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Well good evening and welcome ladies and gentlemen that was the most awful intro ever but we've
got ourselves hopefully a much better night ahead.
It's playday six. It is the final week of group stage for APL Oceania to play days. All that remains to settle the top four ahead of finals at PAX,
because it's sure to be a big one today and tomorrow. And while we won't be here tomorrow, it'll be Devon Penger to close off what's been a fantastic stage.
Today really is the day that's going to set up tomorrow. We are speed running this pre-show a little bit as we did have some technical difficulties with the game.
The first game of the night is only a couple of minutes away, but ultimately the biggest
storyline of tonight for playday 6 is this.
We've got 7 teams that can still qualify for packs.
By the end of tonight, we could still have 7 teams as we quickly go and have a look at
the standings to give you an idea.
Anios need to win now, they need a whole bunch of other things to go their way, but if it
all does eventually, we could go into the final playday with all 7, but here's the thing
guys.
end tonight based on the way games can play out with the top four fully locked in by the end of
tonight so it's one or the other somewhere in between it's going to be a big night. Yeah for
sure I mean there's really two extremes that can occur tonight but it's also important to note that
there's plenty of in-between scenarios and permutations it's really complex given just how
many different permutations there are for this playday and next so a lot to still play for for
For the vast majority of these teams, as we look across at the schedule for tonight, thankfully, we have a pretty complementary set of matches that align pretty nicely with how the standings are shaping up right now.
And in terms of the match of the day, or at least the match that I'm gravitating towards, naturally, I think it's the third of the night, EP, 7, they're looking to kind of break the deadlock potentially in top spot, of course, those two still draw mid-cheeks at the top of the standings.
Yeah, the second game is the big one.
That's the one we'll put emphasis on,
and we'll speak more about it when we get back after the break from the very first game,
but that's going to play a big factor in those permutations.
I think EP, in the current form, is the keyword, should be too strong for 7,
but curious to see what 7 can do in that sort of matchup,
and then Man Alaphaux fighting for their top 4 life as well against Chiefs,
which will be the last game of the night.
Not impossible, very well-drilled, well-coached Man Alaphaux, but will be a challenge.
Let's go to our first game of the evening though,
and we'll have a look at Arcade,
which if we're being blunt, if we're being realistic,
this is their final chance to make up any semblance
of a point, let alone a win to the stage as tomorrow
for what will be their last game against Enterprise.
This is their best opportunity, guys,
for the entire year to get something.
Yeah, you would imagine so, unfortunately,
it's been a rough stage for them across the board,
and for some of these members, I suppose,
carrying on a bit of all now,
being gathered and not in the good sense. So an opportunity tonight to put in salvation and of
course just to be absolutely crystal clear that our line is through their name. There is no
platform for them to make the top four. So again tonight it's happening and I'm putting in an effort
to try and get some points on the board and I think I may have mentioned this last time they
played a contract remember that there's individual aspiration on this team to go forward and be
picked up and you know have a future in the game as well. You obviously want to be putting in 110%
every match to remain on the radar. Right. So there's still incentive for these guys to do well
tonight. And even if they don't split ways going forward, they need to build into next year. So
hopefully this evening, they have an opportunity to get a point on the ball.
Well, if you think there's a lot on the line for Arcade, we go to Team Aeos and everything is
literally on the line. So they must win this game. They need to win at three points in regulation.
Then really, they need to also win it quite comfortably for round differential. Now to note,
they do have a substitute in tonight.
Arcane him has made his way in as a last second stand in.
I believe it was for a razor.
So that's a change up, which is not ideal.
And again, where they want to win and win.
Well, we'll see Arcane him has shown before that he can step up.
And yeah, then the other aspect is they need to then win tomorrow
in their match against cheese.
And that proves to be quite daunting.
That seems unlikely.
But anything can happen, as we've been saying,
all stage long with Chef Jeff on the team.
But it just hasn't clicked for them this stage.
Chef Jeff has not quite brought that same magic from stage one.
No, unfortunately not. Again, like several teams in the league, and as he's noted in
interviews, they were very much culminated very last minute. And for some teams that can work
if you click quickly, this iteration of this particular roster hasn't quite been the same
pace. We haven't seen that upwards trajectory just yet. I'd give it a visit, just best of bonds
at a pretty short stage. It's unlikely that that's probably going to change all too much of the final
two-play days. We might see an improvement, but unfortunately for them an improvement is not
quite fair to be good enough. They basically need to be faultless and flawless. It's pointing
onwards and hopefully it goes their way as well. So three points needed tonight, three points tomorrow
they'll be looking to lock in. Yeah I mean even if they somehow were to win tonight and also against
Chiefs tomorrow is so much we have to go their way. Let's go to the map for you though and see
where this game will be played. Yeah let's jump in and see which we get if it will be a main
stay map or something a little different and given it's uh bank and lair to flicker late it's
going to be pretty much a sort of a custom to app moment heading into this play day actually lair
most played over the 20 maps so far it's had four appearances bank with three and that means that
as it stands still the only map unplayed and it was banned out first by arcade is actually border
You know, it's funnily enough cafe or so the second least frequently played in our first by any house
They're both teams looking to go to a comfort pick here and given the circumstances for both teams that makes perfect sense
I must say I remember when the layer came into the map
I remember we're doing the podcast back in the old rec studio and
My initial thoughts were it just looked dull
But it played so well and that the the sites were good
But I wasn't a big fan of the made the visuals and I tell you what as years have gone on now more and more time
It really has turned into one of the top maps in the fall the way that it plays a good set top floor
Basement opens up the map a good tertiary. It's just a really well structured map
Let's get underway though first game of the night
We head to layer as it's arcade and annuals for their second last games of the season certainly for annuals
If they can't get the magic to go their way tonight and tomorrow and then all heap of other things to go their way
They are probably expected to win based not just on recency bias
But the entire year for arcade stage one zero out of seven so far stage two has been zero out of
Five with two games to go and the other one being enterprise tomorrow
This is their last chance realistically to pick up a point for the year
Yeah, we'll see if they were to do it and else though will be very much looking to hit a bounce back this week
The big build up for them heading into the week provided that they still have the belief
I think for them it's one or two ways you could kind of wave the white flag a little bit and say the chance of us making it
Even if you forget six points or so low
That's why that's not bother or you could go the other way and and really look to lock in hope you get all six
Get a bit of luck your way, and then you never know what you can do in best of threes beyond that
So let's hope it is the latter and they've been able to hit a bit of a mental reset hitting into the stage and
certainly quickly corrected some of the mistakes that we've seen from them, but I
I mean they're in the kind of circumstance where it's gonna take time. It's not going to probably be quick fix
I'm about trying to patch over those issues heading into the week and making the most of this opportunity
Starting under attack though here interlayers gonna give us I think a good indication as to where they are at all this week
And how that teamwork is stacking up in terms of the bands wall for the first half kayak bandit and grimmying
So no surprises at all here as we head to the top four first
So proxy and chat say champions of last cup champions last place
But what's interesting is that it goes off around differential first
So if arcade were to win this game
It have to actually win quite convincingly to jump out of last place and put annuals in the last place because of the round differential
And then that may also change tomorrow. Anyway, so I said I'm not here with
Well, that would, it would, it certainly would, but yeah, it's, you look at this roster for
Anios and you just, to me it speaks more volume to the overall competition that we have, you
know, so I mean, Chef Jeff is a veteran, a very dynamic player, Proxy quickly is turning into
one of the top players in the region, A-Cog is just well-solidified as a quality player,
and yet they find themselves in this kind of map, which is not where you probably wanted to be. If
anything I think starting the stage any of us would look at this game thought
oh this could be the three points to lock in top four just hasn't quite gone
their way but you've got to go into tonight with that sort of mindset that
we need a win win big stamp authority over arcade and give ourselves even a
even if it's a 1% chance tomorrow you'd rather that than zero
and be trod by chef Jeff courtesy of the no-hybrid counter available on the
side of Arcade, Ekog with the lurk weapons and that's potentially an anticipation for
Loyaluf who is below on the first floor. Ekog to go chasing as the rest of the team will
work through the checklist elsewhere. Loyaluf giving that pocket of space to actually go
back up above but Arcane him. A substitute, in but a fine first blood and that's a great
pick to start the round.
Oh hang on, physics gonna get a kill on to proxy though, pro to the window, nice push
up from physics on the north.
Good to see Arcane and back, he played earlier this year, um, I believe in kickoff on Chikademy
originally.
They're not quite a debut I guess.
A minute remaining in the round 4 v4, you know, 1 for 1, but the stall out from Anios
is a little concerning.
We got Mesot's control, but now what?
It's the next step in the plan that's going to make or break this round for the...
Yeah, that missing piece of the puzzle, it's been evident for them across the stage where
They haven't looked at super fluid in some of the problem solving but on Q they did drop asses courtesy of the triple impact from below
So that's a good teamwork. I'll try to get chef Jeff across here for the default plant 30 seconds
One of the quieter top floors on land that I've seen for a while
standoffish
Honey, I just know that if I can't over peak here, it's gonna be a 4v2
There's that overpeat from Syro, while connected from Acoge.
Paints out the Razorblim shell as well.
Machine gets the spray through the smoke onto physics.
They won't know it initially, but the space is there.
J-Buff, good push to find that kill.
And Arcane and Machine are there, and it's an opening round.
They go the way of Team Annihil.
So a little stall out, but they back themselves in with their patience,
and in the end, it's rewarded.
Yeah, I mean, definitely an element of stall out through that,
but also getting Acog in good position, he was able to play make with the triple impact
and had good split threat on the opposing side of the bat.
Anyos then were able to snowball the man advantage they afforded themselves and there
was no potential for plant and I'll there later in the piece from the side of RK.
It recently worked around there on Team Anyos.
They looked to try and build confidence here attacking in to the lair.
The replay package was down below and initially got caught when he re-positioned the path.
Great read from ACOG, as the team were from Aneos to enable vertical play.
He went on to find one more and then the rest of the team nicely getting some mezz control
and able to transition into a default plant.
Definitely acquired around in some respects, but ultimately solo work there from Aneos.
from Anios, now attacking into basement with a map extension from Arcade.
Kind of like what you were speaking about before carrying on that, but someone like Arcane
and him coming in and getting two kills to start, you know, he wants to have as much
influence as possible and maybe highlight teams thinking about roster changes going
into next year etc that he could be a piece to kind of look to as much as
anyone else really on this annual roster. I imagine some of my proxies gonna get
you know a lot of attention if there's teams out there certainly top-end teams
that might think hey that's a big piece that we'd like to get to maybe solidify
a core five. It goes the same as well for a team like arcade because it's had a
a very very good stage so far.
I mean this is going to be the big test, it's one thing to lose that top floor if you're
RK but now you're going to be playing this roam game and playing against the solid-staker
proxy you've got machine on the blitz, chef jeff on the montee so double shield set up
and to be honest, any of us have not brought a lot to then make the use of the vert once
they get this first floor control.
If I'm RK I'm falling back to site here and it looks like that's going to be the case.
Yeah, Proxy's been so dangerous this stage. Number 5 in the lead and also 7-1 on entry.
Right up there is having some of the best entry numbers in the game, really only outstretched
by 2-1, funnily enough, is 10-0, which is also a fun number to track.
So Proxy definitely going to be an impactful player in this match, or at least expected
to be. He got caught out with Nate in hand in the previous round, so he's looking to rectify
That has taken good space courtesy of the radar.
Entire defense forced down to basement.
They've dedicated vert operator in the lineup here from the attack.
We'll see if that proves costly, but the double shield investment here.
Don't mind it.
This might help pick up the tempo a little bit.
Yeah, I mean there's still plenty of time left.
You're starting to get a little bit of basement presence on the double shield setup.
So I think this is good for Andy or Sarkade or Desperate to find a kill quickly.
They do have a lot of impacts available in this round.
plus the three gaspates so in terms of utility for arcade plus these Vulcan
canisters that still need to be popped this is going to get quiet late into the
round you've got the impacts and maybe deal with these shield players as well
there's no hard breach for the filter angle here as well the attack so this is
super one-dimensional how it is I called that finds the opening kill though from
Armory exactly what Anios needed the layer the utility machine get
immediately. Syro with the follow-up onto Proxy starts 0-2 in this game and the
drop will be successful but that was the only part of that round which was
successful for Anios Arcade able to defend the basement site very, very
nicely. Anios stalled out after they got filtration control the double shield
setup and capable of pushing into the site. Yeah I mean the shells don't
protect you from Agoyo and the smoke you need to have more avenues into
splitting that attack. Obviously ACOG was on hatch, they didn't really have anyone
looking for a back hit, they also didn't have the angle-through filter, which meant
they were all stuck on the doorway. To the crate of the barcade, they were able to
wait out that utility quite nicely. Sure, one pick got fed to ACOG on the hatch, but
the rest of the follow-up was really on point, so solid work there from Arcade
defensively and probably just making a point to Anios that super-dipper
one-dimensional attacks like that unless they're absolutely spot-on perfect
that they could be exposed in this matchup so and yes we'll be on their toes
now as we return back to the top four
I thought once they got that opening kill as well a pretty decent time in the round
30 seconds left you get that first pick 5v4 double shield push in I think they
should have gotten that round to look a little bit closer it's surprising in fact
that was the only kill but I guess that's also a simpler when you play double
shield that's not as much firepower really pushing into the side either. Is it just so
concerned about getting in safely? Makes it a lot easier then for Arcade to kind of be the
aggressors in that final fight and naturally that's just going to lean in their favor.
We do go back top floor of course Arcade losing this side back in the opening round so they will
repeat and pretty much the exact same lineup except Bugger the Nor will go will my will my is
incredibly strong as an operator we bring an extra night to sell we get the
discs and we play default top floor and hopefully they can't break it down they
they also will run it back and the orcs except they dropped the Deimos for the
drudy it's another open to kill three straight
You'll see if Arcade have the means to fight back into this round as Acog will situate
himself for the work threat and the triple impact which was successful last time out
and could be again another key tool in helping to contest the mirror, although he'll need
to be cautious of Loyoluf who is down below in med, counterception, so they'll cross paths
unknowingly, both in anticipation of one another, but I think Aco probably has the advantage
now, he's now below the objective. Loyoluf hasn't been able to contest that, redpings
also are being relayed to his position. If he finds this pick on the verd, it's very
difficult round to then call on and lose so he'll be very eager to try and get
value in this round. I mean the disappointing thing is Arcade has done a lot
right so far in these first two rounds but you just like 4v5 every single time
and now ECOG gets to make this potentially a 5v3 if he plays off the yellow ping
information. Pretty much perfect. Trouble. Yeah it's well off. That's a bit of a
miss ping and it means that they kind of wasted the last 30-40 seconds trying to
make that, and develop that into the next kill.
Leaves you a little bit less time now in this extra player advantage to play the flood game,
especially mirror window still up. There's a good chance in this round for Arcade.
Now that doesn't quite go their way, but nicely done for a machine to hit the headshot.
JP could not. They beat out Loyola.
Physics got one, and then the second, and then the third.
Triple kill towards Mez from Physics,
And knows that there's one main stairs as a can play towards the site ten seconds
Is there even enough time as arcade will have a sorry a cog will push through the barbed wire as is
Four seconds to just stay alive a second. Oh my goodness
Bit close
I was very close. I didn't actually see how much ammo he had left. I think he ran out
I believe so as my levels are quite looking at that, my eyes were more fixated in terms
of the time remaining in the round.
Yeah, unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to talk though, like it was still a good
5 seconds or so on the clock, so he just couldn't play the talk, I think that's what
he kind of wanted to.
I think he ran out of ammo just the way that that spray was going out, didn't quite see
it first time, but yeah, it's unlucky for RK big round from physics and that's what
he's been able to do at times for arcade throughout this stage he's had a good
stage on a poor team and he also take top floor again. Bunk's briefing we go.
Yeah Spicey match so far and and yeah it's not looking super duper convincing
over the course of the half so far but they're still establishing themselves
dinosaurless attacking hall. Very intriguing how the next level player in
in terms of dawns, but here's the replay package of the previous round, maybe two physics losing
this key jewel on the high ground.
He probably should have won this.
Yeah, he should have won this.
He'll be disappointed.
I think they have a reaction from him before I flip the way, probably showed that and then
as it goes to the TARG, four seconds, three seconds, two seconds, yeah, he has to take
the fight.
It was going to be...
Well, he did take the fight, he just didn't have enough ammo.
Yeah.
Well, I mean actually what we didn't get to see in that replay by the way was he
obviously starts with 26 bullets he then shot 16 of those throughout the
nitro cell and then we had 10 left so where are those first 16 bullets going
was that just a was that actually made contact was that just a random spray and
then it may have cost him because if he had a full a full magazine there he
probably could have won actually the 1v2 from Double Spraydown basically on top
each other. Yeah little moments like that are gonna go a long way and means that Anyos, even
though maybe they haven't been there very best tonight, they're just getting the job done.
A quick entry from Skybridge side. Anyos have the option of going direct through green here with
with the shield or machine can push a poke and point up a bomb with the shield and help
feed a little bit of input.
Interestingly anyoslecting not to play the sense, not to play the capitao, of course
that was unfortunately banned out so I'm surprised I didn't complement it with the sense instead.
The lack of laying utility here could make things tough.
They do still have I suppose quad smoke but nothing to directly position that right on
the roof which is typically more open than.
I'm on paper, I think this does look like a tricky prospect for any of us.
We'll see how they try and pull this one off.
Sorry now, I identified on site.
I'm gonna stand off against the Monty.
Well I mean so far any of us have also had the open kill every round
which is helping them tune these late round moments
when they've got the extra numbers.
So if they can find that first pick again,
unlock this round a little bit better. That's probably gonna have to come on
Saira. So Saira's gonna have to be pretty fluid on here as to how to play this
position, fall back, play the pillar, contact when the plant starts to go down.
That information will be provided by Jaipur and the rest of the team above.
Just can't overexpose himself but then also it's difficult because you don't
want to allow machine to close the gap. He's feeling the pressure. The
kitchen is heating up right now and Saira is getting fried alive.
does get a good headshot onto the glass of chef chef
Now typically I'd say that's job done. He does die made a little bit more damage onto proxy machine
I came into fall 2 if the plant does go down still 3v4 is not honestly awful for team anios
Let's see what the post plant is gonna have for us and immediately proxy an acog with a quick double onto Jayper and Loyalith now
They've got the extra player with the Monty up in the post-planet points briefing. This becomes very difficult for Arcade
He needs to hit a big nitrous all here cross cover the machine feeding that information as his lit up as a result
Now the last player standing been solid for many us in this round the Monty position perfectly
And a nice set of kills in the post set them up for a round win
I mean that's just Arcade not understanding that as soon as Syra goes down and sorry did his job
Defended that first floor really really nicely. They were pressuring him. They were putting him under the pump
He gets a lovely kill onto chef Jeff, but as soon as he's dead
They're always going to go for that plant that needs to be quicker rotates
There needs to be a better option disrupting it
It's no point just taking these little hot shots at the Monty shield as if that's going to do anything
Arcator got to be a little bit quicker there because in theory if you can't stop that plant from going down
You already need to be then rotating first floor anyway for the post plant
You may as well get a bit of a leg up on that situation and start earlier on the push instead of rushing.
I think that's a bit disappointing from RK to not actually understand that that plant was not stoppable from their position, from their perspective,
and to then look to get ready for the post-plant a little quicker.
Credit to Anios as well, where they put all of their eggs into getting that plant down and once it did,
They were very much ready on how to win the post-plant situation. 3-1 up, 3 attacking rounds on lair.
Start looking good for RK, 2 rounds to go in this half on their defense and just haven't really been able to win out really any kind of contest.
I mean, they finally got that first pick, courtesy of Syro, first opening kill of the game, but then instantly traded, plant goes down and so it's all null and void.
Hands to the fifth we go
And he also going to be very eager to just keep chipping away here
You're the lead the halftime break the bird off nothing to report at my location
walks it back on to the snake in a
Challenging match certainly by very high standard. He has set so far this stage. So he's going to be eager
When I step up his game have more influence in the entry battle here and in combination with the
Deimos and they should be able to gather pretty good info in this round.
Arcane him, big fight early, lands shots onto Jaypot that he's able to scatter away.
Yeah I think this is what they need to do a bit more of just kind of try and play
around the map and he also playing this very calculated play around the Monty
clearing together numbers in strength but can you find some of these stragglers
like Arcane and the proxy. This is actually much better. Nicely done from Loyalist. They get on
the move, they know where he is, he continues the poke and prod, poke and prod from the same spot for
the last 20-30 seconds. Eventually that gives you the time to push up behind him and catch him.
And it works out. So Arcade will get back to back opening kills and that's a better way to be more
involved inside of the server as a team. Playing off the information provided to you, you deal with
with the Deimos. Much better starts the round. Yeah, puts any of us on the back foot. Oh,
good catch laid by Proxy. Sorry not anticipating this look over towards barrels. And so the
discipline there for Proxy goes rewarded who is now looking to try and compound that onto
Jaypreak. He finds himself caught in an awkward position. And now they can hold reinforcements
will rotate to his position offer a little bit of help as over on full to
side that's where the head of the attack will come from. Jeff Jeff has the kit
double drone out. It has called for a pretty significant rotation to his side
and as you can see courtesy of the drones it has left this half of sight very open
now for the attack. Yeah it has and then when you've got 30 seconds left on the
The emphasis is going to be will proxies now four and two after a slow start a cogs eight and two
So they're the two that's going to have to find the kills now for annuals as what chef Jeff is just primarily going to be
Looking to get into a spot for the plant machine is going to be holding first floor
So it's on proxy and a cove if they don't find kills as they push into site this round's done
So they've got a lot of pressure on their shoulders to be the ones to push it now through electrical for proxy
Almost caught on the timing from Jay Park a cock did get his one
Proxy trying to bait out the movement from Jayper. You just don't have the time to play that game
You've got to be the ones to push no time left as his heights in stock
You'd only lose that round any os because you just misplayed the time now understanding that moment from Proxy's perspective
He knows where Jayper is and he's playing that little ring around the rosy
But Jayper can do that. You can't you've got to push him. Yeah, there's six seconds on the clock
There's a minute left. I'm not making this call at all
But you've got to be the one to just push him at that moment and the anti-mruns out even with two alive to the one
Like teams just got to back themselves in a little bit more and understand that that clock is the biggest determining factor
And ultimately proves pretty costly in that round and it's just left the door jar for arcade to be able to equalize the half
half and with really nothing to lose in the second, and Anios with basically all the pressure
on them to form in this game, that could be a potential unraveling in the second half.
So we'll see if Anios can enter that half time break, still in the lead over to dorms
up next, which to their credit they were able to work really nicely last time out.
Ultimately getting the plant down was great, but also their initial positioning for the post as well was really good.
So, we'll see how Arcade looked to respond into that then, this time around.
I think the biggest difference obviously for them on this occasion is the introduction of the Nor.
So, sensing that countering, like it was what I'm doing last time, they're going to bring the Operator dedicated to dealing with that this time around.
that this time around. Yeah, when they played it back in the opening round there was no shield.
Not that, you know, you don't need to bring nor unnecessarily because of just shield, but
it's that added benefit of getting the most out of the operator and what it can do. And
as I said last time, you didn't have a year on Bronx briefing and literally the monty's
just standing there and you think, well, the Horus Launcher could have made a difference.
Siro, that's a lesson. Why are you defending Green Boy yourself like that? That is it.
Why are you there?
I don't know if he just got caught timing, trying to do something, you're playing Malusia,
you should have already, like, I'm very much baffled why he's just in the middle of green.
And that's your first floor sight defender.
And the funny thing is, he actually played it really, really well last time, back in
the fourth round.
I don't understand how he's ended up in that position.
Yeah, we'll see if the rest of the hold here can be firm to fall back on the second floor.
The site itself completely vacated and so a massive reliance on the gnawing of the counter
to the Monty Coverage and then Loyalith to be able to relay where the plant is going
down.
Should be some smoke layering here from the attack such to make that a little more unpredictable.
This drone from Chef Jeff will of course confirm the lines of sight up above and the fact that
the site itself is entirely clear I think the pressure is on JP here he's the one
that needs to get the launcher to work but there is pressure
Acox sends it forward but JP the trade
the Horus launcher connects shoots machine in the head that's really well played
from JPob Proxy's still on the kit though 3 vs 2
can Proxy find a safe plant position seems like he has been able to and now
Now it changes the game, drop was never going to work, and that's the half, yeah a bit of
a scrappy half here on Lair, Anios are going to take a 4-2 lead as Arcade, a few little
fumbles costing them an opportunity to get this to an even scoreline as we head into
the halftime break, it's Anios 4-2 up.
Well, as we return to this game, it's probably playing out as expected when you are featuring
7th and 8th on the standings heading into the last week, because I mean I'm not totally
surprised that Anios has probably been the stage for them in the nutshell that first
half where Times looked pretty good and then stumbled around and for Arcade just the inability
to get any semblance of control at any point. They just kind of look an almost kind of team
so often and we've seen that throughout the stage with Arcade. You think even all the
way back played a one five seven versus circular spheres four seven versus
Ben Alaphote. It's not as if they're incapable of being competitive and
having close games. They just don't have that ability to maybe string together a
good three four rounds be the dominant team be the best team in the server.
There was playing catch up there was a little bit behind the eight ball but
they're not kind of team that's going to lose you know seven zero every week by
any means they've got some great players physics again a good performance
gotten some good things out of J-part. You just need a little bit more at this
level of competition in tier 1 and ACOG 12 and 3 proxy 6 and 2 the stars shining for
Anios and that's probably been the only shining light for them this stage has been the performances
of certainly proxy and ACOG.
Let's see if they can get the job done. All the pressure in this match clearly is on Anios
and I think there may have been a few times over the course of this stage but when the
pressure to begin to mount that to where we saw the quality of their play
deteriorate so let's see if whether or not today they can maintain a level head
inside of arcade not much to gain outside of maybe some points or this
particular stage but a lot less to lose so if anything they could play with
that freedom here fine routine any of us off in terms of their aspirations to
make top all line up from them on this particular attack looking pretty stock standard.
Oilers are very quickly though inside briefing here so the triple impact fact comes a lot
early in this round.
See where it's called a little bit of information to facilitate that.
Maybe Jepid may be able to aid here, except for solo play though from him trying to gain
some space alongside physics.
They're up close with the shot gun to contest.
As time has developed as well on this top floor, I think you see the best teams have got different ways to kind of influence as the attacking team.
team. This is one of them certainly with the Zovtrik, but I think the best way to
win this site is if you can pull this off, go 5v4, get that open and kill, then
you've already established Ops' Bez, then you look for a storage site here.
Tarzan Heartland Sire is just now dead and...
...poor little piece, pinging, but yeah, no one there. You get the kill on to Proxy
Kertisea physics though, at least that's handy, but don't get anything from the
feel. Still a minute in the round, Jaybridge is just trying to creep up over towards R6.
I'm over storage focused now from Arcade, but that has meant ACOB now continues to hold
mezzanine. So you instead of having both, you kind of again just now got one real angle of attack.
back. The Loyalith has to push up main stairs and then retake mezz.
30 seconds. Let's see if this U-Tool can later into the sidecrab. A bit of pressure.
That's not too bad. Smoke will keep Jepid though at bay alongside asses as well.
But a crash kick over towards mezz leaves machine all alone.
Yeah, and that's the kill there that really unlocks this round. Otherwise, it's a 2v3,
17 seconds would have been very different very by arcade win it big play from Loyalty pushing up main stairs and
Certainly for arcade to win the battles that they needed to as well from storage side and
Keeps this game a little interesting for three bad around from arcade
And I like the fact that you know
There was a lot there in that round and didn't really go their way and they still walk away with the round wind
So the opening death didn't see how Syro died, but not ideal 5v4 top floor site
What was there about a minute 20 left in the round when that first kill went the way of any awesome
You would probably say statistically from there. It's any losses round to then lose
They also then don't connect with the Zofia couple, you know 20 30 seconds wasted again
So it just simply is the player's storage site hit their shots and loyal it does his job pushing up main
Sometimes seeds can actually be a pretty simple game, but any us also gave them those opportunities in
In theory is you didn't really need to hold main sorry mezzanine with what was at 17 seconds 20 seconds on the clock
All back play site let them plant have to force them to clear and he also just also then didn't use the time
To their side and allowed arcade to have those fights when they wanted it. So
Look, it's good. We always knew this was gonna be a scrappy game not the cleanest siege
But it's been pretty fun to watch as arcade just want to try and keep hope alive that maybe they can get their first points for the year
I can help you if you let me.
Yeah, it's a feeling like you couldn't end up being a close finish between these two.
There's the hard hitters at the moment.
A-Clock kills, so it's been a huge performance from him as an individual in this match,
and Proxies started to come alive as well.
Up to seven.
Chef Jeff, aggressive.
That's a horrible swing. Horrible swing.
Very aggressive. Caught up.
Yeah, and it's probably been symbolic of Chef Jeff's stage.
Chef Jeff stage one and five trying to make things happen, which is the best attitude to have by the way on a negative
You're actually better off in the long run as a player if things are not going your way instead of going into your shell
Keep going keep trying and I love that about chef Jeff
Has it worked? No, but it's the right way to go about it
The alternative is not any better
Nice kill for me, Cobb.
He's having a really superb game now, 13 and 4.
Another impactful kill, Arcaneum.
Look, he's looked solid as well in the fill-in tonight too, without a razor.
And suddenly, Antiox, despite the opening's death of Chef Jeff, now have got the extra players, proxy good damage into Loyalith.
And slowly but surely, again, Arcade just looked like they're being bled out here mid-round.
Alright, we'll continue to try and wage war from reception.
Okay, I'd force it to some unfavorable fights, but Neko does fall.
We'll see if that can compound in to more in favor of arcane as they still try and wrestle
for patrol.
The basement pealed back, but the machine got caught.
And so I could have done a great job of getting themselves right back in this round.
What an arm wrestle, just back and forth here in the eighth round, and now it's arcade with the extra number.
It's still got a lot of time here on the clock too, so double boogie auto bridge to get these out, open the third.
Azus, Loyalith can slowly start to turn their attention towards the site, just let, well, Sire's got the kit, so I mean,
I would almost just pass that over to Aziz and then allow Sire to play first floor off the vert, but
This is where comms is super important
Sire is low, Loyalith is low
You've got the extra player
Who do you send in first? Aziz is the one that's full health, does he play behind? Well, Loyalith is now dead
That's not what you wanted and it's a double stack through filtration to get about the plant
Let's try to get to a really comfortably safe position. He tries to just
command or crawl his way in. Asus is desperate to save that push through the
smoke. Now we got a 1v1. Asus caught sprinting at this point. Keep sprinting.
Proxy ready with the pistol. Anios extend their lead again. A real arm wrestle there
in that eighth round back and forth. Both teams had chances. Both teams looked
like they could win the round at various times. It goes the way of Anios and they
get to five. Yeah, they sure do. Critical round. It was very dicey there through the
mid round as they got cut off in terms of the peel back towards the objective. So credit
to RK for being able to still look competitive in that round. They looked pretty down and
up for that. So, I slays a nice pick spot. So, yeah, ultimately not quite enough. And
Annie also fortunate to them, they're now going to be able to rotate back to the primary
site of choice. Jeff, Jeff, over-regressed at the start. He was punished. It goes been
right foot back nicely. An arcade where I played a couple of Jules and I thought right
here 3-2 would be a pretty good stead. Unfortunately though, 4 arcade proxy was still up and about.
Another big round for him to add to. Long list that have been accumulated for this stage
and yeah with both him and ACOG firing in this match it's made it very difficult for
arcade to win out some of these close rounds.
Now, have an RK got probably one last little spell in them in this game to just stay in
it.
Because I feel like if this gets to 6-3, you're on the top floor defense for Anios.
Three straight for RK just doesn't look likely.
They haven't even won two straight so far, so you gotta get that step done first.
They might need to win two straight here as well to keep the likelihood up that they can
get their first points of the year. Similar to Arcade in the first half,
Vanya, same lineup, they dropped the gnar this time they bring the mirror. I think the
mirror is gonna have probably more of an impact on this top floor than the gnar
overall, especially with no shield play from Arcade. Really nice result from ACOG,
Yeah, it went to a whole lot
It's this that's back to have struggled with this though. Yeah, I think it's gonna be one successful bus
So far chef Jeff falls again first and on the smoke
And J. Perkett's court in response proxy falls in the meantime, it's a blood path
at this point of the round.
That's a win for Arcade though.
It's like you said, Chef. Jeff on the smoke, dead.
Yeah, Proxy gets the solid snake, but the solid snake's losing its impact
the longer the game goes on.
Razerblink killed from Proxy on to Syra of the Capitao,
and it's equal game. We got 60 seconds, 3v3.
I mean, this is just heads up who's going to be better in the crunch time.
Yeah, for sure. 50 seconds.
We've come down to a lot of ones.
still lack of limp at the defense
they cant deny this without a gun
well plans going down, physics, loyal earth
well positioned
machine gets one to give himself
two isolated gunfights now
make it one more isolated gunfight
1v1 against Azus
he's got double flash
he goes for the swing
machine will clot to for anios
Azus had two flashes guns
he could have bounced those off the wall
wall as machine was pushing and easily won the gunfight. Alex not to bring out the utility
after machine got that kill earlier and made it a 1v1. That's the time. Get the flashers
out and get yourself out of mask. Instead he stays there, does nothing, wide swings,
and Annie also 6-3 up.
Look their play to machine. It's been a tricky stage for him. I was actually looking across
of the numbers for Ose. He is quite literally the lowest rated player in the stage, but a
nice glimpse there into what he can actually pull off. A really well executed clutch. I
mean, say what you will in terms of RK, he's still put himself, I think, in the best position,
had a really good read and was able to execute nicely. And I think that that will probably
crush any mentality here for RK, who probably sensed they had an opportunity tonight, but
Yeah, off the back of that, now facing three match points, it looks pretty unlikely that they are going to be able to wrangle this one back.
It's the same story as the one that's headed to the tertiary.
Competitive, not the kind of team that...
You know, you think about teams that goes 0-7, 0-7 across two stages, and I think in the fullness of time, you would look at that and say, well, that team's awful.
But, if you actually break down the games for Arcade, they've actually been pretty competitive in most of them.
Certainly against the team to expect them to be competitive against.
Like, no one's going to expect Arcade to go and beat Chiefs in EP.
But, in all their other games against, we'll say, similar level of oppositions.
Seven-Fives, Fours and Threes.
I just had, as I said, coming into this game, I've never really been able to be the ones in control.
Never be the ones, one or two rounds up.
They're always that one chasing.
And after a certain amount of time, chasing is really difficult, and you get to this in a make or break round in a 1v1, where it's either going to be 5-4 or 6-3, you lose it, and that scoreboard pressure's there, and you're going to go and win 3 straight, which I don't even know if they've won 3 straight at any point this year, so I don't see how it's going to happen now.
And you've got Chef Jeff flexing on the Thunderbird. Best Thunderbird player in the world.
I'm not much else to be working out for in my defense this half so those will give the
Thunderbird a go at the trusted and true operator.
Basically the only person in the world, not even in the world of competitive seed, just
in the world period that plays this operator.
I'm sure there's some person out there at Thunderbird's at their main...
If anyone knows somebody who plays Thunderbird, send them off and I will help out.
It'd be a pleasure for me.
We need to get a Chef Jeff Thunderbird skin in the game.
I need to hit a big play for that to happen.
Well Arcane him, tap tap it away and then eventually one decides to peek.
It's physics defending his gridlock stingers.
I'm gonna solo stand in for Arcane him tonight and kinda what you were saying by the way,
I mean he was also literally the last player to join a team for this stage as a last second call-up for Annias
so he wasn't even expecting to play this stage at all.
Oh sorry Falls, nice work from Proxy, really.
He's got a great job at getting himself back into this match, it was a slow start for him
but he's definitely a good form of being up to refocus.
Jeff Jerry is Jeff Jeffy on the Thunderbird. Yeah, you can go heal up as well. He has
No Japer though. Okay, keeps it alive again
I mean how many rounds have we seen like this in this match 3v3 minute land back and forth and it's just quite literally a bloodbath and
Even though it's a 6-3 scoreline
Now the game has played a lot closer than that
It's just any of us have been a little bit better in these clutch moments and a cock down 14-6 in the 1v2
shot gun up, he keeps faking the nitro this time he throws it, physics immediately able to shoot it out of the air
but does the bow of the left side, that just caught physics slightly off
had to readjust and the Kona station will get Akog back to full health
and Chef Jeff will have impact from the grave
and the speed denied, 30 seconds it was a fake
well who's laughing right now
Would that be the difference? Full health ACOG.
Oh, he's lost sight of him though. Loyalty's just slipped through the cracks.
A bit of damage. Sports the plant going down. Does ACOG find the head? He does!
Loyalty pushes over towards the hatch. And ACOG wants a standout game.
They keep hope alive even if it's only a single percentage chance going into tomorrow.
Which may not even go into tomorrow, it's all dependent on other games today.
Anios, stay alive, a tiny little bit longer for Arcade, it's looking now very likely
another 0 point stage on the horizon in their last game tomorrow.
Again, stand surprised, it would be the biggest upset we've ever seen.
Even if it goes to OT and AP win, I just don't see how that's gonna happen.
Ananios gets the 6 points on the stage and a standout performance from Akog and Proxy.
Yeah, Akog was absolutely insane tonight, walks away with over 170 EPS, 16-6 KT, there's
also a 2-0 entry, so yeah, really, really impressive from him.
Proxy of course had another good night, and at the standard that we've come to expect
from him, and whilst there were certainly a couple of rounds, a couple of moments, I
I think probably more so in the first half that were a little concerning in terms of the time management and sort of just the overall coordination for Manny Oss.
They looked more comfortable on defense, I'm able to lock out that full rotation in the end and I'm seeing it smiling Chef Jeff so that's always nice.
Hopefully that will translate through to the interview because we will get to speak with Chef Jeff which I was a little bit concerned with the way that this game was developing
and as to how he would react in the interview.
It's a difficult one too because you win,
but you're also going into tomorrow
where maybe you're locked out of top four,
maybe not either way.
The road's gonna be difficult,
but I think where I kind of take from this game
is clearly for Adios, Proxy, ACOG, that's the future.
What the future of the overall team looks like
is gonna be hard to say,
but those two in particular deserve to be finals players
and they've shown that throughout this year.
They've already shown that certainly in ACOG's case,
of course, across his career and proxies clearly a shining life for the future.
Yeah, again, for context proxy was expected to do well, fifth in the league overall.
Aco has always been really strong 24th heading into the night.
It looked like one of the best there today.
So definitely promising signs for this team and they'll be looking rather to carry that into tomorrow.
We get a special treat.
It's the best Thunderbird player in the world, hailing from Australia.
His name is Chef Jeff.
He's got his lovely kitten with him.
Chef, congratulations.
on the victory today. It's a strange one as you would know coming into this interview in terms of the overall finals aspirations
Are you even aware of the permutations regarding your chances?
We kind of accept that that's a done deal
And we weren't necessarily helped by last week and you know, there are some
mitigating circumstances as to our performance in those games and
You know, that's definitely a scene as a visual as to what happened today
Um, yeah, there's the clear circumstances to what was different today versus last week.
And, um, you know, that's the nature of competition in Australia.
Uh, it is truly a miserable experience at times, but we're always able to find the joint
and that was definitely that joint stay and it showed how we're actually doing something.
Yeah.
Talk us through your approach to today, then it sounds like you guys have basically,
you know, admitted to the fact that it might be tough to get to the top four.
if not impossible. Was that a big mind-shift change heading into the day was more so just
when you jumped in the server the fives are good. Talk us through it a little bit.
Well, we had to change things up. So in terms of attacks, our Ijeeling role went to me
today. Obviously, we're the razor stepping out of the team. And we just focused on playing
a bit slower and a bit more methodical on some of the things that we did and just, you
moving step by step, explaining things a bit further and I guess playing a bit more to the strength of each player and when we know what we're doing, we can easily shoot.
When ACOG and Prox, you know what's happening in front of them and what our objectives are, they will get a lot of kills.
Well, Chef, tomorrow I'm not on the broadcast. Tomorrow you may not be in an interview.
So I kind of want to ask a little bit about the future overall. I know today is not the final day, but the final week, really.
Obviously, it goes without saying ACOG, Proxy and Nuts.
Like, those two individually, for me, should be playing finals.
And that's a little bit disappointing then, probably, to be on that team.
So, I don't want to try and... I don't want to spin this into a negative.
I want to turn this into a positive. Those two are great.
And I think when you're at your best, you complement the team.
So, there's enough pieces here to going into next year
that you can actually put together a team that's going to be a contender.
Is that the sort of framework that's going to go into the off-season of, like,
Okay, well, what are the pieces that we need? I'm not trying to kick anyone from the team. I just want to get information out of you
What's the plans for next year?
Look, I'll be honest
At least for like tomorrow's playday
The roles are gonna be the same. I'm gonna be probably primary shot pulling Shane's gonna be helping out
But as for next year, I will be honest with everyone. I think that there's gonna be
Near on everyone on the team taking a substantive break
I'm not going to exactly speak for everyone else.
I don't see anyone on this team actually playing over the summer.
Going to stage one, I don't know how many of us are going to continue, if any at all.
And that really, I'm trying not to go to that negative because in our last interview it
was really depressing, but I think there's definitely a lot of things to kind of reminisce
on and really think positively to in terms of all of our players and the capabilities
and achievements.
Look, I'd like to hope maybe a proxy ACOG fun sells on to a really, really good team.
If I'm still playing with them, we still like do something fun.
We do something good because, again, as you said, we're all capable and seriously good stuff.
And the nature of siege in this region really is quite terrible at times when it comes to outside of those top teams.
Things aren't really working. It's really hard to for a lot of people to kind of justify
Their decisions in playing and that's where we get to the situations where we are today
Where we are having over the substitute and a significant role swap like I'm playing Monty today
I don't know how to play that. I think I've literally died over four every round of that was the worst display of shield play in the world
Yeah, well until I get in the serve on show you even worse
then they make you feel better about yourself.
Yeah, we'll do the 1v1s.
1v1, Monty V clash when we play.
I know we can do that Pax.
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
Last one before I let you go.
Obviously, you've been an important part of Rainbow Six in the Oceanic region.
So you're not retiring or anything like that.
We're going to leave things in the air and see how things go by at the start of next year.
And then who knows.
It's more in that role.
I mean, it started 2020 E5, I think it started quitting.
Reality is I took a break, I was quite sad
when I took that step back,
and that's what led to me coming back.
Right now I am a bit frustrated
with how things are going and where things are landing.
So yes, I'm not gonna say I'm not coming back.
You know, there's possibilities.
Someone says, like, oh, let's do this for fun.
And maybe I come back.
But as for now, this tomorrow's game is gonna be
for at least an undetermined length of time
going to be in my last game.
All right, I'll off you this though, Chef.
Just if you do retire in the off season
or you don't come back, we'll do a retirement interview
to send you off, if that does happen.
I appreciate that, honestly.
There'll be a lot of people.
All right, we'll make that work.
Anything else you'd like to say before we go?
Shout out to the boys for rocking up
and having a lot of fun today.
It really made the whole process of the stage
a lot better than what it's been.
And this is Panda, he's the most adorable thing that I have recently picked up.
She is very young and she's very scared of everything, but she's adorable.
That's awesome. Well, congratulations for you and Panda.
Congratulations on the win.
Hopefully, you can maybe get a win tomorrow as well and who knows.
We're ambitious.
Thank you, mate.
Yeah.
Well, a little bit better in terms of the happiness department from ChefChef today.
maybe not so much in the server, though, guys.
Just the two and seven, but fortunately,
ACOG and Proxy did their things.
And I think, look, I would be quite surprised
if ACOG and Proxy are not playing stage one next year.
I'd be very, especially Proxy,
considering his age, his promise, I would be shocked
if that doesn't eventuate,
unless based on personal circumstances aside,
as an individual player for both of those two,
I mean, you'll find a spot on the team, no problem.
Yeah, I would imagine so.
It sounds hardly unlikely.
I'll be continuing on as a core, but that's not really too surprising as chefs are leading
to you, right?
Mid to bottom tiers of Ores, it's very difficult to have long standing rosters and we'll probably
see a big shuffle over the off season.
Especially with a lot of tier two players coming through and continuing to put a shining
light in the region, I think that's going to make it very intriguing as to how next
year looks.
Let's go to our schedule by the way, because this is where the night really begins.
So three games to go.
Circular spheres.
me. It's not winning your in, but it is close to losing your route territory for one of these two
teams. So much of the rest of the night and then into tomorrow will be decided based off this game
and in terms of the permutations that are created based on this result as we then head into then
the last two games. EP will be favourites over 7 and Chiefs will be favourites over Manolo Fo.
That will give us a better picture to start to paint based on the CSI Academy result,
which right now I've got no idea which way that game's going.
No. I honestly find it very difficult to predict where a lot of these games could go.
I'm expecting each one to in its own sense be quite competitive. So yeah, I'm very eager for
all three, but as you've highlighted, right, I think the next one in particular with a huge
emphasis on finals implications really should be a door-to-door style match with both teams are
really going at it. Yeah, I mean we're going to go to a break now but when we come back it's a big
one. Circulus, fierce and shy Academy fighting to get the Pax Melbourne the winner will be in a
much better position.
I was in a place where I could play games for people.
I played a lot.
When I was a kid, I was very rebellious.
I was doing things that I didn't want to do.
I was really bad at it, but I was walking, playing soccer, playing basketball.
I was doing it all the time.
With that, I was able to grow my ability to play outside.
I couldn't do it physically.
For example, games are the main thing in the game.
It's a type of game that you can do things that you can't do.
There's not a lot of things that have been created.
I think the game I played when I was young was the most fun to play with friends.
I was playing games at home, playing games in the middle of the night, and sleeping at school.
Now, I have to thank my family.
I'm used to playing in the eSports, and I'm used to being a pro gamer.
I can earn more than a person.
I have to say thank you for that.
When I first started out with C.G.,
it was my first time meeting with my friend in C.G.
It was a great impression to have been playing with my friend more than playing with him.
I guess it's a bit of a different feeling.
I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that in other games.
I guess that's the kind of thing I like.
I think I've been playing since season 0.
When I started playing for C.G.I.
I felt like I was playing Minecraft more than that.
I felt like I was playing for C.G.I. by myself.
I don't think I had that kind of impact in Japan.
I think I've been the strongest since I started building.
I think I've been the strongest since I started building.
I was in a good mood to not lose to anyone.
to this position, what it all means, what they're all fighting for as well, because
as we're into playday six and tomorrow being then the final playday, these games have even
more importance than say all the way back in playday one, even though as we like to
say on playday one, every single game matters and it does and we've got kind of this little
custom timeline if you will in terms of the standings and how it has developed throughout.
So one thing to note and considering we've done pretty much all of the days of O's is
We've had predominantly the same top 4 for the vast majority of the playdays, until very recently with the Manelipo and CS shift, CS now trying to get back into the top 4.
Yeah, and that was largely a courtesy of CS having a rough week last week and OT loss against Anios could prove very, very costly and a regulation loss against Chiefs and Sieben now outside of the top 4.
and they will be fighting to get back inside the top four tonight in this upcoming match.
Also looking back at some of the highlights throughout the stage that we've had up to this point,
Walsh has been a standout certainly as an individual, Shaz and Nesgradi,
and all of these young gunners coming through Sword as well for circular spheres,
and this match in particular, back on Play Day 2, feels like a lifetime ago.
It felt like the start of a new era for this circular sphere's roster full of young gunners,
a little mixed with some energy from this and also some of the old gunners,
defeating Enterprise.
But really then, both of those two teams went on two different branches after that.
One kind of, well, an EP got back and now top and for CS since then,
haven't really won and haven't really been able to replicate that performance.
And I said last week, is that the outlier then?
Is that result against EP, the Outlier?
Well, after you lose the next three games, 877217, the answer to that is probably yes.
Yeah, probably. In terms of the standings again, we looked at these earlier in the night,
but just recapping where they sit as of right now. CS, by themselves outside the top four,
only the top four that will make it through the playoffs at Pax and an opportunity for CS to put
their best foot forward tonight in looking to bounce back and there's a very strong possibility
if they walk away with three points tonight man alifoe then go on to struggle against cheese in
the final match of this evening we could see those positions swap again so yeah this is high stakes
for CS. Yeah I mean the circular spheres get the three points they go to ten let's just say
hypothetically man alifoe lose to chief so they would be in the top four then going into tomorrow
10 to the 9 of men hell of five, but men hell of four then play shy Academy tomorrow. Circular
spheres will then play seven tomorrow. So there's a lot that could happen and seven are not excluded
from this considering they play EP directly after this. So the magic line is really 13 points. Can
you get to 13 points? You're into the top four. Now that's going to be easy for some teams rather
than others. As for shy Academy, though, guys, well, they do technically still somewhat control
their own fate as well. They win the three points here against Circulus Fierce. They'll go to eight
points. They then play Menelopho tomorrow. That could then get them to 11 points, which provided
Menelopho also lose to Chiefs, would then therefore stay on the nine points and Circulus Fierce,
the max they could get to is then 10. So for Chocatomy, they too, despite right now, at this
very moment, sitting in seventh, they can actually control their own fate with a win. And then look,
They've got a team. I think that's more than capable in doing it on a given night
Ronnie and Kyvinix have been really solid taken has had has been pretty consistent
What are you gonna get out of shaz? That's maybe the big one really good shield player and wizard can be a little bit
Hot and cold. So I think if you get best case scenario shake out of it tonight. They can take it up to circular spheres
It's a big game
Yeah, absolutely. Again, that's why I'm really eager to jump into this matchup
up. We'll jump into the roster's actually for this particular game, I believe it's CS
up first, who have found themselves on the receiving end of just a little bit of poor
form. That's what has contributed to them being in this rough spot. I think they're
certainly forgiven for struggling against cheats, but certainly they would be disappointed
with that O2 loss last week against any else, especially off the back of being a weak player.
So their form's going to be pinballing all over the place at the moment. And so, signs
that at their best, and I think some of their key hitters are firing, Nezarati's been phenomenal
when he's been in playmaking positions, he's been wanting to really stand up, and then the
others can play a nice compliment to him, the kind of playstyle that this team is looking to
employ, if they could just find close to their consistency in terms of the raw fire power that
they have, and the aggression that they've been able to lead into, if that is successful for the
last couple of players, which I think it could be, then the path to top four looks very reasonable.
guppies out tonight by the way King is in so a small change up to the lineup for
circular spheres ahead of a do or die game and the other thing as well if
Chacademy lose this game they're out they're just done whereas for circular
spheres they can actually still lose this game and still get in not ideal to
be in that situation but and especially considering they do play seven tomorrow
they would much rather win this game right here right now to give themselves
and the kind of chance, you know,
because there is a word in which you win this game,
you lose tomorrow, but then that's enough
based on maybe the man LFO game
to be played against Chiefs tonight
and then playing Chicago tomorrow.
So if the circular is fierce,
look, Nezarati has been sensational at this stage.
He's gonna have a really long career ahead of him.
Sword at times, I think certainly
when they started while he was great,
but as the performances of the team have dropped off,
he hasn't maybe quite been able to get back
his best so we'll see if he can return to his best tonight. No guppies as I mentioned and to be
honest guppies formerly palerazi which is a much better name he can have some good impact moments
but in terms of overall general play it's not as if you're losing one of your top corners so
I think king slots in tonight and probably won't be an overall big determinant in fact either way
maybe if anything could be slightly more positive for the roster but in terms of their opponents in
Shycademy, it's been an up-and-down kind of stage for them. They've lost on the opening playday 1-7 of Cheese.
Then they beat Annie or Sin Oteeth, then they lose to 7, then they get smashed by EP, but then they go and beat RK.
So they've won the games they're supposed to win, and they've probably lost the games they're supposed to lose.
But now you enter into a game, guys, where it's not one or the other. They're not supposed to lose this game,
but they're also not supposed to win it. This is simply an arm wrestle game. We haven't really seen them in a game like that this stage.
I mean I totally agree and then now I'll throw suddenly a
Antilizing prospect tomorrow as well and it's pretty simple
They control their destiny win both and you're a fair chance making top four
So this is that door dive for them. I think that probably entered the stage with
Aspirations pretty tempered when it came to a top four finish
I think they would have obviously been gunning for it
But wouldn't have been hugely disappointed if they missed out that maybe that disappointed will be amplified if they get so close
Which is still very very possible and then do just all short so we'll see if some of the hard hitters of the team can
Perform tonight. It's actually a pretty consistent performance overall up until this point four or five members
And that can be today's detriment if maybe it's the style of match
We do need one of two players really topping off but in other instances
I think having a well-rounded team has also served them quite well
So eager to see how they look to perform tonight and when pressure mounts
We see some teams really thrive and others come on that's going to be the biggest
overarching kind of factor in this match for both teams. Yeah I think that I'm
looking to Shad some looking to wizard some of the younger gunners on this
roster not so much gunners because Shad plays a different role. Kai Vynyx is
another one as well. The entry battles are going to be key but it's I don't know
it's a tough one I want to sit here and bring up individuals but at the end of
the day it's gonna be that team aspect too isn't it? Everyone is going to need to
before Ronnie's gonna need to perform Kyvenix is gonna need to perform this
can't be the kind of game where it's like oh Ronnie had a quiet night tonight
because when it's gonna be bit this cutthroat this much of an arm wrestle
you can't have one or two pieces potentially missing that could be the
difference between a 7-5 win or a 7-5 loss as we head into the vetoes let's
see which map we will go to yeah let's see let's jump in I spoiled it for myself
So I kind of pretend that I don't know what it is, but yeah fortress in the end
So this is a pretty interesting
Decision ultimately in the end for both of these teams. I didn't really expect to see this map played
It's been pretty much an insta-band for CS over the course of this stage
For sure Academy has been certainly more open. They played it on a couple of occasions
But that data is pretty old so not too much to note in that regard. It's gonna be interesting
I think the team that is able to find a way to split attacks and find that map control is going to be the thing
We've seen Fortress really modernized quickly for attack and if these two teams one of these two teams if they're better switched on in that
Regardless, I think that will be the difference maker or essentially finals begins now doesn't it for circular spheres and show Academy
This is essentially an elimination final
There is a chance more so for CS that they could still lose this and get through but it lowers their chances dramatically for show Academy
must win. Need the three points desperately. Two all-time match heading into fortress where neither
of these two teams have played on this map this stage. Pax on the line. Who knows what tomorrow
is going to bring but win this game and you give yourself a much better chance at cracking into the
top four. This is what you play siege for on the road to Osaka, on the road to Pax Melbourne. It's
this best of one that is going to have huge ramifications not just for these two teams
but for all of the teams in this stage. Yeah absolutely a huge game and I'm sure these
two will be acutely aware of the the consequences whether it be positive or negative pending
the end result for this match and which Academy on Attack first they will need to be the ones to
try and shake off any nerves that may be present they need to be willing to be initiated.
map control doesn't come easily here on fortress and depending on the kind of
playstyle they play for they need to be super cautious especially again if they
go from that clear they're not finding themselves too stalled out very very
costly. The bands for the first half are snake blitz, Monty will stay up and so
Nez will pick the North counter into that at least for the first round so
Skae ish Academy away from that and then in terms of defensive bands pretty
standard with the PAI Bandit unavailable and that should suddenly boost the ability for the attack to hard reach.
And effectively for Shai Academy,
finals has now begun. Because you're not only going to win this game, but you play
Men LFO tomorrow. And that goes without saying, that's also a must win. You lose that, Men
LFO will get enough points to then make top four. So regardless of the results tonight,
you lose tomorrow anyway, and it's irrelevant. So, it's academy have to win this game, have
to then win tomorrow to then make packs. I mean, they're basically playing finals early.
anything when they actually make finals impacts because of the nature of double
elimination that's when they can lose again but up until then they now can no
longer lose but that's also I would rather be in that position you can kind
of control your own fate at least we now and you're probably through attacking
in this first half not going to be easy especially in a map in which they have
obviously not had a lot of time on having played at this stage regardless of
scrims if they even do scrim yeah this is gonna be I think a very messy fortress
which then naturally leans itself to favoring the defense, which is where circular spheres begin.
I want the finse approacher off of here from the attack.
I make the venecade out of play.
Pretty straightforward for wizards to be able to exit the nuked down.
This is a pretty direct approach from Shycademy, I think it's going to be important that they
issue some kind of threat to pinch this attack.
And then Shyz can be a little more aggressive here on the Blackfid.
He could be taking maybe to aid theirs.
They have a lot of play to do on the exterior.
Very kill for G.
And then Shyz falls as well.
This has been a good start to look around for CS.
Academy do still have Rani and Clive in Xopto. They're the heavy hitters.
They're the ones that have got the ability to be able to push in, find a pick each, and get this round back in their turns.
Loose Kakin, moves through the smoke, catches the head of Rani, never mind.
Never mind.
You know, climbing is just never even really able
to get into the building, literally.
So on circular spears that throw the first punch,
they defend well in the opening round.
But again, I just have that feeling
that Fortress is gonna play out very defender sided
in this kind of match.
Now, if you had two teams that had played
their fair share of Fortress ever since it got introduced
to the pool, it's a bit different.
And probably would follow maybe more of the usual statistics and slowly but now teams are that do play fortress are getting better at attacking it, but
I just get the feeling this could be 4-2 slash 5-1 both ways.
And it does go it's here could be very very interesting.
I think I'm entering this game with definitely the mindset that it's going to probably be
a little bit of a slow burn.
I think that especially given how Fortune does play out at the moment, it does offer
really good opportunity for us to see both teams really adapt on the fly for Shakadami
to be more certain.
There's a map entry and how much control they want to take, and then for CES, through
compositions they want to play, how comfortable they'll feel toadling as opposed to peeling over
the course of this first half as well, seemingly pretty comfortable there defensively. The anchor
they've got really good tools to be able to do that, especially with the mirror making through
the band phase as well. So you're a bit of setup here on the fringe, so we could see a little bit
of that peel again, can we play for second round. Interestingly as well, Nez will commit to the
nor again so again it could just be a pic to try and scare away the attack from picking shields and
whether or not that's directly what has led to this composition from the attack remains to be
unknown but we're not going to see that blackbeard for instance in play before the fall.
And Dorm's game is for this second round, Shaz makes his way up top floor on the back.
A little bit less of this though, I think, for Shaz Academy, just sitting outside these
doorways.
It's all about, especially on Fortress, a similar to almost Skyscraper in some ways.
Once you get in, it's that push.
Clear out these defenders, push them back to site.
Certainly Dorm's games.
gets the opening kill on Serrani. Back to back opening picks for the defense but there
is the trade from Wizards so similar starts the second as we had back in the first round.
Oh well, we've decided to peek the window. I think that would be the last time he'll do that in
this half especially the way that Shrek had me applying this. If Kaker's just gonna sit out here
on the Carly, just don't peek it.
So I've finished Academy.
Still they will see if they're able to at least break down the rest of this defense.
Still strong potential here, yes, but there's still a top-rated player for the team.
Karma will have his utility for the Azami as well and has two in pocket as well.
and the mirror windows as well are still posing a threat here and helping feed
invasion into sword. There's no shortage of utility to play off here for CS, good
counterplay from the shock drone that will help actually create a bit of
space, sword force back over towards games and will respond with some of his utility
deployed so I can't be doing a good job but just shifting away at this control
not too slow but also not too high risk.
What's been the purpose of this gnaw so far?
Nezurati. Maybe he just wants the bullet holes laid into sight.
70 seconds left in the round.
Chakademi. That's the opening kill.
Sword got one. Trades coming through though in favour and karma.
Finding a double kill inside of Dom's and Kake and the last one left for 10 seconds.
the clutch off 1v2, couldn't win the swing battle,
Carmel with three at the end of the round.
That's getting a little bit interesting.
It's not as if Chicademy have not had their opportunities.
Certainly so, it's that round right there
being winnable for dorms games,
but it's two nothing to circular spheres.
Yeah, for sure. Tertiary out next is going to be very interesting.
Chakademy are going to be very eager to get a foot in the door.
It was slam shut in the last round. It's good work from Sword, he was forced to
peel back from his position. It was good Chakademy play from the
Twitch on the side of Chakademy, but he was able to find a good timing.
He's able to facilitate a great swing there, very late in the round.
I kind of did a lot of the hard work early quite nicely and we're well disciplined.
There's that swing right there where Shaz just got a little caught off guard.
Karma played off that nicely as well to net himself a multi.
And overall, yeah, a strong display there from circular spheres and not allowing the attack to overrun them late.
Five seconds left before insertion.
That's too nothing, but you shot Academy you're a little bit happy with how that
last round played out. Very happy with the start to this round. Oh my goodness.
That's been 10 seconds but Karma gets one back onto Wizard and that offsets it
completely until he went for more. Oh my god. Well that's one of the quicker
rounds of Fortress. I think you'll see two versus four inside 30 seconds more
like inside 20 seconds well you can't you can't you cannot be losing this
around this has to be one on the board to shock out of me in an arm wrestle game
with finals on the line you cannot allow Goof to get this on the Kyvinix and now
Now it's not as simple.
No.
Well, it's hard to move spawn if they're just peeking them.
Technically they're left spawn, they got sent to the grave.
Yeah, very much complicates the run now.
See what I kind of ended up going for in terms of formulating the push here.
Seems like their drone clone is still pretty healthy, so that can be quite useful in gaining info.
A great peek there onto Goofed, but your self will not land, so there's at least one above.
That leaves site very exposed if I can be one of the quickly formulated directs.
I wouldn't even do that, you've got so much time.
Group is three, go top floor, take the 3v1, I mean they have to split here as the two
remaining defenders, just group up, play the numbers.
3v1 top floor, maybe one dies, then it's a 2v1 against Sword.
I mean like that's got to be the way they formulate their plan. They've got friends. They can still use they've got utility
Hitting me Wow
Shops up playing this so well. He's just moving around giving himself the best chance to maybe find kills
He's done that he's gotten to now back to site now to 2v2 and it's a direct hit to site
So she can't it she can't we go from a 4v2 advantage?
There were two versus two based on the way that goofed off to play this round.
Risky and the reward was there, but Risky in the sense that he did look for those gunfights.
He dies, it's over.
The round's done.
It's a 1v4, 1v3.
But he's gotten the two big picks.
They still got double mirror to play off, double window up, and Sword has Nitro.
This now is back to CS.
CS won the best position here.
There are Ken Dollars and there are smokes available as well from Shat.
So they do also have utility on the attack.
This is a pivotal round.
Burst Candela in, plus now the second, immediate damage though on the entry on Tashaz, Kaken's gonna throw in a frag grenade, that's the last one he's got.
And suddenly there's only 10 seconds remaining, the round goofed, spots him, four holes, two march, sword does his job, and circular spheres go three nil up, and look at what it means to sword!
Big clutch up from goofed and sword!
I pay good money to know what he said just then because the rest of the team can't go back the laughter.
He's off and about, bit of shit talk no doubt.
Why wouldn't you?
I mean credit to him, solid work, in terms of locking down the site and allowing Goof
to just have so much manoeuvrability around the map and he hit some really, really sharp
shots in that round.
Chakadami in response will call a tactical time out, they need a big mental reset, they've
been in with a shot the last two rounds but they just haven't been able to make those
opportunities count. I mean, what do you say? Genuinely, two rounds in, if they could be
2-1 up, they're 3-0 down. And it should at minimum be a 2-1 scoreline. So they would
be devastated and the morale would be tested. And this is where Sean, I was gonna say gets
paid the big bucks, but I don't think he's getting paid the big bucks on Chocatary. But
So this is where his influence is going to be keyed.
So how does he get them back into this game now, mentally?
Inside of the server, they haven't been necessarily awful.
Kybinix and Rani have had some kills.
They did well to offset the early peaks
that we saw from CS in that last round on the tertiary.
I mean, Gove just made some big plays individually.
There's sometimes not much you can do against it.
As we look back at the replay, karma,
a little bit of an overinvest after getting to Capitao.
And then that's just Kyvinix hitting a really good shot.
And then he had two minutes and 13 seconds on the clock.
And he's at the doorway.
Then he moves to the hallway.
Then he moves to the sides.
It's just all over the place.
That's also a symptom of 2v3 group up.
If he's in that hallway and he swings and gets one,
there's the trade potential.
But they're just all isolated,
and they're all separate running around
doing different things.
And look, there is a way back into this
because as I said before,
I'm expecting this to favor defense.
You might only need even one attacking round, but you've still got three chances for at
least two, which would be a great way to get half the close out.
So big time out call, but now over to command bathroom.
There's been enough positive components to this half of Shikademy where if they can just
find a way to contain the aggression from circular spheres, which has been a characteristic
of them up to this point, it shouldn't be the kind of thing that's catching Shikademy
off guard if they've done any level of preparation, but translating prep into actually something
actionable inside of the server can be tricky and clearly CS mechanically is a pretty wild
shot so I think it's a case of refocusing and just being able to get better players
team and really increase the tradability maybe some of these pushes where maybe if you do
get caught out by a nutty shot you at least have an opportunity to find a trade or minimum
get some kind of value back whether it be in ground or utility or whatever the case
may be.
We'll see how they look to focus in here for round of the fall back to the primary side
commanders this is going to be again a tricky attack of course the digital
bands through grim mirror I think that is definitely a net positive for the
Hubshark Academy. Yeah the mirror has been potent to Hubshark Academy.
Grim played once I mean I don't think it's anywhere near equal I think the band
is gonna help Hubshark Academy. It's actually been very similar lineups from circular spheres
through the first three rounds a lot of his army mirror up nor form.
keeping it as simple as they possibly can.
At first pick as well, I mean they got it in the last round
but that was a different kind of start to a round.
So I think, yeah, well, halfway through this fourth round,
quiet on all fronts, find this first kill,
you've, with no mirror on the ball,
becomes a little bit easier than just play that flood game.
One of the downsides when that mirror's on the board
and being held and you haven't cleared it
is when you do want to flood into sight,
even if you've got the numbers,
you're at such a disadvantage
because the defenders still have the mirrors up
but not a problem here.
The biggest difference will now be the trap utility
with the razor blooms, the grismont lines,
the vault and canisters, three gaspaves to stall out.
So I am a little concerned on time.
Yeah, let's see how they go.
They have a good set of exu utility with the sense
and the ying if they are able to draw upon that.
But did the twitch and the florist do their job?
I mean, I'm still seeing vault and canisters up.
There's still three gaspaves.
I've got quite a timing here.
All trade.
All trade.
Okay.
Just.
It's all the work from K-Kids.
Sublines on 1 HP.
Luckily it's onto the Twitch where there's no shock drones left anyway.
You need to keep Shaz and Clive in here.
Self-cube the execute.
30 seconds.
You kind of have to send it now.
Just to give yourself the breathing room.
And then Goof retakes his space over towards the corridor.
Shaz ended up dying to Karma.
And there's just no way through for Chikademy.
They're really struggling here on Fortress.
They just have no breathing room, no way in, for nothing from circular spheres.
Three rounds away from ending the season of Chakadami.
Maybe I look, I still think Chakadami have it within them to scrap one round in this half.
I'm there's the potential for that to maybe be enough, but in the late round here,
they're not showing enough to be able to contain circular spheres and they're
being able to retake space, they're catching Chakadami in isolated fights
pre-execute and it's leaving it in a little bit of a shambles where it just
consistently now at this point a lot of the decent work that's being done in the
lead up to the late round has been done pretty quickly. To credit the circular
spheres they've done a great job in fighting out the late rounds here but
which I can't believe. We need to see a dramatic shift from them.
It's something that I'll play to Monty for this particular round.
The Norn not selected on this occasion from CS, so that could be a decent adaptation here
to facilitate some of the grabbing of space.
But that hasn't really been the primary concern. It's more so about translating that
towards the site pressure where the sake of the series have looked very very comfortable.
The reality sets in now that you know fighting for your final's life and you've got two very
important rounds and that adds an extra layer of pressure mentally for
Chacademy. Mentally taxing and draining that there's a lot more in their
shoulders now compared to circular spheres we've gotten off to a hot start
I mean you're getting so much out of calmer and goofed and to be honest on
this stage the circular sphere sometimes especially those two can be very
hit-and-miss the fact that they're both actually playing really well at the same
time has met Nezaharys and they got one kill and he's been their best really all
stage long. It goes to show that I think for circular spheres, there's a bit of a level
up to this team if they can get everyone playing really well on the same day. They are a threat.
There's a reason why they beat E.P. back on Play Day 2. King has slotted in nicely 4-2.
This game has looked comfortable, but it is also a case of fortress defense for the first
half, but they're making the most of it. You still got to get the job done and they've
been able to do that. The Chakadamy, they're very, very slow. They opt to now bring Shaz
on the the Monty. That's not gonna pick up the speed it might just help them if
they can actually get towards the site and then for the eventual pushing.
It's still chipping away at U2 and the floor is made in dealing with the deployable shield?
No? It was shallow I suppose and there's no Vitero's left that's a big boss and you
You can see it, it's quite comfortable in this position, great spray down, make it a second.
Hang on, this is two.
Yeah, big pistol kill from Shaz while all that was going on.
You can see the slide, and it has Kyvinix for company.
Still 50 seconds, so they've got the time, two smokes, a shotgun available for Kyvinix,
just if he needs a bit of extra information, has a regulator in two.
He's just making him, look at the discipline.
There is a drone inside of Dom's.
Was watched by Rani, I don't know if it's a big shot out,
King getting that kill onto Shaz,
though it's gonna make it more difficult.
Kyvenix now 1v2.
I like the fact that he's at least pushed into games
who get the headshot against King,
but Sword clutches up.
Oh, he's been hyped today.
And this time he comes through for the team and the 1v1.
I think Sword is just cracking them up in the columns, 5-0 for Circular Spheres, he's
amped up and rightfully so, put in a solid performance and so is his team.
As we head back to Waiting Room cafeteria for the final round of this half, Chikademy,
your stage now is on the line.
You need to win this round or you're probably done.
Defenders, protect your bombs from being defused by attackers.
Yeah.
Wow.
The Hercules Spheres have largely dominated them up to this point, but we need to see
around out of Shai Academy, their stage on the line, with a whole lot going their way
so far, here on Fortress, I mean it starts somewhere, Akamaika starts from somewhere,
they need at least one though, they'll be back into that, Australian, probably should
still be standing, and that Goof to find a double, Karma again playing well off his
team was then able to get in on the action as well. Wanted to get isolated, and Guy
Venex did a great job to get that down to a 1 versus 1, but sort backed himself to
swing and win the 1 versus 1. If he stayed static, he would have been cleared and likely
lost that fight. If he played static, so it was the right read from him. He's done a
good job to have influence in this match on several occasions.
Well best head to you at the start of this game guys. There's already one kill off to five rounds. What's the score line?
You probably wouldn't say 5-0 CS
After the stage he's had and how important he's been for this team
I mean it's been a real testament that you know you're getting a lot out of goofed and calmer King has
Slaughtered him perfectly sword standing up in some big moments and there's a righty then I mean to be fair
He's already died twice. It's not like he's played bad. He just doesn't really seem any players in the server hasn't been in the right spots
It hasn't mattered though, and unfortunately for Shaik out of me, I think taking this final
game to Fortress has just not been the right way to go about it, especially with CS starting
on the defense.
It was always going to be a difficult half, and they missed their chances.
Back in rounds two and three, I feel like those were the rounds.
Get one at least there.
And certainly if you get both, then it's a whole different game.
Now you lose this round, you're not coming back from 6-0.
and 5-1 is a very long journey and you need the three points actually. I mean
that's the other part of this round. I mean, the Academy need the three points.
They have to win seven straight now.
Yeah, there's low pressure in the meantime, there's a briefing.
But the defense will get appealed back on the second floor and will leave the
the exposed now or the attack to try and exploit. If we go searching back for a bit of info,
the truck singers from Cape and Bale will mean that Plank is a little more challenging to
go for at least right now, although it does look like you still have a file for later
in the round.
Lovely open for Maserati, wow. And again onto the Capitown, Wiz has been a non-factor in
this game 1-6, playing some key operators.
Shadows outplayed again by Nezorati.
Kagan eventually will shut him down,
but he's done some big damage in this round.
The Blackpid and the Capitao end damage onto Kagan,
all from Nezorati, with 40 seconds left,
because it feels inevitable that Circular Spears
are getting this to 6-0.
And still a flank throw back up above from Goof,
so this looks very, very low percentage for Shai Kanami,
but Rani has been able to find one.
Yeah, low's not zero.
But it still stays low, even in the 3 vs 3, with 20 seconds remaining.
Descend in a hope of prayer. Prayer answered with the spray from Kyvenix.
He's doing his best to give them a little chance.
Longly kill onto Goved, and then onto Sword as Kyvenix gives them
a very small chance heading into the second half,
showcasing his quality with a 3k at the end of the round,
as finally, finally, in the final round,
Chikademy are on the board.
What I fear
Everything's fine
Yeah, I really don't feel like making
The mind in the clouds
That I can see the world from up here
From up here
From up here
From up here
From up here
You can see the world from up here
And it's not too good
It's not too good
Go ahead, call me crazy
I only see the good in everyone
Good-wider life, well
Way up here, I can see the sun
I'm a little higher, it's no doubt
I'm a type that's either seeking just to make you feel
what I feel
I'm in the skies, I'm in the skies
Yeah, I'm not even making the right decision
Well, a sign of life, a little spark, it's something.
As I said though, even prior to that round win for Shakeademy, it was seven straight
needed.
probably six straight needed to close this out.
It's an unfortunate part of not wanting circular spheres
to get to overtime at minimum.
So for Chacademy, if this game does go to OT
and they somehow find a way to win it,
if this game goes to OT and they lose,
they just straight up cannot make finals.
If they do win, they go to seven points,
circular spheres would be on eight,
man on the phone would be on nine.
And this was actually a proposition that I said, um, talking to production guys actually before the game.
There is a chance you could have a three-way tie on 10 points because if Shikademi wins this in OT, they go to 7.
They beat Manila Foe tomorrow, and then they would be on 10.
And the circular spheres can also get to then 10.
Like, there's a whole bunch of ramifications, that's right, whole bunch of permutations that open up if this goes to OT.
The simple answer is this, the circular spheres win this Shikademi around.
And as we enter the second half, even though they go defense now,
they need to be just as faultless for at least the next four rounds
if they're going to have any chance of finals. That's a lot of siege to play.
They gifted a little bit of a life line there at the end.
Massive multi-found. I could have an X, seemingly out of nowhere, but did a great job.
That's makes things a little more intriguing for this second half and importantly gives
the 3-point dream a life for them.
Another band's for the second half.
Double info from Track Academy, so the lift shield's up to take the same thing that's
out of play and then as is expected CS will take out the Kaid and the bandit to ensure
that Heartbridge isn't too much of a concern for them over the course of this second half.
Two dedicated drone operators in the round with the Twitch Flores combination, so really
important that we try and get value from those two operators in kind of setting down
the path to the attack late round.
I hope it kills 5 to 1 in favour of circular spheres up to this point, but I think in large
part on defence portraits you're probably going to win more of those battles than not,
so Sharkadmy can replicate that.
similar kind of pacing from circular spheres certainly with their line-up
suggesting they're going to be far more focused on the execute rather than the
clear. They'll take their time, they'll drone in into the right positions, no rush
and back in then their ability to probably win gunfights in the site and
that's where Fort Shikademi having this mirror for at least the next three rounds
is going to be super valuable provided it doesn't get opened up and dealt with.
It's gonna help them in sight so much
Just that extra ability to play behind get the nitrocell out get some extra vision
Three nitrocells in this round to maybe deal with the Monty of Karma
It's Chymonix with the opening kill on to King
Investing a lot of utility to try and help clear this position as Karma does go searching
it doesn't quite net the kill.
Goof falls as well, Givernicks is on a heat up.
You carry that form from the final round.
One of the first half into the second half of the double kill gets into double digits.
As Karma and Sword fall, the exact same moment.
Nezarati, all he can do is deny the flawless.
Shikadami, two in a row. Game on, just like that.
It's the way in which they won that round very reminiscent to what circular spheres did back in the first half
So if we're gonna get that same clear cut defensive fortress picture, well that bodes well for shy Academy
But it's not gonna be that easy every single round dorms games gonna provide it a bit more of a challenge waiting room cafeteria
We'll provide a bit more of a challenge
I mean if Kyven X just suddenly
suddenly stays at this level for the remainder of the game, now 11 and 5, and they've got
every chance that they could claw this game back.
Yeah, I mean, I said before, it feels like a sleeper and sort of match, and it feels
like it's starting to build into that, as Chocademy starts to mount a recovery effort.
very interested to see how second spheres look to adapt their playstyle over the course
of this half.
They're really getting poured out there a little bit in the last round with some good
anchorware from Kyvenx.
They'll be, I think, quite eager to try and find a way to isolate him and keep him out
of play where possible.
Those look like Kyve will be playing the shield for the drop this round.
So he'll be in a key position in anticipation maybe for the shield play here alongside
ignore but evidently circular spheres pivot away from that for this second attack.
No shields of play.
I'm giving the glass though and typically we'll see the glass used to lay a pressure
from the primary breach.
So I'm eager to see what Nez tries to shake up for this run.
I mean the benefit for circular spheres is because of that early lead they can just also
have a couple of rounds where they just try some unique things and move away from maybe the more
default nature of Fortress. And they need one round of a bit of scrappiness to go their way,
and it will spell the end of all of Chikadami as Goof gets the opening kill on Wizard. It's been a
rough game for Wizard 1 and 8, same with Shaz 1 and 6, but Kyvinix just gave you the recipe that you
can, you know, have a bit of a slow start to a game but still have an impact by the end of it.
lovely clear from Nezorati under Rani. Who player advantage and suddenly
Shikademi, your chance to get to Taks is looking rather slim. It's Shaz in the
tub. Can he get a double kill from this position? What are the nerves like? Because
he knows as soon as he pops up he's gonna have a few players he needs to kill
quickly. Oh this is so high as one. There's the second! Two will do. Kakin got one as
as well. So now equal numbers, a big power play from Shaz.
Yeah, Nitro's still up, and the CS will wait out the next gaspad. They have a lot of time
to work with, King and Goofed.
Chikademy will need to hold their nerve. Kakin and Kyvenix has been in great form so far.
This is a potentially very close round. Decent amount of view still standing as well, or
Chikademy, and I'm liking this advanced position from Kakin.
Now I mean the only problem is it's a little time in I was thinking also you're in a hallway
position which could get double swung I don't know if that's the spot CS gets a six Trikademy
can no longer get three points from this game they still can stay alive if they can get
fall straight, false OT, and win in OT, anything else, and they are out of finals.
Yeah, tough position there for Kakin especially, but also you can't really rotate out of there,
you have to play there. You can't cross back over the bridge at that sentence, so...
I'm unfortunate with his timing, but Shaz was certainly very fortunate with his, and he was
Obviously the reason why this round ended up being so close in the end
Like why like this is the thing is like I can understand the idea of that position further up the hallway
You catch someone off. Maybe they're not expecting you there
But there's the the risk attached to which is you get caught and he could have got he could have got double swung
So even if he gets one it gets traded anyway, it's a 1v1. I just feel like there's no barb wire at the door
You can fall back play the side
And then as soon as he kind of started to pull back, he was just caught in the middle of the hallway.
There was no quick little escape route to kind of slip back, and that's cost him in the end.
are moving out to locate a bomb that defuses.
G-Sex conducting hold-tune.
Attract unit communications off the lash.
I'm just like Adamie now, as soon as you see sixes there for CS,
mentally it's a long road back.
You have to win four straight.
Knowing that even if you do force OT and win,
it's still not going to be as much in your hands now,
in terms of top four.
Well for circular spheres
Got four rounds to secure three points three very valuable points, which would
Temporarily put them back into the top four
In a big game tomorrow against seven which
Considering Chicago men LFO play first up tomorrow
They might not even need anything from that game as an opening kill again goes the way a circular spheres on to cake and
As Arati gets through to Rani, Clivenix continues an impressive end to this game.
As Arati continues to just creep closer and closer, taking this space.
And now, to fall back, a circular sphere might look for a reset.
Oh, King goes to double digits.
Welcome back, King.
maybe they might need him tomorrow.
A huge gain from circular spheres,
soul crushing performance.
They will knock Chicademy out of finals contention
and get back into the top four
with a game to play tomorrow against seven
where if they win, they're in.
We'll pitch it as big game.
One of these two needed to perform
and ultimately over CES to be dominant actually in hand, putting their best foot forward in terms of potential pop-up for aspirations
and now they'll be crossing their fingers at a couple of other results very in favour of them over the rest of this stage
and more critically that they can carry this form across to their match tomorrow.
It's still going to be a big one for them against 7, so look very well today but the job is not done.
No, it's not done. And look, they're still a little bit relying on other results plus their own results tomorrow.
But I guess the simplicity of it is if they beat seven tomorrow, there's every chance of which that would put them to obviously 13 points.
And I just don't see how that's not enough to get you into the top four.
The interesting aspect too, by the way, guys, is seven play EP next. If they lose that, they're on 12 points.
So then if they lose to CS and then LFO Beach Academy, you get what I'm putting down here.
to play a seven and then miss
out on the last day if they
don't get some points. So I
mean, it's all heating up. The
other aspect, of course, will
be round differential, but
that's you know where you're
playing EP next. That's one
way to lose a lot of your
own differential, right? So,
um and the other aspect, too,
is that game being a 72 for CS
has also helped their round
differential get back to I
believe it'll be zero. So
that's at least not negative
five, which is what it was
coming into tonight. So all of
these things do give us a
things do give us a slightly clearer picture at least now halfway through plate a six for shy Academy. They're out
Annios, I think they're out now as well
That's pretty much confirmed because circular spheres have gotten to 10 points and he has cannot reach that so annios and
Shy Academy are now out of finals contention. Let's go to our interview though with goofed from the win seven two
Congratulations goofed on the victory. I have to go straight away and ask though. What was sort like in the other comes tonight?
Oh he was hyped, he was strengthened and all those boys have been shit talking to him so he was giving it to him in the comms
Saying they can't execute etc session, but no he was hyped up the boys get us all fucking all fired
So yeah, I can't I can't express how grateful we are to have him on the team
Yeah, for sure. I mean King as well popped off tonight mate. Was that an expected sub heading into the night?
Did it sort of change the game plan at all?
Yeah, so we only saved King for the big game, so we've been saving him all season, Mike
Peave, Guppy's had some stuff to do, so we had to get the man in the middle legend himself
and he showed up, it was really helpful, but yeah, the game plan was just peek them, frag
them, let him execute when we got the numbers and yeah, worked out really well.
Firstly, Goof, what's with the hole in the wall?
Did you have a bad night in ranked?
Uh, yeah, I lost to, uh, I lost to chiefs and J. Canna was giving it to me.
So I had to pop it in the wall and handle it.
No, no.
Um, I can tell, mate, I can tell.
Um, obviously you've, you've just not shiked out of me out of finals as well,
along with team Anios two for one.
I mean, you're now in a position we're going into tomorrow.
You've got a huge game.
Obviously you'd be aware against seven, which if you win that game, you're in.
And you may also knock them out or another team. How are you feeling coming into this week?
Very confident
Look after we've been EP and then been unfortunate some other games
You know you're a bit if you're where you kind of stand like oh you beat the top team second best team
You know where we really stand in here, and then you kind of lose to some
teams, you know, it's in lower like annuals and that sort of thing so
So, you've got to take every team with the grain of salt, I'm unfortunate that we've
knocked out Shark Academy and Anos, I love those guys, especially Kakin from Shark Academy,
shout out to Kakin, but yeah, really hyped for the 7 game, those guys have been looking
really really good, definitely a top 3 team for my opinion, so it'll be definitely a tough
one, I'm hoping we can do it, but I'm hoping Chiefs can beat man tonight, I'm always going
to make our job very very hard.
Yeah, you need, well and then you also need Shark Academy to beat them tomorrow too, so
So you might have to hopefully go from shit talking them to give them some tips.
Yeah, go talk to them.
Yeah, send them some message about it.
Nice ride boys.
Best of luck tomorrow.
Here's some tips.
Goof, anything you'd like to say before we let you go?
Obviously you've got a big date tomorrow, so I don't want to keep it too long.
Want to shout out to you guys, obviously for casting.
You've been very, very good all season, really appreciate it and all of the staff behind.
Then I want to shout out to JackScarry, the rat, aka the king of tier two, and he's been
doing a bunch of prep for us he helped us actually with EP he dissected their game
plan from the start so if anyone's a really really really really intelligent
fella maybe Jack's guy is your man he completely dissected everything about
them where they're gonna be a what time and that sort of thing so shout to Jack
sorry for doing all that for us I heard that he missed his child's birth
birthday to do all that prep work for us and he's actually his birthday today so
He's 30 years old so happy birthday to Jack Scurry. Also want to shout out to the team.
Couldn't be happier. I'm sure that we're going to go to PAX I hope so and yeah.
Happy with everything they've done. I wanted to shout out Jack Kenner because he's got a big
head and I love him and everything is awesome. Well you better win tomorrow Goofed and then you
and JQ can have some fun at PAX. Sounds good to me. Thanks boys. Say bye take care and best of
of luck tomorrow as they've still got a big game against seven. They're not in the clear yet
because for playday six, Circular Spheres, they get the win, they do the job, they get the round
differentials, perfect night. But while they now are into the top four, we've still got some big games
to get through as Goof was alluding to. He's hoping Chiefs will get the job done tonight against
Manila Foe. Otherwise, Manila Foe can actually then go back above Circular Spheres. And for seven,
For what's been a pretty comfortable stage, well the pressure's on. Now you've got Enterprise, everyone else has to go through them, it's your turn.
And then if you lose this, it's Circular Spheres tomorrow in what could likely be a win and you're in game.
Well, I'm pretty sure it was the Orga that tweeted out, like what was it last week or whatever, that they qualified for the LAN, so they better hope they get that ticket for it, because it doesn't feel like it's 100% certain at this point.
I think it's unlikely, it is probably unlikely, but it's definitely not impossible.
So I've kind of had up and down performances over the course of this stage.
So it really comes down to on-the-day performance.
It is best of ones at the end of the day.
But they're in an interesting position, that's for sure.
Yeah, so well, halfway through the night here for play day six,
let's take a break when we come back though.
Enterprise versus seven up next.
I think it's the first time I've seen a tournament like this, and it's been a long time since I've seen it, so I wanted to try it out a little bit.
Well, the first time we had a tournament, I think it was the No-Sepition,
the first time we had a tournament with a landmark.
At that time, I thought I could do it somehow,
but after all, it didn't go so well,
I was pushed back and forth,
and I thought it would be no good if I just kept going.
So, after I became a team member,
well, it went pretty well.
It was the first time I was in the Nosepchon.
I was like, I did it!
I thought I was going to destroy it.
But I was defeated.
And then...
It's hard if you're not strong on a team.
It was a good experience.
When I played for the first time in the online tournament,
I felt that my opponent was weak and I was able to win smoothly.
I thought, what is this?
I was nervous.
I was nervous about the tournament I was playing for the first time,
I was confident that I could make it to the first kill, but I lost with my team spirit.
When I first got the Major, I was really impressed by the G2.
I think it was a good result.
When I first started, I watched a lot of videos of Kenji-san and Rammu-san's back of the father.
It was interesting.
I wanted to lose too much, so I had to lose to the ranks, the custom, and the way I played with the other players.
That's when the other players were really strong.
I was the one who was the strongest when I was playing with the other players.
When I was born, I was always given a lot of things to do, and I wanted to do everything that I could do to reach the highest level.
So I've always wanted to achieve everything.
I think we have to win this game with Invy, and I think we will have to continue with this game.
So as we head into the second half of this evening, now we get to, well, the big guns.
Certainly for Enterprise and Seven up next, Guzz, this is the test for Seven ahead of Finals.
It's one thing to make packs, right?
And to make the top four and get to experienced LAN.
It's a whole other thing to be a contender for the Asaka Major.
You win this game, and I think Seven then become a contender.
They would also inadvertently lock themselves in for packs with a win tonight against Enterprise.
Easier said than done, and certainly with the form that EP find themselves in currently.
If they do get a win tonight, it would stand their authority though as a team going into finals that they could go all the way.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think they've shown promising signs until this point.
You don't enter this pale end of the stage equal first without showing some good seed.
So excited to see how they go tonight as the pressure ramps up a little bit more towards the tail end of this stage.
As we have a look at their roster, they've been pretty formidable up until this point.
I think they've certainly shown some good seed overall.
you know being able to take it up against many of these teams in the region has been impressive.
I think of course there'll be a little disappointed still considering the 5-7 against Chief.
There was early in the stage still a good showing they just didn't get a whole lot to show for it
in terms of scoreboard impact but they've been clinical in the sort of games that they should
be winning and that was typically evident across sort of like the last three rigs tonight, right?
So Aneos, Arcade, Chacademy, three fixtures that they would have been very confident in.
and they got a very strong result in every single one,
not making too many errors across the board.
So that sets them up nicely for the tail end
on this particular stage with two big games coming up.
When you think of the demon,
first name that comes to mind in Rainbow Six Siege
is probably Lawyer O.
But there's a demon down under and his name is Walsh.
Hot four rated player sits only behind two Han relays
and Jigsaw with proxy and fifth rounding out the top five.
Walsh is the new generation.
He's gonna be a big factor in this game tonight.
He has to be.
And this is a test just as much as it is for Seven
as it really is for Walsh.
You know, it's one thing to be running around
and, and fragging out against that lower in talent.
Can you now go and do it against the likes of Enterprise?
Jigsaw in the service,
two honing, career best form,
number one way to play at this stage,
player and he's returning to form.
I mean, that's going to be an intriguing individual moment to watch tonight and see can Walsh be that guy in this kind of game.
And if he can, he not only would get them potentially into finals, but really elevate himself into the upper echelon in this region.
So, yeah, curious to see if he's going to be able to get it done tonight for his team, because if I'm being honest, I don't want to put it all on his shoulders,
But he's been that good this stage that if he doesn't perform that's a big part of the firepower gone missing then
47 against EP and I just don't know if they can then win without him
Well, it was a little while ago
But the seven organization did tweet out that they had qualified for the lamb
But will it be a case of speaking a little bit too soon?
This is treated out I think over a week ago
But there are still permutations and situations where they could drop out of the top
of course, if they don't get any points tonight, then that's going to be a big matchup for them in the next playday, but they can escape that threat with a good night tonight.
So they'll be hoping that that particular tweet doesn't age like milk.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know why you're tweeting out, laying it to qualified and locked in when that's just not true.
I mean, that's a strange one. I will say, as an impartial part of this, there's the excitement, you get to 12 points.
12 points, that's usually enough to see you make it.
Host, they've got an excellent round differential.
So based on previous, based on stage one
and all of the regions encompassing
what they've been able to do up to this point
should in theory be enough, that's theory.
That's not reality.
And if you lose your last two games
and other results go the way that looking maybe likely,
you could still miss out.
So they've got to lock in.
One point tonight, by the way, they are in.
13 points, that's the threshold you're in.
Let's go to their opponents though.
It's enterprise at the moment on top of the standings.
These two teams, same points, same round differential.
But that was the exact situation
that EPs match was last week against Chiefs
and they batted them 7-1 on bank.
We don't need to go to the map Vito to tell you
this game ain't going to bank.
And if it does, give it over to EPs.
These guys are in some rare form.
They lost it. Circulous fierce, ending Play Day 2.
Since then, 707.371.
Huge response.
Tujan career best form, to be honest,
the way he's played this stage has been insane.
Those numbers there, by the way, are the year numbers.
The 112 EPS, this stage is sitting at 149.
10-0 on the entry.
2.3 KD, 87% cost, 50% clutch as well.
There's the most clutch player in the league.
the best entry player in the league. He's got the highest numbers in the league. Right now,
he is number one for a reason. And then you add in the fact that Jigsaw's still number three.
Player looks like he's returning to form. Rendo Kyra, they're just still continuing
to do their thing. These guys are going to be tough to beat. Compacts. And you know, they're
going to be there. Yeah, I think for me, players definitely been the one to watch it. Russ start
to the stage on attack, especially his role is dramatically different to what it was previously.
and the most comfortable for him, you know, being the low-entry role, he's played a lot more supported, a lot more util-based at this stage.
It was rough, numbers-wise, for him, but over the last one to two play days, he's really been able to bolster his numbers nicely.
And yeah, well-rounded as a team, and I think that that result against Chiefs especially was a bit of an insight as to when these guys are, you know, at their best or close to their best.
They are the best team in the region.
It's just about being able to consistently find that form and that is obviously where you can you know trip up if you're
I never tapped into that on a consistent enough rate, so they'll be going into tonight obviously
Eager to lock themselves for top four. They don't want to leave anything up to the imagination
Obviously tomorrow they're playing arcade and it's very very improbable. They don't get any points
from that
Incredibly unlikely, but you can't be having that mentality at this kind of level
You need to be pretty ruthless and I think that's exactly what they'll have in them tonight
Well, let's go to the back for you. I don't know if you spoiled it for yourself because I haven't so I'm curious to see where this goes
Surely for seven. This is where yeah, you get rid of bank immediately
Interestingly, they then followed up with feel up then fortress for this game though. We had to cafe
It will be seven also starting on the defense. This is gonna be interesting
cafe EP beat man a la foes
7-0 back in playday 3 on this map. So that's going to be a rather big test end for 7 considering
for Man Alipho they struggled in this one. What's even more interesting is 7 bending
away the fortress when they played it twice to start the stage. We're heading into this
one though. It's a big test of 4-7. They do at least get the benefit of starting on defense
but they have not played cafe this stage. EP already have and that night I remember that
7-0 against Man Alipho. That was an intimidating enterprise. Well the recent form looks like
great for both teams. One lost three wins both coming into this game knowing that any point will
see them go through to packs. In fact, if this goes to OT, they both get to go through. How fun
would that be? It would simplify a lot for both of them, but EP are the favorites. They're the kings
of this region until proven otherwise. Walsh, he needs to be at his very best. He's been so good
this stage. Ken, the young rookie, have another big one in him. They'll need it if they are to topple
Enterprise, let's get underway for what could be match of the night
Yeah, it could well be and of course pending the last game of the night being man elifo and chiefs and a critically as well
The margin in terms of ran differential across this game and that one
We could potentially see one of these two teams walk away at the end of this playday in a
cemented number one spot
Of course that is currently shared across
three positions at the moment, AP is 7 cheats, and it's only a very small
tiebreaker at the moment with AP having beaten 7,
despite being equal around a differential and 2-7 training by one round.
So it's very, very tight towards the top at this point in the stage,
and so for the most favourable seeding and finishing in that top spot
and being claimed the group stage champs, every round is going to be important.
I'm interested to see how EP you're going to shape up here on cafe as you alluded to
Everybody played at this stage the only appearance the map was wide and it was
Yeah, well described intimidating performance from them a very clean seven. I just want though probably not going to be quite as straightforward
Immediately loved the fact that watch is just straight on the vigil
I mean you got to have confidence against the team like Enterprise you come into tonight
Maybe you think look, I'm good, but they're better then you're just gonna lose
Walsh has to come in and not just wash but the entire team have to come in to tonight thinking now we can beat these guys
Let's take it up to them. Let's try and play our game our brand of siege
We want to get in their face. We want to make it difficult to enter the building. We're not scared of the fights
We know they're great. We respect that but we're ready for it and look at that straight away
That's exactly what you would want. You could have a script for this match of your seven
It's Walsh on the visual opening kill to start the round
Yeah, doesn't get much better than that. Walsh has been really good over the course of this
particular stage. He's number four in Oce. In terms of the entry, it's actually been
very mixed for him. Seven-six. So it's been almost 50-50 up until today. It hasn't been
his... Well, this is all from the same... Gixxol's playing a game right now. His Twitter's just
been hacked
actually
yeah
that is uh
are you allowed to say what was said or is it inappropriate
I'm not I'm not going to say it but no I'm not going to mention
uh anything else
can you link it to me I just thought
maybe it was him
wait is this how he fell the meantime as well
By the way, back into the game, Sabin's still with the extra player, and it's 20 on the
clock.
It's a slow start for men surprised in chants of just the overall play in this opening round,
and Jigsaw himself is the only one inside of the building.
relying on him now to be able to win this next battle maybe against Pinkoo. Oh my god Pinkoo
they're ready sharp shot on to Jigsaw and let's just be in an early statement from Seven that
they're right here to contend and mix it with the very very best that they're not just content
with falling into the top four. I mean the number one seed is on the line as well for them in this game
window and player the only two left 30 seconds to v4
surely the defense here won't overhear it can give opportunities to e p
friendo overwhelmed that's player and one versus four the defense given time and
space to reposition. And so this is going to be an impossible task, a sort of way, opportunity
to try and add stats. One one trade and a solid start for seven.
Yeah, I mean, perfect start really with Walsh getting that first pick on the visual. It's
not just that one kill. It's just sort of showcasing what he wants to do, what seven
want to do, the rest of the team then follow through, able to bring kind of a similar energy
and vibe on that top floor. They're not just going to concede. They wanted to challenge
over the world's lounge with the keeper barriers, and then eventually Pink Group falls back,
but he still defends Pixel. You know, they're not just kind of falling back to cocktail,
giving up that free space to enterprise because they know that they'll get undone if that's
something that they will allow here on Cafe. So look back at the highlights. So, yeah,
Walsh looked for more, but that's his job. He got the first, lost the second, and then
able to defend the top floor really, really cleanly.
I don't know how the hell was a trade. That's strange.
The player looked like he was dead before he even shot, but anyway.
And I think also, yeah, look, seven are starting on defense,
but this is perfect for them.
Get a couple of good rounds on the board and you realize we can beat these guys.
Doesn't matter if it's defense attack.
I think that they'd be more than five cafe over the years now is developed
where it's quite 50-50.
But any kind of the that they can establish over enterprise
it's just gonna fill them with confidence.
Had a great week last week,
seven, three over Arcade, seven, four over Anios
to put themselves in this position.
They've only lost a single game this whole stage
and that was a five, seven loss to Chiefs.
They had a real deal, but this is the real big test.
So far, one round in and they look good.
Yeah.
Let's see how AP looked to respond.
In round number two.
They're going to absolutely be kept on their toes in this kind of matchup 7
I think they're gonna be very eager to try and contest as much of this map entry as
recently can
And probably fall south a lot dream you to lose well here from VP to keep them guessing later on in the rounds as well
In terms of the lineup here actually from 7 pretty
intriguing composition
I like the introduction of the okays here from prayers and you can kind of see it positionally
In terms of how proactive you might look to be with the just a bit of defaults currently,
but I assume surely the okas will be as a means to maybe activate some play as the objective
remains to be seen.
Counter Info on 04, EP courtesy of some of the destroyants, so Pillar is a flood of info
both ways at the moment.
As Prez does jump back on those okas temporarily, EP now with a bit of map control will look
That's the best of that.
Look at early days, it's only two rounds in, but EPA trying to play this as conventional as possible.
It's making it pretty easy there for Seven to kind of get a bit of a read and maybe try
and find the gaps for Walsh on the vigil, sitting red stairs right now.
Hook's primed and ready for another early kill.
They're just happy to give up this hot claw.
When the Kyra are really on the sledge, that's going to do a lot of damage to the floorboards.
They haven't cleared out red stairs, Walsh in a really good tucked-in position, Jigsaw
making his way down.
Jigsaw ready for this.
Yes he is.
When you're playing against Jigsaw, well she'll have to be a little bit quick on the trigger
because he will punish you.
As Tuck tried to then, you kind of float over, look for the trade on the north, the
heat tube will fall.
Jigsaw helping unlock the site and the second floor.
And as Press falls, it's Jigsaw again, just showing who's still boss.
Pinkoot.
Oh, Redpink, how'd he hit that shot from Redstairs, maybe?
It's a second go at it, but now blocked off by the flames,
Brendo gets the plant down, and Pinky needs to rotate.
Yeah, sure does.
This is gonna be a very difficult retake.
Position known, there'll be a cross from EP.
He said first pier keeps it interesting,
but play up was alongside on the reading side
and was able to collect.
And so a good response from EP.
Yeah, I mean, that's what you want Jigsaw able to just win a crucial battle.
Reality is on the larger scale how crucial was it though, because if he doesn't get that kill and Walsh beats him at red stairs,
well, you think about the damage that Jigsaw then went and did after that kill. He gets three in the round.
So he gets the kill on Walsh, unlocks red stairs for the rest of the team, he then pushes in, gets two more kills,
but if Walsh wins that battle, none of that happens and it plays out very differently.
That would have been a 5v4 for 7 with what? Just under 40 seconds remaining in the round.
Red stairs no longer available for EP. That would have been a very different round.
And sometimes Siege is that kind of game where it comes down to those key battles and you know
Walsh will learn from that. He just was a tiny bit static and then just a little bit late on the
reaction time and Jigsaw's probably the number one play in this region. That will punish you if
if you don't react quick enough.
Got a kitchen for the third round of the half.
This site could be quite interesting, especially as AP shape up with the comp here.
I need utility that can be great for a bake side here.
Either they already cut off small and then dump you to facilitate that.
And early posturing suggesting to me that that could be the case.
There is also the possibility for the back kit, I have a bit of vert on offer as well
with Tuhan on the sledge.
We'll see, maybe that means to draw out a little bit of pressure in terms of the defensive
politics.
Fully 1st floor and given the pre-placed drains that Brenda is looking at at the moment,
Tuhan will feel pretty safe, I think, up top.
So if he's able to work a bit of vert and the rest of their team works lively, that can
it's quite complicated for the defense as Bailey flings back and there's the belt from player.
Fuck those down a good position although eventually flush but if you're getting
caught you. Yeah I mean you've got to have someone else there it's only really jigsaw and
and player and the fact it is able to slip out despite the bolts from player look they do clear
this but Tuck and then we take it. Here's a one HP though so I mean I would have thought maybe
do you try and swap in with someone else trying to play this contact position inside a bakery
This is a pretty easy clear now.
Get strung out, low on health, they would know that he is low on health.
He probably will get some kind of help from Hinku.
Yeah, easy clear.
To be fair, on the glass play, anyone else was gonna just die there anyway, so he may as well lose the low health play out.
Walsh beats out Tuhan. Barely.
Tuhan starts 0-3. Remember, he's the number one rated player this stage,
So he hasn't had these kind of games at all this stage.
Ailee losing out to Brando.
A lot of this pressure now from Enterprise is circulated around Bakery.
Bigsword just kind of nudges his way in to prep, just to have a look at the vert.
But they do know that Walsh still lingers above on the second floor,
and might just send player after him.
And the attack with the good read on Prez Kochek as well, with that thrown earlier.
I think AP overall have a pretty significant advantage at the moment
As Walsh has isolated largely from this play, but will now get in on the action
Lovely, is it a way for Brenner to go prone there at the end?
gets the double kill and
Enterprise will get two rounds in a row as they take kitchen
It's gonna it's look seven it's gonna be an arm wrestle these rounds are gonna be arm wrestlers
The entire game has to be made an armrest, so you're not going to beat E.P. in a similar fashion to what Circular Spheres did back on Play Day 2.
This is a very different Enterprise roster now.
Heading into the bands.
2-1 down.
And by the end of this next rotation, they probably need this to be 3-3 at minimum.
As the Snake and the Izami abandoned, they call a tactical timeout.
Yeah, the Izami picked back in round 1.
Haven't seen the snakes selected at all across the first half nor have we seen
Amos from EP so they're not playing heavily into so that the info and the
Rome clear the work clear etc. They'd be very much more focused on utility
Clearance and vertical as well as it's slurging all three rounds
So far from EP
So we'll see how 7L looked to shape up a formulator plan to hover that and then we'll see if
EP actually will look to undergo any significant change or if they're going to try and brute
force this comp.
I was just looking at who was talking there, so a bit of nebzy, a bit of press and a bit
of walsh where the main key contributors for 7, so we had a reading in Fireplace, big three
rounds coming up. It'd be quite devastating if 7th don't make packs considering literally
up until tonight you've lost a single game. And then if you end the last week losing
both one against the EP and then one against Circular Spheres and miss out, I mean that's
just brutal. And on top, a little bit extra brutality would be they are of course the
teamguards that last stage finished in fifth spot and missed out by I think a point. So
the nerves will play a factor tomorrow especially if they lose this game and that will be an external
factor going into what against Circular Spheres. They know that they've got a good chance here
against Enterprise if they play to their best ability they can maybe get this to overtime
at minimum and and that would be good enough. And it would also mean if you can get to OT
against EP win or lose it doesn't really matter you know you can mix it with them
I need a response now in these next three rounds
so the doc will be in play this time for MEP so looking for a little bit more
isolation and info gather potential this time around
the rest of the comp looking pretty stable though
largely on par with what we have seen in previous rounds the addition of the ying
though is pretty interesting and we'll see how they look to check value from
that no direct counter in terms of water on the side of seven so it could be a
useful utl dump and then on what kind of push they end up looking to formulate
or
do you have with that utl belt? not sure to play from that. oh actually I was gonna say
didn't land, but it does fall. That's a big pick and it will be the trigger for the peel.
I think there's a little bit of damage on a Brenda that maybe was then enough for that
nitrosaur which is slightly to the left to actually get the kill. It was just sort of at
the exact same moment in time. First opening kill for seven since the first round. Walsh,
are you ready? Yes you are. Easy, kill on to Cairo and no one really then to respond with a follow
up. He then swings over towards Bar, spots over on the other side of it, Tuhan, but just couldn't
connect the shots at least got some damage and they found a kill elsewhere as
player falls four versus two but even though you got the two extra numbers
it's 200 jigsaw and they're more than capable of bringing back a two versus
four round seven need to stay locked in here and this is where cardiac center is
so important as they know exactly where both are yeah yeah the vert play from
here from seven's been on point the nitro cells of the preset vert though
gathered by Bailey here on the pulse has been phenomenal and they've also been
able to preserve utility they've still got two nitrous souls for the late round
here so this is looking very very strong for the defense but the only way they
lose this is by isolating themselves and feeding ones. Even where they're
situated right now that looks pretty unlikely it would take a big slip up
the 7 to forgo this round 30 seconds for E.P.
Jigsaw takes space mining, Tujan still up, Arvin does find Tuck. It's a little interesting now.
Should know where Jigsaw's coming from, both with the Harpen sensor from Bayley.
So, I mean, Jigsaw's not coming in here, unknown. But now they've played together towards Pillar with Tujan.
Going over towards default. There is a player there, he goes down. I don't think he was ready for it up close.
And it's the razor bloom that gets the finishing kill, and Jigsaw should be dying here to Bayley.
Seven respond after the tactical timeout and get their second round
Looked really comfortable playing into that setup. I wonder how much of that would have been attributed to
Attack timeout, but it was well thought out while prepared. They had a really good
Anticipation in terms of the rounding there from AP in the round
They had good setups with nitrous souls
They retained some of that utilities to a fillade if it was needed and then of course the pulse throughout the entirety of
That realm was was feeding really good information
So all around, Oscar there for 7, E.P. outbrained in that round and not given a window of opportunity
to flex mechanical muscle there late in the PSI though, so solid work.
Now we return back to kitchen, which was a little more dicey for 7 last time out.
I mean, I think 4 rounds in you'd be happy if you're 7 with the way things have kind of
panned out. You're getting a good performance out of pretty much everyone on the team. Splitting
the opening kills to each, rounds to each. Impetitive. None of the rounds have been flawless
or even four alive, so they've all been live rounds. But the reality is you lose this A7
5 and you think wow what a what a great game but it puts you in a tricky spot
tomorrow doesn't it so they've got to get something from this match to just
actually then celebrate locking you into top four
looks like it'll be bakery focus again from Enterprise especially the Royora
usage by Brenda pretty similar looking lineup they don't bring the glass again
And which is interesting because the glass actually was pretty effective in helping clearing out Baker and then being able to play the longer sites
Instead opting to bring the Thatcher
Thanks of the trape utility on entry and then could be useful against the nitro from players later on the piece
Let's feel like it's impact might be a little bit
Negated in this and given the lineup
It'll be interesting kind of play opportunity though onto the water as well. So we'll see how caro ends up looking to try and
exploit his EMP as
Outside of to harm the rest of the team is outside the map still
Play for the YouTube belt cupcake last time out. This wasn't immediately hugely successful in the drone
My key will actually confirm it clear so players should probably pocket that
We'll use it maybe deeper, over towards Prap, and that will help the team push through.
I like this angle from Bailey though, this will be much more challenging for the attack to contest.
Yeah, playing this a little differently, having to learn it from last time, a little bit further back.
Instead of fully contesting Bakery, they kind of allow the men to defend, also don't play the wall directly.
Clarkstall though, just gets a little overwhelmed towards the site.
Go on, searching over towards Train, while she's close by on the warden.
Oh, Walsh.
Well, he flew on because he have the info.
It looks like he will find the kill.
Lovely clear on to Touhou.
Winning that battle between the two of them.
Kairou finds his second kill of the game with that one on to Bailey.
Popping these Vulcan canisters from a distance and Kairou will now go for the plant.
Two gaspades left from Pinku.
Walsh can't find the angle from above.
One for one trade.
The plant has also been denied from going down.
Leaves it to Jigsaw Brendo for EP, Prez and Pinku up for 7.
Brendo trying to do what Kyro could not.
And the plant this time will be successful.
Late response from 7.
Prez looking to maybe swing small bait,
but it looks like Jigsaw is pretty clued on as they deal with Pinku.
They have an idea as to where Prez is,
and Enterprise should now take the lead from this position.
Unless Prez can outplay Jigsaw, and I don't know if that's in his wheelhouse.
Yeah, surely not.
The longer the round goes on, the better it gets for EP in that post.
Solid work. The Enterprise probably looked most comfortable on that objective.
The Yutub belt there was really good in helping them push through in towards Bakery.
They were able to dodge some of the threats, then that were still presented by 7.
Good plant position as well, maybe catching off the defense a little bit based on where the smoke bay was lodged.
And then positionally, Jigsaw especially, he did a really good job to tuck inside the prep there and make it all but impossible for the likes of Prez to push back through over towards them all sides.
Work overall from Enterprise?
I was wondering why they didn't go by bar cocktail, but the Azami ban, I feel like maybe had influence to that
The Azami really allows you to play that sort of lounge position
So a little bit more forward off-site that gives time for maybe Walsh to roam around on the vigil
So that sort of game plan that won them that opening round on the top floor wouldn't be as applicable
Maybe that's their thinking there with the Azami ban because they haven't gone back to it after winning it in the opening round
Not even attempting it. So I mean, that's quite intriguing for seven
It's very rare that you win a site and then throw up to go back to it
Especially when you want it in the opening round and you've clearly had opportunity to go back even here now in six rounds
They go mining which they lost last time
Let's jump into the final round of half then and see if Seven are able to equalize and get to find success on this particular objective.
Seven looking pretty good reading fireplace, but on their first attempt in the second round here, fireplace mining, they were unsuccessful.
You appear with the sense in play this round. I'm very intrigued to see how they're trying to get value from our reviews of this particular objective.
And 7 will look to lean into some of their strengths in terms of the first play that they have had so far, the pulse back in play.
And just the double Nitro and 1 already used though, so that is going to be less of a threat in Peter Contest with, but still having that info for the read will be big
while she's forced to go through the bees and he does get caught. That's a great catch from Kyra.
It hasn't been a particularly great game from Cairo, but he's had his little moments.
So that's now two opening kills in this first half.
Still having an impact, even if he hasn't maybe been able to run around the map freely
and do what he wants and have that kind of game.
And that's, I think, the sign of maturity in someone like Cairo that he's not just going
to hang his head because he's had a 1-3 start.
Brenda's been really good in this game too.
It's not just the Jigsaw Tujan show this day,
you know Brenda, you've gotten a lot out of him.
Two player advantage for Enterprise,
they don't typically throw these away.
And again, question marks over the decision for Seven
to go back to mining.
And it needs to be said,
55 seconds remaining in the round,
Bailey desperately trying to get some information
on the pulse but it feels like this should now be a fall to lead for
Enterprise firing a late collapse
mainly they below shot down pulse is a little scary it could force the EP into
an awkward plant position here and he does have nitro even against that so if
they go for the marble plant they can still offer value but unfortunately
such a strong man advantage for EP could leave them quite vulnerable defensively.
Time could be a factor here, we'll see if that forces a mistake from EP.
Nearly nitro though and won't have any impact, sure gets the kill but do harm now,
we'll be able to skew that plant. Yeah I mean that's the problem with the numbers
disadvantage like it's a great kill and he hasn't done anything wrong there
barely playing the pulse from below but once everyone else dies on site if that
kill is not onto the planter plus maybe one more it's not gonna do much as
as enterprise go forward to up.
Well, seven came into tonight
with the biggest test of their stage.
And in the first half, I'd give them a C.
Let's head to the halftime break.
So we enter the second half, the second test now for 7 as they go into the attack but Enterprise
are looking quite ruthless, they just quietly get into job done.
F4 to split on the opening kills, every opening kill in that first half was converted, got
plant 3 times down.
Which is a concern for the leaked defense of 7.
Only 2 multi kill rounds, 1 from Jigsaw, 1 from Brenda, so really team orientated effort
from Enterprise in that first half. Looks evidently not out of this, but it's going to be a bit
more of a challenge now on the attack.
Yeah, probably. Let's see how it develops. It will be my solstice band here for the second
half into Dokka B and the Ying. So that is, yeah, significantly different to the first
where at least the first set was, it was the source and there was a buy on the side of the defense, but
for the attack it was Monty and Nomad, so we'll see if Seven immediately looked to spring onto shield play
and expecting Prez to probably fill that role for the majority of this first half, and that will be his selection first up.
And as well Walsh will jump as expected, and he's trying not to let Solwitz make, so expect him to be a threat as well
as well, around the map, but it means that AP needs to be sure that they're in 3D on a video point here
and maybe suggesting why they're bringing the pulse envelope.
I think the key test for 7 will be, can you get into the building, find kills, spread out?
And it's so easy to say, but so hard to execute against a team like Enterprise.
fire on the pulse is going to get information you've got player on the
Valk is going to get information freeze up jigsaw to hunt to just kind of set
their utility the razor blooms in the Vulcans and then they can go and play
ready for gunfights
my only concern really is like you kind of look at this lineup for seven so you
got prez on the Monty but then wash on the solid state just watch kind of
expected to branch off from the rest of the group
Graz to try and help facilitate for the other three, is that the game plan in the long run?
And it might be the best approach in potentially dealing with Cairo,
but Jigsaw's also lurking on the second floor to provide some extra cover.
So it's a 3-2 split for E.P.
Maybe an anticipation for Walsh to go hunting.
get some good work on the top floor yeah yeah i'm still a little bit courtesy of the
group but they're going through that checklist kind of at the rate that is fastest right
now and a rate that's uh suddenly not too shabby e p will have questions asked for them
as to how fiercely they want to hold top floor what will be the trigger for them to uh peel
his defense back. Well Walsh also never entered early. I mean he's just gone in now at a minute 13.
I would have liked to have seen him gone in 30-40 seconds ago because now Seven is starting to push
back these top floor defenders. Where are they going to go? They're going to go second floor.
Now you're well and truly outnumbered. If you had gone a lot earlier when it was a 3-2 split,
you could have had a really big impact in this round. Prez is low, Pinko is low.
They're desperate for Walsh to find something, but now there's so many more defenders that
have made their way back to him.
It doesn't matter.
Walsh gets the double on Takara Brento.
Most importantly, that's the pulse dead.
The Izami's keeper barriers, if Brento had any, I didn't see, but that's gone.
And it's a 3v3 with 35 seconds.
The math news for seven, though, is they're all so low.
But Enterprise not much of a better state too, huh?
the only one fully healthy in the lobby.
Still have 20 seconds on the clock for 7 and with press so low, now vulnerable.
Right, the clock for a little bit of coverage. Jigsaw does 4 though.
Gotta go, and they do.
Now going with the plant.
Player isn't gonna get there in time to stop this item with Tuck still second floor.
He's got the cover on the drop from Laundry.
Well, if I gave them a C for the first half, that round there was an A+, 7, tremendous job.
Even though Yopin and Kill went the way of Enterprise, it's Walsh's double kill towards
Mining that then unlocked the round, but the rest of the core group on that top floor just
pushing through low on how did the job, got the defenders back to that second floor, got
the vert and from there the whole team combined and we've got a game three to four.
Wow, trying to get a little bit interesting now. This is a phenomenal shot first half.
Player reading the cutoff there on the repel. Osh took a little bit to find himself in the map that round
but played a pivotal role in a bit of a backstab effort mining side and then the coverage for the plant
And the structure there from 7 was pretty spot-on
So they make a little bit of a statement there in their first attack that they will not roll over
They've shown exactly what's required to maintain a competitive standing here on cafe
Kitchen up next
There's got to be a belief after that round too that they're right in this game.
It's a one-score-line difference, get a nice early attacking around.
Into kitchen, which Enterprise looked really solid at.
They went more direct.
more bakery here this is going to be top-down clear play the vert
I like the fact that washes walls in the map nice and early here you'll be able
to get active and just give a bakery look at the hole
I think that joins more just a case of are they playing it? How aggressively are they playing it?
Is someone going to potentially go for a run out?
Obviously want to go into the second floor open up the floorboards
Might then pivot later towards Bakery, but then by playing the round in this fashion
They give themselves a chance to also go down white stairs look for a freezer side here. So
Flexibility is there in this round for seven
I love this from Jigsaw. This is so smart. So he breaks the gridlock stingers
but it's covered by the noise of the boogie order breach that they may not
know he's up here and indeed they had no idea really well played so smart from
Jigsaw
yeah absolutely really good game sense from him to find that opportunity with
the attack port off guard no dedicated flank watch operator either leaving
them vulnerable and then just goes back down because he knows he doesn't need to
No hunting on that second floor when he's likely outnumbered 1 to 3.
Ooh, Brando! He should be dead. Brando should be dead.
And bit his wallops that's dead.
And the player gets rid of Pinkoot.
Huck does get the trade, but then Jigsaw back over the wall,
Coatcheck finds the kill on to Tuck.
Bailey's is the only one left and the round falls apart for 7.
Big round from Jigsaw.
Enterprise will go 5-3 up.
Again, a reminder, 7 do not need all three points from this game. Even a single point would see them locked in for finals.
While Jigsaw does fall to Bayley, it's surely not going to be given the opportunity to win this round.
Doesn't have Kit on the second floor. It is 3-5. Cairo will just speed it up.
Yeah. Pretty solid work overall.
I mean, in terms of the macro idea there from 7, the DreamWorker earlier was good, they identified what was and wasn't clear pretty quickly and tried to go for the map clear, but Jigsaw's Tartan Ravel thinks pretty quickly, the rest of the pieces elsewhere also felt, and so the overall plan couldn't really be executed upon there.
So credit to AP, but a key role in disrupting that and not allowing 7-7 as much freedom as they would
most be afforded. And here was that patch, courtesy of Jigsaw. And then Greg there played
from Brando, leaning itself into the rest of the team, then being able to be a little more active
and free around the map. So all the work there from Enterprise, who will go back now to a two-round
lead, climbing up next.
Concerning statistic though is very much this opening kill metric, 62 split, so I mean,
look you're able to reverse one of those rounds, that's it.
But it's trending in the wrong direction for seven in terms of the landscape of this
match.
Basically, if it stays as it is right now and they can't rectify that, AP are winning
this game and they're gonna do so in regulation so it needs to change here and
now ninth round get this first kill get a little bit more of an advantage in this
round heading over to mining a fireplace that's not just on walsh the shoulders
at all by the way that's anyone on the team because they're getting beaten up in
the early port portions of these rounds and it he piece one team you don't want
to be playing for the five against
We aren't opting to bring Norr for the first time in this half, we did see it back in first
half round two.
Same site as well by the way, so maybe some Norr shenanigans that you can kind of pull
out here on mining but also press playing the Monty gives extra emphasis for Tujan in
opting to bring the Norr.
I could have an interesting normal Monty interaction in store for this round.
I'm with a reed on this drop at 200m.
If I'm at the launch up, I can't repeat that coverage from behind, but he can go back up,
it does.
Traded.
Yeah, I feel like he overstayed his welcome there after that first kill.
Yeah, maybe.
Reloading!
Yeah, not the worst trade, but could have tried to scamper away.
I mean, losing the ram here, certainly not optimal for seven to create and generate that
first shot.
But it also makes praises is clean down the monty.
Well, clean as you can be.
Right.
It's still a double match, right?
Yeah.
So much to be concerned.
There was a world before Norway.
Good teams, good countersheets.
That's true.
That's true.
And I guess with the REM dead, it's really your only real way of opening up the floorboards.
Had they brought something else, it would have been fine.
But the player falls to Paley on the upside down repel over towards White Stairs.
That's a nice little kill back for Seven.
Look, while they didn't get the opening kill in this round,
the follow-up has been much better as Jigsaw caught.
Space now taken on the second floor.
Conor losing on the first contact and Bayley has just ramped it up in this
ninth round. Three important kills as Brendo's all that remains for Enterprise.
Plant will go down inside a fire, place courtesy of Freyze. Brendo as soon as you
swing around the corner, you're dead. Bayley with a quad. Seven not bowing out
of this matchup yet. Four to five keeping it close. Tactical timeout from
from Enterprise.
Yeah, AP will be trying to refocus here.
That was a good snowball round from 7, especially basically when he got going, didn't stop.
He won that upside down, repel Jool this time out, the player won previously and then was
able to steamroll that through the laundry.
And yeah, AP got caught off guard positionally, not in the best of positions themselves to
shut that down, rest of the team enclosed and that was basically over.
So we'll talk to the lads, refocus them and point them to a couple of key areas to be
mindful of for the remainder of this match.
The 4-5 scoreline now as it stands, it's a bit of a seesaw here in the second half, yet
to see a team string through together in said second half.
where they go next as well here for E.P. There are a couple of different options for them.
Second Fall has been unsuccessful for them, so to see if maybe there's a world they do
go off. His army is still up to allow that. But no, they'll return to Reading and Fireplace
where they went back in round number 7. They found the open kill. Now I could have seen
old player on to melee on that upside down a pole but that went down despite that it was actually a
pretty strong win in the end there for seven so let's see how it appeared just
it just goes to show how good you have to be in this region to beat enterprise on a given night
the best of one, you know. Seven have played really well in this game, and I think against most other teams they'd probably be leading this match comfortably.
Again, the only loss they've had this day was a 5-7 loss to Chiefs, so they're trending in that same direction.
But if this also ends up being a 5-7 loss, what's the take away then potentially going into finals, provided they then make it, they have to be in tomorrow.
So, chances are here and now, technically, two rounds away from locking in Pax Melbourne,
a LAN appearance, top four, locked in, so two rounds, but it is against DP, and they're
two rounds away from closing this out, entirely and shutting the gate on you.
Again, both teams, this game does go to overtime, both teams are locked in for Pax, if someone
wins in regulation that team is locked in loser is not going into the final
playday including enterprise for that matter
the EP are now one round away from being the first team to lock themselves in
the land
That weird possibility of course still very much says the chance of both teams to make
it through with an OT of some description.
You can see how it eventuates.
The buckbeard in play here, random attempt to set up for the first try to get an entry
over towards the road stairs.
to the nitrous soul stack here from EP, first there from Karu. Not generating a kill but there is
that line of sight now. Wuhan player will pocket theirs as player now looks to deploy,
or at least hold his for now. And do a first to fall. And that's able to have an impact on
the Azami. First open kill since top back in the fourth round for 7. They're just gaining a little
bit of an ascendancy with Bailey in some fine form. Get rid of Tuhan who's maybe had his quietest
game for the stage tonight and that must then spark a real fire for seven.
They're right in this game. 60 seconds left in the 10th round to tie it up 5-5.
Press on the Blackbeard to take over Cocktail and here comes Cairo while she's going a little
quiet in the last few rounds. Fortunately for seven others standing up. Four versus three.
Jigsaw's still alive towards Laundry and he is a defining player that changes
courses of rounds and as the time starts to dwindle down seven may have the extra
player I start to worry more and more about what's gonna happen as Cairo goes
searching red stairs maybe you should fall back here he helps to push forward
yeah I need to disrupt from above see if it works leaves Jigsaw alone below
Press towards default, going for the plant down. Jigsaw got the kill on the pinkoo. Press forced off at Bailey covers though
And Prez will now plant again Cairo by himself up on this top floor will not be able to deny in time
One HP does hit the headshot on to Prez needs two more against full health Bailey and Tuck not happening
We are tied this game is equal. It's five five the winner of this next round is off the packs
Yeah. And whilst it may not be over for the losers of this round, you can't be leaving it to chance.
You don't want to be worrying about permutations or your result in the final playday.
It's the big round. And credit to Seven in being able to show some good fight over the course of this map.
And proving maybe that they are serious contenders in terms of the wider discussion of taking that one slot to the major.
job. See if they can convert it here though. Breakpoint round, Pax point round.
AP will go down two kitchens. We reflect them in the last round.
Pirate should have some good fine up above but too many pieces of the defense down below
did fall apart. Good work from 7 in being able to convert that entry.
I do want to add by the way, circular spears. Now they can get to 13 points guys, but do
that they would have to then beat 7 cleanly they would also then not have the round differential
either unless it's like 7-0 territory which I mean that's probably not happening right
so the 13 points acquired will be enough based on the round differential against a potential
CS win that's if man alifo were to beat cheese tonight as well or potentially then yeah man
Alpha would have to beat Chiefs tonight in some fashion and then beat Chicademy tomorrow.
So 13 should be good.
You'd love all three points, wouldn't you? And to get that, well then the winner of this round will get that opportunity.
Oh no, that's Jigsaw onto Walsh.
Young Gunner has had a rough second half on the attack for seven.
Yeah, but imagine they had the drones prepped to give Walsh the confidence and the call
to go for that, so I don't know if that wasn't the case.
Maybe it was a miss-con or a miss on the drone, or the drones weren't there.
I wasn't quite looking at the players flicking and observing them because I just wasn't expecting
the entry there from Walsh.
And luckily the Jigsaw was, and he was able to capitalize, give his team advantage, peels
back towards site, and get cut off, so five players in AP, now on the first floor, and
it makes this very tricky for seven.
They do have good ver-tools available, but they've lost that.
I can see a bulge, they can hold their way back into the roundabout at 20, put info here
for Cairo on the Echo, maybe the routing up above here and if anyone wants to lurk
over towards the round stairs, we'll be looking to link up with Tuck here for a VIP clip.
You can see the defense reading and waiting courtesy of that information.
What a shot out, but 7-0 already committed to this play.
Oh, what a shot from Jigsaw.
And then the next...
The breaker of dreams.
14-9 from Jigsaw, the gatekeeper of this region.
And for 7 to get to PAX, they might now need to send this to overtime.
Well, tomorrow is going to be a very nervy day.
As Enterprise can officially book their place at PAX Melbourne for finals as they will get the point needed.
And let's be honest, they play Arcade tomorrow, so I don't think there was any doubt in them getting to PAX, but this solidifies it now.
They're on their way to Melbourne the question will be who joins enterprise and
Could seven be one of those teams they must now send this to OT
otherwise
Against both chiefs and enterprise. It would be seven five losses
Which look
It's not bad by any means guys as you're only two losses on the stage going into maybe finals provided
win tomorrow but it does sort of highlight that it's still just a tiny bit off the very very best
yeah i'll start around with walsh falling and then seven had pretty much committed to this
play at this point which was already broadcast to the okai courtesy of of karo they're on the
echo so ap were basically uh fully aware of the entirety of that push position absolutely
perfectly and sort of ready with our waiting arms there for seven to put to
through the solid work there from EP in converting that information and this is
a a nervy moment for seven if whether or not they know it always impossible to
know just how much the players are tapped into the permutations and how much
they try and set that aside and play it round by round or game by game but I
tell you what if they do know I think it's naturally gonna be a little bit
nerve-wracking this round. I do not want to be leaving it up till that final game
tomorrow against Circular Stereo's roster that have looked pretty dangerous. I
don't think they would be going into that match 7 as huge favourites by any
stretch, but probably site favourites naturally, but I don't think there's a
huge gulf between those two teams.
Seven lose this round they have to win tomorrow again circular spheres or they
would be at threat of dropping out of the top four all together and they've been
in the top four since playday one they've never left it.
In this round and suddenly it looks very unlikely to be dropping out of the top
four so much on a single round of siege.
Meeting fireplace, final site of regulation, and Jigsaw feels like the villain that needs to be stopped if you're on team 7.
Yeah, ground to be taken with the black kid.
DP, I don't think are going to be too eager to contest this super aggressively.
I have triple nitro to play into, I think he'll go searching, but has support from the
back line so he's not completely solo.
Maly chunked on the repel, makes his cutoff prospects more tricky.
They're gonna get told again.
Been a rough night for him.
Double!
Double kill, but Tuck is down.
Can they get the res?
They might not need it!
Two on!
Battle towards lounge.
Got inside a shop.
Press on the blackbeard
Nitro sold from too hard, but there's a good backup from press took some damage for stays alive needed
He were to we they do nicely done from pink you and press together and jab on player outside of the building
Seven will be aware of this. Oh, no, right there. That is trying to get his way back into white stairs
And walls got ready Kyro wall bang onto player seven make it into OT and with that round now should be it packs
an OT win will 100% lock it in, no doubt about it.
Well, they've done it.
And it should mean that both teams basically are in.
Well, that answers my question as to whether or not they knew about the ramifications of the round,
Bailey confirming it there in the chat.
They're both off the parks.
So the only so the only thing I can think of now would be so CS win tomorrow
against seven right so that would put both teams on 13 points now the way the
tiebreaker is this is say an EP winners in overtime is it's round differential
first now luckily for seven because this game's gone to overtime and they
haven't been smashed their round differential currently sits at plus
14 CSL and zero but here's the thing if CS wins seven zero they'll have the
sound same round if and the head-to-head goes to CS so you're telling me they
gotta win one round tomorrow yes if they look if they don't win this OT as long
as they win a single round tomorrow they're in so I mean the absolute
craziest way a team is never qualified for a land in history I should I should
add as well that's in the event that Manny's Fortalefogo 13 or above which to get that to happen
they'd have to beat Shakeademy tomorrow to get to 12 and then therefore would need at least
a point tonight against Chiefs. So they're pretty safe. 99% chance seven are off to packs with this.
Now if they hadn't have got to OT they would have been stranded on 12,
lose to CS in regulation any number 75 and they get leapfrogged and they may be out.
Yep, so that was a big round. Pressure's off here too, so now this is the curiosity. Look at
Bailey. You saw it in the cam before, they know that they're in now. So straight into the building,
we know Jigsaw likes to play Red Stairs, let's push it with a shotgun, open and kill. Now this
is seven in OT showcasing what they really like with no pressure as Tuhan responds with the
the nitrosol onto Bailey. The heavyweight boxers are throwing the gloves off and we're having
to scrap now.
Yeah, should be playing with a little bit more freedom. I think there's going to be much
less hesitation from anyone now. There's a lot less clues in the match and the stakes
in terms of making a mistake. I'm omitigated. EP though still looks fairly locked in in
the way that they're playing, they play cams as well so I think they're still
very much laser focused here and getting all the points possible from this point
onwards. The Yo-Kai's continue to be really good information and I will
make the right call here and transitioning them back towards the
objective force of late round if seven are able to get that control inside.
Double ping from Pinko on the radar.
On towards Bart.
On towards Servers.
They know that there's also one inside of VIP.
So heavy stack on this bar side.
Pinko a little bit apprehensive.
Resulted for the freezer drop caught by Tuhan inside site.
Brenda hasn't really been tested either in this position.
Deathmark on his head.
But it hasn't really amounted to anything when Annerd is already there.
Unfortunately for Walsh just gets sat down.
gets sat down. Pinku did get his kill on to play out. 85 seconds 2v3. Brenda now prepares
for the fight against Pinku. They can protect himself with the gas babes though and it makes
it a tricky clear for 7. Oh it spots the second and now they know exactly where both are.
Oh nice shot from, I was going to say tomato tuck. Tuck with the lovely headshot against
Brenda. 15 seconds left. They'll grab Kit inside freezing. Kyra, does he have any yokai
remaining. It might not matter. Tuhan wins the battle against Tark. Trader quickly by Pinku.
Four seconds. Doesn't have Kit. Left to behind. Cairo's got the Yokai. Knows he's getting rushed.
Knows he's safe. EP will get to 7 first. Against 7.
Yeah, good work there in the MN from Cairo.
He went for the safe option of getting off the Yokai there late, but ultimately just had to sit
still and time did its thing. Enterprise on match point. They try and set themselves up for
two total. We'll see if that ends up being enough at the end of the day to go into the final play
day in top spot. And of course dependent on the chiefs man game up next. If chiefs were to
to go on a winning regulation, well, they'll be the ones.
I think that's the spot for now.
Having a great round to start over time
to come down on a one versus one.
There's so much to take away in terms of positivity
for seven in this game, not just looking in packs,
but also the way that they've performed
in this match against Enterprise.
This is what you want and also the way they're performed against Chiefs 5-7 loss earlier in the stage like they know
They're not just making up numbers. You know, we're not going to Pax and just thinking it's going to be EP and Chiefs
Seven are gonna be there as a real threat and that's
The best thing about what Pax is gonna offer is that it's not just a
Many stages gone by it's just usually one team for most that is really the clear-cut standout
but that's not going to be the case going into packs. There's three teams that
genuinely can go to a Sarko major and then the fourth team isn't really totally
out of it either. You know if you get a circular sphere, they would be enterprise
back on play dead too. They make it in and play to the best of their ability.
Men Esports are a well-closed, well-trilled team. So you know there's
there's a lot to think about going into into packs that's when the real games
begin.
Not a bad nitro attempt there, but unfortunately game it doesn't work out.
Walsh will roam underneath on the vigil and the combo of the mirror and the castle will
make the backside here a little bit more challenging despite that the player has found an opening.
gets caught out. It's a solid start to the round for Enterprise who can now transition
back to Info. Gather you can see three players there flicking on drones trying to get a bit
of a read and I don't think the drop will be too far behind here. There should be a
lady with so many positions. Massive Nade Stack! Oh my! I think I've seen that one before.
It's going to make it really difficult for Seven now to get this to all rounds of overtime.
Not just I'll throw it out from Bailey, I didn't hear an explosion, I never got shot
out, maybe it did.
Another one available for Pinko if needed from washrooms playing behind the mirror.
The EP just don't lose these kind of rounds unless someone can make a hero play.
Fortunately for seven, the three players left up are all capable.
He's been on an absolute heater, 15-9 Walsh with a critical double kill at the end of regulation.
Hinku goes for a more advanced position to try and find this kill.
It's not quite working out, a little bit frustrating, and then Bayley falls to Tujohan.
Adrenal search was activated by Jigsaw.
Walsh still around Pillar, hasn't been able to find anyone because Enterprise haven't really entered the building.
And as Pink Roof falls, 1v5.
Well, he is a very good player and will be a very good player across his career, but
while she's not winning a 1v5 as the plant goes down from Cairo, and Cairo will get it
done.
8-6 for Enterprise.
They're off to Pax, but so will 7.
Kairos. Some shenanigans inside of laundry 86 and all time game. A great game to watch.
deserve for both teams that this went to overtime enterprise though too good. They get the 2.7 will
get the 1 they'll go to 13 points 14 points for enterprise and stay on top of the standings. Although
with cheese to play cheese can now retake the number one seed with a win over man LFO in the next game.
Yeah, certainly a possibility. It's going to hinge on EPs ability to play up on the last
playday. Hopefully walk away with all three points and hope that a little bit goes their
way on side of Chiefs, but that's not in their control. They'll be laser focused on what
is and today they were tested certainly in a couple of areas, but I think they've done
a good job to get that result over the line and show some really good resilience and the
ability as well to close out a game. That's one of the biggest strengths. They flex their
the muscles there in OT a little bit.
Seven maybe going into cruise control a little bit
after orbit confirming packs.
There is still maybe that weird permutation
where an absolute disaster tomorrow
could lend to them not making it.
But I think all of that's the purposes they're basically in.
And they did a good job today to push OT
against the best team in the region.
Well, they'll know pretty soon because it's,
part of it is also based on the results
against Manalifo to come.
So Manalifo get points against Chiefs,
whether it be one, two, three doesn't matter.
Then going into tomorrow seven is still not entirely safe.
But as we said before, like we're talking about one round,
maybe like maybe two, like as they did lose the two
at the end there.
So I'm pretty certain their round differential will be 12,
which means that if it's a seven one loss,
they could still technically miss out.
So maybe two rounds will be needed.
Let's go to our interview though with Nate
as enterprise of qualified for Pax Melbourne.
Congratulations, Nate.
off to land which really at the end of the day throughout group stage that's the main job.
Yeah I mean obviously it's exciting for the boys to get back to a land I think that's um
that's where they thrive I think and that's what they were I guess most excited about obviously
the whole stage playing games and the roster and stuff but I think when we found out about
that uh the Paxton land I think it definitely got us way more hyped and yeah I think the
boys are very happy. Yeah congrats on the results today mate in terms of looking ahead at the
playoffs one thing we've been discussing a little bit is sort of who's going to finish in first for
group stage is that something that you think is going to have much influence or do you think that
the seeding is going to be largely irrelevant? At the end of the day it's it's four so it's irrelevant
or not I think it just means it matches maybe some teams would that should have versed each other
later on the back it will versed each other earlier but like once again you have to be confident in
being able to beat every single team that you could possibly burst you on the dodging you want
early, don't want to dodge anyone late, you want to be able to, you know, show what we're made of
and show that we're there to win. So I think seeding a rule is a bit, doesn't really matter,
but obviously like I want to get first in the region regardless of if it doesn't matter at the
end of the day, I think it just shows, you know, the hard work that we put in.
No, we know about your team, we know about your boys, but I kind of want your thoughts
as a, I guess, neutral on seven on their stage and having just played them now, they lost five
5-7 to Chiefs, they lose 6-8 to you guys, they've beaten everyone else, they're essentially
that third team that's going to look to contest for Osaka, how have you kind of viewed them
as a team considering when you've been the coach of VP, you're looking for these threats
and what these teams can do, how do you rate them?
Obviously I think they're great, they're an awesome example, I'll send this to the
boys, they're an awesome example of if you keep with something and this region needs
to take notes from these guys. If you keep with something long enough and you actually
build something and build a structure, they're a hard team to play. They do their defaults
really well. Mind you, I think we, like, I don't know, I sound a bit like unhappy even
though we just won the game. I don't think we played nearly as well today as we should
have. I thought we played very scared for absolutely no reason, which not putting it
down to the situation because like you said, I don't think the points will really change
that much by the end of the week. But like at the same time, we still want to burst like
Like you said, like this is a very good seven roster.
Them going overtime, even though they didn't get the win,
that's going to give them confidence, right?
That's going to give them a bit of a boaster saying,
you know, early next time we can take him
an extra one round, but you can take him extra two round.
So for me, I think they're a very good example
in the region of you don't have to be winning
every single stage.
You're not going to come into the APL and be like,
yes, we're going to take the top two position straight away.
No work on it.
Prez has built his career off it, right?
Building these rosters over and over again,
sticking with them and having a very good,
they've really had a very good outcome.
Now he's got a bunch of players there
who Walsh is very sharp, Bayley is very sharp.
I mean, I think Tup's new, raised his first stage.
Yep.
Obviously, I played with Penku on triple L
over those years, I think I know how talented he is.
So yeah, I think they're definitely a very good team.
I think in my opinion, cemented,
they're definitely a top three.
I don't think people will come very close.
In the grand scheme of things,
obviously you're competing, in fact,
probably you would almost rather it to be like the old days
when, you know, Melissa would just dominate
and it was only really one team,
but does it make you guys better in the long run?
When you've got seven, you've got chiefs,
there's a bit of a threat.
You can't just switch off mentally for weeks at a time
and just walk through the league.
That when, if you do say qualify for Osaka,
it's gonna help you guys then say at that international event
having played these more higher end experienced games
locally in Oce.
100%, I personally love it.
I think that as a team and the teams
I like to build around we play better when the pressure is on and when there's harder games to play
It is always hard up. I saw half which is it's always harder to overcome that
underdog mentality
When when the team of those things nothing to lose you don't know what they're gonna do
But when teams are playing proper siege and they're trying to paddle you when they're going to the server you get great games
I could just like I'm sure for a neutral that was an awesome game to watch
It went one way when the other way he did like they had a good start
We had like you know what I mean? It was probably a great game to watch and I'm sure you guys don't like casting seven ones every way
So I think that's why the top regions are always so good to watch, right? You don't know who's going to win.
And it shows like when people have dominance, they're like, okay, these guys are playing really well.
Yeah, look, at 7-1 on playday two, I'll take a 7-1 in finals at PAX. We don't want those.
hopefully with the way things are stacking up,
Axe is going to be very brutal for the Final Four teams.
Anything you'd like to say Nate, before we let you go?
Yeah, just big shout out to the fans, big shout out to the boys.
Obviously very excited that I'm assuming we can
fan Pax with those two points.
Yes.
So hopefully it will set people up to the wake up and say hi to us.
Yes, yeah.
I was saying to the boys as well, it was Play Day 6 against 7,
so 6-7, that was your little thing you had to go for us there.
Get him off, get him off, see you at Pax mate.
We'll see you in the next video.
Have a good one.
Oh god, he had to get back in there.
Alright, well 8-6 was the final result in favour of Enterprise.
Jigsaw did one of his Jigsaw nights.
Brenda was great, very consistent.
Player continues to have a good back end to the stage,
building nicely into finals.
Tujan still managed to get nine kills,
but certainly a quieter night based on what's been a career best stage
up until this point for 7. Well, Bayley, he got really, really hot. Walsh, look, it was always going to be a tougher night for Walsh, the role that he plays, the entry, he still picked up 9 kills, he was still active, he didn't shy away from 5's.
I give him a good pass on the night against, you know, a prime red hot jigsaw and you had Brenda playing well and player playing well, Prez, Tark, look, if you're 7 you're walking away from this game, extremely happy with the overall result,
result and a little bit disappointed that maybe you couldn't eke out the OT wing.
Yeah, for sure. Let's look back at the schedule. We still got one game for tonight, three down.
It is, of course, Man Alaphaux and Chiefs up next. A big game for Chiefs and potentially being able to walk into that final play day in pop spots.
And yeah, on the side of Man Alaphaux, they are desperately in need of three points tonight.
They certainly are for men LFO. They do play Chicago me tomorrow on the nine points currently
But as things stand funnily enough now, it's chiefs that
Could be a threat if men LFO win this game
They'll match chiefs for points with CS then playing tomorrow, but look chiefs play an EOS tomorrow
So I feel like that's probably a game they should win anyways
We have a look at the standings coming into this game as to what is needed. So men LFO
they're not probably chasing Chiefs. Chiefs should be able to beat Anios tomorrow.
The reality is those circular spheres Manalifah I think are looking to try and
occupy that last spot and you can see one point differential. Circular spheres
will play seven tomorrow which that game is going to be absolutely entertaining.
Manalifah play Chikademy tomorrow but with the one point separating these two
teams Manalifah what they're not in a position to be able to do is go lose
lose lose clearly but if they can go lose chiefs win Chicaademy go to 12 points and CS and not beat
seven they're in so there's going to be a lot of pressure probably more on circular spheres in their
game tomorrow against seven because they will actually know what's needed by that game pending
the fact that men LFO actually play the next two games like this is it for men LFO your last two
games for the stage start now for the final game today and the first game tomorrow yeah I mean it's
It's time to lock in for them right and they are the team that I think has potential to get a result tonight if they play it
They're very best so hopefully they switched on and ready to go
All right, let's go to a break when we come back man
I'll a foe begin their charge for the top of four against chiefs
I was really happy when I went to the best 2.
I was really happy with the result, but I was really disappointed with the result.
It was a game that I shouldn't be so happy about.
After all, it became a story about roster change, and it became a story that D.D. couldn't enter the player.
Even in the game where D.D. entered the player, there were no people who could go over D.D.
Everyone decided to join D&D as a player, so it was decided.
Since I was a kid, I've met C.G. and I don't have any more interesting games.
So until I win, I can't stop playing C.G.
When I was little, I was born and raised in a car race.
I don't want to be different from other people, but I think I've grown mentally as much as I can.
Yes, I think my brother is a person who doesn't know what illness is.
It might be a little strange to say that I'm the same as a normal person, but he helped me in the same way, so I'm really grateful to my family.
The team is the same as the family, so we have to say what we want to say, and fight what we have to do.
We are able to do that in the team, so it's important.
I feel like we did a good job in the game we won.
If you lose, you're like, why would I lose?
I've been thinking, you're too weak.
Yeah, if you say it, you're going to be angry.
I'm saying, watch the next one.
I'm saying, watch the next one every time.
That's it for today.
I
He was on the roof, so sad that I couldn't have you
So sad that I couldn't have you
So sad that I couldn't have you
Oh
the game. It's all down to man
Alaphone now, not just in this
game, but then starting tomorrow.
Their journey to packs begins
guys, and honestly, I think
they've got a really good chance
ahead of it. Doesn't need to
happen in this game. But as long
as they win tomorrow against
Academy, then hope seven get the
job done in a circular sphere
is they will then go to pack. So
they're. Somewhat reliant on
will then go to pack. So they're somewhat reliant on other results, but also you win
here against Chiefs, you're no longer reliant on other results and you throw a real big
spanner in the work. So curious to see how this game will go. I would imagine Chiefs
should be too good. We'll go and have a look at Chiefs Esports Club first up.
Yeah, you would imagine that to be the case, but a change of things have happened as we
look across at this Chiefs lineup who have the potential to get all three points tonight
to be the number one team in the league hitting into the final player day and what a sage it has
been to them so far. It really clicked as a unit. Wettables has jumped into the team, he's looked
really comfortable, seventh rated in post and of course we have this all about relays currently
situated in the number two position. He's still obtained over a two KD and has had an 87%
cost is just being in the action constantly and having a major influence and definitely
a key stakeholder on the team who's going to be looking to just keep riding that momentum.
You don't want to be seeing that fizzle out at this stage of the particular stage and
so choose to be looking to I think keep on enabling him and keeping him comfortable.
Yeah, I think that they're going to be pretty comfortable in our screen coming in tonight
And then the fact that they play
Adios tomorrow as well, who have
now officially been knocked out.
Chiefs know that this is all about
preparation really going into packs
as we all have a look at their opponents
met out of vote. Not quite preparation
for packs, more so do or die now
for this roster, which
I've got to be honest, it's been
also an up and down kind of stage.
They got smashed by seven in the opening
playday, responded by beating
Arcade as expected, smashed by
He responded by beating Hanyo 7-1 as expected.
The one result really up to this point in the stage came in the most previous playday
where they demolished Circulus Fier 7-1.
So that's been the defining moment for their stage and the reason why they still are somewhat
in a good position to make top 4 regardless of these results tonight.
They've been the definition of yes they haven't beaten the top teams but they've kind of
beaten everyone else.
And they'll get that chance then tomorrow to beat Shycademy, but it's not completely
in their own hands unless they get something from Cheeps.
Yeah, that result against Shycademy.
I don't think we can take that as a certainty by any stretch.
It's not a certainty.
Man, LFOs sometimes I feel could be the team, if they find themselves in that matchup under
immense pressure, maybe we could see their gameplay at the tier 8, whereas when they
look really comfortable in firing, they genuinely are a couple of teams.
So, look, I think they'll be very much wanting to win tonight and then set themselves up for
playing.
Let's go to map Vito's and see where our final game of the night will be heading.
So far it's been a really solid night of seeds with some big matches that have been played
with one game to go.
That doesn't change.
It will be on lair.
So we return back to, I believe, what is the most played map in the region as we were
kind of talking about earlier this evening.
Chiefs not electing to go to Fortress means
Manalifo will start on the defense.
Well, the game is ready.
Let's split it up and jump in a massive game
for both of these two teams.
Chiefs eyeing off top spot heading into the final playday
and Manalifo trying to put themselves
in the best possible position to make the top four.
Certainly so.
Chiefs not locked into packs just yet.
If they do, if they did lose tonight would be interesting that that has to take until the last playday, but with the matchup against
Annie Osterby, heavy, heavy favorites in winning that particular game.
So I don't think there's going to be too much on their mind coming into this.
They would respect Manila Fo, well-coached team, the kind of team that on their night would pause and upset.
So I think Chiefs should be very much ready for a tough game.
It's been a really good stage for Chiefs outside of, of course, that loss to Enterprise on Playday 5.
So this is also now that response game two guys to keep that in mind the last time we saw them they got destroyed by enterprise
So what if they learned from that they've had the week off
This is now the response game
So if they don't come out tonight swinging and they lose to Manila foe
After then losing to EP it would be a little shambolic way of then getting to packs
It would be more like scraping in when they should be commanding a position
Yeah, it's gonna come down to on the day and on on the week by extension for these two teams
What the form is looking like for these next two play days and his next two games for these guys
Just you go in his firm favorites, but man, I'll throw if they're firing
Your threat and choose will not be taking them
lightly by any stretch
top floor up first
Jinx on the attack good tester for them in terms of how they're
There are, there are comms are flowing and what the Cinege is looking like right now.
They elected, they elected rather to take the Bandit I8 at play and then L4 taking comms
to the Union and Glass, they should have played it available and it's J.K. in a Philharmonic
role.
Yeah, so a little humbled last week by Enterprise, let's go on the attack, nice and early here
on Lair, basement entry lurk for relays to floor the site, there's lunchbox with a very
opening kill onto the Izami of Pluto. I'm not sure how the Izami is flying 30 seconds
into the round. Not what you need to be doing on this top floor defensive master in R6 and
gives Chiefs a pretty comfortable way to start this match.
Yeah, we'll help them pull the expedite this attack a little bit and barless utility on
site to worry about when it comes to clearance. Reloads will work down below so they're fostering
the triple impact.
Metables on the capitol, his U-Tool can be really great in cutting site in half late
and helping the default plant go down here.
Van Elfo electing to just invest in the smoke for plant denial.
Mattress Cell also available for Sharki Noot.
The chanker to be seen.
Oh, this opening defensive effort.
Here's the U-Tool from WET.
Mez clear, smoke will keep him at bay for a little bit
Probably not as much value actually is the attack on the bomb today. I'm just doing a good job to sit
Just shy of the planes as we eclipse the midpoint of a ramp
Now slowly working his mess position eventually elements now and a gas babes knows he's gonna have
potentially a double push on his spot from main stairs maybe even also
bathroom turns to come in so much time still available for chiefs they're
happy to posture for now
naturally just saw that crossback and j. jennick going for the early plant inside
of mask anyone nitrosil up jockey rep prone damage but shields back up from
Jay Kenner got the read on the plate.
Razorbloom thrown from Beers, that'll easily be destroyed.
Four versus four.
The concern now is though, how do you stop this next plant attempt?
Well, that's one way to do it. Hunter catching from below.
As Jake falls, Manawa throw back in the better position.
Let's see what the response is like.
He has pushed forward, but Relays has been so good this stage.
steps up for a double, leaves elements on an island, as he finds the trade, leaves it in a post.
You know, 1v1 and though he's pushing in for mezz, Metables on top of the kit, relays the play outside,
Wettables to swing and find the kill, opening round, goes the way of Chiefs. Can't be losing your
Azami 10 seconds into the round, that was costly for me, now the phone around, that came down to a 1 vs 2
And the plant itself was also tricky for Chiefs considering once they lost Jay Kenner
It was a 4v3 in favor of Manila Foe
That did a lot right, but Chiefs able to break through courtesy of Relays with a nice little double kill to open up the site allow the plant
As we head to basement for the second round
Defenders protect your bombs from being diffused by attackers. Yeah, definitely ended up being pretty costly for
Manila Foe
As we always say there's small mistakes against the better teams they will
Catch you out you'll find yourself exposed more often than not
Let's see how chiefs now look to approach this particular objective the demo snake
Double info selection initially here. So probably look for a bit of work threat. I'm taking map control
Defense to try and kind of that a little bit bulk and the solace
combination
I think a couple of repics late here from Chiefs, notably J. Kenner onto the blitz, so
I'm intrigued to see the purpose and the utilization of that blitz, which is typically a faster
tempo style, a little bit more direct to the face, and certainly goes without saying
higher fragging potentially in most circumstances comparatively for one to use, so I think we've
certainly seen something in that prep phase that has opted them to go through this alternate
Decision.
An opportunity to play a little bit more round the map.
I get beers and Pluto active, find a couple of kills.
Chiefs will just slowly drone through.
Is that a mistrone? Maybe.
Unbox caught out by beers.
Might have been a fake mistrone.
beers was glued on and got moving pretty quickly ready for that fight
another drawing comes his way as they hunt down the solace peers is able to
get back over to Pluto they can escape together it starts the round for men
LFO it relays he's a little bit quieter in that match against enterprise but
he's had such a strong stage looks reignited here on there doesn't quite
Get the trade timey though as Jakeannum falls to Hunter
Yeah, Rustar for Jackie in the first two rounds bliss probably shouldn't be dying there
For and then relays caught by Pluto man, I'll fall in the room. We'll take a two-player advantage
A good response here early for man LFO
Punishing some elements of this attack from Chiefs and have now done a good job to peel
back towards the objective without taking any additional risk. Still the nitro in play for
Pluto, more importantly a strong man advantage, allowing them to trade out this round to be
able to play a couple of crossfires here and feel pretty secure. Neptune and what it was
We'll try their best with a bit of bird and hard breach to isolate these defenders, make them feel a little uneasy, maybe force an arrow.
They now stack Fill Top.
Double Flash, One Flash, they use Neethop. And they do.
Double from Hunter.
Well the round was really, I think, one and lost in that roam battle.
Big round from Beers, Hunter to finish it off and one one after two rounds.
I definitely don't get the feeling that this is going to be a one-sided affair.
It's early day to turn the two rounds in, keeps already taking the top floor, puts them
in a good spot, but man, I'll afoot they're not an easy team to put away.
Sometimes they are, which is, play day one and three, but outside of those two days they're
not an easy team to put away.
right? Am I on the replay sticks tonight? That's a that's a Jake Zonox mid Diddy replay
sticks moment. I wasn't a reinforcement. So that's not bad dorms up next love this site
as always going to be really interesting to see the approach from both teams looks like
Chiefs are going to bring the Monty back into play.
We've seen some pretty mixed effects with the Monty coverage.
Some teams defending against the Monty coverage do sometimes find it a little tricky to find that angle
or to find a means to deny the plant.
So we'll see how they go about it. As sort of anticipated,
the defense are going to play the safest combination of the solos and the warden.
and despite the capital being available chiefs opting not to play it here for attempt one.
I mean everything is there for me now if I needed to stop this
Once briefing plant, you've got Sharky on the solace. Hunter and the Azami playing
first floor is a pretty good defensive operator in keeping them at bay, even blocking the
door if possible with the keeper barriers. Nitro cells, gas babes, so chiefs are going
to have to put some focus as well on this top floor. Don't be surprised if Relays is
positioned, say, Skybridge side by the point of the execute, looking to then maybe flood
and catch any players looking to retake green stairs.
Now, the most pivotal player, though, with this set up,
the funks briefing is that first floor defender,
even more than maybe the solace in my mind,
because if that first floor defender goes down early,
it really does open up the chance to also pivot
to other locations within the site.
Forces someone to drop down, opens up gaps.
That's a big round needed from Hunter.
Yeah, kind of thought to give away his life.
Uncontested.
He's got health though, beers has dropped, so it's a 3-2 split.
Chiefs clear onto this, they could still opt to go top floor clear first.
Oh!
Almost catching the timing there with the Hunter.
Yeah, Wettables misses the chance.
They're Neptune to follow up.
A clear one, they notice a second.
Beer's has already shot, made his presence known.
He opted to try and push, but it's J. Kenner sitting crouched at his spot.
60 seconds left.
In a good position though now to plant, or to die the plant on the door.
has nitro as well.
and back up smart play.
he's a traitor above you.
he's gonna destroy this top floor.
it's a 5v3 on the top floor.
where's the helper jay ketter?
where's the helper jay ketter?
it didn't come because of beers.
he gets the kill on to wetapools.
no one else followed behind.
box box gets stuck out.
and chiefs
block their chances.
i mean that's...
why is relays outside of the map?
Neptune why are we not pushing that together? It might still salvage it but it's gonna come down
with a wire as time is starting to run out. It's Neptune to save the day. I'll grab the kit 15
seconds left and down to Sharky to clutch it for man LFO. Are they ready for him though?
Acre in stairs I don't think they will be and they've got not really a lot of time to clear
him properly. The plant will go down from Neptune. Relays does clear. Chiefs win the round by the
skin of their teeth. Yeah I got awkward there trying to rotate the Monty up above was the
correct play. I don't know how much that can be faulted to Chiefs in terms of the transition
from green. The big aspect spaced it out and so maybe they should have been more compact
before they went for the push it would have been less of an issue but yeah either way the Monty got
isolated. The rest of the follow up though was pretty good some good heads up play on the top
four to clear and then Sharky got put in the worst position imaginable so a great plant position
selected there by Chiefs and the coverage ultimately ended up being absolutely spot-on so yeah solid work there from Chiefs
Just flexing their muscles a little bit at that
End round
Wasn't the best build up ever
They'll be the first to admit that the fact that they were still able to get the round across the line in a pretty convincing fashion was
pretty impressive
The fact at that replay package could cover from Neptune initially
is the shield getting isolated rest of the team spaced out by the gas babe then
the follow-up work from the DMRs of the attack was now spot-on Sharky forced
then into the line off-site and a good cleanup I realize now up to five kills
another good outing for him at the top floor and men also go full denial so
Yo, thank you, and smoke.
Three kills with the round from nettune.
One thing that men have done well, I mean, they've won two down, but they've dealt with the shields nicely.
They do still ban away the Monty, but...
But if that's what Jay cannot, he goes onto the A, so he's off shield for the first time.
Let's see if Jayky can get a little bit more involved.
I guess the clash pan is just kind of like, well if we're gonna get off shield, we don't
I want you to now hop on shield.
You can see Man-Alifo is being uh...
Oh, ready for the triple impact, his lunchbox is hung to beautifully.
Big loss early in the round for Man-Alifo.
Utility of course already pre-placed, but the man advantage will be really important when it comes to the late round trade.
Yeah, it's three opening kills now from the first four rounds for chief
So they've done a really good job and they're attacking half to just give themselves the best
Chances moving forward. They're not getting off the slow starts
Lows them to spend a bit more time droning
Clearly gonna be looking for a mezzops hit in this round where they kind of bring a bit more of this default looking light up open up
mask both sides
Try and draw out some of this utility from Elementor Sharky.
Wetapools, that is just ego.
Edge on onto beers, and they might actually look for a side XC a little bit earlier.
Of course Pluto to pop the pop canister.
I don't know why he's swinging that.
And same with wetapools, so we're just solo swinging.
On a side XC, like on an execute heavy site, we don't solo swing.
Yeah, 60 seconds, we'll see if they can recover this one.
Neptune will look to link up.
It'll be very difficult to get default down with 20 shameca launches still up here, so
Jeeves will be crossing their fingers a little bit that they get some luck their way.
I'm gonna go for the plane anyway and hope that Neptune can do an up job on the cover,
but Pluto had the angle because of the keyboard barrier, nothing that Neptune could do, he
still got the kill, but it was a little bit late.
Now let's go down
Need to get real is inside of the building, but might not need him with the way that Neptune is playing in back to back grounds
It's only shark he left 30 seconds on the deathmark the shimiko launchers not gonna play a factor. They'll push together. That's how it's done
Big round again from Neptune. He's bowled them out in two rounds
And it's a three to one lead for chiefs on the attack of lair
Yeah, another good bailout there from chiefs
as man will call their tactical time out?
Well the problem is, man LFO haven't really been winning rounds because of their own doing.
In the last two rounds, especially in that round, they've been kind of given a bit of a lifeline by the way the Chiefs sort of played.
The Chiefs go 5v3 up, and then just start solo swinging, gets it back to 3v3.
So you punish that, that's good.
How do we then, and this is what Sally would be talking about,
How do we then get into more of a controlled part of this game?
We're getting the opening kills similar to that second round.
That would be the example I'd be referencing.
Because they were more active inside of the server, they got the opening kill,
and they were on top start to finish in that round.
There was no way back in for Chiefs.
But when they haven't done that in all the other three rounds,
Chiefs have always just looked better.
And you need defensive rounds on there,
and that's probably something Sali should be stressing here.
two rounds to go we need both of them. Defenders protect your bombs and you can use my attackers.
Now Sarmie of course with a long list of experience now at this sort of level
and we'll see how much of an influence his words will have on the team going forward
as we look back at that last round. Sarmie off a really good value to the big round as Chiefs fed
but Neptune got himself in a great position for the coverage and then I love the decision
and lay it there to go for the fly, not worrying about concerning themselves with the plan
and allowing things to get Messian out of hand. They do a good job in shutting down the round.
Man, Alaphaux will be desperate to start stacking something on the scoreboard to show
for what has been, I think, a pretty decent effort across the side. These first four rounds,
just lacking a little bit of polish and Chiefs have been good enough tonight to catch them out.
And to reiterate for men, Alepho, don't need to win tonight, the point would be very, very
handy.
They shot Academy first game tomorrow, they win that, lose this, they'll go to 12 points,
two points above circular spheres back into the top four and they would be
sitting back and joining the 7th van club
I think Jake's force lock in packs by the way with the wind in this game
I think Jake is going to be eager to try and get himself in the game a little bit more
here obviously naturally a bit more tendu and shields but especially primarily in the
black pit. We're wanting to have a bit more frag impact there in the course of this match.
Is he shot calls at the moment?
I think Van Alpha is slowly going to start clueing into this warehouse side hit. You can see there
from the overview largely on that warehouse side relays. Working a little bit of vert, hunter
to go search for good information.
I'm gonna LFO see my position.
Yeah, it is very slick on the trees.
I think that's also just respect to Manila Foe
the way they played this last time on the first floor.
Just want to take more of their time,
draw them back to site, go direct
and just challenge them 5v5.
No first floor presence at all from Manila Foe.
Pluto will carry it at Jake.
Jake has had a rough night tonight.
I gotta save his interview, hang on, he is, he is, ha ha ha!
We're looking forward to that one, if we get it, we still may not.
This round and this site has belonged to Man Alaphaw, more of what was expected out of
Sali and they were spawned out of the tactical time out and have commanded this basement site.
Yeah, Chaser dated the water from the outset of this round, where our slow-life was.
Most one-sided rounds have only been these two wins for Manila Foe. Two alive, two alive, and two alive in the three round wins for Chieves.
This one might end up being flawless, it won't.
Realize, if you had another mid-it on the clock, I'd give him about a 5% chance.
If they all rushed to him towards yellow, I'd give him maybe a 10% chance, but the 7 seconds left, the fault's back over.
Style points from Relays, it won't matter.
Man, I'll forget a second round.
So, clean through basement, played it perfectly, both occasions and in different ways, which is great.
Where do they go to now for the final round of this half?
Is it again another attempt at the top floor?
No, Bunk's briefing.
close out round six and to be fair this site is probably played out at least the
one time they played it a little bit closer to being winnable then Jake
struggling on shields and you're gonna want to play him on shield in this site
yeah I think this is gonna be the better side choice I mean they did a good job
in isolating the shield play last time when Jake went for the the green side
into top clear, and you got isolated from the rest of the team with some good
utility. It was just unfortunately for them, I'll say it's a really good clutch
work and a bit of a brute force follow-up that was to their demise. I think
fundamentally the majority of that defense is actually very strong, so I think
they'll back themselves in here to try and force something similar out from
Chiefs. You're actually, I was gonna say, Jack kind of is
He's repigging around to the Grim, but as expected, jump back onto shield.
We'll be the Blackbeard though.
So we'll see what the emphasis on his positioning will be this round, maybe to offer a little
bit more fray power on that top floor clear.
If they're forced to transition into that clear like they were last time, then maybe
he'll be a little bit better prepared.
See how that ultimately ends up playing out.
It was on the Monty last time, so we've got a little bit more exposed.
offensively it's a full second floor set up so that's not too unsurprising and
of course it's the Solace Warden combo. Well it's a little surprising having left
one first floor that's not usually typically the four one split is what
you would employ. So maybe they're expecting a second floor hit here
especially based on this lineup with no sends etc.
You can see Relay is on the solid snake just sits inside a bunk now would have scouted
out with the raid up no one playing first floor guys what do we want to do do we want
to try and go for a plant and hope that maybe they can't deny.
The enemy kit is mezzanine the moment on the blackbeard so suggesting troops will look
for a fight into the second floor.
Yeah, my clearance, so we'll see if this ends up working out for them.
I'll just broadcast it to Ben Elfo, he will well and truly know where all of this.
25 chiefs next step will be getting jakenna in a position to contest further
forward and into r6 its fear is up close nitrocell in pocket
do they have to keep going though if they can take enough space to go for a
plant on position above that they've got occupied you could then swing jake
like this like go for the plant and then hold the space you've got but they're
gonna keep going forward and it is working out they got the first kill on
the Pluto beers dead. Although Jake falls again and then Wettables walks into the trap and we got a
two versus two. But luckily for Chiefs it's their best two performing players. Neptune and Relays
again in the position to try and salvage around for Chiefs. Yeah Wettable 35 seconds.
They're going to go for a double pushy up, all they're going to bring Neptune away from
Relays, gets the shot into the back of the head of Alamance and Sharky on one health
point with Relays now going back to site.
Will go for the plant, stays above, good call.
Well Sharky will stay above and find out where this plant's going down.
He will not be able to deny from that position, but he will get the kill on the second try
We are tied heading into the second half three to three. There's the response that Siley wanted
Oh
So I'm just gonna
and you'll come out and let your wild inside consume come out tonight and baby I just
I
We got a close game here on there after a little response from Manila Foto in the last
two rounds.
You can see Oda talking shot during the halftime break.
3-3.
Hey, what?
It's not been a clean night from Chiefs tonight, guys.
It's been Neptune and Relace really carrying a lot of the workload.
646 in the launch box 35 from Werderbus 06 from Jake Hanna of course is playing shield but
even Jake is usually able to have more of an impact on the shield play. It's um a little concerning
but they do go defense. Yeah I think that defense will be a little more comfortable for them.
Well NC certainly a world of which you might know if they can fight their way forward here.
And we'll see how this match ends up developing. Master R6 as expected up first turns the band
Snake Monty into Bandit and Khyne Yead. He's identifying that the shield wrap will be
partly to concern themselves with understandably here in the second half. They'll also bring
the flashing play in Jekyll and we can hide that. We have a quick look back at the final
round of the half, very dicey fight up above here at the end. Relays with little time,
really with no choice but to try and get back to the side and get the plant down. Sharky
not close to botching it, on the other side of the vert, not quite exposing the plant,
but then did a good job to recompose it. Catch the plant through the post, so that's all
of the work. It's not just J. Kenner hiding in the prep phase, also relays behind the
the desk is going to protect the pulse pit. I do wonder what Relay's position will end
up being this round.
The clash would be really good as well for Jake Hennep. In a rough night for him, such
as being able to sit on the clash, hopefully he's not the target of the Zofia, although
I feel like I've maybe put an early curse on it. It's probably going to be the elements
on that so fear that's gonna have to get that triple impact to work from below
inside Bunks now. I've got to try and get the information for him. I think that largely
will probably be through drones. It doesn't look like they've got much off.
I was to play off an element that's dead already. He just dies to the the vert above.
There's no one on the first floor, so he's just... was it Relays that got the down?
It was. So Relays gets the down on the poles. So my head's up play to imagine
that we're playing obviously top floor.
They're gonna bring the Zofia to go first floor.
He's looking down with the cardiac sensor.
But it's Hunter that's looking ahead
and found the kill onto Wettables.
Magnet ready.
The pulse here is just so dangerous.
Well, because they killed Alamance now,
this is smart from real life.
It's again, good game sense.
First floor's vacant.
The only threat that was really gonna be there
for Menelophobe was the Zofia, no longer there.
He can now play first floor on the pulse
Very unlikely that an alpha will transition anyone else down low. Oh my god
Why do we just watch
No way
Ah, he got Norris, boys, I got him.
Well, Hodgebox is dead, though.
Jopps knocked up on the top floor.
Relay's gonna have to quickly make his way back up.
Neptune, lovely kill on the Pluto.
He goes down, though, from Sharky.
Sharky envies as the duo against Relay's and Jake Hanna.
They finish off Neptune.
Relay's back up over to Ward's R6.
Jake, he's back to the corner.
Been a rough night for Jake Hanna,
and it's further compounded when he's stuck in the wall.
Manelofo, take the lead against Chiefs.
Wow.
Even despite that nitro, Manelofo
rubberified themselves into the objective
and then doing a good job there
at the end in isolating the clash
and cutting off Relay's ability to play support there
to the shield operator.
Big round for Manelofo, the in the lead.
Great restart.
Start to their attack.
And yeah, as you mentioned,
a nice little round street being accumulated
underdogs well I mean this is now to the point the chiefs where you wonder
about how do you get back into this game because all of the medicine is from
the perspective that we saw relays just walked away and gave up on it was like
oh I'll pull the trigger that is insane timing and they still lost around anyway
and they still lost around and if you look at the opening kills too it's a
The 5-2 split in favour of Chiefs, but they've now failed to convert the last two rounds,
those early advantages.
Back-to-back 3Ks from Sharkey, so he's gone from zero kills in the first five rounds to
six kills in two rounds.
Manelopho has got the momentum, three straight, they got the lead, and a little bit of pressure
here on Chiefs.
I'm interested actually to have a look at the conversion numbers for these two teams.
to see if this is a bit of an outlier, it's gonna take me a little bit to load that so
maybe it has been a problem for Chiefs so far this particular stage?
Well it's two rounds, I mean I'm not, yeah like two rounds is...
I don't understand how complex it has a stage at.
The Chiefs have been the best team.
The best team in the region for converting, 85% and funnily enough Man LFO 2nd at 82.
So it's been a big strength for both teams in being able to convert to their advantage.
You have so many factor in this match.
Well, five-stack baseman from Chiefs, and we're not even a minute into the round.
Shark is already testing Blue Stairs.
I'm not going to lie, this is looking a little ominous.
They just look a little bit apprehensive now, rather than take the fight and play that first floor,
you know, positioning, look for the contact fights.
They're just like, you know what, let's just play five-stack down below.
And I just don't know if that's the right way.
But Chiefs, you're inviting the pressure.
You're allowing men all the way to take space.
I like the retakes. I like this retake. This is better.
Have the confidence, especially if you relays in the United Four on the stage you've had.
He should be on this first floor.
Oh, up.
Fluto Redables. Find one each. Hunter down. Fluto two.
Been good fight from Neptune in contesting this position.
Little river stack up.
Oh, Neptune again. Yeah, it's been a big night from Neptune.
Yeah.
And they know now there's no one on this first floor cleared out by relays
He comes back helps out on the vert against beers elements gets the kill on to Neptune relays again on the vert
Yeah, big round from chiefs, but it's again relays and Neptune. They've stood up massively tonight
When tested here by man alifo, those two have risen to the occasion love to retake on the first floor from relays
He ends up getting two kills from there Neptune holding down the fort on site
And that's where the round is won and lost for chiefs 4-4 scoreline, but they need others to start standing up
Otherwise this game will stay close and you're inviting man. I'll a foe the chance to
I'll take a big advantage heading into tomorrow's game against Academy
They will control their own fate as long as they get a point from this game
And you know certainty against any or second that they'll be heavy favorites
I don't want to make it seem like any of us are likely to beat chiefs tomorrow, but
You never a certainty a cock proxy. What a chef chef, you know one last to write it
15 kills on defense. I don't know and chiefs could then potentially miss finals all together. So like yeah, they've got a lock in quickly
And it need one round as well, but what it's worth this game goes to overtime both teams walk away happy
One point
At one point as in like if this game goes to overtime
Well, yeah one point
Actually a very aggressive position, Ops. I don't think he commits to a swing here, that would be a little crazy.
So he's able to vacant and make a bit of space for himself.
Checking up on the James Bond at the moment.
He'll be looking to refocus and get himself into the game.
There's still a big chunk of time remaining in this match for him to still have an influence, to have an impact.
Menelofo will look to structuring himself
upside, with very default terms of
combat line up and position right now.
That will play into the hands pretty nicely
of the smoke tank combat here from Cheese.
I'm interested to see what kind of effect the Menelofo can bring into this round
whether it be the push through Lobby or
look at it back here.
Go off the structure a little bit, vert as well, could work. It doesn't look like they've got any of those pieces in position.
just yet but they have been able to get up to control
funnily enough we're talking about the opening kills that they're going into that
last round and well men I forgot the first peak but it's three straight now
where it has not been converted I decide after it was five straight opening
conversion in this game and a little bit of a switch in the trend at default
Looking here, Sharky push up towards man's beers first death courtesy of lunchbox.
Sharky taking very low as well. They do get the trade onto box, so 4v4 courtesy of Pluto up to 10 kills now.
It's a really, really solid game.
60 seconds as they look to open up mask.
But as Hunter falls, they lose the capitol and Relay's now up to 13 kills. Couldn't catch the timing on Neptune, makes it back towards the desk.
I just don't know how Sharky guessed this plant down though with wetables still 15 bullets in the shemiko launcher
One hit of that fire and shark is down
And put seconds how far to push it install for man Ella foe
He said got a really good cost position here as well
First of all overkeep but
Corrected they're gonna escapes in the tuck
That's 25 seconds left for Ana.
They're so smart. As soon as he made contact with elements towards the bathroom, he just falls back to his place, stays alive.
And then elements tries to walk in, but Relays has got the cover.
So even though they allow the plant, they know Sharkey's going to be quite low.
So it's down to Pluto to have to hit some really good shots.
He's also just going to fall.
Sharkey can't really do a whole lot in the 1v4 and 1 HP on the Blitz.
We'll go for the revive on Pluto.
There's no way they allow them to push forward after that.
Relays has been sensational, so has Neptune.
They both combine again, and they give J.Kana a little prize
to go over the count of the fewes.
Chiefs take the lead, five to four.
Yeah, Chiefs showing good resilience there
in the late round, good composure,
knowing they're in a strong position.
They had a lot of U-Tool as well that they could play off.
They keep a barrier as late offering.
Yeah, it's a really good supportive U-Tool.
And some decent positioning there,
They've been able to get that round across the line.
Basically now, one round off that PAX point, if you want to call it that, and securing OT.
A big couple of rounds to come.
Critically for Man-Alpha as well.
They'll be wanting to fight back in this matchup, which they've looked fairly competitive in.
There's Role.
Funks briefing next, we are yet to see this site in the second half.
I agree in terms of the competitiveness that we've seen from MNLFO.
I mean even in this round that chief still technically walkway 4 alive.
They got the down on some napshoots and scrappy.
They were able to get the plant down, so I mean like there was a lot that you can take away from that round.
That's not entirely negative.
Nights the night though for men LFO where
The real problems arise in the sense you've got a very good five-man team as well coached
But dare I say do you have the quality of a relays?
Do you have the quality of a jigsaw? Do you have the quality of a wash?
I don't know if they've got a top four top five player in the league
And on a night like tonight when relays is running around 15 and four neptune's 11 and six
You know your closest individual
Compared to the to those there's Pluto ten and seven
Again, no one's really hanging low for men elephant. I was playing bad
No one's rising to that 15 kill bomb occasion in a close game
That's the difference right now genuinely in a five-four game. You think what's the big difference three laced snapchip
Higher end talent is shining through in a match. That's quite close over all between two teams
It's a hardware jelly here from the attack, pretty expected with the Benekite combo.
All are going to be about where the focus next turns for Manel or Fo and how much they
are wanting to balance green control on top.
And if they ought to go for top, is it Skybridge or Opside, maybe elements of both?
Initially they are the entirety of the team on the exterior of the building and I don't
mind this threat as well from Hunter. He's in a position to cut off Jake Kenner if he
finds contact and tries to roll back Hunter's in position to catch him. Probably gonna hear
Jake Kenner here if he hasn't already, will soon.
Let's try to realize the drill first blood and onto Pluto
That's three straight open kills for relays for chiefs 16 and 4 difference maker
That's probably what man LFO we're gonna need
Whether they make packs or not this stage. I think going into next year. I'd be looking at someone like a proxy
Just to really compliment their overall team who makes weight. No idea
That's the one final piece missing from this puzzle.
60 seconds, 4v3. I have the manpower to be able to bring this round back now.
Otherwise, Chiefs will get to 6, and the best that man I'll afloat can hope for is overtime.
Relays well positioned.
The beers. Lovely. Heads up play to hit the headshot. That's a really clinical kill.
2v2 again. Hunter. Oh my god, Hunter and Sharky combined. They get it done. There is.
Exactly what Manelopho needed.
Well, sometimes it doesn't take just one or two players, but a team effort.
And that's what this Manelopho team brings to the table.
Timeout called from Oda.
They were on the verge of guaranteeing packs.
It was locked in if they had finished off that round.
4v3, low time remaining.
And they stumble.
And they leave the door just slightly ajar.
the man on the phone
and a well-timed tack time out there here from Oda who of course I'm sure
would be pretty well respected in this situation by the team given his
experience with these kind of moments these everything style of matches I mean
he's kind of been there and done it all
We'll have to refocus the team and get them ready for this breakpoint round.
It's looking as if it will be basement up next.
It was a success for Chiefs on the first attempt back in round number 8.
Three players up at the end, so it was quite convincing.
And we cut down the attack, which I remember I think was a pretty heavy lockers side sort
of style attack from NLFO Chiefs.
So Chaser pretty willing to give them that control initially warehouse, but then an alpha never really able to transition into that execute
So a little change up then lineup wise to produce from last time where they'll go to solace and I think relays will play the first floor
And it'll be a win or lose situation when you get some kills and you probably don't even need the solace lose
And it's gonna be a big loss, right?
The solos will help certainly with the droning from Manelofo around this first floor, but
in terms of the late game, if that happens, it would be only if Manelofo go fully direct
in, just want to flood through site.
Then the solos also kind of counters that.
They also bring the Fenriria with lunchbox instead of playing the Ekko and playing Water
War site, and therefore, so the site's not as vulnerable, Jay Kenner will jump on the
Goyon and place I think two Vulcan canisters down below and then one here on the first floor
This time they'll defend first floor does again give the avenue then for men a la flow to play a little bit more direct
And the question is gonna be what's the point of difference though for this attack compared to last time
It seems again like she's a pretty eager to be hands off warehouse side and then contest them on the lockers
Transition so so far it's shape you have to very similar to last time
And I'll if I can win this round they into a position where they control their own fate
The top four tomorrow again shark had a meat
Which would be terrible use for circular spheres
Deathmark on Jake Kenner, he's over towards Armory.
This is where for Chiefs, how much of a clue on do they have of this direct hit?
Well now they do, forced down below.
Jake is 0 and 9.
The way he's going, we might not get that Jake Kenner interview.
His Pluto just walks straight in towards lab, headshot onto launch blocks.
Simply put, where's Relay's where it's Neptune?
They're the only way back into this round now, for Chiefs.
gets one on to Beers plant pushed off it was Sharky where it pulls to fall only
relays left he got a second and no more man out of the foe had the chance to get
all three points against Chiefs and then also give them that their own fate and
destiny to be controlled that's now secured and they can get more already
they control their own destiny for finals now with this point secured win this
next round you go to 12 points and you're into the top four into the final
playday only needing a single point against Chikademy. Wow, this has taken a
bit of a turn in this matchup it felt like I achieved for moving quite quickly
towards a result tonight but Manellah Fogh being able to step up here and really
put in a strong, very resilient kind of performance, then they'll be quite pleased to push in overtime
but they will be, of course, hungry for more in the context of the Top 4.
They'll have to go attack into this top floor site, which globally this stage has been the
Second most defended, Bung's actually edging out 63% this site in particular, 59% in favour of defense.
Speaking of the defensive line-up, no smoke, there's the Tchenka.
There's Jekena will once again backfill onto Flash.
And we'll see if Man-Alpha can try to disrupt that. They have bought the Zofia.
Presumably they'll go for a triple impact this round.
The Chiefs, they play Anyos tomorrow, which will be the final game.
If they lose this round, they will need potentially a result from that game, but actually get
to Pax.
It depends on, then, the other game against Circulus Fierce and Seven, opening kill Hunter,
on the verge of three very important points.
Neptune dead and that's a big puzzle piece eliminated from Chiefs. He's had a very solid game
Relays 18 and 6
It might need him to get 20 plus as I don't think you're getting many from Jay Kenner
Hello big fight!
Wow!
Realize again.
Oh ho ho!
Get me off of the 20 bomb.
The Chiefs could be on for overtime.
box gets rid of beers and overtime now looks inevitable. Chiefs to hold on and get this
to OT to secure their place at PAX. To secure their place in the top four.
Fucking Pluto, I'm not gonna give up on this and they still got a minute to try and cook
something up. Next kill. So important. I don't see Sharky being able to fight into this.
Lunchbox is also low. We get pinched though. Lunchbox, ready for it. Both sides, pull that
out, brings J.Kana over. Smart to bring the clash. They're trying to block off these last
to attackers. Pluto hits the headshot onto lunchbox. Relay is now down. 33 seconds. Uh-oh,
indeed. Jake, put the shield down and go gun up and get your first kill. They need you
to find it. 14 from Pluto. 25 seconds with Sharky holding the kit towards storage. Weddables.
White game, but he's had a lot of assists. Gets the down onto Sharky. Pluto in a 1v2
not come up clutch it's Wettables with two massive kills to book chiefs and their place
at PAX is confirmed but not I am sure they would have lacked to have done it.
Not the most convincing round of their careers but it was just good enough a big stand-up moment
from Wettables 6-6 score line
and as cheese will continue here on defense
and then LFO now there so it's on getting maximum points that remain
I'm trying to kind of work out if the two points matters for man LFO now because cheese had done
They got the third aim, whatever, and they'll probably win tomorrow against the Emanios.
Right now, man, exports are on 10 points. They're actually tied on points with circular spheres
going into tomorrow's final playday of groups.
There's getting to 11 really matter. I mean, maybe only if tomorrow's game of men
LFO versus chicademy goes to overtime and they win again in overtime, then yes, it potentially could
matter then that would also be dependent on round differential on the 13
points of circular sphere is worth to win there's actually a fair chance they
might be able to make up the round differential I don't think it's gonna
matter too much more than anything for men I'll a flow win tomorrow in
regulation and you're into packs. That's the the key take away.
You think JK is gonna get a kill? That's my question now. That's the biggest story line for the rest of this match.
It's got a couple more rounds to try and get it done.
Although it would make the interview pretty funny if he doesn't get a kill and they win.
I'm not laughing at his expense more so just the case of stopping out of wind with a player
going 0 and 10 plus or whatever it is I think.
I mean look you can always say well he's the shield player and he has been the shield
player.
I'm not the shield player.
But, come on, Jake!
I mean, it's as well as to be on for 20 plus, he's been great tonight, and he's probably
shooting back at the number one elite.
It's the only reason why this is overtime, it's the only reason why this game's in OT.
I mean, if he doesn't play like this level tonight, they lose this game like 7-4, men
LFO.
Look, sometimes it's better to have a result like this, this week, rather than at Pax and a little bit more to work on for Chase, clearly.
Quiet round here to start overtime.
Very quiet. Still some prep work being done here in the background from MNLFO.
I've breached the name of the game and they've been able to forge a path in towards a default
plan.
Medibals should be able to keep that at bay with the Chameleon Trinjaken is going to
make up for the lack of his army here and make for a bit more playable space in office.
So, keys haven't been majorly pressured, best yet.
Chucky gone for the plant by the wayside of mask.
Oh, and the plant will be successful, resulting though in two deaths for Man Alaphaux, so the
post plant now looks more doable for Chiefs because of the numbers.
I go below, but Pluto avoids it.
I think he heard you.
And Sumerjay counter and the post plant and the clash can be very impactful, but because
of the double cross with Alamence, he can't kind of go and stand in face one way.
And he's aware of that
Elements gets rid of relays lunchbox goes down and suddenly it's falling apart for cheese until Neptune
able to get that kill onto elements, but we check in on falling men are looking to go seven six up then onto the defense
Pax may be secured for chiefs
But this map certainly is not and will not be as men are far out the chance to get the win now
Yeah, nice. They've done a really good job there. I'll play to the post
I had a couple of those key positions accounted for and hit some nice shots.
James was pretty comfortable despite the plank going down and look, I think they back themselves
down in the post and that's ultimately not the worst call ever, but then LFO positionally
were far superior there at the end.
Double cross from the breach, but it was really nice and they were able to lay a pressure
in a couple of key areas of the map.
They deserve to win this game, based on the overall play that we've seen from the team.
Ever since that response of the packed timeout of Sali, who I think is one of the top coaches
in this region, they're down 3-1, 3 attacking rounds to chase, things are looking absolutely
crap, excuse my French, but since then, since that timeout, Manel LaFau have now won 6 rounds
to three. Like that's domination. So chiefs are pretty fortunate in the grand scheme of
things that they started so hot and relays has gotten to 20 kills because the overall
play man alifo as a core team have looked better and what a night as well from Pluto.
17 and 9 has now matched kind of relays too. You're getting 10 kills from both Hunter and
sharky. Seven and ten from beers and six and eleven from elements that had some moments.
Haven't seen enough. The fact that Jake is zeroed ten. What a rough night. Now they have
to go onto the attack into basement which in the first half was defended both times
by men LFO. They deserve to win this game right here, right now. And they get it done.
Let's find out. As I said, basement side of choice. It's heavy, heavy, heavy, plant and
I'll hear from the defense, Tachanka, Smoke, and Goya combo throwing a couple of Razor
Blooms which Pluto will pocket and play flexibly late.
I like the introduction of the mirror here as well. You can see one facing warehouse side
although that's been popped. I'm quite sort of the second one was but the player
could get in front of the filter side if that ended up in the position of choice.
We're outside initially here from Chiefs playing double shield.
Pretty useful in some of the choke points down below here
and you can kind of split the shield both ways.
But you need maybe to isolate it from what's filter, but it's kind of tricky for the attack to commit to that play at the moment.
There, they'll continue to chip away at you two from where our side is. Pluto catches lunchbox. Crazy spread.
A game from Pluto. If we can bring this form into tomorrow, I think it's almost a certainty that Man Alpha will be off to PAX as well.
I mean, they played some really good siege tonight.
Now, the Chiefs are gonna walk away from this game, win or lose from this position, licking
their wounds a little bit.
Any osu!
Tomorrow is kind of one last warm up then for Pax, but they get a bit of time before
Pax to hopefully pick into gear.
What is it?
I think they get two weeks?
Yeah, two weeks.
Well, actually more like two and a half weeks, to be honest, so they'll have a bit of time
to kind of rebound after maybe a slow end to the stage to loss to EP on playday 5
and on the verge of losing now to Manila Foat, 45 seconds is leaving Chief's very
little wiggle room on the push in towards the side and down a player no blitz
it's only Jakey on the blackbeard hasn't found a kill yet this may be his last
chance there's a huge late-round pivot they're gonna go for the back yet alright
30 seconds and it's an all-in play from Chiefs. Oh, no. Oh, no, not what you want to see. Gas
babe and there's another one in pocket from Hunter. They've clued onto this. Don't see a world
in which Chiefs win this round. Hedibles did get one. Jake, he's going to end with zero. And then
Alepho will get the two points and the dive. What a night from Pluto. What a night from men, Alepho,
as they control their fate for Pax heading into tomorrow's game against
Shaykademi still need to get the job done they're not there yet but they're a
lot closer they will end tonight in the top four but tomorrow the ultimate test
awaits. Yeah it's a huge dub for Manel of Foat and despite cheese pushing it to OT
and qualifying themselves for Pax definitely some question might be
generated not the best form guide for them after their loss against AP now into this
to the soul searching for them but of course they'll find comfort in the fact
that they have locked themselves in top four and they can shift their focus across
the best of three format but for this match specifically met LFO as you were
describing earlier found themselves in the wars early I think it was a great
pack time out called by Sally and looking forward to asking him specifically you
know what was said and how they responded because in terms of the round
in history, they absolutely did in this matchup, they really came alive, applied good pressure
to Chiefs and despite Relay's in particular being a massive, massive threat, they did
a good enough job at sort of picking apart the rest of the team to make up for that and
that's what ultimately it was.
If I had a set to you tonight, because Relay's and J.Kanna combined for 20 kills, what would
have you said?
Oh, makes sense, right?
They'd get, I don't know, Relay probably gets 15 and J.Kanna gets 5, right?
was quite that fair to Jake. He was getting smashed tonight.
Me and Jake had the same impact in the server tonight. How's that for a couple of Jake's?
Look, rough guy. I love Jake here. He had a rough one, but ultimately well deserved win for
Manila Foe. And look, we're going to get Sali on for an interview as well, because I can't wait
to chat to him about what he spoke about when they were 3-1 down, because that was the pivotal
moment, because they then got on a roll. That was the key turning point. I think it was then
by the end of the game from that 0.73 in favor of Manila 5. So let's go to our interview with
one of our favorite coaches in the region. Sali, congratulations on the result. 3-1 down. Chiefs
all over you on their attacking half on a map like Lair where you want to get those defensive
rounds. What did you say to the team that clearly worked as they turned it around from that tactical
timeout? Actually, like I said, anything too crazy. I think we had really good ideas coming in.
So I was even hesitant on that tack, but I think for me, it was mainly just about trusting my
instincts on that and just showing up. Some of those late rounds, it was coming down to a bit
of hesitation in those late rounds and just a little bit of not playing towards exactly what
we wanted to play in the game plan, but clearly you saw in the next two rounds players stepped it up
and yeah really were communicating in those way around and yeah they found that confidence that I
think it took them all the way. Yeah congrats on the win mate. I guess preparing for this matchup and
looking at that juice lineup evidently really has been pretty insane and again dropped a 20 bomb
tonight. How did you sort of factor that into the game plan because I mean whilst maybe you didn't
contain him specifically you guys did a really good job of breaking down the rest of the team
for the most part tonight.
Yeah, we just had to do a drop 20 himself as well.
So that was the game plan.
I think there was really just about this whole later half of the stage has been really about
keeping towards the finding that we're doing, not losing our nerve as rounds get traded
back and forth.
And you saw it here, it went all the way to overtime, they were very competitive.
We were losing rounds, or should we win?
They were losing rounds.
They should have been closing out.
And yeah, I think just the level of resilience
we sort of stepped up with,
it's actually a really good parcel for us.
So you now control your own fate tomorrow
and you won't have to wait too long.
First game of the night for Play Day 7 against Chai Katami,
win and you're in essentially now
because of this result against Chiefs.
How are you looking at that matchup?
because we all know Shackadamy as they've, of course, been eliminated.
Are still the kind of team you can't take lightly?
No, absolutely not.
And I think they...
I would actually give them more props in terms of the way they've been playing this stage,
like, very true to their identity, in a sense.
I think we just have to come in without, like, overthinking again.
We know it's like a relatively important game for us.
We come and play like we, you know, we play today play like how we want to play
and not lose on there like if that I'm pretty sure and I think
Get it done
All right, anything you'd like to say Sally before we let you go
Yes, yeah, I love her as usual
Shout out to all my support staff in the background
I know you guys have had no one on but there's one more as he does really great work in terms of just back-end of stuff
They can look at like some of the strats. They're doing things like that. So really huge shout out to them
I couldn't obviously be the whole team doesn't function without all the contribution and obviously the players they play really well
Pluto sharky
is
Trying to fix their real names
Hunter and Elements, so a great job from them, so really talented.
Thank you guys for your cast.
Thank you, Sally. Congratulations on the win and best of luck tomorrow in your game against
Academy. Hopefully we can see your packs.
Well, that was a way to end the night. Pluto, by the way, takes MVP for tonight.
Steals it at the death. He gets to 20 kills and look, in the end, technically,
Relays had higher EPS, but gotta go to the man that got the dub and that matters a little bit more than just an extra kill or two
The man alifoe I said during the game
They need someone to match relays and Pluto took that personally and just took it to another level
These are the last four rounds of the game by the way 3k 3k and 3k so he picked up nine kills in the last four rounds
To get them over the line and a big reason why men alifoe get the two points in this OT win
And for Contex as well, he was 18th rated, certainly respectable but nothing amazing
getting into this playday so he really stepped it up to another level and not deep in the
kind of matchup where he was called upon to be the star of the team and made some really
really great plays just across the board who's a crazy star so yeah solid work by him and
the team as we look back at the schedule for tonight, a little bit longer than maybe some
the other play days we've had, courtesy of the 006 at the end. But as a result of these games,
we have a much better picture in terms of top four and bottom four.
Yeah, I mean, what a night. I mean, kind of started off with Antioch's arcade in which,
let's be real, didn't have a lot of meaning behind it. CS Show Academy, that game didn't
really follow as much as I expected it to be closer, but credit to CS. They keep themselves
to be tough tomorrow. And then
the last two games 86 86 and
banging matches to close. Play
day six. Let's go to the
standings. That's what matters.
Heading into the final play
day tomorrow. Man Alifo get
their spot back in the top four
with that overtime win over
chiefs. So the top three are
locked in. It's as simple as
that. EP chief seven will be
off to packs in terms of the
positioning and the orders
actually doesn't matter in a
double elimination bracket, but
that will be fully determined
tomorrow. And for circular
spheres tomorrow, they play
to try and get into the top
four. They can't really
overtake seven unless they
basically win seven zero or
something along those lines, in
which case, then the three
points plus the round
differential would actually be
enough to leap frogs, but they
got to smash them basically.
Or they've got to hope that
Chikademy can at least either
win in regulation or win in
overtime against men LFO plus
So this the permutations are pretty clear cut going into tomorrow
It's not going to be like it was coming into today for men. I'll throw win and you're in for CS
Well, they'll know what their fate is going into their game. They may not even have a chance
Yeah, which is unfortunate for them. I think CS have been really
Surprisingly talented over the course of this stage just haven't been able to quite find that consistency
Which will naturally take a little bit of time
But yeah, look you thought to sit back will be subbed out for tomorrow. So we get the pleasure of watching from the sidelines
Yeah, Nick and Peggy in for tomorrow
By the way, EML up in about four and a half hours time for the Europe Men are League region if you're in the Australian region
You might be asleep. If not, if you're a global viewer
Yeah, come back in a few hours time and of course EML will be on the host tonight though
We come to an end for playday six tomorrow is the very last day of group stage down to two teams to see who can join the other three
at PAX in a few weeks time.
Ah, get him off. Get him off.