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It's been three months, are we in stage two?
Yeah, I know you have long naps, but even for you that is a new record.
That's a hard one, nation.
Okay, we're in stage two, then. Then how's how's my favorite player Shaco getting on?
He's in the bottom three of the players right now the bottom three of the players
But surely G2 if I've been asleep the summer break, they must have gone to EWC
They must have won the event. They came second place last year
Didn't make a check they did not make it. No, you're lying. You have to be lying to me
What about in the ML they came first place? They've got to be doing well in the ML
No, not this time. It's been a whole weekend they have zero points in total.
Zero points? No, no, you know. It just cannot be. Everything is upside down.
So if everything is upside down, things are changing.
What about Team Secret and Heretics?
Team Secret? Heretics? Then?
Yeah, don't worry, there's still sh-
Speed, girl, what a hate act
Me and my love got a race, man
I think you're from life
Bring your back up and let me be behind
And I'm back now to get it right
Are you in a tank?
Moment of change, I wanna revive
Switching the game
They know the name, we're one in a line
I came back to get it right
You win this day for the night
This time to join it, let's give it life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
It is playday 3 in the Europe Mena League.
Our first week is behind us, leaving us with 4 Flaalas teams and 4 teams without a single
point.
That is going to change today.
My name is Annelby, your host and joining me in this video, we have Fresh and Alfama.
Fresh have you fully woken up from your habitation now?
I have, I have.
I know exactly what's going on.
I know the story.
We're ready for today, but it's
been a good weekend.
It's been a nice time watching NAL
as well.
Of course, kickoff last week.
Yeah, and we ate the best apple
by ever.
We did.
We did.
It was fantastic.
Yeah, it was fantastic.
Yes.
I see where you're going with
this.
All right.
We won't talk about too much,
but we'll talk about last week
first by jumping into the
powder armor to kind of review
everything that happened and
what we saw last week with
our three categories, as we
do, starting with the monster. And we couldn't just pick one player. We had to pick two. It
felt wrong picking either of these two. We picked both Frick and Solotov.
Yeah, both of them really went crazy last week and I think hard to pick for different reasons.
But for Solotov it felt like a revenge to obviously we've all heard about the potential
transfers on the side of Falcons and it was probably one of the roles that they
were exploring as well, at least according to the rumors. So to see him perform that
way straight after those rumors is really good and I'm outside of Frank I think it's also a revenge
tour because he used to be a top performer for shifters and with this new iteration finally is
back to the top both players in terms of that week one performance just head and shoulders above
absolutely everybody else it was hard you could call even the monster but they were both
massively successful reasons as to why their team is currently sitting on six points and for
the moment I like how he always picked like a crazy moment something insane that happened
in-game or beautiful play, but this time around we went for something silly. We get to see
Ask getting Karmas serves straight to him.
Yeah, sometimes it just offers itself all the way up. Ask currently three-five down inside
of this round. Geekay get a great point off and he starts typing to shift us. And
this is the precious bit about it because as soon as you start typing, you know.
You just know that Karmas going to come back and bite you. And of course, very next
He walks into top heat as the Monty and dies to the pipe and everybody knows everybody knows you find one to get rid of that
Pipe before you walk in top he's on border because that will happen to you now the roller coaster of events
It's really funny to see his reaction first. We're getting at the screen and it's just after that. Oh, no
It's very unfortunate for him
But we'll focus our attention to today with our mussy of course all five of our matches will be great
But this one in particular, Shifters going up against Twisted Minds is great for so many reasons,
and for starters, that they're both undefeated.
Yeah, we both see them as kind of favorites at least for playoffs, maybe even to make it to Osaka,
and that wasn't always the case. For Shifters, they've not been to an SDR event since the Munich
Major, all the way at the end of 2025. For Twisted Minds, they disappointed everyone coming back
from South Lake City as the best TML team there. To not make it to EWC, both of them are expected
now to maybe make it to playoffs but Jack it's a rivalry between them and as to who can make it.
It really is it absolutely could be a preview to a best of free in playoffs for the Osaka Major.
We obviously don't know this put but we expect it both teams started so well and in the context of
week one of the ML we saw a lot of heavy favorites against kind of underdog games but all went the
right way we didn't really see too many upsets. This is a genuine 50-50 my man and that's
what makes it so exciting. And two big winners of your season with two new recruits on each side
very experienced players. So obviously that plays a big part in terms.
Alright, we've gone through quite a lot of the reasons as to why you should be watching the game,
but there's even more in all of Fulta when our second match of the day starts. But these are our
other matches, five in total. Masa, Ruken, Torres, that third one. I mean, Fadetic, G2,
you know, we've been there, done that big rollercoaster last stage. This time around, a rematch.
I mean, rematch in the context as well, that both of these teams have zero points
on the week, which to both of these organizations and the standards that they uphold themselves
I know there's maybe mitigation for Fnatic, but it's humiliating, you know humiliating. You could say it's debilitating
It's it's really a bad position for both of those organizations to be in. Somebody will pick up their first points today
Maybe both will but actually somebody's gonna be left losing that game and then quite a guy straight especially
Can you imagine the world in which G2
Misty WC because they lost to Fnatic and then end up still at zero points after three playdays
Because of Fnatic again, that would be too much. We're gonna send Jack into another hibernation
Like we don't want to go there, but we will check out before we dive into our first game.
Is that the first week of competition in all of our regions has kind of rounded off?
I want to talk about the new addition to the map, what we have Villa as our newest map coming in,
replacing Consulate, which didn't love it at EML, maybe even more inside the NAL.
So answer right now, with that first week done, what are the stats saying?
Well, we learned a couple of stuff. The first important thing I think is the highest impact attacker,
and that will be Zofia. We expect it to be Deimos. It is Zofia and it's not going to make a big difference between both of them.
They're vertical playoff errors now, especially with the fact that Zofia has three explosive grenades.
That makes her so strong on Villa because of just how many floors are destructible.
Now on defense, Azami is an obvious pick because we need to have strongholds and it's still quite a small map,
despite the change that added one more bomb site.
Now if we look at the side of Villa, it is heavily different aside at 58%.
And I think there is a big surprise to many as we said that I was supposed to be small, but despite that defense is still very strong.
And at the very top of that, the office and art bombs site with 71% defensive win rate.
Jackie, it seems almost impossible to win an attack on that one.
It really does. It seems impossible.
Weirdly, we're actually still seeing teams go to aviate against first, even though this site is clearly the best.
However, I'm going to show you on this site just how Falcons won it last week.
Now they're playing up against G2.
You two are going for a tails up and you can see that they've got players and they've got focus on the staircases
There's free staircases that place into the basement
You've got the astronomy stairs the pantry stairs and the red stairs down on the bottom of your screen now
What you two want to do is they want to control primarily the astronomy steps and why do they want to do that?
Well, they've got two shields in place
They've got one shield here and one shield there that control both of the wine barrels in the garage door
The pan tree stairs the wine barrel down here and the bottom of red stars
Which means this area here if they control the astronomy stairs is a big big stronghold
And they've got two shields award and they've got all kinds of utilities now. They're ready for it
They control this they win the round
They also then play the bandit as well to try and bandit trick the garage walls just in case falcons go for a direct take
Bandit was available. Everything was therefore available now falcons. They read into this
they've attacked it, they know what's coming. 235 into the round, they send people into the
top floor and the middle floor within 25 seconds. One of those people is going to be Joom. He's
going to go in through the 90 window and he is going to send it all the way. Now, do you notice
the issue with G2 doing a strategy for astronomy stairs and holding it? They didn't have the
astronomy hatch reinforced. So what does Joom do with his Joom shotgun? He opens it and then he
will get the kills onto Alamau. Now this is actually a big problem for G2 because they've got the player here,
they've got the shield here, but they've got nobody holding him on the astronomy set. So Jume,
with a Florez drone, at the same time as Solotov on the Day Moss, come and pinch this player out
and they get the kill for free. And this is actually, Jume gets a double kill and will
hype Jume up, will say he's one of the best players in the world. This is a great team
play because you've got Grim Candela's, Grimby, sorry, you've got the Florez drone,
You've got Jume and you've got Soltov on the Daymoss all at the same time and then they get the kill
It's absolutely free and also they get a third kill now because Doki tries to refrag
Once they're in the 5 vs 2 they can just throw numbers at the problem, but ultimately for Falcons
They identified the weakness they identified the point that they wanted to clear
They went and cleared it and then from there on out they just traded to trade it trade
Honestly the fact that animo is there just above the stuff as with his pulse
and he's not completely clueless, a zoom-running boom-boom-boom thing and just coming to get rid of him.
And they are so good at figuring out the exact weak point of the strategy and just the fact that they could have taken garage
and just went for a direct take and instead went to do all that and did it perfectly.
It's just another testament of how complex they can get.
So what you're getting when you have two of the best teams in the league going up against each other on the name-up?
I mean, I have a big villain and joy, I mean contrary to some of our players that we have spoken to so far in the interviews,
But I hope we get to see it again today, maybe even in our first match with heretics going off against GK.
Coming in a 7th and 5th on the leaderboard respectively and with the way that this heretics roster has been spilling themselves out in the league.
Again we have a situation where Gruby and Jupor will face a forward TV in Skeptic.
But I want to start talking about Gruby and Jupor and their team first because something crazy happened last week.
They had this crazy win streak going for themselves in best of one inside the ML.
And that ended.
Yeah, 7 win streak ended now after the last playday.
It started all the way in playday 4 of last stage.
When I think Gike finally figured out there's too many cooks in the kitchen,
we need to have an IGL and that IGL is gonna be grubby
and they figured out their identity.
And that's the biggest thing because after that look at that,
they just dominated the rest of the stage and looking at stage 2.
It started all well up until that game against Shifters.
And the big question mark for me is now, as the only one handed, how are they going to react to it?
Are they going to change their playstyle? Are they going to start doubting?
Because they seem so frustrated in that game against shifters.
That's the big thing. That really is the big thing. How will they go? Where will the momentum go?
We've just shown how their momentum spiked upwards.
They got beat last week. And actually in the very final round, I was a little bit worried about the mentality.
It looks like they're smiling now, so that's absolute threat.
But I was a little bit worried about their mentality because we've seen this team can be very momentum driven.
Now last week was a disappointment, does that disappointment continue?
Why was they a little bit worried? Well, we saw the ask, we memed on them a little bit, typing when they were down.
They lost this game, and as you'll see, just as this final player dies, they leave before saying GD.
Now that's only a really small thing, but actually it comes down to sportsmanship to me, it comes down to respect.
And I do worry a little bit that it could go wrong if they let it. I don't expect them to, but if they let it, then that last week certainly was a big upside.
Yeah, you want to see them bounce back from the first signs of negativity that we're seeing from that roster there.
On the other side though, when we're looking at heretics, there's sparks of positivity.
It's not really transiting itself yet into points, into good results for it.
We're seeing rounds, we're seeing ideas that are looking good.
It's just that execution where it's lacking a little bit.
Yeah, obviously it was hard for us to judge the insider cons when they were all speaking Italian,
but now that we have English cons and we can listen a little bit to skeptic,
their new addition, the IGL, the former IGL of Team Heretics, although it back this year to
see Team National, we've seen him and we've heard him lead this team a really good way. On a game
of bank against Team Secret, it almost seemed that they could take them on and go all the way
through overtime. There was this round, for example, where he calls the execution with
Team Drops down, everyone follows him. There was a little bit of a delay between the drop of
him with the Ying and the rest of the guys going downstairs, but except for this, I think we
So for the first time heretics able to come up with a great game plan
Yeah able to read their opponents change what they were doing inside the game before it seems to be very stale very
Much just rehearsing what they had probably expected to do in streams
No, I can see that they have an ideal I can read into their opponents and adapt and the fruit was kind of test for that
So we get the benefit of being able to listen to the comms
It felt like from a heretic point of view sketch it was given the right information the right wing conditions the right reactions
But his team maybe what actually listening to him and that's also why they ended up losing that game
I will say they did have
mitigation last Tuesday while
playing with us up. It looks
like we've got all five players
back. It looks like last
minute is back in the lobby
and that's all good from their
point of view. There he is.
Perfect. Um, but what I want to
see from our six is them
leaning to the kind of fast
cheesy matter a little bit more.
They didn't play day one when
they played and they found
relative success then if they
can do that and get to
call it cleanly. They do
have improvement in them.
Well, definitely to know
what kind of map they're
going to if that's going
to be part of the occasion
that kind of cheesy play
easy play that we're seeing on
the field. I don't have to
short attack as well with GK on
not on defense. Do you think
that is going to be much of a
play today? Oh, she kind of
thinks I think it's certainly
possible on cafe. You've seen,
you know, the top floor, the
Hings, Candela's down the
skylight. You've also seen,
you know, the basement, the
rushes, the senses, all that
type of stuff is certainly
possible on the side of
Castle. Yeah, but I'm also
a little bit scared on the
side of heretics because
obviously I've seen you
can play that map at the
WC and in my opinion, it's
the map that broke them in
the sense that they were
playing against dark zero.
They led that they won the
They won the first game and then they went all the way 7-7 and they lost 8-7 against RG on that map
Which then led to them losing 7-0 and basically being eliminated from the run at EWC and in my opinion
I felt like it's always been a great map for them. They did play it in stage 1, they tried to do it for example
But overall is it enough, you know when I look at the side of heretics
I feel like you can't learn a lot from what I've showed so far. It's the first time we see skeptic play with them
Yeah, everybody was just smiling in the player cams just there so much typing in the chat
They all just look happy to to be here going into this one
We're looking at quite standard events so far. I would say that yeah, these are me particularly is very very strong
It's it's strong for the basement is strong to look at the top floor think about the piano room
Um that you want to hold it was armies that it's just impossible to attack even for pro players
So get rid of these army get rid of the one eye which was seen increase
Eventually the amount of bang that was seen since he had his bluff of course got the shield
But the C4 cut the secondary shot. It's genuinely one of the most insane operators right now
And Grim is one of the most important operators to remove those very strong positions
If you think of cocktail rappel for example a lot of rim are gonna be repelling in those windows
You think of piano same story if you think of baseman
He's used that big three door to remove the big player
So usually removing him is gonna be really worth it. Well the objective for team heretics is clear
Can they switch things up a little bit just like we are doing here today for today?
we have Ace and Demo.
Thank you very much and the fellas on the sofa, yes, it is me and Tim today, this is
a bit of a new one.
Tim, I'm just a customer fluff who's got, you know, the big blonde hair.
You've got the big bald head, so it's a little bit different here for me.
Yeah, it's the bit of a switcheroo, isn't it really?
We've gone from one extreme to the other demo and you just don't have to live
with it for tonight, but I'm sure that you will enjoy yourself just like everybody.
to enjoy this game between
DK and heretics. How about that
for an opener? Yoga doesn't give
us time to breathe demo
five seconds into the round
and we've lost the demos.
Oh, I don't think that's
pretty on point for a cafe, isn't
it? Again, we will touch, of
course, on the map. This is
what cafes all about. You're expecting to see
these aggressive plays, the spawn
beats, plenty of windows you can take advantage
off. Obviously, you look at
I think the boys in the sofa were saying, yeah, pretty good map for GK.
I think they've also got some good international experience on this map,
which I think is always going to be a big bonus.
But there is one thing that does worry me.
All of the games that that GK have on cafe, they all go into overtime.
Tim, so they never have an easy cafe.
No, never a clean win, as you say, maybe an opportunity for heretics,
but it's been a tough start for heretics.
A little bit of a mix bag for GK one and one so far.
maybe not quite as dominant as we saw them in stage one, but it's early into the
proceedings yet, so plenty of time for them to get rolling. I like this position
from the post just playing inside a court there, just going to be feeding all
that information on any frontside, pushes into his team, so it's just constantly
on that heartbeat scanner at the minute and seeing almost everything that's
going on here. That's a nice position. You can scan out forward towards
reception, which he's doing at the moment. Also keep a track on if anyone
wants to try and push down the red stairs. He'll have info on that too. Jump in there from
skeptic but he just went by himself. His teammate has not pushed in with him. That is going
to be a kill that goes begging no trade available for team heretics and they lost that first
man. Now they've lost the second. No coordination there. That's going to be a big problem
that they'll get punished for throughout this game if they allow it to continue.
Zoto canister goes down for the time being to keep Yoggus safe. He is the one
to the left. He's got a
very strong task with holding
down that VIP position. I'll be
honest. I don't think there's
going to be too much for him to
worry about. So actually dips
himself back just in time there
and gets the scan as well, so he
knows that the threat could be
there vertically. Just going to
be as you said demo watching
those red stairs just helping
you poor pounds as he comes
around the corner. He's got
Connecting these two together feeding the entire, he's done his job there, it doesn't matter that he gets down all in the way, great play from Sark's throughout the round.
Yeah, around that just never really got going there for heretics. I mean, pretty easy for GK. I mean, you assert your dominance right from the get-go, you go for a spawn peek, you hit the jackpot, you get a Deimoson.
If you think about the position that the pulse was in the whole time, Tim, what they really needed was a couple of nades being tossed in there.
And they never had that. They lost their Deimos and Skeptic was the other operator who had grenades
He was obviously killed as well after using his and it's just at that point
Hope becomes such an issue. You know, you look at the lineup. They're a lot more situated
I feel for trying to go above, you know, a bit more vertical work
You're missing out on operators like Ergon because they've got a plan down
I mean Capitai was well be a good one if you're struggling with those kind of positions and well speaking of Capitai
Lola was dropped on it straight away, but
And for heretics, you lose those players early on, you lose them for pieces of utility, and it's very easy for GK just to essentially just sit in their hands then, like never once did GK feel in danger, they were safe the whole time.
Yeah, it was really nice from them, they controlled two or three power positions, caught VIP being the particular two, and then they had support players, you poor grubby were playing in that role.
that role. They're kind of a
link role, almost between socks
and site between younger and
site, but just there to make the
challenges that those players
don't necessarily need to
directly. It works really, really
nice. Immediately concerned about
this lineup coming in from
heretics. They're going to be
attacking reading. And if I'm
having to look across, they
don't have too much in terms of
verticality. They've got a
couple of secondaries and
they've got them also on the
primary shot, but it's going
It's about the time it's gonna take us all you'd like to see a sledge. You'd like to see a Ram just something
Maybe some leaving an ash with tarp, you know with the soft breach just any kind of option to rip that floor up a little bit quicker
But also not this or reliant if they lose the day must again this time they could be in serious trouble
He's just rolled into the site and there's lots of values
It's just been able to split this way in however. He's not finding the second pill there
it is that's what he needed and that really puts the pressure on GK you're kind of scrambling now
I mean a lack of traps on the GK lineup that's what you have to take notice of
they've been pretty heavy and drum denial with the Mazi, ADS as well but in terms of a lesion or
Fenrir and Ella it's all been four-footed and because of that you leave gaps in your defense and
well Predator takes them in able to take advantage of it. Understandable that they go for the
res there given that he's got the most destructive shotgun if they do want to get some
from GK's perspective, so Rami's just running around the map. Just uncontested, he killed
just three people just running around. Obviously, you poor, that is just a moment where somebody's
had to do something to get them out of that hole, and he set a cracking shot onto the
vault, onto the player, going for the plant. Beautiful C4. I mean, like we was none
the wiser, and then he also gets the final kill too. A very strange round from both
walking through Zara, gets himself in, gets a few kills, but where's the support? Where's the backup? Where's everything else coming with it?
And that's going to be the difference that I think you continue to see through this, Cathy.
But right now, GK, I don't know what's going on at the beginning of these rounds, starts going through a quick one, but this time, it goes the other way.
Heretic's pick up the kill while we're managing to find his man, and I think that will do something akin to a cold shower for GK on the spawn peeks.
Yeah, it's just gonna calm them right down.
Oh, damn. I mean, for a first game, I mean, they always say that your opener and your finale have to be the two best games, and at the moment the opener is living up to that.
I can't breathe right now of what's going on, but it is heretics.
We've been able to pick off that opening pitch just like they did last time, but hopefully now they can try and capitalize on that.
against the ramy's just in straight away in towards this mid-floor
He's been held by two players ask and also Yobu who are aware of his location as he foregoes out when nothing comes often
Oh, he does get taken down ask runs in towards pillar chips him for the soft wall
People has taken quite a bit of damage along the way
So needs to be careful himself one bullet from the wrong gumbels team out of the round four versus four
But only you could be forgiven for thinking that we were maybe getting towards the end of the round given
I mean, I really this one started only five seconds in when we all got that opener, but no, we've got an absolute age left on the clock. One minute 45 left to go. Top floor presence is still there from GK heretics, not yet in control of that top floor.
Halfway through the round need to get themselves moving. There's still three outside at the minute demo.
in Britain's site again.
They've been able to walk in.
No traps, what's more, from GK, plant going down.
Any reaction, anything at all.
Doesn't look like it, they are fighting upstairs at the moment.
Drubby takes the drop in, but
doesn't have the information, one player outside on the window has to try and hold.
Ask is of course with him,
you're gonna be able to take them down
and have them try and collapse in the two remaining players.
Both of them inside of trainers have to try and hold their angles.
But GK, circling, they know where the last man is.
the game. They could have had
that vertical challenge onto
the plant. However, forgetting
that heretics spot the
opportunity to get themselves
in. Stop bring the defeats down,
but again, it's that same
situation. They just a little
bit ahead of themselves. So
that's what I'm trying to
do. I'm just trying to
to get themselves in. Stop
bring the defuse down. But again,
it's that same situation. They
just a little bit ahead of
themselves. They just weren't
ready for the post plant. Chiquin
were right there on top of them,
smothering them a word that you've
used already and just really,
really nice defense from them.
Like you say, give up the bomb
site a little bit. Don't need to
worry too much about it. Play for
They've got to be more solid. Yeah
time out as well. I think they'll
be kicking themselves to me in
the concept of you think about
the map and you think about the
side that heretics are on. They're
on the attack. I mean, I always
think attacking cafes and
nightmare. Spawn Peaks are
obviously a massive issue.
There's a lot of vertical as
well. So actually getting into
the building could be pretty
tricky. And these are
opportunities. I feel so that
have two really good
opportunities to get to attacks
and she aren't feeling as
just one player. Uh, we're
because we're out of time and
security because we've got a
whole set of thought and
then you can't feel in his as
confident as what they were. Um
is a case where it'll be a
tale of two halfs, then, like
we've seen it before in
cafe. Maybe Heretic's will
switch over on to their
defense, and they'll just be
Well, it's like this a little
bit more going on. I think
But we've got to start seeing them play better even you know prior to getting out
They just need a couple of confidence case they need a bit of momentum because right now GK
Just all over many 50-50 gunfight seems to go in GK's direction
We saw three of them in that last round and so like you know
Well, we're getting picked up outside by the Reaper of pulse
They can't be losing players like that
And so I think heretics need to get on top of those fundamentals and then perhaps we can start thinking about the comeback
right now. Three zero great
stuff from GK. Absolutely in
control of things, and they are
going to go back down to that
ground floor. Sacramento
drone goes in will do its job
and open up a little bit of the
wall. Maybe not quite as close
as he might have liked. I mean,
last time they were here, it
was. Failure to get anything
for much more of a slower approach.
They're not as rapid into the building
as what they once were.
And for GK, no intent of roaming.
Very happy, just the older angles.
Yes, maybe they don't have that pulse anymore
that they utilized well inside of Coat.
But again, it's not always something easy.
It's not as though pulse is like the big necessity
that you look at in cafe.
I think it's just a bit of a hindrance, especially.
Maybe you've got a fire like Sark too.
I mean, even as fanatic days, cafe Sark's on pulse.
That was always a goatee.
So I understand the ban, of course, from heretics.
Now, for heretics, they've been able to go a little bit further.
What they did last time, Tim, we actually see some vertical work being done
and players not losing their lives.
They can actually start formulating attacks.
Here, a Gershwin line triggered as well there.
And we see a down.
That's going to be you, poor.
He was playing in the same position last time in wedding.
I think we've just got Aski hoping to pick somebody up
as they go for that finish.
on the other side of the ground floor.
We've got yoga managing to pick up a kill on to Lolo.
Takes down the Flores that's been hounding that freezer wall
and the utility of GK with those Rotero drones.
So we leave ourselves four versus four,
but effectively four versus three years.
We've got you put down at the minute.
They think I have a little luck.
Is it possible to get to him?
But that's the point.
It's out very quickly that that is not going to happen.
Yeah, I don't think that kill's going to come.
the revive sorry yeah he's went for it and he's been punished should have just
let him bleed out at that point means you've lost bakery control now that
should be the heads up for plasma just to walk on in and for GK again it's
desperation plays they have to go for triangle for the retake that's a good
one back though takes down the player in the verts the bakery is in control
now for heretics there's just need to the next couple of gunfights are
particularly important two versus three yogurt takes some damage not ideal just
Check it where it came from. You've got to hit that Sarge.
Manage just to get the second though.
Can he get his man on the prefire?
He knows that he's there, but he's just playing for time right now.
Flicks to the pistol.
Surely not the last guess he does.
Triple from Sarge.
You said he's got a big place in him, Demo.
And he delivers just calling the mailman.
Beautiful stuff.
Triple to cause out the round.
And yet another round that GK should not have won.
It's just, it's just, it's ground all day, Tim.
It was Bill Murray at all, that's where is he?
It is just the same thing over and over again.
Heretic's in a great position, they have the man advantage,
and they just can't close it out.
Now, look, Tim, I'm going to be a little bit critical here.
Skeptic, you need to get in there.
He is essentially baited to the teammates and not even got to kill Tim.
He needs to have confidence, there is no confidence from Skeptic here.
didn't want to push the guy was calling for his teammates to help him.
He did not want to fight Sarkz and because of that Sarkz had read him like a book,
he knows that Skeptic doesn't want to go anywhere near him
and he just waits for his teammates to swing those head holes every single time.
Sarkz showing absolutely perfectly how losing the Scorpion can be at close range.
Not there of a gun to go up against, the narratives have just found out the hard way.
So 4-0 right now to GK and they are absolutely cruising.
They will continue their rotation, going back to reading room last time around.
It was a little bit of a funny round to be fair.
So I've just walked in and got a couple of kills, three in the end, inside or side.
That enabled them to get the diffuser down, but only one.
Well, to try and get the diffuser down, but then Newport comes out with a huge double kill,
including a Nitro along the way.
So it was a real scramble of a round. I think we're gonna see a little bit slower this time
I think heretics play more of their game get themselves into the building get that top floor control
But I write this starts is really feeling it nitro goes out not gonna get it's man
There's a little bit of damage to their army, but he lifts the fellow tail
Although it's gonna be another one of those or they're just gonna lose a man right from the get go
But thankfully gridlock is up a good operator is have also whenever you kind of delve into
This map think about the staircases being able to block those off
Very positive thing to keep alive
She probably here in the shaker position with love ADS is as well stacked up with him
There's a game that not in on a skylight and the flashes go in but
We're blind them and probably gonna get aggressive, but it's gonna work out. Nobody covering the hatch
The trade is there, but still Tim it's a class one here for GK. Yeah heretics must feel like the plane against six at some points here because
Every time they seem to get something go just cock his toes every time they get something going. It's always like there's that extra man there for GK
There's always somebody peeking around the corner. There's always somebody hitting him on a flight this time. It was group a three versus three a minute 15 left to go
to go. We've only got one
inside of the map. I've picked
upon this a couple of times
and heretics a minute 10 left
to go. There's only skeptic on
his own inside a cigar
teamwork. Where's his support?
Where's his assistance? If he
gets challenged and dies, who's
going to have any impact on
that?
Then it got. Still a lot that
they have to go through still
have their work their way in
through the top floor using
using the verts that they have, I mean very limited verts of course, and he's still trying
to get himself into the bombsite too. Good thing is though Tim, no C4's remaining here
for GK, so in terms of plump denial, it's one thing they don't have to worry about,
a whole good swing from Skeptic, able to take down Ryoghan, just meanders on into
sight with the LMG, pre-fires, ask in the middle of the bombsite and now starts.
He played big in the last round but feels like Tim this could be a little bit too
the game. I think it's a
little bit too big for him and
it will be surely had to be
around for heretics. There I
know I've commented that
they've given a few away when
they've had the opportunity to
win them, but I don't think
they've had any quiet in that
kind of position. Skeptic
goes in, makes a big play,
couple of kills, gets space
for the diffuser to go down
and creates a three V1. Very,
very good from heretics in
that round at least. I thought
that they dealt with a
couple of problems. Well, it
was a little bit wobbly when
they like grew bit onto that
They've responded well, they've reacted, and they've got themselves into a position to win, but I will still remain with those
Concerns that's kept it's walking in on his own here if he loses that fight 2v2
What did they do from that need to see better cohesion and teamwork from heretics?
Well, it's the one
I mean, they've rubbed the lamp quite a few times to them and got quite a few wishes out
of that genie of how they've played.
But they still want to try and get the last round here for a 5-1-1-1.
In terms of heretics, what's the game plan?
It feels like we've just kind of seen a mixture of attacks mostly from heretics.
We've seen the quick opportunity spot and we've seen the slow methodical.
I mean, I don't really know what is the best course for them.
I don't really know what is the best course for them here. I suppose if you want to base it off what happened last round
It was a little bit more slow a bit more direct
So I don't know how they want to go about that the fireplace this time, which to be fair last time
They were here it was that quick opportunity spotting
So it just depends and looking at the line-up Tim
You've got the twitch to remove potentially any traps and you've also got the nuke
Workout GK there for the retail quite easily and got themselves sorted
They see the boogie drone just over in the hatch and here goes the knock that you were interested in demo health presence
Reduction device will take them off the cameras for the time being Zorami manages to get groovy
He's been a shining light for this heretics team, but you poor he's gonna put the lights out
Wow, I do like that from Zorami using the ram drone to obviously create a lot of noise
so he can drop safely. And he was able to get one, but you poor at the moment. Eight
kills to his name on this defensive side. He is playing lights out and again for heretics
for our position where maybe the initial plan hasn't worked out.
Don't know if that was a backstop, Grubby. I would call it an entry. I would say quite
the opposite again look I'm just a caster you know I'm just seeing what we see
over here this is always a fun one and okay I was gonna say I should be dead
yogi's got switch you know what was that skeptic completely forgets about the
on the white stairs you poor was the prime target and now Lolo they know exactly where
he was and yoga finds another one well Tim that round end at like a lead balloon yeah
great finish there from gk just closing out a very solid first half five one it goes and
we can go over to our desk and see what they thought about it currently we are thinking
about what a lead balloon is at least Leo is walking about what it meant when you
you guys for mentioning that but what a
lead lead lead yeah a lead balloon yeah
so instead of like being filled with air
or anything or anything that would make
it go up lead would make it go down
okay great back to what matters what a
great house so far from a GK this is
kind of the response that we needed and
wanted to see from them after losing
the game last yeah at the same time I'm
just like it's the same story over and
over again heretics gets into a good
position they have the opening kill
that's our lurking onto the bomb
site again and again and again they're
in a position where with the man of the test you can go and plant. This is a 4v2 by the
way that just starts here. And then once again it was a 5v4 and this is a 4v4 where they're
planting and they managed to put the plant down at some point. And so it's always the
same situation where heretics, they get to a good spot, they manage to take the side,
they manage to have the bomb down and then despite that they still manage to lose.
And it's because they're losing all of the critical gunfights and on top of that
look at the confidence on the side of the J here. Look every round after that.
going looking for some big Jack they are feeling their confidence and when
nothing works they're going to go and win the important guy yeah it's so
intentional it's about making those big plays they're making the big plays
early trying to disrupt you know the very first round spawn people to laugh on
the demos big part of her six plants off the board and they just keep trying it
and they back themselves and back themselves to make the big plays now
once again and we have the privilege or maybe not privilege of listening to
the heritage comes once again it's people shouting over the top of each other it's people not listening to plan and you can see
That by the amount of time simply that's coming to the big place the key care making they knew about that player registered in the
Very well, they knew about him. They were ready from and then they peak one by one by one
They don't deal with him whatsoever and that was just the case throughout the whole round
They tried to play fast they didn't walk because the people want with them together as a team
They tried to play so same thing
What's interesting is that GK, they're not afraid to spread out, they're not afraid to leave gaps for Zahra to exploit, for example.
They know that whenever they're going to take site and plan the diffuser, they're just going to take their time and retake as one.
And that's where you see an experienced team versus a team that is full of little bit of rookies or a little bit of an experienced.
They really shine in their ability to come together. That's the big difference and that's why it's 5-1 right now.
Heretics now get to go on their defense. Should be a little bit easier for them as they just have to wait until GK takes that initiative
inside of these rounds, GK won't have a Grimm and a Ying to their possession.
Yeah, Grimm is not a surprise once again as we said before, super powerful on
cafe. Ying is especially interesting for those heavy executes. We know that Gike
loves the chaos so I'm not surprised that Ying is removed.
We're not pretty left open, it's army. It's army is allowed to be played inside of this round and
at least will be played for the next couple as well. It's not enough in reading but it is
going to go up to the top floor as well but as army is very very powerful so
keycair are we gonna have to play through it all they're gonna have to try and
lurk and find gaps which we know is generally their playstyle around the
is on me and the zombie is selected for this first round here enter the second
half
oh here we go to him if you had a braver after that
fantastic half where I mean there's quite a few moments them where it was
just fast and furious hey I needed it don't want to get on a bit here that was
I don't know if they mention the age too.
If you say so with them.
I get it in before you demo, I know you like to remind me.
So, let's get into the second half.
5-1 in favour of GK, they have looked very, very good for the lead at the minute.
They've been in control of most parts of this game,
if not all of them, very, very solid.
And they will now try on the attack.
As you said quite rightly, demo, two halves to a game of siege.
I don't know if I see heretics come back with just as strong a defense, they are going to be kicking things off in reading room and as the desk pointed out, we do have that as army on board with law upstairs in cigar at the minute.
Up on that top floor, piano being the place we'd normally associate, particularly with as army on this map can create a real labyrinth of those keeper barricades that keep you safe.
Yeah, just an annoyance, isn't it, of an operator where it's kind of like that tedious action where, oh, great, we have to go for all these Kiba buyers.
And this one place that everyone plays against, so we'll see how GK want to deal with it.
They do have, you know, a few nades in there that they can also utilize to remove these Ami buyers if needed.
But you also see a DMR on the side of Yoggos. That should be able to rip through those barriers pretty quickly if needed.
Neo4jK looks to be just as standard clear, they're gonna take their time, make sure the drone work is done correctly.
They also like the iQ pick here from start.
It'll be great for that pulse, so if AQI does get spotted out then that is maybe a potential operator that they can try and hit very very fast if they know his location.
Can you see AQI? Just in sight, he's able to get a lot of information here.
to see the return effort. We
saw the pulse doing particular
work against them, and it's going
to leave a tricky decision for
GK. They managed to get a
Nitro on the back of it. They're
going to be now be trying to get
a second of GK when that next
bank comes after three rounds
are going to have a choice. Do
they get rid of this army or
do they get rid of the pulse?
We'll have to see which
where they go. And if these
problems continue to stack up,
we might actually see again
of this second half which would be a little bit unusual on cafe so free charge goes down opens up some of those verticals
The IQ gets to get you out just in time sees the post sees the nitro. They know exactly what is going on
Yeah, safe enough there for starts
We'll clear them away
Only set of breaching that they have as well
It's just the one set of charges less than probably wants to try and get some sort of with the shot
Now what do you think he's done to some of that?
Still?
Four heretics, they know the win-con.
It's going to be that retake.
See that ass?
He's going to be holding onto that pillar, Sarkz.
We'll drop and it's an easy bait.
Dramio's thinking, oh, I'm going to kill the guy on the door,
but nope, there's a guy covering from pillar.
Looks like another one was maybe moving to take his position.
I don't think they're going to quite risk going for the swing.
They have actually managed to get the cross, but Ascii's there.
Great cover again.
Acquitaken out.
Sarkz with the final kill.
that was a really nice execute
from GK. They took top. Please.
It just shows the difference
between what they were doing
and what heretics were doing. If
you remember, I commented on
heretics attacking that
reading start. It wasn't much
vertical presence. They
hadn't brought the operators to
open the floor up. And to be
fair, neither of GK. They
don't have the one set of
soft breach charges, but they'd
still got that top floor
control. They'd worked it.
They'd opened up as much as
they needed to. They forced
the defenders out of sight
and the execution looked a lot
different for them, whereas
it was a bit scrambled for
pillar, you plant on the reading door. You know, it doesn't get more simple of siege
than what they've just done. Sometimes simple siege, if it's done well, Tim,
it'll get you around. It will get more than one demo, you know you can quite easily
win games just by having your fundamentals nailed on that's why we
talk about it so often, we talk about comms, we talk about teamwork, we talk
about pushing together. You know these are all basics really, we're not
to get back into this one.
We've got talking high level
stuff here. It's just those
basics and teams all the way up
to phase G to everybody else get
these things wrong sometimes,
and it can massively impact your
performance, but let's get back
into this one. It is 6 11
more around for GK. The right
is on the wall here for
heretics. It feels they just
have to take this one round at
a time now. They're going to
So that signal straight away. There's going to be some top floor work
So the time radar scan is just going to give a little bit of intel as well for this player inside of main door
So I think this is going to be a tough round for her. It takes whilst that's the ex on the board
Once more slow and steady
Doc's going to be gathering a bit of information
Will send skeptic
scrambling back upstairs with his tail between his legs.
For GK, what's going to be the plan?
You can see U-Port has the ramps you would expect that they're going to do a bit of vertical action in towards Piano.
They'll be trying to open up all the train museum.
But if you do go for that vertical playtime, if you try and go upstairs,
you need to make sure you're going to retake.
You know, same way that we've seen that GK were able to do a really good retake whenever
to get the bomb planted. On
this site. Same rules apply. You
have to be able to stop those
offenders from retaking upstairs.
You can see that's why they brought
in not just one operators really
good for the flank, but two of
them. You've got gridlock gridlock
and no matter. The kill from
skeptic day once skeptic really
wants to keep himself active
here on red stairs. Two reasons
what he can play that window.
That's unfortunate. I was going
to drop. We move on. But
normally we would think about solace as being somebody who's using the verticals to deny the plant using that scanner in this case for a
plant inside of mining
Skeptic can actually use that scanner through the wall instead and spray through the softball
So I really like his position there if he can keep himself locked in
He could be a real key factor should GK find the space to put the diffuser down another killer comes in
That's no man and snake off the board now. It's up to three versus four GK
30 seconds left on the board. It's not gonna be easy for them. They just thought I've enough control down there
Yeah, they still need to clear the player inside a train
This is the operator who's stopping them from getting themselves in towards that plant position
You need to try and get Acwy out of here if you want to try and make a move into the bomb site and I wouldn't say they've done that
Oh, so well here Tim, but I think they're still gonna try and go for the drop
But yeah, just look at me in the perfect position. They never assessed the threat
it's not a good idea to do
it. Yeah, not been able to deal
with him. Eight seconds left
to go. It's not just going to
come to a rush for kills. There
are big takes full advantage of
it. Groovy with one, but no
more is a mean English kill as
he causes out the round and
heretics managed to get
themselves a second and the
first of five in a row that
they're going to need to hold
on to take this one to over
I think it was. For G K. It's
got to a point where it's 30
seconds. You notice them didn't
really have much control of the
bomb site. Again, players still
inside a train. Then you get
punished because of that. Again,
just again bear with us. Everyone
had seen that Lolo did drop,
but didn't matter in the end
game. He's probably thinking,
wow, got a lucky break there.
you know, it's not going to
be a good chance to carry on
with this game. But quite
right. As you said, Tim, look
that's one. You need four more
that's the tough bit. This is
it. It's about chaining them
together now. It's about, you
know, building on that that
bit of confidence momentum and
when you look at the way that
GK have played so far, I
couldn't think you know, are
they not going to be able to
get one round somewhere else
is they're not going to be
around whether they may even
just try a little rush or
that. We're going to have to
get back into the lobby, but I
don't think it's going to be
too long until we start back
up again. But look, the
positives to team erotics there.
It was a solid defense that
would never really on the
back foot three versus one as
it came down at the end. They
knew what was going on. GK
didn't really have many answers.
They didn't. They brought along
the Ram. You know, I've
spoken about these operators
with the ability to open up
the verticals and I haven't
seen too many of them so far
the game. So far, this game
when we do see them didn't
really get put too much use. As
you say, the player in trend
equate was just able to stay
there throughout the entire
round. So GK needs to make
sure that they're using that
utility that they bring in
those gadgets that they're
bringing to the maximum effect.
want to approach this. I think for the most part for GK, again, very default in terms of
what they've been wanting to achieve here in the attacks. They've been bringing in the
soft destruction. They've wanted to try and go above, play the verticals. They know
they maybe didn't play the verticals, but at least they opened up the verticals.
And of course for kitchen, there's plenty of that. I haven't really seen many sides
really attempt the kind of kitchen rooms that used to see back in the day. You know,
I remember we used to see like scope was was like a really popular
Operator that used to see kind of run around in this map knowing that you can play upstairs
Cause a little bit of havoc and then just TP back to site very safely
That's something we haven't really seen here today
It doesn't look to be the case either for heretics more than happy to probably just sit in turtle
He'll all or maybe thinking about a quick spawn peak here
can work from above to clear utility as well especially around freezing maybe clear off the wall
making it a little bit easier should they be choosing to go in there and the fact they've got
the sense suggests that they want to use those light screens to block off the IP at the minute
we've got lasmo playing over there on the mute just block his line of sight and enable
that push through to freezer but they've got to be careful because that nitro he doesn't
really need to see where it's going he just needs to throw it in a direction
Looks to be that Robbie's going to be doing some verts himself of that DMR before the
Sledgehammer comes in here from past.
And Yolga is going to be really important here to him of course to clear away the utility
in the bomb site.
Looking at the ACO cameras that he can maybe get.
And of course the GoyoCast are more important than that.
Here we go.
The Heartreach gadget hatch is going to be opened up so actually Tim we're looking
towards this freezer execute. However, if you are going to try and go freezer, you need
to try and get your way in towards VIP and restaurant. And that moment last week is in
a great position. He's got a C4. He can see for in the freezer if they go for the drop.
So that has to be a player that we have to highlight. We have to look and say he needs
to go if they want to try and win this round.
Yeah, my concern for GK is just that it's maybe going to be a reliance. I don't
I'm not sure if a sense gadget has actually been laid. They're all out now. If one's been laid across this corridor, then it's going to be a reliance on that being enough to get them across. It hasn't. So that at least means those who say they're going to have to clear VIP and restaurant.
Take it to Nitro. Out of the sky is a big first step. Yupo coming around. He wants this challenge, but right now, Lastmore keeping nothing and he doesn't really need to.
I'm just a peek and get groovy aquey onto yoga. It's all falling apart for GK here in round nine as last
More gets another onto you poor. It's falling apart and it's all up to ask above 14 seconds left to go
He's just that you're honestly gonna maybe find an impactless kill here if he's lucky
But no aquey gets him on the reverse angle and that's gonna be heretics this switch done that much is for sure
Wow
Aratix are locking it out. Very good hold. They knew their wincon. They had Lazmue still inside of VIP can sit there
Hold down light really puts GK in a difficult position
No timeout Tim. They're gonna let it go for I think another round here
Which is interesting
See what the bands are
Still might call it we'll see but they might just let it go maybe to 6-4 before they
I think that's fine. I think
64 is fine. I think let the
bands come out. You know, see
what happens. You've taken
solace off the board now. You
know, Steve, that that's a
change in itself. So see if
that does what you want it to
do. Does that have the impact
you managed to get it over
the line? We've seen some
great work by skeptic on the
so far. So give it a world
and then yet if that doesn't
work out, then get that
time out and see what's
happening at 64. You've
still got two rounds to
the last couple of rounds. I
think they're just going to be
hoping that they haven't left it
too late to settle into this
one because GK, of course, as you
see at the top of your screen
still with a commanding lead
three more opportunities to
cause this one out lower up on
the top floor on the Mosey
applied to the top floor on
the Mosey, but the
top floor on the Mosey
applied to the top floor on
the top floor on the mozzie. Applying those mozzie pests is going to try and create a
little bit of an intel blackout up on that top floor and force them to come here and
face check. On top of that last mozzie's got the blackout cameras out there as well. So
heretics should know what's going on and then Mike, well, just pick up one or two
on the entry there.
Yeah, I think they're sniffing it out once more.
Skaptic on the pillar door.
Just waiting to see.
Follow.
Probably gonna stick his head out this window three times soon.
This is just the element of cafe.
It's that careful nature that the attackers have to have.
She don't want to be losing that opening pick.
I mean, I still feel a little bit tense here, Tim.
Yes, they're certainly not a simple round by any means.
Thinking about it, Lola was really thinking about it again,
but knows that there could have been trouble.
I think at best he maybe would have got a trade out of that one.
There was another player around that area,
but as it is, Yaga is going to be on those windows,
and that is the start that Eroticz did not want.
area but as it is yoga it's going to be on those windows and that is the start that erotics did not
want you poor man it's just to take down ceramic who i've already said has been a bit of a shiny
light so far in this game for heretics there goes aqua as well another one of those players on a
bigger performance right now five versus three gk with an absolute age of time left on the board
as well that they can use to plot plan drone and just build out the rest of their own
Yeah, just take your time now GK done the hard work
Who kills go in your favor you've all of your operators alive. You've got the verts and the ram
I just like end simple siege and quick they've shown us already that they can play simple sage
There you go skeptic
Getting a little bit desperate and no way he has to try and find the killback
He's went for the flight hasn't worked out for him and that last way and Lolo in a very difficult position on the 5v2
still got three C4s maybe we could get a kill each and then top the gun game it
would be free but GK so much time remaining just have to get the drones
in C4 goes that gets nothing and this is where GK can just start applying the
pressure 35 seconds left to go heritage needs to grab themselves the next two
kills as an absolute minimum here we saw you poor able to do it from this
exact position low low mimics at least the first takes down yoga that's gonna
be diffuser down cold as well GK needs to recover that 20 seconds left to go
they might opt to just play for the kills here and get aggressive they're not
gonna find them like that though a little bit of a wild swing around the
corner doesn't find the default cam Nitro goes out it's gonna be shot out
able to complete the plant and it's now all up to last more 1v4 becomes a
1v3 as he finds Starks three more to find and GK you feel have had too
to get into that first half.
It wasn't great, but Tim, that's
all for us for the first game.
We'll take a bit of a break.
It's a fantastic from GK to close it out. A great win for them. Seven rounds to free heretics tried to get themselves back in, but just that first half. It wasn't great. But Tim, that's all for us for the first game. We'll take a bit of a break.
I
I
I think it's nice to win after a tough lose last week and I'm happy that we made it work against Heretics.
Grabby, I'm sad because you broke the magical sentence. You said see you tomorrow and I didn't see you tomorrow.
What happened? Tell me.
But this happened to be fair. I was all upset that I broke the curse. I think I was more upset about that I broke the curse and we lost the game.
Not every day you can win and it's part of the part of the job, you know, some days you win some days you
You just have to take it on the chin and keep improving keep going better better
Groupie with with the game today go up against heretics. You guys had very very clear intentions
I think it's worth saying you were spawn peeking all the time on the defense
And you seemed very very ready for Zara on the backstop as well. Was that all just part of today's game plan?
Well, to be fair, we kind of knew how skeptic Snake is as IGN, and we knew what Stratz is going to call for the team and the attack, so we are kind of ready.
And also to be fair, it's Rettix, you know, he was around me on the backstop, I think I saw that like 100 or 200 times already, so I don't think it's something that you cannot expect, you know, you need to be there.
And we were laughing like the first round, second round, third round, the guy was again in the leading, in the leading, dying, dying, dying, but he was keep doing that.
Then he changed for Nog and again he was on the backstop, you know.
So it's something that we just knew about the team, because it's the kind of the identity of the team, you know, their player, you know, always on the backstop.
So we are ready.
But also like, we kind of knew everything they're gonna do since like Skeptik said he's still calling the same attacks as he was with us in the team, you know.
So not much change.
So we were smiling about this today and we just played good, you know.
We are ready for everything.
everything. Sounds good. Now you know that we love talking to you but we kind of wanted
to hear a little bit from Ask as well because at the end of the game we call you guys, so
I'm chatting about the interview a little bit and Ask is probably better if I don't
get on there. I won't quote his exact same words but he had something to say. What
do you think that could have been? Well I can say for Ask, I basically said that
those guys shouldn't play the game no more because he called them bad and that's
what Ask wanted to say on the interview that they shouldn't play Siege. But
But us is a crazy guy you know like as always love to chat and make sure that he's there for the next interview
So you guys want you want to see me tomorrow ask will be there ask will be there because he's the king of
Of throsh talk, so he's gonna be there, but
He has probably a lot of a lot of more stuff to say than I do because I'm a nice guy guys
But then you break in the curse again or the streak of
Nothing a new one. Yeah, maybe maybe ask me
Yeah, we need to start a new one. We need to start the Brazilian curse now
We're gonna see us tomorrow, yeah, I guess if he's asked we'll be there on taterview, no matter what, he's gonna be there.
Even if he loses, he's gonna be there behind the camera.
We're not for the back step from that. We'll hold you. Wherever he is, he's gonna be there.
Alright, awesome. Sounds good. We'll make a deal on that, groupie. Thanks for your time and good luck tomorrow.
Nice to see you guys. Thank you. Bye-bye.
I love that. That was very funny at the end there. I'm very curious to hear what asked us to say now, but of course, you know, I feel like it's deserving, you know, they get to talk a little bit, because this was an easy game, there was a little bit of a, you know, hesitation in the middle there.
Heretics came back with a few rounds, but in the end, GK got it done.
I mean, it was always going to be the way when they got a 5-1 split, realistically, but the nature of how they got the 5-1 split, it was a couple of actually big moments.
It was cool. This one here. It was round two as well. Those two rounds particularly could have been the other way and heritage would have left over 3-3 half.
So, you know, Kike weren't amazing, amazing on the strategy of the defensive. It did take big individual performances. The good news is they've got the big individual performance right now to be able to pull those rounds off.
And that's exactly what happened. Yes, they then stumbled a couple of rounds. They got a couple of rounds wrong. It was very, very scripted, very well managed, but other than that, perfect.
Yeah, it's just the nature of Café, right?
You have to have a couple of rounds in that type where you're just sparring with your opponent,
trying to find a way to close off these rounds.
And because of the rotations and the way it works on this match,
you clearly have like what?
Really three rotations most of the time that you're going to go through.
Obviously, Gike had time to head up and read into them
and finally close out the match.
I think, you know, looking at the performance on both sides.
Heretics, once again, the first few steps are good.
I think that they're gaining the advantage,
They are quite smart in the way they do it.
But after that, they crumble under the pressure.
It seems that in terms of comms, they are struggling to align.
It seems that it's hectic instead of skeptic.
And that they cannot close out the rounds whenever
they have the advantage.
And honestly, I just look at Upo there.
And I think, all the way back to stage one,
we were speaking of Barbie.
At the HL, Starks asked everyone, Yuga as well,
we are not speaking about Upo.
because Ubor used to be the support here.
But look at his evolution from stage one to stage two.
This is a comparison of his statistics, obviously,
between the two of them.
Look at that.
It's a completely different man.
He became important.
It's the sunglasses.
There's two bad jokes right after another.
Oh, no.
Oh, I'm just starting the curse now.
Too many cooks in the kitchen in my head.
Happens.
I have no response.
You can just continue.
Yeah, keep fighting.
I used to be the one to run out.
I've exhausted all that I could do from that jokes besides you're closer to to the age of a dad you should love
All right
Yeah, yeah before you two get into a fight
I think we'll move on to our next game all the day and it's our game all the day
We're talking about twisted minds going up against shifters if you two would stop laughing
We'll talk about why this is our match of the day them we talked about it
you know both teams
Unbeat them so far both these teams could potentially be that fourth team making it to a soccer
But one thing we haven't mentioned yet on the left side of your screen bless going up against his former team
Yeah, he is he absolutely is he's going to be wanting to get one over on them
I think both sides of this team, you know blast instead of itself
We was going to him we spoke to shifters as well both of them said it didn't really work
Yeah, but that's not going to make it
You know any less hungry for either of these teams or either of these parties to want to get one over each
What is going to want to be his whole team more than any of them tonight?
And we mentioned it before, it's so important for the two of them to finally make it to an
Aster event.
There were investments on the set of shifters once again, not only because of the support
that they have, the support staff, the gaming house in Geneva, where they can go and bootcamp.
On top of that, there was money put on the line to get natural and citizen out
of traffic.
So obviously it's a lot of investment, it's been there for a long time.
I knew the shifters project now is one year and a half old, and it's only
delivered one event which was a unique major so I think there is a lot of pressure on their side
and on the set of Twisted Nights it's the same story they're also you know quite well in terms of
investment they got Mugli they got Blaz again and for these guys coming out of the Soul X City
major thinking that we would see them as that staple top 4 eml teams they cannot need to become
that one because they've completely forgotten that title after stage one. I'll talk about these
investments that shifters have been making because they have been going through a lot of
roster moves over the last few months, but they've also gone through some changes with their IGL.
A bit of a check-up in Stage 1, but we're doing it again now that Citizen is taken on that role.
Yeah, we actually threw NAVE under the bus a little bit in Stage 1,
where the performance and the points for gaming the attack win rate really didn't go that much better than before.
Yeah, yeah, but just as you know, obviously, we're pointing out NAVE here.
It's not on the shoulders of NAVE that we're doing it.
Yeah, no.
It's just that the lineup that NAVE had as an IGL, it just didn't work.
Was it the fault of NAF or the fault of a lineup? It's another question.
Exactly. And now we've got Citizen Kanna coming in as well as NAF.
It's important to say NAF is still strong boys in the team, still in the team.
He's not gone. But look at the improvement.
Their joint first place in the ML, they've won both of their games so far.
Their attack win rate, that's really the metric I judge teams by.
If a team is good, if a team is a top team, they can attack very well.
The attack win rate of Skyrocketed when they've got Citizen and NAF together
in the two lead voices in this team.
And I think that's why we're seeing sheathers up the top of the lead, but that's why we're seeing, you know, the man on your screen there, right, be the monster of the last week.
Exactly.
Because he's just got such a good platform to do it from.
I think looking at the lineup, Anne, it's just so balanced because you have Robbie and Freck.
Yeah.
Finally on that 4th form position where they can really shine as entries.
NAF is perfect as a backline shortcaller.
You've got Citizen as the ideal, and Deadshot as a really experienced flex.
All in all, you have identity, you have poorer voices, and you're frying poorer.
that into a team, and that's what makes them super interesting to watch.
How many freckin' bullets are we gonna see today?
Well, that heavily depends on CD-Drop's double digits on it.
At least for how much money is he flashing to the screen. That's the real question I'm asking.
We'll keep our eyes peeled for that. You mentioned already big changes for both these teams, also on the side of Twisted Minds.
And it's helping them get the good start, and kind of like the bounce back that you wanted to see after missing out on EWC.
They already took down one of the big teams inside that supposed top four that we have.
The question that remains is can they do it again or is it likely that they're going to hit their ceiling very soon?
Yeah, that's the big question mark for us, obviously with two Sunmines. They're a young team.
But this is what we expect is going to be their EML playoff teams at least.
The mods, the favourites for the top six. When we look at this, they already took down G2.
Their next target is going to be shifters and we're going to see the evolution of that
because it seems that they're climbing the ranks of the best teams of EML.
G2 was a 4v5, so he was an easier opponent.
Shifters on paper is supposed to be an easier opponent.
Then Geeky, Virtus.Pro and Falcons just looking at the fact that the three teams went to EWC.
So if we look at this, they have a clear path towards every single step,
rising the ceiling and making it to playoffs.
This is a fast roll pass for this team, ultimately inside of the stage.
The G2 came as 5v4 as you've mentioned,
you know, and then they've fed week proposition in playday 2.
I think realistically we're going to come away from today. If Twisted Mines win thinking where is their ceiling? How high can they go? Can they step all the way up that ladder? Can they get to the top?
Or if they should lose this game and get shifted today, we're going to say maybe have they hit the ceiling. Is top six kind of an appropriate expectation from them? So they'll really answer that question with the result and the performance today.
For our match of the day, there's one more thing that we need to know and there's a map for our best of one for our match here. We're going to go to Fortress. We've seen this one a lot from Twisted Mines.
Yeah, and also for shifters, it's the map they played last week against Team Secret.
It was really good on their side. It was the start of a really good week for them.
On the side of Twisted Minds, you said, yes, they used to love the map.
To be honest, they're probably the team in the ML that played it the most.
They played eight times in the few recent months.
And it's been one more of an up for them.
And the last few times they lost it was against some of the best teams on the map.
So obviously, in general, favouring Twisted Minds, one big question is still,
still the amount of experience on that lineup they've been together for only two weeks. I'm surprised I'm really surprised that the public though here 61%
twisted man's just because of how well shift has a block that means that I do understand it because I think of big maps I think of
twisted man's it kind of goes hand in hand you know you give him a lot of playground to play and they will be
created they will create those place they will have those pockets of aggression as well so I'm not necessarily too surprised to see
as favourites, but in my mind I call this much more as a 50-50.
Well, I've just made a start on the attack, is that an advantage for them or still for
shifters given that it's defence favourites?
Yeah, it's heavily defender favourites, so I would assume that in general whoever starts
defence has the advantage and as we look through this, all these shifters want to get rid
of the blitz that would be played on their side and the snake obviously that makes
their playstyle super aggressive on the side of two stand mines, we're trying
to slow them down here.
One of the strats that I brought onto the screen last week about shifters actually
was how they played the mirror and the clash combination on this map specifically.
And you'll see to some ends they're having absolutely none of that.
They get rid of the mirrors straight off the back.
Above the scenes are gone Flaalas so far.
Six points from Week 1.
At some point one of them is going to be defeated.
Thank you very much, Ann and the fellas on the sofa.
Again, we have one of these matchups, Tim,
where it's been a bit of a weird EML split them on.
We've got a lot of teams who were up there in six points.
team. We've got both teams in
six points. So that really
puts the pressure on each other
to try and go one ahead of each
other. It's going to be a real
decided between the two. You and
I spoke before we came on air
tonight demo, and this was the
game that we picked out as
being looked. This is, you know,
on paper, the closest one of
them all. I think the others
you look at and they can
always be surprised. They can
always be upset, but you can
get a rough idea of how it's
going to play out. But this
team. I'm not going to be
sure I'm going to play out, but
this one, honestly, I have got
absolutely no idea. Shifters is
a team that I am very excited
about. I've been saying this
since the beginning of the
stage. I've been saying it for
18 months now nearly, but this
latest version of the roster.
I absolutely love it. I am
then enjoyed what we've seen
from them so far, and you
know, twisted minds on the
other side of it. No slouches
at all. And I think what I
will say I think at least
I think it's still a long
season to go. And obviously as
both teams were able to go in
last week, when both of their
games get the six points. Now
you still I think you have to
factor in GK into that. Uh I
still think G2. You have to
look at G obviously will get a
better understanding of GQ of
G2 today how they play. But
I think I probably favor twisted minds to get the top four more than shifters just because
twisted minds have been there and done that more recently than what shifters has.
And obviously I think for both these sides, they are going through the transition of new
players coming into their sides.
You've got two French players now in twisted minds.
You then also look at the duo that they've got from Fnatic for shifters and able to
get deadshot on Citizen.
it is still, I think, a situation
of both these sides of figuring out what works for them.
Maybe a case today, at least, of who can figure it out.
The quickest, of course, and get themselves,
I think a good start is going to be imperative here.
Get in there, get yourself established.
We can't have, sometimes we see it's round three,
round four, before teams really get up to speed,
and I think if you do that here today,
either of these teams are going to be heavily punished
by the other. We will be playing on fortress, of course,
you missed the map banning. I
will be out of the site. And
most cases are protected from
the verticals. So there's not
always too much value in going
and doing it and why she going
for a straight up hatch pond.
But we haven't seen that one
for absolutely ages, which is
get the capital and you know,
yin and everything else on
the hatch. Don't pull the
utility down. Drop and plant
with not seen that one for
quite a while. So we will see
whether that site continues
evolving today. I'm just going
I obviously having a stellar stage so far, playing really, really well. I think last stage as well,
he obviously still has his moments. I still remember that his first stage, remember he came into EML,
I thought he was electric. And maybe I think maybe he had a little bit of a dip in the second time,
but I think consistency has always been the kind of name in the game for Freck. Sure,
he has his bad game every now and then, but to the most people in the league,
it's really in his select few, you always see have a consistent game. But I also think with
you. You can go into the server
today, Tim, and give you 20
kills. Easily. Easily. We've
seen it from him before. I'm
certain that we will see it
again in the future. It's also
interesting looking. You've
coming into this said, you know,
both teams on two wins so far,
maximum six points. There's
been some, you know, big
names and smaller names that
have fallen in there and in
amongst those wins, but the
interesting point really is if
we look back at stage one, what
the same, but it gives us a
good idea. A good little
benchmark to work from out of
those seven players and they
won't look at it like this. They
want seven wins, but three
wins is likely to be enough. So
one of them is going to get
another one of those here and
probably come out of today
only needing to maybe three
wins. If the points are
slightly higher this time
throughout the rest of the
stage to get themselves into
playoffs. What a comfortable
to really, you know, kind of
take the pressure off a little
bit and focus on, you know,
getting those new players up to
speed on getting those extra
results. I think it's such a great
opportunity for them in terms of
what is, you know, at stake here.
What are they playing for today?
They play in for that opportunity
to really take the pressure off.
If you look at the next
matchups as well for both of the
sides, uh, twisted minds of
I think it's important here that really for shifters, I think if you get a win today against
Just in mind, going into that phallopans game, you're going to be on Clive 9.
Not the team, they're on shifters of course, but you get the point.
Okay then let's get into this one. We've got 10 seconds into the action phase. Everybody back into the server and we're going to be getting into the action now. Fortress is underway, shifters versus twisted mines and straight away. Questions were asked and questions will be answered.
Demo, I asked the question about this ground floor site and how it was going to be looking when we see the verticality, would we not? We're going to get that answer straight away. Is the first choice coming in for shifters?
Yeah, I think waiting room is always an interesting one because I think defenders have a lot of
different ideas of what they can go for. We've seen teams try and go for like heavy
roam games upstairs, try and play the fall back, maybe look for retakes. We've also seen
a lot of teams go for that heavy extension horizontally rather than vertically where
you're trying to control the entire of that first floor. And that's what I kind of
see shifters have went for, that extend in towards the man. They're trying to
hold on to the majority of that first floor trying to deny the kind of just access into
the building here or twist at mines via that first floor. You always have to be careful
I always think infirmary that's your key for the most part for the attackers if you get
yourself into infirmary you can really then start to pressure that site very easily so
I think that's probably going to be your room you have to look out for. Showed look
into pressure, tricks it's going to be on the black date just wants to get in
there and start moving Frick around. As we said one of the real danger men needs to be watched out
for sends that to the Gershmot mine as well going to make it difficult therefore for the shield to
come on in. It will activate the shield break and put him in danger. Look at all this utility being
thrown in though Maudley's there to support. But it's Frick who comes away with one sixes and
another. Tricks does manage to get the trade but it's four versus three. Advantage shifters
here. Tricks is low health as well. A minute left on the clock and that little bit of a push
to take some map control has not worked out for Twisted Minds. Yeah, good fight. Really
good fight here from Shifters. Not allowing. Twisted Minds have an easy time of getting
into the building as I mentioned. I mean the Blackbeard up against the Allen never favourable.
I think that was kind of the issue. Typically if you're a shield and it's anyone but an
Allen you just jump in and do your job. Oh no! A double kill! What's happened there
from Shifters? Fightfully though the traitors came in and they finished off the last.
that round, but still shifters
able to hold it down first round
goes their way. But again, it
spikes the citizen of right just
the lane that's that opening
that start of the round. Great
effort from Mowgli at the end
there is team needed something
desperately to kind of fire
them back into that round. And
he's one of those players that
we know over the years has done
that countless times very nearly
set up shifters were great play on both sides of the table. Mowgli with an explosive play,
shifters there for the trade, able to impact on their teammates' deaths. Yep, they might not like
losing two in the process but they are still there getting what they need. You can see there,
the killer straight there from behind, job done, dead shot picks it up and then the last one
comes in from there so really good from shifters. Not kind of buckling under that pressure of
more than getting a double not backing down from it just we know we've got this round we know what
we need to do and causing it out very solid team play with smoke bread those basics area and that
was it just flood morgley with so many players that there's just not much he can do about it
and shift us to the first round we're going to move on now to office and back through
Jacker's objective is to defuse a bomb.
Mr. Mines, do you look at the percentages, Tim, that we have?
For Twisted Mines, obviously the desk mentioned just how much Twisted Mines have played this map over the course of the past year.
If you look at the win percentages here on the attack, it's actually straight down the middle, 50% attack win rate.
So typically then you'd be looking at at least three attacks here for Twisted Mines.
So it's not all doing loom juice yet, but again, you don't want to let shifters just rack up that defensive side
You've heard twisted mines you're gonna go for a different approach again the blitz has been banned away
So that's one of the shields we obviously seen the blackbeard blast round now
They're gonna go for the third option the lower-paced shield we bring in the monthly now for twisted mines
That's just gonna give them a little bit more of a stability
and their approach coming across, which I can only assume is going to be the old tower,
and it is going to be the case. Monty's great just drops in, doesn't have to worry about being shot from behind.
He's always looking ahead of him, and that's what you want as a Monty player.
Need to be careful. It's deadshot on the bandit who was challenging there.
He's got a Nitro in hand, which of course can deal very, very well with those shields if you can drop it in behind them.
So it's just some of the tricks it needs to be aware of,
We know that he's got plenty of experience on the shields and shouldn't really be getting caught out by that
They're going to have to get blast in there to start opening up those walls no secondary hard breach options
So it's going to be going to the thermite, but that should be absolutely fine
And they've got that games and dorms control we can see shifters being forced back quite quickly here
There's just about all the halfway through the round and twisted minds are now able to start breaching and start pressure inside
You can see Blaz's went for the third mic trick to avoid the bandit trick where he places
it on the floor, will make those beat holes and then he can come in with that second one
and open it up.
And of course still has the third for the main wall in port bathroom if needed.
The shield though that's going to be the issue, but they need to try and clear.
We've got the Pterodromes of course to deal with as they were out of the eights.
This month, this is the issue.
Look at the way that Tricks has been able just to strong arm his way in towards me and yes
He has taken a lot of damage for it
But still he's been able to get his team into position where they can set up get the breach open
And now they can start angling their way into the next phase, which of course is forced
This is good. This is good for us to mine
They just need to be conscious of the time as they take more risks
The body starts to fall and they pile it up one after another Robbie makes it a double beautiful stuff
you know, I've got a lot of
to say. I've got a lot of
stuff, including the Monte
making a triple for the round
Blast taking out shifters
comfortable in round two. And
that was going to be my big
takeaway from round one. It
was not so much the fact that
it was an opportunity lost
for twist the minds in terms
of the numbers as you said
yourself 50 50 attack quite
normal for them. But it was
about the fact that the
shifters have got that off
I take in the two top floor sides.
They've just got the first one of them
and that moves them on to the next.
That final shield inside of course
that they just really couldn't break through.
Personally, I'd lost their floors before this
and really for Robbie, he just sat in a corner
and just pivoted from one way, looked the other back again.
It's just, it's like clockwork for him, and yet shifters, a great start to oh, and look
very comfortable as well in both of the rounds.
Now I think for Twisted Minds, then we probably look at and think we're a little bit worried
here just based on the kills at the moment.
I think, yeah I think it's been a little bit quiet for a lot of the four kills
in two rounds.
You know you could have a possible 10 so the 40% of them in it. It's really not ideal
Whenever I got that score
Two of the four kills came from Mowgli getting them at the same time
You know, it wasn't ideal. So yes, when you look at it in those terms, I'm not saying you kind of scratch those two off
But you've got to kill some kind of other open play and that really isn't enough for twisted minds
They've got to settle themselves into this a little bit quicker shifters are absolutely in the driving seats at the minute
Don't give me call is gonna come out
It's gonna be freck that gets targeted is back inside or just next to sight in bathroom
not too difficult at all for him to be able to stop that honestly, that's
it's very close from that drone being able to hit its mark and
that shield is still going to be up to him and what i've noticed is there's no drones left for the
flores, nor do they have any needs so all of a sudden now that shield all the in towards vending
can be a bit of an issue i'm trying to strong on your way in through the
The old tower just isn't really gonna be feasible now, I feel.
Twisted mines, I mean, I say that, the Mowgli's just decided to take the fight anyway off against
the shield, they actually just wins that.
I mean, that's just individual brilliance there for Mowgli to win that engagement.
Even though he was at a disadvantage and Twisted mines are straight in and, well Tim, this
is the issue sometimes with this site, though it's that blind spot position, but
look at this remave.
George just about gets it before the diffuser gets planted, a big old flight from NAFE.
Mowgli's hunting for him, no hope, pulls up a catch at the wrong time, first of lines.
Gonna take advantage of that, now it's up to Freck, Starboy and the 1v2 now.
Diffuser.
When I get stuck here, Hashalm, gonna go for it, Brismont, to go out, see if he can
ping anyone with it, knows where they've planted, should be an easy prefire here,
I think it's clear after those
first few rounds that those are
the moments they're going to
need. As you said yourself in
round two, they really struggled
to deal with that shield. They'd
lost the utility that they brought
along to do exactly that. And so
they had to find another way and
they couldn't. They're going to
need those big moments from
individuals and Morgally really
stepped up there and delivered
but I also like on the back
of that it was a really
difficult time. I think it's
a really difficult time. I
think it's clear after those
first few rounds that those are
the moments they're going to
need as you said yourself in
on the back of that. It wasn't just about the magic moment from Morgley. It was the reaction
after it. Did you see how quickly twisted minds moved? As soon as that position was clear,
they were straight in. They were looking to get the plant down. A little bit of a mistake
allowing Neyf onto the flank. He was in a bad spot. He did the most that he could
by stopping the plant once. He was then just going to be swarmed by people. Couldn't
really do anything to get out of the way. It was tough. Breck, you look at him
you know a fraction sooner
while the plants going down.
He's got that opportunity of a
1v1, but ultimately it was always
going to be a tall ask for him.
And I think so far the scoreline
is pretty on par with what
we've seen. I think shifters have
been the better team.
Twisted minds do deserve
something with those big moments
that we've had from mobile along
the way. So I think a 2-1 split
to kick things off is pretty
fair.
So that's the full rotation, now we get to go back in towards our waiting in cafe now.
Last time for Twisted Minds they tried to kind of go horizontal, they also tried to fight
against the roam game that's shifted the setup, didn't work for them.
So maybe they're going to try and go above, that could be their second option, again
I think he's certainly caused some problems. He's created a little bit of space. Maybe, yeah, I wouldn't say they're selling from the game, so I can understand you, Tim.
I'm surprised that that actually wasn't targeted as I am. Feels like the Monty probably would give you more of an impact than maybe the Grimm here.
I'd agree. I agree. I think he's certainly caused some problems, he's created a little bit of space.
Maybe, yeah, I wouldn't say they're selling from the game, so I can understand shifters thinking,
eh, it's kind of manageable at the minute. I've often said, demo, if you're going to ban a shield,
it feels like you kind of need to just commit to it and ban all three, because what's going to
happen if he doesn't bring them on to you, he's going to bring the Blackbeard, he's going
to bring the Blitz. You're going to create yourself a new headache, so maybe for shifters,
it's a little bit, you know, better than the devil, you know, just, we know that we're going to be dealing with the Monty.
We can bring the Gushmots, we can bring the Impact Nades, we've got a Nitro,
we can bring all these things, Banshees, to try and create a situation where we can deal with that a little bit easier.
To be again, Tim, just trying to clear across, they are going to go for Infirmary, though, this time.
They didn't do it the last time.
I'd enter in through him, I am.
So that means finally Robbie's gonna have a bit of action here with the Azami and speaking
off is now gone and they're in infirmary.
So this just gives them the gateway into the site, Tim.
So it gets things going, Blazman manages to get one, she'll add another four versus two,
Citizen will fight back, shifters finding themselves in the last couple of rounds
in these positions where they have to fight back, where they have to find an answer,
and Amanda's advantage.
the game. He's going to get the
kills. He's going to get the
kills. Two versus four became
two versus three. Here is an
important challenge. Citizen
facing up to that Monte tricks
becomes even more powerful in
this situation because even
with his shield up, it still
leaves gun for gun two versus
two shifters find freck taking
out Blast manages to get the
kill three versus one Blast
big round from him. We've
seen those moments throughout
his career. He delivers
the power of infirmary. If you are able to get in there early 10, you patients have sight,
you know, and that's adult. Again, we didn't see, we didn't see the action. Don't know
what position, um, we had Robbie in. Don't know what happened to him. Typically as an
asami in infirmary, you typically are untouchable without a lot of utopia and dumped into that
position and didn't look as though there's much utopia in place into that part of
the map. It seemed to be they were only kind of getting going there with the Monty.
So don't know what happened, but it certainly is a moment there from shifters where as soon
as you lose that player in infirmary, you have to trans-scrabble back into the bomb site.
Realistically for Twisted Pines, they were ready for them.
You look at Blast, RK just in the Nomad, playing a very passive role, I felt as well.
So yeah, it's looking good there from Twisted Mines, but I will say, as soon as Twisted
minds, get a kill that will open up the gap, they are straight on it and they all
commit to it. Same thing happened in the last round. Mowgli is able to kill the player
holding in towards the old tower. He goes and everyone capitalizes on that
mistake. Same thing's happened there again. Infermary goes, everyone's in
Infermary now. There's just no delay, there's just no delay as you say. For
that teamwork is on point, especially with new players coming in, they've
have got that lockdown really, really quickly. And it is definitely one of the big positives
for this Twisted Binds team. So, we move on. Command, Office, and bathroom is our site.
The same rotation will continue. I imagine dorms will be for round six. Two-two at the
minute. You said it at the beginning. 50-50 attacking win rate for Twisted Binds. They
are well on course for that. They could even go one better if they're able to get
the next to it and equal four in the role as well and would set them up beautifully
for that second half. Just look it across the attacker line up and it's been fairly consistent
with Syngrid lock prior. The Deimos is the one big switch up. I think maybe just looking
for a little bit of a vertical option here. Get underneath, start assing players if
you've got something like a shield. Give you the maids, we've seen two of them
use but you could also if they're on a soft floor position get underneath try and use the
trackers force them out. Information here, Blas, people are spot out dead shotting. How
long will it go for the calls? Anyone going to capitalize on that? Doesn't look to be
the case. Just mind just playing it slow and steady and it just again it feels tender
just waiting for that one pick to come in, just opens up that map for them.
Slow and steady.
Really feels so that they're just going to try and target these certain players that they've been able to bind on the phone
and again, dead shot, it's the second call.
I wonder at this point, is he just going to let this one blow up so he doesn't get called again?
It looks to be...
Oh, he actually got it just in the nick of time before he was made.
He's going to let that go and...
the flames.
That's the phone.
There's the flames of the Goyo.
Oh no, no! Somehow the one given for opening picked him!
Relitched up from Tricks, but a double ping response.
Shifters managed to get one apiece and he never dealt with Blas.
In that position though, he was a moment too late to get Deadshot the first time around,
but Deadshot moved back into horse and Blas was there waiting ready to pounce.
However, look at the health on Tricks. This is going to be tough on the Monty.
One versus two, he's only got a pistol and he's up against Robert and Citizen.
Both of them are about 80 health each.
There's the kill. Citizen manages to find it, and that is going to be 3-2 for shifters as they at least guarantee themselves an even split.
That is a fantastic 2v2 as well from Nathan Robbie.
They realize where the two remaining attackers are. You have the Monty coming in from construction.
You have the Dokobit inside a horse. Very simple. You just power one or the other.
They went for the Dokobit, they've doubled up. They know the Monty's not going to be able to assist or get a trade.
And they take that gunfight they take that double swing then from that point yet the month he's not going to do anything in the
2v1 so really good decision-making there
from shifters just to take that kind of
Advantage of where the players were you know that sometimes I think besides whenever you do have the players who love to try and go for the
Split take they love to try and go for that backstab
Obviously Blaz was doing it in that round was coming in from horse by himself
himself, and whenever the majority of the forces coming in from the other side of the map, once you lose a lot of those bodies, you're very separate away from your side then, and that's where you have those dynamics where you do separate yourselves in the 2v2s.
So, shifters like said, Tim, they saw a bad half by all means.
Again, I mean, like I said, Twisted Mines, 50% attack rate.
We're on par for that at the moment, if we are able to see Twisted Mines win this attack.
back. But for shifters, these that gets them back into it, breaks that little bit of the
snowball that Twisted Mind is reforming, the two on the bounce. Now they stop that. They
will go back downstairs into Waiten Room and Cafe. This is the third time we're seeing
it here.
Yeah, giving it another go rather than looking at the old days. It's really interesting
to try. They lost it last time around Dorms and Games, so I kind of get it there,
pressure from Monty. Maybe not ban it, had they banned the Monty, maybe they would chose
him to play there again. But opening kill he comes in, it's going to be more likely taken
down P-Gloss. We've seen already the impact that not clearing out utility can have. There's
no deployable shields on the board this time, but there is barbed wire, six sets of it
that they need to deal with and get through and they are not going to have the Retaro
drones in order to do that. Only two needs, which if they're very lucky I guess
still have to be very careful because it is one of those gadgets Tim that you have to pull out and you don't have a gun in your hand
I've seen plenty of times where the nerves pulled up the gadgets to try and kill the shield and then there's just a guy behind the
Shield with a gun and then you're done. So there is elements that you have to be careful off
Yeah, I mean it's funny. I play like I don't have a gun in my hand a lot of the time to be honest with you
Never, but you know we make do
Yeah, like we saw a little bit of Noah in S.A.L
It wasn't the most impactful so far. We did see it used against shields
Maybe we'll see a little bit more here in EML.
Oh! That's a missed opportunity from Tricks.
They don't need the noir. They're just going to shoot him in the back.
Dead shot. Manages to find his man and keep Robbie alive.
Unforgivable at that point.
I think the Echo drawn out of pit of cement to do with it,
though Hasham manages to get a very late trade,
but the damage is done.
It's two versus four. Hasham's low health and shifters right now.
Happy to go hands off the keyboard
and just wait for this push to come from Twisted Minds.
There's 35 seconds left on the clock and shifters really don't need to do very much here.
Bringing along the Echo has been an inspired change this round to deal with that Monty
and it's worked perfectly. They're just waiting now for Twisted Minds to make their move.
It's got to come sometime soon. They've teamed up together but they're unaware of Robbie
In behind the keeper barricade he might not need to break out, Fred gets the double and that's going to close out the half for two to shifters.
Oh, a good half for shifters, they're happy? Or the desk happy?
Right then, what a great last round from shifters that we're seeing, that great coordination synergy with that player that's being pushed in medical with the echo drone, you'd love to see it.
But on the other side, twisted minds, on their attacks they're struggling a little bit when it comes to that kind of synergy and coordination.
Yeah, I think overall the matchup has been quite balanced
But she starts turning things around here in the defense end and I think here a great example
Look at this one my shooting a multiple teammates on the side of two thin mines
He's clearly put it by the Monty and another guy behind them and then look at the trade that you come from the window
Hashem went through the window into long and he's just wondering about top main
Completely unaware of the one my that's been killing his teammates for the past 15 seconds and that to me screams
I'm not listening to you. I can't figure out what's going on
I don't know what the plan is and clearly you can feel that that team has been together for not that long
However, like if you look at all the rounds Jack like there are some moments where you can see like the the synergy coming in
This one in particular was a 3v3 initially
They send the air job on to him that move into position the Monty is behind blast gets to kill Monty pushes their last player
And then they can finally crumble right so it's still very clear that shifter line the winning position
It just remains to have the potential, but clearly you see the inexperience.
It's not just buzzwords that we tend to say when we're suddenly so first about team-flying, coordination.
It's so important, and you see that round had Twisted Minds, that very first time you've shown,
had Twisted Minds had the team-flying, the coordination, the punification.
That was probably around when they cleared that power position, they would then overwon the site.
And we actually saw in the very final round that we saw just moments ago,
the Monty's facing down these army,
Short kill for the Monty. No, Echo drone stuns him. Can't get the kill.
That's team play allowing each of us to, you know, play for each of us, get those kills.
And that's what it's come down to so far.
Altress is quite a hard map to attack. It's a very difficult map to attack.
But when you've got a team, you're going up against some such good team play like that, mwah, Chef's guess.
Yeah, amazing to see the depth here. Look at the combination of things.
They had been struggling against Monty for a long time.
To be fair, when you look at the defensive shifters, they play turtle.
They play behind a lot of utility because they want to force with some mainstone problem solve
and they want to slow them down as much as possible.
And what do they bring? They see that they struggle against Monty.
Very last round you see the UK drone, you see nowhere and they bring exactly what they need to adapt.
That's the difference in quality between the team that we saw play in the previous match
to the team that we saw play today.
Look at heretics, applying just always the same game plan.
Look at shifters, they have a problem.
They find a solution within the game and apply it directly.
Well, as of right now, Shifters on the attack will have to manoeuvre their way around
not having the Monty and the Soldals snake to their possession.
It won't be a problem, they're still at the rest of the shields.
I like the SME and Miraband removing two of the most important operators on these bomb sites.
Like we said before, you can play behind a lot of utility in Fortress,
a lot of natural close fighters.
That means that it will be up to trap operators,
Golden Eil and maybe a clash to try and hold on on the defense for Shifters.
This second half is ready to go. We'll set it back to ace and demo.
Thank you very much. And the boys for that breakdown of the half. And again I think you
kind of look at this match up to look, we knew it was going to be a close one just because
both teams almost had a very good week last week. I mean I think 4-2, I think if you
kind of judge it on what the map is, I think this is pretty standard.
I don't think twisted minds need to be panicking. I don't expect how our shifters come out and
you know, show us something special on the attack. I think best case scenario it feels
for shifters at the minute might be a 7-5. It's going to be a tough half for them. I don't
expect twisted minds to be able to lock down that top floor. The third choice site being
down in inwards and we don't always expect teams to pick up wins there, but we are
starting up on the top floor. Avis and Bathroom will be the starter. We will
see how twisted mines can lock in. They've got a glass to deal with straight away. That
is a problem that we need to be solved. You look at this liner patch, it's a little bit
nasty. You've got the dock of the Deimos and the glass, as well as that triple shot
threat from underneath on Deadshot. Could be a nasty one for twisted mines to deal
with.
Yep, just have to put yourself in there. See how shifters want to try and approach
this and. What side of the map
they're going to try and attack
that's always the important thing
to know is again you have your
kind of direct takes where. You
want to try and come in through
construction trying target in
towards white stairs or you try
and go for that big heavy clear
now without a shield I think
going for the clear could be a
little bit tricky and certainly
based on where the operators
are at the moment will be the
construction take your so very
direct on the side of shifters
and. Jelad he's going to try
play spoiler here in a position where he can stop anyone from dropping in towards the tower.
So we'll see if Shipford wants to try and problem solve and get him out of there.
Look, we've got those coming, so they're going to be fully aware of his position. No attempt at a
triple canister kill from underneath as we see some of them used there. Not really too accurately
by that shot, so they're not going to be worrying too much about that. Trot does have a raise
of bloom as well to support him should the drop come through. He's already taken quite a bit
it a damage out of that from tricks or steps around the corner and just deletes dead shot nice and easy
One pump from the shotgun and it was all done five versus four advantage twisted minds
Yeah, probably knows he can't go up the ladder and hashaw me his game from
Above he went downstairs. He went on the wonder and he's found two
And I would say to him that has essentially killed the round there and then citizen
the game. It's a great round.
You're not going to be able to
win this season as runs into the
flames of flawless for twist
at minds. Just a mind starting
off as they mean to go on getting
themselves a solid defensive look.
It leans into exactly what you
said coming in here for two
pretty much par for the course
and not the end of the world for
twisted minds. They get
themselves round seven. It's a
great round. If you're for
two round seven is one of those
swing grounds as I described them.
It could be five to or it
it, knuckling down, important round. Looking at their defensive win rate on Fortress, it's
not amazing, they're about just short of 60%, so we would expect about a 4-2. Attacking
win rate for Shifters, 50-50 again, same as Twisted Mines, so everything at the minute
kind of screams that we've maybe got a bit of overtime on the cards, but there is the
opportunity there for Shifters, if they can stick to their numbers, stick to the
5050 like I said to maybe win this one seven five, but I don't see it being
Anything more than that either way. I think I think we're gonna see 12 rounds as a minimum
Head over into our other top four sites now for shifters obviously they went for direct take
Towards the off the side wonder if they go for direct take
Towards the bedroom to
I think you've still got that glass again, who is?
I mean, very good Tim, at gaining towards tower, because you can just smoke out everything,
you can drop.
Obviously nobody can see you drop, but you can see them, and you get some pretty easy
picks if people aren't expecting that, so I think for shifters there is still a possibility
they can try and go direct, but yeah, we'll see with time of course.
I think for Twisted Lines, it's just about...
the way they play defense them.
I think a lot of time with twisted lines is they've got players who will just go off and
do their own thing.
And the whole team just has that firm belief that those players who want to go out about
stretch their legs, try and do something on the map, they can do that and they're full
confidence in that.
You look at Sean that last round, just make tell, I'll go down stairs, I'll see what's
up.
And he finds two.
Eagle and Lasta take across through the bedroom, in towards courtyard, in towards briefing, they
move really really quickly here.
Going to go for the clear, you can see as well that they were extending in towards back from
the defenders but since then pulled their way back.
They're selling being used over back from wall but that's not the cycle team, you've
still got a bandit, bandit tricking on that next double wall into dorm so if for
If I get that open it's gonna be difficult for him
This is a good play here. I like different twist at mines you remove that opportunity of opening up that wall
You then have to kind of like follow your way into a bit of a death zone in through those doorways
It can be held from multiple angles, and I think that's all he learned that lesson as he tried to pick in with the glass gets killed
It just feels a little bit of shifters to him. They could be coming to a bit of a halt here
Now here's just a little bit one sided is the problem.
They kind of chucked a couple of grim bees over towards central stairs and the door there.
Maybe give an impression that they're coming from that side.
But not having any old tower presence, as I hurt them I think,
because he says allow them to sit on this wall to bandit trick,
to be comfortable and confident in that.
However, the opposite side starts to do the business.
Nafe manages to get a triple.
We find Freck finding tricks as well.
the ball to the left of the
ball. Blast against the kill
onto me on a flight book. To
be honest, too little too late.
I asked for another angle of
attack as soon as they
actually put a body on there.
Start looking into site twisted
minds are too drawn towards
what's going on in briefing
towards that. That breaching
that's happening over on the
other side and they've
managed to take their eye
off the ball. Kill comes
Like I said, they weren't looking great. There was a moment where, yeah, there's a guy. Bandit Tricky and had we get the ball open.
They then all had to rotate over towards the single door, towards the doors.
Nape was able to find three kills just from that one doorway. So obviously Twisted Lines, probably in this one engagement.
He's back. Did he leave? Did he ever leave? He was still here last stage. Does Frecken up know that?
You don't have any wiggle room if shifters get one more it is guaranteed over time and you are in trouble back to the wall at that point
So it is really imperative now that twisted minds get themselves a couple of rounds
I think back to back here and level it up at 5.5
Yeah, shifters looking good
Again look at the scores in the doors everyone hitting at least five kills, which is great
The citizen and Robbie five and four five and seven for dead shot
still getting their own kills I don't know if you've seen the the stat that was I don't have anyone talked about it yet to him that
citizen played with one team it was with secret on kickoff then he played with fanatic in stage one now he's on shifters on stage two
he played with three different teams this year in EML I'm not sure that we've ever had that happen before you know I'm pretty sure that's the first time as well it's happened
Yeah, we've had somebody at every stage, different team.
Yeah, it's... well, it's one of those.
It's one of those. And against it, is it?
Again, I'll always vouch for him.
He's a long-standing player, very, very long-standing.
As we know Tim in the UK, seeing...
People forget, I think, sometimes how good the guy is.
I think maybe that's the case of where he's been,
how many teams he's been in.
There's a lot of different things I think going to perception of citizen, but I can give you the guarantee the guy knows how to play the game
I was sitting up. We've seen that proven time after time. I would agree with you there
This is going to be a waiting room and cafe attack
I said we don't always get too much of the verticals, but we can see this time that has been the case with our hatch open
We've got looking down through those slow boats
See if we can push the defenders around a minute 10 left on the clock the drone start going down
Checking very specific locations here. It feels like shifters are being quite surgical with this. Not wanting to take anything more than they need to.
Well, see if they want to try and get themselves into infirmary. As we know that is always a bit of a danger zone.
And right now you've got Mowgli in there. He's in a very strong operator as well Tim.
You've got the Warden. And what was the one operator that was always being brought here by shifters?
It was of course the glass, but no glass this time. And Nate, no drone work being done.
I think we've seen all night.
Yeah, really poor from shifters there.
You've got to be aware of the player just hiding out there in the corner.
Always got to check them, make sure that they're drummed.
Especially when you're standing in an important operator like the Blitz,
you really want to have to create space to be the tip of the spear.
But that can't be the case.
20 seconds left to go.
Tricks fine spread.
It's all up to deadshot above.
Manage just to find one.
15 seconds.
Unlikely that he can do much here.
Doesn't have the fuser in hand.
It doesn't have diffuser in hand, and it's just under half health, comes down the stairs,
glass picks up the last, and that's going to be twisted binds, taking another, keeps
it close, it's 5-4.
Yeah, back and forth.
We go again.
I think losing Nath there, I mean, it's one of those, you thought it was clear, it wasn't
clear.
You lose that blitz, as you said, who would have been the main pushing power to get
them into that bombsite.
You lose that blitz.
It's a little bit limp from the attack. Yeah, often really comes off it. Shifters. And they've
allowed us to mind to close that gap again, but still in the lead. That's the important
thing to note. And that is the waiting room and cafe locked out. However, we still got
two bomb sites opened up. We've got office is opened up again now for the defense.
actually going to go back to to their games defense here Tim, which they lost even though they had
opportunity now to go to office, they're still going to go back to the to the bombsite that they
asked me this is it's a case where they thought they had the round and then they find three kills
and they think okay that was avoidable let's try that again same thing it'll probably work this
time as long as we don't peek into ninth. Yeah I mean I can understand it was a bit of a
solo player that wanted for shifters getting the man on the door and just opening the round
I'm not sure about this. I'm not
sure about this. I think you just
I think you just continue your
rotation and move back through
glass pan. It wasn't particularly
It wasn't particularly
influential last time they
played dawns and games. It was
dead shot. We played. They
didn't really really want to
get into the game. They didn't
really want to get into the
game. They didn't really want
to get into the game. They
They didn't really get going too much, so I don't know how much that difference is gonna make to this site.
There we go.
There's gonna be a difference here now, I mean, force, flash, have to look at it, have to mention it.
An operator, however, can be dealt with fairly easily with that Sophia, probably does have
under his belt.
Yeah, it's a big similar here again where you can see shifters are just trying to open
up as many different avenues as possible, just trying to scatter around the map.
I still think they'll have that clear, they're still trying to come in from bedroom side
or not bedroom side in towards the office and then work the way towards bedroom
in three bathrooms. Same thing
did it last time. But, uh, no
picks as of yet. Has been much
more of a slower game in that
regard. I don't think it's been
as fast actioned as what
cafe was earlier, Tim. The
kills haven't been coming in
just as quick as that map. I
think we're seeing the
respect. I think we're
seeing the respect from both
teams knowing that they were
went missed opportunity. Freck is the five margins that we're dealing with but you've got to find
Hashom there, take the warden off the board as it is. He goes down to about 40 HP but lives the
fight another day. Just keep an eye on him because that's the sort of situation that comes to haunt
you in the later round. It's going to be Nath on that door again with the Guana dispenser getting
the bees out there and just trying to ensure that he's nice and safe to get on into central
I'm sure that shifters are gonna be aware of the flank that came through last time
They do still have a clash to deal with
That's some worry again here for shifters
It seems to be the same thing Tim. They've ever rolled up towards
Me they have to try and work their way through that they have been able though to take down the clash
How's that happen there for Blazz?
They'll go hash on in the corridor with the shield but look at the time here 30 seconds once again
I'll be pressuring on him towards Storms, they will probably be with him, he has the diffuser in hand, the backstab also here from Fracke, this is going to be a close one I feel.
Yeah this is all about timing now from Fracke but they're aware of his position, we see the top-tip map canister come out just to prevent him from being able to drop, he takes it in there, waiting too little, too late from shifters to get into that position.
to get a kill on to the F2 V2 as the kills bounce back and forth. No, the future in hand.
They've got to make the kill. They've got to make call. Sorry and go for kills doesn't
happen. She'll add managers to pick up the final one and that is going to be round twisted
minds level things up at 55. I said I thought we'd get 12 and that's exactly what we've
just been guaranteed. Same thing again. I feel for shifters
where they try and go for the sweep. There's a bit of an issue. Last time it was a bandit
tricking in towards being. This time it's a clash. They don't really fancy it. They then rotate and go
for the single dorms walk in, but this time for twist of mind stem, they don't give any free kills.
They actually play their trades. They play their crosses. They're aware of what shifters are
going to do. And the shifters just don't have enough time to get things moving for them,
you know, you know, you're
going to be able to do that.
You're going to be able to do
them and they were just a little
bit scrambled at the end there.
I don't think they're doing enough
work around the map earlier on
is probably what I'd be saying.
You know what? We saw a threat
dropping 20 seconds left to go
into a small cat like that should
have already had the path
cleared. You know, we should
have been playing and getting
a player into that position
ready to make a difference.
And I feel like shifters are
doing those things. They've
sort of got plenty. Is
We're going to try and get the breach from there. That's going to be the plan and then they're not really preparing the alternatives
They're not really preparing that stuff. And so it's very reactive. It's very well. This isn't working
So now we've got to send somebody on tower now. We've got to send somebody central stairs now
We've got to mix it up a little bit and the fine patients haven't been laid
They're just going in there trying to build this extra bit on to the attack and it's crumbling every time
I'm not going to lie to him, I really hope it goes overtime because I want you to say
the line.
Because I always do the line, in your voice.
It's a bit, maybe we'll do it where it gets the OT.
We'll tell everyone to close their eyes, put away everyone who closes their eyes.
But you know, I'll say it and then you sit and have to guess who said it.
That'll be a fun game.
Don't leave it to later. In the round you've got to get that. You've got to get that, Rubbit.
Oh, dear.
It is an opportunity.
It's been squandered now, and Trist at Mines have the opening pick.
In Blizz.
Forget. It's this...
former side. He's making a statement here, Tim. 11 kills to his name.
Hi, oh my.
And now for shifters.
That man disadvantage your things gonna get better or they're gonna get worse and well
We're looking great Tim Brett goes down. Nafe able to at least get one back
But still it's the map control for meeting
I mean shifters just haven't looked as though that they've really controlled the map
You know that kind of shied away from fights as you've mentioned they haven't I don't think they've been brave enough in
Some of these circumstances and it just feels as though they've allowed twisted lines to get a bit of momentum to get themselves into this map
I mean, again here you're in a situation where it's, you know, things haven't worked out so we're having to relocate granted. It's a little bit earlier in the round. They've got more time to do it, but we've still got blast bandit tricking, for example.
He's also then coming in and being able to use his gadget be able to use his utility
I don't really see if there's having too much of an answer for that so much. I'll just go out there at least going to get the bathroom wall
But are they aware of this?
That shot taking a little bit of damage there
Joe add money. This is what I'm questioning. Are they aware of tricks? He's in a position to do some damage
Yes, they are citizen managers to find the kill blast with another 12 in the game
Mowgli gets that one and out of nowhere twisted minds have a chance to win this one
Wow, they have flipped it on the head big time. I mean it was a
5-3 lead here for shifters now at 6-5 to twist at mines free in a row
My goodness
Well, that is a point secured. We have to make note of that that six rounds now here for twisted minds
They will walk away with at least a point
But no one twisted minds
They're gonna want all three and they have an opportunity now to do that in their next defense and also time to note
They have just been able to complete the rotation. They've won all three defensive sites in a row
Yeah, shift is really on the back foot at this point
I don't know what you switch up if you shift is be beyond like I said
have a chance to go back and
back and forth, and so on.
So they're going to have a
chance to go back and forth.
They need to be working multiple
angles through a number of
things at one site. You've just
got you've got to win that
gunfight is as simple as that.
Robbie goes in, paints a bit of
a line around the bandit and
blasts not only that, but
blasts then goes on to get
multiple other kills as well.
So you've missed your
opportunity to take him out and
he's hurt you on the back
of it. It's just like a
double hit at that point. So
that they've been in the lead.
The first opportunity that
they've had to be ahead comes
at 65 and it's the only one that
masses realistically because they
now as you say secure point are
the only ones who can take three
from this.
What time to have a tech
policy here always fun just
that's where.
On round number 12.
But that was a short left
one. We're back in.
Yeah, look, Tim, I think
I think here for Twisted Minds really good opportunity to go free zero nine points. I mentioned before to him as well
They have heretics tomorrow. You fancy them in that matchup with you. It's just nice to be sat here at 12 points
Same way that we looked at yeah last stage look at kickoff and VP who had obviously
remodeled their team they brought in exterior players who weren't from Russia
That was again the main origins of VP
And then we started seeing that VP side just kind of take control of the league all of a sudden and they started in similar way
You know, they just wrapped up 12 points in the blood of an eye. Twisted minds could do the same similar philosophy
They've went away from having Saudi Arabia, you know Middle East guide. They've brought in two French flowers
You know that that's this is where now we're starting the seating really shift their dynamics now
I don't know if the numbers that I spoke about at the beginning, not opportunity there again
to take your lad down is missed by a citizen this time. It was to be fair a much more difficult
one than Robbie's missed in the last round. But the point I was making at the beginning
was last time around in Stage 2, qualification to EWC. We saw those top six spots that
go into the playoffs. Five wins was enough to get you in there. So we can
expect that that's going to be a rough benchmark this time around maybe it'll be
six maybe before who knows but five was enough last time whoever wins this if
there's some minds can get it now they've got three they only need two out of the
remaining six games it really does take the pressure off and they've played
brilliantly well under pressure so far today so imagine what they will do
without it we've got the vertical going on above super short is just
doing its work opening up as much as they can it'll be a little bit of a slow process with that
secondary shotgun but still the work continues. As much ammo we have so that's the question,
I don't think it much left because he's quite a lot. My words, probably both wooden pixels with
the blitz here and almost was able to sneak a kill in but couldn't connect the headshot.
Now for shifters. Man, they're in. They've got a Blitz this time who is alive. I mean, last time they were here, we've seen that
Nafe tried a bit of a light rotate with the Blitz. Didn't, the drumwork wasn't done successfully. Use that Blitz straight away.
You lose that pushing power. This time, they have that threat. They have the shield. See if it works out better for them now.
Minute remaining. Still, no picks as of yet. Tim, this is very late now into the round without kills coming in.
As I say that though, it's Prist the mind to strike first hash on, makes that citizen.
Takes it down the diffuser as well, that's in nobody's hands at the minute on the side of shifters.
Something that they need to be aware of, need to be collecting that.
If the situation comes that they need to go for the pan, another missed opportunity.
Is this going to be a game of missed opportunities for shifters?
Damage was done to Blast but he stays alive again.
Damage taken by the Blitz as they try to push through, you're flashing a warden, it's not gonna work!
Five versus two, ugly getting that kill, and it's Twisted Minds in the driving seat now.
Nif starts the fight back, there's another down, it's gonna be more clay.
Gillard and Blaz still all health as well, 15 seconds left to go, Nif has the diffuser.
So there is a possibility to go in and get a plant, but there's not gonna be much space as Blaz takes down Freck.
to be the win for twisted minds
behind all the way until it
counted. Fantastic from twisted
mind 75 a close affair, but they
get all three points. Top one
for shifters. They were leading
the majority off that game, but
it just wasn't meant to be. We're
going to go to a quick break
and then we'll be back with
I'm breaking next to the body now, check this out, I'm never starting out, I'ma keep the
door til I ain't nothing left, I'm breaking next to the body now, oh I feel for the stuff
that my money's out, cause I can't get down from this running up, I'ma keep the
door til I ain't nothing left, I'ma keep the door til I ain't nothing left, I'ma
You must be feeling great.
Yeah, hello guys, good evening. How are you?
Good. Yeah, it's good.
Yeah, you?
Yeah, well, very good.
After scaring in the role,
you can be very good, especially against shifters.
I think I had some background treats with Blas,
even with me.
And I think I'm really happy right now.
I mean, I should take the win after very hard attacks,
but we just have a very good mentality
and we came back very good.
I was going to ask you about that, Mowgli. How proud are you of the team? You was 2-4 down, you come down to win it in regulation. That must have took some composure from the team.
Yeah, yeah. And I think Blast had a lot. He felt that the comp was a bit stressful, you know? And he just said, guys, chill. We got these 3 attacks, they're terrible, to be honest.
I just split and if we don't give them the pick, we will win the round at the end, you know? So, round by round we went and I think we played really good.
And then for you and for Blast, obviously Blast is going up against his old team, he was on
the team message, but also you've worked with the coaching staff of Shifters before.
So was there something a little bit extra special for you too, going up against this
team?
Well, really, I'm going to be honest, I didn't like with a deep two Blast because I know
some insights.
So for Blast, I know it was like full personal match, full ego match, you know.
And for me as well, I had some problem with like a citizen, is that nothing personal
He talked with some people on the podcast, I think, and he said to my old coach, like one of my best friends,
Trister, he was saying this coach was available, he didn't help me, he didn't help the team, that's why we lose with him.
And for me, I don't agree at all. I have full discrepancy with him.
So it was a bit personal and fully go-match for me and Vlad.
And at the end, we took the 3-4, so I'm very happy.
With so much heat, I kind of want to see this on the BO3, you know what?
I kind of see the full extension.
Mugli, I want to ask you a question because the first thing that came up in interviews with you guys last week was how short of a time you were together.
And we always felt like your roster is potentially on paper, top 4 of EML, very likely at least one of the favourites in the race for Osaka.
And I wanted to ask you, we've put this ceiling for you guys, a few climbing steps and basically taking on every single top contender in EML to make it into the playoffs.
The next opponent will be VP, in terms of those EMLP of teams that we expect are going to be there.
Where do you think your ceiling is? Do you expect that the team is going to struggle to beat some of the very best of Falcons VP for example?
Or do you expect that you can already do that?
For me, we have the potential. When I came to this team, I saw that Zlat was a very good AGL.
He surprised me a lot. He has very good knowledge about the game.
It reminds me when I joined Secret back when I just discovered Savage.
It's kind of a secret. I think we're just going to do step by step,
try to give 100% on the screen, try to work as soon as possible.
Just like me and Blood, I think we have a lot of experience.
They have as well, but when I came to the team, I felt that
and Trixit needed a lot more from us, you know, and I think we're helping them so much and I feel
that every week we're, you know, like improving a lot and for me we have the potential to win
events, it's like a secret, you know, like at the beginning it was a bit, uh, and you know,
step by step we are climbing and I think we will see, we're just gonna see it much by much
and we are best. Sounds very promising. Now on a personal note, because we already spoke
to Blaz and he talked about how much of a better fit Twisted Minds was than the
shifters for him. How is that for you then? What has been your favorite thing
about joining Twisted Minds so far? I think the way they played the game fits me
a lot. Like you know like people think they're full aggressive, full monkey but
I try to give this kind of aggression but more structure you know. I try to
do it at like the right moment this kind of stuff. And I think in attacks
I wonder the way they play. It fits me a lot and it's like a difference. I was just trying to like add some keywords to know when they need to play, when they need to calm down a bit, you know.
And yeah, it's so good. The mood is good. Like no one is, I don't know how to say, but no one is weird, you know, like everyone is happy. Everyone is, I don't know, it's so good.
And Blythe is one of my best friends for like 10 years now. So just make me even happier.
That sounds very good. I'm very glad to hear that you're finding it a great run so far.
Thank you for your time, Mowgli, and good luck tomorrow.
Thank you, good night, girls. Bye-bye.
I'm glad I get to it. You know, they sound so confident, and I truly believe that this is a good fit for Blast and Mowgli
with the way that Twisted Minds play.
Yeah, I agree. I'm also buying into the fact that there's drama going on in the amount of time.
We've got Aspwn in to speak his truth tomorrow. We've got Mowgli.
He's not being subtle. He's not being mysterious about it.
This was a big personal game for both of them, but they played so well I think in their defensive,
their attacks were a little bit questionable, they managed to find two and ultimately that was
enough to cause their defense was so strong. Yeah, and thinking back on the attacks on the
side of Fusion Mines, some of them as we mentioned before could have really well went on the side
of Fusion Mines. It's just a couple of things, misunderstandings, clot.com, the kind of stuff
that will happen when you're a team that's been together for two weeks, so I'm not too
surprised and and the more he's he was spinning about one thing that in my opinion is the most
important thing here he said I think it's like secret yeah I think we have the potential to turn
away in things and as I just look at the emotion on their side that meant so much on their side
and just thinking about it look at Blast look at his performance here obviously a big personal
game for him but I was just thinking of these guys and three out of five of these roasters
when in semi-final, that's a leg city, okay?
Then you have Blast, which technically,
I think, one of the best players at this role
in the ML and maybe in the world.
And then you have Mugli, who was the runner-up,
obviously, at SI, who was also the winner of EWC25.
So you look at the team,
and despite the fact that they're two weeks old,
you look at the team that very much
has top tier, worldwide players
that can play at the very best level
and can reach a grand final of an Sphere event.
So yes, that potential is there,
already on paper said right at the very start of this game right at the very start
I'll judge twisted minds basically based on this result in performance the fact they were back the facts
They were down the fact it had to be a comeback
They showed maturity and like you said the context of that is this team's been together for two weeks as well
This was their first serious opponent. They've played they've passed that test and you kind of do start wondering
Is this guy the limit to the team they've objected a little graded as you just said
They're now proving it inside of email at the same time nine points from nine
So you start thinking do we see this team at the second major if we do which team drops out for them?
You know there's so many questions still to be answered, but very excited to see them all aboard the twist the binds hype train is what I'm
Getting from this. We're getting excited about this roster and one player particularly around your highlighted him a little bit
What's getting really excited about this victory to we know how much it meant for large
We look at some of the highlights here from him in this game
Mowgli-Skalk spoke about it on the interview but look at this, getting up out of his chair,
getting active, you could see how much has been for him.
Yeah, I mean clearly I don't know what went wrong behind the scenes but there was clearly
something between him and shifters and yeah, well you know what, all the best for it,
I love a little bit of culture, I love a little bit of trash talk, I love a little
bit of drama inside our league, I like the entertainment, I'm here for it, I mean
I didn't spend one year in an A like him just to not just have some trash talk
in the ML.
He was the top player for his team and when you go up against your former team when it means that little bit more
It's very easy to go off the boil. It's very easy to lose your focus and your identity
Clearly not for Blaster Bay because he was ahead and shoulders above everybody else Leo you on drama. Yeah
How about another round of Fnatic vs G2? All right
We're gonna go through this again. Let's start this, come on
All right, Fnatic vs G2, unfortunate for the G2 fans
This will bring some bad memories back from last stage
from last days, the all determining best of three that eventually saw Fnatic make it to the eSports
World Cup and G2 fall short by just one round. However, things are looking completely different
this time around. Both these teams find themselves on zero points for G2 unexpected for Fnatic. I
feel like with the way things have gone, it is kind of expected. They find themselves at the
bottom and to make it worse, they've won two rounds only, the very first year rounds they
played and lost 14 rounds in a row after that. That is a massive lost trick up
rounds if you look about it and I just I just struggle with magic because I felt
like despite the 2-14 record that is probably one of the worst if not the
worst I've ever seen of it. They have a low round difference on heretics who have been
watched for games in a row. Yeah yeah it's probably one of the worst round
differential I've seen for a 2-day debut but I will say this I expected
Oh, I guess I saw more of Natik than what the scoreline shows.
I think that most of the rounds that they played were actually much closer than the score gives them for.
And I think it's mostly the end-up rounds where you can really see the inexperience shine because they do the first half well.
But then when comes the execution? When comes the moment where they're going to push a little bit?
The comes get slaughtered and they hesitate and that usually kills them.
They've dropped back into that kind of old Fnatic.
That's often the belly of allowing those big plays to be made on them.
But you know, they're not
going to be able to get the
best out of them because yes,
they have lost 14 rounds in a
row. Ultimately this point. But
a lot of those rounds, as you
say, Leo, they were
competitive in and if they can
just find a way to close
their own out to be secure,
then they might be more
competitive. Look back big
picture, though. The context
of this team is they have the
heart and soul without they
have two players hold out of
them at last minute, you
know, replaced with
relatively inexperienced
players at a tier one level,
so you would expect that
And look at the two players that were replaced.
They're on your screen here on the right side.
Look at DJ, 62 EPS, worst rated player on the lineup, 7 and 16.
Then look all the way on the right, Dante 7, once again, 7 and 16.
And that's not exactly fair to judge them on just two B1s.
But clearly, you lose to it is in a dead shot.
And so far, your two rookies are doing so poor,
it's certainly not helping the team performance.
Now, they'll have to go up against a big team inside the EML G2,
E-Sports and whilst we checked up with two players in particular, Affinitic, I kind of
wanted to do the same on the other side of G2.
We know they have big players on their roster, the guy on the screen right there, Shiko, but
also DLF and Coing Pongry that we talked about since this year, Stolpen.
How are they doing so far?
And well, that's the big surprise.
Look at this, 8-16, 8-15, where what, one kill above from what DJ and then they
just showed us.
Yeah.
They're close to one of the worst players, or two of the worst players on the side
of the ML here. Sheck was the third worst rated player in the totality of the ML. If
you just look at the two of them, you might think, what's going on here? What is going
on here? I mean, G2 have shown us absolutely everything. I've taken some clits actually
from their game against Falcons last week on the map of Villa. They actually had a
really, really good round. They were really, really positive. They were tacking on to
statue. They managed to actually go and find an easy, I say an easy round win. They
Gamos went and hunted the, ah, mod he's allowed, that was Doki.
He gets the, he, not the opening kill, he gets a second kill.
So here Stompin manages to get a triple impact kill from below,
and then from there on out, they go and squeeze Falcons out.
This is round five, put some in the lead up against Falcons,
and you're thinking G2 are back,
Benja finds the kill, refragging, Doki, Stompin,
push up the Astros there.
They get a really, really nice flawless round,
and you're thinking, this is fantastic for G2.
That's the good.
What comes after the good Leo bad the bad? Okay, so I'm going to show you the bad now
This is the very first down of exactly the same game in a free versus free
Shiker walks into study and dies into a crossfire. Where's his teammates once downstairs the other guys are covering diffusing inside a trophy
When the play goes downstairs that's something on the surface here tries the triple impact
Completely misses it
Alamo dies as a result and then it's left up to something in the one versus three
So they've showed us the code. They showed us the bad leader. What comes after that the ugly the ugly okay?
So the ugly this is world champion
Doki um
Not unfortunate
You meet using roll wrong in terms of closing off the wrong doors wants to close the closed doors for all amount of plant in the second round
Of course closes the far dog now this comes down to the usage of the operator and how often you play
I can't imagine doki as a fragger using role role that was the thing that you run in here
He could have died. Yeah, he could have died basically he ABS it sends it far
If he just hit fire it sends it to the closed off got that wrong didn't cost his team actually
But I think with G2 their fans are going through the ringer. They're seeing the good
They're seeing the bad and they're seeing the ugly the big summary is as much as G2 is on zero points
They did play a 45 initially and it played Falcons. Yes
So that is the copium for G2 fans
The reality is they played against some of the best in mini ml if not the best in mini ml
And then the other game we can erase it in this whole inside. You're not expected to it content rounds
We're getting a lot with you too. I'm glad to see them smiling
That's something that I'm happy to see the vitre up for this game against the next hour
I see where we're going to what the map is for this one so we can get the game going we're going to border
Well, fantastic of running it back for the third time in a row now Leo
How many attacks of fanatic one zero zero they are the only team in wild siege to win zero attacks
Also, what map have they played twice border and this border attack rather than decided well, I would say attacker stated
Okay, so that so we just saw their round differential, right? Yes, they're too unfortunate
Yes, so it's only me they want two rounds in total after having played two borders. Yes, and it decided to go
Yeah, let's go border again a certain represents a risk and they will be starting out on the attack
So times a charm. I mean you can't do much worse than others
It was a 7-0 and a 7-2. I mean as soon as they get three rounds, it's progress. They're based up
I'm actually going to quantify this a little bit. That's why they might have done it
If I was fanatic and if I was you know, mismatching the team together with the agile retouch last second
I would save strats by getting to the same not saying the shirt saving strats
What I am saying is they probably came into this whole series with a very limited map fall and the game against you too
On any map is probably not winnable for them if I'm being honest
So go to border again treat as a free hit and save the maps that you can actually play a little bit better for the
heretics of this world for the
Rebels of this world, so maybe that's why they might go to that map. Are you calling it a glorified screen?
No, I'm not I'm saying it's official practice for a team that's very new and very young to
Makes a lot of sense. We're looking at the operator bands as well
That's why we'll have to start out on the attack. They come to do that with a month here a class
No, and that it will go get their exact same bands as last time, which will be the one my
NDSME once again moving the strong positions, then they will have to face Mira, for example,
they will have to face a lot of traps and potentially also Intel operators.
It's going to be an interesting one, I think for Fnatic really, learning experience,
the pressure is not on them, it's on G2.
We know that both teams find themselves on zero points coming into this game, but
that has to change.
One will come on victorious.
that, but there has to come a cutoff and this is what bring that cutoff you better believe it. This is
aimless with Vegeta. I was speaking about qualifications playoffs in the last match and I said last time
around stage one five wins was enough to get you into the playoffs and then you go into that knock
out goal. Let's try and get yourself qualified to Osaka. I would imagine the threshold is
that we're going to be looking
at about five G two, which means
you can always suffer for losses.
G two have already had two
of those. They've already lost two lives.
Blues in a third here
in three weeks.
It just starts to look like it could be a
little bit too much and against fanatic
who, you know, no offense to
fanatic, but we've got another roster
rebuild another change Dante
picks up Benjabasta. That's going to be a great
start for fanatic on the attack getting
aggressive but look they've got another roster change here they are rebuilding
again and so G2 have to be able to take advantage of that. This is the turning
point for G2 they need a win here today and oh no dokey can the swing aggro on
the east stairs gets punished there by wizard and well for G2 after I'm gone
and they are a man down so this is good news here for fanatic and again
I don't know if you notice or not Tim, but the desk was pretty against fanatic in terms of they just cannot attack
So certainly if they are able to get an attack on the board here, it shows that they've improved. I suppose it's something
Well, yeah, I mean they can't get any worse. Can it you've got to look at it. Maybe that's the positive
I knew you'd I knew you'd have me on that one demo. I knew you'd back me up there. Look
for fanatic. Yeah, it's about getting the first and hoping it's no balls. I think Blackbeard's looking to move in and pressure
Deepak does pick Shaco up elsewhere. I tell you what, stomping only just gets away with his life and not for much longer
as Wizards sweeps around the corner. I like this from fanatic, where they see opportunities, they're taking them
they're getting aggressive, they're pushing forward and they're taking fights on their terms. They've still got a Blackbeard on the
board. However, one versus four, you've got to say that it's reasonably unlikely. He does take the first of them though
I was just to find a headshot onto it. Oh, that's a big moment. 1v2 effectively down with the Blackbeard out of things. 1v1!
Alan, now, he's so close. Fnatic, he can't be losing those. They don't in the end.
But it was a little bit closer comfort. Fnatic 1-0, and they win their first attack. No longer.
They're the only TV world stage not to win one.
It's a little shaky there though Tim. Right at the end. It could have went against them, but thankfully DPEC was able to win it out and well
G2. It is around that obviously they had to fight back from. I think you lose your smoke right from the get go.
Benjy was downstairs, he's called out by Dante creeping in from customs.
It's never a good time for them and yeah, almost.
I mean, I said last stage, I thought it was the best ever I've seen Alamo play.
And you know, you don't give, he should be giving him those opportunities because he's proven he still is dangerous as ever.
You know, I thought last stage was, the last time I seen Alamo play as well last stage was actually his first ever time in professional play.
That was back when he was still in Brazil for that one season back on team one.
So, yeah, I think Alma was certainly the talk for me for G2 was just how well he played last stage.
But again, I think for G2, of course, the kind of ending of their stage was, of course, the disappointment.
But I do think the general league play for them was, you know, they were untouchable for a lot of the times.
It was very hostile-free.
They need to find that and recreate it because they find themselves now one down.
It's worth pointing out, I know it's been spoken about on the desk as well,
Shako such an enigmatic figure within seed, really, such a talisman for the teams that he's on.
He has been struggling, there is no other way to put it in the first couple of weeks.
He finds himself third from bottom in terms of the overall standings,
and there's only two players below him who both play for the same team,
and that team is fanatic.
So maybe there's an opportunity here for Shako to get something going.
it certainly would be beneficial to G2, I think, to focus on that.
Sometimes you can't build the team around one player,
you can't build your performances around one player,
but I think we all know that getting Shaco back online
would certainly be a big thing for them.
As it stands, Fnatic have got themselves inside of the building.
It is challenge number one on board when you're attacking.
Get yourself in, get established, get a beach head.
Deepak has done that, finds a kill onto Doki.
It's going to be five versus four and we found ourselves with Fnatic in the driving seat again.
He's not only killed, Doki, he kicked from the game as well, Tim, it appears.
Very powerful kill. There you go, it's the power of deep neck.
For Fnatic, half the round still to play in good standing, but the first pick can start
applying pressure now into those different points, such as Brazil, such as the player
inside of security. Smith's though has been able to find Shaco and once again G2 really
up against me. Can't find some bits back. Oh, Dante! Just creeping around on the solid
snake and even gonna find another flurry. Well, Benjah! Just pops the head through
and that's an easy one for Dante, fanatic. My words, there's two attacks as easy as
you like it.
A great start for fanatic. Let's call it as we see it. There's a couple of things
that I like particularly demo one of them is how confidently they've been getting into the building
and I've got to ask the question is that maybe a little bit of a fault on g2 side we often see
defences on border focus around preventing teams getting into the building getting established
in spots like east stairs like cctv like 90 corridor you try and avoid those being taken over
by the attackers as it is fanatic have been walking in getting kills and taking that ground
to be honest with him. And I
think that's something G2 need
to change up. They've been
playing a little bit too
passively. It feels over the
last couple of rounds and
fanatic and been able to take
advantage of that brilliantly.
So far looking sharp finding
their kills impressive stuff
from fanatic. See if we can
get G2 back in. Okay back in
and him going again. G2. I
mean, do you prefer about
to be fair border isn't necessarily a g2 map. It's a map which yes of course they've played in the past but it's not
One of their more high preference maps, you know, it's certainly lower down on the list
Again, I think if you kind of look at all of the kind of map stats for g2
It just looks like a very long time since we last seen them play and that's because we didn't see them at EWC
You know, they weren't there so it was pretty difficult for them, you know
I'm just hearing word demo that I believe we are going to have a replay on round two. I believe that is the ball. So that's just being set up. And I believe that docian actually we didn't see it obviously so it was difficult for us to to understand the circumstances.
I'm not saying that he's not
going to be able to take
advantage of his chances, but
I believe docian already
disconnected prior to any kill
being found on him. So we were
still five versus five at that
point, and it was early in the
round, so the round will be
replayed. I believe so. We'll
just get that set up and we'll
get back into it with fanatic
one zero. But like I said,
regardless of whether it's one
zero to zero to fanatic,
there is a lot of positives
for them to take away from
things so far. I think you
you know, I think you have to
look at the comparisons. Exactly
exactly. It's not I agree. It's
not about down talking anybody.
The reality is this is the third
game for this roster together.
If you look at fanatic G2
up in together for you know a
good period of time now, at
least as a core, they've got
world champions in there. Like
yeah, it's obviously, you know,
difficult to compare them to
and say, Oh, no, you know,
the game. But I think if they
don't come away with the win
here and they lose that kind of
third life as I'm talking about
it. You know, they've only got
one or two losses more that they
can take having not got a win
against an athlete. I think you
look at the season there for
G two and you start to bring
those alarm bells. It's panic
stations because it is
unthinkable. You know,
I think it also leaves them
then in a very difficult
position for qualifying for
SI. So. There's a lot of
pressure on this stage is what I
will say. Yeah, I think the
good thing was there wasn't any
points given out for.
It was the direct place
I mean, it was the direct
place given out. Yeah, even
still a team who would have
qualified anyway, of course, so
that's in hindsight. I mean,
that's all trickled down. It
means that, you know, 17th
place qualifies is, you know,
the next one down on the list
qualifies, but G2 currently
qualify. They currently
qualified from where they
currently do. But that's without
the end of the season. I'm
surprised. I'm just, uh, would
it surprised me at all for a
team that doesn't make it to
E W C and I'm not I know that
there was no points. We see
the reason that I mentioned
that is because it means you
had worse finish in stage one.
So there were teams getting
more points than you out of
stage one based on the finishing
places there and then not
making it to us. Arca as
well, so therefore again lower
that. Maybe this maybe the
script through, but. Scraping
through is that what G two
should be doing. No, that's
special whenever we've already
seen Tim, but they've been able
to do that. You look at their
stage one. How good were they
on that stage one, and they
carried that on into the major
again. You know, they also have
to change the team. They
I mean, I think it's a good
chance. Again, the term honeymoon
gets used a lot. People think
Oh, maybe the Benches. I go back.
That's right now. But I don't
think it is for G two. You know,
I just think they had a bit of a
you know, it's the same way we
talk about Tim invite. All you
need is a team to have the two
best best weeks of their lives
and then they lift the hammer.
Maybe for G two, they had,
you know, just two bad, bad
weeks for them. And that's
I'm just having a look at the
SI point this while we're talking.
G2 did themselves some big
favours back in May 900. They
got from Salt Lake City. So that
has really helped them. They're
currently sitting eighth place,
as you see. There's plenty of
scope for them to qualify yet.
Looking down the list below
the list of players that
the team that could certainly
make moves if they get
themselves qualified to an event.
So I think G2 will probably be
okay, but my point there is
definitely, you know, don't put
yourself in that position. Why
ask for trouble? There are teams
like Furia who were just on
the borderline at the minute
loss. There are a number of the
APAC teams that we may expect
to see kind of jumping up
the game. If you're not
willing to ask for trouble and
if they continue to lose here
and don't make a soccer, then
they will certainly be asking
for trouble. And. Yeah, it's
going to be a tough game for
them. I think given the
couple of rounds that we've
seen through this tech pause.
I think they need to be, you
know, having a word with
themselves and coming back in
with a bit of confidence up
for that again into the
building. Get aggressive onto
the make sure that you're
I don't think I am again. It's
the fourth official Tim, isn't
it doing the checks drawn the
lines, whatever they have to do.
That's actually set me off a
little bit. Tim from the
weekend looking like you. Well,
I can imagine that it would do.
I can imagine that it would
change the lines myself and
just I've set it up. Yeah,
I can imagine that it would
I can imagine that it would change rubber lines myself and just have set myself into a fury.
It was a little bit of a wobbly decision. I think that much is clear, but we will see what comes of that.
I guess apologies made to Manchester United now, I believe, but apologies don't really get you
those points back, do they? And the... So we don't need a apology tonight for this game?
of course, but they're up against Falcons and I wouldn't hedge your bets Tim. Again, just a little
advice there. Then they have shifters, again, could be a really difficult game into heretics.
And then they've got VP, Secret, and GFade to finish it off. So I think for G2, they're never
going to have like a week where they have teams that they could just go bang bang bang,
just rattle off. There's always like a big team mixed in there somewhere. I think that's
that's for G2 is you need to get a bit of momentum. Of course for G2, you need to beat those teams in and around you.
They need to go up against the VPs. Even the GKs now as well, we've kind of cement themselves as a top team.
You know, these are, as a case, maybe where, you know, we looked at last year, Tim, we looked at Team Secret, we looked at G2, we looked at Falcons as being kind of big free that we had last year.
Now for this year, Tim, I also feel as though we've got six teams who can actually get in there and compete.
you know, you can track it all
the way from kind of the
pentagy to empire evil genius
days where you kind of had two
or three teams at any one time
that were, you know,
significantly competitive every
year, year on year things get
more and more competitive. You
know, we're getting those
impact teams coming back to
the top of the world. You
know, you know, you can
you know, we're getting those impact teams coming back around as well. You're way boss of the world who they're not just
competing them. Oh, they are
For my money in there with a chance at some point. Yeah
We had a chat with JP from space the assistant coach from phase a couple of weeks ago
And we're going one of the teams that he said, you know
Did he picked out when we said who are the teams who really stand out apart from phase at the minute?
He said we're both definitely a very very difficult team to play against and that's coming from you know multiple world champs phase
And so yeah, I think the depth continues to grow. It's the same in the email
It's the same around the world, you know these teams that we looked at as mid table teams are now easily and
Regularly picking up wins against people and that top three top four just isn't quite so secure anymore
There we go. Back into it, as you can see, the round is going to be replayed everyone.
It is going to be just 1-0 for Fnatic. We'll see now how this repeat will go. G2, of course
having to spin towards that top floor. We'll see what Fnatic want to do this time and
it's kind of like, you know,
it's a situation for fanatic where, yes, it's going to be,
it's one of those decisions that maybe went against them.
You just have to just stick with it and just go again.
Just don't even worry about it and just get yourself into this next round.
Just like an offside in football demo.
You've got to carry up and you've got to get the job done.
Shaco manages to find a kill to open things up
and it's going to be Dante taking down.
Could be a big loss there.
We do hear a Selma charging the background detonating,
so there is at least one breach being done,
But not all of the breaching has been done as we see the impact.
Nick, come out really well playing from Alamo.
Manages to get the shield break, takes down Smith afterwards.
Five versus three, quick start from G2 in round two.
Yeah, very surprised that Smith just stood in front of him.
Let him do it, you know?
Yeah.
Has got impact.
She want to try and get the cover just to stand in front of him.
And Smith will pay the price because of that.
EJ was able to find one kill back, but still.
There'll be a lockout here for Fanatic. They're not in the building and that's half the round gone.
G2 still in power positions. They still have control of East here. They have security of course and speaking of East, here comes Benjah, who...
Okay, that's the weird one. Only to Benjah miss the guy on the door.
The guy on the door, miss Benjah.
I think although it didn't pay
off in the long run, DJ gets
around the corner takes then
the kill going to find mute
off the board three versus
three is fanatic and fought
their way back into this deep
back does take a little bit of
damage along the way there
from that Gumi. We're also
going to have DJ down on the
balcony right now. I'm not
sure how collectible he will
be. Depends on the positions
the position of G2 stomping
causes a serious problem. Smart
plays actually dropped over the
edge so that they can get him
back on his feet. A choice that
needed to be made. I think 35
seconds left to go. DJ law
health G2 with three operators
all on full DJ finished off
and it is surely a matter of
time. They know exactly where
D packs coming from. I love
how close it out with the TCSG
and G2 did it round two. It's
around replayed and the G2 kind of on top.
Well, that's gonna be Armory done and dusted for a while now.
Don't have to go back there again.
Yeah, I think for obviously for G2,
you have to look at how they held security,
they were playing aggressive.
But I think it's obvious that Fnatic
have obviously changed their play style
since they brought Smith in,
because he just plays shields.
You know, the same way you look at VP with Neko,
all the guy is gonna do is play shields.
And G2 are ready for that.
They're not going to allow Smith
to set up with the shields and the fashion he wants to.
You know, the rain in the newer we've seen earlier,
it was the impact grenades coming in from Aloe able
to take the shield down.
They're not giving fanatic the opportunity
to play the way that they want to.
They're not allowing Smiths to be enabled.
And we know the power of the shields
when they are enabled needs to find a way
to get that moving.
One more, we move in to round three, going to be bathroom and tell us this time around, so it's going to be a bit of a scrap over top floor, keep an eye on Alamo.
He brings along the Oryx, so he's going to have that opportunity to move a little bit more fluidly from floor to floor, hopping up the hatches.
It is sometimes a little bit of high fantasy, expecting to hop up the hatch to then result in a big flank and a couple of kills.
It's quite rare that we actually see that happen, but it is more that it's something that the attackers need to concern themselves with.
They need to think about it. They need to be aware that it's a possibility.
So, see how
first kill comes in and again look towards that shield smiths.
Ready to go. Need to try and afford Alomar of course. He's on the oryx. Perfect counter to the shields as we know.
D4 he's gonna be used. Doesn't even do a lick of damage to your DJing. Already G2 having
to back away from security and Smith's now. Iron up Armory. However it is Alamow. It's
always there though so it's good to know that they've got the drones in. You can tell
Smith that there is in fact an oryx. Venture though. People will get the opening pick.
I believe this could be from the furtive. Iron goes as well Tim. Not bad. I think
I guess it was had to be yeah, I think it was great stuff great stuff from G2 to start it out taking Dante down as well
Some of that vertical destructibility gone with him
They're going to be a little bit limited now
Maybe just to the DMR of twitch to be able to get any other angles open up that they want
Rescending the shield down Smith is going to try and force Benja out a position
Which he does to agree but not too much benches just going to play a ring around the roses here
and see if he can get on to the opposite side of him, stop and gets one, can he find a second? No.
Alomai does manage to get deep-packed, however. Five versus two now. Smith's trying to get something going, but...
it just became a lot more difficult. Alomai picks a VJ, and it leaves Smith in a 1v5 ace clutch, required.
Shaco finds his man through the soft wall. G2 to one.
I mean, I think for G2, they didn't want to linger and give themselves away up for free.
You know, I think Benji had a lot of respect there for the Blitz.
He was able to drop off in through the Brazil hatch into customs very early on.
He understood that, and by myself, I'm not too well equipped now,
but I've used that C4 to really deal with that Blitz.
And he just drops down and just lets the rest of his team who are still upstairs.
You still have the Oryx.
and just lets the rest of his team who are still upstairs, you still have the oryx.
Smith has to be careful of that.
Then the kills have started trickling in.
Let's not able to secure the kind of individual gunfights that he was looking for.
And this was a very important kill there from Stompin, but it is.
That's, I'm guessing the position that Stompin's been able to get into
is because Benjy was able to take out this Ophia,
who also would have been up in security to hold that position.
to get to the end of the
game. Couple of important
kills certainly came through
from G to leading to a
tactical time out being
brought in by service on the
side of fanatic. He's seen
enough and wants to interject
at this point to one down
now. Wanting his team to
find a few more attacks will
be tough for them. We've
the first round. It was the
got in there quick. They found
the gaps. They were able to
exploit it and get a couple of
kills. G two of tighten things
up a little bit since then. We
saw it in that last round.
Benjah getting the vertical
kill to open things up, taking
down an important operator with
the fear off the board as
well. As long as G two can
keep that tight, fanatic are
going to struggle. Good run
Start just chaining together
Onto the third bombsite
And typically your vents, if you workshop them, it's all about upstairs control
Entire of this bombsite can be defended from upstairs, you got vertical angles in every portion of this bombsite
And because of that, you typically see a lot of attackers then have to go above and get these defenders off the verticals
See Doki on the source of course great in case there is a quick kind of rush
coming in with lots of smokes a lot of utility being dumped he can spot exactly
where that diffuser is going to go down very similar to what you'd seen about
the glare Tim never look at the third bombsite choice in towards dorms on that
map exact same thing you need the sense you need that bit of
information in case they try and go for a quick flat. Oh look at this
But he'll peek around the corner. See if he can find his man above. I like this from Dante,
getting in, getting aggressive. He's going to have a problem here though. He's got a
goo man in his leg in the middle of sight and he's got players up above him. Manage
just to find a safe spot to take it out. But the danger is never far away as Benjy
just peeks around the corner, takes out the solid snake. Advantage G2 with another
Opener five versus four Dante off the board
More work now needed from the rest of fanatic in this top floor clearance if we have a look three out of five from G2
We're up there. They need to go and find some kills
Same thing again G2 able to find the opening pick
There's a bit of a weird one of course that day was hoping that you just sneak in through the main door find a quick opening pick
to be in so about a panic for G2 but standing firm very confident Benjaforce
want to take that engage when he won that G2 just again Tim they're doing it
just turning on the burners here Tim and cruising their way through into another
round here to be five wizards and smith, smith pressure now don't get she
kills his teammate who has a restaurant help his teammate but it's gonna be the
I mean, that's easy. So so easy.
They're accelerating. That's the
problem for fanatic. As you just
said, they're G two of it. The
burners. They found another gear.
They started to get comfortable
in the game, and this is
unfortunately for fanatic
probably a little bit more of
what we expected to see G two
now looking coming up in the
probably a little bit more of what we expected to see G2 now looking comfortable and cruising on boarder
They right now
Are in a good position because they've not only if they got themselves 3-1 up on the scoreboard
But they're doing this on defense of a map that we expect to see them have a little bit of success on the attack as well
And with the way that they're playing open that aggression up in that tempo getting in a winning gunfight after gunfight
building that confidence. It's going to serve them well when they get onto the attack. They're going
to be able to, you know, transmit that through and go and take ground, take possession of them up
and get rounds from there. I also want to point out Dante been involved in every single entry
engagement so far out of the four rounds that we've had. He's only won one of them so currently
sits one and three and is dying in the first minute every single round for the last three rounds.
If we have a look, 44 seconds in, 59 seconds in, 38 seconds in have been the times of his deaths
over the last three rounds. He is not doing enough right now to help his team. They are playing
for V5. Especially if you look at the operators that he was on to him. He was on ace twice.
He was then on a Sophia and a Solar Snake. They're not operators, he's just on a Frill West.
I was always playing a Twitch, you can kind of, you know, Twitch is Twitch, it's just a shot
from the end of the day, but if you're losing out of Heart Breach, if you're losing out all
the utility that Sophia has, you know, that's six canisters, three for explosives, three for
concussions, and then also a Solar Snake and he speaks for himself, especially to him on such
a small map. The amount of value you get from the operator is insane. I'm surprised that it's
It's even up.
You know, it's typical operator.
There's like first in the band sheet for border.
Well, the Soliton radar, of course, can just too easy.
Too easy.
Oh, how about that for a response, though?
Doki peeks around the corner, backs up his teammate,
and G2 are trading well at the minute.
Each time there is a death, there is a response.
An opportunity there for Smith,
really, that's gone wanting.
Benja does get taken down on the key.
that's going to take a nitro
with him, but there's still
two left on the board. Sorry.
One left on the board. Don't
know something has one as his
secondary symptom wasn't adding
up to me there. He does have
one as his gadget playing
striker. He gets to bring along
two secondaries. Of course,
so plenty of nitro's left for
G2 doki five and zero at the
minute. I love my four and
Whispers not even looking at something as he just peeks down the Brazil hatch and that's the 2v4 again.
Same thing, both the players outside of the building.
It's the big issue I feel for Fnatic, they just can't get a foothold in this map.
And Dante's been able to walk in just by himself and find a pick, but look how separated both of the Fnatic players are.
They're not together, Tim, so if one falls, is there really gonna be opportunity for a trade?
And like I said, no there's not, there's no trade coming in. G2 clean it up.
to get it done. That's it.
Confident again. Good close out
from G two trade play was good.
Don't keep picking up Smith,
especially taking the black
being off the board. It's
always going to be good if you
can get it done and those
numbers are starting to mount
up on the side of G two. It's
not looking good for fanatic.
I think we've already commented that they found an extra gear. I still think they're only in maybe third or fourth here. They've still got another couple left to go.
Just looking at Shaco's numbers, three and three. So he's certainly getting himself involved a little bit. Could be with a few more. I'm not being too critical there.
I just pointed out at the beginning of the game that he's low down in the overall play.
Standings at the minute, it's been a struggle for him over the first couple of weeks.
Understandable. Anybody can have those, you know, quiet games.
There was one where they were 4v5, then there was Falcons, not the end of the world.
But these are the games where he maybe needs to start picking those numbers up a bit.
Fanatic, rebels. Have a couple of good games, get plenty of kills under your belt,
and then you're ready for the tough games. You're ready for the Virtus.pro.
You're ready for the GK. You know you're ready for these games that are going to be difficult
Eric that's the shrine do something here. I'll see you look at a five or one half now for G2
That's what they want. They want to be dominant. They want to have a good response good bounce back from where they were
to be a recurring theme. It
really does. It's fanatic. It's
just such a such a problem. You
the game. He's got a lot of
damage, but he's got benches.
Number this game, hasn't it?
Smith continually keeps taking
Bencher out four versus three
and blackbeard has given them
something to hope with.
He's got a lot of damage.
He's got a lot of damage.
He's got a lot of damage.
He's got a lot of damage.
He's got a lot of damage.
He's got a lot of damage.
to hope with. You know, it's
like to it's like the uh, like
Squidward looking at Sponge
ball. G two running around and
Ben just having a Torah time of
the moment. He's just not
having fun at all. It's really
the only player that fanatic
been able to kill consistently.
Everyone else is just like I
said. Running ramp in here. G
two. Only have one more man
to find and they want a five
one half and they'll get the
alimons there and. Bio item.
And it's just a clean sweep.
They've looked very good ever since then.
Very, very good.
And I think our desk will probably agree.
Yeah, we will agree.
Demo taking the boards right out of my mouth.
They're a good recovery from G2 in these last five rounds
to get rounds on the board.
And I want to check in back with the players that we talked about
in the pre-show, right?
Saiko, Stalpin, the big figures in this one.
How are they doing so far?
Well, they didn't start out so well.
They really didn't start out so well as it didn't for G2
I guess we can call it obviously the round got replayed. And then we go into the the last of five rounds where Shaiiko Stumpen they really started putting their mark on this game and you kind of saw them grow with confidence Stumpen played a lot of the TTSG Shaiiko on his kind of trademark lesion and actually that's what you want to see.
you want to see. You want to see the big heroes. They didn't have a great start in the
very first week, but they come into this game. They come into this play day against Fnatic
and suddenly 6-4, 6-1 high EPS score. That's just what you want to see from these guys.
Absolutely. I just love to see almost one point difference between the EPS score, but both
of them doing so well and I think they're part of the momentum of G2 kicking back again.
They're playing against a weaker opponent and I would say a weakened opponent. I think
Mentally, whatever you may agree or not with that means that yeah vision in my in my stead like if I was in their position
It's not take hat one that round and then it's taken away from them
They have to replay it and they lose it whatever happens the fact is it's gonna affect your mental and after that the other fact is
They lost five rounds in a row. So in my opinion is very much in their head right now
Yeah, I think so I think it all came down to mentality because they won the first round pretty convincingly that second round
Yes, they wouldn't convincingly after after doki disconnected
I think realistically one thing to highlight is that when
Rehost happens the players are not allowed to speak to each other the coach is not allowed to speak to the players
So if they feel some kind of trickiness that the around has to be replayed it gets in your head against mental
They've been told that and then they've got a student on a personal level
Yeah, what are we seeing with fanatic young inexperienced players players who have not been there done that the G2 guys wouldn't have
reacted in, they reacted the same way whether that was a rehost or a replay
round the fanatic guys I feel like that could have affected them a lot more and
we saw the game slide straight away. We know Stace is very well of course
support staff on the side of Nidik. What is it that he talks to or about to the
guys in this halftime break to try to get them back into that saddle? I think
it's not game related. No. Like I am like 100% convinced that the best
course of approach in that situation is to go and speak about mental and
and say to the guys, the most important thing,
you don't risk anything in this game.
You're not expected to be G2.
So go out there, use this opportunity,
you're playing at the tier one level,
it's a big spotlight to have some fun,
to try and like a little bit show some greatness here,
because they're not expected to win.
And it was so promising.
The first two rounds that they played,
the round that got replayed in the very first round,
they looked pretty decent.
They looked quite good.
You know, Swiss was having fun
and they were getting in the faces,
Dante was making plays on the snake as well.
So I think, yeah, he's focusing on big mental recess,
that's it, all he can focus on.
One quick thing to note here, Zofia Ban.
Zofia Ban is very kind of new, I would say,
but I would see me coming in more and more.
We're seeing the prominences of here,
lurking in below, the triple impact
to get a free kill from below.
White teams can guarantee themselves a free kill.
They will do it.
So I think we'll start seeing more and more
on that Zofia Ban.
I like it, it looks really good.
G2 find themselves in the driver seat.
Now the clear advantage here for Fidetic, things will look promising but right now it's looking more like an uphill battle.
Thank you very much. Desk and Tim will just have to echo what Jack said, I mean the Sofia ban.
Look, I think Sofia on a map like Borgers, same thing you can say about a map like Villa for example, whenever you have so much destructibility from below.
It's a no-brainer to go for that ban.
Makes a lot of sense, makes a lot of sense.
with the recent sorry both anybody you know, he's maybe I don't know I've been living under a rock siege last couple of months
That isn't aware of it
An extra explosive canister and concussion canister was given to Sophia recently so she now got three
Impact grenades on the gadget which does allow for a kill very very quickly
If you get it underneath and you get an accurate location pinged out
He's got one two three underneath all of those impacts, and you will get a kill on to the player that's there
And we see that being done quite a lot. This is a really nice near lineup by the way
It's just bouncing it off there the way that the nerds working the game again
If you're not maybe aware is the timer on the nades doesn't start until it takes its first bounce its first contact with the surface
Once it does four seconds, and then it detonates so by bouncing it off that little wall
You get it into the corridor and it just detonates immediately when it gets a really nice lineup
It was starting to see use quite a bit more natural goes out to kills have come in for fanatical on the way there by the way
It's shark or the stomp and both taken down and how about that demo talk to me grim and lion off the board
Yeah, it's not ideal here for G2 obviously. They want to try and get themselves in towards east
But DJ has had a swing. He's got a kill as is that they was just down east stairs
I mean this is what I think was maybe just fine be a little bit critical of G2
I think clearly needs to find the way they were doing the day yet fantastic
But you also need to have somebody coming in from below you need somebody coming in from waiting room
Bottom each stairs so you can pitch that guy
Doesn't allow him to get back in towards these stairs
You know it's all about the cut-offs here on border
It's a reason why you think of German Falcons on border. He plays down there for that very reason
He makes a nightmare for teams want to take each because he actually holds that waiting room and it holds up very very well
I'll tell you what, I'm not sure that they're aware of his approach here. He's just going to go in under the cover of a little bit of smoke, managed to get our charge onto the wall. Meanwhile, Doki gets a kill elsewhere onto Dante. That leaves us now three versus four, G2 fighting back.
to back his teammate up here
does get the kill. Okay, coming
round for another knows that
he's going to be challenged is
DJ on the longer angle wins it
out. Three versus one fanatic
looking comfortable on the
defense actually despite a good
couple of challenges from G2
pressure mounting through office.
Fanatic have held on well
there and got themselves their
first defense five to now.
You got two kills, you mentioned as well the operators that they were able to take down,
Grim and Lyon, you lose them, trying to push into positions now without that utility, very
difficult for G2.
So they're always up against, there's always going to be an uphill battle and yeah, that's
it, good job at holding out.
See here, this was MG2 trying their best, trying to do something, just tell us that
There's just too many people, too many trades coming in just because they had that man advantage.
So for Offer Fanatic, they support up each other very, very well, Aaron.
They get their first defense on the board, but that's what he wants him. They need a lot more than that.
Certainly do. They need at least four more.
If they want to get themselves into overtime,
it's time more. If they want to get it won.
And that's the problem that they've got. G2 only need one more round to secure a point
the next three games. They're
going to be looking for the
full three point regulation
winner here, and I think they
need to be having lost their
first two games, zero points on
the board. Two points will do
the job. You know getting those
wins will do the job. It starts
to add up, but they need to
clock up as many points as they
can. They could really do with
Sorry, the next three or four games.
He does snipe there, he can stop and able to take down the foreign gadget and that means that DJ's break room walk-in isn't as safe as what it once was.
Now, let's be careful of that, of course.
G2 is trying to get the drone work done here and...
Let's see what they can try and do.
And just based on what they're attempting here, Tim, it just feels as though that they're looking for the gap, you know, and again, that's the philosophy that always look at with G2, Alamo in particular.
If they see an opportunity and they will try and exploit that, so just waiting, slow and steady here for G2, no picks on the board from either side.
That's not it, happy enough just to sit and wait.
makes it intense as a defender but it demands a lot of mental focus when you
know that any small mistake any small gap that is left G2 are just going to
exploit it quickly and aggressively it means you've got to be switched on a
hundred percent of the time and over the period of a game it takes it's tall
especially if fanatic have to come all the way back into this one. Shackle down
to the bottom of the stairs.
See if you can find anything amongst site itself
looking through into a bathroom and tell us
doesn't see anything for the time being
hoping to maybe get a line through onto workshop
the site itself.
Right now, top floor control is still important.
Stomping, I was gonna say get DJ,
but it's the claymore that gets him.
Stomping and put it down early.
A little attempt to the flank maybe
coming out from fanatic.
They give G2 the advantage.
again, G2, not wanting to rush things here, still waiting for those opportunities, stomping
with a second now and slowly but surely that top floor is being cleared out and will be
fully now. This is the last one to drop and all three players in towards that first floor,
30 seconds remaining though Tim, it's not a massive eye here for G2 but they've got
that man advantage, that's the important thing, they can drop in, take the trades
the game. They're going to be
on the line. They're going to
be on the line. They're going
to be on the line as needed.
Dante show himself inside a
custom to know where he is now,
but G two. There's going to be
I am probably the hatch drop
here and they're going to go
for adventure finds one Dante
though does swing in, but I
guess that position is going
to be known. Are they going to
line up for him? Oh, well,
they do. But they both shoot
at the same time and. Well,
G two with that man advantage
able to make it happen.
to be able to cause this out.
You feel there has to be around
for them somewhere that they
will lock down fanatic. It's
time to dig deep. It's one round
at a time. It's maybe just
throw it all at the wall and see
what sticks get aggressive. Take
the fights to G to try and get
yourself that man advantage, and
then you've got something to build
from in the round losing the
entry at the minute feels like
it's going to be borderline
If they find themselves in a 4v5, 3v5, which has been the case a lot throughout this game, it's probably only going to go one way.
So keep your eye on the beginning of the round, keep your eye on the entry kill, which way does it go?
I think it's going to be particularly important.
It's only been overturned once in the entire game where a team has got the entry and not won the round,
And it was Fanatic who did that back in round 5.
And by that I mean they lost the round G2 all the turn days.
So Fanatic don't have the track record of that.
Keep an eye on the entry.
Let's go and see what potentially the final round has in store.
G2 just need the one.
Come back from Tellers.
That's where we're going to see.
Last time I remember we were here with G2.
successful on a flight so the defensive half there from G2, let's hope that
Fnatic can try and do the same to pull themselves back into this game, and Tim
you're just looking at the way that G2 have kind of approached things, you know
from that first round where they almost got a little bit of a reality shock
almost like you know yeah okay Fnatic we're actually gonna have a go at it's
actually gonna peek as they're gonna play aggressive, we just need to try and
slow the pace down, we need to do the drone work well, we need to think
about who we want to target, we're bringing in operators like the
Grimm, we've got the Deimos, these are great singling out operators, putting them under
pressure, gaining a lot of information, oh damn dearly!
And Trax able to take down Doki onto the headshot and that's Wizard with another one.
And G2, like I said they're trying to single out these players but whenever you lose the
Deimos then that matters him.
Just comes to a crashing halt.
You've got to remember that when Deimos tracks an operator he gives up his own
location.
It's not quite as specific as the ping that he gets,
but it does still tell the enemy player where he is in return.
And Dante took full advantage of that.
If you remember back at the round, I spoke about entry.
I spoke about Fnatic needing to make sure
that they secured that first kill.
They did.
They found themselves down five versus three
with an opportunity to cause out the round
and keep this game going a little bit longer.
Stomping does take down Dante four versus three.
Now Fnatic still have a little bit of a cushion.
Alamo half health as well. Looking at their positions G2 almost completely outside of the building. There is only stomping inside of customs at the minute.
Another kill here for G2. Have to try and square it off.
Badic still got players upstairs just a mirror window looking at Alamo. He is the Ash though, don't forget.
So we can remove it if needed, but we're gonna try and rotate to his teammates and stomp them.
They have two in his hands can make things happen. We know that and they're gonna get a bit of a time in there in the player
And he stares. Epec though able to pick off Benjen. Stomping always looking for him.
DPEC. Smiths still causing issues for these SMGs and yeah stomp them down the one before.
good little reposition as well there from Smiths.
I think Deepak's also putting shots in for a bind he is and
well for Stomp, but he's in the bombs like Tim, but he doesn't have the kit.
Not what you can do here except hope that somebody shows themself
and he can find a kill 15 seconds left to go, I think.
He'll just hold his position here, maybe give his teammates a little bit of a chance for a chat.
See if anybody throws themselves in front of him.
Trying to get that F2 working. Absolutely beautiful kill, but it's going to be impactless.
Two seconds left to go round closes out and that's going to be fanatic taking another three six and they live to fight another round
Still hanging in there
Still for G2 having that match point. I mean look for fanatic
Everything it all comes down to Dante playing spoiler. You know for G2 you lose that demos
Fanatic then I think DJ got the second kill second call comes in
It's a 5v3 G2 don't really know what they want to do. They've lost
to keep that up. You know, I
think both times them where
we've seen fanatic be successful
here in the defense is because
they've set that temple early.
They've been able to get that
opening pick as you've mentioned.
They need to keep it going. They
need to keep it going. Get on
top of G2. Now you've got a
round out. It's easier said
than thought. You've got to
keep it going. You've got to
keep it going. You've got to
keep it going. You've got to
you've got a round there. It's
easier said than done. You know,
I appreciate that, but get that
next entry. Keep G2 on the
back foot. She keep the
guessing because there is going
to come a point and I don't
think we're there yet, but
there's a turning point in this
sort of small line where 62
becomes 364 and all of a
sudden that starts creeping
into the G2 mindset. Maybe
we even see a tactical time
out coming from Romelia if
you're sitting there thinking.
We've got to be about this. They're on the ropes.
They're worried about getting this done.
And the pressure starts creeping for G2 as well.
You know, we've spoken in terms very clearly about how
this is a must win game for G2.
They need these three points.
We've talked about that threshold of five wins
as it was in stage one to get qualified to the playoffs.
They're already two weeks in without a win.
There's only seven left to find those five wins from.
So G2 the pressure starts to mount if fanatic get another round here. I guarantee you that
Here we go
Let's do once more another armory
That's time it was good around here for fanatic again, it's all about that tempo
Looking at where they're holding. I mean, East isn't really being held as well, maybe
as now. I think Smith just wrote that in towards East and in towards the hallway. Yeah. Scenario
that you like to see being held, it's worked out for Fnatic so far. But look at Alamo
on this blitz. This is going to be the game changer for G2. And Alamo, trying to put
in free armoury, will be met with a bit of resistance from half wall. It's gonna
I'm not sure if he's going to go straight into the site or maybe try and go in towards security and deal with the players there and opening pick to him goes fanatics way wizard takes down Doki.
Entry kill that they needed as I said only one round so far in the entire game has been overturned after the entry but it was G2 always possible and we've got players like Shako still on the board 5-6 he's been a little bit quiet again this game.
Smith does manage to find Ben Gerr, that's going to be the lead cemented now for Fnatic 5v4
becoming 5 vs 3 and G2 in a position where they're not inside of the map and they now
have to work something special again, they need one of those big moments and I'll allow
you to play a stomp and play with two or three kills to throw them back into the
round.
P4, prepped and ready. Smiths though, well-fined shackle, there goes the C4 and that's a down
onto the shield. G2, just like the first time they attacked this, all out of options. Stompin'
is gonna have to go big here in the 1v5 but, yep, they have him covered. Fnatic, a flawless
for them. Still doing it Tim, that's two in a row, I mean that's free out of the
have to go to the bomb site.
Tim. They have to go to the
bomb site. Tim that they were
not successful, and they have
to go to events and workshop.
It's the next the next
challenge for fanatic now, isn't
it? They've had that bit of
confidence back now. Round nine
and 10 winning bathroom winning
armory. Good stuff for them.
Tactical time out as I predicted
from all your coming in here.
We know that he's as a coach
the world. So we're going to
win it. So we'll statistically
at rounds one and lost after
tactical timeouts. G2 numbers
are very, very good after
Romario tactical timeouts.
Generally some of the best in
the world, so G2 have an
opportunity to cause this out.
Romario. We know is a very
tactical coach. He will be
giving them a blueprint of
this is what I want you to
do in round 11. This is what
I want you to do in round
12. If we get there, these
are the plans. This is how
on the desk at the halftime about what's happening in the fanatic camp here. What are they talking
about? Very possible. Sir, this is now talking more tactically and this is what's been working well.
Let's continue on with that. But if the discussion was as Leo suggested at the halftime, go and have
some fun. Go and prove a point. Show them that you can play. You're into your one. It's an
opportunity. Nobody really expects a win here from you. Just, you know, play without pressure.
They've really done that in the second half.
Here we go.
What is going to change here? Well, I don't know. Is it Fnatic?
We need to change knowing that this was the bombsite they haven't been successful on?
Is it G2? We need to change because their previous two attacks haven't been great.
I mean, there are a few operators here on the attacking line up that we haven't
got to see you out here from G2. I look at the glass, I look at the monkey coming in. I mean,
two operators that you would expect to be using the capacity, Tim, of potentially a bit of a quick
rush. You know, that is what happens on this bomb site. Sometimes you just smoke out the entirety
of your vents and you're just walking and go for the plant. If you have to worry about somebody
looking for the vert holes to try and kill you while you're planting, you have the glass
there to support that. Of course, there is a warden, which is probably the big worry,
I think if you're dopey it's up against that person you can also see through smokes
But who knows what they could just use at the capacity of trying to get a cheap kill
It just smoke off armory head holes and then get a kill like that
You know there's multiple ways that the class can be used here
Well I'm out of the monty is always a scary prospect as we know great at creating space
particularly with that operator and
and usually in East stairs, we see it quite often,
but in this case he's gonna be looking to pressure CCTV.
He needs to be careful here
because it is Deepak on the warden,
so he will be able to see exactly
what's going on through this smoke.
He does bring the nitrile,
which is going to back up the Monte a little bit.
Doki's supporting on the glass.
Not gonna see anybody through that smoke
for the time being.
For now, you get them well here.
A minute into the round.
No real pressure on them in CCTV.
Deepak manages to level things out
to be able to get back to the
back to the back with a kill on
to Benja having lost wizard at
the beginning. It's not ideal. It
does put them on the back foot
of that stat that I said, and
it starts the crumble for
versus to G2 managed to find to
themselves down to with one on
to shack or to keep for that
fighting. Oh, deep egg. I
should try and find a kill
back here is stuck now
between all three of them. Maybe
looking for the fall back
I mean, he's the top performer here for Fnatic, but the free player's the fine.
One of them's also a shield, don't forget as well, Tim.
I think it's the shield, he's gonna find him.
Doki, though, gives himself up, and now it's a 1v2.
Stompin' still alive alongside the Monty.
The Grismot goes out, but again, from all around those, he has so much time.
Could you bait out these mines as they come towards him?
And then I go in for another peek. Stompin', he's just white, and he's licking his lips.
And they go for the plant, still one Grismot, stopping, pre-firing, finds the kill, G2.
They're back Tim, they're back to back with three points.
Exactly what they needed, really nice finish there from stomping by the way.
Understanding the situation, waits for the plant to go and start going down and then just pre-fires.
Knows that Dante has to make a move at that point.
Great stuff, 24 kills by the way between stomping and docking, the dynamic duo are back.
And G2 take the win, and we take a short break.
You're gonna wake in a zone, they try to tell me it couldn't be done.
You're gonna ask shit.
You want to ask shit.
Nice.
Let me kill you.
You're gonna ask shit.
You want to ask shit.
the
the
the
the
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I
All the G2 fans can breathe a sigh of relief because they get it done, they get their first
of victory and that also means that we get to speak to them.
It feels weird, don't you?
But we haven't spoken to you yet at all this stage.
Good evening.
How are you doing?
We've been doing some trolling.
Yeah, I'm good.
How are you?
Good, yeah.
Hello, Jack.
Hi.
Hi, Jack.
Hi, Jack.
Um...
Hi, Leo.
Zero wins on week one.
Hi, Jack.
Hi, Jack.
Hi, Jack.
0 wins on week one. Externally, there was a lot of criticism, Leo, and Leo, Loki. Oh my
god, we're in a weird triangle right now. Hey Leo.
Yes, Jack.
0 wins in week one. Zero points. Seriously, for G2. There was a lot of worry about G2.
What was your take on it?
A bit of a weird situation, right? Because we lost two games, so on paper it looks
awful, looks really bad. I think we got obviously the first game was 4v5 against a really strong
no-twisted mines team. So I don't really count that as a loss, it's just like nice. So that's
whatever, so in that mind I'm already removing that from we didn't lose that game, it was
just unfortunate situations, whatever. And then Falcons, you know Falcons are Falcons
that are always a strong opponent. I think we land a lot on especially the maps, we
We didn't really get to do it against Twisted obviously, so we tried against Falcons, obviously
showed a lot of weakness in the map from us, so that's good, that's kind of what we're
using these officials for at the moment, like before the playoffs, to kind of see where
our weaknesses are and stuff, so we learned a lot from that game and as I say, Falcons
are our top team in Europe, so always going to be a tough game, never going to be
easy rolling from any side, so it's whatever it is, whatever it is, so it just means
that we can't afford, then he'll slip up, so it's going forward pretty much, but that's
okay, that's fine.
Yeah, I'm in the start of the right way with three points today, and maybe the beginning
of win streak for you guys. Just looking back at the last stage, obviously, this moment
where you didn't go to EWC, how did the offseason look like for you guys, and how
are you preparing in your way to make it to Osaka, because that's what really
matters for SI.
Yeah, it was really terrible. We didn't go either. We see that sucks. However, I had great five weeks off. I haven't had any vacation in about five years, so that was absolutely amazing.
I spent some time with a girlfriend, went to Croatia, went to go see my manager, got married, look up, pick up, look up. He signed his life away.
And then now we are coming back to the grind, and yeah, it's happy to be back, it feels good to be back,
practicing with the guys because it was actually a long, long break.
But honestly, it was definitely needed bro, like he's been burning myself out for years now,
so it's good to have a little time to yourself and just go and do nothing actually, it's good to do nothing sometimes.
And I do think that you guys have done that before, was it pre-SI where you guys went skiing together?
It was pre-SI, qualifiers and that, yeah.
I feel like in general, you're a team that is, you have close bonds, you're a team of
friends before all.
You grind ranked a lot together outside of scrims, and I feel like you might be one of
the teams that would benefit the most from taking a long break, compared to teams that
are super strapped heavy.
Yeah, no, it's also, you have to take into account like it's our lives as well, not
only is it our jobs, like you have Zach, he's a young guy living in the UK, away
from his girlfriend and his family, and then you have Carl, who's away from everything
that he knows in Brazil so it is good to have a bit of off time so you can reset and
be a human instead of just being a robot siege player for a while. But yeah honestly it was
good. Suck the messy WC though, so much money.
I mean that's nice.
Like something else, like the multi major for example, you know what I mean?
Very very unfortunate things but you've recovered from that it seems and of course the
was great for for you guys.
Lukie, is there anything you want to say to the fans, to the G2 fans that have always got your back?
Well actually, they don't always have a back do they?
And they don't always have a back because I actually have been
I have been watching social media this week
and people seem appalled that we lost to Twisted Minds.
Actually, the Twisted Minds social media team were also jumping for joy
because they said they'd absolutely destroyed us on social media team.
But as a 4v5, as a 4v5 plus admins, as a 4v5 due to fans, wasn't a fair game.
So no, Anne, I have nothing to say to my 2v2 fans, I don't like them anymore.
They can come back when I'm winning and be happy for me.
But when I'm losing, shish.
Fair? Yeah, no, I totally understand that. Alright, doggy, thank you so much for your time.
And good luck tomorrow.
You're filming? Alright, see you guys.
No, but I mean, I understand it. It's so fair to say that, and I did not expect him to go on a bit of a rant there when I asked him if he wanted to say anything.
Is he wrong, though? Is he wrong? No, he's not.
He's not wrong, Ed. That's exactly what we mentioned. He played a 45, and then he played Falco, the best 3 in the ML.
So you can't expect him to walk away with points.
What's in the water tonight, by the way?
Ask his what it took you to get it. Mowgli's giving it. Doki's giving it to his own fans. I don't know what's going on.
I have absolutely no idea what our pro players drinking right now.
I mean, you know what? They're drinking the juice of funnesty.
That's why they're drinking right now.
True, true.
They're living for it. No, why not?
I mean, why me this rain?
You can just drop bombs all the time in interviews.
I also will say, like, you know, I've experienced this somewhat.
The bean on G2 brings an incredible amount of pressure.
You win, you lose, especially when you lose.
The fans get on you with such high expectations.
and a zero point week and due to yes there is mitigation that's just a man's game. Yes
there is mitigation by the fact that they played a new map against a fierce opponent
But you know there is pressure and that will come with criticism as well
So it's come out with a win to come out today for Doki
It will be the start of a journey obviously they only beat Fnatic who are pretty much expected to be bottom of the league
But it is a start. A short point for Fnatic. I do think there was some better in this game
I mean as some bright minds have said before you know if the admin decision is different
we're looking at the 5-6 and maybe potentially an overtime on the side of Fnatic, so you know, it's a flip coin at that moment
and I think that they were really close, even mentally coming back into this game, to me it shows great promise.
And you can't quantify the rounds that they played, their first couple rounds right after that replayed round,
you can't quantify necessarily what their mental state would have or wouldn't have been in, only they probably did affect them having to replay,
so they would have had a 5-5, maybe even better, who knows. It was a better performance for Fnatic as the top and bottom.
Yeah, of course, so for that we have to keep in mind as well, they do have some rookies
on their team, where our players that have just made that step up into tier one and the
final competition inside the tier two circuit is only just kicking off the first qualifiers
for the South Bridge.
Happened last weekend, we're won by Turks, but there's still two more qualifiers for
the South Bridge coming up.
And last we meet the players that we just saw on the side of Fnatic Arm.
Maybe not the greatest examples of players that have been really popping off immediately
inside Tier 1 when they make that step up.
A player like Rorik is a good example.
He's been waiting in the trenches for a very long time to finally get his step up from tier 2.
It is very deserved to see him playing here and you could be that very next star that we see inside tier 1.
The qualifiers are still coming up, there's still plenty of time to sign up for the Southridge.
Yeah, and I think looking at Rorik, I was just thinking, you know what, so far in my book, he's the best rookie of EML this year.
I think by far, I think what he's achieved with VP, I think the fact that instantly he had the level of a tier 1 player,
not any tier one player, a top tier one player, very impressive.
It was long overdue, it was awful.
Absolutely was, and we'll talk about Rorik and his team, Vortus Pro, going up against Secret
inside this matchup. Vortus Pro coming in as the very number one inside our league,
and not only are they just the number one, they are leading in all kinds of sets,
and even then, when things go wrong, there is always that one player that they can look to
the clutch out around. Yeah, exactly. I said earlier on, I judged a good team by their
the world. So that's the
game. That's the best way to
get the attack when right now.
First was that when right so
far this stage very very
strong. But 80% They've won
every single game. They are
very strong attack teams. Why
we see them international
events. Why we see them all
the way, you know, events
not yet making the main
stage of pushing the top
top, that's okay. They will
get that. One thing that I
love is their clutch
percentage 50% this stage
best in the world. So when
you've got a team that's
in 50% of the rounds they go down to 1v whatever. They're winning. They're winning them. And that's like, that's an insane statistic.
It comes really off the back of Naquo. He gets a lot of clutches, but so do the team generally as well.
Got a clutch game on your screen right there. Great fast forward as Peruvian. Whilst it's not quite there yet for a secret,
we're seeing the beginning of it, right? You know, they're slowly getting there.
But knowing secret and hearing from them last week in the interview as well, that despite that win,
and they're still not yet very happy with the results.
I mean, the reality is they have a coach
that has went to SIGR and finals,
that has won then won EWC,
so winning very tightly a seven-five-hour victory
over Heretics, I think it's just not good enough.
I think it's not good enough for a coach like Twister,
and so that's why he said, despite the win,
the results still doesn't turn,
he said that we are doing in scrims,
not that happy yet.
And I anticipate that he's gonna have that,
You know, that feeling that they can do much more,
especially with the player on the screen here leading the team,
one of the most experienced player in the world.
And then the rest of the players around him,
players like Noah, obviously, being the hot carry
of Secret in these dark moments when they were rebuilding.
And then the rest of the teammates that were picked up
are really hungry to prove that they deserve a shot
in here, one crock crates, for example.
See what you did there.
Yeah. Really hungry. Yeah, very hungry.
Okay, you can tell we are going through this quite fast.
That means the game is ready.
So without further ado, let's roll the map veto in
and see where the series will be taken to.
It is Shelly.
Now, I've got a theory that VP are trying to appear strong
when they may be a little bit weak.
We've seen a couple of borders from them last week
against inferior opponents that they won.
Same thing on Shelly.
They've got a losing record on Shelly.
For all VP are a great team, zero and six on it.
Ever since they started playing as a team
in terms of this five, they haven't won it.
So to go there against Inferi on paper, we team in secret.
So what makes sense to me?
Hello and welcome to the VP Worst Map Tour.
After border, we're going straight into Shelly.
And the proof is we can win on every map,
even the ones that we're really bad at.
And that's the proof that VP has put a lot of work
in CWC to prevent them out of the map.
Looking forward to seeing what they do.
I think for VP, it kind of feels like it should work.
The map should work.
They've got a dedicated shield player in a for they've got a lot of talented players, but of course the historic creepy
The Russian players on VP don't tend to make this map either or haven't liked this map
So looking forward to seeing what they do one proof they try to make the secret
It was actually always a map that they loved, you know old secret was savage loved it even in the rebuilds
They tended to play the map a lot in fact when they played it either we see they wanted 70
I think it was against all gamers if I remember rightly
But they wanted 70 so it's a map that they are used to and are comfortable
Most importantly, VP will be starting defense which history has been the weakest side and it will be starting
So on one of the only map in the meta that is that I can say that it's a good test for me to go on
What used to be a really bad map for them and on the weakest side?
There's a few things that are certain in life
It is Texas death and us talking about for this post map pool and any kind of iteration that we see them in
It is a positive thing, right?
You know they're going to maps that they don't seem to be the greatest honor in recent history
and they're trying to make those improvement. And they're doing that here on Shelley.
Thank you very much for this. I don't know about you, Tim, but I think the Dutch accent actually caught me there, Tim,
because I heard her say Texas. But again, I know she said taxes. But I heard Texas was like,
is that a certainty in life? Is it? Is that what we're dealing with?
Okay then, let's get into it. Secret against Virtus.Pro round one, Shelley.
going to be up on the top floor master and office across that sensitive line of nothing too wild.
They're all pretty much standard. We've got the leisure to deal with any shields that come along
come great and lower both bringing those shields double shield. I imagine the world as it stands.
Well, it's a new secret lineup again. I think is this the third time we've seen a new secret
this year to him. I think it might be. So yeah plenty of changes for Secret, obviously hungry,
speaks for himself, very long standing player inside of the professional scene. He's been in and
out of I don't know how many different eras of stage and oh here we go. I quit jumping from the
Blitz. However the first pick does go in favour of VP. However the trade is there, the shields
have been able to work, they've got control now with Solar and also Secret look at this,
They have the man advantage
Where have we seen this before demo team secret bringing multiple shields against the test bro, and it working
Skies it does get crocs who have the test bro found the secret source of they found the answer
Gonna find themselves three versus one
It's all up to Creed's nose guys law health of Pasha does have a full compliment of HP
he's going to have another one
for us here. One minute. He's up
against Pasha. It's the final
boss and he just can't defeat
him versus pro stand tall and
take round one. Oh, it's Pasha
again. Isn't that mean this
guy? What a year he's had to
Oh, it's Pasha again, isn't it? I mean, this guy, what a year he's had, Tim, he has been absolutely fantastic and VP.
I mean, there was a moment where they weren't looking in great shape.
You know, there was a moment where you had four players of secret upstairs and then you had two players in sight for VP
and then one player was spotted out on the trophy flank but no one lost his engagement and then opens up the round then for VP to get themselves back in.
that was successful. So there was an opportunity from secret, but they just couldn't lock it
down. They done the opening right to him. It was just kind of stabilizing themselves in
the bombsite.
Stabilized. And the point on the board for Virtus. For all one zero and then move on to
bar and gaming. We've got passion on the soulless. Now is he going to be playing below
looking to feed Intel into his team or are we going to see him up above with the possibility
of a little bit of lamp deny all coming in from that solar scanner. We will see where
he sets himself up. The second is over the far side of the mapping trophy just helping
set up that far end but the majority of the defence is going to be focused in the
area that we're looking at there. It's going to be around library, blue stairs, top
I think that's going to be the main area of contention.
Oh, let's get the rooms done here from secret and see that
I think overall for secret. It's it's a case of trying to just establish that full hold against VP and look
I think you're up against VP. We know it's always going to be a difficult challenge for anyone in this league up against
Virtus Pro
Seriously, they're trying to take things step by step as best as they can and a bit of an issue there from Hungary failed and in control of a lobby camera for you
So plenty of drones. You've got not only the Brava cams as well
But even the Retaro Drums from Flores so in terms of information it should be here on abundance
realistically for secret
And it certainly shouldn't be short of any information
it's going to depend how efficient late drills is using that sort on radar.
I was going to see Crocs getting himself set up on library balcony.
As a set, that's where the majority of the fighting we would expect to see,
even if Secret do a sort of side over clearance from trophy through master and office.
This is still going to come to a head around mezzanine and the top of those stairs.
We do have fashion down at the minute. That's the soulless gun.
all this gone. Dan does manage to find creeds. Pasha unlikely to be collector. I'd say no,
right, this drills are just walked on into sight. Forget Intel. We're just going to take
aggression and space and find the kills. Niko gets one Skye's, another Hurtus, despite
Steve being able to get themselves in right there. You're here, Rory. He's fairly not now.
He gets burnt out by the Capitao flame, just stood still in it. 2v2 with Pasha down.
It's all up to Skye's there though.
And I've just questioned Rory.
That's all I'm thinking about then.
What's going on?
And now Skye's
is all of a sudden left in the 1v2.
He's probably thinking how has this happened
and he just drops in towards Bar.
He finds Crocs and none of them
heard him drop because he used the C4
Tim to mask him jumping over the balcony.
Fantastic here from Skye's.
He's put drills now.
A very difficult position
and drills HP isn't favourable. He doesn't have 2 now. Oh, this is a messy engagement.
Who's gonna win? Who's gonna take it? They move cool off, they move back away.
Quick reposition here from Skye's is the correct decision. Oh, it is!
Baltimore on the rotate. Skye with a 1v2.
Really smartly played by Skye's. They're alike. He kind of had drills on a piece of string.
He was just giving him enough to maybe think that he could have an opportunity,
But really skies was in control of that engagement, especially with drills being on law health as well really difficult for him
And this is the problem that secret are going to find throughout this game
They are up against versus pro who is a team full of hero players and we've seen two rounds
They're basically one out by big moments from individuals
We had pasture in the 1v1 able to win the fight against creeds
We've had skies in the 1v1 able to win the fight against drills
You are going to have to go one for one head to head with these players if you want to take rounds
And it is just so difficult because they are all
The five of the best in world's team at the minute, so it's gonna be a tough night for secret
This is where VP can just start kicking into overdrive isn't it as well. I mean that's
Two clutches that they've had and it's gonna just give them so much confidence now going into and for secret
the game. It's very similar to
kind of what we've seen earlier
in our first game today, Tim,
where we had heretics up against
GK and heretics had opportunities
to win rounds out and then the
allowed GK to cut trends and got
them back in and we just seen it
was a bit of a runaway game. That
could be the same case here.
I wouldn't be surprised at all
to see this become a bit of a
one of the secret team as well.
Noah and Hungry, particularly,
not singling them out, but two rounds in,
one kill between the two of them.
Noah particularly is a player who's a talisman for team secret.
He's somebody that, you know, performances
can live and die on.
If he has a good game, there you go.
Noah gets the entry, exactly what secret needed.
Gets himself into that third round with a pipe
and puts secret with the best foot forward.
However, let's not get carried away just yet.
Last couple of rounds,
they've been able to have that strong presence,
those kills in the round and still not get it over the line.
So, secret, you've got to deal with the hero players as well,
but at least they've got themselves the first entry
and then one's now playing with an advantage.
So they can try and hold on to it.
In terms of utility of the secret half,
they have an abundance.
Got the solid snake and the dope lead,
great for that information gathering and not just
as I say it to him, it's a quick turnaround
and oh, Pass is still going to go for it,
This is what I said. You've got to be able to. The thing is you've got to be able to combat hero players and it's honestly just not something that you can come back. That's the whole point of them is that these players can just turn around like that. They can just do some sort of
you've got to be able to, you, the thing is, you've got to be able to combat hero players,
and it's honestly just not something that you can combat. That's the whole point of them,
is that these players can just turn around like that. They can just do something that is just better.
And we've seen that now. We've seen Dan in this round going big. It's been Pasha previously.
Skies has had his moment. Rorik, I can tell you now, he's been quiet, but he's just waiting in the wings,
and he will have that big moment as well. And so I feel for secret here because
I don't think he's necessarily reflective. We've seen a couple of nice moments to play from them when they've got aggressive. They've got into side. They found a little bit of space. They've exploited it. They've tried a little rush. You know, I like that. I like what they're bringing, but they've got nothing to show for it. And it's because of those individual players.
I'm gonna have to use the Stalmas for a soft destruction.
Nice shot though from Croxon, takes down Pache, but still too mortified and I think bad news
here for Noah, he will die to one shot from that TCSG.
Takes in to the 1v1 now, he is against the TCSG, Noah.
He's gonna use the walls to try and give him a bit of cover here, moves in, has that
DMR in hand, and an easy one for him.
Yep, VP.
it's not going to be a good
chance to make it close. Of
course, another Tim another
round where it comes down to a
1v1 VP have been able to get
all three. Yep. One V1 for
passion. One V2 for scars. One
V1 for Dan and VP of three zero
up and like I keeps it. You
know, I don't want to labor
the point, but that is the
problem with playing a team
like VP. They are going to in
those difficult moments find
that little bit of marginal
the first three. We're going to
see what's going to happen. It's
going to be one. It's going to
be one man that gets taken away.
We haven't seen any in play
whatsoever so far. So this is
furthest pro just banning to a
plan. That's the scheme. That's
the schedule just because we
haven't seen an operator so
far. It doesn't mean that we
not possibly going to a lot of
teams will keep an operator
in the bank, something like a
you might think actually we
don't use them for the first
three and then we use them for
is from there were absolutely no part of it. Now secret, what are they gonna do? How do they
get themselves back into this game now? Like I think whenever you think about shall I? It
is probably a map which I would kind of put up is more in the middle ground. I think attackers
can have really good things going for them. You think about the crossfires you can establish
from a lot of windows so I don't necessarily want to put it down and say oh it's just
because they're on the attack.
I've seen plenty of times,
teams can sweep a lot of rounds and shall I,
if you play it right?
But it just, it feels to me that secret,
they're not abusing those cut off points well.
You think about, you think about Greaves
on that last round, sat on blue stairs.
Nobody's on his blue window,
nobody's on the 51 window holding crosses,
holding cars.
Where's the support that secret can help each other with?
They're gonna have to find a way to help each other.
at this point. Like I said, there's been some good there. There has been some good, but as you point out, there are areas for improvement as well, but basically, they now need, the way forward is clear for them, and that is, they need to win rounds cleanly, cleaner than they are, it needs to be where they've got three or four left alive at the end of the round.
They can't keep suffering that attrition through the round to Virtus.Pro and coming down to
those 1v1, 2v2s at the end of the round because Virtus.Pro are absolute masters and they're
going to grind again out like that. No problem at all. And the score line at the end of
it just won't tell the full story. So it's a secret. They've got to find a way to come
through here and start getting more kills in the middle of the round. Teamwork is
going to be particularly important. Trade. Making sure they're not losing bodies
when they're getting kills, you know, the interrupting Virtus Bros. trade game, giving themselves that
man advantage going to be particularly important. No one did get the entry in the last round. Of course,
that would be a big help to sleep here as well if they can come through and repeat that.
So at down stairs, entry here as well from Creed. So maybe looking to take advantage here,
team of all the staircases up in free West Bank come in from bottom blue and whenever teams are of
course actively holding areas such as lobbies you can see this long extension you've got the
head holes in towards that you typically while it be fully reinforced up you can then hold the
staircase for your team it just it just gives I feel more options here for secret that they
can try and be a little bit clever up against VP but it's the time more than anything to mean
half around gone, haven't got themselves in towards library yet. Still players that they
have to clear in towards fireplace. Now we're going to try and go for it, but there's Dan,
takes down drills, bash on the crades, and ah for secret, it's just not going to happen,
at least crossing gets won back, but just look at the trade game for VP. They're playing this
strat really well, you open up all these long angles, and you just sit back to him,
use the TCSG, hold those angles, and just pick these attackers apart.
I think it's been a long time
since we've had a lot of
players who have been
involved in this. It's worked
an absolute charm for them,
hasn't it? I spoke about trades
coming into the round and how
good VP have been so far just
continuing that attrition
against team secret this time
rather than it being to keep
them level. It's been to give
them the advantage. And so I'm
a little bit concerned for
team secret that they've
actually missed their
opportunity. Those first three
rounds were winnable for them.
now they're coming into rounds where versus pro actually more comfortable to
late with the nitro noise not hungry must have moved back across a little bit
Rorick doesn't get himself on the board first kill comes I said that it would
four versus one super low health for Crocs and surely a matter of time 20
seconds left to go I don't think he's really gonna play too hard for the
round here doesn't have diffuser in hand either just see if he can get
himself a little bit of a comfort kill, a confidence muster. That draw goes out. Not
going to be close enough. Eight seconds left to go. They know exactly where it is. But again,
Virtus.Pro, they don't need to do anything here. They are a very disciplined team. They're
not going to give anything away. Final kill comes in. Virtus.Pro take another round.
It's 4-0. Yeah, I think the shot just worked really
well for them. They knew exactly what they wanted to do. VP just had everything
in place. It is almost as though that, you know, Secret is pushed into where VP wanted
them to be. You know, that whole setup is designed to keep people out of library. And
Secret thought, oh, we'll entry into library. You know, it's one of those and, thank for
Secret, it's just, it's very deflated kind of procedure they're going through here
at the moment where I think it's very difficult to try and be critical often because
obviously in three of the rounds
came down to a 1v1.
So obviously secret, the argument stuff right
or else he wouldn't have got it down that close.
It's just the score line doesn't flatter them in that sense.
Which is unfortunate.
No, I'll come back to the phrase
that I've used a lot of times before
and it's almost, through those first
three rounds particularly, it's like a secret
winning 80% of the rounds
and by that I mean 80% of each individual round
but they're just not winning the 20%
that they need at the end of each one
It leaves them with nothing on the scoreboard.
They've had very solid kind of two and a half minutes
through each of those first three rounds
where they've taken it to the wire,
and that's more than a lot of teams do against Virtus.pro.
But like I said, I think those opportunities have been missed.
The scoreboard doesn't necessarily tell the full story,
but it does tell a story of a Virtus.pro
that can dig rounds out of absolutely anywhere.
It doesn't matter the situation.
They've got so many big players on that lineup,
three different people having cultures by the way in the first three rounds so it's just ludicrous how
good that is pro r i do
i'm reloading save secret can get them that one round to give them a bit of hope bit of confidence
and we head of course into our bar here and it rolls down the skies on a good one v2 of course
There's VP, they have this extension in towards Kitchen.
Pasha is by himself though, he just has to be careful.
He easily gets picked off with no trade and yep, gets picked off and no trade, Crocs and
fantastic entry.
That's more like it for secret.
Let's see if VP, let's see if the other members can try and pick up the pieces from where
they've been but I mean Tim if you look at the stats though, I mean the last
time the opening pick came in the way of secret, still lost around. So much better start from
them not having that trade come back is particularly important. It means now that they've got a
man advantage. They need to kind of rinse and repeat that. Can they find the next target
that's going to then be singled out that they can pressure in numbers and keep themselves
with that man advantage. That's the problem. They've kind of opened the door a few
times for Virtus Pro where they've got those kills. They've then allowed it to
round out. Oh no. Oh no. Oh dear. It has been traded out but again for VP still in the round
still gives them an opportunity now to be free. It's doable. Skies and Dan both of them
in the bombs like 30 seconds remaining. Secret. All they have to do is get a bit of information.
They do that. They know exactly where both of the marbles stacked up inside the stock.
the pink and use the gadget transport where they are.
Just again, no danger yet, just wait and certainly drills are going to get a lot of information
here but it's going to be a 1v2 Dan.
He will find hungry.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Not again, not again!
Another round!
The secrets were in prime position to win but once more another player from VP says
now mate not today.
It's like seeing somebody slip on like a slippy floor or ice or something, isn't it?
You can see it coming, but sometimes there's just...
I'm just all ever.
There's just sometimes nothing you can do to stop it, and it was that kind of situation.
As soon as Dan and Skye's got themselves entrenched back there inside, I'm thinking to myself,
this is how they're going to win it.
This is how they're going to win it, because there's 30 seconds left on the clock,
and the secret now, Neko, by the way, would be here or play again.
to the right. We've got the
back double kill really got
first brought back into the
round. But here we've got
Dan and skies inside of the
back of side times ticking
down 30 seconds, 20 seconds
remaining. I'm thinking this
is going to come down to
come back. This is this is
exactly what voters pro want
here. They are back in their
players gun skill and it
works perfectly. Skies gets
the trade with under that
goes one B two and Wednesday
But I do have to be critical of Team Secret there.
They know where those players are.
Hungry goes in.
They know at least where one of them is.
Hungry goes in, it's a trade.
They then have a 2v1 with the last,
but they give down the opportunity.
They go one by one.
Time is ticking down.
Don't get me wrong.
It's difficult to maybe, you know,
rotate and change the angles up too much.
But even if one could have just gotten to bar
and come through, that's how one could single door
from bomb.
Do something to put yourself on opposite sides
and make it more difficult, but they just lined up for him.
All Trials needs to do is crouch behind the bar and wait until the team makes ready and
then you just swing at the same time.
Trials is in a position where you can swing onto connector within a matter of half a second
and he's not going to get killed.
It's little things like that and of course, look at Trials, it's his first year in competitive
play as well.
I think there is elements that where, yes, we have to remember some of them are still
very, very new, but then at the same time, it's not your first, it's your second stage now.
It's not the point where you can start to be critical of rookies, you're past the rookie face,
unless you're, you know, unless you're Canadian, he's always had a rookie stage.
There comes a point where we have to, as you say, be critical, you know, we have to point
out those, they are small errors. It's more of a frustrating thing, isn't it? I think,
and I think we can both agree, that's a very frustrating game that we're seeing here
the score line could be so
different than. Yeah exactly
that four rounds to cultures
with small mistakes like that
costing them. It is it is
frustration more than criticism
that's coming out. Really, but
look 50 or practice pro. I've
said countless times you can
only play the team that's in
front of you, but as far as
doing that very well right
now, the team secret want to
hand them opportunities. They're
more than happy to take them,
and as we can see, deliver
I've always said this, if you're only going to win one round in the first half, make it round six, because at least it gives you a little bit of confidence and momentum to go into that second half if you're going in 5-1 down.
That's the best that Secret can hope for right now. Drills gets himself into it's not a site, it's above site. The site itself is going to be Kitchen and Dining, but he gets in above.
And they started to take a little bit of control here.
Virtus.pro have been forced back quite deep.
Pasha gets cut out by Hungry as he looks to move down trophies there.
So another entry coming in for Team Secret.
Noah doubles up, gets guys.
I said it last round.
This is a round they have to win this time.
A lot more vigor.
A lot more vigor here from Team Secret.
They've all moved together in through that top four.
I don't think BP put up too much of a fight, allowed that top floor to be taken, and you
know, once you give away that top floor in this bombsite to him, it's very easy then
to formulate a plan.
It's at least secret.
They will lick their wins, they'll get one round, but still a five-one-half desk, what
do you think?
Well, thank goodness they get that one round in the end, because I was sitting here
thinking, not again, not again, it's been happening so many rounds.
Secret happy advantage and what do we talk about?
Virtus.pro, they are so good with their clutches and they do it time and time again.
Well, they've got put in what five opportunities inside of this half and they won how many?
Five, four, four, four, sorry.
Hahahahaha!
It's just true, true, true, true, true, true, true!
No, no, but that was, I was, I was thinking about my bro.
They won five rounds, that's not true to me.
But like, listen guys, listen, it's been a long day, not really, it's been a short day.
But I have to say, I just can't be the fact that they, you know, we talk about the fact that they win 50% of the situations in the, of the clutch situations they're in.
And then we go into a game, and out of the five rounds that they win, four of them are clutches.
It's just like, it's like we, it's like we have the script. It's like we're reading it.
And like how many of these situations should have went realistically the way of secret? At least three of them.
One was a, technically a 1v3, that went down to a 1v1.
But at least three of them should have, I think, in theory, at least 50-50 should have went to secret.
This was a 2v1, for example.
So the amount of rounds, that secret should be winning, right?
Yeah, they really should. I think they've had a good grasp on the side of Shalai.
They've taken the right amount of map control, and they've got the point of it, and they've got to 1v1, ultimately, or worse, and lost it.
And I think that's really, really tricky for a team that is bottom, you know, down the bottom of the table, did get a win last week.
The performance right now, for Team Secret, doesn't match the score they're facing, unfortunately.
That's a very important thing, as you're saying, but you've got to compliment Fjord's Fjord on that as well.
Every single time, they seem to be able to turn around a situation that is looking so dire,
even the simple moments as Nego, like, swinging those players on top of him and immediately throwing that 5v3 into a 3v3.
Like, those are tiny things inside of a round, you may think, but it changes the momentum completely.
It's called micro rotations is the kind of stuff that are like super super small adaptations that you make when you when you lose one
Poor position right within the difference. I know you're making fun of me that no that that's the theory that I had
Yeah, whenever there is a strategy like that you very fun to think okay when we're losing one
Yeah, here. What's the move we can make you could try to like balance things my main question is was that was good
That was one round though. How many rounds did they win just because of clutches when the opportunity here to play a bad
map is there to train it. I'm not happy enough with VP. I think Secret deserves more. And
I also think that VP didn't necessarily win because of how good their strategy is or because
of how good their team play is. I think in general they got away with that scoreline
because of individuals that were able to win the most important rounds. And so I don't
think they learned a lot from this game in the end.
And if we take it back to our speculation during the map veto, we've speculated that
VP maybe has allowed Shallow Fruit to try and put in a performance on it, to try
and really show to other teams, hey, we play this map, we're good at it.
Now, if I was another team, if I was a Falcons, G2, a Twisted Mind, you know, a TK, I'd be
looking at this map for VP right now and going, I would be fine playing them on this map.
Even though the scoreline is 5-1, it might even roll to the BS7-1, you know, even if
they win the next two rounds convincingly, I would still be thinking, okay, that's
fair game, I'm telling you.
Yeah, but in verse pro's defense, a round win is still a round win, and surely,
get so close, they'll still be learning from it, because if earlier parts in the rounds
where things are going wrong and we'll be needing fixing, should they bring this map out again?
Yeah, there's a whole lot of learning from VP's side, that's for sure, but also it also
proved that they are not ready yet to take a top contender like Jack was saying.
Which is crazy, because we're saying this and they have a 5-1 lead on this map,
we hold our teams to a very high standard, but for us, we obviously have the advantage.
How quickly can they get this done then?
the game. You're going to be
going to be in a good position
to pause at the half to find
and Virtus Pro got to do something
different now. Look first bro.
I don't think they're in a position
now where they can rely on those
hero players, the same as they
can on defense on the fence. You
can make the choice a lot of
the time. You can kind of choose
where you're going to have
that last stand. We saw it
in the bar and gaming dance
guys, for example, they chose
their ground and they took
Coming in from the other side, from walking, just have a look at Blue, see what utilities there,
get the information over to his team and have a great time.
A secret, are they going to get desperate, are they going to try and find a kill? I mean,
Hungry is in the pulse with a C4, if he's able to maybe pick off the Monty Tim,
that could get them back into it by the moment. I just feel as though it's going to be in
a case where VP are just going to set their jaws up and they're not going to let go.
You're just gonna crush secret here the way they're setting up. You've got player now over towards library ready of lot utility
It's just the inevitable
See inevitable and it all rushes on at once Rory getting the latest of those kills taking drills down
Just get hit with a nitro by hungry to versus four
Secrets remaining to one gaming on site. That's hungry on the pulse
And you've got crocs just playing under the fireplace stairs at the minute
I'm not sure how aware Virtus.Pro are of that, although this drop over the balcony suggests they're maybe not about somebody's presence!
Crocs does manage to get a beauty onto Dan. Pasha there with one onto Hungary, and that's the problem.
Secret needed two kills rather than just one.
Niko goes in on the Monty, putting the diffuser down. It's all up to Crocs.
He's stuck in the basement at the minute. They know they stood above him.
They're just waiting for him to push forward. They've smoked it off, so he can't see what he's doing
he comes upstairs they're gonna do that again needs come in. This is almost impossible for
crocs at this point with the monty in his face as well now versus pro completely set for this post
farm. They know where he is. Skies gets the last six one versus pro. Great attack.
Just simple isn't it Tim? You just opening pick comes comes away a VP. They have the
the
Yeah.
We got a little bit of a
bit of a monty slow and sure
approach coming in from solar
into piano into blue.
You tell dump comes in.
Just easy pickings.
It really is.
I just think VP, they can play
such a regimental stylized
each don't they I think with
with Neko who in my opinion
is the best shelter in the
league.
And I don't fight.
I don't think it's
close either.
Actually easy's that good
Tim.
I think it's such a massive
massive
massive
massive
massive
massive
massive
massive
massive
you're both. If you're VP
have a player who can play the
shields and we all know I mean,
they've had to add in an operator
to calculate the shields. That's
how good they are.
Yes, we still don't see any
new are being brought to our
fighting secret when against
the best shield player in the
league. And I don't think it
would be a silver bullet. I
I mean, it's you may as well call it wraps from here. Yeah, secret. Three players remaining
Up against all flight and VP, Neko's only one he's taking a look at damage, here's a Zapita.
That's fun, that's really fun.
Just goes straight up into our solo now with the rest of their team and
I mean VP are already assaulting the bomb site team, we've been inside one minute and
Secret has to try and find some kills, Neko just slips his way in behind that bomb chassis now
and sit here, Greed's able to find one onto, damn, but there's Neko
able to pick off Nola
And though as long as we're the player in big window nobody's getting towards Bedlam and Rorick.
We're gonna have a field day here for him.
Well, why don't we remain and saw down the crease the Fusor plant.
If he's gonna get the final kill,
if he's gonna get him, it's only a matter of time.
They almost line up for him.
He'll take that Neko.
He's spraying for all these work for more.
And it's a knife from Skies.
Oh, these is you like it.
What a quick latch round there for him.
Yeah, Dan's had a brilliant game there along with the rest of the Virtus Pro.
Solid win for Dan.
pretty much as expected I think it's fair to say but team secret I think that score
lines a little bit unflattering for the performance that they saw oh there's
what else then but it's a big old win from VP let's go to a break
Well, that just seemed like yet another day in the office for Roy Dysper with how easy
that game went.
We get to speak to them.
Neko's on the line to answer our questions.
We'll be polite, Neko.
Hello.
Good evening, first off.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great. First win on Chalet, so I'm happy.
Yeah, you're getting all these wins on the maps that you seem to be really happy with.
First off, very easy victory here. What do you make of your opponents for today?
Sorry, I didn't understand.
It's all good. Very easy victory. What did you make of your opponents?
I have no idea what that means. What did I make of my opponent?
How do you feel about the team you just played against? What do you think of them?
Okay, sorry, I'm sorry for this moment.
I mean they are a new team making roster changes doesn't help. I think they did 2-3 changes so it doesn't help for them
And it was a team who already was struggling a lot. So I think yeah
It was maybe a bit easier that it could have been for us and yeah, that's it
Neko, I'm looking at the last two maps that you've played and I look at your map preference
And I go and I look all the way down and I see border and then I see shally
And I'm like, is there a pattern here of you guys trying to show your worst map possible and trying to rework them and show that you can play them?
Yes. I mean, basically, Borderlands Chalet, we were playing them for a long time. I would be fully honest, we played them since a long time.
But our problem was unofficial. We were just playing them for best of trees and we were getting destroyed on this map.
So we're thinking maybe I mean let's for this stage train it for what's important will be international event
So let's try to train it for have a bit more experience of this map during match
And that's what we did and what we are thinking about this stage
So the experience today, Neko at least in the first what six rounds the first half was a lot of clutches
It's been it's been a common theme of your team
You know you are probably the best clutch team in the world of them in it
What was your assessment because you know a lot of those rounds in the first half could have gone a completely different way
I mean yes, but for me, it's kind of how the maps is a lot of time
I mean at least for us like border it's a map like
Every kind of gunfight a lot of time it will end on 1v1 and if you win them you win the match
Yeah, that's it
It's like easy math there. Neko 2 close up the interview anything you want to say to the fans
Maybe something about eSports came out recently?
Yes, guys, by Hiddie Bundle.
I hope it will show after maybe during next matches.
Don't forget to buy this incredible brava skin
if you want to do to be champion in range.
And thank you for the support, guys, for all the message.
Love you. And that's it.
What? Good media train.
Really good pass, Anna. Really good pass.
Very good media train.
Thank you so much for this one.
I didn't think about it.
We got your back. Thank you for your time, Diego. And good luck tomorrow.
Our interviews today was so much better.
We got a good portion of players, of course. You know, the important bits in the end as well.
But talking about the clutches, it's just these rounds have been helping Voterspro get the rounds over the board,
get the three points, and yes, again, you stay on top of the leaderboard, which is eventually the most important thing.
and I think, you know, probably a little bit critical.
Some of those attacks, I think I said it comes down to 1v1,
you win the 1v1, you win the game.
I agree, but also they could have been a lot cleaner
in that first six rounds.
Still think there's ways to go on Shelle.
Border looks a lot more secure,
but maybe on Shelle there's ways to go.
However, I will say 9.9 getting through the group stage,
getting practice on these maps.
In the officials during the group stage
will be valuable when it comes down to play
or slated on the line.
And it's really good to see that they're already practicing for it, right?
They're expecting that this stage is gonna be easy,
and I think it's fair when you look at the quality of this team
and if you look at all the roster changes that were made,
and you look at this guy and you think,
wow, look at that clutch percentage.
They're the best in the world at 50%.
Yep. No, Jack.
They're the best in the world at 50%.
No, they're the best in the world.
You don't understand.
They're the best in the world at 80% in this game.
80% clutch percentage one.
80% of the clutches.
80%, I think.
One more time.
80%.
Yes, sir.
How many teams have you seen win 80% of the clutches?
It's ridiculous.
It's stupendous.
And it really has been a trait of this roster
for a long time, is that they just
win the unwinnable rounds.
I think all the way back to when
Fortunes first came back in the map,
Palmeco was new.
He's winning it out on Echo.
It's been so long, and it's been such a consistent thing.
They have so much composure in that late round.
Most of the time, it doesn't match the result of the game.
Today it probably wouldn't have matched the result of the game, but it did set them up for a 5-1-1-1 that really should have been probably a 2-4.
So, you know, it set them up for success. It's so important. If they can hold that nav come international tournaments, if they can hold that nav in the quarterfinals, in the, you know, the games to make the main stage, those coaches will become massive.
Is it you breaking your glasses, Leo, that we have to zoom in so far that you can read it?
Ah, thank you for throwing me another bus here, exactly like my glasses were.
Hands up if you want to see Leon's broken buses podcast.
I'll bring them after I'll bring them.
Okay, I'm going to read the chat if you want to see my broken buses.
Say it in the chat.
I'll bring them.
He looks so silly.
Please.
All right, I'll do it.
It's been an experience with that app.
I'm not trying to throw you under the bus.
Just trying to make a silly remark there before we go into our final game of the day.
We have Falcons going up against the Rebels.
Again, it feels like a bit of a French brotherhood.
A part of my French big fair versus small fair.
I don't know how to say that, properly in French.
Big, ah, grand frère, grand frère contre petit frère.
Big brother against little brother?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why are you looking at me in front of the French?
It's a bit of a dutch, yeah.
Much better intro than I could have done to this question.
But for the real stars on the side of Falcons,
we have to look outside of the French players.
As one player in particular
who has been really turning it up for his team.
Yeah, we referenced it in the pre-show.
He was our monster of the week
and that is also alongside French, of course.
But Solotov, I think, really, really good on the side of Falcons.
We spoke about the speculation that existed over the summer.
Will they, won't they? Falcons make a change.
The interest apparently was no where.
If no one came into the team,
Solotov would have been the natural person that he would replace.
And Solotov has been phenomenal for this Falcons roster.
He's ultimately leading the EML scoreboard.
But he's not necessarily doing it off just 4Ks and 3Ks.
In fact, there's only two rounds across the two matches he's played,
where he's had a 3K or more.
he's KPI is like 1.2. Yeah, most rounds he's getting one or two kills, which means he's doing his bit and that little bit extra
Some of these clips obviously Kali you see the Kali changes coming in there as well
But some of these clips is just a confident player dragging out to the best capability now when we ask they crack
What's all off inside of stage one?
He said when so always at the top of his game
We will not lose another game and I think that's coming through so far at least this stage
You can see it's 20, 16, 10, 1, 4, 2, EPS.
This is the total of the Falcons 1, 5, and...
Yeah, the most important thing is in very, in very often situations
where you have a transfer window and you're basically, I guess, being threatened.
There's two ways to go about it.
The first one is you feel like you've been betrayed by your teammates,
or you feel like it's not explained why you should be leaving the team.
And then there is the other scenario where you take that as a challenge.
And you think like honestly guys you should not get rid of me because I'm just way too important
I have way to impact in this team and I don't know if sort of was in the question or if the others were in the question
Or if he was a roll-up and up whatever happened though
Sort of took it the best way possible and started performing instantly at the top of this level
Carrying them through the first few play days reality is for team like Falcons
It does not mean a lot until they reach international events. That's that's just the quality we expect from these guys
They're expected to perform at the best on the stage and so that's why performing that good in the B1s here
doesn't mean as much as maybe later in the season when he reaches the playoffs when there's maybe Osaka on the line
That's what I intend to see.
We hold them to high standards and of course earlier in the stage
I kind of like opened that critical conversation like with the recent results I've seen from Falco's international events
When is it gonna happen that we stop seeing him as kind of the big contenders for events?
Yeah, it's a favorite too with an event, but I feel like this time around inside the stage here at least the results are looking pretty good
So it's always having a great time
But for their bonus today, it'll be a very rough matchup the epitif rare as you as you call them in this one here
Rebels going up against the Falcons, but if you look at last stage
Rebels somehow magically were able to pull off the big upset against Falcons the upset that we're looking for inside stage
It was beautiful. It was unexpected. It was weird and it was chaotic and let's just enjoy this moment a little bit
And another one, I mean absolutely crazy
Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!
Oh my god, Mark 2! Oh my god, Mark 2!
With the French accent, I just love it. I just love to see it.
I think one of the... yeah, probably one of the most iconic moments from EML.
Not only from this team, but to see them do that, I think was very impressive to see them do that on CAFE,
upset the big one in Falcons.
No one really saw it coming in Rebels.
Rebels they always had the potential I feel like but they were never really
respected that that seemed that deserve to be in tier one as a reminder they're
the last team to qualify to EML this season so obviously they came back with a
chip on the shoulder they wanted to prove themselves yeah I think they did
in stage one and I'm still starting to doubt that we're going to see in stage
two because that first week it was a it was hot that's the problem right
it's one one moment one one isolated game of success has not made up for
the entire season. The reality for Rebels is they're facing, you know, a fight to stay
in this league. They want to do it. They've got the talent that we've just seen in him
where they beat Falcon to have been in so many grand finals, you know, they've got the
time to do it. I think the question for Rebels has always been about consistency and mentality.
Can they keep the consistency high? Can they keep the mentality good? Can they
show us what they're about? Because there's plenty of talent on this roster. We've
seen it, but we're currently not seeing the results from them. And that's the
thing they don't need performances right now they need the results because they need the points on
the leaderboard. Yeah I'm glad you're mentioning that because have a look at the updated settings as
well so we can see where exactly rebels find themselves in that fight for relegation right
because it is looking dire at the moment. Eighth in the league one of those four teams coming in
today that were still on zero points G2 have eventually moved their way out of it going
up against the third team that have so far not lost a single point yet it's going to be a
really tough to compete today.
Yes, so just as a reminder, in ENO, we have six partner teams.
That means that only four can be relegated.
Now, let's take a look at them.
Obviously, all the way at the top of the leaderboard,
you see at the second place, Tristan Mines,
they were in the direct positions.
They had a really poor stage one.
And so they were a direct, I would say, contender
for relegations.
Obviously, with the price of the first three matches
gaining so many points, nine points already,
That makes them, I guess, less likely to be ending up in relegations,
especially with their incredible roster changes.
So you move down the line, and then you look at teams like Rebels,
for example, you look at teams like Heretics, for example,
and then you're starting to figure out that clearly DK,
with the performance they had in stage one,
are not really in that race for legations.
So it's really between Rebels and Heretics,
but initially, you might think like last year,
that two teams are relegated.
So if that is the case, then Rebels and Heretics
are both in the same boat and they're trying to play catch-up with Ki-Ki or Susan Mines.
Oh, for America.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it's really, really rough.
They're almost already in that really dire position if you look at the form of Susan Mines.
And we have some time before this game really kicks off to further dive into it.
We're talking about players on the side of Rebels as well.
They picked up this rookie.
Alems has moved into that kind of coaching role.
We spoke to Alems last night and he was talking about how he kind of regained
that passion for the game.
being away from it for a little while, regaining it certainly at the age that he finds himself,
not saying that he is a groomer or whatever, but he is on the older side for the players that we
normally have inside this game, to find that passion again, to get yourself back into Settle,
now do it as the coaching staff for Rebels here with that rookie that's again putting a lot of
pressure on their shoulders. I'm still waiting for the payoff, I don't know if he thinks
that it was the right move, they're probably doubting it a little bit. Obviously,
Honestly, LMS in terms of statistics towards the last end of last stage was a bit far behind compared to the others
but also you have to take him to account his position, his role, and what he was bringing to the team
and I think that the value of a player is not always in statistics.
I like to think that because I had terrible statistics.
But I think in general a player like LMS will bring some kind of calm to a team, will bring that experience.
And one of the main weaknesses that I've seen from Robles in these last ladies was the lack of adaptation,
The panic in the comps, and the problem of, hey, here is the problem we're facing, let's
figure out a new win condition.
That never happened.
And you need a player of experience in your lineup to do that, and with LMS as a coach
and our leader replacing him, I'm just missing that big voice inside.
It's always a tricky one because you can look around the world, there's plenty
of teams around the world that have got that kind of experience, and they have
their dozen pod numbers, but then they've got players around that do.
most prime example goes over to an A. You know, you look at, look at Shopify,
Canadian is not there to the numbers. Everybody, every man in these doc knows that.
So the move on paper is logical that if you feel like 11th is potentially holding
your back as you say, a little bit on the other side, maybe isn't necessarily
wanting to play the way today's matter is whatever. The logical move to
coach kind of makes sense though. But like you said, if the players are in
the fifth of things, if they're overheating, if they're struggling
and implementality is not great.
11-20 was in the server with them,
would have given up Guy Banta,
because he's been there a thousand times before.
Now they don't have that.
11-20 has, well, three potential opportunities to play again.
His timeout, the opponent's timeout,
and then the half-time teams off.
So he only has limited opportunities to have impact
on that mental aspect inside of the game.
So, yeah, I understand where you're coming from.
It could be a benefit, it could be a cast.
I mean, so far, Rebels don't look necessarily
like they've improved as a unit compared to last set.
The goal was to have more firepower, but if you look at the team stats, you look at EJ, he had a good performance last playday, but overall, I think the impact in terms of fracking power is dissolved, right?
I don't see players going crazy in terms of fracks, and so I think that you're losing a big voice and you're not getting fracking power so far. I'm not sure.
We already said that we will need a little bit more time before we get this game going, in fact, we're gonna need a little bit more of your time.
We apologize for the delay. We're gonna go to a quick break stake with us, because we'll be back in just a bit.
If at a time you couldn't be done
You're not your gift
You're the asset
You're not your gift
You're the asset
Lights, lights, camera, camera
You're the asset
You're the asset
It's the end of all of them.
Seven seconds counting down.
Mr. Chairman Schell was starting to break it down.
As he comes around, he goes out, but he's all alone.
It is one V5 scenario.
Southbridge is our final tournament inside the primary tier 2 circuit. The signups for the tournaments are open right now with the first qualifiers already happening last weekend.
Being won by the Turks, they will claim victory over the first qualifiers and set this up really well to be able to participate in the Southbridge.
Of course, 20,000 euros on the line, which is a very nice prize pool. So if you feel like you're watching at home and you think,
I might be the next Shaiiko, I might be the next Jube, I might be the next Tom, but whoever
you see as your idol in this game, well you can find yourself playing against him if you
belly away through the south breach, through the tier 2 circuit, and move your way up to
tier 1, just like Rebels have been doing as we were talking about before this game,
before we were kicking off, but it seems like we will be needing a little bit more
time before we're finally ready to dive into our final game of the day.
So Jack is kindly standing by at the Teleswader to once again talk about Villain and talk about
one of the best sights we've seen so far on Villain.
And I will do that in just a second but I am constantly trying not to self-reach so I
can be the next Alfama.
Oh yes.
He is my real hero.
I mean you know you wouldn't be the first one to say that to me and I would.
You definitely would.
You would be the first one.
I think you're to old Jack but we can run it back if you want.
Yes you are.
and friends fresh and the family and friends fresh from our friends. Yeah shot. Yeah, we'll watch up the name
like average. Okay. I'm registering us then. Okay. You think now if you were watching the pre show you've well you've seen this
I'll be honest could just while we wait for rebels to get in the lobby
But it's a great example of Falcons one of the teams that we're going to see
Inside of this lobby tonight. Hopefully going up against rebels. They're playing villa last week against G2 and
G2 are doing a turtle setup. They've got players have basically holding the staircases the astronomy staircase the pantry
and then they're just going to leave Red Star case for free.
Why are they doing that?
It's so that they can get a turtle setup going
inside of the basement that focuses around two shields.
Focuses around the first shield down here
that faces the wine cellar, faces the Red Stars as well.
And then a second one over here
that faces the bottom of the pantry stairs.
To do this, they need to control astronomy stairs.
It's basically the main wing condition for G2.
They control astronomy stairs,
they control both shields,
They control basically every entrance and exit into the bomb site that Falcons could go for.
They've even brought a Bandits trying to bandit trick the garage wall
because all of the Harvish and I utility was available.
Now for Falcons they read into this very, very quickly.
And look how quickly it actually is. 2 minutes for it to fly left from the clock.
That's what 25 seconds. You've got Doom entering the top floor.
You've got a player entering the mid floor as well.
So they're playing with a nice bit of pace here to give themselves a maximum amount of time to execute.
and June is like a player possessed. He's sprinting through all the way through Villa
because he's spotted a gap in G2 setup. He's spotted that they didn't reinforce the astronomy
hatch that looks down the staircase. Why is that important? Well, a pulse is playing on the staircase
and June picks up an absolute 3D on twilight mount to set up a 5 versus 4. Now what I want
you to watch out for is we know Falcons for June, users, all of them. They've got great
individual skill. They pop off but look at the team play that's exhibited here.
Doom will walk down the staircase with a Florez drone in front of him at the same time that Soltar walks on this staircase with Grimby's and you could just see him here going off on the door to protect any swing for him.
That's a Grim, that's a Florez, and that's two players at the same time so that's four of Falcon's players to get one kill to achieve one kill onto G2's Warden.
You'll see the Grimby's, you'll see the walk down and the Florez drone.
All of this is just to remove one power position after they've cleared the astronomy stairs and you of course because he is a massive player
It's a nasty shot so top cover this wrestling kills doki in the meantime
And therefore that's how Falcons navigate themselves into a 5v2 position from their leaky back calls to flood
They do just that they get it down to 2v0
They win the round and they win the round on villa on the art bomb site
There's the best bomb site on that map by the way
I'll check your tell us where
the first time was so nice.
You had to do it twice show us
again how good the side is.
And of course what we're
seeing Falcons hoping to play
that game very soon on the
other side G2 they got their
first points tonight.
They got their first victory
on the board and looking at
the results from today and
everything that we've already
seen inside of our first four
matches.
Is there already checked that
kind of big upset that you
were hoping for?
Has it not yet been not
seen it yet not seen it
not called it yet.
Leo actually did try and get
me to call it.
I'm not sure what it is
going to be.
I'm not sure what it is
actually did try and get me to call it earlier on today because we've been
manifesting things today. He wanted me to call that Rebels will bring this game
but they'd have to get in the lobby to do that unfortunately. But no, I think the
results today have been pretty much as expected. The favourites winning and
that game too. The shifters twisted minds that we expected to be close,
ultimately was close. It was close. I don't know if it would have
cooled to some minds as the wiener. Yeah, all but back. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't an upset either.
It was not an upset. It was expected that one of them was going to win.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
Expect level 1. Is this from me?
No, I think Shifter is on paper.
Had a little bit more time training.
Faced maybe a bit of stronger opponents.
Swiss Nights had played a 5v4.
It was hard to really judge how good they were going to be against a top-tier opponent.
And I feel like Shifter basically got that by playing them.
them and I was happily surprised to see the comeback on the set of Twisted Minds. Clearly,
you know, fighting it off after being left 4-2, winning their side 5-1 and then winning just
the map. I think it's promising and I just keep thinking of what Moogli was saying. It feels like
secret. It feels like we're progressing every week. I'm just waiting to see where is that
feeling. I maintain the assessment now that we came to the conclusion of probably after Monday,
last week after playday one, which is they think we've got a top six and we've got a lower
Fnatic poor better today, but didn't ever win again rebels still to be seen obviously playing today
And then secret again another game that they've lost today in a game where they were better
They were better, but ultimately it was what said on one. Yeah
So like I think those four teams are gonna kind of produce those it's an okay performance
But zero points on the board and that'll keep them in that bottom floor
Yeah, the reality is you've had winners of the of the Mercator. I think and and the winners are very valid
You have the few teams that didn't make a change, but because they already had super teams,
and the teams that were a little bit behind them made the right changes to get the best out of the remaining teams,
which means that every single team at the lower end of EML has been weakened.
Well, think of the three teams, you know, Schifters, Twisted Minds and G2.
The three teams who didn't go to EWC, who had a realistic chance.
G2 didn't make a change because they thought a super team, as you say,
and Schifters and Twisted Minds were the biggest winners of the MacArthur.
All of the champs won that.
I think though that of course, you know, it's it's sad this thing that we might have a bottom four which really will stand out against the top six
But in other ways if you look at it, it might make that fight for the top six super super close
If you look at the standings as well
I know top six is always the main goal for teams to even make it to the playoffs to begin with but then
Think of the advantages that you're getting with the top four and even that right now seems like it's a really top fight
Yeah, it's gonna be a big dog fight
It really is and I think the the two games that show that were g2 against falcons last week
Which was a close game that just went the way falcons because falcons are playing incredibly well at the minute
And then the shifters twisted minds game today
But again was 5 7 was it very close could have gone either way
Um, and I think what we'll see is those top six all in games against each other
Our perceived top six all in games against each other
Will be close games
But they will be very very decisive games because I always imagine they would pretty much
Unless there's a crazy upset people as one fall teams
Yeah, basically I think we're gonna be at a situation where the top six teams are gonna fight to try and get the upper bracket
The main question I have is if I look at the bottom teams
I'm still expecting that at the upset to come at one moment of one team from some people calls secret rebels
Maybe you're a ticks of nothing to come on
Come up and finally be the team from that top six to very clear means have a basically
Between all the teams here in the ML. I mean look at this game last last day
That's that that's the proof in the foot in right rebels had it in them at that point to go and beat
Falcons, yeah, they can do it again secretly put in the performance today
They're like I said evolve not even all those coaches half those coaches don't live away
They have a couple of rounds they got the potential to fight 100% and that's it kind of showed it against you two today
You know mental aside and they came out after the game and said look that decision absolutely rocked us
And we couldn't cover it. Yeah, and you know that after that I'm just like heretics
We still have a little bit of potential, Rebels are still waiting to see them in the server, quite literally here,
but also last week they didn't really show that potential yet, so I'm like, you know, it's still a question mark in my head.
It seems like we'll be heading into game soon from now, so we'll need just a few more minutes of your time, stick with us.
And we're talking about upsets here, of course, talking about how the top six really seem to separate themselves from the bottom four at the moment.
I've had a quick peek at the schedule for tomorrow and I can offer you one game where maybe there's a chance of an upset, of course.
Voters probably look really strong today, but they're going up against GK tomorrow.
GK's well-said so far? Is that a potential one?
It's the name of this stop, GK. So like, you remember this incredible win streak?
Remember the incredible win streak we showed at the beginning of the GK game,
which was a seven win streak that ended last week.
What we saw was that Gikei only lost in the ML stage 1 against Virtus.Pro in the playoffs twice in a row.
It was very narrow each time, but still he became a victorious.
So if there's one team that beat them confidently in the playoffs, that was them.
Well, there's one more thing before we talk about, before we dive into this game,
and that is a math visa, because we haven't even talked about that one yet.
Let's roll it up and see where this match is headed to our final game of the day,
is going to Clubhouse.
Well, good luck. I think I know the results.
Yeah, I mean I just just that's why it's okay Falcons one of the favorite map there are seven and one on it
They beat G2 versus pro all of the best team in the ML rebels. They played it three times
Zero on three on the map
They didn't more win more than three rounds on it and it was against the very same teams that Falcons
Absolutely demolished on the same map G2 Voters pro once again
And Falcons assigned defense which clubhouse had a period of time where it was getting a little bit more attack
I think Falcons, they know the reactions well. They don't have to think much and that makes them dangerous because it allows their individual prowess to show even though we say clubhouse is a theme-based map and it is.
When you don't have to think about reactions and call them and explain them, when you could just do them, it makes Falcons such a dangerous team.
And as we have all 10 players in the lobby, we now get to mention as well, Alems will be sobbing in for Rebels.
Lijé is out for this game and think of it for Alems as well, going up against that old core of the team that he used to play with.
There's certainly maybe a chip on the shoulder, a thot in the back of his brain there going up with this one.
Yeah, I mean obviously we don't know the circumstances of why Alems is in, Lijé is not playing.
We can get them I guess.
But we also discussed that maybe Lemz can have some impact in the server in terms of calmness,
in terms of experience and guiding the team around with what he can offer.
So maybe, and obviously with Lemz last stage they did manage to beat Fawcumson.
I think they tried, but I'm just wondering like, did they try enough?
Because I mean, Ligé got two playdays, so if this is to become consistent, I'm wondering
if...
Like with someone off on it.
Yeah, whether it's someone off on it.
and whether Lidia was given a fair chance, but like I said before, clearly it didn't work in the last playday.
I felt like LMS brought more in the game, so we'll see how it goes here in this matchup,
but what a hard way to show it because they're going to have to play against the very top of EMA.
The first place, the 18% of people that are wanting to lose this which channel points tonight to be fair.
Surprise, that's not close, I will say, because Falcons feel to me, at least from what I've seen,
that their teamplay is good, that they're feeling good in themselves,
and that they see ultimately is
top tier and rebels are pretty
much the opposite of that so far
inside of the game today. As we
get into the bands, I would
imagine Kade and bandit. It's
been a pretty consistent for
Rebels, especially year for
them. Yeah, it's been a very,
very consistent. They want the
early game to go well for them.
Of course, we end up saying it
time and time again. If you buy
basically ease in the other
game by getting rid of kid
bandit, you suffer with
game. So I wouldn't be surprised to see that especially the second band is going to be the
band and it is of course ace it off the board for them. Ace is such a strong breacher across the board
however the firm might be available having those three firm might charges in part for the top
slot. You want to open CCTV, you want to open jacuzzi and you want to open construction at the
same time. I'm wondering just how much that rent to our breach on Hibana is going to be
useful. Obviously the idea of control laying ace is probably for it. I'm thinking for example
when your host, the catch-ball site, you want to prevent someone to use their
heart reach on that rafter's wall, trying to keep cash control as long as possible.
We're gonna see how it plays out. But very curious to see if Rebels change
with them is gonna bear fruits here. Well, thank you so much for your patience.
Thank you for sticking with us. Our final game of the day is finally ready to go.
Thank you very much, Anne. We're nearly past 10 o'clock, Tim. Are you still awake?
I don't know what's past the
bed time for you. Are you still
here? Make a special exception
for you. Mel nights demo. Why
are you having groggy? Why
actually? Why are you
starting so you must go on to.
That's the head called demo.
That's the head called the
matter of the year. You might
forgive him for not realizing
it. I've had a bagging heavy
and running nose and
everything throughout the
playday, but here we are.
the game. I think that's the
most a little attempt, but you
could less than an attempt
really from Lake effect. Just
putting one bullet out of the
window. Letting rebels know
that they're in for a game, I
think, and that is exactly what
they are going to be in for.
Obviously changes to the roster
even with the lens coming in.
It's never going to make things
easy. But motto does make
things a little bit easier.
Takes down June to kick things
the second one comes in now for Rebels two kills in the space of 30 seconds that is certainly
pretty poor start in all context set for Falcons here is again I mean we've seen this
time and time before I mean EFAC uses some breaded they're remaining free players I mean this is
typically what happens EFAC able to find a pit there of course he's on the scope was
can transfer between one floor to another he's safely back into the bomb site he has lost
this is the last time we've
ever seen him in the last
year. He's been in the
most of the shell, though, so
at least this gadget was good
for one time. We do see some
value. We always do from
Lika back, especially on the
Rome of clubhouse. He's been
an absolute menace for the
last six months or more when
playing on this map, getting
out on the Rome and just
making life and night there.
Mato down as well. Rebels
can't be given up chances
like five versus three. Let me
tell you that Mato may be
I think we will see him get back on his feet.
Linko is going to try and get himself down main stairs.
Castle Barricade is going to actually give him a little bit,
it works both ways.
It's going to offer him a bit of safety
as much as it is the defenders.
So it means he can get down there
and operate at the bottom main should he want to.
A minute left on the clock.
Rebels doing lots of work everywhere.
I'm not sure where it's all going to come together
and the final push will be.
A lack of presence in blue is my concern at the minute.
The big thing though that Rebels have is utility. You still got all four Candelas here, Tim.
Again, they can dump in through blue. That's exactly where Alams is going to be looking towards.
They're going to be in for a bit of a fight here, Falcons.
It might be a fight that they actually can't see and here goes the Candelas.
As the lambs gonna drop off of ours that just there for his team. Oh, no player going for the rota allows just about spot
I'm using the last candela and he goes uses able to find one, but that's an easy one for a lamp spot on his belly
You fact able to find that pick not as a 2v2
Both players in the site, but use this one a swing
Think you know on the one v2
R4 seeing a hand 10 seconds remaining. He seems to get behind third box
He's after if I could be the nightmare uses has to cross
the blue push almost works there for rebels. It was the right idea. Get themselves down there. It didn't take
Falcons back, perhaps a little bit, the person playing in the corner of Armory in that little as army spot was, you know, on the back foot
Three kill, absolutely. But, in fact, it was there for the cover and trading after the 5v3
Trading was something that Falcons did well there to keep themselves with the pace and actually get themselves ahead of it as well
So, 1-0, it starts off Rebels, you've got to win those rounds, is this going to be secret versus pro all over again, demo?
Oh, who knows, Tim? Have you?
Spudging off what Leo was saying, he's just very clear cut and dry old Leo.
Have you seen the Frenchman in him?
And he just, yeah, Alcons look at the record, look at the record for Rebels.
So he's expecting a quick one, which I suppose Tim, for you, you're off the bed, you're probably
after Tim.
I just want a good game of Siege, or whether that's a 7-0 and Falcon's looking amazing,
or whether it's all 15 rounds, I don't care, I just want some entertainment for everybody
at all.
But look, let's get into round two.
Straight away we're being done, it is, I think it's better in the site that
we're going to be on.
So, we've got construction wall open straight away.
That's a quick like that.
Gonna be working towards that cross clearance,
getting to cash, you know the vibe.
Work your way through and push into sight.
Last time around, I commented there was a lack of pressure
in blue, it came towards the end of the round.
I wanna see it sooner this time.
Rebels not in blue this time.
Get you, that's where we're supposed to be done.
Get yourself all the way to jacuzzi wall.
Get jacuzzi wall.
I hate to see teams not open that wall.
It might be a little bit of,
They've got the tin can openers. They don't have a part of it. They've got the HIPAA on
her, but we'll see whether they get a nice clean hole on Chacuzzi or from it. What I don't
like is when defensive teams are able to just play in 90, it's a really powerful position
if you can hold it. And leaving that wall just invites them to hold it. If that gets
the opener, fennel down to a Nitro.
Yeah, there's no excuse for it. I think whenever you've went for both electrifications,
you have to try and get these walls opened up. Falcons, this is how they're going to be
leading here in the kill department and it will be a 2v4 now. Aston's been able to jump
in towards construction. Alams is beside him in construction wall but uses easy pickings
for him and Alams. On one HP and a dream has four to find. He's no stranger to
the Flaipers he's up against, of course long standing team mates, former team mates
a V-FAC and Brideg.
See if he can do anything, but I just don't think much is gonna come off.
I mean, even the construction was reinforced, so he just has to walk through the one doorway unless he wants to open it up.
That's... I mean, even look... I mean, look at this as well from Falcons Tim.
One V4 against a man who has nothing to stand on and they've just pulled themselves back.
They could... exactly, they could run at him. They could run at him and one of them is gonna get him, but no.
and I like that professionalism. This is about habits. It's not about letting yourself get carried away because of the situation.
I like that from Falcons. It's showing, you know, that they're building a stable strategy, a stable process,
and this is how we need to win rounds. It doesn't matter whether we're against Rebels. It doesn't matter whether we're against FaZe.
Whatever the situation is, repetition is key in those pressure moments. You want to be going and just doing the same that you always do.
really good from Falcons. I know it just seems like such a simple thing with 4v1, of course they won it. Of course they did, but you've still got to win it. And we see teams occasionally throw us the fight that way. So look, Falcons lock it down, it's 2-0, we move on to the next round.
That good stuff. Falcons able to stem that quick, aggressive play that- and Rebels, they tried to go in towards construction pretty heavy.
What? They just didn't pick up the kills that they needed.
I think overall for Falcons, it was just very good control.
Like, they used the utility well, they were using the Azami well inside of construction.
I think an early C4 kill, it always helps.
I mean, it could be one of those E-Fact days, Tim, and if he's playing well...
And I think I look at it too, from the side of Falcons.
If E-Fact's playing well, you've still then got, you know, a user.
She's got a soul full of the gym who's still there as well.
It's not a bad back line, is it, really, if you want to look at it like that,
who ever's out front, you've always got some big names behind them.
I agree with what's been said about Falcons recently. Obviously, we saw that little bit
of a wobble earlier in the year. It's been a little bit up and down.
Dume hasn't been this... I'm going to be very clear in saying this. I don't think this was
probably the way Falcons were thinking about it, but I think community-wise, in the way
that June transference Falcons was received it was almost like it was kind of
this silver bullet like oh my god right they've got June that's gonna be the
rest of you know that's gonna fix it and I don't think that was ever gonna be the
case you know having such big change shackle been on the team for a long time
June has gotta go in gotta assimilate with the rest of the team get up to
speed with everything and look I just think that process is maybe taken a
little bit longer than people expected or were willing to give time for I
I think this stage we are starting to see Falcons really I'm not saying reach the ceiling reach the peak
But I think we're starting to see them hit this stride a little bit and that is dangerous for everybody else in the world
I also think there's a case as well time where EML has just gone a lot better this year
I think there's there's also that to take in consideration. I think the competition is a lot more fierce
But totally agree with you
I think people thought the gym was gonna come in and he would be the best things at slice bread and
and nothing's beaten slice bread to okay that not always being that so it is what
it is but still great player we know that there is again the fact another
opening pick fellow oh and free bad start for him now a 45 once more the
rebels have to try and go up against the fingers of rebels to Tim they're
obviously kind of hauling in a lot of utility yeah you're seeing the ying
You're seeing the cap tower seeing the Sophia, but I'm just not seeing the impact of that you told the moment
No, it's a very fair point
I just don't know I'd go off the board and I looked and I thought is it gonna make a huge difference on the round
I don't think it will because Falcons did not met really the sort of team that are gonna go sprinting out of doors and stuff
So whether that air jab is on garage door or not
I don't think he's gonna make a huge difference because Falcons won't play it like that instead
They'll sit on the bomb chassis and let users just get a kill as the lens walks in asset is there for the trade
My toes getting the plant down as well here
I'm not sure that there's really anything that Falcons can do about this
It will be secured and they're gonna have to play on the retake
I say is ready for the play to come through the door just sprays down breathing and takes him out kill over the top from
Marta and rebels they get themselves around a good turn around after losing fellow early on good stuff from rebels
it's two on. Yeah, I think
that's the Jiro hitting the
ground running there and the
Sophia just went straight up
them in three red stairs.
They've got control of the bomb
site. I think there wasn't an
element there where Falcons
maybe left a little bit thin,
a little bit thin there
towards the bomb site. There's
two players strapped over
towards construction. Only
uses was really the remaining
player in the bomb site. Once
So, yeah, I think just for Falcons, need to be careful of that, that they don't spread themselves too thin across the map.
The thing is, they don't need to demo in reality. If they just play on this occasion a really tight, site-based game of siege,
I genuinely think Rebels will struggle to break that down, if I'm honest. You know, even the circumstances,
that they've had and the fact
that they're up against Hawkins
were playing really well at the
minute. I just I don't think
they need to do too much here. I
think they can just play some
really nice basic siege and
just hold things down. You know
here in the basement play four
on the side. Let Lee could back
have a remote on his own. See he
gets what he gets. It doesn't
really matter. And I think
they'll be absolutely fine.
Well, that is the CC and
CC and Cacheron locked out. So for Falcons, they will get to go for the full rotation again, basements open to them again.
I mean basement, you could argue that Rebels had a five versus three lead time on a basement attack with two and a half minutes to go.
You should be really closing that out, but they just kind of stumbled
whenever it came to actually getting the execute going. So
So, I think for Rebels, know that they can get the entries, they've proven that before,
but it's all about closing out the round, which I would say that some of our more newer teams
to believe, newer players, have kind of struggled today.
You look at heretics, same thing happened to them, same or secret, you know, it's
a characteristic of teams you're still finding their feet.
control is to begin as quick as possible by rebels having a look across and we've still got doom
Doom doom up on that top floor in cash. I'm a little bit concerned that rebels have got no idea that he's up here to be honest because
They're just going to open in hatches and working around middle floor
And it doesn't seem to be anybody going to clear top floor at the minute
And I think that dooms may be going to hurt them in this round
But as I say that, the lens is sat watching, waiting.
The thing is, Doom doesn't need to be overly aggressive here.
He can actually, there we go, a beautiful shot from the observers.
Thank you very much.
Drone spots him through the drone hole.
Doom doesn't really need to do anything here.
He's going to get drawn down.
He knows that's the case.
They have to find him.
It takes out the Blackbeard truly.
It's, that's, that is, it's a loss for, I don't mean the round,
but that is in the situation, that is a loss for Rebels.
He should never be killed with Blackbeard.
Right, fair enough. A guy with...
No, just an agon doesn't have a shield protect his head, but...
For Blackbeard just to allow June to get that close,
stab a shield, and get the kill.
Especially when he's got Asta with him.
He doesn't need to get that close.
Imagine if he also got Asta.
Then we would have been having some pretty certain bots.
But still, trades there.
But you lose the shield, you lose the Pushing Power.
You also probably lose the Nades,
which you would like to have for the Goyo canisters.
Don't forget as well, Tim.
You've also lost a minute and a half.
All you get is steps around the corner,
rips the head off the capital,
Lincoln gone, four versus three,
Falcons continue to hold inside of sight.
Now everybody is back down there,
and this is what I was saying from Falcons.
Don't overcomplicate it.
You don't need to do too much.
Let Rebels come to you.
Just pause them a couple of problems
around the map like June,
and it should really be job done
in more rounds than not.
So we're going to see the Candela's come in.
Well timed, actually.
to get one on to greet it,
putting his liquor back on the
warden doing all the damage as
he always does on close house
picks up to so it's a finishes
things off and it's going to be
Falcons three at one and a great
round from them.
Yeah, nice little adaptation as
well, Tim, and we've seen the
yin has been a consistent thing
that a land has been bringing.
We've seen the yin dump a lot of
youth ill in through blue the
is a factor picks up the warden does have that problem anymore so I do like
just a little adaptations I would say that I think rebels their lineup has
been very readable I don't think they've really done anything that is
surprise falcons I don't know if that's the the case of its clubhouse and how
do you really surprise anyone on this map anymore for them I don't think
that's really in the vocabulary of this map but certainly it's just
Falcons play in the way you expect, you know a good trade game individuals as always are gonna be able to drag them three rounds
But for rebels
Oh
We missed that
Round five, round five. He's one that we're not gonna miss. I'll tell you that demo. Round five
We get in it's gonna be Jim and Bedroom
I think towards this map, bring the ink, bring the shield.
Defeat as well has been another one that we've seen quite a few times.
But you just need to see the utility dump come into bear fruition.
The only round that they really won with the attack was because they seen an opportunity.
They've seen a gap, has to get to kill, and then they're straight up, they're straight into it, you know?
And that's not necessarily down to having good coordination,
being able to use the opportunities that you've brought in in a good flight.
And you just need to see more of that kind of 3-2-1, which is what we expect to see in a map like Clommeram.
And have the angle held there, users, across construction walls, so there's going to be no threat posed directly from it.
Minute 30 into the round, established in CCTV, but not really too far beyond it.
They need to now be taking cash and pushing forward.
Users does have to move backward, but there is still one in construction.
I'm not sure how aware they are of Jume's position. They are now.
He's got the hatch to drop away if he wishes to. Inca will find Sota on a wide angle and
manages to get Jume as well before he can drop away. That's a really big play from the Yng.
Oh, again. Losing the Blackbeard but fight play they've been able to get. Flurry of kills.
This is more like it from Rebels. They've players on the window. This is more like it.
Look at the utility. You just hear Wami just going off constantly there, Tim.
that's a lot better from rebels.
They've assessed what they want to do.
They've timed with their utility well.
And yeah, they just picked them apart.
And that's the power that you can have in Cloudpounds
if you just do your basics, right?
Simple as that.
It works both ways, doesn't it?
I said if Falcons can focus on the basics,
they will get rounds.
But it is also true for rebels as well.
They did a really good job of clearing construction there.
Credit to Linko for going in on the ying
and getting those two kills,
he was sitting on the edge of
the hatch. He was ready to
drop away if it got a little bit
too hot, but he didn't get
chance to get himself out of the
fire before he got burned.
Final defensive red. We go to
CCTV and cash, and this will
be the site that rebels won
previous. I tell you what them
would say a three three half
here is a steal for rebels if
Yeah, I think I'm the grand scheme of things as well.
For Rebels, it's just kinda all of a sudden, wow, we've got three rounds, it's not a bad
showing but I think whenever you're taking consideration for Falcons and the kinda history
that they have, whenever it comes to the clubhouse team, their attacks are actually
better than their defence.
So I wouldn't say the things are going to get massively better here for Rebels, and also
Tim, the attack percentage is actually better for Rebels than their defense.
So these are actually the least favourites side for both, well it's least favourites
side for Falcons, but actually better side here for Rebels.
It really is, Marta manages to get the first kill on to solo top, takes the Falcury
out, the smoke clears just in time, Tune picks up Walden, gets too aggressive onto
the Monte and exposes himself to the breach that's been opened up. Feno finishes off Leakefak as well.
Flo versus two Rebels have really gone up a gear in the last couple of rounds. I'm impressed with
this. We're going to have a 3-3 half here, I think, unless users can do something seriously.
Special Feno thinks about getting the defuser down, a razor bloom just slows him down for
the time being, but he's straight back at it. First kill comes in that users needs. It's one
the shield. This is a real
problem. Taking damage along the
way as well. That was not going
to engage in this fight. It's
just going to keep calling out
that position. That's all he
needs to do. The air job is
going to take him down. That's
a big player as well. The
Monty getting out of the
breach there comes back in
drops the shield, just
bates uses into the attack.
Marta picks him up. Beautiful
stuff from rebels controlled
the end of the round. Well
and that is a three three
half demo. It is the lesson
and let's sort the desk, thanks for that!
33 is very good for a team like Rebels going up against such a giant in Falcons.
What we're seeing right now with the emergency stop coming in on the side of Rebels
is that the dynamic is completely different on this team.
Yes, the main thing as you look at the scoreboard obviously at LMS
is not really there in terms of fighting power.
It's exactly what I said before, right?
The statistics doesn't tell the whole value of a player
and I think that it's not really in these scores.
I think overall it's just the overall team dynamic is completely different.
And that starts with Assa who had I think a really good round three when these guys are going up here red stairs
He's the one that's pushing headfirst with Zofia
And he's the ones that have the information that someone is going to be behind the bomb chassis and look at the teamplay here
First turn on to the bomb chassis player that guy's gonna get a kill
But instantly the trade comes from Assa and then he's the one that stopped the player in construction
To coming into cash and despite the barbed wire despite the sound despite despite the rush of
of having someone to cover that's diffusing he stays calm cool collected
he's making sure that the player coming construction dies as soon as he gets into
cash and that's the first starter I think that's when we go from 3-0 to 3-1
and after this what do we see? Linko with a great double kill construction
with being a great pinch attack from the top floor from the rest of rebels
and I start to hear that comes in French get excited think that they
can do it and that's exactly what I mean by the chance of dynamic here
The change of dynamic is clear in terms of they actually think they can do it with the limbs of their back
Seven free game. I saw the logic. I saw the logic of making a roster change
I saw the logic of taking a lens out of the the firing line in terms of being in the roster to being the coach and
Then bringing a new player in a new exciting player from tier 2 saw the logic of all of that
But I did say it was a risk in terms of losing that in-server composure
After two rounds, you know Falcons were frightening getting on top by that very first club that you showed that Leo
So, Falcons are threatening Garen on top as it comes up.
And they keep with that composure to a free-free half.
And suddenly we're now in a conversation of, can Rebels do it?
Can Rebels do it again?
After so far, we've not, you know, we didn't see that at all for the first two games last week.
That would be the big upset.
And it would be again, repeating that result of what they got last day.
Now, there's two players on the set of Falcons who really are trying to keep it up.
We're looking at the guy on the screen right now.
leak effect uses all those found themselves in that 1vx plot situation there as well.
But going into this, I mean, they're trying really hard, but is those three rounds of
defense going to be enough?
I think the main thing is you look at Falcons to make the difference in their individuals.
The main thing to me is it cannot be the only solution.
I need to see the rest of Falcons really come up when they're going to see an attack.
And obviously these two guys on your screen, they've been doing amazing in defense.
This is the moment to carry the rest of the team and to everyone.
go up to the level of
troubles here because they cannot seem to lose against a team like this. Oh
Well, would you look at that as the bands come in on our screens?
We get the most default bands on the most default map that we're seeing in our map pool as well for one more time
We'll set it back to ace and demo
Thank you very much sure
fully gonna say
bit better here now for Falcons as they switch onto their attacks. I mean, Tim, we kind of
thought they were cruising free one up and then you blinked and we're all square.
Well, this comes back to the problems that we've seen for Falcons over the last couple
of months, last six months or so. This is what we see, they get themselves going well
and then they seem to have this little bit of a wobble and they let teams back into
it at all. That's one thing I think if you said to me, right, change so you
you can just change something.
You can just say the words
and you can change something about this team.
How are you gonna make Vulcans win more?
And one of the things for me would be,
I think, would I call it killer instinct?
That, you know, the blood's in the water.
We can smell that we've got them on the ropes here.
Finish the job.
They just go harder and harder at them
and just, like you see, finish the job
and get it over the line, absolutely ruthless.
I'm not saying that they don't try to do that
but they just don't always seem to have that ability
to get that done
and teams are able to come back at them
Whereas other teams, you see, getting the lead and you think, you know, there's no coming back from this, but yeah, exactly.
You know, that's why it was brought today. There's no coming back from that.
And so, yeah, that's, that's, I think, one quality that maybe this Falcons team has missed.
They go clean pick.
Down goes the mirror to C4 off the board and again, for Refack, another opening pick for him.
has been really good on that today Tim that's his third opening pick and he hasn't lost any.
So not too shabby, so that does set him up very nice now to have that extra man and
have you think about the clubhouse basement team you have the extra man just that little backstab
down blue that backstab down dirt it makes all the difference in the grand scheme of things
whenever it comes to taking this basement so I would expect Falcons to utilize that extra man
do a good capacity. Just depends what kind of take they want to go for and where do they want to fly.
At the moment it's just getting these hatches opened up. Impact tricky, always going to be an
issue. Oh, misses it though. Hatch is going to be opened up. Still plenty of ex-Kairos pellets left
for breathing. All you really do is fight him for time. At that point the hatch is always
going to get opened. Use this of course, and solid off with the secondary hard preachers
So I won't wear another it does get done, but you burn as much time as you can
However, it is a very difficult sight to play like that as a defender because we've seen what's possible in 10 seconds
As attackers in this site in this site particularly we always have that last 10 15 second blood bath
And it is very much possible to go in late and win it
But right now five versus four still solids of low health
He's taking some chip along the way you want the blue
I think you're gonna get a little bit of blue coming in from June black beer thinking about
getting over there. I'd like to see pressure from that side as well, just because it makes the defenders spin on their heels.
This is the problem. Once they're confident that you're just coming from main stairs and mortar, maybe kitchen.
They can all face basically in one or two directions, whereas when blue order gets thrown into it,
there's another angle and it gets them spinning around. Spinning around is fennel,
Bredo takes him down.
Asset does take that, dude. That could be a really big kill in the round because it stops the pressure coming down blue.
They get another one back link on to breed it three versus three make it a third
He's gonna pick up leek effect to be to TV one
This is gonna have said the hand 10 seconds uses his down
It's up to solotov versus a lens two seconds solotov planted the lens plays it perfectly goes around the corner
Nothing can be done solotov comes off the plant stop a lens get in the kill
But knows it loses in the round and that is gonna be
But no, just really, I think, the time got eaten away with them because they kept having
to trade their kills back.
Like it was just a constant trade fest, I mean this was obviously the big issue but
even still, it came down to a 1v2, but then users get stamped.
So it's just a big old vest here from Falcons really, but Rebels, they'll take it nonetheless.
Individual brilliance again.
I mean as much as what we like to talk about Falcons, Tim and again the desk I've mentioned
Solotov. I mean Solotov and Jun Tim not looking too good here in this evening. No? I mean
that's the 10 and 5 lets you know we've got to focus on Rebels a little bit as well
here and say they're playing really well in these last few rounds they're going
in there the fundamentals are great they're getting the job done they're having a few
you know, I'm not going to be
going to be able to do that.
I'm not going to be able to do
with those hero players thrown
in. Look. Looking stages. Funny
thing. And when you're playing
with confidence, it quite often
comes hand in hand. That's a
really interesting settle there.
We're going for some like real
laser obstacle course there.
Yeah, I'm trying.
I need to at least some details
first demo. I need to know
start calculating those. Let me get my meter stick out, Tim. Hold on. You do that. You do
that. Hold on. Can you get that out? Um, oh, pretty nice. It's going to be requested.
We'll see. There we go. Get going. Pull that to the fore official.
Time being. We're going to continue playing the round until we see otherwise.
the players on the same level
to be unaware of the one of
proposed but inside a cash on a
gym and bedroom defense. It is
a reasonable expectation that
somebody is going to be in that
position. However, the trip
connectors are doing their jobs
at the minute preventing the
players from getting into the
position. So the players are
going to be on the same level
to be unaware of the one of
proposed but inside a cash on
to be able to do that. So the
top's at the minute, preventing
the hatched up coming through.
Jim does manage to find a lens
that leaves us now five versus
three. However, Link who fights
back finding three days that a
quiet day as well. Fennel on
to June. That's the first
kill for Fennel. I couldn't
have come at a better time.
Three versus two. Those
solid tops just walking
through side finds another
three versus one opportunity
to put the diffuser down if
they had it in hand demo,
but they don't right now.
a one player he was challenging him in towards the breach diffuser though will go down and a 1v2 now
Let's have to see for Tim
Maybe if he gets a kill well that could be helpful
But no just blind fires it through and doesn't land on anything gonna go for the rotate in free logic
But he will make a lot of noise doing so and now the guns are pointed towards them
So let's off in first contact Chris's way all the way back rotate me in hell by use this and Falcons
They're in the round
We're going to get the
build back into the. Falka's
have just had a little bit too
much time to to lose that
post plant really they've been
able to get themselves set. They
had a nice little cross fire.
They could just play off each
other's contact as it was. They
didn't really need to use is
picked up the kill anyway and
that gives Falcons a little
bit of something we've just
heard. Um we I think we're
going to load back into that
I still think the take away
there is rebels looked good
through that round demo still,
you know, yes, they were in a
Amanda's advantage situation
still came down to a 1v2 at the
end. There was a couple of big
players there throughout the
round and right now rebels have
that was they got Falcons on
the ropes, but they're certainly
making a game of it and make
them work for it. I think
more than anything and look,
I know the rounds going to
get replayed, but we'll still
Tim and I think sort of he's had a little bit of a moment there has a popped up with a great double kill
Got his team into the bomb site got that control for them and at that point of 1v3
Yeah, very difficult to come back if your rebels
So maybe a soul of starting to work his way back into this game, then that's a good sign here for falcons
Again just bear with us while we try and get things sorted I mean the fourth official team
you. You know, it's been a
long time. He's been busy
tonight, hasn't he? Certainly
has certainly has. Has has been
plenty going on, but, uh, like
you say, we'll get this one
back up and started just as
soon as we can get everybody
back in shouldn't be too long.
Interestingly, looking through
the stats for this one so
far, we've got I often like
to keep an eye on the
entries and it fascinates me
as to how they impact the
we don't include that last
one. If we say that the
rounds one through seven, we've
got seven entry kills. Only
four of them have resulted in
the round being won by the team
who got it. Interestingly, two
four Falcons and two four
rebels, so they've both had
rounds where they've lost that
entry killed before V five
come back and won the round.
So the entry really not
are on top of it just for three at the minute. But yeah, an interesting one. Not necessarily
having the same sort of results that we'd always see.
This was always, I think, a discussion that we had, you know, whenever it comes to Falcons.
It's since they've kind of, I don't know, it's been quite a while, I'm trying to
think back to whenever, again, Shaik was here. I think, yeah, I think it was definitely
the same case as well. Sometimes for Falcons, in the regular stage, they'll kind of limp
through. Does that make sense to them? Like, they're not playing to the standard that we
know that they can. You know, this is a side last year. And I suppose even you can throw
Jim into it. All had stellar years. Yeah, you think about what Jim was able to do
in Team Secret? Again, Falcons still finished pretty well at Invite. People forget that
to. Even though, yes, they
didn't get into the top two, but
still they were there. Um. You
expect there to be a better
level. You know, they can sit
there and fight against your
phase and your your m eighties
and your dark zeros. But the
strong whenever it comes to
your rebels. It's such a
weird one with Alkins because
they do this all the time.
I agree. I think it comes
the last few rounds, but
the last few rounds that I
was talking about earlier with
and it's actually the line I
used in the first pro game was
you can only beat the team in
front of you. And I think
that's maybe where falcons do
fall down a little bit. Sometimes
they come into a game and the
three one up after four
rounds like they have been
today. The thing is, I don't
want to take anything away
from rebels here. I want to
be very clear that rebels
have actually played. You
know, pretty well over the
you know, it's a game that's
you know, for Falcons to decide
when it's over. Let's not go
down that road because everybody
in the ML is competitive and can
win games. But I look at
Falcons and I think again, like
you say, where they come in
and really they should be
favorites. If we're honest, you
know, they should be coming in
there and getting getting the
wins. I think sometimes I is it
just that killer instinct that
deliver in it. I'm sure
mentally they've got it.
it. It's like I said, prefer as
brought it's about just playing
the team that's in front of
you. And if that team's not
playing fantastically well, which
you know, rebels want to begin
with when it was three, one, they
were off the pace. It's just
about keeping that pressure on
and continuing going and not
allowing anything to change.
Or if you know where rebels do
find another gear, it's then
about being able to react to
it. And I think that reaction is
something that Falcons maybe
struggle with as well. It's
like they get into the game
You know, I mean, I'm not
going to be able to do that
again. I'm not going to be
able to do that again. No
problem. And then it's you know,
imagine it has been a car race.
You know, there are a couple of
lengths ahead. They're no
problem. Nice and easy. And then
the other team has a really good
pit stop comes out quicker and
is catching them up. I feel
like they struggle to adjust
their pace for that. I think
right, actually, we need to
get back up to like a faster
slot. Pacy. We need to get
really up to the edge of our
game. And I feel like
We're back in it and like we had just mentioned the round will be replayed so we head back
into human bedroom once more.
Obviously for Falcons they were successful here but that's to be replayed.
Down to a crash coming in from Rebels.
Always an interesting one to remember around gets replayed because it's kind of like both
teams now kind of have an idea.
someone's like that was a trial run this it is we'll see it played out for real
this time for three it stands to rebels and let's see if they can get
themselves a bit more advantage here because I tell you what if it goes five
three not many people will have expected it to start as in it might just be
panic stations to Vulcans it's going to be get into the building as quick as
you can. That's going to be
number one. There's straight
away open strip. Breeders opening
walls as well. So I feel like
Vulcans all around all right, 30
seconds into the right, but I
feel like they've come out with
like right. Like I said that we
need to go up again here. Rebels
have gone up again. We need to
match up. We need to increase
our this and straight away
walls are open trip connectors
are being taken out. Utilities
being dealt with the getting
themselves into a better
almost able to get the second one but the twitch room was found out still
that in utility able to destroy just one string of those lasers
then four rebels tapping up to extend same way they were last time for falcons
a lot of players kind of coming in from jacuzzi so it could be the same
explosive nature in force gym that's what we want to try and target we're
gonna use the a banner to try and remove the mirror window now so it's all tough
himself on to repel and do that safely now there you go sees the mirror window
how comes the ex kairos and all they have to do is just hold the angle make
sure that nobody can run across and shut the pellets off
Hawkins now just looking to get themselves in creates a little bit of
space but these pilots gonna disappear because there's an object there again
They're leaving little gaps. Yeah, there's an opportunity there for Falcons. If he comes through that rotate, you're killing.
Simple as that. Now they've lost the X carousel, so they don't have an opportunity, you know, to breach that.
Solotov's gonna have to come back. It's always free time. 55 seconds left to go.
They've still got a mirror window to play against. They've either got to run in and smash it or go elsewhere.
Falcons are just making this difficult for themselves.
Oh, Sophia from below. Always something you have to be careful of, but instead they're
going to use the Sophia to pop that mirror window from below realizing that hey, not
only is there a mirror window, but also a mute jammer, but June though, is going to
get taken down though.
No idea!
Helens, below?
Yep, had no idea.
Helens with second!
How does he get the second?
Oh my, Rebels!
So they're going to win the round now and hoping to try and cap up themselves
to do that. It was clear to see
it. You just absolutely run
headlong into somebody. Who's
on lower main stairs who they
have absolutely no idea about.
It is no surprise to see a
tactical time out after that
round because Falcons just
look completely disconnected as
a team. They seem to have
I'm not just just sitting wait for June to get in the position where he can obviously impact below like Jim doesn't even need to necessarily
Pop the mirror window the way he did just remove the mute camera because then the Havana can still open it up
So they should like they should be supporting him in that effort
It's naturally I would say June probably shouldn't be down there. He's only down there to get rid of the mirror under
that's what it is. It's a
mistake that he didn't necessarily
need to be there in the first
place. You know, there's a fear.
Maybe you wanted to go and try
but not having the intel, not being aware that hang on a minute,
we've only accounted for four players on site here,
where's the fifth?
That is, again, just basics.
And I said, if Falcons can come in here, do the basics well.
They should take themselves a win, as it is.
Rebels are the ones that are doing the basics well.
They're on top of things.
And I tell you what, they deserve this score at the minute,
because regardless of what Falcons do,
Rebels have to punish them for it.
And they've just done it really well on multiple occasions.
So five three rebels we go into round nine.
It's gonna be CCTV and cash for them to defend
and Falcons for all that they took
by being a great clubhouse team
for all the talk around them on this map.
They don't look so great today.
I mean, the stats were certainly up against rebels,
but they were breaking down those barriers.
Does this look like a team that is seven and one
on football by the way, like for Falcons?
just they just over the last few rounds they just don't I mean would you also then state it as it's
looked like a team who's own free and pop out yeah you know it swings around about so it's rebels are
playing so well and valvage it's not larger than on the wrong name something it feels like a head loss
here never mind I'll shut up sorry I'm a snake but I said it as well demo that's what it feels
like for Falcons at the minute that there's a little bit they're just like collapsing a little
that's going to happen. If you
know, if rebels can hold on, get
themselves to do any one more
round in the guarantee overtime
and the point that's all we've
got to do is get them to do the
best they can. I think we will
probably see a return to business
as usual, which was round one to
four Balkans well on top of it.
Rebel struggling to keep pace,
but it's not a guarantee that
that's going to happen. If
you know if rebels can hold
already a great result realistically for ebbs so this is still absolutely anybody's at the minute
oh that is bad timing there for efek feno has the swing as he had his scanner out
oh dear it's almost like you could have just paused that in a moment and said my name's efek i don't
to get myself in this position but still it's a 2v2. Feno kind of dig his heels in hold on to
CC as long as he can. Alams is covering his construction walk-in. Usus a whole big engagement
takes down Feno. He has played very well today. Usus and now Alams. Can he do it? Can he do it?
There's one. 1v1 now. Up against Usus. Has to C4 but he doesn't need Alams.
like I say again, is that a situation that Falcons should be losing?
No, why are they challenging him at separate times?
They know roughly where he is because Eusice is looking for construction towards the top right,
so they've got an idea and again, I don't know exactly how long was left on the clock,
but it's the same as we saw from Secret and we were critical of on Shallie,
and I've got to be critical of the same of Falcons here.
You're in a 2v1, you have to create a situation here.
the 37 seconds left there is plenty of time to manipulate that situation. So you're challenging him at the same time. That's all you need to do. We can't win two gunfights at once. And after a tactical time out as well. Falcons, I've got to say, it's not good enough.
Oh, here we go. Falcons.
Falcons set up in the game.
Been here done that in regular stage play,
struggling against sides that you would expect them to be beating.
Yes. I mean, one of those, but Rebels all credit to them.
They have improved massively on their metrics
in terms of where they were in Clubhouse.
Things have improved tenfold for them
has been able to gather a point
and they've got three more rounds to them
secure all three of them. Well, what's it? I think there's about 18% that were on the
community for the fact rebels. Well, oh dear, I bet there's going to be some channel points
going out here and rebels are able to get this done. I will say that. Right, five
versus five, 30 seconds into the round. This could be it. Three rounds in a row of Balkans
need now without mistake, and they have been finding mistakes plenty over the last few rounds.
Real opportunity for Rebels to get this done, take three points and move on with the day.
Coming for another game tomorrow, I mean, like, say, what a turn around that would be.
Fano is going to get chased away. Now, he's had a little bit of a resurgence as well.
We did comment earlier in the game that he'd been a little bit quiet and he was
on two or kills after four or five rounds. Leak-a-fuck is down. Leak-a-fuck is down.
That's going to be the striker almost out of it uses to make sure that Feno is gone.
Leak-a-fuck might be able to be collected here. So five versus four, opener for Falcons.
They've got themselves at least a bit of a footing. A lot of C4s in hands ready to
be ripped. There goes the C4. Oh, is it a Dabfuse? I don't know. He's up low on a
trebovem. That was a bit up the climactic, like, anyway, E-Fack is back up on his feet.
Thatches are... and they need to try and open up, and that's the E4 that's gone.
I mean, that's not bad right now, I think, for Falcons. We're a little bit
but actually, um, second glance is actually okay.
This looks fine.
Yeah, they're not doing too bad here.
Mato in blue is a little bit of a sticking point for them.
He's actually gonna abandon that position, move on.
Is he gonna, oh, he's traversing back.
He's absolutely fine.
So, yeah, he's a little bit of a sticking point
for them at the minute
because he can continue challenging him to Mato
like that with solid top.
Does final income.
That's gonna start creating gaps.
In goes the shield.
3D manages to get one.
You feel like if Falcons get one round,
it could really break the seal
and they could be one after another.
Solotov did kill June in the middle of all that.
Doesn't matter.
Plant goes down.
40 seconds left for Rebels to do something about this.
Two versus three.
Still got a blitz on the board.
Still full health.
Not going to be easy.
And they do manage to get it down on Solotov.
Two versus two time is going to be their biggest enemy
right now, realistically.
Utility just being fired in from every angle that users can.
That's probably the moment.
to the end of the game. And
then, you know, he's going to
be able to use his final kill
Vulcans after the plant. Hold
on in the post fund and managed
to get that done. Will that be
as I say, breaking the seal
with round after round coming
back for Falcons to take us to
overtime or can rebels scrap
their way over the line? Hmm.
Good question, Tim. I think
overall for Falcons, but there
were in a five II believe
or Rebels
But Falcon still able to stabilize in that nonetheless
Think overall it's it's really use this is just
Putting this whole team on his back and saying we're going on a journey here Tim because he's 14 and 5
Again, I won't say that in the bottom of the store board for everyone because we had the rehoot spot
He is 14 and 5 whenever you're losing 6 14
I mean, it just shows he is really digging his heels in and trying to keep his team in this game
Somebody has to at this point. We spoke about hero players for Virtus. Pro
It's no different team to team on shally in the last game
We saw them four out of five of their rounds that they won in the first half were cultures
And it was because players just stepped up and went big it was done for them mostly he finished on 11 kills
use us as already surpassed that amount. We're going to have Feno bring it along the newer.
Now then, we did see shields last time out, but we will not this time. Falcon's opting not to
bring them for this side. Just having a look. It is gym and bedroom. If we have a look at the last
time this was played back in round eight, there was no shields on the side of Falcon's either.
And so I think Rebels may be just pre-empting a problem that was never going to come there.
still on that in ice Tim all it takes is that one crack in their finish solid
although able to find it being picked but not the second morrow it's a bit of
damage but shrugs it off and takes him down solid stake would have been great
for that information especially Tim whenever you think about this top floor
you think about gym and bedroom, how congested it can get, how claustrophobic it can get
for defenders, and if one solid snake scan can just pinpoint exactly where everyone is,
it makes it very easy for Falcons. Use it, slow sat on the angle for at least a minute
there Tim, it will be roaring with a kill. Almost the, and I'm talking old old vitality
play there isn't it, waiting on a drone over two and a half minutes to get a kill
that we used to see way back in the day from them, but like you say, I love at the end of the day, the reward is there, gives his team the advantage four versus three now, an age left on the clock as well, one minute 20 left to try and work this out.
Rebels need at least one, if not more kills, pretty soon because otherwise they're going to get overwhelmed with utility and manpower, which is exactly what's starting to happen.
But, Falcons haven't been able to deal with a shield yet, and that could be a real problem for them coming from the windows.
Four misses, that could have been big, and this is where Falcons now...
...are able to hit site, get themselves in. 1v2 now, link up.
Great shot on the users, defuser is still being stuck, and thankfully there is cover on the window.
Falcons, Tim! Like the BG, stay out alive!
to win. I really do continue to
fight. As I said, it may well
be round 10 breaks the seal, and
they just get one win after
another. It just keeps pouring
forth and right now. That's what
they've done so far, taking us to
12. The best they can hope for
is overtime. They won't mind. The
win is a win. They just want the
majority of points. They will
have come in here. With all
I'm sure you know they may say rebels are a good team and they can always take points from you but
Falcons looking
The season they want to have I'm sure would want to secure those points
So six five it still stands rebels have had two chances rather than go to CCTV cash
They can go anywhere at this point because they've lost the last couple of rounds
They're going to go back down to the basement church and ask them
It didn't go
the clue well for them last time. Falcons did a good job of getting themselves into sight and getting
the control that they needed. They've brought the clash which I quite like. Lemz has brought the clash
to deal with any shield issues. We've got the Blackbeard and the Blitz so a clash is going to have
a huge value possibly in this round. The Electrification if you're unaware will create
a shield break. So if Blitz or Blackbeard are pushing up towards the clash and uses the
to be on the shield. That's
going to force a shield break
repeatedly from them, and it's
pretty easy then to take them
out. So big play from the lens
on the class. I'd like to see
somebody out in the map. That's
not what they've done. Rebels
have gone full turtle here, and
that's probably not a concern.
There's I know that you're
going to get on the down and
kill pretty well by Vulcans,
but I'm just a bit concerned
about how much freedom they're
giving them. I think it all
depends on how much of like
to deal with whenever rebels are
certainly now straight away you look at the line up
you've got 4c forced in so in terms of trying to get
in towards kitchen in towards main corridor
beside kitchen that's going to be a struggle
and of course that class yes that is going to
be something that falcons will have to deal with
whenever they are running two shields to begin
with so there are little things that you
still have to be careful of here for falcons
even though you don't have to go for the room
the room. So the top needs to
be very careful if it goes for
that kitchen hatch because you
know with that hard breach gadget
that they are stood on top of it
at the time that it gets
activated, so it's a great
indicator if it's going to be
secondary hard breach that you
get your nice right at that
point. So it's not a guarantee
that you go for that actually
to go to the kitchen hatch and that's when rebels need to make those C4s count. They're
waiting for the push into main corridor as well. It's going to be up there for the time
being just to provide a little bit of intel. May I be able to call that for his teammate?
Oh, no. I've only got prayers. You don't want to lose first. The clash has got one
of them and essentially now for Falcons, that's a big roadblock out of the way with
They can essentially just do the same thing they did last time, send the flits in through the opening on church wall, and then just try and gear up for a plan.
Nitro goes over the top, not gonna do the job, Breida takes half damage, but won't mind that. Takes another one off the board.
Mato does vanish if I'm one, that's one out of three. Get kills. Still not a bad return rate on Nitros.
So, 4 vs 4, 40 seconds left to go, Falcons need to get themselves in and they will.
Spaced in blue for a Blackbeard, spells serious, danger for Rebels.
Looks like this one could be going all the way.
User sprays down after.
Feno, the response is there though, suddenly in the blink of an eye,
it's a 2v1 and Rebels take the win!
It looked for all the round like it was gonna be Falcons,
But Rebels just stood deep and found a way!
My, oh my!
Big old upset that we did not see coming!
Rebels!
Hadn't got a win, hadn't got a point!
Tim and Thor today!
Able to take down Falcons, look at that!
The picture of a lamb smiling!
That sums it up Tim, but hey!
Tim, that's me and you done! You can go to bed now, buddy!
Wonderful stuff, devil!
It lands as a surprise and gets the job done!
And our desk is gonna get the job done now, so I'm gonna summon this one up for ya.
Well, I'm not sure if we can. What an incredible resolve we're seeing here in the final round!
You think it off-falt has got every car that it can pull out to win this round, push it into overtime,
and then an incredible clutch coming out from these last two players on the side of Rebels to not only get their first points,
but get their first victory against a top two team, a tough one team.
It's like EML, is it? Is this going to be Rebels the nemesis of Elkut, a part they want at this stage too?
It's 2 in a row now and it's also the way they do it. This one, this round in particular, this one V2 from the LEMs, I think is what settles everything.
I think mentally, mentally, the targets were joked and then the rest of the team really just started believing in it. They've all believed in it.
This important moment here from Feno, this moment where he gets a double kill here, the win out to the shirt, do your church player, and then to the Neoplayer.
That's what makes the difference once again.
It's in these key moments, the most important one, the last 15 seconds,
when they win these very important double kills.
That's what made the difference. Falcons losing with a player on 17 kills.
On the back of everything, a single change.
LMS swapped instead of a VJ and obviously a massive difference of performance on the side of Rebels.
If you just looked at those KDs, you would run down the hell Rebels have won that game.
I mean, obviously, maths are going crazy.
Assa with massive play you highlighted at the half-time.
And I think realistically, the biggest conversation,
in my mind, at least, is mentality.
And we talk about it in elite level, sports, e-sports,
whatever it is, it's that 1%.
And mentality can drive everything.
It can drive momentum.
It can drive performance, obviously.
You had the replayed rounds, Falcons then lost 4-2,
3 after that, a lens getting the clutch,
people feeling themselves starting to build up
in confidence.
As you said, you were listening to the comms in French
they were feeling themselves. Once that flips, once they go from a losing team to a team that
sniffs a chance, that has a little bit of confidence, it just rolls from there.
Also they have nothing to lose and that's really what we believed in in that match, when
you listen to their curves, when you listen, when you watch them play as well.
Feno was, I think, 2-8 at some point and he was the one that was being sent on a
suicide mission up top on Mute on the Basement Mall site. And he never gave up. He thought he
He bought a time, he burned a few drums, sometimes he injured Liquefac, a striker, and eventually
died.
But despite all of this, he's the one that makes the move at the last moment, when he's
2 and 9.
He's the one that makes the move.
So believes in himself.
He believes in himself.
He gets a kill on to Church and kills the guy in Memo and that gets them to win, despite
being 4 and 10.
That's the big difference that I see.
Everyone at lineup believed they could win, and that change of dynamics, I can only
explain it by the fact that LMS was brought back into the roster.
Well, that's something we're seeing with this belief on the side of Rebels, right?
That kind of way of like, oh, we might actually be able to win this somewhere in the middle of that game
when they start picking up these rounds. We get the clutch from LAMs.
We get that, well, 2v1 in the final round as well.
It's an incredible result. Again, you're looking at Rebels.
Is this the case of, okay, we're seeing these sparks,
and this is setting themselves up for a good present in the remaining games in the stature?
Is it more like a slip-up, we think, on the side of Falcons?
Well, they got a similar result in Stage 1.
Well, they got exactly the same result in Stage 1.
They beat Falcons in Stage 1, however, they didn't convert that momentum.
So what I'm looking for for Rebels is that they get the victory state,
they convert that into a victory smart.
They use that as the spark to really go on the brim, to show their quality.
They clearly got it.
They've got the talent, they've got the players to do it.
They've got the composure and the confidence in themselves.
We've seen this happen this game.
It's about how do they apply that tomorrow?
How do they apply that next week?
Yeah, we want less of that CISO effect that we saw last stage,
where it was can I you know I would say a little bit inconsistent when you take
a bit thousands from one day and then lose to two alert teams one day
afterwards so I'd love to see them being a bit more consistent with the
days that they are gonna be in front of them because they might be in the
position where they can eventually maybe catch up to three set mines because
if you look at the performance of three sets in stage one they struggled hard
and Rebels I had more points on them. It's crazy. That's the generational option.
They could restart waiting for the race for relegation.
Talking about relegations and how they do it.
Who knows?
And then there was play G2 tomorrow, so that certainly is going to be an easy matchup.
But then this one wasn't supposed to be an easy matchup either.
And still they got it done.
I'm very curious to see what this does to our standings.
And where Rebels now find themselves.
Of course we keep talking about this fight in relegation,
which is going to be super important for them as well.
It currently shows them as seventh with three points in the bag.
Yeah, a really good bounce back from their side, obviously, and that's what I meant by the pressure that they're going to put on everyone else.
Because teams like Twisted Mines, for example, struggled so hard in Stage 1, obviously already up at 9 points.
It's going to be a really hard race for our OBLs. They're trying to play catch-up, but still, it just made our standings and our league much more interesting.
Gave us some time to think about, didn't it? Because, and I'll be honest, I was going to leave it.
I kind of called this game before it even started, that it was over.
I wrote Rebels out of it, especially changing up the player at last minute. All that stuff
going on. And I've kind of thought, well, yeah, we've got a clear top six and a bottom
top four. In my mind, that's still true. But the fact that Rebels have pulled one upset,
if they managed to pull an over upset tomorrow, maybe, I don't know. It was more than encouraging.
It was a good performance from me today that gives me something tangible to hold onto
if I'm a fan of Rebels.
Aren't you happy that we finally get that big upset that we've been hoping and praying for in these last two play days?
Of course trying to see something from a team that we expect to be at the bottom
Of course, you know, we're understanding where where the player chains and everything are going to but still to see
This big of an upset four levels must give them so much hope as well
Yeah, absolutely. I think it's it's once again a proof that the change may have been a smart one
Is it too late? It's a question to be asked
But then again, they have a lot more matches to play and whatever happens, you know
They're still the dream of making playoffs maybe making Osaka and never rule never never rule rebels out
You know and kickoff. Yeah, rule them out to instantly just in terms of theory. They made it very close. So I
Trust them surprise people and then just very quickly on Vulcans. I think you know
They've been very good that week one was really good
They they look somewhat impenetrable the team play didn't quite seem to be a bit there today
It was a lot of individual performance thing users in particular had a very very good game
So it's about quite quiet game. I think yeah
It goes to show the kind of mentality and how a couple of rounds did rock them because ultimately that was a 5-7
Could have been a 6-6 could have been a victory as well. So I think for
Falcons only fine
I think we'll see them in playoffs will probably see them go to Osaka keep saying that with them
but they do have something to think about, something to take away from this game and a learning to take.
It's funny how we're sitting here and asking for Rebels to, you know, after this result, give us some more consistency
and not to see this more and then being a returning thing.
The kind of thing would go for Falcons, right?
Again, it seems like they're all over the board.
What really are expectations for this team?
It's BO1s. They're going to have stambles. They're going to have moments where they're going to...
Exactly. So I'm not too I'm not too worried about it. I think in general, you know looking at Falcons
They already showed these glimpses of weaknesses last stage when they stumble against rebels
but all other opponents as well and
In the end, you know, they still look very strong internationally most of the time
Is that already a first sign of weakness heading to Osaka? I don't know. I wouldn't read much into it
I think it was on the back of many moments were in the very last moment of the round
Rebels were on fire, they were pushed by Adrenaline, I mean here in those camps, they were like flying in their head.
They were in full flow state.
Well, there is someone who is hearing this and probably nodding along in agreement.
We're talking about Alem's. Alem's congratulations on your victory here with Rebels.
The first victory of the stage. How are you feeling?
Hello, I'm feeling good. I like to play.
Is that the case?
Alain's obviously we saw you in the server today, what's the status?
Is it so, is it player, is it coach?
What's going on?
Well, it's like for this game it was just for serving, because you have the like an urgency.
So I did the practice with the team recently and like I tried to make them work on club
because last season we were poor in the line-ups
and now they decided to listen to me
to play club.
And we win, so I'm happy.
Do you think that the fact you were back in the line-up
really helped fire the dynamic?
Because like, obviously I'm the only one
that can understand your comps here,
but I get to listen to them.
And there was a world between the comps
from last week and these comps
where I felt like every time you lose a round last week
I could see a downward spiral
and I could see the guys being a little bit deflated.
And in this game, you never gave up, everyone was fired up, everyone was yelling, the energy was crazy.
And what do you think is the big difference between last week and this week?
I think this week we have a better preparation.
Not about the maps, but about our attitude in scrims.
Like this is something I saw when I was coaching the team, it's like all our teaching in scrims
isn't like really serious I would say.
And so I tried to put the accent on it this week as a coach and then as a player as well
because I scrimmed like I got two scrims yesterday with the team.
So I tried to put that to respect the scrims and play like good and you know like and
do like the basics, basically the basics of Siege. And Klaus is the basic map, if I can
say. We have to respect the basics. So I think this week was the main reason that we win
today. It's because we had a very, very nice week of practice. And we win the best team
in Europe right now. So for me, the best team in Europe. If you work good and efficiency,
it's always easy.
You repeat those roles of what you got in stage one, where you also took down Falcons in a little bit of a surprised victory there
You do it here again. What do you think is that main key that you have over them in these games?
It's kind of like a French brotherhood as well against these players
Yeah, I think like there is some players that I know of course
I used to say that he can practice me, but 10 years
like, you know
Younger, you know?
Yeah, because when we are playing together, we are feeling the same thing and stuff, so I think it's pretty easy to conter in
and I think it's the same for him. It's easy to conter me.
So it's a kind of strategic game between the match, you know, between us two.
Well, I worked out wonders for you today.
Once again, congratulations on your first victory here with Verbalz in Stage 2 and good luck tomorrow.
Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you to all the fans.
But we can look at our results because of course, we've had some silly interviews today, we've discussed some serious talking about players, you know, against each other, around each other, but the results do speak for themselves as well.
I think the biggest upsets were looking at the bottom of our screens, Rebels taking that victory over Falcons, G2 getting their first points, big for them as well.
and then first for that, I mean you can say easy victory, they had to fight for some of these rounds really to get the putches going
but still it's um, it was a good day of Evoque, closer than what we got like in week one I'd say
and I think most importantly we just had once again to call it, I would say Jack, I said that Rebels were gonna beat Falcons, you didn't believe me
and then I said, well obviously that was before the Mavito and Mavito said they were clearly gonna lose but
I wanted them on camera, I wanted them as off camera
true so I'm gonna travel here but I did say one thing that it was gonna be
possible that one of the team from our equipment like our expected bottom four
was gonna create an upset and after just saying it we manifested it and that it
revolves bit Falcons
proof is in the manifestation check
can you manifest something cool yeah what are you manifesting for tomorrow
look at this any any other upset
Um, I don't know, geeky.
Do you know what I am manifesting?
That Game 2 and 3 are going to be incredible.
Game 1, Game 2, 3 and 4.
And 4?
Yeah.
G2 with Rebels.
Are you going to put your arm on the line?
Huh?
Rebels from Boy?
Rebels just created an upset against Falcons.
G2 have 3 points out of 9.
Clearly, there's a lot of stakes for the two of them.
I think it's going to be a great game.
It will.
A night for you, MLGuy.
It's a great game.
But yeah, you've got 2 of Game 2 and 3.
game two and three, which
realistically is kind of top
six shootout. You can't match
it. Yeah. Rebels who just
causing upset and came for
going up against G two who
limped ish over the line against
fanatic today as well and are
potentially still susceptible
to an upset happening. So I
think those three games and
together look really fun. Well
technically already today,
Tuesday. I was going to say
yeah, well, I'm going to
today, technically, of course,
with more action on the email.
You guys, what on earth I heard? Any idea of what you're going to do?
No, we've been banned this time.
Yes.
We've been banned.
Yeah, so last time we were allowed a little bit of input into the games and what we wanted
to do and kept away from some of the things.
This time it's just tell us the story, we will produce the games.
So we kind of don't really know what's coming.
We know the topics but we don't know what the games are.
We don't know if we're going to get shot with Nerf guns or anything like that.
It can be worse than getting shot by Ann.
Yeah.
We don't know.
It's gonna be fun. That's all we know. It's gonna be fun. We're gonna be there. Milosh is gonna be here. Blacks as well.
Do you prefer being in the unknown?
Or is it like...
Yeah, I think so.
I like the chaos.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I think it definitely is going to be chaos because we know it's gonna be like that when we have Lexi and Milosh here tomorrow as well.
For the prep phase show, so make sure to tune in that just before the games kick off on the email broadcast right here on the same place.
For now, we thank you so very much for watching. Have a great rest of your day.
I can't help but get it right, yeah
Do you want me to pay you the price?
I'mma tell you to see the light
Let's keep it light
Let's keep it light