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Hello everybody and welcome back to wonderful beautiful
We're your hosts for today this wonderful Sunday 27th of September. I mean I should buy my side
No, the other way right here is the one and only Maria Benino our guest co-host for today
Yesterday we had a lot of fun with links today
We're gonna have a lot of fun with you the actual official SAL host. Wow. What brings you here to a humble abode
Oh, that's it's just a crazy opening. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very happy to be here
Once again, and why can I say about the SAAL? It's it's been crazy. It's it's been crazy just crazy games crazy stuff
fishes
being the MVP of the games
yesterday
It's amazing. This is SAAL for those who don't know I'm very happy to be here today
And I'm looking forward to see what we have today more fishes more what I don't know
We're going to actually fill
everybody in on the fish story
from yesterday.
Once we get to our first matchup,
INTZ versus Lost.
Our first one here for today.
But yesterday's games,
and I do know on the broadcast
you were seeing everything live
in person, Maria.
It was all over the place.
Nobody would have expected
the results that we got yesterday.
And it kind of makes it more exciting
because today you got Fluxo Furia,
which two weeks ago I wouldn't really
have been excited for.
But now I really am.
Yes, the games that has Lose, which is the first one, Black Dragons and Fluxo, are the ones that I would definitely watch because they are just in the middle of everything.
They are in the fourth place, fifth place and sixth place.
So they need the results so much, not that for the other teams it's not worth it, but for them, it changes a lot if it's a lost.
Which, like if we talk about loss and INTZ, doesn't change that much if INTZ loses, but for loss it's costing something way bigger, so I would definitely watch those games.
Yeah, it would lose loss all out of a top four spot and really Black Dragons want to recover that position, if anything.
But for INTZ and Imperial, for example, since they're kind of passing on the topic, both of them are in a fight for relegations because they've had a...
Yeah, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it an awful 2026 season
So only one of them can get relegated out of sal and every single point they get is super important
So I am TZ getting three points yesterday was huge Imperial not getting any after having the two play days
Where they got six points, which is really huge for them. That's not good for the results of yesterday
The lot still on the line and it might come down to next week singular playday where guess what I am TZ
Go up against Imperial and that would be a yeah. Yeah. Yeah, honestly
I hope that it comes down to that moment because it will be a soul water in
General but before we talk about both of our teams here with loss and I into that in our opening match kind of wanted to
Dig deeper into loss and what's been happening, especially now that they've gone up in the standings and once you guess
There's a video just for that. Take a look
Faze Clan, FURIA, LOUD, TEAM LEAQUID ALIENWARE.
The South has plenty of teams that are always on fans' lips, but our competitive scene also
features squads that don't get as much attention, but definitely shoot.
I'm talking about the only Brazilian lineup outside the National R6 Giants to qualify
for every international championship in 2026.
the famous teams that is low media and high firepower.
Well, they said it all, but let's recap those performance so far.
In the kickoff, back in April, the team finished in fourth place overall
and secured one of the spots for the South Lake City Major.
Over in the United States, the squad was eliminated in the second stage of the tournament, with
a record of 2 wins and 4 losses.
Then in the first South Stage, another Top 4 campaign and another stamp on the passport,
this time for EWC.
At the World Cup, dealt under the MyVR loss tag, the team ended their run early, dropping
out in the playing phase.
Well, aside from that part, not too bad so far, right?
And to qualify to the Saka Major, Los needs to finish among the top four teams in the South, once again, which by the way, doesn't seem like a distant goal.
So, fans can keep their expectations high for another successful campaign.
I think the goal of this split now is a little more consistent with the DDS. I think we are stronger and less dependent on the performance of DLIS.
All right, my brother Dash, that's it.
But now comes the most important question of all.
comes the most important question of all.
Next year, 6 Invitational.
And the top four finishers at this south stage
will split 1,170 points, not counting many Envy points up
for grabs at the Osaka Major.
So if loss managed to secure the Japan spot,
can we consider the team qualified for Envy?
I'm sure that we qualify for the mid-vias in the second phase, and we're almost 100% qualified for INV.
It's a very big goal for us to qualify for INV Brazil.
Obviously, we have more consistency here in Brazil, and we also have better performance out there,
which the two last championships for us have qualified.
Our performance was not good, so this is also another goal.
We have better performance out there so that we can achieve more nationally,
and start listening to titles.
Also, the best of luck to the Lost Boys and keep an eye on those low-key but competent South teams.
Thanks squad, see you next time and have a good game.
As you've heard it and saw it, their loss have definitely been a dark course in the plans in stages, be it in SAL or even internationally,
despite how things ended at EWC and even at Salt Lake City regardless, they're there.
They're getting those aside points and they want to qualify to the Invitational.
they're practically setting for it. But if they can hold on to a top four position today, that would be huge for them.
But I want to hear kind of what the, what the rumors are, how SAL as a whole and players especially are thinking about loss and their chances, Maria.
What's what's been going on in the SAL now?
So loss has come from a win against Imperial yesterday was, I mean, a pretty easy win for them. But something that happens today is
that they are probably with their back against the wall.
Cause what happens is you're facing INTZ,
which is the last team in the tournament
and they know how powerful they are.
They have, again, we talked so much about this,
but we also need to talk about Paris and Duff,
when everyone they are doing a pretty good job.
We're gonna talk more about Dash later
cause I have something to talk about him specifically,
but they know how powerful they are in game.
They know that they have the chances to win over INTZ.
INTZ, so this is their game.
But here it comes, when we talk about bullets,
we need to talk about this,
which is the one that has been holding
this gun power in most, we spoke about that,
but a lot of it helps from Pettis in the early rounds.
They are definitely a deadly duel,
but we haven't seen a really good performance from Dash.
even though he was the MVP yesterday.
What happens is that now he has a lot more responsibilities
he told us and that affects his individual performance
both in game preparation and training.
He has been the IGL before, we know that,
but this time somehow it feels different for him.
That's his words, not mine.
It's also about the mental work
when you have to keep your energy up
but also the team's energy.
It's been a pretty tough job for Dash, but you still have to do this in Pettis, in Daffu.
Daffu, it's in the middle, like sometimes he kills a lot, sometimes not that much, but he still does the job.
In Nusga, he is the support. Even though he doesn't kill that much, he is Kaidi, KD is not that big.
We still have to pay attention on him, because many of the things that Loz is capable of doing, it's also because of his support.
Los has a pretty good strong team. They are also very objective
They they like to even though to plant or to
Rom after the the the enemy team they can also do both
But for ANTZ, I thought that the vibes right now in the team are like, okay, we can do this
It's unbelievable
Let's give the context here because most clearly seem to be the team that have the most experience
or more likely to win this game from everything that's been happening over the past few play
days.
But as I said yesterday, they were in a huge, huge matchup.
They basically backs against the wall in their own way.
They're going up against Lucky 5 and what happens in the very first round?
One player dischemists.
Well, what do you do? You have to play the game 4v5. They actually fight back. They fight back and they make it 4-4 until their teammate reconnects.
And what happens in the reconnection, they get even better and they're able to win.
Naka did not have to do too much during that, but it was still a good performance for Ayanthi Zett to get the win.
and most of the like eight rounds played in a 4v5.
The story goes that the reason why,
the reason why Naka disconnected
is because he lost the internet.
Why?
Well, his router is sitting right next to his fish tank.
The fish jumps out of the water.
Somehow water and or the fish get on the router
and break it.
Now you don't have any internet.
Parable positioning as Lynx pointed out yesterday.
Awful awful awful design. Do not put your fish tank next to the router, but that was I guess in some ways the MVP of the day
Links did argue that it was not because it was actually the reverse
But maybe I would say it pushed I anti said to play even better for the fish
They said and I'm happy to report that the fish is well and truly safe and alive. So yes
Thank you very much. This isn't brightening motor. It's great
When we did the interview with Naka the first thing that I asked was is the fish alive?
because if he was not I would not be joking that's you know so he said yes it's okay but like I said
it's the feeling of we are capable of doing because if you see this they are stats I put right now has
a negative KD minus 19 but yesterday he did a clutch a crazy clutch and that clutch has had such a
crazy impact in the game uh also his troker was the MVP he did the most of the kills helped
to to also restructure the team because again they were missing one piece now I've got it was such a
hard situation for them but with the help of stoker also and at tour they did that they were 4v5 it's not
any team that can possibly win no if i'm lucky for that i feel like
doing that i'm gonna i'm just gonna be very honest about it but still it was great for ianty said
that's gonna give them some energy to get into this though we have to get into our veto
for the match up here, Maria, we'll see what map we're actually going to get for this series.
Do we get something different a little bit? Well, Bank is out of the question here, so
at least there's that. And we'll be left with Fortress, very defense favored.
Laws are going to play that to their advantage. I&T said though, we're the ones that made the
band, they have the choice between two still quite defensive maps to get through. That's,
I would say unexpected still, but it's going to slow down the pace of the game.
Yes, and you know what's crazy? If we look, INTZ, they played 3 times fortress and they
lost the 3 times. LOS, they played 5 times, they lost 4 times.
Oh no. So, it's both of the teams, not that the
greatest map for them, but it means something. I mean, we only have 2 play days, so now
is the time that you might want to show something that we've never seen before in this maps.
This is crazy. I like the the the Mathudo actually.
This is if anything is gonna make it is gonna ask a lot of questions and try to solve them
through a map that both of them have had struggles on over the past few months and
just to see what can you actually get out of it have you been able to adapt what sort
of bands are you having to kind of deal with your opponents on the other side
and what they're bringing. Fortress is a complicated map to deal with. We've got a lot of rooms and we
have a lot of long hallways that are power positions at every end. There's always utility or a
defender sitting in and around them. Shields were used a lot yesterday. If you remember today,
I would not have expected to be any different than that. But there's one different face today.
It's not links. It's actually all the extra truck has joined us today. The duo on the
the game. I mean, I'm doing
pretty good two days of SL in
a row, though I will say I
don't think we'll reach the
Olympian Heights of the I and
TZ game yesterday, but I have
I have hopeful approximate the
best we can. I'm going about
missed yesterday by all
accounts. I mean, I was sat
there watching at home and by
all accounts, it was it was a
day to be on the broadcast
for the fish, but a great
clutch from Diaz. It was all
popping up. Oh, my God.
he was going to be a great
cushion. It was all popping
up. Oh, my gosh. End of the
day, too. That was the last
play of the day. I've never
ended a broadcast on a higher
note than that. It was It was
really wonderful because even
after a long broadcast day and
for me, at least the past
midnight, you see that that
clutch that he had in your
life. This is why I want
siege. I'm so fired up. This
is sick and I know he tries
to play humble, but he also
relays the brag about it.
Does he try to play it
really try to play at home well I've never seen a copier person in an
interview in the US. He's proud of it but he's not gonna hide the fact that
you know it's just what I do man. This is what I do every day.
Regardless, our game is all set and ready so we're gonna get into the
nitty-gritty here of Fortress with both links and extra turn. INTZ,
no free story yet. We'll see how that goes. I really hope you move the
That's a question for a bit later to resolve, but can loss continue their
domination? Maybe we'll hold on to their position in top four. We're about to find
out. Thank you very much Milosh and Maria. I have to believe Ali that we have
completely redesigned Naka's room. We got architects in on the problem to make
sure that such a vulnerability won't be present in today's game, but also to
pick up on a thread that we saw briefly mentioned in the veto phase.
This is a map that Loser 1 and 4 on, but Olly, Loser 1 and 4 on cafe going to their game against Imperial yesterday
and they won it 7-2 against another bottom of the table team.
Curious if we're gonna see a similarly dominant result.
I think it's difficult to say, isn't it, if a map favors one or the other when you're dealing with a team like INTZ because
cards on the table, we don't always know what we're gonna get. We've got a pretty good idea
the last two stages that the
performance is going to be the
sub path compared to the rest of
the stage. I think at least the
rest of the teams inside of the
stage. Well, that much is fair to
say just based on the result alone.
But they do always have that
upset in them. And I think for
stage two, knowing that
relegations on the line, it's
about whether they're able to
dig just that little bit deeper
than they normally do and come
and for this game well it's a very winnable game it's against loss they do
start on attack they are starting on the harder side of things and I think loss
of navigated that map ban appropriately. Especially after big momentum day like
yesterday getting a win of that quality or that kind over lucky five you have
to feel like you can do the impossible a second day in a row and well this is
certainly just because all five players in the lobby much more possible than
that game against Lucky 5 Seemed yesterday.
As you said, Lowe starting on the defense,
INTZ's first shot at the attack will be attacking
one of the second floor sites command
on the opposite side,
and they're starting things off on a perfect note.
Not only the opening pick, but taking down Perez,
one of the two star players on Lowe's
before Dodez entered the roster, the star player on Lowe's.
Not a lot of utility will die with Perez,
but a player that you always have to worry about
will be dealt with early by INTZ.
Player got that was the Ying.
Of course, those Candela surviving the opening duel is always a good sign, might end up getting
himself in a second.
There's nox testing things in the single window, albeit only briefly.
To the divert start and to make way now as we see, there's Zephia in below.
Action that we are getting more familiar with now that Zephia is firmly cemented
with those three lifelines.
pick four angels disease and that death mark factor oh a good chance of a bit of
a refrag there and certainly some damage not enough to be found by Dash
contemplation of a fight both mazes around the corner the nox recognizing
this is a 3v5 does not want to give up this forward position especially with a
Shotgun up close, he's called up one defender to provide support.
Dastel providing some shots through the floor, and Dela's being dedicated.
Three, almost four, is wrapped with the final one in hand, sends it out.
Low's not dislodged just yet, making this 3D5 feel a lot larger,
and I think the attack is expected. Now as they hop in,
SDK appearing through the smoke will pick up one third of the remaining players.
Nox now between a rock and a hard place,
both him and the Wabai trapped between the rest of the attack, bottom and up top.
flawless round for INTZ to start getting attacking with victory out the gate is always nice, but only dropping one body in the process
Things can't get much better than that on fortress
Fantastic start there isn't it for INTZ
Really clinical great plan of how they once try and attack that they really leveraged a lot of vert there
And you know what links we've cast a quite a lot of fortress
And it's very seldom that we see the reverse vertical use like that
But because of the fear's positioning now and because it's you know, it's nowhere near a book sort of level of you know
Abilities to open up the floor, but it's a lot closer, isn't it?
It's in a very similar ballpark with good information like the information that you can get
Something like a game of tracker. It just makes things that much easier
And I and TZ have used a nice little one-two combo there to get themselves a good opening advantage
But more importantly than that they didn't squander it in the mid to late round in the execute
The INTZ locked in coming into round one will not be another second for sight instead of
Loose opting to go to waiting room and cafe as a second sight in this rotation.
As I said INTZ making good use of the vertical and overall the story from that is just really
well coordinated attack, attacking specific positions identified early from a lot of different
angles and giving Loose a lot to worry about on that defense.
That's what we see on one of the better sites to start out on fortress.
This might be a really strong attacking half from INTZ, well then one round, but it's particularly important to see what INTZ can accomplish and they get another win here, I mean they've already reached an important win condition for Fortress, two rounds in the attack is not at all a bad scoreline.
No, it's very good indeed.
Heads up, camera!
I love this as well, just doubling down on what works well last time.
But it's information that you want. Snake's not been banned by the way. Criminal by loss.
I think Snake is bordering on a must ban now. I was going to scroll on the players list for
SA-L in general. And the amount of players that have Snake in their top-played attacker
is ludicrous. Really is starting to see a heavy uptick. At least in regions like
NA-L in terms of, you know, it's a must ban operator and when teams get a handle
of that information and again that combination with the Deimos just give you so much value.
That and the fact that you get an F2, there is no downsides to playing them at the moment.
Granted a slower start here for Mayans easy, Darwin for a little bit of control and Arthur
looking to make his way in to achieve that, that's just a little bit of aint training
there on the drone.
alluding with the time being. Paris is in the hot seat here and everything really around
this defense is sort of set up around Paris holding that horse position but at least it
looks like the time being that he's dropped off and there comes that solid-tone scanner.
So much value.
The value indeed, it's allowed SDK and 90Z to take horse clear out these forward positions
but Fortress is such a layered defense.
Take that spot, okay, we'll fall back to games.
Hold the vertical.
I will say, there is a bit more, I think,
vertical presence on this defense than we normally see.
A lot of the time it's focused on the horizontal,
but still these two roamers slowly pulling INTZ deeper
into this room clear to the point
where you've not really seen the attack
get any vertical destruction down.
You've not seen them get an opening pick.
Dodez instead picks up the first.
That's quickly traded by Raps,
and they almost find a second on the pair as a 4v4 for the defense.
40 seconds remaining and IHZ hasn't even moved downstairs yet.
Strong possibility we're seeing in early tie game one to one
as Loos can just hold out inside of infirmary,
holding these long hallways.
Once you'll be helpful, utility from players like Snake
will be helpful too, but you wish you had more Bs.
You wish you had something else to activate against Loos.
The 15 seconds remaining, that might
It would be an important engagement though.
STK creeping around has removed control of him
for only one around the corner.
Ready to free fire, but a defender watching
the exact same angle.
Wraps with two big kills hopping down.
And despite the low time and the equal man count,
INTZ with a 3v1 quickly turned into two
as Dash finds one, finds the next
with a headshot on the wraps.
It's another 1vX for Arthur.
The shield pulled back up as far as he can.
He already went big with a 1v2 against Lucky Five
yesterday.
And now there was ever a time to mimic Vittacang to lure Dash around the first floor and prevent
some kind of counter-diffuse and be a moment like this, but the barricade goes up.
Arthur has to spend some time breaking it down, but hardly anything to blink at.
Dash will start with the counter-diffuse, try to bait him out, but Arthur calls his
bluff one bullet to the head.
That's another 1vx for Arthur, two days in a row.
Brilliantly played there by Arthur on the shield.
his environment to his advantage.
Track stingers in the corridor.
He looks so inconsequential in the round.
It's just placed there as, you know,
stop somebody from pushing out,
stop a little bit of a flight,
get some utility down on the ground, just in case.
Well, guess what?
It turned out to be the wing condition for INTZ.
He was able to utilize the track stingers.
It bought time more than anything else.
It isn't necessarily the damage.
It's the fact that what's Dash going to do?
He's got to shoot the plotter.
He's got to shoot the track stingers.
Gotta shoot the tracks thing is just gotta reload again. We already saw him stuff in the super shorty
We're struggling to maintain good ammo count when you're in the 1v1 with the Monty and the plants down
All the Monty is concerned with is buying time
And there's plenty of it for sale Arthur did a brilliant job there. I and TZ two rounds off the rip here
Shape it up for at least a three round half
There's no reason why they can't go back to those sites and do similar all the sit are exactly the same again here
Lost. Really looking for answers.
And I think more importantly here, if Lost are forced into a tactical timeout on this defense side,
what sort of hope have they got for the attack? Because that's typically where we see teams use it here on Fortress.
And just based on the kind of map it is, it is already not completely existential,
but it is concerning for Lost's application. You need to see them get a win here.
As you said, tactical timeout might need to be called. That might have ramifications for your attacking half depending on what happens.
And ultimately, as we pointed out, this is a map that is 1-4 for Lowes.
That doesn't mean that it's going to be a bad performance today.
Obviously, the pathway yesterday was an extremely good performance for Lowes.
7-2 victory over INP with a similarly problematic scoreline going in.
Could have put in some work, could have changed some things up.
The game day reps are invaluable and you can only get them by playing it against an opponent.
It's Lowes starting to get comfortable.
We need to see them turn things around.
Otherwise, an important cap on portraits that often might be treated as a given will start slipping away from them one minute in.
It's important information gathered by INTZ.
Pulse spotted moving around and they confirm the site is in dorms.
Nice thing about what INTZ are bringing here is that it's going to be very difficult for them to counter it.
You can see there's an attempt here by a loss, bringing the heartbeat scanner for wanting to know where this push is starting to frame up from.
Because we've seen INTZ go quite methodical, we've seen them go for vertical and map control,
and then we've seen them be able to execute a bit of a foody push towards the end of a round,
all of which facilitated off the back of mainly the Snake and the Monty.
That's really what Daffo is going to be trying to do here, just provide a little bit of information,
a very aggressive swing there, and he'll pay for it.
Not to the quick trade though, Naka falls in the process, but
polls for the Twitch have to think that favors INTZ a little bit.
However, he might not have the most kills with that utility, the information he could acquire.
My TZ feel a lot better having it off the board.
Oh, what a nice find by I.N.T.Z.
Not to think Paris will move before anybody can get to that window as the Monty firmly solo pushes them over power stairs as the C4 landed his back, but somehow...
...Arthur tanks it.
Monty might be on 1 HP, but at least still alive and can full shield move into the rest of the defense.
25 seconds remaining.
The scientist looked to tighten the noose around Los.
Still this defense moving around inside, moving with impunity it seems, knocks a headshot onto
the Monty, one HP irrelevant in that gunfight, maintaining this one body lead wide into
two and now around the corner, Dota is looking for the final one, it's instead Perez.
A double to finish things off as Los put their first defense on the board.
I think even though the C4 doesn't deal the finishing blow, it deals crucial damage,
doesn't it? And it just slows down the progression that that Monty can make. All of a sudden the
Monty is very vulnerable to impact, smokes, other C4s, even just a couple of shots if
they're looking the wrong way or they just get caught clipping the toe or the elbow
out of the shield. It does make it more difficult then to move forward. Great to see you all
stabilized here. What feels like finally, to be honest, on Fortress and pick themselves
up around. Can you get a band now? I imagine the Monty, they're going to band a ying.
I mean the Ying was great in round one but that's really the top and bottom of it for me
I think I don't maybe been looking at the snake
I don't mean maybe looking at that Monty just further try and pressure those shields
It feels like the bands at the moment from Loves are pretty much all over the place whereas I and TZ very focused
Just thought about getting rid of that hard breach denial and now they're moving into the one-eyed
Which again is just more of like a soak denial sort of operators
So really just trying to give themselves the easiest time of things they're accepting that they're gonna
be playing up against things like Misami, like a Koryo, like a Miro window for example.
In favor of buying themselves a little bit of time clearly on Instagram, what we've
done is that we've got courses to have the information to know where those players are.
And that Wamai really goes to, if there was anything that maybe stalled time against
IMTZ it was that Wamai playing on the, playing in the staircase, him and the
smoke in tandem. Wasted quite a bit of time against INTZ. That being taken down, that
position is much softer. And INTZ, as you mentioned, with the Monty being unbanned, they're
going to needly pick it. The already majority of the rounds played, but now it's being
brought on the site, which INTZ didn't bring in before. Command Office did not have a
shield. Now it's been three montane rounds in a row for INTZ. And it's going to be
quite helpful to slowly moving through this defense, pushing them back. We've
even seen when those have put up some good layers against that offense on
waiting room and cafe at Monty was key even though the round went slowly that
was key to making consistent progress for this attack we'll see what they do
we'll see what Arthur does with the shield in his hands attacking a new
site for this operator three and one by the way on the month I just take a
moment to appreciate that we've got ourselves a little bit of a fragger
here tonight. Gonna be going for that similar pattern. Gonna target that main
daughter and walk himself up Eagle stairs. Drone work tonight so far for my
MTC has been pretty top notch. It falls back into fundamentals that we often
talk about where I use. Either do the basics and do them really well, do the
drone gaming. Get the most out of that utility. Angels again going for a
little bit of this reverse vert now he played. Zephia, first round. He sold
last time he's gone for the capture child this time just to maybe give himself a little bit more utility
still sending is gone six there and destroy I think he's potentially aiming for a gore
or walking pack or maybe even if it's not mine I have to still wait for this walkup to be facilitated
now he's gonna be trying to be out for him but nukes is quite deep right now and to be fair
could start sending these toxic wave canisters there we go one gonna get sent out onto the
off the stairs now in an attempt to buy a little bit of time. Looser defending much more from top
this time. Well that's a great cap to have all though. And Nux will still get the toxic
canister off in time here as thinking about swinging around that Keeba but for the demos down below
not much you can do. INTZ really playing well with this Demos from below even if it's not
directly killing defenders putting them back keeping them away from the offense. It's
It's acquired control.
Moved up the staircase, INTC now on the second floor, moving through tower as well.
Getting into the site will always be a bit problematic, but INTC have got control around
the perimeter, at least on the tower side.
Horse still needs to fall.
It's an important avenue of retreat for the defenders to relieve pressure just a little
bit, opening kill swings their way, but the trades this game have been great from
both teams.
Brown's majority ending up in a 4v4. Wraps now to second though. Ella, sitting
inside of the site lurking, finally caught by the attack but not before
taking down the Monty. Dash quickly rotating back up. Trying to get a flank
off against the offense. Wraps shuts that one down as quick as it began.
Also now on a 1v3. I'd have the advantage of a lack of intel on the side
of INTZ. C4 as well can be tossed over Tetris and at Angel's feet. Both
with the offense and players are ready for it.
Knock-up with the 1 HP through the smoke.
C4 sent out, but into the post.
It's a triple for Daphno and another 1v1 for IMTZ.
Raps ready for it around the corner.
Zoto on the opposite side won't slow down the Nomad at all.
Raps just getting cover behind the box.
Ready to swing out again.
Still trying to slow down this Nomad.
It'll isolate his position, but the Nomad knows about it.
Ready for Dappo to swing on 1-8-P. It's just so easy.
One shot is all that matters.
INTZ on tied half.
Raps has done such a fantastic job all round long.
The position that he's playing inside of Tower
is very easy to go to early.
But you could see he had so much patience there.
It was only when Arthur finally pushed in on the Monty
and went deep, but Raps got activated
and he was immediately there for the refrag.
And then from that position on,
he can just flourish in that spot
and he just goes from strength to strength.
William Clutch should never really have come down to it.
And I love to have seen Gaffo
just play a little bit more aggressively there
and send his C4 earlier.
I think there's a world where he gets a lucky time in,
Nook's misses a shot
and he maybe gets that C4 off over the top.
I think waiting for the C4,
because the time was 7 seconds when that plant went down, so you've got to hedge your bets with the C4
because otherwise you're essentially locking yourself into that one versus three.
And yeah, sure, he's good for the first two, I mean, the ones, the first one's basically a distraction kill, isn't it?
Nux has just taken the gunfight to buy his team a little bit of time, let them get the plant down.
Second one again, a bit more information gathering, not in a great position after the plant's gone down.
Perhaps it's the anchor in that position, and he played it beautifully.
Another big 1vx for INTZ as well, Arthur with 1 round 2 now wraps with 1 in round 4.
Ultimately, if you could say to the INTZ, you'd like to see a bit more convincing rounds,
but still a consistent man advantage after that 4v4, they are converting them generally
and the best of 1 with a stake so high for INTZ, you'll take whatever round you can get.
Remember, you're currently in the relegation spot, but with the points they acquired last week,
We're slowly creeping up on INTZ and it seemed like INT might be destined to fall in, but with that win yesterday,
INTZ just looking to get as many points as they can to keep IMP in their relegation spot.
At minimum a 3-3 half on Fortress is not something you'll complain about whatsoever STK moving quickly through dorms.
Not really any defenders to hunt down at the moment, as Lowest's headhung is a bit more
horizontal on their second try ever.
We're wading around the corner, STK firing some shots, the para is retreating into Hamaab
no engagement in the first minute.
Again, the pace of the rounds is generally being quite slow, we've seen a lot of opening
dates coming in well into that final minute.
And that's just Lowest really trying to play behind that utility of which we've
got a lot we've mentioned that with the bands already maybe you ban the
hard breach to now you're always gonna get plenty of utility that you can hide
and play behind first find themselves a bit of water here though spider sense is
telling me he's being droned as there's two bodies at his window in the man
which you would maybe put two and two together there and think yeah I'm
probably spotted let me try and get myself out of there STK can chase all
the day along with that salt on scanner that felt again another little
bit of an off position for him right now just hanging out inside of infirmary and
making his way through.
Affirmary for the ins- as army is of course a pretty standard pause but
Arthur going quite bold here and fairly solo. He does have the kit, needs to be
cautious about this. Angels the star of the show last time for his utility
placement. Still got one in pocket. Do you just worry about Arthur's position
especially with nukes just around this corner, there with the C4 going out that should give the game up
and Arthur probably will just back off a little bit, gather a bit more info, but he needs to wait for his team here.
But also the issue, INTZ last time were able to take down the nursing infirmary players,
but with all full 5v5 nukes of weaving bullets around the Monty,
charts things off quite nice for Loser's another quick trade, still at even man count,
but if things break Loser's way, I think they have the positioning to push it against INTZ,
Fighting on the back foot, they will secure a 2v1.
Is this another late round execute gunfights exchange?
Either way, and it comes down to the last few bodies.
Does this means Lose on the winning side of that on waiting?
To be brutally honest, waiting was a little bit scrappy in round two,
and I think I was definitely getting on a bit of an INTZ train.
Did one round one, you managed to get a good late execute into round two,
but you look at the substance and the actual quality that we're seeing in that way to attack
and it just isn't there yet. They're trying to walk in off the back of a Monty and they just haven't
got sufficient disruption and maybe that's where the Yingban starts to come in because we were
right. Obviously Ying was removed by Los. If a Ying's played in that position, which they were
clearly anticipating with that Warden pick, I think things get a lot more difficult. By
ANTZ just lacked that beach head to go alongside that Monty. Yes, the Monty can walk in.
There's not a lot you can do if people are tucked in behind the corner, you're just looking at 50-50 gunfights
and in some cases it's even more advantageous for the defender, you may be looking at 80-20 gunfights for some of those.
It really just felt a little bit flat, tried to get away with that same late flurry of kills and late execute.
It wasn't meant to be.
Still chance for an equal half for Los, and that's what they will be gunning for right here and now as they give a re-attempt up to dorms.
Even though there has been a scrappy half and even half for IMTD not seeing a complaint about whatsoever still pushing for a 4-2
Might be able to find it Monty five rounds in a row now Arthur committing to the shield which
Know you're with Arthur's play inside of the SAO won't be all that shocking
Going up to the roof
Last time when they attacked dorms it was mainly through old tower that we saw that shield play around the breaches as well
well. Hit the push from the opposite side, and they're trying to be spread out at the
beginning. Again, 3-3 not at all something they'll complain about if it comes down to
another scrappy 1v1. I know you said you were on a bit of an ITZ train and I do think we
both got a bit excited about what we were seeing, but ultimately it has to be said
that when these guys are in scrappy they broke an ITZ's way more often than they
haven't.
They've played well under pressure haven't they? They've played well and I think
that's partly due to the fact that there's this relegation online isn't it? They
have to go through the rig for all of the re-qualifying to the SL. Obviously we don't know exactly what
relegation is going to look like just yet, but it's only the teams at the bottom of the
table that are worried about it because there's going to be one of those that ends up going
whatever the metric is. It's going to be based on performance. The late flurry of
performance from I&TZ might be enough to keep them in the fire and it's clear that
the fire is simply a little bit more right now. Raps looking for an opening pick here,
he's got a bit of a hole there the Xcarus pellets have worked their way through and he's got an angle
through that reinforcement. Good drone information here from Angels. That's all with his own info on
this we'll know that this player's outside on the window. Again even though these ramps have been
going slow like sailings more often than not we can think the slinging INTs these way Arthur's
still trying to gather a little bit more information on that monsters we're starting to see a
see a little bit of a switch up now. Raps are just changing position. After calling for
a little bit more to be opened, you can go and play bully on that door as well and be
stopping on from a Gressen and guarantee that this gets open now.
Did you place the F-Tauros? Open things up. A lot of focus on the old tower side
last time, this time pushing in through meeting INTZ looking to get a new avenue
for this Monty.
Door doors go out, trying to isolate these doorways,
get Arthur in.
One destroyed, another be replaced.
Nuk's trying to play close on this door with the shotgun.
No option to remove it.
This go around, prone around the corner angels.
That is a dangerous engagement.
Cannot get through, blocked by the Kibo.
But I and TZ still pushing in.
Naka with the big two kills, all done and dusted.
Naka with three on the entry into site.
It is another late round scrappy set of engagements.
but if INTZ have done anything, it's proved they can win it when the chips are down.
Another brilliant example there from INTZ, really putting the work in here on Fortress on these attacks.
And I think, to be honest, as we enter this half-time now, Lynx,
I wonder what's going through Lose's head, because this will not have been the game plan.
It will have been to get themselves on Fortress, guarantee that defensive side,
and just put a little bit of pain onto INTZ's INTZ, put them under a bit of pressure,
and stop them from being able to get a couple of rounds, because
ANTZ have come out and they've just flipped the script in a lot of ways.
We've seen Arthur play incredible on that Monty.
We've seen Raps do some brilliant flanking and some brilliant utility work on that Nomad.
In a brilliant first round, I think ANTZ definitely can hold their heads higher than given themselves
an opportunity at a much easier half as they move on to the defense now.
A 4-2 attack is a ridiculous four-line to get, you're going to feel so much more comfortable
on these defenses.
Then of course we'll see what Lois have to offer.
Do you want to say?
Just as we've seen one good attacking half, Lois might have a good one in them as well.
We saw some decent attacks, all things considered in the Fluxo W7M game yesterday, even though
they were two four defensive halves, when the attack was winning.
They had a good understanding of their positions, they knew how to handle these long hallways,
knew how to handle the positions around the site, how to peel back the layers of
these defenses.
So it's not at all unheard of, even if we have a losing half, we still have some good attacks, and in this case, we have four of them.
There are scrappy rounds for INTZ, couple 1BXs.
Thing 4-2 is going to feel really quite nice going into the second half, which of course, lows.
Trying to get a good run of the positions real quick, lows fit better in the playoff spot.
If you're just tuning in, they've not qualified yet, but tied on 11 points with Black Dragons.
regulation victory should put them either in playoff qualification or right on the
cost of it as INTZ still in last place at four trying to keep Imperial in the
relegation spot.
And I may be wrong on this so don't quote me I believe that stage one gets
taken into account as well so whatever the whatever points result was from stage
Stage 1 between Imperial and Loser's Nets, I believe.
Stage 1, INTCB Imperial, INTC finished 9th on 8th, Imperial finished 10th on 4th.
So, little bit of a role reversal, almost, here inside of stage 2, it's just a little
bit different down there.
Imperial on 6th, INTC on 4th this time.
So, there's some slight nuance to it.
And I'd like to know, you know, sort of what the tiebreaker is, if you all end up on the same number or whatever.
Whatever it might be, I'll probably go down to a head to head. So again, you know, those games are gonna be increasingly more important.
I think the fact that they both play each other next week is just, you know, it's icing on the cake almost.
Especially things do come down that close, but again, if INTZ can keep this streak going,
and roundly accrued on that attack in half,
Sure, I might not have all that much of a hope going into their match next week, could
be important, but INTZ right at the end of the stage have started storming back in the
standings.
They're still looking to get three points out of this matchup for a total of six coming
out of this weekend after their win against their 7-5 victory against Lucky 5 yesterday.
First site we're starting out on is command and office on the second floor, same as
Lose did on their defensive half similar to Lose. We'll have a pulse into the lineup though
that was not really present for Lose on this particular site.
Similar in the bands. Lose the same as INTZ targets in those hard bridge denial, the
bandit in the cage. A bit more focus from INTZ in particular. The dialing in on that shield play.
Nux will have the Blackbeard for the first couple of rounds to play with, but in Mansion, we're gonna go for all three, but you may be removed as well, I guess time will tell.
Kind of shocked to not see any information be played by Loves here, especially when you've got Paris and...
I mean, we know that that player loves the F2, so not see them on Snake when, you know, Snake is incredible on every map and Fortress is certainly no exception.
Gonna put a bit more pressure on the drones, on that information gather, maybe asking a
little bit more of things like the Ratero drones and the limits as an info that you can get
from that or the grounds that NUX is maybe gonna be able to take on that Blackbeard.
Speaking of, I'm not wasting too much time, worry sort of knocking on the door of games
here and trying to sweep across this top floor. Mainly a shoulder check and double drone of
what exactly it is that's going on here but you can see from the overlay INTZ playing fairly compact
right now. Haven't chosen to spread themselves too thinly, not bringing the Izami, not bringing
any typical extension ops. They've got the mirror and aside from presence in bedroom it's
non-existent and to be honest I don't even think they've got anyone on horse really.
Probably more ground available here for most than they realize.
Might be either way.
I think that's catching flashes. Behind the mirror window in shower.
INTZ might be pulled a bit further back than Lose expected but they're not giving up an inch
of the ground currently hell. Your window set up can often trick teams up, especially
with 50 seconds to go. Para is unsure of how to handle this.
Okra made prepped and ready, sent out. Didn't see if the Omai will swing around the corner,
does very briefly, not instead with the first. Attached suffering the first losses on
this quick entry. Gat tips up one, but these angles from IHGZ seem like they might
be too strong here as creeping through the smoke only gets one as INTZ getting the
better of this trading regime Arthur with two makes it almost unwinnable for
Dota as a shotgun around the corner the prefire better than that one can't
react to your opponent might as well get ahead of the situation other shotgun
around the corner though 10 seconds remaining but as we'll have to make
it happen again read into this high low setup get one kill neither will
break his way. A bit of frustration from Dota as understandably because as INTZ pick up
this first defense, it is five to two.
It starts to become a big problem doesn't it? From that first round after the half when
you've had a four-two side is so critical. INTZ, you look at the score line now, you
go throw the two rounds away. You've still got a primary site. It could lose the
tertiary side they can go back to the side they've just won but it feels like a
dumb deal doesn't it? It's of course not it's siege and we know how these things
go but for Loos now they're thinking we've just come from two behinds now
we're three behind we've struggled to break him on the first attempt fortunately
the tactical timeout has been saved so it can be utilized for Loos and I'm
sure that we'll see it come through the pendant on the outcome of at least
this round or definitely the next. That's the time that you would want to be starting to bring a
little bit of stability to the team with that time out. The thing is, I made the comment at the
time links. I said there's more space available here than loaths are really understanding. And
because they've taken so long sort of taking space where there was nobody, as soon as they come
up against a little bit of utility, it becomes a big problem then, doesn't it? Because you've
You've not wasted the utility out on the roam, because of the compacted nature of the defence,
you've now got all three toxic bad guys, you've now still got your mirror windows intact,
and all that stuff is just, it's still on the checklist, it still needs sick enough,
but you've got less time to do it and everyone's in much closer proximity to one another,
so it just makes it a lot more difficult to achieve.
I mean, you could easily see something similar happening in this first floor site, right?
I feel like when you think about the different positions on Fortress, like they're very set, I think everyone knows them, you know?
Sex-Sport, you got somebody on whore!
You got somebody atop of the staircase, and in this case, I guess you have STK standing in the middle of the vended window, swings around the corner.
Right as the barricade breaks, Otis takes his head off, picks up the boogie, and gets on with the vertical destruction.
Probably the easiest 5E4 alos have acquired this map so far.
Almost every single opening duel has happened below the halfway point.
In fact, most have happened below the 45 second mark
as the quickest opening kill we've had at two minutes and 22 seconds remaining.
Kind of deserved, honestly.
Yeah, I see he's putting himself where he doesn't really belong.
Swing and swing and swing and Montreal Major MVP.
Do it as like that. Come on now.
Come on now.
I think we're going to throw a little bit more respect around it.
The thing is, it's kind of in polar opposite to last time, isn't it?
INTZ played very close together, very tight knit,
turtle in a lot of ways, getting someone out, having someone out upstairs and inside a bedroom.
It really isn't the end of the world.
You're obviously looking for a little bit more from them,
especially if you've got wraps up here as well trying to provide
that support those two trap-based operators trying to burn a bit of time,
trying to slow things down, trying to sneak a pick here and there.
Ultimately, it was not meant to be and now they're gonna have to face the full force of this and nice try for angels there
But he's really thirsty now for something Naka will come through with a refrag
Perez isn't done it just yet still and Vantage here for Lois as we enter the final 50
Luba both attempts get a kill on Perez unsuccessful Naka and Arthur take a bite come away with nothing
That's infirmary control in the hands of Lois and they still have some time to reset. Maybe it's not comfortable territory, but
got the nomad inside infirmary you've got dash creeping around looking for
another entrance in the laundry separate 1v1s but they can spread this net around
INTZ Titan at the same time might just work out knock a playing the opposition
loses such a critical fight got a bit of powerful angle to keep alive against
this offense but two isolated 1v1s in low swing both of them still a hill to
climb but one less round held over their head. It feels like loads have won that round pretty
much off the back of Gunskill and Gunskill alone. Everybody has won their fight. One of
those fights goes differently and I think we're looking at a very different round again
because come back to it, the strategy, the meat and potatoes of that round, it was
a little bit lacking wasn't it, it was a little bit weak, it was relying on people
winning those gunfights. Not many of those final engagements that we saw were truly set
up for a trade. Despite the advantage that Loats had in terms of the numbers, it kind
of felt like they weren't using it to the best of their ability. Unfortunately for them,
they had some people that were hitting their shot and people on INTZ, maybe feeling there,
feeling the capture a little bit there and just going, you know what, we can lose the
gunfighting around. We'll give ourselves a little bit of a break because so far,
they have been excellent.
But those do get away with one and now the gap,
on the trail by two, as we enter round number nine, Arthur.
Back up to the same sort of business he was
on the attacking side, still no playing a shield.
This time it's the clash.
I think it may be a clash in need of a watch
because it is hiding in the back.
For anyone unfamiliar, hiding from the drones.
Just trying to make sure that you don't give your opponent
an opportunity to six pick out
to change something a little bit more appropriate to deal with a clash of which there are a few things
and none of them have been brought here by law so you could say that the hiding was successful.
Definitely seems like it was.
INTZ looking to get something over on most or put them on the six rounds secure themselves one
point in this matchup just one point for INTZ will keep them in last but
Well, three points. We'll send them up. Five in the seventh with much in five.
The Galician victory is still very much in the cards. Clash might be the tool to do it.
Loes have brought a shield of their own. Nux on the Blackbeer. We have two of, I think,
classic shield players in this lobby. Nux and Arthur have been playing shield basically since
they entered T1 a couple of years ago in the 2024 season of SA-L. I think once the defense
and office respectively see what these two players have picked, they're going to be like, oh,
Yeah, we probably should have seen that. That was a safe bet. Now let me think about it.
Yeah, it's gonna come to no surprise really, is it? Oh, SDK. Just buys himself a little bit of
time with that Keebo Barricade, lows him through a treat a little bit further, took a heck of a
lot of damage there. Pulled down at about 35, 40 HP maybe. The clear this time is a lot
quicker from Lowes, but still got quite a lot to get through. Still got the reinforcements.
Pocket reinforcements at bat if it comes to it.
Being able to further secure this briefing room and I don't think anyone knows about Raptors position, the pre-fire will give him away.
If he's able to find one here that could be massive. The Naive forces him out. How has he not been punished?
Oh, bored some time! It's beautiful! It wasn't quite enough though and Nukes eventually will jut him down.
STK tried and look at what the Keeper Barricades done. It's allowed the pocket reinforcements to go through.
It's just so, so beautiful. Selvon now being used as Clash can harass on the door and stop any grow recipe made by loss.
That's my dive, but he died for the missions and he was dedicated as well, two remaining, both used to create a fortress inside of the site.
SDK with cover, one plugging up the breach, but still a 3D5 for INTZ.
Yonez softened up, put the low HP on that snake, not a lot of time to lurk on that Soloton
scanner.
Arthur, creating a bastion on top of the old tower stairs, sees one, that Blackbeard,
peeking his head around the old power steps, but low still not with a clear way in.
Angels with the first kill in the final 30 seconds, another swinging around as the Blackbeard
all alone, as Angels gets everyone else in the lobby.
just Blackbeard left in INTZ alone on six, on six rounds.
Another great round there from INTZ. And the thing that's showing through
from me now, the deeper we get into this fortress game, it's the teamwork,
it's the communication. You can almost see it happening. We don't need to understand
Brazilian Portuguese. We don't need to be in the team speak. We can see the
comms as they're working through. We've got Keeba Barrakes being used to support players
that are really on islands trying to stay alive trying to soak up utility got brilliant shield
play being brought by in time denying access to whole areas old towels just a no-go because of
one class shield that's that's a need just sorted out there are opportunities here Los
iron TZ aren't doing anything that we've never seen before it's just brilliant because we don't
often see INCZ do it.
It certainly feels like a breath of fresh air
team that has been struggling inside of the SAL, Stage 1 and Stage 2.
Somehow, both stages start picking it up towards the end.
It wasn't enough to get them into playoffs in Stage 1,
and it very well might not be enough to get them into playoffs in Stage 2.
But it might be enough to keep their time in the SAL alive,
T to one point out of their matchup against Loos and still a full three on the table
with three chances to secure the full quantity available.
Potentially the final sight of Fortress, our first match of the day,
INGZ will go back to command office where they started out this defensive half.
Then a full sight rotation missed since then with them taking both primary sites.
What do you know after the success of last round pulling up that 3v5 Arthur back on the clash and I have a feeling back in the top
I mean after the last round he probably deserves right that's relaxing soak
Got blood all over me. He's got to wash off. Yeah
You himself saw it
do you feel like I spoke this round rotation into existence a little bit
links?
Did you?
How did you get out?
Round one after the timeout, the round finishes, I said you know what I always feel like it's
such an important round.
You win that, you can afford to lose a tertiary site, you've already got a primary site still
available to you as well and then you can go back to the site that you're winning
round seven.
And it's looking like that's what may happen here because last time we saw round
7. Oh, last time we saw command and office, excuse me, it was in down 7 and it was fantastic.
INTZ had a great handle. Two players surviving at the end, opening pick. It was a slow round from Los.
They were still able to get it done.
Then went to waiting. Third choice, Bomsite. They lost it and then went back upstairs to
Dom's another top tier Bomsite. They won it. Now INTZ stand on the precipice of a full three.
Look at the line up as well, we've not really seen answers to the mirror window, we've not
really seen answers to the clash, yeah it was hidden but with a good idea that it's going
to be brought, brilliant impact right there as well, and a bit of chip damage, second
impact goes out, no there's just getting chipped away here, we've found a hard bridge
to make things easier and it's basically just gotten more difficult because we're
leaving half walls off and we're just able to impact out through it.
Oh, it's struggling for every inch right now on the cross clear.
Two times in a row it's the clash that's keeping them at bay as well.
The impact trick is grey in the clash as well. Reverse Monty pushing them back,
slowly drawing them in but halting that pressure as long as they can.
After round now gone, INGZ fully retreating into the confines of their setup
setup and as you said they have the mirror windows they have the kibas sdks4 in pocket
i mean i'll use so good with the reactive kibas last time i hope things get as chaotic so we can
see that communication again and guess what it's probably going to because hard breach is an absolute
premium right now all three cellmers have been used we've still got two tin openers on peres
but they are less than ideal they didn't really fit peres is placed out for getting into position
to open those you want in behind a gun you want in gun up you don't want to press up against
to wall place in something. Those keepers are only going to see more value the more the
round goes on. Massive opening pick here though, as Dash from below is able to take Angels
out. Big reaction as Angels tries to get a 5v4 for
INTZ. They won't repeat that early round success they had in round 7, but say early
round all of these have been so slow. Opening pick coming well after the clear.
Gunfight's not breaking anybody's way until they're right in the side right on the
The cost wraps with one shot are angels from the grave giving some support to the mirror
I and TZ another team game another trading matrix and a double kill for SDK to get I and
TZ six out of six points on the weekend coming back from the grave in SAO.
I think it's easy sometimes to pick an MVP.
Sometimes you look at the kills sometimes all you've got to do is look at the scoreboard
but in this game wraps for me.
Yes.
He was top of the pops.
the most kills, 12 or 13 kills, but it was the way that those kills came through. It was how
important they were in his positioning throughout. I think he's played a fantastic game along with
the rest of INTZ and they should hold their heads high because they have been fantastic
all week and long. A big shift has been put in here and it might just be enough to keep them
in the competition with all of Swadesk. Yes, thank you for sending it back because it's
good golly miss Molly or good golly miss Maria because that was incredible.
IZZ continue to mess with the standings.
They continue to play gatekeepers, they're gatekeeping, they're slay
cleaning.
That's what you're looking for here for IZZ.
And it's just beautiful to witness after yesterday's game.
And today now, I can't believe I'm going to say this.
IZZ walk away from a weekend of SL with six points, Maria.
believe it no actually you know I cannot believe I think that INTZ is the
the new facecloth my wish you're coming down calm down Maria but okay let's let's
start from the beginning I think that INTZ started really good they did really
well in first health because they went for the Intel especially for the
operators that they choose they had solid snake which is such a great
operator when you want to catch that info. Deimos is really strong in this map but also the Montagne,
the Montaigne of Artuid. He did such a crazy job with the Montane and we know that he loves to
play with the shields. He is also the eye gel of the team so when he is in the position of,
okay I get the intel for you guys so now I can work with this, I can share with you all
and we can do a really good round and at the other side of the coin I would say that loss
took some time in the first half to just read the game of INTZ they played really slow and we know
that loss works the best when they can set the pace of the game that's what they tried to do
on the attack but INTZ they were so organized so organized they their timing was so on point
The operators that they choose also helped.
Everything was really just, the day was for INTZ and it was-
The whole weekend, honestly.
The whole weekend.
It's crazy because they're doing well on the attack on Fortress.
They pull a 4-2 against an ordinary INTZ.
That's mind boggling.
Yes, yes.
And what is crazy is that when Lost goes for the attack,
They don't choose the operators to drop info like the Daemus, like INTZ did.
I don't know if it was part of their plan or not, but we just see another type, a different attack for loss.
But okay, 73.
Yeah, sorry. I am to see it was
Just doing horrible in the whole tournament. They lost six times
This is crazy though, yes, and now yes, and now they pull off they pull off a
Win yesterday with a 4v5 most of the game now a 7-3 against loss
They have the game their game back again. It's very open for I'm teasing. You know, let's see what happens in the next
I don't know. Yeah, it's it's crazy to think about because they had that opening game against Timlokwood Alienware
That was the very first playday where they went to overtime against them
They're like, oh my god, this is crazy. Can I do it?
And then you did not see anything out of them until literally yesterday and it just to tell you how impressive this is like
They they've gone up to seven points now
technically it can actually still make it to
the playoffs if they play next week well if they get three more points they
could actually potentially jump up to that position depending on how fluxo
actually play themselves it's it's a tight play but there is a chance which is
the most important part of the analysis in a situation like this wraps though he
is insane this entire game this was he was at the lead not on his own but
But everybody from INTZ was putting in numbers, especially if it means, if you see somebody
doing really well on the attack of Fortress, you know it's the entire team that's doing
a good job for that.
And that's what you get with wraps in the frontline, France.
Yep.
I was hearing their team speak, because of course, since they are a Brazilian team,
I was just hearing the moment that they did on the first half.
And it was so messy, Mylush.
You could not understand anything.
They were talking on top of the others,
and everybody was talking at the same time.
But somehow, they still found a way to communicate
and to understand each other, and they did a good game.
Being really organized, even though their team
speak, their communication was so messy.
You're crazy, John, for IMTD.
That just sounds like the average day
in the on-camera crew, the green room,
of any event where it's the mixture of all of the casters
and analysts, no, so whatever, interviewers
that are in the same spot, with the company,
and yet somehow at the end of the day, they make it work.
Well, that's a great story.
Honestly, just the way that IMTD.R has made me so happy,
but most themselves are not out of the running.
They are still at fourth place,
But a lot now depends on the other teams here in the league and how they'll end up playing today and next weekend.
With that, we're gonna have to take a quick break and just relax for a moment here because we still have four more games to go.
And up next, it's FaZe vs Loud. Talk about that after a break.
It can be done.
To the ashes.
To the ashes.
Lights.
Lights.
Get ready.
Kill it.
To the ashes.
To the ashes.
Elevate Academy.
Elevate Academy.
Elevate Academy.
Elevate Academy.
Supernova.
Supernova, Supernova, Supernova, Antigone-X, Enchada Host,
Face and Appnext, Face and Appnext, Leão Acobra,
Cavalo, Vaca, Gato, Cachorro, Girafa, Cachorro, Gato,
Toro, Cavalo, Cachorro, Gato, Vaca, Boi,
Procodilo, Galinha, Galo, Galão, Leão, Zebra,
Todo dia, Segunda, Sexta, Segunda, Sexta.
I think Sexta is a good match, Segunda is a good match,
we can start on Grind, and that's it, the first week.
10,000 reais per day.
100 reais.
600 kdol per day.
200 kdol per day?
down. Supremacy are still alive.
I thought it was earlier, but this is, you know, when we saw, when we saw-
OHHHHHH! Adam! Look at that, baby! Get that headshot through the Lamborghini doorway in the lobby!
That's gonna be my vibe charming!
Now to cut down one of the rovers on Phaser's behalf, all of Ragnos, Mute of the Double,
Goga and Yodas vanquished, leaving Kanto Riketti to deal with the three remaining
members of Paze and this is a very winnable position with that R4C in the hands of
the Finn.
Let me just grab the diffuser, it's quite a ways away, and Moringa thrown with
the shotgun blast.
Can't do around the corner, the double, what a clutch, can't do, the madman, silencing the crowd and G2 up 4-2.
They combine for 20 kills at this point, still sitting a kill perl around as an average.
Spoiled on the board, so M80 has a good shot, the smoke of Bollywood swing gunner losing the duel, now a double line up on the same door.
Spoint almost handles both of them, but only does a little bit of damage now he's on the ground, and that sidearm is so good!
Down goes to Packer with a punity trining into the diffuser down and realizes he doesn't have an opening, but Spoint's there for the quad kill.
It's him in resets with Packer holding on to that diffuser.
Spoint just waiting for it, and how about an ace to send the map away into the wind column for an ace?
Now, as FaZe's sole member, they won in North America, they won in Europe, and they've done it for the first time in South America.
Your champions for the season 8 finals, the most decorated team in Rainbow Six.
EU, close to getting the victory.
And he goes down!
G2 will take the win!
And for one more time, G2 will take it!
It's still gonna come and claim that diffuser.
It's in a bad spot.
And quite honestly, based on pick-up,
they're attacking nature on this map.
This map could be in a bad spot for them.
That's a nice build, but so much still needs to be done.
They're gonna kill their way through this site
And suddenly, they've opened up the front door and threw them out
They get Robbie, just calling out big and how shall we catch him?
His position is done, heads to head shot him with 10 seconds
33th roll, a straight one for the whole WaffleHK
He has went into the absolute plastic round
He's making hoppers, well leaky back
Still the player left is stuck here on beepers and a 1 vs 3.
For all the time the BDS has not brought the information,
it's gonna come close, it's gonna come down to the wire.
Stone goes in.
Leaky Puck, he's found one.
He's gonna try and split these two up high.
He picks the first.
There's five seconds left.
He's swung on deep.
Stone locked on at this rate that never should have been.
Oh, there you go. Another logic bomb is the smoke.
Little chokeout shuttle.
Little toss of a smoke grenade on his arm and push him down.
Oh, wow! A great shot!
All the way across to marry you a long angle with a recoil
that can be quite unwieldy to control.
Huh? See, Rachel, inside a connector.
He's got great precision, but he loses his shuttle.
And another one nearly results.
He misses the shuttle to flip behind.
There's only one more left in the shuttle.
What is going on in Incredible Clutch from Shadow?
Pre-fies his way through the door, gets behind a sturdy door, but still, there's three people that you've got to open.
The first one is away, around the side of Quutch, killing 20 seconds on the floor.
He's gonna see if he can play in Vance Gap.
That's that! That's that! That's that!
Probably can't be ace!
Fault sends it into space itself!
Look behind him, the stars are around space station!
And they bring this one out!
Hello everybody and welcome back to another Wild Weekend of S.A.L.
yesterday on tour played a first game here today on Sunday. It's been a
wonder. I'm not gonna lie and I can't wait to see what the future has in
store for us. Maybe in our next matchup it's FaZe that's gonna lose back to
back and this time against Loud Maria. That's what I'm looking forward to
seeing right. That's what's here. Yes. Yes. Let's see. Let's see. But maybe
surprises. Me need surprises during this weekend of SAO because guess what
Fazeclan just lost their first game yesterday to FURIA. So they are not invincible anymore.
It looks like I'm rooting for their defeat. No, I'm not. It's just that it's crazy because
they were just winning all of their games but FURIA did a better job than them. So let's not
put all of our expectations on Fazeclan. We don't know what loud it's up and about now
in this next match but what happens here is that in the standings we have loud as the
least team such a not a good position to be in in this in just said goodbye
bye bye now it's time for you to suffer okay after the the laws for face clean yesterday
even though for us it's okay okay it was just the first defeat for them for them it was not
they were kind of they were kind of disappointed the vader king even tweeted oh five seven we were
in the team we have been since the wc we came into the game two switch it off and that ended
up making the loss even worse it was a seven five face you are still face again in a best of one
like it see this is the only time or a C KDS actually care in any way she's yes he's like oh
oh shoot we can't actually lose them well i guess we're gonna have to play a bit better and that
that kind of makes me scared for a while his active phase are gonna be coming in like all right
we're gonna teach these kids what it's like it's LeBron games going up LeBron games and
the way in the way together on the same duo playing against two coughing babies. That's what
they're gonna have in their minds of like this is the revenge phase they're looking to enact today
and it just seems like loud are in their way. The game yesterday against Freya was incredible.
We all watched it. It was crazy. It was super tight. Any one of them could have wanted out
at the end. It was great that they selected Lair and made us very happy to witness
Strategical depth of both of these teams and despite it all they still put up a really really really good performance
There's a reason yeah, you flip a coin doesn't get it get like a 1v5 clutch and it goes to overtime and phase wins it there
So still is we glazed them all the time, and I know you guys glaze them as well on the Brazilian
Yes, it's even it's became a joke for us. Oh, we're gonna have to interview them one more time
Oh, no, that's crazy the last time that I did an interview with
Cyber I said, okay, so we're let's do this interview us. Let's just change the roles
and then he asked he was the interviewer the interviewer for like
Two minutes, but yeah, we would have to blaze them because they have the best hats that shows why we should do that
But you know that the the coughing baby is grizzly by the way
really? yes the coffee baby is resilient that's the more epic lore drop right here yes it's just a
contact okay so if you have a bomb in one side that it's phase clan that just destroys every team
that they play against and you have the coffee baby in the other side we also have to remember that
loud they lost a game due to connection problems they played against imperial with four players
only so it was 4v5 the whole game that really played with their minds because it's just not fair
but also Fluss try he was really sad after they lost to black dragonstone he said we just didn't
deserve the win today not much else to say we started the game looking flat and we couldn't
turn things around and what happens is loud for all the entire stage they still play the same
We don't see anything that new from them, which makes them so predictable and so easy to read
and no other team has that hard job to do.
You could say that has been the case ever since Loud entered the entire ecosystem at Reload in Brazil.
Despite roster changes or swaps or whatever that happened, it kind of peaked a year and a half ago at Reload.
the tournament for for for many reasons like people call it a Mickey Mouse tournament because
the format was very different many teams didn't even try to understand it which actually baffled me
but Laud kind of played their best there and ever since then the organization
no matter the team on the roster they had is not peaked to that level again and
despite the fact that we know that they have what it takes there's been too many mistakes that
that are exploitable by any appointment that happens on the other side, plus the
unlock of the game 4v5 practically all of it, for them to be able to recover.
And today is tough, must be honest. I would rather face FaZe at the very
beginning of the stage than right now. Tomorrow or next week they go up
against FoxyW7M, so technically it doesn't get much easier, but everybody
writes off a game against games. Everybody. So what does Laod do in a situation like this?
To try to learn from what happened in their game yesterday against Black Dragons, where
they had a good opportunity, but then swag happened and kind of bank went BD's way.
The thing here is just learn after every game. They have this in mind. I feel that they are
very realistic when it comes to this situation that they are right now. We will not say that
it's impossible for a loud twin. Nothing's ever impossible for any team. But I think that the
more important thing right now is just to learn from your mistakes. And they do this every week.
We can see if we see their tweets, what they talk about. They are very aware of the problems.
The thing is they don't have the time anymore to solve the problems.
It's already over, we just have two more plays.
Do you want to know some facts about the Vita King?
I love him.
I don't know if you talk about that but
he is the player with the best entry frag of all of the tournament.
We showed this stat yesterday in the broadcast.
You had it as well, yes.
You had it!
No, we had the least, like was it, it was like 130 rounds where he didn't
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the opening killer, the opening death of the round, that's crazy.
I don't know if that changed since yesterday, if it's reset or not, but that's insane.
So look at it. I want to take your point very briefly. It is 142 rounds officially after yesterday.
Thank you very much for the statistical update. It has not been the opening death in 142 rounds.
That's insane, all in a row.
But, you know, you're talking about loud how they're predictable
and how that could be consistently inconsistent, is that all in a way?
I'd say it requires a bit of delusion to play really well.
And being a bit deluded is very important if you want to succeed.
Very honest, in life in general, but in Siege, especially against a team like FaZe.
We'll see what map they're actually going to go on in this series because how bad does the the the illusion get well
The wrong team to run map. Don't worry about it. We're gonna fix that up and give you all the info in just a sec regardless
I'm just gonna tell you
They're gonna go on
Okay, that's crazy
loud
Loud are going to bank
the final choice was
they're going to go to bank for the fight, which means the selection for starting side
is loud on the fence, and they're trying to play it safe here, but I don't think it's
a good thing to try to play it safe.
Now, yes, I'm with you on that.
When you have, it's hard to say this, but when you have almost nothing to lose,
don't play safe.
play all your cards and bank was the map that loud played against black dragons yesterday and they lost
74 and I think that was the if I if I'm looking correctly it was the only time that they played like bank this stage
And it was the loss
Okay, maybe they they will do something
They will play with all of the cars that they have now which I think is the best way for for a loud run out
and it pretty much matches what we were talking before just just do whatever you
can because you are playing against face clean and learn to use this game to
also learn to also to see what is going wrong and what could possibly go right I
think what allowed me to do is take a lesson out of I&T Zed's game yesterday
the 4v5 match that they had against Lucky 5 and just say to hell with it
We're going to give you something you've never seen before, which is difficult to do against
FaZe.
I get it, but everything is difficult to do against FaZe.
So why not go throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.
I tell you, the casters are stuck right into this one.
It slinks and actually turns right in.
Well, I'd certainly need to learn from INTZ after their 3-point victory over Lowe's
just a few minutes ago.
Loud are newly inaugurated as our last place team in the SAL.
Hopefully, maybe this will change.
Faze coming off of a 7-5 lost to Furia yesterday, though one that was very nearly a victory, had Diaz not clutch two 1BXes in a row.
But, Faze have started bleeding nonetheless.
Loud coming in to fight them on bank.
Second time they played this map in two days.
Feels like finally we have a bit more of an interesting matchup
Given a suffering loss yesterday. Yeah, I would agree. I think it's time for face
Maybe lash out is is maybe one way of putting it
Yeah, we don't know lash out. Well put it this way at length
We don't usually see them go down for too long. Do we that's true?
they will often have a blip and
It kind of just so happens that they've suffered that blip this stage, you know, they've lost against furia
period good team by the way and you know not another team that you can you know
sort of assume a win over by stretch the imagination and but typically the
response from phase at least it feels like in the last you know maybe even as
long as 12 months has been there you know do they really lose two in a row I
don't know if they're good stuff to go and find you know how often after phase
lose a game to the go back and win the next one versus does that you know
of sort of trail into a streak of bad games for them.
One of the advantages of course that FaZe do have
is their map pool.
And the fact that you are really,
you're gonna struggle to get them on a map
that they don't particularly like.
Bank could be seen as a map that FaZe
aren't particularly fond of.
It's down there a sixth prep.
We know that FaZe's preference
can be a little bit deceptive at times.
But they've got two and two record on here.
So it's by no means a given. Loud on the flip side, first breath, no wins but a loss, but
they will take it when available so the take from that's what you will. The danger is here
that you put in phase on that attacking side and you put in there with a lot of nice tools.
Look at Andy's position right now. Just have a little bit of a pop over. Brutal is in
toward archives and Cyber already above with the trackers ready to go.
the handing coming off an off day yesterday.
He did an uncharacteristically poor performance
and unfortunately gonna take a bit of time off in round one.
Gabu finds the opening pick
and he had information on the two players lurking
around tellers.
One is the end of him cyber downed as well in CEO.
Great start for FaZe unfortunately,
trying to get some forward momentum
off the back of this Monty
and facing a lot of obstacles in this vertical clear.
I mean, we basically have two people
Actually on the top floor and two people providing support from the blue stairs and marble stairs respectively stamped not at all
Concerned about this montane as KDS fails to secure a late refrag in tellers Gabi
During two kills on this Rome Vita King having to double-duty looking left and right
inched by the defenders in open area
Rare we see around on Bank one on the realm only they fall back at this point but loud
and they're opening shot against faceclans to cure a 5v2 without even needing to fall back to sight.
And what a roam it's been. This is basement, by the way. Incredible stuff right now.
It's not even like the bans are that defined in either. But yeah, the bans are good, but
it's not enough reason to roam this heavily. Souls and Cyber both incredibly low.
Solz has just about managed to find Reset Sport and Impact will finish him off as Gabu
secures the triple kill with Cyber, is quite low, isn't going to take too much, kind of
gives himself up to the Nade a little bit there but there's a lot of redundancy available
to allow, only really suffering one meaningful loss, sure there was two kills found but
That is quite literally an exit frag from Cyber to finish round number one.
What a hold! That's not what I was expecting.
Not in that I wasn't expecting Loud to win rounds.
I just didn't think it'd happen in that sort of a fashion,
where they commit to a full stacked roam of Bank.
It's a big map, don't forget, and there's a lot of space.
Some of these more veteran players on the side of face to take advantage of.
And we just didn't really see that advantage connected, did we?
They brought the Deimos, they brought the Snake, they brought the Monty,
He brought the winning formula, but unfortunately the execution left a little bit to be desired.
Especially when the damage is close to flat out, vertical pressure onto the roamers and tellers gets downed like pretty much immediately once the clear comes out.
Not a whole lot of phase can do, especially losing handy down below. Loud pick up the first defense on a baseman's roam.
Move the site onto the second floor of the normal site rotation basement team to CEO.
Face ironically bringing the Monty last round.
Not bring the Monty this time.
It is common to see a Monty brought for a CEO take, you go up the spiral stairs,
making similar moves that we saw Faze do last round.
They drop the shield this time.
I could take them to work this time.
I tell you what, I'm not waiting for the day where he's open and deaf, but it'd be worth
going through the matchry playing and just watching how they played around and not being
able to keep themselves alive for that long.
You see loads of random stuff, like people that shouldn't be in open engagements, just
getting caught out or caught short.
The style of play that he's got at the moment, how safe he's being.
incredible. A horrible angle at the moment looking in through towards Stark.
A fairly trap heavy lineup here and we see a little bit of introduction of Norr. I
believe this is the first time I've seen Norr played on a map that isn't Villa
by the way, in a game that I've passed it. It seems like Villa Basement was the
only place we saw Norr for the first week or so and now it's starting to
bleed and leak into the map from the sides as well as team starts to find
space for a new operator in the lineup. Maybe trying to focus on some of that
our breach denial as they've already got the bandit part of that duty. It being
removed means they can't need to look elsewhere. These are struggling at the
moment to get anything opened up. Nice angle being held there by life but look at
this for a walking from cyber. So much space right now with handy on the opposite side.
This could be massive a phase. It's great isn't it a phase right now cyber
KDS both on the walk-up straight through site KDS wrapping around the checkers position so man disadvantage the phase
As a straight push into lobby into CEO not completely working out but souls and KDS both getting the necessary kills
Only two remaining now for phase clan
As loud called the bluff on the rest of the push, but some key players in phase going massive three kills for souls
and now stem trapped inside a square 3 and 2 respectively and it is all KDS and souls to pick up
phases first round on attack. Feels like Gaby and souls just going band for band at the moment
3k and round 1 from Gaby 3k and round 2 from souls. The battle there
under who is on top come at the end of the game phase finding success on that top floor
up, less room for Loud to work with there really. The FaZe are always going to manage
to find those angles, I mean the space that Cyber finds himself. I don't know how he gets
himself in some of those positions where he's just waddling into site and yeah sure he
gets taken out, but the information that he's able to get doing that and the distraction
that he causes for the rest of the team especially when he's got people walking
up with him you mentioned at the time that KDS also walking down through a double
window and you know up toward banana get handy on the on the long repel obviously
he gets taken out but that then leaves the gap doesn't it that's where souls
is then able to strike and even without a man advantage it feels like they've
got one because you lose a couple of bodies but souls is positioning is then
worthwhile and you can just cross havoc from inside of the site downstairs
as we go then, with their staff and open,
their choice sides here from loud,
and it's maybe a little bit more comfortable for them,
they can start to roam a little bit more,
which is of course the wing formula,
that's the strategy that did well for them in round one.
These are a team that are capable of adapting.
We're not gonna sort of sit here and expect to,
you know, oh well, they've roamed,
so FaZe are gonna struggle,
that isn't gonna be how it goes.
FaZe will come up with that solution,
We'll figure out the answer
No with problem solving in these rounds always amazing how quick they come with solutions or how people they are coming up with solutions
Or not two rounds in a row by the way, I'm actually trying to use some of those charges to destroy some hard breaching
It's not entirely successful
We left Selma opened up
But playing inside of elevator rotating deeper into canto
I still think there is a bit of a spot that Flashery can play up top
This doesn't need to be given up just quite yet
Now handy making his way up. They know that he's an elevator easy prefire for the twitch
Known position door goes down. That is a 5d4 for phase clan two rounds in a row
I love that from handy buy himself a little bit of confidence get all the F2 and see what it can do cyber
Binds one onto Gabie but immediately traded out by Wife.
Still pays for them advantage after the focus that they were able to put on that elevator
player nice and early on into the round.
Doesn't feel like Handy is done in this round yet either.
Resets bit of an ambitious prefire onto the square window.
It's louder.
Starting to reposition themselves a little bit.
They're not in a bad shape.
They've lost the control of that vertical and they haven't got the extra body to
send back up there for any sort of retake. You have to now try and find positions in the
site that they're going to be able to occupy. Mewjammers again buying them a little bit of
time. As these boogie drones go through and with still a whole minute you expect those
Mewjammers to be dealt with you expect avenues to start opening up to opportunities to start
presenting themselves here to FaZe. That's where those three toxic babes in that
C4 are going to be crucial.
Special nows are the only utility remaining, Stemton have much but that gun has gone down
live as well, nullified in this round, resets cleaned up soon after, K's plan again taking
the time to get a good view of the problem, solve it as quick as they realize what's
going on all the other sites beside Basement, going phases way, now the world champs will
turn their attention towards the primary site.
What is the band going to be? It's a difficult one to decide because it's not necessarily
one particular operator that they struggled with to attack the basement because, let's
be honest, we never saw a phased body get anywhere near the basement. The closest they
got was first floor, ground floor. They are going to choose to remove the smoke. A brilliant
pick and one that has admittedly only been played once inside a staff, but you
You can pretty much bet your bottom dollar that Loud aren't going to be going for the aggressive
roam that they were, although as a vigil has been hovered by, maybe I'm going to eat
my words, they've got the tools to do it, I wouldn't expect them to go through it again
because FaZe are going to be, or should at least at this point be a bit more familiar
with it and you're probably going to see that the lineup changed a little bit to
try and facilitate that a little bit.
The utility now being placed inside of blue,
his reset is likely going to end up playing on those blue stairs with the smoke.
We've got Flastry with a bit of sight set up here as well.
Doesn't really scream that there's going to be a significant roam.
So you can see where the players land, but at least for the meantime,
I think that louder sort of recognizing,
yeah, you know, we won round one in a particular way
and now we've got to play round two in another particular way.
And yes, it is going to be a bit of a softer hold upstairs inside of open.
At least we've got both hatches open as well.
So, doing a little bit of the hard work here for FaZe, and it draws out the sort of relevance
of the Cade Band that FaZe went for, because well, it's not really going to matter if the
hatches are open anyway.
I'm perfectly content to play on this realm, especially with the success Gauru had playing
inside of stock.
If you only got the opening pick on the handy, giving him the visual DERC, and activate
him a little bit more. Boss G as well, and he falls to that in round four. You know this
vigil might be around somewhere up top, but the ERC activated face can be able to see at
least his presence on this top floor, even if they can't confirm his exact position.
KDS hunting for it as well, called over by the information gathered on the drone.
It's wasting time. Gabu brings out that boss G. Solz has to be careful because
one shot, will be more than sufficient to secure another 5v4 for Loud, Gabu on the roam again,
face clan running into a monster up top. We're sending another in after one player on Repel,
yeah one player coming up the main stairs, handy we'll find another. Gabu going one for one,
not a bad trade whatsoever with the vigil, perfectly happy with that.
Yeah, you've lost all of us, you've lost your heart for each port, you know the hatches
and vitzking's got a couple of his pockets that's not an engagement that you want to lose though
resets aggressively swinging round taking handy down ads trying to bring a little bit of stability
but with a kill happening in between it still leaves phase at a disadvantage right now
thrown out inside of elevator flashtree you can hit the drop
it's a minute and 20 and i believe all of those walking packs got placed on that first floor
the top floor and why should
he be? You have to assume that
he's rotated back down. You've
got to try and buddy up with
KDS and make a play as it
stands KDS in a real tough
spot right now collects the
diffuser. He's got a whole
minute. They'll hear that
drop and he's got no clue that
anyone's on his left. Live is
playing a pretty aggro angle
that just tucked inside
another great round from
loud. They've really got a
good handle on this
basement, but they're going
to need more time to
got a good handle on this basement, but they're going to need more than that to have a successful
half here on bank.
But it is rare to see phase get stumped by a setup quite like that.
I mean, we even saw them not necessarily take things in a completely similar way, right?
We still see some presence over by the main circle desk.
We still see Handy trying to push up main stairs.
It is a little different from loud.
You see the visual playing up top that denies immediate access because before cyber was
Coming in through CEO and got C4'd from below, this new dimension to it requires Faze to make a bit of a different move.
But even then, once that little mini-game is done, it is the same core setup.
Couple players in blockers and tellers, Faze pushing in from spiral, and yet they still aren't quite able to figure it out.
Amazing the confidence that Lav played that setup, swinging into Faze, being the aggressors in a lot of these situations in gunfights.
It's not something we really see all that often or at least not from teams kind of this far down in the standings.
As you said the only site that's gone well for a lot is the basement you need to start seeing wins on CEO
You need to start seeing wins in open area if they want a real shot at pulling bank away for days
And that's the thing is making score lines to two but a lot of all we've been successful in
In one on one side and I know that sounds like work
You know, we're still really glazing phase it cuz you look at the scores to two like doesn't make much of a difference
kind of does because that round then gets locked out so if Pays are successful in open if they're
successful upstairs in CAO then what have you got well you're left with a 4-2 half you don't need
to be a mathematician to figure it out. The danger there for of course Pays is that you know we're
able to come out here and do this again. Looks like it's gonna be somewhat of a similar strategy
we've still got Vittor King on this Hibana. You can see that the threat of the Noras forced
them onto the Hibana as opposed to the Ace. It's going to be a very different tool to try
and get those walls open. Handy as well, a player that I'm really sort of keeping an eye
on right now. Typically, someone that we see as being almost Mr Consistent in a lot of
ways. Very rare that he's seen different from a plus one rating. Last few games he's
definitely been a little bit more quiet, struggling a little bit here. Cyber as well, going
for his own Soda 2 and 4, not really finding too much success in the gunfight department.
Really, I mean, you remove Gabo and you remove souls from this fixture and I don't really
know what you're left with to be honest with you, Linkz, because it's a kind of solo carries
on either side.
Well, fucking MP, that's going to be used to open up that Canto wall in a brilliant
push up from Cyber.
He'll pay for it with his life, but it should guarantee that that wall will get
opened.
When you're trading a striker for a bandit, I mean given potential difficulties phase are running into that's not the worst trade ever
You'll remove the player actively bandit tricking sure cyber might go down, but these are often willing to leverage bodies like this
Everybody Jenny pretty generally pretty selfless and utilitarian about the calculus here. They need to give their life up for a trade
They will do it. Oh resets
Caught in a vortex of gunfire shots through the floor and through the window face secure a 4v3 off the back of it
probably got that trade on a cyber retakes the position held by the bandit
but as the site hollowed out he has gone separating him from the rest of the site
and step separated by phase and now the Ella last one alive as an idea of the
spiral push being created by phase or at least has been created long ago they
tried the spiral push many a time he'll be successful on CEO and attack
from the opposite angle this go around phase once again in the lead
Yeah, FaZe showing that they can play that from both sides and pretty convincingly at that.
I mean, it's a great bombsite for a team like FaZe, isn't it?
It has all of the things that they're particularly good at.
Coordination being the top of that list.
Cyber, it was for me, you know, the big entry in that game,
in that round at least, he was able to move up, get that kill onto the player playing can.
So, stop any bandit trickery from going on.
Just opens up the avenue then for that wall to get open.
and that was almost like a deck of cards isn't it from that point onwards yes he's paid for it with his life and being traded out
But that's the that's what you buy. That's the cost of entry in some instances
You all know that the much everyone on the server is good for good for two on their day
So you can make that trade and as and when you need to
The question for me now links is it gonna be the 4-2 or are we gonna see the 3-3 loud need to do something on something
that isn't the basement spoke about at the start of last round basement locked out not
available for us for regulation don't fancy CEO again they've lost it twice
have to roll the dice they have to go for that open area last time we saw open it
didn't go their way by a long shot one of the more convincing rounds that we've
seen so far there's been a couple who's one where four players were
surviving at the end so have to give face their credit the way that they
approach this open area site. From the set up, you can see anything that is going to make that too
different. There is going to be a one eye in the mix. You're still going to have to deal with the
threats that come above, and that is the clear that will be coming on that top floor.
That's been a bit of a topsy-turvy bank in that way, just because
Basement is often such a contradiction, so much of that action happening in the middle and bottom floor where basically this entire game has felt like it's happened around Spiral and CEO with very little action elsewhere.
An area that has featured prominently but more often towards the end of the rounds. It's only now that we actually see somebody in basement.
It's Cyber.
Looking to creep up the marble staircase, one lifeline dedicated, will give the Blackbeard
a way in, confirming the position of one defender over by Teller.
Cyber on that workup has got one kill, pays now with a 5v3, they barely hit the go button
yet.
Vidicke might be in the site, but we're a long ways away from a plant.
As the defense is dying around him, Vidicke is not trying to get too hasty.
He lets the attack secure a 4v2 and move them elegantly into the post plant.
Lastly now, contemplating a retake, him and Stemp the only two left.
Faze have complete control of the sight and it just felt like a slow night,
hushed through Loud's defense.
The defense has hardly even mustered any kind of resistance up until this point.
In six rounds of improvement from Faze Clan.
Now, it feels like the defense might be too scared to retake their own sight.
The position is taken by Faze so early on and once the defense rears their head,
They are swiftly ushered out the door.
Faze with two rounds in a row and five and six,
securing themselves a four, two, half at the swap.
Seeing even smiles there on a couple of the players
on the face side, however,
there's still the elephant in the room here of Vlad
had gotten two rounds on their defensive half,
which is pretty impressive in its own right,
But how are FaZe really playing from your perspective here, Maria?
Is there anything different about how they're setting things up on this bank or a bank?
What I can feel, Malish, is that since they are already qualified for the playoffs,
they secure that spot.
They are not that pressured to do what they need to do.
I mean, they are still doing what we expected FaZe to do, step by step.
But I just feel they are playing more freely.
Just, you know, okay, we have no pressure, of course, that they don't want to lose.
Faze Clan, it's a team that never plays down a game.
Oh, okay, we are qualified.
We are not going to show that much.
At least is what they tell us.
They always say, they always say, we don't hide anything.
We just played what we are playing, what you see.
But in moments like this, there is no need.
Being really honest, no need to show more than you should show.
And so you show only what's necessary you go to bank yep in a series like this you take
Loud to to this map where it's more spread out where there is a lot of vods anyway
So a lot of vods for phase on any single map anyways regardless of how you look at it
So it doesn't really matter where you're going in general
You play a standard game you try to spread out a little bit
But how much are you really showing that's for the macro side of things the micro it seems like they still have good control
over this matchup, despite the fact that Loud have been able to lock in two rounds on their defense.
Now with this, with the halftime swap, the question is, will Loud be able to recreate this on their attack,
or are FaZe going to go crazy now and do their own game where you can't really adapt or expect what they're going to bring around?
Crazy, crazy question. I feel that now is the moment that Loud has to be unleashed.
and on defense
they were doing their thing they did i think they heard us okay let's just
played what what we know and
let's not give a
that it's face plan in the others in the other side so now in the attack it's
the moment that we're gonna see how they can set the pace against a face
plan you're an attack
the game is on you you have to to go to do things
and so you know it's gonna be very interesting let's let's watch
It's literally the million dollar question in a case like this and we're going to send it to our casters that will answer 100% no questions.
Sure, best to answer it. Think we'll need some important face plan and allow it to get you anything compelling.
Of course, loud currently down four to two at the half. We need the attack side on bank.
What I'm really interested, Ollie, will we actually see any of the basements on a basement defense?
It'd be nice wouldn't it? We don't get to cast a lot of bank, we end up casting a lot of fortress.
I quite like the way that bank basement plays out.
Why would you say that? Why'd you say that word around?
I probably next half yet.
It's it. Hey, I checked the script. It's everyone after this.
It's okay, it's a few defaults.
This fortress till the end of the year mate.
It's the fortress century. The fortress decade.
Yeah, but I mean look at the lineup right we can only assume based off how much seems we've both seen
And if you've got a smoke if you've got a tachanka
We should be seeing a good amount of this space
I don't I don't I don't see a single defender in tellers right now. Olly. It's look it's looking like we're ending in the basement
It's looking like a basement game. I think those defenders to get off the middle floor right now
I need the downstairs. There's stressing out playing the half one
I want to know half commit isn't it you know we saw a lads idea that there's was very bold
It was very in your face hatches open. We're gonna hold open area. We're gonna utilize these spaces
It's a very different story here from phase actually still open. Okay. Yes a little bit more passive in his approach
So passive in fact that after less than a minute
He is gonna in fact drop that hatch get himself down onto the basement leave handy still up here
just playing inside of elevators, but we all know the elevator player's job is just to shoot one drone
and then they back on out of there because it ain't worth losing your life. Restrict a little bit of
information, show a little bit of presence and cyber can play a little bit close with the shotgun on
the stairs if they wish to. No very powerful course stuff. Halfway through the round, yes control
has been gained, yes hatch is on now, gonna start to get opened up if you weren't even
already I believe that hatch was definitely open to attack when we saw KDS drop through,
but it doesn't matter because there's a little thing called utility that FaZe are relying on.
Ethnats, Shinikas, Toxic Babe canisters, you name it, they have got it. The only thing they've
not got is a Goya, but they have good options that can do a very similar job. So regardless
of what the time looks like and the positions that loud hold, this round is far from over just yet.
I'm chuckling a little bit at that one. Cyber creeping up marble gets away with a whole hell of a lot.
We're getting back into the site as well. 5v4 for FaZe Clan.
Cyber can dedicate the rest of these toxic canisters to stalling up the push. Hard to conceive of a way
allowed to get through this round if they want to put the diffuser down through the server wall.
Now because there's not a lot of time remaining, because of how much utility FaZe Clan has to throw at them.
with them.
Chimika's and Smoke canister is landing on the exact same spot.
Loudspeak not exactly have a lot of utility to make this work.
Blitz isn't going to sprint through the sider, at least in all likelihood he won't.
It's kind of hard to see where Glass gets an angle where he's not directly countered
by the ward end, but Live will still creep in nonetheless.
They've got the hatch open, got him good for the cover so far.
Smoke's going just a little too far, as in fact, Live just barely threads the
needle through the utility.
line up a little bit off for cyber and while the Brits might be damaged they get us into the post plant
loud with a firm man advantage gobbler a double kill covering with this glass almost three kills
as he tags up Vita King MPX might thread the shots between the bomb chassis and the door
but it's handy in a 1v2 maybe 1v1 not the case Flasher gets both final kills
and just barely bobbing and weaving around that utility allowed
managed to pick up the first attack great round there from laden you know another good example of
why we like to see this basement just because it typically favors the defense a little bit
doesn't mean that the defense always end up winning it souls unfortunately getting taken out
there with still a couple of shumiko lunches didn't have many yet about three or so still kicking
around cyber as well bit late on that toxic babe canister i think to be honest with you loud
saw a gap and they just exploited it and off the back of the glass playing a little bit deeper,
the disruption that that Monty can provide and as soon as you lose your player on those main stairs
and it's always the difficulty when you've got the smoke playing those main stairs when they're
going to be called upon and required to deny that plant if and when the tanker falls, the
main stairs is left vulnerable. Cybers pulled away from that position based off site, off
so small and then all of some that's where the gap is and loud just kill it without question.
After that success, Hazel moved to defend its CEO going with a normal site rotation and
suddenly things looking a bit more doable so they stopped the narrow round count in ring 06.
The trend CEO will tie things up four to four for loud who, as mentioned, at the top of this
This game loud currently in 10th place, the ITV got all three points out of the matchup
with Lowe's all six points out of the weekend.
Also struggling to get on the board this set of play days.
Fell yesterday on bank and looking against the world champs to tie things up on this
CEO attack.
Blitz back in the lineup, he got another shield to join live on the Blitz, Wabu on
the Blackbeard.
Two shields, a Dokeby and a Snake Olly.
I really wish somebody's fish would disconnect the modem right now, because I don't want to look at this line for another second.
I quite like it from loud, I think it's bold, I think it's what's required here.
Oh, hold up, speaking of what's required, live just immediately sends it on in,
and vidicates Tucker on the corner, that's his first opening death in I think 149 rounds by the way.
Streak broken as loud, break phases back in half.
Five to one make that a flawless attack as loud tie things up four to four
Still don't like the lineup
Still got something to say I
Didn't think so the prosecution rests. I didn't think so you rest you go to your chamber if I
Why don't you take a timeout because that's what phase are gonna be right now?
They have just been stunned on that top floor loud coming on to this attacking half
two brilliant rounds and two polar opposite rounds as well.
Something that we always credit the top teams
that being able to do is dictate the pace of the match.
We've just seen lockers, slow, steady,
opening kill coming in at around a minute,
plant going down, very par for the core stuff
when you're attacking a basement site in any map on siege.
And then what do we see off the back of it?
Bang, aggression, straight in,
kill coming inside the first 50 seconds,
Double shield being brought and by the way, probably one of the best double shield pushes we've seen of late
Blitz moving in effectively utilizing the flash
Effectively getting that first kill and the team fully committing behind him
FaZe stunned into a tactical timeout now after their own success on the attack coming out with four rounds
At the drop of a hat. Loud have leveled things right up now
Currently sat at a 4-4
Phase looking for stabilization here going back down to the basement. Remember if they can't get around down here
Loud have got the better of them because loud we're winning down in the basement
Phase are yet to find a site that is their safety blanket right now
That's what that time is trying to achieve but trying to find where they are going to go
We can already see the changes coming through here in round nine. We've got rid of this chanker cyber
Not going to be playing the smoke anymore. We're going to give that to more of an anchor play
We're going to give that to Souls.
That's where he's going to be a lot more comfortable.
Obviously now he plays a lot more flex,
but historically a little bit more of an anchor.
What we're going to do for Cyber, go and have some fun.
Go out there and cause a nuisance.
Get yourself on the mozzy and be a nuisance.
Also bringing in the Goyo.
So we've essentially solved the problem of the T'Chanka
from the previous round, because it's very likely now,
based off what we've seen, louder
than to be playing a little bit more execute based.
I'm so excited to see if Cyra can manage on this mazzi a familiar position for him
usually the solo roamer for FaZe is off seeing him on that smoke playing the
staircase and on walkers this time around really there's an old strat from
FaZe handy on the Goyo can of course play elevator retake up marble if he
wants that's a position Cyra's playing last time I get some early pressure as
the shield moving through ATM into teller. C4 goes out to dissuade any push. I phase a
few key seconds pushing even deeper. ADS will fall back. Cyber as well just a couple seconds
later. That is a very quick and forceful clear by loud. Not resulting in any kills necessarily
Oli, but that's the middle floor cleared within a minute.
They're moving with authority aren't they? And phase a kind of respect isn't it?
I think at the moment they're not wanting to take these risky gunfights. They're not
Johnson's put himself in anything less than a 50-50 at the minute.
Again, it shows Loud's ability to play at pace, whether that be slow or quick, just whatever
is called for, whatever is going to be the best in the moment.
Great info being gathered now by Live, you know that, you know roughly where the Vulcan
Packs are going to be, it's why the drones always, you know, go through the door and
immediately look behind him.
He's just going to be calling for a bit of use so it's just trying to deal with
that.
of course got a nade in his hand, of course could still be the striker as well, and Deere
is going to be to get rid of those roll compacts nice and early, give time for that fire to
dissipate, Gaby's position right now could be lethal, but Cyber has distracted a little
bit of attention here, he's at his roll, he's at his form, he's taken Flastery down,
a crucial player here allows to execute.
and off of the phases, Engels still alive.
With everybody stuck inside of the site.
Not a lot of active denial,
though there might still be Vulcan packs remaining.
Need everybody playing close to each other,
keep this trading game alive,
handy on a long angle with the TCSG,
instead of quickly moving in with the vendetta.
But again, there's just so many positions
that FaZe Clan still have intact.
And what a key Vulcan pack as well.
Stopping live for pushing out through elevator
that disrupts and disjoints their loud offense.
the players bottom marble pushing ahead of the of the blitz and there is nothing he can do live
knows that the round has faltered around him just one piece of utility completely disrupting
louds offense it's great isn't it phase now playing to their strengths we're starting to see
that same level of phase structure the same familiarities that we used to see him with
this roster we've got cyber play a little bit more free a little bit more flexible he can
He can do what he wants. He's not tied to a piece of utility.
Gonna go out there, catch a few drones or not, and then he's just got a great gun,
something that he's comfortable with, and he can flow in and about the site and pick up the kills
where necessary. Handy as well. Since getting onto this defensive side has flourished.
Currently 10 and 5. I think he finished the first phaser.
I want to say it was like 3 and 3 or something like that. It was pretty down there.
So again, since getting onto that defense, just activated a little bit more.
We're starting to see a lot more contribution out of those two now. It's still an incredibly close game here and louder
The pushing phase right now very tight game lad for a time out
You don't want to let this this sort of new looker phase get to get to too well established before they call that out
You're out how they want to approach the upcoming rounds can't be lockers
You can either be top floor CEO
Oh, we could be heading in toward open area and at wager that given we've seen phase already losing in C on that top floor
We'll probably see and give open a try. There it is open locked on in here for round number 10. I
Think big question as well that lab would be asking themselves whether they want to continue with that shield one thing
We've seen op bands have come through black beard taken off by phase clan that will leave the blitz up
Which life has played every single round so far on every single site.
It can get like this a lot of respectably.
He's not bringing a warden.
But nobody that can see through that blitz or that blind.
Let me try one of the big tactical questions Loud have.
They're coming out of the tactical timeout.
Thinking about a new site, thinking about how they might want to change up this offense
and keep surprising FaZe Clan, keep up the pressure like they have in the past few rounds.
I don't think I'm gonna frame this offense in what could be one of the more pivotal rounds on Bay
Someone maybe should tell loud that it was the blackbeard that fades by not the blitz and they can still play it because it's been doing really well for them and
They're not gonna they're gonna leave it on the shelf here
Said why I'm gonna be bringing a
A similar level of flash and stuff, maybe a little bit more in some cases, he's gonna
be on the yank, and maybe trying for that quickly.
You don't really know what you're gonna get with this live roster for the long, are you
gonna get the slow and steady, or are you gonna get something a little bit, a little
bit speedier?
You're really gonna keep your finger on the pulse of your eye on the screen to
figure that one out, then just spread far and wide at the moment though.
Top floor being occupied there by handys, he makes a little bit of a vert, that's
We're going to posture and no doubt try and get that canto wall open
So I've been a there isn't really too much to a system and doing that either and
KDS playing bandit trick with two bandit batteries in pocket
Maybe a little bit of a tougher ask than anticipated
Cyber in a good spot as well can just start to limit a little bit of that drone game as it comes through the bottom of electric
quite light this from phase the setup quite a few little mini games here there's a heck
of a lot to drone as well the drone's something in this round at least loud or struggling with
whether being very good with the drones previously only down to a handful now oh less than that
that's my digital information that's not going out the hunt down side or put your drone in
way providing information as the ceiling ripped up over the Malusi's head.
Diver with the information, apparently exchanged by the demos, can't quite find the kill there.
Life takes him down.
Up four souls gives FaZe a 5v4, neutralizes the subsequent kill, viticking, what an aggressive
swing.
Takes down the yin sitting outside of the square door.
That might be the most important kill of the initial flurry.
Kandala's no longer present for the execute, FaZe clean with an advantage going into
the final minute. It's loud now try to consolidate their positions and combine all of their resources.
A really difficult spot with 55 seconds to go. Very slow for the moment. They've lost two crucial
gunfights. Souls come into the aid of cyber and vitzking with a great shot. Brilliant damage in
there. And the confirmer from handy as he is still a loose man on this top floor. Only now at
40 seconds as he's been targeted by that death mark. Eventually taken out but you've got to
of say damage done at this stage. Granted Denial's looking a little bit slim. We've got
KDS with a C4. That's it. We all know how powerful this death mark can be and that Vendetta
gun. But we've got to give it a face. We've got the advantage here. If we can just find
that angle, if we can just find some way to tough him, we might be able to hold
on.
It might be able to convert this 3v2 with one player stuck below the hatch. Last
That pressure of the best they can but now stem in a 1v2 big kill onto souls KDS just around the corner
No, she's coming nose. He has to push
Plans the prefire with the MP7 now two rounds lead over loud phase on another matte point. I
Mean what final kill that for souls to get gets the first kill of the round gets the last killer the round
What more do you need from a sorry KDS wasn't it they got the last kill at what more do you need from KDS in that position?
You're looking at the you're looking at the spots that the players are occupying. You've got someone like almost underneath stock hatch
And you thinking to yourself
This is really winnable for loud. I genuinely thought there was a world where they win that they've got nades
They've got a little bit that they can use if they can get a kill on that you're at least get the entry
Then then you've got your in you've got your door a jar you can burst that open
It was all about KDS on that mega tucked angle just staying alive banking that he was gonna be quicker on the punch quicker on the
response because he knows he's getting pre-fight on that corner. Really really close. Close round 10.
Phase now. An opportunity to walk away with the full three points which, let's be honest, links.
After yesterday's result against Furia and Furia's positioning the standings,
the phase one of maintaining that top dog in the region sort of status that they've earned
themselves in previous stages. They're gonna need points here tonight because the head
Heads ahead now, he's one that Fury are going to have over them, so they need to differentiate
themselves in some way between them and Fury, giving them both teams coming into the week
or coming into this playday, they're going to be on 18 points.
And if both teams manage a regulation victory, continue to be tied, they'll have that little
bit of a tiebreaker as at the moment I do believe face clan over Fury on the tiebreak,
but it is slim.
Oh, but sorry, I apologize. I thought the theory would have had it because they had said or is it on round
I think it's I think it's round if I didn't okay. It's it's all I think it's different between
Okay, I believe that's what that's what Wikipedia has who am I?
A low a lowly liberal arts student the question the people who do master of it
I rely on
EO defense coming out from face clan only site that has gone well for them is
lockers on the reattempt in open area on the first one but CEO the second play
we've yet to see what'll happen no shield being brought by loud continuing to
focus on these execute ops instead on the initial openings and to all open
getting to get an idea this is going to be a much slower play than what we
we saw on CEO last time, but they aren't basically done by me, but I don't know.
Yeah, it's not gonna be a flawless, and it's not gonna be a quick one, is it?
Again, not bringing that blitz, something that's worked well for Loud so far.
But it's surprising to not see them continue to bring that, continue to use what works instead.
You've got sense. And they're hopping.
It's live with the kit, he's just gonna commit fully and try and get himself in.
Flash refines one step, another, a flurry, live still in the bomb site right now.
knockin' that kid down just yet, waiting for the support from his team.
And he's got plenty of support, Gabu being down makes this just unofficially a 3v2.
Loud have more than enough manpower or a faceclan at the moment, but KDS with a good angle.
By taking down the stock player can threaten a retake up through square.
Dedicating one attacker to pick this ace back up, KDS is waiting to hear it.
He once allowed to dedicate a few key seconds to picking this up.
Waiting to hear it is KDS here at no, I don't think he does.
Even if so, doesn't opt to make the play still quite exposed on this stock angle.
Important key seconds wasted.
As Light moves in to put this diffuser down by the KDS, nor souls with a direct angle to deny the plant.
Finally as KDS wraps around, he commits to it.
it, but it's a period gunfight.
Unfortunately, you might take down the planter, but in the post loud now with a 3v1, they can
move out on the CEO.
They can pull back to square.
It's not overtime just yet, but loud halfway there.
I would have gone away with that plant, by the way.
Live is just in the middle of the bomb site.
There's no one in position to cover him, and that's the moment that he chooses
after being in the bomb site for like 40 seconds to a minute to actually get the plant
down.
really strange series of events there that led us to the round conclusion loud walking away with it but
They just it felt like it was a lot more clear cut than that in a lot of ways if that kill comes in
only seconds earlier then it's a mad flurry and you've all of a sudden got a player to deal with
inside a janitor and you have to try and push him people out on the repel people over in stock
you've got a fair distance to get through before they actually get to that spot
No doubt we can see FaZe stay alive for a little bit and waste a bit of time, but again, almost an inevitable end based on the mancat based on and was based on the time left.
I did just think that the plonk spot was a little bit funny in the end of things.
FaZe still searching, and their last opportunity at a full three points out of the fixture.
A win down in basement for Loud would guarantee them a share of the spoils here in a minimum of one point out of the game.
Of course, all of this is the last couple of playdays, isn't it, you know, it's big
games all around, there's no such thing as a small game at the moment.
Loose really fighting to differentiate themselves between black dragons and themselves, and
just to some degree even Flux or W7M are only a couple of points behind them.
Win here for Loose would put them tied with liquid.
I'm not sure what that head to head would look like or what that round if would look
like but we'd certainly put them up there in that top spot for second game in the play
day obviously with more games it's still yet to come.
At least last time we saw this line up particularly from FaZe links it was successful wasn't
you know we've gone on it gone as this chunk you're gone as the
So, you know cyber played on the smoke. This is this is what they they're good at
This is what they've what they've done well in the basement with previously
The good news for them at least is to be able to hold on inside of open a lot longer this time
Souls only now starting to think about a little bit of a drop away
So cyber on the now starting to think about a little bit of a drop away
Even days
It feels like he's kind of gonna push his luck a little bit. That's a big find as well
No utility game just for the slowing down and you know lab
They've still got stuff to get through on the side. They've still got the walking packs
They still need to be you know getting these walls open getting these jobs done
There's Nate's waiting to go down through there
That's been one of the slowest rounds we've had so far
Professor will be slower as you mentioned with cyber getting that ex chiros not only come off
if you dedicate a hard-reach charge as well.
A lot of utility put down
just to open up one hatch on the locker's attack.
Just as I saw earlier,
a step-brief to get a look over at Vita King
playing on the bottom of the blue stairs,
but nothing came from that.
Said everybody can face another 5v5 on the site,
retreating down.
Last time, as Loud tried to push in
down elevator with the Blitz.
They were stunted by Vulcan Hatch placed outside
that completely disrupted the attack.
This go around.
No shield whatsoever.
It is another server take.
One that's been successful for loud in the past,
but without that shield, it has to be something entirely different.
Candela's going down, but the warden can look right through.
The smoke has this line.
If can shield himself from the Candelas,
step with the first pick as loud scream down the marble stairs,
but Sol's immediately retaking SMG-11
and shotgun getting both.
Two more kills for FaZe, and another round
in which allowed on a basement execute
are completely stopped by a Vulcan pack on elevator door
and an onslaught by FaZe Clan
at the bottom of marble stairs.
Blastry will watch the round choke and gasp
its dying breaths, and it is another three points
for FaZe Clan, the current best team in the SAAL.
the game. Well phase we have
become quite accustomed to
your ways and sometimes you
always just getting done. And
that thing that was definitely
one of those days we saw a
little bit of the switch in
the play style and you can
see in some ways that. You
know, I don't want to say that
phase between the hide stuff
there, but there was a very
different and a very noticeable
shift when the game started
to get close when loud. We're
really competing for some of
those rounds phase took a
get a lot more familiar.
Everything gets a lot more
country, but they needed it
here tonight because loud gave
them a very, very good run for
the money on bank.
I think it's a result that
will allow them in the result
by that surprise people, but
the scoreline may go through
over to our wonderful desk.
Yeah, trust me, that result
was pretty incredible the
whole time with any damn this
might actually happen.
And at the very last second,
it was faceclad to close it
all out and honestly in
situation where it could have
absolutely gone to overtime
have surprised everybody including ourselves here Maria but our interview is set and for that we'll
bring JP once again. JP welcome back to the show we missed you so so much it felt so empty without
you yesterday but we have you here you're you are right you're looking a bit tired a bit stressed
how are things? I'm a little bit sick today. Well hopefully today's win will help with that recovery.
Before we kind of ask about today, what went on today? I want to ask you about the match against
Fury yesterday because that was a big highlight. The game was incredible to witness. Can you walk
me through what are some of the things that kind of led to the loss in your mind observing
the game from the outside and how you're able to recover.
Well, we started to slow the game. We were not like paying attention where we shoot and we knew
they would try to do like fast pushes and play a little bit faster. It's their playstyle and
mainly I guess as they try lots of stuff. But they make their game work and we didn't fight
back the way we shoot and yeah and when we finally woke up to the game it was
too late because like four rounds were already passed and like we brought the
game to a close match but the margin of an error we have when when you lost like
four rounds like that way well as most of was a was a hard match and they
deserve the win they played the game they knew they would play and they
play better than us wasn't a good day for us yesterday.
Nice. I think of course you have access to what Haffadell was talking about in the
tactical polls and I'm very curious to know what he said to to face clean
because in the first half they were playing okay like giving space to a
loud but after the time the timeout was just another face clean like guys we
your face, let's play our game. What half a bell told him?
He basically like bring our shit together, like try to play more in group. We were playing
more as individuals, not as a group. More to play our communication were very poorly
at the beginning of the match. And when half a call that the time out, he told us like,
communicate better. And he had just some technical stuff through that basically was like, improve
our communication, play as a team.
So you think that the main thing was communication to be such a close game because we were joking.
Everybody was joking like the hydronic bomb against the coughing baby. And when we have
the match really close like that, it really surprises us.
Yeah, I mean, sometimes the communication is not working, that's how it happens on
streams and game days, like it could happen, like we are not very synchronized,
but it's just a better of someone tell us, like we are not communicating enough
and we are playing too for the individual place, then we can just wake up to the game.
That's a coach to just snap you out of it sometimes. You get too lost in the details,
You have those blinders on and you can't really focus.
It's good to have someone to take you out of it.
But JP, there's still one more game for you guys to play.
That's next week.
We'll go up against Black Dragons.
Are you going to finish things up now with another win?
Or is it going to be two losses throughout the season
that happened at the tail end of it, like in stage one?
We always try to win every single game we play.
We try to take as serious as possible every single game
we play, for sure.
And yeah, we don't disrespect anyone.
We went and came to the game to win.
Very much hopeful to see you again, JP.
Thank you so much for joining us.
And good luck next week.
Thank you, bye bye.
That is, that's JP, that's FaZe Clan,
Victoria against Loud, a super tight match
between the two on Banquetch.
Nobody could have expected really
going into the game here.
We were making the jokes,
like you mentioned Maria in the interview.
It looks like that coughing baby is truly Brazilian because that performance was genuinely
impressive.
Not enough to take phase to overtime.
Close enough though.
At least, Lod will be happy with that.
They won't be happy that they got no points out.
However, still, phase at the top.
They got all three points, but kudos for Lod for giving it their best.
Yeah, and I think loud heard us in the the pretty much show because they they really were not afraid of face clean
And that's what we needed to see. Okay. This is one of our last chances
We only have this game and the other one and we are over. We are done and
They played like themselves even I could say that even better that then what I have seen from loud in all their matches
Okay, I
definitely
But the thing is JP just said face clean was given a space for a loud in the first half and loud enjoy it
Okay, give us space and we gonna do what we need to do here, but the moment that they had the pause
Guys, let's just play more aggressive. Let's just bring our together. Let's win this
Let's not take too over time
and
That's the the the good thing about face clean when they feel like they are trolling there, you know
like we say in Brazil, Cébex giving away the rounds,
Puffabelle comes in, just tells them the truth
and they move on, they win.
But loud, I'm very happy for the game that they put on today.
They tried what they could.
They were not being so defensive even in defense,
in attack, they were doing their job.
And the key against FaZe Clan is to match their aggressiveness
Because if you hold down, if you slow down, you're just giving the game to them and they did the best that they could.
But face play is still a face play, so...
You can't give them too much respect. You have to get them faces to face and really give it the best that you can.
This is why Furia were able to beat them yesterday because they kept putting them on the back foot.
constantly they learn from their LAN matchup at EWC, a great final between the two teams,
and they know that the way to take down Fizer, at least put them on edge, is to constantly keep them
second guessing. So like you said Rafa, that will come in at some point and be like, okay guys,
snap out of it. That's very good, right? It won them the game at the end of the day and they
got them all three points. But that's something that I think all of us experience in our own
way I'd say even for two professionals like yourself and even in myself as well sometimes you're
at an event or whatever you're really you're very disturbed something really knocked you out of your
focus and you need somebody to come in and just be like hey you got this don't worry about it and
then you snap back into it and you make it happen it's always like that you always have
that one colleague wherever you are at work that one friend that always gets you back into the
swimming of things but here for for phase yes be really honest this doesn't
surprise me this this score because what I've seen from face plan is that
whenever they are qualified or ready for something in this case is the playoffs
they tend to not show their full potential even though they say no we
don't hide anything and then they still play really good but it's just not
worth it to show your cards and they do that. We know. Don't try to hide this from us, face
gland. We just know. Are you pulling off the old G2 line of their hiding strats just to make sure
they play better in playoffs? Just going to answer. Throwing it out there. Maria, thank you very much.
We're going to take a quick break on what we get back. We continue on with our games
for already two matches and we hit the halfway mark with Black Dragons versus Imperial. Just
stick around for that, see that?
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There's a lot of running
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right in front of the black car, moves on over through the bar,
fires, has to go for a peek, that's gonna be a wonderful shot
by cameraman, good, he cuts this.
He's gonna be 20 seconds to go, he could get this plant down,
so he moves on forward, which is a, there's some more shots.
Now before he walks out through this door,
he should be pulling out the heartbeat sensor,
but he's not going to, instead, it will be a nice
shot by cameraman, coming on strong into the kitchen doorway.
It's a really nice angle to try to get into.
He's going to start going to basically be forced to go apart.
He gets the first, the clutch, and there he gets the second on the video.
No way!
That's the maker!
It's now a one-on-two that the user is still there in position.
Luke is going to get a head taken off as well.
That's the quad kill.
That counter is going down.
He might get into...
No way!
Oh, look at the clutch!
That's a one-first.
He's five-clutched.
Clutch!
This is where Round 1 falls.
It is with some peeks coming up.
As soon as the Niko does find one, Luna's going to repel straight into a death there.
Die on the stairs, not to run at all.
Being aware of nice frag coming up.
Niko again, he's just on point with these nades.
Take around this corner and give them the opening they're looking for.
Could this be the money?
This could be huge right now.
Right now the main comes up the top and drops digs as well!
Two from two!
This could be massive for Sasta.
Just like a big plant kill.
Oh, a frag and Niko!
What a nutty rant from him.
He gets two grenade kills and a nice peek and closes it down.
One man at a time.
Here comes Kansu on the flank.
Shut down his bathroom by souls.
4v1, deep ache.
Manages to get one put.
It's likely to be his last nor.
Panage is a finder second.
It's 1v2 now.
He's got about 15 HP.
But there is a chance.
Let it juice us down as well.
That's the big one for him.
Stepping across here, they hold the angle with D-Pet.
Biggie T could go huge here.
The 1v1, Kaverman stepping out far into the distance.
So look for a plaque.
And D-Pet should know about it.
He's holding tight.
Knows that this plaque is going down.
But can he get there in time?
Kaverman's going to complete Biggie T.
Finds a huge point.
Ziggler, rise from the ashes to claim the hammer at the 6th position of 2021.
Let's do whatever you can.
They're trying to get the defuse, they're down, they will be unsuccessful.
The virtue goes absolutely wild with the shot done.
And that is three huge kills for him.
That's gonna be Ryan going towards the 2nd.
He doesn't mind. He's a really good fighter.
Shoot him! Shoot him!
He knows who he's going to be!
Laying on top, Yeti will find Foxy, who, towards the site,
Yeti will pick up the second kill on the Retro.
That's the Blackbeard who would be the hero of the previous round.
My first game was matched by the MP5K.
Blackseed will now get to an occasion, and Yeti is just an absolute monster.
As Goddess now tries to get some shots at Yeti with four kills.
Goddess who just has a tiny bit of help,
and Yeti will get the ace.
Five up, five down, and once ground for me, you find mine.
Now, there's the best team in the world,
never having that distinction until today.
That's an all-in-one world champion,
the second invitation.
He's getting softened up, there goes Gritzer as well, and all of a sudden it's Kansan.
But a beautiful double play, trying to ride out the final four seconds, he has no idea
where that diffuser is.
SMG up, they're watching in this position, as he goes to swing out, there's both Kodin
and Katzang watching from this angle.
Kansan, are you a miracle worker?
You only need one...
And there it is!
One of the best plays that we've seen at this tournament!
At the Coupe de France, we just practiced a lot, which...
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past game really came in phase gave it their all to come back and take the
way now but we're on to our next match of black dragons versus imperial e-sports on
the other side Maria where black dragons look to recover high position in the
standings that's something they really would like to lock in the top four by
the end of today where's imperial they're not only fighting to get higher
in the standings and get maybe in spot for playoffs but more so to see if they
can survive through relegations because right now especially after I anti Zed's
point differential Imperial are really on the cusp of going back to tier two where
that sexy cake has been fighting in and out of for the past two and a half years
yes everything's open everything can happen nobody wants to go through
relegation. Nobody wants to go. But look, Black Dragons, it's way more comfortable right now,
Milesh. This is the facts here. Also, they're not only more comfortable in the standings,
but also as a team. Swag told us yesterday that they are feeling really comfortable. Each player
in their respective role. They feel like they finally understood what they want as a team.
Because remember that we are having a problem of most of the teams change it
during the transfer window and they have a problem to adjust that, which is not the case for Black
Dragons. So they are still trying to understand what they want as a team, seem to stage one,
And they finally got to the point where, okay, now we know. Let's just run after our victories.
And so, he said that every week after the games they work very much on whatever needs to be worked
and what they see right now it's a job well done during the games but also behind the cameras.
And that's not a lie, they are doing pretty good. They are, I'm very surprised to see that
in Cherrygums which is the owner of Black Dragons. She goes crazy after every win
because Black Dragons has this history of... okay I'm gonna just tell a thing that
happens in Brazil. Since I'm Brazilian I'm just gonna share the the tea but
people in Brazil says that Black Dragons is like a dolphin. They call
it gofim. They come, they go up, they show something, they dig it but then
they go under the water and they don't win anything. So their nickname was always
Golfing or Dolphin. You know, many ups and downs. This is the first time that Black
Dreadlands is not being named as a Dolphin. Which is pretty good.
Because they got to qualify to the Invitational 2026. Of course things didn't go well for them there, but still they did make it to the event and it
It feels like ever since then, kind of the roster changes that they had going at the stage one,
like Cherrygums sat them down and was like, okay, guys, you have to do something.
And they have been.
They are on the cusp of holding on to a playoff spot.
They're currently tied 11-11 with loss.
And should they win today, then they really get way, way, way better chances at being
in the top four.
No matter who they play in the top four, it's going to be difficult anyways in the
playoffs.
But you get the extra life.
the extra points all of that means you're happier and you have chances to actually make it to XI
which is great right you don't want to only be fighting in last chance qualifiers to represent
SAL because SAL will execute so incredibly difficult somebody's gonna mess up somewhere
and then you're ending up with a top team that's that you're playing against to make a spot
that's I at least I don't have to worry about phase because they're already qualified by winning
UWC but you know that's kind of the one shark that you don't have to think about when your future
is now just Osaka in its own way of course a very important milestone at the end of the year for
a season ticketed year but the invocational on home solar in brazil and as we all know between us
you've had the videos yourself that you posted in fact in the entire crew
over in brazil has done their own videos next friday of over second the tickets go live
before the invitation in Sao Paulo. Make sure you're buying your tickets if you're in Brazil and if you're a
brother who's never been to Brazil, trust me, you go to Brazil, you spent two weeks between Carnaval
and the Invitational. That is so much fun and you probably, if you're in Sao Paulo, you have to
go watch a polista football game just to make it extra exciting because that's the experience
that you want to have. Go walk around Iberapuera on a Sunday, see people having fun and
and drinkin' some coconuts, maybe grillin' a bit,
doin' some sports.
It's beautiful, it's wonderful, that's Brazil.
But that's also potentially imperial
because we've seen them go on the up and up
and yesterday, it was so disappointing
because you're like, hey, come on, we can cheer for you.
We heard it from them, we heard it from SexyKig.
We are not dropping this at all
and they got smashed by loss.
Seven, two.
And that, yeah, it was sad.
Yeah, in that game, it was in Cafe, it was very much obvious, the problem that in many moments when they had the advantage of being 5v4 or 5v3, they would not do anything with that.
so they would still they would still lose the momentum that they created they
would not take advantage of anything they took really long to took people out
of position and everything they had around in their hands and still somehow
they they lost it and black dragons imperial they face each other two times
in both of this times black dragons was successful they did not change the
lineup imperial had changed so this has I'm sniffing black dragons black dragons
win it's it's a lot of burn things around them we'll see how well they can
they can take this game here I'm wondering if black dragons were an
actual dragon if they brief fire or they more like an undead dragon whoa yeah
I know I know I know it's crazy just think about it I don't know if there's
any like liches in and around here that can explain to us how an undead dragon
work for my dragons or if they're fire breathing regardless they're going to go
to bank and they picked the attack and it was imperial that took the lair out they
want to go to them that's a bit more open they can really play around for a
lair we kind of compressed into it too much. Yes now talking about the map
that is not pretty much but like it's that imperial choose to have been layer
instead of bank and if we see imperial imperial's bank it's not the greatest
map it's actually they don't play that much they played only twice and they
lost two times let's see if they gonna win this time finally or they gonna
lose the third time okay okay okay then we'll see maybe forecasters have an
answer to not just Black Dragons of the Imperial, but also what sort of Black Dragons are we talking
about here? The only context that I have is not really VND, it's more Warhammer fantasy,
it's more like a Nagaroth-y one, so more Dark Elves, and they also have a few more
acidic files, I don't know. Let them figure that out, have fun.
I don't appreciate Milo's trying to out-nerd me on the broadcast. I have one niche going
for me at any given moment and he's trying to steal it and I would like that on the record that I do
not like that but one thing I do actually love Ollie you and I were worried you'd be living in the
fortress century but we get two banks in a row face claim versus loud as our second match of the day
now black dragons versus imperial our second bank of the row and our imperial e-sports of course
looking to try and escape that relegation spot by getting at least a couple points out this
the game. Let's go. Let's go.
Let's get stuck into it. Our
second bank of the night here.
As you mentioned that black
dragons versus Imperial. I
want to just go before we get
to stuck into anything serious
with this game. We need to
work out a way so that we can
have Maria on both the
English broadcast and the
Brazilian broadcast because
some of the stuff that she
comes out with is just
incredible, and it makes me
for like the English language, but if you said to someone that Black Dragons are a dolphin,
they'd look at you like you're mental. They would look at you like you're absolutely mental.
But the way that she explains it, it makes so much sense. It's what I've basically been saying in a less eloquent way for years.
They come up, they show something, and then they go back down and they have loads of fun again.
And they probably make some strange noises along the way.
Yeah, I just think it's beautiful.
I think we need to make a petition.
We need to get the little time turn, the Hermione as in Harry Potter,
and then to be able to be in two places at once.
But as it stands, we just have to enjoy the time that we have.
And saying that, let's get stuck into the match.
Black variants are starting here on the attack of Bank.
Imperial starting off on the defense again,
as Maria quite rightly pointed out, not a great map.
format for Imperial, not a very known map for them. Only a couple of plays in the last six months or so,
firmly at that 10th reference position. Not only that, stats don't really back it up either. So
there's a big question mark for me. Obviously, Lair again, not a fantastic map for him, but it's
not 10th place. This is the 10th place. Do you draw a bit of a question as to why we are here,
especially for a game that means oh so much for both of these two teams. Black Dragons,
an opportunity to push, an opportunity to push one of those top four spots in Imperial again,
right in for relegation down there with INTZ.
Welcome back to Delay time. Unfortunately Black Dragons will have to spend to clear out no matter
what. 20 seconds on the front end same as top square one we just saw popped as we do not see
the kind of roam we saw FaZe Clan and certainly Bloud run on Bank. Hero Esports full reinforced
trying to burn as much time as they can, even bringing the north. I maybe destroy some hard
breaching or burn time with that projectile. It is all five down below likely going to be
a painfully slow round as a minute ten seconds to go Ollie and we still have a lot of work to do.
There is always work to do.
It's in the name, isn't it?
This is a nice little attraction though.
It's obviously bad out of the cage, however, nor brilliant at destroying those heart breach
gadgets.
And it's definitely going to do something to buy time, especially when teams are trying
to be skinny with their utility.
It's like trying to provide that light shield, trying to provide that cover.
But is it enough?
It has to get off the diffuser, and there's still players with Util in the hands and
the c4 going out there swag likely gonna try and get this down under the cover of
rare but it's actually switched res me trying to get it down as a back plant
book it's just not the space to do it fortunately links they do still have a
little bit of time yeah they still got time and they've been able to use the
minute or so they have to start moving into the site to drain a lot of this
utility one smoke canister left no c4 to speak of oh good oh even finding
metrics you all the utility through the site the last bit of denial that
Imperial had now dropped to the floor. Black Dragons of the Man Advantage compounded by
Mr. Outlaw covering this plant. Rare dogged in his attempt to move us into the post and
it is successful. Black Dragons with a clear idea and single-minded in their vision, they
pick up the first one off the back of a server plant.
It's the meat grinder approach isn't it? You know what your plan is, you know what
the vision is. You just have to go through the motions. You have to bait out the
utility. You have to dodge the C4s. You have to bank on them only having the
the smoke and the goya will only have in this jungle, not having both because then they'd
be able to deny you too far. You are literally playing knowing that you are just going to
get stuff thrown at you for the majority of around 2 minutes and 30 seconds and then
you're going to find your opportunity and people have to stay alive and get picks
in the meantime. Black Dragon's going for that. Like you say, beatground a tried and
true approach, whatever you want to call it. It isn't always easy to pull off,
but determination will get you a lot of the way there. Imperial Struggling to find
round down in basement, we're going to switch things up and take us up to the second floor.
Now with the way that the hard breach has been heavily targeted here, blackdrings are going
to, you know, they're going to have to be a little bit more creative.
You're going to have to bring more of these secondary tools in order to get things open,
especially at range.
It's range hard breach that is the key here on bank.
There might, it's by the by, it's neither really here nor there.
You want the ace, you want the Hibana.
So I'm expecting as a result Imperial to play a lot of these top floor holds because it's going to be very difficult to get rid of your
Elevator player. It looks like Hasekui might be going over there with his mirror window
He's got a couple in his pocket still that he hasn't placed and if he can be a bit more of a sort of fortress in and around that main stair area
It's gonna make the rest of the attacks on this map a little bit more difficult for Imperial
They're gonna have to get a bit more creative in how they get how they deal with those
in open area defense got some player station around this middle floor at the
moment that's sexy cake playing around the lockers is it not a lockers to the
archives position
throughout while droning and we're currently sitting in atms it is looking
a bit like some of those phase attacks we saw on bang just about 30 minutes
to go. One player spotted on the upper floor, Nade sent up, a bit too far away to land beyond
the double door of checkers, black theater pulling in, legacy tags up, swag with a roti
hole at his back. We weave through, move towards elevator and not quite in a position to retreat
down marble, especially now that Mr. Outlaws come up to, as I was about to say, in a
position to cut him off, but looks down at the wrong time instead of throwing out
with Goyon 1 HP, fire one shot.
But the Goyon in early grave,
Kossakri with a C4 gets one another
with the Vector as well.
The work that Legacy could not do,
high straight player on this roster,
the Mira has willfully taken up
and carried that torch forward.
Another one, perfect crosshair placement from the Mira.
Three kills for Imperial, three kills for Hassa.
Maybe a fourth.
As the last man standing on Black Dragons
is looking to cut off their rotation down marble stairs takes down years.
Also, instead, we'll retreat back up to the second floor
as long as he can consolidate with the rest of his team.
Looking like a pure will tie things up early.
Yeah, the rounds should be in the bag at this point.
Well, there I've said it.
Maybe it's not.
Maybe we see a big clutch here from Mary.
I've got a couple of maids to go at.
Give him quick pick through a hatch.
We've got two players on low HP as well.
and he's got 40 seconds on the kit so they are really about as stacked as they could be.
They're gonna be anticipating him to make this blue rotate and the beepers are gonna give him away
here. All eyes now should be on the double door. You can see there's still Lucy Banshee's kicking
around. There's still potentially Vulcan packs that can be exploded. Everybody playing from
from deep or rag gets the first.
Put it around the corner as well.
Not likely.
With that high damage, Vendetta and Hasa on low HP,
if you can semi-fine away to isolate that 1v1,
not gonna happen.
Pushing deeper into the site,
Mitrex pops over top,
Daryl hikings up one-to-one with a win on open area.
That round, similar to what we've seen drop bang today,
a lot of focus on the upper floor,
and well, the upper floor is generally,
but the second floor and the first floor.
As you see, Black Dragons try to go
for that spiral side to take.
We saw Faze do earlier with somebody
moving up the spiral stairs
to cut off the player on elevator
and then start moving a bit further into the top floor.
Now, the big difference,
Black Dragons running a shield
where Faze did not.
What this should allow in theory,
shield breaks through, kind of breaks into the lineup.
But Black Dragons often do have him rappel in instead of going from stock in an inherent vulnerability there as if there's a pre-place down below
might end up dying early.
Unfortunately Black Dragons not really recognizing that fact which in hindsight might be a little silly.
Imperial had full control of Teller's Archives which means if there's a pre-place C4
Black Dragons have to clear out that position and make sure it's neutralized.
They don't account for that.
Hosset not only gets a kill then of course it's two more after that.
But it was to really well-thought out defense by Imperial understanding that by holding colors in our ties
They can pre-place that C4 and I think probably end up doing a bit more damage to Black Dragons attack than they might have anticipated
For me it was the fact that they never were they were never able to get a cancel wall open
Black Dragons don't have the tools to open that wall and as a result has to can play very aggressively and be
Supported get some great support from me coming up those marble stairs
Okay, the last kill that he got he was in the corridor directly
But prior to that, you've got me calling out for him, enabling his C4s, and really giving him an easy time of things.
So, there's no really winning strategy for Black Dragons there.
They've got a very tough choice to make. They have to clear downstairs, and they can't, you know, clear the top floor as effectively because they can't get things open.
They're going to come across very similar problems here on this bomb site as well, because, again, you know, on the top floor, your focus usually is get that canto wall open and start to make a bit of progress there.
Alternatively, you're gonna look towards square and you're gonna throw yourself the charges there or you're gonna keep on us that way
As I mentioned there might not very well used on this map because it is very difficult to do so
It looks like black dragons are gonna have to get a little bit more creative their answer double shield now
We've seen double shield work brilliantly on this top floor already here tonight not in this game in our previous game
My god gave us a very nice demonstration. It looks like we might be allowed to see another
might just run that stock push back though very briefly rare pulls back as a
razor bloom starts erupting in a space and the shield in tandem from stock and
top square in a pinching house a swing a bit too far out in the janitor position
again contact in the phase they played a bit more conservative pulling back inside
a janitor but as imperial swing in the black dragons they're ready to meet
that aggression with some gunfights of their own nears on nor able to win
In the fight against swag, ADS is briefly in Nier's take-step opportunity in hand, and
the event is now for Imperial with a retake from SexyCake up square.
This is a difficult spot to be sure.
Out of toxic canisters, out of the site, it is a full retake from the defense.
As with that repel, Black Dragon is in control of both A and B site.
Defender separated, it's two important 1-B-1s, Nier's wins the first, Romeo can he land
the trade?
There's one player around the corner, can't land it quite yet but knows the information
down some finishes them off with a clean shot to the head.
Sexycake does not have the kit for this kind of engagement.
SMG-11 and shotgun, but he has that diffuser.
Weight around the corner.
Shotgun in hand, Romeo with no candelas whatsoever.
Does he have the information, can you land the prefire?
He's got the crosshair placement on lock, and he gets them both in round three on
CEO Romeo starting off the stage so big with a big 1v2 to start off bank
So fantastic around from black dragons imperial looked in such great control
Both the players from black dragons that were alive in that two versus two were chipped down
And it was one of those where you sort of look at it on the balance thing
Do you think how have imperial been able to hold on just so well?
Well, they were playing from deep weren't they were they found little spaces
they found some pockets that they could operate from within. Black Dragons have done a great
job to get away with around there. No real surprise. As prevalent as the Ying has been
in his good as Romeo has been on it, it has been taken away from him at the start of round
four. It's featured in both successful Black Dragon attacking rounds so far. The mirror
also has gone by the wayside as we more than likely will end down in Lockers.
Now don't forget, a good site for Black Dragons to kick things off.
They got to wind it down here early doors, round number one.
Same line up being run back here by Imperials.
There's obviously something they feel like went wrong, went differently.
Something that they can change with just the kit that they are bringing.
I wonder if it is going to be that focus onto the hard breach and there's no mafric.
It really is just going to be a tin opener jobby.
Oh unfortunate Mr Outlaw.
Dropping it out there.
We will continue on and wait for a ruling as to how we will proceed.
I believe he was playing on the snake link switch.
I mean, of all the things you want to lose, if Mr Outlaw had been spawned on the
snake we would be saying, that's not the one you want to lose.
If you've got a couple of players, loon source and players tucked in that you need to try and find,
Black Dranas will be assaulting this all versus five.
Or maybe not.
Assaulting it 4v5 until we remake the lobby.
The only reason that Rehost was granted was because he was on Snake, if he was on any other operator that had been like,
ah, it's fine. Not a big deal.
We can figure that one out later.
For legal reasons, that is not true.
But for legal reasons, that's not true.
I was joking.
That was a bit.
That was not real.
Obviously, he disconnected in the prep phase.
Gonna allow a rehost on that one.
Don't have to worry about it.
I mean, as far as like, dog ate my homework excuses, I think that fish jumping onto the
router is probably the best one.
Like, without a doubt, the best one I've ever heard, like it might be the best one
ever.
I just, I really like, I really don't want to like put somebody on blast, but like, router
next to the fish tank, come on, are you serious?
Like, did not at any point in the construction of that room was it like, you know, there
is a container holding it in, but what if it like breaks, what if I'm like feeding
the fish one day though maybe as one of those automatic fish feeders that actually I'm not
going to say like I know how fish feeding works I've never owned one I feel like at some point
the thought has to curl like you know maybe just just maybe water that's currently inside
the tank might go outside the tank and maybe in that event I should not have electronics
nearby. And honestly, the last thing I'll say, I'd make the same mistake too. I probably would do
the same thing. I wouldn't think about it. I'd have been like, sure, it's fine. It probably looks good.
I bet it looks nice. I'd be some nice lights. RGV matched, potentially. You know, you can get
those things that also link up on the same. Maybe it's something like that. It's just
likes the way the modem light reflects in the fish tank. Maybe the fish really liked it.
Maybe the fish has to be put there.
I mean, we put the internet sea cables under water for a reason.
That's something that we're actually talking to each other underneath the ocean at the moment.
Isn't that crazy?
Now that doesn't seem like a stupid idea, does it?
Technically, this entire game is happening underneath the ocean when you think about it.
Errr...
Is it?
Well, I mean like...
Wow, this is an interesting question because...
Careful, be careful here.
What if somebody gonna pop up be like no things is wrong
This isn't under the ocean. This is under the Amazon rainforest like shut up man
What are we doing here? This is a bit. Is it real?
Isn't real. I
Don't know. I feel like the broadcast I feel like there's got to be some part intersecting the Atlantic Ocean somewhere in there
Certainly not under the Pacific. I'll tell you that much
much. By the way, how much
fortress we have casted? How is it been banned 34 times? Here's the thing, actually, I kind
of want to challenge our priors real quick. Have we actually cast that much fortress this
stage? We did it Salt Lake City. Have we actually cast that much fortress this stage?
Are you and I just kind of bitter about something that happened four months ago? I
think we might just be making a big deal of it at this point. I don't think so.
We might just be kicking a fit over nothing. I don't think we cast fortress that
much. I'm kind of surprised I didn't see that though. 36 times the cafe, 35 for...
Oh, we've got some updated standards. Pais's points have been added onto the
on to the tally now. Curio of course yet to play here tonight. It still feels like
we're early on in the playday but we're actually... we're near the halfway point
now to the Conusville. You may be not in terms of time but in terms of
share available rounds.
We've got Black Dragons Imperial right now.
That's the game that we're waiting to get back into.
Want to do the math on that one?
Like, what exact percentage are we through today?
Well, I mean, we're not halfway through game three,
but we're close.
I don't know, are you running the numbers?
No, I just want to see,
I thought it would throw a bomb in your lap
and see what happens.
I mean, I was just going to talk about
how if anyone's not doing anything maybe like an hour's time,
they probably should stick around and watch Fluxo versus Furia
because it could be one of the better games of the day.
And in terms of standing,
it's probably the one that means the most,
given that Furia could overtake FaZe in that it's around
differential head as the first sort of head to head,
not the actual head to head.
And for Fluxo, they haven't stayed so far,
I need to blow up a redemption thrown in there.
And they got a little, I mean, emphasis on just a little taste of redemption yesterday, of course.
Have a narrow OT victory over Team Liquid Alienware, but I mean,
narrow victory over Team Liquid Alienware whatsoever for Flux of W7M is probably
the closest they might get to redemption this stage.
Unless, of course, they're able to translate that into a close game against
today they've already shipped two points off of one of the top three teams in
SAL looking to do so later fully in agreement with Ali just to be clear that
is my game of the day when I'm looking to not only be important to see how the
phase fury a conversation kind of stands in SAL see if you're I can tie things up
once again with three points or if Flux of W7M can get the win over another
top team and if they were to do so Flux of W7M who currently are on nine
points. When you get a win in OT would at least be somewhere around tied with Los at 11.
The Nomazi got the mid regulation victory. They would move themselves directly into the
fifth place spot. And of course, contingent upon other results that happened during the
day. The fifth six-play spot as always, hotly contested inside of the SAL, especially
after Los's three-point loss to INTZ earlier. It is anybody's game to see who can get
the final three spots.
That probably loud.
I don't think it's like, is it mathematically impossible? Yeah, no, it's not.
It's not mathematically impossible.
But the max that points they can get now is nine.
Yeah.
And we'd have to have a lot of the bottom table teams losing.
I think, yeah.
Six place be nine.
Imperial have to lose.
Look for a lose.
Flux would have to lose.
Yeah.
Fluxo, Fluxo would have to lose both days and then the layout would have to get them on like round differential tie break and
Routes currently at minus 15. Fluxo, we said I'm currently at minus seven.
Hey, I can do this math real quick. That's a difference of eight
Which is kind of a difficult round differential number to surmount. Yeah, I didn't actually notice that I think that phase lead
Fury by eight at the moment as well. So regardless of today's result, I don't think Fury can overtake him.
We'll see. Either way, thank you for bearing with us. We are back into Bank Black Dragons versus Imperial.
Before we left, before we had to remake the lobby because Mr. Outlaw, I don't know, his hamster chewed on his PC power cable.
Don't know what's happening in SAO nowadays, but Mr. Outlaw, not in the game unfortunately, is now back.
saw a basement defense from Pyrrheal that is where we will be going again we'll
see how the line-ups fare. Israel was on the snake and I have a feeling that
he'll probably be on the snake for most of this half. It's a great instinct that
you've honed there. I really am quite something. I have really set you apart. He has played
say in every round so far because it's available and if it's available you
should be playing it's too powerful to leave on the table and especially with
Black Dragon's strategy for attacking this bombsite mentioned the meat grinder in
round number one and it really was all about that it was about the soak it was
about trying to just outlast the utility the Imperial are gonna bring to
try and slow you down Imperial they've adapted as well instead of the
Norr other a couple of changes but primarily instead of the Norr they
are going to be bringing that echo. They're also going to be swapping in the Azami in favour
of the Wamai. That's going to give them a little bit less soak in some ways because you've
not got the Wamai Magnets, you've not got the C4, what you lose there you gain in the
Yo-Kai drone. Mr. Outlaw just getting pushed back from pushing into dirt. So I'm always
trying to see if there's any cheap kills available. Anyone on a bit of a late setup.
The Imperial are more than ready for it and he will likely turn tail and assist
to seem in clear in this mid-floor.
They definitely want that Soliton scanner
to get all the information you can
when you move into the middle,
especially since as we see,
your esports have a couple players stationed around there
but they are both pretty close to fallback positions,
one by marble stairs,
another by elevator it seems,
so I think both actually might be by marble stairs.
Either way, I've begun to fall back.
over intel mr. Outlaw can gather same with yes actually the bees from good oh
well register that imperial eSports is falling back Romeo things he can move
pretty quick through the site but spotted by the elevator that is the opening
kid from pure eSports with no opportunity for a trade by the attacking
side of black dragons it seems that if they plan on going for a quick hop ollie
it's not coming any time soon. Yeah I mean you've got to get a really good time
in to get away with something like that and if you're gonna get to do with it and
just try and brute force which is typically the Black Dragons MO you've
got to do it all at the same time right and that just did not happen. Welcome back
awkwardly placed on top of the hatch. She's just gonna buy time which is all
the Imperial need to do at the moment by the way because with Romeo going
early the rest of the team at the nine position or not following that up positions
become very telegraphed very quickly so the ball compact here on elevators say
CK can break that it is leisure and basically locks swag out for the next
20 seconds mr. Owl will find one this is where we start see the okidrons coming
in more information being gathered on your kidron shot as well mr. Owl
just finding that one through the flames keep turning attention over
towards vault. Oh cannot win that fight despite rare looking towards gold. Black
Dragon's bit of upward momentum might be tied in the 3v3 and might be stopped
out of legacy nail pseudo to the back wall of marble stairs. Rare is weaving his
way through gold but as the rest of the team falls he's the only god who can
support swag on this Monty and site that dropped case on bottom marble as
well and the more you look at this picture the worse it looks for Imperial.
One shot by swag before he's shot in dead silence by nears who picks up
both kills to end out the round. Imperial eSports faltering on the first lockers attempt
and picking up the second on defense.
It's a shame really for Black Dragons because they've had a decent read, but a backside
drop with no garage push, no like last minute lurk, no pressure even coming in through that
server side. They've not got that second dimension or a third dimension that's often necessary
there. Getting kind of a bit tunneled around the Monty and Imperial can just relax. They've
brought great tools to defend basement regardless of which side it's pushed
whether it's through gold and backside elevator or whether it's coming in through
the main more standard approach of in through servers and blue. There's tools
there that can be applied to both it's one of the benefits of the okas you can
kind of hedge your bets and just drive them around and see where they're
going to be the most useful. It wasn't really really come down to the
okas in the end that was just a nice little cherry on top of the
The information but I'm players just be able to play ramping garage and stuff like that pretty much for free
But it was shame because I'm black dragon's first attempt on that side was fantastic now on three just landed a little bit more
Unfortunately black dragons, but only a tie game at the moment to you there's the risk of imperial if they win this one
I'll only take the lead guarantee themselves a tie half, but
Girl who have gained a bit of momentum towards the end of the stage stumbling a little bit yesterday, of course
Dominant loss 7-2 by Rhoads.
The e-sports are trying to fight out that relegation spot.
Keep INTZ down word in the standings.
Of course, there's one point behind INTZ.
A couple out of this matchup will do well for their chances,
not only in this stage, but for the relegation fight as well.
Romeo with a bit of information on the top floor.
Finding a CEO is clear, but of course as we have seen on open area with IMP that is not at all guaranteed
We saw a big pre-placed C4 from Hasa back in round 2
I'm feeling Black Dragon's gonna be wary of stepping in as aggressively as they did before
Yeah, Black Dragon's need to be a little bit more careful
Nothing darling, they could not have in the run of the T-Pherom Bank
They have one a couple rounds sure granted
but the shield is maybe starting to get a little bit more predictable for Imperial though
and now only looking facing up against it in the prep for the matchup. Imperial are in
finding increasing ways to deal with that. The Strout Law, the cusp of a little bit of pressure
inside of stock but it's swatched the open pick onto Sexy Cake, near taking some
hellish damage there from a strange angle. He fades away down through the hatch and
Another player dropping off that top floor.
Not quite top floor control yet though, asset.
Still leveraging.
His cancel wall being closed.
Still can just harass the top of this marble stair.
Mittre's harassing as well though.
The efforts from Black Dragon
still good enough to secure this advantage.
Mittre's the only one putting in the work for IMP
at the moment.
Looking to fall off down marble,
hoping he can get a kill on the way out,
but as the Monty needs his vision,
knows that he's not firing bullets through that shield.
He's providing some support down inside, but a kill for his efforts.
It's a 2v2 with some key seconds burned as Mitrex picks the thorn back up.
Swag smoking off the cross allows him to drop down into the site.
It's clear Rare will join as well, engling the shield tour of beepers.
As on this full 2v2, Black Dragons have secured control of the site.
As we can see, one defender moving his way back through stock.
Black Dragons, the reaction in turn.
Moving over to cap A instead, one player dropping down the small office, moving in through tellers.
It's not enough to stop this plant, Rare, backing off with the full shield.
Only one gun for Black Dragons in this post, make that one pistol.
As Rare, the 1v2 has to bring it out.
Mitrix on for three, make me four kills if Rare goes down.
Low HP as well.
The worst position of Monty can be in a 1v1, at least you can pull them back.
But in a 1v2, they can surround you and chomp you to bits.
It's Mitrex for four coming out of the rehabs giving Imperial the lead.
It's a big gun in that really, isn't it, because there's a drone on Square Stairs.
I don't know exactly where on Square it was, but you could see it flashing up at the end
there.
A couple of players on the side of Black Dragon's watching that drone, knowing nowhere
that position was coming from.
But, I mean, you can't always blame it on the Monty in a lot of ways.
It's 2 vs 2 for a reason there, and you've got to try and get a kill.
I mean, to be fair, the 3 vs 2 where it starts to fall, isn't it, near gets
that all-important kill.
gets downed in the process, and blood dragons don't push it, which I was really surprised
about. I thought they'd try and capitalize on that, complete the kill, finish it off,
try and bait something out off the back of it, and avoid having to plant the diffuser,
avoid having to go through that risk of, you know, do you get it down? Do you die?
Do you have enough time? Are you going to get retaken on? Like, there was so much
space available for Imperial there to make their move, and we could see straight up
those moons there, straight into stock, all the way over to square side, for little
to no consequence really. The period walking away with the round. Black Dragons pulling
the ripcord now, trying their best to secure an equal half here. Timeout round 6 isn't
something we see too often but I think it speaks to how much Black Dragons are valuing
coming out of this at 3-3.
He's really ought to have attacked Timeout taken right before the sideswap. I mean,
really worried about the prospect of a bank defense understandably so. The attack
It's a very difficult side to make work
But we'll have this one then immediately into another pause and have the contractually obligated half-time time out
Contractually obligated just
They can make work who's CEO attack it's the only site that well
I mean
It's tenor even though I said it's been consistent so far
But they've only gone to it once all the back in round three using black dragons attacks attacked
It's been two tries of lockers two tries of open area
that ironic them the tech timeout gets taken to prep for the site you've already won and
just kind of compounds Oli's point even further.
The field of this round is of the utmost importance as we come out of the select phase.
No shields present?
No even.
I would say crazy execute ops Oli.
I mean we have the sends who's one of those but no gram, no capital.
It's just a little bit of intel, a little bit of execute utility but a lot of it.
specifically util clear for black dragons
It's one of the things that they're struggling with at the moment, isn't it?
Well, the bandaway, the cage, the bandaway, the
mirror, those are, you know, the cage's great utility, but it's not always something that you have to, you know, clear in a lot of ways
and with the hard-reached bands the way they are, the cage band is just falling flat on its face in a lot of ways
You need to be able to clear out some of this utility. A flora is gonna be crucial, seeing as Dami plays
Tons so far. I like the idea that they're bringing a little bit more here
Bloodraggers have overall been pretty good on that opening kill.
The conversion has been 50-50.
Four opening picks.
Two opening conversions, so two rounds converted into a round win, so...
I felt like they're the best team from playing from in front, but they definitely got the tools to do so.
Now, Smoke's hard to see from below.
Romeo is likely going to be utilising that Vendetta.
Fine, we'll see a little bit of fair-my-action, as already mentioned.
the most ideal choice but sometimes needs most it looks like square will be open this time it's
going to make the matrix feel a lot more heat especially if there's someone below that's going
to be banging through that floor or swag he's just gonna take it out of an angle that's why the
end judo with the 417 get the first two picks for black dragons often we see a direct take
through square like this but as they've taken out both the smoke and the azami two of the
the most problem defenders on this site taking aggressive positions in janitor
close on the double windows with utility like the toxic canisters and the
key was as well black dragons might have just got the perfect combination of
kills to make this round happen and they still have a minute to go plenty of
time to reset no need to get ahead of themselves back holding this angle
sexy cake found prone on the floor imperial are feeding themselves the
black dragons who are hungry coming out of the tax time out might just be
flawless if imperial aren't careful. Nier's might hop up and bang one through the barricade
of black dragons after taking a breather. Tie things up three to three.
Not too shabby there with the tie-up still. Imperial putting in a solid effort today
against black dragons who for all intents and purposes have been holding a pretty
substantially high position here among SAL teams so the honus is all on Imperial
to try to fight back and for Black Dragons to hold on to a top four position
but that slowly slips away as they're attacked is not going to to well it just
means Imperial's defense went even better than expected Maria something
that is not always the case on bank no in Brazil we were discussing this off
but in Brazil it's the bank is a map that it's slightly attack-cited so black
dragons just they knew that they should do the mills that they create out of this
attack and the word that I would use and for this game right now would be
adaptations for both of the teams adaptation and also gunfights most of
the rounds were decided by kills and then you have real mail for black
dragons killing a lot. But then you have near is killing a lot also in the 4k of metrics, a lot of gunfights from them. It's being a pretty interesting match to watch. Not gonna lie.
Absolutely so. And that's still only the first half in this bank map. And of course, we've seen bank quite a bit so far, even even today, especially the question is
enough. It's enough. Varieties, despise, you know what? Because you said that next game
we're going to do fortress. I know right now, all the links are very happy that I said that
and they were already over the moon to do a bank. They're very excited to do another
two fortresses to close out the way the day here today. However, it's all on imperial
to continue this on the attack.
The challenge is always how well can you organize your setup?
How well can you adapt and deal with roamers?
On a map like Bank where spreading around
is very good for defense.
Or BD are gonna just turtle and play the time.
Are they gonna bring the right ops for it?
Or are gonna get into Imperial's face?
I'm excited to find that out.
So we'll send it back to my favorite fortress casters,
Lynx and Ollie, enjoy.
two fortress casters always stumped when they get to a different map Ali for
team black dragons and Imperial you see them we see black dragons switch it up
right at the end mr. Outlaw no longer on the snake it feels wrong felt wrong
seeing him play the flores but they're able to tip one in the net now tie the
half black dragons on the defense and Imperial on the attack just to
refresh everybody. Just to refresh. Hero eSports playoff chances not looking all that great
but currently trying to claw themselves out of a relegation spot and a black dragon in
a similar position to Loos, trying to get as many points out of this map to secure themselves
in the top six.
And at the SWAT side swap, whilst it might be 3-3, Imperial do come in with their
tactical timeout in hand while Dragons burn theirs late in a desperate attempt to
salvage of three three-half and it really would felt like a salvage at times
despite of an opening pick, plenty enough times they weren't always able to
convert onto that. What cause we head to then?
A site that saw mixed results for both sides in the opening phase. Now with
Black Dragons on the defense, I mean you talk about the meat grinder approach
Look at this for a setup
To brow go yo little bit of trap in the thorn and then the big guns should be co-launcher
toxic babe canisters
You get a lot to get through here. Yes. Okay. The room is barely non-existent
You still gonna have a pretty tough time of things at once you start buying on that server gore and
The quicker the Imperial get there, the easier their chance is going to be, either that or
they can just hit some incredible shots, both can be churned, though it's possible, especially
if the sense is able to get in there and place the light screen and provide a little bit
of cover for their team to work behind.
Covering Mr. Outlaw currently sitting on top of the open area hatch.
Have some cover to ward off any engagements but as we often see, somewhere in the elevator
hatch, just playing their shoots a drone immediately falls back.
They want to take that meat grinder approach, black dragons don't want anybody dying on
the roam, the most they can afford is Guto.
on the blue stairs with that shotgun. Almost reaching the halfway point to Purell eSports
so the next thing they'll need to look towards will be the smoke on the blue stairs. Everything
else Black Dragon is going to be angled towards the site just waiting to launch that utility
with Imperial News End for a plant.
Smokes in a fairly good position right now. Not the Vulcan pack. Obviously the hatch
is open so whatever happens smoke isn't getting out of there alive it's all about getting
maximum value now. We're gonna see those Toxic Babe kinda starts for you, we're starting to see them sense out now.
And all the focus for Imperial is gonna be on dealing with that player. Even so, the monsters actually gonna drop, they might try and pinch him from both sides here.
It looks like that'll be the case. Toxic canister popped right as Guto goes down. Here's where the first bit.
The IMP started things off on the right notes. Sexycake also lurking down marble stairs where they see the Blackbeard in this position.
I think he just sees that the chomp is moving on the opposite side.
You can see one defender clearly worried about that position.
He'll reveal it.
He attacks on Gabe who can set the hate and swag passing away.
Oh, just shoots the C4 out of the air.
Nier's life saved, but I don't know if he can get it down.
No, yes, he can!
Burned away right at the last second.
With his dying breath, Nier puts Imperial in the post,
albeit at a disadvantage.
3D4 means Black Dragons know they can retake this top floor.
They've got the bodies to do it.
There's a two on two inside of open area.
Legacy with the DMR.
One player down below behind the server stacks.
Rear starts with the DPs.
One player sitting on it.
Mitrix downs one.
Rear swinging out for the trade.
Gets the timing on the Hibana.
Swag for the next up.
Just Hasa left in a 1v2.
Got with the blind up top.
Gets one down below.
They're both stacked on top of each other.
T'Chonka down two.
Hasa backing up with one second left.
That's it.
It's done.
No time for the Goyo.
It is done and dusted.
Hassa a 1v4 to bring up here at least for its first attack as a win
Probably the closest round we've seen so far today
How has Hassa gotten away with that one?
Essentially one versus three to win it for his team diffuser down
And body after body just stacked up for black dragons. They were just trying to shield one another
by themselves enough time to disable that diffuser. It was a great read. He had to go for the retake.
And Haster has only just gone away with it. You can see him taking damage as he's like scurrying
out a blue stairs, or scurrying up blue stairs, should I say. Trying to get away,
trying to get back up to the hatch. And time just doing the rest. You can't even blame
Black Dragons for the time because they moved very quickly as soon as the plant was down.
They were retaking, they were getting themselves up there, they were active.
A lot of it came down to, you know, really struggling to cover.
As Rare was obviously trying to disable that diffuser on the Tachanka,
he's got bodies watching him, people use a gunfight.
He's then forced off, gets the trade, but lost valuable seconds at that point.
Period.
Classic bank basement round.
That's how I like them to be, really tight, really close to the wire.
It's difficult to tell who's going to walk away with the round.
This Imperial at least for the first round of their attacks.
Moving on to the top floor here for round eight and they make it two.
Now the team has really stretched much of a lead.
There's not been anything separating these two so far.
It really could come all the way.
And I was about to say if anything wants to try and make it a little bit more workable
to Prize Imperial on this attack it could be a kind of spawn peak.
swinging out takes down the Hibana first up. Not exactly does a whole lot of hard
breaching on CEO, but what she does she is critically important. No more ex Kairos to
open up that Kanto wall. That's a huge boon for Black Dragons even though they
already invested Romeo those bandit batteries. They were anticipating her to
be alive for a little bit longer. You pick up for the defense who still have
so many tools available and hard to see how pure recovery will certainly
require a lot of effort. Yeah, someone's gonna have to, you know, go above and beyond at this
stage, aren't you? And especially when you're on your second top floor, you're gonna have
players out on the windows and you've really not got that extra man to commit to the windows.
Someone's gonna have to get active. To the moment, Black Dragons, they can just
chuck in. You don't need to expose themselves. Look at the positions everyone's playing
now, especially with them having a castle up. It seems very difficult indeed. Again,
canto wall wasn't opened in the first phase just due to the bands this time
it's the bandit that's really shutting it out Romeo in such a powerful position
hard right to check drones come up the capital fireball it's just not good
enough sexy cake falls and he grabs the second catcher there go on oh take him down legacy
ends the double kill and picks one up for himself he takes Guito down with
them. Stealing advantage here for Black Dragons is that initial push didn't work out for Imperial,
that man that they lost at the start comes back to haunt them. Swag, long range kill with the S&G 11,
takes legacy down. Hassa, stuck outside in the cold on the repel. 45 seconds, three kills to find.
Fuser, maybe recoverable. They don't fancy him getting much further than the top of this
spiral stair. I don't think so either. Especially with how well Black Dragons are
able to hold on already with a man advantage. Now a 3v1. Everybody train
towards the main stairs position. You'll spot one swag. We'll push him into the
grave. Black Dragons again tying things early on in the half. It has been a very
close back-and-forth game. Now all tied up once again between Black Dragons
and Imperial did have sexy cake disconnect. So my guess would be
like another fish breather.
Pause. Sorry. I'm just getting out and getting conditioned at this stage.
You know, fish, fish calm.
We should just start. We should start calling a rehearse that just fish.
Good, actually. Fish question mark, admin fish.
Hopefully it'll just be a quick reconnect for sexy cake.
Fortunately, it didn't impact the round.
It was all kind of already, you know, right in on the wall.
Again, no, a lot separating these two going blow for blow so far here on bank four four.
Actually, I have a, I have a, I have a funny story about a disconnect.
You willing to hear it by willing to hear?
Is it that bad?
Like, sure.
So this is God.
This is years ago now.
Like maybe 2021, 2022.
I don't think I, I don't think I was casting it.
I can't remember, but it was back when I was working like mainly T3, T2 stuff.
If anybody from NA is like an old head from like the 2020 days,
you know what story I'm going to tell.
So, I think it's a game that JJ's in, in fact.
Basically, it's a villa match down like six, four or something.
And the team that's in the floor, everybody dies.
It's a 1v5 and people start leaving the lobby.
They literally start leaving the lobby.
They're just so disgusted by what's occurred that can't bear to watch it
And so this guy's left alone
He's the only guy left on the team in the one before literally the only guy left in the lobby
And so we're we on the cast the people on the cast are just kind of like you know joking about it funny
Then he gets a kill we're like oh look he's got a kill want to be funny if he wins it wouldn't be funny
This whole team is left neglected to watch his the last remaining teammate. What'd it be funny if you won?
Right is to say that get another kill. Oh
shit like
What's going on here you marches down Ashborough stairs to kitchen dining defense hits the backstab through the site
Literally, I think lines up both remaining players with one spray
Plushes the round we have to re-host the lobby because everybody on his team had a left and didn't watch him clutch. We had to re-host the lobby
Because he clutched the one before none of his teammates believed he could and that is just like two three things in a picture, isn't it?
It's just like it's such a like it's part of the reason
I love amateur siege because like that's because you can't do that on the game day because you get fine
And you probably get dropped you can do that in t3 because thank you
What are you gonna do yeah make me make me still unemployed
Very true very true
Good old days though
Is I always think it's really funny to look back at players that you saw watched coming up in those times
Yeah, I mean, JJ's a great example of that. I mean, it's crazy that this is his, like,
second full year in the NAL. And, like, he was one of the first players I casted starting
in, like, spring of 2020. Like, I've been casting him for not six years, like, consecutively,
but he's been around as long as I have. And it's weird to think that, like, now
he's here, it's weird how, like, time, once you get enough time and you're seeing
how much like things might change but also the faces then end up creeping up and reappearing.
See, I think about that. Not necessarily like the sort of rookie to pro aspect,
but the faces that keep reappearing. I mean, Imperial's a good example of that for me, you know.
Obviously, sexy cake. Like, you know, he's been, had his time on liquid, you know, like,
arguably through, you know, some of Liquid's glory days maybe,
game we say like they're not been so hot lately and and obviously come down and
played a little played a little bit of tattoo got got himself on more of a
sort of project or you know fresh start team in a lot of ways and starting to
grind back up and it and you know what for as nice as it is for a bit of a
story it'd be a shame to see them go back down to that's it's really
getting relegated and well I mean between it's between Imperial and
to be one of them. You know,
one of them is going to be
dropped out. The relegation
fear is science creeping and,
you know, it's kind of fear from
both ends of the spectrum, right?
You got the fear of qualification
to a soccer for the top teams
for the middling teams. You've
got the fear of SI
qualification. Are we going to
make it? Are we not? And then
for the for the lower down
teams of which there are only
a handful. It's it's you know,
to and have to grind our way back up and deal with a potential disband or whatever drama
always sort of follows and comes along with those sorts of things.
Black Dragons though not in that position, they are very much looking for qualification
here and it's eminently possible.
We're yet to see all of our games yet today so we've not got a really full picture
as to the score and how things are all sort of leading but they're currently
sat in fourth place, 11 points low, also in fifth place with 11 points, but losing on the
round difference and obviously the closer your game is, the less of a round difference there
is going to be. So even if you don't have, you know, you could have a great round difference
and win 7-0 and obviously you got a plus 7, if you go max-0-t you may only win by, you
know, plus one. It just is the way of the world and the way of the round if
But at the moment, Black Dragons sat in fourth.
Of course, still more games yet to come today.
Loose losing at the start of the day
is giving them a little bit of a boost,
and they aren't going to be getting caught by them.
But Fluxo W, you said them, are snapping at the heels.
And that is the game that is going to be coming up after this one.
We're still going to, I imagine, a bit of this one to come,
though, given that it's 4-4.
And it's basically screaming over time to me,
as loud as any game ever has.
but the fluxo game that is coming up is an important one too.
Yeah, it should be good one against theory as well, especially a Flux of W7M can build off of the improvements,
but off the game that we saw they play against Team Liquid Alienware yesterday,
it's an 8-6 victory on Fortress,
get themselves two points to really keep them meaningfully in playoff contention,
that plus the combination of Lucky 5 dropping all three points against INTZ,
has basically catapulted Flux of W7M into a very real chance,
still not overwhelmingly likely, but a very real chance at securing that playoff spot
be in the fifth or the sixth place position.
Had to have doing Black Dragons and IMP could honestly look pretty similar for any
other team in the league, Imperial eSports.
This is their most successful stage they have had of the year so far and are
looking to get as many points as they can get their hands on to escape
relegations on the opposite side.
Black Dragons as we've had our top three spots will not confirm, but three
our top four teams figured out phase clan furia and team liquid alienware
looking and trying to get three points and build a bit of a gap between themselves and los after
the latter's earlier loss to i m tz thank you for bearing with us again sexy cave not only
backing tier one and making his re-entry back on enx a couple years ago back in the lobby as
well moving down to lockers and cctv for our next defense black dragons again want to make
sure we get as, want to make sure we get as much of the basement as possible after being
deprived of it in the live game earlier.
Yeah deprived of really seeing it, we saw the site play but we didn't always see everything
go down on the basement and that's where we want it because that's where you get your
close rounds, that's where you get your nail bite and finishes, that's where you get
your buzzer beta, either plants or disables, and aside you want, if you want action
and you want a little bit of tense gameplay to watch this is where you want to be.
line up again it's there is the recipe for success isn't it it's what's worked
well the black dragons down here previously
despite the fact that has to be clutched the one versus three I would still say
that it worked well you can't say that you know the plan didn't work because
you got one versus three against that's just down to gunfight it's individual
but a look all those sorts of things flow into it but the overarching result
was that you had three players live there, one, you should be winning that. So you run
it back and play better in the moment. Nice nade. Guarantees that swag is forced out of
that elevator position. I mean, the win condition for that elevator genuinely seems to be shoot
one drone and drop. If you can waste a little bit more time and if that drone comes through
a little bit earlier, you might be tempted to play it there a touch longer. And for
all the black dragons did have a fairly successful defensive hold again regardless of the fact that they lost it I would
have liked to see a little bit more out of the smoke player on blue stairs and I think there's
potential to use those casters a little bit more aggressively you've got the Vulcan packs you've
got the Chashankishumikas to lean back into you know you're gonna be getting pushed by the Monty
should be feeling a little bit more willing to get those canisters out there and at least burn
the time and then you're not left with one in your pocket going down.
Keep going down.
Here's making his way down on the bottom floor.
As with this double shield lineup, could take things trick but looking like it's going to be a pretty normal
Locker's server plant attempt or server plant attempt, excuse me.
He is not with the diffuser instead of gonna provide cover for likely somebody in this case, Mitrex to walk in behind to put that diffuser down
Conversely, Shumika's being drained out
Moment Rare sees Mitrex move in thinks he can start lighting it on fire, but Mitrex no
survives for a hell of a long time, but
Rare starts dumping Shumika's into that spot C4 launched in turn and that two-man plant attempts now
unfortunately falters the user dropped inside the site and though while there is
still some utility and we're going down there is much less of it than there were
before Guto is focused on planting the toxic canisters at the bottom of Marvel
stairs last one goes out will not force sexy cake back as with one air and shot
through the smoke ends up down a swag on the bottom of elevator also picks
up the diffuser right back in hand but legacy loses a 1v1 the TCSG look at
how aggressively Guto moves up into the locker's site. Unfortunately for Imperial, a quick recovery
that nice little rotation down the hatch not working out as Sexy Cave has been struggling
to move beyond marble will die inside of the site. Long time since then the Black Dragons
will pick up two defenses in a row, one on CEO and a second on lockers.
Yeah, for the first time as well for Black Dragons starting to find their stride a
little bit on this defense and I'm gonna have to correct myself. I called for Guto to
stay on those blue stairs a little bit longer. I thought he was going to get a bit of support
potentially from his team. I thought the two brawlers maybe going to look after the hatch
for a little bit and he could utilize his canisters and really play there for a while.
Instead it was it wasn't quite a bait but it was just a little bit of presence being shown.
He drops back, gets himself into a brilliant position in red corridor
and keeps holding the canisters. The plant had gone down, it had been stopped.
That just missed the C4 by the way. I'm not sure if you're on cooldown or what but that should not be happening
I couldn't believe there's two canisters and the diffuser is dead on the floor
Now that's probably the best position to be in as the smoke because where's the rest of the push coming from?
Probably me instead probably marble like just send you canisters there and it's exactly what he did
That and the fancy footwork getting himself back in towards side a little bit of s and g11 action
It was just that the path in was fantastic second to none Imperial choosing to use their time out a lot earlier than we saw black dragons use it in their
phase of attacks
Maybe they're hoping for a little bit more value out of it
They've lost two on the bounce now upstairs and downstairs and don't forget the first time that they attack downstairs
It came down to a one versus three. It's the attack so far from Imperial
Haven't been the most convincing bar a clutch
We need a little bit more of them and this was maybe one of the worries in coming steps and preference map in bank
Because they're attacking when percent on it is pretty low work around 25 percent around a quarter
We don't want to be we're not really stupid much lower than that
They need to come up with some results may need to do it quickly open area is gonna be their chance to do that
And you can think and you could think of ways at least on something similar to the line of they have I mean
obviously with open area you're gonna have a bit of a second floor defense you
could take that a bit more direct but then she may be lurking around main
lobby you that Soliton scanner sexy kid getting some push into out of the wild
would do this every time I was like you know I don't I haven't talked about the
ops in the prep phase for a while what are the odds they completely shifted
this go around like surely I can you know make some kind of coherent point
before they swap by the way I just let and like pull that why do you think
I think I picked the snake. Why do you think I picked that operator?
I was like, gone for the safest bet.
If anybody in this lineup is staying, it's got to be the snake.
No, especially I was so confident in sticking with the snake.
I saw them pick demos and like, oh, I'm in the clear.
I'm killing, we're all good.
Yeah, you're expanded on this point about how it's going to be all in town.
No, no.
I'm like, I just give them the go ahead with that demo.
God damn it.
We're bringing the, we're bringing the twitch because there's,
There's a couple of traps kicking around and we don't want to get you good pick good pick
But it's like you say I mean every sack something else off. You need double heart breach
Just watch the whole bank with like barely any heart breach. I don't know if we need it. I'll imagine it. Yeah, double heart breach on a
Well, I mean there's open area what you you want to open up the canto wall and then you also want to get a
You know what the square wall open what one maybe yeah
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're asking a lot from attacks that, you know, as we mentioned, haven't
been, you know, sort of, that complete so far. You mentioned no cancel wall is open. So it's
going to give the players upstairs something to think about when they want to rotate back
and they are less likely to hang around if they decide that they're moving or dropping
down, then they're likely going to commit to that and the potential for a retake is
slim.
A lot of hinges on this opening pick because you lose the opening pick, then you lose
the ability to have a player out there on that repellent while the wall being open that is,
you know, out of point no reason. Romeo, grabbing that opening pick as if on Q the ram. Although
one of the safe ways to open the vert is still somewhat predictable and C4 kills onto that CEO
room are increasingly common. Especially if you've got a slightly slower than ideal
Deimos living out and sweeping that ground floor, sweeping that tellers and archives area.
You're going to be allowing people to get little preplaces going.
I have a thing, it might be a bit of a missed opportunity with the position that Hasa had inside of uh,
inside of Tellers. Maybe it prevented that, maybe even got a 5e4 favoring Imperial, but
not the world we live in. Has mounted a successful arc into this middle four position, but
there was an actual thrust to the site, they're kind of few and far between for Black Dragons at the moment.
They know that there's players in tellers and archives. They're aware of that presence. It seems they've accepted it
He's bringing out likely thought they are going to try to open the quad while this will clear out the port position
Where I was about to say what to play further back
But I just powered him up on that long angle legacy goes down to the MP7 he even swings out moves into electrical
See if Imperial anticipate this opposition or even if it'll be relevant by the end as black dragons
retaking square for literally no reason and completely
decimating Imperial as they go forward rare on for three kills and black
dragons on that point. I mean we're getting a couple of kills there just from
inside of electrical no one has single clue there is that door wasn't open
there was zero fancy pressure I'm not saying that a snake would have changed
the entire game in the round but you need a little bit more don't you
know if you're struggling on your own game you're struggling on your clay
you're struggling on your drones you need to be clear in what Black Dragons are
setting up right now. Imperial for me haven't been up scratch so far on the
attacks and if it continues the way that we've seen so far after the timeout by
the way as well they've burned that and that really hasn't changed too much
if anything you might be about to reach the conclusion right here right now
Black Dragons on six points guaranteeing themselves a point in the
I'm looking to walk away with a full three and further widen the gap in that midfield of the table
It's a cuz up to the top floor and guess what it's gonna keep playing their old tricks
They don't need to be over complicating things couple of traps a little bit of hard breached now because that seems to be the focus from
Imperial rightly all wrongly and I think if you look at the score
You maybe think wrongly have you tunneling a little bit too much on this hard breach
Having to bring the fact and choosing now to bring the thermite sacking off the age bringing the lion
Still worry about the lineup are still worried for you know as the information
How are you gonna be getting that opening pick because it's something that have been plaguing them so far to the switching sides
As with pointing out by the way that the black dragons are able to win this round secure the full three points
They will not secure playoffs, but basically depending on the results today
So they could end the playday having secured playoffs, I believe the Fluxy W7M only come away with their matchup with one point.
I think basically that'll secure them some placing in the top six, though where exactly they land is entirely certain.
The three points would basically make things almost done for Black Dragons and get themselves a top six spot.
Just one more round might separate them from that fate.
You already see some Imperial presence inside trying to open up the square wall.
First time you've seen this kind of attack from Imperial on the CEO.
They're all up and down the low HP, they're not finished off.
See the prep impact trick from Black Dragon Spotters.
The player's down below.
That's a nice find by Hasa.
Good reactivity from Imperial.
Good to see them get the opening pick.
It's been desperately needed here so far.
The only round they've done well on the attack is the round we've got that opening
pick. Swag, a lot of information available for him on his solid scanner. Mr. Outlaw, arguably
the player in the hot seat right now. Gonna line over onto Stark. Ooh, an attempt to the
Planted Eye. It's gonna come down to impact. Near. Taken out before he can mail it down
and with a razor bloom kill as well. Imperial can't buy any luck tonight.
Physicians, the utilities from Black Dragon's just too strong right now. Diffuser stuck
inside the CEO wall as well.
Hasa should be able to duck in at least and maybe get it.
Of course, there's this concern about Mr. Outlaw
on the cross with such low HP.
I couldn't see a 3v3 going untreated right here.
Mr. Outlaw isn't careful.
Oh, but the timing.
Hasa looking at the roll right as the thorn crosses.
Still might think Mr. Outlaw is outside of them being.
I'm not even sure if Sebs to take those either.
It gets a trade as well.
Beautiful crosshair placement from Mr. Outlaw.
overperforming his one HP, and that just about seals it for Imperial.
Next to cake, we highlight him earlier as a man who's been around the block
and fought his way back, and yet he still finds himself in a relegation spot.
One more matchup next week, but Black Dragons with all three points,
all buck-securing playoffs.
Raren Romeo going toe to toe there, 11 and six at peace.
I think I'm going to go
back to the game. I'm going to
go back to the game. I'm going
to go back to the game. Big
performance there. Not one that
we always see out of rare either.
You could say it was a rare
performance, but now jokes
aside, played fantastically
well as he always does. It's
just not always on the kill
feed. A big, big night for
black dragons and you know a
little bit of salt in the
wound for Imperial and I think
no no handoff just statement of fact and that's kind of the statement of fact that we just got
in this matchup things continue to get darker and darker for Imperial and has to come down to
the final playday where they play against INTZ Maria but on the other side it's three points and
a bit higher up in the standings for Black Dragons a good day for them I guess. Yeah it's
really good. Remember that I said I was sniffing Black Triton's victory? Now, no we have it.
What can we talk about this game, Malish? Like we said, most of the round were being decided by
Genified in the first half. But it was a very back and forth game. In the first half, if we
take a closer look how was going is that in five rounds we had the individuality of someone from
imperial showing up when they were defending we had 3k from hasaki 3k from nears from legacy and
matrix did the 4k but once once we hit round seven imperial just started to have struggle to attack
many problems. Also to follow up with the after plant and they did a successful
plant but almost went wrong almost they also had a lack of intel which is
great because the casters were talking about the winged hate for attack for
Imperial they have something around again 20% and they managed to do most of
the rounds in defense in a map that is slightly attack sided like we said and then you ask
yourself oh so their defense win rate must be really high, it must be really good, no
it's also around 20% so this is such a crazy game from imperial not crazy in a good way
I could say it's just I was kinda lost sometimes and something that is fun here is that most
Most of the opening kills were from Black Dragons because you know what Black Dragons
like to do.
They sometimes like to force the early game with the opening kill to see how the other
team reacts, how is their pace, how do they respond and they got the info, they worked
with that and that's why we now have a victory from them and also many other reasons.
But Black Dragons did their best job.
Imperial helped. They tried their best now up there in there but still it was the 7-4 for Black
Dragons. Rare and Romeo putting up numbers up there. They're pretty close between them.
You kind of toss a coin as who the MVP would be between Rare and Romeo because they both
gave all that they could for this matchup and this victory right here. Question for
Imperial is what they do in the future. That's something we'll look to answer next weekend.
For Black Dragons, they're going to be super happy with this result. Three extra points puts them
higher up in the standing. Kind of trying to recover from issues that they had had before.
Of course, Lost was able to overtake them for just a moment. No longer the case as BD is now
over them and they're gonna be very happy with that result MVP again it
could be rare or Romeo it's rare as I guess all he was alluding to it it could
be rare at times where he's putting up the numbers as he did today but he's
more it's today he was more mustache than to say that he's putting up he
is putting in the performance that was needed. I was very jealous of the way that he grows
the mustache in the sense that he has. It reminds me of the guy, and you will know exactly
what I mean, the Brazilian guy who sings and anime songs to sell cheese.
Okay, I've seen that on TikTok.
You know exactly what I mean.
Yes, yes, I know, indeed sir.
is one of my favorite Brazilians. I just have to say it. Imagine just to lay it out there
for those that their Instagram has or at least their algorithms in general have not really
hit Brazil just yet. You're missing out on this. You really are because Brazilian Instagram
is really wonderful. But this is someone who goes around in their town. They make cheese
and they want to sell it and what they did very much respect the hustle here. Imagine
they're singing the intro to Dragon Ball Z or to Sailor Moon, but in Portuguese and changing the words as they describe how good their cheese is so they can sell it.
That's kind of what Bob Dragon's worth today. That's how rare it was, and they sold the cheese. I tell you what, call me Mr. Mouse because I'm buying every bit of it.
And they got all three points from the end of today. Our break is ready. That will save me from delving even deeper into this very niche subject.
Let's take a break. Why don't we get back? It's time for liquid reverse. Well, no, that's the last one not yet
The unlucky five are coming later. It's faster than that versus fury
Nice, let's jam, yeah, give it a chance, give it a chance
Sound of the hit of the car
It's not coming in the middle of the sound
Ah, it's not coming in the middle of the sound, then
I don't know how to do it.
I'm not sure if it's a rock or a rock.
I'm not sure if it's a rock.
I'm not sure if it's a rock.
The channel.
Tanninsis Meralda.
Barque Temático, too.
Casima.
Jotback.
AriaCel.
Caveira.
Caveira.
Thunderbird.
Thunderbird.
Frost.
Rook, too.
Rook, too.
Penova.
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Elevate.
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Isurus.
Nex.
NX.
Urbele, Jacaré, Cavalo.
Cabra, jacaré, leão, veado, galinha, 18, 10 reais.
20?
20.
Just for the price.
10, 15 reais is always good.
8, 9, 8.
More than 10.
Three times, but with the most remarkable ones, it was Vegas, right?
I think there's a lot of villains, maybe Wardes, who are always giving trash to the guys.
And despite the trash being a very strong villain, who is always being boring and always being able to get there.
So Wardes.
Bro, let's put me on the villain there.
Does anyone like me?
Quadruple.
Quadruple.
Quadruple.
So I think Quadruple is the only one.
in the village, no one likes me
Codjuvante
Codjuvante
I think Codjuvante is the only one
because the guys from FaZe are all very good players
but they talk more about VitaKing
and the hand of Cyber
and I think Codjuvante is very good
I think Codjuvante is a good player
I think Falaria is open
he is the guy behind the cameras
together with Steph
obviously Igor is the main player
but Falaria is open
All the teams that made this match are crazy.
Is the artist misunderstood?
I think I'm already seeing 9-2.
He's always trying to innovate, to be creative.
And the guys, he's like a joke.
He's never taken me seriously.
What about the cut?
Ah, the cut was 9-2, it was his career.
The cut is imperial, I think.
I always lose to everyone there.
I only do my little graces there.
Then I go back to Tanger, I try to be new.
I think it's imperial.
It can be a liquid, it can be a TZ, imperial.
It's super cool, but I don't know what it is.
It can be a Paris, it's really good too.
I would say the Gabbuz.
I don't think it's going to fit in the reason,
otherwise I'm going to end up spawning my player.
So, let it go.
you say to me?
Flux of double section, yes.
You have the Brazilian spirit in you, Malish.
This is really good.
I'm sorry, in my head, I'm still hearing Ian introducing things
on stage with Leo and with Nevy and saying W said to Amy.
It always stays in me.
There's something, buy your tickets, go to SI in Brazil
because if you've never experienced it, you have to.
but yes you were saying Marie. Yeah no you already said about the SI we're gonna have again here in
Brazil in São Paulo my city so you are all guys welcome to visit São Paulo and to eat what?
Pão de Queijo. Pão de Queijo. Cheeseburgs. You can everything to Brazil now is the time
to just meet our beautiful country our beautiful city São Paulo and to enjoy of course
really good Siege that we're gonna put out for it. If you like beans, if you like the barbecue, if you like beans and rice with
barbecue, if you like great fruits, and if you love Siege, you have to go to Brazil. Come to Brazil before Brazil comes to you.
And I'm very honest, Brazil has been going everywhere and being everybody in Siege. So it's time for you to pay a visit to it.
We're actually, we don't get any kickbacks for promoting the event. We just really want you to go because yeah, I feel like this is this is
one that you really do not want to miss.
However, this is also a game you don't want to miss
because Fluxo W7M are on the up and up.
Big surprises from the team.
And I would say that yesterday they're able to jump up
into the top six and have a fighting chance
to go to playoffs.
And what did they do yesterday?
And you might be asking, will they beat Liquid
in overtime, eight to six?
A crazy matchup with Fluxo.
I mean, they beat IE to that last week.
That was crazy.
They pushed lost to the edge and got a point out of it.
And yesterday they get two points out of defeating Liquid in OT.
They're going to be pretty happy with that result.
But they need a tiny bit more.
Today they play against Fiora.
Next week against Loud.
There is the possibility of getting at least three points
out of this, but if they get even one point
against Fiora today, that would be huge,
let alone defeating them.
it in regulation or OT Maria. Yes, and after that game against Liquid Dots
said on Twitter, we are finding ourselves as a team in little by little we are building
our identity in game. Another thing is my individual performance. I know I'm below where
I should be, but I will groove and bounce back. The only thing I ask from those of
you who support the team and support me is to trust me. I like this, I like this how he takes
their responsibility and says yes, take it all on me and let's go. Yeah, it's yeah.
Now it's just that when we talk about individuality, this is not only the problem here because we
We were talking off camera, Mylush, about fantasy, how he's not being able to be the
fantasy that we used to see in NIP.
In Brazil, we have this nickname for him that it's dogmau, which means literally bad dog.
Because in NIP, he would be like a dog chasing after enemies and going for the kills.
Very unleashed.
You unleash the dog and he goes and he kills.
This was his job in NIP.
Now, is he truly feeling like the dog mouth?
He has always been.
We don't know.
We don't feel like.
And if we have the opportunity to talk about that with him,
I'm surely gonna ask.
Palu, in the other hand, is still a key player
to whatever team he plays in.
He is very ahead in EPS compared to the rest of the team.
We need to have an aisle for him.
And this is not something meant to be good
because you only have Pallu doing a really good game.
You won the group, the team, as everybody to do well.
It's not happening for Fluxo.
That's why they are having so many ups and downs.
Absolutely, everybody needs to be completely locked in
for matches like this.
In general, they have to be if they want to make it
to the playoffs, right?
But it's so, so important to make it happen
right here, right?
It's a big, big matchup against Teria, no matter how you cut him, man, it's here right now,
dear.
It went absolutely nuclear yesterday.
Street punches, especially that final one, practically a 1v5 to win it out with a yellow
team to give him all the input immediately at the end of the day, to defeat FaZe.
Not only did they beat FaZe, it was on Lair, a tactical match-up piece of a matchup.
You absolutely have to go back and re-watch during the weekend that's set up, yes,
for the final play of the group stage here in SAL.
Well, they beat them seven to five,
which means all three points went the way of Fiora.
Should they win today, they would jump up still
in the standings.
They would basically be tied for first and second place
between them and face plan, which would be huge.
They want to remain in there.
They see themselves as there.
We saw that they're on equal footing at EWC,
but on land, the longer a game goes,
The more phases experience wins it out, and that's where Furia come in.
It seems like it's inevitable for Furia to win an event, and we're just looking, trying
to peer into the future through that shroud and see where they actually are.
Fluxer W7M right now have not had great results in kickoff, they've placed 6, they
were able to kind of do something here and there, qualify for Salt Lake City, fair enough.
Stage 1, 7th place, no way for them to make it to playoffs.
What do Furia do?
They were just, but actually they didn't make it to Salt Lake City, scratch that, I'm
kind of mistaken of Furia, but kickoff, first place, they go to Salt Lake City, they shit
a bit, didn't go well for Furia, it's fine, they were just put together.
second place what did they do at EWC after they qualified they make it to the grand final and they played as
that team face clan in a great matchup where they lose but where they dominate every other matchup that they played
Maria and it seems like Volps is a big key in not just the existence of the team but their success so far
having been formed just after the indication of this year.
yep the way also that he left hook so I bad pay pay that there is something going
on of course I'm not gonna take this whole but you see the results they talk
for themselves and we need to also guys here you with one over face clean face
clean had their first loss yesterday for them and they did a pretty good
job, their individuality show up when they needed to. And now they're going to face
his ex-team, which he knows how it works, even though they had changes, the core is still there.
Maybe it's also a lead with the law of the ex when you play against your former team.
sometimes I'm bringing so much and so many Brazilians lengths today sorry guys
but it's a lady who is when you play against your forming team former team
like I said so you know some info that it's crucial you just know how they
work but now looks so two pieces change it but still something is still there
they're not there's no possibility for you to change the whole thing from
one stage to another. This might help Furia to win over them. But it's not only that.
Overall, Furia, they are playing better. Diaz, the clutch came to it yesterday. Didn't
have Lera, Herz, Voxera, Vops, everybody. Just win the pass they can. This is Furia.
Yeah, and you go on boarder, where they even end the choices between clubhouse and boarder.
A map or a clubhouse, first of all, it's fundamentals. Furia can absolutely exploit
but what they're gonna do is go on a aggressive map.
For a boarder, strategically speaking,
there's not a lot that you need to show.
It's more about play your own game, have the confidence.
What did we see out of Fiora yesterday?
Oosing confidence is what we got.
And if they're able to continue with that
from yesterday's win against FaZe
into today's matchup against Fluxo,
I think we're gonna have a tough time here
watching how Fluxo fumble it,
but you gotta have a bag before you fumble it
and we gotta have casters before we get into game.
So, Lynx, Ollie, take it away.
I was gonna say, I'm thoroughly eager for this matchup.
My most anticipated today, Ollie,
I believe it is yours as well.
Both of these teams coming off of victories
and both against really solid opponents,
Fury taking on FaZe Clan seven to five,
Fluxer W7M eight to six over Team Liquid Alienware.
Probably the best result we could have
with Fluxer W7M going into a day against Fury
and on border nonetheless, at least based off the map selection, it is not disappointing so far.
We're getting treated tonight!
We are getting...
I think Wyngen died right now by these two teams.
We really are! We've been a little bit fine.
A little bit forward, just now we get a little bit border.
It's a little bit whiplashy in some ways, because I'm expecting this to be, you know, pretty hot and heavy between these two heavy hitters,
especially knowing what's on the line here tonight.
Fluxo, really looking for a performance here, Furia looking to build on previous successes,
the success that they had yesterday against FaZe, obviously the season for Fluxo speaks
for itself so far doesn't it, it feels like a team that's too big to fail and yet it's
not really performing to the standard that we expect, now you know new players have
come in and we've seen already over stage 2 there has been a little bit of a shift
up but you do just expect a little bit more out of these five players are they
gonna show it us here tonight looks like they're framing up something very
direct right now he's got factors being drawn and Monty's primed ready to hop
in the window I know how this fancy on the glass I mean this C4 is lined up
to perfection from box era.
Lanz goes over top lands the C4 directly on to fancy but that's not the
player getting the diffuser down dots good for it dots great for it in fact
he's working out quite nicely bulbus might get the knife kill a double in fact
in the diffuse soon after trying his best 50% there but that's what the fire
bolts are for pull back out gates great with that utility as Julia forced off
the deep use for just a few key seconds lobin hops up bolts now down for
the count against his former team lobin gets it for the first kill with a
that you're in the game trying their best to keep things nailed down as a crazy reaction
from Paul who on the 612 and that might just be enough for Flux of W7M out the gate. Indeed
it will a quick plant for Flux of W7M to get one on the board against Furia. Well, it's
one way to, you know, make a bit of a statement at the start of a match, isn't it? Fluxo
a very clear idea of how they wanted to execute that round one, what sort of pace
they wanted to bring to the table tonight. Getting themselves straight in, no messing around.
I'll be honest, Lingz, I thought the C4, I thought, you know what? Fair play. There's a bit of a
prediction going on there. Furia, they weren't entirely unaware of that worthy. The C4 from
Boxer was proof enough that it was somewhat expecting it. But as much as you expect things,
sometimes, when the moment comes, there's still nothing that you can really do about it.
If that plant's going down and there's sufficient cover being laid down,
it's gonna be a tricky one to get away from.
One round though does not make a full game.
And Fluxo, they shouldn't get away with quick plants and quick plays all night.
I'm not saying that they won't, these stranger things have happened.
And I'm expecting to see a little bit more of an exchange between these two
and not just look so bulldozer in themselves straight over Fiora.
Now that would be probably the biggest surprise of the night
if this was Flux of W7M completely steamrolling Fiora,
especially after what Fiora were able to accomplish yesterday.
I don't even know how we could set that one up.
Oh, excuse me, I thought,
I thought that was her getting the kill
on somebody moving through Breakdoor,
instead that was Dotz getting the first frag on the Loira.
54, BW7M pretty quickly. Olseim letting a toxic canister fly early just to ward the
attacker off of the break doorway.
BW7M, if they get in that pick or just seem to blink in and moving right along, how much
else they can do?
We'll just go about the rest of their take out of 5E4 and see what the rest of this
defense has to offer.
I guess almost a veteran Siege fans at this point, 444 is fairly synonymous with one player
and one player only.
Maybe just trying to embody some of that aim here tonight.
It's not doing any good though.
split it in round two.
The first one in round one as well actually,
he's really not seen too much action.
Ooh, that's a nice find, Volts.
Potential difference maker in these two teams as well.
Able to get rid of the Selma,
Doc's having a bit of a harder time now
of really making a little bit of progress.
This is what we wanted to see.
We wanted to see,
looks like we'll come up against
a little bit of opposition.
Ooh, just getting away with it,
but finished off by Fancy,
being immediately traded out blow for blow but that opening kill still gives the advantage here
to Fluxo finding lawyer out on his own early doors will continue to pay dividends as long as these
kills go traded. Just moving measured through the map as well identifying one particular player
converging in that position with the advantage herds might just be the next target if he's not
careful look at this holy god looking down straight on the east stairs that was such a nice
opportunity, but that's not giving
enough of himself up to give the kill
to the thorn instead. I mean, half
hazardly sprays through the wall,
puts herds down on the floor, bugs
are a fall soon after. Yes, he's won
a couple of crazy clutches in the
past couple of days, but right now
flux. Flux of W7M looking hot on
border with two rounds in a row.
I really enjoy when we get to see
the final kill like that. And if
we've not seen it with the overlay
and you just get to watch someone
just open the head level. They're going to find something. They're going to find a little bit of damage. So it's always always fun to see tactical time out here. Early doors from Furia. They are not taking any chances. They do not like what they see.
Fluxo have come with pace and then they've also came with nice tempered
aggression and kind of just chipping away still couldn't up against obstacles but
one thing's remained true over the first two rounds and that is that opening
pick. Lobin incredible performance so far four and zero right now and they're
leading from the front here tonight. From a furious perspective are they
hoping just to knock a little bit of wind out of the sales links because you
what do they do against this level of aggression? This is why a border can be such a good map for
an aggressive attacking team because rounds really can just come that easily. There's not many places
to hide. Well, and especially if the opening kill is going to come that easy. I mean, lawyers obviously
got on first both times, but the first one was a bit more of a rush, right? Like, depending on
who gets the opening pick, sure it might matter, but if the plan goes down, that's really
the more important indicator. But that second round, I mean, the first pick, I mean,
I mean, they barely even had to work at all for him.
Laura swings out the door, immediately shut down.
I think Fiora not only maybe hoping to take the win out of their sales, but also like,
oh, okay.
Luxo W7M a bit more on point than we thought.
I thought maybe we could heat check, play with a bit of confidence and ego out the
gate, but that is clearly not the case so far.
Luxo W7M are one, ready for Fiora's tricks, and two, and if they might catch them
off guard like Herds did, but they play over by East Stairs, they'll be recovering,
Whether it's by skill or luck, you'll be able to get one over on one of the better teams inside of the S.A.L.
Coming out with attack timeout, it is a complete fortress being built by Fyria Castle Barricades,
mirror windows, even got electroclaws in the process for Fyria, who are just trying to create as hard a setup as they could possibly get on Armory.
Yeah, they're just trying to buy themselves time, aren't they?
Get a couple of those architect operators out there, get some Castle Barricades, reduce some of the angles
The Fluxo are going to be able to utilize and Fluxo's response equally well measured
You've got to sit there and think sometimes right what if we've been we've been really aggressive
What are they likely gonna do they're likely gonna try and shut us out how we're gonna deal with that bring tools
Bring things like the Cali bring things like the book
Start to change up the angle a little bit. We've not seen too much for it so far now
We've got two great ver operators being brought here by Fluxo fancy planes of fear lobin lobin playing on the book
They can get in there and make a little bit of something happen, especially seeing Herds
caught out on the drone, I tell you what, Fancy doesn't need too much of an introduction
does he?
We know who he is at this point, second opening pick of the map so far, I'm a lawyer
on round one and on the Herds in round three, another round as well, three in a row that
Fury have been down four to five to start, I can't figure a team that's gonna hate
being down an opening pick more than Fury inside of this league.
Halu gunning for a second, but...
Oops!
Moving his way through 90, taking cover behind her...
Indestructible wall.
Over and down below, trying to get a nice vertical angle onto that rotate into fountain.
At the moment, more work still has to be done by Flux to W7
and if they want to push in the core nucleus of here is defense, he's still solid and nothing even the vertical play.
Nothing really working that well so far.
Struggling a little bit aren't they? This vert isn't making things too much easier.
Lawyer still struggling to find that scoreboard taken out by Dots.
Finished off by the Cali on the long angle.
Great response though. Down and a confirm.
Bogsera good for two kills in the round. Level things up at an important juncture.
At 50 second mark. Position now known and fancy.
Gonna search him out here. Tryna block him off from the rest of the team.
Big kill from D.S. to coming onto Dots. He was the danger man yesterday.
For Bog's air and fancy, blow for blow right now, both on three kills.
Bog, a chance for a fourth.
Lobin needs to try and break these up and he will.
Diaz first to fall, pre-fighters onto the wall.
He can draw for the skeleton key for the closed range, but thinks better of it.
25 seconds.
Diffuser, recoverable right now.
Little bit of drone information available for Hates too.
Might try and bait this out as a plan.
I just try to go for it.
Has the time as well, but no!
A pre-fire instead!
just around the corner of the bomb chassis, open good for it, 1v2, no bait required.
And we were worried about Fluxo W7M steam rolling fury, I worried because how would we possibly know what to do with that if it presented itself to us?
Well it might be a 1vx out of the tack timeout, Fluxo W7M with three rounds in a row, two on the primary site.
Ali, if things weren't looking bad for Furia, they might just be now.
Things looking pretty poor, aren't they?
After the timeout losing a round like that, it brought an entirely new look to the lineup
as well.
You know, we saw the introduction of the mirror, we saw them drop things like the
Ella, we saw them drop the Goyo, bring the castle.
It's at that point as a team that you start to feel, what can we do here to
win a round?
What difference can we make in the server because we're just losing it every single turn?
Timeout burn three rounds down
There's not many places that you can look to try and find rounds here on border
It's not like you're on a map where you know, we talk about all the sites being viable
You know, you're really looking towards that armory
That bathroom maybe even workshop and even then how similarly do they all play out?
Bombsite is a formality on boarder, it doesn't tend to matter too much, a lot of it happens in the same hot areas, a lot of it happens in office, a lot of it happens in CCTV.
There a bit of it can happen inside a custom, especially if players are trying to do vert and what goes on toward east stairs.
Just regarding to hold these areas, site is largely irrelevant.
Oh, kept in place by a couple different sprays, consistently playing this 90 position.
Be familiar territory for him, albeit on a different site as I mentioned, site doesn't
tend to matter, but early ventilation and workshop between these two teams, but you're
still gonna have 90 defendants, don't have only defended, still gonna have some players
on the bottom floor as well outside of the site.
Though I can have some attacker focus over on E so as I say that dots actually his
first entry into the customs wall from Passport. Answer the first pick on the
Volts that is another opening pick for Flux O W7M currently at four in a row
fancy specifically three and O on these opening duels. Honestly good with the
Blitz on low HP you're hoping for maybe another way to get this advantage in
that CA in hand fancies given it to Flux O W7M.
Another good nickname from Maria Fancy the Dog.
Just running after kills.
A happy dog chasing the ball, chasing the stick.
Again, just something that doesn't really tend to hit the same if you say it in English.
It sounds a little bit rude.
Moira! Welcome!
Finds himself an opening pick and immediately finds himself down.
Tentially finished off, Folk's gone as well.
Zero and four right now, kills. They are not easy to come by for fear at the moment.
Even someone like Hertz is gonna be struggling at the minute.
There's this fancy, I mean, you feel like he's just in flow state right now, stone goes out.
Brilliant push with the team.
Lobin, just there to collect, fancy can finish off on Talora.
And, I mean, the master class at the minute.
I know. I don't know what you do at this point.
Flux of W7M just simply aren't losing fights.
They're in the right position every time,
whether they intended or not.
Flashbang goes up, Boxer blinded.
Diaz Lucas is shooting way above that guy's head.
Flux of W7M now with four in a row.
You think they beat FaZe on a massive 1v5 clutch yesterday,
but after a brutal victory over Team Liquid Alienware,
all or almost all 15 rounds,
Flux of W7M now with four in a row over Furia.
And based on that, I mean, tack time out now,
way in the rear view mirror,
it looks like Fluxer W7M are not stopping anytime soon.
And you know what?
You look at the games that we had today,
and okay, it maybe wasn't the most difficult task
to pick a game of the day.
You look at two heavy weights going up against each other.
Fluxo Fury, you think, yeah, you know,
Fluxo, a team that is gonna show us something,
they're gonna start working at some point.
Fury, brilliant result yesterday,
consistent across the stage and then you look at Saturday's game you look at
yesterday's games and go oh you know what definitely gaming the day
Fury a beatface, Fluxo finding a bit of form getting the win over Liquid as you
say overtime game yep it's gonna be a good one and Fluxo have just walked out
and won four rounds clean on the attack and Fury it are they showing many signs
alive aside from box era it's horrible they've got two kills between
full players is is looking grim for her fury at the moment again packed I'm out
already taken two rounds ago whenever you see that tax I'm not taken after a
2 and oh it's like oh it is true panic stations for the time out taking team
right now for a hit in the pause button that quickly
Flux of W7, I mean one thing I want to talk about,
Lobin currently what, 8-0?
Fancy six kills as well.
Curious of it, top heavy Flux of W7 at the moment,
but 4-0's tend to be that way.
Lobin's fancy two great spearheads right now.
The former weaving his way through customs,
but gosh, be careful, one player just around passport.
Don't want to get overconfident, Lobin.
Herds might not have any kills,
but we know how quickly that man can turn it on
the scorpion. Paulin said the first to go down. Loeb and next up almost hits the flick
on the player on the double door. Instead mid-volt gets the pre-fire on the
lawyer. Immediately the man advantage changes hands. Volpes as well treading
over his ghost at the moment on the top of courtyard on low HP as well might
just join him from rounds past. The smoke in the warden trying to hold
on to break room as tight as they can. Given how eager Flux of W7 have
I don't think they have it in them.
It doesn't feel like it does it.
It does not feel like Furio got it in the tank here tonight.
It's just the timings that Fluxo are finding at the moment.
Even that, just caught looking the wrong way.
DS holds that for a second longer.
We know what DS can do, he'll get the kill.
He just gets forced away at the wrong moment.
Volts down to the count.
Bok taking considerable damage right now.
right now. Fancy's got the pistol out, need to come through to finish the kill, but can't
even find dots. He has pixies first. It wouldn't be the first incredible clutch he's had this
weekend. Down to the second, a whole minute to play. Ooh, and a player drops off. There's
a 1v1 here for him if he wants it. He's only on 1 HP. Impact's out to try and secure.
He isn't gonna land. He needs to try and utilize everything that he's got. It's
going to get a glimpse there, but surely this is an easy swing.
Surely this is a guarantee for Furia.
Lodenen hates both in good condition at the moment.
The diffuser colds, they have to move here.
They have to make a play, but we know how hard the TCSG can hit.
Hates better in the moment, takes the initiative.
He has just left with a little bit too much to do.
And there's so much to do against Fluxor W7M right now.
Now five rounds in a row.
They have won Armory and Archives three separate times.
Ventilation and Workshop Bathroom Tellers as well
to make the five total.
It's not even difficult for this team at the moment.
And the closest shot you have is Diaz Lucas in a 1vx.
You know things are looking grim for Feria.
The defenders protect your bombs.
Not even sure what they can do at this point.
I mean, Logan's hitting shots after vaulting.
He's 10 and 0 right now.
Fancy on seven kills.
What do you do if you're Feria?
the break glass and pull out customs and supply. We'll get all four sites on border as I think
this is the most indicative of the fact that Furia are completely out of ideas.
When was the last time we saw customs? It's not been for a while. Not being since someone
discovered the thermite tech, putting the thermite on the barricade outside and breaking
open though I feel like that was like a bit of a defining moment for this bomb sight
whenever that started to become a thing but it feels like a long time ago you
never know it may throw fluxo off at this point what really a fury I got to lose
because it could go elsewhere and you'd probably meet the same fate it isn't as
much a strategic problem here as it's a it's a gun it's a gun skill problem
lobin is ten and zero someone's having a bit of a life game like that it's not
always what she can do about it.
I was about to say, yeah, I mean, what do you, we've got to do, win the fight? I mean, sure,
but, LoBin, especially as we know one of those players who, depending on the day, there's
just nothing you can do. Dots has a couple times now been put to 1 HP early on on these
shields, and yet again, it's not made a difference for QuokkaW7M, or it's certainly
not made a difference for either of these teams. QuokkaW7M had a winning round,
no matter what's happened.
Loben again with a quick entry in the customs,
in and out gets boxed there, the soulless
that finished off from above, herds watching that.
It's a nice trade by Furia.
It is at least something.
It is at least a 4v4 in the handle,
Loben their first death,
but this duo man cannot be stopped on border.
Loben and Fancy on for what?
19 kills a piece right now
And Fancy make that 12 between them as unfortunately destroying a destructive ingredient ends up burning the shield alive.
Listen, there's going to be a little bit of collateral damage. You've got to break a few eggs to make it on the air.
And I'm sure that Dots will forgive him for the flawless round. Dots is on the thankless work anyway.
Like his KD needs any sort of manipulation at this point toward the negative side.
Good opportunity here for Fury though. Got themselves a level 3 versus 3 and I feel like they hold much better positions this time.
There's an a better job of slowing Fluxo down, placing down barricades, giving themselves a little bit of space to operate in.
Minutes try and hold on to here. No C4s, nothing in terms of denial, but aside from round 1,
are we really looking at plants?
I don't think so. A lot of this has been coming down to the kills. Now that Logan's gone,
we're asking someone else to step up a little bit really on the side of Fluxo.
And we've only not seen it because they've not been given the opportunity just yet because love has been moving through and picking up everything
That's a freebie. If ever I've seen one though, Paolo takes herds down
I can only imagine his scope was blocking his view Diaz will get one back to two all levels still 35 seconds here
We'll go either way
All the drops down briefly blinded by his own team's flash hates down as well
Well, it's just Polly win the 1vx.
1 falls on the floor though.
And given how things have been going for W7M so far,
you might just favor him to win it.
But no, Diaz grabs it at the end.
Two clutch ministers of SAAL go against each other on customs.
But Diaz, who's been so good this weekend,
wins it out to give Fyria their one and only round.
Yesh, you want to say how close that final round was,
but I'm still in the grand scheme of things.
It's Fluxo W7M that are in the lead.
Five rounds on their attacking half
to really try to bring this one home
in a very unexpected way, I would say here, Maria.
If it wasn't for the final 1v1,
I would say the mistake of the Monty
walking into the height is already blind up.
Yes, I don't know why he did that.
He saw it and he's like, you know what?
Guess I'll die.
It's just, I'm going.
It is what it is.
I appreciate the committal, but still Palu versus DSBN that one DS's way
But everything else is all Fluxo all day all day
And I have no words, Marla, I should be...
That's it because if we say okay, we're gonna watch Furia versus Fluxo
I bet many people on the chat it's gonna be like okay now it's time for Fluxo just to
seven, seven, two, seven, three, something like that. And then you have totally the opposite.
You have six rounds in a row, five rounds in a row for Fuxu. The words here for this match,
given everything that we have seen, it's pace and aggressiveness. Fuxu is just saying, okay,
We're gonna do this no matter what you do, Furia.
And this, it's not a surprise
because during the screens, they face each other many times
and folks, so they were playing really well
against FaZe Clan, against Team Liquid,
and against Furia.
They were having close games, they were winning.
But the problem for them was
when it comes to the actual game,
The mental game also.
But now their mental is 100%.
The aim, 100%.
And something that I don't understand
is that we are seeing something so normal happening
that it's teams playing a map that they don't usually play.
This is a bottom map for both of them.
It's a map that they also don't have a good history.
So they are choosing to play something
that they are not that comfortable by the stats.
Why?
But that's the question mark.
It's more fun.
It's more fun.
Maybe.
Or because we are in the end of the group phase.
And that's why we have such an elastic score like a 5-1.
That's the questions that we look to answer here,
because Flexo, I mean, they could, if they hit 6 here,
like I said before, we started at one point,
would be huge.
All three points would be even bigger.
Let's see what happens now with our casters and links
I'm excited to see what happens surely I mean with with the
Ridiculous stuff that
Has gone on between Flux of W7m and fury. I don't know exactly how
You're might be able to get away out of this one
The momentum is so strong at the moment for Flux of W7m. I'll eat that
Sure clutch from DS Lucas has had some great things this weekend, but that's all fury I have at the moment
It's not a lot to hang your hat on is it you know
It is brilliant having a player that can clutch. It's fantastic having someone that when when needs must you can rely on them
But we both know that that isn't what creates a successful team in the long run, you know look at a team like phase
It's one that we often draw comparison to yes, they have players that can clutch in a big way
But they don't always need him sometimes
Or more often than not they can get the job done elsewhere
something I want to touch on is something Maria spoke about and it's you know
This being quite a middling to low preference map for both of these teams.
It's quite a high preference map for NIP.
Now, I know we've only got a couple of the NIP players that have moved over onto this Lux or Osta or Stage 2,
but it's quite nice to see Fancy doing particularly well on board and knowing that,
you know, we used to watch them do very well on board about when he played NIP.
And I'm wondering if that's now starting to trickle through that they've got over that initial
sort of honeymoon phase of things switching over.
Well, this might be where we see Diaz in the opening engagements, he'll pick up one though
as fancy following up, good to see him doing well on board as he'll continue to do so at
the side swap.
Two kills with P90 Diaz, feeling hot after that 1v1 against Polly a few rounds ago.
Now, made his way into the Sink as well though.
Bit of a weird twist of fate, it's not an Armory Archive's defense first, Flux
W7 have gone ventilation and workshop.
the diffuser inside of Armory and Diaz inside of the site, bit of an odd
position that we found ourselves in. A minute and 45 seconds to go,
Loira hears somebody in the small office around the corner,
leaping on that position. No concussive lifelines to stun.
Calling up Diaz. Try to get a pinch on this position, you'll swing around,
find Polly again, Diaz still good on this engagement. Fancy, it's a battle
for him and Diaz, and Diaz might just be the better one this game.
The only one from Fiora who's meaningfully showed up, and then Boxerra as well as Hates
put to 1-8 key, so gets Boxerra on the come off.
How could he keep doing this?
A 1v2, a 1v5, a 1v1 today, and an ace 1vx for Diaz.
If there is an MVP of South America, it must be Diaz Lucas BR.
I agree, I wholeheartedly agree.
But we can only give it in the fury to win the game.
If that's what catapults and if that's what fires them up now,
and they get three rounds in a row, four rounds in a row,
we go to an overtime, whatever it might be.
Yes, however, I will still stand and say
we need contribution elsewhere.
Herds, Volbs, Lawyer, they need to be taking a look
at themselves right now.
They've got to kill each.
We're in round eight.
We've seen seven complete rounds.
They don't get a kill now.
It's panic stations, and Diaz can do whatever he likes.
But if he's going to have to ace clutch every single round,
it's going to be a pretty big day at the office forum.
It's going to be some heavy work for him to achieve.
It's great to see.
But I just hope he's seen rallies around him now.
You'd hope.
I mean, all seven in five right now.
The only one in the lobby matching Lobin and Fancy's efforts on Fluxo W7M, if it was not
2-1 DXs from DS it would be a 7-0 for Fluxo W7M at the moment, and it still feels to
Ali's point that we are trending towards an inevitable Fluxo W7M victory.
5-2 right now on boarder with the advantage of the defense, it's one of those feelings
right now that it's incumbent on Furia to shake information gathered by Lobin through
the wall, spotting herds outside on the ventilation balcony. I don't think anybody
will be all that surprised to see players outside this position, herds,
hello, turn and burn on the lobin. You'd see more shots like that if
Furia wants any kind of hope at coming over to win this series.
What we needed, we need more engagements like that.
Thus, we're aced Thoron to Diaz. The star of the show out of the picture.
It will be a different Furia player that has to step up here.
Furia are going to come away with the Round Palu and another C4 and explosive round so far from Fluxo.
Two for two on C4's throne.
Not bad going especially when you're bringing three fancies still with a chance at one of his own.
It doesn't matter about the gunfight if you're blown up before you can get there.
Little positions being held at the moment by Fluxo.
looks like they don't want to overextend too far.
Furia, desperately looking to find a pick lawyer trying to work out onto that player just tucked
inside.
Said he'd have to reposition, they haven't got the man count to just commit someone to
that mailbox roll.
Standing there waiting for something to happen they need to be a little bit more active
about this.
Controller CCTV is going to be crucial.
Vulp starts to drone through, learns the position, the fancy's going to be occupying
But he's feeling himself. He finds his challenge
You favor him for it, too
Birds might have one but just that so far
Like they're creeping around the corner common operator for volts to play by these odds
You have to make a lot more work happen polytract in this corner surely
He's got to go down if only there were inmates if only the angle was clear if only if only for Curia right now
now because despite just one player standing in their way it's a three-way
crossfire that Fluxer W7M have on Fury and making it do foul in them.
Definitely the 12 labors of Hercules if you want to make it through that
doorway Fluxer W7M are not letting go of border they have that point. You can
see where the confidence is for Fury, can't you? It is down and out at the
moment. You're playing Blackbeard for goodness sake. Just challenge him.
You've got someone on your shoulder, work the angle together. Obviously
They've not got the extra man to be haven't got the ability to send somebody round get on to ventilation get on to side doorway
They don't have that luxury. They don't have that benefit, but instead it's almost as if they're just sitting back and fluxo is still playing in this aggressive play style
The plane exactly the same on the defense is the word even on the attack and it's just a million miles an hour
Curious really lacking that pace lacking some of that aggression and ultimately it feels like lacking some of that confidence
When you see a Blackbeard shy away from an engagement like that, especially when Bob's
is playing it, he's a brilliant shield player.
Look so.
Match point right now.
Chance to, I guess, kind of make things interesting toward the top of the standings.
You know, there's been all this talk about, you know, Fury obviously getting the result
against FaZe yesterday.
I feel like we've maybe got ahead of ourselves in some ways, thinking, you know, oh,
Fury, you know, are they going to catch FaZe up?
What's that going to start to look like?
Looks so. A late sprint to the finish. Better late than never.
It could be a big couple of weeks from, if you get six points out of this week, I mean, there's three points available next week.
Back in the race. Not for the top spot, but they're going to be in that, you know, sort of top four, top three maybe.
It's going to be weird if Flux2W7 immediately sprint back like that towards the end, but
they should have been playing right now.
They could do it.
Very well.
Very well.
Could get six points out of the weekend out of the two best teams in the SAL, basically
unequivocally.
It is also very good on here, at least for the moment, the undisputed top of the
standings going into plate A9.
Again, just to kind of highlight some of it.
W7M will be at 12 points to get all three after this
And what a stage it's been Loeb and said they just needed to get things figured out
They worked together for such a brief time and yet it seems here work might just be coming to fruition right now
Also, I'm literally getting so excited. I just said flexi W7M deep phase. That's how high on the team. I am
You're all in I've literally I'm literally concocting alternate timelines in my brain. That's how excited I am
I'm all in. I'm all in in Fluxor W7M. We'll see what they can do, especially if
fancy swinging shots like that. DS is out of this round. It seems Furia likely
out of the game if DS is going down this early. Laura next up on the chopping
block is at 12 kills between the two of them, knocked off the board by Fluxor W7M.
5v3 now. Defense full control of the top floor and the site. Volts on low HP
currently just creeping around the mid floor. All you have a feeling this
This one is doomed for Furia.
Doesn't look great, does it? Especially herds getting chipped down as well.
You will find a kill on to Hates, but two kills and a potential.
The end is not where you expect a player of herds caliber to be.
Vault's now taken a lot of heavy damage.
Parley put to 1 HP, you'll find one before being dealt with.
That Vulcan pack.
Parley low, Bok still in good condition.
As a chance here, they've known exactly where Doc's is for ages. He was caught on a drone long ago.
How long on 1 HP is the interesting factor here?
We might be asking a lot of fancy.
How long does that have a C4, so he's got a chance for a non-legal engagement, but oh, look at the timing.
Fancy takes her, fuck. Show us what you've got.
He doesn't have to fuse her, but he's got time and positioning. 35 seconds, but he hops over into Fancy!
Oh, no thinking you get a quick rotation walks right into the arms of the defense
And that is five points out of the weekend for fluxo w7 and in eight six over team liquid alien where
And I can't believe it. I'm saying this a seven two victory over fury and just like that
They are back in the race
Sometimes when we pick a game of the day, it doesn't always mean it's gonna be an overtime
It doesn't mean that it's going to be a nail bite. Sometimes it's a bit of a showcase.
And it just so happens that today's was that showcase.
Very much as the points have kind of landed in Fluxo's lap.
I mean, that was exactly how the game ended, wasn't it?
Let's send it back over to our wonderful desk and see what they made of today's game of the day.
Hands up in the air because I do not know what to expect at this point. Maria,
how the hell did we get here where Furia beat FaZe yesterday?
incredible matchup today they look like nothing against Fluxer that was FNM
let's ask those questions lobin is waiting for us bring them on go ahead
hey hey lobin what the hell happened there I mean yesterday you were like
it's gonna be difficult let's be be let's level with one another here let's
be very honest with her and then today you're like hi it's okay see easy
What a game. Talk me for the word please.
I don't know. We had the flow going.
Every single gunfight and the attack I was winning.
So it was a pretty fun match to go.
I think they're not really comfortable on the border.
And they probably tried to use this game to get more confidence in there.
But I think it didn't work really well.
And we were working a lot because our border that we played against BG,
like I said, a lot of times, we didn't play a real game on the map.
So, yeah, we were really confident that we're gonna win today.
Okay, that was such a crazy game, Libby.
Vova, talking still about the map, you said that they are not that comfortable in Border,
but also if we see the history of Fluksu, you are 0-4 in Border too.
So, what was the thought behind, okay, let's leave this map open, and if they pick, it's okay.
Barton is like a tough relation that we have with him because we like the map, because we like the map, the map is really good for us, but we had some struggles in play days, so I think against BD we struggled mentally, with our last line up we were slogging with everything, so any map that we played we were losing, so yeah I think even so the numbers say otherwise we are really comfortable on the map.
Okay, we can see that. Also, I think it was a shot in the food for Fiora when they did the pause after only two rounds, but it means that you also have time to talk about something when they pause. What did you guys talk about in that moment?
We expected, because the first two rounds they were playing aggressive and playing really loose on the map.
And so I just said guys, they're probably going to play more safer and do like more structural defense and play more like together.
And that's exactly what they did. And so it just picture like plays for us to counter those plays and it was very pretty.
Get aggressive.
It's really.
Get it on the face.
Exactly.
It worked out beautifully. Honestly, it was a great match.
And if anything, it really throws things into a loop now, because with this win you get all three points.
Next week you play against Sloud, another opportunity to get three points and jump even higher up in the standings.
Playoffs is pretty much set here, but you have the chance to be in the top four.
How do you feel that last game is going to go for you for the shot of going into playoffs even better?
I think, like always, we have to respect the opponent.
Even so, it's really right now.
I think we need to have the foods like calm.
Let's not cheer already and say that we were winning that match.
We have to respect them.
We're going to keep the same work.
We have to show everybody that we are capable of doing it
and being consistent.
And it's a good win to get even more confident to play us.
Just one more question.
Woo!
you talk about confidence and I am with you on that and now I want to know for the next match
do you think you're going to feel more like loving that we are used to see the loving that
really doesn't care in goal for kills because you see what you are capable of against Furia not
only you but Fluxu in general yes I think a little bit by bit I was getting my confidence back
individually I was I was struggling at the start of the stage so right now I'm getting back to
100% and I guess show what I can do.
I mean it's clear ever since Wasteland Circuit dropped in the game
you've been playing better and better so it's all the practice that you've been
doing uh racing around on the drones right that's
thank you that's all okay very good thank you very much Robin
congratulations on a huge win and a huge weekend
for you and the team hope to see you next weekend there have a good night
Thank you you guys too, and bye to the W7M Bundle.
Yes, the Bundle! As you heard very quick,
by the W7M Bundle is what he's saying. What's the W7M there, victorious? Big game, huge one,
points-wise, they're gonna jump up in those standings. Maria, what is this weekend like?
What the hell is going on in the month?
If we talk like Friday, Maria, why do you think it's going to be this weekend?
I would probably say the opposite of everything that happened, but being really honest, my
personal opinion, I like when we have games like this, because it just breaks our expectations.
We expect Furia to beat the out of food, so no, no, it's totally the opposite.
And here we are again, Fulksu is finding themselves day by day.
We just saw Lobin speaking about that.
All of the players from Fulksu, they are talking about that too.
We just need time.
We are finding ourselves.
It's about mental game too.
And like I said, also they were doing good in screens.
So it's just to find the spot when you are playing in SCL when it really means
something in screens you don't earn points you are not going for the the playoffs here you need
and that's when some teams just get really pressured they feel round by round and if they lose
they just it just becomes a snowball and this is what happened for feria snowball it was flukso
w7m versus ds guys look at the numbers loyta 1 1 9 hurts 3 9 wolves 3 9 we we don't see that
often not at all it was just a snowball it absolutely was just the way the handle
and honestly the first half could have been a 6-0 and that's how crazy this game
was for flexor W7M and have a huge advantage going into next playday
they want to jump up in their standings to be even higher to fully
solidify their position right now because it's already impressive what
they've done this weekend but another set of points is gonna catapult them
into potentially the top four, four Black Dragons playing next to the game. Give me a second. I'm
just trying to take a look here. Black Dragons play face. Oh, yeah. So there is the potential of
BD losing their game, Fluxill beating loud and Fluxill, the W7M are now in the top four,
where they were basically number nine and 10 for a big part of the stage. And that will be a
Massive reversal, but I don't want to jinx them fantasy did well, right?
We were talking about him earlier today where hey, baby
They should let him off the leash and he has been a leaf. He put it in today
He put in the work where it was needed and Maria we end up with the hell of a story. No, not for the fuck's sake
We can't spoil the script. No, no, no, calm down. Don't spoil the script just yet. It's not it's not ready
Speaking of which that's our next game. That's the spoiler
Team Liquid Alienware, take on Lucky 5, we'll see how lucky they'll be after the break.
You're not a trash!
I have to make a sound.
OMG.
What?
You're talking about the silencer, right?
Hahaha!
The silencer of the Cable!
I'm not imitating you!
Not that shit.
Pss, psps, psps, pss, psps, psps, pspspps, pspspsps, pspspsps, pspspsps, pspspsps, pspspspspsch
Tttttttt Tttt, Pss, pspspspsps, pspspspspsp, pspspspspsp, pspspspsp, pspspspspspspspsp, pspspspspspspspspspsps.
I don't think it's gonna work.
No?
It won't.
I'm one of the cornfields of Uncle Bud's.
I don't know, dude. I don't even know how to do it.
I'm just going in, it's hard to do this.
Where's the gun? It's the shooting, right?
I think it's...
In the game, it's like this.
I think it should be...
First, he opens the cover of the thing.
pspsth pspsth psps
shhhhhh
pspspspsps
i mean
psf
forget me
pspss
pseast scheme
dont get me
forget me
psstsss
yooooou
It's not that hard to play, bro.
Yeah, just play with the car and go...
And shit, but...
I think it's a good shot, a good shot of the bullets, and a shot of a warrior.
My biggest rival would be Denzel Washington.
He's a great guy.
I think he's Leira Pereira, because she's the president of Palmeiras and I gave her Palmeiras.
My biggest rival, Tuistis.
I think he's a great guy.
I think he's a great guy.
I think he's a great guy.
I think he's a great guy.
I think he's a great guy.
I think he's a great guy.
My biggest rival, Twistys, manager of the LOS, would you interpret him?
I didn't think that was a good one, look.
Would you interpret him as, you know, Debi Lloyd?
Without being the Dinkary, the other guy.
The guy I don't like would be Ionzeira, right?
He's in the crowd there.
Brevi is going to another place there, I'm not going to talk too much.
But I'm sorry for his bad.
I'm current.
Nesquie is the Dinkary, for sure.
Because he's a patient, and it's the most suitable one for him.
Super, bro.
I think Vita's father.
It looks like a game character, it's crazy and funny.
The one I'd interpret as Vita is Jason Austin.
The guy is good at shooting, and that's what he looks like as Vita.
He looks like Tom Hanks.
I saw a picture that looked like him.
The PSK, Leandro Rassum, and then his duo, Silence.
Then it would be Marcus Mellon, the duo of the guys on the stage.
It's Alan from CBB, in the house.
Because I think his way of looking is a bit like Sousa's.
The Zile of the Rock, he looks like Brutamontes, but he's just a good movie, how do you know him?
Psycho, man. He has to be a woman, man.
Who would interpret KDS would be Mr. Bean?
Who would be Bradley Cooper?
I think the way he looks, a few words, is funny.
In the movie, if you drink in a house, it's old, right? Nowadays it's more quiet.
I think who would interpret Cyber would be Jim Carrey.
He's a funny guy and likes to tell lies.
Ballet, Dev Patel, because he's like a millionaire.
Who would be the Rafa Del? It would be Prof. Girafales.
He's a boss, he's a crazy woman.
Dudez isn't an actor, he's just a barrio, a barrio of wine.
He's the one who interprets Dudez.
That woman would be the one to say it.
Cherrie would be any Hathaway.
Because he already has a story in the script and he's a crazy woman.
Who would be the Hens?
that he is the brother of my friend there.
The news is that Zeca is the brother of the Sibli Benoncasi, because they are similar
and they are kind of sick too.
I think that the one who plays Nade would be the Sibli and Sigo.
He is a little like MacGyver and I think that MacGyver is a lot like him.
The fantasy for sure is the story of Nero.
They know their name, they're one of them.
They can get out of there.
They ain't even looking at me.
Are you in a tank?
Moment of change, I wanna revive,
Switching the game.
They know their name, they're one of them.
They put in the state of the night.
It's time to turn into the civil light.
The civil light. The civil light.
The civil light. The civil light.
The civil light. The civil light.
The civil light.
I
I can give a life, bring you back to the living behind
Now I'm back, now I'm the human right
Now you're in a time, moment of change
I'm in a divide, switching the game
They know their name, they know their name
Bro, bro, bro, I can't wait to give it right
You win if they give it life
It's time to turn the game into life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
Let's give it life, let's give it life
today and Team Liquid Alienware is up on the chopping block first in this game against a lucky five or a lucky five
because we like to call them around these
parts
Looking at T-Law so far. They're looking pretty good in the standings yesterday
They had a tough game against Fox 8W7M, but they still got 8th point out of it
And they went up slightly in the standings. They're 15 points, they're in third place
They're a pretty comfortable spot in the top four, but they don't want to slip away from them.
They are just being the team we quit that we know. Not many surprises. The fan base.
They are very happy this time because for them it's always a hard time being a liquid fan.
fan. The games are always closed and sometimes they're lost but this time Liquid is just doing
pretty fine. It's okay. Of course they are fighting for the top three spot but if you're
fighting for that spot it means that you are actually doing great. So here goes to Team Liquid
and not only Liquid as a team is doing great but each one of them, JV, Maya, KZ everybody's
just doing great. But this is not the case for Lucky 5. For those who don't know Lucky
5 yesterday managed to lose a game where they unfortunately have this advantage of having
one player up against INTZ for most of the game, okay? And they still managed to lose that,
which is surprises it because it's a 5v4 for many rounds, but something happened that they
they couldn't keep up the game in IN2Z1, that's okay.
But the problem here is the game from Lucky 5
is very much based on Cycle.
Cycle is a very good, but also very aggressive player
in the early round.
And most of the times he has success in this early trades.
In attack he's always searching for kills,
searching for intel with his solid snake.
And when defending, he's not also afraid of holding positions,
and it's ready for a gunfight whenever you need him to.
But it's only on Cycle.
We need the other ones to step up, to show something.
We need some teamwork here, and everybody
to put in numbers, not just Cycle.
And Cycle has many other jobs that he has to do.
He's leading the team also during the game.
What are we going to go to?
Fortress, then away by Laki5.
We're going to go to Cobhouse.
Lucky 5 on the tap. I think Klau is a great leveler in this case because it allows us to properly test how things are for Team Liquid, but also for Lucky 5, can they adapt to yesterday's fluke for either one of these two teams, or is it just going to have to get into it and find out a final matchup of the evening?
It's an extra trick.
Especially after the results that fluxo w7m game Ali this one becoming particularly dire for lucky five only standing on
Seven points tealaw by the way already in the top four of this game is
Not impactless. We could see the exact final placing shift, but they're already in the upper bracket
They're chilling the lucky five they lose here. They're going to join
INTZ imperial and loud as officially being out of playoffs contention. I do so believe
And with the stage lucky five have had it would be unfortunate
But I mean after the loss they had yesterday their stage might just end with a whimper depending on what you know
Have a store for them on Clubhouse
We're remembering as well that T-law may be a team that has been scorned a little bit
You know, they'll be very mindful of the loss that they suffered yesterday and just how close that game was in the end
We haven't really seen kind of interesting because out of that the big dog teams that
we sort of classify we've not seen a team that lost yesterday come back and do anything
but win today and quite the poor opposite of the teams that won yesterday maybe that
is about to change in this picture who knows.
Lucky five though very still much in the sort of and it feels criminal to say it
but it feels like they're in the building stage doesn't it? It feels like they're almost
at that project team level which as you said you know with the quality and the experience
of player that they have on their team really won't be feeling that way but that's just
the way the stage has gone. That my friends is a crystal maze, gnarly trips all over
the gaff and Nade hasn't even been enough to deal with it now.
What do you even do here, man?
I think you can kind of walk in.
I mean, if Nade has made the worst bombsite to attack,
or one of the famously worst bombsites to attack in the game,
even more terrible, I mean.
They're just going to try and walk in, no.
I mean, maybe.
Nobody directly playing in Jens.
Psycho thinks he might be able to get away with it.
Now, say that he'll have no presence around that area
They've got angles and holes opened up into the generator position, but Senna on low HP, by the way, coming in through dirt.
This is quite risky for the Blackbeard, especially now as KZ picks up the first pick on DePino, 5-E4, established for T-Law.
As Lucky 5, make your way into Gen. It is immediately clear.
On the disadvantage, there's the big worry that T-Law might just get the better of a trade, but not a JV-92 and Nade lined up like that.
like that, fellow Pauks and KZ immediately respond though, and that big collat from Psycho
unfortunately nullified by the efforts of Team Liquid Alienware, who's still in full control
of Church and Arsenal. KZ whittled down a little bit further, but his besetle has basically
moved up 15 feet in the past 515 minutes, ends up walking into one of the 8 billion
Denari trips scattered around Arsenal and Team Liquid Alienware pick up there first.
Honestly, if it hadn't been for a lucky collat, it would have looked even worse.
Lucky 5 just decided, hey, we're gonna walk into all of this.
I mean, come on.
You can't see that there's a trip that Denari being played in the opening and you can't
like, bring something that's maybe gonna help you to deal with that.
I don't know thatcher secondary MPs twitch mornades
Friday quite comical that we actually got a kill from one as well
And that this I mean that was like the best part very befitting of the entire round and our main takeaway for it was just oh
Crystal maze, I'm not even sure we got kitchen hatch open, you know
It was just all focused around
someone thinking that there's a bit of a gap down those blue stairs and you know
trying to work in and do something off the back of it but ultimately it was not
meant to be Team Liquid Alienware then. Continue their defensive rotation up to
CCTV room and cash. No fancy trip this time but still a little bit of a trap
meta out there. Still with a couple of razor blooms in Nade's pocket in
in particular.
Put up an extension.
Over for that jacuzzi side.
It go your place on the back of the reinforce wall.
It always just slows you down.
It's something that...
It happens, but it's not something you really expect
in too much.
A dangerous job for Wizards.
He tries to open up the wall.
Just be cautious.
KZ does have a C4, but...
He's got it ripped from ready, actually.
This could be a C4 kill right here.
be waiting to see it. There we go. I- I- I own a crystal ball!
Okay, let's simmer down a second. Olly, Olly, he's- he's map-tricking a wall on Clubhouse.
I don't think it takes no shardomis to guess that somebody might see for that. Hello!
We're gonna keep speaking of Mixing the Future. Easy to think he knows exactly where
Recyclo-standing, it's actually speaking he did.
Unfortunately, Tickles him more than actually does any damage worth noting.
Psycho may be a bit more scared.
Still alive.
Lucky five in another man deficit to start all around.
I mean, Tenly those are also crystals and a maze of sorts on the Raptors right now.
Actually, now that I think about it, what material are the Cubans made out of?
I was imagining it was like stone.
on I got it I got something really unrealistic it's probably like Kevlar or
something isn't it so I expand in nano tech carbon whatever it is it's actually
I just looked at it is expanding nano tech carbon all in that order
they make sense that's why I made it out of the set so struggle and to deal with
the expanding nano tech carbon is JV92 is good himself a real nice little
position here and regardless of the shield there's just gonna dome psycho.
Trying to place the smoke, walk into the smoke. Guess what? You shoot the smoke.
Daisy joined the party but dealt with by Neskin. Bottom garage control in the hands of Lucky 5 but they've still
struggled to make meaningful inroads onto that catwalk. Maya now with a big rotation as he was looking
for a little bit of action. Bottom of that kitchen corridor but can rotate to the rest of the side.
I mean, he's got a whole five
keepers on the rafters. He's
made a home on top of garage
and he does not plan on being
evicted today. Looking like two
rounds in a row for Team Liquid
Alienware. Basement and CCTV
have gone with pretty much little
to no recourse from Lucky 5,
who continue their downward
slide from yesterday's game
against INTZ. T-Lock,
looking towards Jim Bedroom for
the full hat trick.
the full hat trick. Also, apparently the keybars are made out of some kind of foam that goes
for basically a pressurized gas turns it from a gas to a solid.
What is that called again? I used to know they were going from a gas to a solid.
I believe it's nanotech.
The official term. Anyway, I don't know what like, I don't know.
The sublimation or deposition?
Well, we're not in a fight.
Nobody knows that.
I just looked it up.
I didn't know it.
I was just gonna say to be sure, I didn't know it neither.
I just want to be clear.
I'm glad that we read down that little tangent
because I was going to say it's not Alcinet.
It wouldn't have been very helpful.
Well, I mean, anything would be more helpful
than Lucky Five right now, unfortunately,
who currently only have three kills.
It's not that hard.
I mean, we obviously don't want to be too harsh, but we're coming off the INTZ game yesterday.
We don't need to talk more about that.
We've seen two really rough rounds to start for Lucky 5, Ollie.
It's not even that harsh.
It's not a little pretty, is it?
Oh, Daisy.
Trying to make you look even uglier there with a bit of a spawn peek attempt.
You ought to hang around, though.
It doesn't need to.
Team Liquid Alienware haven't got to two rounds by cheese plays and trying too hard.
A lot of it has just been good old fashioned siege, just good defense on clubhouse.
Holding those power positions, holding the right operators to claim what's available.
Neskin can be next player to risk the life and limb to open up some of these walls, kinda
weird as well cause I think obviously the Mavericks are great choice because it counters you know
any of the sort of denial, but what's what's waiting on the other side of it, C4 again
from Maia.
If you fall to this for a second time in two rounds it's nicely baited I think
granted by Neskin.
He's done a much better job there of keeping himself alive, but if that had gone awry, you'd have been screaming to bring the thermite.
Yeah, good day by Naskin, thankfully avoiding any hard breach pick, or any breach, uh, any, uh...
Oh, hard breach pick, Titan in terms of the kill, but I'm gonna pick another hard breach.
It's a little bit better if you're picking Mav, going in around four, no matter the outcome of this one.
After I'm gone all lucky five really have is that jacuzzi wall open. It's taken a bit of time
Nescan's rotated down below
pressure on CCTV
Pressure on cash pressure on the bathroom inside of the jacuzzi wall
Not really seeing it at the moment from lucky five
It's all about the sense isn't it?
It's gonna be all about the sense. It's all about the ying. It's all about getting those pieces of utility into position backs up from Neskin
But the unknown factor is it's made on the Wamai a lot of that utility is gonna get caught
And here we're going out now warm activates the goggles. It's go time
Moving on in hopping into construction waiting to push in from jacuzzi KZ through the weight rack finds the first
What flips around on the second? You know not long for this world
The W the candela's in wizard watch this team drop with every beat of the candela hitting the floor jb92 for the last two to round out round
Three as this is a flawless sight rotation from team liquid alienware
By the way, that is out of team liquid alienware's playbook. They love to play a sense on that particular bombsite
You'll very often see for epochs on the sense and making use of it
When attacking gym and bedroom they will use it in conjunction with the ying
They will use it in conjunction with the glass. You're essentially using their own strats against them,
not that nobody else does it. Team Liquid Alienware just happened to do it and they happened to do it
quite well. And they were more than aware of what was going on. They knew exactly where they needed
to be. They had great tools and great positions to deal with each of those little hotspots.
Lucky 5 now taking a tactical time out as the first three rounds have not been kind. We had
quite a competitive day up until about an hour ago, Lynx. And then it feels like we've just descended.
And I don't know exactly what got in the water of SAL up until this point, but we even had a
phase game that went all 12 rounds. Two phase games in two days, that went all 12 rounds.
Then all of a sudden, Fluxo W7M were like, and we've decided that we're going to have a good
stage. And team Liquid Alienware have decided, and we've decided we're done with giving teams
any points whatsoever. Never lost a flux of W7M yesterday. We're locking in, going to
clubhouse, figuring things out. As Lucky 5 forced into attack after three round losses
in a row. Looking like a must win round at least to make us believe in Lucky 5. Again,
there's gone a downward slide from yesterday, have yet to really hit the brakes and meaningfully
halted this negative momentum. And look, we're going to go back to basement. See
see if Lucky Five decided to go for that direct take again or if we see it clear depending
on of course what T-Law setup is.
You know what I really like at the moment?
What do you really like?
KZ's 5-in-1.
I mean, if you, I would really, it'd be really unfortunate if you didn't like that
because then you'd pretty much hate most T-Law games.
Three of those are open-impicts.
Ooh.
Well, hell no, that's a different story.
Menace tonight on the opening pick
In incredible EPS numbers so far tonight
There's been without doubt without question the player to watch in the early portion of these rounds
Very often in the right place at the right time see a different approach here
their next attempt down in church in Arsenal. We saw it in round one and it was largely defined by
Denari's trip gadgets. It wasn't really too much else to write home about. It's good positioning,
good kills, but it was all about the trip. This time the trip has not been brought. Denari not in
play, not because he's banned, just because it's not been chosen. T-Lo wanting to show us that
they have more strings to their bow than just clutching onto one operator. And watching
around capitulate to be fair if I'm not exactly what you would do if you saw that crystal maze
again you'd be like all right well I guess we won't go direct I don't think they spent a large
portion of the tactical time aren't trying to figure it out it's no idea they did it is it
it's a better approach though from lucky five you know we've not just seen tried to walk in
There is a bit of an attempt at this mid-block control. We've got the refox vying for a bit on this half-landing.
KZ, I tell you what, he's consistent. Six and one now.
Four of them open and fix. Every single round.
Yo, it feels like we haven't had a whole lot of big KZ pop-off games this stage.
Not because he hasn't been performing well, it's still a very good performer for Team Liquid Alienware.
It's just been a bit more of a persistent performance near a player, specifically JB92.
It doesn't feel like the KZ has been hauling T-Law over the line like we saw in stage one,
but especially in pick-off, you know, they didn't end up qualifying.
Now with four opening picks in a row, KZ consistently putting Team Liquid Alienware on the right foot
at the beginning of these attacks, or the beginning of these defenses, excuse me,
as it's Lucky 5 continuously struggling to find any meaningful start to these attacks.
Set a block back on the Blackbeard, not through dirt.
But where? That part's a bit unclear right now.
Before you till around the Moto, you'll drop down the hatch soon after.
The fellow pox and Maya both still playing close on this Moto door.
Casey as well providing some support. A double kill right now inside a clubhouse.
Nesca do the wall, pick up that warden in Gen, but Maya good for the trade.
A sledge swings barreling around the corner.
It's my for two kills to round out round four as team liquid alien we're similar to fluxo w7m not looking like they're stopping anytime soon
It's just any percent towards the end of the night, isn't it?
I don't know if these guys have got somewhere to be maybe they've got a meal planned. Maybe they're having a little like a
Little dinner dinner. Yeah, perhaps some like sunday night vibes between team liquid alien where?
and fluxo w7m potentially that's what it could be because
because it feels like they're racing for a bus at the minute.
Four quick rounds at that as well, and the thing that's crazy, they're on the defense.
It's not even like they can decide that it's going to be a quick round.
Yeah, they can play aggressively in the early portion, they can bait a little bit of action,
but lucky five are largely in control of how long the round goes based on their
attacking approach.
Teal is still able to see that it feels like speedrun these rounds.
I mean look at what they're playing into, they're playing into some massive strengths
there.
How is the Assam gonna laugh through?
It's clubhouse for goodness sake.
You didn't even see it band at the turn, you know, we didn't see it band, it was
a bandit instead that got taken away.
Our breach is gone as like people are playing, people play Maverick and they're playing
maverick at their own peril still open is it best you know that's where we're
at with this like you gotta get rid of that there's army all you gotta have a
plan to deal with it and just don't really feel like they're bringing it
what a gone six and there's a fear that there's a fear last time and there's
army was still a massive problem also just odd to run the maverick two crowns
in a row and then ban the bandit like it's the hard reacher you brought on
CCTV and Jim and I mean all things considered it worked fine on Jim you
just died with C4 on round two you can avoid that you've already did the next
round good prioritization from lucky five and stubbornly seen the benefits of it
as you talked out maybe we'll see some of the limited harbors she knew
successfully but big issue right now case he's still dominant on these
opening duels 5 and 0 right now on Clubhouse. No matter the operator, no matter the position
KZ has got these 54s on lock for Team Liquid Alienware.
It just feels like Flowsay again doesn't it? It's exactly the same as watching Fluxo.
Alright there's no one that's solo carrying as hard as the way Lobin did. KZ's giving
it a blooming good go right now, Javi 92 as well. It's not just the kills, it's
the lack of death is five and one. Good for a kill in every single round and obviously
he's not had a kill yet. This round with KPR will be one. It's just so free walking
into the angle. I mean, oh guess what? I'm going to place a keeper. Yeah, no worries.
Zephyr gone. Nade's gone. Yes, we've got a gong six potentially. We're going to try
Ryan Flamin' out, Psycho making something work, but there's so much space for JB to play in.
Oh, what? They dug two firebolts on the Raptors and the glass isn't in position to cut off JB-92.
He rotates back and he gets the kill, and KZ's in for support!
Just sent it to the next half already at this point.
I mean
Well coordinating very nicely, but lucky five aren't exactly putting their best foot forward at the moment Bissetto with an impactless frag and a likelihood
Why give them stuff up through the floor, but team liquid even we're barely been had to wake up for clubhouse
If not after it's looked like it's come so easy handed on a plate
Granted team liquid Alienware the player exceptionally well. It's not just that lucky five run the performing
I think team liquid Alienware are
performance, but it's not
that much of a difference.
I mean, you know, performing at
their highest level or maybe
even over performing in some
regards, definitely with some
of the individual performances
that we're getting. I mean,
Casey, you can't expect him to
get every single opening
picking in half like surely
he doesn't get it here as
well, but if the tear that
he's been going on, who
knows gave the United
team is being allowed to
play rafters in a carbon
copy. Or the identical
Lucky 5. They are not punishing anything right now and there are gas there to be punished.
Davey shouldn't be allowed to cross, shouldn't be allowed to move through the capital firebolts
who certainly shouldn't be allowed to cross the glass, but they're getting away with it.
Lucky 5 are just letting too much slip right now.
We've had the tactical time out, like your sailings, it feels like we need the half to maybe reset
and even then it's only going to be for us to catch our breath
And you know so focus our minds because I don't feel like this team liquid alien
Where train is stopping anytime soon, and I sure I don't feel like lucky five are gonna be the ones to disrupt them
He's he's got all the confidence in the world right now to go for these spawn peas. He's not worried whatsoever
Yeah, tags up wizard season being get another backs off. No big deal. Why me? What are lucky five gonna do punish you?
not today
Not on Clubhouse right now not in this form not with no tactical time off to reset the momentum
We are really just looking for the back half and hoping, praying to God that T-Log don't walk out of gym and bedroom with a 6-0 half on clubhouse.
This is creeping up.
Made his way to the top of the garage stairs. Can use his hard breach charge.
So open up the normal angle into CCTV.
We basically saw zero pressure, if you'll like, Ollie, on the CCTV last time from Lucky 5.
This time there's early presence on this side of the map from the attacking squad.
Yeah, entirely different line-up, isn't it? They brought the sense, they brought the ying.
they were trying something fancy on the windows that didn't work out the go
of granted the go of something different they're not trying to repeat
exactly the same thing much more about clearing over and across we're gonna use
the black beards do that we're gonna try and use wizard and the day must
track it to get that job done as well and of course the cops are here fall
back on to the plethora of utility that they provide difficult but here is
going to be hopping in actually with what there was one player close on the right
stairs do I think sure not a mistronged oh no there's someone there from beneath
the staircase there's a mistrong this is gonna be one of the most brutal losses
for lucky five and what has been one of those brutal weekends for any team in
the sal that is crazy six opening pick in a row by the way that's Maya for
the second make that the third kill for T-law this guy prone on the
So he's got to do any work. He's literally asleep at my his feet
This guy ain't even playing his hands are off the keyboard and right as he hops up
Made snatches it away from lucky five. I say that it's been in T-Law's hands the whole time
That is six defenses in a row and I mean shit
We might as well get the seventh round in their column because the clubhouse is going only one way
Yeah, um
I could we just skip the timeout maybe like do we need it do we really we do really need it
I certainly don't think that
Ted team liquid alien where I start going oh you know what I'm really glad we've got a timeout now
I'm really glad we can just sort of you know take two minutes propose ourselves a little bit
Imagine the comms in lucky five at the moment it will be frantic
Bit of a disaster we can form shaping up right now and
you know if we thought that we were having a rough stage this last two days has really
put that into perspective. Lost YMTZ okay, YMTZ may be fighting for a little bit more
than Lucky 5 at the moment. It was unlikely that Lucky 5 were going to end up in playoff
contention. Still possible, still very possible at the start of the weekend but it wasn't
somewhere that we were really envisioning them to end up.
And TZ obviously fighting for relegation, fighting to stay out of that bottom play spot, so you can kind of forgive that, you know, you're a bit of an underprept opponent, but then you look to this team, look really in my game, and this is where we want to see, look at five contending, this is where we want to see them, really putting their best foot forward.
I think we've been harsh on them tonight, but I think they deserved it.
The Furia game was a different level in a lot of ways.
It was, you know, Fluxo playing a very aggressive map,
very aggressively, and Furia struggling to win gunfights.
I don't feel like it's been gunfights
that have been struggled to be won here
as much as it's been missed opportunities
and mistakes that have gone unpunished.
Lucky Five struggling to really catch up
with Team Liquid Alienware at any turn
and ultimately being very sloppy
that opening engagement for one player to get all of the opening kills. KZ, six opening
kills in a row. I can't remember the time that that happened last.
Yeah, I can't think so. I was actually thinking about that. I don't know if I've ever seen
a half in which one player got all opening kills in a row. I'm sure, I mean, I will
say I'm sure it has happened at one point. Just like that'd be the kind of thing
would be weird for this to be like the first time it's like ever happened. But
i certainly don't know what time or this occurred
listen jumping out to me
it's uh... is maybe something that would have remembered but
to be able to find it out happened it'll be
be someone created probably an assail that's always a good place to start
looking for some crazy stats like this
you know i would waste your time in
e you for example
now i know it would be a way somebody's got six opening picks in a row
an eml you kidding me an nl as well just to be clear that's not even nl favoritism that's like
that's just stylistically that's not really how those two regions roll i mean
actually you know i say that i could like i'm not saying this is true i could see like a pan bazoo
six opening kills in a row like back when he was on dz you know what i'm saying i could see that
i could see like um i'm gonna say an ashen six in our opening pit but i don't think s i don't
I don't think SSG were consistent enough to really get it.
I can't tell you what I could see it with.
I could see it with like a Jane I Know or someone like that.
Notice when Jane I Know goes off and has one of his life days.
See, but that's the thing though, right?
It's like I could see like, I can't see Jane I Know 6 opening picks in a row,
but I could see like 6 Jane I Know multi-frags in a row.
That's the kind of thing that I associate with him.
Yeah, maybe it's gonna be so.
Like huge impact at various points in the round.
points in the round but I would like I think for like opening kills like the
KZ stat it's like it was really the only one that immediately comes to mind see
newer as well to be fair yeah
hey I don't know call in if you know let us know hey like to know hey and if you
call in there's a decent chance of I be a bit more entertaining than what lucky
five been offering so far but we say that it is the side swap not saying
a comeback is going to happen but there is a decent chance that now that you've
hit a new side lucky five might have a bit of a different tune the same wizard
with the opening pick I believe just firing through the stock wall able to
take down Maya sitting outside on the striker perfect start no can't complain
whatsoever you get away with a free pick sure you've lost some HP but team
liquid alien where I have a very normal setup for attacking this site
Ali vertical destruction hard-reaching there isn't a lot that's going to
recover a man advantage alone no but there's also not a lot that can really
go wrong is that you know you've lost your striker okay so you've lost you know
nades and maybe a couple of tin openers whatever it is that they were bringing
ultimately it's recoverable isn't it the kill on jv92 less so now you've
lost your Hibana that could limit your ability to open hatches and dirt tunnel
and church wall because you've only got three tin openers and you don't really
you want to be doing the church wall, you know, close range, like that, you want to be throwing
that from afar.
So plenty of work to be done on this book, and I've got to believe that T-Law can try
and work some sort of a pick here, but lucky five, maybe, you know, locking in one round
at a time.
There's still a game to be played here, and I'm going to go down without a fight.
Downside, of course, we're stacking the basement with only three bodies.
There's not many angles that you can cover.
when you do sense some on dirt, sense some on motor,
sense some on main stairs.
You double up on main stairs.
You even risk a kitchen hatch.
None of them really sound great, do they?
Without that added pressure from elsewhere,
whether that's coming in from blue
or whichever angle it is that you're not pushing.
That's typically where Lucky Five
are just gonna be able to plant their back and nose.
Hey, I believe they're gonna be pretty safe from blue side
because we've got two open picks.
That's pretty good calculation they can make and especially with 35 seconds remaining there's only going to be so many spots
Team Liquid Alienware could seemingly be 15-20 seconds from now
Especially as the RRU projectors go down moto of firebolts as well
Which has got to be careful it doesn't burn himself alive but he knows that the push or at least part of it is coming down this moto hatch
Next aspect coming down to kitchen but directly dropping into fire and an angle held by Veseto
not a whole lot for Team Liquid Alienware to do after going on 3v5. Lucky 5 converted successfully
a flawless to start out their defense and got to give credit where credit is due a perfect start
to their defensive half. That's one way to start isn't it? It's probably the best like you say a
flawless round to kick things off. There's a lot for the confidence. There's a little bit to break
the momentum as well. KZ not being successful in that opening pick or maybe the larger picture
Team Liquid Alienware losing that opening pick. We can't rely on KZ to get them all every single time.
There was Wizard that stood up for Lucky 5, grabbed that pick. It was the second one for me that really
added onto that pain. You lose two boys at Second Church National. Conversion rate is in the mud.
It's very difficult to try and convert onto. And I like what we're seeing now in Lucky 5.
We've gone for a double hard breach ban, or hard breach denial ban, as Team Liquid Alienware.
So we're also going to get a lot easier to get open, but we've got the mirror then as a consequence
of that and then you've got the Azami on a lucky five playing while they're playing both of them.
Mirror for the wall that's going to make Thermite's job horrendous trying to place the Thermite charge
on that it also leads him very vulnerable to impact tricking then we've also got the Azami
to play on Rafters very similarly to the way that JV92 played it. Now it's not to say that
you've got an Azami on the Rafters you will automatically win but it does make the job
a little bit easier and especially given that Bercetto seems to be hiding the clash somewhat
If he's able to get that in position as well, he might be able to harass on the corridor or on the catwalk a little bit and just buy even more time for Wizards to place those keepers down.
And Clash's Ami-Mira combo could really create a fortress for Lucky 5 on this defense.
And again, if you look at the anime, it kind of sparse with your general utility, not a whole lot to directly counter that.
that one lifeline or yeah one lifeline used early to create an angle in through
garage you see defender playing there at the moment I think about finding it but
psycho swing around the motorcycle one shot in the TCSG good enough for that
gunfight that goes already placed his utility he can play aggressively play
his life here getting away with the pick I mean might not need to do anything
else after that even if he goes down he's already got something big for his
team the capital the main bit of execute utility dislodged and
removed from T-Law's offense.
Psycho, TCSG clubhouse, take me back to 2021.
Line him up, he'll knock him down.
He's going for a second air of fancy and forward, but full epochs just gets the best
robin there.
Glas in the DMR.
Arguably a scarier opponent than that TCSG.
Still the problem of Lizards deal with inside a catwalk here.
And when you're losing your capital, you've lost your main way of dealing with him.
This position up here should be largely safe.
Casey's gonna try and get him from below, can try and stun out and assist for the Epox,
but it's gonna be a bold challenge.
What game sends must have been called on a drone?
Netskin down and out.
Just barely getting that man advantage over the line.
Great reaction, or as you say, great information gathered by Casey spreading up.
What is he doing?
fire KZ looking at this game on T lost terms puts a bullet directly in the
wizard's head on the floor and if he goes down I'd have to worry about T lost
chances in this round there's one guy showing up at the moment it is KZ with
the 556 the fuser in hand but on low HP it takes a too strong a whiff of that
toxic fume in P nose hands gun might go down until I'll be struggling to
recover 45 seconds remaining team liquid Alienware reset just a little
bit.
Lucero taking up the position made hell of a few rounds ago, down KZ goes, he hops up,
Lucero good for the next flick, as made looking at the wrong spot, Pino with the next stuff,
hoping a 2v4 from Lucky 5.
Lucero on for three kills out of that two, and we suddenly might just have a game on
our hands.
That's how you want that is a tilt if you're a Team Liquid Alienware, with how
well you've played up until this point to lose a four versus two.
By the way, one of the two is a clash.
So it's not even like it's a primary weapon.
Yes, it's still fantastic.
It's still a one-shot headshot.
It's still got a great time to kill.
But boy, oh boy, you've got to be trading those numbers
a little bit better.
Lucky five, a flawless round, a big clutch.
What more do you want to rally behind your team?
What more do you need to believe that it is doable?
I'll tell you what, it might not be as cut and dry
as we think, Lynx.
getting ahead of myself I always do. We've seen a flawless and we've seen a clutch.
Tealot, yes they've got four chances, yes they've got the tactical time out. But
you've got to leave a little bit of room to believe.
After a round like that I think we can all afford a little bit of belief. It
seemed like this was gonna be an unentertaining stop and
lucky fire basically be punted over the mountains into not the elimination
but certainly out of playoff contention.
Now with two rounds and a big 2v4, lucky five.
Doing the most work possible to convince us they still have a shot,
if not in playoff contention, at least in this matchup against Team Liquid Alienware.
Looking for a flawless side rotation as Basement's CCTV both go their way,
now on Jim and Bedarub.
We'll see some action in CCTV cash early on.
You see a lot of Team Liquid Alienware attackers consolidating around this location,
and of course defenders from Lucky 5 looking to hold this round as well.
S can take a little bit of damage early on as we've got Wizard just aggressing onto the breach ever so slightly.
We will back off quite quickly.
We want to give the game away too early.
Lucky 5 have been very good on the opening picks since getting onto the defense.
We like to think that seeing Liquid early on where it starts get a bit more wise to that.
It starts to recognize some of these cells.
Tilo going for a fairly standard approach for them since trying to get control of this catwalk area
They've got fully pox over watching onto the windows a little bit of control inside a cache and they can start to squeeze
They can start to pinch still jacuzzi wall to get open
The site is being sculpted out now made
Little bit of underneath action potentially with that's the fear as the sea jacuzzi starts to get opened up
You know
Still with some magnets to place and the C4
This is serious damage out from here, but
Base flip for lepox has got right now fantastic from below
Made the lifeline rip through takes nesca now. We've still got the difficulty of the bathroom player
Still need to deal with Kino here
I'll just go got to worry about that player on the CCTV window a couple different ways that lucky five are still bringing a fight
Team Liquid Alienware C4 around the corner will destroy...
No, will not destroy those ex pyros!
Nate now for another Psycho Fall, so there's Othea.
Rarely see the backline players have this much impact.
It's much more common to see JV92 get on the scoreboard.
It's not even exciting for Team Liquid Alienware right now.
It's not even a crazy 4v2.
Nate just swinging around the corner.
It is really rare we see Nate on for a multi-kill,
but his wizard with so much to worry about,
the anxiety gets the best of him.
And it is a brief flash in the pan for Lucky 5. Team Liquid A-Liver all three points and Lucky 5.
I'm pretty sure, correct me if I'm wrong as we get back to the desk. I think that's Lucky 5 out of playoffs.
It seems like it might be, doesn't it? You know, they've got a very difficult job at the start of the week.
They've lost two games here this weekend. Okay, one of them against Team Liquid A-Liver.
Maybe you're expecting that sort of a faction, but it was always going to be a tough game for them.
losing the game against INTZ and that's probably where their playoff hopes were
dashed especially with what's been going on elsewhere and especially with how
competitive the rest of the day has been. INTZ themselves, the massive weekend here.
Well, Team Liquid Alienware gets the job done and you know what? It was great to see. It was
brilliant to see them absolutely dominate that first half of Club Alton. I tell you what,
what a play from KZ. I mean, six opening picks in a row on a half of defense. I'm going to go
and see if we've ever seen it before. All I do to that, I'm going to send you over to our
last time. Thank you very much my friends. Thank you Ali. I hope you're checking
that right now because I'm expecting the the text to come in in the next couple
minutes but yes that is a hundred percent correct. Lucky five are now out of the
running including Ion Zed, Imperial and Loud to make it to playoffs. It all has to
do with who sits in what position here in SAO and Fluxo and Loss have locked
in their spot. It's crazy to believe that Fluxo actually got back into
but they're not the highlight of this matchup. It's of course Team Liquid Alienware and for that
FeliPox are waiting for it. It is great for us. Let's go.
Hello, hello, Feli. Good to see you again. Congratulations on a big, big win today.
Before we talk about that, because that was a smash, I definitely want to take a look at
kind of the result from yesterday and what was going on in the matchup against Fokse WSMM.
what do you feel went wrong there that you wanted to work on for today?
Hello guys, so yesterday we were playing Fortress, it's a map that we're not playing well for a
long time now and we made that decision to play that map yesterday because we are doing well in
the tournament and we have that privilege to do that so we were trying to gain confidence in the
map to get experience in there, tournament experience. So it was, the main decision was
because of that. And we couldn't win once again. So we saw that we still have some things to work
out in the map. But it was a good experience, a good learning experience.
Yeah. Oh, FiddeFox, let's talk about this game now. What can we talk about? I want to know
actually how was the communication between you guys because if you say oh yeah we were taking it
serious okay I believe it you were doing but it comes to a point where they were doing so many
silly mistakes that I'm curious to know how you all reacted. Yeah it was I don't like to say that
but it was easy it became easy the match and even Casey said that these guys don't know what
what they're doing right now. So yeah, we were taking it seriously, but it was a pretty
easy match for us.
What is that about you, Feli? Who's that? It's Casey's dog.
Show, show, show, show.
Such a cute little dog.
It's a little.
I didn't know he had a dog. Oh no, I know he even did a birthday, a birthday party for him.
Yes. Yes.
I only see like Duda posting stories about her dog and everything being so cute there, but she went to KZ's dog birthday party actually, with her dog I think, but also I want to know, what were the expectations to face Lucky 5, because I mean, we know it's a story, we now have Pino playing with Cycle and everything, we were looking forward to see what they would show to us, and what did you do?
What do you think? Okay, lucky five match it's gonna be like this, like that?
To be honest, I didn't think much of that because we were practicing with them for a long time now.
And so I just got used to it like a cyclist bag.
Okay, it doesn't matter for us.
We're just going to take it seriously and win against them, like we always did.
So that's it.
You were doing this kind of game in the screens too?
No, you were playing better in the screens.
Okay, well, that's why scrims don't really translate into real game experience.
To be honest, today it's a tough match for them because we don't have nothing to lose.
We actually don't have nothing to lose.
We are already qualified for the playoffs and they have everything on the line.
If they didn't win today, they weren't qualified for the playoffs.
So I think they were really nervous.
So it's hard for them.
pressure gets to you and actually speaking of playoffs you play loss next weekend and instead of asking you about their game specifically
the six teams are locked in
But black dragons flux of W7M and loss are fighting between them to get fourth place and skip
The the lower bracket. Who do you think out of those three teams are gonna get is gonna get position for here in SAO
I have no idea. I just know that we're going to try to win against Los. It doesn't matter that we
don't need the points, but we're just going to try our best. So if it depends from us, Los is going to be the last.
That's all I mean, it makes sense, right? You can't just get points for nothing. That's not
how it works here. Well, Feli, I'm looking forward to next week, but I'm really looking
forward to the playoffs when we swap the best of threes the real challenge starts there and seeing
who actually makes it to the osuka major have you ever been to japan 30 never and it's my dream for a
long time now it's everybody's dream at this point everybody i think no one from liquid went to
japan or uh no no one no one no because liquid didn't qualify to the tokoname pro league finals
was the Berlin day. That was an IP and I don't even remember the other team that qualified
from Brazil back then.
Anyways, that was an IP and a team fault or a face plan already.
Yeah, face plan had already like joined in a year and a bit ago, so it would make sense
that it would be face anyways. But yeah, maybe you will get to see you there, FeliBots.
It'll be a dream come true, maybe a major that you'll get to take back home.
But that's all in the future.
We still have to get through those playoffs.
So I want to thank you very much for your interview today, for
our very candid conversation between us.
And for a very cute dog that we got to see on the interview.
Wish you a great night and hope to see you next week.
Thank you guys.
Have a good night.
Thank you.
And there it is, Maria.
Our day is coming to a close.
What a way to close it off here with Timotaur Elinor.
absolutely smashing lucky five who now are luckily well they're not going to play
they needed to win today they needed four points to be competitive it
actually remain in the top six and three that they would have held today even if
they win next week against whoever they're playing against at this point
it wouldn't matter no no no also yeah the next matchup guess who is against
Uh, Furia, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, but, uh, okay, Milesh, Lucky, 5 gameplay, uh,
game plan was not clear since the start.
XR Trika pointed out, and I need to say again, the fact that they didn't ban Azemi in Clubhouse,
this is crazy because you're attacking, and yet it's not a rule, it doesn't make
so much sense.
Normally you have to ban specific operators in order to make it easier for you to attack in each map to break their positions down to roam around the map more freely and this didn't happen, they also gave away so many free kills for Liquid, especially in the early round.
we saw KZ so lucky five would just say hi guys and KZ would shoot them straight and just kill them
straight away for six rounds in a row and by their faces even when they did a flawless round
there was not many emotions showing yeah that's when you know that's when you know the things are
now I'm gonna end well I think Feli really did describe it best the pressure really got to them
they needed the win didn't happen they weren't really getting anywhere KZ today though was an
absolute tear winning the entry in six out of the nine rounds that were played that's crazy
KZ
Incredible honestly KZ 164 APS contributing to victory in every singular round because of those entry kills that they're able later to convert into wins
Aside from those two rounds that happen here and there 12 to 4 overall incredible play
It's good that everybody from TLR just kind of swapping between them who gets the MVP
It's a lot of times. It's my other that gets the MVP or JV every now and then
Yes, it's them. Yes, most of the times they are the guys that are always going for the
kills and back in the days we had this nickname for KZMVKZ because he would just grab all
the MVPs in the SAL so now he is back. He's back. And that's a crazy rating. 160 in 64.
He's literally winning the round like pretty much for the most of the time anything, but
That's all in the past now as the standings are this way phase
T-Lots and we're in fury in the top three. They are locked in those positions
Nobody can push them out of the top three because you could only get three points next weekend
It's the final playday on the Saturday
So there it is. You can only jump up between position one or three to one or whatever it may be
And it will give you a seeding advantage because one and two get an advantage to play against the
lower rated teams
But if you're in the top four you're a tough team to play against anyways
The real fight here is between Black Dragons, Plexus W7M and Los
Because those three are fighting amongst themselves of who gets position four so gets to have an extra life in
in the playoffs bracket and who gets to play in the lower bracket against the other position 5 or 6.
The rest from 7 to 10, Lucky 5, ITZ, Imperial Esports and Loud, they are out of the running completely.
But Imperial and ITZ are playing for one big thing who gets relegated into tier 2.
And that's a big way to start our day next Saturday.
I'm very happy with this weekend. I've said that many times, but it's just crazy how it's a roller coaster.
Now we just know who is going for the playoffs and who is not going, but it means also that only the best teams are going to face each other from now on,
which makes even better to watch and everything.
So I'm looking forward for this playoffs,
but yeah, we still have one more day,
the last one for the group stage,
and let's see.
Next Sunday.
We've seen it.
Yes, next Sunday.
You know what?
Next Sunday, not Saturday.
I'm used to it at this point, Saturday Sunday,
but yes, it is next Sunday and only next Sunday
because after that will be time for playoffs
and playoffs are in a row.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
starting later in the day compared to what we're used
in SL usually because well there's AL also that's happening and all that so
things are shifting a little bit just a comedy for it all but that's in the
future right there's still a bit of time before we get to that position but I
think this weekend was incredible and it's on way we got to see both of us on
different broadcasts also here Maria and yesterday with links was a lot of
fun we saw incredible games we have the fish story at the end of Saturday
And today what do we get? We get lost fighting back and a story for the ages for fluxa w7m
That hold on to their position when they started playing like absolute garbage in the starting stage and recover
It is never too late for a comeback at least
For them because all the others well, they couldn't make it in there, but still Maria
I want to thank you so much for this wonderful day together any final words from you for a sake of mine
Thank you for having me
It's an honor and I also want to say thank you for the chat because I was looking during the day and I saw so many love from you guys
Thank you. I know that many of you don't don't know me, but
It's because I'm in Brazil working for the Brazilian broadcast
So it was just I was just happy to be here and say hi to everybody
Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you on here. Of course, we're used to being in around Maria for for many many many years
either as interviewer with the Brazilian crew or with the English team as well and the international
broadcast so now we get to have a little bit more fun talking about Brazil and SL but not
in Portuguese, which makes it a lot of fun for us to get the experience of the rumors
and all the stories that are happening in between teams that we don't understand ourselves
from the outside.
Though for all of you watching at home, thanks so much and thank you for a very kind
chat. As Maria said, I'll see you next Sunday for the final playday of SAL group stage before
we dig into our playoffs, so you can actually qualify to the Osaka Major. In between, if
you want to watch some more Siege, trust me, there is a lot of it that is happening,
and EML is starting in less than 24 hours. It'll be done this time 24 hours from now,
I hope, unless there's going to be many re-hosts. But that's their problem, not ours.
So then, take care and we'll love you, bye-bye.
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I'll see you again.
I'll see you when I win.
In Osaka.