clash is there. With
decision from phase to put
souls on the clash, anticipating
aggression towards blue stairs.
Yeah, the clash won't mix well with the Blitz and the Blackbeard for Fiorio.
Well, they don't have to full commit at this point. They have third.
They're establishing that now, courtesy of Herds on the sledge.
And you can go direct here on a potential pivot later.
So perceived pressure, open up the floorboards, and look for the more direct hit.
Still X-Kara's available for Diaz.
Ooh, can I find a timing hit? No.
also now known outside in courtyard. Oh this is a good job. The Boxerra in to site. He goes
piss, well pop the Valkyrie counters that. Candy that found the opening kill on the follow up
from KDS. Here comes the demon though. He needs a big round alongside Boxerra. Can he deal with
the clash? Would make this round a little bit more winnable. No handys on the move.
Faze! Now on the verge. A finding grand final point!
The back-to-back champs have been tested well and truly, but now have the chance to lend the
knockout blow. Round 12, grand final point for FaZe Clan to add the eSports World Cup trophy
to that cabinet.
The Furia fans will continue to cheer. They're still just one round away from pushing overtime.
And who knows what may transpire if OT is needed.
Relieves the pressure of Alpdorf's phase. It applies it entirely now to Furia.
can not make a mistake, can not make an error and while you did attack successfully this top 4
you'll have to now do it again when the same tricks may not be able to work twice
they will change it up though they will also keep volks on the blitz and we see the SENS employee
Do they go for the direct R-Suits here, bottom right of screen with the sense wall?
That would be an almighty call to make in this scenario.
The most brazen of calls usually come up in spades.
I would love to see it.
Will it be rewarded?
Grand final point for Faze.
They only get one chance at this otherwise we go overtime.
First kill, all important. Still sits at 100% conversion.
Recall that you made the aghast doesn't seem like that's going to be the initial entry.
Unless it's a fade out.
You've seen a lot of fake pushes from both of these two teams.
Wouldn't be shocked if we see an attacking pivot.
It doesn't have to be an early push here from Fira.
They could go very late for that set play, but they need to try and maybe draw phase elsewhere
Well phase will know they can sit back. They don't need to challenge you can afford some space
You've got the gas paves. You've got this to meet the launcher
Souls will have to keep it barriers to keep himself rather comfortable inside. They do commit though. What's at the moment?
We certainly are the Kupi-ni-Aro you for the mess
Stalled out instead and then cut side in half to make them a little more challenging
So they're going to cover the Salma charges, making sure he can't swing mezz and potentially deny.
There's Ambrosec and takes down Moore, I'm all nervous, but it's Lawyer.
That finds the pick over towards Servethat, strong KDS over, but that's a loud Boxerra, then up Main Stairs.
The gap has been opened, fourth area. They find the crucial opening kill, but it's the follow-up that now is more important.
Deathmark activated from Boxerra on to Cyber, but it's Fox that will fall to Solz.
The answer back is swift from FaZe.
We'll receive Fury a freeze.
FaZe now in the lead.
They find the next two after losing the first onto Handy.
And Lawyer is at half health.
May come down to Boxerra to be the hero.
The new found hero for Fury up.
60 seconds remaining.
FaZe are oh so close to that trophy.
Boxerra given no other option but now to join the rest of the attack over towards Mezz.
First cross made shield screen goes up souls can't play your foot, but he bolt he may elect to push avoiding a lot of utility
Not going down from the earth
yourself and cyber
Laura got the trade though on to be the king cyber still needs to help out more than just that nitro
Laura perhaps the kid so it gets the kill box here with one two to go
30 seconds can you make the clutch work? This would be the biggest play of his very young career
Boxerio, you've got 20 seconds, son, to make the play of your life.
He has the case, he has the decision in his hand and he will go for the plan.
Does he stick or does he fake? Faze converge, enters the post-plan, gives himself the chance.
Spots 1, shotgun connects, now to swing and find GDS.
Auditory information in that, it will not be his moment.
So close, yet so far!
From devastation in São Paulo to elation in Boston,
but it was a celebration as well in Paris already earlier this year.
Faze will celebrate again in the City of Love
as they win their first Esports World Cup Championship.
And Ferdinand set their sights on a third hammer in Brazil later next year.
A job well done for faceclab.
An incredible moment of the complete trifecta.
Never has it ever been done.
Yes, kid, yes, you won again, huh?
It is crazy. Away from the team to finish up all the celebrations. At this point, you've
won it all. Well, it's another trophy for you or what?
No, no, this time is special because we finally won everything in the game. So for me it's
amazing and yeah, it was the best feeling ever.
You know there's a better feeling than this. FaZe, go first of all, celebrate all together
because you have a key crush in just a second.
They're all into the crowd.
You just have to give it to them.
Face-clen, no matter where they go in the world,
there's always a crowd ready to cheer for them.
Tri-Fecta complete.
A couple more things that remain in the celebration
before they close out their day here.
We'll bring out the rest of the team here as all the hugs go through
and we'll take them to our key crush.
Gentlemen, come on on. Face Clan, come here. Before you lift it, we're going to go back.
We were talking about a moment of celebration. You're going to get to crush the key of one
more opponent they took them to the edge they won one map against him in this
best of five epic it almost went to map five and that is furious key
awaiting for you in our crusher it was the family that all together did this
throughout this week and now they'll be giving it to one of their youngest
handy
Screams have come in as you've heard them from his own misses here. It screams a vacanny
Does that register 131 decibels for you I'm not sure about it the crushing though
So that goes all around the world.
Gentlemen, Face Clan, come on over gentlemen, all of you, including you, Handy, come on
over and go once again to what is rightfully yours.
The moment they've all been waiting for, it seems that everything lines up for them,
no matter where they are in the world.
This clan are inevitable and they are your EWC champions!
The first team to ever bluff the three trifecta victory.
an invitational, a major and an EWC, this time happening in the heart of the Eternal City, Paris.
You've gone through it. I'm going to go through you one by one here and ask a few questions.
You of course have luck or translator as we go down as KDS. You've won now two SLIs back
to back you won majors what's it like to get this trifecta victory for you and the team?
I think we really finally accomplished the dream of the player in this game we won everything
I personally and cyber souls in Rafa so basically we are the best players.
This is a dynasty moment there's no two ways around it now si-27 you locked in your position
are you going to go for the three-peat back to back to back?
Hopefully, we are going to win this 6th invitation in Sao Paulo because the last time we lost,
so it would be good to be back to Brazil.
It's a good revenge moment. Thank you very much, KDS. Congratulations.
Again, we'll go down the line then one by one by one.
Honestly, what a performance match so far.
I'll need you to help me out with this.
I miss you, Oroco.
You're celebrating with, I guess, a big family here in Paris.
here in Paris and your own through all of this.
How do they inspire you to keep going,
even though you've technically won everything at this point?
At the moment, you're not celebrating, right?
This family is immense, you have it here.
And your family, so how are you feeling now,
after winning with your whole family here?
Well, I feel very happy, very gratifying to win a championship.
I'm even more than this family close by, my son, my wife,
the family of everyone there, so that's great.
I also want to thank everyone who is cheering for us.
This crowd is cheering for us a lot.
I also want to thank everyone.
And also, first of all, it's not just about us, it's about God.
So I just want to thank God.
and the souls, I'll get to you after this.
You've been on this phase roster
since you were all signed together back in 2021.
Did you expect to have such a long-lasting relationship
and family bond with this entire team
for so many years?
So you've been with the team since you were all signed
in 2021.
And did you expect to be with them until now?
What did you expect when you joined the team?
I think the team was very good. We kept it going, knowing that it was going to be good.
We were very close to the line-up. We knew it was going to be better than ours.
We knew it had a lot of potential. And this year we're just sticking to the front and working hard.
So yeah, I really imagined that we could go far with this or with our whole lineup.
and now being here and being the champions is so nice.
And some like past tournaments that we managed to not
be very well and kind of misspealed a little bit.
We know it was something small that we could fix.
So we maintain everything and we worked hard for it.
The works are very well.
Thank you very much, Joel.
Again, congratulations.
We're gonna move over to the King himself.
Let's have a quick little piece between us.
You've been key to guiding this team
as their in-game leader for so many years.
What makes you all together so consistently good every time you're on the stage?
The work we do day to day was very well compensated.
It's not a work we do for a month, it's a work we're doing for two or three months to be a champion.
And that's it, I just want to thank God, thank my team, and one more championship to come.
period with the team, a lot of good results, a lot of hard work, so I'm very happy and very
grateful for everyone. Hard work pays off and so we have to go to Handy in here, Handy my friend.
You tried to scream your best in the back and crossing the key. You can hear your partner who's
been cheering for you this entire weekend. I think she broke some sort of record this week,
but I mean when you're playing game in these big sorts of moments, do you imagine hard
cheering for you, is that what brings you to that edge to just win the whole thing and when it
for her and everybody watching you at home?
So these people who complain are people with a bad life, they are not happy people.
And that's it, it's very gratifying to have her by my side and she's always supporting me.
So I'm very, very grateful to have her by my side and supporting me since the start.
A lot of people were like complaining, saying she was screaming very, very loud.
But yeah, they're just like unhappy people and they should enjoy it.
And yeah, I'm very happy and super grateful to have her by my side.
At the end of the day, you're the happiest of them all here.
Handy, congratulations.
I'm going to need to ask you all as a team.
Come on over, Kierias.
Come on over, JP. Come on, come here.
We've gone through a million things,
but there's a piece that's missing.
Actually, three pieces.
At the end, now your EWC trophy,
there's going to be three different keys
that you'll get to place in it.
Have you made the decision as a team
as to which keys you want to have in there?
Yes, FURIA, VEP and Liquid.
Okay, Furia, I could understand, right? But why VP?
They are a very good team, and we beat them, so...
A testament, I guess. And Team Liquid, the big rivalry.
Yeah, yes.
Do you feel that putting Team Liquid's key in there even matters more than having Furia's in your own trophy?
No, not because Furia's go to the finals and Liquid will be playing the same, so Furia's more important.
Very good. Thank you very much, gentlemen.
That is it from us here. Actually our co-host here in SAEL as you're kind of used to at this point
But we're missing one final part and that is our MVP award Adam, please come on over my friend
Oh, that is right. Thank you Milosh
There is one more thing we must do here, which is present the Sony Tournament's MVP
and it is my absolute honour here to present it to Paris.
Would you please give it up for your MVP, the one, the only, CYBAAAARGH!
Congratulations, CYBAAAARGH, the MVP!
Let him hear it loud and clear!
So well deserved, CYBAAAARGH!
Two come next week for one second.
Rocco will ask you to come round here as well.
Well done, congratulations. This is the first triple crown, a major SI, and now EWC.
What is the secret sauce that makes CYBUS so darn good?
I believe that we, the kids, work a lot for this
and we also put God first in every game
we always look at it when it's necessary
because we know that there is this part of spiritual and motivational
so we always focus on this part and I believe that's it
So I think I don't have like a secret sauce at all
it's just the hard work and hard work with the boys
so sometimes we pray a lot so I think there's some kind of spiritual thing
when you're playing as well. So yeah, I'm super proud for everyone and the hard work for the boys.
Excellent. I mean, your incredible career has been full of accolades, achievements.
What does it feel like for you being the MVP at the Esports World Cup?
I believe that I'm very happy, really. I don't have to be happy.
During this game, I worked hard, we were having a very complete team during the whole championship.
And I ended up playing for them saying that I would steal their MVP because they were a little ahead of me.
And thank God everything went well, so that's it.
to the totem. $25,000 for MVP. What makes you even richer is that beautiful family of yours,
that magical family. Is there anything you'd like to say to your family, to your fans around the
world right now? You want to share with them who are watching here today.
I'm super thankful for everyone, for my family, for the fans, especially like the fans that came all the way from Brazil.
And I'm proud to say that in the last few days, I've been cheering for them, and I'm proud to say that I'm proud of them.
And I'm proud that the fans are ready to give their all for the fans, and in the last few days, I'm proud to say that I'm proud of them.
I'm super thankful for everyone, for my family, for the fans,
especially like the fans that came all the way from Brazil,
and the fans that are here, the French people, like they're supporting us as well.
So I'm super happy. I want to thank everyone. Thank God.
Amazing. No, congratulations once more.
Paris, wherever you're watching around the world right now,
would you please one more time and make some noise with your hands together?
your EWC Rainbow 16th Champions, it's FaZe Clan!
Please, fellas, make your way into the Totem.
It is time to seal your keyframe into the Totem
and your legacy in Esports.
Congratulations, FaZe Clan.
They've done it, folks. They've done it.
You're with us.
Tears trimming down the face of Cyber's wife
and his girlfriend, embracing him.
him lovingly knowing that while she might have stood out as a major feature of this
tournament the only conversation to be had was this dynasty this group of men
who continue to do the unthinkable face I mean boys I gotta be honest
fans. High fives that them all
up. What an incredible. You're
going to get the play to your
key monster. We're moving it on
high fives all around to your
fans. What a performance
across the board.
Incredible finals
such a course game
any well deserved champion
the drums
are very, very silent
now. Congratulations
phase.
Keep on coming, keep on coming, it's a long queue.
Guys, without further ado, please take to the stage,
Arise up to the podium and take your place amongst the greats.
I'm once again these boys are cementing themselves into Rainbow Six Sieges history big commiserations
to the boys, Cyber, KDS, Souls, Andy and Vinikings so so deserving of this title I couldn't think
of another five to give them to.
There's no doubt in my mind anymore.
I've picked it. This is my best roster of all time, two SIs, one EWC, multiple majors
for some of them. I just want to say a word for the staff, for JP, for Ravadel, these
guys that we don't speak about a lot, but do so much work for these guys. On top of
having some of the best players in the world, I want to say a few words for JP who
who obviously has been translating all the interviews here in SEL,
sharing all of the tops that this team has had,
and proven that they have overcome every single obstacle to reach that high.
Well, if one thing is clear that Faze has taught us,
it's that it takes a village.
The family has been here from the beginning,
and they will be here till the end.
And sometimes a dynasty needs that support,
because you trip and you fall several years together,
but still at the top of the mountain.
They say that all roads run through Rome.
But in Rainbow Six Siege, all roads run through Brazil.
Yet again, phase make history.
And in Sao Paulo, they've got a chance to make even more.
But the beauty of it, even with the Triple Crown,
is that they have their families watching.
and history and legacy continues to be made.
From all of us here at Rainbow Six Siege,
at EWC at the Foundation, it's been a pleasure, gentlemen,
and everyone who's been involved,
all of you watching at home.
We remind you to never give up, to never stop gaming,
and we will see you all next time.
From Paris, goodnight, and enjoy your STC recap.
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Welcome to the EWC Spotlight.
We're here to break down everything that you have seen so far.
I'm Obley and I am joined by Glitter Explosion and Mike Klein.
First thing we got to talk about, can we not get like a golf cart, a Segway, maybe some
rollerblades or something for Magnus on that walk?
I mean like, what would you use as means of transportation there?
The new track and field was an event.
He walked 5k to get to the totem and in fact that's the most I've seen him sweat
all week because opponents didn't make him sweat that much but we did with that
trophy walk.
Honestly, we should jump straight into what we saw in the Lions' vault because we just had the chess grand finals
completely un-defeated what went down
And this actually almost had an easier time defending his title than winning his first title last year in Riyadh
He actually dropped a few games last year this year. He was sick a little bit weakened and yet
He still didn't drop a single game. He won the finals
3-1 3-1 against the upstart Dennis Losevic and he joked that
that he he's number one player in the world and the number two player is a sick
Magnus Carlson and that is exactly what happened. A sick Magnus Carlson won EWC.
I don't think he wanted to be sick but nonetheless he even sick he got the job
done so he won both sets 3-1-3-1 no third set needed got on straight sets I
guess we could say and but Dennis Losevic had such a fantastic tournament
he's really made a name for himself in the online chess world. He's kind of a
COVID chess, baby, because he got his start back when we were all locked down.
That was actually an advantage in chess because he played so many games online.
And now here he is proving himself sort of out in the real world.
So, but you know, Magnus, he's such a sportsman in the final game.
It was already a foregone conclusion and he sacrificed his queen for a minor piece,
which in chess is like trading LeBron James for a seventh grader.
Oh, thank you for explaining that actually helps a lot.
And he still won the game.
Now, I should say the sacrifice was sound.
Magnus knew that it was, but it was still amazing because he does have a flair for sports and the dramatic.
He could have won in a more prosaic way, but the chess glitterati.
Yes.
That's for you.
That's amazing.
Amongst us can definitely appreciate the way that he won up.
He likes winning all kind of formats.
He believes the future of chess is in front of a live crowd.
And he got the job done today.
Love that.
What a fantastic job you did.
I love that. I also love the analogy of atomic bomb versus the costing baby
But of course we did see what happened on the grand finals
But also I heard that there was a little bit of drama in our third fourth place badge
Yeah, it turns out it wasn't just in the aliyan's vault. It was in all the bwc
But uh, you know, uh, we had hikaru akamor. Well, there is a feruja both team falcons
you would think that, you know, there's gonna be a little bit of fraternité,
if I can get a bit of French spirit here.
But what happened is that Nakamura was up in the match by a game,
and there was some sort of disconnection or something.
And originally Nakamura thought it might be something other than what it was,
and it turned out to be a network error that briefly affected a few of the games here.
And after a pause and they reset,
Ali Reza had a roughly equal position when that happened and then he kind of just collapsed.
He lost that game and he went down 3-1. He was still technically alive.
He had two more games left, so he could have steered a shoot.
As big of a mountain as that is to win two games on demand against Nakamura.
He was still technically alive, but he walked off.
He left the entire EWC and he was forfeited.
So Falcons were already guaranteed 500 points for third place anyway,
but by forfeit Nakamura went on to get third place.
But again, it should be noted. He was definitely in the driver's seat to finish third even if Ali rays have not left the arena
Have we seen anyone else walk off stage at EWC so far? Not that I know of no
That's that's definitely a first. If you had asked me to play PUBG mobile. I would walk off
Hey, you know what it's a difficult game to figure out for some people we'll go ahead and allow it
the book letter, you know, on that note.
Let's go ahead and talk a little bit about PUBG Mobile
at the Kidea City Grid.
Yeah. What did we see?
Well, you know, day two of the final
still have one more day to go,
which means that there's still action left on the board.
However, things completely kind of shook up
after the matches that we managed to get through.
And that's kind of a big deal for two reasons.
One, the team at the top,
the way that the format of the tournament
as the team at the top kind of sets the point threshold
for the third and final day of finals.
Right now, that team is Aurora Gaming
in the 100-point clock.
But since they're around 104 points,
I believe, which is a very, very high amount
for the rest of the teams that aren't close,
trying to achieve that point threshold on day three
will be a little bit more difficult.
Now they're followed by some heavy hitters.
You've got E-Arena, and there's only a few points
behind alongside quite a few other squads.
So it's going to be a really close day three heading into that.
And on the other side of that, Vitality was a team that we were talking about a lot heading into these finals.
They have been very quiet.
So it's not great for them.
Yeah.
Oh, no, because I remember you were hyping them up a little bit.
I was excited.
And then that's, where are they?
You're just asleep?
Oh, I don't, you know, I think they had some, some definitely some bigger expectations on their shoulders heading into finals
and sat around six to start the day now down to 12,
so not really good.
That is an absolute shame,
but as you said, I'm still day three to go.
But over on the STC arena stage,
we had a little bit more rocket league today.
Yeah, rocket league was really fun.
We mentioned it previously.
The way the draw went,
every single matchup was actually
an interregional situation, right?
Exactly.
So we managed to get through some of it so far.
I said G beat Shopify Rebellion.
That was the North American side of things and IP beat Gentlemage, which that Gentlemage
we're not happy about.
We've seen how crazy their fan base is in the best way possible.
And so that was a very close back and forth.
But still to come, we have the Mina face off between Falcons and Twisted Minds.
And this is where it kind of ties in with Chesto because the points Falcons get for
the CC side of things, we're still very helpful for the club.
Can they do the same in Rocket League?
We'll have to wait and see.
And then of course, the matchup between Vitality and KC.
It's another big one.
Oh, 100%, we will dive into those club championship points
in just a moment, but before we do that,
we still have one more stage to talk about.
The Lenovo Legion Gauntlet stage
with some rainbow six siege.
And girl, I can hear the drums.
I know, so mostly in the venue,
I'm in the bathroom, I hear thup, thup, thup, thup,
I go, all right, I'm vibing, I'm vibing,
but what are they so excited about?
Well, that's all Furia.
Okay, that is the Furia fan base,
and they have been going since last time
they got to see Furia play.
I mean, they are yet another dedicated fan base.
Obviously, before Furia was on stage,
there was a third-fourth decider match
that was between DZ and GK,
and DZ were able to take that one home.
So, that was kind of good for them,
because I think they were potentially
of seeing some people were expecting to see in the finals. It ends up being an all-Brazilian
world, a championship, though, between FaZe and Furia. And maybe the drums are going to be what
puts Furia over the edge, you know? You don't know. Oh, it better be. Has anyone showed up with
drums, vuvuzelas, or perhaps some sort of instrument at chess events? We're working on it.
Fantastic pronunciation of vuvuzela. South Africans are making a big name in the chess
world so yeah um no and no didgeridoo is either but again we are working on it we're a little bit
of a newcomer on the wc scene and so we're we're accepting all uh all invitations to get with the
program i can hear the drums around me as we speak um but uh yeah if they would they'd be
beauty for magnus carls that's for sure so norway get on it okay norway does the the rowings they
remember from the world cup football all right it's actually my favorite thing i was i was ready
That's what we need.
Oh, we need the stage dumped.
Yeah.
We need to bring those World Cup football fans to EWC
so we could see the rowing.
Yes.
Oh, I'm excited.
That'd be amazing.
Oh, that would be fantastic.
All right, let's go ahead and talk
about the club championship rankings and the points,
because in chess, we got to see quite a few points
go over to Team Liquid.
Yeah, we certainly did.
Team Liquid did pretty well last year.
This year, they were sitting on zero.
Yes.
when I when the week began they got 200 and rainbow six and I got the full fowl
with Magnus Carlson and you know it's kind of like a relay race you want your anchor leg to be
your best runner I know we're only in the penultimate league the week of AWC but Magnus got the job done
but also shout out to Dennis Lazovic because it was his performance that extended the lead by
250 points he gets 750, Hikaru gets 500 for the Falcon so Dennis actually helped the margin
and grow a little bit greater there by even getting second place. So, but yeah,
Team Liquid, they're on the doorstep of a top 10 placement. Yeah, absolutely. I mean,
glitter, this is something that we have been talking about recap after recap. We never saw
Liquid on the board or two back to back runner up years at EWC. And finally, we saw them there.
I think it was page one. Yeah. Yeah. Now, now, because of Megan, and honestly, I think a lot of
of liquids, points, hopes were hinged on Magnus.
I think he had some very big expectations to live up to,
able to do exactly that,
push them up the leaderboard just a little bit.
That idea? Yeah.
When you sacrifice your queen in the final game,
you should get a bonus hundred.
Can we get that in the rules next year?
Wow. You know what, I'm phoning John EWC right now.
Can we have this?
I don't know who John is, but that could happen.
I apologize, John.
You sound like a very important version.
Don't have like a that's John chess. Okay, John Roblox. Yeah, John. No, okay. I mean, I thought I thought
John pubg mobile John pubg mobile. Yeah, fantastic. We've got people all around
But no, I'll see if maybe we can make that happen. Please do it sure
Who knows but yes, it's so nice to see more of these points on the board for these club champions
Yeah, and not only that means so on the on the second page
There are the other or it's like that we just talked about GK got 300 points for that fourth place finish
They will be on that list Furia on their phase on there
Everybody we just talked about in Siege
So any additional bit of points doesn't matter because even if you are not able to claim the trophy
You're still jumping up and down the leaderboard. That's a terminating club championship prize pool money. So every win still big
Huge even all right
Well, this basically brings us to the end of spotlight
But before I let you go, Mike, anything else that you want to say to all the adoring chess
fans out there, the people who are excited for Magnus, or maybe the people who want to
see someone else take the win in the future?
Well, I just say that Magnus wants a good rivalry.
He loves sports.
If you ask him about the 1980s NBA basketball, he'll tell you all about Jordan and Larry
Byrd and Magic Johnson.
So he wants somebody to rise up and be a perennial challenger to him because
he knows that makes a good narrative in sports.
Dennis is becoming that person. Dennis is only going to get better at 19. Magnus, he might get better,
but he's trying to hold on to his skill set. So we could see, you know, this Dennis versus Magnus
rivalry repeated EWC next year. If not, there's, you know, Nakamura still there, Ali Reyes is
still there. So somebody is going to create a narrative to challenge Magnus every year.
Or hear me out, Glitter. You start your chest journey right now. You start training and we
see you here next year. I've been thinking about it. This could be my calling. It could,
I believe in you girls. Do you believe in glitter?
Yeah, and I'd like for a checkmate to have some glitter bombs drop on the board.
You're making all the new animals from here on out.
Special move. You throw the glitter whenever there's a potential misplay or a fantastic play.
Well listen, that is it for the EWC Spotlight. Thank you all so much for tuning in and we will see you next time.
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