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Okay, I've listened up my little rainbows, I have some news you're going to have to deal
with the substitute today.
Once again, please, please, for one, behave.
Don't have any promise left.
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Guys.
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Welcome to another playday of the EML.
It is play day six. So glad to have you with us. I'm Jonas Willinger alongside fresh and
Alphama and I am desperate for you to come back. These guys are bullying me. Where do
you guys get the heels? Where? Where are the heels? Where's the way? I'm going where you
got the heels. I mean, did Ann leave her shoes here just so you could throw them at me?
You're calling for help, right? Yes. Ann is the one that left them so we could bully you
with them. All right, Ann, don't come back. She turns hard. What can we say? I'm just
I'm just gonna be stuck here forever getting attacked.
We could also get a new nickname.
Is it the Rainbows?
Oh yeah, the Rainbows.
Yeah, it's me.
The Rainbows.
Jonah and the Rainbows on the E&L set.
That's the start of a terrible ban,
but I know you play the drums, so, you know, maybe.
Well, I hope you guys were able to get some rest
after last night.
I hope you guys were too.
If you stuck with us throughout the entire marathon
of a day, we had a long one, but we also had,
well, plenty of exciting action.
We had Stomp and put up another incredible performance
Just following a 22 kill week the week before, he did that yesterday again against shifters in G2's 7-2 victory.
Yeah, and if you look at the KD, it's not that impressive actually, so I thought I've dropped 14 kills just yesterday.
But to me, it's a combination of things.
It's his KST, obviously 89% crazy good, 4 opening kills, and on top of that, one thing that was absolutely beautiful, a really nice clutch.
It starts in a 1v2, he gets the kill here, but pay attention to the little dents here around the mattress.
I think Stumpen is one of the
most precocious talents that's
come into this league for a
long time. Of course, he's in
importance of Jonas going to
claim him, but he's so good. He
is so good, and he's been a
little bit of a slump in terms
of the last end of stage one.
They're very, very start of
stage two, but once he's out of
it and we're seeing these true
stuff back, it's like, wow,
Stumpen is back.
Stumpen's playing well, but we
also saw another wild clutch
that had our jaws on the floor
earlier, but he's still in the
clutch that had our jaws on the floor earlier in that game it was Robbie on
the shifter side of things who gave us a moment to remember a wild clutch on the
basement site. Absolutely crazy moment here and obviously the 1v3 was insane
and the most important look at the timer here and if you if you look at 0.44
seconds and that's exactly when he kills Doki. Through the smoke as well.
I've still seen him at a
Like I just knew from other moments like this like I feel that for the okay
I felt like he played it well, but just getting punished here. Yeah, I don't feel G2 made the wrong call
We spoke to ducking them here. He was like, maybe I should have peaked him
Maybe I shouldn't have I think they made the record play for time and they not point what four four seconds away from winning that round on time
But that's just the beauty of a six isn't it the beauty of a six is that no round is ever completely 100% done
And you can make magic happen sometimes with just one bullet
It was a little bit fortuitous, the fact that the smokebang worked, but yes, the round
done.
Well, and we got a chance to see quite a bit more magic today, including a matchup between
our one and two teams in the standings right now, Falcons and Virtus Pro.
They'll go totes 0 in our third matchup of the day in what should be a, I guess, a certified
barn burner.
Yeah, and that's why I expected two Frenchies to go and burn a barn, because the last two
times these teams have played, it was an actual barn burner.
They went all the way to three maps, every single VO3.
72 rounds played out of possible 90.
That's the very top, la crème de la crème of EML,
playing each other, it always delivers.
La crème de la crème?
La crème de la crème.
Is that correct?
So you're learning Bonn-Berna, I'm learning French,
everything is going perfectly.
But I'm seriously excited to see these two teams play
because when I think about both of these two teams,
I think VS Pro, I think discipline, I think teamwork,
I think like just incredible siege
that when they get the advantage, they don't let it go.
And then the side of Falcons that I've seen so far this stage, their discipline, their teamwork, they don't let things go.
And both teams are just full of superstar players as well.
That's why it's almost C. Whenever they play, it's so complex.
Well, plenty more superstars to see throughout the day, including G2 and Stompin, who will be taking on heretics a little later this evening.
We'll start with shifters and rebels before we get to secret and twisted minds a little later on.
But before we get into that, we're talking a lot about the playoff race and the points for the top.
There's also another secondary race happening at the same time, the race off the bottom
because relegation is a very real thing these teams are going to have to deal with in just a few weeks time.
When the same stage comes to a close, we don't know exactly how many teams are getting relegated yet,
whether it's one or two, but these teams have that in mind as this stage is coming to an end
and they need to keep themselves off the bottom.
Yeah, and playing with that threat of relegation is something that, you know, I've got experience with
I did get relegated not well not that long ago was a while ago now six years ago inside of eml
Um, and there's been a change this year as well in the the relegations are calculated based off SI points rather than total overall points
So you can see the four teams inside of eml that are at risk of relegation Leo
We've got twisted minds who of course went crazy assault like that pretty much safe
GK rebels and heretics are all still fighting out in terms of who will get relegate
We don't know how many but it was GK at risk, which is a massive shock for me Leo
Yeah, it would be cold and fair because Geeky, they were the best performing team of EWC and Asterovent, just like Zolec City.
But this is where the circuit is a little bit weird. EWC does not deliver aside points.
So if you look at Winston Mines, who had a similar run at Zolec City, they get more than a thousand points from Zolec City.
Geeky gets zero from EWC. That means that in theory, imagine Rebels makes Osaka and Geeky doesn't.
in the league. I just want to
point out the case fixtures
there as well. They play some
crazy good teams and rebels
play some teams down the bottom
of the overall standings, which
is a fairy tale storyline could
exist and rebels making the top
six. GK maybe struggling if
somehow rebels or heretics
managed to make Osaka. They
could completely relegate
GK, which considering they were
top four in the world, not that
long ago would be sensational.
Well, another one of these
interesting things is that
Well, another one of these interesting elements that we've seen shaking out this stage, the introduction of the new operator Noor in Operation Splitfire, you guys mentioned, and kind of asked the question, what would that change?
How would teams be embracing that? And I feel like, Leo, we've been seeing, well, some teams embrace it, some teams try it out, and it's kind of given us a bit of a mixed bag in terms of how people feel about this operator.
Yeah, I think the ML teams are not really shy of innovating, so obviously when a new
operator comes in, they always try to experiment it, and we've seen it being played.
I would say the results have not been really convincing, like if you just look at Dark,
what he'd said yesterday in the interview, we asked him the question, you know, I've
seen you guys play Noor, in my opinion, it's a new operator that's not good enough.
And I was also on the back of his team being the most shield-heavy team, because everyone
knows that Neko abuses shields, so we were asking him, you know, also not only just you
You're playing it, but you're playing against Noor, and he does not feel like he has any impact whatsoever.
We also got a chance to hear how these teams feel about it in the round itself.
We heard, as Secret was preparing to deal with Noor yesterday, exactly what they said to each other as they were taking that fight.
Take a listen.
Hold you, I can hold you this way, okay?
Okay, hold you this way.
Okay, okay.
Show yourself first, show yourself first.
Charlie, can you, Charlie, can you hop like on a phone?
Yeah, I was gonna make that, I'll hold the four bikes for that, okay?
Hop on.
Very good.
Thank you.
I think that's the perfect example of why Noa ultimately has fallen a little bit short
in terms of pro play and the same inside of ranks as well.
Obviously, Nohr has a gadget. You've got to pull the gadget out to play against the shield.
That can very easily be played because as soon as the shield shows himself,
as long as there's a player behind him and supporting him, you can punish the Nohr.
And I think ultimately, that's fundamentally the biggest problem.
Alongside, I will say, creating a counter to shields when the attacker re-pick exists.
Because if Nohr was crazy strong and could just get rid of a shield, you just wouldn't play shield.
So you do get some value, but actually the attacker re-pick system completely negates Nohr.
And the main thing is like just imagine nor has his gadget up right technically the shields can just ADS quicker than him
Yeah, him switching from the gadget onto a gun is longer
So he can take a gunfight the Monty can take a gunfight newer cannot fight back
So that's the big thing for me and at pro level every shield is gonna have someone behind them
So there is always gonna be that trade potential we've seen I would say NAL
We've seen a sale of senior ML teams all of our teams across the world are trying to find a way to make this really unique
right walk, but currently I don't think I've seen a use case at all really based on utility.
Right, we've been seeing a lot of time wasting, especially on that villa site in the basement.
We've seen SAL teams really trying to delay the push down on those Astro stairs and how people
are navigating that. But you're right, teams are still trying to figure this out and exactly
how it kind of fits into the meta right now. But our first game of the day now upon us,
we've got shifters looking to collect a couple of points against Rebels after being unable to
to collect them against G2 yesterday.
We asked the question yesterday, are shifters for real?
Are they good enough to hang with the big dogs?
Yesterday, the answer was no.
Today, maybe it's a different one.
Maybe it is, maybe it is.
I don't know.
Me and Leo like to have a little bit of debate on shifters.
We can't, he likes to apologize to them.
I like to dunk on them a little bit.
I feel like I'm in exactly the same place
that I was last stage Leo.
And also one year ago, where the duality of shifters
against the bottom four teams
in the league at this big strong
powerhouse. They look crazy
freckle up in Madmulki kills.
You know, everything's all good.
We saw that at the start of the
stage. Shift has come in against
our top four teams against the
Falcons, the VPs and the G2s
like they did yesterday. Um and
they they roll over for them
ultimately, which is what we
saw. Shift has put in a horrible
performance yesterday and it's
really hard because I want this
team to grow. I want this team
to be better, but I don't know
the performances maybe were okay,
but the results were not
was the kind of thing that
that happens, Leo, when you introduce two new players into the mix. I mean, you add this experience,
but you add a completely new team dynamic that you have to figure out.
Yeah, and if you look at the team and you step back a little and look at the roles, you think,
on paper, this should work. And I feel like we've seen that player, you know, against top four teams,
like I would argue, against Geeky, right? We see so many shifters being able to play at the top level.
So yeah, just looking at the team again, I feel like, you know, they have all the right ingredients.
It's all about, I think, gaining a little bit of experience,
making sure that they can work consistently with the bigger opponents.
And I think today is a perfect opportunity,
because they're facing a direct rival for a potential 5th, 6th spot,
clinching your way into the playoffs.
And I think it's exactly what they need,
because it's supposed to be a weaker opponent,
the opponents that they've played so far.
So this is supposed to be reassuring them of their domination over the other Immensals.
Rebels is one of these teams that also is looking to
Climb up the leaderboard if they can they had that one win earlier this stage the upset victory
Over Falcons that kind of caught everybody's attention
But after yesterday's loss to fanatic in overtime
Are we feeling like this team is on the up enough are they trending in the right direction Jack?
I think my honest opinion is I can't quite figure it out this team starts, you know, there's talent on this team
I think Linko yesterday had a crazy, a couple of crazy good rounds. Feno was particularly strong.
We've seen Mafta would be strong as well. Asa's experience, the length is exposed, like, feels like they've got a lot of the right components.
But the performances and the results are just so inconsistent.
They'll get up for the game against Falcons, then they'll struggle against a fellow, you know,
struggle or an emphatic, and ultimately end up losing that game.
I think there are a couple of problems that you see here in the statistics, by the way.
You can read into them. The first one is the opening engagements.
That is a massive issue that they have, especially for the entry.
Feno is 2-1-11 in entries. That is a massive problem to start up the rounds in 4-5 almost
all the time. On top of that, I think they have what has been a consistent problem with
them, I will be honest. I think it's the mental. I think they have a problem with going down
a rabbit hole and as soon as they lose a couple of rounds, or worse, they lose a clutch, for
example, that hinders them and I feel like there is tension in the team and then they
don't believe they can do it again. And I feel like we've seen that basically spiral
trajectory happen time and time again and I think that's really prevented them from being consistent.
And that's the main thing we notice with Rebels. The ends they have the potential,
they have a high ceiling, but they've already low floor. I think that's on the back of not being able
with the same teammates to trust that they can come back in matches.
One of the things that we probably need to speak about as well is, you know, it seems to be Lemms,
there's no backing, we saw League J coming for a couple of games now, two playdays, two playdays,
and then out, and then out, and then Lemms is kind of backing. We speculate at the time,
you know, in terms of the
experience in terms of guiding
the guys around the park,
managing that that mental
managing the emotional side of
the game that you maybe
separate maybe a little bit
of performance because he's
obviously on the older end of
any sports career. Dare I say,
don't want to call you all the
limbs. Don't don't look back
in. Anyway, um, but if that
helps them that they clearly
might have made that decision.
Um, however, I will say we've
not necessarily seen that
inside of the server yet, so
that decision to bring a lunch
back in is maybe still into a
little bit of question. But
He's still doing a little bit of a question over here.
Well, I mentioned how these teams are sitting right now
in the standings, but let's show you exactly where everyone
stacks up as we near that playoff point.
This is Play Day 6.
After today, there will be three more Play Days next week
in the EML Super Week to finalize where these teams will fall.
Again, it is all about that top six,
where Shifters currently sits in that coveted sixth and final
spot.
But with six points and Rebels with four just a little
Everyone on the bottom half of the standings here is within reach of one another.
We could see a lot of movement here. We have a couple of wins, couple of losses.
Just focusing on one specific or two specific positions here.
Look at shifters in the sixth position. They have six points.
They're just on the brink of the playoffs.
Basically, they're already in if we stopped right now.
But look at the pressure behind them. Only two points later.
So you look at position nine here at Rebels.
So the matchup that we're about to witness.
to witness. Why is it important? Because if Rebels do not make playoffs, that's it. That's
the end because it means no more asset points for Osaka, no more side points because they're
distributed throughout the playoffs as well. So I think it's life or death already before
Super Week for Rebels to stay in contention for the playoffs. Imagine a clean three-point
victory here. They jump above shifters and that would be massive.
And it means the context of this game, you know, the context of this game for Osaka,
the world into will they make
the six that question of will
they make the top four something
becomes will they make the top
six for an organization that
ultimately should be expecting
to with the amount of investment
they put into their roster. And
like you say, it's the same
for rebels. It's the same thing,
but on the inverse. If they
don't perform if they don't get
a result here, they're really
really good at the top four
things. They're really good at
the top four things. So if you
think about the top four things
you're going to see, it's the
same thing. The same thing.
If they don't get a result here, they're really looking down a difficult path going into Super
Week and then actually that could then not just signal the end of the stage, not just
signal Noah Sucker, could also signal an exit from the league as well.
You guys mentioned yesterday that this is the kind of thing that happens when two teams
that are on the bubble go up against one another.
It's not just about the team, the points that one team is able to acquire.
It's about the points that they are preventing the other team from getting and with only a
a few playdays left, it's really important that these teams are getting every single thing they can.
Well, let's find out where this important matchup is going to end up going in terms of the map video.
Both of these teams have shown us a desire for fortress, three combined plays between the two of them,
but that's not where we'll end up here.
Instead, we go to Lair for this contest.
Leo, what do you make of this?
I would say that a couple of months ago, that would have been really surprising.
The reason for this is, Rebels did not like playing that map at all, they're on a triple win, a loss trick on it.
And that is on recent terms as well, because they lost it to Twisted Minds for example, and lost it quite convincingly, right?
7-1 loss, 7-4 loss. If you look at the side of shifters, it used to be their favorite map before the roster changed.
They played it a lot, they had a lot of victories on it, favorite map, but obviously they were not able or were not offered to play the map, because it was their favorite one.
So if you just look on paper, you'll look like least favorite map for Rebels,
favorite map for shifters, really worth B01.
But then again, I think the fact that Rebels were able to play it, despite the losses recently,
that's exactly the indicator of moment that you learned a lot.
I would expect Rebels to be decently okay on their defenses.
They were good yesterday against Fnasset, they were getting active, they were getting flunky.
They were using the space as well.
And so I would expect them to be good on the defenses.
I think this game really is going to get determined is the second half of this picture when rebels get into attack because they were not able to impose their attack
They were not able to impose any kind of control in their attacking rounds at least yesterday
But throughout most of the season so far
So that's where you'll be looking at it and if I was looking at a shifters
I would be thinking I'm making things really really hard for rebels going to cause some problems
I'm going to cause them issues to solve and I'm really really going to capitalize on the fact that they're not particularly strong attacking team
We guys mentioned yesterday how in those games that are decided with who can attack better
Sometimes we talked about the individual players and their abilities to just make a difference
I mean g2 was lighting up the scoreboard yesterday against shifters in terms of hero plays and who is the one lighting up the scoreboard
When we look to shifters we look to players like Robbie we look to players like Frank Frank who have been
Performing fairly consistently well compared to the rest of the team if you're gonna need a hero on shifters
Those are the people that you're looking to step up.
Absolutely. I'm thinking of Robbie, I'm thinking of Frank,
and I'm thinking of the game yesterday against G2
as we look at the results from yesterday.
And obviously, I was expecting players like Robbie and Frank
to be able to contend with the individuals on the side of G2.
I felt like they have that potential,
and it's a bit harsh to judge them on a collective effort.
Really, it's a collective game, but still,
I expected them to be able to, I don't know,
have some bright moments, some multi-kills.
I felt like they've done it before.
And after a couple of play days of the state,
the state girl thinking, oh, that's it. They'd be given the space to play well, to finally
frag out, and I've not seen that from them since the beginning of the stage. I'd love
for them to really show that against Rebels today.
The shifter's paradox. It really is the shifter's paradox. I will say that one of the problems
that shifters suffered with yesterday was not controlling G2 in those big plays. Think
about playing the document on the red stairs, the clutch that was off on Storm, all those
types of things. If our Rebels aren't really into that, I'm thinking, all right, let's
Let's play vigil. Let's play scope us. Let's really try and you know get into situations fall rebels like that
You can make an explosive play get shifters because that's where their shortfall was
I know it's minor difference makers as we get into the game, but we'll talk about the operator bands here
I know the social prediction on the side of shifters the scoreboard and maybe the stats on paper on the side of
Shifters Leo it when it comes to the bands is there anything they can do on the rebels side?
Yeah, shake things up. I'm expecting probably shields bands or a heart which okay
That makes sense very surprising to see on the set of shifters. I expected the will need I will to be
Usually the layer bands the generic ones and it's turning to to be I think as I mean one my probably combo
And that makes sense down there side
So quite interesting one that means that for once we're gonna see a layer where at this one side
We'll be able to abuse to borrow take it bend it
And I think that's going to be a test on the side of shifters. Can they problem solve it?
Well as we get into our first matchup of the night
It is Rebels and shifters looking for some coveted points as the playoffs rear their ugly head in just a couple of weeks
To kick off the night and sticking with us throughout playday number six of the EML will pass things over to Dez and Fluke
Thank you very much Jonah and your little rainbows
Which was the loveliest start to our day.
I'm just gonna have you here and a pleasure to be here with you.
Derry, I've replaced your usual Paul's best friend.
I know, I was about to say it's my customer Tim, but he's grown hair.
And that's just not a thing that can happen in this timeline, so...
Bye, Tim!
Poor Tim.
No, what a joy it is.
Do you have this?
This is my first EML Play Day, as well as sort of missed the first couple of weeks.
A mix of things.
I went boy with all of the details.
Uh, just saved the world, learnt an army.
It's okay.
I don't know why he would siege.
Yes, we are here with siege.
And this is the game we were speaking about the map,
Peter, just before we came in.
This has got the possibility to be really interesting.
You look at it over the last, like, three months or so.
This is Rebel's, like, least favorite map.
They've lost it.
Every time they've played it so far this year,
shifters have won it every time they've played it this year,
except for against one team.
And that was against the team.
The two of these players is an end-day shot.
I've come from in Fnatic.
I wouldn't be horribly surprised here
If you've just looked at it and said well you guys have some great ideas coming in for fanatic because it was one of fanatic's favorite map
Let's mix together what we have before with what you guys know make this like an overall dominant map for us
So I think think under this on the attacking side
This could be a pretty dominant game at four shifters. We're giving a got pasted yesterday. Is anyone's guess?
It's the sort of strange thing about shifters right because they started so solid
They had their couple of victory moments at the very beginning and then things kind of drifted away from them
But you look towards their final run at the end of it as I'll get back to this in just a second
Break happens over the top floor. You can see they're trying to apply the pressure here
The swing on the main stairs pushed further and further back by a razor bloom just to hold them at bay for a split second
They just slipped away
Survived but at a cost of a lot of damage Robbie's the first to go down not entirely out
You can see they're just trying
to hold them off. Actually, it's
a citizen that gets out of
Feno. Threads and needle finds
the head of Frank wants to go
and make his own operation, and
it's an easy pickup on a kick
carrying dead shot. It was just
caught dreaming. Can you get one
more for his trouble? Yes, he
can. A flawless opening. I mean,
I liked the idea from shift is
I thought Frank pushing up solo
as the glass onto rocket stairs
was really cool. So it's going
down. They know they can't win
a fight against the glass.
They're forced to back away.
great. You've got control of rocket. Everything else around that. Absolute calamity. The boys are
pushing in one after another. There's a lack of information on the pushing as to where Feno is.
It's just a little bit of a mess and they've made that, unfortunately, a little bit too easy for
Rebels there. I was a bit worried, like I said at the very start of that round, that we'd see a
little bit of carryover and getting battered by G2 yesterday. And that de-think, like, I don't know,
man, you can't be letting this happen. Like, it's a bit too easy. That just looks straight over the
with the man, he's able to pick up quite an easy swing.
The fact that Robbie was the first to go down
and then the rest of the round played out, yeah.
Put in a bit of a sticky situation,
but the point I was actually gonna say
that was a sort of bit of the hope here
for the side of shifters is their run of games.
They won two, lost three, their run of games
towards the end of the season,
Rebels, Fnatic, Heretics, Virtus.Pro.
So they have three things, blow them,
been struggling, and then kind of the big dogs at the top.
That's a lot of potential points to play for
this sort of next two or three games a lot of other teams you know generally have a couple of
big dog games left but there's the item in the shifters all these shifter guys out of the way
still we'll see if the double shields a lot of pace here still being applied they really just want
to try and get in and get aggressive as quick as possible here well there's a change way to rebels
too like in that previous round they're running the double trap operator in the thorn and the
Ella, their job was to say if they're running shields and then we have an answer to them,
we can control large parts on that top floor. Shifted us in and show us single shields. So
maybe here, Rebels are thinking, oh, they won't run loads of shields, so maybe we're okay and
they've already gone down. That is not a good start. What is going on? But again, to come more
to the point, like they probably thought this is a chance for us to now bait and switch a little
bit here. However, you're still running into smoke, Goyo, the FNATS, for example. There's so much here
to still work against as the attackers. It's why they chose to forget about it. Let's watch them
here. We'll overcome the spread. Here we go. Yeah, they're just planting. They've tucked themselves
in towards the smoke. They have another shield watching on the cover, a post plant situation,
and Feta goes down in the same sort of breath. Okay, two smoke canisters in three guns to try
and piece this one together. You're going to go around the back of the block, could be how
where is Frick. Pretty aware as he picks up the secondary. And now a two versus four post plant.
Face to face with the shield. Well, that only really goes one way at that distance,
and that leaves 20 seconds, and a man on a second story, sort of wondering how this story got so
away from it, and bopping pressure from the other side, but can't even really get to the
kit in time. At this point to this round is good and done, and I said at the start of
this, it felt like shifters, wanted a lot of pace, and swell as he types the sweeping
in towards the chat. Yeah, lucky me, it should be the case. You're getting it. Yeah, I mean,
again, just really nice switch up there, played it quite so in the first round, very
stand the style execute no shield second round bring the shields out rush your face off and once they got control of sight
You have things up the duck would be on side for extra cooling the one thing I will remark on and
Honestly, I was a little bit like well
This is like a bit of what's going on here
Literally a couple of days ago I was casting SAO and we had liquid versus phases the last game
Every single killer felt that came through was either traded out or there was a double player to stack up on to be
Had to secure a second kill off the back of it a team play was exemplary in that round then outside of the actual execute itself
You've seen constant one be ones no trades no response from either side
So it's not quite got the depth that I think both teams need to really overcome the other here
Yes, you again was really good
But you'll see is the kill feed rolls in the top right corner
everything was like kill and silence kill and
Silence time and time again. Okay, I'm nearly a rush will enable that sometimes
But I do want to see that team play build up more
We saw and attempted it around one this that he didn't go very well for shifters hopefully that improves to move forward
I didn't see that was the full ride. They did the fact that he popped in filtration window tucked through the site itself went through
Into the back of lockers to get that kill is
Really just it was a nice sort of grab
Once I was that playing position, but I guess that's what you can do when you have a shield with that sort of growth here
I mean look again. We're back on the same double trap operators again
They are setting more shields to come and watch if you're not gonna do not play shields
I think it's always quite exciting, because there's still creativity abound, and, well,
you don't always see that, but you can just kind of pick off and pick against. There's
always that boom towards attackers. Shifters are doing it so well here. They're sort of
demonstrating that, yeah, you can expect gameplay, and we'll play a different gameplay. You're
playing traps, we'll slow things down. Go a bit traditional. This is a site that I think
exciting because there's still creativity abound and you don't always see somebody's trying to tuck
their head and security and take the button fight but they've peeled themselves away it's otherwise
a very heavy vertical hold here now well the first is going to be fennel the man who opened up this
map with a 4k is unfortunately well two opening kills and one opening death for the player
definitely in there earlier Greshan trying to catch our frag and if he kills so you remove
half-reach. Oh, absolute dream because those walls pretty much guaranteed to stay closed outside of
what citizen can do on the Sophia, which wouldn't be a full rotate anyway because he knows getting
swung like that's a little bit lazy plays like come on now you've got to know you're being pushed
there there's got to be information of some kind this is what I'm talking about in teamplay right
though these are little simple things here they're losing players so across these rounds and it's
bitten them here back down to a four versus four neither side fully in control but a lot of utility
still signed about fucking the rebels. There's a lot of faith on tracks thing is that unfortunately
They didn't quite deploy in a way that, well, they gave the defender a little bit more wiggle room and the chance to pop brown with a shotgun, which is never a nice situation here.
You still have the chance that those Gadgetries being deployed, obviously the Elamines and the Smoke canisters to play off what is the final minute 10 here as they try and tuck a plant in, but without any of the pressure done towards the verticality.
Oh my god.
And with a run-out, it's dying off.
What are you doing?
It's getting in the round.
What's going on?
I mean, Beth, let me try this. If Deadshot dies, this is quite a big problem really for the attackers.
So I get why we're trying to do it.
He on the EMP has got to stop things like the C4 coming out from lane queue.
If they're looking towards the soloist being upstairs, it'd be better to stop it as well.
Of course, there is no soloist, so that's a bit of a problem for the rebel side here.
When this plant goes on down, they've got a lot of the tools they need here to shift us to stop it,
especially Citizen. Watch those three impacts because he will blow all three of those into the ceiling
and hope to catch someone out as watching above.
Wow, when are they going to make the run for it?
Because with 35 seconds, they're still trying to bait out the utility.
You can see they take the damages. The attempt at the plant, the tucked in just right inside of the door.
There's the three pups. We can't quite get the angle on the man, so we're just going to try and see what happens.
It will be a confirmed plant. He slips away.
Oh, they found just the avenue of success.
And for a moment we'll see if they can build themselves a second round here.
They're holding in the positions that already taken. The reverse repellent towards the window itself can swing the pressure towards the bottom of the green stairs.
And on a smarter that actually gets one. They can't quite cement it.
finds a mind to deadshot and peels away. There's just a sliver of health, but still they're in.
On towards the kip, but not for long. Is that a stopwatching, waiting on a god's duty? And he's
cooling in a pretty solid shift right now. He can use the grenade by himself sometime,
pulls the fight further out. Shifters, they get it, but a citizen wiping sweat off brow.
I think it even ended up being more simple than he expected, because as I mentioned,
deadshot being onside is there to deny C4 as a solace that might be above. I think once they
said, Red, there was no solace on
side. They were like, that
you don't actually need you here.
Just go and sit on a window help
provide cover for us. And that's
all he really had to do. It was
very, very simple. Roll down the
light screen outcome citizen with
those three severe to try and get
rid of anyone who might be on the
vertical who can stop them. He
saw the smoke arrive a bit too
late. And even if they got that
down three seconds earlier, it's
still wouldn't have stopped that
plank going down. Just felt like
rebels didn't really have the line
up there to deal with an execute
despite knowing what they were
likely to get hit at because I
don't know about you flew, but
every single time I've seen that
site, it is involved ascends
execute on that exact green
hallway door very rarely
changes away from that. Maybe
what to in every 10 hours say
change away to that and they're
doing execute on the wall
instead. Yeah, you know what's
coming. You need to have a
response. Yeah, it's definitely
sort of the majority. I think
occasionally you'll get a little
bit of attention on towards the
double wall and I try and tuck in
from the side of the pillar and
push in that little avenue. Maybe
once or twice of all the times
I've cast it, you've seen
somebody try and slip him from
security because they're
somebody try and slip them from security because the hatch is there it's just kind of a bad
move unless you've done a lot of work or unless you know they're really heavy on towards the
green hold and on towards the pillow side you know it is I'm not gonna say no I still think
there is some experimentation but to be honest that comes from whether they challenge the second
story first or then they just try and hit the side flap right if they just try and make enough
space to get the kit down, which is sort of a sense roll strategy. But hey, makes it
when the sun shines and the sun is shining back and forth to the site where they found
some success, but without a mirror and a glass now.
I'm not gonna lie, the problem in that first round wasn't the mirror, let's be honest,
was it? No.
It was a better-seen coordination. It was Penner who got the 4K that we saw completely
clean things up, but they're still opposite to Bandera Mirror. We probably had a fear
of seeing it come through. The problem is, I think Rebels probably expect that. Like,
We all used to see mirror bands come out now, their immediate response is that it's jump across the walls playing a clash instead.
So, Marso, over on that mobile mirror window if you will, of course, a little bit more easy to deal with than a mirror window, I'd say,
but still an absolute nuisance because it's mobile and because of the information that it can feed across,
and you've got the carry-down side to still make sure some of these walls are locked up.
So, a lot of challenges here, the shifters have got to work through, see how they fare without the glass.
to get out of the way. He's
going to hold on and just try
and not get called out. That
was sort of the problem that you
pointed out before. A lot of
solo fights, solo engagements
and a lack of trade led to a
flawless round built by a Feno
4K fine, but one player can do
that whilst everybody's still
standing because well, one
player is hitting him at a time.
Now you can see that they sort
of rotated their positions as
there is the one with the front
trying to pull himself off towards which in the bathroom.
Feno has shown himself though,
a slightly different line-up,
trying to hope to get a catch with a shotgun on the swing round.
It's otherwise an even more hands-off approach here from the attackers, does.
Oh!
Ha ha ha!
What the hell?!
They're telling you there's a man sat in the corner of the very room that you try to answer!
Oh, I don't know, but at least he knows that he's in there, but like that, it all goes off again!
And Feno is singing!
Off for a C4, in for a headshot, they do finally get the trade onto him.
That could have looked very reminiscent of round one,
Well, maybe here we see shifters capitalized three kills in quick succession. It's a two versus one. I mean
All down to ask a great gun for it. No utilities. He's gonna try and hope he catches the first
I mean, they're just drifted by windows at this point leaves them in the one versus one
They first a lot of gadgetry in his pockets does not have the kit now. He does. Thank you picture-in-picture
Also, it's gonna have to try and find his way through on towards the breach. Just get it open
I'm not in the game, I don't have all their information, but in that situation, you know
full well it's going to be somewhere waiting for you to push in, holding an angle tight,
you know Roman trying to find you at that point, he hasn't heard the diffuser going down,
so unfortunately to win that lose out the 1v1, but great enough for Rebels of course to bring
things back once again, has proven to be a very, very interesting first four rounds
is the best way I can summarize it.
almost feels like there's this
is going to put me in the right
mood for the whole day. You know,
this game just things that are
not going the way that they need
to be. I'm just going to be like,
Oh, boy. But there is an element
of today. We're sort of obviously
talk you talk through the games
and talk through the maps
beforehand. And let's be honest,
a lot of eyes are on that middle
of the day showdown where you've
got two juggernaut teams hitting
heads against each other. And
one's like this where it's sort
of a mix of form from these two
teams. Maybe it's a challenge
Maybe it's a chance for these mistakes to be fixed. Maybe it's a chance for these mistakes to unfortunately get a spotlight upon them
You hope
There's a bit of growth for it
And maybe that's why rebels wanted to come here because we also talked about this right why
Left for rebels with the sort of maps that they had as the final obviously as we saw the opening to play days
Didn't really go their way here
The only reason I could think of why you would leave I mean the choice is for chalet
Which is one of their favorite maps or it was going to be lair and I think knowing that shall is their favorite map
The chance to go into level gonna be very very high giving it should just favorite map
And so I think probably what's happened is rebels have looked back over the tape and gone right counter prep to the death
Like what if that's it do to beat them previously?
What are the two teams going against them before tried that works and what they've done that hasn't worked like there is tape available to run
But the same argument can be made about rebels have lost this map three times over the last six months
So it's not like shippers are coming in blind here.
And that's part of my worry.
It's kind of both teams in both coaching rooms being like,
yeah, we feel we can get on over the other side here.
You know, shippers believe in their good enough to win it.
Rebels believe in their got the perfect counter response.
So far, I'm not too sure they do.
That's even with a call on to Marto, by the way,
that he has just got a free shot onto Robbie.
I wanna check his headphones.
It's the second time I've seen him die there in the spot
where I feel like he should have had the information.
Oh, Marto's got the shotgun out.
He's ready to rock and roll with the demos.
He's gonna get himself a little bit of a random-
I was here and yeah, we've got ourselves a little violent mini game going on in the core of the game
He looks away and the day must looks away
It's gonna be a day of it now I'm gonna get in the mood
Whilst that was going down the Hibana has been caught out elsewhere and you could see citizens sort of frantically giving a bit of a read on it
But they just look like they're being constantly blindsided by players and rebels that are roaming around the map as you've seen
You know most of them are now all downstairs, so it's okay
But they've had plans to start moving towards an execute. Okay, let's get focused on the vertical that a player pops up
And it's like oh god now I've got to try and deal with that
They're not really being given time to rest and rebels kind of living up to their name are making sure they are
Rebelling all across the map and trying to cause bother then I was ready with a shotgun tries to swing round
But nape is just a little bit better in the moment two great kills for him in the round
He calls him things down to a 3v3
I mean you can kind of see what he was doing there with the shot gone in the close range
It could do a lot of work didn't have a huge amount of health left to try and take a bit of a risk by some time
But now it's just levels things up just a bit here the drive through they're getting their eyes on towards that little tuck default
Plant spot here the camera is gone
But with 15 seconds they've got to get a shift on you can see Fred drifting not too far away from the hatch itself
He's gonna try and make a bit of a hot drop of go
But what they cover it with they have what a flash grenade and no they don't because citizen gets caught before he goes for the drop swings round
Fight a kill get straight it out leaves linky together second rebels bounce back on the site. They lost
Yeah
I mean good round for nafe the only player to get kills on his team collected three in the round for himself and again
Two of those came from these duels going on around the map the solo clear on the push down to basement all good stuff from him
And really well played but for the rest of them felt just a little bit chaotic there weren't fully informed on what was going on
you could somewhat say the same about a couple of Rebels players as well, it's just feeling
a little bit uncoordinated, but what I will say is I think shifters will be quite happy
with the fact they've got two attacks so far. If they get to a 3-3 split here, brilliant.
Given how this round has gone for a cut, this half has gone for a couple of the rounds,
I certainly wouldn't be complaining because when we get into that second half, I'm very
nervous for Rebels. Look at their stats, 28% defensive win rate on this map, 25% attacking
win rate. Compare that to the 66% defensive win rate on the side of shifters, you can
I see one a little bit nervous, I think Rebels, you might see them being a bit more exposed here in the defensive side when they switch on towards it.
They've done pretty well I think in individual moments, you know, Fenner and Linkus, you saw just then, both having good moments throughout the game.
But when it rounds as a team, I think it's worth things falling apart for both teams so far. It's relying on individuals to be able to do the magic.
Well, can shift is getting things leveled up before. There's also the other point about why Rebels would want to come here.
is that maybe a lens is the special secret ingredient, right? Obviously a lens wasn't
the first two play days for Rebels, maybe, greatest layer mind in Swedish history. We
don't know this. Statistically there might be ways to work out if we know this. Probably
very easy to disprove or prove, but we don't know this, does, you know, and I'm just asking
questions.
Uh, just asking questions, just asking questions, just putting it out there.
Uh, it did pain me. I looked at how old he was before the game and he was 30 and I was
30 and then you get here your tears at that moment begin rolling down your faces we both
like oh yeah roll with them now yeah listen I think you and I I don't think you and I
are gonna get picked up for a team anytime soon no those who can't play coach those who
You can't cast, it's the line of the world with the figures now.
The Dose You Can't Cast Host?
I'm sorry Jonah, I'm sorry Jonah, I'm sorry Jonah.
Get that wig on, I'm not seeing that wig at some point tonight.
And the heels, I've got to see it all.
Yeah, I think Leo's heels were very cute.
And yes, Leo's really annoying because he's so fashionable
he probably would pull them off.
He would pull them off.
Marto pulls off a C4 on towards Robbie, goodbye Blitz.
Goodbye Shield as the opener.
opener to be honest there was a lot of traps to take your face off on the
meantime the lens drops down and gets picked up couldn't quite find a safety
there is the smoke released by them second on towards the door but again
quick this is the right way over the top yeah this is what I said before though right
do you like the top or do you try and go flat there are four versus three versus
one now but the difference was instead of trying to drive towards the side
itself they're driven in towards all chat and they've driven across the top
call it in the middle nice yeah and an easy pickup as they swing around and that gets us what to a
three three half it does and that also gets us to what our wonderful desk and analysts
absolutely honestly a great side for the set of shifters i think some great great attacks on
their side i think mostly on the back of some counter attacks and that starts by reading the
bands if you look at the bands here you see rebels they remove the ace okay that's one
on Harbiture, but most importantly, they remove Solis'
neck, and that means that they're more likely to go for extended
setups. That's the first cue. And then we're going to see here,
this is the basement setup. Pay attention to the drone that's
coming in this corridor. As we see it, Solis just shot
Nave's drone. Now, the thing is that information alone, you see
Solis in five seconds after the end of the prep phase, in the
end of the prep phase, that upstairs, when the bomb site is
basement, you're reading into it, this is going to be an
extension. And straight off that information from Nave, what
are they going to call? They're going to call a rush. And I love
positioning from everyone. As you can see, everyone is here in the basement
ready to go aggressive and look at the positioning and the direction that they
will take. Citizen, his job is to go and create chaos on the side of garage. And at
the same time, you're gonna see Detchart and Robbie, they're gonna head towards
blue here, and that's gonna be a way to pinch the bomb site. As Robbie gets in the
window here, Detchart is gonna look to blue stairs for anyone backstabbing them,
and at the same time, you're gonna see Blackbird pushing in with Frank all the
way into garage. And that's gonna create a pinch. As you see here, you're gonna see
citizen effect already towards barrels. Robby is behind Linko. They already have side control.
They're going to pinch the bomb side. It's beautifully played. They start the plant.
One player covers Garsh. The other one covers Blue side. And that's a really good resource from
Shifters and goes to show that once again, their ability to prep some good counter strats and
execute them based on information, really good again from Shifters.
Jack, I mean, anything to add to that beautiful illustration?
How do I add anything when he delivers such beautiful insight?
I was just saying, I'm fashionable and I'm a person.
Take a bag, drink some water.
I'm like a team of you today, you know?
You're fashionable, I'm just a team of you.
Real quick, before we get back into the game, right, we were talking about how these players
were stacking up, comparing like Nafe and Fino, for example, on the side of shifters and relics.
Yeah, exactly, and I think, you know, you just showed that perfectly there, Leo.
in terms of the short call in
terms of the spotting that was
potentially citizen as well in
terms of counterstraps. That's
what's got shifted to a free
free half in terms of getting
Rebels to the free free half. I
would say it's off the back of
Fennel, particularly seven and
five on the KD and he went
crazy in terms of one got a few
opening kills as well. We
highlighted him. You highlighted
him specifically at the start
of this game. He's the one who's
really dragging them down with
the entries. He was good on the
entries so far in the
defenses. They got to a free
maybe would have wanted a fall too. I think they've maybe lost the first half and that's concerning
because my concern for Rebels as a whole was their second half. When they got me attacked,
how were they going to go? And my second concern now is as we look at the bands, we've seen Rebels
play this map two times recently, lose it two times and they have not changed their bands. It's
once again removing Kaden Bandit like they did the last two times and so it screams to me that
have they prepped something new? Not really. I don't know. At least the bands are the same
as they when they lost the last time and I just maybe I think a mistake.
Alright we'll have to see if they can break that pattern a little bit three to three at
the swap but like you guys said Rebels going on to the attack that's where the questions
remain.
Well will these questions be answered becomes the second half of our game because I'm going
to sort of throw it to you as statistics boy today.
Hello. Hello, this is his boy. Their win-loss on either attack or defend hasn't been great.
Yeah, some 30% in both cases mentioned earlier on and my slight worry here is that we're seeing
the Yin taking away from them. This is a big part of their game. Last time they played,
they had to lean quite heavily into shields alongside being back then with a day mask.
Are you still seeing like an element of that in-sale game coming out, I think, with the snake here?
But no shields on side for round one. Step away from whatever you see before.
Fair chance they probably anticipated or at least have plans for when a Yin gets taken away.
But I'm just wondering now, like if they're relying on things like the Yings to go to pull off a lot of their executes,
what do they turn to in this round?
Is it always going to be the Intel coming out of Feno?
Maybe, but they had that available to them last time and only played it a couple of times too.
So, let's see if that can deliver the goods it has done in many regions around the world.
I spoke about SEL casting on Sunday.
Teams in SEL are so good with the Solid Snake, it's actually terrifying.
And so my eyes are on Feno in this round and what he can give to the team information-wise
and what the team then does about it because that's really the crux of it. The intel is great, but you have to do something with it.
Just too late there to impact off all of that delicious delicious utility and I mean even with the mirror to sort of send that many
Hibana fellas on towards the wall and to get it is kind of a bit of a risk, but the risk paid off.
Now they have that reach open, as you said, what will be done with the solid snake?
Fano's been having a great game so far, but four of those kills came in the very first round and then since then it's obviously been shut down.
a lot more but at the same time when the rest of the team has been able to have these pop-off rounds
well then you don't truly need to drive as much. Marto coming up his way all the way from the basement
he's going to do a sort of brick by brick clear by the looks of it. In the meantime I like how
Rebels are putting a lot of different pressure on right they've got themselves their eyes on
towards top green they're looking in towards the side of ops they've not taken a fight that's
yet but they're weighing things up. Compare this to the approach the first time round of shifters
where we saw them trying to find brawls, trying to find these fights pretty quickly.
Obviously this fight went both ways towards Rebels.
Second in a one versus one was when they took this approach.
I mean, I like their approach so far. It's really good.
The intensive had been very, very slow and controlled, and I like that for the first attack,
you know, but I'm just like the crazy nature of the shifters. Definitely encouraged by Rebels
is more aggressive place on the defensive side of thinking that first half.
Here both fighters waiting to sort of feel each other out a little bit.
Shifters have got loads of utility behind. Why would you want to go aggressively so keepers coming down into the breach
Got the mirror window up Goya for when the spokes have all been consumed
They're now having a couple of C4s. They still got a lot to hold them a baby
They're just couchwalks in they've left them blind there
I want to see the key was partly held towards that immediate trade comes on through so okay
But that was a blind spot by shifters. Yeah, I can crash walk in crash walks back out again
Now now leave them obviously without the keeper throw without any that growth
they could try and apply back into the approach. There's still a decent amount of flash utilities
trying to get their way around the corners itself, but otherwise, it's a bit for gun game and it
depends what they have to get in these post-corders fights. Their citizen getting friendly over the
top and boy, they're still frecks sneaking his way around onto the back. I mean, he still has a
C4 in pocket. If he can work out where they're planting and he can just pop that from unbind,
then he'll shoot rough, but at the same time, the Lemm's just cursed a teammate. They're just
driving it towards the site it's becoming two versus two with a single second and
what am I watching? An easy pop up yeah how you feeling mate?
You've done the hard work boys you played so well. If you've used information with drone we've played out
utility with the florist we've trained all the utility away from them except for
one Goyo canister that was sat across from the breach that you opened up about
a minute and a half prior didn't shoot out and then has killed Marta while he's
gone into retreat the diffuser and try and go for a plant and therefore you've lost around
off the back of it. You left the remaining two teammates then having to push to try and
secure the final couple of kills and the clock ultimately became their worst enemy. That
was, they had the bag and they've dropped it like that. I don't want to say unforgivable
but that cannot continue and this is what we're speaking about right? You can't keep
doing things like this.
It is, it's that sort of frustrating element where they've been able to get the open and
go pretty much consistently throughout it. That time was crouching in, they're punishing
I guess it ties to the point that you raised about sort of thought review about getting practice in about seeing how these teams are playing
And it almost feels like rebels have the one up on that and then the wheels fall off
And we're looking at the car and we're trying to work out why
Like please turn you on a thrombite. I've watched the repo back just now
He literally runs to one end of the fire to pick up the diffuser turns around 180 and runs back through the fire
like you could have planted him behind guests there was a keeper barrier on it
but he's tried to go back towards the breach I get it that's default you want
to plant there it's where you have best cover you've got a whole open next to
you and frightened cover you from below dead shots on mezz whatever I
understand but that was mental I don't know man I don't know it's okay buddy
it's okay I don't want to do color anymore can we swap roles
I can't sit on watch this anymore I can't analyze it like this at me
the first game of the day let me just pull you okay okay okay this is like the start of like a
five five hours of broadcast I don't want to be the bearer of bad news I'll take I'll take this over
to the ladies that we saw yesterday's proof that I'll take that that's true but now you've said it
um that kill switch no production no don't do it no easy no ante um a minute gone and well you
You can see they're ready for the jump in potential here, they're waiting to play off
the back of this audio, but they're not quite swung yet.
I think he's well aware of the game Frec wants to play, but it seems Frec is exactly the
same.
They have to reveal the players, tap around the side of barrels, and it's just not worth
taking the pinch there.
You're not going to slip your way through because remember that was where shifters led their
first attack.
They're well aware of the potential weakness of that part of the map because they look
to explain it to themselves.
I will say again, I liked the early start from Rebels.
I liked the off-price kind that they brought along here.
Jujutsu in vertical control from Astros straight.
They got a lot of information to deal with roamers in the day-mast.
And the snake-witch match took really well to line up coming out of shifters, yes.
They've got some dug-in players that want to play defensive,
but Deadshot's been lurking out around Warehouse.
Robbie can also get a little bit active if he wants to as well.
They can keep them suppressed inside a site and make use of a lens for an execute.
I mean, Fedo just stood in the doorway and now he's just like,
oh yeah, I forgot about you. Turns back, gets a pre-kill.
Why is he trying to then go out and turn to everybody else?
Like, I guess he tried to kind of crouch, walk his way in.
It's not the first time we've seen someone try and make that...
Yeah, again, it's not the first time we've seen the try and make a play like that happen.
But I just don't see the need to. Like, you've got all five players alive.
Focus on getting rid of the chanke, get rid of the smoker,
or at the very least, wait for the rest of your team to give the go sign.
He's just got a bit too soon there.
Yeah, they'll try and put their brush towards the back of the site.
40 seconds and you still got so much in that Schumich launcher, so much in the pocket for the smoke and
they've got themselves locked in. As well as a couple of Keebas, they can restructure their way back
out 30 seconds now and they pretty much have all the same utility. They're holding them at bay.
Have they learnt lessons about charging through fire? Well, a lens is able to split the divide,
but he's the man with the kit and now he's learning his pocket. So, Linko, can't find anything on the
back. Robbie's going out. Now they're going to try and drive themselves close towards the site. Oh,
know the site is on fire once again and the least you're able to find out one body. The
flashes go around, they've got themselves to plan with the kit, they can just hold off.
It's done. How have we ended up with two defenders in behind the main execute point there by the
way? A lens on the shear was looking at the door like cool and get a plant here guys and
suddenly BAM! Two players from shifters are there and Slaughter and the two players pushing
in that direction. Bit of a mental end. Same thing as last round for me again though and
point towards us again. I do think Rebels are starting the rounds well. The Intel game they've
got, making sure they're not being hit by flankers, making sure they've got walls and stuff like that
opened up. That is good. It's the last 60 seconds right now where they're dropping the bag big time.
In that case there, as I mentioned, how he lets two players get on to you like that, I'm not entirely
sure. How we're having Feno try and go before everybody else without real need. Like your
utility is so powerful. Get a track onto a Janker, call out where he is, let your team try and deal
with him, but he's gone a bit too soon and they've taken him out for free. It's just a bit,
It's a bit ranked hero at the minute. It's the best way I can describe it. There's some good parts that I can't believe there are some where you look at and just go, man, this ain't it.
It's, I guess it's that unfortunate thing if it feels like a team that is still trying to find their groove, but like, we're at the end of the year pretty much here, gang.
Like, this is the conversation that they obviously had before the game of relegation, the importance of these final points, how it plays in towards it.
But it's just
Well, I knew this but explain
Me just grabbing my face and pulling my cheeks down like an absolute exasperation of what we just saw
I always forget that they can see our cameras. Yeah
When I stand up and start walking around I turn mine off because
That's when I start doing my weird cast opposers
I'll send it here on what stuff so you've got it. There you go. Okay. Thank you
You know I need my collection of DARREN TEAMS.
More. More, why not?
Let me have the reaction. We're actually at a place that freshes 30 days of Desmus.
Oh, God, yes, we are.
Because I saw the depressing start of Christmas decorations in supermarkets.
So you had a conversation about this earlier on that it's 23 degrees in the UK and it's nearly October.
This is unheard of.
I... I do not like this, but I think that's an uncommon opinion.
All the giant spiders, truly this is the last time in my life.
Yes, yes they are enormous.
I hate this.
Gang, I'm having a bad time. Anyway.
Speaking of bad times.
Yeah, we're a minute in and they are still very slow and steady on their approach.
And maybe this doesn't point to them.
Yeah, I think this is it, right? This doesn't point to the point you're making.
How they start really well.
Everything is checked, everything is put together, their heads are up.
Occasionally someone will try and crouch walk into the site and it will be mixed results,
but otherwise, this part of the round, they are very attentive towards what's being put forward.
Are they gonna go? Is that execute on the back side? Probably not, because you have a sense,
with the kit, and they're trying to get control here on towards the pillar on the green side,
but still, a lens on the back with the capitao, might give it still a little bit of shenanigan,
They're trying to work out where to hold on.
They're a lovely mate as well, because Nathan's the player inside who's meant to play life
in there, but Robbie's just stepped out and don't, too!
How has he got away with that?
I mean, great shots, he fared the vector both, headshots as well.
Highstrap, like, ready for her in the game.
If you hit headshots with that, you are an absolute machine, and fair enough,
he might have just completely killed off his attack with that hero play.
I mean, look at who he got.
He got the sense, right?
Right and they've already used one of their smoke bolts. They don't really have any other coverage towards the right
No, sort of visuals the second they want to get themselves tucked in motto is
Snipping and holding hoping to get a kill here. How aware are they buddy?
That's the right idea as well without the sense you make use of the carpets out to go for a plant
You need someone to stab in upstairs as you go for that execute
That's such unfortunate timing else. It could have been a three versus three
They are taking the time out, I guess it's going to become that conversation here, because
oh no, a left just gets across by Robbie again, same place!
Oh, I'm living in a dream!
Freck gets the last, they are now sitting on that point, but why did we get there in
such a manner?
Again, the prep work is good.
They've got flank watchtower, they haven't got flank watch on Robbie.
got flank watch down in places mainly upstairs they can't be flanked down the
back of the stairs they've got the sense in the sense in the right place
they've got the snake in the right place they're doing all the right things and
then Robbie just steps out and swings through of you that's what I mean by
the sort of hero plays like in most games you would not be able to get away
with that it'll be gridlocked off it'll be air jab down there'd be a drone
watching you there'd be a player watching the angle any number of things to
make sure that Robbie can't do that but the fact that he stepped out and want to
believe the first gunfight under the player that was meant to watch an angle
and then hit the second.
That's what it tells you, he needs to know.
It was really good play by Robbie to win it for his team.
But as I mentioned, it kind of relies on these individual moments of brilliance
to carry either team through at the moment.
Here we go, things to five or four, sorry, six and three.
It's going to start making things very interesting for Rebels to whether or not
they have any chance of fighting back into this.
Yeah, attacking Moonrake, by the way, now must be down below 16%.
Hi, I've never understood numbers before.
is that good?
It depends on which way you're evaluating it, but I would say no, it's not good.
Damn, I thought this was go for rules.
Yeah, it's sort of sad at this point to have a kind of really just cannot get that back
half of the round because we've pointed out many times they're doing all this awareness
game, they're doing all this attentive game and then it just turns into this thing of
like, okay, let's just go, like, let's just throw in towards the site, let's see what
comes out of it and things fall apart and it's always hard for us to work out why that is,
whether it's because of comms, whether it's just because shifters are playing a blind or
finding blind spots, whether it's a mix of elements and they're just not quite feeling it,
you know, assuming this game ends with the pace that it is going and it becomes a 7-3 or a 7-4,
I can imagine we're not really going to see a lair for the rest of the season from Rebels.
I hope not. I think any team who does get a chance to play them on it probably will
thank the lucky stars and think, well, we've seen that these guys can't attack super well
on it, so maybe it's our chance to walk over and get a free win, especially in the half
when they're on the defense and shifters are probably now thinking. We said it back in
the first, getting those two rounds felt like enough, getting the third for shifters for
me all but put this one to bed and that's what it's building into. I think what breaks
my heart again for Rebels is to kind of be serious for a second about it is they start
rounds well. I've said it so many times, yeah, I like how the approach to start these rounds.
They aren't getting hit by Wilds, Form Peaks, or runouts,
or sort of things that they were doing to shifters
back in the first half.
It's just the end of rounds where they're falling apart.
And I'd actually be really curious to know
when we see Jonah, of course, in the desk interview,
shifters after this game, if they knew
that the late Rammus 12 Rebels would struggle,
because that's his stands,
they haven't been able to get anything done
in the final 60.
Good name though, let's do.
They've shot, but the one goes down, okay.
It's two grenade kills on tour,
am I two rounds in a row?
No, which is just.
I brought it, isn't it?
Yeah, I guess he's accidentally put the discs on himself this time round.
They should, and they are, get in the Capita back up, so they at least pull the body from it if they lose a bit of time.
But it's a great person to pick back up because otherwise they don't really have any coverage on their approach itself.
Now they still have all of that utility as well as a little bit more hard breach if they need to get the deploy.
But the one behind the Blackbeard who's been stuck his way in towards Barham is just going to get rid of some of the coverage of the utility,
peel their way back. You can still see that they have a bit of control and eyes
in towards ops and they're kind of still beaming out here shifters. They want to
get one more engagement. They're hoping to try and catch one more loose player
but it seems like Rebels are peeling themselves back in for this final
minute. It would have been beautiful time if you got that on the fade away. It would have been
incredible to equal things out but no Rebels stay in the lead. Stay in the lead
because it feels like a fine one. Get a kill elsewhere. Two players going down low.
The vanishing break through the mirror window, but Link is also gone down into another and just like that again,
Emi collapses as we get into the final 16.
Runs in with the secondary, bodies a man, but look where the kid is.
30 seconds and they have a lot of time to do it and they've sort of forced them into a bit of a divide.
But going around with the Blackbeard, they can expect this swing grab by the side.
He couldn't quite get the kill. A 1 vs 2. He's doing his best to play on the back of it.
He's gonna lean in, hope the Blackbeard is gonna...
Hello?
I can see a desperate double of me!
How it ends that way, if I'm exactly the bloody same.
What an end.
And what a story to be told for both these teams.
That just felt like the time for them to get around to the thought.
Okay, Rebels showing they can fight back a little bit, but no, they crumble again through something so simple.
It is astounding.
Either way, let's go to a break when we come back.
Yes, we'll break it down for you.
I'm a waste, I can't go,
Bring it away to the ground,
It's out of time, you couldn't be good.
I'm a waste, you can't let it shit,
I'm a waste, you can't let it shit,
You want that ass shit?
I'm a waste, you can't run,
Yeah, you can't let it shit,
You want that ass shit?
Well, the shifters show continues. Another jaw dropping moment at the end of that game
to wow us into next week and they collect three points against their rival Rebels. Seven
to three and we've got Frick joining us now after the win. Congrats on getting these three
points, Frick. I mean, it was good to see you guys flowing on that second half. What
changed? I mean, other than switching to the defense, it looked like you guys just found
a second gear. What changes you've gotten to that second half of that game?
Not too much, to be honest. I feel like they cost zero problems. It was just really way
too easy to be honest.
Frank, I might apologize in advance to my question because it's a little bit loaded,
but do you think that, like, why do you see your teams up? Because the way I see it is
like you guys seem to somewhat struggle against the top teams. You know, we've seen that in
last three games in terms of losing those games. And when you're going up against the bottom
of the league teams, you're absolutely barren as you did today. So like, where do you see
your team? Because there's got to be improvement, right?
I feel like we have, I'm not going to go into the potential shit again, because that's been
a year and a half from gimmick. But I feel like we are like a really good team. But I
think we've played good every game, basically. Barred the G2 game, like every game we had
like a fighting chance but the G2 game which played like insanely bad like we got
frailed or run over but the rest of the games like it could have gone our way I
feel like we like had like a fitting in the game the G2 game is just I think it
was just a off day for like I don't know what's happening to me and it's just a
really just in general bad game like all the fundamentals went out the window
but I feel like we are a team that can like compete and we want to be a top six
team of course so we're gonna have to beat some of the top six teams which
not happening yet, but as long as we do a playoffs, I think it'll be alright.
So a good playoff there, and you're going up against one of those teams, what's the
game plan to get there, to get that victory, to get to Osaka?
I mean, I think the two teams we lost against Falcons and... what's her name again?
Oh, Twisted, that one.
Like we really know what we did, like we know what we did wrong, like there's something
like we can go off and the G2 game is just a matter of not repeating that because I don't know what we were doing that day.
Okay.
Right, a moment ago you said it was way too easy to be honest. What about this game was so easy?
So they just caused zero problems to be honest. Like everything was very readable and
they're just putting their shields in their bag or something. I don't know what they're trying to do.
But last round that, like I'm watching Rob, like Clash, I'm like, oh fuck, it's a BB and someone's gonna run behind him or
It's gonna be deaf and the guy just puts a shield on his back and he runs like Robbie. I don't know
Actually really funny because we got the clip of you like yelling what and like we don't hear yourself
But we could really obviously read your lips and and see you do that
Frank again, I guess open question because you're like the long-standing member of the shifters iterations across the multiple roster changes
Do you feel is it now? It's gonna be it's gonna be one year since the the Munich major. Do you feel like there is a?
Some kind of pressure at the back of your head, thinking,
OK, we've got three players left in the group stage
to make playoffs.
And this could be a one where we once again
missed an Asteroid event.
Is that already a little bit in your head, guys?
Or are you trying to not think about it and move from one game
to the other?
I mean, I think there's always pressure, right?
Especially when we have a good as the org as we have.
Yeah.
Like, they really support us.
So it's always going to be pressure to perform for them.
And again, like, making events, there's
always pressure but my coach said today wait let me remember what the line was
he said pressure is a privilege so like we're just there's always going to be
pressure but it's just to make it good use you know like use the pressure in
your advantage and just drive of it drive drive yeah but do you think that
was that may have been one of the reasons why you guys like you said you
had so many fighting chances against some of the very best at EML, do you think that
mental aspect may have been one of the things where like if you flip that switch maybe we
see different results, maybe we see you guys overcome some of the best opponents in EML
or do you think this was not related to that and was gameplay related?
I think the gameplay mistakes we made were due to pressure.
So like we made some stupid decisions for example and just because of pressure like
normally wouldn't do that. But it's just the pressure can like make it worse I guess,
but we're working on it so.
Well, Frank, thank you so much for your time. A big three points for you guys moving forward
into the super week. We'll see you then.
Sir, see you next week guys. At least two times. At least two times, but by the end.
Thank you, Frank. We'll hold to it.
Two of those closed things out. Seven to three, as we said, that first half was competitive.
The second half was and not, and we heard it from Frank himself. Things just got a little
easy for them.
Yeah, I don't know who took a big bait into the next Rebels in this game, I'll interview for most, but I hope he can handle it.
No, I actually really like it, because obviously the interview may have been really serious, but the reality is it's serious because we expect a lot from Shifu.
We want them to be up there fighting.
Exactly, and I felt like his answers were so true and very transparent.
Like, realistically, we all know that team has potential. Yes, we've said it four and a half, but here on paper, looking at that team, looking at the players on it, it is true.
They have a potential, they have a potential not only for playoffs, they have a potential for top 4.
And so to see him speak about it so openly, to speak about the fact that this team has gone through so many iterations,
and despite all of that has missed so many S3 events, yes of course it's on the back of their heads.
And I think it's very important to notice the transition in the mood of the team.
Remember, a couple months ago, with a different iteration, that roster had a terrible stage because they felt pressure all the time.
NAF has the IGL, and all the team struggled a little bit with that, and I feel like that has changed now.
I think the mood is a little bit lighter, as we just saw the incredible move of the shield.
Speaking of pressure, the Blackbird just stopped, like, stopping his shield and just, like,
exposing himself.
I've seen that clip about four times now, and I still cannot comprehend why he would want to de-shield, though.
If he stays shield up, he will get the kill, or at the very least, the refer.
Get close to the player. I don't know why he stopped the shield.
Yeah, it was a fact. He has to have thought for you to scroll. Yeah, well, I have to have thought for you to
Well, great performance from Ravi, including that play at the end at the helm of that shifters team as they collect another three points
Here it is again black beer taking the shield down and just walking straight into Ravi
As we said, that's a big three points for shifters as they look towards the top of the standings where Falcons and Virtus Pro await
They'll be playing a little later on in our match of the day
But first we get to another contest where another team is looking to work their way up the standings team secret after winning any
Grudge match to end all grudge matches yesterday
Hungry getting the better of geek a his former team now. They take on twisted
Minds twisted minds is a tough team to beat we know that they're a team that is always bringing out surprises is always getting in your face
Obviously they made some roster changes though coming into the stage
Leo, what is it about this team right now that makes them so dangerous?
I think it's the association of the former core of the team, of course, and the addition of Mugli and Blasi.
If you look at the roles, they are so complementary of each other.
Mugli brings that spearhead effect with the aggressive playstyle that he developed on Team Secret,
but also his natural playstyle.
You've got Hashim, who can use the pressure created by Mugli as a lurker or as a second entry.
Zlat is still the really good IGL that he was on the side of Twisted Minds.
and then Tricks has been a shield player, used to be a half-time shield player with Mendov was there,
he's now taken that role fully, and then Blaz is excellent on the side of the support side, obviously.
And what makes them so strong is on top of that experience brought by Mugli and Blaz, obviously,
Mugli on the side of Secret, Blaz on the side of G2, and a little bit on the side of Shitter,
spread realistically the amount of events that he's to attend. All of that come together,
brings a wealth of experience on the side of Twisted Minds, making them that much closer
that they're going to be
going to be able to get to
another is your event. Yeah I
think the level that they
operate is good. I think their
ceiling is is really, really
high. I think this is a
tremendous team in the making.
And I think we're not yet
seeing the best version of them,
and that's the real testament
the facts that you know they
have taken a couple of losses,
but the fact that they can
grow. We expect them to grow. I
think is a testament how good
this team could be. They've got
a unique style. They've got
aggression, and they've got
anybody can hold their own in
the lovely. Well, Jack, let's
players like hungry and Noah in
that win yesterday. Tell me
what can they do again to
continue upon that success? Yeah
and I've got actually a great
example as well because this is
an example where team secret
they actually struggled. They're
defending dining and kitchen and
they struggle in their early
round a little bit of an
experience. A little bit of
misplays really goes for them.
But the experience hungry and
the experience of Noah
particularly works out for them.
You've just seen the basement.
That's where they have two
people playing. They have one
extended out to games and then they have three people up on the top floor. So it's a top floor hold.
Now this is that game against Fnatic. How did Fnatic want to attack this? Well,
they see the full top floor extension. They see the master, the piano, the office play.
They go for a larger clear alongside office balcony. They want to pinch, they want to full clear it,
and actually they get given a gift. Creed jumps out, throws a C4 against the Monty,
and misses it. That allows the Solid Snake just to jump in free and get a kill onto him.
So it's no 5v4 against 4 Fnatic and Secret, well, they're facing up against Top Floor Clear.
You've got a glass holding off his door. You've got a breach coming in and you've got a Monty
who's going to walk in. Now, what's the correct reaction when you're seeing Secret here? Get out.
Get out, let them take the Top Floor play outside site and then collapse in in the
background. What does Secret do? Well, they stay. And that's their first bad read as a team. It
happens. Every single team has them. The Professor comes in from the side of Fnatic here. Secret stay
and they get punished. When they get punished, they're going to get taken down into a 4 versus 2,
or 2 versus 4 for them. Fnatic do a great job in fairness to them of clearing secret.
See the guy on the door window picks up a kill, and another one comes in from Wizard here. So,
who's left? Well, it's going to be Noah, and it's going to be Hungry, and they have two win
conditions now. What is it? What's the first one? Even at the man count. So, we see Noah make the play.
We've seen him make so many plays, you know, all throughout the years. Jumps out, gets the first
the first kill on stand to impacts up and then gets the kill on to DJ. This gets into a two versus two and
Fnatic actually have a bit of a bad play here. They decide to push site straight away, but look at the operators alive for secret.
Hungry on Hulse, Noah on the Solace. These are the perfect late round operators. And as you can see, the win condition
changes from being kills to now being time. Noah goes upstairs, gets the kill from the vertical, Hungry goes downstairs, gets the kill
the kill as he comes back up West Main. And this is brilliant from them because they recognize
yes they're in a 2 vs 4 but they recognize the right wing conditions at the right time
and they pull the rounds back. It's actually amazing like pinch that they have, really cool with
the Solace and the Vulse as we're going to see the map Vito here obviously making it to bank.
This is going to be an interesting one if you think about Twisted Minds. They just come from
two different teams, Blaz on the side of G2, Mugli on the side of Secret, they absolutely
I love that map. I don't remember the old core at least in mind playing it too much, but I'm sure they will have told their new team mates how to play it.
Yeah, it was very, very low preference for them. Actually, Contra included, so out of 10 maps across the last six months, this is their 10th preference map.
So the big presumption here is that actually those two new players coming in have really reworked Bank alongside the new players.
And I think the secret that presents a problem, right? Because they don't necessarily know what's coming.
They don't know if it's going to be an X shifter's G2 bang or whether it's going to be a Team Secret.
Or actually whether it's a Twisted Minds bang, they really don't know ultimately.
So I think for Secret it's about playing their game.
Of course Secret as an organisation and as a team, you know, Think Back to the Southern Slaves were always very, very hot on bang.
Yeah, and we've seen them play it recently also. It was a good one for them, one of their first victories as well.
We're going to see, that's the advantage on the Seven Fist and Nine's really. They've got some bots to watch as we're going to see here.
Oh, interesting. So not all Ranch Harbors will be removed. Ace will be able to play here, which is going to be obviously interesting for the top floor.
Kento might not stay closed, and it is one of the first time that at turn 1 level, I might see Kento open in a long time.
I think it's nice to see a 2-brow band. I think, you know, I've been a big advocate of this actually.
K-bandit bands obviously make reaching easy, but 2-brow actually enables both K-bandit.
If there's no two, bro, dealing with a cave in isolation, dealing with a bandit in isolation,
it's super easy. So I'm loving that map.
Secret looking to build on the success they found against DK yesterday,
an 8-6 win there against some tough opponents, but Twisted Minds.
Well, they're a whole nother beast. To bank, we go.
Thank you very much, our wonderful team inside the desk, Govan Hagen,
and we get to have a wonderful treat here, Dez, because this is a map that we don't really
I see a few much from Twisted Minds.
From what I could tell, that's my stats that I've got from the Ubisoft API,
and what we've got on that is they haven't played it at all since being a team, which is crazy.
They did play it though, in the Saudi Enigiches and tracks stat-wise, so there is...
There's something you can look at and say they've played it, but it's very rare.
It becomes this question of what, right?
It becomes this question as they sort of point it out on the desk,
what kind of secret are we going to get, what kind of thought are we going to get,
But then you look at Twisted Minds and you have to sort of base it on a fundamental idea of how the team plays
And this is a point that you raise. I'm not just gonna steal your points. I'm not like that
But what is how shum gonna get up to when he's on this map with a lot of great
Opportunities to sort of sneak around to pull these little fanks and these little backstabs
Hmm. I mean my memories not the best of the greatest times
But I thought to myself when I've seen a shum crouch walking his way up lobby stairs or up square
and I thought, I don't think I've ever seen it.
And so that's why I was like, hang on,
let's dig into the archives here.
And that's why I was just like, wow,
we actually have no stats on them playing this map.
So Secret could be in for a bit of a surprise.
Equally there's 17 and two on this map
over the last 18 months, granted.
The roster has changed quite a bit
throughout that time period.
But it's a map that as a team,
they are very well drilled on it.
They love playing.
So I hope to God, Twisted Minds
have got a good plan in mind here in the opening kill.
Well, that could be a sign
that just maybe they're cooking something here.
I mean, big aggression got punished there.
They really tried to hunt the player
down the main stairs and at this point,
they're just fighting their way back out.
Creets is able to find one.
There's Shalad getting the swing rounds.
They can at least keep the body of the onto it.
She's under a lot of pressure here.
Drills, but he gets one more and it's just back and forth.
But we're in lobby, Dennis.
Everything seems to be happening here on a split pass.
He's trying to find his way through.
Blast somehow escapes, but look at Mowgli.
On the top ropes, do they know?
Oh, dear.
He's tucked himself in towards the corner.
I think he's got a pretty good awareness.
They're going for the plant in the stage.
Second wood is happening.
Where am I?
What is going on?
It's a post-plant situation with two versus two.
They're trying to retake their own site at this point.
40 seconds, I don't think we've really seen anything
going on at this, but there's one more pickup.
Noah's found out.
Renee, look at the last!
Dez, Dez, I'm still on map one.
I mean, can you think of the last time we've seen
like five or six players all fighting inside a lobby?
No!
Neither can I, like very often that is a quick entry point.
Then maybe a scrapper on elevators,
players will drop through hatches
to work their way down main stairs when the pressure starts to build, but you never see
engages like that coming out. So I do like the twisted minds wanted to take the fight
to them, but the problem with it and you just didn't play out is secret or like, guys, if
they're fighting us all around here, they're going to be a little bit lighter on site.
They hit it, they get the plant down, they managed to get the round closed out. So a
good read, I think, on secret side to adapt mid round and get that attack through.
Well, that's one way to start a bank, I suppose. I mean, the fact that they were able to sort
of get the kit down. The fact that all the attention was paid as there's always that
element, I guess, when you start to raise the questions of how much aggression is much
aggression, do we need to do all this twice? The first kill was great to sort of step back
in, but here was just a party and everybody was invited here. They threw themselves in
for a bit of an overwhelming assault on towards the lobby itself and just tried to lock it
down, grow as many casualty as possible. But unfortunately, the victory is to be pulled
on the point itself, right?
And you can sort of see there's a bit of chaos and confusion,
and that might balance out as time goes on.
And I guess it becomes that first point of contention.
The first thing I talked about where we sort of like,
what kind of game will we get from both of these teams?
Maybe.
Maybe there's the answer as a big underlined.
We don't really know.
We'll find out as we get further into the map.
Yeah.
What I will say is I expect this game to look messier.
And not to say that is anything on the comment of the teams and their level, I think it would be a way to put it nicely.
I think it's more a comment on Twisted Minds' playstyle.
We saw this against Virtus Pro yesterday and they loved...
I mean, we know this about Twisted Minds anyway. They love to be aggressive.
We've seen that out of a Shaman Jalad many times historically.
Then you put a play arm, Mowgli, into the team too, who...
I can think of God knows how many times I've said that when he initially joined to your secret,
he kind of got rained in a bit by Twister and got poked down.
Back when he was on walls, he was quite literally like a wolf.
got a smell of blood in his nostrils and he was off way ahead of the rest of his team and it meant
they were very stretched at times but he learned to slow himself down. I actually think he needs
to lean back in towards more of that chaotic play style that made him more emotiosorically
for this team to really thrive because it is what twisted minds have always had as their identity
and they'll keep on playing that. That's more to say that Secret know they're going to be up against
a very aggressive team here who want to bring the fight to you so it will look messy at times.
The real measure is going to be who comes out on top of these absolute bruls that are going to
to happen around the map. I'm gonna say they're a little bit more cautious on
towards their approach at this point and they're not quite throwing themselves in.
There was conversation about whether the Kanto position, which is just that
double reinforce for the long corridor on the top floor, is going to remain solid
because of, well, the bands that come through and the limitations, but otherwise
it seems like the arts would be on towards the castle, pretty classic.
Get the destruction in, oh no, Mowgli swings out, gets the first, the
Smoked Park for a second too late. They've still got the whole Gillette is the next to suffer though
But it's traded out so able to find hungry and that's your player on the windows gone now
They've lost all that control, but they've got to just keep trying to push creeds drops in from the middle of the skylight
And just swings Noah towards the top of the stairs. It's all down to trickst no increase on the far side
He's able to take the worst of that scrappy doesn't really want to double down for now
They've got 45 seconds exactly. Get the track, force the player further back, they can try and recollect the kit or just get themselves spread the two versus one.
He knows it's coming for him. He's onto the shotgun, but unfortunately can't quite get anything.
Yeah, big round for Nora again and I think you heard her speaking about this earlier on on the desk.
If not, maybe you remember he was failing me. It was fresh telling me before the broadcast.
Noah started stepping in and more of like an eye-chilling role in these rounds as well to get them moving,
But still makes the big plays like that. As you saw there a second ago is charging as well.
It may stairs to get a kill on towards Mowgli.
Converting out on towards the closing kill, making use of the track till though it was crazy.
Got the closing kill in the end anyway.
And all of those rounds with the dealt with the initial mental craziness coming out of twisted mines early on on the ground floor.
Once they got upstairs though it was all business for Seeker.
And you're the really well constructed attack.
It becomes this kind of element here where Seeker, I mean they're running the numbers really really well.
that making sure that they do what I love most about bank, which is be a bit explosive,
be a bit aggressive, look for opportunities. It's such a weird play space. I don't know
if I'm the only person who thinks this is about bank, but it's just having such a cavernous
big corner to it, it will be in towards the double win, the big sort of spread of windows
and that fight that happens. And then it becomes really claustrophobic down into a placement,
little rotations and if you can't find a way to move between those two play styles quickly just mentally
You start to shut down and it feels like as weird as it is to say
That's what secret are doing really well right now is they're making sure that they can punch one
But also put the pressure into the other one they need to either way
Next on the board
Yes, you're reading it being a cabbler stuff
I think he's really speaks what we spoke about around one right where teams often won't try and contest around lobbies because
There is just so many windows. It's so massive. There's so many angles they can push you from you just wouldn't dare defend it
But twisted minds going through that will defend it will hold it will fight to the absolute death to make sure we can contest it in some
Way and I like that about that means the map will probably play out a little bit differently to what we're seeing
Of course some things don't change. I'm only playing as army here inside a stock behind some key barriers. That doesn't change
I've said in play this spot so many times
Listen when you find something you like if you guys do a job do a drop you love
you still work, I hate that phrase, you're still going to work.
No job you'll love and you'll never work a day in your life, right?
Yeah, you're still working.
Yeah.
Like, let's not.
It's about your perception of work, though, that's the thing.
That's true.
No one's perception is working his way through the head of his opponent.
Just get caught out by a razor bloom, but they're inside the site.
And there's the cross.
Now, are they going to respond well?
Hash on, he's able to get one round the back, he's going to try and re-get some control
here on the beepers.
Head up main stairs, his tricks is left in the middle, there's a bit of a stunned silence,
But when you still got a black bead on the board and you still got
Time to drone time to find realign and reset yourself and not a lot of gadgetry up against you
They've just got a hope for the kills in the catch and you can see they're trying to lean in how aware are they of this position?
They've got a one versus one and a chance at a plant and oh, no
Little bit of a drift on by they're gonna try and double up on this kill on the side of blue
But in the meantime a plan has gone down gets the black bead
Once they try and get the cat chip, they just have to just peel back, play this slow.
Yeah, at this point you're a little bit stuck, I think. I mean, Tricks once again has got himself in a 1vx if he wins against Creed.
He says to the taking, but he can't do it, Creed, with the close out. Another round for secret.
They are up and flying away here. Like I said, they expected to come into some aggression out of Twisted Minds, I think,
but so far they've handled it wonderfully.
What really got that one moving is what they would look at and say,
say that's a very risky play. Like, why would you do that in organized siege? But again,
the teams are going to change how this gets played out. Bolts in towards copy window as
Moby drops down from Lodgy Hatch, gets that free kill, immediately charges forward to
get rid of Blaz and at that point, there is no one on site except Noah. And that's when
the panic stations I think start to kick in for twisted minds like, God, pull back towards
site, we're all too far away. What's going on? It makes a very, very chaotic style of
siege, like I said, but one that's secret right now are really thriving in and I wouldn't
all be surprised if part of that comes down to the fact that we're on this map where they
are so experienced and so comfortable. To the surprise of nobody, a timeout is called here by
Twisted Minds. Timeflim's trying to put their heads together and work out why things have gotten
so twisted. It's worth sort of looking throughout their season so far and this sort of split so
far. Obviously they opened pretty strong. Three wins in a row, then an overtime loss and then a
regular loss. Don't get me wrong it was against Virtus Pro but the overtime loss was against
If they then find themselves going against a team like secret who have had almost the opposite turn of sort of success, they obviously got against GK as a max AT the other day, but otherwise, three losses before that, it becomes this element of this might be the movement things start to fall away.
this game gets really out of hand. That fourth place very quickly falls down to fifth, sixth,
seventh, and then, oh no, you're not in that sort of fighting contention for the team that has done
so many bits and obviously had such a great start to the year in Salt Lake City.
Unfortunately, they've found themselves being pushed more and more away. They've got a
mixed run as well as the sort of back end of games that's admiring GK, Kronatak and Falcons,
other three still on the board for them.
Meantime secret, Falcons G2 and Rebels, I think, a little bit worse.
Yeah, it's the tickle. I mean, don't forget what they spoke about on the guest at the very start,
the show, that relegation battle at the rim that is faced on your ending six-invitational points.
Twisted Minds were on the graphic, but it will also stress that they had 1200 points,
which was about a thousand more than the three teams that put below them in heretics, Rebels, so on and so forth.
And so they're probably in a spot where they aren't going to find themselves losing out because of a bad stage
because of like you say how well they played back in Salt Lake and how well they did during stage one
It's just taking a bit of time
I think to figure themselves out and get that new identity locked in and really start to re-establish themselves as back
Back in stage one looked to be a pretty consistent top 14. They played super super well
I it was amazing. It was the first ever again. Oh by the way
like, someone stop it, like he's playing this with the might, he's like,
repeat your enemy, you've got to know your enemies, how about I play like my enemy
and just go all in and nothing will go wrong. So far it's working out great.
Listen, we talked about it before, you and I did, after doing SAO, you see how good they are with Solid Snake
and maybe that's also the playbook, if we get good at Snake and just
punching people in the side of the face. That's Brazil's playstyle.
play style. We're pretty much still now. We're speaking Portuguese now, baby.
Let's see if they can try and shut down. Obviously, Blaz. He passes to Moe, Gannis,
there's an agorio to buy some time here. They're just going to sort of do the classic battle
of attrition on towards the top of the stairs. It's obviously a very different approach in
that 70 people haven't died in lobby yet. But hey, still time. They're still young.
And the fight is still narrow here. So it's that they're way back down towards the site
itself. No, it really is everywhere. The fact that it's gone from playing inside a
tunnel, it's rotating itself back up, going over towards coffee side where he got that
double kill at the start of the last round. I'm just like, he really wants to be involved
in the thick of things. He's made sure that we've got all this ground floor free, now
looking back off towards blue with the bright idea because you've seen the smoke canisters
come out. You know it means the smoke is nearby and probably holding somewhere on this staircase.
Of course, you don't have to push too close after that shotgun. I think I'm minor buff
earlier today, more for close range damage, but I wouldn't be surprised if it now turns
into a sniper, you've got to be respectful of that range and the damage you can do.
Ah, the sound of the snake, and it's just gonna pot on that because, I mean, still has
two smoke canisters to buy time, and as you said, the timing here, a minute though, and
if you can play this smart, it's getting a lot of utility out of it, there's another
bit stolen and taken, as soon as he crosses this, he's gotta get got, they're actually
paying attention elsewhere, there's a lot of bodies, more time wasted, another smoke
kind of stare and yeah there's the drop and now they can push him and he's got a
shotgun so he can't do much about it unless he wins out the fight first and
got to push him from above at the same time and they're trying to tell you what
fair play to Blaz who's played his life really well though and they've had to use
a lot to get rid of him but now they're just going towards the site. What the hell
is going on? Movies, that's Ford. Get to C4, shuts that down quickly, great
response from him, capitalizing on the focus on Blaz to get two massive kills
for his team. Well now they just got to try and send it in on the door they don't
have any more hard breaches to four versus two and I mean he said credits
Blast Blast pretty much dictated the whole of this round, right?
Just wasted all the time wasted all that utility and then the support from a single C4 swing from Mowgli to pull up a double kill
It just shows how much Blast has gone. Look at me. Look at me. I'm the one to kill and they went yes
Yes, look at me
Again, again, it's just how well he played it when there was so much coming out in three players
They had to make use of themselves going down with a flash of the blitz.
They've got their Sends light screen down, for example.
They've had to worry about what's going on on site itself.
And even with three players footing on three,
he almost manages to get rid of the shield player
that's pushing him at the same time,
as well as wasting a whole bunch of time
throughout the mix of things.
I know that's only the first round
that we saw Twisted Minds get on the board,
but let's not forget, both rounds one and round three
was won by a one versus one clutch,
unfortunately, tricked in both of them.
So it has been a pretty close game on the overall.
It's set for this round here,
which was the most decisive that we've had so far.
So good defence from Twisted Minds.
The only thing I'm nervous about is that is the basement.
That is the preferred site to defend.
Now you're going to go to your two off-sites,
including the top floor, that many teams detest playing
because of the windows and how hard it can be to defend with them.
Now you've got to try and hold on across these next two.
If they can do that, let me get the 3-3.
It could be very interesting what happens when Twisted Minds
get onto the attack on a map that we haven't seen in play before.
That's kind of what you want, right?
You don't... You want to see new.
Always. That's what makes this game so much fun to watch.
That's what makes the sort of challenge of this game is you can always get something new
because of the plethora of operators and the people that play the game.
And seeing how a team like Clisted Minds approach a map was always exciting.
Seeing how they approach a map that plays really well into aggression and a bit of snappiness.
Oh, I want to get as many rounds as possible.
And I'm a neutral viewer.
I'm not going to say I want every game to be a max OP, but sometimes it's nice.
Yeah. Tim was the cursed one or you're the cursed one, by the way, because apparently
when Tim was casting a demo, quite a lot of OTs. We'll find out, I guess, in the day.
We can weigh it up afterwards and then make the decision. Combining our powers means we
get some pretty ridiculous games. Yeah, I think that, I mean, it became the sort of
classic overtime joke. I'm not going to say the line. It's not mine to say. You can say
we get there if one of us present you're allowed to say it really yeah how what a pageants sometimes
dreams do come true with people at home and make your own line i'm down for a new over going
through the timeline all right i'll start work shopping i can say the worst most awkward line
and you're gonna forget that you've given me this permission and you're gonna be like that was the
worst call i've ever heard it was the bit it was the yes and anyway they've just added their way
for the first minute and a half to get control of top square does yes they have got top square
and that's kind of where they're trying to process their way in the least begin with as you can see
all the lines above them someone working their way through that ground floor shock horror it's
Noah that's just working his way through on the thermite it's worth stressing so with great power
comes great responsibility exothermics in hand of course focused on getting walls opened up makes
you very nervous that he is the one charging through tellers and through archives all by himself
here notice that it's safe on towards square side but you know the open is strictly safe if he gets
gets picked off for free it's gonna be not great because those walls then most
definitely are not being opened up but they've got the right read one just
waiting at top of blue stairs here is flowers on the Valkyrie I think that is
waiting yeah come on stop teasing me now just step up let's just do it let's get
it over with like a plaster rip it off and he's so aware that he's being watched
just trying to bail out the first couple of bullets and it does hold the player
at bay but no it's got to go soon yeah right you've got this player wasting
this 30 seconds they're going for the plant in the meantime and it's
beautiful swing round as you know about the second player there's a obviously an
officer shield at the top of the stand no where's the come lost lost in the
source there's one there's the trade-out I mean great claps down on it but chaos
brain supreme very good tricks I actually know what for a second there
completely forgot that he has three exothermics now and I was like oh he
hasn't used the exothermics on the wall yet what's going on. So he was actually
completely fine to be roaming around downstairs because the wall had already
been opened up. Nice execute, just not a good comment to Blaz. No, I really should
have been screaming at that point but I think part of the challenge also and
obviously we see the isolated one versus one of Blaz walking up on towards the
Osser. That's ignoring what's going on around Janitor where I believe the Osser
was also being challenged from. So you're a little bit limited I think there in
optionality like you're gonna get gunned down one way or the other. Really, really
a good retake coming out from twisted mind. So unlike I say, you can't quite count them out yet. Yes, I was nervous about it being that top floor, but they put us up to that attack accidentally by playing a little bit slower. We're seeing a new side to begin to unfold in the secret. Don't quite know what to do with.
Well, two rounds in a row on the back of their team talk and the time out and it's an entirely different team, right? And I think a lot of that is they're not giving the fight in the opening minute and half of the round.
They were sort of finding
themselves scrappy. They were
swinging out. They were often
getting caught up by the sort of
well placed that they run a
little bit different because
there was a lot of time to cook
and secret one really offering
the bite. But since then it just
feels like they're making sure
that they're playing on those
trade games. They're playing on
the sort of. Let's let them lead
in. Let's hold on towards the
line and then let's breathe
back out and. Well now with
even more into the Valkyrie and
Even more intel on the Valkyrie and the Pulse.
I think we'll see if they can just try and keep what is it, Intel-driven, back half of this game.
In the opening half they played an Echo once, they played a Solace once.
Steps then, and they've been doubling up on the rounds.
And Intel have got this farm round, it feels like they want to be more destructive.
They've kind of changed like half of the thing that they showed in the first few rounds, what we've seen in the last two.
You play behind the Valkyrie, you're playing behind the Pulse.
That's information, that C4s that you can look to collect, you can be more aggressive early on.
But not so crazy as that's hold lobby, because no one does that and we think it might work for us and just saw it didn't at the time.
But I think this is quite a cool little go between here where it could prove a problem for Seeker who themselves are showing quite a bit of respect.
Things like the IQ being brought along because they've seen that Valkyrie on side.
Lots of operators focus on the actual vertical control with the bug and the ram on side.
And sure enough, there's the first kill up on top floor.
It's falling, but there's a trade from Mowgli.
Very important killer for Mowgli to get out. Obviously, Han around just enough, won the engagement.
If it goes away from them, it's probably the rest of the round.
Doesn't follow too far behind, but instead gets rid of the buck,
gets rid of at least half of the soft destruction.
Now, as the pulse is where, with the grip and approach here, the sound is slightly covered.
I obviously the damage is a destruction, but he just misses the tail of the player slinking their way out
and misses the cross back over as well.
And at this point the pulse is free to go back towards the site itself escaping with only one death
They've obviously lost some of this control here on towards archives
Hmm. It's taken by the attackers
They've got any vertical opened up inside largely here because I've not really seen
Okay, we have got some open up. I think I don't know. Yeah, I was gonna say that needs to be opened up
Otherwise, they just get deep inside a site and just like yeah, you literally can't see me
You might have Talos control, but you're very little else
That now being opened up will expose a couple players who will sat a little bit deeper inside a site
Main looking into wars mogul when I say that and blasts of course were down inside of open area
Jalads off to the side inside staff
And I'm not too bothered about it as you come in towards that last 50 the hatches and open up either
They have got harboury charge. We've known to do so
I still go a kind of sister burn through as well. What an eye man
They still see all the impose wall because of the pulse get a little bit nervy
Well, 40 seconds, they have one more C4 that they can try and leave with a bit of intel
on the back of, one more Candela smokes and pockets full of grenades.
There really is a lot of utility here in the attackers, but forming it into an approach,
obviously last time they did this, they had the shield, they'd gotten most of the bodies,
now they're going to go for a little quick bounce around the corner, you've got drills
dropping on towards the hatch, no it gets one on beepers door as they've been their way
out and here comes that roll of pressure.
Mowgli's the next to shuffle a four versus technical two as they go for the
close down there's one more charge through the fire eight seconds for them
to try and get this kit down. Humphrey has to do something at this point.
He's popping off with the pistol. Where's the plant? It's finally being put in just
close on the corner. This is the biggest bit of whatever and it's well watched but
but that was pretty close I think that'll all agree and that closes out a
a four to half as we head over towards our halftime chat.
Well, Secret started that half off really strong guys.
I mean, that attack was ferocious from the jump we saw.
A little comeback there from Twisted Minds,
but Secret had to have, I mean, great place
to begin this game.
Yeah, exactly.
It was a fantastic attack, half form Secret,
on the side of banking.
I think everything's coming to fruition
that we've seen, that we spoke about,
that we saw yesterday as well,
is that they've got hungry Zagel,
they've got Noah clearly shot calling from the front.
It's not impacting his personal performance, by the way.
He's still gunning, as you can see, inside of this clip as well.
But also, big shout out to Drillz as well.
Big shout out to Creedz as well.
Everybody's looking at home.
The attacks are sensible.
They make sense. They're very coherent.
And they've considered seemingly everything
when they were attacking.
And I think that's why we see Secret lead
at the half-time.
That round three was also a great example
of the death of Team Secret,
attacking in a weird way on command, right?
They send a knocking to main.
They have to, guys, go printer.
At the same time, one guy's bathing square.
It's creative, it's beautiful, it's innovative, I like it a lot.
There was also a moment there though that it seemed like Twisted Minds finally found it.
That they finally had that defensive prowess that we know they have.
They started to make this comeback happen and this easily could have been a 3-3 half.
Yeah, and I also believe it was going to be a 3-3 half after this.
Blast buys a lot of time here. Obviously it's getting bullied by everyone.
But look at the timer, 40 seconds left and Mugli gets aggressive.
sends the C4 on the back of that, no cover from the hatch, to be honest, that's a misplay from Secret.
And that was, I think, the start of a comeback. Twisted mines after this round play Valkyrie
every round, gathering intel, and I almost always aware of what's going on. And eventually,
even on that last round, that was very close call. So, yeah, I think Twisted mines stunned a little
bit by the creativity on the side of Team Secret, and not really what we expected. We thought that
they were going to be able to reap from the votes from Team Secret. I agree. And it gives a lot of
important to have the value of
that last round. The value of
the fact that secret got it
over the line because after
the time out, obviously, who
saw it coming. The secret
would be 30 up against
twisted minds. One of the
teams that we expected to be
at the top four end of the
of the league table. Um and
then they after that after
the time out, they managed to
quark a couple rounds back and
really that could have
started their momentum
spin. So that round six feels
very, very important for the
fact that secret won it even
if they tried their best to
lose it in that fall. This is
very, very nearly become a one versus four clutch.
I'd like to see now on the side of Team Secret
their ability to be a little bit more aggressive in defense,
not give enough space to twist and mines.
The reason for this is,
I feel like twist and mines were pushed around,
they didn't control the pace.
And you can hear it in their thumbs,
they're a little bit cluttered,
they struggle to hear each other,
they're struggling to freeze.
And let's not forget, for none of these guys in English
is their native language.
None of these guys speak English, you know,
as fluently as on the side of Team Secret.
So I think that's one thing that they can use, Team Secret.
Maybe not play the long game, and as I see that,
I see Tachanka, I see Smoke.
I don't know if it's the play.
You don't?
No, I'd like to see Team Secret abuse the momentum
that they've created, be a bit more aggressive in defense,
and continue to be disruptive to a team that clearly
struggles with the Cums.
Fair enough, Team Secret.
They've got a little momentum on their side,
as well as a two-round cushion.
But now they move on to the defense
to see if they can keep that up.
Well, I do love the idea of Leo looking in a default setup and going they shouldn't do that because it makes me curious
If it's gonna work or not
I think with these two teams it's always a big question right like again the playstyle will be very different because it seems that a play in the
Game compared to what you usually see in what I'm more interested by the way
I'm used to so I praise you seeing in this round again
You also heard the desk speaking about this again, maybe it was me and you speaking about it earlier
I don't remember but what you do see is a nor and a super outer and much there apparently
It's the heat. It's killing me.
Having a fan on in September or end of September, who knew?
Anyway, the Naurin, the T-brow coming on together.
You clear out a hatch. It takes about 60 seconds.
Then you've got to deal with the T'Chanka and the smoke.
You have got like the four horsemen of the apocalypse here coming along in operators for this site.
It's twisted minds aren't quick, which usually they are.
This could be a real headache.
What I do like is a shot machine to cross on towards the Maverick.
So even when you've got Naur burning out, of course, one of those hatches,
one of those hatches or two of our frees in the mop.
Karate ground between far and ice are those two.
You can still start getting to work on getting hatches opened up.
So it's not quite a shock,
but it does mean the ground isn't completely frozen for a good 60 seconds or so
while those gadgets are being recycled.
We'll see how much time they can work.
And obviously there were some big changes.
Do you actually really, really excited to tell the people about a big Fenrir change that happens?
No.
You said it was the most...
You said you were so excited to talk about the change, that it's not two seconds anymore, isn't it?
Yeah!
It's 1.9 seconds. It's gonna do nothing.
That's crazy.
That's crazy, gang.
Broken.
Yeah.
The game has changed.
The game's gone.
What does that mean?
Essentially, you...
The full range of the Fnet is activated by in 1.9 seconds, rather than two.
It's a...
It's a nothing.
It's a nothing.
It's a nothing.
It's a nothing.
It's a nothing.
It's a nothing.
I want a...
I want a Tim Rant voice tone about that.
This is what I mean, though, when I said earlier on the start, right?
Yeah, like a shot, even though we've got a constant Norgatch, it's going down, like, his response is cool, I'm bringing on the Maverick, you can, I fireworks in front of my face all you like, I will still get through this, no problem, it's almost like the Norg is completely rendered useless here.
I mean, that's a generally early pick up there on towards the smoke, compared to what we've seen before, but I say early, there's a minute ten left in the round, they've got the hatches open, they've got themselves a nice bit of control, Creeds are set to peel each way back, and they've got a couple of decent LNGs to just watch the long watch over the top, and now the smokes will start to drop.
What do they have to slow and delay the simple C4 ripped and ready to go and the chance of hungry bouncing the fire over the top
They've got to get this lined up and they've got to get it done
Do well you can see that twisted mind to have a body on the back end the trap push its way down towards the bottom of main stairs
They've got somebody on the elevator hatch. They're just waiting for this burn and turn there. It is
The backstab for a very tiki double and then on towards the ball as the plan is being confirmed
get some self one more as at least croxen to stop it being a flawless round
But it isn't much longer than that
Honestly sublime. What a fantastic attack and I said back in the first half
We've not seen them play this map at in tier one level. It's played this out at e-league
We've got no stats on it. I don't know if it don't believe it was broadcast
It's not on Wikipedia or anything like that
That was just a really cool thing to see one they're approaching with noran to brow
They had an immediate response to it when they start getting stalled out by the
The T'Chanka, what happens then, Hashan being Hashan, thinks I'll drop patch and drill an
edge gun down two people, no problem at all.
When they turn that switch on and see we're going from slow to plain fast, that can be
so hard for teams to adapt with variable tempo.
He's played this just so brilliantly well, got rid of the two key players in the backline
and from there, his team can quite simply bolt things over, you've got trips put in
the diffuser down in case it was ever so required, it clearly was not.
Just a perfect first attack from them, really well played.
Well that puts us in the 4-3 split and that puts us twisted minds, putting themselves
a really really nice attack round as the opener and that becomes that big question.
Our stuff for the very first round is will this be a game of preparation?
Will this be a game of sort of understanding each other or will this be a bit of a chaotic
ball and that as you said it was so nice, so clean and so to the point.
this point you start to look towards okay well secret you lost that one that was pulled out and you
and maybe maybe Leo was correct crazy can't believe it there is a drop down third time's the charm
my eyes again we'll cast over to war's tricks in the frame too I spoke quite a bit about
Carly over the last couple of play days um I've worked because for those who missed it she did
have a bit of an update a couple of patches ago now for the season in a position where she can
is just a zoom on that scope it's much closer now it's not so as zoomed in and for maps and
siege where they can be quite boxy at times I think the 12x was probably a little bit much
it's much more reasonable now you also have the time between shots you call it right afar if you
will is far lower so you can do a lot more with it previously it was Dan the only player that
would run karlik work consistently in fact was his most played operator even before the changes
came in now we're starting to see a number of other teams around the world working into the
the line is specific sites for like what I'm seeing.
Listen, every team needs a sniper.
You know, it's a classic of the genre.
They've got the awareness that somebody's out there
on towards using the not gonna jump out.
I mean, there's always a one.
They're not gonna jump out.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No one does that.
We're not that crazy now, right?
Not in 2026.
Not in the big 2026.
Listen, in the big 2026,
sometimes you have to live a little.
Sometimes you don't know,
you don't know what life is gonna bring.
They've still got a keen awareness,
but it's also when they do it.
A minute and forty, the IQ is getting through.
She actually likes trying to hunt it down, I love that.
Well, it has to now drop down or he looses it.
That's where the drop back down so you won't be able to get up there anymore.
Or he looses it and that's exactly what he's done, he's lost his echo drone.
Listen, sometimes they might need to get revenge by jumping out of a window.
We'll see what happens, we'll see what happens if he drops it.
They're being very steady here.
I like the twisted minds for making sure they're getting all of the legwork done.
They're aware of the tricks as we saw with the echo drone.
find that's one example but here just the sort of collapse of the pressure the force of the capital
bolt it's a really well rehearsed approach sort of the same that we saw in the first round everything
has a really nice piece of the puzzle and unfortunately bladz is the first piece that
has been picked up thrown off the table and they don't want to complete it creed finds the second
and while twisted minds needs to just try and apply the pressure here and see if they can get
something out of it but his own leisure lad is left unfortunately they just couldn't quite find
anything on the very systematic
approach here does.
It's a good attempt for sure, but
in this spot now,
our three players are basically
staring down and immediately
living off the back of that one.
I like the approach, again,
slow, composed, making sure that
everything dealt with the needed
to when it came time to go.
You lose those couple of players,
you don't pop out a couple of
goya canisters you needed to
earlier on.
Those are the things that bite
you really well.
Discipline, defense coming out
of secret.
I feel from both sides now, you've
seen a really good first round
from each in this half, which
means it's going to be one of
those games that does start
I think it becomes that sort of the curious the elements. Do you remember how we started this map?
It was violent. It was aggressive. And there wasn't a lot of, I will say in the first two rounds, they were piecing together how the pace was going to be played.
And now it feels a lot more straight heavy. Now it feels a lot more sort of rehearsed in the runs. And I guess the two of what we haven't seen twisted by this map.
I guess it's the two-fer of what we haven't seen Twisted Minds for this map.
So it looked like a by-the-book run,
but unfortunately if the book is in a different language
and it's not quite landing with the game you're playing,
you're going to learn that as things go on.
So I don't know.
It becomes that element of, again,
I hate to say that Leo was right.
But if they do keep stepping in and causing a bit of chaos at the right moment,
Twisted Minds, the book gets ripped in half and thrown out the window.
Very possibly.
If it carries on this way then it could be one of those where Twisted Minds, as you say, are trying to fight their way back through, and it's changing at least a little bit.
Thinking this round they're going to have to, they've got no choice, looking at a line over the mute and the messy coming along.
You're lacking out on the information there. Last round was more about making use of their own drones and things like the Echo to feed information over towards Secret.
This one thing is much more about denial away from the side of the twisted mind.
You can slow them down and get in control of the part of the map and not be able to draw them out like this.
You can do a little bit of craziness and crease upon the window.
That's turning the twisted mind's game straight back on towards them.
The round taken offline.
Not really ideal for a top floor clear.
Admittedly we're attacking on the downstairs, so not the end of the world,
but not an operator you want to lose so early on.
It leads to now a lot of availability and freedom to the defenders
to play up on that first floor for a bit longer.
Well, with that removal secret, as you said, they've got time to play up there, they've got time to put some pressure back on, the bees are trying to hunt down and force the player out in the middle of the round, and here is that shield on a bit of a run.
I'm not sure where Hungry's sort of trying to get himself off to, and actually they're inside the site, they've gone for the drop instead of taking that fight, what happened?
Okay, last just like, guys?
Okay, alright, never mind, I think he's short.
I
Okay, yeah
You know when I said it looks like they're doing these runs by a book and
If something goes wrong, they don't have the experience of running them to fix them
And that is a systematic thing if not playing as a bit of several that was that
One thing went wrong. They looked like they want to do one plan
They then pivoted back towards the drop on towards the vault hatch
the back. Yeah, I mean, what
they really tried to do there is
and two players down onto that
main drop and think, Yeah, this
would be enough for us to get
away with it. Like July's got
the Grimby's out. It'll drop it.
It'll be fine. He gets taken out
by Noah, who's off towards
Elevator. Then you've got hungry.
He's not nice and close to get
the next kill. Like here. It's
just a bit like this. They drop
before the smoke had gone down.
As you just seen on your screen
as well. They also had to smoke
that to pretend with coming in
the middle of the night.
And then you've got to get
the next kill. You've got to
get the next kill. You've got
to get the next kill. You've
as you've just seen on your screen as well. They also had to smoke that to Kutem
with coming in from the defensive side of things. And for some reason you've got
Blaz still start up in Narnia by himself looking out towards Copy. Just a little
bit misaligned there on exactly what the game plan is. I think like Blaz could not
impact that execute. What maybe he was hoping for was not to be stopped on the
hatch in open area that he could jump in and get rid of. But why'd they still be
sat there? They were all back on state at that point denying you and therefore it
was just a little bit of a poorly assembled attack is the best way I can
describe it. They've now got to try and win three. This is very reminiscent of what
We saw back on our last map where we were at this point again where it's three rounds
to try and recover in a 6-3, but I think Secret have got this one tied up again.
There's a reason why they've had such an excellent run on this map over the last 18 months.
Even with roster changes, the Batrim team has still got the same ideas about it and probably
also twisted minds why it was a perma-band.
They started out good in the first few rounds, they're a lot of surprises, but as the games
boiled on, Secret have figured out how to beat them.
So instead of being able to do too much about it, obviously they used their timeout a long,
long time ago we'll see if they can try and solve the puzzle as the puzzle is
put towards them in teller's office and archives not really the most common
scene sight across this map but rather than going towards open they want to
try and I guess stress them even more because if they're playing this sort of
takes by the book why not again get a bit wider with it get a bit wobbly with
it get a bit aggressive with it shake up exactly what they expect to be coming
together. See, obviously they've put for split take here over the top. The Nora is back on
the board and curious how he's going to sort of find his feet amongst all of this.
Because really, you're not obviously, you know, you've had the Monty as a drive,
but as you come into Daly on, you haven't really seen it picked as a big counter pick towards
the shields. And when you've got this approach coming from so many different angles, so many
different spaces, and Croxton is apparently the front line of it. I wonder where that impact
I've seen it picked up for basement a bunch of times for the reasons that we saw earlier on. Now countered by Maverick as he's seen, so there's always a response to that.
I don't think I've ever seen it picked for this site, nor have I really seen it picked for any other site.
So I'm thinking, there's not really a hatch here, given that you're playing up on that top floor.
Of course you can't deny things like window barricades, they'll just get in some destroyer and shot out.
So he has to be playing it to try and deal with the shield, I think.
thing but I don't know he's in the side of the mouth of the shield right now and the shield's
already nearly dead that is not ideal trying to push him towards the wall on the pod wall
two players have already fallen at me I think it might be close uh I'm looking in the pan
buddy it's pretty cooked so there's a swing round although it's a three go on two so maybe
they're sizzling no unfortunately the two guys is one gelad I mean look at the stat lines here
on drills and no it's just a big big performance from these two and they've doubled up here they
know exactly where he's coming from he's got a great gun to try and lean around the core
He's going to be in the corner, he's had a big clutch moments before he's staring on deep and he's able to get himself a third as they rotate, as they were around 50 seconds and he's well aware of where the next player is.
It's scrappy damage that goes into secret favor. It can't go to the end. Potentially could have and should have, but instead the stat line will always read a pretty handy secret win.
was playing like a bit of a superior,
assisted-mised playstyle there.
It felt like throughout the whole game, right?
Really aggressive, always taking the fight to them,
and it can be very, very proud that Secret
got that win and done.
Well, that's a break.
We'll be back.
Now, Desk, break it down for you.
I'm breaking next to the party now, I'm ill for the stuff, if I'm running out, if I came to get down, so let's run it up, I'm a human, cause it ain't nothing
I mean, what a performance from you guys, we're talking about this backstage like you guys just seem like a refreshed team. You've unlocked something new. Does it feel like that for you guys?
Does it feel like that for you guys?
Yes, definitely. I mean, other than we beat Heretics with Shragner a bit, but we went through four shots to make sure Hungry knows the certain points and reactions for it, and we went through this team, and now it's just clicking everything.
We're playing very confident, especially after the win yesterday, so it's going really well.
And on your individual side, Drills, it seems that individually you're feeling more comfortable, right?
Yes, yes, definitely.
I can see that in the first two rounds you really had five kills, do you think that is
based on the teams performing doing well and that enables you to perform well individually?
Yes, definitely, because like for the first two rounds we had intel where they were so
we just hit site and we just take gunfights so I mean we won the round so yeah it's very
well.
How did you approach both of the games this week Jules?
Because both of your opponents I would say are very aggressive teams at times and really
can catch you out but in both of the games actually you really managed to
come like contain the aggression. Yeah I mean during that we kind of realized we
try to play for more plants on our defenses especially and we just take
care for more of our lights and defense like for like quick plays coming up
staircase with shotguns there and like we've really just like works it pretty
well. When you say play for the plant on the defense does that mean you're like
actively trying to play passively and then play for them to execute yes exactly and then we would we would like fight for one
side of the map you know and give up one side
All right, well drills. Thank you so much for your time
I mean a quick victory from you so we will let you get out of here early a good three points from you guys heading into the
Super week. Yes. Thank you very much. See ya. I mean team secret
They're really showing us something special right now. I mean I pick up two points off geeky last night three points off of
Twisted minds today. I mean this is that they are legit
They really are. I felt like I started the the first week out on this on this lovely sofa here Leo saying will we ever see an upset in the ML and a secret are currently now the team that are upsetting everybody.
Arring piping hot form and really look like they can make another run into the playoffs, which I think that history is a freedom. So look at you. Do you see everybody wrote them off?
You see what did they go and do? They actually won inside of the Vesla Freeze, really caused an upset and went much further than expectations.
And I think the same thing applies here. I think if they look in their heart of hearts with free roster changes, would they have expected to really be fighting out for the playoffs?
Probably not, but right now they're in the position where they are, and that's testament to the work that they're putting in.
I love the stories for some of these players on the side of secret. For almost every player, if you think about it, Noa, once again another rebuild, and once again he does not give up.
not give up. One again, he is an active shot holder and he plays really well on the side
of drills. A rookie that was long deserving of a tier one opportunity, really proving
to everyone why he belongs in tier one. With back to back great performances on his side,
double digits today, you look at players that creed like croc, like Hungary, and you look
at players that were given a tier one opportunity a while back, had to go back to tier two and
are given another shot at tier one again, trying to prove that there's enough to be
I feel like everyone had some kind of revenge in their in their head
You know going into these matchups and I think finally it's starting to pay off especially after this first week
What's what's the common theme through this kind of secret overachievement over the past couple years?
There's one common theme that's Twister, you know realistically. He's the one who's been at the end or the I know
All right, yeah, no, it's been you could have you stuck there throughout the whole time
Yeah, but you know twisters managed to bring players in allowed them to overcheap and allowed the team environment to grow in five
We've seen that all the way back, you know, with the run into a fight, change again, overachievement A to C, change again, overachievement so far, at least on my expectations.
So I think, you know, credit, well, credit's due, Secret are playing very, very well.
Well, Secret continue to surprise us, as we hope our next game brings well as much heavy hitting knock, this bloody knuckle brawl that we can expect this to be.
It's Virtus Pro and Team Falcons, two teams at the top of the table right now, exactly even on points.
only one of them will be that number one team after the end of today. We mean, we said this was our
must see matchup for a reason. It's a barn burner when these two teams face off. They have a lot of
history against one another this year, Jack, and they're going to continue to show that.
These two teams are on a critical play part of our top four inside of EML, which means they play
different in the league and the playoffs and everywhere it seems. And I think actually,
Bambana, because they are the Crème de la Crème of teams inside of the league, their team players
is phenomenal their individual quality is phenomenal and when they go head to head as you can see it
tends to be very close game 72 out of 90 rounds across the last two that's a freeze they play.
Both teams picked up winning yesterday but Falcons did it in style three flawless rounds over the
course of the series including two on attack Leo what is what is working for this team right now?
I mean they're really a perfect team in almost every single aspect of it and I think that one
round on Villa that attack proves it and we're gonna start looking at them they're taking the
the dining bomb site and look at the positioning, they want to take the top floor, it is a perfectly
spread out team here, we're gonna have Solotov on the side of Aviator, you're gonna have
another player on the side of Trophy, one player on the side of Astro Window, two players
pushing in Master, you look at that and you look at the perfect way to take top floor
control from every side. Now the main thing is as we play the round out, you're gonna
see a player is spotted here in red stairs by Solotov, who is in Aviator, we stole his
neck, and instead of taking his one on one gunfight, he will ask for help from Jume,
Jom is gonna go and actively drone him and I want you to pay attention to something
It is the positioning of the drone here the positioning of the drone
Proving that basically as soon as the drone is gonna see the defender is gonna get shot and traded by a kill one drone
One kill perfectly played you look at the other side of the of the map
You see another drone pushing a lot into bathroom and that gets them another kill two drones and two opening kills
It's the perfect drone economy and honestly it just goes to show just how perfect Falcans is now
Now, pay attention to the utility on the side of Solisnake, look at that, he's all the way in red stairs and he's already spotting a player inside Memorial, another player inside Living, it's just so much information.
1.13 the round, that's the first scan. Then, 20 seconds later, he's going to do the exact same scan and then he spots again, two players off site.
Only three players are remaining, so if you start counting down, two players are off site, three players remaining, only one is on site, so they can call the Execute
And on the back of that intel, they can go for the plant inside of the smoke.
The smoke comes in from the glass, Monty is going to start planting into it.
And when I see that everything is perfect, look at that!
Even there it's perfect.
The plant goes down.
There is the Monty protected by his shield.
And at the same time, who do we see here?
We see glass, looking for any C4s, looking for any cover through the gas grenade.
And then as soon as we move on, you're going to see the cover here, all the way from the top floor.
Ran is looking down onto a player onto site.
And as soon as that player crosses, he gets killed from the bird.
and then the rest of the team can collapse and hold any other player.
I just love watching this team because it's everything we get to love about Siege.
It's great players, obviously they have great aim, right?
But a synergy across the whole team, Intel gathering, burning grunts to get opening speaks,
a Monty that is planting covered by a glass inside of a smoke.
Every single aspect, early mid, late round, is perfect on the side of Falcons.
And if they can keep that up against VP, I mean, even though these teams have quite a history,
we know how strong VP can be, Falcons may just have this.
I mean when we look at the head-to-head history and let's let's take a look at the map veto before we get any further
These two teams have played five times this year alone in a handful of best of threes
They did run into each other in a best of one during stage one. Yeah, that one they played on
Layer, I believe we're going to shall lay though this time Jack
Yeah, tell me about this map
Well, the general feeling is that these two teams play each other very often the general feeling about VP is that they are very very
Very strong best of one team
But where they've liked has been the best of free. They the guy on the screen, you know set it himself
Neko said it himself that we're practicing and we're playing towards the best of freeze
So I think the fact that they've gone shall I speaks to that because shall I embody traditionally the weak maps of VP?
They want the match practice. They know they're gonna end up in place
They know that they're very gonna end up in those best of freeze against the big teams
So I think they're trying to fall shall I against a formidable opponent really to stress test their shall I today
We're maybe not necessarily of course everyone expects to win
But with the expectation of having some of their gaps and weaknesses found out on that map
So they can fix it for best of free time
So what I'm hearing from you is that even though Falcons have traditionally been the team who said we are
Trying those things out in the best of ones for those best of threes
You're telling me that VP are intentionally picking into this map right now even though it's weaker. Yeah, they get those reps
Yeah, I think so. I think that's exactly yeah, um
Intent of this fixture in terms of this best of one
I think it puts the advantage into Falcon's hands. I think they laid off the map. They play the map really well
And I actually I think looking at the
Telstra session Leo just did we've shown them a few times that their team play this this stage is on point that they are the team to
Beat 14 players well, so it could well end up being that Falcons win this game
But I think VP have done that with a view that they'll take valuable lessons rather than putting everything into a map that they're
Insane that for example like for example law Leo
So how do you feel about that strategy? Because this team, I think in VP, we know that their
sites are set on something bigger. They've made the international events, now they just
want to make the playoffs in those international events. This seems like a good enough formula
to get there.
I think so. I think realistically what they want to achieve is top four. I think with the
level that VP has shown, they've reached a level at which they can afford to lose against
a team like Falcons if they are trying at some stuff. And eventually, I know they have
the level to beat the other teams and eventually make top four. I don't think that's an issue
on their side, they could quite confidently do it, and you know, if you can beat Falcons
on the back of that, look at that, you know, these two teams, they're on the top of the
world, they're on top of the ML, they benefit from the fact that G2 had a strong win on
the first week, and that means that both of these teams, they can afford from time to
time, in this group stage, to try things, exactly.
And I think just looking at this, after this matchup, three playdays left, you know, we're
looking at teams that are not afraid of missing on the top four, they absolutely want to use
that experience to winning the playoffs. And one of the big things actually for VP just
thinking about it is we are well over halfway through the regular stage. Best of 3s are
going to hit us in just two weeks, well not even two weeks time. 13 days time, right?
They basically only shown border and shallow at the whole stage. So when you get to the
playoffs time, when it gets so important, when it gets to making the Osaka Major, they
will be fountful for the fact that they've protected their map pool a little bit, alongside
having had the benefit of being able to stress test this map up against the Falcons. I've
We've mentioned the importance of the O3s in the last year, you know, one single B03 win
and you were through to an extra event.
That's just how important that win is, you know?
So just looking at this game, I'm just quite interested to see VP play on the map, see
where they're at, see, like you said, stress tested against the very best of EML.
And as we're looking to see, Shale obviously is not really much into the world in IOL meta,
so you're not going to see the Kaden band in that.
That's going to be a semi one night because of all of the extensions that you can make top library
Solarium obviously being a few of them on the other side
Monty being removed because of the full tears and the grim that is so strong wherever you attack from the windows to remove strong positions
Like top fireplace for example just based on that that's really you just thought though
I would have been getting solid snake removed
Yeah, Falcon's region seen how could they are using that operator and especially on showy as well
You can literally sit outside a shell a we saw this night get a scanner out and literally hold half the map
Without the enemy knowing that you're holding off them up or getting the information that it's quick
All right
It is our musty matchup of the day the two teams at the top of the table only one will be there by the end of the day
So let's get in the shell a and see how this one plays out
Thank you very much Jonah and the da boys
I'm just trying things. Just trying things for their nicknames.
You just, you know,
Dabois, it's about DA, space, BOIZ, obviously.
Welcome back, guys.
We're back in the building, buddy.
There are a couple of X's in there, you know, it's like,
Hew and I are both horrific animations and on-loads of music playing, yes?
I was gonna say, Hew and I are both cut from a similar
I think. I think. I think.
I think he's also a fine time
between every appearance or
there was a happy part of this.
It's like just hoping that this
is going to be a bit of a brawl.
We were excited of this map more
than anything. But then you look
at the sort of history of this
Okay, this isn't really the place where Virtus.Pro have been able to find their intense strength from. Don't get me wrong.
They're a team that has gone through some changes this year, but are they enough to try and put the pressure on?
They're just... what a change. What a bit of destruction.
What a read as well. Like, these two teams, what I love about them, it's not much of chess play between the both,
because they're quite composed, quite controlled normally. They've got really good executes, fantastic team play.
Shelly is going to pull the bugs a little bit more towards the aggressive style of playing.
That's what I'm really excited to see.
But that star, knowing that Damer's in a spot where he was looking to toss a C4, for example,
talking on that half wall, we say behind the reinforcement to secure the area around mezz
itself and then let you just get underneath and get a free kill like that.
Beautiful star.
They're doing the same on towards Rorik.
They're about to get his guys.
He's dangerously low on this two rounds.
Two of C4 comes out, but no one's even inside the building.
Balkans are getting all of these kills without barely setting a thought inside of Shelly itself.
really worrying here as they find their way to move that web around the top of
the stairs and get themselves on towards the library push it's gonna be a bit of a
thin hold here from Neko's holding out hope that he can give a bit of pressure
towards Skye's on the cross and if he can get one well he can't so it doesn't matter
Skye's at least gets a bit of revenge but surely you'll just get in circles
more damage before the grenade can even get him blown out and that leaves
Pasha playing by himself on the back end of the map it's very clear back over
towards it with 50 seconds. I mean, I could just, yeah, get into position, get it pushed
over. Again, it's just how composed and calm Falcons are. They probably spent about half
of that round with three players out on the library balcony, just waiting, waiting to
see what would happen, when would someone make a move. And the key thing that unlocked
the three of them was when Leak of Fat gets inside a mud and gets rid of the player that
was hovering around there. I believe it was right that I spoke about that, of course,
already having died on that half wall. That just means that Skies is very much isolated.
There's no one that would come into force him because you know the last two are hanging around side or up towards solar side
That's what they do is start setting up pressure a player on double window off towards office balcony a player out on the sandwich window
A player on double window inside a library leak about the ability to move underneath and start pressuring from below
Everything is just working really in a better way as a team here
Look three of them all moving up at the same time to the direct line of sight onto him
Beautiful round from Balkans and I said earlier on but these two teams being as strict as they are
I couldn't think of a better battleground than Shalik because it would really force them both to show great team play
but also moments of individual brilliance too.
Well, that's a strong start for Falcons and you wonder if that's a bit of a held-in bell.
That could go.
At this point, Virtus. Prey, they still got a lot of time to kind of bleed in, but then Shalik bled themselves.
As soon as they were under a bit of pressure, it felt like they weren't quite able to have the reaction towards the pace.
but sometimes it takes a bit of time to cook in and it's east chalet.
Sometimes you need a little bit of time to get used to the freeze and the chill here instead.
Keep the sights rotating, keep themselves moving and head on towards what might be another punchy
falcon's approach. Breeday! Reload the quick pressure on towards the windows as expected.
Play outside for most of the start of the map, right? We saw how effective it was before and
it's how you utilize the space in chalet. Get on the windows, get the crosses, force them further
and further back and pull them off. Bit by bit.
All the same again Riley, why wouldn't you? 34 players all scattered around this
office again. You want to make sure they're able to get the control upstairs
because you can't execute inside a double window or really with any kind of
execute unless you have upstairs control. Actually then you see defenders
putting off two or three players to set up this little deadly triangle where
someone can be on mares. You can have normally one playing inside of the
corner of library, one playing at the top of library stairs overall and it forces
This is really a big crap to take place around the library that requires a lot of utility.
And you got down underneath him here inside of stock as well, so he's able to support
onto the double window.
It is like a game of chess where you prepare him for the checkmate move, but there's three
or four things that all have to happen before you get there.
Pasha, he's the last standing before, might be the first to go, is he able to slip his
way back to the start?
He is, just on the holidays off, we cut away because we couldn't see the devastation.
him out with the AWP on the far side and now, well, the 5 vs 4, the pressure on.
So there's that back line as the wall gets popped open and steel falcons this sort of
unending approach bit by bit, corner by corner.
We'll see a player with a ready to rock and roll here, this guy's in the back, he's just
misses.
The player in that place, the flash has come out as they're not fully aware, I mean, could
get drunked on in the meantime, they just float that way in towards the site, what is
going on?
Nobody really knows, but Rorik gets onto E-Fat, rotates their way around, and good escape.
Solotov takes the shoulder of damage.
Brede is going to go for the planus, Neko gets himself a kill.
Can they stick it? Can the C4 get it?
Popped off, it's a little too late.
Spray through, but a one versus four outside gets the drop on towards one.
Looks towards the second. This will all be rad.
It's a pretty tricky place to play, but Dan knows how the game goes.
I think they got to a point where
they thought, okay, we're going
to clear one guy out like it's
not the end of the world. Here
we know a player is downstairs.
They can't be all upstairs. They
have to be around site or if
they are upstairs, we can just
go and hit site with a little
bit of upstairs cover. What they
didn't do, though, was clear
Rorick off of medicine. I think
he realized that a point he was
like, guys, I'm not being
pressured. I'll just walk
my way down to log towards
lobby here and try and take an
angle on anyone coming in that
way. Gets that freebie. He's
going to get that freebie.
He's going to get that freebie
and he's going to get that freebie
and take an angle on anyone coming in that way.
Gets that freebie.
That then converts into a second, not too long after.
I think it is Na'Qo's that gets rid of Solotov.
And at that point, it's a four versus three.
What, we just get in the diffuser down?
You're always gonna have basically a temporary
four versus two breaking out at which time
Virtus.Pro made a really good opportunity to snap back.
It's almost like what they did yesterday
against Twisted Minds.
You let Alcans get drawn into a false sense of security
almost by being a little bit passive to start.
And then they didn't, they seem to have fanged
in not too long after.
Really good round from BP.
So far across those first two rounds, exactly what we expected from this match-up.
And I'm so thankful for it.
If the second round is going similarly to the first, you'd start to start pulling a face.
Being like, oh, oh, no.
But that's the response you need, right?
And it's almost the element of half these two teams, both playing very well in the league stages.
Why not come to those maps that have been slight weaknesses for you,
especially against teams where you expect to meet them on the big stages, right?
We've obviously had, you know, throughout this, the recent sort of trip, Virtus.Pro and
the WCA 1912 didn't really cross anybody, but Falcons got knocked out well around the
same time.
Salt Lake City early on in the year, Falcons got a little bit further than Virtus.Pro,
but they are expecting to get towards these stages where they should be playing each of
the more.
So if they have a bit of a haunted map, why not try and clear the ghosts out?
A 7-1 on this map for them earlier, Virtus.Pro and then, I mean, imagine a win here and the
energy that would give them. That's the perfect way to start it. Pasha finally gets Revene
to a half up and then doubles down! Saw that coming from a mile away, some fortune the
leaky fatter didn't. Obviously you know what he's trying to do, he wants to capitalise
and get a trade, but Pasha just knew there'd be some kind of follow up coming in. This
is Falcons, they play as a team, they play as a team, it's what they do. Really good
response and with that alone Pasha has basically just won the round for his team. It'd be very
Unlike VP to throw away a 5v3
Yeah, at this point they play so well usually they'll just build that structure around each other
They know how to do a trade game and I'm happy to demonstrate it
But in the meantime, it's the try and catch pasture game. They get some revenge from above
It's a great double pinch
But you can still see that there is a second player not too far away
Holding on towards the bar. How aware of are they because look who they took out right? No Deimos
No snake you can play on the back of one more e1d, but otherwise
It's just drone intel on the drive towards the site itself and you don't really want to be
Face-checking corners around all the little boxy shapes that you get on towards the bar on the game's sides now
They're gonna try and roll out of drones
So if they can get the back end of Rorick, but Rorick slipped away users
Was tucked on the other side of the camera and well now he's
Found himself a nice little picture perfect escape route underneath can even find his way back up main
Yeah, I'll keep an eye on him too Farrah as well, cause he can of course now cause Bogger if he really wants to
I'll just come and rejoin his team up West Main, which looks to be play
So you want a little bit of shit damage down there as well, if you've got a headshot that would have been filled
But there we go, Naquo has fallen
Now we're starting to ask the question of sight door and they've turned a 3 vs 5 into a 3 vs 2
I almost said it earlier on, I was like if anyone can turn around a 3 vs 5 it's probably Valkans
And they're doing that just now
We cast it, we put it into the element that maybe they don't really get at the trade games and things have filtered away from them.
You can still see that they have skies above, technically in a bit of a one versus one, but
if they can put the pressure onto the verticality, they're getting droned out inside the site. 25
seconds, they've just got that last bit of intel and a mis-throw and C4 will give some of the game away.
They know one's up top so they flood and they're going to go find just a little pocket to plant on the C4.
We'll get placed above, but at this point, they just...
I'm sorry!
What? Huh? What?
I'm gonna see that one back, Chief.
Maybe he heard the footsteps above or what? I don't know, but great shooting to catch up the last man and...
Again, like, if any team's gonna pull out of 3 vs 5, you'd probably say it'd be Falcons, but maybe G2 as well.
The fact they managed to do it, though, was absolutely beautiful.
being a bit of a pain for them on those library stairs and you always got to have one mind
to him. But they basically ignored him and said, right, let's go and push him towards
site here. They're down a man. This is our best chance to get something off this. And
we saw the same actually a leak about back in round one. I want to say it was, we saw
many pushes way up through garage and there was a second player off towards blue that
could have potentially challenged him. He didn't care. All of his focus is on what's
going on inside of stock, what is going on inside of site. Can I get a kill off the back
of this? And ultimately he did die to Rory, but it was more again. They're saying, okay,
about the Roma, focus on sight. Most of these will get, you know, hurt, they get stung by that,
but they manage to make it work and Balkan so far just looks absolutely phenomenal on the attack.
I guess it's the step up that you always want, right? There, I guess there's a little bit of a
sight line that users could see, I think fed the information. There's just a little bit of soft
destruction done underneath them that could have been a read through. Either way, it's just teamwork.
And I guess that's the element that you want from these two teams, is adaptation, violent
teamwork and coordination and you're getting it done from the best of situations, or even
done from the worst of situations, and you hope it's a bit of traded rounds.
Still, we get our extra bands, and it's a mute and a Deimos.
I'll say the classic thing I always say, which is, I can't wait to see how the second half
plays out because there are two hearts who are getting the siege, VP and the attack are certainly,
no I know it's amazing isn't it? People seem to forget that though, you'll see a score like a 4-2
or a 5-1 and go man these guys are getting rolled, they can't possibly win and then things just
completely flip on the sides, switch over because some teams are very very comfortable on the defense
in certain maps, some aren't and the number of times that we'll see those 4-2 splits is quite
ludicrous for that exact reason, teams do feel much more comfortable on the defense, it's easier to be
coordinated on the attacking side, you have to make sure you're basically lined up to the exact
millisecond with your teammates to make attacks work or you can just enable a clutch on the other side
By the way, you touch on those fans
I think you are really good ones that then get input Intel through the map that little bit easier
The day most on the other side take away some of that vertical destruction that could have been a bit of a threat point
As he said snake and just get the reed from the outside to parcel this Intel on so sort of aware that they're going to be
Aware of what they're aware of the angles
They can be put the pressure on a map like this where it becomes very tight corners very tight swing
things. E-Fax is going to drive his way further and further in underneath and sort of hopeful
C4s again, but Pasha, he was a get the first. It didn't really net them success in the last
round so he's probably going to try and make sure they can survive. The next confrontations
that happen, even though he got the opening two kills, it was flipped perfectly by Falcons.
The Virtus.Pro know they cannot rest on just this bit of victory. A slow, steady creep
up towards, you know, every side. Yeah, they did. Yeah, not sticking around. But look again,
as soon as like then, as soon as they realized that he knows they're there, completely ignored
him, pushed back up West Bay starting their march towards trophy and looking skyward.
Lee, if I could explain with such massive balls this game is the third time to them
do it now. He just ain't scared about Romans. He is not worried at all. I think you kind
of need that mentality though. But there's always the element and it's a couple of
It's a bit but it's not scared about cleaning up the bathroom finds that a pasture and
Right idea
Rory is coming back around it's worth in stressiness
He's got to be careful of what is going on down below and with non-pushing in you can keep on focusing again
I'm what's going on outside of sight helping his team out
It's not being drawn into the mind games that bird is pro trying to put on you by pressing so hard with bromus
But you can see here. They're ready and wait for someone to step forward and solotov might get a free bit
on the enemy.
Or it couldn't be better prepped for it.
There's the tape with Solotov!
Takes better.
Neko, in the meantime, gets used as slow,
keeps it balanced, and then Skye is pushing out.
Breidae is caught.
And Vicky Fak is watching people die around him,
and then follows Suits, Skye's from the depth.
And Solotov, well, he got one.
But in the meantime, nobody else got anything.
Skye cleans up the back of that round.
Almost unfortunate in a way, but that probably, honestly,
thing is a product of enforcing
everything to come in through
solar. They had users on double
window playing on the stake. He
resets off to try and make sure
no one could easily get the
pushing from that one. But
they quote hits a wonderful
shot on towards that window
sky's assist from out towards
piano to get a player inside a
solar. And at that point, I
think both solid solidly
could factor a bit like, uh,
well, it's just too left alone
pushing down from this topside.
That's always going to be a
little bit of a struggle. So
really well defended by
Virtus Pro as good as the round
started for Falcons who again
have played the anti Rome game
incredibly well so far. They've
not given it more attention than
attention that it needs. If something else they've given it less than it deserves, but it has worked for them. Just when you're trying to hit
Virtus.Pro, they spring into action, they start picking up those kills. That's when it's nobles over to a win, beck and neck.
Traded rounds, body blows back and forth. It's everything you like. It's when everybody seems to be playing well, right? You look across the
and when you have the majority of the players across both teams in green, I love green.
You see the best of people. You see the excitement in their play. You see all of that energy,
and that's what we get from these two teams. And it's always the thing that we talk about the most,
is when you send teams from your home league into all the international stages,
you want everybody currently delivering, and that's the vibes that we get from a game like this,
game like this where it's show responsive but this time we'll keep developing and we'll
have all they find themselves there's still more of a chance for either of these two teams
to do what feels impossible right now and get two rounds back to back there you go on
towards a bar gaming and this one wow it's gonna be a falcons first skill
there's can they find themselves coming away with the entry doing pretty well on that front
to fair again the early light handling around has been excellent for them pastures found
two entries across the five but
of course one of those you saw being a little bit of a nutty 2k that he got out on towards mud which
was overcome by the side of Falcons otherwise it's been used to Solotov and
June getting on the board with the entry making sure that they're feeling the hurt in the early
round and doing so too early you leave yourself with what two and a half minutes of the round still
to work with here they've got to get Solotov on those shot drones so they're
ensuing through some of the gadgetry that's going to throw them down just like this those
goya canisters the FNATs the rays of blooms you name it there is so much that could slow Falcons down
to the work invested now means they can move that little bit faster later on.
Clearing out, as you said, finding the pockets of utility and just getting themselves that
space to play as they steady their way up towards the top of the walkway.
Yep, these nice bit of distraction by the player that's also towards the Ivy window,
they have to cross, they have a bit cornered, de-fax coming in from one side, somebody's
on the double balcony, and, holy shum-how, being able to slip his way back on towards
towards the chimney. Is he gonna go for the hop? I mean, he's drawing a lot of time and attention.
But if he goes down and he puts them into the five versus three, well...
He's gonna try and escape. Meanwhile, he's gonna kill his way out. There's one, but there's a crossfire.
Solotov?
Three players at once.
Yeah, there was no getting out of that.
By...
That's what Falcons will do. Three-way crossfire ready. As soon as you got all killed, we're there for a trade.
Beautiful stuff into a 4v3.
Now they're gonna try and find their way through off the back of all that gas you've destroyed,
that they're a little bit more
fluid. They can move that bit
more comfortably. Still that
bulletproof camera that you saw
for a second ago on the stairs,
but I don't think they'll be too
bothered by that. I'm more
looking towards green a smokes
in that pocket here to make the
execute happen. Here's another
one. So maybe you can get rid of
it. Still honestly, I'm not
sure how many gadgets he's
destroying this round with these
because it's been at least half
a dozen. He's done really good
work with it. This training,
right? I mean, they don't want to
contest too far out because
they've seen how good Falcons'
rap game is in the 30 seconds.
See if they can try and just
just close that on towards the site that lion ready and poised outside.
Obviously the ground window and the game's window.
The pressure actually comes though from Bride first.
Crossfire again.
He went towards the skies and looked somewhere else rather than where a body was down finds
one.
They know exactly where he is and they'll just flood in.
I mean, that's exactly what I'm talking about though.
They surround very beautifully.
They make sure that they can react towards what each other's doing and, you know, again,
I find myself pushing a boulder up a hill as we trade rounds.
Yeah, again, that was a really good round to watch back if you want to see team play in action,
because I'm pretty sure nearly every single fight that took place there, except for users this one,
was a result of crossfires coming in from Falcons.
It felt like at any given time, there was always two or three players getting involved in a gunfight,
like here, two angles coming across.
This one here, as he dies in a second, is like all three players having to go in at once.
Five ones pushing towards start, ones in the middle window, ones out in hallway.
The communication of these boys is just on fire right now.
They seem to have all the knowledge they're working really well.
And frankly, abusing the fact that that mute has been jammed away,
they're using it to get the information they need to roll those shot drones through
and remove the utility that is so commonly used to slow teams down.
They've got a really good game plan here, and I'll give it to Virtus Pro.
They're also playing very well to keep in close step.
If they managed to convert that round into a 5v3 after Pash's 2K,
they'd be the ones in the lead right now.
Falcons would be chasing the game,
which is a really impressive thing to say
because Falcons have played the half so ridiculously well.
Yeah, you really don't want that to be you don't want to get to the end of the day and be like, oh, if we'd have closed that one round, but
It's many more sort of sorted story
The amount where teams have struggled to close down rounds with man advances, especially on shali. I don't know why I always sort of have nightmares
About this map sometimes. It's one of our teams on it on an international stage
We'll see though. They've still got themselves obviously a chance at getting it locked in
Now, I sort of still talk about how decent the spread is across these two teams.
The fact that Falcons, obviously, are generally all-operating with the positive KD outside
of Solotov, who's playing the Twitch role, who's playing a lot of this intel removal
role.
It really shows how ready they are for the fights to happen on the five different fronts
and they get their way, flit over towards the top here, back towards the balcony, finding
their way in towards Master, just bit by bit, stealing bits of the map and again, a future
setting up that network that that framework and as you can see voters pro they've otherwise pealed
themselves pretty much entirely back towards the site they know they're going to get drowned out
they know that it's the counter towards the roam game and they know that it's been very well
paid by falcons so let's not play it it's the horrible thing against falcons though and i can
think back to this being true back when they were you know bds way back in the day old logo and all
was you couldn't afford to sit on site and execute on you because they were so damn good at executing
you can't really afford to roam into them because they're so good at killing you out in the road
as a team. Literally a damned if you do damned if you don't kind of situation so you can really do
as a fortress here right now and wait to see where the pressure comes from and try and make a play
as a team. You know being a Skytrap style try and snap on them as they push them like they did back
in round two. This team one at least here there's two in that back corner as well. Pasha now going
to have to drop away otherwise he was dead to right some no time. Every player still standing
Okay, no, sorry.
I'm just getting an update.
Somebody died.
It's Nakedly.
Got caught out, and that's a big burning facility here.
It's trying to get themselves control over the top of the blue stairs.
Everybody has dropped off, and they feel even further back.
A minute.
Left, and eyes now on towards the start,
and these power positions, falcons,
they're so quick to move into the open space that they make,
and they make sure that everything is backed up
with a bit of gunfire, and well, there wasn't really anything.
Going out the end of that side, Rorick gets on towards Lickifack,
Wow, that levels things up for a piece. They lose the line. They lose that player on the back side of the push here
Sort of anvil to the hammer
They still have time to build
do
Niko went down as in a very casual 1v1 from box on towards a one I say it was outside panel window where June had been
Holding to the majority of time. I will come down fluster either this way
You can see that the poking in the kneeling from bird's pro might start to give results here
not for shoes stepping down and getting two kills not like this that held on so well that ran the
clock all the way down but I thought no it's not it's coming back Emmy I cannot believe that just
swung around picked up two kills it's blood on blue stairs at this point and it's not done yet
three days five days way down but it's six seconds and there's a one rush there's one skies he's
spraying and praying and hoping round the bar serving up a round win for Varys pro again
I mean, that's the last round.
Last stress. I'm hyped in our
analysts ready to talk about it.
That last round. Wild. I mean,
multi kill after multi kill after
multi kill and this game is
delivering on the match of the
day promise in that three to
three back and forth. Barn
burner. I mean, just look at the
scoreboard here, right in terms
of how many times have we seen
these teams and we've seen
players on this team just drop
10 plus kills, you know, go
absolutely crazy. I think the
fact of the matter is we're in
and nobody's statistically really, really far behind.
This is a team versus team game. It's free-free, and it's two of our best teams right now.
Yeah, and most of the time, the rounds are decided by the early rounds.
Crazy moments, I feel, like, in the game. You know, some really nasty shots.
It's exactly what we expect from Falcons and VP.
I felt like I was watching, like, a top tier frag movie, really.
It's what you get when you unite.
I would say the ten most consistent players in the league,
Of course, look at that, like that entry from June, by the way, defined the rest of the round.
Like, I just... it's just... it's beautiful to witness, and it's exactly what I wanted to see.
VP being able to spar with Falcons at that level on what used to be a weaker map, I think is really nice.
Especially on defense, I think it's really hard on that one map.
And the entire round, the entire... sorry, the entire half, you hear VP trying to find a thin line between
over-aggressing and losing their entry early, but also not giving too much space to Falcons,
because if you do that they're gonna take all of the space really quickly and they're gonna execute properly and VP was always fighting to find that balance
And I thought that honestly 3-3 split on their side is very convincing in defense on Shelley
Yeah, I think so. Shelley of course is generally considered to be attack-assided teams
Always prefer to choose and start attack side because of how easy it is to cut off as well
And I think you know realistically it's just about these micro adaptations
And then of course VP threw in that little bit of spice that they always do with clutch in that line versus fall
Every single time they managed to find a way to just clutch it up
It seems like so many players in this lobby are playing at the top of their game and we saw it in the highlights just a moment ago
We're seeing crazy shots landed
We're seeing these two teams as you mentioned Jack those micro adjustments just kind of adapting to one another playing that beautiful
Chest game of Steve's that we love to see something that is absolutely going to continue on the second half Jonah
I'm wondering what's what's an equivalent and then a equivalent to this game like in terms of quality
In your opinion
Because I just feel like like you're witnessing like all very out of top two very best email teams, right?
What would be that matchup in a in an air? Do you see that quality in an ale?
We see that quality with I think the top four teams frankly we like when when a wildcard and DZ and SR are all going against each other
Yeah, maybe right now like when those three teams right now are going like we have seen that twice already
Yeah, it's so fun to watch my fault process was DZ wildcard to be fair
I think that's our place strategically quite different from a lot of the rest of the team
Just trying to be a hopeful force like I know I'm just watching these two play and I'd like the level that I'm seeing and I'm like
Are we gonna see an even match when these two are facing a DZ or wildcard or cloud nine?
Maybe who knows?
Just going back on the bands really fan of the Deimos band here. I think it is a staple on the side of VP
they love to abuse it a lot. So really, really nice to go together with that, so Snake will
still be open though.
And also, so Snake is open, but also all the shields as well, that's Falcon saying to
Naik while the guy on your screen right there, bring it, bring it, bring every single one
of your shields, bring them to us and we'll deal with it.
3-3 and all we can do is go into the second half and hope that this display of beautiful
siege continues.
It's no problem. We'll deal with them. We'll find out about that once we get into the future rounds
But now he's that here on the same guy's in carling the same line up. Thanks. We feel ill. I
Mean even if you're not gonna be a shot by yeah, it's
Listen sometimes you play these strategies. I like how I like they could do fields and they cause like no, I want to snipe
like
It's honestly like playing any FPS game with Oli and fresh
I'm like brilliant cool and join. Listen, when your team is built of Olly fresh and Tim.
You have to try and make space where you do I suppose does and I don't know what that
is hurting animals. Yeah. The thing is, I know for a fact that they will be mad and complaining
about you right now and I'm just fire and they're smoking past and playing a game of
shooting down us. I'm fully expecting it to pop in the group chat in a minute and be like,
I'm in a minute, you've always been off no file, you've self-defeat your own thing, what are you
going about? Yeah, whatever, alright. By the way, like I say, Dan, I guess it's on the laptop as
well. Dan was like the ego to Kali players, his most played operator before, double sniper on
side is pretty scary, right, dealt with those, so the smokes disappear away. Snake pose, hunting
down a target, finds another, demands so quick, bash her into another, this is Virtus Pro's
overwhelming Falcons
They're gonna go to the plant to fall versus two at this point why not get it locked in in fact they pull back off
And they move it somewhere else guys in the meantime picks up on to what's human that leaves nobody
But a very clean and quick execute there for the side of furthest pro
Like I say they've been business enough first attack like wow
Hey, so they came out with even though playing on two stompers makes you think they'll probably sit back a little bit further
whether they'll try and play longer range handles,
try and force Falcons to move into their line of sight.
Nope, they use the glass aggressively,
like we saw back on Lair in our first game of the day,
making use of the smokes to let you aggress onto a corner
where they can't see you,
but you can most definitely see them
when you stand still for half a second or so.
Pretty good use of the line that they brought along there
and showing they can do it without shields too, Emmy.
I mean, it was quick, it was clean, it was aggressive,
it was effective, and it almost takes me back
the very first round of this map where we sort of said the same things about Falcons approach.
I mean it opened with what a triples of fear swing around the corner and then just body by body
was picked off and Virtus Pro could not find a safe second amongst the minute.
But here, well Virtus Pro, they get themselves off to a similar start so we can sort of
parallel sometimes how this story goes back and forth. It's down to Falcons to see if they want
They want to be the rebuttal towards it as they rotate themselves, on towards and down.
Try and get themselves a little bit more of a solid hold this time.
This time the shield is locked by the hands of Neko and let's see if all the sort of applause
and plaudits we give the man will be something that nets result.
Maybe so, I think you saw for a second at the start of it that we've seen thousands and
three players down towards Library side fully expecting the birders prog are going to start
on that side of the map.
control of library and work their way forwards and they are absolutely correct. Both that and
NecoSpherex growing themselves up on that side of the map, passion not too far away either,
so it will probably be this full top floor clear they look for first, work their way
towards library knowing it can't be held super aggressively, press and swars,
fashion off to secure the vertical and then focus on the sides itself. What I am looking at though
is skies being on the ace, normally against the athermite coming along here to get that
lobby wall opened up to let a plant happen while you've got cover from above and off towards the
side symbol door you can still do it as well so it's not the end of the world but just a curious
choice to go on towards here probably more looking towards those flashes and wanting to make use of
those for the plan okay c4 ready in case anyone gets too close to the window they're getting the
tracks but they're happy to sit and watch and wait for the ghosts they'll punch the window and then
maybe they'll go for it the c4 i'm like how will you know because the glass is on the wall i'm pretty
sure on the window and mine is cut off anyway let's shut the window out what's the problem okay i like
the idea but I just thought this shit the window that falls off but yeah maybe it
needed like a cross kick idea or they expected a shot to go across the bow
so it's the top of the police stairs but by the way isn't towards by dream
escapes oh Neko doesn't there goes the shield the first buddy god oh nice he
served as bait jume has been bait down in mud only for leaky facts then pop out
on the window above for them spraying down from above really nice play from
leaky back he's playing so aggressive this game I absolutely love it all right
though gets one back down to the last 35 seconds.
It's a little dance of death down in the basement carrying on, but neither player fallen.
Jim actually being able to rotate his way in towards West Main, but are they watching
for it?
It's going to assume that they are pre-fired at the angle because he can just sort of hold
this space, gets burned out, he knows he'll be swung either way, so why not choose one
of the options?
Unfortunately, Skye shows a little bit of a better line up there.
Four versus three, Breda, Salatov, and Ifak.
Left alive.
still inside the site itself from Lickifac, who is fishing out the window, trying to get a body or a
bite, but in the meantime, nothing has happened. They're holding on towards the cross, forcing the
players closer. You can see Rorick is trying to slip the kit a bit closer, and they actually
opt to try and take the engagement, and he doubled down, Bride. He talked about Lickifac's
aggression, and we'll see if that can try and net itself a success story. Dan just rotates
around the side, and in the meantime, he's now the only body left. He's been able to slip past
should not time yeah win that one again it's for this pro starting to pull ahead
at this point like I said earlier on to house to a game of siege and I think
winning tuna row now probably puts a little bit of worry in that falcons camp
and you lose this next one now you've got three rounds to recover and then she's
probably wouldn't be waiting here for us to get to six three and then have a tap
time out that's what I think we should have it right now because you lose this
next one the game is as good as done. Yeah, I mean, as I said, it seemed impossible. Early
run, right? Getting two rounds in a row, getting the sort of back and forth and including the
turn of the half. That's now three, three for Virtus Pro. They've sort of found a bit
of pace, found a bit of control. It's still big trades in terms of the opening kill. It's
still that nobody's really like behind the pace of the game itself. But you can see
I think he was happy about that.
Mixed signals.
Hard to read.
What's your form?
At this point though, I mean, it's always the game where you know somebody's going to lose, and you know this won't dictate whether one of these two teams is in the playoffs and probably at the major, let's be honest.
We expect both these two teams to be there.
But that makes them want to win it all the more.
100% I mean at this point these two and G2 are the teams that are constantly in contention
one another constantly in a scrap constantly trying to fight to be the best team and these
two are the more like cultured well-managed gentlemen that are in the league and then
G2 with a grunt that's once the cause absolute chaos I'm sure we'll see in a future game
as well but amongst the three then there's quite there's some similarities in playstyle
but also a lot of differences these two being again the more like composed ones I suppose
so it is always fun to see the pair of them throw down in the same way it is a CG2 match
against their play stars as well. But I think now looking at it, Nacro's thinking, you know what?
They've been tortured enough without the shields. Let's get on the shields. Let's make something
happen. They'll be on Blitz here in round nine. Oh boy. Fuck yourselves in Falcons. This could be a
bumpy ride. Well, they've both been able to have their conversation. And as he said, a bumpy ride,
potentially sort of put together with the sound of a shield flashes and
and then as a candle removes any senses that you see into other eyes have sorry I'm replacing
all of the guns on the game.
That's the next April falls like a classic like a classic at the US.
We had to do the day we were having a conversation about what can tell us sound like since I've
game sound and SAL and so we did that class at the middle of two years ago where it was
like whoever's not casting at the time has to do the game sounds very tough.
Oh, I want to have these kind of shenanigans.
I tried them with demo, and then demo gets over there.
He's too serious.
He can't do it.
He goes, give it a candela sound to me.
Oh, god, it's.
Oh.
Poo.
Poo.
Poo.
Poo.
Poo.
But the plot mechanical and sound,
it's not going to reverse by pshh sound.
It's really weird.
Yeah.
Yeah, my impression is whenever I'll pitch a bit towards demo,
he'll go, OK.
Yeah.
I know the exact sound.
I know the exact sound.
Yep, they're going for this play on towards the top.
The train of a blitz with a man behind it
will try and chuck it's way closer and closer.
I'm actually just going to drop a smoke and...
I think they're going to get the hatch.
I mean, no, they're going to swing their way around the corner.
They're just trying to make sure that nobody underneath the hatch
got the kill onto them, a bit of pressure from the side of tube.
Two of them.
They've been caught as of yet.
Solotov is holding, waiting for this slow and steady approach.
Think about where the kit is.
It is on that shield that is a little bit isolated
at this point in time.
Now, Rorik's watching one side,
They cannot. Nice swing without doing that. Great use of the gadgetry and he's chasing him down.
Oh, there's the first victim of the hunt. Are we about to get the second? No.
June swings on towards, always catches the Blitz as well.
He's facking the meantime, is able to find out skies. He's pulling away, almost perfect for roaring.
The support structure is there, but I mean, you could see for a second, a couple of Falcon's bodies.
One to step a bit closer, but unfortunately, just could not save the man in the bar.
And Neko is so smart in that moment as well.
The chase onto Solovsov, making use of the environmental ingredient to just momentarily
push Trum out of that fight and then turning the attention to three of them to push him
towards Trum.
Really good set piece play in, in a way, somewhat surprised that all things remain even after
that.
It is a three versus three.
They've already used all the candelas.
They've got a couple of smokes to play with, but honestly, keep your eyes on Neko.
He is the magic man in this round once again.
Now starting to ask questions of what's going on inside of site.
They're all squaring up around this main breach.
I think I was gonna be the one to leave the charge though
Well, they tried to pay out the swing the C4 is caught out and they're gonna pay out again
It's the crossfire. There's one he just keeps on going and there's that on the back the time out
That's it. Nothing but trouble and tears
As we now have another round for Virtus Pro
All eyes will be on Rorick from that 3k in the round but every kill was the results of Naco
I know he didn't play shields in the first couple and like I said, but he chooses to turn those shields on
They're going to be a nightmare.
Four kills in that round were a product of the pressure that he applied,
or kills that he found himself.
But it was the constant question of,
okay, is he going to aggress onto me?
Is he going to chase me?
Is he going to drop that shield?
I can't afford to look away from him,
because if he did, it'll shoot me.
Then you get shot in the back by Rorik, or on the doorway.
Leakerback is just so focused on what's happening with the shield
that it lets Rorik step across.
Granted, really good kill from him on towards the doorway in the other side.
But,
Naquiman must be
one of, if not the best, shield players in the world.
I think it's always this element of a bit of a fearlessness with it to write is he knows what he needs to apply the pressure. He knows when he needs to pull back. He's more than happy to lead with it. Not saying that it's a sort of problem with everybody, but there are shield players out there.
Shield players out there. They're happy. I think that's the most signals on that. They're pretty happy
There are shield players out there that use it as a safety pick and there are people that use it as a
punt pick and
Nato is very much somebody who wants to be the point wants to drive it forward wants to sort of be the reed of the pressure
It just
increases the confidence of a team when you have somebody that you know that oftentimes and you're up against the shields at this level
it's there slow down it's there let's be cautious it's there let's watch the
face instead and here falcons they've got to be perfect and they've removed the
blitz the clashes the other swing round so we'll see if the Monty can connect in
the same way well just when you feel like you've tried to try and think of
something to try and deal with that shield have you get onto the much slower
alternative in the Monty as you say still a lot of options you brought along
will help you know see poor to help out is one thing the FNATS to blind him as
steps in towards the room. Doom's still fearful I think of being rushed down by that or by
Candela's. It has to run the warden instead. So you somewhat turn towards you, but these
days you don't really see form played for strictly anti-shield. It's more about the
intel because those Razor Bloons give so much information. Because the barbed wires does
as well, you can cover up like six points of the map and have information when someone
tries to push in. Here I imagine part of it is can we use it to try and block off these
bottlenecks where the Monty might come from? If nothing else, just slowing down that little
bit more. Well Solacev gets Pasha on the window which is a good moment to do it
because they've been able to slip their way here and towards trophy they're
going to set up the tracks thingers but I mean they're still this pressure
they're stepping themselves back in for a bit of violence and then just make sure
that they're aware and it's kind of a statement piece right it's like we know
you're taking this territory we're still on West Main the Solacev look how far
out the Solacev is going just sort of read that in and sort of in a circle the
pressure Falcons. Well, there's the solace all the way on the far side. And again, it's
a statement piece. It's a it's a headline they've got to focus on. In the meantime,
Neko is going to try and get a plant down as well. It does find Breeday. The pulse has
gone. Where are they? Users gets worried. They're going to get on one more. They get
the man outside the window. There's the Monty inside the site itself. They're trying to
encircle their way back in. They're finding they're dropping the ship. It's just him left
then there's no winning that many different angles.
But I did think for a second,
if anyone's going to pull up a Monty 1v4,
it's they won't, or Aniston, take your pick.
One of the two can possibly do it,
but a bit too much to ask the team
who's coordinating is Falcons,
and they will get that one shut down.
All the right ideas, mind you,
they have players upstairs looking to aggress
towards libraries and support coming from above.
All the right ideas were there,
just Falcons one out and there's 1v1,
gunfights in crucial positions that keeps them going,
but it's still two rounds on the bounce,
they need to win here.
that's just to get us into OT, not even to see the map over in Dumbeth.
Well, food for thought there for Virtus Pro, and I liked how it was almost like a full
retake strategy. You could see that Falcons peeled themselves away, they rotated themselves
around, they held a couple of places like the Svertecanity, but otherwise they went,
look, they are pushing this way, they're looking for these engagements. Let's peel back, let's
try and hit them around the back. They're leading with a shield, so let's take the tail
out first. Let's work for one. Can it be good for three becomes that bit of a
challenge here. They've still got the Intel drive. Valkyrie on this map is a
nightmare. So many plant pots you can hide those cams in, so many just
positions you can lock in. Naco, third different shield operator for the half.
If he picks few, maybe we'll get the full plethora, the full, the journey.
It's like a flight, you know?
Yeah.
Flight.
It's like the forwarder in a plane with four different shields.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
It's like being at home.
Okay.
I just choose what's a voice by disappointment sometimes.
That's all.
What does Tim do?
If you set up a bit and it doesn't quite land with Tim.
to see. You know, the sometimes
says that he doesn't engaging
in it like like not not getting
drawn into it. There's whatever
all of us go. Round nine and
this is what's going on and the
other basically said that
haven't even spoken. And then
sometimes I'll cut over him and
keep on speaking just to kind
of pull him back into it and
just refuses to engage. So if
you're a team, yeah, Tim's from
an era where he would respond to
a message with a thumbs up
emoji and that's one of the
worst feelings. That's it. You
ask you asked Jack what I'm
it work everything is at the most parts see like to people of your culture it's a sign
of great respect to younger people it's real anxiety inducing it's gone
they'll see if they can try and close down here onto the bright eyes of
solarium as in actually where they want the sun to shine instead
just go for a bit of reading on the far side it's June gone first so trophy what was
it yeah he swung trophy window I'm not wholly sure why just checking if someone
almost there. I think he didn't expect that these guys would be there ready and waiting
just to have to go and fight back on him. Caught by surprise a little bit and that could be
the first sign of the slippage down.
Oh, there's the second. Rorick finds himself another body and now we've seen them pull
at 3 vs 5 back before, but they did it on the attack where they could drive the momentum
as the pressure starts to circle. And they're able to hold off for now. There's the lay.
They're just going to get some bolts up as they drive themselves in. They're attempting
to get just in towards the site itself. They're thinking they can just strong arm their way
through but as B.A. gets in first they've snuck their way around towards the side of
the kitchen. There's the match of the black bin and a perfect hop over the top from Pasha.
Make sure that it doesn't start to spiral entirely out of control. A wishful C4 is unfortunately
left wanting. It's Pasha just going to try and secure the plant and that leaves...
Too late.
Yeah, your man with all the aggression and unfortunately, the wind in his sails. They
know where the kid is. I don't really know where the players are, but look at the positions
that they've got. At least sneakily get down, not even that. As the fight happens over, he's
got to lean in. Great take. The black beard, I mean, close the distance, right? Put the
pressure on and oh dear, here's Neko. Oh dear, that's round seven and oh, congratulations,
And that is pro!
Bitnacro is especially starting on a shield all game long.
I can't play all of them, I'll show you what I can do on every single one.
But really a team effort is the best thing I can define.
Every single player getting involved there.
As I'm sure the deaths will speak about, we'll go to break them.
When we come back, they'll break it down for you.
What the hell is this?
I
to say the barn was burned. This game gave us everything we wanted. Yes, well, Virtus
They take the win 704 they take down Falcons on a map that you may not have expected VP to be so comfortable on sort of talk
More about that. We've got Neko here after the win Neko congrats on getting the win over Falcons
I mean and to do on this map
We know that this is a map that you guys aren't so comfortable with in the past
And I think I overheard something in the back after the game you mentioning like to do it on chalet is a little extra special
Can you tell me what it's like to do it on this map?
I mean it feels great of course like we like I said in previous interview we were working a lot on this map
We started to show a bit against a secret first win finally and we're to be honest like it's even if it's a map
We're kind of we had like bad results. We did it. I don't think we lost confidence on it
So we're still pretty confident that we can win against Falcon
So yeah, but it feels good to actually do it like it's good that you think you're able to do it
But doing it is great
Nicko I was gonna ask you about shields, but I feel like I feel like me and you we talk about shields a lot
So I'm just gonna ask you I'm gonna ask you about something else
Okay, playing up against another formidable ideal you're an ideal yourself you go in up against like a fuck
How intense is it inside of the game when you're trying to call the micro adjustments for your team?
But also presuming the adjustments that they'll be making at the same time
I mean
of team like he's kind of playing chess so you have to kind of sometimes gumball or sometimes
you read you do the perfect read and you will look like a genius so yeah I would say it's it's hard
but it's not only against uh leaky fact like it's it's how the game is she's a really like
complicated game so yeah I would say it's not only against the this top team.
Neko are you already feeling the energy of the bootcamp because those comes are
phrase in terms of energy yeah I can feel it in the beginning I wasn't sure
because like if I'm to fully honest with you when like first bootcamp full I
second bootcamp same when we started talking about this so bootcamp some
people I don't know three week again you know outside of your home etc but when
we arrived here I think like our mindset just is full focus and even if like some
people were like not very happy about like spending one month away from
family from girlfriend everything like when we were right here we were just
like focused on work and everyone is like full hype and yeah you can feel in
the come there is even more hype than when you're home obviously like you
will scream alone it's not the same thing like when you you go home you say
let's go but you woke us up with the cubs
a lot of great energy from you guys and another big three points for you as you
are now the number one team to beat in the email thank you so much Neko thank
you guys have a good day bye bye well as we said VP I mean that is the game
they were looking for I mean a 7-4 win over Falcons it started close it looked
like it was going to be close and then just at the end they took the lead and
ran with it it's a gamble that paid off it's pretty what it is right go on a
weaker map on paper. Prove to yourself that you can do it against the very best
of EML and honestly the way they did it as well as soon as they switched to attack
I think I saw the big gap between
Falcons and VP Falcons not being able to defend whatsoever in the same quality that VP had on their own defense
Makes that clutching around six lucky even more important as well give context of how how that game went
I will say it it was really really nice to see actually that was two teams playing at a really high level in terms of you
yourself to be able to do it
so that you can be able to be
able to be able to be able to
be able to, you know,
you know, capitalizing on the
tiniest mistakes or reeds on
tiny little plays that can
determine around outcome. It
felt like so often that's
exactly what was happening, and
I think that VP that's going to
give them the world of
confidence, right? They go up
against a formidable
opponent. Yes, I think the real
test is going to come when they
play. And if and when they play
in the best of three, but right
now they played him on a map
that was weaker and they go
We've seen that in the past is that teams can scream and be scrum heroes
But then ultimately once they do it in a game day they get those reps in they get that stress testing in and to come out on top
Like VP must be feeling on top of the world right now
Really clean lineup by the way if you look at the stats skies
Neko yeah, all of them all of them on double digits
Everyone is is you know participating to the same level. Yeah, it just yeah
It was a master class on shale really and I think a win on both sides confidence gain on the side of the D
things that are to be learned on the side of Falcons in what arguably I don't
think will be a really hard-heating loss when you look at their super weak and
coming Falcons they're still gonna make playoffs I think so obviously I would I
would say win-win scenario well a win-win scenario for I think us as well
when we were watching this game you can't be doing that you can't be doing
anything what do you mean I guess they didn't catch it I don't know what you're
speaking about incredible, incredible. Well, we are going to move on to our next
matchup of the day. You almost got you there. G2 is now going to take the floor.
So hopefully we'll get to see some more great seed, but they'll be taking on a
team with very different goals while G2 is looking for Osaka to make their
second international event of the year. Team Heretics is hoping to avoid
relegation to teams on the opposite side of the table with very different
goals. But this G2 team has been absolutely incredible as of late. Not
the first week they wanted, but
the last three days, I mean getting
better and better and better, trending
in the right direction, and they put
on a show for us yesterday.
Yeah, well, if the last game didn't wake
you up, certainly this next game will do.
I think G2 have been so much fun to watch
over the last three, four play days.
Realistically, what you're going to get
with G2 is individual prowess.
There's now backed up by an insane amount
of teamwork as well. You can see
it's free case, it's four case, it's nice
clip so you know it just does not stop oh i'm just i'm just having so much fun
watching this and it's also give you a g2 troll round as well just for the
content look at that look at the time look at that wow 044 and gets the kill
and even like honestly like i just love the g2 games because i i get to be oh
well okay that was a bit okay uh but i know it's a bit wow
I love it and I hate it because it's entertaining, I hate it because it reminds me why I retired.
And then Benja is there to save my hopes, anyone can have the thing at the top level.
I'm sure we'll cry in Swiss, we'll championship.
Yeah, okay.
the number one rated player in all of the EML.
You can't really talk too much trash.
But they're going up against the Heretics team,
as I mentioned, who has very different goals right now.
They are at the bottom of the table
looking to collect some more points, largely
because they just need some SI points
to get off of the bottom of the relegations race.
Now, they do have some bright spots on this team.
And we talked about this yesterday.
Players that are trying to carry that Heretics
towards forward, LASMO and Lolo have been leading the way.
They have showed us to that even in their losses that they are at the top of their scoreboard.
Yes, speaking of carrying the torch, hot take, I actually think that Heretic Sander and Airport Stradicury
a little bit similar to Secret.
I think that what we've seen yesterday was a decent fight against Falkens on the back of LASMO and LOLO
once again performing really well and then just think of one play did before, they beat Twisted Mind 8-7.
I think there is improvement there. I can see the impact of Skeptic at the IGL
And Lolo and LASNO are already coming to life in that team.
Is that enough to surprise G2?
I think it's the worst possible opponent to face.
G2 is a kind of team that will roll over you if they feel confident in just their gunfights.
It all depends on the map, I feel like.
Well, the one surprise that Heretics did give us was on CAFE.
So can they find territory?
Will they will be comfortable enough to go up against G2 and potentially go the distance here?
Border will be the call.
I'm surprised a little bit here to see clubhouse band second to last. You would think that's
more comfortable territory. I mean, we did see G2 play lights out on clubhouse yesterday.
So maybe that's why I will say Leo describes me as a simple guy at times because I have
quite a simple view on Rainbow six each sometimes, not all the time. Sometimes that when you've
got a team as five fraggers that are fundamentally, you know, higher etiquette, a higher caliber
than the other team, border is not the place to take them. G2 man for man can outfrag anybody
I feel bad for the 11% who baked heretics before knowing the map because obviously like I said border you're going to play against you too. And depends on you. Benja is eating the same shots.
Do you know what the last time somebody made that joke about the community prediction was me and I was a and it was rebels.
I made it very quickly out there, don't tend to play it twice though.
Yeah, well, let's take a look at the bands, as a me, one of my bands I assume once again.
We're a big surprise.
I like the Nomad band.
Oh, target bands, nice.
I like it.
Deimos gone.
That's nice.
Shaco, you're ready to...
Oh, actually, just thinking about it, Deimos and Nomad, both played by Shaco, one of them.
Both played by Shaco, but why is the Nomad band important?
Yes, Shaco does play, it is a comfort operator for him, but also, think about how many times
We see a nobody outside the break door. They cover off their top East run out and jump out so effectively
And they sit and do nothing and cut off the whole map from the break door take the number away
It makes it much easier to power that guy by running out of break by running out of top East at exactly the same time
Well, it was a star studded affair in G2's victory yesterday
They'll be looking to do the same thing here against heretics, but this time on border
Well, what a joy it will be,
dares for us to take our way
in towards this.
Thank you very much.
Are we still calling them
Jota and Dubois?
If you want them.
I mean, even in this KL show,
that's fine.
Okay, great.
I think we go back
to the very original name
they had, which was
My Rainbow Lovely.
It's given to them
by our stage manager.
We have a rainbow of chance
ahead of us here.
Is it going to be
setting and glistening over
G2, or can the heretics find a way to pull this one together? If G2 win this, based on
the result that has just happened, they find themselves suddenly level on point with Falcons.
And well, that's not the way to start that. Goodbye, Benja. Goodbye, Benja.
Yeah, I just want the clips that you saw from them towards the back end of the segment earlier
on from the boys. They come at a very interesting time for Benja towards the back end of it.
being down so early on here and nothing else speaks towards heretics not wilting away from the challenge and why would you as well?
On a map like border you speak about it so often, you know, Tim hates this map because it often say, oh you know, it's very gunfight heavy
It is very aggressive. I'm like, yeah, you've got no choice. It's not playing coastline
You have to be aggressive on towards the attackers just like that. Oh, that's Criminals aura off from the star boy for this team
But didn't manage to complete the kill. That's a shame, but two are down doki
could you save this no one there's try and push on to him just yet by the
spin Pat last mo is here does he go left or right please look the right way
makes the cross can they swing it for him tries his very best I'm gonna get away
with the down the end I like the aggression but it does pull us down
so with three versus three I mean what do you do right queer you're gonna you're
gonna keep on you got another body to the pile they're holding on for a
second. They have the cross, the bees will come out and put a bit of awareness close
to the door itself. It's now at three versus two, but just look at that elf. They've all
been down a bit. It's a bit ridiculous, yeah. But somehow G2 still have the man advantage.
And it's the classic beautiful thing about seed one bullet is what it takes to finish
someone off regardless of what their HP is. So as long as G2 are crispy on their shots,
this one could still go their way. But again, I'll give it to Heretics. Their aggression
has been absolutely fantastic, not giving G2 any chance to get held.
Just waiting to see if they can catch anybody that might get a little bit loose.
They seem to have an idea on where people might be, but otherwise it's border.
Suddenly you're spraying through the soft from the other side of the map
and you can catch the wing of one of these remaining players, G2.
Don't have any bees left, a couple of frag grenades.
Otherwise just gonna sort of play themselves on the lead through with the guns itself
We'll see if that can be a little bit more
Just pulled out from the Intel side before they go for that final close down 30 seconds
And act we still finding himself in CC leaves Lolo a little bit alone
He just needs to make sure that he can catch this at the right time
It's almost the one versus two and then those two holding each other at bay on the other side where?
Are they gonna try and fill him in there? Go shine there.
He's gonna go for the plant. He's gonna see if he can lock it in.
Lolo doesn't know that he can close it down as Acby wins one.
How much of a divide has been crossed?
It doesn't matter, Heretics. They make that one count,
but they gave themselves the toughest road for it.
Patient, though. Very patient towards the end.
Knowing that G2 wouldn't just flood all three players on towards the plant there,
Stomping was looking...
Couldn't walk away with it, because they knew that he was coming in.
Deal with him, and then all eyes turn immediately on towards the plant.
Really good close-out in the round, and a great start to it as well. The aggression, but wonders.
You've got to take the fight to G2 if you want to be able to bring them down here.
After that first round, I'm excited to welcome Dext.
I mean, what a way to start, right?
What a way to start in the sort of heat of...
Oh, it's a battle.
I was like, well, battle is one thing.
I was about to say, like, the heat of summer, but it's not.
It just feels like it is.
I'm cooking. I'm cooking in my office.
Heads are melting.
It might mine and theirs, apparently.
G2, rough start that they almost pulled back.
I think they were sort of giving the opportunity to heretics.
They were dreaming a little bit, and I'm assuming
They're going to try and make sure that their punches are a little bit more put together as they build themselves up towards the bathroom site.
They'd get themselves the vertical hold. They've obviously got the chance for the mirror extensions, pretty standard catch onto anyone that might approach with shields, especially, right?
Doki's going to be in for a bit of pain if he goes any way that three of the roster's gone.
Yeah, I mean, Doki on shields. I feel... I've seen him on clash a few times, but shields overall, isn't it? Really Doki's thing.
I mean, you try to go south, got rid of Skeksig, and you try to get aggression.
Oh, yeah, okay. It's that kind of game. It's that kind of game.
Now keep on trying to go aggressive, but now G2 know what to expect.
They will be ready for it. Having that line on side, having the shield on side,
is only going to help them deal with that earlier aggression.
They want to just try and get the razor bloom.
As he said, it's more of an intel device at this point, as they hold themselves on towards each
stairs they'll just sort of watch the gadget tree fade away there's another one thrown at them
about the window and it's just harassing anything at this point. The C4 also doesn't catch anything
and this utility being sort of pulled in the opening minute what is he going to attempt here?
Isara has been the star boy for heretics the one that's largely
I don't want to say carried but it's a lot of focuses on him and enabling him to get kills
more than anything of course was neutered quite quickly in the first round all the madness that
kicks off last go though get it going question mark question mark get it in there no come on
i really want to give it back let's get the yeah let's get the temple drop in the game a bit more
but no 4v3 sorry take the chunk of damage there it stills all these little engagements happening
individually last week i find one more that actually gone and banjo a lion inside the site
Right, there's no kit.
A couple of bullets drifting on Bri, I guess.
You know, he's got time.
Nice.
Get rid of...
Shell.
Breathe. Calm.
Are you?
You were thinking of two?
Oh, I was seeing his name, if it lights, that's all I'm saying.
Yeah, but no.
Didn't quite manage to make the shot out there.
Again, a really good round from Heretics.
Will him to be aggressive.
Will him to put the heat onto G2.
Not sure how the hell doki managed to die there as the Monty, I think he was trying to vault in towards sight and got himself stung off the back of it, but much better this time around from heretics.
Arguably, I don't want to say lucky because they were unlucky in the previous round when they got what, three downs and didn't finish off a player?
That's a little bit ridiculous as far as luck goes. This time around though, it works out, they get themselves on the board.
Okay, there's a bit more of a solid round there. I think it's fair to sort of call that a locked in approach there from the side.
They get themselves two, it's sort of two on towards their defense here against G2 and
for everything that we've talked about with G2, obviously the roughest possible start
for them and then they bounce back and this is a map that they should be pretty locked
in on, they have a decent recent record on it, they obviously played it not too long ago
against Fnatic and most of that success was on their defense, they only won two attacks
on the other half, they only really need it. So it becomes a game where maybe the pressure
is in a slightly different position for how they like to approach it. Either way, I think
the bigger question that it starts to rise is more expectation. If you want to beat right,
Peretics, they've pulled off a blinder of a result before, but then they sort of look
towards how this game can go and where they can go with it and if this is peeled away
from them it just almost becomes another surprise result of you know like
falcons as lost before today and see if that is the heretical nature
Alabao, I'm on two and they're watching it it's a thin map and you know the
fight on these stairs is always vicious there's me for now patience
for your show Acre of course in a spot where I wasn't playing here for as long as
possibly can is trying to draw G to win wasted with utility as you possibly can
I thought for a second those Grimby's went down through the hatch you've had to
think some did so that's unfortunate won't get the full tag on towards him
he's okay to chill here sees the shield I don't think he wants to try and charge
onto the shield but almost gets tried out oh doki again nice shield player mate
I'm sorry you just not drop stock trying to be that guy you know you know I have
you know I have you're not a poke you know come on
Fengen does find out clearly in the split of it, but now it's a 4 vs 2. Shaka's taking a lot of damage.
And what have they got, really?
Themselves have dropped the site itself as a minute 40 left. They can peel their way back.
There's still a C4 and a pulse that can just read this game and read this intel. They're never really safe.
And he's got it ripped and ready, and okay, well, maybe they're safe, he missed.
But still, they've got to find their way in, try and isolate a fight, and look at the positions that heretics have taken.
dropped themselves entirely down, spread out as wide as possible, there's all the soft so as soon
as one person gets engaged it's so easy for any of the others to try and swing in. The only hope
they can try and catch somebody on its verticality but neither of them are best pressed for it.
They've just got to try and hammer the DMRs through and you can see the sort of lack of success
that's just had and heretics they move off. I was gonna say G2 really haven't got a lot to work
work with you. Two versus four for a start, but the only info you've got is where you
are now is clear. Upstairs is okay. Actual sighted itself, having to dig around as you're
seeing with shooting holes in the floor, trying to find players. Before Respects War Territics,
they're shown they can, oh, right to one end of the spectrum in terms of going aggression
and being very aggressive in the early round and trying to pick up a couple of kills and
often succeeding, but can also slow things down like this and sit back and just say,
fine, you guys want to just get your verticals done, you guys want to execute, you do that,
we'll play for the retake, and there we go. Shoko gets one, gets the tray, comes back
out the other way. That looks to be around. It's about to be done. Dust it.
And Benja just found one in the middle there. He's going to recollect the kit and he's just
spraying and hoping at this point. You think somebody's still in the corner?
Yeah, caught out on the buried camera. Where can he go? Really? They've peeled themselves
back. The solid's above. Yeah. He's locked out.
That's just a small, smart play. If they both drop through the hatch and both go on the
top floor, retakes top floor.
Well rehearsed, well played here, from heretics, and actually keep struggling.
Obviously they've come off the back of a decent run of rounds, but think about how the first
round went as well, which would be the closest round that we've seen between these two teams,
and they were what it was. I don't remember how many of them were down outside.
and Jesus can't get a grip on the game like if you put in doki on shield for two of the three rounds
Something has probably gone very very wrong and that's not me once again trying to take the opportunity to say that
I don't think doki's a shield player, but he's one of your entries
But that is his job is to be the entry and yes once you can play entry
Yes, he can take space for you
But lethality is what you want to match up against the aggression coming out of these heretics players and they just can't match it right now
They are being completely outdone and this is the game that I thought looking at today would be a similar result to g2's
two seven two women they had yesterday. They absolutely stomped their way over shifters and given heretics are right at the bottom of the table.
This is a game that everyone's looking at and saying, yeah, I'll put my channel points on that for G2.
There could be a lot of very, very sad faces coming off the back of this game if it doesn't improve for G2 and hope for the back of the time out.
We can see just that we get that full rotation of those three sides again, but the game plan has to change for G2.
interesting to see a thatcher band coming out by the way, obviously in that picture at all,
or maybe reading in towards what they expect CG to do, or it means heretics want to play
their own very C4 focused denial strat on towards plants here, that's why they've got
three in the round with no way if you'd stop them outside of shooting them out of the sky.
It's also the sort of history of how things have gone recently, because I mean think about again,
you know, how the splits started for them, they're too great, they've had the loss of their
They go into Twisted Binds, they then have the loss against Falcons, then they find a bit of form and the form gets better and better, and over the past two play days they lost two rounds, a 7-0 and a 7-2, and then it's this, and it's three rounds taken away from them, and as you said, they don't seem to have an answer, so we'll see if any of the approach
peels itself a bit different because they want to make sure suddenly they're not on
the other side of that form and then that's the form that they have to run
out towards the end of the split itself the preparation their hands off and
he's not steel playing a man!
yeah stop!
third round it's just been gunned down that's even nothing all we've done is
moved Benja away from playing on Grim and saying forget about it so I play in
line let's go and play snatch instead that'll fix all our issues i'm sorry boys it ain't not a lot
of change and yet again heretics are now going to bully you sorry belly crush out no i think that
was a fair crash out um acree crush is stomping out the round as well and it's a little bit rough
here again zara gets one has alamalt trades out on towards acree but the round doesn't last much
longer. There's something about this from heretics as well, that although I'll talk
about the heat of the summer, they're cool in their heresy. They're enjoying themselves.
This isn't an intensity from them. It's just controlled.
It's excellent. I will give it to that. This isn't kids randomly running out in ranks and
just trying to be the hero, like popping everyone with the boss gear, whatever. This is coordinated
aggression because when you get a run out from one, they turn to try and deal with that.
Then you get someone else popping out somewhere else, you get C4 coming up from below, you
get Paul scans on to where the remaining players are.
They are so well informed and the game plan they've brought into this border is ridiculously
impressive from Heretics, but I'm nervous for G2.
They haven't figured out an answer to the problem, they're still trying the same things
we've seen them try, round after round, and it still hasn't worked out.
I can't believe that we've got a team that wants to be the best in Europe right now,
struggling this much against a team down at the bottom.
And that is full credit over towards Heretics, by the way.
Zahra is once again up there on the kills as we come to expect watching these boys.
Well, Aquey has been the one playing in these hot positions where he can make runouts happen,
where against a team like Balkans, honestly, I think he gets bullied and pressured out of any
power spot that he tries to play in. Well, GCR just not putting the pressure in the right areas here,
and he's being able to play with far more freedom than he should be allowed to.
Four in a row at this point, and they've locked it down. And you know, classic line,
Game two halves, classic line of this time to go on towards it, but as I said it's...
...Akwe's been brilliant. The Zara's been able to put some damage in. Lolo hasn't died yet.
There just seems to be this steadiness towards the roster that they can play.
Oh dear. That doesn't count as a death.
And I think because it's inside the first 30, they'll get the Rihos, but of course they'll wait for admins to verify on that one.
Honestly, it sounds silly to say, but I think G2 actually going to benefit the motions.
Yeah, a few seconds or a few minutes just to just sit and think, right, what is going wrong here?
How do we keep on losing?
What can we do to fix this situation?
Of course, they can't talk to each other and figure out what the tactics need to be here.
If they talk about that, they'll get in trouble.
They can normally talk about other things.
But I think a few minutes to breathe and think about what do we keep on losing to here?
How can we deal with that?
They can bring those ideas in after this tech pause.
But I think honestly losing four rounds already on the attack.
that's already a death sign for this map. Yeah, it becomes that I'm gonna say to a degree a worrying
element right the fact that they've already had all these rounds taken away from them the fact
that as well the other results that have happened stayed fine as I said before if they can win this
with a clean 3-0 they jump their way up there on the 4-2 split same as Falcons they find themselves
around that echelon of second place but if this goes away from them well then you're looking at
paratix, getting themselves a bit further up the board. We obviously still have games
left to play of teams that are below G2 at this point. Shifters, they pulled three points.
They found themselves leveled with G2 and then it starts to become a little bit of,
oh, no, they're getting caught in and amongst this sort of brawl in the middle of the leader
boards. And then you look towards the rest of the sort of games that they have in hand.
they still have to get through
furthest pro, which is their
next game. Then next play day.
And imagine going into that
game that is going to be hotly
contested that is against the
top team, and you've trucked
points against the team at the
bottom of the board. The sort of
mental bounce back that you have
to make over the periods. It's
not the easiest. I was curious
what docus. That's where I'm
days he's played it nine times yeah I'm sent actually about there were five of
those nine rounds in that time he's got one kill as you probably expect not many
on Monty seven deaths in the entry deaths twice if you add in the ones from
this game those numbers start to get a little bit worse this is dying the entry
the previous round has been gunned down obviously in three of them now and playing
on the operator I just really think they've got a step away from the shield
here if you're gonna play a shield pick one that matches the intensity of
heretics player blitz people into get aggressive onto somebody because playing
this slower, more composed style. I like bringing the steak by the way, the steak and the grim.
Great. Love those. The other three are your flex picks you can make. Change up what you're
bringing alongside those Intel-based operators. There's a lot of flexibility on border, not loads
of walls that you have to worry about opening up, so don't need tons of hard breach. You can
afford to bring hard breach charges if you feel you really need them. They've just got to bring
something else here to get them back online. Otherwise, the result just carries on playing
the game. I think that's the
exact same way. Well time for
them to sort of sit and bask in
where things have gone wrong. I
think there's an element. I know
that we sort of said it will
plant or could potentially
plan towards GT's favor, and
that's true. I think the fact
that heretics haven't been
playing very sort of like high
intensity, high adrenaline
stage like it costs to the
camera. They're chilling. They're
It gives the element that this probably isn't going to slow them down too much as well because
their pace has been relaxed, their control of the game has been relaxed. They're sort
of just sort of laying the trap and they've shown different elements of pace.
You say it's relaxed. It's aggressive but controlled aggression and therefore you look
relaxed, doesn't it? Yeah.
I think, yeah, I'm not saying they're sort of resting on their laurels, but you look
through the cameras. Compare it to the Virtus.Pro game earlier where after every single round,
volume, big shouts, high adrenaline. Stopping that creates a weird feeling in your body
and creates stress and anxiety. This chilling. Just chill guys. Chill guys playing Siege.
Okay, when we get back into things in just a moment, I am very keen to see if G2 have
learned any lessons. Really, you can get to a spot on a map like this. Well, the thing
is, because we're on the attacking side for them, maybe this isn't quite true. You're
team to do better on attack than on defense but yeah if we were going into the second half 5-1
off the back of defending and you were going into the attack I feel quite optimistic for G2
but it's because they've been hammered so much on their own attacking half that I'm a little bit
nervous G2 historically have always been a very good attacking team alongside Secret for the longest
time those two teams were always fighting at international tournaments to be the best attacking
teams going that if that now falls apart in this game and you lose the main edge that you bring to
to a competitive match and you're relying on your defenses. While they're still good,
I think you're inviting a war of trouble from heretics. So again, they've got to be commended
for the game plan here. They've come in and absolutely battered G2 so far.
Oh, it's been so solid. And I think, you know, how much of this is the sort of counter
prep? We obviously saw this map very recently. And I guess that's the element I'd said before
with G2, where they won that out. And they won that out primarily on their defense. They
able to take the same site twice on attack and that was enough when you got towards it but
how much of it builds itself into its counterpart because well there was also the recent
heretics game on it against Virtus Pro and you know that went very much away from them
but against against Virtus Pro it becomes difficult to get that sort of balance
still. High preference map for both these teams. You know what I was thinking earlier,
what I think is going to be very interesting to see how it develops is we speak about the
matchups that a lot of teams have got left. This is, you know, three playdays remaining
after we're done with today. Yep, G2 against Virtus.Pro have kind of already spoken about.
I think G2 might meet their maker on that day anyway. It then plays Ficra, who played
a very good game today against Vistive Minds and BGK yesterday. We then got on the final
play day GK who are no slouches. They had a hell of a run at EWC, so on a spot where
I'm thinking, GT maybe can win one of those three maybe to a push if they play well against
GK, but they want to be careful not to go off the boil here because if they find themselves
finishing in fifth sixth, then one that really throws things up in the air anyway, but if
you finish in fourth place, you get matched up against the top team in the very first
round. That's not fun. If you want to be finishing realistically, I'd say in second and third
maybe, because then at least you've got a chance against a team who's slipped slightly
below the one in top spot. Right now that top spot team is Virtus.Pro. So I'm just like,
I don't know, don't even have a response from me independently. I said, you know, playing
Virtus.Pro is always really hard. So you get some really well with them. He loves playing
against them, but they are a pain in the ass to play against. And I'm just worried that
if Virtus.Pro finishing four, in first, GC go fourth, they get matched up against Virtus.Pro.
They get dragged down into the drakes of that lower bracket. And given they missed out on
EWC, they cannot afford to be missing out on Osaka. They cannot.
No, well, this is also the split of it as well as you look towards what their or what the league's general performance is and you say the teams that they still have up and coming. And yes, it's a different secret roster and part, but secret who ran fifth eighth at EWC recently, GK, obviously,
they changed but like they had a great run recently the recency bias plays
against you to who could not make it towards an international stage and then
you look towards well the biggest one that we're sort of building up towards
which I believe had maybe presale tickets released today I'm could get crazy
am I correct are you correct upon such a meteor earlier on I believe yes oh gang
I think that was something about
it where we sort of had this
moment of being like this isn't
just a siege tournament. This is
like a life experience. Yeah.
And not what they're going to
say it. I cried after the end of
the grand final one being caught
up in the emotions in the moment,
but also seeing handy and need
to be able to do something about
it. I think that was a great
the moment, but also seeing
my brother's back home as well.
And I was just like, man, that was like, really, that hit hard, man.
That hit really hard.
My brother doesn't play video games.
I do like one of them does.
The one doesn't really, but it was just seeing that like moment of like, you know, you've
won the SI on home soil, like you've been chased it for ages.
And your first thought isn't, oh, yeah, celebrate with the team or a brother sad, you know, going
going round to that side of the stage, lifted his hand and parading around as an absolute
champion himself. I was just like, that is so selfless and shows so much love for family
that I thought it was just so sweet. It's great. I think it's one of the greatest
these force moments of all time. 100%. 100%. So if you want to see that happen again,
then you've got to come to our side. Oh, buy your tickets.
Space could be the first and only team I'd imagine ever to win three hammers in a row
if they do on home soil. And you know they won it because that's like the crowning achievement.
Okay, so we are in a third rehost now, it turns out, but a couple of lobby misconfigurations.
To you at home, this is one rehost to us. This is three rehosts.
Yes, this is one long rehost for you, but we get the comms on the case. Sometimes something
goes wrong. There's a miscosis, like configuration, whatever, and we have to go again. So we are
going again. Maybe it's the heat of summer. Maybe we were forming
heresy. I am. Okay. Now this is a lark story. I can't really get into that. I'm being, I'm
being done for heresy at lark, which is a strange sentence to say out loud. I'm a
You're being done. Hang on. No, no, no. It didn't get to talk about garden. You can talk
about lark. What's going on? Okay. Okay. Where do I begin? For those who don't know,
I, I do a lot of medieval fighting. I put on armor and I beat people up with swords.
It's all classes and all sorts of cool. I do. If ever, if ever we get rewound 1000 years,
the first person I'll turn to help me out in a fight.
Oh, the amount of times I have pitched content
where I get to put on my armor and fight people
is it's in the double figures at this point.
And production is still shed now, it's expensive.
The idea of me being like, can I fight?
No, you cannot, like, but no.
Yeah, I, you know, I go to these activities,
I'm not sure how many, but I
have a lot of people who have
also led. One and a half
thousand people in a fight on
the weekend. That was a
casual activity. Um and now
because apparently I'm
worshipping a magical lion
woman. I might be killed. So
that's that's how my weekend
went. How about your good? How
did my weekend go? Yeah, what
did I do? I think I played a
lot of games this weekend.
Actually I was way last week
on Sunday night in SAO, good day.
Otherwise, it was just playing a lot of video games.
It felt like I was having withdrawals from,
I'll say it whatever,
withdrawals from playing War Dogs,
so I was like, I've gotta get back,
I've gotta play it, and so I sunk a good,
God knows how many hours in this Saturday.
A lot, is what I was saying.
I do love the comparison where I'm like,
yeah, I was doing this on the weekend,
playing make believe with a sword and armor,
and even I was trying to make believe
in a video game about war,
so I might have been more like in the war.
I was, I saw Alien Aris, you saw Alacante, similar things.
It means very little to most people.
We'll be back in the game in a second. Sorry, we can talk about gardens.
I hate my garden. I despise having a garden.
Why?
I don't like gardening. I don't know why I got a place with a garden.
I get it.
I know what I was thinking.
So we had ours done and said we want a low maintenance garden.
And we were just like, there's no one
that's got to be out there every day looking after it.
And then once every couple of weeks,
it's probably going to be enough.
Not realizing, we have the second,
I believe it's the second gardener's,
please do not come from my head,
your shovels, everything else.
I believe we have the second worst weed
you can have in your garden, which is called horsetail.
Japanese knotweed famously, very, very bad.
Horsetail has got like a silicon covering over it.
So when you try and spray weed killer on it,
it doesn't actually die.
And the boar was like six meters underground.
So you can never truly kill it.
You're just trying to control it all the time, and that means you've got to cut the weeds, spray it,
so it actually soaks down into the root a little bit, and then it goes away for a few weeks,
then it comes back, and it is just...
And I've had it dug up so many times, a new weed mat's laid down, and probably I'm just just trying to weed kill her.
Don't play seals, don't group!
Um...
Yeah, it's been a nuisance.
I think I've got to do it one more time this weekend, and then winter, and then it'll die over winter, it'll be okay.
I've got to get out there this weekend and do a load of weed digging and horse tail killing.
But this is really what we thought about during this whole re-host boys.
Okay.
I mean, there are other changes. I'll give that. There's a glass. This is so fair.
We can hold the Grimm and the Snake, like I said earlier. Don't mind that.
But, let's just not die as the entry doki. Please. I'm begging you.
On my hands and knees, brother. Come on.
Well, this is gonna fuel you for your gardening. It's the anger of this moment.
Like, bottle this up, wait for doki to probably die as one of the first two bodies,
and then put that into a lot of the Japanese knotweed.
Hey, maybe. Maybe they found a new synth.
There's also something I've forgotten about me and my laughing, but I'll get to that after this round
Which is a real small world thing. Yeah, okay
Come on, we'll see if he gets the first one gone. I just I'm just gonna go quiet
If he's the first one gone, I'm gonna let him go
Okay, nice. Good. He backs away. If you drop the shield and try to vote in there, he was dead to rise
So thank god
Okay, so they're watching for the swing out. That's what got him last time
Of course they're being wow
I mean, I said this before, the previous map, when we talked about what makes Neko so good
as a shield, is happy to be the point man and the leads behind it.
This is the other side of shields, where it's a cautionary tale and it's a cautionary approach
and they're not trying to take the engagements and it's not really like the G2 that we know.
And we love so much, Benja hurts, but they're in, Doki has a bit of a pin in his foot, at
least.
They're playing for us. There's Shaiiko getting one as well.
G2, they've wrapped their way around, in towards the side itself, something's in the middle of the secondary.
Test 3-1 and 4 versus 3 versus 1.
Doki will survive this round potentially. Yes!
Okay.
And Breathe, G2 fans. They managed to find themselves around.
And literally it was, you know what, it was a fair way to do it. Like, slow things right down.
They're still trying to play aggressive and they're still trying to play up in your face.
just chill a little bit, breathe.
Like, there's not a lot of map to clear on board.
You can afford to make good use of those whole three minutes
that you get to play with inside of a round,
and that's exactly what they've done.
Much better.
If Doki dropped the shield and tried to vault in through that window,
I would have screamed.
It's on guard that he didn't.
Can I tell you one more very quick thing about...
Yeah, do it. I'm walking.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Okay, so one of the people who is involved in this stuff,
who is a writer of the game,
cost EV sports.
Oh, really?
Was EV sports everything? I know that EV has got a huge world around it, but what the hell?
Yeah, I asked one day, I was like, can you explain how it went?
So we were curious and he went confusingly.
Um, so, no big sense, but...
Shout out, shout out, Posh.
I just know that there's those big server-wide fights and EV, like, $500,000 is lost.
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's... it's ridiculous.
Anyway, sorry, I had to just do one more, because this is the person who's gonna get my character killed.
Maybe I'll tell you when I go and chat him out.
That's like, four one, four one heretics.
Enough about my heresy, let's have a look at yours.
Can you get yourself a fifth?
Because to be honest, who does?
I still think four is pretty good.
The problem is, Doki's back on a shield.
That's not the full problem.
It was successful last round.
The problem is, they've had a chance to breathe
and it might feel like that momentum of four ounces
too far away.
No, Cezara.
Get the front door!
I think I was just on front door. He's just...
He's just won't go out and band him.
Disappeared back into the map again. Easiest pie.
There was he. Yeah, Alomar was...
He was trying to get Zahra to stay.
He tried to lie down under the door to shoot him a thing
and then Zahra just leaned in through the doorway.
So unfortunate.
Nice attempts.
But again, heretics are not going to let you rest.
Well, they're waiting underneath.
Ready for the catch here.
They're going for the rotate round.
They still have the support structure around.
Doki who's half health and when you're up against,
obviously a lot of the traps that he is. I mean he's going into the absolute
challenge of a lot that impact will be impactless. They'll peel their way back,
they're ready for somebody else to swing around. But still, think about what he's
got. Elamines, he's got obviously the razor blooms, the smokes, all and also
lesion. We don't really care about Aquey, because Aquey's gone at this point, but
there's just a minefield.
I'm not as sour as it looks as well. He was underneath the impact and I thought maybe
50 impacts the hatch there, he makes Doki drop down or at least manages to get a kill.
But they have long pass through now, they're off towards E switch, normally it's where
a shield would start, their entry into the map that he's trying to force his last player
out is Skepticus down here.
Pull over these goo mines around with him as well to make Doki's lipole if he chases
too far.
Doki now talks into a bit of a corner which is not a fantastic spot to be in admittedly.
Right he's out, we're good, we're good, we're good, he's gone.
We're safe. We're safe. Where is Doki? Where is he?
Trying to build his way down the stairs.
Shackles got the cross. They've got a minute.
Look at the player inside Passport as well.
They still have that cross fight.
They could still go for a little bit of a backstab.
It's Zaro who's been so active out and about,
and they might be able to find themselves one more.
And that's the problem, because this is that deadlock
that has to be cleared across.
There's one on the default plant spot.
Find it and just on the tuck.
But there's still bodies above.
They're still quite aggressive front line. There's nobody inside the bar. Oh man.
Zara's patience. This impact, as I was speaking about earlier, that could have been put on towards 90
to get the player on the hatch. It was Doki and one of them, I think it was Stompin.
It's held onto it this whole time. Could burst into passport as they execute
and kill everyone. This could be massive. You can see the steady encircling. There's the spray
through. There's a lot of damage. Stops them on. He's dead in the tracks and Skeptic takes the front.
Stomp in, gets one back for the pressures on towards Doki, they're so low and so close and
Benja and Stomp in need to find some way to offer some structural support here, it's a 3 vs 3
5 but 10 seconds and Zara breathes his way out and cuts through Stomp in, there goes Doki,
there goes Benja and there, there goes a 5-1, heretics half and they've played it brilliantly but
let's see what our desk think.
What we think is, well Leo, I just heard you say that's beautiful, that's beautiful, that's beautiful.
About this Eretik's team, they've been looking beautiful.
How they've been looking? Beautiful?
Beautiful, yeah, absolutely beautiful.
Honestly, just look at that last one, okay?
You have, Skeptik in his stairs, 120.
He manages to get away after burning a lot of time.
They have left LASMO in the archives, so that guy can flank up top.
They have set up Zara on Yela, ready to impact
And going to customs and backstab where whoever is bottom square skeptic has position himself onto the bomb site
You have Lolo in Sarah with the gas grenades and everyone knows that the wind condition is denied the plant and flanking at the right time
And how do they do it count down three two one everyone together?
I'm just here for it and before that look at the amount of rounds that they win just on flags
Yeah, it was an absolute movie from team harrots. It's and I think nobody really really saw this coming
I mean, yes, we said they're doing better, but we hadn't seen them be this significantly better to go and take it to G2.
I will say absolutely loved the Nomad ban. Mentioned it right at the start.
Banning Nomad on that breakthrough door. Like that position is so strong. Everybody knows that everybody plays it.
As soon as you ban it, it means you can get out. It means you can get aggressive.
And you look at this, you just see it's an absolute frag montage from the side of Team Heretics.
Even into that final round, they didn't let the big rehost disrupts the Neva, which I think was a real risk at one point as well.
So it's come out, there's 5-1, Defending Boulder, which isn't the advantage side either, is absolutely superb.
And we also have to ask the question though, of course, when you look at a team like G2, what's going wrong here, Leo?
Because as much as we can compliment Heretics, there have been some pretty significant gaps that G2 are not addressing, and that's why they're in this pickle.
I'll be honest, I don't think they know. No, just listening to the comments, they don't know what's going on.
They're sterling, and I will tell you what's going on right now.
Team Heretics have prepped this matchup really well, they've come up with really good innovative strats,
they have rehearsed these strats and they're playing them by the book really well.
I'm not sure this is going to last long, they will need to reinvent themselves, you know,
the next few times that they will play Border, but for now within this game that is enough
and G2 is not used to that playstyle and it's exactly what's working.
The biggest compliment we can actually play Heretics is that the words that came out of,
I think it was Doki's now, was I don't have a clue what to do, like I don't know what to do,
like they can't run everything, they're ready for everything. G2 would literally void of ideas inside of their attack half,
which isn't something that really you would expect from the side of Heretics, and G2 won't underestimate them.
We can't sit here and say, oh, this is a big surprise because G2 are underestimating them.
You know, Doki said yesterday in the interview, we said it on social media as well.
This is going to be a hard game. We're ready for this game. Heretics are looking better and better,
and still, they're at the point where it's 1-5.
A four-round comeback is what G2 needs, not the thing we thought we'd be saying as we
headed into the second half.
So will it be the end of the story, quite brisk, or will there be a continuation of
a tale that gets told of the heroic response and revival, and instead everything otherwise
taken away from them?
stories can be written in front of us Terry can indeed and I think Leo kind of
picks upon it they just look prepared and a little quick digging back into the
history of heretics on this map and over the last month or so I've only played it
once what other player we glaze a lot today already me
no it was it was and you can probably guess then two weeks ago who
heretics lost this map 732 and what Naco played an awful lot of inside of that
game it was hell of a lot of shields. Virtus.Pro won three of the four attacks
that they got to execute onto heretics and I currently imagine heretics have come
away saying we are never getting bullied by shields on this map again we will have
an answer we'll figure our way through. Did they anticipate that Doki would jump
over and play on the shields? Probably not to be honest with you like I don't think it's a
super common thing we'll see G2 doing like I know again nine times over the
last year it's not a big part of their wheelhouse it's not the sort of thing
You'll see them do they certainly didn't last time they played in this map. I'll and I'll played it a little bit
I've been getting it in two rounds. He played shields a blitz and a Monty
But either way it works out. Doki's gone cool. We'll slow things down with a Monty and heretics go perfect
This is exactly what we prepped for this is what we learned from a couple of weeks ago
And so GC are very much playing into their hands and also the death set
They're Doki saying well they can hear him of course they get to listen to some of the comms
Who saying I just don't know what to do. I hope to God they know what to do here in these next couple of rounds
So this could be over
Shaggo's able to find the first, and ooh, just misses out on the second, there's a fire
round on the top, Skeptic is taking all the damage, but in the meantime, Zara goes down,
trying to get themselves back up. Oh no, you can't! Not when you have been shot in the
face. Well, there's a bit of a failure to launch, Stumpid takes a bit of damage on the
wiggle fight on the door itself, but at this point, they're just outside hoping to pull
a body or two before they can, if you try and get inside, but I mean, look what the kid
look what the spread is, and they kind of just re-purposing themselves here.
Tchaikov picks up another for the round, and that leaves Lolo all alone alone.
Chips their way back on, but I mean, they've just built a wall here of bodies.
Let's get one.
You can see that the pressure's coming round bit by bit.
Goodbye.
Okay.
When these things go, like, can't complain so much about how G2 have managed to figure things out in that round.
Just being aware of the aggression coming in, it was a good attempt, I will say, from heretics.
This massive explosion inwards with all the utility going off at once.
They lost those two initial entry gunfights.
If you used to be able to get us around like that to work out, you need to be securing a couple of kills.
You need to cause absolute chaos on the other side.
Otherwise it's like, cool, we hold, we've got a kill, we slow them down.
We've taken away crucial utility from them.
If you get those first couple of kills, that's when the comms start going to crap.
Everyone's just like, he's on the left side of the area, he's over there, over there, over there, over there.
And then before you know it, everybody's dead.
It's hard to stay calm in those situations, but G2 did a really good job there of holding on and putting up a good first defence.
Are we going to see this be a very defender sided border?
I suspect we might.
Listen, sometimes those kind of games happen and, oh when did that happen?
Oh, when G2 played this against Fnatic not too long ago, they lost the opening attack.
They lost the opening defence, sorry, and then won all of the other five defences.
That's the, it's so possible that we find ourselves all the way into Wino T because
of that.
It's just the nature of the beast sometimes, whether it's the sort of meta, whether it's
just have teams of feeling themselves in that sort of period of time or going against their
opponents.
We might be finding ourselves there sooner rather than later.
Still, since we have, feels like a bit of a long game with that tech pause towards the,
towards the end of the middle.
weird as it is to say. We'll see how much more energy it can be driven in. Quick
collapse, quick attention towards the run-outs. Sorry there's no mad great
operator on this map just the sort of limits and obvious sprint outs and
rotations as we saw utilizing the previous rounds will lead to you fall for
any of the bait. Well I think the way G2 have actually lined up for this round is quite
smart. Like more than anything else towards the warden which of course can
deal with utility that might otherwise be punishing. I'm more looking towards the
sold us in the mute when I say about this because looking at what's on the other side
they're leaning so hard into interlops. The Demos and the Snake being the obvious ones
but of course also the Grim. They're relying on being able to snip out Jitsu and force
them back making use of that utility but both have a response in the mute. Or Doki of course
being able to take away drones and other things that might support them in getting into the
building. It's kind of going to force heretics to slow down. They won't be able to rush as
they did last time. And the thing given how the first half went, Jitsu were going to feel
far more comfortable when this game is slow which feels like a very rare thing to say.
They're one of the more chaotic explosive teams that we have in EML, but in this game, they are being put to task and are having to change their play style on the fly.
Well, this is one of the longest rounds we've had where every player has still stayed standing, but Lolo takes a bit of damage from Gumi, as the bees hit their way on towards Stompin, so they're sort of trying to measure each other up, but Stompin measures.
bit taller. Aqui. Gone. Grim. Gone. On for Aqui, unfortunately, hasn't quite found any
success since the time now, but here's Zara. He's going to try and cut his way across
the core of the site to the rotations. He can assume someone has tucked around onto
bathroom. He's going to try and apply the pressure on the back end, and the meantime
skeptic is out of it, so it's going to be an important fight to win, and, well, he doesn't.
Just didn't check the corner. Benjy was on. More than happy to stay in the bathroom,
this a two versus five to match the five versus two quickly becomes a five versus one and we might
see a five versus three in a second there's at least one and two last move swings on a dime and
deposits the money for this haste but with 40 seconds no kit mix of utility left in his pocket
no kit being on the second story oh it's gonna have to be an external rotate to get this back in
But it's that patting maybe more than anything else I imagine for him here
There's no way you can of course bring down all three players and get the diffuser down or just kill three
That also works pretty fine
But G2R just not gonna let that one happen
Especially you've got Doki on side here playing on the shoulders
I'll kill see if that plant tries to go down so you just will not have the time before she this one
Will see them going over the line gotta say stomp is the one starting to put up some big numbers by the way
No, of course we we've seen four of the rounds wiped out from the stats
He had a really rough start to the game, but it's really growing back into I think he was like zero and four
start of things but has now got to a stage where he's very much online in this half.
Feel is going to start to be a bit of a turnaround for G2 because across both of these rounds it
doesn't really feel like we've seen heretics get close. Only one player killed on the side of G2
in the last round and only two in this one. Well the vibes are a bit more up, they could be lower
than before and that's a quick timeout. It both means with a round two timeout in the half by
by the way, it's worth stressing. It makes sense. It's going to make sense to stop it
before it becomes within touching distance, right? We've certainly gone from what was
a very dominating position and very controlled position to, oh no, the distance is now only
two rounds. The distance is almost three defences in a row. And when they've hit that, well,
you know, you've got to go to those sites again. And it becomes the same things that
we almost talked about in the first half. It doesn't feel like the attacking team have
a response towards what the defending team would do it.
I do sound corrected by the way. As always our eagle eyed, I'm just loving seeing, telling
me no, it was actually round three that you'd have there in that timeout.
How do you point it out? Just tell me I'm an idiot. It's fine. I don't mind being told
I'm an idiot.
You're an idiot.
Thank you very much. At least you feel so much better.
I think it was Parker, a month or two ago, put on a post about why like casters don't
always correct each other and, you know, want to sort of play through it. And then I'm
thinking about all the times that I've cast, especially British casters, and it's immediately
no you're an idiot. This is where you're going.
That's the way.
Yeah.
There's more you have to do brain cells.
Yeah.
Yeah, sometimes we've got to run together and hope that sparks come.
Will they pull on the rotation?
What's changed here, I guess, from the lineup and the approach?
Two shields is currently on the board and a lot of blind.
Yeah, I mean G2 found what they've got I should at this point believe is winning the formula, right?
Like again, it was new in this whole list of slow down heretics bring the pace of the game down to level it G2
I've come to within can manage the war non-side in case of yin comes along or a blitz comes along like we're seeing in this
Rang heretics. I was curious. That's the line of poor change away
Everything in this line of screams. They're gonna go for a focused execute. Yeah, having the EMPs the thatcher on side
You don't bring that along to guarantee you can open up a wall normally
That's more of anything else I expect. One try and deal with C4s, but two also look for those mute jammers
I know it kind of sounds weird to say, but it just lets them move through the map a little bit easier
Got to get blinds like there were a couple of times in the previous round
They realized the best to win against them knew. I wouldn't be horribly shocked to see it band away in the next round and away from
Benja
I think that's all the years of Cas Benja since he was like 16 17 years old
Anyone when he was playing over in the Nordics
He was an unbelievable mute player C4s or the SMG didn't matter what he had
He was collecting kills upon that's what things taking that off him. It's probably a good idea given how much trouble it's caused paratix
G2 if they can get this round if they can take the victory after the timeout and just level things or getting close to level even
It's a rush that they're gonna have to play against that's the run of the smokes
There's the drive of the attention checker was playing above and here it being pop this pressure all the way in that
Aquee's able to get one, its Lolli gets a second and they have not expected this.
Another smoke drop, a little bit of pressure, another swing round.
They've gone deep and deep, and the impact is impactless as it's a 3 vs 4 post plant.
Still somebody outside the window itself.
There's a C4 that just wants to loop over the top, but it won't net or reward either.
They cannot get anything from you.
So Lee Alamance is able to find a fight.
At least they drive themselves in, the pressure on, but there's still one shield standing.
There's still somebody outside the window, they cross the divide.
five seconds, the timer has
gone. No, they're finally
getting themselves on towards
the kit. They missed the player
in deep from passport. They
check it out and they hold down
a precious 10 seconds, one there
and they're able to slip their
way around the fight. There was
last most the winner, one versus
one, but he's too far out, Zara.
Catch it. And now that's the
lock in they needed. And that
is guaranteed points from the
game. Honestly, Zara absolutely
loves passport. You see him play
on both attacking defense now
and use it to great effect.
That explosive was quite
Literally with the impact now back on the defensive side to try and interrupt the plant coming in from g2
He had just now sat there waiting for his opportunity with full visibility into war site and up the corridor as well
He's played it so ridiculously well, and we saw it in the lineup
We knew what was coming but look at the bands that have come in they're taking the thatcher away
That is mental problem now being with the warden taking offline
They are just gonna run ying basically every single round and punish the living death out of g2. I
I mean, just snappy playing, drove their way into the back, you can almost see there was
a check that Shiko made down from the hatch half a second before the rush came in, and
half a second before it sort of turned away, maybe expected it to be watched inside the
site and got to give credit for how far they drove and G2 just didn't expect them to go
as deep as they did to coverage from Passport, I mean they've played the space really well
but they're attacking their defense I think. They've made sure that it can be a permanent point of threat.
I'm sorry it turned to success on towards that side.
Now three chances. Three chances for heretics to take a full three points from these three chances
for them to catapult their chances up from pretty much the chopping block
and refusing this to be the day that heretics died.
It's going to make things very, very interesting in that scrap of 56th place if Heretics can
win this.
Though Duel women's weight plays, they'll knock a belief fanatic down a place as well
at least for now.
Fatica of course still got to play.
Then they can start putting a challenge on towards Secret.
Shifters, you know, maybe even G2 and Twisted Minds if things don't go so well for them
over the next few games as well.
It certainly keeps the interest in where Heretics won't be sat at the bottom of the
table.
We'll be here.
Rebels down there by the end of the day, which is not a great spot for Rebels to be
in granted.
But, what I said around this would be, what a surprise for us, all we would be is well, the game that again, I looked at at the start of the day and thought this one would be the most decisive.
It has proved to be very decisive, but so far only towards one side. I think heretics have probably got, they can smell the blood now, they know that they can get this done in this round.
Playing it much further than the last, but it is still execute focus. You don't bring sense and capital unless you've got something in mind.
This first engagement could be one of those that dictar face stompin has been electric
since they rehosted.
Well there's one more, almost two.
You can see Akley's gone down in the same breath as well.
Bencher locks that killer in and what a failure to launch that spin Zara!
What a bit of magic to respond with Gets 2.
You can see a third body try to just get something back make sure they can keep some of the balance
But last row get Shiko in the same breath
The heroics have stomped it unfortunately on the tail to be told here
The three versus two Alamal and Tokyo back line. It's otherwise been a bit batched about throughout this series
Have to try and keep their team swinging here
Zara last moment Lolo
They're closing themselves in, they still have a lot of gadgetry and utility between the sort of
pair of them, a single smoke canister and two impacts to stop it alongside any ASCO cams that
might be alive. They're well aware. Yeah. It's a nice job. Beautiful take there, Des. Yeah, both
available, they can see a lot. They've got one-tied armory, one-off towards officers, they've got full
coverage with those echo drones on what's going on. That means these two can both be guns up,
They can just wait down towards his final 50 final smoke comes out
Although in last row last row almost had a pretty big end into the previous round
Could this be his time to shine they've both got native by the way, they can force him out from half wall
But no back away instead
Pretty wild rotate there as well just sort of sprinted and trusted that it was being watched
Maybe I'm gonna debate the player into a swing there and
The long watch a last mode but at this point now in the two versus two 25 seconds
it goes in towards the defenders favor because at some point well right now it
turns into a two versus one oh no it is two versus one Lolo tried to bait the
swing couldn't quite get it and Turkey and Alamo they held firm really force
anything at this point he's got across the divide he does it with a second
green sort of scrappily hoping for the engagement g2 they survive just about
Yeah, that was a scary almost turn around men too. Like when it came down to the couple of kills going over to Zara
I was like, there's no way this man is I know what he's flashed. He's standing in the middle of a crossbar
He should be dead to right. You know what's going when the flash comes in
Just about managed to hold on and pull it back though
I'll am on doki clutching a big towards the end there to see it over the line
That's round 10 two more to go
To send us to O.T. Of course, we're stressed and GC don't get to walk away with all three points at the very least
Parasix still have that potential. They've just got to get one attack right. They've already done it once.
Need to do it around 11 or in round 12. Even the one they did when they came down to that 1v1 being won by Zara.
It's close. Very, very close. What a game he's turning into.
Still a distance. Still a little bit of a divided cross and that's kind of the reverse problem.
problem as I said before G2 and they were on their tax when they won this map only
needed to make it count in the second half by winning the same site twice
heretics just need to do the same thing heretics just need to do the reverse of
what G2 did to their opponents whilst I'm over here and well it was that
chance at a quick finish now we have once again on the board the blitz the play
with the ying as well they've got double down on the soft destruction they're
gonna try and get themselves some decent controller on the verticality and
build from there. There is the chance that shield's being shut down, but it's also the
shut down on the swings, right? You've got that mobility, you've got the play towards
the solace on the read of information, the denial of anything that goes towards this
with the mute, but Shoko and Alamo, that pairing needs to be mobile. A quick play against
Aguiocanister, potentially you'll understand anything on the other side of that window.
Are they going to go to live with a shield on the back here, there's?
I mean, I spoke about the Ying early on with the water being banned away, like it was inevitable
they're gonna start running it at some point this is the round that they feel
as long with the whole sort of smokes to come down from both the last behind
actually they can get it done I'm just partly nervous about what's going on
upstairs but they're gonna force them for it here and I'm also the spot where you
can get the gadget you down to try and deal with it
that's actually on slide looking at us to shoot it out for now suppose Candela
rings on through and everyone just takes all the breath pauses for a moment
oh that's a great little backstab but it hasn't entirely netted them the rewards
that they want skeptics able to find stomping but Zara goes down G2
They make sure they respond it was almost a bait and play they threw all the utility at the window
But they've pulled out some of the success on the other side, but the C4
Levels things G2
They read that it was all attention on towards
And then all attention pulled towards the other side of the map itself instead
Success wasn't quite built on the second story and now
With all the gadgetry that's been spent it's a shield
time note. Half a round to play. Yeah. They can find the right place to capitalize. They
can find the right place and just draw this final bit of attention. Repair of them have
to respond together, but it's almost the same that we saw in the previous round, right?
It's almost the same. Well, G2, they're good at sort of baiting out this. Heretics struggled.
Even though they had the advantage in the previous round and a decent amount of time,
they couldn't quite find the landing. Here, you can see they're trying to piece it together,
Oh, what did it say about Benjrom mute by the way?
Yeah, filthy.
He's from self in the round and that'll be enough to save them, I'm pretty sure at this stage.
That's why I probably just wanted to try and chill. There's no way to close this out.
I thought maybe they'd find a different way around because the hatch was never going to work out for them.
Dropping into death knowing the club will be Alamo's mines around.
You'd have to go and push somewhere else and now Laszlo gets the down. No way.
from the top rope, Alamo has to hold his team in, but look at what they've got in pockets.
Not really anything. It's just down to a fight with the secondaries. He's crossing the divide
and checking the corners bit by bit. He knows where he is in Alamo. They needed him most.
He was there, but every round is stressful, Terry.
Two 1v1s we've had in this half. One go in the way of heretics. One go in the way of
G2. The scripts would dictate that in round 12 there is another deciding 1v1. Which way it goes
I couldn't possibly tell you. Factor K down to a 1v1 after Ben just massive round there. That
3k that he pulled off. They'd have been kicking themselves in this and that one sent through
their fingers. With a really interesting round they wear heretics. With all the utility of focused
around an executed self. I should adapt pretty well towards the late round itself just not enough
to see it folly over the line. But you can tell that nail bites only close in G2.
Yes. Yes. Stressful, Doki. Very, very stressful.
I'm feeling it. I'm opening the doors, getting some air, and there's one round left. Potentially.
Oh, there's an overtime, and it's one where it's a sort of fight all the way to the end,
and for the pace that we've had of some of our earlier games for this one, this game to be the one
that potentially takes us all the way, I don't think anyone expected it from the full list,
the full list and credit to Heretics for driving us all the way in towards this point.
We do find, obviously, that there's chance for them to get three points. I mean, you'd
almost be a little bit hard done by us, the Heretics fan and the players, for not being
able to get that full taste of success based on getting themselves to this point. But the
point isn't there to claim G2. They fought viciously and credit to Stumpen, obviously,
But also, as you said,
Benjamin's success from the previous round,
where they've been able to get their heads on.
You can see him.
Opportunity is striking here due to,
and they now have to capitalise it.
Now, they're not going to get away with the same approach they did last time,
so they're not going to take it.
Remember how they did the dive with the shields,
the blinds on towards the window and just smashed in?
Not the last time.
I don't know if they know that there is a Kaid on the other side.
A Benjerus held onto one of his electroclaws.
You just see that first shot drone just get wasted for basically nothing.
They don't really have anything else to help them clear away from these electroclaws.
They can't destroy them in much else like Roland Aiden.
Yeah, good luck.
So I'm a little bit nervous that if they don't have them read into that and they're
now about to get stung by it, this could be a pretty painful way to see themselves
Let's go to WOT.
Is this going to be the distance that's finally causing the sprintable?
They've had such good pace, such good control and they've sort of commented on how they've
done it a bit stress-free, but unfortunately the stress, the levels are rising.
Lolo at least trades on towards the death of Sceptic.
It doesn't go unpunished.
Shaco gone with the loss of the dark be it's probably a loss that well he's gonna suffer more
Towards the end of it
Please don't tell me they rely blindly on that by the way that scan of a queen there is a player on these stairs
But he just slumped down was slightly. I hope they aren't blindly relying on that fact. She could finally get stung here
That's how you are that might be a way to send yourselves into woe to you with a shot like that. I mean I
I didn't even know how I did that.
Right, it's one of the things where you just roll the tapes back and you have to account
it for the beauty and the magic of a second.
No!
Surely not.
Maybe it's like, oh, fluking and now I did it.
Here's another example.
Akui does sneak round the back and get the revenge, but two bodies from that position
at two versus three.
G2.
They have 30 seconds here.
I'm sure you're not. Oh my God. He relied on the Intel for the
sake. He had to know someone was around. He said he missed the
earlier scan. He misses the latest scan, gets punished for it.
I tell you what, Stumbins had a couple of whiffs over those last
few rounds, but he has done enough to take G2 into overtime. I always
say it. Two halves to a game of siege. They were down 5-1. They
more rounds to play G2 star on
partial points. It really changes the face of how again can go and as you said
the fact that it's been in the method that's been in, it's got us here, fine.
But now if G2 win it, well say they get 11 points, they still jump over. GK
interested minds for now, but now match up towards Falcons.
Oh, it's a bit of work to do climbing up there, isn't it?
Again, that strap around who might be top four,
who falls to fifth and sixth,
which teams match up against which teams.
You can have some real, right, unlocking.
You know, G2 looking to shake
if they have done so far throughout the stage.
If they lose this game, by the way,
they're at three wins, three losses.
So it shows, and that's with Virtus.Pro still to come.
Now, they can be a little bit bumpy.
You get one, air quotes, unlucky matchup
in playoffs against Falcons or Virtus.Pro,
and you're already in the lower bracket.
I've put it on G2 not making it to a second.
They've got to really hope that they get a good match up going into that first round and ideally of course start in the upper bracket
That means finishing top four
See if this is a reset that works for them because g2. Yeah fine. They've got a lot of momentum, but yeah fine
Two five one defensive half rounds heretics have to remember who they were
G2 have had time to remember who they can be, and that's the big problem.
Potentially.
If they connect this round together, you can imagine they'll get a quick two in terms
of the OT.
And, you know, they're looking towards this first fight, skeptic.
Might be the one that gets caught out in his stuff.
He turned to C1, but he was shut down from the other, and it just shows what border offers
to all the teams that have that interconnected information.
The doors might be closing a little bit, bit by bit, here around them.
That's a sad G2, remember who they are.
Crazy thing about that one was like, he knew there was a drone on him.
He knows that they're just seen him.
You know there's a soft wall between you and Breakdoor.
You know that they've already taken a shot at you.
From this window, you've just seen Doke and you've been started to wait in the window.
That's normally a sign that it's time to fall back, find a new position,
get a little more secure.
Staying there is punished skeptic. A little bit of poor decision-making on his part, unfortunately.
G2 somewhat looking towards the same thing they did earlier on.
Question is, is Zara out towards passport again? He's currently inside of customs.
But this time they know, he's just taking some shots. They know that he's here. They aren't letting him get away with it.
There's two. There's the smoke gone. There's the five versus three. There is just this surround sound, the teching and heretics.
Oh no, another one falls and it leaves that Queen last move.
With everything to try and piece together here and a lot of gadgetry to do it.
A single C4 and a single Razor Blue.
And a single sneaky strike round the back.
This moment, Benja gets another and it's a one versus five and they know where he is.
And they know how flawless to send it to another chance to lock it out.
But ooh, and a return. This has been from G2.
you. It's hot them three or
four rounds to figure it out
at first, but. At the start
at the end of that first half
they did start to realize
playing slower and pulling
heretics down to your tempo of
play is the way to do it, but
the big adaptation in that round
that was missing before was
making sure they had eyes on
Sarah. Of course, he surprised
him from passport last time.
Leo said it at the half, you
know the surprises might work
for this game and they'll have
to reinvent things again going
into their next board again
G2, but even in the game itself G2 was starting to get a read on what's going on
They know the kind of play that Zara wants to make they couldn't find him anywhere
Oh, where's he gonna be? Probably the exact spot that he was last round so although they didn't kill him initially
It was keeping him away from passports
They could focus on executing putting the smoke down so they could not be killed while they were executing
They just made these small adaptations compared to what we saw in the first half that has put them in much better stead
That is more of the G2 that we know and heretics now hoping they are out of ideas
I'm hoping they could pull off a really good attack here in round 14.
Heretics.
I mean, how far away has it been since they found success?
How far away has that divide gotten?
You'd look over the past, what, four rounds in a row now for G2?
Then it was a heretics, and then it was two G2.
It's just not going to stay an impossible divide,
but it's also been a very long time since they had their time out.
We'll see now if they can try and piece this intel together, obviously they've got everything
to try and control the space and pace, they've got all this intel but it just doesn't seem
to be netting any rewards.
Alamel, I assume, is setting gadgetry, he forgot to do earlier on, I'm hoping that he could
get it back to this.
Or make it across.
One of the two, yeah.
Did he didn't get punished?
Lucky for him.
Maybe just trying to bait them into the C4 and stop it.
Speaking of stomping, I know Baby Curious.
17 and 10, he currently stands coming into the strong because we had that round for a
re-host.
So it was 1 and 4 before we went into that break, but currently it's 17 and 10.
Could drop a 20 bomb here with the way that he's played across the last couple of rounds.
Ready to putting up numbers, Benz himself also putting up a solid amount, 14 and 10
for him.
On the other side, his only Zara does positive at 12 and 10.
Everyone else, negative.
Far cry from what we saw in those first four rounds.
This first body could be a bit of a decisive one as LASMO drives his way all the way across
the team.
This is a fun team.
He's not quite able to find some success, the grenade will go over the top and force
the player round fine, but it's Doki for the double!
Lola and Akwee in the meantime, we will watch one way and Doki doesn't need to play a shield,
but there was a mean snook line up, why not make it three?
You can see the pressure's coming round, you can't even get a fourth, we can't even get
the rest!
G2!
What a return!
What a return! I mean, it's a stressful way to make it and create heretics for making that so much stress, but still, only one team can take the win.
And if it's G2, they'll be kicking themselves. They couldn't get that done when they were downed.
Orbs 6-3, sorry, but G2, what resilience and what a show from Stumpy.
I'm sure I just forgot loads to say about that, so we'll go to a break.
I'll be back. I'll break it down for you.
I don't want to go in the hands of this shit
I don't want to go in the hands of this shit
I'll talk about a comeback G2 pull this one out after a wild and not so fun first half
If they take it 8-6 and walk away with two points, very much in part to this man right
here stomping.
Wow.
What a turnaround from your entire team, but I want to talk about your performance specifically.
One kill before the tech pause.
You ended with 17, making that your fourth game in a row where you're hitting double
digit kills.
What's going on right now?
What has changed since that first week that you have just come alive?
Um, I mean, I would say like the first week was kind of scuffed since the first game,
you know, like, I'll amount lagged out after round one and then Falcons obviously like
they're a good team. So it was a hard game. So I think we just have been focusing more
on like playing together as a team rather than like winning round solo, which I think
helped a lot. So that yeah,
Zach, I just want to take you back to round 12 where, you know, you guys are facing, you
know, he was down what one six, two six, whatever it was. And you on an individual places, you're
you're playing inside a CCTV and you play for, what was it, two one tap kills?
What's going on there?
Oh yeah, that was kind of crazy to be honest.
So I killed the first one, then I heard the second one and I knew if I just like held
it before he got there I would kill him too.
Yeah.
How do you have so much confidence to play for that?
You know, it's still five, six, you know, you've dropped 17 kills as well.
Uh, I mean, no matter what the score is, you know, I've got to stay confident.
I also would have lost the game like we started playing scared when we were down three, six,
would just lose like they played really good like we were surprised obviously
like we went in thinking like all right you know we all seem to try but like it
will be an easy easier game than like some other games but surprisingly they
put up a really good fight so yeah yeah that was actually that was gonna be a
question to you Zach I was actually asking you like what do you make of that
roster because they are surprising a lot of people I think it's like way better
than the old heretics roster I think maybe with like their new IGL or ever
because like on attack like it's so chaotic they're like they're flipping a lot like it's hard to
play against especially on a map like border where it's like really easy to do this stuff so yeah I
think they're way better than they were before for sure. And then the last question for me is do you
think you learn more from these kind of games and it actually helps you to more to have a crazy
comeback like this but only get away with two points than having a stomp victory where you're
you're going to get your three points?
Yeah, I would say so because like,
obviously you want the three points,
but like in the victories where you win like 7-0,
you don't go back and think like what you could have done better.
But like in games like this, like you're obviously
going to review what you didn't do well on.
So I think, yeah, but like obviously you want the three points.
So congratulations on the win and a great performance from you.
Thanks for your time.
We will talk to you later, all right?
Thank you.
Have a good one.
Well, G2, I mean, talk about a turnaround in this game.
course, we can highlight the team constantly. We can highlight stomping constantly. I mean,
it does feel like a while since we've been able to, I mean, frankly, glaze him this hard,
but it's been four days in a row where he has performed out of his mind.
And I think it just shows the level of confidence that he plays with. But as we said, in the back
in the stage one, on an individual basis, didn't, didn't put up the numbers. First couple of
play days, of course, that mitigation that it was for V5 didn't put the numbers. Soon as play
They free hit he's just been going crazy as house the rest of G2
But especially stomping on the individual basis 17 kills again today, you know
He's really rising for it a game of two halves really I think heretics really impressed with their overall
level I think that
Really it's on the back of an experience
I think as soon as they started losing the match point at 5 3 that's when I knew that this was going to go to over time
And it was the end. I just felt like this team just like I think collapsed under the pressure of oh wow
They're coming back and after that they just crumbled and it's a little bit sad because I think they deserved a bit better
On one hand, you've got a team team in heretics as you say they get to six points
I guess to six rounds of things. Oh my god, we've got a round against you, too
We just need one more just get over the line we get the win the pressure just becomes absolutely crazy
On the other hand you've got G2 who know that they've played probably not their best seed
Especially in that first half it wasn't anywhere close to their best seed
But they're a team that if you give them an inch they will take an absolute mile and I think that's what we saw
And this is why teams that are more experienced right separate themselves in best of threes like g2 wouldn't have a problem in a best of three here
But in the best of one yeah when things are a little unexpected
That's on a small map on a small map right where things can get a little bit aggressive a little bit chaotic
That's where you know these more inexperienced teams make all the difference
But if we've learned anything today
It is that anything is possible here and we go into our last match
Maybe hoping for a similar thing fanatic and geeky another tale of maybe a more one-sided affair
But fanatic looking to well replicate some of the success that we've seen from team secret and that we've seen
From her it takes just a moment ago. Yeah, and and somewhat from themselves as well yesterday
I although it was a crazy long game 15 rounds. I would say so it's still a victory on their side
I think very similar like you said to her takes
You know and to secret a team that was considered the bottom four of you know, but that is proving that they can
You know rival some of the best teams in the ML and upset them
I think for that to be coming quite a scrappy team to play against. I don't think it's the cleanest team whenever they play becoming
Maybe already are I think look at the look of the games and where they picked up points secret and rebels
But both crazy yellow long games competitive games even the games against you to they gave you to a hard time a couple of teams at the
Start of the stage they did roll over and just give them the bomb points in Falcons and VP
But a lot of teams will do that as well
So I'm looking at this game is a really interesting one. I don't think this is a dead set for geeking
Alright, well let's take a few minutes before we get into this one to learn a little bit more about the captain of this fanatics roster, Deepak.
People thought I was done, but I may have to stay.
We had a really good stage, got into the playoffs, had to face G2 in the final to qualify for EWC.
We beat Jeter, so it was very motivating for us, and as a team we gave us confidence.
So at EWC we played pretty good.
Edward gaming, serving up on a plate, going out of the windows!
Fnatic hold on and turn the round!
We lost two games, it was against Fury and FaZe.
Both of those teams ended up in the finals.
It is over! Fnatic will be going home!
Fury, are you next?
Esports will come quarter-finalists!
We were happy but also sad at the same time,
but very motivated to be on end to the new season.
But unfortunately we lost two players, Citizen and Petra, they're going two shoestars.
So we have to do a rebuild going into Stage 2.
We have to build a new identity.
I'm not sure what this is going to be yet.
It is going to be hard work again, but let's see what we can do.
When we first got the news, people were leaving.
It was kind of like demotivated as well, like Seth.
Because it's happened a lot of times as well before.
before it just feels like going back to split one. What has kept me in this game
is because I love competing, I used to play football before, I just can't get
enough competing. I've been in different teams, different organizations, different
situations. I think it helped me grow as well so I just want to win like once I
won I was in Berlin like that. The title it's been a long time but it still
feels like yesterday.
It's 5-4-1, 2-less, starting the punch, gonna get stuck!
They find the down as well!
Yesterday they took the crowd from the lane!
Today they take the take-off!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
Goal!
So dreams about it, but as you said, that's more to Fation Mike.
I want to go back to that, you know, like go back to the stage.
You're playing a video game, but it doesn't feel like it's, you could choose something bigger than that.
And that feeling is like, this kind of world, like, this is what I want to go back to.
After joining Fnere, and the unsuccessful years, when my contract ran out,
like, I definitely had talks with people, with myself.
I do not want to keep doing this, like, what am I doing this for?
I've struggled to find motivation as well,
because we just didn't have to write people on that's really important to compete,
like I have a good group of people around here.
I had doubt, but I found motivation within myself,
like change some stuff in real life as well,
find something outside of gaming as well, like to motivate you.
Transom window ended a few days ago and we just got our players,
So we don't really have a lot of time to practice for the new Stage 2.
We just have a rebuild again, we're starting from zero.
We have some good foundations.
When you even pick up one new player, it's like a whole new team, different environment in a team.
We're just going to keep working, trying to make the major.
I do really clinical discipline, so I'm going to try and fight for it.
Less than 100 to get back to the level.
I know I can achieve it as well, like I've been there, I know how it feels.
The only thing is, we have the grinds for it.
It just feels like I want to do this more and more and more.
Like I don't want to stop.
I just switch and I'm just back in it like even more than last season.
We do have a really strong core, so we have the experience.
And I feel like if we can just survive the first week or two,
so we have extra time to come back into the league,
like I feel like we can come back.
I'm not done yet. I still want to keep playing.
I know I could play at the biggest stage.
I wanted to win trophies again.
So I just want to say this is the beginning of the next chapter.
Always nice doing a little bit more about the players
and the personalities behind what you see in the server,
this fanatic team with DPek at the helm.
Now look to take the fight to Geekay.
What map we're going to fight on.
Let's find out these two teams.
They know each other at least somewhat well
over the course of the year.
And they'll be taking each other back to Fortress.
Yeah, my team's surprising for many people.
When you look at the record of DK, it's a map that they like to play, but they've lost a lot against the very best in the world, really, VP, FaZe on that map, really good teams on it.
I would arguably say some of the very best, like FaZe.
Yeah, you could argue FaZe on one of the best games in the world.
Yeah, but yes, you could.
VP needs FaZe on Fortress, so that's why I'm saying the two of them are very good.
on the side of netting it's obviously the map on which they went 15 round yesterday 1 8 7 so plenty of
Vod to watch 4 GK to try and adapt within less than 24 hours
Yeah, I do think although having spoken to finatic I do fear they feel that actually they they trolled a few rounds yesterday
I mean we saw they told a few rounds they lost to post plants on the attack of fortress
So I feel like they actually control fortress pretty well yesterday
So they're confident on the map they like the map they want to go back to I can see why they would go there
especially given the case record. Of course, once we get into the band and we get into the operator band,
it's starting out with being a cave and of course they have the snake as well.
The snake is just such a good operator on every map, particularly this map.
And particularly against the geeky. I mean, just geeky at their face time, lurking around the map,
abusing the snake as much as possible. They will still have the most of themselves.
I wouldn't be surprised to see it picked. However, we will see Grim removed as well.
No problem that they liked a lot because obviously that allows them to play a lot with vertical play or room clear really efficiently
That's the main stronghold of geek a really that kind of spy replace time
Let's let's wait and see how that impacts their place
Well deep egg has personally not had the staff that he's wanted to put up so far this stage
But a chance to redeem himself today as fanatic look to chase their third win in a row this time against geek a
Can they make it three in a row
will this be another oh no tale of our day, Derry. We've had one of the longest games we didn't expect. All this one have things we don't expect you.
I wouldn't be horribly surprised. Like if you look back over the fanatic stage and you've heard a bit about it there in our pregame, they played the three hardest teams in the first like three weeks and I think even a fully ramped up fanatic was
against, you know, G2 Falcons, Virtus.Pro. They've won the two games against teams that allow the
member around them and competing for them for fifth and sixth. Secret Rebels have fallen. GKR,
like I'd say, stepped up on both of those teams, given how GK played in stage one. But,
as we were speaking about earlier, GK themselves haven't really had a great time losing to Secret
yesterday, for example. So there is every chance here that Panatik can get the win, make it free
in the bounce, and then I wonder, if eyes will then start turning towards them, what they could
could potentially achieve. They're definitely impressed and surprised many back in stage
one with the performance they had. They're rusted and arguably got ripped apart and
it's been restructured again. If they can have another big show and make it to the major then
wow that would be something pretty spectacular for a team that again is pretty new or it was only
what three four weeks ago? Crazy. We love an against-or-lod story. They're sort of what we
build up bread and butter around and here on fortress
let's see if there's another one towards the tail obviously
hmm we'll start itself with a couple operators that we haven't really seen
stretch the legs too much tonight denari and clash will be on the
board even though she's trying to get a little bit
of the extension in towards oh anyway that there might be
some of this approach and approach the pressure towards dj at first but it's
actually wizard and it gets caught out by groovy try and swing
their way up, they've got a flash on one side, and all the Dranari on the other, good trade
out, but still blow for blow, and there goes the ace, and there goes, ask as well, they
lose there's a fear.
Yeah, a bit rough there for Smith as well, he couldn't really plant his shield and take
the fight in case someone came into on Hall's door, like he had to, be willing to mobile
and be able to turn around quickly, so all he could do really was watch DJ lost out in
that fight, but I think he's done a lot of the damage here, and he gets it down too,
he's going to get me out to finish that off too, I think he loses the shield in the process,
It's ain't bad at all. Grubby's got one shot from death.
Yogg, we've seen him plot pull up many a clutch, so many a multi-kill, so I wouldn't count you K out just yet either.
We'll see if they can try and close down on doors that clash.
He's, obviously, just a build up a spread.
Yogg are on the far side. Grubby on this.
They're going for a bit of width and seeing if they can try and maybe force somebody into a different engagement,
but unfortunately, Yogg is about to step into a two versus one.
It might buy a bit of space for Grubby, but oh no.
Unfortunately, it did not.
Well, okay, we did kind of got one kill.
Yeah, that's the problem right and he is a player that can't pull this off, but probably about five help himself
So you can see if you can drive on there's still the chance of the pressure the clash as well
They can just kind of rotate reapplies them
Close down. They just have to operate this as a two versus one
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking a slow sling towards the bathroom side get the plan on the door
We can have a bit of an escape
See yeah, they pulled him off
They're going to play this dance all game long now as they need to as well.
He has to really push into one of them and win the fight and he's not supposed to much
and that's what they do but Dante still wins the fight regardless.
Would have been a bit of a car crash if they didn't have one falling by the wayside.
You cannot get five kills over to a single player on the other side and then just can't
walk his way through your team and you played a pretty good round overall.
You have to get the business done and they win round one.
Well, that's a way for them to get things under the way.
There's great responses towards the approach as well, right?
made sure they were moving. I was gonna sort of talk about how the Clash of the Denari can offer
them a little bit of a change of pace and what they can apply towards this map and peel their way
back. And oh no, it's already happening and we've already seen how it's right its way out. Just good
little trade. It's good little bits of motion. He tried to kill his friend at the end there.
What? How dare he? How dare he? How rude. That was a really good start though. I think Smith,
yeah it's a player that I've gone quite fond of. There's just a rookie that's come in as a straight
much heavy shield player. Often I think what we used to see with rookie players or players that are
somewhat on their way out is they'll default to just playing shields. They'll be that shield guy
that won't really get involved in gunfights because they don't feel they can win many,
but Smith is actually a very very versatile shield player. I really love watching him play.
He plays an awful lot of clash, and I'm somewhat surprised they're on bands being drawn in against
him to be honest with you. And although in that last round as I mentioned he didn't have a choice,
he was smart in what he did, didn't punt the shield and try and support a gunfight with DJ,
a knowledge that he needs to keep that shield mobile the most what he could do is feed information
instead. Again, just little smart moments like that. I'm really enjoying seeing him with the
Grooze himself a little bit as well at EWC. We see him playing on a new level. DJ and Dante
still settling in a little bit but not playing badly themselves either. So I am excited to see
how Flatter keep on building and how they continue improving. If they win this game here,
they have another week to go away and work on things again. That last run again is the last
three for them. I'm really interested to see how they perform.
Well, Dante being a bit of a driving force against Groobie.
Obviously we talked about how Groobie would have to try and ace his way through, but we'll
see if the structure can come around.
Dante itself will try and get just a piece of any that can be offered towards them.
The play is almost an immediate pick against the crash, right, with the changes towards
the AWP or the sniper in the hand to ask and Carly you can now get the shot to
stutter the clash and then get the killing blow within time. You don't need
the secondary assistance it's become a lot sharper as a point tool to direct
against that very direct idea otherwise they've got themselves their own shield
to try and drive their way in but can they find a way in it's a big map fortress
see dropping on towards the tower itself taking things as slow and steady as
possible. I mean, white stairs and then. Well, this local apps on players already falling back by a bathroom.
That's it. You play the extension. You try and draw in drones, which they chew through a good number.
You burn out as much utility as you possibly can. And then you fall back towards site. It's just like
a classic extension on clockhouse. If you're defending out towards your bedroom, you hold out
towards cash, TC or sometimes vice versa, even towards garage, things like that. So although
the map has got it looks a bit more confusing and boxy, I say in a way like fortress does,
but it's the same principles that you have with the extension on any of the map.
When you play on the other side, you tend to extend down towards the south side as well,
so it's just the constant flip that you'll see up here on the top floor.
Either way, it leaves about 60 seconds left now that GK are confident they've got that control
made upstairs. Just want to make sure no one slips through the net here and cause a bit of
bother, but they've still got to deal with things like the Guaya canisters, like the clash,
like those thorn traps. There is still a lot of time here that Fnatic can waste.
every player still standing in the final 45 so things were about to get
pre-electric and hectic in the first the dry but the only thing pop was their
dreams it's a full versus all no suddenly it's not it's a two versus two as the
class goes down as well but younger suddenly all that's left not for long
and you could see the frustration on his head there was a moment that that
looked one way, then it looked back and then it ended the first way. Tell you what, we've
got a few siege timing moments today. Tim always says that it's a siege timing moment.
You're holding the angle for a minute. You're doing all the right things and the millisecond
you look away is when a player swings out on you. Very unfortunate on the time but they still
managed to get the job done. I really thought for a second we were just going to see GK roll over
them and be able to get all the way through. What I will say is I'm expecting this 4-2-1 to come out
Fortress is one of our top three defensive maps by defensive win rates so far now we're going to the off-site
This is where GK needs to be able to find a round win
Look I's horrible man. Oh
Stuff and I there's that it is gonna be it's gonna be sat in the shower in the dark layer
So what hits down just think about that moment even if they win this map they went every single round
Don't be thinking about that
Cuz I would be
You stupid game, ugh.
I can't believe this happened.
What only happened to me?
I think it was good.
Tim does do that sometimes, and those sort of things happen to him in games though.
Yeah, I'm playing the game and I'm like, Tim, but you've done this.
Get yourself in that position, my friend.
This never happens to others.
The anger that he has towards other people when Tim will die.
It's fantastic.
Only me!
That's him.
What?
No one else can aim with it as soon as they look at me, they're like a pro or something,
headshotting me.
Tim, you're just an old bloke.
You're an old fella.
You're an old fella in a young man's game.
Oh, God, I'm just giving it a lunge to the game, he's defending himself this time around.
That's Toren.
I don't know if he insulted us much when he was casting with Demo.
Oh, that was nice.
He's too nice.
He's too nice.
Dante.
Yeah, see ya, lady.
He's beating it today.
He tried to spawn peek out on main door, he's done the same again here and got himself killed this time around onto the hard breach, it's worth stressing.
Look, a really good roundpim just cannot be locked down 5 and 0 across those first three.
Ruby's got the right idea.
So, I'm ready and waiting for that vets that I've already mentioned a couple of times today. It's an absolute headshot machine with the rate of fire it's got.
It's giving me a chance and it will sink.
I'm again a little bit worried for GK where they're taking a long time to get the basics done here.
done here. You've still got Meryl Winders, you've still got Goya Kanishi, you've still
got smokes that you've got to worry about as well, and all the time you're trying to
do it, you're slowly getting picked apart by players on the side of Fnatic.
Smith, in the meantime, I was going to say has gone down, and is now out, leaves them
in the 4 vs 3. They try and just clear their way across from the Hammam side, but think
about the control, they need the verticality as well, right? You've got Sark that's up
here alone and it's partially damaged, but when you're operating in the 4 vs 3, it means
that you know a firefight will probably come towards a two versus one and you need to try
and isolate at least somebody and doing that over both stories of this map is a big colossal
task. They're trying to clear their way in, they're obviously coming up against mirror
windows which will stretch and extend the space and make this approach even more dangerous
and then you look towards what they've got to make it land and it's what two smoke canisters
and a shield. So at this point you start to think okay well what can they pierce out,
what can they pinch, they've got a single player here, he's just going to peel back,
trying to bait them into other engagements and hope that Sarkz can catch something on the hatch itself,
but otherwise, nobody's drifted into this position as of yet.
They know that Sarkz is there as well, like 100%. This at least comes off of one angle,
so I'm going to try and make him rotate off towards the mid-door, maybe?
That's more of a bait here. You can see actually the match up of the smoke of their own in the
side to try and push them back. Instead of changing their mind, actually, they are committing
towards that smoke push. I thought for a second that they go off towards the mid-door instead of
trying to just pull those their way through. This isn't quite happening.
Another smoke comes out and now Younger's got no choice. He has no choice but to go deep, but now he's a little bit trapped, gets dealt with by Wizard who hits a double D-peck for the close.
Venatic, I've got to say, are making this look pretty easy. They're really coherent as a team. On a map, it's worst-rating. That is one of the lowest when it comes to preference.
I mean, credit to them. The game's been brilliant so far, right? They've made sure that they're sort of monitoring all this approach, that they've had decent spatial control,
They've been aware of all the motions that are being put towards them and they just keep calm about it
They're keeping decent space. They're keeping decent motion
It's everything you kind of need because fortress can become quite a boxy map
You can very quickly find yourself put into a corner if you're not sort of keeping it on a bit of swivel and
For all we say of it not being a high preference map for fanatic
It's not a great map historically for GK as well
Obviously, you know stats across both these teams will pull different rosters and change rosters and things
But generally, there's a bit of a favour towards defence for both these teams.
Fanatic's a bit higher.
But both of them, that Fanatic struggle and attack, historically more.
So when we get towards the other side, there's always the chance that this will turn into another defender-sided game
like the one we just had, this one probably with a little bit more expectation.
the game. All right, we get
that same four rotation of
sites now, and it's really on
GK to figure something out.
They're the ones who have
fallen short. Kind of sense what
I said in earlier games today.
I feel they started the rounds.
Well, it's just towards the end
when things start to go a little
bit pear shaped. We're also
finding that two players in
particular on the side of
Bernatikraven particularly good
games done say with the three
K back in the first round was
with the three K in the second
by everyone getting involved
and playing their part on the
And then Donuts and Uper and Sark's, of course kills on everything, but you've got to be
collecting kills at some point and six kills across three rounds, that ain't enough.
Dante, in the meantime, you get to die.
Absolutely screaming as we're through, pretty much matches his opponents in terms of kills,
and then you look towards Moon who is pretty much the same as well.
It's been great big rounds from the pair of them, but at the same time, it hasn't always
felt like it's needed to be, right?
It's been decent control and you think of where Ruby got most of his kills, but it was three kills in the opening round.
And then three kills over the next two rounds. It's just unfortunately good and worse and worse.
The mirror gone, the glass gone.
And as those extensions will be a little bit harder to play, a little bit harder to sort of lock themselves in on.
But I mean, I think we saw a glass in the opening three rounds.
Nope.
It's more the fear of it coming along here, and it also enables them to play different things, like worry less about bringing a warden, for example.
And you've got to worry about being that anti-glass to allow them all free to play other things that they want to run into.
On the attacking side, it does free them up a little bit in terms of what they can choose to play.
Now, if you've got a good class or some part of our plans anyway, for the trigger groovy and there's a kill waiting for you, there it is!
Goodbye, D-Beck!
Ah, it's just... it's a nightmare.
It's like a shock.
Look now, because they've used all the impacts on the floor, they're like, cool, we can march on forward, and that's exactly what this starts doing.
It doesn't eventually get traded out by Starks off the back of it, but they secure the kill in the first place on towards Ask DJ Nego,
and after he's desperate to quickly get a kill to try and even things out, but no, loses life, Dante, and Wizard's gone big.
Wizard's gone big. Can he go big here? No, he can't.
to the right. Okay, they get
one back. They stem the tide.
They make sure they find a bit
of success and to be fair,
pretty well put together, right?
It was an entirely different
approach. They locked themselves
in. They tried to play a bit into
the verticality first time round.
They hit straight on this sort
of tried to do a little bit of a
cheeky pinch up the stairs cut
the rotate and it kind of played
into the defense this time. Let's
position on the map and then let's try and put the pressure on and obviously netted a much better result.
I was very curious how we saw Smith die and the unfortunate thing for him was he was rotating
out I think you'll see it here look he drops his shield thinking yeah I'll think we'll miss it.
He drops his shield thinking I am safe to just drop the shield and run out of the room now.
What he didn't realise is that Sarkis was then swinging a horse through at that exact time and
caught him as the shield went down. If he'd been just a little more patient for a second kept that
that shield got stated behind the keeper wouldn't have lost his life and it
could have been a different outcome in that round three to one and Dante can
die that's proven there and she can kill something they kind of needed to
remind themselves of as he points out they were struggling to get the bodies
down in the previous rounds in the meantime GK or Fnatic even they're
gonna keep the sides rotating find themselves on towards the drums and
games. Let's see if we can track these ones together. And this again, there was a couple
of moments in this round that you sort of think back as being those scrappy, slippy
moments.
Classic. This is a classic.
Yeah.
Then you'll check from, you'll check everything you possibly can now. Just tell you what,
if you managed to get away with that, it would have been horrific. I think you'll need a
second one. If you do, then make sure to get rid of the mind magnet first and foremost.
Certainly the other side though, again lots of stall they can sit and play behind here.
Interest in the jumps into was playing the warden again as well, maybe fearing that
we'd see a bit of ying play coming out, but the guys are flying, that's really the only
option that you'd look at and say yeah that's what they're looking to run you over with.
Of course the house plate grenades and other operators like Sark's, DJ as long as he keeps
himself alive in a good position here could do quite a lot of damage.
They got themselves the track and as we said there's the idea of trying to plant the verticality
but it hasn't netted any results since a minute in and they've been able to clear out this side
they've taken over as I said the structure position of horse that way across bedroom and
towards bathroom start to get their eyes on it's deep back that actually cuts you pull down the
middle and there goes your ace there goes a bit more of your heart breach and there goes somebody
else make a pile don't count me out he said look at him go uh count his kills instead doing pretty
good. Crucially, getting rid of Yupre, I think he held onto one of those Salmas, which would have
been used when they're trying to push in towards meeting. Very common, like, putt all-neck on this
defence that attacking teams need to take over first. That's also east side of your stream, where
you're just in D-Pet coming from. That spot is particularly important on one, because often
teams will open up more than lots of plants inside the corner, just inside the room instead.
They're going to have to make things work instead from this hallway, which Dante is trying to take
a fight and not looking all the best for, but there's DJ inside that smoke. Mentioned earlier on,
it's available. He could be powerful if given in the right position, and that smoke has done
nothing but help him secure that kill. Yeah, very well. Accidents happen. Ask now on a
no health, actually. Jogger gets one. He's got to find four more. We'll have to ace
clutch this round and then go exactly where he is and they don't like that he's there.
Another round here for the side of Fnatic and they are back in that cruise control.
Well, basically a bit nervous and that is Groobie back in round four was the defining
We've got a 3k right big plays around Eagleman is to push his way up and get the kills that he did in rounds
Well, we haven't sitting go big
It's just not been particularly close again if you take a look at the kills on the side of
Gk when we get back into this in the second it makes a pretty dismal reading once you remove groovy from the pictures
So I imagine he's feeling a little bit agitated here that a lot of the expectation is on him that he's the one that's put in work
And the others are really being competitive
But I also put a good chunk of that down to how well for that to complain again
Look six kills there across four players across five rounds
Undecided UK all things can change when we get to that second half
I'll say that now
But as it stands for that it look on course to get a 5-1 and what a first half that'll be for them
I think it's also the idea as you know
You find out there when groovy pups off things go well
He was also the opening kill on the two rounds where
Fnatic were a bit shaken including on that they lost
There was two three Ks that he got across those rounds as well and it just
You know, it's a lot of pressure on a single player and when they're on the defense where people are being hit into their defenses, they'll have a bit more to play with, and that pressure might dissipate.
But for now, as he sort of pointed out, it's hard to approach the bare mouth of the map this size as just a single gunner.
You can't quite get as much control as you could on maybe a little bit more of a direct map or a little bit more of sort of a tightish, smaller map.
And also Fnatic, as you can see from DJ, and just lean out and get some intel.
Now last time there was a run out, we caught you poor, I'm assuming Dente's not going
to do the same thing.
He's able to get himself to five to zero, now he's six to one.
And where's it six to two, both of them don't quite want the other one to get too far ahead,
but you always expect either of them to be the first fight.
It's otherwise Smith's hanging around in her mom, down the ground floor, waiting for
a friend. Do like how he's been unleashed free from only being on shields by the way.
Again, this is what I said earlier on, a lot of rookies get stuck on playing to shields
while those that are going out the back end of their careers will normally just default
to playing shields. But is it a spot where he can still gun? I've not got too many kills
throughout the game itself, but has of course got a couple that are quite pivotal to help
see rounds over the line. I'm playing four now, I believe in two rounds, both on this
slide as well. You can see that they've sort of taken themselves this vertical
space instead of bringing something that can get some direct sort of
attrition on towards that verticality, you know, Ram no buck and Steadix kind of
a lot of hard work and handy work and a crouching towards the middle of it and
you know you did get a couple of questions as to how much space and how
many of these pinpoints they wanted and if just those pocket breeches is gonna
be enough to get the angles that they otherwise want to play with. Smith though, still loose,
still unchained. Oh, and he's not able to win it out. Look at how much health Yoga has left.
He was obviously caught as he went round. He's expecting a follow-through, but to live through
that, there's a missed moment there for Smith. He's done well there on the entry to get that spot
inside of him, but now you've got to push on Ford, right? But down to that last minute and GK
still looking for a lot of control. That is a great pre-fire from Groobie. They're Dante down and out.
Yogg finally on his back end. Did it all get recovered here or not?
DJ's still the one racking off site here a little bit as well. Not too far away. He's just playing
the perimeter, but it's enough that he can be a bit of a nuisance.
Close touch ready for a swing against a ghost. It's been instead the bullets fly over the top.
It's a final second story, but in the meantime, all wizard wins here, but DJ loses.
He's gonna have a close fight here on the right-hand side. He seems aware of it.
Deepak getting one more means things get locked in. Deepak gets two more, but...
Oh, yoga!
Very importantly, wins the last man standing contest. Otherwise, it would have been a quick
one versus one, and we have a quick break for a halftime.
Yes, we do. Fnatic, 4-2 right now at the half. A great start for them once again proving that
Any of these teams can pop off at any given time.
Yeah, absolutely. They got out for a very, very strong lead.
I think one of the big features that we've noticed in the back
has been their communication.
I think the communication doesn't seem cluttered.
It doesn't seem, you know, manic, stressed, anything like that.
Given the right comms, holding the right people accountable,
they're really managing out a lot of those rounds.
Yeah, especially in the late round.
I think if you look at the, you know, a couple of defenses that they win,
it's really on the back of the composure of winning these 2v2s,
3v3s, making sure that they abuse the natural crosshairs of the map. This was a 2v2 once again that it won.
Some of these rounds obviously with a little bit of a man advantage, but I think overall a really good job at
extending first, layering, and then whenever they're close to site, actually like playing very disciplined,
which I think Jack is one of the biggest weakness of Nadek usually, the late round.
And it was something that we didn't necessarily see yesterday. Yesterday they felt like they were going a little bit rogue at times,
in positions where they're not really supporting each of our first teammates,
I'll play them properly, looks like they tighten that up significantly.
Does it feel like Leo Fanatic absolutely have the edge here, they got the momentum
and they should continue this into the second half? Or are you saying that,
oh maybe this is kind of a fortress situation, we may see this swing back the other way?
I think it's a fortress situation. I would say, you know, take the result with a grain of salt.
I think Fanatic are obviously abusing the defensive side of the nature of the map,
being strong in the late round is always gonna favor the defensive team on a map
such as fortress yes I am waiting to see Fnatic in a 2v2 on a 3v3 situation
where they need to attack the bomb site this is where really we're gonna see if
they've improved on that side or not and also for GK as well you know if you look
at the game that GK played up against yesterday when they played up against
Secret they let Secret do exactly what they wanted when GK would defend it they
were giving them the map they were playing so passively letting the next
who let them do everything. If I want to see GK fundamentally come out, get infonetic space,
cause them problems, or pin the early round as well. And I think that would have to be a big
change. I didn't think that GK are risky, even though it's fortress. If they let Fnatic,
space will be using the shields. Solid Snake is banned, which means at least two shields are
going to be available, even if you get rid of the Monty. But that's a cool use of shields. They'll
take the space if GK give it to them. Anything else here, Leo, that we could see shake things up
a bit the glass and the banded back. I'm just wondering the main thing with Fnatic that I've
seen so far is that I feel like most of their attacks are predictable and Fortress is a map
that plays very step by step. At this point it's almost always full clears and when it is direct
takes it's even easier to read them. So I just like to see if Geeky are gonna let Fnatic play
out. I'd just like to see Fnatic throw something like a curveball you know maybe change the pacing
a little bit, maybe think of a rush strat. I think that I'm still waiting to see Fnatic
come up with a bit of more creative attacks, because they've been relying on defaults and
fundamentals and that just hasn't worked.
You can kind of almost forget them. We saw Deepak in the interview say that we need to
get through the first couple of weeks and we'll start progressing. So I'm interested
to see as well, because I agree with that assessment, but I would expect it to come in
the latter half of ultimately the regular stage, which is now under tweet.
Well, as we said earlier, Fnatic, they're chasing that third win in a row, but Geekay,
They move to the defence to see if they can start the fight.
Well, can they cross that divide?
Can they try?
Then tie a couple of these other rounds together, or can Fanatic keep the momentum of their
opening half here a 4-2?
It's a pretty decent little nest egg that they have built for themselves, but will it
last the winter, Dez?
Well, we're going to have to find out half and say.
to a game at stage and things can change drastically once those sides want
So I say this often about new teams as well or those that are lower down the table often where they will struggle most is on the attacking side
Defenses aren't necessarily easy. It's actually more aggressive proactive ones
But depends is easier to play the attacking side. You tend to see gaps on the attack
So this is a good test now for fanatic with those two new players
They're brought in with that whole the changes that brings around sure wisdom dunce
They've had a lot of fun running around in that first half picking up scouts as they go
So can they do the same on this side of the map?
They won't get as many opportunities.
They'll have far more resistance coming back from GK.
We have a scatter the roll out to set it to power position here.
And tackle the utility out of the corner.
Get rid of the barbs and get themselves a bit of a direct route in.
So this is still a bit of a shield play on towards the port.
We have the option for it.
Hey, remember that trick that you used on us?
Oh, the temptation is there, but unfortunately the timing is not.
There is pulled back on towards the mirror window.
Oh wow, nothing but ghosts there. Couldn't quite get the surprise, but Deepak is almost surprised himself, a player.
Just lying down in the doorway and he's got to just gotta peel back.
Yeah, problem with the mirror window there facing on towards that whole store makes the C4s over the top easy, but
but they shouldn't be a surprise to the exact same set that the fanatic pulled out against GK in that first half.
I was quickly doing the numbers as well, so curious how their attacking success stands up fanatic.
It is the lowest in the league at the minute, there's only one 6-28 attacks for a very dismal 21% attack in win rate.
On a map like Fortress of Stead, you're actually going to really see them step up if you want to get over the line here.
Sneaking their way in via the bees trying to get themselves across the
keeper carrier as army is in a bit of a tricky situation there just caught in
the middle but if they can swing on with a bit of surprise
the anchor towards this hold they want to scream their way up the sort of white
stairs but nobody's there home there's more support coming they've seemed to
read the approach of fanatic pretty cleanly here and kept themselves both
putting pressure but out of the sight line of the guns themselves Smith finally
finds the first, that's Deepak with the second. He's been able to close down on a
couple of putties, but they're lost in the middle of that groovy. Groovy's down for Cheeky Double.
And now he's going to peel his way out of their arse, flips this round. Arse gets another.
They just didn't leave themselves enough time to get a proper read on the positions of the
hold. This is going to see if he can try and place the kit, but in a three versus one.
and they can expect the plan is going down does get grubby six seconds two versus one
this time he's got a stick it imagine imagine imagine they weren't happy about that in the
chat i just thought the very end then not at all pleased that he's actually baited them out
i've got a couple of kills at the back end of it however plus two for whiz that's the way
that it goes sometimes i honestly thought if they'd slowed down if they got those first two kills
They probably would have been in far better form, but I also kind of get it
Smith was trying to move fast trying to capitalize on chaos
You had a swing from his teammate on blue you know groovy dealt with them both
It's that name again groovy coming to my lips
He has kept his team in so many rounds in this game and well I am they could have probably even seen this game being over by now
It becomes that sort of
Problem but also the responsibility the mantle of you are that talisman player you are the one that has to shine the brightest and currently
He is for the roster. You look towards their opponents and yeah, they also have, you know,
Wizardies having a great game so far in Deepak and Dante, but the fact that it's spread a little
bit wider means that they can do a bit more. Groovy here though, that pressure is going to change.
I think as the defensive half drives on a bit more, he can make those plays. There were two
bodies down, he pulls two back out of nothing. Great, fantastic. Before if they were on the attack
and they go two bodies down and they lose that utility on their approach. I think it's a very
different momentum that that player has to carry in. GK should be able to get a little bit more
safety around it. Ask, obviously, was able to get a couple there that round two.
And now he gets the player shield. Yippee. That's why you always want it.
Some people crave the shield. Some people yearn for the shield.
and no one year ends for them when they play the shield no have you we are you're a shield player
I don't know no no no no no shield player at all demo is that does a surprise in the slightest
no one year ends for demo my boy my sweet boy I love them we played a lot of games together
this last week I love them too much watching and fuming right now he wants to G2 go
I don't feel watched all of them. In fact, no, what I'm on about who loves siege. He's definitely watching. Yeah
I don't have a siege
Sorry, can't wait for a message in three minutes time saying why you've been horrible about me. My sweet. I don't mean it buddy
All those armies getting themselves some space finding herself a little bit of a safer spot, but she's about to be swarmed
I've got a cut here
DJ. Yes, miss
Just hold on. Obviously has all all his three airjabs in pocket two flashes a lot utility
So he doesn't want to get caught out before he's actually been able to deploy the flank watch whilst trying to find a fight on flank
It's a bit quick. It's my only worry like I get it. You want to move at pace sometimes?
But I feel this is probably a bit too quick for Smith. Yeah, it is what we know as a player down stairs
You haven't got full troll of bathroom behind you for example
We still got players on the side of GK that are a little bit further upwards at this point
However, they've caught one out with starts being gone. Not bad at all actually. The aggression has worked
I was a bit worried for a while they just get cut off themselves than I did as they pushed on four, but they got the work done
Well, what's he for comes back in towards their favor there and balances things back
And with a minute left
Let's see if they can try and drive themselves in the clash is being caught out with the air jab that will limit our rotations a bit
But it's not the real end of the world
They're just trying to force that player into a sticky situation put some damage down
They're worried about the swing here from the vending machine window in the meantime
the mirror we go on the back of it gives them a lot of intel ask you missed him
get down to one but you can't see him oh smith is gonna see if you can plant at this point as well
it's a two versus four on a post plant all the way from deep but it's an awkward watch here and
i mean they're so close to the punch there's a shotgun swing that doesn't break go their way
do you pick up the head of one free fires on towards the next but can't win that one out it leaves
It was just when they started to sort of fall apart when the execute came on through.
So same as we said about a few teams tonight, the early round was really good like.
Fnatic clearly got the right ideas, they moved through them out well.
It's the execute where they're currently lacking and starting to drop a couple of rounds here.
And is it time to start getting worried?
I'd probably say we're at that point now, because things are all even.
They need to win this offside, that's the crucial thing I'll say.
We didn't see GK do it in the first half, but they won two of their attacks in that second quarter.
I think for Fnatic they need to get one done now.
The fact that he's saying that at the end there makes me think of having a bit of a scrap and I say a bit of a scrap
Maybe that's a bit strong
But there was clearly something going on about a disagreement or something that has happened around and groovy of all people
Has to step in and be the peacekeeper that is surprising
listen
Sometimes dreams can be made sometimes groovy can be a peacekeeper
Sometimes you need your mavi entry to be the one and I guess when you're when you are the best player on a team during a map
It's nice to sometimes be the voice of reason to be like that
We only speak about because you have two directions you can go right you can either be a little
Let's love uplift our spirits or you are the worst team I've ever played it. I hate you all I am carrying and
Personally
Personally, I find one of those a bit more of a morale booster
DPEC almost got caught by the run out.
But did he try to do his best dancing impression?
Is even he impressed by that?
Like how am I, how am I alive right now?
Well, DJ's not.
Shotgun to the face from Groobie.
Yeah, very much a similar style out of GK, from what we saw from Fnatic in the first
half.
He's being aggressive early on, putting the challenge on towards Gnatic, making them
slow down, doubt themselves, hesitate a little bit, losing a sledge might not, I guess, kind
of from what is in the world here, given the sight that we're attacking into.
Nothing else ready to open up the floor except it's a thermic or two.
It's only one of those to focus on getting the hatch opened.
Just point on loads, they sort of got themselves a bit of a deficit once again.
No sludge, no control over that verticality and it's actually a strange thing
because they've been able to get that opening kill twice in a row and then
still lost the round out. Before it was a lot of back and forth it was usually a tail
Hello, I forgot the opening kill, won the round and then, honestly,
KK had been able to sort of swap that precedent.
Ah, just great play there.
You pour outside the window, ask me the meantime, pick someone else up!
Oh, that was tasty!
And now Wizard is the only bite left.
Five versus one.
I've seen him to the future with my crystal ball.
I've seen a time out.
Yes.
Imagine if I'm wrong, I mean it's the floor is round
They were at the point where the operator band comes in now. It's a good time anyway
And they've just lost three rounds in a row
But they are being battered and we know we saw GK turn it around they managed to win two of the three next rounds
That followed that third round operator ban. I think we need a coach help
This is a lot of work now for say to step in and try and guide his team for us because I think the problem is they're trying to
Do a bit too much on the attacking side and there's nothing wrong here
just tightened up a little bit and playing more as a team. Chucks miss on Shields, for
example. Play around him is the main entry point for the rest of the team. I know that
we sit in play, the Blitz, and we've played the Blackbeard, but I think it's more the
approach of the round that maybe isn't quite clicking so far. That has to improve, otherwise
this is definitely going to go the way of Giko in the next couple of rounds.
Well, there it is. And Crystal Ball still works. I don't know if I'll return it to the
shop just yet. Time to talk. I love those paintings in the back of TPEX camera.
Thank you. What's there? What's there from?
Well, paints, usually. Well, yes.
Okay, sorry, breaking breaking news from Staphon.
Stephanie Steven, Steven breaking news from Dutch Steven Staphon. I said
stay on. Okay, Steve. Breaking news from our wonderful observer. It was a date where you
paint each other, which is quite cute. I like how he then framed it so I actually get to
see it as well when he's on camera. It's very cute. I think that's so lovely. How do you
compare the likeness? The painting's got more beard. Yeah, he is in, well, it might just
be the brightness of his monitor that is entirely flashback in his face. But it does look like
Key is clean shaven. Paying over it.
Restore it back to its original form. I'm very keen to see what happens here though, because Groobie's now jumped onto the North.
Now, we've already spoke about North a few times today. Mainly used for things like hatched Narl and Warned Narl, and so much for dealing with shields.
But they must know at this point, right, what they're probably going to say. They need to say they've got a play tighter.
They need to play more as a team. That means playing around shields, because that's what Smith does.
does. Hey, we can try and counter it with Noor. Again, Noor's not really the best go-to counter,
I don't think there's point for shields, like it's much more effective to bring along
Elysian or bring along the form, like you're seeing here, or an Ella, for example, anything
that can guard break or do damage as they walk into a space, that's completely great, I think.
Noor just forces you to back away for a second, knock the thing off the shield and then crack
on, do what you need to do. Not really much of a counter, but I'll keep an eye on Groobie here
to see what he does. Maybe he just really likes the elder. It's a very fun gun. Goodbye,
It sucks.
He was watching out the window, was that just bad cross-timing?
It's always hard to tell in the early 20 seconds, but the fact that we can then see other GK
players looking out the windows, you kind of get an idea.
Now it's about capitalising though, right?
You've got the entry, classic comm, hamburger, as I've heard before.
Slow things down.
There you are.
That's what Rogue used to say back in the day.
Now lock that team to Mudo to Fnatic in the end, but just being able to pause for a second, figure out what we need to do, where are we, what intel have we got, what are we missing, things like that.
Good time to call it, yes it was an early entry, but to figure out now where is the gap left, who have you killed, what can you do off the back of getting rid of these armies, what weaknesses are they now going to see appearing in the team.
Those are the sort of things they need to make sure they're thinking about, but given it was so early on and things have been quite slow since then, imagine they've had that conversation, know what the next game plan is.
Wow. Yeah, now he slips on by. Still, no chance to capitalize upon it. The longer the time
goes on, the more that becomes a bit of a threat.
Going towards that fifth man, reemerging as the time itself is still setting up all of
these slows. They've got their eyes down the long corridor. They've got their eyes on towards
this approach and ask his eyes on the flanking maneuver. Let's see if we can try and go for
for the fact that happened, but the pressure on, but oh, I'm not entirely sure what that fight was,
but he's relearning and hoping to get the catch. He's going to do the rest with a smoke canister.
You can see some support is coming in. That was a real awkward five seconds, but
fanatic. They just had to peel away in towards the side itself. Deepak wants to double, wants free,
gets the down into the meeting room, and everybody is concerned, but think about where
the site is and think about where the two remaining GK players are.
are. Where's Kit? Are they set on it? Oh, this must have had it. Oh, no. That now basically
means I could take onto this site, then peel back and get the plant down later. They can
play this sensibly. GK is still very, very capable of winning the round. Got a smoke
set on the Kit, as you can see here as well. This is a bit, oh, look at that. This is a
big recovery mission now. I mean, there's a long way of dealing with it with the wall
to pop open, head through, find yourself a new bit of space. They're trying to collect it and get
their way out of there. It's finally theirs to have, but they've peeled their way back,
asking Yaga to do their best, but look at the timer now. As I said, the longer that goes on,
the more of the threat it becomes. They're trying to clear their way through. They can't quite get
the angle on towards the fight itself. He's got to cross the divide with guns, and they've got
Not that, the long watch, but instead they're gonna double swing the same Doropo's plant.
Yoga finds one.
Oh dear.
But now, just a bit of a snake fight down the corridor.
He peels his way one.
Does he know?
Does he know?
He doesn't know!
The triple kill!
Can't quit!
Get into one versus one!
And he can't quit!
Find it!
DJ on the tiniest amount of health, Yoga!
On a small, small amount of time.
Has to try and push this.
Has to try and push for the engagement.
He's close to finding it!
And he does!
We're stuck in what, a 3 vs 4?
They did so much good work earlier on in the round there for that, it's just not having
the diffuser that comes back to bite them.
They managed to get into a spot when they get it down, but just cannot win out a 3 vs 2.
Those are the kind of rounds that I'll look back after this game and just say we should not have lost that.
five rounds in a row I would that would have known what that's about as well not
telling you bad boys I think it's creepy says something like Flores needs to be
retired and defects that route okay it was a defect playing you think no mad
Last round I believe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't think that was quite important.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Listen, listen.
Wee!
It's got you back.
All right, game on.
This is it.
Plot needs to win two in a row.
And as I said, I thought in the ninth round they had to win that attack, otherwise it
would be a bit too much to try and recover.
So far, it's looking to go that way.
That was the fourth round in a row for GK in this half.
Stenatic won't find that 3-0 streak they were looking for.
They might have found their way past Rebels and maybe even past Secret.
far as looking to go that way. That was the fourth round in a row for GK in this half.
Stenacic won't find that 3-0 streak they were looking for. They might have found their way
past Rebels and maybe even past Secret. GK, step too far.
We're going to see if Flores can try and earn his new position. It's the sad thing to talk
about obviously the power that Dante opened up on, what we talked about with it, and then he's
just been silenced, unfortunately, since that opening half where he was so impactful, and
it's sort of what I talked about, right, of how you could have that sort of space to plan
on your defense. You could have that sort of extra roam, that extra destruction, and
then you get onto your attack where you've got to be the driving point as they check
themselves all the way towards a clash in the mirror window. Well, we kind of remember
how this one went before, lost in the midst of the smoke. Just feel like there's a bit
pace here from Fanatics Clear across the top, already in towards the bathroom,
highing up the meeting room and highing up a mirror window. Thing is, with the
double reinforcement, I don't think anyone can swim up to the back of it,
they're just going to try and use that to potentially desce4-loop down.
In fact, no, they're going to lock everything down on that side.
I'm trying to make use of the impacts for the plastic verticals which we used to,
but knowing that meeting is free, they can just roll on through and now that
you've used them all, you've got to deal with the clash.
Then Cusses, who of course will help,
but really needs someone nearby to then capitalize
on the shield being knocked away.
Ready for that dance, Smith of course plays an awful lot
of clash himself, so knows sort of stuff you can do
to try and punish a clash that plays too aggressive.
Fast has already dug back in towards site here,
playing safe, everyone watching these doors,
we can get away with this hard breach going up.
With that, they can see a little bit deeper
into towards site.
That starts to restrict the movement of the defenders,
but coming down to that last 60,
all 10 players are still alive.
I am nervous for that. Let's see if they can get it done.
I mean, it's got to be pitch perfect, right?
It's an awkward shape. It's an awkward space.
Now, it's an awkward start.
Oh, no. Flores might have been retired for this map.
If this is the final round that we get to see play out,
they lose that gadgetry but wizards.
He's able to find one back on towards you, poor.
And you can see that he's trying to creep us out the stairs.
It's being well watched though,
and they're trying to just get this pinch on towards the site itself.
But it's a lot of awkward fights.
And DJ's the next to drop.
And D-Vec gets one of his own in the eyes on towards the potential.
just swing back round, but 20 seconds,
and they're still having to pick themselves up.
He's about to hop in towards a clash
that can just slow this roll, peels their way back,
make sure every side is covered.
Now, the final 10, Groovy, he's the door himself,
sprays on towards Wizard, they're moving blind,
hoping for the best, the Smith gets one,
but they're stuck outside, and there it is.
One versus one, Groovy versus D-Bag,
but he can't go the distance, GK Gann.
D-Pet really, really did his best in this game as well. 14 kills for a player that's played as long as he has.
Not a bad performance from him, Wizard Audance, but Groovy on the other side.
Kept his team in it, they've all been swept, and a deserved win.
Let's see how they can press on from there, and let's see what our desk will think about that game.
On the back and forth of the day continues, playday 6 of the EML would not have ended any other way
then a miraculous comeback from GK after that start.
Leo, you kind of hinted at it that 4-2 on Fortress wasn't all that significant.
You get into the second half and GK just flipped the switch, turned it on and made it work.
I would say he did more than hinted at it.
He basically called it out. Mr. Nostradamus over here.
Maybe I jinxed that.
I just felt like they always had the same issues.
Look at these rounds. Look at how many rounds in which I have to get absolutely stopped
when they get into the building, either they are in a winning position. This was a 5v4,
they had everything they needed, they have side control, and despite all of this,
they keep on losing the late-round situations. This was a 5v3, once again, another one that they
lose, post-plant 2v2, no one is aware of that guy pushing in long. Then the last guy alive
doesn't hear the one slanking him, like, it's just always a consistent story of Nady not able to win
that one as well, the 1v1, once again. Like, how many late-round situations
after they're gonna let their hands to the front, honestly, it's been a problem across so many stages
and so many iterations and I just feel like it comes down to inexperience, lack of time together
and it's just frustrating because they do most of the job well. Yeah, it felt like a big, you know,
a big continuation of yesterday when they played on Fortress and Fortress, but yesterday they lost
two post funds, today they've not lost another generational post fund, by the way, they've let
the funds happen, exactly the same thing as what happened yesterday. And I think that's what
Fnatic came unstuck they put in a really decent defensive split and then they just let their attacks absolutely falter
I will say from the side of geek a they wrote the wave they they attack from fortress
They got back around that's all they needed then they knew that their defenses would be strong
And they actually improved from what they showed yesterday
And they also showed us what some really good individual performances including one from groovy who is joining us now after the win
For geek a congratulations man on getting that win. I mean we saw you guys make that
big switch in that second half when you guys then won what like four five five rounds in a row
was there anything that you guys did specifically when you switched over to that defensive side
anything that you changed to make that work well if i would say that right now i think i would be
banned but basically i just said to stop being scared and play the game because it's only fanatic
and that's what we did on the defense like we knew the we knew the win comes that we had and we
knew how we should play against them and we made it work also like to be fair the game was not
Not easy, like we had kind of like class situations, a lot of them, so...
But the decision was good.
When you said you had Winkons, Groovy, was one of them winning the mental warfare?
Because there's a lot of that going on in the old chat today.
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, the other teams, they think they can go into our like mental and like...
Just by typing, but we just type back, we love that, we've asked as well, like the mastermind of typing, so...
We kind of don't care, and we know it kind of affects the other teams, so we just do it for the fun, you know?
But we thought he's a big water. Do you see the one we feel clutched like he stopped the plant two times just to get his one?
I remember that for life
Grubby obviously thinking of thinking of this team and of the least later on situations
And I felt like so many of these rounds were just like
Situation where they they may be in a winning position
Do you feel like mentally you had the upper hand as soon as the momentum stopped it's having on your side?
I mean, it's hard to say because for me, like for the past week or two, we are struggling
with kind of just playing our game, you know, you guys could see that in the game yesterday
against Secret where the team just plays like a bit of ranked playstyle, they don't reign
for something, they just give you a lot of opportunities to play and we are getting like
lost mid-round, you know, for example, it happened today on the Fnatic game as well that like,
we knew what they're gonna do, but like, we played it out and some, like we just got lost,
you know, like we didn't talk, we didn't play the game and it affects us.
And that's all I can say. I don't even know what to say, because for me the game against Fnatic,
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, it was a hard game. For me as a player it was a hard game, even as IGL.
And I didn't feel like we are controlling the game. For me it was more Fnatic making the mistakes
and since we are a better team using them. But overall, the game from us was like we played it poorly.
And we have to be honest about that. It's not the same GK as you guys could see on the EWC
when we just go against the best teams and just put our game and be there and always beat the other teams up.
For us, we have some kind of mental block maybe that we just cannot focus on what we want to do
or maybe transition that in game and we just, I don't really know, we sometimes get lost, and it's fine, you know.
We are working hard to fix it, so.
That's what the best ones are for ultimately as well for you guys.
Just switching the sentence to you a little bit, Groobie.
Playing against two former organisations this week obviously took the loss yesterday, but going up against Fanatic today.
How did that feel?
Well, I mean to be fair for me it's a normal game, like we don't, I don't even, like, but
the relationship with any of the organization, like in Secret, you know, I twisted the other
guys as well, like, so we fanatic Tristan is the coach there, like, I know Wizards, so
for me this is a normal game, a normal game in the office and we made it work, you know,
so I'm happy.
But we're not against Secret, so.
Well, Gruby, thank you so much for your time, good performance from you individually, your
The team has a whole congrats on getting these three points and we'll talk to you later next week during the super week.
Thank you. See you guys next week. I will be there this time.
Can you give the curse hits back again?
Come back, come back, come back. It's finally a back. It's not us no more.
No more, right? It's not us no more.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Thank you.
I mean, truly, like, I mean, a great way to close out the day here with this team.
Like, you saw how happy he seemed after getting that win, you know, shaking off what happened yesterday, maybe, and really feeling better as an IGL.
better as a player individually.
This is a well rounded performance. Yeah, I think so. But a big, a big, um, how do I
say it? I was really impressed by the fact that he was like, we, we didn't actually
win that fantastic to make the mistakes. We weren't necessarily playing well in some of
those rounds. We weren't controlling. That was the way I was looking for. We weren't
controlling the rounds. Fantastic made the mistakes. We just capitalized on them. And
I think that's the token of respect saying, yeah, we've still got places to go. You
know, maybe we've often questioned, can the honeymoon, there's got to be a dip right after
right after that at the start of the team. It's about how they react. They seem to be
reacting in the right way, using the best of ones as that testing ground and we'll,
you know, we'll see them in playoffs and then progression. And I like how he addressed that
as well, saying like, maybe there's some sort of mental block for us from doing something
in the middle of the round. He's very honest about that going forward. But through all of
you who joined us tonight, you saw a great night of EMLC, very competitive day. I find
saying so myself coming from the most competitive region in the NAL, but we closed out with a
I know you can say that, but we saw, I mean, the 8-6 from G2, a comeback there, Virtus.Pro takes on
Falcons in our match of the day, and then shifters and secrets, of course, each collecting three points there.
And they get a carry. Yeah. Yeah. We're just gonna, we're just gonna, we're just gonna, we're just gonna, we're just gonna keep talking over you. Yeah, exactly.
That leaves us here in the standings as we go into the super week next week.
We have three more games per team, which means there are nine points each still up for grabs.
So we could still see a lot of movement right now.
The top six teams, Virtus Pro, Geekay, Falcons, G2, Twisted Mind, and Shifters, they hold
the playoff positions, but secret, fanatic, rebels, and heretics, if there's anything
we learned today, it is that all of these teams have an opportunity to make it into
that top six and we just don't know who's going to pop off on any given day.
Yeah, very interesting to see those standings and Rebels and Heretics all the way at the
bottom of them because there's still a chance before the Super Week for any of these teams
to go crazy, make it to the playoffs and eventually get a lot of SI points and maybe avoid relegations.
Obviously, GK, Winnie, Gagat, Svanadek was a bad sign for these guys because they're
going to be an event closer to
making playoffs there right now,
standing on 13 points. I think
so it's getting harder and harder
to catch up with them. The
table's taking form in terms of
the league table of the top six
from the bottom four that we
expected. But the gap is slightly
a lot closer than at least I
expected. I think secret really,
really impressive said that the
big one for me that let's watch
out for the next week is really
then one that's going to
displace one of the current top
six teams and I love that we get
That's really special. You get a chance to see day one, two, three all back to back to back.
This is what will bring you next week on Monday, the first day of the super week. Anything that stands out to you here, guys?
Heretics Rebels, actually. You know, the bottom of the table clash, not necessarily in terms of the quality of siege,
but I think the impact, if either of these teams really want to make a real go at it, make the plus, really trying to stay in this league,
have to win that game, and really kick start that super week.
And then you have this one, it's G2, it's a D-Page, very interesting to see if G2 can pull themselves together,
because right now, their level has been really inconsistent, and I won't buy the...
I was just the first game for V5 that costed... No, it was the first week, the second game it was for V5,
and still despite that, G2 loves that game.
Arguably today they should have lost to Heretics if it wasn't for the lack of experience on the set of Heretics,
and of stomping going crazy. So realistically, I think G2, it's a moment to do our die a little bit.
They missed the WC, they shouldn't be in a spot where we're debating if they're going to make playoffs or top 4.
And it's not just that, if they didn't...
I saw it.
If they missed a stack of those, I saw it, they're open quals and that's untinkable for G2.
For NA, we're going to be doing a segment and it'll sneak peek for you at home.
On Thursday, talking about when is it time to panic for some of these teams?
Like on a panic scale for the teams that are on the bubble.
G2, it's like, it kind of fall right in the middle, like maybe a little bit concerning,
but nobody's going to really be fully panicking.
just yet. Who knows? We'll get to figure all that in the super week. We'll be back, or I'll be back on Thursday for the NAL.
But the EML will return next week, as we said, three play days in the final hunt to determine the top six for Playoffs.
Thank you so much for joining us today. A little bit of a shorter night than last night.
Thanks for sticking with me while I filled in for Ann, but for fresh and all fun in our entire studio crew.
I'm Jonas Rellinger. Thanks for watching.
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