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Hello everybody and welcome back to S.A.L.
That is week number three. Crazy how quickly time passes by. We're so happy to spend our
weekend here with you going through matches or 10 games in total between today and tomorrow.
It's one of the best teams in the world. I'm Alex your host by my side is my co-host,
not analyst co-host. Foxy, how are you? I missed you last week, my friend.
I'm great. I miss you too. But I was in good hands. We had an and we had links.
So it was a good time.
for pretty good as well and I'm glad to have you back at the end of the day. I've missed you dearly.
Thank you very much. It's that sort of friendship and chemistry that makes it all work,
which is what we're trying to do here in SAO and have some fun together over the weekend because,
hey, Brazil SAO has been destroying every single tournament they've been to most of the time.
That's of course, we talked about Salt Lake City and kind of the fallout from that the gate
keepers that happened there were face clan that kind of decided how things would go anyways,
but still that's for later today we got a bunch of games in store for you is always five best
of ones loud versus fury is up first, but it seems like games are a bit more skewed on this
plate at least for me looking at the outside maybe ignoring a bit of what happened last
week Fox what are your thoughts on it. I mean you can look at games like phase versus
I think there's a clear favorite in every single matchup, but honestly with how the games have been shaping up. I'd say everything is a lot closer.
Situated between these teams besides phase, I mean phases phase those guys look unbeatable every single play day, but every other matchup. I mean, I'd say it's pretty fair that there's no clear favorite.
And I'd say it's pretty fair that there's no clear favorites.
I'm excited to see some of the underdog teams that have, you know, left us with empty stomachs
waiting to be proven that they can perform at a top level and make this top six teams
like Los teams like lucky five.
So hopefully today is the day where everything straps down and they're able to show us
a little bit of something to also get themselves some points, especially the teams at the
bottom of the leaderboard.
I know the referrals come down there so those are some big games coming up for them to be able to try to leapfrog their way into that top six
Absolutely so and for that we'll take a look at the standings to kind of show where we are at this point in time faceclimb looking real good
Of course things did not go as well in opening day, but that doesn't matter to solve behind them team liquid Alienware
I'd say a very positive surprise to remember a couple weeks back Fox when we were discussing things with
with Team Liquid and with Furia ahead of their game.
Team Liquid saying, you know what,
we know Furia are better.
We're gonna end up, we're gonna have a great day.
Maybe they were just a better team than us.
And look what happened in that game.
Something to, you know, maybe think about evaluate.
Yeah, there's a little bit of humility
coming from Liquid side.
And it's nice to see everyone on the team
has a goal in mind that they wanna be the best team.
Obviously they've been in the shadows
of FaZe and Furia since this team's inception.
So for them to come into it and pretty much handle Fiora pretty decisively.
Yes, it was shot way the third time in a row for Fiora.
But that being said, they've looked very good and very disciplined.
And a lot of that comes down to their preparation outside of the server.
So with that same mindset, I mean, they've beaten Fiora.
I don't know if any of the other teams below them are going to be able to
beat them and take them down a couple of points.
That being said, I mean, I believe they still have to go up against phase
tomorrow so that'll be exciting to see how that matchup turns out but liquids
look pretty good. Yeah that game is gonna look like something else but I do have to
say one team that's really been on the on the what's the opposite of forefront on
the tail end I guess does that make sense yeah yeah on the team that's been on
the tail end the performance has been flexed to the B7M I mean talk about
disappointment. I think last week they're not going to be happy too much with it. I don't know what
to do at this point in time. Sitting in eighth place, of course, it's possible to recover,
but there's quite a bit to get through. Yeah, I mean, I thought after their 7-5
nail-biter win against Imperial, maybe this was the start to something good. Okay, they're
finally figuring out what the issues are, how to play very aggressive. But then to lose the
lucky five as they did seven three it was very questionable in my opinion for the map as well
very aggressive team you're going to labs doesn't really make sense so far what the ideology on
the team is because statistically and when you look at the players they want to be hyper aggressive
why are we going to night haven labs the preparations just not there yet it seems
like there's a lot of uh a big identity crisis they need that they need to figure out you
You know, I was hoping they'd be able to figure it out after week one.
Uh, it's only going to get more dire for them.
I would say now is the turning point.
If they can't get at least six points this week, which they should, uh,
it'll look pretty bad for flux at every seven of the stage.
Yeah.
You don't want to end stage two, having to rename yourself to flux.
So L seven M because you've lost seven times in the regular.
Oh, that was good.
That was good.
This guy can meet you.
That was good. Nice.
Channeling my inner LA stand-up through you, Davide.
But still, we got games to get through today as always.
Our first matchup is loud versus fury.
I want to talk about loud first of all, because going through their score line so far,
honestly, they've been screaming out there.
Six points, man.
So in the top six, which is where you would hope that they would be,
again, this fight here in SEL is all about who can push down
Some of these teams that think they're safe and take their spot because you're never safe if you're an SAO
No, you're never safe at all. I mean, I think loud is a good depiction of you never being safe
I mean they come out their first week barely beat lucky five
But then lose to Los and then they come in the last week
They smoke INTZ and then they get absolutely stomped by team liquid Alienware
So it's just that up and downhill they go one one every week
And it just seems like whatever they do the first team ends up happening to them in the second matchup
And it's a it's a very questionable
It's confusing because it feels like loud has a really good ideology about how they want to play the game
I mean live being able to be on their shields being able to have
Flastery step, you know Gabu behind him on the entry and resets arguably has been the main player on this team
that has been clutching. I mean, besides their matchup against him, Lincoln Alienware, he
had back to back MVPs in their win against INTZ and their win against, or their loss,
close loss to Lowe's. So that being said, they have good fundamentals. It just seems
to crumble when the pressure gets on them. And I think that's the biggest downfall.
Also, map decisions of going to aggressive maps when they have a slower play style
team. I mean, live can get a little aggressive, but he's a slow player on the shields.
They don't really have a super hyper aggressive team.
So when it comes to map bands, I mean,
something that they need to pick up on
is the maps that they're winning
is when they go to maps like labs,
when they go to club, bank, these slower maps,
when they go to border so far,
they're O and two and border in the stage.
So hopefully they've understood.
Let's stay away from the aggressive maps,
play to our strong suits,
and it's a big game for them today.
They need to be able to get the win.
They beat Furia in stage one, so it is very doable.
They are that team that is the underdog team that can beat some of these top teams.
But it's a matter of consistency at this point.
Very much so, very much so.
And you mentioned Furia, let's take a look at them because they've been incredible.
Even if you take into consideration their loss to Team Liquid last week, last weekend,
that's kind of its own thing.
But then they bounce back, they play Imperial.
One thing that we're both kind of noting is that first three play days,
They played the same map, they're not really either this is their plan or they're getting lucky and they're not really showing or being forced to show any strats outside of Chalet until they played layer then very next day.
Oh, it's absolutely their plan. I mean, if you have the ability to get the same map over and over and over again, and you're winning it, why not?
If it's not broke, they'll fix it. Furia is playing for the long game. At the end of the day, it's a team that we expect to make the top six.
And that's where limiting what you show to the opposition is going to be the best situation for Furia.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they try to bring out Chalet today. I mean, against their last win against Imperial, Chalet was the map that was banned before it went to Lair.
So there's opportunity for it to have been shown a fourth time.
I think Fury doesn't feel too comfortable yet that they've secured a top four finish.
I believe they want to go for a top two finish.
Potentially even win if they can.
But at the end of the day, saving maps is the best friend for Fury right now.
They know that they can beat these teams.
They don't want to give away too much.
And I mean, everybody on the team has just been playing exceptionally well.
They're laser focused.
Every interview we do with Diaz, it just sounds like
they're a shark in water that they understand exactly what they want to do. They have the confidence
through the roof and a big part of that is obviously having some of these players on the
team specifically herds. I mean he's just been exceptional for this roster. One of the only
players that is managing to play Ash as his main role, which is crazy in this year of Siege
because we don't really see many Ash entries anymore. So for him to find success and still
still be able to do it. And I think it's about the bigger picture, the story of liquid roster
leaving herds in the dust, assuming that he's going to fall off the teams, not going to
be as good and him finding success. Yeah, that's that's been something that we've talked
about ad nauseam really through kickoff into stage one and now into stage two. His success
definitely been heard all over SAO and really the world, no matter the tournament. They
have been to what she did there that was not on purpose but I will still take the credit for it
but yes herds has been incredible to to watch and witness his growth and continual growth is
something that I hope is going to continue leading into the invitational because let's not forget it
as i28 as i27 we know it's happening in brazil this is going to be big and I'm hoping that
we get to see him on the main stage back home with the different roster than he was at
That's three years prior to that event.
However, our map veto for this series
before we drag on too long for our glazed set of herds,
I know we can go on for ages.
Trust me, this guy is something else.
What do we get out of this?
Do you force Furia to play another map?
I mean, no, I guess not.
You don't force Furia.
I mean, if you're an underdog team,
if you're a team that's not a phase,
not a team liquid alien,
where it helps. It gives you that comfort when you're able to go to a map that you have
footage on and so far the only team that's beaten Furia this stage is Team Liquid Alienware
and they took them to Shaolay. They had that information. Loud bans it out, which again
goes to show that Furia is comfortable playing it again. They're not worried about playing
Shaolay for a fourth time. That being said, they're going to play Lair for a second
time. So great for Furia to be able to hold maps again. That being said, there's
a lot of footage for them to go off of and Furia is the lair. They play against Imperial.
It's not necessarily, it's a good map for Furia, but it's good because they're aggressive
from all angles, but it's something that I just know I feel it in my heart that it
can just go wrong if a team is preparing for it. So if we get into this match in
loud, hopefully is prepared and understands Furia is going to be hitting from all angles.
If they're ready and set up for it, honestly, this is a good pick for a lot. This is
probably the best case scenario for loud to go to you know if you're gonna be good
no matter where you take them might as well take them somewhere where you have
some intel and as you talked about it before take take your opponents to a
map where you can slow down the pace something loud can do they'll be on the
attacking side to start things off but that's for us until we get into the
game how our first I would like to say hi to our friends and casters for
today. Please join me in welcoming a beautiful demo and fluke. How are you, my friends? Have
you been?
I was gonna let Demo go first, but, uh, you know, excuse me, I go first.
I said that's why I said demo and fluke.
How are you feeling?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Brazil.
Damn.
Damn, didn't you cast brazilian flight forever?
It's been a while, obviously that's our first time doing brazilian stage, i've already
cast it but you haven't, this is your first cast of the stage, i had a bald man with me
on monday and tuesday, that was fun, yes that's true i'm not tim, i'm sorry i can't
I was busy pretending to be in a war, which I just
Just don't need to elaborate further on it. Can I go on record and say this one fluke?
I would let you lead me through hell and I
Listen, I think everybody needs a full set of medieval armor and a sword and that's that's sort of the end of it
No, I'm excited. This is my first class this split my first class the season your debut my debut my my
six years of debut and I got to debut with day you whoa what a what a word
Smith anyways we'll send you into the bellowing darkness of layer enjoy
how you doing how you doing good I'm good I didn't do this thank you very
much me love that was like a nail on thing that has to happen
Thank you very much
You're right. That does actually feel so much better. I couldn't work out what was missing things changed
but now things are back to normal and we can
We can enjoy ourselves, you know
Who is enjoying themselves a bit less than they have been in the past is
Well, I think I know these teams. I obviously there's the weird thing about coming into a league halfway through and
and not the full games in and you look at it and you're like okay this is expected this is expected
hang on what just happened here flukeslv7m lucky 5 obviously xnip both of them are down towards the bottom demo
what's going on i think it's a weirdo especially whenever flukeslv7m also picked up players from
that nip roster as well so really that that whole nip team from last stage which has kind of
been splitting too hasn't had the greatest of times again we'll be able to see them later on
on. At the moment, I think you've got two teams doing pretty well. I think Furia expected
to do well. We always had these expectations on this team, whenever it was put together,
this kind of super team alongside her. It's the longest standing member of the side from
still that original kind of legacy roster that we had. But certainly I think for Furia,
it's still early days, I feel, in the grand scheme of things for the side.
Yeah, it's a sort of split as well. A few Furia have gone against lost ints. They're
lost against Liquid after they played their third shallow and they find themselves slightly
swinging around on the maps and getting away against Imperial but this is going to be a
bit of a test because loud they've had an up and a down and up and a down and they just
continue the pattern the first engagement goes in towards. Here he is, Faber, Abut is caught
out but Lawyer it just drives his way through on towards Resets obviously you and I are
well aware of the skills of Lawyer and he's been able to really get himself into
gear. Yeah, this league in SA-L, a quick fight over a mirror window. It's not really the approach
you want to make, and that's going to make it so impossible! Damn, I'm cooked! Consent packing.
Yeah, nice. I was kind of looking at the lineup from the defense, and I was thinking,
only just the one denial for typically a bomb site where teams will take in towards ops,
and we was trying to default plant, but then we seek to chunk if Smoke be brought in to
really waste that. They're only having to chunk in there to waste time inside of
about having the mirror window. As we've seen, it does a pretty good job at
solidifying your position behind that shield. Stem, it's gonna try his best to get
some picks, but we'll at this point for loud. Just gonna have to hope that some
overpeaks happen for Furia, so for Furia, just double up, sit in their hands,
minute remaining, they know where they both are. Just have to take their time
here and, again, you look at the util, we've got one flash grenade remaining,
that is it, and so far it's for loud and see, this is what I mean, it's what you
you don't want here for a Furia box era. Give some stuff up.
I'm gonna spray through the sort of just weighing out the rest of it. I mean it's the three versus two 40 seconds.
There are time for Stemton Flastery to try pieces together.
They're trying to just pay out nice engagement but you look at where the kit is at this point and they've got to cross the divide.
It was full of bullets and guns and not quite able to get it going.
There the five to two went to a three to two but I think things just being too far away
far away and how wide a rotate is on that map. A bit of a failure to launch for the first
round here for Loud.
Yeah, for Loud overall, I think it's the case where the mindset was, let's hunt the
roamers. You see the solid snake, you see the demos come in, immediately you're bringing
in a lot of firepower into the lineup to deal with those roamers. And I think it's
just the case where the roamers just had you, roamers had you with your pants down.
at that point. Do you ever really get things going from there? Like I said, you're going heavy into the
room clear. So if you lose the operators to clear the room, you can't really default back to that,
okay, we'll just go open up the walls, because you don't have the lineup to do that. So it does
hinge a lot on that kind of first minute in terms of how well you do. And just sadly for
a while, it just wasn't there for them. Furia, difficult team, I think, to fight against
the roamers because they've got very talented individuals. I just want to bring us back
back to Laura, you mentioned him. We've had plenty of experience for this map. And he's
always the guy who I look at and says he will lay up the server if you give him a chance.
He was probably my favourite player in that G2 lineup I think last year.
Oh, I'm not that good.
I mean, he would have those moments, right? He would have those rounds where it was just
like, oh, this is one of the best players in the world. And it would turn into a
whole game, damn right.
It was this map. I remember I think me and you both agreed the kind of penny drop
for us was, I think it was G2 and Lair, and remember he got like an incredible double kill
in Garage on this site, and I literally sat there and I thought, wow, and that was the
moment for me, we just thought this guy's good.
Yeah, and there's something about watching a player come into a roster like G2 at that
time and make such a mark, especially with the history of who he was coming into a roster.
He won Stage in Black Dragons, didn't he? I think that was all the experience
he had.
And that was it.
And you're looking at the team that obviously once upon a time, a portion of
that went and won an SI based on a superstar pickup and a superstar sort of performance
from a young gun and a young player and they just seem to have this ability where you, when
you see them pick up a name and you're like, when are we going to see why they've done
this? It's not a question of are we going to see, this is when are we going to see
them. You've got to see that now. She said we get to see him grow in butts. With the
first round going obviously in towards furious favor here, it's early engagement. It's
going to be a bit of a toss up for the side of loud, obviously. They sort of had
a mixed run and a mixed bag of successes but the game they had the other day
against the liquid where they're unable to pull a single round.
He knocked some of the confidence here and you don't want loud to start getting
pushed further and further down on the port. Obviously they've got a fifth place
finished last time but as they alluded to at the start of today demo the fact
that we're seeing Fluxer W7M and Lucky 5 drop down this is the perfect
opportunity for a team like loud or a team like lost to make that jump
What's the top three or four?
We've placed in here from loud
able to work the right in towards garage and they haven't lost anyone as well if that's a key thing to note still 5v5
They burned the goyos early. Yeah at the moment. This is looking good
If the only thing you may be worried about whenever it comes to this kind of attack where they are going a
Horizontal is you are pushing into doorways, which are probably gonna be held by multiple different angles. So
So, what was that? I don't know what that was.
Um, certainly, I think, I think for Loud, it's all about hitting the utility at the right time.
And, oh, a challenge. You know, I come up top and this is Vega Fox.
They're able to pick off the soul of Snake. It would be huge, and there's gonna be two
men knocking on them. That's a brilliant pinch there from Loud.
But, 30 seconds left demo. At this point, they've only rebelled to get themselves
above. You can see that, trying to formulate the kit. They haven't taken boiler stairs.
Vops can kind of pull himself back. They've still got Fenreirs. They've still obviously
got the potential threat of those Goyo canisters time wasting in towards the site now.
What we're almost in red time and they got to try and get their time on but there's suddenly
two quick kills goes their way, Vops gets one right back, he's going to try and get
the SWEEL of his step, connects on towards DS and now the four versus one plant attempt
but they just lock him out and they didn't have a lot of time but they knew exactly
what to do with it.
Yeah, I think burning the Goyo was early, I think that was very, very important for
loud able to pinch the player above box error up by himself. Yep, send two to get them. They've done
that successfully. I will say I think there was maybe some some opportunities there for Fury to get
some picks just the bullets didn't land where they need it to. But overall from loud I think they
played well to what was in front of them. I think they understood the time that they just
needed to move and yeah overall for loud this means that basement's going to be ticked off and
I think now for Fury are you going to stick basement you're going to go elsewhere and it
will be the mid-floor and I too, Sherry. I always say this is one of our favorite
bomb sites, Luke. I mean this is the one which we always find very
constructive because you can play a multitude of different ways.
Yeah. It's creativity has an option here, right? And you will see on the top
site and the bottom site that there is a bit of a slow burn
with everything like our favorite romance novels.
Things take a little bit of time to get to the most romantic bits. Here
You can get it right on page two. You could be screaming your way through. It's just this element where you can always still be surprised.
And that is... I love that I'm trying to romance something.
Maybe somebody like... I love that.
We're still... we don't know if you can read it.
I will say, we're talking about love. I love this line up from loud. I mean this is a better me all over.
Um, yeah, I think there's two ways they can go back to this.
And actually I think with the Blitz you would be eyeing up going for the plant into the bunks where you can put your shield on your back.
And again, the defenders have to try and hit a toe if they want to try and kill you, so I think that would be what you're more angling towards.
But then again at the same time, who's to stop them maybe roam clear and above too.
You've got a lot of utility, you can bump in through or get yourself in to that part of the map.
But they go for the pitch, and it's a pretty good pitch.
At that, Herds is trying to hold on the green stairs.
The C4 was shot, then forced them all the way back down
the stairs, and the player's waiting for him.
I mean, loud already, getting that first pick
is very, very important.
I just wonder, are they going to try and fight,
or are they going to try and go for the plant?
I mean, at this point, they ever see, as you said,
they have that man advantage.
They have that chance of being able to get themselves
in the back of the early pick.
It was the point that I raised after the first round
was how things fell apart for them,
how much they've grown in getting that network together, forcing the players in towards the
catch and making sure they can pull that early body. It's just really, really, two sides of
an entirely different story here. Ripping up on towards green, giving themselves options,
the same way they look towards the angles and ideas of getting into the Goyas if
they can get themselves possibilities in that final 20 and make sure that, yeah,
if someone swings out we have the cover, well, Fury are just sort of that, watching,
hoping they can get the bite on they have themselves all ready to go
Volts are still in the very dangerous central position here they've got the
watch on the verticality but with the coverage of the shield we are off
towards the races they're driving their way in the coverage on towards the key
where they've got the man in the corner and they're just gonna drop him down and
peel their way around underneath the top itself there's just swings back
round the coverage of the smokes they're still hoping they can try and find the
loose player they have eyes but the C4 is caught out by resets gets the head
is it the perfect time? There's the deep cover watch and there is a five versus a one post plant situation.
Furia caught napping. Wow. Fantastic from loud. I like the fact that they've
combed the capital with the glass where you're able to use the smoke arrows to cover off the
verts and the glass can just sit and look through those verts. I mean it's a very,
very clever thing to do. I just think that initial engagement as well. I'm gonna
highlight how important that is because once you lose a whammy on green stairs one you're losing
green stairs which obviously gets yourself into a bit of a foothold you can then start attacking
the bomb site for the attackers then also you think about the whammy there were still a lot of
discs that I would say maybe two or three that he would have still had in pocket so I think
there's also wasted utility there you have to look from furia and then also there's no trade
so straight away on a very I think technical bomb site where you have to be really switched
on for the defense. I think as well for the defense, not only do you have to worry about people walking
into the bomb site, you'll see a sitting hold your verts. There's also going to be the added pressure
where anyone could also wander in upstairs. So already you have to be really switched on.
And if you know there's an extra man, I think the anxiety level is raised ever so slightly for
the defense. So it just highlights the importance of that first pick. And at the moment for loud,
you have to give credit to them. They're getting the first picks, they're assessing
the threats that they need to, and they're working at a really high level of safety.
He dumps a fantastic round.
Well, that was a fantastic time to talk as well obviously because things have really gone a bit wrong.
I think with the side of Furia, in terms of Loud, they've doubled their success rate from the last game that they've played on their attacks.
They've been able to find a second, which is good news for them because well they might keep that sort of teeter-totter play style and wing style up if they can win one, lose one, win one, lose one.
cleanest way to get you out there but you can sort of keep that mentality of okay
we're still taking back momentum right we're not entirely out the race it's
tough games for the busy games for the tough games but it gives them a bit of
breathing room here fury up I'm gonna say struggling to breathe but I think
maybe they alert themselves into a bit of a false sense of security after how
simple the first round was they kind of had nothing structurally
challenge right obviously it came into a green push but the fact that they're able to get the kills
underneath just to swing actively into wards, get the pressure onto ups they I think didn't really
get themselves into a gear that they forced furia or forced loud into. Overall for fury I mean
Lyra's map is a bit of a mixed bag for them as it has been over the past three months it played
a lot I mean it's right up there with one of the most preferred maps and one of the most
played and I mean if you kind of look at the kind of record that they've had it is
very much like the way you describe and when one lose one and that's kind of the
same with their games they won against Imperial six days ago before that they'd
lost the phase then they beat Dark Zero then they lost the GK you know it's
it's never a clear cut and dry map I feel for Furious sometimes I think the
desk also mentioned how you know they're only playing the two maps that's
all we've seen from Furious at the moment so I think there is an element
It's one of those safety maps. They played a lot. There's gonna be nothing they have to worry about saying
Oh, we'll keep that for the best to freeze. It's just a map that will play
But you know, it's one of those maps I think for Lyra
You can really get yourself into a bad rut if you're just not switched on because it is a very difficult map
It's not one of the easier ones like club that we would look at
We're seeing obviously
New ideas and new smashing through a hard wall with new operators
Play against the tibra I still gonna slow things down a decent amount there
I'm trying to struggle for this game reset, sir
That's a more classic way of getting through this breach in this problem
Get the day most underneath get the track on as soon as they try to play against pictures force the pressure on in the meantime
Live sneak in the way up towards the close engagement
And there's a handy little razor bloom to get these up a bit more space to see for though
We'll send them pretty much all the way won't entirely know that they're down the candelas can go for the coverage
But in the meantime forks getting another means it's a technical
I mean from player to keeper back to player with the final throws of the clip somehow loud have been able to get this back into their favor demo.
Yeah, yeah, and the, I mean, there are two players from very low HP.
I don't know if there's a foreign gadget that can maybe be lurking still in the bombsite somewhere, which could catch one of them by surprise.
At the moment, you can see that there's no gadgetry left, really, on the side of the area, other than that C4.
They still got guns up, and then we knew that the Blitz was still low HP after being revived, and I chose it there.
A few bullets, and he's gone.
Right now for Furia, it's just fat.
Get the folks out of there! Just make some mad bashingers work for him!
Yeah, they're able to find herds as well, and Diaz drives back in to make sure the balance doesn't go entirely into the favour of the final ten seconds.
He's in a great position here, but he's only able to get one before Diaz!
Tracked it out in Furia!
Didn't even place it towards around, remember?
That's the site they won pretty cleanly, remember?
He just took their time out if that had gone away from them.
in the manner it started to?
Well, oh boy, I think the rest of the map
might have followed quicksuit,
but instead, they stabilised, if but for a second.
Yep, Furia, just hanging in there.
You know, overall, if you kind of look
at the DS position as well,
he was more than happy just through
a kind of bait his teammates, wasn't he?
He just tucked in that little bit of a corner
where you'd typically go for the plant in the attack.
The 6th airbase is to make sure but he cleans up the kills so
here ya, like you mentioned, the timeout was used, it's been successful
and then uh, I should go back
downstairs now. I think this kinda puts Fury into a bit of a tricky position
where
obviously that's top floor locked out which they've won twice now
they haven't won either off their next pick so they're gonna go for a
base make and they're not gonna go for tier sharing
I'm going to go for the bunks and really I think the last time here from Furia it was
I think they need to put more of a fight somewhere because it did feel as though I
were able to pop goyos at half the round mark you know about a minute 30 which I
feel is a little bit too quickly almost for that bombs I think you need to hold
a lot puffer of a hold in towards garage in towards lockers really make
teams work for it you know trade some bodies if you need to so that would
be the the advice of the fury is you know pull up a gung-ho go for it
this point comes that drive-through they've been able to get a little bit
more control but you can look towards how they've got here right it's always the
question of when things get closed when things get a bit dicey what's the build
out and the fact that there was obviously a one versus one that drops
pulling off a 3k in that round well if you don't have a superstar
performance you don't have the round itself it's almost that sort of shape
when you look towards the opening engagement is being quite important one
and might happen its way around here on towards the boiler stairs is a classic
first point of Ingress and I said before obviously at this position when we came
to see it last time loud ignored it all the way until the end they got rid of
Goya canisters but they were focused on the back take they were focused on
towards the... the sort of garage and storage area.
You really go towards the smoke player because, well, it's a tricky player to get out of position,
especially when they still have faults from the roaming support and HUDs.
On the roaming support, all the way on the top floor, but obviously a man who can turn from robot to other robot,
and you assume the second shell, it's about the best site itself, but still.
You see, there's almost a bit of hesitation here from the loud.
They can't quite find that clean route through without somebody paying attention towards them.
and skill posts, course for herds. Very very safe. He does get caught out, don't forget
this is a room where the four way and one way out, because he can play up here, make
himself some holes, don't forget that the robot does have a punching mechanic, similar
to what Rooney has. Oh, life is went for it and has a quick double up there from Fury
and yeah, I think that's going to be round done and dusty here for Fury. See the
blitz but I'll have it going it's been sat down I mean it's surprising as well
that even that the second kills came in you know how has vaults been allowed to
also just linger upstairs alongside his teammate and look at this reset to some
people to wander into the box I guess too 30 seconds but I think having the
the fuser is probably gonna be a big challenge this goes away I was about to
pay compliments towards Fiora, but I'm gonna keep my mouth shut until the rest of this round
goes. At this point they just need to set up the crossfire, they have the kit at the top
of the stairs, they don't need to engage with him, make him come towards you, or just get
him from the top of the hatch and play it diversically. Okay, now I can breathe as
I assume Fiora's hands can do the same as well, but it would have sort of returned
obviously from that round. Just realize they need to step in with some aggression,
they couldn't you know if we if we had a look at the previous elements of it there was a lot of
you know getting rid of the Goyos getting rid of this early ground utility making sure they
could remove things and they weren't entirely pressured the fact that we saw what 20 seconds
left of the round there's still a decent amount of furia players the last time we were on that
site and they were still just in these holding positions sort of waiting this time they stepped
back in they stepped into that approach and it was just so much better
I'm looking for Gunho, I think I mentioned, that's what you want to see and I have a
Furia.
I might as good for two, but it'd be good for three though, that is the question as we
head back again to a bomb site which they've not been successful on into Bunkz.
Looking at the lineup here from Laos, a little bit different than what they had
the last time and that's the changes come in, which the changes are going to
come in to be carbon-poppy pretty much, yeah. Looks with the exact same line up as what
they had previously. So you can only assume, Flute, they're gonna do the exact same thing.
They're gonna smoke everything off, they're gonna ying everything, and try and get that
plunk down. It kinda has to be that element right of, this will be the test in a way
of how much they've learned because if I'm talking about the complements play on
the previous round, there's so much more attentive, there's so much more focus.
round when things went away from them. They were seemingly all over the shop. Right, there
was great play obviously to create that confusion and there's a great opener as they get rid
of a smoke by Volts. Unfortunately he's had two big rounds in a row but he will not
be having a third. Here though, well now's even more to cook with. They have to make
sure that what they're focusing on isn't this sort of muriad of confusion that the
cacophony of chaos that loud cooked up before you have to try and find that
single string hold on to it and pull it unravel the sweater there is now this
approach once again the top of green opening body take and still sort of
trade over the top of the shield as well and pay this attention but box error
gets rid of step and immediately just pulls back as they actually seem to
try and drive down the stairs itself maybe I thought somebody else was gonna
swing in goes to double punch, but this time, Fury just gets things leveled. Look, obviously,
it's not the biggest loss of an operator. No mads. Not gonna have that much value other
than the flanks, which you'd hope have already been set up. I think the Wing Con here though,
for Fury, which they actually do have a Wing Con, I don't really think they had it in
the last lineup whenever they defended here. They have a warden. They have a way around
those smokes away around the flashes. You would expect that the As is gonna be
be able to play spoiler. Oh my goodness, fuck Zara. Try this hand, when Agro over towards
Green, he's gonna be backed up by teammates, so can they get him up? Hoho, there we go
with the shotgun, Diaz. Able to take down Flash, look at this, the plant's gonna go
down, nobody home. Loud now in the post plant. Loud have been able to do the most important
thing and put that timer into their favor, but now how do they position off to it's
live, he's taking a big risk, but in the meantime, somebody else gets traded out
and live is able to at least find the other side of the point if the shield stays
standing but he's immediately raised the face with either side, Loira gets one, Hertz gets the other.
A great bit by bit retake there and I'm just going to try and find their angle round on towards the
kit. Get this one tucked together at one point, loud. Looks like they're in full control but
unfortunately Furia after a timeout, silence to them, but a bit demo. Let's go find out
what our analysts think about that. A bit of quiet for the moment here on the
the layer front we'll see if this is the schedule timeout that Loudoun need to get back into it but
still all of this is reinforcing our pregame conversation Fox the map choice the way you
loud are playing two rounds on the attack on layer against Furia that's pretty impressive in its own
right I mean it's pretty good it's the I don't want to say them it's not the most and it's not
the bare minimum I mean it's a it's a sweet spot for Loud obviously if you could have gotten
more that would have been greater 3-3 but the game plan of going up against
Fyria having that information knowing Fyria plays very spread out that's their
defenses they're gonna be very spread out defense you can only imagine how much
greater the spreadness is going to be once they're on attack so the fact that
they were able to abuse live on the shields be able to take position on
the grounds they won they found success there using that blitz to be the
spearhead because you got 1v1 engagements behind that blitz and
And there's nothing really that furia can do to get around a bullet. So you're seeing on your screen here
It's a done deal at that point. So
Yes, 3-3 would have been great, but that being said
It's a good cushion of two rounds now
You know once a side swap furia is gonna be spread out hitting from every single angle on attack if
Loud takes the exact same mindset with being able to group up play behind hard reinforcement a hard utility
To be able to slow down furia and have the 1v1s be in their favor
They're looking pretty comfortable in this position. I just hope in the player cams that we saw at the end there
They seem a little discouraged of not winning that last round
I hope that doesn't shake up their mental because their game plan right now
I would say it's working if anybody is in the driver seat for this matchup right now
It's allowed going on to the defense
I feel like after that that time out that yes, it was the reset for fury
But more importantly, I think they're able to figure out how loud we're actually pulling up
they dealt with the shield the blitz later on they doubled up on him they didn't even need to need
more specialized utility to take him out so pretty impressive of course we kind of expect this from
furia which is why you hear us focusing a bit more on loud just because you know how good
furia is not beating the dead horse in that in that case but just wanting to see better out of
loud now the conversation is like you said that day how do you deal with furia is usually
quite spread out multi-pronged assaults. I'm very curious. I'm not gonna do the dally any longer
because I want to see how it all plays out. Send it in to our friends. Flip and demo enjoy.
Ah, thank you very much, Amila. That felt better. That one, that one felt better.
I remember my line. Put that on our six share skin.
I got one. I'm probably gonna drink.
Yeah, I'm a drone now. I don't have the drone yet. Yeah, yeah, I'll leave it like that, yeah.
You're a drone? On your drone? Yeah, you're a drone. Yeah, I'm a drone. I had to buy my own drone, but I'm a drone.
Yeah, I had to buy my own drone. You know he didn't have to buy the wrong drone? Tim. Tim.
because Tim is the favorite child the Joke
I'm gonna take us back up around actually because you've passed a couple of days of Cedar ready
I haven't
I got one little glimpse of Noor earlier on and I sort of said we saw a bit of it
And then we saw the play with Tuvarau and the demos anyway
So it sort of turned classic as I'm gonna comment to have you seen a lot of the new defender
Yes, but I've not seen the value and I think a lot of people like I just think it's very clunky
I think sure if you actually hit a shield it's gonna do a lot of damage to him
There's typically like say a shield pushing you by surprise which a
Shield pushing by themselves doesn't happen a lot, but it might happen your time
You part the gadget you shouldn't and then it's either he dies or he takes out
I'm every takes out and you just run like around the corner and shoot them there
So I think from that perspective. Yes, really good
But in competitive, I don't think you're gonna see that value
You know, you're gonna always be doubled up with a shield, there's gonna be someone with them
Don't forget to use the gadget, you have to, like, put away your gun the same way as the Janko would
So it does leave you in that kinda, you pull it out, somebody's gonna rush you and shoot you in the face
Um, but overall, I just, there's not room for form, there's not room for L
I just think those two operators are still the kind of premier pick if you want to deal with shields
Well, there's a way of dealing with the thermite, live
Let's be opening kill against the body drops
now
Possible impossible, but instead they're still gonna try and chew through
The scenery of gadgets you had of them and just themselves a little bit more space here all either look at quick rotation
From the side loud it's something I talked about with fury what they were missing in the two defensive rounds
They lost was just that that keen attention paid towards the approach here. It's a very mobile
defense that you've got on the board. You've obviously got the chance to raise
glooms into Chanker, the smoke, they can make sure that they need to be behind the
keepers where they want. Okay, not put Chanker anymore because Daymos got him
from underneath. At this point it's just that mobility of attention that they
can spread across the site that, well, Fury is trying to stretch out the
shield of the blitz, he's closer and closer, there's a smoke canister, a little pop, just again, a bit more safety, a bit more bees, a bit more pressure.
Once we're in his position here, it's almost a little bit of just eating through each other's utility.
Ryan worked his way through and Nade's gonna be able to send Flash-Tree back. He's still alive though.
Gonna get B down and he's gonna get...
I want a U-Till thrown at him as well.
Back into the safety of sight. 40 seconds.
He needs to try and get a move on here, try and get themselves into the bomb site and try and get that shield.
And the musicianry can go for the plug, he's gonna try and smoke off the double door for a few more impacts.
Gonna go out, he's gonna make this push. Is he gonna go for it, Boxerra?
He will find an important kill and just look at this slowly and steadily.
Furia, just trucking their way into sighting.
Yeah, 2v4 is gonna be a 1v4, only down to flash stream.
It's like a little bit timid here and oh ho ho ho lawyer it capitates them
Yeah, I think at that point right it was so well put together procedure they obviously you know
They lost the first body you're wondering if we're gonna get a time out and we are that lost the first body
They're allowed on the side of the thermite and from then well
They just kind of the furrier and said lost the first body, but their response was quick
Their response was sort of keenly put together. They put the pressure on us where they started the infusion of the
And from that point on was no matter how mobile the defense of loud was as soon as that balance started to shift
And as soon as they didn't have the resources, especially the loss of the tachanka
I think it is huge in that sort of category if you're going to that battle of attrition early and you're losing the person with
the most attrition possible
It makes things much sweeter than say if you're able to drop a smoke who yes has these longer burning gadgets and these
wider spaces, but there are only three and you've got multiple different doors multiple different avenues that they can apply pressure from and fury
I just really sort of put themselves in towards it. Fox said louder in a good position
Unfortunately, I think that you really turned the tide
Big free ramp buffer as well. And one thing as well I just learned from a smooth my work experience with Tim
How is he going to make that
decision? Um if I went with
work with him for a week, um.
What I learned is he finds
round seven so important. He
thinks it's just you know he
says the big difference between
going five two up and four
free. Um and here we're in
situation where it's five
two and straight away. That's
a gap has emerged. You'll
mind the gap is like say and
match point because then you also have to play perfect for four rounds in a row. So a lot of pressure
over towards Loud, Furia, obviously feeling good about themselves, 5-2 up, the timeout has been
good for four and you think about it that way. But we do head to the basement and surely if you
can attack Pop Floor well, you've got to be able to attack basement too. Also interesting that
Niver team is really interested in going for the vertical take, you know, certainly Loud
didn't really want to try and go above and bring you know your rounds you buck
your sledge you look in the side of fury yeah you're not seeing those operators
Iber so it is very horizontal from both these sides today
look at this you can see it hard it's trying to fight a fight but it isn't
quite that the same reward and it was a high risk in some ways you send the
snake here and they try and do some sneaky stuff but no sneaking past
that flashtree. Get that opening kill. Get round, well, two in a row both against
Herds, who's unfortunately not had the best time on this map so far, but you
still need the confidence. If that player starts to get shut down because
they're two and six, well then going two and seven, you probably know it's not
going to shut them down. This might start to shut down the round though. Now
they lose the Deimos. No snake, and Deimos have they lost. Both fangs on
on this approach they still have the ying but the width of this site is different behind
the rest of the utility it's going to make it a bit tougher especially with how close
quarters that ying is going to have to get with that gun.
They've got to have the full sprint and spray from range and they've got themselves
poked up a little bit here towards the bottom of boiler.
That's become a choke point and we've said those three smoke panisters on the
top floor and they're approaching from five different sides a bit tougher but
here. Well, his lawyer just tries to drive through with the shotgun. Can't quite win it out there, too.
And this is probably going to be three. It is flawless around the second of the map, I believe.
Not bad. One on the tackle and the defense. Just never really got going for Furia. Everything
that, you know, every 50-50 that they could have had, they lost it. You think about the
first engagement. Should have been a kill. No doubt about it. Should have been a kill
to hurt the news himself that should have been a kill just wasn't the case and then even you look at
the ying you know sprints in and loses it to somebody going for the drop shot you know it ah it's
one of those rounds i think for furia i think you just scratch it off you forget you go again you go
next um basement locked out now for next two rounds so again for loud they're now to go to
our bomb site which we haven't seen yet from them or they go back to a bomb site which they
have previously lost they're gonna go for the one we haven't seen yet they're gonna go into
our bumps. Straight away, I'm seeing differences in terms of the lineup. I'm seeing a mirror he brought
in for this bomb site. We didn't see that for the Area 1 because it didn't bring it the one
around that mirror was open and then second time I mean mirror was found away. So they're just
going to use that for not only the impact tricking on that main bridge just to make that a little
bit awkward to deal with but they're also going to go through the reverse mirror one that we
don't see all too often and you're gonna place it inside a vault looking into
where's Tetris so you're actually gonna almost free up you can office like you
kind of want them to push office you're gonna hold very very firm and degree in
which you look at the lineup you've got a smoke you've got a llama you've got
warden all great operators with shotguns you can just sit and hold that
mighty corridor very very well you're happy to give them this side of
the back you can see that steps in right now so yeah I'm liking the kind
idea here from lad it just depends if you are gonna push where they want them
to
five three they still have a bit of that distance to play with here fury obviously
the fact that they were able to win it out on towards master office you still
need from the side of loud them to connect two sites together as you said
there's gonna be the options here that they can try and build with this
approach but how quick will they be in volks is almost kind of saying he
wants to get up to the races immediately. When they've still got Diaz on the roof, you
worry that the man with the kit potentially being caught out by a bit of a loud swing
round here could spell disaster pretty quickly. I mean, he's holding on. He's not immediately
pressured. He's just sort of sitting there. He's the drone to get reading the intel inside.
They have themselves the double wall open. They're still sort of putting the attention
where it needs to go. And he's still holding on. He's the other side of opening.
not being the most subtle about it. I'm not gonna peel away there, but it's actually
fastery. It suffers the first bit of pressure. It's got a bit of spice for the day, but nothing
to entirely shake the smoke yet. Here we go. 64 is the room mom's gonna come in. The blitz
able to spot out the target for a lawyer who hits them on the backstab, and that's
the first pick. You worry though, look at the time. I mean a minute remaining, you've
still got Smoke, you've got Goyle, you've got C4, you have to try and get through. So
really you're furious, it's time is off the essence. Wonder what approach they're going
to go with for the Blitz. I was thinking maybe they're going to try and challenge
the players with Bob, but instead Bob's looking to try and enter into the bomb site, try
and get himself set up and go for the bun. They don't have a glass though, they
don't really have anything to smoke off the angles, but then again there's
a warden on the side alive. This is going to be really difficult, I just think
if you're just trying to get themselves in, it just depends if
Lyra gonna be pressured above it after trying to get Lyb off those verts.
Oh, went a little bit too deep for the fight, but then Lyra's dead and traded out in step.
If the back end of D has it, suddenly blows, blows, herds.
Brides up towards resets here, the two versus three almost shot.
Towards the play of it, Lyra!
Put some in towards the end now, Flastery.
No smoke canisters, no blood either. That is six rounds here for the side of Furia, one separates them from a full three points.
Oh, beg for a lawyer, get things off. You just buy them this time looking for a pick on that dokeby.
Again, was assisted by his teammate and was able to take advantage.
And at that point, I think, period, they obviously wanted to try and walk into the bomb site,
but one, they didn't have top floor control, so that warden was still going to be an issue.
And then also, there was a player in the bomb site, which they knew about. So, straight
away from the perspective of the Blitz, whenever he knows that the main wall isn't opened
up, you're going to have no other pressure of dealing with the guy in bomb site. He's
going to stop you getting into the site every single time.
And then what do they do? Have a lawyer doubling up, move that back stab, being able to take
the ward away from the birds, and actually just pivot into a full top floor assault in
the end. So overall, I think that for Fury, they established what they could and could
not do. And whenever you have a lawyer in the prime position to take advantage and win
those engagements as confident as what he's doing, then he has no brainer. Why you
will lower it? Play around the man, he's going to win you the round.
Fury at this point, they just need to try and arrest control of one of the two sites.
They have already done that on and that's the kind of problem here for the side of the
lab.
They've had that team talk, they've had the time out, now they're going to do a perfect
sight rotation.
They have the confidence of at least a lab that they can return to in the middle of
it, but either way, they've still got to find themselves to two sites that have not
gone their way and they've got to do it with an enemy that has gotten better and
better, including...
Change round back, get the Carly on board, get the demos off the board obviously,
which is going to limit some of the pressure that they can apply on towards the site from below which did cause some teething issues before.
How will they get themselves stacked around a chain of approach and their defense as well, right?
As I said before, they try to stay a bit mobile, bring the utility this time in the mirror,
get themselves a bit more keen awareness of what is coming in towards their sort of danger zones.
they're not going to play around on, you know, the sort of long rotating combination, they're not going to play with the Goyo as well at this time, which has been a pretty standard pick in their line-ups.
I think they've realized that it's not really slowing down Furia in the places it needs to, so instead, play against their information, get the mute on board.
You can see how Furion wants to try and play around on this site and towards our top floor
of defense.
It's a bit of a try and go, probably traditional here, just to base them on what they're
going for.
I also like the addition here of the Cali, great for dealing with not only the mirror
windows but of course the Xami inside of the table is another very common thing
and oh there we go there's a couple shotguns up in through mezz
It's gonna get the first pick in favor of fury and now loud on the back
That's also their smoke so in terms of denial all they have is to see forage remaining
So big old worries right now if you are loud and you maybe have to try and get some kills back in your favor
We'll make this happen blasted it be a free v5 now Laura
Just immense their position inside of mezz
Right now for loud it is backed up against the wall kind of siege
you just have to try and hope that Furious slump up.
Yeah, at this point, what, a minute turn on towards the clock itself
and they're just gonna hold out hope.
They've got the keepers that they can partially rebuild with.
It seems to be a bit focused on towards the upsides.
They can at least turn and pivot for a bit, but Furious has time.
Time and a two-body man advantage, so that becomes one
as they swing out on towards the breach.
The Carly is gone alive.
Takes a bit of damage, gets blind on the back with it.
Somehow survives as they slip away.
Furious resets, finally ends the terrifying run.
double stab reset! Rebuilds the preach as well as slightly off piece position turns into a piece
de resistance. As they flip the balance over towards their favor can he get another no? He's done
more than enough to try and make this round winnable this map possible here. The two versus two 30
seconds. Neither has any gadgetry in their pocket at this point but they're gonna see if they
and try and stick on towards the plant and into it. Two versus two. Once again, step, shoots the
narrow angle and it leaves Boxerra. Hepana with a shock and a nice secondary. Somehow,
use this one, but step. Turns that round towards their favour against all odds, but not impossible.
Egg blunder from Furia. I mean, a 3v5 on that top floor and they mess it up.
is not great at all. Look, I said, okay, they're probably going to go for your kind of generic
default plan. What they've done is if it mess really early on, they've used double shotguns,
that has worked to treat immediately to kill some warden, you have mess control after round
the play and land or sweating in that long site. They brought an ace and they brought
have a banner. A banner still have 14 pellets. And what do I see not opened up? Oh yeah, the
main breach. You have two extra players. Yeah? Why are we not seeing the extra man be used
to rotate and open up something as default as the exterior breach? You have a player
sat on that exterior breach with that wall opened up. He is now afraid. He has another
angle that all of a sudden loud have to watch. They have to be careful of. And
Not just out of 10, I guarantee you, that play doesn't happen on that main bridge.
So, there's little things like that for Furia.
You've done so well in the early game, you've literally set yourself up with success,
and you've just forgot, sometimes I would say basic procedure.
Use that extra man to make sure everything is open up.
Give yourself as many ways into the bombsite as possible.
So, the problem is still, obviously in the favor of loud, unfortunately,
They've got to try and get a bit of growth and
Life wanted to go for something a bit sneaky out the side of a breach, but he's not quite able
Head off it's not a million miles away from rotating down towards the site if need be and he's not gonna get immediately struck round
But they're not gonna fall for it so
Structured get some damage down into what's volts and gets the rest of them caught
Flastery slips his way out of there
Perfect first body it's taken the blackfish a bit too bold
The approach is favor and now allows on the site that they won before first time they have that man advantage
Take your time
now for loud
Sit in your hands all of onto that man advantage. You've been able to fight your way for him
Maybe at this point. Do you ever just pull away? Just go back down to the bomb site
So that fury or maybe thinking about doing that. They don't really want to challenge onto these rumors upstairs
Just spends for loud.
What is the game plan?
What are the comms saying?
Do you come back?
You know, you're wasting about half the round, mostly being able to take down a shield.
The Fury, eh?
Slowly starting to approach onto the bombsite, in through lockers, in through foxing, and
right now it's...
The Fury is trying to find some picks, but you said to sit in your hands, like,
you'd have to do anything.
You've done the hard work.
Yeah, the fact that they're able to get rid of that first sort of push through,
they just need to make sure that...
They've got that network, they play that trade game, they play that body advantage and at this point, they're still keeping eyes on it, it's a very loud approach and there goes the second, the three versus five, he has at least able to trade out on towards the step, gets rid of the MVP of the entire lobby right now.
Resets goes down suddenly things have got very dicey the pressure just kept going here demo
Furia
They made sure that those bodies counted as they kept on going and going and that leaves Gabba alone
He's been able to find his way down, but only to see his death furia
They'll claim the win the full three points of time out that really turned the tides early on
That is that is a clean victory
that's a good matchup. I think
overall for theory. It's another
map, which again, they're just
building more confidence on, like
I said, they played a lot, and
that's another win. So they're
now five wins and three losses,
so it's starting to get a little
bit better now in terms of the
win loss. And in terms of us
getting a little bit better.
Well, I think we're going to
get a little bit better. We
And in terms of us getting a little bit better. Well, we're gonna all get it so much better as we have a look at our wonderful desk
Impossible to get any better than this. I can't even imagine it but still fury at the end of it
Victorious despite louds best efforts. They're only able to collect two more rounds in that second half honestly stamp look
Impressive in the matchup. But as we all know Fox, this is not a one-person affair
It has to be everybody putting in numbers with it. And today, Furia were just on top.
Rap selection, the way they started on the first half, the way they continued on their attack.
Seems like that section is exactly what really was on order, as you explained.
Yeah, and then calling that time out, especially after losing, you know, the rounds on their
own defenses. Since then, I mean, Furia just looked unstoppable. Especially their attacks
are really like how innovative they got with the Ying. Not to mention, Ying was on a couple
different players but it was a team effort but Loira was having an exceptional attacking half so
it was very difficult to stop that bulldozer once it started going. Well you can ask about all
that in detail because our interview is ready so I'll leave that question to you.
Ah it's DS, something else come on over, come on. Hello DS thank you very much for joining us
congratulations on the victory all three points today against Loud. My question to you
personally is you've only gotten to play what two maps now in five games chalet three times a
layer twice is that part of the point uh not really uh they're good maps and it's always good to
repeat the same map because you get to show less stuff for playoffs so
if they leave it open we we pick it yeah that makes sense i mean you guys didn't ban chalet
today I thought we could have saw a fourth shell a game from you guys that being said when it comes
to playing the same type of maps innovation being able to adapt obviously you guys as a team have
a lot of strats to go through but is everything that you guys do in the server strap based on
a different day is it just adapting to how the team is playing in the tactical time out
once you see one version is not working is that what you guys swap to is a preset strat
just walk us through what that adaptation looks like, playing the same map over and over, but still
looking very fresh. Yeah, for every game we usually have a plan, and we don't change that much, it's
like a couple operators or different positions. And if that, if the plan works off the bat,
we keep it going. And if it doesn't, we just go back to our defaults or to a second plan, it's
just, we basically adapt to whatever's happening in the industry. A lot of variety. And at
at least enough to make it all happen now.
Today it's victory, it's all the points.
Tomorrow you get to play Black Dragons.
Are we seeing a full six pointer from you this weekend?
Yes, for sure.
Very much so, very much looking forward to it, DS.
Thank you very much for joining us.
Congratulations to the winner.
We hope to see you tomorrow, over the night.
Thank you, thank you.
See ya.
There it is, victorious, comfortable and calm
as always Diaz knows what's up and I just love the way that he's so focused always always locked in
for the victory today was a pretty big one opportunity to push loud down i'd give them a
single point fox and take all three for themselves here just going to be ratcheting things up up
and up and up in that scoreboard yeah i mean if they get the opportunity to play a team
on a map that they've already shown they don't have to worry about and they're able to go
to it and work on their adaptation and individual gameplay. I mean it wins across the board for Furio.
You loud definitely brought their A game. I think it's safe to say they did play very well. I really
liked how they were using the shield. I liked the blitz being able to essentially push people out.
It was very good. Stemp had an amazing game. I was really confident with them swapping sides,
but unfortunately it didn't seem like they had enough game plans or adaptations of their own.
they didn't really have a response to the ying. That was something that was tremendous. I had tremendous
success for Furia being able to blind out players and in their own way being able to isolate these
1v1s and a lot of these rounds didn't really have to come down to objective play because I was
just constantly trying to trade out that ying and it just wasn't working out in their favor so
Furia really played very well when it came to the strategy side of things especially on a
I'm epic there, which is very difficult to attack on for them to be able to piece by piece find their opening kills and
Not lose anybody in the trade still have so much utility for like late game and executes
It really was a master class and to top it off. Wow lawyer was just on another level this clip
You're seeing his 4k with the CZ of all guns. He was unstoppable
No matter how much they change when you're at this top professional level of siege
If you're a pro player, you're spending dozens of hours learning and re-learning recoil patterns
Depending on what operator what weapon you're playing what sort of position you're in and clearly will seem controlled at a distance
That is not always easy to set in when you're someone who's not super used to
Playing an operator or a certain weapon or whatever it may be. It's very easy to spot
and just because of the way you're playing around it. But here, Fiora all looking great.
I'd be surprised if we saw Laura as the MVP of our matchup though then again I mean Stemp.
I'm going to be watching Stemp very closely for tomorrow. I'm hoping that we get to see more from
him and Laud because tomorrow they'll be playing against Imperial. Very honestly it's an
opportunity to get three points also and remain in the top six conversation because as Fluke's
kind of mentioned earlier. We're crossing the halfway mark here of SAO. All the regions are crossing
the halfway mark. It's really, it's crazy how fast the stage goes. And that's why you have to be
super adaptive or otherwise, your position is just going to be taken over. Laura here at the
top demo mentioned. This is one of one of his favorite players, especially back on that Jutu
roster, understandable of course with the performance today and really every time he's in this area.
Yeah, first MVP for a lawyer this stage as well. He didn't have the best performances in the previous
games. I mean him being on that entry, secondary entry flex, very difficult role for a team like
Fury. I mean he's usually going to be the cannon fodder that's going down to set up
and make players like herds like Diaz shine. So he's been doing his job well,
But he hasn't really been able to shine himself on the satsheet.
So today, I mean, he really was doing it all,
being able to push players back, take position.
And he wasn't giving his body up without a fight.
And to do it on Ying Shotgun of all operators, too,
it was very impressive to watch Doke CZ Ying Shotgun.
It was very impressive to see Laura play.
And it's nice to see him be able to have blow up games.
It just goes to show that everybody from Furia on a given day
can pop off.
I know we were highlighting herds at the start of the day, but consistency is the name of the game for a team at this level.
So, when you don't let a few bad games get in the way of anything, it just makes your team look that much scarier.
Very much so. Well then, Foxy, great start to our day. I'll be very honest with you. I think this really sets up the pattern here.
I don't know if you can hear kind of what's going on outside here, because it seems like the cops and everybody have been called.
but they're not being called on anything except for our next game because we're trying to see
if Paolo is going to be arrested for this matchup or not depending on how Baty is feeling today
but that's for our next game. Lost vs. Flux with W7M. See you in a sec.
You are the ass shit!
You are the ass shit!
Nice! Nice!
Cameraman, kill!
You are the ass shit!
You are the ass shit!
Spawns gets one as well as Spawns gets two!
They're all falling down. You and I was one more leaving one alive.
Mibu, fighting for his life on the action, falls out the fight,
says the stakes, and Mibu, are you kidding me?
Four kills in a row, and yeah, completely falling down.
Supremacy are still alive.
That's not good, it's early, it was like, this is the, you know, when we saw, we saw-
Oh! Adam!
Look at that, baby!
Get that headshot through the Lamborghini doorway in the lobby!
That's gonna be my behind target!
Now to cut down one of the loaders on Faze's behalf.
Oh, Brantos!
You and of the double Goga and the honest vanquished
leaving Cantel and Riketti to deal with the three remaining members of Faze.
And this is a very winnable position with that R4C in the hands of the Finn.
I'll need to grab this user. It's quite a ways away.
I can ring up to the road with the shotgun blast.
Can't do around the corner.
Oh! What a clutch!
Can't go through the madman!
Silencing the crowd!
And G2 a 4-2.
They combined some 20 kills at this point.
Still sitting at a killed corner around as an average.
Spoint on the board so M80 has a good shot.
The smoke apolly will swing gunner losing the duel.
Now a double lineup on the same door.
Spoint almost handles both of them but only does a little bit of damage.
Now he's on the ground and that sidearm is so good.
Down goes two of them.
Packer with impunity trying to get the diffuser to happen realizes he doesn't have an opening.
But spoint's there for the quad kill.
It's him in resets with Packer holding on to that diffuser.
Just waiting for it and how about an ace to show the map away even when you call him for me?
Mab has phases soul memories.
They won in North America, they won in Europe and they've done it for the first time in South America.
Now, your champions for the Season 8 Finals, the most decorated team in Rainbow Six.
EU, close to getting the victory.
And it goes down!
G2 will take the win!
And for one more time, G2 will take it!
It's still going to go and blame that diffuser to the bad spot.
spot and quite honestly they don't pick up they're attacking nature on this map
this map could be a basketball for them that's a nice hole but so much still needs to be done
they can hold their way through this site and suddenly they've opened up the front door and through the
map they get Robbie just calling out big and how should we catch him he's positioned his
The head shot and we take second.
We're gonna take the trade crawl.
Straight up and all of which KBS went into the absolute plastic round.
He's picking him up as well. Leaky back.
The only player left, he's stuck here on beepers in a 1 vs 3.
For all the time that BDS had, for all the information, it's gonna come closed.
It's gonna come down to the wire.
The wire still goes in.
Leaky Faki's found one and he's going to try and split these two.
He picks the first.
Five seconds left.
It is slowly going to be...
So what does this mean that the others should have been?
Beringa will go in and he's being tagged by the maestro.
Astro will find one and Ripson.
They will set right in front of him here so there's no way to relieve them.
We're not having the smoke and after that again, you'll find your, you'll find great and everybody falls!
If Astro did not want to see you again, then Astro, my job, the season 75, reflects the plays in the recoil control.
Well, this will be nothing.
Well, there you go. Another logic bomb is the smoke. We'll chunk out shuttle.
It'll toss it a smoke grenade at its own and push it with the F12.
Wow, a great shot all the way across to marry you a long angle with a recoil that can be quite unlubly to control.
Yeah, I see Grasile inside a connector. He's got great precision, but he loses his shuttle.
And another one nearly loses his shuttle. He misses the shot for the flick behind.
There's only one more left in the shuttle, and what is going on? An incredible clutch from the shuttle.
3 fires his way through the door, gets behind a sturdy door, but still, there's 3 people
that you've got to open the first and the second. Alright, let's try the Quashkilling,
20 seconds on the board. He's going to see if he can play it, then he's going to have
to go back to the train. Well, it's going to be ace! Fault sends him to space itself.
Look behind him, the stars are around Space Station, and they bring this one around.
Oh, no.
I'm gonna be dead.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Welcome back my friends to SAL we continue on with stage 2 and it's week 3
Playday number five with Milosh and Fox on the desk. We just went into game number one
It's time to prepare prepare ourselves for loss versus flux. So w7m our second matchup for today in Fox
after after our first game with a lot of theory
I kind of am very excited for today
I'm hoping that there'll be more games like this with
individuals popping off but also
So entire teams that are really doing their best and I'm expecting a lot here from loss in this game
And they're our first team up on the block of course
They lost the phase the last playday, but they're game against black dragons. They looked so clean
I mean the loss really shows up to the game day and it's either the team that's gonna 7-0 or the team that's gonna get
7-0 and that's the downside for loss
I mean they've been doing exceptionally well with the raw source
I think there's been a little bit of inconsistencies from the roster of having players like Davos had up and downs.
Perez hasn't been finding much success, but I think the most notable conversation is Nux.
I mean, just talking about him, he's really been having a very difficult stage.
I mean, him being one of those entry players, and he is arguably the worst entry player in the league at the moment.
He has just not been able to really find his mark on getting opening kills and
Find difficulty being able to be consistent on this roster now the roster has a lot of positivity to it
It's a little bit of a slower team. They don't really have anybody that's going to be hard entering on the roster
It's a very you know go with the flow take position
Kind of roster but something that is very questionable to me is
some days they just show up and everything is working for them. The game plan, the preparation they have because they are a very intelligent team
is what's been working for them. And when they go up against an opponent that can adapt their way out of problems like FaZe, like Furia,
they seem to run out of that pre-prepped planning. Now, FW7M has not really shown us anything to rely on that they are a team that can adapt.
Yes, the verdict is still out. I would say for flux to the 7m. At least that would be a very kind way
Of putting it in the way the performance has been of course our second team in this matchup right now
Not going to hunt at all
We're expecting a lot on play day number one. They lost the black dragons one to seven cool day one
It's okay the boss back next day. They're from phase tough match. You see how well they do
They still lose four seven. Oh, okay. Okay. There's potential. They play imperial last Saturday. They win seven five close game
What's going on here still should have been better. They lose the lucky five the day right after
You don't really know what to expect our thoughts of W7M
Which blows my mind because they had a couple roster changes going into the stage and
They seem on paper quite good. Although
Is that actually translating on the server?
Like I said, it's not. Yeah. It's not. It's not translating. I'm not back to reality here. It's not
something with their first week. You know, I'll give them, I'll give them some grace. You make a
big roster change fundamentally like this, bringing in aggressive players. It's not just a roster
change. It's a play style change because the whole team has to play aggressive. Loeb and
talk to us in the one interview in their one game that they won against Imperial saying,
Yeah, we're playing a lot more aggressive now.
We didn't really have aggressive players before.
Now we have fantasy.
Now we have hates to be able to combo with lobin on that entry on the Rome.
It's going to take time.
It's going to take time adjusting and, you know, will it take two weeks, three weeks?
The stage, hopefully they are able to kick it into high gear because, you know,
on the first week, fantasy drops down a first game, but he's been doing
pretty well. The whole roster themselves are able to get their kills,
their matches are very you know I don't want to say close because they did get
smoked in their first week but they were playing against good teams but at this
point now with being very aggressive it's a double-sided coin you can either
win around flawlessly because you're super aggressive but you can also lose
bodies very quickly and now it's a matter of the trade game being able
to connect the dots if you're losing that entry are you able to get the
So all the pressure is really on lobin and fantasy because if one of them is not finding success
It's both of their problems because they have to be able to be there to back each other up
So if they're going to be diving all into this hyper aggressive play style
They have to be able to play off of each other
Very very well, and if it doesn't work then maybe you go back to the drawing board
So hopefully they've had enough time to get into it
And also something that was very questionable was them going to labs last week in very aggressive team
You wouldn't you want to go to a very aggressive map? I mean they're going to labs twice so far throughout this stage
They've lost at both times. I really want to see them hit some chalets and club houses
Cafe, you know even going back to a map like border just to be able to flex how aggressive of a team
They are and use that to their benefit
Like you said, they got to connect the dots
I like how you I see what you did there. I see what you did. Well, so in the standings
This is an incredibly important game in the sense that flux are winning today
We give them all three points and they really cannot negotiate a
Point here or there they can't go to overtime if you ask me just because loss it's kind of
Stealing their thunder in the top six
This is where in position kind of four fives where you inspected
What's the W7M to be sorry if you can hear the sirens outside? I don't know what's going on
Somebody called 9-1-1 shoddy burning on dance floor. How are the song goes, but shoddy's going to call about us here Fox
Sorry fire burning on the dance floor, sir
The only thing more questionable than that throw to the map ends is probably flex a W7M is placed out at the moment
So hopefully within the time of the the first two weeks, we'll be able to see a new and improved
Fluxor W7M. This is exactly one of the maps that I wanted them to go to. It's able to play on their strengths, play aggressive and low.
So what do we talk about them being a very slow team? So I want to see this Fluxor W7M aggressive play style really hit the ground running.
Just I hope for their sakes if we want to see life out of Fluxor W7M,
We need to see a very, very, very strong attacking half, maybe a 4-2 split at the very least
for me to feel confident that this roster has improved in the last two weeks.
Well, we'll get a check-in at the halfway mark and see how things are really going.
But, speaking of the fire burning on the dance floor, demo and fluke, half-flank.
Oh, I get it very much.
Milo, Shuri is burning in the clubhouse.
No, not doing that.
What would I do with that?
Wouldn't I bite just a little?
I don't know.
Who knows what's going on outside
his platform pipe?
It's just gonna be such a good game of Siege.
That's why.
Interesting.
That's the way you prefer that.
Listen, would you rather have me do that?
Or would you rather have me, Lush,
speak through hip-hop lyrics again?
actually you know what I'll take your picture. Thank you very much and well either way whatever
you want well what we have is a game of siege on our hands and our cards a loss versus fluxo w7m
now it's a bit of a strange split I think for both of these teams right you've obviously got
yourself here on the side of fluxo w7m what's kind of happening one win three losses they've
obviously picked up great players but those players just haven't been able to connect with the game itself.
You're looking at this surprise but not much better than them sort of even
is Lose. And Lose's record is, well, it's two, they've got a 7-0 which I think is one of the
only ones, if not the only one of the split so far and then they've lost twice, one-seven
against Fury and FaZe. Big teams, the two biggest teams to get into an engagement but
But I mean, it's just really been unable to be grasped by either of these two teams.
If you look on the side of Flux of W7M, you would expect a lot better considering the players
that they have, especially when you look at the roster changes that they made.
But if you're bringing in Hates and Fancy, who were two top, top players in NIP as we
know, you expect a lot better and just something hasn't really clicked with this
Flux of W7M team yet.
I think, do we get worried at that point? We're kinda at the halfway mark.
Is there still time for them to turn it around? I think, of course there is.
You know, two wins all of a sudden, you're right back up in the table.
So, I think this is really, really important today.
I think if Flux of W7M come away this weekend with six points,
all of a sudden they're back in the conversation.
But they have to get, obviously, this first win here and now.
So, yeah, I'll look at Flux of W7M and I just think this has to be the game for me.
game for me half to win this game. Yep. No, no, that's about it. And it's one of the stories
we can tell about loss pretty much most of the time is that split between sixth and seventh
place in SAL is pretty consistently a single point split across the the recent years. It's
pretty consistently settled on the final playday as well. You are so precious for
points in this league because it's so competitive and it can so quickly turn when it's a
single good or bad weekend and this time so we're gonna try and have the best weekend of their life.
It's the same story for those who have, you know, I would say generally more on the unfortunate side
of not quite pulling themselves around on towards success, but then, you know, you sort of
look throughout the year and you sort of look who's been able to make it. Obviously,
Los were able to get themselves towards, you know, the series and they didn't have a great
time. They got fanatic and then cagged, but they got there and then...
What the hell do you want to get done by as well?
No, it's not.
And then Salt Lake, obviously a little bit earlier on,
12th and 14th said, they've always
been in that sort of top echelon of international,
that's it.
But the first engagement inside the site
drives through, it pimps their fantasy operating world,
Palu gets one more in here.
This is a Flux of W7M.
We expect to see a little bit more.
The C4 is a little too late.
It goes over the top, he's able to get one kill for it in the second with the C4, maybe not.
The one versus one, but he thought the player was above the action.
Unfortunately, good positioning, God. A nice take.
I think he thought he C4'd the platter, didn't he? He would have expected the sledge above.
But nope.
Lucky, he just didn't have the information.
I mean, overall, I think for Flux W7M, you have to highlight Lobben there.
I think being able to kill the player in towards AK's it then allows everyone to drop that hatch safely you get the diffuser down
So yeah
I think taking dirt very very important as we know for that basement and I think a fairly simple take really from Fluxa W7M
Just simple kitchen dirt, but a utile fired in towards blue. That's all we need
They weren't really interested in in the church side of things just straight to the point very simple very basic take of
Course this is Clubhouse, but whenever it's still efficiently, that's what happens
Well, we're strong opener and as I said efficiency pays off, I must say it's one of these maps
that everybody knows even though we haven't really seen it, neither are these two teams
in this split so far, you have seen similar in some regards and you've seen a bit of
a growth from it and it has a record, I'm not going to say it's a great record,
in terms of a recent record of these two teams, 0 and 3 is Flux W7M across their
There is some performances in 1 and 3, as well as those who find themselves and, wow, I think
the worry here for the side of Fluxor to be so bad is if one 4 of 18 attack rounds that
they have played on towards this map, they very much struggle with this half of the
game so if they can get themselves 2 locked in, even if it's just 2, that's better
than the path of the course they've had before.
As you can see though, it builds on towards this, they've got themselves to play the limitation
of the hard breach and they just can't try and extend on towards the walls itself.
Of course some sort of ongoing problems here on the side of CC, they will get the walls
open as always that expectation unless things go horribly wrong, but as you're sort of
covering the back and they're still getting themselves open on towards the jacuzzi side,
So we say that I'm slow and steady.
Yep, just doing the basics right again.
Always take a clubhouse, it's probably the map where casters get the most time just to thunk, but really anything we want.
Realistically you could just do a podcast for the majority of these rounds and you'll still be able to catch all of the kills.
So yeah, I mean just as it is isn't it? It's pop out pretty basic stuff, and oh a mist drone
Well actually was a drone downstairs with some how dash has been able to pick off the solid snake
You know a great start here for what's your W7M?
Special ever you're already gonna be down a gun because they have the month and they have the shield
our great start
All the engagements about to happen underneath the site it's set off and it's one that they just drive their way through
But unfortunately too little too late and there's the swing on towards Polly
And while that leaves Loven in a two versus one dash and daffo
Always either side caught in the middle. They just have to time this pinch well
And I mean they're both in swing situation. What do you choose here? Do you try and hop and hop and
Get it did some damage through the spray, but
reveal the whole
Pull the rest of him
Traded rounds lost able to sort of balance things out in default site
but at this point, where do they go next? They keep the rotation. They go back down towards church and arsenal.
Well, it leaves the opening pick. Just set you up. You're always having to try and battle back into the round and
obviously, I think, uh, there's still, I still think, for Flux of W7M, you know, the talent that
that they have. I mean they still got players here you know could just turn the you know
the ramrodot's head. But just sometimes in clubhouse it is difficult to kind of break
through things and yeah I think overall loss, happy enough with that defense. I mean typically
for CCTV room and cash I would say it's one of the easier slacks to attack just because
you open up the breaches and then you just kind of walk in not much that the defenders
can do about it, but whenever you do have a mirror on board, you can go for the mirror
trick, just place that window right in the middle of the breach, as we know, always going
to be a nightmare to open up. And also whenever you're only limited to the
thermite and the hard breach gadgets, that's what's going to happen. So, yeah, overall,
it's pretty standard what you expect to see whenever it comes to just the bands in
general. Take care as well, if you kind of look at Flux of W7M, they're always
bringing in that snake, they're always looking for that active information, I think
they're always, I think they're probably expecting that loss is always going to be out and about
in the room and that certainly is the case now. I think for the past three rounds there's
always been one guy somewhere maybe they shouldn't be and that's what I think Fluxy W7M are
going to try and expose every single time. Now the player in question, as we can see,
it's going to be Paris all the way down inside a dirt tunnel.
I guess whilst we can cover any topic that we want to on the podcast, I'm wondering at
halftime, what song Mila's gonna speak through us next time?
The club?
Oh, we'll find him there, in the club.
I can't remember the rest of the song but he's got 20 minutes to work it out.
And they've got a bit of time to work out how to get this breach open.
Peros is trying to get a sneaky angle from down and up, but unfortunately the stars and the players didn't quite come on
The other side of the amp yet, so it's gonna have to try and peel their way back again
Pretty steady approach here from through to W7M. That is clubhouse though
You don't need to throw yourself in immediately
You kind of have to stay a bit out of eye line because of well what we saw Peros trying here
Let's will try and upset the apple carton and pull it apart before it was the destination
and just not giving him that chance. Two catches, normal scan, two ideas of where they're at and the
drones will roll through as they'll start to try and get their control on the other side but here's
the first fight, Lobin. He might be about to find an engagement, whereas he's rotated their way
around, making for the chance at a swing, the camera goes as does the play! Oh, it's a little
a bit of a windy club. Oh, that's a bad one. Like I said, they know that loss is always
going to have a rumor somewhere. And that should have been a dead Paris. No doubt about
it, that would have feared downstairs. It would have maybe gave the main stairs option
towards that nook. And yeah, okay. It thinks it just went from one kill being missed out
onto everyone from Flux to W7M, trying to get the kill back and they still have lost
Every single engagement is it gonna be the flawless so it's obviously gonna get even an exit from this round
Looks into construction
And just back to the player inside a lodging aid goes into the player and Jim wall
There's so many players that thought Jack or death will get a flawless and it just felt it let that first kill drop
Which I said should have been a kill. He just missed the shots and then just mayhem there from Fluxy W7M
Yeah, it's sort of a shame about it right as you could see what they were cooking you could see what they were trying to do you could see that they had the good idea on it they kept the gadget going as somebody else clear the camera and they sort of wanted to swing into the other position hoping they had the idea on even though the nook might be but unfortunately for them.
The Valkyrie was just able to get that connection in time. It happens, happens to everybody.
Unfortunately sometimes it happens when thousands of people are watching.
And two British people are talking a lot of nonsense over the top of it.
At this point, now, the W7M, back towards the site they found success on before
another hard breach is removed from the equation, as is the mirror, which has been a pretty,
well, it has been a consistent pick. She's shown up on every single round of the defence so far.
So now they're going to try and operate without her. Is this going to be?
Problem that was causing them that sort of lack of approach you expect where mirror is going to be on this map
You can sort of get a decent idea
How to deal with that because it's been so run into the ground but still if it helps them
Well, this will be the one where they really need to get this one locked in
Just kind of shows again for flip to W7 and the attacks is where they really struggle with clubhouse
past three times that they've played it. They've only been able four attacks out of 18 to 22% win right on the attacks and
yes, I know you may already said all but there's there's two new guys from NIP. I can quickly go and look at the NIP stats and the two players from NIP
on Clubhouse. They applied 15 attacks and only won eight. So it's also their amazing either. So overall the attacks
certainly something that needs to be addressed here from Flux of W7M
See if they can maybe try and pick up the pace and do a little bit better than what they've
done previously.
Who knows, they're going to be equal their tally here this evening if they're able to
win the next three rounds in a row.
What a day that would be.
I think there's a thing about when new players come into the roster as well, especially from
other rosters.
Obviously Doritos came into a loss and he's the best rated lost player this split
so far.
It's been an up-and-down season, they've had big wide results with the Lois tweak
things but is the 11th best race player in the league from the side of his playday in the meantime hates his sort of hitting the
middle of the board on 28 he was really good last stage as well so he's and then fantasy is
42nd fantasy has gone even further sort of down the board so those two new pickups unfortunately
haven't quite had the same impact but obviously there's sort of a difference of when you pick up two from a team
trying to get those mentalities together. The mentality here is let's try and hunt
Mozzie and Mozzie's just gonna try and slip his way out, but unfortunately that time.
Yeah, no escaping that one.
They've kind of learned from their mistake. I think the past couple of times they should
always know there's gonna be somebody that they can get. Don't forget there is still
also another player upstairs. Dude, there's a still all the way inside a construction.
Oh no, that's speaking of! I'm just dropping in! Oh, he finds two! How has he pulled that off?
Oh, have he got that D.G.L.A.T. with it being special?
But still, two massive picks and all of a sudden, it's all squared up.
Three players each side, a minute remaining.
Util Dump going in towards blue. The flash remnants of the Grimm's and the Yings are
going to go out. But still, for Fluxy W7, they have to get themselves
into the bomb site and there's a player underneath Kitcha's, but they don't have
have the extra man anymore. They can't fight a match.
Oh, Paolo, it's an important fight for him to win there, but Nux is able to trade it out.
Says through, and some of the team they know one is trying to push their way in, but they
weren't quite paying attention. Oh no, they couldn't have the cover. Now they slip their
way across, they've got one behind. Sort of third box, it's a narrow fight, but
a post-bond, and now it's two versus one. Both guns up, it's a single angle to
take it on, but he's having to talk to the secondary because, well, he just
can't get a connection on either! Ohohoh! Flicks are gonna be 7M! Alright, put the pool
that once together, that's two round wins on that site, but they weren't a million miles
away from losing either of them, I think it's fair to say, when it comes down to those
sort of engagements at the end. So, this will be the truest test here. Can they
try and rebuild on the sites that I didn't really get a sniff in on before?
really pivotal kill wasn't that they were able to take down the player
underneath the kitchen hatch that I had mentioned really once what staffer goes
there's nobody who can sit then and hold up coming in for construction you
probably would say there should have been better communication I think that
was in the winning position if he just held Barry stop the guy walking in
dirt his other team at inside a church needs to hold on to the player walking
in free blue you can then challenge on them I think this is the
communication issue that they have to talk to each other after say, hold this for me,
I'm holding the angle, I can win from here. Little things like that. And again, I just
think for loss, they're still playing good siege. I think obviously that construction
drop helped massively. It's still there for them. I still think books with W7M, yes
they've had two attacks, but it has looked a little bit laggy I think so far this
half. And look where we head to now, back in towards our CCTV room. And cash, I
the field day last time they were here. It was pretty simple for them just to sit back and
again play with that extra man that they were able to find. So let's see if loss can do the same.
Again, there's got to be some rumors that you have to try and look at and think of your Foxes
W7M and what has always been the recurring theme. There's going to be players off-site
that we can challenge on to. At this point the pressure on towards the clash obviously
Let's see if the Kali's trying to pick a play against it.
Of course, some of that destruction.
They're going to see if they can go for it.
It's hard to sort of say what the approach was last time, but it's a pretty solid extension.
We didn't really see a lot of contestant towards the fights around the site,
but oh, well, there's a way to pick apart the first, and calling out a bad at a meantime.
Somehow, Loeb has been able to get on the other side of the fight here.
fight here the class has been forced off their own site it just sort of strung on
their way in demo I said what's the build and they said immediate throw to them
like great 30 seconds we're inside the site with one the round
Oh there's a big bubble there for class with everything in hang on a minute how am I
if only one remaining that is not how it goes I mean everyone died within
what about 10 15 seconds of one another it was yeah big flurry of
kills. And obviously for Flux W7, I mean just kind of think where has that came from? I mean that's
night and day difference from the side that we've kind of seen the first four rounds.
And that's what you're looking for. That's what I expect to see out of the side team who have
very proactive gunners, players who can just move into a map and just go bang bang bang kill kill.
That's been really missing for them. You know, like we mentioned,
I don't see it hates you know you said it best your players who are really good last-stage in this stage
They're struggling to find their feet
And I just think that's the kind of TV initiatives isn't it with with the new side
I always think give a side six months
After six months you should have an idea of if it's gonna work or not
They were typically two stages then we get a better idea of a team's gonna succeed
Well, there's still that possibility demo of doubling that success of attacks on towards
this map.
You said they needed three from the point of having one already, while they're out there.
Can they get that perfect rotation on the ban or can loss just get things a bit leveled?
Get things a little bit more under their control themselves.
they've only really had all or nothing results as their rule of thumb right
throughout the performance that they've had it is a 7-5 it's loud but otherwise
it's just sort of been all or nothing here it's only the second time of what
the fifth game both teams have got at least two rounds the usual statistic
but I guess it shows the power of clubhouse and unfortunately the
position that Futsa W7M found themselves in and they've struggled towards their
attack on towards the games the approach probably gets some work done back of
hate's being able to find his first kill on the previous round all of them now
got themselves firing but I think I still try and find these sort of sneaky
quick opportunities I said they were spending time to cook in the opening
three rounds feels like they've wanted to apply a lot more pace towards the
defenders that are holding their way out in the flash. Not going to fall for that just yet,
but fantasy is sort of making them keenly aware that they're there. You should get that wall
open, no problem.
I just think that Sunita try and keep himself just out of harm's way. Don't forget there's
a Kali on board from Hates. Same as it was in the last round, so. Again, big strong
camp especially now where as we know before Kali got the buffs to her RPM. There was the
kind of situation where if you want to use the catalik effectively against the clash you
need to have a teammate with you. Now with the updates you can actually just kill a clash
with the Cypher rifle because it fires quicker and the clash can get the shield back in
front of her so there is now a lot more extra gameplay that we'll see hopefully from
Cali main now and oh
Perez is takes down fancy it's open to get the jump
I think they actually thought bathroom is clear, but just at the wrong moment Hates was able to
Spot out that man, but it just wasn't quick enough and fancy loses that engagement. So a 4v5
See a jump in here from lovin as well, but after finds another hole miss shots
What's going on here from lovin them?
I'm sorry, no way
Yeah, that was kind of an unfortunate way for that half to end there a couple of
missed shots and slipped moments and we are going to slip inside our way ever towards our wonderful desk
yeah well unlike unlike loss our casters don't whiff especially not in a situation like that when
you're in gym you have the perfect angle there and it just on the azami cannot get it done still
three rounds on the defense for loss now still considering everything and considering the last
few play days from Flexo, not too shabby. What's your take on it so far, Fox?
I don't know if I want to say it's an improvement. I was really hoping for a 4-2 split from Flexo W7M.
That last round was a perfect example on the struggles that Flexo W7M is doing. I mean,
the cohesion is not there. Flexo W7M, the reason why Clubhouse, you know, they were able to
have a little bit more success is the very basic map you're forced to play together
on your attacks on your pushes on defense. Yes, you can play together because it's so small. But
at the end of the day, a lot of decisions will be made in the crunch time, especially when the
executes happen on the basement. And I don't know if like today we said, I'm going to be able to
play together or play on the same wavelength that last round. I mean, they have the Grimby's
fantasy solo pushes the guy in the bathroom. If he waits one second, the Grimby is able
to give him all the location that he might have. And then of course, I mean, good shot
from Perez to be able to take him down. But then yes, Logan jumping in and completely
whiffing the shot. That's just unfortunate. But then the guy in connector solo pushing
again. There's so many individual solo plays. It's like the start of these setups is very
good. You have this last round of fantasy, waits one second. He's able to get grim
bead, but there's just no support from anybody. They're not using and playing off of the
So it's good that they got three rounds.
I was hoping for a 4-2 because now they're going to go to defense.
And when it gets to the pressure situations, that's where Flexo WCNM, everything is off the table.
Everyone just tries to play for themselves, get their own kills, try to have a highlight real play.
That's not what Los is doing.
Los is playing together.
They're bunkering out.
They're playing off of each other.
So it really doesn't look great for flexo to lose that round in the way that they did going on to their defense
We'll see how losses attacks fair or hard they fair on the attack would be able to dismantle flux
I really pick off operators and players before they get into sites
That's the question that I'm looking to have answered here as we get into the second half on clubhouse all tied up
all tied up but we're on the loose here demo as we get our way on towards the
second half now obviously in terms of the bands that mirrors an early removal
this time none of the play against the hard breach and steps we're gonna sort
of let it go out as far as it goes and try and find the combat in the midst of
it we'll be starting down on towards basement and at this point three three
all sort of to play for here where do you think these are going to filter towards? In terms of the
the attack percentage for loss over the past few times that they played this map very similar to
Flux of W7M not fantastic here 25 attacking rounds and only nine wins so I think for Flux of W7M
they're thinking okay this is going to be the better side not only just for us because we're
off the attacks which we're not a massive fans of but now we're on the defense where we will
do the journey of the good siege we can produce here in Popham. So I would like to lean into the
flux of W7M, just based on that side switch alone. So yeah, looks to W7M though. Look at this for
quite a big kickoff. We're going to be seeing a base of defense,
pomboed with a cashhold with a bandit trick and a scope of some rafters. That's a new one.
It's it's dedication to the craft, but it's the craft of how much attention and again it paid towards it
Maybe they've read into loss. Maybe they say loss is a full clear team loss is gonna want the control of these sites
Loss is gonna want to go in the top. They have the Monty, but the Monty's just gonna make things slower
Here they're playing the bandit. They're going for the trick with that the long range impact DMPs
And now they'll try and just get this popped open and breach from this point in with push the Monty
side and at this point you know eyes are on that they're chasing people through
the breach they're trying to find people the snakes there but it's not gone dammit
this is the top floor they don't need to be here they've done well to get through
it this quickly but at the same time it's a big bit of dedication in the
bandit would you call it effective? I think that was a pretty good start there
for Flux and W7M you look at the youth till that has already been used
a lot of flashbangs. EMP-grade, a hard breach gadget too. And there is still the element of
aromir. And Lobbin's upstairs, he's gonna go for the drop. Ifrypoho is lucky nobody was on the
big window in time. Dash just got there. Again, still this time waste from such a W7M is incredible.
And a haul of pick from Dots from the bathroom takes down Dash. Look at the operator that
he's been able to find, the Habana. And what did I mention as well? They already used
I mean what a limisation they've now got, and there's Lovren!
Put on a little billiards, he's going to try and slink his way back, but he can't quite make it past Daffo, but still, damage.
Pretty heavily done, there's a second in this position though, Stotz on the shotgun,
well he can sort of sit there, he's trying to fight his way out, and he knows the pressure's going to come round either side,
but he needs this fight to be as close as possible, the C4 surely not, doesn't quite get the Monty who drives it.
doesn't quite get the Monty who drives their way in, forces the player to be
attention! Absolutely stolen! Deffo gets a second. There's a three versus three for
the final close down, but at this point as he said, the limitation on towards the
hard breach itself, they're still playing with the Monty and the Kappa
tower, they can still try and cook here. Well they're up against his impact,
well they're up against his narrow amount of time, because they still have to
drone the site. They still don't really know what they're dropping in towards.
They're still just trying to kind of send it on the back of the box.
We're going to hold on towards the fire on one side.
The Monty is stuck in a one-bust one right now.
It's fancy, has the cover, has to pick up from Paolo and there's Daffo at the cross.
But unfortunately, we're not going to get the ace out of this, not going to give him
the opportunity, hits a bit too high and finds the final flute.
So W7M, win it out.
I think that they've just played the shot, haven't they? They wanted okay. What's the
best way for us winning the basement? Let's go and go pretty heavy in the room. Let's
take a band. Let's take the Skopos. Let's make them really work for that top floor control.
It's almost as though the loss obviously took the bait. You know, they wanted them
the way slot util which they did they then fall back back not they didn't just fall back into the
basement back into the bomb site they then decide to linger in towards that first floor as well
they put another route blocked up and then again what do us have to do they have to go in and fire
more utility and i think the thing is as well if you kind of look at loss the way that they
attacked that was they realized that we've used a lot of utility for clearing top floor
We didn't get any kills, we didn't get anything from it, they left very very quickly.
And over it comes the clearing the roamers out in towards the mid floor.
They're out of that utility and the only thing that they have left is their own bodies.
They have to try and put their lives in line to clear up those roamers.
And then you start trading players and if you start losing off players with good utility
like your Habana, you don't have to ask the hard breach, you can't have default down in towards main stairs
open up your church following the way you normally would.
You have to get a little bit desperate, that's what they have to do.
So yeah, I love the attempt there from Fluxy W7M and lost just fell into the trap.
At this, Fluxy W7M, they've been able to get themselves their first defensive round.
They can double down and really put a divide in, you assume you've got a bit of a timeout,
but instead it's the site that was pulled back and forth between these two teams.
Sort of they held in the first and rushed that onto the second and here.
Now there's nothing themselves up towards this breach of the wall.
Africa is just kind of looking for a bit of range and as necessary as maybe they
thought at first they've handed them the engagement and I said it's a wall that
will usually get taken right the CC wall will fall so why not try to
stretch out a little bit more why not I'll give you some a hint more solidity
elsewhere
go away here
across the split they're about to find their way in
to the side of him you know how closely towards the fight there's a break I decide I've got
the player pinched and there it goes, played in big risk, no reward.
But you felt him dumped into his garage as expected, really from both sides, there is
a little bit of a gap there as well that maybe Doc could find a pick from, he's gonna, oh
if oh, no he misses it because he actually gets air jabbed out of the way and even
that one, what is that, is that Pac-Man was he made there?
obstacle he's made a little safety if anyone swings from his right he's fine
for a little period of time but instead the problem is they're not coming that way
they're going over the top and he's causing problems but not enough they've
been able to cut their way across they'll have that keeper to get through
and to play on the c4 but at this point three defenders left five versus
three they just need to sort of collate bring themselves together here
and go to that final little push. That final attempt on towards the plant. Now is the breach
towards the default. It gets opened up. Obviously, two guns here either side, but it's the C4
perfect over the top. Pahlu gets two and you can see they're still trying to rotate
their way around. Maverick has been on this split the entire time. The kiss seal on
the roof. So you're going to see if they can try and get that in position. I guess
that's one way to get rid of that utility, but look at my bottom right of your screen.
three smoke canisters they can still play with at this point on towards the default they know they've got to go for this approach because they've been able to find two more they can't quite offer the pressure anywhere else to still the player on the route before he's trying to get some of the work done but at this point there those canisters start to pop there's this angle that they put the pressure on towards daffo at this point well there goes the kit demo and well at this point everything's just falling away at one versus one H versus dash for the less than 10 seconds to go he's got to push for the fight he's on his secondary
it doesn't matter against the pop of the primary. Wow, what's the W7M coming back from a three versus
five? Obviously we have to talk about what happened inside of Rafters. That was where we had
majority of the action go through. I think that's a pretty standard way that garage typically goes.
A lot of utility dumped in by the attackers. The fact that they didn't lose anyone as they
were getting themselves in towards rafters was great free v5 but as always c4 such a nightmare
the lineups you can do um onto rafters is very very easy to learn and we've seen that polo
did your stat c4 over gets two kills free v3 immediately and that just applies to the pressure
and at that point you mentioned it as well you still got smokes you have to try and fight through
so there is still another obstacle for loss and i think this is kind of the name in the game
here though, for Fluxy W7M. It is giving as many problems over to loss that they have to solve as
possible. And again, for loss, I really struggle them if I think times are naturally a big factor too.
But yeah, just overall, Fluxy W7M are planning a good game plan. As long as they can use that
utility efficiently, it will net them these rounds. So at least that's too narrow for Fluxy
W7M now they move on to their third choice it will be Jim in bedroom and loss if not now than when I mean you have
Whatever a team has been successful on their first defenses. You have to win the third you have to
Yeah
Especially after they're taking the time out as well right
They have to have this conversation after make sure they're aware of it the fact that obviously the
First game
Went the way it did that we sort of had that swing round from the side of fury that lab got points
Well, you're looking at that classic in the middle of the board of loss and loud sort of
punching each other.
But again, as you said, how precious this weekend can be, Fligs of W7M, if they take a clean
three points from this, they will pull themselves level, with the loss and loud.
If they take more than that, well, they might be able to jump even further.
That certainly puts them in the top four places after everybody just from this
weekend alone.
that's how quick the fortunes can sort of spin this early on especially as
obviously furia climb up towards 12 points phase if they're able to win
theirs you're assuming that they're pretty unlock with that again since they'll
get another three liquid rust black dragons you'll have these top three teams
so far ahead and that's a cool point punch up in the middle currently this
This is a weekend where that might be really, really happy here.
Once they've had that conversation, he said this is that important round and I mean, that's
always the split of how people are putting in.
It's almost Pali versus Dafo, and everybody else is just trying to keep up and prop
those players up right now.
Also opened up.
It's a good start already, isn't it gone?
First, opening in towards the breach.
So, of course now it's going to use the Havana Palace to get themselves in towards bathroom.
Just have to make sure that there's going to be nobody inside of gym who could possibly shoot them off.
But, you see anyone here in the windows though, for loss?
You're made being lined up and it's going to roll in until they remove some utility and skip off utility.
Now what am I just going to get a lot of value here?
It's up a fair few flashbangs and in goes the Habana pellets as expected.
Get that wall opened up now.
So, he's from Alvin. He's either going to have to fight his way out of it.
I think he is. He's going to try to stay here and hope he can get some kills because really where else can he go?
He tries to leave bathroom. There's going to be issues and Paul Fable actually slipping himself.
Remove the remaining Habana pellets. We're still in a dangerous position.
Don't forget I mean they can't really see him from where he is, but he can't really maneuver though
He's stuck where he is it's musical statue full of him
But look at these things he left at this point right all the grenades are gone
So that they've now lost all the exit kairos and he just weren't paying attention
They do get a drop on towards hate, but it's gonna have to turn into a gun game to skid that position
Which isn't easy oh no
Tried to save his friend lost his life in the process. There's gonna be some trauma
I hate about that for the remaining 20 seconds he bleeds out on a rotate
There's probably no picking up at this point. There's pressure as the end of him and now there's the swing in towards the site
Paris gets a double in the back end not much more in it
Well, they have to win the round so they did
And they just moved all their pawns into the right places didn't they and overall for loss
It was just that onslaught of just constant utility
knowing what they have the target. I think that's always the issue though I
think with that top floor bombsite for the defenders it's how cut off and
claustrophobic you can get. Whenever you have exterior windows that teams can sit
on and lock down the rotations, lock down the angles it's just very very
difficult to get out of safe positions. I mean you look inside a bathroom
where could he possibly go? What could he do? There's nothing you can do. You
just have to stand there and hope you can get a kill and that's not always
going to be a guarantee so they lost much better off an attacking round that's more like it they kept
it straight to the point simple like what they were doing assessing the threat you get in towards
bathroom the whole site just kind of crumbles from that point attackers need to locate yeah
that's w7f I've let it slip but I don't think there'll be two down trodden though uh because
as we mentioned that was their third choice bomb site they now get to go again with the two
bomb sites that they were successful on they're straight into basement I'm sure that CC and
And cash will come up after two if they're able to win this round.
So yeah, looks like it'll be 7M.
I think they're still in a really good spot.
Now, the question is so fluke, are they
going to go for the same heavy extension
of Rome as what they did for last time?
Because there's two lines of thought process
that once you go down, it's one.
Hit them with a lot more roam clear operators.
You can take in your solid snake.
You can take in the damers, take in the shields,
align perhaps a dopamine if you want to,
and just hit it for all your worth.
Or you maybe angle up a bit of a quick rush. That's another option too that you'd go for I
Think that yeah
I mean they've gone for a little bit more classic here having them you up there place and jammers can go back you sort of in my head
You've got mostly as a classic room up there
I'm used to classic room up there sco-post is a classic room up there things that can deny but they're not really
I got you play a castle runes as well. Which I mean something it does the job and
And it's the thing of like you're not trying to deny the breach on towards the wall
You're just trying to give them obstacles so they have to slowly clear through you can't just swing corners if you
Not good at drone to try to get pinches, but you have half the intel it slows things down
It seems like they've gone a bit more classic. They still have the reinforcements to turn the top floor down there
That's it another shield to deal with this time round as well
Obviously Monty is gone up to the end around the sword shield on the side and well this is a narrow fight
He's gonna try and fight his way out from a single direction. How he's found a route there
Might be something that lost kick themselves about later on
Maybe didn't expect the engagement that's early. Maybe was hunting somebody else, but that is the plate
They have to try and clear out those mute jammers. They have to try and do that classic clearer now
They think and believe they have the control here of the top two floors and they can start finally
Looking down and maybe not getting caught up. I think there's a swim on a billy end the last time
It's going to be a slow and steady approach and this is the same trap that Lost kind of
fell into the last time.
XUTSA WV7 wanted them to go for the slower approach, then they can rely on operators
like the Goyo.
Lost, no more pressure inwards catching, and this was the side of the map that they
didn't really go for mostly because they did a lot of fighting in towards Larbuck.
this time around though for what we said about that. Happy to dip up that mid-floor, so finally
for loss we might see them actually pull off more of an attack. You can even just a little
side note, fully reinforcing up the triple, remember they left it soft last time, that
actually gave the monkey away into the bomb site. Not going to be the case, but there
is the range harvest, there is the Habana. Also can utilize the bottom of the main
stairs, open that up into where's church, if needed. Just don't really know where
also want to kind of pull their eggs into the one basket. Where are they going to go?
Is it going to be a blue dump perhaps? You would expect every game for a capital.
Then where is you know the diffuser going to go down? Is it going to be church? Is it going to be
kitchen? Looks like it's going to be church because bottom main stairs while going to be
opened up. Two players in mobile hatch. Just depends if they've removed all the utility.
Have they got rid of the goyos? Have they been able to burn for enough smokes?
DC4 is going to be lined up, but oh ho ho!
Polo takes them Dodez and fantasy.
On the Perez, a few more trends come in, but it's still
Fletcher W7 Alonsov, 10 seconds ago.
This is the power of the Goyo.
The exact same thing, remember?
Half of the dapho, the last round.
He was locked out of this position.
Same issues again for us.
They've taken the bait, they've went flat clear at up top
and then they get hit in the light stage by the Goyo.
So that means that whatever happens now
at this point the best loss can hope for is pity points they can still try and get more than their
opponents and as I said before that precious divide how many times how many times have we had an
sal where the split between sixth place and hitting playoffs and seventh place and watching them
is a single point and it's a game that wow these two teams and these players have been familiar
with before unfortunately so at this point and you try and drive down and it's kind of this
So, right, Jim Bedroom is the one that they won really well on towards their attack.
Loose, so, CC is where we're going to go first and Flix of W7M to try to, or have to try to find a way to push this one over the edge.
Now, in terms of the opening kill, as a sort of look back across the game itself, it's really been something in the favor of Loose.
It hasn't obviously always gone towards their way in terms of the round win, but generally, because the game has only been four rounds
that fleets it over and he's been able to get that opening kill and get themselves in
these positions pushing the back of it. There's also been a low amount of traits on that opening
kill as well. It seems to be something that, you know, maybe if the Loaves can try and
put a bit more pressure on towards the back of it and make sure that as we make some
moving in, if we can surprise strikes the same way that we saw a bit of a snap and
grab last time fleets would be set in an embuah, or what? Doing this exact
sites before they smashed their way in, put pressure on towards the clash and then what
they found success. They found failure at the first time round. Whereas, there's the
reed in towards stock and I don't know if it's going to see what happens next.
I'll take the time again. W7M. Where's the slot floor? Again. I mentioned before
Happy to go back up here, CCTV and cash.
It's going to be the play though here, plus last time it was the full frontal assault in
the garage and they were successful but had the monkey last time they didn't get the opportunity
this time.
Actually they didn't have the monkey so I had to find the snake.
The monkey in the very first run in towards Church Arsenal so I think I lost one to
go about things, Sophia from below, always going to be a threat as what happened to
operator, remember she did receive the buff where you can quickly wrap and fire out the
mafia mines but by word almost it's gonna be a 10 soul set right from the get go and
1 HP it looks like.
Fluxen up to them, still having a bit of a fight back here but minute and a half gone.
Still yet to find their pick in this round.
Lost.
And slow and steady.
continue to approach and that's that opening killer something that's right in
their favor and again not finding the trade on the back of it and you keep them doing the punches
we should have been seven and the blinds come out the pressure on towards it Paris takes a
chunk of damage but it's not just blinds the next and all they just try to drive in
towards the side as I said before they let a lesson be snappy be punchy and be
planty so we'll get that secured in a five versus one
position. The positions are
swung on what a way to play on
the death now. They get themselves a flawless round here and they get themselves
a five six situation.
This is getting tight now.
Now we're going to go into overtime though that's the question
and it's up to us to try and make that happen.
double down here though from Luxor W7M. They're gonna go back to CCTV room and
Tash. basement still locked out for them but Jim was there if they want to repeat
it but no. feel more confident going towards that same site they just lost
on. maybe want to try and tidy things up thinking we could probably have done a
better job just like first time but then again don't forget the first time
they were even here was a free v5 that they had to come back from so I
I wouldn't say that even that time they were very dominant.
There's a big old risk, I feel though, for Fluxy Gov's end of the game going back here once more.
Loss. We're licking our lips thinking, yep.
We've just had a flawless. We can do it again, let's go.
That's like, wanna see me run to that rock?
Wanna see me do it again?
Look at five flawlesses this game done.
It's so strangely paid.
It's the weird thing about how when I, you know, the first thing I sort of said about this game was just been a strange split for these two teams.
We sort of, we say that I haven't been able to find the gear that we know that you've been driving.
Loose, there has been one map out of the four that they've played, where like the team, or the other team has got at least two rounds, it's just been sweeps.
And here it's been a nobody has really been able to just get consistently in charge of things
There's always a new backstab a new fight and we might
Be about to see the newest new backstab in the long list the backstabs to drone rolls in the players around the corner
He's caught the first these down there inside the site and what's gonna happen next there's a second
Can't quite get the third all the lambels are ringing
But they're already sort of circling around the three versus two as they drive their way across now at this point
to remaining troops at a B7M players
through a C4 they were so unsure if anyone was in there but they weren't going to face
check it instead. Again try and breathe a little bit further out at this point
recollects a C4. Holds on a little freight steady they still have a lot of
candelos a lot of flashes and the hard breach to get things open they've
still got to contend with two C4s and obviously the man who can see through it
with the right-hand glasses send a little bit of a Western shootout to
demo.
Backs up against the wall. Lob and that hates.
Have to go big. The side though.
Off-loss. Lint give you the lat. So all mine up.
Four flashbangs and four candelas.
Surely they've got to make that happen and make that work.
The only thing that you look at on the side of Fluxy W7M,
That could be the 2C force.
That could be two kills right there if not three, who knows what you could get.
We have to make them laugh.
We have to make them laugh.
The drone, I don't think the drone saw them.
The cameras right beside them.
On C4, use no kills.
Robin has to get the triple with the one C4.
Who knows?
It's done before.
Here it is. Here's the go.
I mean, this is what they can do with the extra man.
Swing around, that's the first and three versus one,
and that is probably it, because they're forced further back.
The pluses all start to come out.
He can't quite get his angle in.
He's got the glasses on, but now they're in the default
plant position.
He's trying to find his way across.
But where do you go from here?
Unfortunately, do overtime.
Lost.
They peel those two rounds back into us.
They're favored.
They are not done.
Yes.
Yeah, really good from Lost.
I love that 3B2.
you mentioned using the extra man. You can tell he's going for the drone hole, the player on top
red, he then has to move back and if you move back, you then expose yourself to the player on the
staircase and that's what happened. Imagine if the roles were swapped though, imagine if it was
ward on red stairs rather than the bandit. That would have been a different case. He actually
would have to work for that kill, but not meant to be. Looks to W7M. I said it was bold to
going for the double down on the cctv room and cash and well they've lost it twice and I think
for fluxy w7m whenever you had two opportunities to get in all three points it's going to be a
better taste now as you've dropped points so both teams will walk away with a single point
but who gets the double who gets two points this point it's time for a timeout
3CW7 and they obviously had the option to use it as things went from 6-4 to 6-5 and it's the riskiest one possible
Right because at that point you're obviously giving them team their team time to talk as well
If you think as a coach or as players that we just need to run it back like we can just push this one over the edge
Well, you've got to try because if you give them that conversation
Yeah, you break their potential hot streak. It's a hot streak of one and it becomes all these different arguments
unfortunately to them having to use it in OT instead down to the basement though
to no surprise the site that has otherwise been locked down here from them
on their defense and to also them on their attack Flix AWP 7M 100% win rate
on towards this site throughout this patch so far so this will be the big
up hill here for loose.
There we are.
See?
I think for lost, sticking on the attack is
pretty good for now, they're all a bit of a, a, a ribboner.
You know, that's two attacks in a row now.
Onto the church though, which is probably the only thing you look at and
could worry for. Just have to do something different, they just can't keep going for the same old thing again.
Oh, loss. What's it gonna be? That blitz? Fast? The angle fast? Do you know the sense?
You could block off angles to make you go fast? How many options for them? It's pretty
way I just... Do you think I'll say low but slow again? I don't know. I don't know
how I feel about this. I can't reflect some of this down there. We know the win
come roam roam roam waste a lot of time and then just win off the Goyos
it's that sort of you know problem right this is how much have they learned how
much momentum can carry loss here they had to find out they had time to talk
and they knew they would be coming here 100% they could have had the
directest conversation and this is one fires on towards the second bites of
damage but everybody survives and well he's gonna be more frustrated off the back of that probably
attackers not quite able to get one themselves they didn't really care about getting a trade
app instead all the players escaping instead they're once again into the steady clear over the top
now they still have a lot of that visual coverage got the candelars got the light wall got the
blitz itself you can just try and drop them a little bit on towards the site itself this
This problem is, Goyo canisters the time that they've been wasted, but they won't quite get anybody.
That arm's length is where you go for a blinding execute.
I know, they'll be set up from Paul Lude, just get themselves into a position.
They'll be directly onto the bottom of main stairs.
for loss in preparation here for this kitchen it looks like is and the buck is
gonna be there actually where it looks to go with the shield if he's gonna go for
church or I mean even you could use the buck to open up in towards the the ash
rush straight in towards armory that could be another option for the two
There are a few options in terms of getting themselves into the bombsite here for loss.
It just depends on what CW said and we're going to switch on for it.
There is a warden, of course, fantasy and a great position to use the gadget inside of Arsenal.
Maybe we can try and hold it and Snedver's going to go in through the ash rushes where they're going to go
and maybe try and get the plant down. That's exactly what they're going to do.
But the smoke, the teammate's smoke, could it maybe try and pair the vision
or be aware that Kodes is in this position?
If it's over with that DMR 1, the whole 2 for doing it free, yes it is!
A flawless for loss and overall it's a great attack using that soft walls away into the
bombsite, avoiding the smokes, avoiding the C4s and bang, the render fuser goes down.
An easy one and a whole Fluxy W7M.
They've dropped it, they have lost the lead.
I said at the start of the round that was their bastion.
That was their site, that was their home.
And that was where things got stolen away
after the momentum, after the team talk.
Well, let's just have to talk about that single site
and go from there and, well, now where did we go?
Well, we go the other way around.
We go to the other teams 100% site loss.
On both their defenses, on towards gym bedroom,
and then won the attack on it as well.
It's uphill after uphill in these final throws,
But we've just seen one team's 100% record this map site go.
There's always the possibility we see both of them go that way and we go all 15 rounds.
Is this just a little bit of Tim that's still hanging over the lobby for my new cast
with the money this week?
Did you get any Max OTs with him?
Uh, we did.
Yeah, I think we won.
The games were really long and Monday and Tuesday.
I remember when we were all we say like him and Des get long games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, it's kids. It's just him. It's just
We put that in the theory of I mean you get to cash with his half
Next week is a Monday produce something
Dairy yeah Derrence
Kind of give a rapid day and there you go. We know it's just there the cause
the idea that yeah, we usually I do
When we do sort of SI's and mages that we're at, I'll count how many rounds every casting
pair goes through. Especially in group stages. Group 3 for an SI. We will cast 300 rounds over
the course of about a week. We get a half. We'll see if the tin paradox is real.
The opening kill goes towards their favour.
First time in a while, second time for Lobin, and fifth time for Fluxo W7M across this game.
And there is one thing about when they've got the opening kill, they have won the round.
It's just been rad for them to get it.
See now?
They can play with this extra man.
Don't forget Jim and Bedford.
It is the claustrophobic site on this map.
As soon as players start in those windows and playing on the hatch,
all of a sudden you can't really sit anywhere that's going to be safe.
Now you've run for the motions.
Not that you're cruising well.
That's where they're going to go.
Then gone over all the loss.
I mean all you have is really the C4 and you can maybe try and go down stairs as the Valkyrie
use the cameras that you placed upstairs and try and win that way but and again you're
taking a player off site which you can't really say that lost in a 4 to have a player off
the bottom site.
I mean free people trying to hold this down is really difficult for them so see how
this goes?
until it starts to be dumped in.
You've got the Grimm and the Capitao.
We know that's a lot of value
that you can get with those operators.
And, well, Perez, it's not necessarily the C4,
but it's still a kill without a 3B3.
All of a sudden, now there's a bit of hope here for loss.
Just depends on Flux W7.
Him can actually work off the utility
and a player instead of bathroom.
You get into bathroom,
it's almost the heart of the bombset.
You can just lock all these angles down
and here comes the flood.
Final player can be spotted out.
Perez, into exactly where he is,
They've got to come off. Back to flying is where he's going to go and that's an easy one for eight.
Ho-ho! All fifteen! Here we go!
I didn't expect the end of this game to just be attack win after attack win after attack win and yet...
Here we have found the balance shifts right up to the end.
I guess the rounds that loss was saving from their previous quick games
They're all being cashed in and spent today. They pulled themselves back from the brink.
Fluxo W7M have made sure they don't suffer the wrong side of it, but now...
No, no, no, no, no! The best of one. In the best of one. One round left.
Every site is an option and a possibility.
The only thing set is our hands from the game.
the defend and that falls to Fluxo W7M and that falls down towards our basement and that
falls to slight changes in terms of what they're bringing for the defense. No mute, no smoke.
The bandit is back on the board. We're a long time since we've seen that roaming strategy.
And then obviously the thorn is a change here demo. And the castle too. First time we've had
castle on their defensive half. Is this going to be the difference maker or is it just going
to be attack, attack, attack? Loss? Fingert God, they feel actually pretty confident going
into the basement because they were successful on it. Yes, it was a struggle for them.
No doubt about it. When they went here the first couple of times, obviously they
learned. You know, they kept it very simple. They went to that kitchen attack.
In the point of the hands of Gluxy W7M, they avoided all of the undeniable.
Let's see if Loser are going to try and do something similar. I mean, you look at the lineup, it is
pretty much similar ideas. A few changes here in terms of utility.
Instead of the Ying, you have the Capitan instead of the Sense.
A recruit makes an appearance, but still, you've got that main core of having that Glux, having that Buck as well.
Get some in upstairs very very quickly, see they're gonna try and net any of these first
picks using that shield everyone.
Flux of W7M has left that top floor, two players still lingering in and around the first floor
but majority is back on site.
Sloan steady again here for loss and I mean the pace is a little bit better I think
is this a case for Flux of W7M?
They're kind of a little bit scared here they don't want to give away the opening
pick them because of that even way pretty much the full map that gave me all that ground
that they wanted to hold on to.
You still got a minute 40 remaining?
Eyes on towards base minutes south there.
Getting themselves clear as you said they've got loads of time left and it's gonna be
7am and they've peeled their way back towards the site itself and they're gonna see
if they can try and hold on you've still got the blitz as a potential no more of the
and that was no more of the sense gadget but the cap of town is trying to put some control a bit more hard
breach to get a bit more width as well. Of course now is you're not gonna do a lot with that pocket
castle. I'm going to buy some time a C4 with no bike. It flies on by, they've got two months they can try and work.
It's a first bit of real damage, it's done on the side of Dodez, another open kill for
the team.
It hasn't always been the signifier of success, unlike their opponents.
So I'm certainly not sure if they can try and push on towards the back pressure, well
sort of put together the plant idea, they've got a narrow window, it only takes a single
kill to peel this plant away and it brushes them towards Perez, they're holding on
a little bit further away from the site itself, the hard wall has to cross and slip their way through
but it's dashed, the vines dropped over the top, the pressure from Motho swings round,
they've got a player caught out here in the corner, the Blitz is reading everything and
then moving on, great take from Pa Luba, there's Lobin for two and Daphne for one,
seven seconds left, the two versus one, the kid is called on the floor itself,
they're looking for the kill, they're hunting, they're finding Daphne with a split second left.
I mean, they weren't looking
good. Uh, and that kind of
second half, but then all of
a sudden just an onslaught of
attacks coming up the lost
camp. And yeah, they're able
to take two points from this
and that kind of second half, but then all of a sudden just an onslaught of attacks coming
up the lost camp and yeah, they're able to take two points from this match up.
Boxing W7M, they'll be taking themselves that they've lost this game.
I mean truly falling apart at the final stage in the final stage of this game.
Oh, we throw it towards our wonderful desk.
Caught it on the other side.
Thank you very much, my friends.
Yes, it is a victory for Lowe.
Say, tight, tight game.
Had to go to Max OT to close it out.
Still two points, one point going the way of Flux with W7M.
It'll be something, but I think they're gonna be pretty
unhappy with the fact that they lost the game to Lowe.
As we mentioned before, the start of the game,
it's important to get everything out of this one,
because Lowe's are the ones that are pushing you down.
Though, Fox, before we get deeper into it,
we have our interview ready.
So let's have a chat with Daffel.
Welcome.
Hello, Daffod.
Thank you very much for joining us.
Congratulations on this massive, massive win.
Just now.
Yes, yes.
Very good.
Congratulations on this massive win.
Thank you very much for joining us, Daffod.
A big matchup against FluxoW7M.
Please talk to me about the preparation for this game
because it feels like with FluxoW7M,
you don't really know where to place them
and how to prepare for them.
How was that for you?
Yes, the preparation I think was really, really good.
We know that we've got off of hate and fantasy.
The team was really aggressive right now.
And we can't expect anything from them.
And we just prepared really well for this weekend
for the clubhouse.
And that's it.
All right, yeah.
You guys were very prepared.
I mean, it went all the way to Max OTV.
You were able to cross the line.
Something I wanted to ask you is obviously, you know, you guys lost day one of the first playday,
win day two, you win the first of last week, you win the first matchup and then lose the phase.
Obviously, hard games that you're losing to, but what is the main goal for you guys to be more consistent throughout the rest of the stage?
What are you guys trying to do to be consistent?
One thing that we talked about is that we lost to, in my opinion, the two best teams in the world ran out, Fira and FaZe.
They were a really good team.
So we kind of say that to take the pressure out of our shoulders and just think about the next match.
But we are really content for this weekend and we think we can break the cycle of when they lose and are they lost.
I
Speaking of which tomorrow you're up against lucky five. How do you plan to break that because so far?
I mean they've had ups and downs, but not unlike yourself or even fucks it up 7m on the other side
How do you plan around that game? Yeah, I think they were they are
new team so
There's nothing we can expect it right away from them
But we're gonna just prepare for our player match per game and we show up and play a good siege
each weekend and came with the victory.
Sometimes you also have to go back
to old school strategies.
I saw that buck trying to open up
and go through Armory for the plant.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It's good to pull up those old strats every now and then.
Daphneau, thank you very much.
Congratulations on the win today.
Two points against Fluxo,
Debbie Sanham, for you and us.
Have a good night.
Hope to see you.
Thank you guys.
And there it is, victory for loss.
They're happy with it.
Daphneau is very happy with it.
focusing on their own game to take that W.
It was a close one though.
Nail biter until max overtime to decide it flocks
and it went to the second half where loss fought back tooth
and nail to push fluxo down and go to OT and even then.
I think the best characteristics to take away
from Los there is just their resilience,
being able to bring it all the way to the final map
constantly focus on the game plan,
constantly focus on being able to play together.
And that was really what got them over that end.
I mean, some rounds, you know,
Flux of W7 had amazing aggressive plays
or over-aggressive individual plays
and it was able to carry them out through rounds.
But at the end of the day,
Loos being consistent is going to get the win in the end.
Of course, it was very close.
It went down to the wire, but that being said,
I mean, I think the biggest win here
is the mental game, the mental aspect.
It comes down to when you're trying to build a team
that is going to compete with the other top four teams in the region, the team that goes
to these events, be more consistent. A lot of it comes down to that mental game, being
able to adapt on the fly, being able to stay level headed and just focus on the game plan,
and you can only do that and develop that skill with game day reps and just being
a team that really is all focused on wanting to win and getting over that finish line.
I think that's exactly what Lois accomplished here today. I think this is a big step
for them as a team and individual, but just for the momentum as well.
And I'm very confident in saying that, yeah, with Gaffo also saying that
they're very prepared this week.
I think it's safe to say that they're aiming for a good six points.
That's really their focus, their aim for this weekend to get all six points.
Make sure you're still in the top six.
If anything, try to crack into the top four, which is a possibility right now.
they're going to overtake Black Dragons, which we're waiting for them to play their match-up
play today. So there's still an opportunity to hold on to that spot. If anything, being
in the top six is very good. You're taking those spots here and there, and we know that
loss can be that surprising team. The Dark Horse that at the end of the day, once they
make it to playoffs, if they do, they might have a shot to actually qualify for the
event. We've seen it very recently. So to play that sort of game where they're
kind of upsetting in some way and making it to Japan. Let's remind everybody this is all to go to
playoffs to qualify to the Osaka Major. This could definitely happen but it all has to start
in these play days. In play day five they're looking pretty darn sweet. Two points for loss at
the top daffo. I mean they played well. He spoke well. It seems like the team is on the up and
up but it's that consistency trying to find the consistency in your games if
anything there's something I know you talked about also at nauseam not just
daffol but they have two tough games in their opening weekend once you said that
they throw it behind you you just move on and you try to work it out and I
think in that in that kind of opening weekend being able to get three points
out of it it's still pretty good even if you lose the phase 1-7 yeah
I mean, we've played the two best teams in the world right now, right? It's going to be difficult games and you're not going to become the best team overnight.
So it takes time to get there. I think that's a prime example of flex that I've been shown them. It's going to take time to get there.
I mean, they also were so close to being able to get some points under the belt for them. That being said, so many individual plays.
I mean, I once I saw that last round on their attack where each individual player was going one by one by one
I could already tell exactly how their defenses were going to be and that just seemed like the end the downfall for W
Flexi W7 and so hopefully it can realize, you know, we can play aggressive without playing
Individual siege like you're a team at the end of the day
just because you're going fast doesn't mean that you have to do it alone and
that's their downfall but someone who didn't do it alone was Daphne as the MVP.
He was there but so was the entire team. It's the way to get it across the line in
such a difficult game. Flux was something to learn from but we'll see
tomorrow they'll play INTZ. Maybe an opportunity for them to try to bring it
back but that's for tomorrow. You can't really tell what the next day
will bring regardless. I can tell you what our next game is going to be in the next few
minutes. That's Lucky 5 against Imperial. We'll take a quick break and get back right
into this one.
I'll see you in a minute.
I'm gonna have to make a sound.
What?
Wait, it's just the line, right?
Are you talking about silencing?
Silencing the head.
It's not imitating me at all.
It's not this kind of shit.
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It's...
It's...
It's...
It's...
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It's...
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It's...
Hahahahahahahaha
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Ttttttttttt
Piu piu piu
Piu piu piu piu
Hey Lars, the beginning is not good man
Wow, good
Pss pss pss
I'm one of the most annoying loads
Wow, I'm going to die
I don't even know how to do this
I'm the entry point, it's hard guys
I think it's the shooting, isn't it?
I think it's...
I don't think it's the same as in Maestro
I think it's supposed to be...
The first key is the attack of the thing
Here we go...
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Yeah, just put it with the cat behind you
And shit, but...
Forward
Before he walks out through this door he should be pulling out the heartbeat sensor, but he's not going to instead
It will be a nice touch by cameraman coming on strong into the kitchen doorway
Things that are going to face before to go apart against the first
It's the second on the video!
No way!
It's the meiko!
It's now a one or two, the fuse that is through there in position blue is going to get her head taken off as well!
That's the one kill!
That counter is going down in my case.
No way!
I'm going to hit the clutch!
That's a white versus white clutch!
This is where round one is lost.
It isn't some peeks coming out from the stairs to Niko does find one.
Luna's gonna repel straight into a death there, died on the stairs, knocked Rona off,
being aware of nice frag coming out.
Niko and Gash is just on point with these nades.
Niko round this corner and give them the opening they're looking for.
Could this be the money?
This could be huge right now.
The nade comes out the top and drops Stiggs as well.
Two from two.
This could be it.
This could be massive to Saster.
Massive, for Seriously.
Yes, I'm a big fan.
Oh, the frag is Nico!
What a nutty run from him.
He gets two grenade kills and a nice peek and closes it out.
One man at a time.
Here comes Council on the flank.
Shut down his bathroom by souls.
4B1, debate.
Managers to get one, but it's likely to be his last nor.
Managers to find a second.
It's 1B2 now.
He's got about 15 HP, but there is a chance.
the diffusers down as well that's the big one for him stepping across here they
held the angle of deep back Biggie T could go huge here the 1v1
cameraman stepping out far into the distance to look for a plan and deep
tech should know about it he's holding tight knows that this plan is going down
but can he get there in time cameraman's gonna complete Biggie T
The huge 14, Gifford, rise from the ashes to clean the hammer.
There's a six in positional 2021.
Let's do whatever you can there, try to get the diffuser down
then we'll be unsuccessful as virtue goes absolutely wild
with the shot from, and that is a huge kill for him.
That's going to be Ryan going towards the end.
He doesn't mind either of these two.
He's going to win!
We're going to go!
Ready to go, though.
Yeti will find Foxy, who is towards the site.
Yeti will pick up the second kill on the Retro.
That's the Blackbeard, who had been the hero of the previous round.
I'm pretty sure that's why the MP5 hit.
Blackseid will now get to an engagement.
Yeti is just an absolute monster.
As God is now tries to get some shots in Yeti with four kills.
God is who just has a tiny bit of health.
And Yeti will get the eighth, five up, five down.
And what a round from you, my mind.
Now there's the best team in the world,
never having that distinction until today.
Come to our world champions, the second invitation.
getting softened up there goes Gritzer as well and all of a sudden it's Kansan but a beautiful
double play trying to ride out the final four seconds he has no idea where that diffuser
is SMG up they're watching in this position as he goes to swing out there's both Kodin
and Katzang watching from this angle Kansan are you a miracle worker you only need one
What? And now it is! What is the best place that we've seen at this tournament?
At the Couple de France, we just practiced a lot, which...
Sorry for that.
Hey, dad!
It's fun as it is, guys. Hello!
Welcome back my friends to SAEL. Two games are done and a third one is underway.
Yes, I can feel it in the wind. We're following up with it.
Fox, are they so far? It's kind of been taking a sense, especially this last game.
We went into Max OT. We'll see if your teams are going to pick up the pace from this moment on.
And there's, I guess, a few teams to talk about in here, specifically Lucky 5.
key five and before we dig into it I want to play a little video about two players that have had
quite a bit of history on the team that are finally back together. Let's psycho and Pino check it out.
Our original league is many things. A real celebrity agency, a breeding ground for
new stars and a den of controversial and funny players. Plus it's also the competition that's
produced the most long-lasting duos in siege history.
And one of those duos just renewed their intimacy contract.
We are talking about Psyco and Pino, who team it up again after more than a year and a half apart.
So boys, happy about the reunion.
I think it's the best team in the group, in a leadership in the game,
for Bas to be working with us, and I think it's going to be a great team.
I think he's going to be great.
national competition on our official calendar.
In total, Pino has played in eight majors, while Psyco has been in seven, which more than
qualify this duel, and the rest of the team, of course, as one of the main names fighting
for a spot at the Japan Major.
Speaking of which, how are the team expectations looking?
Remember, LEC5 only managed their first Sol win last weekend.
The captain of the 9 players is going to be calmer and we are very excited to play this game and get to the mid and to the end of the game.
Well, but before we keep going, clear something up for me, Pino.
Are you feeling the weight of the age now that your old captain is back in formation with you?
I saw a post there that we were, I don't know if it's the second or the first one, but it was more time together.
So I played with him for 4 to 5 years, so it was a lot of time.
It was very strange to see him leaving the team and playing with him again is very good.
He's a very good guy, we had a great time.
Well, actually, that post-Pino Sal isn't quite right.
According to our team of mathematicians and researchers, the Psyco and Pino do is only the fourth longest lasting in Brazilian siege history.
And that is counting their current run together on Lucky 5.
Maybe to some people's surprise, our oldest duo is Psyco and Kamikaze, who stayed together for about 6 years or exactly 2458 days.
Well, at least Cyber and Souls and Psyco and Pino are still in the race to see who can surpass this beautiful Campesina's duo in total days playing for the same team.
I'm out for now, thanks squad, see you next time.
Hey, tell me about Season Nostalgia and I'll be there.
That's really all you need to put on the table.
Just get to see Cycle Kamikaze actually duo that I've been watching for for years, years,
years, years, way back in the day seems to be where they were the longest running duo
of the entire region.
Though, Cycle Pino is again our focus on Lucky Five.
They're back in together.
Two players that know another.
quite well and it's like so far that's having a good day after returning from
Southeast Asia on a stint with Elevate Fox. I mean he's been having a great stage
so far and it's something that you don't see from older players especially ones
that get dropped from T1 they have to go to a different region they come back
playing T2 and there was a lot of hesitation and questions around Psycho
especially in this stage of is he going to be able to compete that was
the main topic kind of lucky five be able to compete gunplay wise because
They have a lot of older players, but psycho is just within or just without the top 10 rating
I mean he's been playing exceptionally exceptionally well as the entry for the team and if they keep playing like this
I mean yes, it only got their first one in the fourth playday last one last week
But that being said if they stay on track, I mean they could be a team that could be an upset to make it into the top
and I think they finally understood their fundamentals,
especially going into last week with the maps specifically of what they wanted to hit.
I think they did a really good job of where they wanted to go.
It was a close game against FaZe, but again, it's FaZe,
so eventually they're going to run away with it.
But to be able to stomp down on Flux and W7M, I believe was a real motivation booster.
And all of their games fairly close throughout the stage.
the stage. Easily could have went the other way in their first week of the loss of both
games. So that being said, I think they're there. I think they're on the cusp of being
able to start running away with points here. And getting a big win against Imperial is a
necessity.
Yeah, it is definitely the opportunity to collect those three points and recover what
has been lost earlier on in this stage. Reminder, Lucky 5 War Ninjas and Pajamas
is only a bit of go before NIP pulled out from the CG ecosystem, but what team is definitely
in there? It's Imperial, but sometimes you struggle to see them on that scoreboard in
the region just because you have to look a bit further down. Currently, the only team
with zero points here in SAF.
Yeah, not looking good for Imperial. That being said, it's no better day than today
to start getting points under your belt. That being said, I will say their hardest matchup
last week was against Furia. Arguably that was the game that they looked the best.
So there's a lot of good things to come from this roster. I mean,
legacy has been one of those stars and I'm hoping to see continued be consistent.
I mean, he's been playing exceptionally well. And a map like Villa,
I think is a good playing ground again. Lucky five, the maps that they went to last week,
I believe the night Haven labs slower maps defensive maps. They have a very passive team at the end of the day
They have older players
So it takes a little bit of time to get the wrist working properly
So that being said a slower map to get in that time to settle into things very very good
And it also is a you know, I'd say it's a legacy maps at the end of the day
I must say have that experience
It's time to channel that onk energy through villa a real onk map in its own right
We're getting back into it. Vila means happy, Milosh. That's all you need to know, and we'll
see if our casters can keep up the joy without this matchup between Lucky 5 and their opponents
of Imperial. Enjoy.
Oh, thank you very much, Milosh. I am excited. Vila, sometimes pronounced via by people
who want to try to appear smart. We're back there, baby. It's been played once
in SAO. It's on the opening day and it was a 7-3 win through phase against Imperial. Oh
no, so lessons learned here demo. What are you thinking?
I love the idea. I think it's fantastic. But the math, I don't think it's changed that
much from when it was... the only thing is really the base for which we will pop
down I'm sure whenever we get to said bombsite but typically the thought floor is relatively
on change. Same old issues, we have a lot of destruction from below, a whole map. I think
there's maybe 10% you cannot destroy and that's the bit that you just seen the warden standing
on. I'll help you concrete. Everything else is just, yeah, hopefully the best that you're
going to get blown up from below by either C4s or of course there's a Fiat and the demos
which we know are very, very strong in this map too and demos has been banned away. Also Mira
is another one that's very very good when we look towards the top floor you can
kind of lock down areas like your study if you need to as well again Imperial I
think I've realized that and have removed set operator 2 so I think operator
bands are very very strong from what we expect to see in this map and yeah
we'll see how Lucky Five won't just set out on their defense now of course
whenever we kind of kick things off we look towards our aviator and gains
and this is typically a bombsite where it's kind of picking your poison
Do you want to try and push in free study or do you want to try and push in free bedroom either way?
I always feel so study is a room that you need to target either as your main push the main way into the bomb site or
As that backstop because don't forget if you want to try and push in through zombie door through night
A statue is going to be an issue for that. No or study's gonna be an issue for that
No matter what you know, so I definitely think you need to take that study control if you're attacking this map
Well, we'll see what method they're trying to go through, obviously the mirror, pretty
much a standard ban on towards this map, mainly for the control that you can get across outside
study, right?
This is the site where you can lean out from aviator and get across from the bar window
as well if you want, and it just gives you a lot more pressure you can apply on
towards study.
Instead, you've got to swing on, you've got to put the pressure towards it.
Now they've got that swing chance, they've got the eyes into the gun cabinet, they
can see quite quick.
towards the back of the trophy entrance there hopped in
let's see if I can make it the pressure on towards
from Zebra eyes on 90 but
just turn the corner Nask
in finished the name there wrong Nask
for a second Nask in takes a shoulder of damage
there's a bit of pressure coming from underneath him but the first fight is actually a legacies
going out now and sort of eyes down
The long corridor and see who might be at the end towards the brown stairs on the back end
They've got themselves the vault opened up
They've got that sort of cut and that makes the rotate between the sites is a lot trickier
Especially when there's the opener from the study wall itself you can obviously see the floor is still just holding out trying to catch them
There's one there's two
We can't go I get three but they're gonna swim out the back anyway legacy fine psycho and at this point
They're just closing down on towards Pino
What a clean approach that was I'm imperial
Yeah, they're every very good opener utilizing opening that vault wall. You get that open very, very easy to really stop any movement in that bomb site. You can then safely try and go for that. Of course, I think whenever you look at that bomb site, it has got a blind spot plant just tucked in beside the vault door.
And typically teams then they'll stack up inside a vault and then they'll quickly try and jiggle peaking kill the planter.
But if you open up vault, they can't do that anymore.
So yeah, really good for Imperial to understand what they want to do.
I also spotted Mitrix.
He was over in study, just holding that room, sure he didn't get a kill, sure he just,
he just sat there and stopped anyone from getting inside the study.
So really good approach here from Imperial.
That's what you want to say, job done, easy enough.
Now, we head into the basement with the mentioned this is really the only part
of the map which has changed.
we have is the kind of garage entrance it's no longer just a door it is now two soft walls with
a door I suppose so you have a door and a soft wall which leads outside then you also have an inner
wall which then goes into the bomb site so there are things to kind of take note of in terms of
actual hard breaching which you never really had because of good basement wasn't a sight back in the
day a lot of teams they'll typically try and open up a lot of long angles they'll try and stack
a lot of the time as well you just have to be careful because again there is a
blind spot plant so there again it's more more of the same here from Villa
few things you have to keep note off again with time I'm sure everyone will
get the grips with it but if you are a new viewer just just roll with it you'll
be fine you'll be grand so fine you're in such safe hands
mate I made it no no no no if you come on if you come on the tan I I'm jumping
get out of there please bought the helicopter I mean one day they should replace all of
the Tanoys and the radios with different casters I want to hear Parker singing through
one of the radios at like top bank just like huh I'm Parker oh that's my impression of
in tarot it's pretty good I think everybody listening at home believed me I feel violent
you're just on that for ill with it.
I'm doing that again.
It's a very funny, I was a good guy from Jesse the other day.
I got over what Jesse said at Buckethead's word.
I hate you.
That era for relief.
That got them down towards the basement.
They've got their way out of there.
Safety.
From on mattering.
Little bit of a room game.
Don't forget there are two hatches that you can utilize.
You've got that main one right into the middle of red, which you can see is going to be opened up now.
I do a lot of how just close both hatches are. I don't think we've ever had any of that hatches that close together.
Um, she will. It's going to be pretty effective here trying to get down that stairs, but there's a smoke.
We can just delay that push for the meantime. All the hatches are going to get opened up,
and you can see for Imperial, instead of going direct in through Garage,
instead of going to try and take above, utilize the hatches.
The only thing you don't have in this bomb site is there's no verts.
There is no way of going above and opening up above the defenders
and that's what I think makes this bomb site very tricky to crack.
Because as we know a lot of teams when you deal with a basement,
you'd actually think, oh, we're going to go and do some vertical work.
I think it's very similar to bank basement because it's also another bomb site which is no vertical work.
I think these are the only two which have that.
So you have to try and push in three doors.
You have to try and burn out a lot of utility.
And oh ho, wizard.
He goes down.
Imperial making really good headway here at Roman.
Even without that shield, still able to find a way in.
Matrix.
Trying to go a little bit deep here.
Shotgun close to an S-kin.
And I go for the swing.
Oh, but the cover is going to be there.
Imperial slowly but surely finding the picks.
There's Matrix.
And no one can say how is he.
No one's behind the clutch.
finish my point first is as soon as they lost that black beard suddenly if you're trying
to find your way down pantry stairs or the back stairs it's just it's not gonna say it
becomes impossible but it's a lot tougher you have to be given an opportunity or you have
to win what is a bit of a hot swing round the corner around a stair set which can be
built on Intel could be built on bit of sport utility especially when you're up against
a clash you're up against the mobile response to hot swinging you're up against that
And credit to them, I said, have lessons been learned since the last time they're on Villa and seemingly so.
A big worry for Lucky Five.
Overall, for Imperial, I think they're understanding them that well.
I think they realize that whatever you're dealing with, that bombsite in particular,
whenever you look at the basement, yes, you have no way of opening up verholes. I suppose
the next best thing is opening up hatches, and I suppose that kind of gives you the,
you know, from top floor looking down, it's a similar idea. And they just try and just
strong on their way in through the staircases, working together, having a good trade game.
Overall, I think it's a good start. Lucky five.
3 kills I don't think helps the Vibeaver. Probably have to try and get a bit more than
that. There's still Imperial players who have not died yet.
Now look at this. They've had their time out, lucky five. They've had this chance to
talk and you know we can talk about the expectations of teams, right? You can talk
about where you expect teams to be able to get to and I guess with what we've seen from
Lucky Fire obviously ex-NIP before, they've had roster changes, they've brought in players
that have been able to make work happen in other regions and other places and historical
teams but they really should be sort of looking at the growth and last time they
were third overall here they sort of faded a little bit but it's still early doors
we still talk about how if it's a 6-point weekend it can be huge however
Imperial has always been unfortunately that sort of 10-place team previous split
they're only able to pull one win if you overtime losses here it's unfortunately
not the same sort of story they haven't been able to get themselves towards OT
yet the most rounds they pulled was five against Fluxo W7M which was as
as close as you can get, but otherwise...
3 against FaZe.
Tough game through against Liquid.
Tough game through against Furia.
Oh, do they just have all of their tough games front-loaded?
There's this element.
Of the Imperial roster that I would say we haven't really...
truly had tested or put towards it.
Lucky 5, a team that is...
struggling in a different sort of side of it.
Wow, they're struggling even more, Mitrix.
Gets Busetto, gets that opening kill.
Imperial, able to move in and make very quick work, that first engagement.
You're not too bad here as well as, especially the operator who's on me, the ace that no
can pick isn't at common.
Imperial!
My words!
Lucky five being put to the sword!
Wizard!
A minute remaining!
That's five players to find!
like them from that no we're near that one and well imperial free oh and it's
gonna take walk I'm sort of as I've made the point at the start of that I'm
both surprised and not surprised because it said Imperial have had the hardest
route possible up towards this point phase liquid flukes at every 7m and
and furia
You you're fighting the top dogs and fine flicks that I've been struggling with the other three haven't
And that's the sort of element of they've almost been like
Hyperbolic chambered right there. They've been able to get themselves towards this and if they can come out of this with a bit
Of a swing and a bit of a win. Well, they've only sort of got the up and up ahead of them this point lucky fives
That's they're hoping for a lucky three the back end
Of villa now I will say historically
play, Villa was a defender sided map, but we had it back in comp a long long time ago.
I don't know how the stats are looking at the minute, don't know.
Oh, your sort of feeling around the map.
That is the Siege savant.
Yeah, well, just based off the statistics that we do have for Villa, this is accumulating
all the stuff from this stage so far again this is every region. In terms of
Villa it looks to be that...
to me that probably ABG is your most preferred one, is your most preferred
bomb site I think it probably is the strongest mostly because a lot of the
times for the attackers. You do have to kind of choke hold your way through, like I said,
even the bedrooms I've studied. There's not much variation of feel that you can go for,
unless you want to try and go a little bit crazy off the cuff and then you try and go
below with like Sophia and a buck perhaps. So yeah, the moment thought floor, if I
go around, we will be here for lucky five. Is there? I grew here in the main stairs.
Still nothing yet at the moment, looking down as well, just need to see a little bit of something
here from Lucky 5, just somebody to pop up with a double kill and a flip around on it's
head, that's what we're after here but Imperial are playing very slow and steady after a
pick that you need there, Pino!
Flying sexy cake, that's the dope we've gone, a good first opening kill to find,
I believe that is from, is that from the burglars?
I believe he was holding himself, maybe?
Eventually, I mean, it's all the way there.
That could be quite early on.
Pulled away sexy cake.
We've seen quite later on towards rounds,
and it's the first death.
Sexy cake has suffered,
and when we talked about how not problematic
the psyche approach,
but you kind of need to have somebody watching the study
side, applying this back-end pressure.
Now they have even less to approach the rest with,
you can see the area is sort of stat-wasting on.
Into this wolf window, there once again.
Obviously have the Nomad going to the double clear,
and they've got themselves into a pretty decent position,
but it doesn't seem the engagements are being off at this time round.
Here we are.
We'll look stunned here, but that's okay.
Where did they go now?
Dallas you're gonna go in but he's in the receiving end if they can tell us it's gonna be with it on the warden
He can easily set the somehow misses the shots
Has allowed nears to skirt across in towards study. So this is gonna be a study attack here
Lucky five are dealing with it. Well good trade though from nears
Still Imperial in a position you can maybe try and walk into the bomb site and yeah
He's gonna go down to the cover asking you to hear from legacy
It's gonna be on landing but no psycho walks in for his study, shoots him in the back and
well, speaking of a lockout, yeah it will be a lockout here from Imperial.
Issue was there, nobody was with the Ying.
I think the issue was there were two guys yes towards study but one of them died so
whenever you go to that plant the two players on zombie door they can't cover you, they're
smoked off.
Well, three, one, a bit of a turn of force there, they couldn't quite get the immediate
one after their time out, but they found at least AVG, they found that default, but this
is the problem.
Right, you talk about it being a default, and the thing is, once upon a time it was
the top site, the first site, will be great, and then it'll get cracked, it hasn't been
cracked yet.
It's still fresh in, it's the second time this map has been played in SAO, and yeah,
top ones aren't too changed but the Operator Pool sure is. Huge huge difference between
when it was lost in comp and where it finds itself now and they're gonna see if they
can try and sort of hold on and solve these problems but Russia can still see the drive
here for Imperial. There's three went up on their attack on towards the villa side.
They can get themselves built back in. They've been able to pull back rounds and they've
lost that opening body before. Let's see if they can try and just take the opening body again here.
Watch over the top. On towards Kitchen Dining, getting the sort of rotate round of the sights.
Not gonna try...
...again, not gonna try the basement, the new one obviously.
Yeah, Kitchen Dining. This was typically seen as the kind of third choice bomb site that
you just had to play. You were never really seeing Libero in that often. I think basement
definitely better than this one. I think no doubt about it. Still, they're going to try
their hand at Kitchen Dining. I think the main issue with Kitchen Dining is you just
kind of go above and you open up a lot of verts and there's not much you can really
do is stop things walking in to the site so that's why I'm not a massive fan.
Only good thing though, if you actually look at the line up here from Imperial,
you can't really do that. I mean they don't have the general kind of vertical take you go for
and you try and take in towards the bedroom, try and secure trophy statuary, make sure your
flags are covered off and then just rip up everything. You don't really have that,
so it'll be interesting to see what fairy crafting they're going to go for.
They do have the shield to do the pushing power, can maybe walking towards laundry
The sight door that could be possible but I have to have the cover and typically that cover is found from guess what upstairs
They feel themselves off towards safety the pressure has been applied towards the top
The center hasn't entirely handed it over just yet has to reinforcements this
place to play and Kirk but
You know trying to
support
Easy removal there steps in but they step into the site itself
You can see that often the top neskin gets them through the hats drops and follows through there's that opening body
And there's sexy cake with a swing and legacy I decide and oh
He's able to win it out for now
He's back into a little bit of a corner in the three versus three
They've peeled maybe the most important person out of it with the monty gone
But at this point they're still trying to shake themselves in towards the door a tradeout on the back end means it's almost cooked
It's to one versus once he has to win this engagement before he gets circled on but metrics
and held it tight. There's another attack the closest I would say. The one's Imperial
has been able to take with how the momentum shifted back and forwards, but that is still
four attacks for Imperial.
Not a bad half overall. I just think it's very strange the way that they've defended
that because one, I think there is a case where they just kept throwing stuff onto
the fire like I think what three people challenged legacy they all lost it and
then also that the second one is did they have to do that you know there was no
verts upstairs like I said I think a lot of players from lucky five were in
relatively safe positions he just kind of challenged all and tried to win gunfights
wouldn't say legacy done anything incredible there so I think lucky five
necessarily aren't playing to their win condition obviously for Imperial their
condition was get them on the inner triangle for a plan. Once that was stopped, where do
you go from there for your imperial? And lucky if I didn't realise that. They took down the
Monty, and then they just started swinging in towards Pantyre.
Five seconds remaining. It sort of became that weird moment right where it was almost
they were trying to react as best as they could, and that was a strange thing to
say. But they didn't have the contingencies in place for that. Oh, their contingencies
just one in the correct place that they just you know pushed in by laundry swung
around in towards the site they're able to just in time pick up the player
behind but then they didn't immediately swim on board Monty's once he was fighting
somebody else it just everything felt a half second too late in terms of the
response and becomes that unfortunate where that can be the maple break and
success but they can still build behind it now they get themselves back
down towards the basement, office art, the site that you said, and a better swing in position.
It was once upon a time, and once upon a time, well you would watch 10
past the villa, and you wouldn't see the basement at all. It just in terms of any players ever
being down there. Be on false. That's really it. Not much. So yeah. Look, think Imperial already
had a very good half that's obvious and oh we've been able to learn the c4 knowing that hey if
sexy cake wants to try to open up the hatch you will be a c4 risk because don't forget around the
hatch it's all false destruction that's the big thing with this map as i mentioned round number one
and using the factor to disable the c4 it goes up fantastic absolutely love it
now wait a minute 20 they're starting to wire up the stairs down towards the side itself it
If it was a play against a Blackbeard and a Smoke last time, obviously that's not the same
the mode as you said got the Monty and well they still got the Smoke and you could see
it held ready in hand to be loosed on towards the first part of pressure but instead actually
pulls back.
The clash is also still this pertinent problem they're going to have to try and solve.
You can get yourself into any situation you want, including shooting out the Flora's
drone that's trying something a bit bold but you can see Imperial that's not quite
the grass that first bit of a croak and the first smoke canister goes out tries to get
a bit lucky canister in the middle of it but not quite nesting a result. There's a candela
there's another smoke canister it's a bit of a deadlock here between utility throwing
the first smoke just backs on towards the Monty forces and further and further back
and there's that time for the side of lucky five to make sure their responses are
that half-second quicker. Unfortunately not there. Sexy cake.
Chew through the blind Pinot.
It's just went on to asset the same second. 20 seconds though. Left.
So they're trying to just find their feet into wards.
The final bit of a lockdown. Beceto finds Sexy Cake.
Now a 4 versus 3. The Monty set his way inside the site,
rocks the shield for a second, but Psycho just swings over the top.
The Monty's pretty much rocked at this point.
point as Mitrix getting a teammate and two but I'm sure they will take the end of that round
that is a four two half lucky five get the balancing two and we get our favorite two
yes you do I mean so far you're getting an incredible showing if I'm very honest with you
just because of the way that Imperial are laying down the law. Yes, lucky five, get two rounds from the defense, but this is Vila.
New Vila, but still Vila. Able to lock down the basement, cool, good for you, but that's kind of the one site that works out perfectly for you.
How is Imperial able to pull this off box? Just because it's impressive the way that they've been dismantling their opponents on every other site.
Well, the combination of legacy and years on the entry, I mean, we saw it right out the
gate on round one, the way they're able to just blow through positions, playing off of
each other.
And they're really taking their time.
They're not losing their opening kills.
Oh, yeah, this is what I'm talking about, the entry of both of them just being able
to push through this ball wall.
I mean, lucky five is giving them the gunfights that they need to be able to break apart
these sites.
They're playing very bunkered up in the site.
They're trying to provide a utility, but it's not going to work if you're
not fighting and maybe even dying for some positions. I mean, I know I haven't played
the new villa competitively, but the old villa, if there was anything to take away,
you can't bunker the sites with all five people into the site. You have to have somebody
extended. You have to have somebody going for an aggressive play to die because there's
just simply not enough room in the site for all of your team to be there. There's
some room, but not all. So that was the first mistake from Lucky Five. You're
not really expending a player to be in any of these guy positions to stall extra time,
to stall extra area, and utility. So Imperial played it very well, taking their time. They
get to that first initial gunfight, and they were winning it for a majority of the time,
and that was the biggest takeaway from them. And to do it on attack, which is on arguably
a very defender side of the map, is very good for Imperial. So with the side swap,
I mean, if they just play their own game of defense,
just playing slow, playing behind the utility,
which we know they can do
because that is what they were doing all last week.
I think this one is just a clean win for Imperial.
Yeah.
Wind condition is very simple.
Wind the basements and take one other side on the fence
and you are good to go.
You'll make it eventually.
Basement usually, again, Villa is just the only part
where soft destruction aside from the hatches
really doesn't factor in.
understandably so though we'll see what happens then as we go into our operator bands or castors
ready to take it away. Oh thank you very much Milosh I feel like I'm going more elaborate with those
if the next time you and I get to work a live event um I want to try and I'm gonna see how
long I can keep one of those going anyone who is at a live event that Demo and I and Milosh
at be ready be ready for me to take a mile me lost her that's called in my
loss that's how much I'm shaking things up is it my tricks or mitra you've really
put on the question my tricks like mighty or is it
Oh
That's all the show
We need to work this out
Demo and I need to put our heads together and become a dictionary
and just throw them out and hope we get a result
Would it be a dictionary?
Or a dictionary?
What? John Dyche?
Here we find ourselves
A viator
Or gammas
AVG
classically called classically described and we actually first started
calling it AVG by the way and I'm wearing a shirt it was he was the first one to call it AVG
yeah you're gonna be cry on broadcast and you know full of facts
fun and memorable facts and lovely facts AVG as it should always and only be called
we find ourselves here with actually legacy on a little bit of the legacy I talked about how mirror is pretty
continually banned because of the power presence you can put in here now. What? Psycho Stats?
I mean very on-brand with the name that's what the kind of play that was. That was a psycho play.
That was oh my word that is really chance in your luck isn't it? Again I think the idea was just a
hope that nobody was there and then all of a sudden buying your pop main stairs you have control
you'll probably find a pick from somebody thinking how's there already a guy pop main stairs
There's a mirror window looking in towards study.
But the big blunder though, you look at the operator that he is.
That's an ash.
You just mentioned about the mirror.
Look at this lucky five placed up.
This is very rat-like.
I'm not going to lie to you.
And what is going on?
It's a free V3 already.
Yeah, I'm probably going to be stretching for the viewers at home.
Cannot see it, but it is everything you would expect of a...
Huh?
What a strange start towards this round.
The extension was held pretty heavily, but the fact that they just sort of hopped it onto
the wolf window and swung their way around past the ticket is just odd, I think is the
easiest way of building into it.
Now we have a bit of a stalemate here on the brick stairs and honing.
Always nice to see you when they can try and just get some support here for Pio who
could pop a stun over the top and swing on the back of it as soon as he gets the
awareness that somebody is here but the problem is, well they'll probably have the same awareness
that Smoke is actually going to use his last canister. With a minute ten and a red dot that
you can see on a wall, the other way it's being watched so what do you do? Sit and wait and
hope some pressure can come elsewhere? No. It's the answer that, you know, pulls their way back
instead they're gonna try and punch them towards the red and see if they can get
some of the pressure elsewhere. Eyes on! The strategy table. And eyes on 90 but
As he said, study is still that big connection between any of these approaches and the shotguns start to circle the doorway.
This might turn into, yes, again, another bit of a scrappy challenge.
There we go.
Five after trying to go for the plant, but there's the C4.
Good for one.
Nabba's out, he gets a little bit itchy now, feels like he has to make a play to assist his teammate, and he goes down.
That's the issue. Both players only attack for separator for one another.
Blizzard, no hope for a trade.
Imperial, you have to stand their hands for the trade game and there we go.
60k for the long angle. Imperial!
Alrighty, I'm blinking you miss it and it's 5-2.
I- it- it's what a return to form in some manners it's been for this theme,
but it's also kind of weird to say that because well they came 10th.
Last split, right? Let's be honest when you look at the run of these two teams, when you look at how this game was expected to go, we had two long opening games, two sort of brawls all the way towards the end, and then we get into this position and we're thinking, okay, you know, here's maybe where we'll return to the expectations, return to the method of plays, especially when you have the sort of big overall view.
Right, the big big board of who's been able to pull themselves in, who's been able to pull points elsewhere
Imperial eSports are the only team in SAL that have zero total points
And that is across obviously the kickoff, the main major, stage one, nothing, nothing for all of it
And when they're playing with the big idea of relegation which is the big worry when you've got what?
Loose, Lucky 5 are in there as well, Black Dragon, Sinec Zed and Imperial Thunderbomb are 0.
Well, you expect it to go towards Lucky 5 who is second on this board, who got points at kickoff, who put a bit of a distance in and points to Stage 1 instead.
Now, just...
5-2 down.
They kind of need it the most, Imperial.
It comes out of the way and...
Imagine, imagine if they can get this one.
Closed out within three rounds.
Take a seat.
On that hill, I'm sniffing.
See if you can find the opening tank inside of...
...the laundry here.
This is the wall I was mentioning.
That will be held pretty well at the moment here from Imperial.
The cage is on the wall,
the wall but then realizing that hey it's actually a maverick I'm gonna instead go for the C4 a
whole moose we know that's always the danger with the maverick you can just get C4 so at least
the wall is gonna be opened up well at least the right side is anyway you get the flora stroner
Sophia you number off them to open up now a hole into the bomb site that's funny if you tell
to the, uh, the nades from the Blackbeard, also the Capitao is all the bolts that he can utilize.
Imperial, I mean, they're denial. It is pretty null and void here at the moment, uh, barring the
Goyo, so they don't have any active denial, such as a smoke that could have been brought in.
He's just waiting for the, uh, the Blackbeard, isn't he?
Yeah. At this point, I mean, what else can you really do, right? You've
got the chance of putting the pressure on towards Wizard. You're trying to get
That's a new gadgetry in the right place to slow it down as well but you're
playing with these co-ocasters you have this conversation about the new
operator and who else you could put in the situation or how worth it he can be
for these immediate responses we got the Allah on board as well you got the
classic denial of the shields and swings and it's awkward to make your way down
these stairs it's awkward to try and go for these swings without any of the
vertical cover. Look how aggressively they've sort of proposed themselves here
their legacies holding on towards this stress at this bit of pressure, pulls off one side
towards the other and it's a great gun, it's a classic person but they almost seem scared
demo to go through this swing.
This just plays into the hands of Imperial.
More time that they are able to wedge legacy.
Is there where the opening pick?
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know that a player came in through the pantry window.
Pino.
Surely.
No, Naskin actually beats him to it but I'm pretty sure that he was not aware
is able to take 9-gauge against the Blackbird and win next, and with a double,
gonna keep Christian, is he gonna get a third?
It tricks flying Peeta in the midst of that, and now a 2v3,
that's gonna be a triple kill from Asken, if he can finish his kill,
maybe a fourth, maybe a quad, no!
Sexy cake shuts him down, Baceto has two to five,
and he's out of time, he's out of luck.
Imperial, wow, what a stormer of a villa there playing 6-2.
There is something so funny about like such a heavy counterfeit like we're bringing this
one dude, Nez is bringing everything to do with the shield and you get your one and it's
like I've done my job.
You couldn't be in a more I've got my one situation that if you're breathing you want
to do with the shield and it's great to see a use case put perfectly forward but
as you just said it's great to see Imperial play such a good villain.
6-2 up on towards the new old new map and lucky five unfortunately having the
unluckiest day but big aspects where how much of it is luck how much of it is
just a lot of preparation right there's elements we can't fully be prepared
but coming towards this map Imperial are one of two teams that have played
this map they got beat on it you could get some data if you're expecting the
map ban to go this way and put yourself in but it's just felt like they have not
been prepared for themselves for a villa here lucky five and Imperial they've
definitely sort of gone well this is a map we want to know this is a map we're
gonna know very well this is a map that we're gonna make sure that we can put
some precious points into six I said imagine if they could lock it in in
three. I'm not even going to have to do it in two.
It's looking good. Looking good for Imperial. Where did they go into kitchen and dining?
Stayed away from the trophy statuary. Said it will be that kitchen dining now.
I look at the lineup from Lucky 5. This is a little bit more on-brand of what I was expecting to see whenever we
We've seen this bombsite earlier be defended, you've got the double soft destruction, only
maybe missing point protection, I see anything.
Again, I'm being nitpicky, whether or not, but yeah, just get yourself upstairs, utilize
the blitz and don't be clear away any rollers, I'm sure we'll be lurking upstairs and
you can see that the ramp is going to get started on that structability.
Pick up that floor and it just means that everyone has to play out of the bombsite,
which can be tricky sometimes.
The game thrones are going to come in, slot out these players up there for Imperial legacies.
Pretty well, I mean a lot of people have played pretty well here for Imperial.
It's been a really good team performance overall.
Here comes the double up along with the Roman come in from that blitz and at the moment
for Imperial I think the game is just staying alive isn't it?
They're just trying to hang their way out of this maneuver and just keep themselves
as flexible as possible.
just when the hammer strikes with a black witz decides to go for the push are they gonna
be ready for it?
Apparently not.
Apparently not.
But the team you thought was ready wasn't, what a swing round they get, they get rid
of the doccabee in the middle of a call, and at this point Lucky Five just never
got into gear, and they got no choice but to try and find six right now to force
to find down a big map that's lost out on their docker bee, they've now lost out on their ashes well and
I can imagine Villa is going to be an early map fan for them in the upcoming series.
Still not entirely done yet, they have two soft destructions, they can put all the
vertical pressure in but then it gets time to go for the plant. Okay, four flashes,
two smokes, they can build behind it but not if they're suffering on these engagements because
look at how Imperial are playing. They're swinging out. They're fearless in these approaches and
they're running rings around RIP 5. Yeah, you can put it any better than what you've said.
They're just always on the move. They're always just lighting their feet, not giving them any
options. And after lucky five, what's the wincon? Try and smoke off and try and go for a plant.
I mean, that's just not going to happen. There's C4 still on the board for Imperial.
It should just be a matter of time before they close it out.
And this was Pino going down with two left holding on from the width that they've got across 10 seconds.
There's at least one from almost two, but with no kit, barely any health and no chance.
Imperial unbelievable returns of form.
Maybe probably the best scape of siege we have seen this roster play all year.
I'm not going to be getting
a chance to get that. Fantastic.
I think their first after
attacked were naturally just
on point. They knew what they
were doing, and then they just
got into the defense. Now look
as well as what they've played.
I think now for Imperial. It's
about learning from Okay, what
did we do wrong in the first
few weeks? And what did we do
right here tonight? And start
building on the good things
because this gives you a really
good friend. Now for Imperial
playoff anything's possible but time will tell that's what we're gonna find out
maybe tomorrow who knows it's it's the sort of risk of things but well starts
with one brick how many can they put together until they build oh no I've
accidentally built me los and fox thank you very much as this was what all
bricked up means I don't know anyways victory here on the side of
Imperial e-sports they're gonna be super happy with all three points that they get out of this matchup lucky five
I mean they they I would say they tried their best, but I don't think the best was really being shown today
Speaking of bricked up sexy cake joining us. Let's bring him up
It's our guys doing
Hello, those next you gay because it's been so so long my friend. Yeah
Yeah, but you're here and it's a huge victory for you and the team today, please talk to
me about what changed over the past couple of weeks and really the past couple of stages
to earn this victory in all three points today.
And I think now we are just focusing on the small things like our mid hand was terrible
and we got like very rush to do the things too quickly and then the round would like slip away.
We lost a lot of 5v3s in this last 4 matches and we're starting to building like on top of this,
playing more slow and understand what we need to do on the mid-hound to the late-hound.
And yeah, I think that's just our really focus on this week of practice that we did
Play I mean it sure paid off
I mean, I know some big players like legacy has been shown up
Every single playday and so it's nice to have him back with the whole team for you guys to get a win
You just played villa first
I want to ask if that was something that you guys were prepared to go to villa and to since you've been around the
seen for so long, you've been playing a very long time. How does Villa feel now as with
the addition of the basements since you've been able to see it both ways? Does it feel
very similar or whether this change is enough for it to make it all a new game?
Man, I think it's very similar. The strats that we are playing right now, like every
team is playing right now is the same strats that we played like in 2018-2019. So it's
Pretty the same. The only thing is the addition of the new bombsite.
So he's pretty different and like you need to get learning and everything
and what you can do.
But the map is pretty much the same.
We choose to play Villacos like I like old in the game and I love the map.
And Niers played with me on Atualizados.
It was a tier two team here in Brazil.
And we won against NiP, we won against Team Liquid, a lot of maps in this team on tier 2, and Vila was our best map, and we chose to play in this team.
It didn't work against FaZe, cause like you know, FaZe is FaZe, but we pretty confident in this map.
Well, definitely look like it. Today, we'll see if you can pull up all six points this weekend.
We'll be playing loud tomorrow. They suffered a loss against Furia.
Anything to first to know or learn about that game before you head into it tomorrow?
Man, I don't think that's anything that I can tell you guys.
Just that we are doing our best and we are like trying our best to win this all
of the rest of the games now because we need them to go to playoffs and this is our focus. It's not
like to win three points in every weekend. You know it's it's pretty frustrating when we lost this
but we're trying our best to win everything like from now on. Very healthy attitude in the
taxi gate. Thank you very much. Congratulations on the win. We hope to see you tomorrow. Bye
Nice. Thank you
There it is good to have a real certified old head pro league champion here as you see one of the first to ever do it
For the entirety of the Brazil and South America region
But that was eight and a pit years ago
Just to remind all the team liquid fans out there that somehow are still holding on to that moment
However, a moment to hold on to is this big victory today on Villa definitely showed up the entirety of Imperial eSports
It was a team effort. It's like you you wipe the slate clean of everything that's happened this past entire year Fox
And you get a completely different team playing today. It's it's pretty crazy to think
Yes, yes, it is a completely different team
I do believe a lot of it came from the fact that it was a team effort
that's not something that we saw in any of their other games. It was a legacy, the legacy show,
and the rest of the team was trying to investigate kills and define success and find
a way to be able to assist them, and it wasn't working, but today it was. It's so much so that
I think their attacks were so confident and so good, they shook up Lucky 5, and once
a side swap at that point, it really felt like Lucky 5 already mentally
We'll start playing like they lost the game. I mean already the first opening round of their
Of lucky fobs attacks psycho just full sprints through study, you know into the main stairs thinking it's clear
Doesn't drone doesn't check and there's a guy hiding in a corner, and I mean it's just a lot of
Yeah, I mean what where people doing that on the old bill. It's a pretty small map
You're supposed to draw on everywhere because everybody can hide
it's, it's Villa nice cavera play, I remind everybody of all those things on the
Yeah, so I think the biggest takeaway was the rest of the team coming online
and it was really nice to see Neers especially so so early into the series
him and legacy be able to take positioning and I think Imperial just believing
where team can compete and we're able to compete with some of these guys
and I feel like that really made the distance.
Them being able to have the reps,
despite them being losses,
they have the reps and the repetition with this roster
of losing, like, you know,
getting rounds here and there
and getting slowly, slowly closer to the finish line.
And I really do think that's seven three against Furia.
Was any other team last week,
I do believe that they were one
because they looked very good versus Furia.
So I'm glad to see that it's,
they turned the jets on and it hasn't stopped.
Matrix and the sexy cake right at the top is actually crazy to see it because they seem like sexy cake top two on the scoreboard
Is not something I've seen for years at this point in time
So I'm happy to take it
Anytime really matrix with big big numbers that is putting up today for the team very important again
It wasn't just the individuals that were doing this the big reason behind the victory is
everybody playing
together and for a player that's been around since the inception of this
Imperial eSports team post SI basically going into the 2026 season
It's good to see him shine at least in this matchup a very important one as you heard from sexy cake from now on
It's not just about getting a point here and there
It's about trying to make it into playoffs and finally we get to hear that specifically that sort of mindset
set showing and if we get more of this from Piril I'm telling you SAL that
mid-ground and SAL is gonna look even better however speaking of taking ground
and really middle ground especially we still have more games to go team like
go to Alienware, takes on Black Dragons after the break.
and
Magai
Interpreter
I would be Will Smith
Personality totally the same
Tom Cruise
Because he is spicy
Because he is very good at shooting
Very good at shooting bullets
He is a fighter
My biggest voice would be
I think so. He's crazy, man.
I think...
I read Pereira.
She's the president of Palmeiras and I gave it to her.
My biggest rival, Tuistis,
manager of the LOS.
I'd interpret him.
I didn't think it was a good one.
I'd interpret him as...
you know, Debi Lloyd's movie?
Without being Jim Carrey.
The other guy.
I don't like him.
He would be Ionzeira.
He's in the crowd.
Brevi is going everywhere.
I'm not going to talk too much.
But I'm sorry for his bad.
I'm current.
Nesque is Jim Carrey.
I'm sure he's a patient and is the one who is most compatible with him.
Super, bro.
I think Vita's father.
He looks like a din-carry.
He has a crazy personality, funny.
Vita's temperament is the show.
The guy is good at shooting, too.
That's what he looks like.
He would be Tom Hanks.
I saw a picture that looked like him.
SK, Leandro Rassum, and his duo, Cylons.
The one who would interpret the cybers would be Jim Carrey, who is a funny guy and likes to tell lies.
Boilett must go to jail, because he appeared and he wants to be a billionaire.
I think the one who would interpret Rafael would be Prof. Girafales.
He's a boss, man. He has to be a fucking woman.
Dudes is not an actor. He's just a barrio, a barrio of wine.
He's the one who would interpret Dudes.
That woman would say, hey man.
I think it would be the N-Hatway, because there is already a story in the scene, and it's a fucking woman.
I think the N-Hatway would be the Hent, because he is his brother.
The Nils is the Zagalafilac of the Seagull Benoncasi, because they are similar, and they are kind of sick too.
I think the N-Hatway would be the Shingo and Seagull, they are a little similar to Magyver, and I think Magyver is a lot of Hent.
I'm sure they are all the same.
It's human life, it's human life, it's human life, it's human life
I
You're the girl with the knife
You move on a big knife
I can give a life
Bring your back up and let me behind
I know I'm back now to give it right
Are you in a time
Moment of change I need to revive
Switching the gang
They know their name
They know their name
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I can't make me do the right
You wanna stay here tonight
It's time to turn it into light
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!
Welcome out friends to S.A.L.
We have passed a halfway mark.
Get into game 4 out of 5 for today.
We're here to bring you all the action.
Once more, I'm Milesh by my side.
It's a wonderful fox.
I have teams to talk about.
But first, standings.
Let's put them up on the screen.
to tell you where we're at so far and what are teams playing for here. Black
Dragons themselves are playing in just a bit. They have the opportunity to jump
over Team Liquid Alien or at least tie them, but also how hold the tie break
over them be in the top three. That would be huge for them. Team Liquid Alien
are looking to hit number one, especially having defeated Fiora last week Fox.
It's an opportunity to overtake them by a couple points and hold the tie
It just makes things a bit more difficult for Furia to surpass them, although with a caveat that FaZe have not yet played their own matchup today.
That's for game number five.
Yeah, and you got to assume FaZe is going to get the full three points in their matchup against INGZ that will be next.
That being said, still a win today puts them in second over Furia.
Despite Furia's performance today, I mean that's amazing for them to be able to have gotten that win.
win and like you said it gets in the head to head the tiebreaker if they are to tie
but every point matters if you're able to start a little bit of a lead now if
you place in the top two you get to have a first buy round when you get to play
off so you just have to win one game and you make it to the Osaka major so it
makes things very easy but also adds a layer of comfort that can sometimes
surprise a team so at the end of the day you got to win you got to be
able to beat every team if you want to make it to the major. I will have a
little correction. It seems like it does not give you a
he did in the past, not the case anymore. upper bracket semis
will just have the four teams from one to four and then five
to six in the lower bracket. Just a little bit of a thing.
But otherwise, it's pretty important. None the less will
be playing the number four radar team. So it gives you
that advantage. And for TLN where in general, they've
been putting up numbers when needed. JV has just been on a
But you can't say that for everybody. Everybody's above the hundred EPS and
100 is even low considered if you have all the averages for
Yeah, everybody on the team has been doing so well
I mean it's something that I feel like has been a new look to liquid throughout this stage is
Like we talked about before is the humility every interview that we have with Igor or Felly pox are talking about you know
We're getting there. We're slowly getting better. We're trying to be the best team. It's gonna take time
But I mean so far they have looked like a completely different team when it comes to
Individual gun skill that's something that we've talked about that's they hit the
Nail they hit the nail with the hammer on the head. I think I said that right
So individually on amazing performers. Yes, you know
Thank you
But something that was the big issue for them was because they have such great performers in previous stages
They just lack the IGL ability.
Phelippox is a great IGL, but it seemed like they were so used to relying on KZJV92
that they didn't really need to call adaptations.
And it seemed like they got slower as teams started to develop and get better
at dealing with the big players on the roster.
But in this stage, it seems that they've really been,
that's been their main goal and the main focus is just playing as a unit,
focusing on the adaptations.
and that's where we can see the big player shine is once the strategies are put into effect so
everything's been looking very very good for Team Liquid. Yeah, beating Furia last week was
pretty important in the grand scheme of things but Liquid playing phase tomorrow is going to be
even better. However, before we get to that tomorrow they still have to play against Black
dragons and BD themselves they beat INTZ in our last playday although they got smoked by Lux
no two ways around it regardless Black Dragon's overall point standings in the group stage so far
is pretty good eight points tied up with Lux at the moment there's an opportunity for them to
remain in the top four where at this point they've kind of sniped the position away from
NIP slash now lucky five and they're gonna be pretty happy to remain in that position every point that can shave off of tough opponents like team liquid
Alienware, they're gonna be very content with
They've had a great run this so far this stage. I mean last stage they were a team that you know
I it feels like almost every stage
Oh the team that could be in the top six, but they just don't quite get it there
But they've really hit the ground running in this stage. They've got a great amount of points
They put themselves in an amazing spot.
Yes, that 7-0 is very uncharacteristic of them.
I mean, Romeo's been a great player for them.
And that was just a game where the whole roster wasn't doing too hot.
But it takes us to Night Haven Labs, which is a good map for them, I would say.
If you completely scratch out the fact that they got 7-0ed by Loose,
they are a very good team on labs just because they do have some aggressive players,
but they have good synergy as a whole team.
I mean Romeo and Swag being able to entry together the main focus being around them
This are outlawed being able to be there as well
It's something that they have a very good
Team at being able to trade out and do the fundamentals now. They just completely have to
Erase the fact that they got absolutely shown up by Los on this map
And I think they should be in a good position to keep it close against team liquid Alienware at the end of the day
We're going up against team liquid Alienware. JV92 Paisy probably gonna shut it down
It's T-Law and it's a map that are very familiar with over many years and iterations of that roster no matter what organization they're under.
Those that are familiar with this map as well are casters, we're going to take you through this.
Full-con demo, enjoy.
Oh, there you are, Osmilus. That was a quick one as we get ourselves quickly in and maybe it'll match the pace of the game that is to be continued.
Because at this point, these two I think it was sort of put together.
If any two games are going to go unexpected way, well, Team MacAureli and Warrick are
going to be the first ones to put that pace in.
However, I would say that there's a decent chunk of people that will just surprise whether
pleasantly or if you're not an Imperial fan less pleasantly as a result, we just
had them.
Ah, I think we've already seen maybe an upset, I mean, I think Lucky Five and
Imperial obviously they're not I think at the same level as well the desk of compared
Team Liquid Alienware and of course face you know they're in their own category as we know and
Certainly if they look Alienware, I think up against Black Dragons. I think it'll be a good test for them think Black Dragons have shown big improvements
We go into a map like labs now the only thing that kind of worries me here for Black Dragons is we're going to labs and
Then you also look at the attack or win percentage for Black Dragons
It's not great and they have to start on the attack, which is my big worry
They have a 16% attack win rate on on labs like that already for me
It's gonna be the big challenge as we team a grayling where great team in this map and taking the fact they can defend and already a double kill for KZ
Just wanted to get back to site
Trying to get home
Gets himself to that includes the nomad as well. So those worms are gonna be more dangerous as things go in the
ram to get some of that sort of pockets of control it's not the biggest use case
on this site but still it's a great gun and it was their first port of call and
now instead can be an intricate site three of us is five you're back to site
why not hand them over that territory you know at this point you've got most
you've got these force them on towards those choke points I play from the
backline it just will give them a bit more sense of safety now this first
round back dragons unfortunately they have the pace they want to apply to try
to keep it up but the problem is you know there's four major routes and towards
this side they only have three players left where do they apply pressure from
do they double down on say the garage okay but you still need a single
player on the back hitting the pressure there do you try and go from three
different angles. Well, tradeouts like that might happen and then suddenly you've lost
an angle. You lose another one here.
Falling, Mr. Maddie's flip pass gets two. A bit too hungry for the kills there, Fleeve
Hawks goes down.
That's the case he admire and now it's two versus two demo.
Oh, this is now pretty tense. However, the HP is not favourable for black dragons.
Jay-Z and Nade open full HP. Time to be headshots here for this flag if you want to try something going here on the board.
Little jiggle peek, he's still alive. One HP now. There's where he is.
See if he can go for the pre-far and he gets off the JV.
That's a 1v1. As a diffuser as well, he can maybe jump in and try and go for the planting.
That was exactly where Nade is and they go for the plant Nade now over to him.
gonna hold the angle and I have to wait the fuse you're gonna get plunked in
out what this is like do is he gonna go for the swing all but of a whiffage
there from the aid but still gets it nonetheless oh just about big one be
one that made holds his nerve that is the first try and go in favor of Team
Liquid Alienware. Don't get me wrong it's really nice to have made that
position in the sort of one versus one you know it's gonna lock it down
the same time how we got there from what was a five versus three and then they
had the confidence and the safety to fall back to site and lock it up a little
bit of a slip up there from team liquidating what they entirely thirsted
for that kill they really wanted to get the player that they had down outside
at that point it was technically a functional four versus one because there
was a player that was down in a player in IT two of them fall just
running across the IT player and well it's not really a mistake that they all
tend to make twice. As long as they try to focus and learn from it here,
runs around, he ticks the tick, and they will peel themselves down towards the
basement.
I think for team liquid Alienware, but I dare say that I think the goal for team liquid
Alienware is always beat face, you know, I feel so for anyone in this league, it's
how do you stop base, because they're the number one team, how do you catch up to them,
how do you chase them, I think team liquid Alienware, they're obviously gonna do well,
we know they're gonna be one of the teams that are gonna be representing Brazil at Japan. I think that
should already be a nail on the conclusion. So I just think it's for Team Liquid Alienware. Just get
me reps and just come in doing the job. Same way that Faze does inside of the sleeve. Just come in,
get the job done. You've almost got bigger fish to fry, you know? And I think that's always the
kind of mindset with the top teams in Brazil because, you know, they're not... I'm not
trying to discredit the teams in Brazil, but these are the sides that everyone in the world
wants to beat that along people in Brazil. Oh yeah I think it's the sort of
split of when you have the best in the world you want to measure up to the best
in the world you want that anyway and you can look towards previous events
right look towards the most recent one in Paris all right we've got EWC you've
got phase coming first and then you've got
Well, we'll get back to it, mistrone right now.
KZ gets a weapon to open up, KZ gets himself another closer, two rounds in a row, opening
two kills, pretty immediately after each other, he's gonna go and hunt for three, he's got
a shield making friends with him, he's just gonna heal away, a bit of damage done over
the top, they've gone for the chase and once again, you've been able to slip the
net here, damn I.
Yeah, I mean, KZ does what KZ wants and so easy for him to pick up two kills
down to of course a mistro and we are straight back to the exact same position as we were last round.
A 3v5 and Black Dragons just have to try and muck it out.
I'll quickly finish the point I was making before at that recent tournament where Faze finished
first and Fury finished second. Liquid of a 5th to 8th eliminated by Faze. It's sort of the
inescapable demon of this region and this territory but again as you said you're measuring
yourself towards the best in the world, the best in the world just also happens to be around
the corner from you and you're having a punch up every other week. Here, for the minute left,
black dragons are again seemingly some of the best in the world right now because, once
again KZ, I mean, four and one over the opening two rounds, so far. And there's still a lot
of work left to do, they set their way down. Oh, is the floor of the site itself,
they've obviously got the breach externally, they've got the double open and they've
find one before it's traded off and towards the default plant spot but look at the player above
they still have vertical control here demo they've still got the similar kurelian player
above them there's one there's the tradeout there's the fight on the verticality but it doesn't even
matter well that's an easy cleanup as expected
it to be that we aren't gonna maybe have a bit of a pause here or maybe a
rehost is have a crash there from fully box we'll try and get back in as quick
as we can now I think the biggest thing we can analyze is KZ getting not just
one opening kill but essentially a double opening kill both times now and I
think he's always a player whenever you look at Team Liquid Alienware who you
just look at and say he's gonna cause problems no matter who he plays up against. Is that
something the Black Dragons need to be worried about? Is there just gave away the two opening
rounds as easy as that? Just the one guy being able to find two kills as easy as what he
did and no trade both times. Can I also add?
It becomes this element of how do they shut it down because they've sent two players
to both of the situations. In the first round you've got one outside the hop-in window on
the rafters, you've got the other on the door. If you're dedicating more people towards that
and you're not able to lock it out, yeah, you might cement the kill, but where do you
have to go? Do you go from the little box at the bottom? Do you try and get a cross
from underneath? You still have work to do on that site and it was quite early losses
for both of them as well and
you know the second being a mist drone
well it happened
maybe I'm trying to look at the best of a
bad situation now
slight tech pause
as we have a moment this is
player drop from the lobby hopefully we'll have them back up
in this moment
maybe this will be a
So quick game demo.
Take your time.
Think for Team Liquid Alienware.
Pension, bigger fish to fry, mostly for these top slides in Brazil, just a different
gravy and look, just want to give credit to Black Dragons.
I think they've came a long way from where they maybe were this time two years ago.
I think the organization has really found its feet again.
I mean, this is a very historic organization. Don't forget. I mean, it's just been around for
ages. It must be going back to nearly 2017, 2018. I think was it 2017? This organization's been here.
So it has been a very long journey and they're always there inside of Brazil. And I think the
team seems very, very solid. A good foundation. I think top four for this side yet. Definitely
achievable in my opinion. So we'll just we'll see what comes off I think this is a good opportunity
for black dragons to really see how well they have developed because naturally I think against the side
like Team Liquid Alienware these are the teams that you want to beat these are the teams that
you want to try and catch. Overall it has been a pretty good split so far I mean free wins one
loss overall not bad I suppose the 7-0 to loss was probably a bit of a hard one but then straightaway
they bounced back with a win against ints and if you look into tomorrow as well I mean they've got
furious so it is a double hard fixture for them but this is what it's all about these are the
teams that you have to beat. Oh yeah I mean it's the sort of conversation that I had about
Imperial in the previous, like, sort of show is they were O and 4 coming into the stay fine,
but they went against the hardest teams and still cut their teeth, even if you're just pulling a few
rounds against these teams. You're in that sort of perspective and I guess there's always that
problem, like the fact that we have ended up on labs and the fact that it's a good team
that could alien wear map, but to be fair what isn't, but a week ago it was an O and 7
than four black dragons handed to them by loss,
there is that sort of element of a risk of,
well, why immediately come back here?
In terms of the sort of half a year record,
there's also a pretty heavy loss against FaZe.
Does sort of raise the question of,
are they coming here to try and improve this map
against the strong team?
It's a map that shows up a lot in map bands,
especially in best of threes.
In the meantime, a bit of a back and forth
the side of Team Liquid Alienware, but they've lost it's allowed, lost it's a phase. It's
not impossible or impenetrable. Either way, two rounds. Two rounds in a row from Team Liquid
Alienware, and they probably would have been, I would say, two easy rounds if Team Liquid
hadn't been a little bit slippy with their approach towards killing a person that was
down.
One of the big problems, though, dammit, obviously it's perp by the fact that statistically
it was an 0 and 7 last week for them and then it was another 1 and 7 not long before.
I have a 16% attack win rate on this map.
It's not great.
And thank you everyone for bearing with us is.
Yeah.
No, not like that.
Okay, I was worried.
First time.
More of us might still be around.
He's bear ask.
I thought ball don't hit the same.
No, that's true.
I'm having a bald man.
A bald man, so I need...
It's not the same.
I mean, that's just pointing at his head.
It's just from your headset.
Yeah.
If every talent shapes their head,
who do you think the most surprising...
Or who would look the bald?
Well, not... I mean, there's look there, fine, but...
Who do you think you'd be the most surprised by?
Who's been bald?
three of them have been bald
not taken
four of them sorry
fingers been bald
yeah, four isn't it, I think that's it
I forgot what the parka looks like without the big hat
I think, again, if jessie shagged said it would be IT consultant to the max
I think you can do a really good Tim Cosplay.
Yeah.
That would be...
I think Dez is cool.
Dez is cool.
I think Dez is my eyebrows.
I was surprised you would put that on.
Dez's eyebrows was so funny because I'm pretty sure we had a major not long after that.
And he did it for charity, bless him.
But also, it was either a major or we had just got back into a new season and he
he had a shave by about strong look a strong look buddy anyway we're back in
fine yeah he's opened with two doubles and he make it another for the swing
round the other side of things working towards his favor can black dragons
just find a way to start a kill because if this fight goes away from them and that is obviously the perfect rotation
You assume a timeout is gonna come from the side of Black Dragons
Because it's that real moment of oh no, it's happening again
They've the ginger lineup
dramatically as well like from what they were doing the last round where they were using
You know the Monty to have a bit more of a slower approach
And now they went to Okabe and they've went for the lion. I think they can assess the threat of
of roamers has been a big issue for us.
Let's try and disable them as quickly as possible.
Okabe has been always great for that.
You come up with a line, make them stand still.
Black Dragons, not a lot has really happened
for them here at the moment.
They've got a bit of control in towards kitchen.
I do like the Pulse here as well from Flee Pots
can provide information to as roamers upstairs
can call out if anyone's inside a connector or not
and pushing their way towards electrical.
I like this, seem like an Alienware of wasted good amount of time, I guess I had still no
picks as of yet, Black Braggans really need to try and get a move on and assess what they
want to do and because they've had to bring in the dope, bring in the lion, they've
sacked off the ram so they can't go for the generic, go above in towards IT, open
up the vertical angles and then jump into the site and go for the plan.
So I think this is going to be really difficult for them to try and find a way and maybe
they're worried about somebody below, do they know that the pulse is alive, that
That could be an option for Fully Poked Oglo, use the C4.
Just nothing really on the board here and it's getting very, very low and finally we
see the first pick but it goes against Black Dragons again by this time with an opening
pick.
And unfortunately the same person has died three times in a row throughout Lore's only
well-policed case he does fine, he's had the second kill, so he's had the second
kill three times in a row but he does get found and immediately Guto gets what
has seemed impossible, which is that trade.
Otherwise, there's a fake Black Dragon, so it'll do some damage,
but unfortunately, not the last Maya, cycling back to site gets one, but look at the time demo.
I don't think I'll be anywhere close, swag.
Unfortunately, swag-less.
As is the end of the round three in a row.
The time out here we go.
Hmm.
That's the...
Yeah.
It's stopped the bleeding time isn't it? I think that's what you have to look at.
Overall for Team Liquid Alienware they've just ran the playbook pretty well. I don't think there's
much that you have to worry about. On the side of Team Liquid Alienware I think the opening pick
is obviously going in your way. Robbers have done well, they've wasted a lot of time, they've been
not afraid to die for what they needed to do. But it just feels very timid I think from Black
dragons, two players you get to get a kill, like you mentioned Mr Outlaw, three opening deaths in a row,
not ideal. So something needs to change and that's what we've went for with this time out. I think
opening picks are obviously going to be something we look at, it's going to be something we have
to comment on. So it just depends if they can get that under wraps, try and dominate that opening
half. We'll see, but that is the full rotation locked in for Team Liquid Alienware, they've
They've had three sites, they've defended all three sites, and now they just get to run
a bat.
Well, we'll see if this has been a team talk for the ages, because they're going to need
it.
Because now I think that puts them at nine attack grounds in a row on this map, where
they have not been able to get themselves a round win.
Ten is the lucky number.
say. People say they hope to say they've got a hope for something here. This was technically
the site that they were the closest on before. They've got a plant, they're able to bring
back what seemed like an unwinnable situation, and that takes being in the right place at
the right time, but it also takes capitalising on being on the right place in the right
time, which everyone is able to do. Here, around and towards the top with the new
removals, no more asami, no more ace. Limitations on the hard preach will make things a little
bit trickier. The banner should still be able to handle this. There we go.
Now, getting towards that top floor. Why not? It's a little bit slower. Once more for
Black Dragons to the Monty. I think they've kind of talked about and said, look, to play
the Monty, we take things slow, they didn't ban it, so we have that shield available. The
Monty should be really good at getting themselves in towards Catwalk. You can take that very early
on if you want to try and stem your push from that. You can do so with the Monty.
There's no worry about being C4'd if you go that avenue.
Just more of the same again from Black Dragons trying to focus and getting the
the wall opened up with the ace and the firmac band, seems that Habana and Hardwich gadgets
are coming to your way forward and let the X-Tyropses on the IT breach, KZ, must be careful
now that that being opened up, this is anyone going to be in a position to try and, I'm
often, oh that is unlucky that twitch drone, this is out and getting rid of the Denari
setup which is by the way very very nicely fluked, you can't shoot that Denari without
picking it so it's it's quite a good one to get rid of and it's an out on that not ideal
if they can try and just hold on to the back of it at this point i think it's the longest
they've ever had everybody surviving outside of the previous round with the time was wasted so
brilliantly but it gets closer and closer with how awkward this set is compared to pikes that
they try to apply on their approach last time in house they can never get a lot further
it's harder to hold on towards the garage in the rafters when you don't have the keepers in his
army and they've sort of tried to capitalize upon that right let's try and drive in get the monsea
keep things safe keep things steady and keep things out of the sort of grabbing hands of KD
and his wishes for an engagement but he loses this one Romeo threads the needle and for the first
time black dragons have that opening kill but can they try and capitalize upon it becomes
the second follow-through as we said the first kill has often gone away from them the second
did as well but now they've got the first three and I said they needed a heck of a team talk and
they found a heck of a bit of form here there's one more for the trouble Nate is underneath but
he's being well watched as well they're fully aware of his position he lose the engagement
but a post plant with a monty still on the board they'll have a job set up as a surround and
really there should be nothing Nate can do here. Yep, best thing you can do is
find some more exits. There'll be a Monty looking at you mate, go that way and there's a player
running down below him and who's that on that engagement? Much, much better. From Black
Dragons, I think the Monty is working. I think they're going to keep rocking that Monty.
I wouldn't be surprised to see now that Monty be targeted a little bit more. From Team
Liquid Alienware, I think after a timeout, whenever you see that they've just latched
on to that Monty as their main way of winning around. You then remove that win con out of
the board because that's what Black Dragons would have talked about. Bring the Monty,
play it slow, listen to the calls, pinch to the roam, reduce the information. Then if
you remove everything that the coach and the team would have talked about, then it's
almost back to the draw on board again. We're Black Dragons and look at the lineup
for Leapox. Liquid is on.
It's just interesting to sort of see how it gets picked as a response, right? I
I asked you this at the start of the day of where have we seen the new defender?
Have we seen him utilized is he against the sort of walls and the play there and the
Harbridge charges that try to get placed upon it or is he here in response to a shield?
Well, we had it before in villa in the previous map where it was a response to a shield the man showed up with one job
Bye my gosh didn't do it here for epochs. I'm gonna potentially try the same thing rare
Right, we have to meet a lot of hot air
But trying that really really hurts
not the kind that dad says.
Three to one.
In the Karelin way, they still have a really nice burst
of rounds under their belts.
How much now is the Monty going to be put
into water position?
Every single round so far, the opening kill
has led towards the round result.
It's early doors for it, but it shows the importance
of just the width of control.
You need a map like this.
Here we go.
It's going to be, trying off on the roam game here, 14 with Alienware.
Look it is, what a shocker, it's crazy again.
He's ready to go.
Has been really good in the opening pick as we know and
on the other side, I'm not sure I'll let you mention it.
Oh, I'm afraid, let's see if we can change that.
Here we go.
Like dragons.
That enough for this top floor clear?
having that monthly once more for the assistance of the information and Rare's gonna get himself
in a position in toward Garage and can walk up in towards Rafters and pinch out that player.
See any Fully Pox anywhere nearby? So that shield is still gonna be an issue here.
Easy to get a bit of information too just from that famous track, don't forget,
famous track ship, you can also see them.
In goes Rare, been able to take Rafters so again a slow and steady approach has happened.
Black Dragons, up enough to take that control now that Team Liquid Alienware have given them.
Damn, the round seemed to tick longer and longer recently.
Maybe that was part of the conversation from Black Dragons of try and play into the space.
Let's not try and rush in.
That's when Team Liquid Alienware are striking.
That's when the Mistroning slow the pace down.
At this point it means that, well, they've potentially got a chance here to catch KZ, catch that loose player.
Think about the approach they made last time as well, it was all via reception.
They went to the back cargo and now flew ahead with KZ and as I said it before, that opening kill has been in 100% dictated beforehand
but Camty and Likwere and Wes suddenly start to rebuild, they've obviously got the shield.
And towards the plant spot, there's gonna go.
The play with the cap of tower bolts is a bit of damage done towards Romeo, but Fleepox is trying to get into position, however he just has to charge through the fire, oh no!
There's the swing round, caught him just in the perfect time, Fleepox rather backcatch, one gets dropped!
The three versus two, but it drags in, they're able to still hold on towards the man of vantage, been off for a very long, oh look, for a very long!
A rare swag versus nade showdown, I said at the start, the first round, it's always nice to have nades, your backline is your single player.
But with 10 seconds they're trying to force the engagement, they've driven the player out of the site.
But they've somehow given a wing and all they needed was that in a press.
Wags got the kid, he's gonna go for the track and see if he can go for the plant.
But well, Nate is well aware of this, he's closing the distance, he's in a perfect direction.
And that could not have been closer.
Oh, the Monty.
Oh, just that one little glimpse and you're going to get punished in it.
This is where we talk about the top teams in the world, you know, every region has their
top teams.
You make one mistake like that, it's going to be punished, you know, and I think that's
where it kind of shows the class between a lot of the teams in the region, compared
to what we see in international events.
that one little mistake and you lose the round off of it. You know, Monty just not having
any info, exposes himself, it's shot on the side, and then it's just an impossible 1v1,
you know, so. One of those, it is one of those, and Black Dragons will just have to live
with the consequences. That should have been around in their favor, and now instead of
a 3-2 scoreline, it's a 4-1. And don't forget, Team Liquid Alienware still remain.
the defense is still the main on their favorite side here it's that sort of
problem about it all right is that you know we talk about the record that has
been put before we talk about the fact that if this round goes away from the
moment two swings of attack by dragons they've been able to put one of 12
it's rough and it's rough on a map that shows up quite a lot and whether it's
just the opponent's whether it's just this is the map that they're
Struggling with
You a little bit worried for how often
This might start to show up in there a person in how often
It might get itself put together
At this point then when you go towards the other side of it and said team liquid alien weather preferred half is their attack
Fine that dragons is preferred half is their defense
Pretty nice stats on it of the record that we've got five and eight
You have to be better than that.
It's a wimp. You've got to be a flawless on it and against people at Good Alienware, it's just...
Unfortunately not likely.
Last chance though.
Bring those numbers in towards their favour, they've still got the shield, they've still got the...
response to the shield.
No, but...
They have a lot of breach and they're covered towards it.
Clean route on towards IT.
Afters, once again being the main target for Black Dragons, who's the bravada hacker?
By a utility, that banshee is of course great at stopping the IT walk up and now that you've
removed that it could maybe catch a player by surprise and team look at Alienware, so
wonder if we can try and rotate the leapbox over to Afters so we can try and attack
on to that Monty who will be that main focal point. We'll look at four Black Dragons,
Niko's, and I think is very wise here from Rare instead of him going solo, going by himself.
He's brought a teammate with him, so Flapox, he does have the gadget out in hand. Is he going
to go for the quick Jiggle Peek? If he does that, he'll probably be, uh, with a bunch of
bullets in his face, and since I was going to use that to try and stop the, uh,
Harbridge going down, but I think he's actually missing. The timing was just off there,
they didn't get it in time. So, overall, in The Liquid Alienware, I've not been successful
with that. The Black Dragons and opening pick and onto KZ. I mean, KZ has now died three
times in a row as the opening death. I mean, the opening kills, opening deaths, that stat
that we always look at. It seems to be in this game it is Dave KZ a lot, but also
taken away a lot. Listen, that's an interest, that's an interest loom right there.
He just likes to be done with the round. He likes to sit down for the final 40
second and watch his team play. Well, he looks made to pick up one on the back end of it,
level things up, there goes swag. You're seeing he's been able to steal some of the
cover. This is the first time we've got pressure on towards the back end and as my
get to start lowering, gets two. The man with the kit by himself has not been in great
position. Romeo slips through, finds one, tries to pre-fire on towards the second,
but now they know exactly where both players are. They have the shield to watch in 17 seconds.
You've got to get a bit of a shift on here at Montagne. Unfortunately, I don't even think you can get in the window.
There it is, Steema Kurelianua, a 5-1 defensive half, really just locking and stealing control of
this and let's go to my two friends Steeling and Control, oh no, Milosh and Foxy.
Steeling and Control, cool, which is which? Who knows? Anyways, it's Steema Kurelianua
on the lead as you see five to one on their defensive half I mean the way
that they've been playing this onion style defense on Night Haven Labs I mean
it's like being right next to Shrek in the swamp the way they're doing it Fox
I mean the onion defense can definitely make black dragons cry the way that
Team Liquid is just approaching the map is very smart I mean right out the
gate, K bandit band so you'd imagine that getting walls clearing walls is going to be very difficult, but what does seem liquid Alienware do they're running the denarii they're running utility to stall out pushes like go yo like Ella like denarii and then they're running the nor to be able to slow down the walls, slow down the walls put pressure on any type of shield player
that might come through, and then just creating so many layers that Black Dragons has to clear
so much utility, and even if they can get through the utility, they're still a little bit left in
sight, but they have to always attack the site with 30 to 40 seconds left, and that's where the
pressure is put on them. And Team Liquid Alienware is just able to sit back and wait
for kills to just walk into their crosshairs, as essentially what they have to do the last
two rounds especially there was really nothing that could go wrong.
Maya was able to clutch up a nice 1v1 because you have to put the diffuser down.
In the last round you have to push into the site despite not being able to clear deployable
shields or open up walls. So Team Liquid Alienware is just playing the map perfectly to a T
running through with the utility and it's very difficult. Black Dragons has no response.
you simply cannot bring enough utility to deal with everything. So Black Dragons now with
the swap sides, they only have one round. It's not really enough of a cushion, but they're
going to have to understand that Tim Lecatele and ours probably going to be running some
shields of their own. They're going to be running utility of their own. And I have
a feeling that Black Dragons is going to play a little bit more aggressive than T
Law did, which unfortunately I don't think is going to work.
don't play standard if you're black dragons here you'll fall into the trap that tell you where
inadvertently is laying for you though you're talking about the new you know what noor means
in arabic fox no noor means light and speaking of light the light of our lives demo and fluke
take it away oh thank you that's so much nicer than my throw right just take two things that i've
said and and just said them again like like a joke
I gotta work on these I'm gonna work on these damn I
should be better what's a lovely thing I can what I was gonna do you I was gonna
say has to be very much like the black dragon's half here needs to be a lot
better than what you had in the first half that is what I do wow what a
wonderful impression of me thank you I feel a lot worse to be known as to be
loved a lot worse yeah I'm aware you shouldn't okay listen again how I start
this off I like so everybody was sick and armor everybody should have a full
set of medieval armor you've tried to plug this the past few years
Take nobody by on that.
I would love one day, John Ubisoft, if you're listening, I want to cast a game of Rainbow
Six whilst wearing my full armor.
Now I understand this brings a lot of audio problems.
I understand that.
Chainmail, super loud.
Also, would you get the value out of it because I dare say you hear us more than
you see us.
You do.
It would be, it takes 40 minutes to get into a set of harness armour to then fight people.
It's a bit like the, you know, in the movie industry.
You go and do your make-up and you're sat there in the chair for six hours to film half an hour.
Yeah. Yeah. I have to be fair, that has happened at maybe the International Show,
we'll talk about season and stuff, we'll talk about season.
I have been in hair and makeup chair for a major final for two hours and then
Even when it's not like typical I've been on cam for ten seconds
And I and I sit there and I think is this worth it and then I look at a photo and I'm like, oh, this is worth it
Anyway
Maya take a bit of damage
Demos, a bit shaky and Monty is obviously the ban and the removal here, so we're not
going to have a similar sort of plan approach as we had in the opening half, but there it's
Team McRailing where they're probably not going to run the same routes that they did.
Will KZ be involved in the opening kill conditions?
Has been the killer and the death multiple times throughout this?
Really just getting around underway and to be fair, we talked about it before, that's
the confidence that you need from your entry to make sure that even when things
are going away from them they still try and hit their head against it to make it go right.
Daisy mentioned having a great time as certainly the past few rounds it has been a nightmare
trying to get back to that first two round glory that he had, still no pick as of yet
and I mean second remaining it is a bit of a weird one. No there he is it's it's
kill or not to kill that is the question and that round KZ another opening kill under his belt
black dragons still a bit of pressure upstairs oh down goes KZ down goes a lot of players from
team with an alien where Viya able to get up on the back that swags over the drain and belief
box all on his lumson he's inside of animus and do exactly where he is he are ringing out 15
seconds he has the kit but like no way he's gonna be able to get that plant down best he can do is
find a few exits. Look at the players from Black Dragons just sat holding their angles swag
they're happy to let him go for the swing because they know there's still two players up and remaining
and oh there it is final kill comes in Black Dragons well I did ask for a bare half that's a
good start 5-2 now. I mean it had to be the start they needed right they have to try when
when you're in a 5-1 situation,
mission one is stay off of
that final round as best as possible.
There's still a chance at three points,
there's still a chance of getting towards the end.
The likelihood is that they will be able to pull around
against you, a flawless response to a 5-1 half
isn't the most common,
but it's possible and it's possible
because you try and win every single round
up until you fail,
but you have to look towards the single picture.
You have to look towards the idea
They will not get one more
That's perfect way to start even though I lost that opening body now
The opening kill being the story for the first four rounds it very much wasn't in since then
It's been kind of taken away KZ
Was once a once again able to get that open kill
Didn't quite get anything further for it back here up to the top floor
We'll see if this will be the same flaws as before
Five seconds to meet the target.
Attackers are moving out of the locator.
Upstairs, Black Dragons. Successful on the basement.
They can maybe go for the full rotation the same way that Team Liquid Alienware did.
Or Team Liquid Alienware.
They didn't move quick enough, ideally, and then whenever they kind of realized,
Oh, no, there's about 40 seconds left after I get a move on and free-naven
Things like having a player still upstairs in games
It's just something that shouldn't be happening for for a team of this caliber for team liquid alien where black dragon just allowed to get away with murder
See if this round goes any better for them the Maverick on board to go for the Maverick trick
Always have to be careful though with the C4s. It could be unleashed upon you
Thankfully there is a flare on the cover there, so that doesn't happen any more.
Well, it should be opened up with these.
Maybe just hoping that somebody's gonna be foolishin' up the stick of head in the hole instead.
The warden, a little bit frisky there.
He's back to life in the meantime.
Still, gonna try another...
What, I mean, Black Dragon's Flute? They're not shyin' away from the engagements.
No, I think that's what you kind of need to do though, right? If you hit them with confidence and you can play confidently, you need to make sure that you're still locking down.
Round after round is the deep pressure, BMRs vs Teezer Barricade, the tail is over time.
I haven't been able to catch any players on the back end of it, at this point we're just sort of putting utility into utility.
You can see that they put a VMP pressure on towards anything that's trying to get rid of
the camera on the back of the land, they're looking towards IT itself and there it goes.
That camera but they've still got a pulse.
Just reading all of this sort of pressure and as soon as they step in it can be swung
on the back.
Oh no!
Pulse is dead!
Two quick kills!
Come back here for the side of Black Dragons, they're making sure they respond with
aggression.
Unfortunately that one, a little bit of mispleasure, 3 versus 3 becomes a 2 versus
3.
Black Dragon still holding on towards the defense here, still putting pressure outside of the site itself at least for Leapox and JB92, a nice little combo of utility in 50 seconds to try to make it work, but up against the C4, they're up against the man who can see through the smoke coverage, and up against people that just see me go for fights.
Rotate, JV, thought that's not just both double up in towards Catwalk, I'll go IT and see if I can maybe try and find a pick, there's going to be a C4 ripped in a hole JV, just dodges out of that, oh it's going to be a trade though, that's not good for Team Liquid Alienware, they need it, one kill, not trade, and at least still the 1v2 disadvantage,
box goes down, black dragons doubling up together and that's two! Two defences in a row! Can they
maybe go for free? I mean what a what a return to form that would be right? For everything that
we've sort of raised is questions about them onto this site and onto this map. They found some form
and I sort of raised the question of like what lessons have been learned. Fairly enough that
it's forced Team Liquid Alienware's timeout and conversation here after those two rounds
But again still, think about the last two rounds, they did not get the open kill on
either of them and yet, they were still able to push the round in towards their favour.
It's not that they can't attack this map, in fact, it's Team Liquid Alienware's preference,
they're struggling against this defence.
This is a situation for Team Liquid Alienware, but they just want to try and stop that momentum
now, break them whenever it comes to the third bomb site.
I mean, they know what the site is, which I think is very important, so they can have
a little chat and say, okay, we know what site it is, let's go for this attack, let's
go for this.
I don't know, I think it's a very strange game.
Never seen Liquid Alienware were kind of flying high in, of course, opening half. They took a 5-1 leap.
Through really black dragons, I would say being very dominant on their defensive half.
I mean, King Liquid Alienware, I feel, haven't really had a snap.
I think it becomes that weird element where, because they're in the 5-1, how much did they take their foot off the pedal?
Think about how active they were on their defense. Think about how often we saw KZ running into these engagements.
How often we would see, you know, Maia trying to find the second one towards the back of it.
And just all these different positions. And then they get here, and I'm not saying they're too close,
but they can't seem to decide where they want to bite.
They're struggling with that anticipation of where the defender's going to be.
And maybe, maybe, maybe part of that is because we did not really see this half from Black Dragon.
all the prepped in the world on how to stop and attack them back dragons because they
saw six exiles from a recent pod because of those six exiles they didn't see a lot of
the other side of it and I'm not saying it's complacency but black dragons are playing
without complacency they're still stepping in they're still biting at every opportunity
now it's us to be that rock back in here the five to one becomes a five to four
It's a quick thread of a story, I've been told.
I'm victory.
Again, gonna be implemented.
Also, the damage there is pressure as well.
See, Flea Pox has just went, hello.
A bit of the skeleton key, shotgun ammo into the wall and just left that.
just left that so it's not necessarily something that they want to push right now but it just
gives them an option later on and also it's something that Black Dragons have to worry
about you know whenever that wall's been opened up you have to be very very careful.
So from the pardaline where you can see that their intention which is to be that plot
board clear at the moment in towards IT.
I can get the probably flood blocks in towards IT and open up the vertical angles and
then perhaps jump in towards storage.
There is a very strong hold upstairs from Black Dragons, a pretty stiff one.
Inward Rafters, you've got the Azami, which is always going to be a bit of a nuisance
we know that.
C4.
It's going to be shot, I believe it was, yeah it was shot.
No value out of the C4, there's still one more though from Romeo.
I thought it was trying his best to try and get a move here, but if you look
at Alienware, it's timing more than anything.
I mean, a minute remaining, you've lost the opening pick.
What have you really taken? You've got I.T. Breach up and that's it. They're still players
in towards Raptors for goodness sake.
Creeping their way through and put right back down. The five versus two as they just keep
adding body after body. Swag goes down because it really matters. Nades follows, not long
after. Wow. A team of greenwear timeout into a flawless round loss. And it's not
how we expected the second half to go down.
Oh, it's not.
And you look at Alienware, they used their time out and they were not successful, didn't
break it.
I4, all credit, Black Dragons, I mean, this is, this is what you want to see though.
This is what we talk about with Black Dragons, where they're a team which is on the cusp
of trying to cement themselves out of it.
I would also compare them very similar to almost GK inside of EU at the moment
as well, where they're this side who have really improved over the past year. They're
now in a position where they can transmit themselves and get in towards that top four,
especially whenever the doors open. You look at the side of Fluxy W7M, who for a long time
was considered a top four team in this league. Now that Dev kind of fell by the wayside,
obviously the disband of NIP has also helped that. It has left a big door open and who knows
black dragons could be the team to slot in there. I think that's always the
argument right is what happens when you are missing an element from the top four
we talked about it a bit before of like how important it becomes when you have
these teams that have often been trying to fight for it you have lost you have
loud you have these sort of known names that have been knocking on the door
of it but not quite able to make it especially when obviously you've
had some of those teams make international runs but black dragons
a team that used to be or as an org, one of those top dogs, one of the big big teams unfortunately
faded away. Increases of memory went through roster rebuilds but if they're the team to
lock in, if they're the team to lock on, I mean, this guy's the sort of limit right?
They were 8 in the previous split. They're currently eyeing up that top 4 and well here
they're making sure that anyone in that top four knows that they are swinging
for them
we'll see if they can try and grow beyond this obviously you know they've gone
from a 5-1 to a 5-4 one more round they're back towards the opening start
the opening defense on a bit of a tricky site and what sort of changed here
obviously we've had a little bit more control over the hard breach the
limitations the kaid and the thermite are both gone
But, when you now look towards what the attackers are doing differently, you can see Doc himself
a little bit more active on the swing, it's an entirely different roster, putting themselves
in the Grim, the Doc, being the Ying.
These guys want a brawl.
Swapping mags!
Alright, opening pick.
That has a well-needed kill, gives them a little bit of hope.
See if they can establish them a foothold.
Last time they were down attacking me in the basement.
I didn't bring in the Yngwiech.
You can already hear the Kandelas are going off there from Nade.
I wonder if that's going to be the change of pace.
It's having just a little bit of vision power,
power bringing in a different operator that Black Dragons haven't played against
shit in this game. Still much thicker pace here for Team Liquid Alien where
still a bit of work to do. They have to try and get in towards killer and control
Black Scythe and that Leapox is actually in the bombsite. I think he's just
walked in through Animus. I don't know. Black Dragons have been hit in the
middle of the bombsite and now they're scattered now just trying their
best to get into a better position but it's not gonna be the case. Rare,
able to take down KZ upstairs. It's gonna be a 2v3 and bomb site control in favor of Team Liquid Alienware.
All I have to do is try and walk in, get that fuse replanted, and rare. Oh, it's a lot of damage through the wall.
I'm gonna try as best as I can with that SMG to find a pick. Incuse the ping as well from the solid snake.
He will scan them out on the goggles go. It should be a dead rare he has in one HP, an easy one from IA.
Now Swag, you know exactly where he is, he was scanned previously, in goes the Grimms,
I mean it's just a little bit of util, it makes all the difference in Team Liquid Alienware
with the ying, with the Grimms making things happen.
He's replanted and Swag, in the 1v3 this is going to be difficult.
Yes, so it was.
I went away from them and now, the distance has spread so far, I need two rounds, think
about it, think about the things that we sort of talked about it, how far they've been able
to get, the fact that they went from a 5-1 towards this situation, they know that they
can tie some rounds in a row, they know that they can win multiple sites, so keep the
rotation, come back to command center, see if you can get yourself on towards the
top thought was the second choice before fine but i think at this point give them the fresh
challenges they have to answer give them the fresh problems that they have to try and bite their way
through. Fortunately we're entering just another brief tech pause. Anticipation puts us all on
I'm sure
This point team look good early on I'd guaranteed themselves at least a point keep themselves fighting towards the top
But the fact that obviously these are fury I take four points earlier on they're gonna want to keep the pace
Yeah, I think what's up really well the desk there is
Whenever you know that
You look at the phase matchup, you'd expect face to win, you know, against a team like
INCE who are towards the bottom end, phase at the end of the day.
You always, like I mentioned, always want to try and keep on pace with phase as best
as you can.
And obviously for the team Liquid, it's getting another three points on the board, get yourselves
back up there, just try to stay as competitive as you can.
But again, just apologies for the slight delay that we have had.
I'm just gonna have a look. Yeah, it's tomorrow is the big one by the way
It's a red versus blue tomorrow base versus team liquid alien wear
It's the final game of the night as we know always the main event is is the later game isn't it's the last game the main event
It's so weird because I definitely feel as though like an email
I know we do it a lot where we always say like the middle match is like the main event
I think that's because we always scheduled G2 as like the prime time part like people to watch each
um because g2 is g2 but i don't know just from my perspective i always think the the last game should
be like the main event the way i suppose that's probably my wrestling brain turning on i think
i mean you want the main event towards the end because it's the same with like boxing right
yeah yeah yeah exactly the same yeah like you you get people it's the same with live music
if you have the headliner and then you have the other things uh and and you give experience
to the others and then it's slightly different in that everybody's here to watch everybody but
you know. I'm gonna check when the last time GT actually played as the last match in the email
because I don't know if it's ever happened before. How's that happened? I checked. I think because of our
I mean I don't know if they still do it. I haven't got a single not well not this stage
not another games or last play day let's check check the stage one. I believe our scheduling
system tries to put the later night players a bit earlier wrong.
I don't know, I've seen VP play last year and I don't know if I'm straight right.
They used to do that.
What do they do nowadays?
I don't know what to do.
64.
The back end in the Gralionware.
I mean they were 5-1 at one point.
Black Dragons.
I kinda want them to have a little bit more of a punch
towards this game that they well aren't.
Right, and you really feel like they've earned a chance at a point.
Let's see if they can try and make it happen here on towards the top.
Now some of what we did right here last time, was their confidence.
How much they would swing out. How aggressive they wish to be on their defense.
Yeah, good black dragons.
try and keep up the same thing they were doing the first three rounds they weren't afraid of
engaging against him liquid Alienware just fun fact I did find the last time she played
us as the last game. June 23rd 2025. Oh wow it's been a while. Yeah I certainly think Black
dragons still a good opportunity you get to go back upstairs again which you had a successful
climb last time you were here I mean it came down obviously to a 1v2 but we knew it was it
was always going to go in favor of black dragons just because of their opening they were able to
get the the opening pick so they went a man up they wasted a lot of time just about the time
wasting more for me I think Team Liquid Alienware they've just been pretty slow on the draw
today. Then when you see a blitz, you think, okay, it could be a little bit better of the
pace and then a very early opening kill port in two. Especially one of the more earlier
rounds that we've had since the first two opening picks and the whole JV with a double.
3v4, black dragons. It's not looking good. After I'm gone, rafters control in favor
of the attackers and oh, back sabotec fish, we love that.
Well, this might be Ulster right at this point, not much help between the two remaining players
and even less now one of them's down on the ground, he's doing his best for his best!
Not quite enough, unfortunately they fall a bit short, Team Likudelian where they stand tall though.
They're able to find Prista game over the edge and take the full three points.
Yep, just took them a while to get there, obviously the majority of the work being done in the opening half.
a 5-1 at that point, you know, Black Dragons has to play really, really well on top of their game,
and they did that for the first half, and then they just ran out of steam.
Team Liquid Alienware cleans it up in the final two rounds of that game,
seven-four, all three points job done, it's the pressure back on phase now.
That's it, the pressure's back on them for one more swing, but
let's go to the sweetheart and the star of siege, Milosh and Fox.
You are both of those fox just so we're clear the sweetheart and and everything that I see
you anyways you know what it's one of those moments anyways the big victory for t-law in
this matchup at some point it was inevitable after the way that the first half came down
we talked about it in the halftime between us and they were able to close it seven
to four and very good for T-Law every point really does matter they will jump up with all three of them
into the number one position awaiting the face clan matchup at the very end of the day though
Fox what do you think should in terms of siege and e-sports should the headlining match of an
online group stage be the middle or the end of the day i'm curious
The end. The end. Everything builds up to that last match. I mean, when I was a competitor,
I loved it being at the start of the day because you can see it happen or if you're, I mean,
I was, if I was playing and it was the headline game of the day, you get it out of the way first.
But as a viewer, I'd say the end of the day, it has the build up. Everyone wants to get to it.
It's the most anticipated. And I'd say this game itself had a lot of build up. I thought
team liquid Alienware was gonna get hop on attack and just be able to close it
out but black dragons perform very well again I mean they're fighting for their
top four position they're fighting to be able to confirm themselves into play
officers a couple more play days but that being said I mean they keep putting
up performances like this hopefully they're gonna be able to get more
points because I believe we've talked about all throughout the weeks it's
only gonna get that much harder for black dragons as the time goes on because
They have to play against Furia tomorrow.
They have to play against the Loud next week.
And then I believe they also have to play against FaZe
in the final playday.
So there's, you know, they got like coming down for them.
And it would have been a scary sight to see
if they did not bring it back, which they did.
And that's a very big mental task for them to do.
So I got to commend them for that,
to be able to almost bring it to over time
and get points.
That being said, Team Liquid Alienware,
that five round lead for them
to be able to just close it out.
That's all they needed was two more.
And they got there.
I think what was it for T-Law like beating
Furia a week or so ago was really, really important.
Now, tomorrow, the fact that they're playing against
FaZe Clan is even more important.
That's really the big fight.
And I think finally, I guess in 2026,
we can call FaZe versus Team Liquid Alienware
a true classical because for the past few years,
it has definitely not lived up to the expectations in that sense, but that's just more for T-Law
to prepare in the future.
Today, it was not even labs, they made it happen.
Numbers not as good, I'd say, for JV, respectively, go even crazier, but Outlaw did incredibly
well.
Sorry, Mr. Outlaw, Dr. Professor, Mr. Outlaw, doing really well, team playing as best as
they could here Black Dragons.
enough it is a tough fight regardless even if they get no points out of it as
you mentioned but the remain in the top four even in there in the top six that's
still fine yes but should they hold on to the top four they're gonna be very
happy with that they're already gonna be up in the upper bracket and get an
extra life even if they get knocked down into a lower bracket it just means
that their playoffs chances of actually making it to the Osaka major go
exponentially higher. Now, let's say the biggest win here for T-Law is the fact that they didn't have
huge performers popping off. JV92, I mean everybody was doing their job, but we didn't have a JV92
or KZ on my pop-off game and I think that's the best part about it is Team Liquid Alienware
has really been trying to stress. Being able to have adaptability, being able to have an
IGL being able to call the shots and everybody working together and not relying on these big plays
We were talking about it before the game even started so for them to finally have a situation where people are doing their job
They're not overperforming. Let's really use it to our advantage on a map like night Haven Labs
It was very well played
That's a huge win for them to be able to adapt and go on the fly and see what they need to change in the moment
really good testing ground for them and being able to get a full three points
from it is obviously the cherry on top. Very much so, Nade MVP for the matchup
as you see well done you're expecting Nade or really handy twin brothers by the
way to always do well it kind of runs in the family I would love to spend like a
week with them just to see how this develops how would you have two twin
brothers that play so so well on the highest level competition in Rainbow
They're just must be something in the water in Brazil in general, but especially in their home
Investigations, maybe somebody for their master's thesis. I don't I'm just throwing ideas out there
However, we're gonna go through with the master himself Igor joining us on the interview from TL
Alienware Igor get to see you again and get to have you on here victory
I was in here last week to celebrate your win against Furia. That was big right?
gives you the extra points going into today. How do that motivate you also to say,
hey, we can keep doing this. We can rack up the points and be number one.
So I think last weekend was really good for us because we get like six points and we won for the first time for you.
And we had a good week off brackets. So today we started the weekend really well.
We get the three points and that's it. I think we played well.
Well, you guys got amazing, I think the best part about it was everyone was doing their job
but we didn't have a huge KZ game or a huge JB92 game because we were able to focus on
the adaptation.
And I wanted to know if that's something that you have felt improvement on and the practice
side of things is, you know, Felly Pox and the IGL and adaptation has that's been
something that has been a focus on making sure is as good as it can be so that
you can have that and huge games from your players.
I think today we won like in the pactical stuff because our map is better than from black dragons
They had a huge loss in the last weekend like they I think was seven
Oh, I don't remember and today like I said we didn't have like a huge performance from KZ or DV92
But I think Nade played really well, so he won the clutch we needed
So, it's all the time this, when we needed to heal with that, and I think Nade was deserved the MVP.
He sure did. And, you know, we asked you when you were going up against Furia how you felt about that matchup, and you said that, you know, we're not the better team right now, but we're going to be better.
And you guys are playing face tomorrow. Do you feel like you're the better team right now?
And I think from phase, I think FUDA is still better than us and I think phase to FUDA it's a long gap, phase is the best team right now, but it's only a best of one.
So everything can happen like in the last split we lost for them in the best of one, but when we were playing for this spot in the WC we won.
So I think it's gonna be a good match, but we know they are better right now and that's it
We need to do our job and I think it's gonna be a good game
That's the one that's the three you have to put your best foot forward Igor. Thank you very much
Congratulations on the win. Can't wait to see you tomorrow in our big highlight game at the end of the day
That's a classical liquid Alienware versus face plan. Have a good night. I hope so. Bye. Bye
And there it is a big victory for Igor and the team, but that is only our fourth game
out of the five because you've been asking where are face plan don't worry they're sitting
in this side, waiting for their game against INTZ coming after the break.
I
Spawns gets one is one spawns gets two
Down you and I was one more leaving one alive
Fighting for his life on the ass you close out the fight
If there's a stake step in, why are you ganging me?
Four kills in a row, and yeah, completely falling down.
Supremacy are still alive.
I was like, what's earlier, but this is when we saw the...
Oh!
Adam!
Look at that, baby!
Get that headshot through the Lamborghini doorway in the lobby.
That's gonna be my mind charming.
And I will cut down one of the rovers on Faze's behalf.
Oh, Brantos!
New to the double!
Goga and Jonas vanquished, leaving Kanto Riketti to deal with the three remaining numbers of days.
And this is a very winnable position with an R4C in the hands of the Finn.
We'll need to grab the diffuser.
It's quite a ways away.
And Moringa thrown with the shotgun blast.
Can't do around the corner!
Double!
Watercourt!
Can't do the madman!
Silencing the crowd!
And G2 a 4-2!
They combined for 20 kills at this point.
Still sitting at a kill per round as an average.
Spoiled on the board so MAD has a good shot.
The smoke of Polly will swing under losing the duel.
Now a double lineup on the same door.
The spoid almost handles both of them, but only does a little bit of damage now he's on the ground and that sidearm is so good.
Town goes to a packer with a punity training of the diffuser down that realizes he doesn't have an opening, but spoids there for the quad kill.
It's him and Resets with packer holding on to that diffuser.
Spoid just waiting for it and how about an ace to send the map away into the wind column 4M80.
He won in North America, they won in Europe, and they've done it for the first time in
South America.
Your champions for the season 8 finals, the most decorated team in Rainbow Six.
EU, close to getting the victory.
And he goes down!
G2 will take, go in!
And for one more time, G2 will take it!
They're still gonna come and claim that diffuser into the bad spot.
And quite honestly, based on pick up, they're attacking nature on this map.
This map could be the bad spot for them.
That's a nice hold, but so much still needs to be done.
They go all their way through this site, and suddenly they've opened up the front door and through the house, they get Robbie just caught up in an actual big kitchen.
His position is done.
That's the headshot of the 10-second-
This is right, bro!
A straight-up and all of which came in here!
Went to the absolute plastic round!
He's picking up his model leaky bike.
The only player left is Shukio on Beepers in the 1 vs 3.
For all the time the BDSR, for all the information is gonna come close, it's gonna come down to no wire!
Swungo's in.
Leaky fight, he's found Wadi, he's gonna try and split these two apart, he picks the first!
There's five seconds left, it is Swungo beef!
It's the last bird this great that never should have been!
Oh, there you go, another logic problem is the smoke will choke out shuttle, and toss
it a smoke grenade at its own and push it with the S12.
Oh, a great shot all the way across to marry you, a long angle with a recoil that can be
quite unruly to control.
Now, see, Racial inside a connector, he's got great precision, but he loses to
shuttle, and another one nearly for shuttle.
He misses the shot, put the flick behind, there's only one more left in the
What is going on? An incredible clutch to the shuttle.
Refires his way through the door, gets behind the study door, but still, there's three people that you've got to open the fast in the slow lane.
And I decide to clutch, killing twenty seconds on the board. He's going to see if he can play it.
And that's the end of the space station!
Rocket launch the ace!
Volt sends it into space itself!
Look behind him, the stars are around space station!
And they bring this one around!
He's having co-offing.
Hello everybody and welcome back to our ultimate game of the evening.
I feel like a ringside announcer in this just to really try to hype it up because we got face plan coming up
And we've lit the whole house for it. They're playing against
INTZ and we got to talk about our two teams also with INTZ the team that wants to do it all
One that we talked about quite a bit in the first week
Unfortunately looking at the results over the past couple playdays things have not really translated into more victories despite the close game
last Sunday
We've only had them get one overtime lost point versus the liquid and from that we thought
they would be a contender, they would be stealing points.
Every game they've kept it fairly close against the harder teams.
I mean the 7-5 lost to Fiora, like you said a 7-5 lost to Black Dragons.
Now it's good that the whole team is getting on board because in their first match up
it really was just Naka, but since that breakout game against Team Liquid even where
Not because I would I don't want to say underperformed but he hasn't really been setting for playing to his expectations of that first match
So it's unfortunate
But the rest of the team has come a lot and that's big to part because it is a team effort
And they've gotten two of some of the big teams out of the way
And now they have a few easier games on the horizon
But that being said they need to be able to get some points under the board. We're going up against face today
I
I would love to see them just keep it close. Maybe squeak out an overtime, but it is phase and
You just got to be able to you know
Take over the grain assault and know that something that they're doing is working and hopefully they'll be able to get some
points as they get some easier opponents and
Playing against the harder teams is the best way to get practice and preparation and I hate to say that I feels like
We're already writing them off, but we're going against phase
How would how can you not write anybody off going up against phase?
That's that's pretty much the difficulty of it all just trying to kind of rate the team and anybody's performance against phase is
Incredibly difficult, which is why every round one renowned then it just
It adds to how much we would rate you higher and higher if you if you can defeat phase man
You got you got the key to winning a world championship. That's how crazy it gets though phase on the other side
Please my friends join us for the Glace Session best team in the world. They've done it all they look to
Win a wager major finally for for for handy I guess but other than that
They're looking for another finals in the Invitational to win it all and guess what they're already qualified for it because they won
EWC which automatically qualifies you to the Invitational so how happy can you get well you think
happiness kind of flows all around in this team but KDS is not really someone
who shows much in the way of joy and emotion even when he's lifting the
trophy that's worth a million dollars but what can I say I have never won any of
those maybe it's actually not as cool as I think it is to really be super
excited when you lift a hammer or an EWC trophy. Oh it is pretty cool I can
from it from it doesn't make a show like that. What have you
on? Dream Act Montreal, a couple Canadian D trophies and
NAL stage, you know, the big stuff. Um, that one said for
FaZe, I mean, for them, it's almost expected and it's a
regular stage right now. So, every win is just another day
in the office and you weren't here but last week when they
put against Los the only time on the facecams where phase was smiling KDS
specifically was smiling was in the round that they lost the 7-1 win in the
one round that they lost was the only time that I saw KDS smile on that whole
series so maybe it's a little bit of they want somebody to eventually beat
them so that they can make themselves better I mean they're perfect in
every category they can adapt everything the five most adaptable
players they can play every play style and they have some amazing
shooters on the team too and
You know, they say it's another day in the office for them. It's another day in the office for us talking about phase
There's no nothing that we can't say about them. They're amazing and we're probably gonna have another interview with the JP
Soon as a permacost
Yeah, I bet you got him on the day right
Honestly at this point why not just because of the way that it's all been going though KDS might be
even though it doesn't look like it maybe he's the Vegeta of Rainbow Six. Man, it's
just only happy when he gets to toy with his prey and here they're gonna go to
Lair. Faze having the choice of removing Bank and taking a stare. They're
starting on the attack on it. I guess Sadomasochism is something that runs
in there but maybe Gideas is just gonna enjoy it even more. It's very
interesting that they go to Lair and they ban out Bank. I mean your Faze
you could use the same type of
ideology that fury has been
using, which is just going to
the same maps to hide it, but
they're really just flexing
their map pool trying to get
game day reps practice on
every single map that they
can. It's phase at the end of
the day. They're going to be
starting on attack. I think
they get, you know, even two
rounds, which I think they
would get more than that,
but this was I TZ's best
performing map when they
played against team liquid
that brought him to
overtime and it was not
anything to give INTZs fans hope it'll be that it is arguably their best performing map
so far that we've seen well well well then let's get this game underway as you see it
with the casters taking it on demo full colors oh thank you very much mr. lush we find ourselves
here back in the punishment zone potentially for INTZ and it's also the fair point because
they've talked about why would you bring phase to this map or phase love to play any map they'll
stress themselves out they'll they'll explore maps right and in terms of their sort of lair
performance you know it's a two to two uh for 90z it is a six to two for phase plan but
hup if i send my memory back towards split one or whether they say oh they went to they went to
border! They tried to take phase climb to BORDER! Which INTZ were 0 and 3 on, I believe around
that time. Or 0 and 2 on even. And phase climb were, I think about 5 and 0. At that point
they're currently 8 and 0. And it went 7-1 towards phase's favour. So it becomes the
hard pick of maybe INTZ are just trying to stretch out and play difficult maps against
difficult teams. Maybe they're just expecting a result and they're trying to find a way to get through it.
I think the map pick I think it is certainly up against. I did it. I just think overall
face really really strong on a map like Lair. Good record on it. 6-2. Last time they played it,
it was against Fury. Another team who is also at the top of the table so I just think for a
face. It's just a good map, but then again, it's always an angel question. What map do
you take face to? You know, that's the issue never comes the best one. They're never going
to play a match that they're quote unquote weak on. I'd say, you know, we know that
they have their bands, you know, cafe is obviously a big hurdle band for phase. And
other than that, really, phase can go anywhere that they want to. So right now, or anti
obviously going to be defending in towards our top four bombsite. At the moment it's going to be
quite a lot of Guto on the side of space and in goes the Ying shot down. We've seen this all too
often and Solz as the opening pit stand goes STK and they're only going to try and fight back.
Space, I've got firm control now of mezz and control Saffron.
Well, bit of C4 damage done towards KDF. The shield is able to stay standing at this point
and they've obviously lost the man who can directly counter that. This newer is gone from it.
The wide swing doesn't quite net the result that they want. The hand does take the scratcher damage.
You can see that he's trying to still lead in towards the approach here.
And in the next turn, they've done some of that cursory damage towards it,
but they're still being quite active with the deployment of their utility.
Obviously, the bandits kept that little part of the look, because underneath,
you assume there's the demos trying to cause some pressure on towards Arthur,
who can't quite hold on towards the connection. The first is lost.
Cyber just kills you before you see him at that point and there's another one for a tally
There's the track from underneath on towards the thorn. He just does get two
Gets to down on the bit of king levels things and just make sure
He didn't lose that mad advantage, but
In a five to three to a three to two
Work here has been done blind for all that as the knacker gets himself one for the round
bit of king is going to see if you can try and plant, put the pressure back on, phase in
and make sure, get the canister fueled, make sure they keep stepping in as the swing comes
round towards the top, it's KDS getting one and now the smoke, giving try and by himself
just a bit of space, just hoping the shield swings round but you know watching from range
and look at where the shield is going as well, it's just a very awkward retake
in this situation, can't quite get round for long arm because phase with the short
arm.
as a mean one there I think for wraps it just wasn't in the position to use the
smokes we've seen that the plant was going down. He still had two smoke
counters, one of that was your plant. So I think there is a case where they
probably could have done better in that ratific phase obviously hit a bit of a
stormer in that opening, taken mehs very early on, utilized in the Ying,
using the shield and then I think angels kind of gave a lifeline over to his team
but in the grand scheme of things it still wasn't enough even I think for
phase whatever they get their toe in the war you know they're fully submerged in
I think then being able to take mezz straight away as early on it just
initially put I did that just in the back foot and I just think they
really struggled to recover from that point. And look, as soon as that diffuser gets planted,
you know, FaZe just sit back, they can hold that, there's EZ's delight, KDN's are still
alive, picks up the double kill. And it's unfortunate, I think there's moments there
that they could have denied the plant, but I think they said the smoke just was not
switched on.
So I heard that they've sort of talked about how much of this is the choice of punishment,
FaZe, how much really needs to get on their attack sort of things, because you look
of their defense of the four maps that they've played so far of the 20 rounds
they've lost three defense rounds it there's just a terrifying back half of
this game that you're always building into and they're gonna make it as scary
as possible because now it's this element of like okay well they've got
on one they kind of need to get no more than two and they've immediately
got one uh-oh how much of this is gonna be sort of extended by that
Go through and you've got now change of sites. They're gonna see if we can
Try and make that very interesting bunks briefing site work instead of go back towards the top
We'll go down to the basement instead play something with a little bit of wiggle room force them into maybe more difficult situations
Faze. Ready to see if I can sort this top floor it looks like. But that ying, the players
in towards bathroom and in towards top mezz. In for handy, can use those candles in towards
that top floor assistus team. Oil's being popped early, that she placed up stairs so
Let's see, the defense were expecting FaZe to try and clear above, and they're going
to use the flames to delight time upstairs, rather than in towards the site.
Let's try and...
I'll have to take a minute to just catch the C4, perhaps, if it does get tossed over.
Time at the moment.
Get ready!
No way.
Save it!
And everyone just getting in position, this is classic FaZe.
There's a shield.
This is a pretty dangerous shield too. It's one that you don't see all too often and they're going to use the gondolas to stun out on that warden.
Make sure he can't use the goggles, and there's at least the kill onto the warden.
And FaZe, able to clean up now as they've entered in towards that top floor, in towards Tetris.
That mirror window, that reverse mirror window, we talked about that earlier whenever we've seen Blair.
It'll be a quick couple of trades and it will be.
They's able to dismantle his top floor whole all the action not in the bomb site
Just above it now won't be free that are perhaps to try and deal with but yes
No, we're facing and drop into the hatch now. They can just walk into site
Easily get that diffuser down if they want to
Yeah, overall good attack from face
That's
Kind of the problem right now is what can't watch the fact that all of that happened over the top floor
and he still got a drop down it became strangely silent after Arthur got that last kill in the sort of back-and-forth engagement
There was nobody around it was it was still and there's a lot of time and it just became this moment of oh
Yeah, they can just take the site
They'll they'll just process over the edge and as you said all of that violence happening above the site itself
And it coming out so fervently in towards his phases favor whilst they still had multiple people
entirely somewhere else
Just shows the power of this officer unfortunately.
Two rounds now in a row.
I'm worrying, I'm worrying a little bit.
You're quite right to say that at the moment for FaZe.
Just looking very surgical isn't it? They know exactly what they want to do.
I think the yings, the candela placements have been great.
I love that little addition of having the the factor with the EMP gadget out
You can of course stop the C4s it could be or any smoke canisters that could have been used to play that push
But more importantly using it to disable
the blinders on the
on the warden so
I just think phase already for a lot of the things that the defense is doing and
Now you kind of look at
to say okay now you're gonna go in towards the basement you're gonna go for the full rotation
but you couldn't defend also you couldn't defend your mid floor is basement gonna get any better
no probably not i mean it becomes that risky sort of moment because well what do you change
right so far you've had two examples of two holes and two great shutdowns from phase and
there's almost that weird element where you're saying well would this like get better it's impossible
to know really. I can say no but so far FaZe have had great openings but you almost want
them to try and use this as you would with a scrim and double down on towards one of
the sites that you've lost. Try and learn immediate lessons and see what you can do.
I guess in the other extension of that they're going to keep the site rotating, they're
going to keep things changing but it's almost just entering like the punishment
nexus. You just cannot escape this zone of pain.
Here they're cutting the hole in towards the middle, putting the pressure on that
outside the windows and it's obviously taken sliver of damage. He has been the
player with the most impact so far from the side of IMTZ but the impact has been
pretty flat-handed from plays against them.
No quiet, floor face, half the round gone, I've got a way in towards garage, in towards
lockers, no pits at this moment, 3-4 roamers, I mean it's a pretty heavy hold, 4 INTZ as
we can see, make sure that there are players on the verticals, wall make phase are happy
enough to let that happen unless they may be going to use handy. He is all the way upstairs
into that top floor, buying himself on the ramp. Maybe he's going to try and... I spoiler
these roamers, but really for Cyber he has got one job. Hold the line. Hold the flight.
Nobody crosses the each watch tower. Let's say so. There we go. In goes the dump.
the way in there's a clash that is zapping them but the glass is watching through the smoke as soon as they go to deploy at the play they're there to watch the last kill comes it was a technical plant in a 10 player situation but now we're down to 9
and one of those was the clash your chance at the rolling blockade moving in they're watching and waiting cyber has 8 in jails
And now her 5 versus 3 versus 2.
Okay at least gets one back but as they find the other player inside the site he's just
looking through the bars imprisoned by the power of FaZe.
Can't even get to the kit in time at this point this is the third round for FaZe Clan.
Saver wants a third kill for the round 3 in a row.
Two of them plants.
kills entirely into their favor. Yeah, this really is the best team in the world. Hey,
I mean, I guess I've said cyber all he has to do is hold the flights on fields of cyber.
He's ready to sign up the next watch. Like he is ready to go. Yeah, what can you do?
I mean, as soon as that plant goes down the five E five, really, whatever I do, set
have obviously spread themselves really thin where they have relied on a clash to hold the
site by themselves. And whenever you can see the smokes are going in, you can't deny it
from above unless you're the solace. And then there's pressure being applied by other members
upstairs from phase. It's just everything's coming together perfectly. And then it goes
in that post plan. And all phase after they just hold their angles. It's I'm just
do they have to come the attackers and I mean now you're on the defense you've
tried out every bomb site and you've lost everyone this is very unlike a liar
that we used to see do you go back in for that thought floor you know and last
time yes I think there was an opportunity for the defense to get around
when but they just didn't take their chances and turn to changing the line
up. I almost feel as though the lineup's got a little bit worse, or is that just me? Like,
I'm not seeing any smoke. I'm not seeing even a goyle for Plantenile. I'm seeing a lot of
things to deal with shields. That's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing three different operators
to deal with one archetype. Yeah, I mean, it becomes a little bit of a panic station,
I guess, in some regards of like, who are you going to bring? What can you sort of
of utilized to shut down the approach
all the shield space up as well it's crazy it's so crazy how many shells they
decided to bring I mean it's the element of they brought one
just a black view so it was KDS it's the aura that KDS has
the story and then they need to counter kick you see the the little media stuff
they did and he was described by by handy as mr. Bing nothing could be any
more true in my opinion yeah I can see that I I would what it's the thumbs up
for me so stop the content team content team for any for SI for you know
Assuming they make it to a soccer for just the SAI League
Please can we have some you say a swimming phase make it to a soccer listen?
You watch the same game. I've you watched the same thing for past 20 years is what we all have
Assuming they make it there though the current reigning hammer lifting champions
This is
Back and forth content of chaos in the scene anyway
That is, traded kills, wraps is gone, souls is also gone.
I'm gonna see if they can try and roll the candelas on the three.
At this point they've got this control across the cross and
it's actually a bit of a better situation than before, right?
It's longer that they've been able to sort of get themselves alive.
Obviously there's pressure on towards the plant itself.
It's still an opening kill for the side phase, but it was traded out.
see how you can run the numbers. I think he's at our stress room just a little bit more.
Power of faith they're quite spread out so they don't really, you know, they happen
to have a solo push. You can see I think it's handy underneath it. Slip that way through
to cover the fire. This DK is just going to see if they can try and buy themselves
in seconds with that unit. I don't know what to do. There is the role of the
Oh, the pretty king.
Yep, it's an important kill, all a double for the king.
It will now again, a very similar situation to 2v2,
but it's going to be a 1v2.
Look at this KDS, to break the man count.
No denial remaining on C4.
It was a god damn old cyber for the pre-fire phase 4-0.
And just by the way, a 4-0 with every opening kill
going in phases direction
so
they're often called the best team in the world
they've never had that distinction
oh wait no they've had that distinction multiple times
wait wait, cut that cut that cut that
um... yeah
he hates like all of the way, i think he does
i think he hates like all
he hates a lot of stuff he does for some reason
to be fair I think you're not very good yeah
actors don't like watching their own movies
I I've got to make one finals call
and I liked my call
it was not highly drowned out by the crowd
I got a skin from it if I'm not mistaken as well
like as in there was a skin made and then you were you know you were there in the video
it was like you know it's like the SpongeBob where you can just about see him in the picture
Yeah, it's like that's my voice for a split second and then Mike was out of skin
I think I said I said that the wave towns title and and then it just disappeared
There's a good one Manchester was pretty crammed
That was a good of them no bias
Just very warm I think it was it was very clammy I think
Yeah, it was the poor person who's always in the shank of suit
Credit to them. I think it's James. I think it's death mother
Well, it says it's not the steak like we're not doing this who's under the mask
Chat who do you think is in the giant shank costume that is every single major
Yeah
It's a real use case
I am right. It's not like it's like a Christmas jumper, you know, you got one chance a year to wear this
It's not just for Christmas. You're gonna get your fill. You're bringing this out for the next 10 Christmases
Trashes
Force back with the air jabs as a bit of support on the shoulder
They're trying to find their way in, but the crash that goes down first, one more opening kill, followed by a second kill.
They can carry it on the default there, so I'm saying, look, swing us, we'll just get through you quicker, and they do!
There goes the smoke! Oh no!
Five versus... four versus two.
At least, peel one back, but...
The minute's 30. Once again, FaZe just have so much time.
And the king, oh tear, I mean he is being taught this year hasn't he, I mean last stage I thought he was incredible this year
or sorry this stage, I honestly feel so he's even better than last stage and that's saying something
I mean the king is just on another level right now and
he's showing his face, ready to lock in the 5-0
and they will, I mean
at this point it's just routine isn't it
For face. This is getting up letting the dog out to the toilet or in the cereal putting the milk in
Just what can you say pretty good at seed
I guess it's it's always the worst of
Both worlds for other teams
Because you look at teams like this and there's two things that can break a team
One is that they, you know, try and make roster changes or they need to make roster changes or the band breaks up, you know, like the Beatles.
If the band, if the band can be a great band, if it breaks up internally, you can't stop them.
Two is other things move fast enough to catch them to pass.
They plateau in some ways, whether it's age, whether it's skill, whether it's just a change of the meta,
is one they don't like what we've seen other teams suffer with those are the two things
unfortunately for everybody else this phase team is now very long-standing and always
seems so happy apart from KDS who hates playing this game and it's the longest experience
of his life and he's just 95 for him but the team loves playing together so the number
one scratch that number two things stayed ahead of the car for such a long time and
and it seems effortless and there must be frustrating if you're up against them because
then you've just got to try and hope that you can catch up and beat them and that is
not easy.
Just got to step up to the mark.
Is there anyone from the defensive side who wants to have a bit of a go here face
because my phase are just halving their way with it, even the KDS hasn't died yet, you know,
it's little things like that just kind of summarizes how the game's going.
Oh dear. Well, still gonna try and go for this top floor lock-in again.
Mostly for phase. What are they gonna do? What are they gonna go for?
Drone work, I'm trying to target the player in towards green stairs perhaps and
he's going to be entering, he's going to be first to go for it. You would assume that the
Icing and the Solid Snake though, you get a lot of really good information to
kind of assist this clear. You can just sit outside the exit door, bring a scanner,
find out if anyone's inside of what for example. But just the the drone work
being done here from phase, very very patient, very slow, trying to gather
as much information as possible and as always for phase it's that gap, it's
just that one little opening that they need and it gets them in and wins them
the round so see how the opportunity spotting is gonna play out for them
making ready to go in towards bathroom which the scan sees a player in
towards art is he gonna challenge it though
well the challenge comes together but it seems they're able to get one more
opening kill gets a second just get dropped sort of a bit too hungry for it
angels fight to have his own as I said before he's been that bit of a
Spock, the right side in this opening half but phase 3 versus 3 and they are still swarming.
You can see the motion there, look at Arthur, the smoke, he's come round the back, the seafloor
out over the top, gets another angels. It's a windbath of wings and it's the first time
they've had a bad advantage and now they have a chance to close this round out.
souls in the one versus two here 20 seconds or so left does not have the
kit he's trying to just sort of slink his way through here find the back on the
middle after and wraps just have to play together and the pre-fires are
making sure that they're where he is they double each other up on towards the
corner and the door as soon as contact hits on one he knows it's gonna come
from the other but he can't quite get there they have a round they have a
lifeline and they have a chance here, INTZ, at building in towards a bus. We'll
get to that before we're joined by our two beauties on our desk.
friend with one round going the way of INTZ you might be thinking phase are
washed right but you would be absolutely wrong are you even watching
What's happening in front of you and really Fox? I'm not I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna beat around the bush here
It's gonna be real tough for us to justify anything beyond phase. You're just really good
What angle do we take on this because the map selection itself is working out?
Really well if you're if you're playing attacking side on there this incredible there they're
Pre-firing every angle where they get to be there. They're droning all of it. They know what's going on like
They're all right.
Yeah, pretty good.
I'm in this phase. What are you going to do?
They're just playing very hyper aggressive.
I mean, using the Deimos, using the Blackbeard, using the Ying.
Like they're constantly using operators to their advantage to be able to take position.
I mean, it's a very difficult map to attack on.
But when you have these little characters that'll be able to make a huge difference,
like Blackbeard taking position, Ying being able to flash out characters.
I mean we saw how good Furia was using the ying today
It's just they're constantly using these creative operators to be able to open up space and find their apps and make these little advantages
This is difficult, but I don't want to cut you off in here
But I kind of want to because it's boring to talk about phase in the sense
I get it just the glaze that's what happens in
In situations where, for example, Fox, you've had tough games, where you've been 1-5 down against a tough opponent, how do you bring that back mentally between you and your teammates? What's kind of that experience like?
I mean, honestly, the best way to do it is by having a strong mental. It's a very simple thing to say, but in practice it's not. At the end of the day, you need something to happen.
You need some type of motivation some type of big play usually that's the best way to be able to bring it back as if
One of your players on the team is having a great game or is able to have a nice 1v1 clutch or a big clutch
To bring the energy back to get everyone's head on straight being like hey these guys are human as well
There needs to be a
Transcending moment that weights everybody up being like hey like yeah, I'm just getting unlucky, but these guys are killable
they do believe they're the same as us. Sometimes it doesn't happen, but sometimes it just takes
one player to start that, that rise. And that's why Phaze are so good is the whole team is
always mentally ready to be the team to be our, or winning this game. We can just bring
it back no matter what. So that's the best way to come back from such a deficit.
A sprinkle of delusion is what I'm hearing. And maybe that's something that we all
need in our lives though, ones that you really do need in your lives.
Fork and Demo!
Oh, thank you very much.
Milosh, I like how Milosh hit Foxy with the...
Let me ask you something, which is obviously the line that you're always on.
Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Let me ask you something.
I love it. Have you seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey?
Of course, of course. I like how there was all these characters and all these actors and then it just gets to John Barthol, being John Barthol. Great.
Oh that's hot. Let me ask you something. I mean I watched two movies, then Among For Each Other, where it was John Barthol and Tom Holland being Bestie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, what a nice life they have, anyway, yeah, what a, what
a nice life face clan have, 5-1 up, as I said, of the 20 defensive rounds they've played
this split, they have won 18 of them, I believe it is, 17 or 18, it was a number that maybe
go oh that's not good it's it's a hideously powerful statistic and I have
two more towards that tally five one up we have seen a bit of a comeback in the
map just before the map that we assumed would obviously go team
the credients was way and it did it went a bit longer I think you look
expected especially with a 5-1 opening half there's always a chance.
Yes it does the same but as I said before it starts by building a little bit of a safe
ground of rounds keep them off of that six for as long as you can.
Pressure starts here inside of Ops so they'll go their way in towards the mirror window they've
not had any immediate confrontation as of yet.
Think about what utility has been sort of utilized and thrown here.
This single C4 from one side and a couple of candalas swung if not all of them from
the other as over after here black ears ready to go ying also supporting towards
the other side of mezz nobody said no phase of old back they probably looked
to say hey it's a minute 15 you really have to hold as that's not our win
call we still got the chanke sat in the back so that's what we're gonna try
play around with. I think FaZe are being very clever here, yes you're giving up portions of the map.
There's no pick, so I think that's the worry here for the attackers.
Bill, Denial, C4 as well, primed and ready with that mirror window that just about hanging in there.
A bit like 90s it this game.
This point they're gonna see if they can just climb
some random hang-in, which is sad, but for a chance towards R, but it's handy that gets
an opener, okay, he has to get to second and a third, oh no, Naka, let's find handy
in the mix of things, and the secondary comes out to get a quick revenge four versus one,
just an ace left, everybody in the house is dead, and they're gonna try and set
you on fire. Well, how long could you keep them off of six rounds? Unfortunately, not
at all. Faceclan! They are up at one round away and they still have every single opening
kill. In fact, the only person from their team who doesn't have an opening kill is
everybody else on the team has got at least one
or cyber, maybe you'll get this one
it's the only thing we need to say more than what Roy said about Fettys
it's tough, right? because this is just a... it's the frustrating thing of a game like this
it's a path of the course game yes it's just we get all the horror face you know
and another thing as well they haven't brought an open kill either
that is just outrageous as well like it's just that outrageous like you really
think about that I mean when do you ever see that happen
I can't remember last time I've just seen it just open kill for the one team for this
many rounds I'm sure you would see it maybe like four or five in a row but
we're talking like seven rounds here yeah there's one funny fact I feel bad
for handy if you'd like to feel bad for on phase right now handy and cyber cyber
standing person who hasn't gone open and kill yet might still get it handy is
the only one from the team who's died every single round everybody else is
like two deaths three deaths one death there's only got two kills as
Well
Going through the ring
It's like guys this game is hard. I'm two and seven
Is it gonna be opening pick number eight though? That's that's what we all want to know
Oh, well that was, I mean, even though you've smoked it off, you'd still like to get the
impacts and...
Yeah.
He just did it again.
I mean, you're lucky that Sol's impact's gone, but then again, Sol's could just rotate
over and do the same.
It's a dreaded delay.
It's a dreaded delay.
No, no, no.
The thermite charge is not worth an impact grenade.
I studied my time-stables, I studied my conversion charts.
It's like algebra.
Okay, so...
They've lost two thermite charges.
Two of their three heartbeats.
They still need to open up the back, and they're just gonna lock that up instead of making things awkward.
They can put a reinforce on green and there is a minute twenty left of the game.
Oh, that's just around. It might be left of the game.
The first confrontation might find itself entirely locked down, the gridlock, fax thing is just
to make sure we can't aggressively swing out, but he just wants the fight, they bait it
in towards it, but he doesn't whilst he moves away.
They've now used that last thermite charge, but that means the back double wall is just
a mirror window, they're just going to have to sort of trust it as the cross.
That means that souls doesn't have to worry about somebody just walking in on
them.
Hold the one angle as team mates will cover the other and Souls is trying to get a little
bit aggro here and the fucking mix is gonna miss.
You can just sit safely in the corner, second one also gonna go out and that's also gonna
miss.
So waste of utility here.
Oh dear, Souls is alive and well, the smoke's gonna go in, last impact.
It's also gonna go out and oh no, Arthur was unexpected to have somebody home.
Oh dear!
Faze! That is the eighth opening pick that they've been able to get.
This could be a 3v3, but Faze, they have players above them, one of them is a solace.
Well, there's the swing round, there's seven seconds left of this.
They're in the three versus two, trying to find a way to get a plant down, and just got to try and hope.
Everything, unfortunately, doesn't lead to success.
Well, everything that people have said, everything that they expected,
the way that you think it will
just a brilliant performance
from phase and unfortunately.
I and he said they were on the
other side of it. Yeah, I mean
phases phase. What more can we
say about the side? The reason
why the world champions number
on team all that jazz that we
talk about, but yeah, it was a
very quick end to the day. But
overall I think we've had some
pretty good matches and of course
team Liquid Alienware. Well, we'll pass that tomorrow before we pass it to the end of our today.
Our wonderful, wonderful Milosh and Foxy. I think she specifically means you, David. But still,
at the end of this day, maybe we'll get to talk about Face Tomorrow having a closer
matchup once they go up against Team Liquid Alienware. But that's for tomorrow. As we said,
Our co-host is ready to go. So let's bring our GP. Come on in.
Boom, Gia Boatari, JP. Look at him. He's looking good today. Like, you know what?
I think you're ready to upgrade. You can join the English broadcast whenever you feel like it.
My friend, congratulations. Another win, another day at the office,
at face plan is anything different about today compared to, well, the opening,
I guess days of this day for you? I mean honestly no we just do the same
the same way we prep for every single team we just keep doing it and it's working so
the way we prep against INTZ is the same way we prep against Liquid we just like
try to be serious like every single way we play so I think it's like one of the things
like make us be so constant. We don't underestimate anyone.
Yeah, you said a quote last week where it was something like, oh, if you want to win a major
or win an event, you know, we have to take every single day serious starting now.
And I think that was something that was really well put. My question has nothing to do with
the game because we've asked you a million questions. What do you guys do for fun? Like,
Do you guys have fun? Do you guys laugh with each other and stuff like that?
I don't think I've seen KDS like ever smile
besides when you guys lost one round to Lose last week.
So what do you guys do for fun?
I mean we talk a lot of shit on this bit.
Play some DMs and talk shit to each other.
It's basically the way we have fun as a team because like
every single one of us is playing from home so
And Brazil is a big country, like we are not close to each other, to like being together every single time, we most see each other in person on majors and SI's, AWC, and like, in the daily basis, we basically like play DMs and talk shit.
So, what I'm hearing is here, we're not so different us versus FaZe Clan, the best team
in the world.
Thank you for humanizing everybody in our eyes.
Now, you're talking about Team Liquid in preparation, really comparison between whoever
you're playing, be it Anzett today, or Team Liquid Alienware tomorrow.
That's still a tough game and for T-Law, it's their biggest test yet.
They beat in Fiora and really beat them down quite well.
What do you expect out of that classical?
I mean, I expect to be the hardest game from this group stage for sure.
Maybe Fiora later because they know how to play against us, but Liquid has been proving
to be the top dog to play against us.
So I expect a very hard game tomorrow.
I mean, we did a good prep, so I expect to win, but it would be a good game.
much looking forward to it. That's of course our last game of the evening, tomorrow night.
If anything, we hope to see you JP, our guest Tricast co-host, whatever it may be. Honestly,
JP, between you and me, if all goes well, you guys are already qualified for the Invitational.
I think at some point in time, you should join a Tricast with some of the Castor
Duos during group stage just to have fun if everything is going well for the team
once you qualify. But that's just an idea. I'm going to throw it in the air. Thank
you very much, my friend. We hope to see you tomorrow night.
There it is, good to hear from JP as always big victory for FaZe as is kind of expectable
on our team.
It's very much expected, 7-1 on Lair, they excelled in attack, they excelled in defense,
they lost a round which means they're washed, but otherwise all is good for FaZe and yes
they're very much your safest bet you can ever have.
You said everything you needed to say, what are you going to do after this?
I am probably going to brush my teeth, and then get ready for bed at some point in time,
but usually after a long day of games, it takes a while to get the energy levels down.
helps to play something afterwards but nothing stressful I guess maybe a bit of
city Skylines maybe a bit of annual we're talking about Ubisoft games something
like that we're old what do you do after all this because you still have the day
ahead of you you're on the West Coast yeah yeah I don't know probably get some
sun on my face I gotta wake up at like 6 a.m. I think they'll start the days
So it's nice to get some sunlight on me
Yeah, probably eat some food
Honestly, honestly, I don't know. I feel like maybe some like sushi or like a poke bowl something like that
Speaking of Ubisoft games, I actually tried for honor the other day. They gave me so upset
I was so bad at it and people were just doing things that I didn't even first you got to learn
There's parries and then you gotta learn that there's overhead orange hits that you can't dodge
Or you can't parry and it's there's so much going on. I was just I wasn't built for I wasn't cut out for it
Thank God I found siege and then thank God they got phase found siege because if they weren't playing siege
I don't know they'd probably be depressed. I don't know like I can't imagine the phase guys having fun outside of
Winning a major or something like that and they don't even get that happy for those two so
Frankly seeing them seeing them like outside of because this is you know
You get to see them on screen is one thing when you get to see them or talk a bit with them in the backstage
It's something else. They're more relaxed
They're they're hanging out with other teams even ones
They're going up to play against literally in five minutes. It's kind of a thing
That's how that's how they are. That's how Brazil in general is especially at the tippity top of it people pretty chill pretty relaxed
It's always good. Also when like it's phased liquid, which is what happened
I guess multiple times and recently and then you get to have
handy and mage kind of also trashing at one another but also being brothers and everybody just hanging out it's
It's cool. It's nice to see that and I really wish that
More on face spoke better English or we spoke better Portuguese so that we can communicate with the world
They speak good English, they speak great English, I had full on conversations with Cyber, Cyber speaks full English, Vita King speaks a little English, Soul speaks English, it's just something in the SAL, a lot of players maybe don't want to do interviews because they're shy of their English,
But in person, I've spoken to every single one of the top players or top teams that goes to the events and they speak good English.
JV92 speaks good English.
I was going to say, well, JV, this is how JV is, right?
He says, I don't speak English at all.
He does, it's rickety here and there, but he does speak English, but he is the most funniest person to speak with in general.
He's just a very funny relaxed kind of guy and I love that style that we're asking one other
I'm actually gonna ask chat. What are you guys doing after all this? Let us know. We're actually checking out
We don't have any delay at least from you watching. It's the same thing for the Brazil show
So you know the Brazil show and the Brazil in general. Do you see that Maria photo from like?
Manchester major or something. It was a while ago. There's a photo that you reposted
Oh, okay. Let me tell you the story. I don't know. I don't know if our production has that
Post or tweet or they've seen a hundred percent. They've seen it because she reposted it on her Instagram a couple days ago
where she was going up to an interview right she's preparing before it and
She had a pair. She was just having a little snack, but she had to run to the player area
What does she do to save to save the day?
She puts the pair in her pocket and let's say the way that things look like on the broadcast a
Super funny and I say Maria. You were packing. She knows it. It's all about it
The photo is there go check it out Maria, but you know, she's one of her favorite people in the world
And I hope though we get to see it on the broadcast at some point in time here
However games for next week or sorry next play tomorrow. It's a lot of fun phase liquid anything else that pops in my
Honestly, with how flexo W7M has been playing, ITZ flexo W7M will be a garbage dumpster fire.
So I love seeing the teams at the bottom of the leaderboard fight against each other because
you always see the craziest plays and you see stuff out of these teams that you never
thought you would see.
As for Black Dragons Fury, I feel like Black Dragons is constantly trying to break into
that top four and it doesn't get easier if they can get a big win against one
of the top teams because all of the top teams are coming down the line for them that would
be great for them as well.
Low Slicky Five I mean I think the Lowest probably wins that.
Loud Imperial, Loud most likely wins that.
So yeah I would say honestly the last two games of the day for me are probably the
ones that I'm going to be most excited for.
I am looking forward to it then and we're going to be back tomorrow same starting time
as you guys have been used to and seeing how our games will actually transpire and
If those predictions will come true.
Regardless, thank you very much Fox for a wonderful evening
for us together.
I'm going to have you go and enjoy your day, the sunlight,
and your wonderful, beautiful cat
that gets to jump around on the desk every now
and then for our enjoyment, I'm sure.
Other than for you guys watching at home,
thank you for joining us for SAO.
We'll see you tomorrow.
So then take care.
We love you.
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