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Never let them get you down
Gonna make you stay just like
Even if I don't know what to do
I'll change it all
Cause I got no collection
I don't know
I don't know what to do
I don't know
I don't know what to do
I'm just pretending
I don't know what to do
I don't care what they say
I love you baby la la la la
I like it, I just want, want, want, want
Oh baby, say it and let me make it
I take it for a day
La la la la la la la
I like it, I just want, want, want, want, want
Oh baby, time to be right
Cause I'm gonna, gonna, gonna
Take to our hunger
The night I was looking for
I was looking for the place I wanted
Where did my legend come from?
Your problem
It's like a snack
The day I can't hide it
Cause I want coffee
Yes, cause I want it
You look like a moe
I don't care what they say
I like it I go la la la la la
I just want to walk away
I'll be beside you and make it
The day, the day, the day, the day, the night
La la la la la la
I like it, I just want to walk away
I'll be tired of trying to be right
Cause I don't know what I'm doing
I'm afraid I'll disappear
To make you stay just fine, yeah, yeah
I like it, I go la la la la la
I like it, I just go la la la la
I'll make you stay, I'll make you stay
And anybody say no
Cause I, I, I, I like to just fall
Oh, maybe it's alright to be right
Cause I'm in love with you
I
I'm going to get this.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Hello, everyone!
I'm Marikus from A-Plan!
You're a sucker major, Takuya Hiromu.
Taste the excitement.
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I'll tell you what ...
We're just gonna have to go to Osaka soon.
Six play days of APAC North here in APL have come down to this moment where we finally find
out who will be making it to the stage finals and who will be eliminated and say goodbye to their tier one careers for the year
Pengu, you're back. How are you feeling? I know you were a bit under the weather yesterday
I hope you're feeling better today because we have some seriously important matches coming this way
If I don't cough you can kind of hear like a bit of a recipe boys and that
It's good again, right? So I feel like we're gonna keep going through it today
But my tomorrow morning when I wake up, I will be back to a hundred percent life
just in time for APL group stage to be over, but stage finals starting next week. Last night was crazy though.
You really missed out. Me and guys took everyone through the actions. APAC North was crazy.
We had four games that went to 12 rounds or more. Two of them over time.
And this feature round is from our first match of the day, which ended up being so much close than we expected.
Can you be my enemy? Got their first ever points by taking it to OT and then they were getting 2v5 and then started coming back.
Sikingo got four kills here Trippie fed him kill after kill and he left all of them up up until it was a 2v1
And then of course what did nl do he came through and clutched up?
This was unbelievable like genuinely this game had me pulling my hair out and for Trippie a win was nice
But a bit of a scary game those two teams are currently on the bottom of the standings
I feel like one thing that can be said for a pill this stage is we've had so many crazy rounds like that
Yes. We've had some crazy rounds, some insane like close matches and over time some this team should never win this round, but then they will eventually.
And then we had that day where you and I worked like 3-8-7s in a row for OZ. And I was like, how did we get here?
How did we get here is a question we keep asking ourselves. And well, the standings show where we have gotten to, of course, it's been six player days, like I said, across APAC North.
And we've really seen the top four bottom four start to take shape the expectation coming into this stage
Pengu was very much that Kaggle be at the top and then scars D plus and
Kina trope would likely be the other
Three teams to round out stage finals because that's what happened in stage one in stage one
It was really a battle between scars and fear X about who would manage to take that fourth spot
completely different story though this time around Pengu scars have actually out shun D plus and
and FirX, beating them both. FirX have looked pretty strong, but it's Kinetroku, who are the real question, Markle.
What is going on with that team, especially after their loss yesterday to double RX, a lot of red flags have surfaced,
and now the pathway to stage finals looks almost impossible.
It does, and it's so positive, because you look at what the team is looking like, and how they're beginning better and better and what not,
and they haven't gotten themselves with it. They didn't make any roster changes, so they shouldn't see we've been much stronger than they are,
but not to be. These are the finals, qualifications scenarios that you see in front of you where it
shows what James was saying. For KineTrip to win, to qualify rather, it is absolutely every small.
Like you have to beat CET by Veryl in regulation, and lastly would need certain results from BKFerex
and OGFoss. Yeah, that's exactly right. And I think that looking at today, you expect Ferex and D-plus
Kia will be able to seal their face on their own terms without leaving it up to chance. And what
what happens with Kina Tripp.
Of course, Kina also playing against the best team
in the league in Gag by Varel,
whereas Fyrek's are playing as BME,
which should be probably a three-pointer for Fyrek.
However, Deepos are playing in SCAR.
That, for me, is gonna be our game of the day.
Only do finally roll around to looking at our matches today,
because, as I said, we only have a few games left.
Just four remain in the group stage here for APAC North.
We kick things off with a bit of a battle for sixth place
between Trippie main telecom and double RX.
Now double RX are very likely to secure that spot
in sixth place, which has a little bit of extra prize money
over Trippie in seventh, but there's a world
where Trippie might be able to make it happen, perhaps.
And of course, throughout the rest of the day,
things kind of just continue ramping up.
Fyrex, can you be my only, should be a very dominant one
for Fyrex.
Skars D plus, absolutely my game of the day.
And then the last hope for KineTrope at the end of the day.
I mean, but it could be such a good story though,
KineTrop they've been struggling, they've been in the mud, they have not been finding their success
and then, final playday, CEG by Varyl, they've fired all cylinders to bring out all the
pocket stress to get the perfect map and the best one and they can't CEG maybe on a bad day of theirs
because that is possible, that could be a huge story but the lightness of it and how much you
gotta you know really get on the copium to think that's gonna be happening, oh it's a lot. Yeah
and it's a shame because URI GMs have been huge KineTrop supporters and huge fans especially
last stage when they finally played to their potential and I was so hoping that they could
have that potential to keep working on it. Orange Estates II, Gold Estates finals, get even more
experience and then maybe next year they're gonna be up there solidified as a consistent stable team
in APAC North, but now it's a bit of sometimes good, sometimes not. Sometimes maybe good,
sometimes maybe, you guys know the name, after the story of the kinetrope at the moment. It's a
story for a couple of teams here in APAC North. We've had a lot of 7-1s, a lot of 7-0s, even
even between some of the top teams.
And where it leaves us at the moment is the battle for,
stayed final for that single slot at the Osaka Major
is very much alive between the top four.
CAG will definitely be the favorites for it,
but there are some serious contenders with house scars
and deep blossom, Furex are looking at the moment.
But let's talk about our first match of the day,
Trippie versus double RX, I was gonna say triple RX,
a bit of a merger of both of them.
Double RX though, hot off of a massive win,
real breakthrough moment for them yesterday
after taking down Kinetrope in an overtime series.
It was a very crazy game, Pengu.
I can tell you that much.
Kinetrope really tried to throw a lot of pocket strats
double RX's way.
And as we see the replays,
we'll see what I'm talking about.
Double RX had to deal with all kinds of crazy setups.
They had to deal with the bar defense,
which they managed to overcome.
They had to deal with the very unusual
Kinetrope pocket strats where they used Scopus
on rafters holding cash CCTV.
And in the end of it,
DoubleRx actually just looked like the best team.
I mean, it's gonna see a lot of these round clips
that we're seeing, it's actually a late round,
kind of, they're in a bad spot for DoubleRx,
they make the comeback happen, they clutch up more,
which is, oh, a bit of tea bag,
and there's the one shooting at that body, I see.
And it's a great way to play up against KinoTrope,
who we say they love to focus,
they love to strategy, love to try and be masterminds
in the server.
Well, what if you just say, screw that,
I'm gonna run straight into the wall,
and break the wall, and therefore take the wrong victory.
DoubleRx may be finding a bit of their own playstyle,
confidence which captain that win. MVP from yesterday was Jin as well for double
RX for that gap finding ability that he managed to achieve especially on ups like
the solid snake that was the player that snuck into garage was also a player
that snuck down the main stairs on a basement defense and unlocked the round.
So we'll see what happens against trippy main telecom the Koreans who have
really struggled to get their heads in the game in stage two. It's been a tough
year for this roster of course the state of the Korean Rainbow 16 has
Unfortunately, taking a bit of a downturn, PSG Talon departing from the scene,
D-plus importing Brazilian players, leaving just Furex and the august Trippie Uen telecom
as the only true Korean Rainbow 16 to the still Attity 1 level,
and Trippie, unfortunately, have seen most of their best players picked up by B and K Furex over the last 12 months as well.
Plus, Misa retired. I actually saw a little bit of activity from him on Twitter after he spoke about him.
Yeah, yesterday Misa was such a legend on PSU talent and how does the Korean scene recover when so much talent is evaporating from the scene?
Well, Trippie did eventually win yesterday against BME, but it was a hard-fought victory and one that really shouldn't be hard-fought.
They realistically should have taken that in regulation.
It's also a matter of like when it comes to fortress I feel like Trippy it might be their best map and like
That's where they find a little bit of success both in states one and now in states two
But outside of fortress. It's a really big struggle. They tried Villa. They got demolished and generally speaking
That's the story when everything goes outside of that map
So speaking of maps can they get themselves to fortress once again or whether enemy be smart and simply banned away because the best of one
There's nine maps in the pool. You can bend so many maps away. Look at that!
It's a spin!
It's fortress and station.
Wow, we get a chalet rematch between these teams. In stage one, Trippie and DoubleRx met on chalet.
It was a 15 rounder.
I'm not sure if you remember it. I only vaguely do ping you, but we did cast that game together and I have it in my notes.
It was an 8-7 for DoubleRx and I just remember utter chaos.
I remember it the game being a slugfest, a complete drag.
Double RX are definitely the ones that in my mind have a bit of favor going into this game
Just because I think they have the recent C form of their most recent result against KineTrope
Whereas Trippie obviously they were pushed quite deep against BME
So let's see what happens. I mean we haven't seen double RX actually play Shelly at all this stage
This is a real throwback for them
Also look at the double RX logo on the Shelly picture. It fits so nicely underneath the little
a little window top there on just the bottom of the balcony.
It does.
Very nice fit.
But yeah, how do you say, I have this slight memory
of the rematch here.
I think those Double RX, they're playing some crazy
like glass stuff and fast takes on Shalei
and doing direct bombs at rushes and whatnot.
I believe those are pretty good game actually previously.
Obviously, Retribute is going to be a bit of different roster
and different strongholds for this one.
But hopefully for expectations sake,
they can bring a good performance
or at least some strong attack amounts
the final game of the season.
Yeah, very much. I mean, the
stakes are high here for both
teams in a way. I mean, there is
money on the line. If trippy
winners in regulation, then they
will very likely jump over double
RX on the standings take six
place and that might be a little
last chance for redemption after
what has been a very tough stage.
However, if this goes to overtime,
double RX guarantee that they
cement themselves in that sixth
it's two thousand US dollars price difference which is nothing to scoff at
that's uh I could buy you a new PC you can then share the PC between the five
players be like the most expensive economy delicious teen dinner that you
could go out for mmm maybe go to some on the car say if you double RX go to some
Korean barbecue if you're trippy it's a good time
I bought a PC, I think it was the start of this year, it was a couple of months back,
and I spent over 4000 Australian dollars on it, which is...
I think I was planning, I was hoping to spend just under 4k and I spent almost 5k, and that's
just the...
And I didn't even go all out.
I think I got like a good graphics card but not the best and good RAM but not the best
and definitely didn't know, I've seen your specs man, your PC would absolutely eat mine
for breakfast and it would still cost me nearly 5,000 a string.
I definitely made a bit of a mistake when I came to the PC but when you sit down on
a PC for a living you feel the need to go all in right?
I do it, I'm seductive.
You can work on a streaming, rendering, whatever but it is a ridiculous amount of money for
or a machine when we can rob at places
in one, two, three, and it's like a couple of hundred bucks now.
Now we're talking many thousands of bucks.
I remember I had a USB thumb drive that was 128 megabytes.
And if that doesn't tell you how old I am,
then I don't know what will.
That has just gone a long way.
Chalet, however, hasn't changed much in recent years.
Inflation hasn't quite gotten to this map as of yet.
It's still about the overtakes or the direct attacks.
This is going to be one of those room christenaries. You go to library, you take top mesonine.
You've already reached the open that office wall later on, which opens up Dimmick to be more of like an entry-fracking ace operator,
as he's always been the hardest structure necessary to people to fight in late round.
And it's a bit of a battle against the blue staircase first.
Yu-Yu with the smoke, the barbed wire tries to take down the Blitz with Moonoo.
Not doing any damage, but surely buying a lot of time.
I think you want to do as much damage with that Blitz while you still have it.
Unfortunately for Moonoo, it actually gets taken down.
I was going to make the point that I don't think the Blitz is going to stay alive through the third operator band that will come through after round three, but it doesn't seem like
PMT have been able to really achieve what they were looking for with that shield. Nice fade away from Arcusu as he retreats back towards kitchen. Perhaps could rotate up stairs, but no, he's going to stay roaming.
He's got some map control. Goes for a run out. This is ambitious. Love that from Arcusu, but Trippy really have a lot of work to do if they are to bring this back.
It's a shame, like they lose the blitz in the road to a single piece of barbed wire that
you couldn't clear and they have two grenades now in Dochi's pocket.
The demos, who's still alive by the way, that's a fear, the three big booms from below, nobody
cleave the barbed wire for Munu.
So he walks up, tries to punch, gets shot in the face, and he means of course that elevation
on the blue staircase.
Now Dochi looking for a 1v1, will be made in a gunfight, doesn't have many shots though,
is struggling a bit but does get the kill.
However, he's in a single point of HP with 50 seconds to go double RX. All they gotta do is sit back and wait
There's a breach no shot onto the C4 I
Have a feeling the chin's gonna peak this
Yeah, he didn't he must have known that he was one HP great shot from gin big rounds really like you said
trippy were completely undone when it came to that staircase. This is the
thing with Trippy that I feel like has been their pattern. On paper,
they want to play like perfect siege, like slow methodical structure do the
right thing, but they're always missing like a small detail and then that small
detail was snowballed into a big problem and the firefly on this round, the thing
was that small detail, they didn't have the right operators in the correct
locations to support the Blitz. The Blitz is the pushing power. It's one of the staircase,
Blitz fights the guy, he blinds him, that should be a freebie. While you might get
stalled up by the toxic babes, you shouldn't ever die to the SMG-11, trying to melee a
barbed wire. So it's again like on paper they have this like you watch the flank, I push the staircase,
you hold the angle, but who plays the barbed wire? Small things that go to mist. And if so
wasn't around loss, then they go bar, maybe this round they forget to pick up a grenade and then
and then they go for the baseman bomb site, they forget the heart breach, they can't beat the boss, they can't win the round.
It's just continuously across many different maps and bomb sites, there's always that really small thing missing for them.
And if Omnist goes down to double rx in this game, to capitalize on that, and just punish them everywhere that they can.
Have a good setup and then run a mark, that's the strat here for double rx.
I love the traps as well, you've got Thorn, Ella and Lesion.
So they are really looking to try and maximize their map control
Without the need to have any operator actually actively watching you till all of those gadgets will detonate automatically when someone's close. Wow
That's an ambitious nice. It does hit him. It does have a lot of damage on the deadmink as well.
I mean just think of the mental pressure right now. I say, oh, I'm just gonna drone guys
It's cheap outcomes flying in the direction and spawn. It's like, okay, I guess I'm not gonna drone guys
Also, there's a high chance it might have killed the drone that he was holding outside the building, actually.
Often you will leave a drone in prep phase at your destination of entry, so you can pick it up, go on the rappel, throw it in the window.
Had Demik done that outside the Solar rappel, he probably lost one of his two drones to that C4.
Come on, Moonoo, you've got to have an impact here with the blitz, but Abelarax have wasted
plenty of time and Util have just fallen back, continue teetering on the edge.
The top floor.
Moonoo now has finally cleared control, but his goo mines are going to be worrisome.
which gets in tries to clear out any intel.
Luckily looking for the L-Mines or the Thunderbirds or the Thorn traps,
I've actually been given up control of the staircase, this is very unusually here from
double RX.
I mean they have no Debye with Shield, no Amino or Simono Clash, they don't really
have any way of holding on to the ground because the ground doesn't have any cover.
So I think it's smart to fall back, but yes you are correct, it's very unusual, it does
me that you got a fight by the bomb site in the basement staircases almost playing this
like an open area bank right you give up top for control but now you're gonna play blue staircase
fireplace staircase and hold the hallways from beneath essentially but you swing up with good
timing and it's making the time also take further and further down the tripping mech mech on and
to do a full clear into vert into hatch break into clear all the patients they're very aware
of that angle the big question mark for me is that can they actually get inside the building or
inside the bombs or rather and get that
Well there are the pics the vert pressure enabling the lateral
Execute here from trippy main telecom
And now double rx
In a bit more of a dire spot yuyu front end dual from on the stairs
But i mean surely the pixie to come out here in a moment from demik is in our finally finishes off jinn yuyu
much better and ironically double RX might have been moving a little bit too much there at the end round. Had they stood their ground and just waited for those seconds to take on, there's a chance they'd just killed a blitz with the guy with the defuser and that could be around victory.
Instead, the one with the doubles from the Proust aircase didn't fully commit, lost a couple of bodies solo, and didn't get any traits going.
So, a TMT, a very good second round, not falling too far behind.
And also, speaking about the fact that they fell back towards the bombs, I didn't have the assignment though, my.
Both of those were banned the way by TMT.
So, double RX have a choice in every single round.
They gotta play the more niche operators, like your Clash, like your Castle, like your Mira, to substitute those operator bans.
Bands or play into the traps and into the gunfighting aspect of chalet. It's kind of one of the other and
DMT of course probably gonna go for full clear is for all that reason see that there's this
What's gonna change though when the third off then comes out
I'm curious
Is that blocks really running that she had every single round?
If you really just want a shield, honestly, I wouldn't put it past them to go to the fuse
as well.
The fuse is actually pretty good on Shelly, especially if you're running past them from
after the series.
Oh, see, I don't want to get too ahead of myself.
The fuse is still not as gangly in close quarters because you don't have the flash that the
Blitz has, but the shield is still very good, the PMM is phenomenal, but yeah, I'll be real.
I don't feel like the shield has been that instrumental here for Trippy.
see what happens as you get into another round. Castle brought to the table and Selma's gonna
be used to take out the one on the double window and the track from NL onto the soloist. He's
probably number one because of the damage he can do in the late round and also even just early round
finding and trying to kill that Blitz as well.
There's one thing I've mentioned much of the verticality of Shelly, not a C4 so like I said
at the solos beneath the impact grenade,
to close the fine stone shield on the Sophia,
which actually prompts me to spring to action as the blade,
but be careful here, the elevation on the blue staircase
costing me life last time around, respects it a lot more.
When you're mooning, you saw the trick right there,
you look like into the sky almost with the shield
to protect your face more effectively.
Don't wanna look straight ahead,
but rather the slight elevation
if your enemy's gonna be above you.
Just like if a guy's proning looking for your feet,
you're gonna tilt the shield slightly downwards
to cone the feet more as you won't see your head regardless.
So these are the experienced shield tricks that come into action here for Muno, keeping
him alive.
They've still lost that first member.
This injury on top floor is going to be much more challenging and the guy I get them again
in the action right now, he's in mezzanine next to NL.
There we go, finally reaches those small spots off this, that's step number one.
Second step, he then goes downstairs and attacks the bomb site and will continue to go for
a full top floor sweep because if they want to go for this they then need full control
over above the site itself then to return downstairs or they skip it by smoking off the
are kandelaing up upstairs and then rushing side instead.
Yeah, I'm a little bit scared for Trippie on this attack, not only because they're a player down,
but because they only have the one hard breach, so they can only choose to breach one hole on the top,
one hole down on the bomb side.
This Nitro is likely to line up here onto Aracaza.
I think it will.
Out goes the kandela.
Gin responds with a Nitro, and that's goodbye to Aracaza.
Where is the response here from Trippie?
Moonu trying to make his way inside but just waiting for his teammates to come and support him.
There are three players from double RX already covering this angle and a nice win from Jin.
We'll get trained by his Oshi mate of Akasu and so far the only kill found
against double RX was from one of their own. Damn it quickly changes that with a pick on site, but it's far too late.
Second one, only two, maybe winnable. The problem is
he doesn't have control upstairs, does he? So even though he's got the fuse up,
Union is going to be able to spot where he plants and then kill him through the floor before it goes down
Very tough if not impossible position for Demik to find himself into the damage
That's the flank from behind he finds one. Oh my god. A little bit too close for comfort there, but
No clutch for Demik today double RX find their second round
And I feel like we're seeing the same thing on TMT, right? They want to pay perfect siege
or guys top fuck control, downstairs control, push the bombsite, they do a bit of everything
and that results in a bit of nothing. Nobody's outside piano window, bathroom window, master
bedroom, double rappel, so they have no pressure. It's just two guys outside the office breach,
one guy downstairs outside the main wall breach and that's it. It's very predictable and it's
very slow paced. Final operator bands, bit of curiosity from our side on what they're
gonna ban. You mentioned the solos being high in value last round, well that's been target
the way and the ying in response despite the fact that they've seen pretty much no
value from it a single candela went out a c4 from jane got the kill and that was
the end of it but perhaps they were fearing the idea of a warden band and
the one to ban either glass or the ying as a kind of countermeasure and not make
it as impactful in the game but there we see it candela for c4 you'll take that
if you're a defender
I'll see now that the final bands have come through where the trippy have any more success
without the solace.
I don't think it's the biggest hero that's been played at once, but what's he gonna say?
I've got waves of substituting solace in their way, right?
I just wanted to show you a little bit of a challenge.
I'm trying to denial.
Did you see the patch notes that came out?
I gleaned them.
The patch is half of mine.
Yeah, so the patch came out the same day or the day after it was out?
That explains one other thing that I saw in the KineTrope vs.
WRX game yesterday Kino trope on Pophouse played a player in Arsenal directly contesting the kitchen
vert with the Spass shotgun on Thunderbird.
I told you before Kino was straight trolling that game and I was not.
He did not get a single kill and he died.
Spass did get the automatic shotguns.
Castle might be a little tricky if you guys are watching right now.
Castle requires one more punch now to break it.
So before like two days ago, it was eight punches on the castle to prepare it nine to break it
It is now nine to prep it and ten to break it on so keep that in mind if you count in the punches
You gotta add one now. Yeah, I was I was thrown off by that myself yesterday
I was paying Shelly actually on the big window across the bedroom, and I was like, oh I punched it eight times
Now it's gonna break nine. It's like, oh
And I was in no matter the repel so it's a bit awkward
Try to keep this you force and stuff. Yeah, I love that
The first one is muscle memory
Yeah, for sure
Even just when like when guns get buff sometimes it messes up your muscle memory like you recall changes
F2 and they give the group back everyone over compensating. Yeah
Start shooting the floor a bit
F2 and L is just waiting for Arcus to try and swing
I feel like
Oh, there you go. Finally, he does find that killer.
I was gonna say, I think double-RX know about his position,
and that seems to be the case as Mao's taking him down.
Munu does find one with the Blitz, though.
So numbers back in favor of Trippie main telecom.
Are they aware of the flank potential here from Mao?
A few shots go out from Dochi.
He needs to adequately cover, and deed he will.
Now it's all on Jin.
It was the MVP of yesterday's playday,
and today, well, he's been completely shut down out of it.
Trippie main telecom back into it
with a much better attack on the master bedroom, a much more convincing roam clear, and with
that, they tie the scoreboard.
information in there. The positions were pretty good. They got a trade early round,
but then they felt like the individual players just got too far away from each other and started
dying individually rather than trading successfully. They couldn't even fall back to the bomb site
because this time Trippy actually cut them off using those external windows by the missing hallway.
Here comes attack timeout from doubleRx. On the defense they started looking really strong,
but that round just passed there. Feels to me like the first really convincing round from Trippy.
Yeah, they won their bargaming attack
But that felt like a 5v5 where double RX gave up a little bit too much map control them
Trippie just found all these kills at once and the site was theirs that round just played
Feels much more like Trippie had a really good idea and the methodical
Execution of it is what landed them the successful round win
So double Rx have got to be careful because this half could very quickly slip away from them
And their default second bombsite choice was Bargaming which they lost so convincingly
so if I was there I'd probably go, oh okay.
I was gonna say you go back upstairs while you, yeah they're gonna go Barg.
Kitchen was a very convincing win for them aside from the exit frags from Danik so I
think kitchen will be good later but going Barg.
I guess in theory priority for double Rx here has to be continue to play most of the round
the same but then don't fall off their positions without forcing Tripper to
work from it. We're seeing a complete pivot in the operator line up from
double RX. Goodbye is the triple trap set up it's now Mira making her first
appearance in round five.
It could have been done after the third operator ban you know run four that is
and cannot ban her anymore. Also Mira combined with the kite almost have a new
way of playing the game. Really more bonger heavy, closing the hatches,
checking the mirrors. You know the tools are crazy not so bumpy. It doesn't find
any success in terms of damage or a kill but that's just a little bit of pressure.
Also a little bit unusual mirror window position here is inside of office
looking towards master bedroom behind you you're here trying to contest with the
room for as long as possible. The issue is you can completely circumvent that
mirror window by walking into bathroom into piano and that's that. Even right
now if you have a guy outside the piano window on the balcony and you watch that
office door you cannot walk towards the mirror if you're not already there
because the window could cause off your rotation. So gotta be very cautious.
And very different below like there's a thousand ways to deal with this mirror
window but it does apply like another step required here from TMT which I
think they could find. Because he's the mirror, wants to clear it downstairs but
there's all these open angles in the bar hall with his no support no drone for
him, just worried about his own flank, and while he has broken the floor beneath the
mirror, he hasn't popped the Wiggles yet.
Yeah, um, sorry to say I don't like this setup here from doubleRx, I think Tricky
are going to be able to deal with it very well.
Here comes the Blitz.
A smoke grenade on this double door will definitely make it, but they're not even going to take
the damage.
My god.
Exposing himself a little bit too much, Genie is able to do a lot of damage there with the
Reaper.
One or two more shots, and Muneo is looking very squishy, the Nitro self finishes him
off and that is a very rough start to the round for Trippie main telecom double
rx fallback problem is now they don't have a lot of you till the hard-hold
mezzanine or library or the top of the stairs in fact they've reinforced both
of the hatches so once Trippie realized that yes they've lost their blitz but
they'll be able to take the map control for free and they'll be able to open up
the hatches with the Hibana and the Fatcher as well to come out the kite
course I think about TMT like I said like they go below to see as they open up
beneath the mirror window but they never shut the canister even now they never
opened the mirror window so it feels like again they're trying to play perfect
they have a bit of oversize lack of the oversight rather than making mistakes
so Michael's punished again final 30 40 seconds C4 is popping vertically EMP
what takes powers to the Hibana they can quick work off these hatches but look
at the time 30 seconds there's a C4 and two toxic babes here from the defense I
feel like this still should be a tricky win just would be a matter of control that
they have right now, but they'll need to have some strong entries. You're right. They do
need to find this first kill. And that mirror window position. Ooh, actually it's the smoke
that locks him out of the bomb site. Could entry from Arakaze. Pushing deep on the back
of the smoke, it's NL, but he does get taken down. Arakaze looking for a plant. He's the
last one alive. 1v3 for him. Akasu does not let him finish that diffuser plant. And double
Rx are back with the vengeance. Three rounds as they retake the lead. I like the switcher
from double rx but should we could have done so much more in that round like again either
you bait the Sophia sorry so you bait the ally to go to that mirror window and the Sophia
explode them from beneath then you get a free kill or you just open up the mirror window
from below so the rollers can push up more effectively it's that or also using some of
that Ibane that they had earlier on they only used four pellets perhaps that's eight Ibane
packs right you have one is it 16 or 18 or whichever you could have easily used a couple
of those on the mirror window and office to progress the round. There was no pipe
ball there, they were both on the hatches. So they got stuck in the map
seemingly for no reason and I've been looking at Demik's position there on
the bottom of your screen. Demik on the Abano's in master bedroom the entire
time we were watching the Blitzkidding shot, the Blitzkidding see-forward and
the mirror window not being opened. So I want to see him just doing that final
step in the round because they had the right tools, they had the right
operators they even had the right positions they just seem to lack the
communication or the leadership to build guys this is the plan this is how a
deal with the setup
they just didn't have the read maybe they just that was their plan and it was better
solutions like you've just said using the Hibana a bit more aggressive early in
the round and they just didn't have the thought process to take out why don't we do this
why don't we do it this faster because yes it did end up being a bit more of a messy round
then perhaps it should have been. I mean, double RX had some serious holes in that defense that
Trippy did not capitalize upon. Now final round of the half, Trippy have a chance to go even here.
Nice spot there. As he sees the player go up the stairs.
Though she looks to try and force double RX back as early as possible.
The gym's actually standing on the new gym anyway, so it's not in pocket. So he can play this really
aggressively despite the solid snake and said he falls back and always put this
mut jammer on site protect himself against the solid snakes gadget in the
late night sorry this is oh this is master wait dining is open why don't
they go down it this is not a fan that dining defense was rock solid why are
they not going dining seems like they want to just like play the turtle sides
but I mean they have a softball using it into what's off is they don't have a
a ton of denial on this side they have a single C4 in smoke if they're bunch of traps so they're also
giving up the entire roam so they're saying hey TMT get to the bombside try and go for a plan
see what happens but then it's like well they can't stop them from planting this as well
I feel like this should be favouring TMT truly we said that last round the setup from double
rx was not perfect and trippy still struggled I'm really gonna be looking at moona too many
rounds now he has died without the impact that a blitz needs to have in the round. Just because
you're playing blitz it doesn't mean you're simply just a planter. You have more responsibility than
that in the round. At the moment he's used for info-gathering but Trippie do find the opening
pick onto Akasuo. I believe that was the player downstairs. Moody will fall. Koromonos just flanked
it. He found some kills. He still hasn't finished off. Reaggression upstairs from Mao as he takes
Denarikaze triple on the round for Kora Momo. The new pickup from double RX is the star as they manage a 4-2 split on their defense and put Trippie on the backfoot.
And our final round makes quite a convincing half for a double RX, trippy really struggling
on that attack at the end of it, the flanks too unreally for them to deal with and the
blitz struggling to have any impact.
I don't know. Another disappointment in a way. Again, I see the vision, I see what the plan
is going to be from TMT, but they keep missing small steps on their attack at least.
Theoretically on defense, it could go better for them because they got the on paper strats
that they've been theory crafting and dry running and everyone should know exactly what
they should be doing. Now it's just a matter of adapting to your opponent. If double RX
do like default attacks like the usual stuff on Shelly, we should see TMT have a much better
reaction to it. However, if they do throw a curveball which the Akasu Amaru hints towards,
that is gonna put TMT in a much tougher position because they've clearly had some struggles
with their in-game communication in this matchup.
immediately second half, double rx are like yeah I've got an idea, Akazoo's on the Amaru
we're seeing a cook in progress and I am all here for it, not a single shield being picked,
double trap bans onto the thorn and Ella, this is a team that has a clear idea of what
they want to do and even repicking off the Amaru to my disappointment, the fact that
They went double down onto the shields the fact that trippy aren't running a mirror
Which is the obvious power up to leave up like the pounce on when it's left up. This is yeah
I'm feeling double rx in this game
Other pre-emptive nor pigs in case
in a fair bit of debate
retard between
Doki and the kidney body about the value of nor oh really
Doki defending the operator, saying that he believes that he's actually a pretty strong operator, and that people would say he is in the box.
And that he's not just a shoot counter, he has a lot of value and like time denial, area denial, etc.
Doki did play, I believe. I think we have that now. They look at me like up-surface, sincerely.
Doki was using the lore and catwalk batters as the defender on the door.
Did you stop them from entering the building for like 30 seconds longer than usual?
This is the bomb site.
Oh, goodbye
Sometimes you find the gap sometimes you don't find the gap and Jin had it and he lost
Bro has been trying to find the gaps, but he has not succeeded in doing so in this game so much
Quite as much success as yesterday
Early days on the attacking half, but losing one player for nothing is always a struggle
A lot of ways that you can use the nor in a non-traditional way, like even just hitting
it into some of these reinforced walls into library, into the box in particular, so people
can't move around.
You can just put it into the hallway, use it like essentially a smoke grenade.
You could play in piano, put it on the piano double ball, prevent people from walking in.
That's an option for marketing creative and serious opportunities.
A little bit of OP damage when he stays alive, doesn't even take a single point of damage.
Our Double R has been kind of stunted so far.
Really want damage on the window, do a lot of damage, but he gets out alive somehow.
Got a support there from his team of Smoke, the Munu.
Covering the angle visually, for the fallback enablement.
Double R, I mean it's one guy in the building and three guys outside.
he goes outside. Which is part of the deal on Shallay, if you can control those windows
you can really put a lot of pressure on players on site, as Akasu has just demonstrated. But
yes you do need someone to actually push inside, you do need someone to make these defenders
move, start threatening a plant. The plant also can be denied by Demyc by the way, you
can just shoot at X to half wall and that should be able to deny most of the default
plant positions here in office. However, now it's forcing a play out of Akasu who gets
quickly swung by Moonoo on the defensive side. Trippie have played this well and now the
plant denied leaves Mauu unsure of where these roamers are coming back to. Just waiting,
little nod, but it's not happening. Arkaze still on for the roam. Trippie will be out
of easily locked this round out.
A good bit of layering there for TNT in the win conditions, like I said, they're
vertically having smoke, having the North as well, then different ways of planting Nile.
But it was also double Rx going for a bit of a curveball, like I was just saying guys,
I think I can walk in for free into Office, he more or less had it, lost his gun fight,
got shot in the face close quarter, didn't have a fighting chance.
Had Jhin gotten a kill on Tumulu to smoke, he is now in Office, he can pop a line scan,
down top blue from the default plant position and his teammates continued the plan as they were
or rushed the bomb site with him. Either way the round is not necessarily a one or lost off the
opening kill not one but is heavily favoring one side because the entire tag was waiting for Jin
to figure out whether or not he was going to get the opening or not and then they started doing
the default so this right here determined so much in this round. Yeah run game actually really
successful for tripping my title. That's where the plan was denied from actually a retake from
library stairs. I didn't notice it at the time. Look rough around there. Rough start to the half
for the double rx. Next up though we're talking about an attack onto bar and games and the norm
makes a reappearance here. Blackbeard, tested out from double rx. I really feel like you have to
take advantage of the fact that the trap operators are banned if you double rx. On the flip side of
of that map control is going to be more challenging to take here with the
solid snake band out and that Valkyrie camera is going to be great as well
potential for vertical C4s there's just one C4 brought to the table I like this
from Trippin Mentella come look I would have liked a mirror pick but even without
it they have a really good setup
Obviously down to double X to strike first as the attack inside, Team T we spoke about
how they had to adapt in the round.
They just played their paper strats and sit up in the right positions.
I've done that in the very first attempt and it was a big success.
Expecting less of the solo plays now from double RX though.
Again getting on Twitch, lot more team oriented operator, as is the Capitao, a lot of ways
asses to Doki behind the Blackbeard. They're good solo operators for a roam player, but
they're even stronger when you enable them with all their teammates. Going full speed,
master windows, Laren with Herald, they force back your roamers. The Ojiniku is the most
important thing to do with damage. Yeah, the problem here is that the Moor is
contesting the Blackbeard, but Demyck doesn't realize Blackbeard is indeed supported by multiple
players. Doki goes down as well over commitment from TrippieMain Telecom. It did not realize
that there was a whole slew of players there for double RX, particularly Gamak. I mean,
Dochi on his POV, I've already seen like one or two players contesting him. You should have
realized the Blackbeard wasn't alone. So, Gamak overextending here costs him his life. Now,
Arikaze on for a flank needs to necessitate something for Trippy. Otherwise, they'll surely lose the
round.
If you're using a 5v3, you must be watching the flank. The only way to lose the round is if you
If you do get flanked or a big play happens elsewhere, they watch him, he knows it, he's gonna fall on back.
And now there's gonna be a small bit of time here for about 20 seconds, with our double RAC no, but the top floor is weak here, but that's where the screen floor is going to go.
NL's holding his power position, might be able to dodge around, squad out one, goodbye to Jin.
Good stab there from NL, and that's the problem with that rotate hole, where Jin was playing.
That's okay, but Barry to fortify his position again beautiful shot on to mouth
Where is the refrag potentially here from double RX? We're back into the 3v3 and now the Japanese again on the back foot
He's alone. No one was upstairs to help him either. Moon was downstairs. Our cast he was downstairs
He is just 1v5 top floor getting too soon and escape back to the numbers now
He escapes rather fully drops down the hatch, but the damage is done
35 seconds to go, now they've spent the camps on fire, they've spent the
frag grenades, they've a single smoke in pocket of the capitol trying to grant them
away into the bomb site. Going for a plant seems impossible, they're probably going to have to go for kills.
Two flashes from Cormomo. That's got to be the only thing to do from the gap and the ability for Blackbeard to drop down without taking damage.
That smoke will be burning for most of the rest of this round, which means that there's going to be damage taken by Akasu as he drops
Straight into the smoke bit of damage, but the crossfire from our Akaze. It's now UU in a 1v3
We'll find the first but it's not to be
Trippin main telecom despite an early 3v5 steal the round away
There was one very big error made there is something double our eggs. Where is the library balcony player?
You're in a 5v3. You know that guy was watch was fanking rather and then no one goes to library repel
Nobody pushes boost their case. Nobody's playing any real pressure
they just get picked off one by one by one with having a blade bit up and alive by the way
so we attack timeout called time to figure things out it's uh i don't know defenders paradise here
in shelly once yeah i mean i would not usually think it would be but we've had four rounds of
defense in a row six rounds of defense totaled only two attacks extremely defender sided so far
Yeah. I don't even think that round was particularly well played by Trippie on the defense.
You just swung, right? Yeah, you're a solo Sarmie Top Messian who knows it's all or nothing.
You're ganna go for an aggressive swing. You have no support. You're supposed to be able to play as well.
I'm like, what are they doing, man? Like, particularly the first player, Jim, just...
just you know it's a 5v3 the most important thing is gun up be aware of
where you're gonna get exposed to and unfortunately they don't really realize
that mistake from Damage over commitment from Dochi that's two freebies and then
in the 5v3 for like 30 seconds they spent so much time like hard clearing
utility I realized that the regression could be there from a pretty safe
position and I only found one more kill in the round after this initial two.
Just a small rule of thumb, when you're in that 5v3 you get the two kills on the room clear.
One of the five attackers immediately off getting those two picks. Once you go on flank camps,
then just like lock that down. Another one, if you start Roshi to his library balcony from the
room like very safely, because you know that the next point of contestant, the big next choke
point if you will it's gonna be top masonin top blue and library and if
you have nobody out of the library balcony the guy masonin can just walk
wherever he wants you can drop down the library hatches so many ways of falling
back if you don't go for library balcony then you're gonna go for plan B which is
to overwhelm we're talking sending down four attackers into top blue into
masonin just forcing the fight saying we have higher numbers we will win this
round but playing that middle ground off we're not rotating we're not
overwhelming or just kind of gonna linger a bit and just kind of feel out what we can find it rarely
goes well because now you're conflicting 50-50 gunfights in a 5v3 when you should have like
an 85-90% chance to win the round you shouldn't be okay with 50-50s you should be forcing 70-30s
80-20s every single time yeah I agree I feel like there were so many options there for double rx
to convert their 5v3 and they did not take the cake. Now an attack onto kitchen dining,
the Maverick makes an appearance. Interestingly as the solo hard breacher, the Zofia actually
has brought claymores. So I wonder what the intention of the factory is. Must be to counter
C4s and to counter the solace. Maverick is going to have to do a lot of work in hard breaching this
around. I actually would have been nicer to have at least one set of tin can openers, but
all the claimers were used to their credit. Two rounds trying to freeze things up, of course
that will not be stopped here by the Maverick. Or rather that will not stop the Maverick.
Yeah, the good old Maverick vs. Thuprao vs. Kaid vs. C4s vs. Impact on Nid vs. Crazy bits of Walden Isle
And Demig is looking for that angle but the DMR is close to 4 and the thing is soon to go
This is not your friend, that is more like your enemy
Ux who feels that pressure as he tries to push on in and wow the Maverick hole
that actually looked deeper is what makes him get punished. It's a down but
not a finish off onto Mau but Dochi able to flank onto that Maverick. Winnable here
for TMT even though they only have two players up it comes down to what NL is
able to achieve here but completely surrounded by three players he gets
finished off now Dochi who was roaming down below and still is as we can see is
the last one standing very low HP and a lot of these players from double RX are
there watching the flank adequately nice shot from the first one but Akasu will
trade good attack finally from double RX punishing that aggression from Trippy
yeah I love when we see a good Maverick player just getting a bit of value and
while the the host did work against him for the opening duel it does get a
trade back and again they overwhelm this time around they watch the flanks they get a good
amount of kills third and final operator bends on the dock here could be I don't know actually in
this case I mean so let's see this fight every round smoke honestly I would consider because
of how a lot of these rounds are getting stalled out it's the solos so the nomad wow trippy want
want to play aggro, gonna run in there and get stuff done I suppose.
You're banning an operator that's never been played though, which I think is interesting.
That's why I figured out what the attack should be, what they're gonna be banning away from
the attackers.
And I was like, I don't know, like it's not gonna be a single a shoot, it's not gonna
be a single a half reach.
I think it may be Maverick because they can be into like Bandit Kai 2 route, since all
of them are open right now.
Yeah.
But no, they want to ban the Nomad to enable, like you said, ban out, not be worried about
can in corner window jump out as well but there will be claymore so I can stop
them just the same especially the solar screen bend away.
I mean the thing is like we're lucky for those who don't know at home we have
a beautiful website that was built by there's a to the caster which shows us
like it automatically imports from Rubysoft API of the match that's happening
and we can see round by round what operators are being picked by what
players. So I can quickly look down at my screen right now. I can see Twitch has been played every
single round here by double RX and fun trippy. If I had that info in front of me, I would probably
be like, well, they've been playing Twitch every round. Why don't we ban it and then we can really
lean further into things like the Denari which is being picked here by Dochi. Like there were my
here that's being picked by Demik. I feel like no, no, I ban is such a waste because oh, oh my god
You don't have to ban the twitch if you just kill her in the first 25 seconds of the round.
That's a tilt so at least, double ox find one back, onto aracaze.
I was gonna say, I feel like the nomad ban, when it hasn't been picked once, all that
does is tell your opponents, hey guys, we want to run out.
I'll show their hand indeed.
It was stolen out now though, they got in their first bit of action, first bit of aggression.
Old team is going to re-feel up the vibes in the server right now.
Should we make the first move?
Should we wait for them to make the first move?
Right now, TNT getting their one pick, I think they'll be happy with even numbers.
They also have an Akus rider just waiting for their backs, that gap on the other store with the nirv shotgun.
He's effectively not in the server until he makes his first move.
these teammates they have a success on the side of building they find another pick.
You see how much they're worried about the runouts here from double rx at least i will say
they're playing very slowly and passively in the advantage they don't want to lose a 3v5 or 5v3
i should say like we saw earlier worried about that reaggression now just getting info inside
to be able to do this in a 4v3 is very powerful because only three players left you just need
need to find out where they are or where they aren't and it gives you so much
info but you don't fall on the striker. That's a rough start and I'll
consider with the pistol out. Could use his nade to burn this Arunni gate and make an
entry? Or honestly? Tank the damage, yeah I think I would do that.
The issue with the grenade is that you can't wait for the bolt against the throw
it at the gate. If you tank it, yeah you'll take 30 damage but you're in
there. You're officially in the battle and mind you, of course it's been in the
entire round. This is more than a 5v4 from the get-go. He's waiting for that perfect moment,
but they know about it. They're watching it, there is the Arunigate, they're playing piano
and playing Master Bedroom. So now we're in a position where double Rx, they don't have as much
manpower as they thought they did. There's not a lot of util here for double Rx. Either Flashbangs
from Yu Yu, he needs to find entry, but he thinks so passively at the moment, waiting for Karamo to
move on over. Honestly, if Kormomo plays here at the breach, if Hibana plays on the piano door,
and Akasu enters from the balcony, I thought this was very winnable. He manages to vault on
through, feeling some pressure, takes a lot of damage, shield on back, wants to go for a plant,
he begins. Yu-Yu has one more flash to utilize, spots one, but loses the gun,
fights, swings a little bit too wide, jumping up, Akasu finds one, but the plant will be denied
And so Trippie take the round on time. We are continuing to battle back and forth tied up five rounds apiece
Oh my god, it's a complete disaster again
They want to do this thing that that they're gonna cast opponents by surprise but a nook shotgun on the store is phenomenal
If there's a defender right around the corner there in piano there in master bedroom
They're pushing towards you know the the piano hallway of mezzanine. They're not close by at all
So it takes all the bullets in the shotguns to get the injured and the killed.
Now you gotta go to your secondary pistol, there is planting here, 5 seconds left and the rat completely falls apart.
It starts off so well here, 1 for 1 trade, no bit of a rat, did a great job, and got shot down.
This right here, the 43, that could have been the moment with double RRX they should take.
I could shoot off, don't just stand there by the store for 60 or 90 seconds straight.
Haze the teammates.
Yeah, become the planter, jump in to the office window, open up the rotation with a shotgun because you have it.
Rotate the bathroom window, just give a good gun for bathroom window maybe, I don't know.
Yeah.
It feels a little bit like double arcs, they are...
Instead of reacting to a team tier dude, like, oh they're gonna be closed off, they're gonna have shotguns, one on in.
It's like, oh guys, I wanna rush office, I'm gonna pick the nukeshoff gun, we'll see what happens.
And it's like, it's really good if the enemy by chance happens to match you in that area.
But what's your plan B if they don't? What if no one is gonna be in office?
Yeah.
Because that round they became in, it was a matter of waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, and not having to kill five players.
Everybody looting!
Yeah, you're right now.
Oh, default cam.
Default cam.
Come on guys.
There we go.
I think I'm a little bit of time, but finally default cam gets taken out.
Trippy now, Bargames. First time they played this bomb site. They were down two players right at the start of the round, getting shot down on the roam, and then they won it in 3v5.
Mostly thanks to NL on the Azami. Wow, big run out from Demek. I respect the grind, but he does get traded back. If I'm double Rx, though, that's a worthwhile trade.
trade. I mean, let them know that they're not just flying out every window known to
man, not the number that was played before, or not sure they're going to have an air
jab in that location either, but they're just like giving themselves the confidence
to know that we can play this playstyle. Stopping double RX and going for their
five-man executes, stopping them from being comfortable in and around the map.
And I think you're right, though, for the attack, that's the issue. This probably
wasn't worth a trade with double RX. You're taking away the poles, the C4, the
Can I see your trap?
Just losing yourself to Stormflower.
It's a big, dangerous round.
There's no Capitao to sense that there could be the Brab,
but he's still got all the main players in this round.
Almost a catch there.
And Aruni is completely trapped in this corner,
finally taken down thanks to Mau.
That Trippy have done most of the damage here.
Double RX, just two players left up.
Have the control.
Keep in mind that if doubleRX just find one point they guarantee that they cannot get jumped up and over by Trippy.
Trippy do indeed have a chance to jump up over doubleRX.
It's about to be a now though. The demarker is gonna top the truck with his full, or the glory cook could be close in pocket.
It's waiting to be used mind you with the change that happened a few months ago
There's a 15 second cooldown per player
So if you call nl now in the smoke you cannot be called for a little 15 seconds
So if you don't spend those look because like right now you're gonna lose the win this round with doggie because they're in pocket for no reason
Oh, they won't use them. No, they won't and
Third sheet in great position to find yet another one
Now, just waiting, biting his time, hoping that someone would peek him one by one and
find the first kill with low HP now so they clear the barb as his smoke just creates a
one-way angle that kind of works against him to be honest.
Two players to find, but Trippie main telecom look like they're about to spring back into
this game, spring back into the standings and find the match point that they've been
searching for.
They will the time up ends up being the ally of trippie main telecom as they find match point
For look at because in pocket a smoke so low all wood taken down the injured and kill confirm
This fight in the first call goes out now one of you two, but there's not enough time left in the clock
Just to get it done. So it's a complete waste
Yeah, wow, it's a shame like it's simple things right like that you gotta use your primary gadget
Trippy just deciding to play so aggressively at the end of this half and unfortunately
to double Rx they have not been able to contain it, always been lagging behind lagging behind
just one step.
Trippy looked like they were ready to put this game to bed one more round and they'll
be able to do so.
And half-breakingly looking at the standings, even if Trippy do win this 7-5 they'll get
full three points, double RX, get nothing out of this game. Both teams will be tied on five points.
Double RX will retain sixth place because they'll have the advantage in round difference. They'll be
at a negative 14, sorry, negative 18 round difference, chip will be a negative 22 round
difference, and that just reminds you that the difference between losing 7-1 or 7-4 comes back
back to bite you should be lost seven zero to being K fear X they had a seven
two loss to Kina Trope the seven two lost to Kag seven three losses for all
of their other lost games and that is coming back to bite them they would have
got an extra two thousand dollars had they not lose quite so heavily in some
of those earlier matches
As for TNT with good adaptation where I gotta say, the aggression, the conviction, not being on the clash, no mind slowing down the game's complete flip up here for double arcs to deal with, and look at their attack and line up.
They want to be fast, they want to be punchy, but now they are against the stopper of that speed.
Bandit tricking the walls, the mech is defending the shields, the vertical C4s and the clash, so it feels like the device has been countered.
In the late round here, the clash will be very difficult to deal with, especially when
you've got an execute heavy setup like Monty Glaz, and it continues just getting up in
the face.
It's real ballsy for Trippie to be running clash in a moment like this when it comes
down to a 6-5 lead.
But Arakaze is spotted, now it actually might have a gap here, looking for a backstab.
He's so close to the bombsite he could pretty much walk into kitchen right now aware that there is likely a player on the bombsite
It's dochi. He's now feeling the pressure you you want to explode onto the bombsite
But there is a response here from double RX should be find their way back downstairs double RX look for the plants
It's Akasu and Koromomo left to try and get this done and both of these players are separated the clash still remains alive as
as Demik looks to try and hold on to that aggressive play from Koromomo upstairs,
slowing down as much as possible, actually calls over Lunu to come and help as Koromomo has dropped
down below. The play begins now for double Rx. Do they know where the plant is going down? Trippy
find the first player and that's Koromomo falling. Akasu now forced to clutch up but with the clash
from Demik alive, TMT should be able to hunt him down. They don't need to over complicate.
Just get the clash to try and look for this last player knows Demik needs to scout ahead
I'm gonna bring out the shotgun. What a damn it doesn't find the kill will finish him off 1v1 now
Akatsu knows Demik is on that clash and all he needs to do to push OT is burn enough time
Demik has to fall back. He has to try and fake this get on the diffuse. There's not a lot of time left
He's only gonna have one chance to fake it. He will need to stick it now. He has
He misses opportunity. What are you doing? There's now no time to get on that diffuser
Akasu barely had to do anything but the round has been won for double Rx and we head to overtime
So many things happening if we go five to five four before three three
There's a moment where Akasu is downstairs on the side against the one my the glass upstairs against the clash
The bomb could go down it doesn't they're dancing back and forth
But when it comes into the 2v1, it's a complete blunder there from TMT.
The clash doesn't manage to find the last attacker alive, who is way far in the distance from the diffuser.
They don't go for the diffuse, and at the end, like we see, they're putting down the shield without enough time to go for the diffuse.
So I don't know if they made lost track of the time left remaining, or whatever happened there.
That could have very well been a successful regulation victory for TMT.
Look at the kill feed. It is such a great job of bringing it back into even numbers.
They find K'umon below that hatch absolutely for free.
Just for this to happen, time runs out. No one dies there at the end. It's still one left alive for each team.
This is the problem with a lot of the teams that are struggling to make their way up the standings here in APAC North.
And I've seen all of the regions.
Lack of decisiveness. Sometimes you don't have to have the best plan.
plan but I'll tell you what any idea whether it's chasing for the kill or
just sticking it is better than half-halfing it like what we just saw
where they just have no idea the conviction is lacking here that could
have been the end of the game there for trippy man telecom even the crushers
walk up to that diffuser put the shield down on either side I don't care which
one and then just stick it you got to do that far earlier than what we saw I mean
there was what 20 seconds left when we saw that first kill come up 23 seconds
left when trippy made it a 2v1 you just need the clash at that point to stick it
it doesn't matter if your teammates are separated
time I guess thankfully they're not fighting for playoffs do or die but
positioning, winning on the W, getting some more prize pool, that's still to play for
for both of these two teams, but tripping in telecom, I mean, they in particular, you
know, taking to be all close but having a sponsor, I mean, the better they can do, the
better the odds of getting into a stronger spot next year, end of the stage.
Attracting players as well, like, you know, at the moment, especially if a trippy like
in the Korean scene, not a lot of talent available.
If you're an up and coming Korean player and you're looking to join a pro team, you're
thinking oh do I join fear ex did I join two man telecom well do I join a team
that's kind of state finals but why join a team that's struggling to get any
wins on the board the team need to perform as well as they can to continue
leveling up getting experience and attracting new talent and all God do
decide to leave the team
and a stalker now set a library five and one hour start again please stare at
They've never in the first round started here, first no team, same star but this time a good trade.
Mulu goes in different direction, takes library control if he gets to kill this time.
And by smoke dying, you also die a lot of time in the clock with the gadget now being in the grave.
It's just a single C4 rip by Jin right now, lift remaining 4 plant denial.
If this C4 goes out and doesn't find a kill or significant amount of damage,
the nine is planned later on, should be near impossible for the defense of double RX.
So Jin has to be very mindful. Do I save it for later? Do I use it early?
He is playing in that front-and-forth position by the office half-wall.
He knows that the likelihood of him surviving the entire run is very low.
So he would rather spend it earlier rather than later.
I don't think GMT have many ways of killing Jin at the moment though.
Like maybe a nade and then...
Send in the nades. That could be it.
So we could smoke off the rotate in the door and just run into the one-to-one guy.
True, well there goes the Nitro, it missed it as you say.
Trippy are very close to looking for this. I mean even Jin here could actually go for a run out,
peek the window and potentially find one or more kills. He doesn't even need to run out, Demik peeks him.
That's a freebie. A second one now. Jin, he's in all kinds of pain, he goes in the rotate, finishes off the playoff.
Dunge, back around, goodbye to the splits. NL 1v4. Jin finds that one as well!
Oh my god.
Held around from Jin, he's styling back on TrippieMainTelecom and he gets doubleRX matchpoint.
In the Attagoras once again, with so much spare utility and pocket, it goes for nothing.
Like I said, even a problem solved that round in like a, let's say a simple way.
One smoke from the bits goes towards the master bedroom rotate,
the second smoke from bits covers the piano door from the office.
You can now walk in the office breach, get close to Jin, go for a flash on the blitz.
Mind you the mid jammers do not stop devices that don't have like a signal and the blitz flash is an internal device
The mid jammer doesn't stop it from working. So there's nothing making moono
Unwinnable in that position. He should just walk in get the fight get the flash me maybe take him down or whatever
But it is a very very slippery slope there in that round
Look out of my poor don't get because in this day of the round it fit five don't get because two smoke in his two
frag grenades. Five Dukipikos, two smoke and it's one frag grenade. They have so much utility!
It is the second round in a row, or second round overall, should I say,
where the attackers have had a Dukipi, and the round is lost, with all five or four of the five
Dukipikos left remaining. There's no harm in using them. Even if you're attacking Jin, who's playing
new in office, if you're calling the Denarian Piano, that is one defender that you either do
You dumps two, or you basically answer in the phone while you're going for a play.
And once that does it, you have to pick up the game.
We gotta use the Gachin!
Otherwise, we gotta play Sentry and Striker and play Double Thorebos, right?
Like, play Inpex C4, play 5-span-span-nades.
We cannot pick Dukabee and not use the Gachin!
Well, the first game of the day is already delivering the goods, Pingu.
We're hitting it over time. It's my god, over time in 24 hours.
Hey, I've seen that before.
Yeah, there's a rookie number, you gotta punch those numbers up.
I swear I've passed it more over time games in the last week than I had in the last year.
I think you might be onto something there as well, not just OTs, but 8-7s.
Not saying this one is 8-7s yet, but 8-7s have been a thing recently.
At this point, attack has really struggled, so I would not be surprised if this isn't
8-7.
I can remember scouts up for info, Jin, gonna follow it up with the Nade, almost kills his
teammates drone, but let's get rid of the Denarii laser.
Just there to be a new laser right on the next door, it's a classic Denarii.
It's again like using a grenade for the Denarii laser, technically it's not worth it, but
it's necessary, because if you don't do it you can't get in.
But this is where we see the value of this new-ish operator.
You can cover bathroom jumping, piano jumping, scenario rappeling, master pigeon door.
Oh, oh, the bad timing. Huge inside kill for Mooner taking down the capital.
Good kill though as Jin gets into the bomb site. Make sure to get that kill onto the Legion.
Find a Blackbeard, takes him to space.
Aftersuit down though and the Nitro from Dochi is perfect.
Mario is meant to be the one preventing that from happening, but he hasn't found the kill
on Tadouchi down below. Arcusu needs to be picked up. I don't know how he was injured,
but this is looking like a rough round for DoubleRx.
You know, he fell off through, but he crawled from the balcony above in his shot. Surely,
he just crawled off. Yeah, I see the butt better.
All right, well, yeah, Master NL got the injured here.
Very uh, rough position for double-rx and I have to completely abandon whatever strat
they were going for and look for a pivot.
No drawing this is just desperate but I'd like the idea, should we have them dated
back or NL takes a bit of damage they should be able to f- never mind he's just doubled
down as they both line up for him.
Should be going to send this deeper it is going to be another 8-7.
It's going to be another 15 round of PENGU.
Now 1v3, as the Zephyr packs a punchy U2 for him to try and clear these positions one at a time, but guess who's on the floor, it's Arkaze hiding behind the bomb, sending us to round 15.
So we gotta go there, huh? 7-7 scoreline, it's not all or nothing. If you make a play, that'll be it, you can just win the round, right then and there.
I feel like, for whatever reason, the basement defense is coming. I don't know why, it should probably shouldn't happen.
It's not happening, it's not happening.
I mean, come on.
No, it's not.
7-7, the craziness of this game so far.
Double Rx, they won master two out of three times, they won kitchen, they won kitchen the
only time they played it.
This is, yeah, this was weird.
Remember when I said double Rx didn't pick kitchen in their final round of defense?
They only played it once, the entire half.
They could have played it a second time.
Now they're finally playing it a second time.
and defuse as many bombs as they can.
I saw around, I think it was Waybo the other day, when they were trying to clear a solar tape.
They had someone repelling with the DMR all the way on library just looking through the bathroom window.
And they got so many free kills or at least free damage doing that.
And again, was it got you repelling there?
Probably. Probably.
And I think that's really what we should have seen last round from double Rx, you know, when they're putting their hard breach on the wall.
A vulnerable to the Legion, he kept swinging into his DEMIC, kept swinging into Solarium, shooting off the Ace of Selma charges.
Have someone there with a DMR, let him go for that swim, you're gonna kill him, you're gonna get a free entry and you can capitalize upon that.
So I feel like when you're a defender and you die to something that is just like unwinnable
like someone repelling on an angle upside down on the other side of the map, that makes
you feel powerless, it makes you feel helpless and it makes you second guess everything because
you're like what can I run past this window, can I run past this barricade, what if someone's
watching it, what if someone's in that position and that's what I think great teams have an
immaculate ability to put that kind of pressure on these teams.
awkward spot to be in on the good old 7-7 risk assessment you can be afraid of
making the play you can be eager to make the play different players will respond
differently to this kind of pressure when it was in the blitz once again it has
been the entire to the attack it feels like has to leave the charge this boost
there oh my god he just score set the window and now somehow for some reason
He went on swaps and is ready for the engagement, gets the kill with the reaper.
Oh god, that is so Akasu though, that is so Akasu's kill.
Right, he also sprinted past it and then is like, nah, I'm gonna peek.
He was fine, he was out!
And he was fully out of there, fully saved, he was like, no actually, I might get a little bit more of that.
I got one more in me.
I got one more, he's dead for the rest of the game, sorry Akasu.
Trippie have the opening pick, but they have been really slow on their attacking side, Pengu.
They're looking slow here as well. We've only had four attack round wins out of the 14 rounds that we've played
Gin's in a very aggressive position as well. Surely this though destroys this part of the wall and then they kill him
Gonna say
There is sparing forces in pocket
You feel like you're really fancy with it, but it's gonna work against them as well if they close off the last wall map trick
You can only fight on the map breach itself, which happened in just here a second
You find an owl down stairs, and then you find a guy in the office as well as falling apart
They find them all. There's one left. 1v5 you get spotted taken down
It's a flawless attack round to finish off the game for trippy main telecom
I don't know
They managed to overcome the obstacle of double RX, it's two points on the board and
And Jin is struggling to deal with that one. What a dominant affair in the final round, and to win on the attack, no less, it's impressive, the Trippy main telecom.
Another marathon of the game, Pengu. Trippy will take two points, but they will not jump up into sixth place on the standings.
I don't know why those attacks are so hard. Look at that last run. Attacking is so easy.
Ok on Shelly, he's still using the shots, he's in reaching, what's the rotations, get the kills, get the round,
there's a flawless attack.
And double Rx, I mean I gotta say, they're struggling and adapting on a round by round basis with triple main telecom.
Once, triple main telecom, triple main telecom, down as a defense, they banned the Nomad, they found their stride,
they found that aggressive kind of destruction, destruction of playstyle, they started taking a lot of rounds,
and then they settled into it.
The Galaxies attacked an OT and they finally did it.
They were victorious on the side that was hard to deal with.
Yeah, look, I would say if there's any 8-7 games, you always...
Oh yes, I love that!
Hey! Reactions from our Japanese comrades!
Love that.
Look, if you're ever going to have an 8-7 game,
I want it to be won by the unfaithful side, right?
Like, it just sucks when you go into OT and it's just like,
It's been defense wins all game and then it's just defense, defense, defense and then you call it because you have to wonder
Oh, what if we had started defense in overtime, you know, would we have won?
What if we had infinite overtime? Would we just keep on going on forever?
But yeah, thankfully Fippy really dug deep in that final attack round and
Yeah, they got it done. They got the job done
They do finish up the stage in seventh place
But they managed to beat both double RX and can you be my enemy which of the teams closest to them on the standings both in
six than eight and I think that that makes them feel a little bit better even though
they didn't manage to beat any of the top five teams they did beat everybody
yeah and I mean ending on a victory is always gonna feel good because it's
regulation the OT but tripping there's so much more to happen and for us there's
also more games in the future right we have a schedule this is one of the
first four games today and some will matter more than others this upcoming
one technically is one of them because being a theorist are fighting to lock
in their spot, but James, it's more or less sitting down, isn't it?
It pretty much is.
I mean, there's a very narrow universe where Keynetrope can couple either Fyrex or D-plus,
but if Fyrex just gets a single point out of the game, same for D-plus, if they just
win six rounds because it can't even be my enemy, then it should be a lock-in.
Fyrex would try and lock themselves into the playoffs.
That game's coming up to you guys after this break.
The best 2 is something I'm really happy about.
After all, I was able to get the best 2 out of the game in the reload.
That's why I wasn't happy with the game.
Yeah, it's about roster changes.
It's about not being able to join the DD.
Even in the game, there weren't any players who could join the DD.
So it was decided that everyone could join the DD.
Yes, since I was a kid, I've been playing C.G.
I don't think there's any more interesting games than this.
It's in the bottom of my heart.
I don't think I can stop playing C.G. until I win.
Yes, since I was a kid, until I was about 3 years old, I lived in a car.
I don't want to be different from other people.
As much as I can, I think I've grown mentally and mentally.
I think my brother's spirit is something that makes me feel like I don't know what illness is.
I think it's a bit strange to say it's the same as a normal person, but he's been helping me in the same way.
I'm really thankful for that.
The team is the same as the family, so we have to say what we want to say, and fight what we have to do.
We are able to do that within the team, so it's important.
I feel like I did a good job at winning, but if I lose, I don't know why I lose.
It's too weak, I've been at home all the time.
Yeah, if you're told, you're going to be punished.
Well, next time, watch it.
I'm saying, watch it every time.
The story is already over.
We're out of time!
Let's put them in the ground.
We're out of time!
We're out of time!
We're out of time!
We're out of time!
Let's put them in the ground
Team one report alive and we're saying
They have their orders you need to go for next
Off time.
Sending a payload.
Huh?
Your corner, bitch!
Surrender!
I see one old man.
One old man about to die!
I see shot number seven.
Three rounds down.
Hack my phone!
Huh?
What is it?
Do it now!
It's different if you don't let go
I'm already tired of drinking
I'm cutting my own hands
It's a little painful
But it's not over yet
It's a little painful
You're mine
Tell me everything of me
Smile, smile, smile
Smile, smile, smile
Smile, smile, smile
Now, now
I
The waves of people are fading away
The light that shimmers in the days ahead
The reason I'm melting away is because
This is the last wish
Because it's a quest
I don't want everyone to have it
The voice that's been lost
We're back for more, so I hope you guys are hungry for some APL.
We have two games left, actually, we have three games left tonight, we've barely started,
I'm already losing it and I'm only one overtime into what could be a night of overtime's
We've had our fair share of them recently.
Quickly, just for a moment, you mentioned to me in the break that Dongwook,
who was coaching Trippie, is actually retiring after that game.
So I'm sure it would have been nice to finish on a win.
Yeah, and he said that, it feels nice.
But he also said, and this is, I guess, you know, really like,
thinking about your career, I'm going to keep it short in my retirement post
because it didn't accomplish much in my career.
And I feel like it's always easy to be a pessimist because if you think about it,
Dongwook was still there during the PC era when they went to a Manchester Major
beating BDSX. He was a pilot roster, helping translation, helping in a bit of the coaching strategy behind the scenes.
Like, I feel like he needs to give himself a bit more credit than what he did in the segment.
But either way, you're right. He is officially retired and so is MISAM.
So that XPSD talent roster is slowly disappearing.
Yeah, yeah. Well, shout out to Dongwook. I hope you're still watching because actually some of your other former PSG teammates are playing all the rest of it right now.
Pretty much all the rest of them. That's right.
Furex versus Can You Be My Enemy up next in our next game of the day.
And this one actually does have quite a few stakes behind it for the Koreans.
Of course, BNK, Furex have had quite a reprisal this year.
Their first playday in, they took down Ketetrope, which was a big win.
They 7-0 trippy.
They had a bit of a slip up against CAG losing 1-7.
And since then, it's been amazing for them.
Double RX, D plus, eventually losing to Skars.
But now they have a chance to lock in playoffs, if they can just get some points off of Candy being my enemy, which realistically should be very achievable.
Also mind you, that a significant lead over against Skars, so they actually could have beaten them and should have beaten them as well.
And there's Skars, then some other comeback, that's a different story, it happens.
But this has been a very strong team here in being in fear. It's a bit of a surprise to me.
It's minus Misa, who went on to retire.
Flossed TLT needs his own format teammate in PHD talent now replacing him as well
and then Nick's actually over from North America joining as the head coach as well
and it's been a big look from the latest football details, the rotations, the individual performances
TLT in particular has been a hitter in the last couple of games and it was a big surprise to me
just how well these guys managed to turn it around. For sure and you could always say the same thing
I think, can you be my enemy after their result yesterday?
It was crazy to see finally points on the board
for can you be my enemy?
And so very nearly was it
that they actually got their first win.
They were losing two versus five
and then Sikingo managed to get a 4K to put ML in a 1v2.
That was our highlight round
that we saw at the top of the show today.
And then Trippy actually managed to come back
and win that game in overtime.
Here are some highlights from that match.
It was a real slugfest.
It was very similar to what we saw in our Trippy vs Double RX game today, thank you.
This is that 4k from Sikingo, really sharp shots from him as well.
Like a lot of unfavoured gunfights, down to 1 HP, still gets 1 more kill while he has
1 HP, and then he ended up losing that round.
So a rough moment for Kenny B, Miami, but at least they got their first points on the
board.
Yeah, it's going to feel good going today, maybe you can get a bit more confidence off
against B and K theory, but really listening to what we've got to see here, it would have
to be up on longer from fear x not to get a victory on the board in you know
either overtime on regulation but hopefully regulation for them it's
about things falls about thing upsets about just trying to end bigger season
on or the year I guess you should say on a victory kind of same story for
trippy and double X and we just saw over today yeah for sure let's see what map
will be playing for our match today between fear x and can you be my enemy
where fear x just needs six rounds to guarantee that stage finals thank you
I'm down for a bank. Let's go bank. Let's do it. Let's go. Let's go boys and girls
Okay, so bank is new territory here for oh, sorry. No, can't you be my only dude play this against guy?
They got packed they got seven one finally enough
That's one thing both of these teams have in common the only time they played in stage one. They got completely picked apart seven one by cake
Nice so it feels like a fit-and-see who's actually not the worst team between these two on the map
Also, huge fan here because between Shelly or Bank and I would love to watch it like different maps not like going back to back three in a row
Whatever so a big ups here from can you be my enemy as you often to pick it because they did financially as the very final option
Yeah, for sure. Love that. We did see fear X win three months ago against KineTrope on this map 7-5
It would have been a big win for them. The only other time that can you be my enemies played this
was against SCARS in stage one. Absolute favorites here are going to be the Koreans in
FHEREX. Could it be a double Korean win in a row here with Trippie taking the
cake over the double RX and now FHEREX taking on Can You Be My Enemy? Well you
guys are going to have to stay tuned and find out because we're getting into it
right now. FHEREX looking to lock in stage finals here against the up and
comers. Can You Be My Enemy? Still looking for their first win since joining
Having T1 at the start of this year, let's get into it.
Ardyn's been the ace, could be the Hibana second to enable that top four Bumside, if
not you can keep it open and go for a third option if you really want to.
Khaid of course for the hatches of Basement for generic usage on the walls, has also a
TCHG, that is the current big talk in point right, Loyal, Khaid and the recruit defender
in century all had the TCSG egg which unironically has replaced the DMR meta if you will, the
Aruni and the two Browns since those got nerfed and it will indeed be the Ace and the Ibanas
or Top Floor really unlocked the FBK-3X that can go basement into Top Floor into open area
and have a very strong first bombsite rotation aiming to get that 2-1-3-0 split.
Attackers need to locate and just use as many bombs as they can.
BME on the attacking side, it's a hard map to attack when there's so much to do.
Bank is one of the easier maps to attack, but I think BME, one of the teams that are going to struggle more with it,
I expect Fiora to go for a bit of a run, but once they do fall back to side, just look at the U2 man,
it's Tachanka, Smoke and Goyo. How the hell are you going to burn all that?
I tell you what, you're not going for a 3-4 plant against this setup, that's for sure.
Gonna be quick, and I said probably on the hatch somewhere as well, there's still just one spare in pocket.
So, trying to deny a bit of that hatch breaching or stalling early on.
And got my BNK Phoenix, they are one of the most strict-to-go teams right now, I think, in all of APL.
They're giving it a little bit of that old-school Dark Zero vibe.
They can be a bit slow in the attack. They miss your 5,000 times, they cut ones on defense,
all about seeing him amaze of problems, of plant denial, of structure, of utility.
But they still have that fracking capability when their first layer fails with the Gaddape Clutch.
Even a Wookieman who is not supposed to be the Clutch, he has had multiple successful Clutches this stage alone.
Togi's trying to see over the main shotty, but I find his first enemy in the GoyoGL team.
Yellow came the way, they tried to bullet through the wall, nothing to damage.
But he's gonna keep flying down his main staircase.
He really wanted that kill, but he will not get it.
No damage done towards DLT.
Wow, Bro really just said,
nah, I'm not giving up here.
I'm sending it, I'm gonna continue fighting.
He bolts over to his demise.
Already an early 4v5 here for P my enemy.
P and K in a strong spot now.
Yanagi, likely aware that there is a player here
in elevator, Woogieman.
On the Fenrir, as his first Fenrir FNAT mine gets taken down, Yanaki wants to move on forward.
Ooh, almost a shot there, good pre-fire, but Ryder's able to escape.
BNK back on the bomb site with everybody except Jungsang who's holding onto Blue Stairs.
Oh, let's excel the point!
As you can see there, no one's gonna risk expose themselves to a bad gunfighters overstaying
their welcome to BKFUX.
I'm expecting those toxic babes to be spent very early or falling back immediately upon
this hatch breach.
Since he hasn't, he's going to stick around and I'm stuck on the blue stairs.
To our two babes three in pocket, I can stall for about 30 to 40 seconds total.
You know we're talking like 45 seconds left on the clock, or it can be made me even have
a chance at fighting back.
Combine that with the two brown hatches, the Gorya Fire by the bomb side, and the Zhishan
Gif of Plant and Nile late, late, late round.
We're gonna sit here for the next couple seconds games and talk about what they cannot do because they cannot progress this round
Until they get the hatch until they choose to attack silver, but it gets worse. They push it
You know since rates himself. Oh, is that a guest up the round? Oh, oh, but they're a hobbidge
Because it's getting there out in an area of again roots. Oh, what you're gonna go back. What's your mind?
What?
There's 40 seconds left. Why do you know you want to get a kill?
he didn't get it though. He can't ADS while he's dropping. Like that was that was already not really
a viable strat back when you could ADS while dropping but that was the last
piece of outreach. Default fire put him open. I mean not that it would work anyway
with this much prime denial but I don't know man. That's a play. No but give me a
best go of it. Let's have a look. He's gonna get flanked here by Wooten there in a
second so doesn't have much time and Wooten will take him down from up above
That was a round.
You know sometimes you you talk about the things that can be done things that can go wrong
Sometimes a team will dispute at the process and say you know we're not gonna wait
I'm not gonna wait for the phone. I'm gonna wait for the toxic beta will descend it on the hatch either get the kill or get killed in
The process. I think can you be my enemy? You know loosening early
Not having enough hard breach said you know what it's not gonna be a regular run for us
We gotta do something extremely ridiculous and it probably will not work
but if it does there's a chance. So it looks super silly for us, but let's be honest like I said
there was so much plant in Nile still by that A bomb site that Goliathir had to shank her.
Even if Yanaki had looked at her server based on the wall, it would have stood there
unable to do anything as well. Look it was just uh lose lose, sorry if it'd be my enemy. I mean even
if Fuse dropping down does find one pick he's gonna get traded and you fight him from a number
numbers deficit you can't afford a one-for-one trade well Phyrrax one fifth or one sixth of
the way there and we need five more rounds to lock in stage finals and lock out in a
truck
they actually do an open area second and it doesn't matter if they go see your open
second forgot who the phone 3 wrote it anyway so not the end of the world
didn't if they were loose open now they can go top floor still same result
see if any enemy can stabilize early this time or if toky saw was coming out
we'll rent in the building look at that opening once again explain the whole
round so it should be more about the gadgetry than the yin shop gun and just
trying to get into a gunfight and as you know with the great much it's out of
server this could be a simple like skyline into side kind of direct attack
a close off the double door between the bottom side Monty won't seem with the
diffuser and he's just playing by the half one kitchen it is technically a
possibility the only thing missing is they probably want to try and get the
firmware charge off on the port wall first then the issue is that there's a
mid-jammer that's gonna stop you from reaching because you're not an issue a
thermite and you need to get archives and tillers control first as well
otherwise through my can get close to that wall.
Can you get a sense of that?
I guess we can just go for it.
No mute.
Yeah, no mute.
Oh, does he come on this side?
Yeah.
Oh!
Wall bang as well from Tobi.
That's good by Yinseng.
Be my enemy.
Wanna be pacey here.
They wanna be fast.
There is some vertical pressure from up above and impact, I believe, that was.
Let's just open up an angle for Soldier to continue contesting the bomb site.
But Yanagi has found his entry.
This is such an early bit of pressure here from B my enemy, Yanagi is also watching the flank all the way from on the roof so that should be a lock up here for any flank opportunities from Fear X.
There's no way to kill the monsters that go for the second gate, the flank instead, the impact with the door opening there on the raw gate, a great retake indeed.
If no one with this monkey walks on in, you go for a straight climb at 7 seconds, there's actually no, no mind, second go to fire, buy some 20 more.
After that qualifier is going to disappear, that's when Inkey fears him to be out of win conditions and they know this.
They're going to make him a plan the next 10 seconds to figure out how they're going to stop this plan from going down.
Yeah, I think Ryder's going to have to be the instrumental player. He can use his C4, but also JLT with the...
Oh, actually, I didn't see a player through the floor. Did you see them?
I don't think he did. JLT does have keeper barriers to try and enable a bit of re-aggression here if he blocks up some of the line size that's being held.
But that Nitro himself will deny the plan. That is the win condition here, even though the pick's been found onto Soldier.
Phyrex should be able to win this round, because I don't think BME have a way of safely getting back to that diffuser to look for a plant.
But JLT will fall all up to Ryder now, and Astro will hunt him down. Good round from BME. One of the best we've seen from them all stage.
Very good bit of layering, resetting the rounds, stabilizing, and also they had that big backstab,
dropping the open area hatch with one player while the other two are going to play by that
quad wall.
And it definitely caught the defenders there by surprise, they get the kill to the Asami,
leaving just one player stuck in the small box, and a 3v1 crossfire.
Very well done for them indeed.
And it will mean now for BKF, because it will go top fours to shoot with the tibane on the
this one-tap flick wallbang is disgusting and toky and it took down you know an
early member and just made being a theory it's that much more afraid of
sticking around it's the backstop right there and glt huge kill there on the
backstop
look couple more of those and I'll be really impressed even if they're not
able to win this in regulation even if they're not able to win this the thing
that we really want to see from these teams near the bottom, it's not, ah, you gotta be
beating every top team, it's just, give me some good rounds, like, if you, if the enemy
showed me rounds like that, even had they lost that round, Pengu, that round is a great
example of a team that has a good idea of their plan and knows how to achieve it.
And I really like that, they were prompts, they were coordinated, I want to see more
of that from D my enemy.
If we see rounds like that, you know, more often than we don't then they're gonna become a really good team
And I got something else cooking for you deaf
They got a slow on the armor with their sense with the lion with the grim
It's all about Intel. Okay, then line the grim have to find a couple of red paint
It's in the midst of the chaos for armor to act upon and to shoot through the sense was swell for any of them
There's under repel.
If you have an armor, I mean there's two ways in usually.
There's genitors, there's three actually, there's genitors hatch, two is right, there's
stock hatch, two is left in open area, and there's the elevator leading towards top floor.
Whenever armor goes you gotta build the entire tech around them.
It's really risky going directly into genitors, I feel like that's too much for us.
I feel like the play is to have someone on the stock window, someone contesting from
square and then he goes up the stock hatch while Jailty is distracted.
Yeah, you do need a flashbang because Jailty can kill him as he comes up the hatch.
Or the Asphalt Hatch with flashbangs.
That's a problem. Even a nade or just some gunfire and some noise coverage.
A Zovestan would be huge. The Zovestan is prepared.
I think it has just landed here and he manages to get up, doesn't hear him, and Asphalt finds the kill.
kill beautiful mini play from P my enemy and even though they lose Yanagi they've
gained a lot of map control for it they do they're in the building got that first
with a full hold they don't have a lot of right now though it's just space they're
very close together so beautiful on the janitors across the hallway get shot down
though and don't find the angles themselves the yokais are really locking
them out plenty of info there from woogie man to make sure that fear ex knew
the timings of that execute. Even though in theory there were three players trying to
push onto that single player in Janna closet, it's not going to land because of the info
for Furex and unfortunately for Asphal he ends up getting re-aggressed upon in his position.
The Yo-Kai is feeding so much info here to Furex that Sekigo is left all alone. He will
be traded out and a good defense there from Furex. Really, the MVP of the round has got
to be Woogie Man with those Yo-Kai drones.
100% I think there was four attackers there are red ping throughout that around and they've stunned two separate ones to deny any plant potential
And just kind of knowing what's happening as a defender there saying guys, they're not planting. It's fine. Don't rush anything
Don't push it goes a very long way
Talk for defense will the attack and the defense has very limited areas where it's very strong to play in your favor
The okai makes it just very clear where you can it cannot be
3rd operator ban goes out, I was going to see Ekko was playing that one time but they felt awful to play against.
Wukim and Bigsmile on his face, we get, ah, you know, that's all me.
And I think Monty's a good counter response, especially with the Ekko being counter banned away,
as Ekko is one of the few Monty counters that they have available to them.
It also means that Bima and Amy cannot cheese those direct plans as easily as no other shield in the month
you can stay alive against the C4s, the Gorya Fly, the Crosses, etc.
but the big success story here I think is forcing the echo band off a single
round plate it is leaving so many other strong operators open I mean the
Goyle was a big problem for them earlier we saw two brothers storming for time
yeah you have all the plant and now you have a Sami Womai it just adds another
layer of how BKPX can play these defenses because what if they go top floor next
time they play Castle Womai Jaker and they can just put it Castle Barricades
for example right? Or they start putting it with one of my Yeager. Like they just have these
optimal passive setups where can you be mad at me or do pocket shots against them.
Yeah as much as I feel like that Echo was very powerful I do think that Smoke would have been
an underrated band. I kind of wish Smoke got banned more because you just look at the rounds
that have been played. First round, basement obviously you've got Smoke and yeah it's kind
kind of redundant with the Tachanka and the Goyo, but the Goyo can be counted
mid-round by destroying the Vulcan Cards. The Tachanka can't be counted mid-round,
but also he's much more distracted than a Smoke while he's using his gadgets. And
then Smoke was also played inside Jada Closet and those Smoke Babes really
stalled out that push. While yes the Tachanka, sorry the Echo was a big problem
for them, the Echo is counterable. You could bring you to the dealer, you could
I think that the smoke is much harder to counter. I would have liked to see that ban instead.
Thank you.
What should we call it? Reason to see bias, right?
Oh my god, this guy got four kills and he targeted banning him.
But that wasn't the problem. It's all the small things that you fail to do in the server.
Sometimes it's as easy as, if you don't spend your drones aggressively in the drone phase
the drone phase and you don't see the defending lineup, you can't use your
attacker re-pick effectively. And that's something that shifted a lot recently.
Some teams in pro play will spend four of the five drones in the building red
ping and defenders to know what they're up against. Some teams, and it's a bit of
stylistic differences, will try and keep as many drones alive during the drone phase
and not get as much intel to use the attacker re-pick as effectively because
they want more information in the live portion of the round. So for BME I think
He's using a few more don'ts there to see if they have the echo in that case
And the kitchen with the digger of course
Can go a very long way. This one here is a counterpick though. The fuse counters the two brow and theory
You cannot freeze a fuse cross the charge the moment you pop it
So one fuse puck will guarantee go through it will explode
They can destroy the soda canister from two brow and unfreeze the hatch
So can you be minding me are a bit faster this time around or time is very much still a proper hold on
I have intel on the enemy location
Oh, it's gonna be a real push here for Nova. Smoke will come down
Ryder does find the opening kill on the Sikingo. That's the sends but there's a player actually in elevator right underneath the breach here
I sure hope the toky has already pinged out this position indeed
He has I hope that calm has come on through because he needs to be targeted right now
Wookiee man getting pressure but the flash will miss needs to make sure he was a gunfight
Where is his team? He needs to come in to get some support Astor will deliver the killing blow
It's a beautiful attack from be my enemy onto the basement two attacks on the board for the Japanese
They are really bringing the fight to fear X
This other snake was so successful finding out some of different locations gets the entry has that
to just keep up the firepower, and you're right. Breaking the fear to a basement like
this is a huge deal. This on paper is their strongest bomb site, this safe place for them
to go, and they lose second and not even close. That means they get reforced into a spot and
you go somewhere else that has a lower chance statistically of winning for you. So back to
a place you just got destroyed on. I guess the benefit here in a way is that any people
enemy were clutching the Monty in open-air last. It was a rock-direct attack. And they
just close up the doors, they walk in, they go for a plan. That was how long to play
out that round. The downside is they can't do that anymore. Because Monty's been there.
The upside, however, is what if they have aching the pockets strapped? That's the way
of executing this stupid test. That's going to catch being here by surprise because they
were used to the Monty and now they think they can't go all the sorts of places they want,
where they've been gone.
You see how I talked so much about banning the smoke, you know it's not the inputs here
for this bombsite, which that's fair enough, I learned that I didn't pick it on Starframe
last time, but yeah, particularly the Goyo is a problem here.
I'm surprised when I was seeing Twitch play here from Be My Enemy, it counters so much
that B and KQX bring into the table.
That said, I'm noticing the Mute and Mozzie combo.
It's been a long time since we've seen both of these operators brought to the table, but
grinding is going to be so much harder now, you can really get so much coverage, especially
with all the mozzy buffs.
While he's been out of meta, he's actually been buffed like crazy.
I think people forget about that.
So tons of info denial here, being careful of x, and tons of info with the Valkyrie and
the Thorn as well.
I honestly think that, can you be one of me just wants to get very active?
I guessed about why not bring up twitch it's just it's too much droning man
It's so much standing still I mean look at this you're not here is using the maverick towards in the basement
So silently break the barricade to creep up the main staircase to go for that gap find with toky sticking past the cameras
I love me to meet him in the middle
Look at man, but the trade is right there. Oh, yeah, he does get traded go straight away. Unfortunately from your noggy
Some nice ideas there from Be My Enemy, but I'm not going to be able to win this fight
as well.
You can tell Ryder gets it.
Great.
A little bit of distract there from Soldier.
He bought some time for Ryder.
And now BME, after looking so good last round and having some good ideas this round, 2v4
with Fyrex falling back to site, this just ain't happening.
No internal nothing, you're right.
No one's in there, we'll drive to get the chronos, the Blitz, but we'll not be here. Ex-discipline gameplay.
We're all by the bombs, and we see the silhouettes holding the crossfires, and the box walking, the double door to the kitchen.
They know that they only gotta work at back angles, and to make it even worse, they have a Valkyrie camera in bottom area, seeing no exact location.
I think he's figured that out now.
We gotta just go in there and try and get it done, try and find a couple of ticks.
There is a hard breach here for Asphalt, he might actually gotta go for a breach on the main wall. Nice angle there with the CCSG.
really is the it weapon right now isn't it? That scope on the slug shotty so good
for making rotates, scope good for slapping your opponents, so good for
locking out rounds for soldier. That's a really solid way to finish up what has
been a real dominant slur rounds between these two teams. Back and forth
Vyrax now leading by one round. Can you be my enemy? Have a chance to tie it up
and close up the half before they move on to their defense.
low-key and awkward spot though, lockers a cctv, sorry lockers a ceo rather
usually not a big decision to make but with the abandon ace ban not playing
top floor to its full potential does feel like they're missing out it will go
to lockers that was on the final second for the replay started to happen this
is prime territory though for a 3-3 half if can you be my enemy can execute
just one more time to a high level of efficiency I guess I will say though
Bank typically is attack my favorite so it's not the end of the road for can you
be my enemy but it's definitely an impressive show and so far. Sure and
there's a lot more pressure on Phyrax than there is on Be My Enemy. Yeah there is.
I really would love to see a twitch play here look I like the solid snake I
think the solid snake at the main stairs is really good if you want to go
for a backtake but the thing is they've already done that once now I think Be My
Enemy in a kind of awkward spot with their operator picks here because if
If they want it, even pretending to try and go for a default take, you are going to need
a twitch and some utility to try and clear out, you know, Goyo, Smoke, the check, you
need someone to respond to that.
You also need to bring something for the tube route, so you kind of have to go for a fuse.
You want that blitz so that you can enable a bit more of an aggressive play.
I feel like, I don't know, I'm not sure what you drop here, but I feel like this lineup
isn't enough.
Feel like you do need the twitch to try and get some of the dreadmines. What is that from toky? Just jump straight into
Second time now. Let's have a snake pick. Yeah, you're right
In the very opening
He goes good for one though to wookie man
So it's not the end of the world if you consider trait game, but as I say it does get worse
I mean every single member of the attack is playing completely solo. No
BK can fall back now, so critically it's the fuse that's just died as well, so the
two row riders can get full value, ooh she's here for the Pachanka soldier, such a locked
up setup here for Fyrex, these hatches are gonna be really hard to clear, hard to open
up, and even after that you still gotta deal with the Goya, you still gotta figure out
way to clear blue stairs.
Ian's saying he has three smoke bays to deny so much time.
So we've all come off his stake and I mean we've seen this so many times before right?
Smoke, fire, Goryo, Tupac.
Look at this dude wait.
Either you drop the hatch like before or you wait for a backtake like 30, 40 seconds.
You go for a backtake but again, oh, Vig's in.
They have no idea.
No ears.
In the damage, got to get that kill, the Trader back by Soldier.
Great thing about this LMG is he can make rotates at the drop of a hat and come and support his team.
He can make kill holes like this one, at a feet level.
It's a Kingo trying to push in.
He might have a good position, but it's only two of them left alive.
Aspel low HP.
Spots, two players! Can't find either of them.
Aspel now in the 1v3.
BNK, Furex had their crossfires and they've got info.
They know where he is and they have that diffuser in their hands.
in their hands. Ryder's got the off angle. Thierrex lock in a 4-2 split. The first team
out of either of them to find two rounds in a row. As next they move on to the attacking
half.
We're back into it for the second half.
Can you be my enemy?
I've actually out shone expectations here against Fear X, but failure to deliver anything
in the last two rounds might tip that conversation now that they move on to the defensive side.
fear x on their attack they can redeem themselves very quickly here and rock it
up into stage finals with the bang by finishing this with some impressive
attacks penguin I really want to see a universe where be my enemy become a
strong competitor in the region and not because teams like trippy and double Rx
are falling off but because BME can actually fight with the top guns we saw
moments of that in this game yeah occasionally they have a moment they
They shine so bright, they do so well, they lock in for like 3 minutes straight and there's
a cooldown.
They gotta calm down, they gotta recharge the batteries and they go again.
It really is a matter of consistency and then it's been, I think, the biggest struggle,
the majority of the teams they packed more than maybe across APL that are below like
the top 5th or top 6th position.
They just don't have it on that many maps or on that many days, against that many playstyles.
is hard to combine the seeds because it's an ever-changing game whether it's going to be the
meta changing or the nine map pool or the very small things like now the enemy is playing super
turtly and very passive next opponent next game there's been super aggressive in your face it's a
lot of constant adaptations however look at all the best teams and like dog every single one of them
they're just so good at dealing with any of those play styles and any of those maps with any of those
problems. It really comes down to how much you can cover across the board, and that is
where a 10-degree enemy falls a bit short.
I'm going to be kingly watching be my enemy and get the defense now. And they play actively
to prevent fear x from running away with it. Well, straight up, we're already seeing an
An unusual set of picks, a very aggressive line up from Be My Enemy, we've got Info Denial
in the Moser, we've got Info Gathering in the Solace and the Valk, and Yunagi's favourite
Scopus that we see so much out of him, but guess what, while you're roaming, nobody's
home on the bomb site.
Really, they go for a quick fight here from Woogie Man.
Where's the Nitro Cell?
So Kingo brings it out, hates out one Nitro, less than a minute down the block.
They're going to go again for another one.
No hard breach has been utilized by the way, where's Nova, he's in square, he's being
covered off, and the glass has found one, an off-plan position, out comes the smokes,
Turkey needs to win this on the read, so he actually does get the fight against JLT, 2v3
as the Blitz gets guard broken for a brief moment.
Suppression, that Nitro should surely finish him off, Nova and Tokyo actually could be
on here. Problem is, this plant spot can be very hard to try and counter defuse, especially
when you've got Ryder already deep inside the bomb site. And upstairs, Yun Sang is onto
the cover from the hatch. He finds Toki, 1v2 now for Nova. It's not happening. Great first
attack with the rush onto the site from Fyrex. It is crazy how simple being a Fyrex make
that look. Literally, it blitzes in a glass, walks into server. What happens next? They
They bring a C4, they get a kill, they get the plant, and then the round is over.
And there's no Thatcher.
There's no EMP, there's no like, I'm gonna shoot a C4 with air, which is planting, hearing
it, getting off it, re-going again.
So simple, highly effective.
Where's the smoke?
Where's the gore with the shanka?
Nowhere to be seen.
And it goes to show the prepper, I mean look at this defending lineup, Mossy, Skopos, Solis,
Fenrir Valkyrie.
They have no way but two C4s, only one being by the side to do any sort of damage with the gadgets.
It's all roaming presence, but this is bank. This isn't really a roaming map.
Even if being a fierce didn't go for a direct bomb set attack, you have almost nowhere to comfortably roam.
The outside of window repels, the soft walls over the place, the verticality. This is a fallback.
You play in open area, you drop the hatches, and you go back towards the bomb site. You gotta play that both layers.
Only layering in one area. It doesn't really work in this map generally speaking
Now they'll go to different bombsite though and they'll do that extension once again going upstairs
Skopos or button cancel barricades and to be fair skopos does have the ability to TP back towards the bomb side as long as you don't
was the other one. What's your honest thoughts on this guy? Because I'm seeing it more and
more these days. I've just seen it two rounds in a row. So I like it for the occasional
like one-off strap when you have a very specific purpose and position in mind, but I don't
it otherwise because it feels like you're just an ego operator. Vigil at least shrouds the whole
droning game, right? Like you don't know exactly what's going on, Vigil could be anywhere sort of
thing. With Skobos, it's okay. You send a deep roam, he's gonna TP out, so either we gotta go
quickly against him or just not bother getting him at all. And you are just playing very much for
yourself in most of the rounds that we witness. So I'm not super hot on it, but I like seeing the
creativity that's what was going to be usually it is just for individual selfish
players though sometimes the C players are really good at it unfortunately
haven't seen a lot of good from BME on it very early pick from the scope boss but
gets traded back you could have done that with any operator that's left you to on
the side so can go able to refrag those so vert operator killed and shield
killed this is a good start from be my enemy however if they keep leading picks
when they're in the advantage like they've just done and fear ex will be able to overcome
you're right you said it right that skobos could have been anyone else could have been a
bit me lose you could have been a goal you get to kill you die your team has not benefited from it
both in the kill but also in the gadget that's what doesn't have a gadget this round it's gonna
be a scope will show somewhere technically working like a bulletproof camera but often in a corner
somewhere facing a wall in very big safety can you be minding me there are begins that don't
Could be the demons so he's the track of the soul
That's a freebie onto you say I don't know what happened there from you saying he must have been using his gadget or something
Yeah, jail to able to get the ping on to him, but just too late
Turkey runs away
In case you're looking very lost this round as JLT gets shut down without a wall bang from Tokyo's really turned it up
He's looking great on the attacking side. He pushed a little bit too early
He overheats after he finds the two-piece. Now it's a 1v2 for soldier and I will admit this is pretty winnable
It's got fire and smoke and hard breach
both in the other bomb side, so
If you want school you can get in spring because fire you will do that now is inside the building
Sam is very far away one kept on fire right here before the movement
Winnable. Oh, this is great. The fire comes out. No the starts getting burned and he will get killed
So no more plant and all from the Tchenka. It must come down to Sikingo
How does he play this he could go for the revive here? Maybe that is the right decision
There should be info from the scope of shell and ironically the scope of shell may well be the thing that actually won the round
We talked about having no you till on site Sikingo able to clutch up in the 1v1 BME find their first defense
Absolutely ridiculous scenes right now. Yeah, you're right
It's the one time where the scope will show actually season here is where the soldier was going for the plant
I think soldier at a hard time figuring out what exactly was happening in that round because you could have just planted by the
Bomsai chassis like very far away from the asami
But he's worried about the server flank and getting killed from a flank essentially so it goes a bit deeper to get a better angle
But it turns out as I was just hiding top mainly entire time was in timers low got the yellow thing
a bit of a puzzling round but a really great effort there from Soldier, you can see how
they can utilize the gadgets so well in their favor to make a bad spot into a pretty good
one.
This one here from the Jung single, middle of skylight, going for a go-kip because that
was probably the moment when the round kind of fell apart.
Had that been the 3v3 and you had one more Tiger lift available here in the end, but
it would have been a whole different scenario.
I saw the purple of the mirror and I was like, are we seeing another Scopus free in a row?
But no, it's decided to lock the hell in. It's a mirror pick right before we get to see the final op bands come through
after this round
Keep in mind here, Phyrex can actually lock in playoffs, which is one more round in this game.
In order to keep Keenatropes Dream alive, we'll need to run
four more rounds in a row and win this 7-5 otherwise Kino Trope are out of it.
Kino have really become the biggest BME fans. Yep, they could definitely see that.
I'm kind of trying to have a lot of value. Tuber, Bandit and the Mirror Window
cast, so like four to five operators get a hard challenge and buy the Kali. And it
might be one of those rare moments where you gotta really choose which
Gatches to destroy if you use that you can't get them all and make sure of the Kali and Sophia
I can combine for all of it, you know rider with the solos next scanner is going for a flank here in Garrett
It's all Yanaki
And this actually where he was but the scanner got a red if you kind of etch backwards and change where the etch of that
Circle is you can actually pinpoint exactly where the defender will be or at least roughly where they will be
Rider though this has to wait if the circle goes away. You can go for a continuous flank
We can risk it a walk on up and make enough noise, but then you're not gonna know
It's double down now as well second players
From Tokyo are they peaked together? Oh my god, that is beautiful from be my enemy right?
I just got completely outplayed
You did
You genuinely did and I you hurt the footsteps out again
It's team in the action of a 2v1 swing hoping for a one-for-one trade, but it's one for nothing
thing it's completely just free and being a few weeks I mean we're gonna go
outside the building and whatnot it feels like it's going for a plan B or
plan C here that changed the entire tagging approach because a lost rider
you won't have that mean serious back stepping pressure so attacking towards
lobby and up to staircases is not that I work out
Now it's time to turn the attention to the side and as you mentioned there's a lot of
Utah that the Carly needs to target now that he's used two of his gadgets on the castle
barricades the priority really needs to be using the final two on these mirror windows.
I saw the first one from Toki, actually from out onto the mirror player, all the concussions
It means they're actually busy fighting kills onto Yanagi, and it looks like they're going deep.
JLT will fall as he tries to push into Janna closet, but Soldier will quickly trade.
There's a player on the ground.
Oh, he can see his foot.
I don't realize that that is a player.
Maybe he thinks it's just a B3 or something.
Maybe he's trying to bait.
I might try and bait a second player, but perhaps I'm not sure.
The issue is the player in here is right here exactly where Soldier is, so it works both ways.
Time is of the essence.
Soldier needs to get into a play position. I mean, they know where the last one is. It's the Kingo now and he will fall
beautiful play with the Kali great play as well from Yunsang and
With that fear ex of locked in stage finals and match point in this game
Congratulations to be a fear ex making sure they can get into a best of three territory and go up against stronger and stronger enemies getting
stronger themselves with the learning lessons. I
Was gonna say I mean six three the way it's been going out
I'd say it's pretty convincing as well, a strong finish to Koop stage for them.
But you want to make it 7-3 and not risk this getting any closer.
It's been a really good look here on the entry department though for PNKPF.
I was a little bit afraid for them that when Misa went to retire,
that where did they find their aggression from?
Because not Wookieman, you know, it's not necessarily soldiers,
but the Flex operators, but it has become GLT and the entire team together.
And funny enough being in fear x maybe a bit of a celebratory
Technical timeout right now. So you guys we qualified go with a bang got with fun don't worry about it
Like we got what we came here to do
Take attack time out on match point in your favor next you get in the ear of the team and say guys
Let's call this really specific attack strat
Knowing that it's probably going to be back down to the basement, you would expect for Be My Enemy.
Remember, they lost a basement defense first round and they went to open area.
They won it in the 1v1 and then Fyrex won on the top floor.
So top floor and basement both unlocked with staff from open area still unlocked.
And I'm right, we are going to go down to the basement.
BME, what's the plan here?
It was a real heavy Rome Strat last time around.
Looks like they'll try and mix things up a bit and perhaps lean.
maybe even more deeper into a side setup I can see a very much anchor-centric
setup this feels almost like going too far the opposite direction in a way but
like with very unique operators like like okay so the only issue I have here is
that nor requires and you know to put your gadget launcher in your hand right
the king go on the maestro requires you to go on the cameras to use that if you
want to play this to its fullest potential you can have two defenders
unable to shoot their guns all being confused with need here is to actually
take their guns towards the opponent and they're gonna have significant gun
advantage that we can have in that case see what happens though but in our case
we got the noir which can be a plant denier not just a shoe counter that's
the thing actually I think people forget about on this map and particularly
think about smoke the chunk of Goyo the main three point deniers but nor if you
can just shoot it into the wall in theory it functions exactly like the
chunk of right the only problem is you do need line of sight to shoot that
gadget whereas you're probably not gonna safely be able to do so compared to like
the smoke that the Chanka you can kind of lob it into that position the Goyo yeah
you do need line of sight only to get an egg not then to actively use it
after this. It's very strong for on the side to very few plant positions. So based on the
bank, shell a top floor where you know exactly what are you able to catch it out, even like
active information. This is one of those cases where we could see the value. It could also
be used on a hatch, it does count as a Hibana. So they put a Guri canister on the hatch and we
We have Yannaki downstairs also looking at the gadget up through the ceiling so
It'll be a case of trying to trick. There it is
If you have to pre-fire it up against the hot-beaching of the attackers
So in this case the BAN add in all way two different corners now that's smart because if you use the canister
It won't work
Very good
And yeah, easy breach as well, onto roll, easy detonation of that Goyo fire.
Be my enemy, I'm running out of responses here, running out of answers.
Fear X getting closer and closer to executing on the bomb site.
Yeah, they got two defenders now with Gatchis instead of guns,
it doesn't matter because they're just gonna pick up the names,
they're gonna go in the offense instead, double it, Maestro and M.T. right on defense.
And I can Sikengle, gotta go crazy in this round.
And mind you, if they wanna use those Maestro camps,
off the gun to Madagascar.
Oh, you know, he's read perfectly by Yinseng Sekingo.
Will he shut down and fear X?
Lock in the full three-point regulation win that they've been searching for.
It's a great close to the group stage, but their battle will continue into stage finals
as they set their sights on the November Major in Osaka.
On the flip side, for Can You Be My Enemy, that's it for the year.
year in APL. They come to a close with only a single point on the store standings and no
wins to their name. There's still a chance for redemption into the six of rotation of
quals and next year. But today for fear X, you have to admire what a resurgence after
a lackluster stage one. We will be seeing them in the PO threes and the Koreans are
here to make their mark once again.
Consistency, stability, pocket strats, execute, set ups, like there's been a lot of strategy here from BNK, Fieryx, and
There's honestly from my side a lot of praise when I cast them, previously I completed this build on Shalay,
they think the craziest grenades in the race scene, now they've used some direct attacks on Bang,
it just feels like they have so much depth to the roster, in terms of playstyle,
and it doesn't show on the scoreboard, but a Wookiee man there in the bottom 3-6,
this guy is the IGL when it comes to Korean Rainbow Six Siege.
This is the guy that has the strats, that has the aptations, and that calls the shots for the individual players.
And he's supported by so many strong individuals that can just find opening kills, that can create coach moments.
And like we saw in that previous round, they were about to execute against the maestro, trying to go for a strat play.
Instead, because they hit their shots in the individual fights, it becomes a 4v1, or planning doesn't really matter.
So it really truly feels to me like the individual should do so much for the server.
Now let's go chat to their coach, Nix. Congratulations on making the stage finals, my friend. You're into the BO3s.
Welcome back on in. How are you feeling after finally 100% confirming that you're making it to the stadium finals?
Oh, shoot, man. I was nervous there for a second. The boys, they know how to put it on a good show right now.
I mean, in all seriousness, I'm feeling good. I'm just, I'm glad, you know, efficiently be into playoffs.
I think I just reckon it'll fair in best of 3s compared to best of 1s.
Like from my point of view, I feel like you guys would love BO3's environment, from the more internal side in your opinion.
How do you predict that's going to fair?
I mean, I always love BO3's personally.
I think BO3's always give the opportunity to showcase whoever the better team is.
Plus, I think that not to give too much away, but I do think that BO3's favor us because I think we have a strong map pool.
I think we've been working on a lot of things behind the scenes
And I think that we have certain maps that people just don't want to take us to you know
I'm not going to say which ones but you know, I think thank you and and that you guys might you might have some guesses, but I
Think I might know I was actually going to ask you about maps
So you only play seven via ones here in APL compared to the nine via ones that you play in NAL email
SAL you played seven via ones you played five different maps in your seven games. That's over half the map pool
What was your mentality going into each bo1 each veto thinking the balance between okay?
We want to get real in-game reps on these maps. We want to go to maps
We want to win the map veto right but also
Yeah reveal too many of our maps before we get into the big hitting games of course if you're gonna go to yourself
The major you're gonna have to be teams like tag and deep-lasts and scars who have actually proved the struggle for you guys in
Bo3 so hiding maps can be favorable
Yeah, I mean that's definitely a way to think about it for sure
I think that the boys are confident on you know all of the maps
So I think it's just about getting repetitions and making sure that we're building up our confidence and official matches and a lot of the
Times it just kind of worked out that way when we were doing the prep, you know against the all these different teams
There was no game where it's like oh, it's it's makes sense to take them back to Chalet or it makes sense to take them back to
Bank it's just kind of the way that the things the
a crap in the matchups like lined up every time it was a different map which is you know interesting to
it doesn't happen every time but of course the fear ex-boys for a long time had the
coach now for Virtus Pro and they had a lot of success with that roster and they had a bit of
time without any coaches from overseas now you've come in for this stage how long have you actually
been with the squad now when did you join I think I officially joined on the 31st and then so like
September 1st, I think was my first official day with the boys.
Less than a month.
Yeah, less than a month.
What's that experience been like for you?
Of course, you've played so much in the past in N.A.
You played on the international stage as well
and would have a lot of questions, a lot of experience.
But what's it been like working in APL, particularly
for a team that doesn't speak much English?
Oh, it's been a blast.
I mean, I think the most difficult thing
has definitely been getting adjusted to the time zones.
It's currently four in the morning for me,
So I'm pretty tired and it's been hard to adjust to that sleep schedule.
But other than that hurdle, it's been a lot of fun working with the boys.
I think that I bring a lot of knowledge just with my experience, playing in the
past and even working with Dark Zero and Unwanted from a coaching aspect.
And I don't think that these guys are really struggling in the mechanics
department or struggling even in the game sense department.
You guys were even talking about it before I came on to the interview saying
that Woogie is like one of the best IGLs in Korea
and he doesn't get his praise enough.
All of these guys don't get their praise enough.
They're incredible players.
I think that the thing I'm really here to do as a coach
is to unlock their confidence
and just kind of help them on some of the more macro
and micro parts of the game.
You know what I mean?
Just get them 100% up to date with the meta
and just some small strats stuff.
And I think that they can really make waves
in the regional scene
and hopefully make waves in the international scene.
I mean that's the that's the goal
It was about a year ago that fear is actually won the APAC north stage
Or just over a year ago. I think it was in stage one
I was at the top of my head so who knows you guys have really been
Escalating and ramping up stage finals coming up soon last question for you
Which team are you most excited to play against come stage finals?
In my head two answers initially came in the first answer was you know
because I think CAG is obviously the team to beat.
You got to beat CAG if you want to go play against these international opponents.
But then the other answer is SCARs.
I think we kind of let that game yesterday get away from us.
We had a 5-1 lead in that game and I think we had a really good game plan going into the attack as well.
I just think we kind of let some things get away from us.
So I would really like to get a rematch against those guys in BO3s and see how we can pair up.
Yeah, awesome. I'm really keen to see you guys in the air trees and state finals next. Thank you so much for the interview
And we'll chat to you very soon come stage finals
Thanks guys really looking forward to it. Have a good night. Rest of your night
You too, man. You too
It's been a great night so far Pingu and it's actually gonna get even better because our two upcoming games
Still are so important for me personally scars be plus. It's such a grudge game because scars have been
levelling up and they are looking like the second best team in the region even
Nix himself gave them a shout out there. D-plus are still looking to try and 100%
lock in their spot in stage finals. Technically there's a world where they
can miss out if KineTrope can swoop on in and steal it from them. That game
scars vs D-plus here coming up in just a few minutes. Don't go anywhere.
I think it's important to have the next tournament in the top tournament, and if you don't have a roof from the bottom,
The community is active and the strong people are coming out from the bottom, and the people up there are getting ready to do it, so I think it's important for the next tournament.
I'm currently in the community that I'm working on.
I'm trying to raise the level of the community with the community called PulseUltra.
I want to be a professional in the community,
and I want to be able to take steps in the environment where I can be a professional.
I want to be strong in order to enjoy the environment.
We are a community where we focus on improving our skills.
We are working on creating our own backgrounds.
We are working on creating people who can be like us, like Anitha, or DD.
Yuku Yuku is a big community that can support the world tournament in the pro-wrestling world.
My current dream is to be born in e-sports, so I'm glad to be able to participate in e-sports.
I think SaoJarabia is amazing now.
I want to create a community city that surpasses SaoJarabia.
I have a big dream.
I want to make a city that wins the award at the seed.
I want both of them to have both of their pros and cons.
E-Sports is about the disease and the lack of footwork.
I've been involved with people who can't do what they want to do.
I think it's a good thing that people like that can work in eSports.
I think it's important to make people who are not free to work in a fun environment.
I think it's a good thing that everyone can have fun working with them.
真っ黄の外眺めて 遠くで揺れる光 同じ先に詰め Yeah!
心をもきっと気付いてる 君じゃ永遠に無い
I'll be a pain, you know?
This is the time, love so cheap
Your eyes, tell me yeah
Do you think you need me?
You smile, while I'm here
It's okay if it's like us
It's different if we don't let go
Even if it's a sad day, let's end it
Look at my hand
It's a little painful, but it's still fine
Let's drink together
Yeah, your eyes tell me everything you need
It's my smile, the one I ain't ever find
Oh!
And in the new-
Yeah, yeah!
Two more games left in the group stage of APAC North and we're about to see the penultimate
match begin.
It's Scars taking on D-plus.
Both teams are looking very solid for the top four for the stage finals, but only Scars
is locked.
D-plus, the fate is still in their hands.
There is just one world where they don't make it.
If they lose this game in regulation, then it will come down to what happens in KineTrope
and Kags match at the end of our day.
but really I want to talk about Skars first up.
Because these guys have been achieving new heights in stage 2.
In stage 1 they only qualified for stage finals in the final playday where they beat Fyrex
and knocked their spot or stole their spot.
Now Skars are well and truly decidedly the second best team in this region.
They are and Skars they're looking better and better like he says so let's talk even
more about them.
because these guys right now, they are on fire.
Okay, the confidence could be through the roof.
They just had a game against being in Phoenix
in the last playday, where they were losing.
1-5 was the score line.
They made the comeback half and winning six rounds
after that in a row, taking that 7-5 score line.
So I feel like they are in the prime position
to go up against the Brazilian import
and be like, you know what?
Today we're gonna cause the upsets.
Today we're gonna take that victory
because today we're gonna have some out ourselves.
It's maybe the second best team right now in the pack more.
I mean if you look at the player standings at the moment for 8 back north, the top 5 players in the region all come from either Cagby, Varyl or Scars.
And that tells you that Scars are absolutely in the conversation here.
Nina has really been stepping up second best player in the region, 1.75 KD at the moment.
He's returning to his old form.
Washoi as well has had a real surprisingly strong showing as well, which is pretty good for a flex support player.
player, not always one that you expect to be getting a ton of kills in the early round.
Nina's been a menace on the entries in particular as well.
So Skars looking really solid, like you said, hot off of a big win over FioraX where they
won six rounds in a row to come back from a 5-1 deficit.
That means there's only one thing left for Skars to do in the group stage, and that's
to take on D-plus.
One of their closest rivals, now D-plus themselves, when they faced FioraX, they were down 5-1
lost the game five, sorry, seven ones. So, D-Poss are in a very different position where, look,
they've had some good games, a lot of convincing wins over KineTrope, Trippy, double RX, Can You
See My Enemy, a close game against CAG yesterday. They went 12 rounds against them, but not enough
to steal away any points. We can see some highlights from that game. D-Poss obviously a great team.
I was a bit skeptical of the roster changes, bringing on Ion and Yuri after they lost two
really great players in Mirz and Muzy, but they've actually performed very well at this stage.
I'm just not convinced that they have the consistency because of that dominant loss to Fiorix.
It makes me concerned for them today against Skars.
This is one thing that we spoke to Fals about as well, is the number one quality right now for
the current stage was being good back on their synergy. When you make a roster change, there's
going to be different ways of playing. There's going to be different operators, different positions,
maybe you got to change some roles around, but the thing that they cared the most out of
was actually just understanding the timings of our teammates. We've been in the same team together
for a long time. You're going to stand there when I say this, he's going to do that. When I push that,
he's going to push right. You have to relearn that now with Ion and with Yuri to get actually that
level of synergy to get to the very highest level. Yeah, look, it would be a huge win here for Skars
to tuffle D plus because D plus have actually beaten Skars on five separate maps in this
year alone, right? They played ice in BO3's in kickoff. It was 2-0, 2-0 in favour of D-plus,
and they played in stage one on border. It was a 7-5 in favour of D-plus, but it's been a long
time since D-plus actually made it to an international event. They had their side set on Osaka first,
they got to get two scars here. Any point will guarantee them into stage finals. Let's have a
look at the video, see where we'll be playing. Like I said, it was border where these teams met
in stage one. Scars lost out if they're first. And straight out of the gates, D plus get to the side of bank or there, we go to bank. We haven't seen Scars or D plus play this so far in stage two.
Interesting. I mean, Scars historically have always liked this map. So I feel like either they've been reworking it behind the scenes, they've lacked their confidence, or they've been hiding it for the moment that they really want to bring it out.
Why not here in the final period which public is deep lost to maybe clean sorrows and of course just get themselves a final W
This excites me. I'm so keen. We obviously did just see a great bank game between fear X and can you be my enemy?
Starting into the server with some swag the tiktok dance power will it get the Brazilians what they need
We're about to find out scars in second place on 15 points right now
There's actually a chance that D-plus here can steal second seed from them if they win this in regulation though
The real priority for D-plus is just a single point on the board guarantees them stage finals guarantees
That Kina trope won't be able to jump over them scars my favorites for this game
but anything's possible if the Brazilians can come back and form them we look at a
devilish little three-way handshake between scars D-plus and Furex where each team has beaten and lost to one other in that
little game of rock, paper, scissors. So D plus let's see if you can hang with scars
in their peak form.
Monte Grimm and the Kite mirror bend the way scars on the attack D plus and the defense
of course, no surprise here starting in the basement thing is the half lift open the solid
snake and that scares me a little bit. I think scars is best game is usually in the first
like 90 seconds of an attack and round. When they play for the opening, when they play
for that initial good hold and map control, that is when they are the most lethal.
Stars isn't a team like the Inconfirmed in my mind where, oh no, they're by the bummer
side 5v5 and they're not worth a normal execute. They can execute, sure, but it's much more
about the aggression and individual performance I think from the stars' side. So I'm curious
to see how D-plus intend to deal with that. Maybe here for the first try, it's about
just playing very passive, playing very much in the basement portion of the map.
They got all those sorts of operatives for it at least. They got a single trap operative in the
thorn. They got triple plant denial in the echo goal to shanggap. They got mitten warding probably
in that server staircase or the c4. Although no shotgun for mitten so maybe he's not gonna play
that. Not entirely certain what that's about. We just play open area instead actually and not give them
any punches there in the server staircase.
I'm shooting back!
On Spirals, how much Levy will be able to leverage the Echo to his advantage, especially
against that Black Dipper.
There was still some great Echo play earlier today from Furex, Woogieman, enabling a lot
of big picks.
Now the wrong game is mostly just the solo Ion on the top four looking to try and shoot
some drones and put some pressure on.
Biddy's still in open area, likely gonna fall down a hatch, just wants to pressure mounts.
Skars continue their due diligence of draining up the map, no one in elevator.
Ion's gonna fall back down the main stairs. Wow, it's actually complete retreat back to the bomb site very early, not even a minute.
And D plus give up the entire map.
None of the basement.
So I'm saying that early gear, I mean the Blackbeard and the Solid Snakelift, Auburn and Pete in the first round.
They got Twitch shown so they can find the value until the Goyo canister is by the side.
That's gonna really stall away a lot of that free time as well.
They got the Synths for the Chaos and for shouting the bombs that which Warden cannot see provided with the Synths wall.
It's not a smoke wall, it's a political projector wall.
So no one can see straight through it, not the glass, the warden, etc.
Star is gonna keep up pace though. They can keep progressing every second like it's stuck in here right now.
be perfectly fine to execute. And right now they're looking like that, looking like a server stairs.
They popped at least one or two of the Gory canisters. I don't think they found any of the
yokai, so that's the only concern that I have to fall them is actually still in the north.
And if they're not aware of that in the light round, it will absolutely be punishing.
No presence in the blue stairs at all.
Depots are really giving up so much ground here.
So unusual.
As far as I have so many options, do they want to go through a slow default plan?
I mean, that will probably be the most challenging option here.
I think that it looks like they're going to drop below the back as the solos may get some
info.
He's about to get swung though, timing just a little bit off as Ion now has a few things
to worry about, goes for the re-swing, does find the kill. So this is Razorbloom as well,
but amongst the Chaos, Skars find plenty of picks. In fact, they find the advantage,
dropping straight down these hatches. And now they're going for the plant, UQ is trying
to cover while Nina forces that plant down in CCTV. It becomes a 1v1 for Yuri, but Nina
is there. Beautiful work from Skars. They're everywhere in the bomb site all at once.
I mean, that is ridiculous. Execute, indeed. I mean, the solid snake value there, it wasn't the bow I show you getting all the kills.
He walked down the staircase, solid snake scanner in hand, standing next to two different defenders, and just saying, guys, one is by the ramps and garage, one is, you know, by playing by the PCs,
and he only gets off the scanner in the very final second he has to, and starts taking his own fights.
He was in the game of distraction, allowing the other players, most noted with the Blackbeard,
dropping down the hatch and he finds the kills instead.
That was fish-like.
The timing here, the synergy is so tight and so well executed from the scars,
it's the only reason why they even had a chance in that round.
Yuri almost had the back-to-back one-tap, so he pre-fired on that last peek,
he generally would have had that double one-tap.
I actually hadn't really followed Yuri much before he joined this team.
Well seen.
My understanding has been kicking around in the kind of lower tiers of Brazil for quite
some time.
I'm looking back, he played for ENX, Elevate Academy, Supernova, W7 Academy a couple of
years ago.
So, yeah, two and a half years, yeah, about two years of experience in the Brazilian kind
of tier two to lower tier one scene, which is pretty impressive to be fair.
Like, that's a good result.
I'm looking back, what's the highest level he played in Brazil?
Yeah, only B tier.
So it never actually played in the Brazil League itself, not in the Latin League.
South American League, I should say, just in the Challenger series and in the Challenger League.
Which is pretty good, but I mean this is a step-up I think.
Trying to play for a top four team in APL North compared to playing in tier two Brazil.
Also playing with some very big names alongside you, you can get a lot of experience from.
Say Uri is here for, let's say the next year, and then after a year he goes back to Brazil
and I was played with, you know, the players like Mithy, Levy, Falls, Ion, and
got into an experience, moved on to an international tournament once or twice.
He's going to be a much bigger roster, but also a back home in Brazil, so...
I imagine that the hardest thing if you're a Brazilian player, like Up and Comer, is to make it
international because face plan, furia, you're fucked up W2MM, you're team liquid. There's
like seven different orcs waiting for you to gatekeep you from qualifying. So it's hard to get
a shot at any of those teams because they don't make that many roster changes and when they do
you pick up other star players in Brazil.
but for defense and the clash joins the echo for obstacles that scars must clear it looks
like again they're trying to subvert the situation instead of addressing it head-on instead of
hard clearing with obvious utile it's got a sneaky little player in you kids making his
way through Lobby Fountain. I'm just actually going down. Skars are going through a very
early plant amongst the chaos from the Yings' Candelas. UQ actually sneaks all the way up
to the top of the stairs. Finds one, helps Fish-like with a gunfight. Second one for
UQ's. Falls now, trying to go back up the stairs but Fish-like finds him. It's Yuri
on the clash, the last one left and Skars have just ripped the site to shreds. A beautiful
quick 5v5 execute, plant down, nothing for D-plus to do about it. Scars are flying through this game.
Remember what I was saying in the beginning, how they've been hiding it to cook up some
new strats, just saving it for the perfect moment? I think it's a bit of both. These are some new
strats here from Scars. They direct executes out of nowhere where everyone is playing their part,
nothing goes wrong, all the angles are covered, and D-plus, they're prodding in the middle of the
the bomb site, not sure where to look. There is so much noise, so much pressure and fights
happening all around them. They cannot stabilize at any moment in the first or the second and
they can really dominate first rounds here from scars. So it's just how lethal the attacks
can be on bank.
Now it's an equally clash. Like how? I just want to know what the hell happened between
stage one and stage two for scars because they are looking like so much of a different
team. They look so prepared. These guys look like they're playing six to seven days a week,
screaming, dry running. They've got the best strats ever. Like what actually has changed for
this team because they have no roster changes. Like what has happened in like I'm looking back,
the last time they made any roster changes was all the way after Paris before kickoff.
But they've slowly but surely been levelling up and then kickoff was okay, fourth place.
Groups, Age and Stage 1 was the same, fourth place.
Playoffs was the same, fourth place.
Now they're looking like the definitive top two and they took CAG to overtime.
Skars are looking so much better right now that we've seen from them almost ever.
Skars are one of those frustrating teams where they had such a beautiful flash in the pan
the start of 2023 I must say. When the Copenhagen major hit they made it to the top 8 at Copenhagen
and then every international event they went to after that it was so forgettable that I generally
can't make it to the top 10. And even in the stage like in APAC North they dropped off massively,
CAG over 50, FUREX over took them, even D-MOTS. KINATROPE, yeah. I don't know, they're back baby.
for a short moment.
Very much.
If there is a world where you level up,
how about in the lead-up to the Japanese Major?
It would be quite a moment.
That might be it, right?
A bit of that.
Final motivation, discipline.
What are we fighting for?
We're fighting for not just a major,
but a major in our country, Japan.
A major to play in front of our family, our friends,
our local fans.
It means a lot to these individuals
on the side of scars.
And I also think when you go through,
of time. It is the moment when you also reflect the most upon what you can do better.
Sometimes not about how you as an individual can play better in the server, but how can
you be a better teammate? What practice can you have to get better outside the server,
help your teammates, understand the weaknesses, and it's been extremely good,
active game pick and stars when it comes to teamwork, coordination, and communication.
We're invited from the Twitch as well, find some people with canisters. Also very important
near from fish like he waited rotate between the teller's archives wall into
the open area box here for the a hatch it gives the attackers a very quick
rotation to go from main stairs to the hatch and to server kind of making a
swift rotation it's not got over 60 seconds yet to work with they're missing
server control they're missing several stairs we know that it's clear and then
there's nobody down there scars have yet to figure that out
Scars have done a great job of clearing away all of the utility that's been set up.
There's one nitro cell for the late round here for D plus, which could undo a potential plant.
Rena's breaching onto server. D4 plant is opened up.
This is a really nice setup here from Scars to go for an eventually plant, and Nina has the defuser.
Can't be peeked by Midi as the water will not be able to peek through the Sen's glasses.
If it takes a little bit of damage and wreck will fall, Nitrocel might come out the perfect
moment but Nina has faked it.
Scars have lost the numbers and now Washway Falling means that the chance of the Scars
bringing this back look very slim that the Chunker has flooded the site with fire and
even though Midi's on the floor.
Nice little one tap there for Nina.
Don't think they'll find much more than that though, come on, don't feed him guys.
This is winnable.
If you keep on swinging him, all is exposed but he'll just sit safely behind his deployable
shield and that's around on the board for b-plus. Holding on a lot better. No one falls early. They're
ready for the angles and this time no cheeky plan goes down from scars. They're the one last
really putter there from the sentence. They pop it, they plant straight behind it, but the fire,
the toxic babes, the c4, it's just too much to deal with. But scars already got their first
two. They should be happy with that. All the bands come out. Could be a echo or a clash band,
Maybe perhaps you gotta leave that echo there it is an ace in response the ace ban
It's trying very curious about because the bond is up
Like what's the point bond is up and the ace
I will always be of the mindset that ace doesn't get very high value because he's the most like trickable hot feature
Like in petricking it. You can just like put your face in the breeze to shoot the cell max, etc
and bending just the ace
And bang doesn't really make you any difference even like scars have been playing much off the operator
They've actually been playing later. What's that are you chill instead? Yeah, people it wants to do that exactly
Yeah, and they put the other side exactly. I don't think there's much value there
I don't see it. I think one thing I like about the Hibana being played so much is it means that scars they're not forced to play
Tin can opera operators, right like and even operators that have tin can openers
you don't have to run them on it. So for example, in that last round we had Hippana's Zens. Zens has
canopeners so that you can reach over onto the bomb site and that you've got a bit of redundancy.
And then you've got Twitch, Solid Snake, Blackbeard. You don't have to worry all about bringing
another operator with canopeners, right? And especially if you don't need to brute force a
Grim, which is banned by the way, or Monty, which is also banned. With some of those great operators
that have in canto open as an you're probably looking at bringing like a
thing and what if you don't really fit into your strap so I like the
theory that it's given scars that are running the Hibana in this round for
example I mean you remember for operators that are perfect for your strap
but doesn't have any hard just got a not pulling me she's gonna stay alive
Hi, hi, that's it first of 1% shares that he ban it dies, and then you have no heart breach at all
cough cough email
It was the last you mother that we did so that was
Look at this quick room clear it is just sending it
Oh, he's kind of stumbling into it, man.
Oh, he's just taking out guys and tell us for free.
Yeah, yeah, it's a good time to stop, I guess.
He's taking the middle ground, that foothold that I talk about, and I think you're a bit
surprised.
I mean, they're going in the basement watching the hatch into Loppy.
Ooh, he crept on here.
The timing is bad here.
If you shove him back in four for the GCC, he's better.
The two-chop closed quarters, which I think is something that could be mixed in a one
HP, and he put it, it will take him out.
I think it does more than the DMR does.
Speaking of DMRs, we're going to need one to try and clear out that Keeberbarrier, nice
work from Fishlike.
So much value from the Hibana against in his army when you bring that DMR down below.
midi is on for a flank though and wreck has found a double on the bomb site even though the blitz is down
they still have some pressure as I say that levy finds one and yet midi has been droned
newkiz and fishlight can't decide do they go for that flank?
no, you two let the train clear that parcel barricade there is
midi does eventually come up for the flank hello, newkiz just prone down, finds the pick
but he doesn't have an easy way out of this, I think he is stuck in here actually
Actually he doesn't have the shotgun anymore to open this up, he doesn't have to hope that he can shoot a hole in this wall to get himself out.
Nah, it's 10 castle punches by the way, so 10 melees was pruning through a hole, it does not fit.
Oh, it's the over, it's so jovial.
I don't know what number is he up to now?
Uh, 7? 8?
Oh, it's the over.
Nice ideas there from SCARs, they had early map control, took tellers and archives at
the drop of a hat, but yeah, could not get onto the bomb site without losing too many
bodies and then midi on the flank ended up finding his success.
Finding the first entry is one thing, finding a second kill in the 3v3 or whatever, 3v2
with one HP stalk on a staircase that's the best place to be if you're him and it does feel like
D plus have adapted against the scars aggression like the surrendered map control early in that
round sure but they didn't make the mistake of pulling oh my god we give up the map control let's
fight back oh no okay we lost the map control now we gotta clear the bomb side now we gotta let me
do this thing nobody over committed to being like oh snap on a bad spot and I mean the fact that you
you couldn't point to this road to the U-Kids.
Had he been able to go through that, could have changed everything, but
that's the thing about those holes that were there.
They were made with intent from the South D-Plus because of Barricade position with intent as well.
Announced two on a road for D-Plus on D-Fans. Banks and attack a side of map.
A lot of more attack a side of maps.
So even though I was really impressed by the first two rounds from Skars,
You can't have more than that, you can't just get away with a 2-4 half on your attacking side.
Even 3-3 is an idea.
I don't know how I feel about the end.
I think it's a second time here.
Last time it worked great for you, Kiz, sneaking up through Lobby.
Also can't help but to notice the way that scars have changed that role.
And Kiz, you keep doing it last time, now it's Wreck doing it. What's the idea there?
They're quite big, so I think this had changed up to just an idea of what we were.
But also playing the nuke into echo is like phenomenal because you're like, oh, don't be scared guys, don't worry about it
But you ban the echo way. There's no Valkyrie in this round. Rek is just playing the nuke
But the only camera that can watch him is the default. There's no deal. You can shoot, there's no other cam
And you can shoot him out of the building. So yes
He's just like nuke with certain guns and two fragments. But he's pretty much a fragmented operator
I feel like there's some other operators that could take it would be better
Let's see if he gets two kills or more it'll be worth it no I would have taken a
striker you bring nades and flashes man that would be so good for taking banana
from him. He's actually got a lot of range in all ranked games.
Alright he is going up the main stairs and lobby now with new kills tempted to
go for a jump in Nina falls. Wreck actually does find the entry. How does this keep
happening? DK elsewhere though looking like they can steady it out the recoil
does not help out wreck but he finds a double kill looking for number three he
gets it never question the nook he has knocked down the doors from D plus and
got the round for scars oh my god wreck you've done it again
sometimes it's not about the operator it's about the player
Leo has the sweetest smile, can I just say that?
I love how he's progressing.
He's so wholesome.
I really hope we get an interview from him.
I don't think he is going to do an interview today, sadly.
No, not today, as far as I understand.
I love Leo's interviews, man.
I know his English is not extensive, but he's always there, he gives us a big smile
and then says how hard they're trying and how important it is, and that's just so sweet.
I really appreciate it.
Every time I do get a chance to talk to him. I assume he might be doing a Japanese interview on the Japanese broadcast
Yeah, I imagine that's the case. He can't be two places at once
Now you're right
So also he tries very hard to do interviews to find the words in English like he really doesn't want to give up
And he actually finds them every single time as well. Oh, he does
He might say they go, uh, it nails it every single time. Yeah
big respect
look I feel like every time I'm watching scars it's currently it's always
like on that cycle of we're so bad is like oh bro we're so short we're so
bad two rounds in a row on the attack to start and then D plus find their mojo for
two rounds scars back into it thanks to Rex for ropes it on the nook in that
round and now final round of the half thank you down to the basement again for
4D plus Kia. Scours with it.
I'm not sold. It feels like more of the same.
You know when we watch the lair, tertiary bomb side, and you play like the Monty and the Sans against the Warden and the Solace,
and you try and sans off the angle and plant that on the bomb side.
Basement right now between these two teams feels similar.
Scours through a roam clear. They get it done very quickly.
They burn all their Goyle fire, the utility, they get server-sales control, and they use the same force for the bomb site, and if they can sneak the plant, they win, if not, they die.
They got the same operators, but they needed a different outcome, and they had to go for a bait, maybe.
So, they do the wrong clear, they get server-control, and they enable, you know, toss down the roly-polis, but they drop a lovely hatch.
But they drop a lovely hatch, but they do something else.
I guess that's a troll by the way, I love that. He's like seeing no one is safe for me to get my twitch drone in here
Oh, there's Iron, I'm just gonna shoot him
But yeah, amazing value from the twitch. This is why I love twitching this current meta like so many good
Gadgets on the defensive side you can find eventually that twitch drone gets found
I don't think he'll get his other twitch drone out safely. I think it's just got shot, my iron, you sure?
Now scars can just prepare for the execute, but you're dead right here
I mean the Goya has been mostly counted, but the Tachanka smoke you're not fancy default into this
So what disguise go for they've gone for back takes twice. It's worked once and failed once. It's no longer
It's it's no longer a secret
Well she could argue that the email
Can we call what secret doing email plane? Oh
Oh
Okay, I think they get no I still not roster be nice be nice. I love Noah. Well, we love Noah
And they've been punching
This is not too bad from fish like he gets in looks for a final opportunity is the coverage here well enough
Front D Blast indeed they will deny the plan they know exactly where it's going down nitro self will finish off the blitz
But there is enough timing of the scars to look for a reattempt
Red Clans 1 before he's traded back and the fire continues to burn falls is preventing Nina from sneaking through at all
He could try and run through the flames
But surely he will die as the flames decide he sneaks on through he just wants to find that kill against the smoke
The first part midi locks it up. Why should I 1v4?
Mine's 2.
13 seconds. I mean, this would be a miracle.
Vols and Levy together. They've got the bombsite on lock.
They make it 3 for D plus Kia, and this game is very much alive.
I've never been higher than the highest mountain
I want to take the deepest sea
Just so I can make you feel more lovely
And before the sky, I really thought we'd make it
Got my head in the clouds, and I could see the world from up here
From up here, from up here
The world's from up here, from up here
From up here, you see the world's from up here
I can't see the sun, I don't know how it feels
I can't see the sun, I don't know how it feels
The white night, well, way up here
I can see the sun, all alone
High as long as I'm one time
Let's see if the sea, just know
I could make you feel what I feel
You're not even the sky
You're really fucking making
We're back into a d-plus, finding the third round that they needed to secure themselves
exactly what they wanted which was an opportunity to get back into this game to continue fighting.
You mentioned how Secret in EML are doing to us. There is seventh place only one point behind
six, only two points behind fifth. There are one regulation which you're away from being top four
tied with you two. Just saying. Just saying. Yeah. Sorry. I know that's not relevant but I'll just say it.
No, no, no, no, I'm the king of when I don't fall for this
Doesn't work at me because I'm younger than you more
By age not by
Other aspects
Okay, I play more video games, which like an immature young thing to do there for I am going to screw that's true
That is true you have a dog that makes you plus 15 years older. Is that how it works, huh?
Old men have dogs when they're retired because they're lonely and they don't have a job
This is sorry, I love dogs. I wish I had a dog
And I don't have time for a dog right now. You have a great house. You should have a dog, man
You got space for a great garden, but no dog
Good
Don't get the dog in your man. Hey, if you indicate it
Denmark with my dog so that you can
Ducks it for me. Yeah, you come to Australia you can dox it for me
How about you come and we work email from the studio and I would be fantastic together. I'll be fantastic. Yeah, any spare rooms in your house
Then my dog
Yeah, sure like there's a sleeping mattress
We can push you up there.
You can get my office.
That sounds pretty fine.
Your office does look pretty sick.
And as you can see, you know, it has lights.
Pretty good.
What do we reckon?
Is the glass going to work out here?
Yes.
Pulse, moving in.
Yes.
Sprinting fast.
The first line of sight.
Unusable.
He's got to wait for the glasses to recharge.
He actually pushes through the smoke.
OK, maybe it's nice, but nice.
No more smokes.
No more smokes left.
I'm not liking it. Wait, I like it. I like it. Two of them. Two of them. Oh, come on. Just shoot the feet. Just shoot the feet, bro.
Yuri, come on. Just land the shots. Two players desperately trying to find you, kids. It does not survive.
Wow, that's quite a play from D4. So if they find the pick, but Skars can actually fall back, reinforce over the angle that the glass would want to use.
use and now scars to their credit have while they've lost a player they've also made sure that they
still have a fortified position on the bomb site and it did cost DK two players to achieve that.
I can't believe you kids are sprinting back and forth and live for as long as you possibly did
like that is ridiculous. I can't come down to my shoulder though he finds enough kills here on the
server stairs that can win his entire team the round however he goes down out of fight
Well, it's 5v3, but plenty of time left for D-plus' spurs attack, so it is really all nothing, and the first side becomes through, caught by my magnet.
Yeah, this is the problem. D-plus got a really nice execute onto Garage at the start of the round, but now 2 minutes deep, and they're gonna be attacking into an unfavorite fight with Smoke and Dechanca still up.
Oh, beautiful. While blind and washoy still finds one, does get traded back by Levy.
D-plus have a one player advantage retained. But does Levy find the player inside of server?
No! Rex managed to battle against Levy! Shotgun comes out, close range, iron will take him down.
Time is ticking away. D-plus have a 3v2.
And the smoke has been finished off, which means that Fishlike has to do so much work.
Now he has to do everything himself. Isolated and eliminated!
Beautiful work from D plus
Great push there on in. I mean again, there's no hesitation. It's working together a demo strike push D to one and get the job done
Levy big smile there. Maybe a bit of a tomfoolery that happened by the server staircase. Who knows?
It's never easy clearing a shotgun player from a close quarter staircase engagement
They can just like blind to shoot while they or they can't see a damn thing through the flashbang and student net the kill
D plus find their 4th, with scars they have me that top floor hold stronger with band Aston
Ibanez, but ideally when they want something happening here in the basement, this right
here was ridiculous, that was a blinded kill in the midi.
Great round from D plus honestly, I didn't think they would have it in them, but particularly
losing Wash Roy, I think that was the most pivotal moment there, the scars, losing that
smoke and it goes to Sherman D plus have just shown us how you can take garage
not have the wall open and still have a lot of control particularly if you
have numbers and you can isolate those defenders the solid snake is a great
part of that they can just play that snake at the bottom main stairs or in
garage and continue feeding info figuring out exactly where the last
remaining defenders are. Scars have lost that lead, D plus have shown these attacks
are pretty deadly under the top floor now for scars and we're really good at attacking this
particularly with their lobby pushes from the nooks but e plus now i'm gonna have to do the same
charloons get active with the solace impact and hank and run out this door inside electric room
if you hear any repels or drones that would be as cute as go flying there is nobody there except
It's going to be very far out inside of spawn.
What about timing? What about those sound cues?
It's under a profile way. The impact could be good, but...
Oh, bro.
There's no info of exactly where that player is shooting from, so not worth the risk.
Did you hear it?
And there you go. There's Mitty's right there.
Did the drone come out?
Oh!
He's going to have to try and escape.
He's at very safely there, just wash away.
Couldn't even go to shoot the drone.
Uses two impacts trying to escape.
And his teammate is just open up the hatch for him. That's very nice.
A good old team right there is scoring each other back to safety.
Our POC solo player with the primary shotgun, SMG-11, just so you can get that bit more mobility yourself.
Popping hatches, etc.
issue with bank is isn't you live in here on anything but the basement is quite
tricky to make work lot of long-range engagements or continuous fighting
that are window angles speed of windows he blows a mostly on it so they do go
for it I in the first one to fall back on the bomb site does get traded back by
falls and the trap will be laid and bounced upon for falls takes quite a
bit of damage, numbers advantage still for D plus Kia. As Skars tried desperately to hold on but
Washoy and his rotate back up square has been found by Midi. D plus doing such a good job at
restricting the mobility here of Skars and a one for one for Nina is not going to be enough.
You kids will fall. Yuri for the double D plus on a fifth round.
Wow, they are really firing up. As soon as they swap sides, it's been a completely different game.
D plus five rounds deep, one more and they find points on the board.
Yep, that'll be that. Tag time on call from Skars. They knew it too. It's not looking very good for them.
As I said, Bank is very hard now to play on defense, but this is too one-sided.
It is too easy here for D plus. Skars right now, they're kind of fishing for those individual moments,
with Shard with the Solace impact, running out, getting a kill. That doesn't work out.
The plan B is to just take the fights raw, but that's not gonna fear them.
Attackers have better guns, better gadgets, they got the crossfires.
They choose when and where that execute will happen, like we saw.
Their symbol smoked, rappel in, both on the sky, and Spiderman repellent lobby,
and that's it, they get the kills.
Skars who looked so locked in on an attacking side, now on their defense,
are struggling to deal with D-plus.
I think it's partly because D-plus have quite a different interpretation of how to attack on bank
compared to Skars. Skars were hyper-aggressive, hyper-execute-focused. D-plus on the flip side,
these rounds are slowly but surely becoming D-plus-favorite because the Brazilians are
setting up advantages and then making sure that any movement from Skars gets punished
in the late round. They're playing a lot of catch, they're playing a very patient game,
and even when D-plus execute, they do so early in the round so that when they lose an initial
If they get that trade, it's just okay. We've got some ground. It's hold down right click wait for scars to make the mistake
It's a tough spot to be in right now though. It really is
Even bombsite wise
I can stay open area probably is your best shot to get around like start on top floor
Rotating down, hitting the base man. Rotate around consistently but you also need to
openly pick somewhere ideally if you're scourge you got to choose a fight
somewhere or back against the solid snake the blackbeard the ying the
Karli like this is a lot of ways this can go wrong very quickly for the defense
Looks like Nino is so tempted to jump out as well.
Wow, early line charge, wreck will get detected, right, this is 5 power, it's brought by D-plus
KIA.
It's crazy, they've stacked the hell out of this U-Tilt.
None of this is D-Force and I've got no hard breach whatsoever and no required and a great
shot from the windows. Nina does get too aggressive, exposes himself, and he's shut down. He has
been very quiet in this game, who's meant to be the second best player in the league at the moment.
V plus, very patient, a lot of repel game.
So many unfair fights. It's a classic banksnare. I look at all these window repels, like you said,
like you can swing this, you're bound to just die, blind skin. Now I can't move, you don't move,
I don't know where that happened. Fishlike is doing everything he can to bring up this team by his bootstraps,
but he will get traded back by Yuri on the repel 3v2 now as D plus are circling.
They've taken plenty of map control. Both of the remaining defenders for scars are on this top floor.
Bombsite's downstairs in staff from open area. D plus have found a vacancy and they look to occupy it.
I think they realized it as well. They're like, okay, we don't see anybody
To the either top floor or their basement or they're by the side because they're nowhere near the extension anymore
Right now, it's false diffuser going upstairs like this yellow ping. I think they have heard a sound cue
If you kids go to the detective, he'll find one. You'll be able to find the second.
Guess the info
Yuri upstairs trying to hunt him down with the SMG. Yuki's knees this fight loses the battle and that could be the round
That could be the game if D plus can overcome this in the 2v1. It's all up to wreck. He's been on fire
You need to go to 11 kills
Keep this game alive
To stave off the match point here for D plus
It's on with a drone. They have one could they land two smokes to utilize
Or if I can go from four that means headstop has to be utilized by the attack
And it could well be indeed the drop down on the hatch at the same time as the entry from admin
They don't know exactly where Wreck is, but they know he's been pushed into Starframe.
They're the bait from the sound.
Now they know where Wreck is.
A little bit of a pre-fire through the wall.
And Ion is going to guarantee it.
It's another point on the standings for D plus Kia.
They lock themselves in for playoffs.
Looking really strong right now and they're playing it 110%.
No more trial and error.
No more trying to learn and treat these games like a scrim.
Today, it was about qualifications.
Today, it was about making a statement
and trying to fight that convincing victory.
There's one more round still left for the full victory.
They have secured that one point that mattered the most.
And what a reprisal for D plus.
They started this stage so strong.
Four wins in a row, most notably a convincing win
over Kinatrop.
And then it all went downhill.
They lost 7-1 to Furex.
And it's back to the drawing board.
Next game is CAG.
They go to CAG and they get them to 12 rounds but can't go to OT.
An admirable effort, but not enough for what D-plus need to do this stage, which is qualify through to the Major.
You flip the script and you go look at how SCARS' stage has been.
They were pushed hard by KINATROPE, but outside of that, their games have all been solid wins,
with the exception of the CAG game, and they're the only team to have taken CAG to OT in APAC North.
a huge win for scars in achieving that over time and then most recently just
yesterday a 7-5 win over fear ex six rounds in a row scars were hot they
were the new kids on the block the hottest property in a pack North D plus
and now three rounds in a lead against them up the rankings for D plus
Skars, they are not done yet though, they want to make this a fight.
I'm gonna try and bring it back.
Again, it's not do or die for Skars, they're not fighting for playoffs or no playoffs or you know, whatever.
Well, I know these guys, they would like to end on the victory, make the most of it,
but I think right now it's time to just go craze in the server, and Nina has been activated on the virtual,
playing beneath the Skars of Square, gonna swing out the windows, swing out the doors,
There's anybody on the roof watching you to get already, but there isn't thankfully for him. It's another garage take here from DK
They love it
I mean, I don't blame them what happens to you kids last time the guy lost his toes
There's no there's only one player on the basement everyone else is roaming here for scars
What am I looking at right now out the gap and everyone is off-site?
There's not a single player on the basement whatsoever. Why should he is close by in blue stairs?
I don't think they know now. They have barricaded it up. They completely forfeited garage at what point the scars realized that D
Plus are just gonna hit the site falls could literally walk in as I say that finally wash away and record back to the basement
But look at the lack of setup on the bomb site
This is very unusual here for scars
They realized there's no fighting top floor because Nina was roaming there so offensively that they recognize like a server
garage, probably gonna be a direct attack on us if they fall on back and watch the exact
angles.
Oh my god, Fools, up the stairs.
Fools, up the stairs.
Up the stairs to go into a barrier.
Bro, Grower's attacking as a defender right now.
Lion locks him in place mid, he tries to make the first move, but Nina will catch him.
Might have been the interaction between the Solid Snake gadget and the Vigil, which disrupts
it.
Now the read onto Fools' position and the trade from Nina up above, he needed to have
an impact in this round. He's finally found the scoreboard, but Wreck on the
bombsite, the solo player that was holding site, has fallen.
Yuki's locks it up against Levy though and now D plus. Unfortunately with no line
remaining and no control of the bombsite are in a bit of a tough spot.
No needs for Irony, let's just push out that staircase player.
So Sean the smoke so it's a tiger is completely alone full fighting different shotguns me as he asked for the crossfire
It's good to give me a three kills in the round
They've been just iron now instead of survived loans
So we get shot down as well another crossfire established from the server and the 8 bomb site that right there is scarcing
We're gonna bring them every single fight possible on the staircases and dirt tunnel on the square stairs
We do not care no longer. There's no fear and it works out
It does, but it was very close to falling apart there for SCARs, and nobody on the bomb
site until just a few seconds before D-plus were ready to execute onto it, or at least
sneak someone inside.
A little bit scary, but I think if you're going to roam that heavy and leave so many
gaps, you need to run traps to fill those gaps.
Attackers need to locate and diffuse bombs.
Also around D-plus, they don't really opt for an execute, right?
It was like falls, creeping out on the nerf, it was iron, creeping out on the demos, like everyone's trying to play for Gapfighting and see if they can get to all that bombsite.
Had that been D-Bots going for a 5-man roam clear, or a 5-man direct side rush, that probably could have been around victory for them.
And now we go top floor, this is like the least solo attack in bombsite on the map.
This is like, either you work the window appels, you work the square, or you work lobby stairs.
And it's going to be like at least four attackers working much more together and much closer proximity
And D plus are bringing out the Monty for the first time as well
Never mind. I guess they're swapping off of it
I do like though that they've brought the Kali here and the Zofa I think together that should be enough util to
destroy the Keeber bar, sorry, the
Castle barricades and the deployable shield from fish black
and the bulletproof from Wreck.
A lot of you tell that you want to clear out with those gadgets.
I quite like the Denari lasers as well underneath the windows
in case it is to be rushed into the site here.
Scars made a comeback happen yesterday.
5-1 down against Fear-X to win 7-5.
6-3 doesn't seem too bad.
It does not.
As the barricade popped again all that
Detection by the bomb site will get removed very quickly. The Tali, there's a fear of our self-explosives
And Nomad can really stop you from retaking generators if they can force out the defenders and play in that position as well
The only thing missing on the attack that I would love to see here was actually a capitol
That can do a lot of damage to any of those people in the strong corners, meeting, generators, etc
The Sins are free place though, and with the Thermite being picked up we know there's going to be a square attack.
You rappel in, you beast to see your walls, use the Sins to strut off the bottom side, go for a plant, cover has to be perfect and there is no Thatcher.
So any of the 2 C4s or Toxic Babe, I can win them out of scars.
It's all about that plant and aisle and the execute here from D-POS.
At the moment, the scars are just waiting for D-POS to make the first move.
In they go.
The plant going down in C.E.O. from falls.
Is there any plant and aisle?
I'll run out onto Midi and the plant goes down successfully but not without an extreme
cost now.
It's Ion and Yuri to try and cover in a two versus four, purely information, but at the
moment you look at this and there's almost no way that DK lose this.
The only universe where SCARS are able to win this is if they can hit an unbelievable
shot against Ion.
And still first they're going to have to deal with Yuri.
Ion covers for two, Yuri's in a great position to do more.
Ion is the single handed player handling SCARS here.
GG called early by Rek. Why should I close GG before he continues trying to clutch?
Ion from up above is the player that has done everything for D-plus.
It's a three-point win for the Brazilians and a convincing seven-four over Skars.
They were the promised ones. We thought that Skars was
serving up another team to go to the Osaka Major, another Japanese team, to make a statement here in A-pack North.
The D plus say absolutely not they make a massive play here and with that they're through to the state finals in style
And this shows is how strong a post tank and he in a strong position
Landing right by that bridge there from fall before it gets injured and shows his team was completely under a pelt
But also from the grass skyline an angle that it's extremely one-sided with no colors in defense
No, Sami no clash no way to make that winnable for them and really good
and they're not over exposing themselves too much under a palace.
I think you're in Georgia sitting back with two P's just kind of fighting as much time
as you can possible. Excellent job there for D-plus showing us that you're in the server.
Such a great game, particularly on the attacking side from D-plus KIA.
Skars went really solid at the start of this match. They were up 2-0. They ended up 3-3
at the end of the first half. D-plus 3 attack rounds in a row and finish it off with a post-plant
like that. Beautiful game from ION. Beautiful 4k in the post-plan coverage. What a game.
Really, this is seeming like the new rivalry here in APAC North. Of course, Scars had such
a phenomenal showing, but now we have four teams into the stage finals, all of which
they look like they could be contenders to try and challenge CAG, and EPLOS have been
fighting a long time to get back into contention for going to the international events. What
What a fantastic match from D-plus.
Yeah, it also didn't. You see like a ton of shield play from them today.
They tend to play a lot of munchies, a lot of blackbeats that have left open.
Today I felt like they were trying to work on the smoking aids, the executes, the kind of bombsite-esque operators.
I know it's map-dependent and whatnot, but I love seeing how they're willing to fix around a lot more,
force playing some nukes, playing some glass.
It really becomes more of a flex player than just a shield player for the team.
Yeah, great game from D-plus.
D plus we saw so much variety from them on the attack as well. We saw glass
Looking back. We saw Carly. We saw sends execute. We saw Ying execute. We saw nook attempts
We saw the garage takes scars were throwing a lot of new things at this and both teams
I clearly come into it with a lot of pret particularly on that attacking side
But D plus all the needed was four rounds kind of the D plus we look at their attacks because that's what it finished on
but their defenses were actually really solid as well.
They won lockers twice and star from open area once as well.
Great pentanile. That base in Bombsite was glue, smoke, Tashan, Gaea,
and just be like, where are they taking from? Fire, smoke, quality angles,
get the kills, and just make in Skars's life miserable.
Skars, I don't think they respected that enough because they kept trying to force the plants
when they go on for the kills.
Yeah, it's actually really rare that we get to see five players on any Bombsite these days,
but D-plus are doing it on bank.
And I feel like that's been out of meta for quite some time.
They faked a roam for all of five seconds,
and then it was Goyo, the Chanka, Smoke, often the Wumai.
I think they were bringing as well.
Thorn, so many power-ups to hold on,
anchor down the bombsite.
Really good showing from them.
And now, next up, I mean,
they're gonna set their sights on stage finals here for D-plus.
I think we're pretty much locked as well
where we're gonna end up with our top four
even in the correct order as well.
So we've got Cag, we've got D-plus, Skars, and of course, Fear X,
all of which have had phenomenal showings.
And it's funny because it's created this little cycle,
this little Auroboros, the snake eating its own tail
between the trinity of Fear X, D-plus, and Skars,
each team having beaten one of the other
and lost to another one in this perfect triangle.
It's been a very exciting stage for Apec North
because I thought in the beginning,
We didn't know about fear at this level, if they were going to be a much more improved team, or so strutting a bit like before.
KineTrap would be super hot in Stage 1, so they were of course going to shove in Stage 2.
They had the opposite effect to them.
And I feel like in the end, we did get the best teams.
You know, sometimes you have a team overperform or get a couple of close victories,
but I generally do believe that the four best teams came out here, near Pac North playoffs.
We have our interview with the best looking guy in APAC North.
Falls, welcome on in and congratulations on your win with D plus today.
How are the TikTok dancers leading into the match today?
Do they feel you with the energy you needed to take on Skars?
Hello, guys. I believe it.
To be honest, I recorded one I don't know if you already see it,
but I think I'm getting better, you know, you know, entering the category.
So, yeah, I think I'm happy.
At least like I'm improving my dancing skills.
So I think it's fun.
It's a bit of a win-win there, getting better in real life, the dancing and the server as well.
When we spoke to you in the beginning of the stage, you mentioned how the biggest focus for you guys was
training like the synergy and the timings with the new players of Yuri and Ion.
How do you feel like that's happened now? You've had the full stage.
Have you gotten to the level of synergy that you wanted or is there still more work to be done there?
I think so. I think we're really prepared. Of course, it's hard time because like changing
and two players in the lineup changes a lot of things.
But I think we are in a good position right now.
At least we are really confident to this playoffs.
And again, our losses in this group stage,
I think we are able to learn more with losses
than with victories.
So those losses this stage, we actually
point a lot of things that we did wrong.
So I think we really prepare for this playoffs.
Yeah, we actually have another chance
to talk to you since your losses, I believe,
because you went on a massive win streak
at the start of the stage.
You lost to Firx, you lost to CAG,
and to round off your groups, you smashed the SCARs.
I mean, by the end of it, that was a pretty convincing win
for you guys with your four attacks
to only one attack round loss.
What was the game plan going in against SCARs,
knowing that you'd had a bit of a rough time
against Firx and CAG, and SCARs had been performing
so well in their recent games?
I think our prior preparation and studying about their game was the most important plan.
And I think we were able to counter a lot of things and it kind of worked pretty good,
so yeah.
No, not too much, nothing too much special like for this game actually.
I feel like you're just not telling me, I feel like you're just trying to get past your
chest and thinking.
Because you know that Stage Finals is coming up!
Yeah, everything we can use to ourselves, we need to use it, you know, every secret we can have, so yeah.
Of course. Now, Stage Finals is set, we know the four teams going through, it's going to be CAG and FIREX and SCARS.
Now, you only beat one of those three teams in the regular group stage, you're going to have to beat all of them in order to make it to the Major.
What's your mentality going into the BO3s? How is the team feeling about it?
Again, I think very confident that the build free game is a completely different thing
from the rest of one.
So like for me at least, I don't care too much about like the group stage results.
And yeah, I think it's more fun.
I prefer to play build freeze.
And as you said, like if we want to go to the major, we need to win those teams, not
only just for the wins, you know, but we need to be prepared for the major.
And I think it's a good challenge, you know, like two new players.
I don't think we're entering as a favorite.
Like most of, from all teams, you know, like a lot of times people talk about CAG,
but sometimes, like I think the most of the times, like Ryder was like CAG and us,
and I don't see, I don't see as like as a favorite this time.
So, yeah, I think this is pretty good. It can be really like,
like important for the confidence, you know, not enter entering as an underdog.
Like I like this idea. And I think the whole team like it's also so, yeah,
Very good.
Well, if you ask me, it's pretty hard to pick which team to want to go to the Saka Major
from this region, because all four that have made it to Stage Finals are looking really
good.
You, Fyrex and Skars, have all beaten each other and lost to each other, so it creates
this little triangle between the three of them, and CHE are not undefeatable.
Of course, we'll see you in Stage Finals, starting very soon.
Until then, good luck with your practice, and we'll see you very soon.
Okay.
Thank you guys. I hope to like for person a lot of like things a good thing like good show for you guys
I bet you will. Thank you Falls. Take care. See ya
Maybe next interview we have to make it a bit harder for him and ask him to show us one of his TikTok dances live
Like dude, that is so much. Appreciate you kidding me
I think it's crazy enough that getting this guy to do two programs is for almost every single player day
This recorded and released it right but now we got different from a live audience
How about this if they qualified away to a second major how about a stage performance before a big game?
I like that. I like the way you're thinking. We've had three good games so far today
Pengu and of course it rounds it all off with CAG versus Kina trope
CHE the number one team in the league
undefeated in the group stage can anybody hold a candle to this roster
while Keenatrope are in for a real surprise we're about to find out after
this break
Let's put them in the ground.
Fall back!
Team one, report.
Alive and where's Nick? We love causing the other teams.
They have their orders. We need to go for Nick's.
Go come in.
Be my eyes. You cover her.
cover
your corner bitch
surrender
i see one old man
one old man about to die
i see you're running seven, three runs down
Hack my phone!
Huh?
What if I do it now?
We're sinking there, Steve.
We trusted each other, and it paid off.
Ronde moved for extraction, T1.
I
Go, go, go, go, go
To get it, you're watching me
This is the last wish
Let's go!
Wait, I don't care if it's a lie
I don't care if it's a dream
Let's go
The words that make me feel lonely
The bitter taste of the bitter taste
Mixing the right color
People's tears are fading away
The light shimmers in the early morning
The light shimmers in the early morning
I'm waiting for you to melt away
This is the last wish
Wait!
I don't care if it's a lie
I don't care if it's a lie
The voice that is lost is stopped in the city.
The person who is far away from the movie that is engraved.
Even the distance between us is too short.
Even a little bit of it, I will let you go this night.
I'm going to melt into the dawn.
This is the last wish of mine.
One final match remains in APAC North before we move into Stage Finals.
We already know, we've set the table for our four teams going to Stage Finals, but we still
have to see one more game and it's CAG the top dogs.
How do they perform against Kinetrope who are on the road to redemption?
It's going to be a long road, but while their stage may be over, Kinetrope, it doesn't mean
that you can throw it all year away.
They had a really good performance in stage one, and Six Invitational qualifiers will be
open quals, and they'll be just around the corner.
So if Kinetrope can finish their stage on a high, that's at least something to take
into the next game.
I also like showing that they can improve from week to week, play to play there, because
One thing is struggling for a short time, another is struggling for a long time, but who hasn't struggled at all is CAG.
These guys, almost every single stage will go undefeated, right?
I'm sure there might be a game where they go to O2, maybe there's one team that can take it to the best of one,
but this is a team that plays at one level in group stage in the best of one territory,
and they always guarantee you go qualify for playoffs, and in the BL3s, they get even better.
and someone who has been absolutely unbelievably consistent and so aggressive in the server
is the man in the middle, Shuri. The guy is plus 15 on entry, plus 100 on the 80 difference.
This guy is finding so much value every single round and this highlight package
is where we're going to be half of his script alone.
Yeah, and look, CAG, the last time that we saw them lose a game to another APEC team was all
the way back in the Six Invitational qualifiers at the start of this year where they lost to
Souls Heart and Daystar. But if you want to find that the last time they lost to a team from APAC
North, you have to go all the way back to almost exactly a year ago, September 29th, 2025, where
they lost to D plus gear, they actually lost to D plus gear twice and into Force 36, which is now
the double RX roster. It's been basically a full year since this team has found any kind of
have competed up worthy of them inside of APAC North.
And you can see why they're laughing.
This team has just forged a path for themselves
to international events over and over again.
After missing our side this year,
they came back with a vengeance to multiple majors,
of course, Salt Lake, EWC.
Now they're gunning for the major on home soil in Osaka.
Their opponents for their match today,
Kinatropou have had a very sad story in recent weeks.
What started off an okay opening with a lost but in overtime to Fiora X was compounded with another lost but in overtime to Scars
and then they got obliterated by D plus and since then it's just big disappointment after disappointment.
They gave me yesterday against double Rx, in my view was a bit of an embarrassment for Kinetra.
This is a roster that you should never be losing to, let alone even going to overtime against.
And they lost this match because they just played some silly siege.
So it's not so much as embarrassing to lose to the LRX, but the way they lost to them, that's more important to know if I hear it.
Is that correct? Like the way they lost to them was not acceptable.
Absolutely. I mean they played Scopos trying to hold on to top rafters in Garage or Hobhouse, they didn't really have a solid plan for that.
They were picking Spass 12 shotguns for Thunderbird.
They were just trolling. They picked Bar defense, really strange game from Kinetrope.
I hope that they don't go to clubhouse and if they do, I hope they have a lot more of better results
Let's see what map they go to here
CAG actually have quite enjoyed playing a bit of clubhouse
It's most being club and bank what we've seen from them so far one chalet performance
It might be another bank unless we go to fortress and yeah, it'll be back. So our third bank
Bank bank back at the bank. Uh, thankfully
No, I was gonna say thankfully it plays out very differently in matchups
But that bank based on bombs like plays out almost in exact same way every single time
I actually feel like D plus versus Skars was a very interesting.
I'm not saying they weren't interesting, but it's very rare to watch map 3 at times in a row,
and be like, oh my god, the third time that's going to be a banger.
But the opposite is this, both CTB are very central, they're an excellent bang team,
so I expect the level to be quite high, and that for me at least will make it very exciting.
I'll tell you what right now, we are either going to see a 7-1-7-2 in favour of Kag by Varel,
Or we're gonna see Kina Trope push it deep and it's gonna be like one of those games
It should never be going to overtime, but it does anyway, of course there are two former CAG players on
Kina Trope of course Iigata and Gatorada up against their old teammates
Particularly AnatoN who they were long-term teammates with for many many years standing back as far as 2018
Maestro, we may see. Kina Trope, love it. I know you love talking about it. I was chatting with guys yesterday
When he was filling in for you while you were sitting there when I was like to guys
It's funny. Nick is so obsessed with Kina Trope playing Maestro and guys interrupted me. I said, oh my god
Nick even brought that up when I casted with him. So a bit of a Kina Trope Maestro one trick my friend
Yeah, yeah, I don't I'm just a big fan of when teams they play a bit of a different unusual siege and
and Maestro is an operator that I have always believed was underrepresented in tier one level of play.
And I spoke to a lot of different teams about it. Obviously Fabian when he was coaching G2 and coached Emedi.
I'm always trying to slip in the, have you guys tried Maestro? Have you guys been to Maestro before?
And he goes, yeah, yeah, we have, but like having a player on the cameras is so challenging.
Oh boy, James, look at this. Hold up.
CIG by Vera have locked in Kevera and Oryx for the very opening round.
Uh, this might be like that, it might be one of those games.
This will either be a 7-0 or like you said, a kid who's going to OT against CT because
they are going to run it down this game.
Well, Hamilton is at least hiding the game, so he's trying.
You're still going to try, but they're going to try with a bit of flair.
Yeah, they are.
What a spice.
Ugh, look, I, I don't know if I'm a monk, but it's okay.
I noticed that the Maestro there from Shuri by the way, Evil Eye in Admin to try and shoot off the things off the hatch
Because there's no Hibana, that's only going to be a Tin Canopriner in Exothermic Charge which is very easy to shoot off
Much easier than the Hibana or oh and the Goyo to deny so I like this
I love when I play Pop House, Basement Defense, I always love to play Maestro
And you can put an evil eye in the office on top floor
Impact on it the floor below and it took the kitchen hatch. Oh my god
It's one of those moments where you're messing with them
Even if you don't get anything, you know you're pissing them off and that is a good thing
That's actually sick. Okay. What about before?
They missed him. They missed him and it's in hiding in a GM's right now. I think he's afraid that they hurt him
Well, we know why is he running laser?
Did in fact not spotted yeah, they took a rest with a brief knock on line layers run too much later by the important
It gets a relocation every around it. Don't do it
Do it was like a nose no laser. Yeah, he's also running. Oh wait
Spotted got her on is like that's my old teammate by the way
He's like oh, so it's like that any oh, yeah, it's like that any you're gonna disrespect me
I get it should be able to get the 3d. Yep. There you go
On for the repel, pinged out. Ironically, it's Anitin's two former teammates that end up killing him.
That doesn't even look like one.
It's an evil eye. What is that evil eye for?
He's looking for the... he's looking for the...
He can't see the nerf. He's kind of blindly firing. That's so funny.
Oh my god. That is ridiculous.
I mean, is it for effort?
Or is it sacrificing for the A hatch?
Shibuya finds a plan open area. This is the sketchiest gameplay from CHE like this is so annoying to deal with
This is still a pretty hard spot for Kino to be in yes, they've got a lot of people inside tellers, but
Zaka and Shibuya still pretty safe in open area
The issue with KinoTrob is that they're pretty structured team these days and they like logic
They're like the flow of the game.
There is no flow or no logic to this round.
Like, Saka is still hiding somewhere first floor,
keeping Shura's form in back.
He got the evil eyes in the most absurd positions ever,
so getting the hatch is not gonna happen, probably.
And you see it right now, they're worried about every angle.
They don't know what's clear.
Yeah.
If you want a taste of what Kinitro played like yesterday,
it's what Kaga playing like right now.
And then, open to losing in overtime against double RX.
Saka's taking a hell of a lot of damage.
You can get injured by dashing into the wall, funnily enough, that was actually him injuring himself.
There's not going to be any time here to open up this hatch by the way, and Shiri, who is running iron sights on Maestro,
is not going to be able to deny this hatch because of the problem.
There's also 20 seconds left, so this hatch is just not being opened.
Is this worth it?
I had it again with 20 seconds to go.
That's not going to work, so it's either a hatched up of desperation, yes it will be done a little easier.
Oh wins the fight though. That's all that matters at the end of the day for me to a lot of players low HP
There for Kino jibber suit in perfect position
He just needs to we have the one V2
Gatorada continuing to beat him. He just has to deny the plan against it
Where he just gets off the plan even though he hadn't okay?
It's a key to the next row. Yeah, a hundred percent could have stuck that
That was just a troll. Oh my god
Am I crazy?
I mean there's no reason never to not stick it in any scenario situation
He had like in a 1v5. He had two seconds. He had like two seconds left
He's probably gonna get off and then like he's probably gonna finish the plant and then immediately die
But at least yeah, at least
Oh
Man it really is gonna be like that today
Also, can we just talk about how...
No people say that you're saving stats.
I don't know. That's a great question.
But people save stats, right? By getting off the diffuser
to not die? Why about sticking the plant and getting a plant down?
What do you mean? Oh, like, do it to...
Yeah, like, that's an error, right? He gets off the plant
off the plant and he doesn't die. He still gets his cost actually, if he gets a plant.
Exactly, and he gets a little tank take which like you know, he's filled up by plants,
he's like, oh this guy plant at most times. Technically he gets his cost that round anyway
because he survives the round. Because he lived. And it helps his SRP percentage, so it depends
which stat you want. We need like a throw stat. I have a screenshot of the timer, there was okay,
Yeah, there was still like four seconds left to control that plant, but nah, nah, I was still troll, bro, like
Oh, okay, Jimmy didn't know exactly what is this iron side maestro again, man from sherry. What are we doing?
Does he just hate the slowly miscalculating?
Oh my god, the recoil kaga. He just shot the sky and didn't a single bullet
kaga straight trolling
This is gonna be the first time kag have lost in apak north in a year and it's gonna be because of things like that
I thought you said that isn't our boss going on that everyone's beating chug of ones
and she's only with those three teams only we all I thought only with fear x D plus and
scars yeah so they've been undefeated and kickoff states one is the two then yeah yeah
Yeah, I haven't lost a game in a pack north since stage 2 last year where they lost some games to D plus.
Imagine maybe throwing that away for this.
Just don't throw away the stats bro, it just makes our story learning so much fun.
Because now you gotta go in.
Well actually they were undefeated if you don't count to one team where they didn't try hard enough.
enough is like the same as saying on the video for a full year like who can say
that this is why I kind of want I kind of feel like the prize money shouldn't
just be you come first to get this much it should also be you get this much for
every win and this much for every loss that way seems actually incentivized to
win every single game I will also say that you don't have to play like this
to save strats for the video three you still play default siege right you don't
tonight throughout the shuttle entirely
thirdly
and if anything when you do that it makes people underestimate you is when you
do this people just say all of it
they're clearly hiding strats right
if you like you're coming in
you look like a god
though they're so busy
means i was running off a little bit of trouble in my sense the clock is twenty
seconds second round that's happened like that 20 seconds left to go but they
just win their gunfights DD man the last one left alive all he's doing is deny the
plan and he's the perfect operator to do so but gatorada has found him it's
flawless good round first on the board for kina trip
well one-to-one action it looked like they're having fun they are having fun
and they should because as all there's to play for right now I suppose more or
list at least. Wait Rainbow Six Mobile hold up Kawa? Is he gamer? Hmm? He has a portrait.
Burners Bowl. I didn't realize you got that. I guess you get that if you sign in or play
a certain amount on the mobile game. I haven't gotten that ever by the way. I don't know how
I would rule in the mobile game. But it's kind of tempting because you just feel like everyone
who plays Rainbow Six Mobile would be really bad. So like if you just if you know the stats
from playing the main Rainbow Six game you go mobile surely you find success. I feel like
the mechanics would be really hard though like if you're playing against someone who's used to playing
FPS mechanics on a mobile. My phone's tiny there's no way I'd be able to win against people on my
time on the phone. It's actually kind of cool because remember when I was on mobile they had some
map reworks like nothing major but there's a minor map reworks that we don't have on PC
and one of them is actually in bank. So you know when you spawn on the lobby side and you go towards
garage and you jump up on the little ramp and you're outside the double windows outside the
library right so that way for the south here there's an outside area that area
connects the back alley all the way around whereas on this game on the PC you
gotta rotate on the roof and then walk across and wrap all down there's like a
little back edge just walk around the entire block so open up the entire
area yeah small things we should do that okay I again has just spotted the
camera but not and I thought he was still prone on that cheeky angle never
seen that hiding spot by the way hiding behind the the plant on square
another Falco spot is that a Falco spot? every rat spot on the OTMF's Falco spot
this guy was the biggest rats back in the day
your team there by the way
mind you back in the day we didn't have like match replay files like that
wasn't a thing so the only thing you could see was what the Pro League Observer showed
and they never showed top down back in the either.
So you have to watch through like every frame of the YouTuber Twitch stream and try to figure
out where people were hiding for their habits and there's just one spot on bank you never
figured out for the longest time where he was hiding at and it was just like underneath
a desk on top floor so let's bring Jagu and scan him to figure out where it was.
It was ridiculous.
The new man's in a bit of a painful spot on the bomb site but Kar-Wal will put him out of his misery.
Execute onto the bomb site happening very early here for Kina Trope.
The smokes go out from Kar-Wal. Gatorade has doubled up.
Chibi and Zaka, the last two left for Kag and Barion, all kinds of trouble now.
Zaka's phone's ringing. He's gonna let that blow and he's now the last one left.
It's gonna be an eye-fall this round for Kino, the second in a row.
I've only fell one kill in the last two rounds
They fell off pretty hard if you ask me they went from being flawless for a full year to the only getting one kill in two rounds
And I live in the planet against them too. I
Mean they probably should have faked the plan
A great great question man great question they throwing Kina terms some charity at the moment is what they're doing
I mean, I'm sure Sparky sitting there going like, I wish we didn't have to play this game either, sort of vibe, you know, because they've obviously gone into this bit as a team and been like, we're not gonna, we're not gonna show too much, but it did start off banning ace and Hibana like they actually gave some seriously competitive
give me their sort of vibe you know because they've obviously gone into this
bit as a team and been like we're not gonna we're not gonna show too much but
they did start off banning Ace and Hibana like they actually gave some
seriously competitive operator bans and then they picked Kevara or Xperia
Sharnazay, oh yeah. Carly is honestly not too much of a troll operator ban I
think on this map these days. By top floor you want to play the castle we saw how
much in the previous game that the Carly's Ove combo is really powerful
against the castle. I just think it sucks if Kino get points when they don't
preserve them. If Kino come away with this game like 7-4 win, it just doesn't count
for either team. Have you had much time to try out the new
Kali changes for this season? I played like one or two games. It's pretty
significant
I quite like it. I really love it. I really love it that
Clip that we saw the other day. I'm not sure if you saw it. Chris J landed like a
God could go quick scope style
Something I can pro play on so yeah, yeah, yeah, it was in the Asia played a last week
I didn't see it. It was very gnarly
Definitely made me want to play some Carly
And then you try it and you just get like jiggle keeps by guy and get one type of
instance you let me like I don't mind what I got my one with Kali
I believe he did as well I like I think it's a very fun operator
Dan I made two great up I think good design well balanced
It's always fun to see an operator that was like really hard to to see play seriously to
get buff like I know Grim is a bit strong maybe but like Grim was like
unplayable then it became very playable, form was unplayable, became playable and I'll cut you out the same kind of treatment.
Yeah for sure. In Kali and Zofia now very much good ops, well balanced.
D.D. might have to try and bait in a Blitz player.
Zako likely to get drawn in a moment, yet indeed.
Thing is, Oryx vs Blitz is not as straightforward as Oryx vs another shield because Blitz can
flash the Oryx and even if he gets knocked back onto his backside by the Oryx, the Oryx
will be blind and the Blitz can still get the kill with the pistol.
There's people who forget this, but when you get knocked back, if you're a shield, get
knocked back by the Oryx onto your back, you actually get your gun out when you do that.
You'll be on your back with your shield on your back and your pistol out and you can take
fights.
You can also trade. You can actually melee the Orcs as a shield operator.
And you can both get knocked back.
It's really tricky on high ping, which if you're open Japan right now, we're not too bad.
But if you're playing the Kudo, you know, impact more than that south situation,
you get like 100 ping, good luck with that.
Oh, broke.
There we go.
And he gets him.
And now he's just going to chill in the corner.
Impact out ready to try and take the fight against Akayu does get a bit of
damage and the headshot onto Akayu so Anatson single-handedly picking apart
this round for Keelik Trout 50 seconds left 3v5 nobody upstairs Keelik Trout
don't have much chance here.
I'm kind of stalking Garry's the entire round for me to destroy the Barricade and the
Demolish Tracks with Useless as well but Useless I'm getting three kills right now
Oh, I think we're seriously...
Oh, what a creepy.
Well, we don't get to find it.
Since we've got a lot of fucking characters from the 5,
see if they're still back.
They will lose one or two players, and it's fine.
And it will be the third guy to swing, and they will get their second round.
I got their kills at the end of the nice round for...
Anderton in particular.
He single-handedly won that one.
Nice little play with the Solas, with the Shuddy, and the Impacts.
What's missing right now in your mind? Like speaking of operators of maps, it's like siege in general
What's something that we haven't seen that you would like to see?
What's missing for you?
I'm trying to think as well
I thought the game is in a pretty good state
I feel like I miss a more droney meta
I am sad especially in rank because ranked already like
Especially when you fire stack or you two or three stack like it used to be as soon as you're a player that has the patience to actually drone
You're really gonna find a lot of success and now droning just doesn't matter as much because bronze are just not as strong
relative to face checking with shields or getting free info with solid snake
I do miss a matter that you know was a little bit more methodical
The execute heavy matter is crazy cool now. It's just that
Some like most players won't really get to experience the execute heavy matter because you genuinely have to be at such a high level to be able to make the most of it
And it does it does feel like in some ways that we are
Very separated in the average players experience in the current food experience
Charlie like we always have but like a lot nowadays
I'm interested to hear your take because you obviously play at a much higher level even in ranked
But like I did my placements and I think I ended up like that
And even just in plat people just genuinely I feel like they play like silvers did like three years ago
That is the saying I hear is this all saying of like, you know year one diamond and rain
This now the criminal people that are like no rank or whatever
like
People have regressed essentially and I think because like
The fundamentals are like the strategic elements that I completely form.
Yeah.
Not comparison.
Nitro, big, Zaka single handedly.
He's just playing Team Deathmatch at the moment.
But guess what, Gatorade can play that game as well.
Find three kills!
Oh my god!
Bring out the GON6!
They got the GON6, bro!
Gatorade, my friend, that is not it!
You're not killing anybody with that thing!
Well man, fun fact actually, Norr's gadget does 50 damage on direct hit, just like Ash does.
You get 5 of them. You can legitimately farm kills with Norr's gadget.
That's my new favorite thing I want to try. Well, Cag with that little team deathmatch
round are up 3-2. They're bringing the Rook, Penguin! You're finally getting to see it!
Your favorite, Oblado!
Okay great. I'm playing a lot of rook lately in my games and I would say I'm a big fan.
I have. It's been so much that when I don't pick a defender I could also pick onto rook.
Oh my god. I've been most played this season, I think.
Bro, I really wish we could play without the high ping. I would love to play some ranked
with you and say what that's like. It is my rook rank. I'm ranked with like me,
Bikini, Katja, Kudo, like different contributors and friends and whatnot.
And a lot of them are all right as well. I'm becoming a reaper player like a secondary pistol and I think that's crazy
Bro is cool. Sends is a really fun option to play in games
Like there are some rounds where like, you know, shelle is like we don't have a heartbreak
Well, I could go ace or thermite, but why don't I just pick Sends with heartbreakers?
Give it a go. Exactly
Especially because that DMR isn't sane anyone has the 417
Yeah, I don't play the DMR. I play the automatic weapons usually really I'm so bored
I'm so bored with the DMR meta. For me, I'm bored of it too, but if they're playing his army like you kind of need a DMR
Well, we ban a sum
Like so every single ranked game first ban solo snake every single defense first ban a sum you boom live really well
You do ban Mira?
No, almost never known. Oh my god
I have to try to take my solo Q2 next match up in Mira.
Mira has like a thousand calendars, bro. Mira is so useless these days.
No one pays bandit, well, my Yeikro hype is a fair deal here.
Agreed, but you try to sell my solo Q2 next time.
Mira's the most overrated operator band because she spent like 80% of the time, I think, in the chat and above in the statistics.
Yeah.
I don't get it.
I agree.
Well, we agree.
Well, top 4 defense to round up the half.
Did you say speaking with DMRs?
Yeah, the camera's running it on Ducati. It's so hard now compared to before.
Why? Why? Look, I love DMRs, but that one sucks.
Yeah, that one's awful nowadays. I'm online.
That's the reason, I suppose.
The only reason that I run that DMR would be to try and destroy
keeper barriers, but I would just get caught out around DMR instead of the AR33.
Yeah. Very quiet running from KineTrip again. They're really trying to
to conjure up the best execute possible, but not sure what it's going to be right now.
Anything tank to think of the call, but has a Rook armor, so barely takes any real damage,
one can argue.
Mind you, with Rook armor, you get 25 more health from every player.
You're injured for double iteration.
You cannot die at the grenade, you will always get injured and you can self-derive.
That's a lot of stats from one operator catch that's passive.
Even if he's 1 HP and tanks the grenade, he won't die.
each giddies in such a good spot, comes on down, out comes the reaper and my guy has
escaped
get a trooper like, struggling right now to uh, to get this started
everyone's afk in the server, literally
look at any, he's our sure rather, looking up with a deagle, just vibin'
and then aga is holding him, also vibin'
30 seconds left in the round and KineTrope have really not done very much.
This is exactly the kind of round where the Rook is going to pay dividends in spades.
Sitting on the bombsite waiting to take some gunfights with your extra HP.
In they go, plants not on the horizon yet for KineTrope as the planter has been killed.
Straight into the bombsite, Akai is farmed. It's all up to Anitzen now.
He has one impact. All he has to do is deny this plant. Does he know where it's going down?
doesn't have the info, gets off the plan and it's too late. Now, Kena Trope will surely win this round.
It's gonna be an even end after the first half. Three rounds apiece as Kena Trope look to keep this game alive.
I can't let you go
I can't let you go
I don't care about you, I don't care about you
I don't care about you, I don't care about you
I
For my head, I understand
For my head, I understand
Baby
I'm not letting go of this game, Panko, because we're going the distance.
This is an 8-7, I'm feeling it.
season eight seven at the end of the first half and Keenah trope are on the road to redemption
they've locked in on the train tracks pangoo and they've turned the brakes off the brakes
are broken they threw them out the window with the rest of their stage and now with
nothing on the line they go full steam ahead full steam ahead it's a great code you know
as the code is from. What? You don't know. I don't know. Oh my god, it's a clothe that's
in Warcraft 3, I believe. Of course I'm not gonna know that. Full steam ahead. I'm pretty
sure it's in Warcraft 3. Oh bro, you have one thing on your brain. No, that game has
so many good codes. It's spoken by the steam tank. It goes full steam ahead. It's very
good so yeah it's really cool that's really cool bro have you never played
walker 3 with the campaign no oh my god oh my more work oh my golden
that's great I'm dead
so many good posts in the game if you if you actually love the digi into what's
like a copium horse want to be cast through you should spend $10 and buy a
ring of chaos and play the campaign when you love doing that and you're done
doing that you should buy a frozen dog you'll see you do the same thing
all right thanks man i'll do that i'll do that and then in order for me to get
through the backlog of games and i keep saying i'm gonna buy
you keep saying you're gonna play you i think somebody needs to chain me to a
basement remove Instagram reels and don't let my dog be there as a walker and don't
let me talk to anyone until I've gone through the entire catalogue.
Oh man.
I don't know, there's nothing about a good single player game which is you, the game,
the story, the world, it's like a good movie but interactive movies.
100% and you like good movies, right?
You watch movies.
I do.
Yeah, exactly.
I've been I've been listening to an audio book, and you're gonna like this listen to the fellowship of the ring
Oh, very good
Now read the new hundred games
You know, he's hungry at the moment it's zaka he's hungry
Okay, cuz he makes his way forward almost five times. He's not even a damage on the Zaka. How about that for a
Second segue, thank you. Very good. I'm part of your games
How about
There's nothing wait. Did the importer just not destroy the
Tracks thing is a made out of titanium. Yeah, I don't think the single one broke there. No
What the hell
What is up with the attackers is having a hard time today
CD they are so quick to punch again is anything got shut down about the window to shut them in the face did
I think you know
Outside
From outside with me
By the bombsite scene guys, this is free
Did you bring in a case? It's so free. There's somebody outside and I've just caught I get it doing absolutely
Absolutely nothing on the bomb site DD get in there put that bomb down and let's call it a day
We can go out for a nice cold one afterwards if you like problem is got a Rada's down below and he's looking all cheeky-beaky
And prevent that building going down
It's funny in a square can walk on in try and get to that bomb so that you sit before
There is one spot that's plentiful on top of all that's not softest rifle. It's right by the
age assie
But instead we're gonna fight it out upstairs. Come on. Oh
All right, a coy you to take down Zaka DD ain't winning this one absolutely not
It's the clash of a coy you to take the final two kills with that kind of trope take the lead over C.H.E
She did you looking to get it done or sorry. It's a keynote hoping to get it done
Probably she'll ban as well just paying respects towards anyton of course
I think that was something that happened was it in the D plus game. Let me go back and check a pack stage 2
I noticed that the team didn't bend the money against C.H.G and Shelly. I think it was D plus
Let me just have a little look at back north stage 2
Do do do do do do do do do do do
C.H.G versus yeah D plus Shelly. Yeah, they didn't opt to bend the money
At all depends on the stick ying and grim and it's such a rare thing to let any play the Monty and he did it to him
Get the thing
Crazy boy, that's crazy. Hey, that's actually crazy, dude
Are you done?
All right, oh Chad is caught up to the walker of three talk again here. I can hear jobs done walker three is the goat
Yep, you usually go to twitch chat for external validation
It's like the only place that goes with validation like why why seek therapy?
Why have a family? Why have friends?
That's why I have a dog because no matter what you do the dog always loves you
It's true, it's like having a dog, it's like having a twitch town on your side, same thing.
You know, twitch town will guess up like the worst player in the game as long as you're
a fan of them, you know?
Oh yeah.
That's right!
We gotta ask this right!
That's why I used a goat!
Hold that thought for a second, because Aniston is the best player this side of the Mississippi.
I don't know which side of the Mississippi that is, but he's on the right side of it
right now.
Apgaz and Archer himself from Gatorada.
And...
Bang!
That's Julie Dunne!
He's dead.
dead as well. It's fine because
turns out Gatorada was actually the best player
because he was on the other side of the Mississippi
all along. And he grabbed his rowboat,
he rode over the other side and he slapped
Cag Silly, she just came in
and tried to say something about it, but that
ain't gonna mean nothing. Not when Gatorada
is still alive. This man
for three kills in the rounds
as Kina Trope looked to run away
with Bank. D.D.
is about to be did did did done.
is looking for a second mississippi
here has the red paint the angle is so tiny
one mississippi, two mississippi
and we find all three mississippi's and get the run victory
that is the question
did he just said in exactly six seconds
five
four
three
two
three
one
Oh, too many Mississippi though.
We didn't do the Mississippi, so that's why it doesn't count.
Mmmmm.
Actually this is kinda winnable. This becomes a 1v1 as DD gets the pick onto Akai,
and then Gatorada gives it to go to 60 kills.
I have a feeling Gatorada is dropping a 20 bomb this game.
Huh? Oh, he's actually close to 15 already.
Yeah bro, he's getting very close.
DD goes in, don't worry, Gatorada's got ya locked up.
Out comes the DMR. Of course, DD brings out the DMR.
Doesn't have the bravery to face Garawada with an SMG at your hand. 16 kills!
Bro, it's actually popping off. It's been the Garawada air-killer duo dynamic that's just doing
so much work this stage. Well, last stage. I did a lot of work. This stage they've been trying,
but I'll quite find them the right success, of course.
That skin of the car is going on RX is dope.
That's so cool.
Literally, get it?
Because I said that skin back is gone.
Because it was like all the muscles in the car.
I wasn't laughing at your joke.
That wasn't necessarily funny.
It was like you're on a monitor and a chat with him.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
Look at it.
You scored and then laughing and then you reacted to it.
You know what I'm laughing about.
That was your reaction.
That was funny.
Because somebody said WTF is Cag doing for real and then someone applied their best.
I gotta say, that is the first incorrect thing I've seen in the chat all day.
This is not Kax fast.
Sack is now gassing up Gatorada, 16 kills, oh my god, MVP.
Alright, I know we've already talked with production, I lost it at MVP for the day,
but can Gatorada take it?
I don't know.
Only if they win.
Only if they win.
I think that if he gets 20 kills and Kino lose, that's when we give him the MVP.
like you know sorry this happened to you here feel better well I mean that's the
story of this game right for Keener trope and it's a ghost trading on the ash
and doesn't find anything car well shuts him down nice idea there somebody
I think you're the hardcore music.
Do do do do do do do.
Oh never mind.
He's gone.
I'm flying in.
I love the pace you're set by C.A.G. though.
Finally taking the game over to their own side.
Win or lose in a fast fashion.
Oh!
Let's see some of this.
I got it.
It's Shuri.
I'm not that close in person.
Get him.
Get him.
Come on.
Give it another go.
Recharged sure it's only this but now coming in to help out a car you just cut out from baby, man
What in God's name am I watching Nick save me I'm about to tear my eyes out
Hey sure always got his one okay a good low on HP car on HP
It sounds second and she was sort of clutch it up walk in for just 20 seconds boys. You can get it done
such a shame that Kino was so close to the potential qualification. Mind you, had deep
loss and being in fear is not locked in their games earlier, but if Kino beats Kagan regulation,
that would have been qualifying if it wasn't for deep loss of fear of getting their games.
Yeah now Chibi 1D3. All of them have low HP. He's got one B1D line scan left.
Let's be real Chibi. Ain't winning this. I don't know. Any guys left for it clear?
I haven't seen any beings. Yes two and I. One Teleros. Teleros? Office?
What is Office Hall? Is this Office Hall way? I think this is Office Hall. They are
the minsters Mr. Tiller's office whole way yeah I mean in game combat yeah in
game combat it's a bit of a wishy-washy
alright and three two one one dead album dead well here we go Kino trope good
day to be a Kino fan if you like winning games against the best team in the
region bad day if you like qualifying for stage finals but we take what we can
Hmm. I think I figured it out, James. What I've done some calculations inside my brain while watching this game. And I think I figured it out.
Final calculations happening right now. Okay, yes. I think that this is Sparky's doing. He understands that you get a winner's interview, not lose this interview.
So he tells us to throw the game, sorry, sorry, lose the game without throwing it, he will not have to read the interview and then we're going to get ok with it.
He's talking to us really that much of a drag that you have to turn into a game before.
I mean, think about it. Imagine you were Sparky, imagine you were the coach and you played and then you had to talk to you and me.
How would you talk?
We talked to Zaka yesterday and he was lovely.
Is Zaka Sparky?
No, Sparky.
Why is Sparky on for the interview today?
because if Sparky doesn't want to do the interview, just tell Zaka to do it.
What if Zaka's gonna talk to the Japanese people?
Well, there's so many people that could talk to the Japanese drink, and what's D.D.
speaks English, right?
I don't know.
I haven't introduced D.D. before.
What do you mean?
Me neither, actually.
I should have never spoken to D.D. in real life, I don't think.
Like ever.
I'm actually not sure that he's a real person.
How do you not know that he's an android?
I haven't seen him.
I spoke to Sparky and Annie and like Zaka.
I've never even seen DD in real life besides when he's on stage.
Well, if you've never spoken to him before,
then how do you know that he's actually a real person?
Because the footage that we have on the facecamps
could be AI generated.
It's true.
That's what I'm trying to get at, like.
He could be that an android,
invented by aliens from another planet,
came to Earth and then killed the original DD
and then put an android against him twice.
So essentially, he's joystick?
Russian sable joystick.
Russian sable, okay.
If you can do that, somebody should do the same thing but to Panari.
Get Panari back in the scene.
I miss Panari so much, but nobody hasn't seen the clip from Panari, the old finished player from Enz.
Oh, hold that thought for a second because, uh, Cherie is about to go big or go broke.
There is an Arunigate stopping him from walking on through.
He wants to go for it anyway. There's also about a million lasers on the floor. He's still ADS's and finds Iakator anyway.
They're clearing our solo trap in this position, but he has some support from the lasers that prevent the entry from Shuri.
They're gonna damage and the entry from Zaka. There's the kill. Kina Trope not gonna run away with this just yet.
Yeah, not yourself could be beat over a car you go down that's good fire zacker up in close quarters
Shuri wins this battle and it's it as well on the shield got a rather coming back to the bomb site
Trying to make it a 20 bomb, but he will do no such thing see a G back into it again with a round of their own
Are you watching shuri on the blitz this guy's crazy?
He has no fear his shift of you straighten the building strength the bomb side
I've just taken every single fight known to man and somehow he comes out on top and finds both kills
And how he's doing it. He even juke the C4 and his teammate died instead because it was tossed in like even to the source of server
Absolutely ridiculous
I expected this kid doing the shield shenanigans right now on the attack inside because it's open to them confuse the blitz
Our poor player dude, solix nix scammed flashed
He had no chance.
Let me have a look at you, Kakuyo!
Crossing legs!
Device positioned.
Ah, Kena Trope, Kena Trope, Kena Trope.
Look, this just has such a different flavor to it
than when Skars took Ag to Overturn.
Because when Skars took Ag to OT,
even though they lost it, it just felt like such an achievement.
And, uh...
I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know how to say this nicely, I just... this game is not a reflection of either team's
performance in this stage or their skill level.
I mean there is two things that are true right?
Gatorada is a crazy fracker, check.
He's been good.
And Shuri is absolutely fucking crazy.
He is just crazy.
And that's also a check.
He might be three kills.
He's not crazy good, he's not crazy bad, he's just insane clinically insane.
He says lost the car. I
You get 20 kids in the game with a place. He doesn't know what things slow is
Oh, come on. What are we reacting? Thank you. We're going out. Is this another?
Two OTs today, I forget. It's just
87 and
And, uh, then we've had...
Oh! It's my bad.
The thing is, COG, they're in double shield, don't give me solid snake.
It feels like they might be trying.
And that's a scary thing to consider.
Because when they start to try, look at this.
First pig in the first 30 seconds, they got all the meta operators scored.
The gutter artist is still alive, and he's on the bandit.
He loves the MP7. Anything's possible.
possible, drone spots him, and that's a bye-bye. See you later, back down below.
Zaka falls victim to one of those thorn traps.
Now it's time to go fishing on Vert.
Hello. Beautiful headshot, threading the needle, Akayu actively throwing. Love that.
Here comes the breach from Hannitson. If he's a big dog, he just drops on this.
Yeah, he's a big dog.
Look at him go.
Down into the bomb site.
Takes the fight with the pistol.
And dies, never mind.
Nice effort.
Sharifo looking for a real frag.
Get a posse, yes!
I am attacking him!
This is such a meme!
Oh man.
Bomb site taken by Kagnar.
Got a right of looking to try and pat his stats a little bit further.
Still searching for a lucid 20 bomb.
Iagata, beautiful work.
Three kills on the round.
Sorry, for Zaka, that is.
It almost becomes three for Iogata, but Zaka makes it four, Kage kicking this game alive.
KineTrip cannot win it to save themselves.
Sparky.
I'm sure there are some Twitch channels right now that put some points here in KineTrip to get a victory.
They have been very happily watching the last couple of rounds and now they are losing hope.
CT one round away from Corson, the opposite going to overtime and taking away that possibility maybe of them winning.
And it does feel like CIG have turned it up just a little bit here in terms of an effort
There's still things with funny operators and whatnot
But the performance in which they're flying and how accurate you know, couldn't just be some fighters
Can I just love playing shields and being like baiting people waiting for them to start shooting your feet and then as soon as they start shooting
That's just ADS
That's ridiculous.
Oh my god.
We're really in the ADS and shields meta.
I mean that's just where we sit at the moment.
Because these good players have such strong mechanics
that it doesn't matter that you're playing with a pistol
you can still win that fight.
It's a menace to play against the shields right now.
You can ban Blackbeard, you ban the Monty.
It means absolutely nothing against CAG.
I think the most impactful ban that we've seen here from either team
The team is probably... the clash.
Have you ever wondered why one of the commentators sounds like Pengu?
You'll never believe this.
Oh man.
Alright.
Load it up.
Locked and loaded with two... two shields.
I can see that the submissions for predictions in Twitch chat for this game, 83% in favor of CAG.
I don't know if that's working out well for them so far.
You can see the first one, the four-color fives, what a nice nitro self.
Big points coming in.
I'm about to finish it off.
I'm about to seal the deal. It's either that or CAG send us to OT.
The push has had all of the momentum sucked out of it here.
CAG and another gas has gone out and that's him just waiting for a fight. Flashbang goes in
Now he must take the bomb site and fight against the play on the other side.
Gatorada finds another kill and Ayagata makes it a 1v5 for Zaka. Who will not survive? Kiritrope?
Finally get themselves back on the scoreboard with a win over the best team in Japan
Alas, it is not enough to make it to stage finals, so they close up their year in APL with a win.
And sadly for CAT, they cannot say that they have gone undefeated for the entirety of the year.
Now there's the playoffs to come, of course, but they won't be able to take that step any longer
because they haven't even lost the Kinectrope here, 7-5.
Of course, Everett, and for a second, I believe in the comeback,
all you can think of just stood the way at the very final moment.
Every single one of my predictions did not go the way that I intended today.
Even Gatorada, who I thought he was gonna get, the 20 bomb.
I think he's done 17 kills.
He really did!
Yeah, one or two rounds where he farmed.
A little bit.
I had an answer.
The moment you pointed out how well he was doing, he kind of stopped doing so well.
I think he got two kills after I pointed out how well he was going.
Yeah?
I think so too.
Oh well, that's the game.
A bit of an anti-climatic one, I mean, on paper, 7-5 in favour of Kinetrope, looks like an incredible showing.
Of course, this game had its own context that changes the situation a little bit, but let's just not discount that Kinetrope are in a position where they wouldn't expect to find themselves in failing to make it to stage finals,
but a win here probably feels at least a little bit bittersweet at the end of the stage.
Now I'm sure that their focus will be on the Six Invitational qualifiers
and hopefully locking in to really level up their game
come their next official matches.
Let's get Okamesh in for our post match interview.
Okamesh, my friends.
Hi.
Hey, bro. I love your hair, by the way.
Congratulations on the win today.
How are you feeling?
Ah, to be honest, nothing, nothing about today's result is,
you know we we couldn't make it to the playoffs but um we have kind of good we
have good point again because we win I mean I know it's they are not locking
in but we actually win the Cyclops so this is not negative this is positive
So, I'm happy but nothing about it.
Yeah, I have no words to say because my emotional has been roller-coastered by yesterday, so that's it.
I'm sorry about the result for this stage. You guys had a phenomenal last stage,
so it can be hard to go from doing really well to not doing as good.
good. Talk to us about why it didn't go so good this stage. What was the difference now compared
to a few months ago? I think about stress. At the first game, first two games, we lost to the
the fear ex we lost to the stars and then we like our I don't know our players relationship
has been already what I said it's worse so like they have no good communication each
other but I tried to fix each other but they a little bit miss communication is like a
puzzle you know if you the wrong piece you cannot make it better you cannot
make it perfect anymore is I think we made I think we put the wrong puzzle
somewhere I didn't realize and then everything wraps that's what we can
work on yeah thank you for telling us yeah of course it's been a real hard
stage for you guys and I'm sure it's a bit bittersweet beating CAG today because obviously
everyone wants to beat CAG but this game was not a normal match. What's next for KINATROP
do you think? Of course the six Invitational qualifiers will be coming up before you know
it after a little bit of a break. Of course as a major in Japan a lot of your players I'm sure
will be tempted to go to the Osaka Major as attendees. What do you think is next for yourself
for the squad? Yeah, we are all focused for the 16-vitational core fires. Then maybe for the
Ossetian Major, every like better LAN players, better LAN teams come for the Japan, then I hope we
can scrim with this team and then we can learn something. So we need to find a way to have better
communication, especially the relationship. Yeah, we need to find a good relationship
with each other and then we need to learn something new from foreign, like I'd say,
other team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, as we put it close to APAC North for group stage,
I'd love to give you a chance to speak to the viewers who have been following KineTrope
over the course of three years so the mic is yours.
Okay, in Japanese.
I love the energy that
Akamashima-san is giving us.
It's a kind of drop gaming.
We'll continue to do our best
in the opening of the Chicks Invitational.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you Akamashima-san. See you next time.
Thanks so much.
I love the energy that Okamesh always brings to his interviews, even after a bit of a rough day failing to qualify for stage finals.
But yeah, I mean, six Invitational Quals will be here before you know it, and this is a great opportunity now for Kino to look at what went wrong.
Clearly some communication, maybe some team conflict.
If you can sort that out and then get some proper scrims in, come when the Asaka Major happens and you're going to have the 16 best teams in the world.
in Japan looking for scrims, Keemattroup should absolutely jump on that. But of course we had
our MVP of the day, we had a couple that we were tossing up between, and I think that there's one
match today in particular that is the one that had the lightest implications, and it was the D-plus
game. To be honest, even though Iron Stats are insane, it's not like there's a specific player
on D-plus that I really want to point to. I feel like they really won as a squad, and Iron, his
Final I believe it was a 4k in the post play in the last round is a great
Demonstration of how much D plus were winning because of the team play
I was the one who pulled the trigger
But the squad was the one that set up for that execute to give him the opportunity to do so
I also think you look at like a rule keys off the stage or a new commercial stage
Well, there's gonna be a roster change or an import or whatever
Ion has had a phenomenal last couple of months here in the pack north and joining D boss key
I remember the very first game that they had on Night Heaven Labs and seeing how much confidence he was playing, how much impact he was finding as an individual player.
So almost like I said, for the stage, I feel like it's very unbranded. It's iron that gets the final movie action.
Yeah, for sure. For sure. Let's reflect upon our matches today. We did indeed have another overtime as we look back on our schedule of the day.
Trippie Man Telecom double RX went the distance and Trippie actually overcame at the end of it. It's been a crazy couple of days for Trippie with these OTs
And then our second match Fyrex locked themselves in the stage finals by beating
Can you be my enemy same story with the plus beating our scars are surprisingly
Black roster performance from scars and then whatever the hell happened in that Kagweaver Alcina trope game to run off the day
you have any personal favorite going into states finals not like who you think
it's gonna win but mostly like a team that you'd love to watch right now in
Apec Nordpris. I was really on the scars train I think they're lost today might
have lessened my enthusiasm a little bit but they still end up in second place
and I would love to see a scars B plus rematch in a BO3. I also want to see a
CAG scars BO3. I want to see a CAG D plus BO3 and look who knows like fear ex
Like I said scars beat fear I'm gonna see your ex beat D plus D plus beat scars
So you have this little trinity here of these three teams that seemingly beat each other
So I kind of just want to see all those teams go ahead to it. I
Think it could be a very interesting stage if it was two spots for a soccer major here in impact north
Not just because of the whole life Japanese teams whatnot, but because it is such a close run
Or if you might feel like you know, she's my barrel there
They're likely to take it but who knows what I really am curious about the other three teams
we're a team at second spot if it was on progress. Let's have a look at how the bracket is going to
form once we send these four teams into the final. Keg by Vero going to play Thierrex in their first
game. Skars D plus getting a rematch in that BO3 on the first playday of stage finals. That is going
to be so saucy. Of course only one team as you said, thank you, goes to the Asaka Major from this
region and that will be the winner of our grand final. That's going to be ridiculous. I mean
I mean, it's so hard to call. I still do believe that people at CT Barbaro are just a little bit ahead of every other team.
It may be a little bit ahead of some of the individuals, but I also feel like Scars, E-Plaas, and PNK Theory are going through their roster changes,
or just their styles at this stage. They haven't peaked in performance or gameplay just yet,
and I still feel like they can dig really deep, get a lot of good last-second practice in for the best of reads.
There could be some upsets in that following bracket.
It was actually less than a week until we have our stay at finals.
It's next Thursday that we play our APAC North Play Day 1 of stage finals next Wednesday for Asia.
We have a little bit of a longer break before OCE, as that's happening at PAX itself.
And then the final days of Asia and APAC North will happen in the weeks following that.
We're into the serious business now, Pengu.
It's good behind us, the BO1s, the group stage.
we're down to just four teams in each of these three APL sub regions and of
course South America League across the pond starts in less than three hours. I
hope you guys tune into that but more importantly next week APL stage finals
begins. We will see you there.
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