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I know it's going to be good, but last week, last Monday, we had so many tech issues.
It was such a long day.
And actually, NAL as well, three players from MIT dropped out exactly at the same time.
And it can't be worse though.
ACL.
ACL, there was a fish stopped internet connection from NACA.
A fish.
A fish jumped on the mud.
A fish?
No, you're going to have to get out of here.
Gables!
It is EML Super Week!
Three more playdays to round off our group stage.
That means 9 points up for grabs for our teams in the fight for playoffs and relegation.
My name is Annelby, your host for today.
Joining me in the studio we have Fresh and Alfama.
Guys, I'm very happy to be back in the studio here.
Were you guys a bit nice to Jonah last week?
Yeah.
Yeah, we were really nice.
I thought we were really nice to Jonah last week.
Great care of him.
We remember his name.
We didn't throw anything at him either.
We didn't throw anything weird at him.
We know.
I think I'm sure he felt really welcome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I really believe that as well when he was like tweeting at me like the throwing
stuff at me and they're like intentionally doing it really hard to hurt me but
I wonder who left her heels here. Maybe you put the idea in our mind.
Who run the entire script and then went back to the Netherlands. I wonder.
Anyways, I had an amazing time off. It was really nice to relax for a little bit.
I didn't watch the email of course, but if you, like me, were in here last week
and missed some of the action, let's jump into the panorama and review last week
or last Tuesday with three categories starting with the monster.
We picked up one player is an amazing growth over the stage. We we know him as the king
But he might be turning into the emperor
Yeah
He started as a peasant in the first week with it who struggled really hard one of the worst-rated player in the league and then became a
King only one week after after being rated the MVP in two ladies in a row
He became after that the emperor a crazy evolution from the king himself stompin
Yeah, absolutely crazy if you look at these stats 57 kills cross six playdays a new account for the fact
He played one of his games four versus five and G2 struggled in that first week including the game up against Falcons
The fact he's averaged nearly 10 kills per match since all well over the course of the stage is
Absolutely crazy. He is currently the best player inside of our league without a doubt
That's very impressive of course for a younger player as well really making his way up the ranks here
We'll look to the moment from last week picks a silly way to end a game between rebels and that shifters
and if it was a misreader situation or a misclick, but what is going on?
This was ridiculous. This was beyond ridiculous.
2 vs 1 for the Red Bulls guys and what?
What did they do? The Blackbeard unshields push him? I don't know.
I think it's been a terrible stage for Fn0 and I think that one thing was maybe the nail in the coffin of his confidence.
Because that one, that was really hard.
Yes, it's very, very unfortunate for those players there,
but we'll look forward to today, the start of our super week with our must watch.
The match that you will have keep your eyes peeled for for the screen. We could pick all five of them as always
We pick the one in the middle of your screen G2 and the Virtus Pro both comes
We inside that top six for fighting for the upper bracket as well
Yeah, I think it's a great moment to test the momentum on the side of G2, right?
They've been a crazy comeback. Yeah for win zero
They're gonna play the most consistent team at the top of the level right now in EML
That's VP
This is gonna be an important moment to learn how they learn the lesson and can they actually perform
because that game against heretics last week was definitely a show of weakness and that we haven't confirmed any team yet for playoffs looking at the standings like this as well
We're just broke currently leading that charge there
But given that we haven't confirmed anyone yet means that there's still so much possible in regards of
Final positions and where these teams will end up in yeah
And it's absolutely beautiful if you look at the pictures that we've just seen all the teams that are in similar places in the lead of all
that going up against each other and
actually, I've got a fun fact for you and Leo is that if you look at the final positions of these two of the possible positions, the final possible positions,
every team can still finish with inside the top six, even with inside the top four, and that's very variable. It just shows how close our league is.
Yeah, that's great. We'll have a look at those as well very soon. I mean, we did this last stage as well. We talked about the possibilities of teams ending in positions as well.
that. It's it's great. It's
great. I think that especially
with these three play days
coming up so fast so much can
change. Yeah, absolutely.
Obviously it's super weak. We
got played a seven eight nine
coming up this week. Here's
the graphs a little bit
confusing, so I'm just going to
break it down for you very,
very quickly. The teams one to
10 are in the white
positions. That's the position
that they're in. And then
the base of the yellow block
is the maximum of minimum
positions that they can
finish. So that's broken
finish all the way as high as
fourth and then you've got
everybody in between. And you
can see therefore every team
putting theory finish in the top
four, even if it is just a
0.01% chance of team heretics.
It can happen. I verify the
results and all the way down
to the first pro, even though
they are 99.99% confirmed for
playoffs, there is literally
one scenario where they could
be outside of it. So in terms
of like taking away things
here, VP, they could very much
confirm playoffs after winning
They're 100% out of the top for a race, maybe even out of the playoffs race.
And then for the middle of the pack, it's still everything to do for you.
It's crazy how at the top it seems like it's all sunshine, rainbows, and then at the bottom it gets really dire with that fight for relegation.
I mean, we're looking at the teams that could possibly be relegated and their chances really in these final potential playdays of the year.
Yes, so as a reminder, everything has changed regarding relegation this year.
for this and their season, what will define who will get relegated will be SI points.
They were distributed towards kick-off, Soul Exity, Stage 1, Stage 2 and Osaka.
Currently if you look at the points that teams have, two stand minds for example have a lot more points than DK.
Two stand minds if you remember, went top 4 at Soul Exity, DK went top 4 at AWC.
So you must ask the question, why is there so much gap between the two of them?
Well, AWC did not give you any SI points.
you're a geeky they're feeling very threatened right now. Yeah absolutely it's a super unique scenario in the international performance can affect domestic relegation ultimately but it goes to show the weight of Osaka you can see it on your screen there this is for all three regions obviously you qualify to Osaka and win the full thing you'll get 1500 si points
ultimately qualify to SI and stay safe from relegation.
So it shows it's still all to play for all of these teams,
but the first step, and especially for the first step for our AML teams,
is making the top six to qualify and aim for Osaka.
We could be in a situation where, for example, like Rebels,
they overtake Gike, they make playoffs Gike doesn't.
It would be crazy.
And then Rebels don't get relegated and Gike does.
So that's the pressure right now for AML.
Especially with the BGC performance.
Yeah, exactly.
Crazy.
And that's for our Sunfall within like three days, right?
So it's crazy how fast all of this is coming at us here in the final three playdays of the group stage
But two of those teams that are eligible for relegation actually find themselves playing against each other for the first match of the day
Rebels going up against heretics. Now heretics haven't won a game in two playdays
Rebels haven't won one in three playdays and all they actually got from last week both of them
One point only due to getting an overtime. That is not a lot. No, that's not a lot
But I think there are different stories here. If I if I look at the set of heretics
I was impressed by the performance last week.
Although they only took one point, they were leading the charge against G2.
That game on boarder, they were going crazy.
Honestly, after the halftime, I thought in what world are Heretics going to lose that one?
And if it wasn't for a crazy comeback from G2,
on the back of, I think, a lot of pressure for Heretics to close the game
and a lack of experience, Heretics would have beat G2.
That would have been completely crazy.
And in the context of the team that's down the bottom of the table,
I think Heretics are actually performing okay, their performances are okay.
the results are maybe not following the performances, but their performances generally has been okay.
They went 4-0 up against G2 in this game. And then ultimately, I think once they got to round 6,
once they got points and they thought, hey, we can actually cause an upset,
they got in their own heads, the mental maybe got some, like you said, lack of experience,
maybe got some a little bit. But I actually think despite the fact that they only got one
point, there is still a lot to like about this team. If lack of experience really is the
thing that is causing these issues, that might be something that's easier to fix. I give them
time, let them work together.
But when we look at the other side, when we look at Rebels, these issues might be more
underlying.
We're looking at what the players are saying on socials as well.
They don't often get so vocal about things are going wrong for them.
Yeah, exactly.
Asa came out on social media and you can read what he put here, but ultimately their
conclusion of it is we don't really know what our problem is.
Don't know if it's practice, don't know if it's structure, effort, or a mix of everything.
And I think we'll sit here on the couch today and we'll say the same thing because
we see the highest.
going up on B in Falcons, but we see the lows as well. We see them getting 7-0 and it's
honestly very hard to pinpoint one exact weakness that they're getting more.
Yeah and it feels like they have a clear ceiling and then there was that moment where
they decided okay we're gonna switch the J away, we're gonna remove our coach from
the coach position, we're gonna sub him in and that was a solution somehow for Rebels.
And I just don't think that's gonna work, I just don't think, I think it was
enough in the short term to beat Falcons,
but realistically the water is still going to leak afterwards
and I think it's exactly what's happened in the nurse
in a few days.
We found the exact same ceiling in stage one, here in stage two.
It feels really rough because if this is just
like a small plaster on a really big wound,
it's concerning for waters to come.
And especially looking at what Asa said,
lack of effort, lack of structure,
I don't mean to be a negative Nancy,
but that seems like a really difficult thing to fix.
Yeah, that's actually quite concerning realistically
because if it was just a case of a team saying, hey, we are working out hard way out with trying every day. We're working so hard.
Things aren't quite clicking. Our map pulls. Maybe not that we need to learn more theory, whatever it is.
Those are kind of tangible outcomes that you can go and focus on and you can improve on when you've got a player coming out on social media and saying,
I don't know if it's a lack of effort on our part. That's a concerning, you know, ultimately, that's a reflect of the team.
And I think that's why we see them down the bottom of the leaderboard currently in that position.
All we say the context this game as well is whoever loses this probably isn't gonna make plus all
Which means probably again whoever loses this is gonna get relegated exactly which makes this one game
This one best of one so important
I would even increase it to to the weight of the scope of the week
I guess because right now it's like the best way to kick it off right you're playing against in theory the weakest opponent
You can play in the ML. Yeah, that's the first step, right a baby step towards maybe salvation
Realistically though when you're saying that heretics they've been doing good
They've been doing better that any time they don't have time they have one week three play days in a row
They don't have one week anymore. Actually, they've got 72 hours right now to try and salvage their season and the realistic thing with it is
honesty
Everything they've done so far is in the spirit of reaching their peak at the right moment
They should hope that they are that big right now because otherwise it's the end of their season
And I'm thinking of players that can all speak Akwi players that have played a full year in tier one. Yeah got relegated
Managed to get back to tier one again and most of the time that's a miracle and despite all of that
They're still in the spot to get relegated again and that must feel terrible for these guys
Yeah, now their future in tier one is on the line again
You mentioned only three of our play days to really try and defend their position inside our ecosystem
We'll have a look at the map veto because this game could be all determining as you already mentioned at night
I mean, night Haven labs in terms of the ML. We don't see it often. I don't know why our teams have really not taken to it very often. In fact, this is the first time this stage for both of these two teams. They both play it once last stage, both lost it. So in terms of preferences, it's on the lower end for both of these teams. However, if I'm a Rebels fan and maybe having a little bit of confidence here, because that one win against team
That one win against Sturgeon Valhalla, what map did it come on?
Labs.
Well, clubhouse.
Clubhouse.
Which is very similar in a way it plays out two labs.
Yeah, very traditional and I think smaller, like smaller frame.
Which I think you go back to basics on that map.
Right, very simple.
Bridge the walls and then bridge the core of the floor,
which would be the top and the basement.
So I think for both teams I have struggled so far in having a huge depth,
a huge complexity.
On one hand you look at heretics that were great on boarder,
you look at rebels that were great on club,
Both were small maps. On labs, it should be like starting point.
Yeah.
Well, so we're waiting on the final three players to join us in the lobby.
So there's a bit more time for us to talk about the stakes
and what is playing in the back of their minds.
Because how as a player, do you even balance the constant thought of like,
oh, this is for relegation and oh, this is the one best of one that we need to focus on?
And we can't be thinking about relegation too much.
Otherwise, it becomes that dark cloud that's looming over us.
I think it's already looming over everyone.
I think when you're a player like LASMO, like Skeptic, who honestly joined the roster,
you knew by joining Heretics, you look at their performance in kick-off, you look at
their performance stage 1, you look at the total amount of SI points as you get in the
league and you know you're in the dire spot, they're already expected I guess to be relegated.
They're being given a last chance realistically.
For Rebels, same thing, they've seen it coming.
So in their head, I think it's probably already over, unless a miracle happens, which might,
opposite its way, actually relieve pressure.
Yeah, it might.
It might just let them play, you know, the best stage.
I was obviously on the team that got relegated back in 2020.
Once we got relegated, we played some wonderful stage, and we won games from there on out.
Yeah, you're knowing it.
You're knowing, man.
I'm an annoying man.
Yes.
A lot of people would describe me.
Right, as an annoying man.
Some people were playing for playoffs or were playing for events, and then suddenly
girls decided to play well yeah we did yeah yeah suddenly yeah well I will say
pressure does a weird and wonderful thing that means that we are in the
middle of super in the middle we will be in the middle of super week as soon as
they these teams have played and with super week you just snowball that
momentum you get a big win you carry on so as much as losing his habit winning
is also a habit whoever wins this game comes out on top ideally if it's in
regulation can then kick on in their super week if they get nine points
out of nine which seems far fetched right now if they were able to there's
a very good or outside chance that they could still make the playoffs and keep that not just
relegation hope alive but ultimately the Osaka hope and the you know the SI hope alive as well.
So it's one step on a on a very what will be a very quick week what can be a very impactful week
as well. So what you're saying right now is that depending on obviously the mindset of these players
going into this game we could have a very chaotic game. Yeah I would even say a very chaotic
play there because like the impact of that game will have a lot of impact on the rest of
of the teams that in theory could get relegated, especially Gike, because let's be honest,
when you look at Twisted Minds and their performance at SOTLX CT, I don't see a world in which
another team makes top four at Osaka and distrones them.
So I'm just thinking, realistically, for the set of Twisted Minds, they're safe.
But it's more so for the likes of obviously Gike that this game has a lot of impact.
Yeah, I think so.
And obviously, if we look at the possible final table positions, you can see Rebels
and Heretic are still in with it.
But the current chances are 3%, 3% paratix, 3.49% for Rebels.
If they win this, did a little bit of maps, got a little bit of help with that.
They go up to about a 10% chance still for playoffs, and still very, very low for top
four.
They're really fighting out, and they have to have a really, really strong super week
to get themselves into the top six.
10% is not much, but we have seen worse inside our EML ecosystem, right?
You know, G2 being with the Baxi against them all 4%, they still made it.
I think that hope will be a really dangerous thing, looking how close this is in the social
progression as well.
I feel like this could go either way.
We have Rebels starting on defense though.
Yeah, and I do think that Rebels are going to be favored in a sense that they have
players that have more experience than on the set of heretics.
I feel like heretics, they get punished a lot by their inexperience.
And I think Rebels, they've been there, let's not forget that Rebels have made
their way to play-offs multiple times when we're not anticipated.
I think the most generic Benz ever.
Yeah.
Was in a long have richer.
Yeah, the most basic map ever.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I think.
Um, I think the big win condition for this comes down to rebels are decently okay on
their defenses.
I think when they get into the attack, that's the main question.
And I think the heretics, the main question is, can they get Zara in the right positions
to have impactful rounds?
We've seen that be their big win condition, especially on the attack.
Think about that game on cafe where he was in the building in sight within 30, 40 seconds
and they were playing drones for him there playing line scans don't recall string if they can put him in the right position possible
Then I think that's where their success is gonna come from
You think that's that's like possible as much as it is on keffy like I remember like night here. Yeah, I think so
I think there's a it when when you're looking at maps and you're looking at putting your position in and if I was your wing condition
You know it was it was geeking wasn't it?
It's probably you said all that it does is it is like like look basically
When you're looking at the maps and the availability to do that if you think about night haze
and there's a basement entrances down low that are unknown.
You can get him in with a shotgun or whatever.
There's lots of different doors on far sides of the map.
It's a big map from that point of view and up on the top floor.
So if you can find a way to get him in,
and Rebels guys will leave gaps,
we've seen them leave gaps against basically everybody this stage as well.
So if you can put him in the right position with the right utility,
he can have big impact.
That's how good Zara is on this strategy climb.
Strategically wise, you look at this map, you're going to be able to pay almost any kind of apparel
when you go back to generic bands of Harbridge and Molden Isle, so we're going to have heavy set-ups
like Azami and Clash, against them we're going to see heavy lurks, I would say a composition like
Lion, Solid Snake, DKB all together, and Daemon 7, so I think it's going to be...
At first I always criticize teams that go for generic bands like this.
of this but I don't mind. I feel like it's okay, especially just because of the nature of the map.
He's about breach the first layer and then you can start working. I will say my hot take is though
my kind of hot take is you can do a two for one. Obviously we see K-Bandit all the time. That makes
any wall breaching easy. If you get rid of a two per hour, you can deal with a K-Bandit in
isolation very very easily and then you get a spare band for example these army.
That's maybe how I see some teams doing it but obviously particularly these two teams very
very very often when they're on the tap they always go for the Cade and the Bandit and of course we
I feel like I feel like a broken record in my times I'll say this way always when you go for a Cade and
a Bandit it's the walls are easy to get and your first minute minute 30 for round becomes easier
yeah and then the right round is the problem give it a mirror yeah and then there's an SME behind
here oh and a family as well yeah cool and then there's a clash as well clash yeah or you're
maybe a well and mute and a smoke and a smoke and definitely with six and thirty all all sorts
the game. We have a lot of
stuff that you go up against,
and ultimately that's where we
see these teams come up against
it, and we do see other teams
pivots bands that are more
focused on these army. The one
my the powerful operators, the
mayor of the clash, and then
they have a good way of dealing
with the wall breach or the
audit nor old together, and
then they don't have to
come up against the same
resistance in the late. As you
have probably noticed, we
haven't actually started our
game here waiting on the
players to join it back into
matchup as a whole, but also the future of these two teams.
You've been hammering it down.
This is about relegation.
This is about their survival inside EML, and I want to quickly look at the remaining schedule
for both these teams.
Rebels on one side, tomorrow, Virtus.pro.
Not easy.
Then their final match of the week is against Secret, who find themselves in a very good
momentum.
So, I would say that is a little bit difficult.
On the other hand, Team Heretics, tomorrow, they play against shifters.
match for a player like Les Moe in the back of his mind, playing against his former org,
and then their final matchup of the stage will be against Fnatic. So arguably, which
of these two teams would have it easier in that?
I mean, heretics have the teams in and around them. In terms of the overall leaderboard,
I think for Rebels, that VP game is the big hot liar there. That feels almost impossible
that they'll win that game against VP. But I think for heretics, if we focus
on them specifically, if they can get a big win here, they can snowball that into
So Shifter's team, who we know have had ups and downs,
they've had ups and downs the last 18 months,
but also inside of this stage,
and can prove themselves to be beatable,
and then going on to a Fnatic, who very much the same.
There is a world,
there's a world where he takes zero points in this week,
but there's a world where he could even
get nine points in this week as well.
Yeah, and if you just think about Shifter's
and their performance in the last few stages,
the reality is they've struggled hard,
reaching playoffs, or, you know,
dropped the bull hard in the last few plays.
I remember stage one,
They had started with early glimpses of hope and then suddenly the super weak dropped them hard
and in the end they even missed playoff which was unthinkable back then when you looked at the roster that they had.
So obviously I'm not saying that Heretic would be a favorite in the matchup against shifters.
I'm just saying, yeah, like you said, with the inconsistencies on both shifters and Fnatic.
Yes, this is in my opinion an easier pass than having to play any team plus VP.
Well, I mean, looking at this, it's going to make you think as a team of like,
Oh, that match on the second day of stage one, you know, what would have happened if we played this or that different?
I've spoken to players before and they get this like rush, you know, sometimes when they're in bed at night and they're like,
Oh my God, I should have played that different. Like I should have done the situation different.
That's that's a real thing that's happening.
You have no idea how many times after a play they have to, I thought like that.
If I just like went left here, if I sent my gas grenade through the smoke, like because the thing is you have so many options in this game.
you have so many layers and you need to make so many micro decisions at the same time.
And on top of that, IGL, when you are the IGL.
So like, you're always going to make mistakes in your micro decisions?
Yeah.
The macro, you can always debate.
I think in general, it's always right.
But I think the micro decisions, those are the ones where you think about all the time.
Because one tiny detail, one smoke that hits the wrong way.
How many rounds have these guys lost, by the way?
By just missing one Tachanka?
Or by just one Chuikau?
Or by missing one gas grenade?
Yeah.
Like the amount of time the diffuser gets planted just because of that one tiny detail.
Think of how many times you should have went into the custom game and just rehearsed the perfect lineup.
And you didn't do that.
And then you cast your team around.
And then a match.
It's unfortunate.
And I feel bad for players whenever they mention this, right?
Because it's just these tiny decisions that could lead to something spiraling down so bad.
And that could be the case for both these three teams.
as we already mentioned, they find themselves with that fight for relegation.
This is where it's about to get dire.
These are the final rounds that they might be playing inside their tier one group,
because who knows what's going to happen when you drop down to tier two.
We're looking at teams that are fighting their cells their way through Southreach.
Then you're combined right now.
We're looking at a team like Ponderhuono has been knocking on the doors of tier one for a very long time.
Yeah, that's the thing is obviously, you know, we can explore that.
Should the relegation happen?
Should the things go badly for these teams?
team. They have to then play
through challenge. Challenge
series. And there are some good
teams. You know, we've seen some
very, very good teams and very
strong teams across our team
circuit. It's not a guarantee
that they would come right back
up. Of course, there's a big
period of time between them and
now transfer windows, Si all
sorts of things can happen
between them and now as well.
So the biggest goal has to
be to try and secure status
in this league and then deal
with whatever comes afterwards
because like say it's not
guaranteed for any of these
players or any of these teams
your patience because we have the good news that the game is finally ready to go. So we'll set that
over to Belet de Florida and Pengu. Thank you very much guys down the disc. I don't know about
you guys but I feel like I've got the perfect line. I feel like we're about to stand it Pengu.
We're back here on EML. I, what a rush. I couldn't be happier to be here right now. Pengu we've
been down in APL for a while. This is our final EML player so we better make the most of it.
We're seeing it all starting off this week for you guys got three action packed days here in EML and a kind of a
Bangor stuff things off as well fighting that bottom place fighting for legation fight to stay alive for these players careers right now. Oh
Here we are skeptic is struggling to fight to stay alive as he's the earliest pick in the round
What 10 15 seconds in very aggressive play from rebels Aston with a nice quickspawn peak and
And almost a follow-up there from Lolo tempting the top of blue stairs at the start of the round
But doesn't want to take any unnecessary risks. Now, Pengu,
I know you had a few comments about the operator band phase while we were off air just before we started.
Couldn't get more boring, could it? A couple of hard bridge bands, couple of electro bros.
That's it. I literally called. Here comes a Benekai double hard bridge. The Acin's a Thermite. It happened.
It's stable. It's a classic and like you said, a little bit boring. One can argue.
But it does have the tone for both of these two teams of Team Heretics and Rebels that they know what they're up against.
It's a very familiar territory. I also imagine that the scrims also often go this way in terms of operator selection.
So very familiar ground. We say that, yet this mirror window will be an obstacle.
Either gotta get Sophia downstairs who is in the hallway currently, but waiting for that a bit less bit of information.
And by losing Skeptic Earl in the solid snake, off that vienta! Look at the timing though!
Oh my god.
As I was asking, those that see forward to maybe get a kill to the meeting hallway,
it's going to be accurate downstairs, getting the kill instead, denying the C4,
and with that also dies the mirror window spot itself.
What's great about this round for Heretics is the pace was set right at the start by Rebels,
and Heretics did not delay getting into it themselves.
So despite them having two engagements already one either direction,
it's still early game.
There's still over a minute left.
Heretics do have a lot of work to do still as we have a bit of aggression here in IT from Feno,
but he was spotted. Can he retreat safely? Wow! Run out actually from Marto.
Meanwhile, it's two picks for Rebels and just Aki, Aki and Lolo. The last two up for the Heretic
Composition. Nice little swing here from Marto. Only finds one, but Feno will follow.
Very good start there for Rebels. Yeah, I mean they wanted that round of good bit of
mini games and set team play there pushing by the bridge and then jumping out the window
behind them as well going for a 2v2 action but from two different directions. This is
kind of the difficulty that can happen as an attacking team when you ban away the Thermite
and the Ace. Either you get on the Hibana that can use a bunch of X-Kiros on a singular wall
and open up more or less the same bridge like a Thermite or you're bringing stronger
primary gadgets playing almost like you say the Grim, the Shield, the Ying, whatever,
and you get a can opener, it's a secondary harbinger gadget, but this angle right there is very easy to fight against as a defender.
It's a tiny hole, you're only fighting the left hand side or the right hand side, you can isolate those when you want very easily
and the breach being opened up doesn't actually apply a ton of pressure.
So I would love to see heretics when they go back to a top floor attack later on, to maybe opt for the Hibana, get a bigger wall opening
and a bit more focus and attention towards those mirror windows because they are going to be a problem when the mirror is in play.
I feel like these days we're seeing more and more people trying to direct attackers off of Thermite and Ace.
Just for the single reason of the smaller breach is actually easier to fight and now defenders will play aggressively.
It's not like some kind of hard counter compared to, for example, when you keep in the Thermite,
The third might be bad in Ace-Cabana and then you play Miro-Windows to try and trick the beach.
It's not as decisive of that. It's a more subtle idea of,
we're confident that if we're just fighting these little ping-and-open breaches,
we can actually take those fights. We know that we're either forcing a vault prompt
or a crouch either way. The mobility is restricted there for the attacker fighting it.
I really like the way that there's just another level of subtlety to the game these days.
Also, mind you, if you're playing as Sami, a single keeper barrier can patch up
can open her home and we saw it last night. You just keep that, take IT control, they got a punch
three times, just shoot it with a full magazine, you're wasting valuable seconds and you get to
reposition effortlessly. You don't get that luxury, it gets operators like the Hibana and like the
film-like. Star-Arting Lord Demi's downstairs. I think Team Heretics haven't fully showed their
hand just yet but it looks like a bit of a direct-o attack and they're up against the
verticality. They're up against the layered defense here from Team Rebels and there's
three members all joining out to the breach. Aquilore finds the open arms of solace, and
I want to sit back and put a bomb site.
It's so deep. Let's see if we can follow up. Oh my god, poor Aqui. A little bit of a whip.
Sorry, we saw that mate. Linker is able to trade it back. Now the problem for Heretic
is they've got three people outside the breach and their backstabber, their knife
in the dark, in the bomb site, dispatch with. So really you need someone to heavily
contest the vert. All you need the picks on the bomb site. You can't just have
three people standing outside a tin can opener breach one of limbs is watching
from above but I assume that it didn't pop the joy can is so early so now they're
waiting for 20 seconds they want to wait for the fire to go away to push both
the double breach and sink at the same time got there all right here to close
off some of the doors and try to enable a plant that was the last impact on
eight spent early and ninkle die show after so they're wasting the use of
a pocket right now nice flash no still aggressive inside of assembly itself
But the problem here for Eretix is while they do have a bit of control, there is Dilvert from the path, there is actually an impact left for Feno, and they'll leave you very deep on the plant.
Zara will fall, out comes the impact, second one for Feno, it's all gone the way for Rebels again, that said, the Lord brings one back and Lasmoth finds his pick.
So now suddenly Martyrs, the last one standing, his impact last round was essential to Rebels' success.
now he has to 1v2. Two flashes in pocket for Lasma, but he's the one planting Lolo has to cover, and he doesn't have any candellas left.
Now it's a 2v1, as the plant's gone down, and Marto without a C4, in a tough spot, a real pickle.
Even though he does have information, Ping's constantly onto Lolo. He has to dupe these duels, and Lolo will go for the swing regardless.
Great response early up from the Italians.
Good adaptation, dealing with the player above and the players by the bombsite all at the same time.
It did start off a bit disjointed, actually with the Twitch going for a solo 1v1 swing
that would determine whether the bombsite was going to be fully clear or impossible to push for his teammates.
They stall out, and I do think that actually Team Rebels during defense might have over-committed.
I mean the first impact when they ended up costing Ligo his life, it was unnecessary.
Because his teammate was living on the verticality right up above watching the exact same angle so he exposed himself to 1v1
Then Fennel's skills are beautiful, but when they're going for the kill together, Matu also turns out to C4
So there are three people trying to deny one guy from planting. There's the guy above on the bird
There's the guy impacting the raw gate, and there's the guy going for the C4
So they spend all of their tools for a single kill and
and on paper it looks good.
You go from a 3v3 into a 3v2.
But if the attackers get back into that plant position behind the pillar,
now you have no way of denying the planter.
Now what happened?
The player above his defender gets flanked by the attacker.
Now you lose vertical control.
Then the attackers go downstairs.
One guy goes to the pillar.
You get no C4.
So you have no planter now.
So a little bit over commitment one can say.
But I will say this to the defender.
A great team work from Red Bulls being very active in how and when and where
They're fighting right now, not even
Though I do wonder how much easier that round would have been for heretics if actually had pushed deeper after he found that first pick on the bombsite
I mean aside from the fact that he did kind of potato at the linker. It was just a bit unnecessary and look sometimes
Aim be like that. That's just the nature of every FPS game
But I do feel like he could have made a decision to play a little safer
and it would've worked out better for heretics.
Rebels change up bomb sites, control room time,
and the clash makes its appearance
for the first time here from the limbs.
They can call the shots in rotations with their operator,
covering his whole body from the bullets.
Only really has to worry about the Sophia,
and the concussions mostly in this round.
So it should be a relatively stress-free situation
for them, she's an individual.
But team rep was also maybe a bit more about waiting for team heretics to make the first moves, right?
You got strong table stations reported by the clash by the asami
You can support those positions further with their on my disc you get into it with the thorn traps
So I think less of great getting to the face of team heretics and more about let him to get as close to execute as possible
Then going for a counter play
This is the downside of that because they're not seeking those early fights
They are surrendering all the hot destruction all the breeches the external walls immediately
Only applying a bit of fighting back here onto the IT breach, like I said before.
If I can open the walls, a single key-bump can give you this fighting staying power.
Yeah, you're so right.
It starts to make you feel like with the Thermite Ace Band, you kind of need to get
rid of that as Army after this next round.
But I've got to play this round out first.
There's so many powerful operators in for both sides, but especially for that defense.
And speaking of, the Wamai, immovable often in position,
Feno finds that early pick onto skeptic.
That's the deadly solid snake that should be going for a backstab.
Speaking of, Feno's just jumped out, doubled down,
goodbye to Lolo and the execution power now.
Without the Grimm, it's gonna be much harder.
There it is.
That said, finally they move in the building,
make their way in from IT.
Bit of info here from our Queen.
Thanks to the Zoth concussion,
Bart needs to keep some still available
to deal with that clash in the late round.
Feno has hidden away and gone big for a 4k, very convincing round for Rebels. Mostly thanks
to Feno upstairs. I mean just so many ones being won there by Feno, four kills in an hour
and jumbling out staying in, pulling on the ground, establishing the crossfires and just
kind of playing all these teammates, baiting very well for him. Mentioned the Asami is a
band possibility and I'm happy to agree it's a very good potential band here. It's
pickable and very playable on every single bomb slide and with the harpy's destruction
being bent away mostly it is tricky. So is the mirror and the mirror is technically one of those
like wall denying operators in a way similar to the Bannon and Kaid. You can impact trick through
it, see four trick through it and just make the breaching very challenging. So Heretics will
give her that instead. And 14 Rebels is about information denial getting that Grim gone from
the game. Grim has died early so we haven't seen the most of our value gain from the Grim
bees, but if you get into a very strong position and you're ready to execute and all those bees
come out, you know exactly what's clear and what isn't. Grim's also one of the hard breach operators
in this occasion. You've banned three hard breaches in a way and by getting rid of that Grim,
suddenly whoever was playing the Grim, so it was Zara and then while I have to think,
okay well my job is still to do some hard breaches part of my role, so what else do I
And we're probably gonna see Capitao fill that
Because the Capitao has the hard breach and a little bit of area denial similar to the Grimm functions a bit differently
But Lola's gonna jump on that here
The Blackbeard makes an appearance for the first time as well the first time we're seeing a shield out of team heretics
And this could just be I'm trying to go for a hot cat walk clear
There's a third time now the two secret players have jumped out.
And even though what do you do when people keep jumping out on you?
There's this...
Oh wait a second.
There's the nomads or the good old claymores.
And then if you start playing nomads and claymores commonly, guess what?
Defenders start bringing them out the solos, you start counter-scanning for them.
There are a lot of different options to play around with.
Rebels still a bit of verticality in the menu.
They got their post reaction downstairs.
They got four separate C4s so they can find kills.
And they have a rat in the corner,
after playing right by that external breach.
If he goes drone here, he might die,
and he's attempting to run back.
But that being said, it's Lolo and the Capitile
drowning outside, and he probably
values his own life too much to go for the white swing,
because he needs this Capitile to get the unit off
before taking the gun fight.
the reeds here but surely Asa's gonna hear this black beard in a second, goes to the
swing actually early, does Lolo go for it, oh nice nitro, doesn't actually do any damage,
Lolo hears it in time, Asa will fall back and just survives, Skeptic's so scared, and
I'm not surprised here that Heretics are playing this so slowly, Rebels have been
hyper aggressive all game long, yeah, it's a matter of staying alive right now and
I'm trying to get that 5 in pot and execute 2 C4s now, being burned as a
expensive bit of utility. You're not finding any kills or damage.
AirJab tank, second shot.
Oh, you're close for it.
The tower jumps right in for the fight, but the trade game is there.
They try and support each other, and do a bit of damage back and forth.
But this means tower now. No flashbangs, no airjabs actively on the map.
So pushing back and, you know, aggressing to the face of the attackers.
It's still possible for Apple. So look at this.
What the pull, Scatter?
Mato Webberswap C4, set double sound!
Yeah, massive. Huge value for Mato this round.
And now with the pulse alive down below,
Heretics have no choice but to do something about it,
whether that's pushing deep on the bomb site,
or going to hunt the pulse.
You don't really have the ability to do the Lasser with time of the essence.
And now another aggro player spotted.
It is that Elusive Azami really holding onto IT.
Heretics don't have a lot of good options despite that pick on the lingo
There's so much more than that they need to do and all this is gonna really be devastating
They were my magnet actually catches the fire arrow and now flames will flood exactly where
Heretics need to be activating on the bomb site. Marto from down below gets a kill through the exploded
Rafters all his B4 and another pick desperately on the bomb site as they can hold on to electrical easy as you like and that is
I could be the most dominant round we've seen so far from Rebels.
I mean, again, it's a very good seed right now from Team Rebels.
They're so proactive in the server, but also can't help but say Team Heretics, you know?
Skipping a couple of steps.
Sophia is downstairs, has a very important job to do with the Sophia, big wounds from beneath,
no droning, no flank watching, no one actually making sure that he succeeds at his job,
so he's just on an island alone.
He dies to the post, who has the cardiac scan on, goes,
wait, that's not a heartbeat, that's a forearm player, and it's a free kill.
And then the player up above, Sarah, doesn't even react when his teammate dies to a pulse right below him.
That's obviously going to be a C4. It could take a second, it could take 10, but there's a pulse downstairs with the scanner, with the C4 in pocket.
Surely you've got to get off the soft floor. But no, so you lose two very crucial players and a lot of map control with it.
A bit of frustration with the players here is Team Heretics, and understandably so. They're fighting for survival and so far they're not getting close enough to the level of which they need to play at.
I'm not taking a moment too soon if you ask me.
Here's the replay of that guy was calling his pants down, but I quickly did not see it and
as you say immediately Zara should have clocked maybe a little bit quicker.
To be fair to his credit there was not a lot of time to make that realisation, oh it's
a pulse.
You see your teammate die, you see it's the Zofia, you see it's from the Reaper.
By that point you could probably be like oh that's a pulse below even before your
teammates called it but still it's a very short turnaround. You're right there, you just don't
send in a player to go and do vert solo without at least something to work with.
I do like the idea of Monty though, like we can't have alluded to before, you want to slow down
the game pace of its maritakes, playing the Nomad, the Monty, the Great Log and again the
information game and the stopping the aggression game that the challenge right now is to simply
staying alive and also applying a bit of pressure because if you're on the attack and you're not
you know shooting into the enemy's direction taking map control efficiently and quickly
the time will become a big problem so there's this fine line of hey we're going kind of fast
and we're getting a lot of stuff done but we're not exposing ourselves to bad gun fights
go too quickly you die for nothing go too slow well you can't do much in the server late round
we're going to stop here at the Goyo the Valkyrie the favorite Cality speaking of Valkyrie
monster taking a fair bit of damage here roaming towards the kitchen and dining area
and that's going to actually give up a lot of map space quickly and look at that Lolo
actually on the blitz not the Monty after all can do a great job here establishing a base
of operations right now we got kitchen we got dining we have a foothold in the map
Okay, let's dive in the tank drones. Okay, is there a guy top floor? No, there's none. Okay, let's look forward.
This is going to be about decision making and probably solving up some heretics on how they can progress there by step.
Blackhead opens the wall, Sauer has the angle, and they get that first kill to Sauer.
Huge star, and look at the pace here from heretics. They want to try and match the aggro from Rebels by getting quickly down onto the bomb site.
The Blackbeet is in, Sauer behind, finds a second on the round, and now Rebels have had a complete rug pull.
Do heretics now look for a plant? How do they look for a plant up above the verp?
The default position does open up, but yeah, Zarya's gone for three.
Linko spotted, and now Zarya can go fully into post-plant watching mode.
He finds a 4k on for the round. Huge response from team heretics. A flawless round.
Just like that. You just got to start or go kill.
You know, Blackbeard in, or sorry, Blitz in, you go behind them, just get up.
headshot, headshot, headshot, they were not gonna slow down, there's not much stabilizing,
it was about getting their confidence back and that right there is a confidence booster of a round.
I love seeing Skeptik going 100 miles a minute with his mic there.
You need that. 2-3 now is not nearly as bad of a scoreline penguin going into the final round
of the half. If this is a 3-3 heritage, they'll be super happy with that, they then go
onto their defensive side, much less frazzled and with a lot of confidence. Rebels have had
a ton of confidence, they played hyper aggro, this defensive side, they've really tried to
throw a curveball, get up in Heretic's face, make them second guess themselves. And it
didn't necessarily work because Heretic still had the confidence and the conviction
to just go for that crazy rush in that round, find a pick, and it doesn't even
take any processing time. It doesn't even take someone saying, hey guys, let's go
for this because everybody already knows we found the pick we know exactly what
that means we're going for it.
Attackers are moving out to locate a bomb and abuse it.
So heretics seemingly just need a hero.
One kind of you know shot call or say okay we're gonna go for this play right now and
if they find that first kill that bit of momentum they can take the whole round with
it and I look at the slide out the black beard the solid snake it can be a quick
one once you're ready to go for a couple of kills but you also get lolon and nuke
Which is kind of the opposite. You want to creep in the middle of the map, you know,
be hiding next to the Valkyrie camps.
There's also a pulse which can scan your heartbeats, so a trick you want to navigate here.
You also have heart destruction, so there's a very unusual situation here, but necessary given the Operator Bands and what not.
And Lunar will become the heartbeats on the IT wall with that nook.
He's gonna go for it. Funnily enough, the nook does not hide your heartbeats from a pulse.
and that's the last bulletin for this video, free nitro cell and unfortunately for heretics any momentum they might have found last round has been completely stuck from their sails
I love the idea, you bring a nook, you do something sneaky-beaky like problem is rebels have been clearly running this pole stall game
it's a quick pivot though for heretics, this time not because they've found a pick but because they've lost a pick
lost a pic so they're gonna go straight into the bombsite nice spot onto that
Valkam and Zara's found one back this actually might be achievable here yeah
you commit to it most time three four not a great force plan but it's playable
because of black and shield yeah the problem is here this particular bombsite
is all about numbers it's all about playing the crossfires and that's a
great bit of damage there from lingo and the second one oh it's all down to
The garbage shoot floor team heretics 1v2 nice attempt there from Zara but a big
round from Linko Rebels manage the 4-2 split and they are well on their way to
taking the map against heretics. Yes they are a 4-2 split that last round very entertaining
towards their as well but in general what we're seeing from Rebels on their
defensive half is their read and adaptation on what heretics are doing.
Yeah, I mean you just saw that last round and what do you see? You see Valkyrie, you see a Pulse, you see a C4 kill
And we started together all of the intel. It starts all the way in round one, Jack you saw this really good play
Yeah, it was really really good. You see the triple impacts appear of course being really strong
But what are Rebels do, Leo? They bring the Pulse. They adapt, they adapt
They kill the Zofia in round four in the same bomb site and get a C4 kill on the base of that
They knew someone was gonna come and then they use the vertical play to their advantage in round six
As we mentioned, they bring two intel operators and get a clean double opening kill and I think overall that was one point in the macro, the intel game.
Another point in the micro is the step up, the massive step up from Feno. Look at this comparison, almost double EPS compared to his normal average sure of the stage and here in the first six rounds.
Yeah, I think so. He's been significantly improved. He also played a lot of his army inside of this game as well, which was really really strong in the late one.
we mentioned in the band phase is that when you get rid of the kid to the bandit, the
exam becomes really strong in the later on. A lot of those operators we saw clash as well
from the side of Rebels and I think the Heretics, they were trying to be fast, they were trying
to be ferocious, they were trying to be very much in the site, play with a lot of pace
and once Rebels got a read on that and they were playing into that later on, they're
setting up these little traps, they really dealt with Heretics pace very, very well.
They got the 4-2 but the big question for me is the size swap. Are Rebels good
enough to then get a free-free on their attacks? When we've seen their attacks
actually be quite weak across the whole stage.
Yeah, my main issue with heretics right now is that how easy they are to read.
There was no adaptation here.
You see their player losing his life to a pulse downstairs in round four.
In round six, again, they have no one looking at downstairs.
They don't have enough drone. They don't have information on someone under them.
And so if you're not able to adapt in attack, which is the easiest side where you can adapt
because you can always choose where you can attack from,
Then how are you going to do it in defense? That's my question. I need to see heretics come up with a better plan
I need to see skeptic read their opponents better and come up with ways to control the way heretics play rather than sticking
Rebels play rather than sticking to a script because I think that's been an issue with heretics sticking to the script too much
There's kind of arguments for both these teams as to why their second half would not so much succeed going into this
We already put the pressure on them
I mean it is relegation that is on the line and again
It is not here the maps again. It is the most
What do you mean, Eric six don't know how to adapt they saw you were
And then they just decided to bend the nomad. Hey, you know what? I'm all for it
I'd rather be wrong and see a different band phase. Let's go. Ben. It can be played come on
I mean possibly both costs because the band is played is very likely that the maverick was going to be removed
You can maverick to play for the band it's right counter bandit trick Sophia from below of course
There are ways of dealing with the bandit much easier than there are date ways of dealing with the Cade
I've you know
I'm a big fan of K'd or to bro been banned and then another one of the powerful operators we've seen here
The Cades band and also the mirror mirrors across so strong in this map you play for the basement bomb site
the looks towards the breaches, you can play for the top floor bombsite, they're
looking to rafters, they're looking to basically connect to that side, the
meeting side as well. There's so many ways that you can play Mira on this map as well,
that's really really strong. Well as we discussed, both these teams can have
some potential issues. Going into the second half, let's find out then who
solves them best. Yes indeed and look after the first round, Pengu, first
half I should say. It was all about Rebels being aggro and defense so
much so the heretics brought the Nomad. It seems like heretics are interested in
giving rebels a taste of their own medicine. It's a classic case of when you
know or think that something is very strong because you deem it valuable, you
want to remove that valuable thing from your opponents and I mean you ban the
Nomad, you make an acro player yourself and look at that, and then you get the
first pick on to a Lemch, on to the Capitao. Probably the highest value
it's high to the grid of early before it dispends any of the gadget utility.
So a very strong start into heretics, but like the disc set like Leo said it's about reading your opponents and adapting correctly
Not just playing off paper and if they plant a swampy that's build a paper not adaptation
I'm not keeping it 100 with you. I was looking at my notes. I didn't see what I was bro like
Heretics say anything you can do I can do better a small peak in the very first round
Yeah, we'll match you on that. It was a punch hole
Man, shout out to the Ops team for that one. That is an insane call from you guys.
Love that.
Oh, Rebels are really getting a bit of a taste of their own menace now.
And the Nomad ban isn't just for runouts. It's also specifically taking electrical here,
because we saw what Eretix did. They spanned their flashes, spanned the air jab onto this doorway
to force players back inside and then take control of electrical.
And Rebels really can't do that.
Feno's in there in IT, and there's another scene kind of with a penalty on defense right now.
That Nade in the spring right over could be good, but you're shot down immediately.
Aakku was ready for it, jumped in, shot down as well.
Get off of Aakku, that's their libel and started on B4. They're everywhere.
Yep, and then it's over.
I feel like I've seen this before, but the team names are the other way around.
It's another really aggro defense round where the solution for the attack is,
is hey guys things aren't working well let's go even more aggro and it just
doesn't work this is a game of defense at the moment defense is setting that pace
attack is throwing everything and the kitchen sink at it but the defense was
standing and now heretics surely thinking guys look with how convincing
that round was we only dropped one body this half it doesn't matter that we're
starting at two four down we can come back we can win this we can even win
this in regulation that's ridiculous you know they were ready for it in
defense instead of having confidence to take those fights. Team Rebels did start the action
though, I mean they got spawned peeked that's not you know them starting anything but afterwards
it was Feno, Grenade, Grenading off the door frame and sprinting straight in towards the
bombsite door. Sofia jumping in electric window right after it. It was Rebels trying
to control the pace and catch them here to buy surprise but it didn't all work. They
were much much well prepared for it. Now they go downstairs, they get some internal
the solace in the pool so it could serve further intel and weakening in gunfights in
the illa and the thorn.
It's a ribos, they've done a lot of attack repaking, they got the solid snake, they get
the grim, of course they get the striker, so it's kind of difficult to kill a fair
amount of grenades right now.
And another game of no primary heartbeachers, there's strong gadgets with secondary
heartbeats in it.
Oh my god!
And then goes that to a C4.
The C4s today are doing incredible amounts of damage, like 11 seconds into
the round yeah let's get the kids with the lol that's the same bro like very
first round of this entire game we had to kill 12 seconds into the round and then
last round we had 22 seconds in the round that was 11 that's so far the
record for this game unbelievable man that's how world records they work right
it's about beating it for every single time that's oh my god out the double
bridge on basement and got another kill what's happening like at this point I'm
burning pulse like screws only in your event bad pulse brother I mean I use my
info thought they queued up for a ranked game they have no fear like they are
making these like 90 10 super risky plays where it usually doesn't work but both
teams whenever they make that kind of plate it keeps working of course as
continue because they're fighting the right result, this right outcome, but it must be so
frustrating now for Revis to die to exact symptom foolery that they themselves did to heritage
just a couple of rounds ago. Yeah and I think something that both of these teams have in common
is when they're on the defensive side once they get like a 70% advantage, which I would say
what a 5v3 like this is about 70%, just pull the hell out, look at them, look at them
Like you've just got your traps. You've got a Grishmore in pocket. You just hold your positions fortify it up
Zyra's finished off Feno hold your crossfires the shot he comes out and
This is gonna be it. This is gonna be an easy tie of the scoreboard. How many kills can Mato even find?
I don't know they just be exits at this point. He's gonna take the tactical time out
He's got a whole minute to talk to the squad
Nays will take it
It's gonna find a cozy comfy corner and like you said, yeah
I'll talk to his teammates about what they gotta fix up for the future rounds and it feels like it's more of the same
Guys we're dying too early. We never got to play plan A. We never get to execute
We keep like stressing it out like come on
Let's have some drones in the scumbag areas and take extra cautious seconds to approach the building to have a proper round out of
Seeds right now
It also doesn't help that it limbs having a hard time finding the score but he's 0-5 right now on defense
He had like a clash on for example. He's been some supportive work and
And since you got them to the attack, I mean they haven't had a real bomb to play yet
And if you're the ideal you're the leader of the team bringing that kind of structure
You need pieces to move around the map
So because people keep dying early and MC can really I GL the proper strategy
No, as you find in the kills individually. So it must be such a fresh in time to be human particular for the side of rebels
Times is gonna last here for rebels as they
No one will likely hurt the bomb site that will be up next, it will be control room because
top floor and basement have been won now by Heretics.
Now, Pingu, we have casted a couple of overtime games recently.
That we have?
I would say maybe one or two or ten or twenty or three thousands.
In stage one, Heretics and Rebels played each other.
It didn't happen to remember what the score was, but everything was there all the time.
Could have been error.
And he just checked my notes, right?
Oh, that was an 8-7.
Oh, yeah, that was a 15-...
Ah, what are we talking about?
We're talking about the 9th place team versus the 10th place team.
These guys are fighting to try and not get relegated, to try and get any SI points
they possibly can.
Yep.
Get out of relegation.
So everything matters.
Every single round matters.
Every single point on the standings matters.
And the last time they went full OT.
Thank you strap yourself in this is gonna be a long night things though
I mean, I think for this match in particular fighting for survival
It should go to distance it should really test both teams to their maximum limits to get deep in the
Individual chat books to cover counter is the correction the adaptations rather
And I'll just go out with an easy win on easy loss
Or easy win in the heart loss. I guess I should say
We gotta see though from a lens get to get the boys together
together. You have the 1 minute fake tag timeout, you have the 1 minute real tag timeout. This
has to be the biggest point of change for Rebels in the attack. And I mean, right now
he's hovering the Monty. That is going to be a huge shift in pacing. I would love for
him to actually stick it, give it a round or two, and just really structure the steps.
Step one, we do this. Okay, step two, now we do that. Whatever those steps are
going to be, you need to have a drone or a player beneath the Monty. So whenever
months on soft floor and top floor you've got to know what's beneath that soft
floor otherwise that post you for it can ruin the whole plan again James it could
be that simple
I'm calling around I gotta ban their pulse off the next thing so it's been
exactly all almost every single round the info gathering is massive and
compared to a lot of other operators you just don't really know when the
getting that info on you
We're selecting a time zone
1337 and Singapore okay guy nice nice nice. I've never seen that before
You know roll playing an observer when I get there
Future job maybe waiting for him at C4 jump out like they're committing so much these early early
mini-games but you look look at how much motto is respecting it. He is packing out all the
very disposal and playing solid snake with the F2. They have made the call. Guys do not die. I
need you to stay alive. We need to just progress around to get the heart destruction started here
in IT. That's step one. A bit of external pressure. Okay? We're counting these C4s. We
know there are two in the server. They'd like to know it as well. There's only the one
my and the pools can pick that in the current defending lineup. So there's one
super on a kind of four that's on the pools.
For Rebels it's about the slow and steady. If you can bait in a pick here or there
then that's a great idea. I wonder if Marto did something like pretending to be
on cams to try and bait that jump out. I feel like maybe he did. Yeah I think
he did so his drone was here he might have just seen the pulse and of course if
the pulse is scanning around see someone standing still for about five seconds
they probably think they're under and they probably think it's a free kill so
now as early bait one of the most deadly elements of the defense to
smash with. Starlight on, 5-1 kill back on to Aster, the Galastrian, the Monti against
the action, right now it's all lingo, there isn't them, it's finally on the
caligraphers which no one behind needs a bit of teamwork to happen.
Yeah, two-spot on, but at least the rotations can be seen by a lens.
Bro doesn't need any kills if he can enable the map control to be taken by the rest of his team.
GSH comes out, Furfeno finds the pick on a skeptic through the floor.
Now Rebels are well and truly in control.
Heretics have fallen apart.
Now they need to find their way to get back into it.
Splotted on the flank, Zara has to reconsider though Martha is controlling this hallway.
an attempt at a refrag here from Lolo does get the injured and did he finish... there we go.
The plant is gonna go down. Surely the Protan is reinforced off of, he is completely locked out,
plant down with a Monty still up. Oh my god, that is an insane shot. He just wiped his mouse
across his mousepad and somehow his bullets magnetized the lingo's face. A Lems and Feno
in the post plant. 12 kills between the toads though, by the way. And surely the post
should be unloosable.
The Fenno, up above.
Lolo has to try and bait it, knows that the Monty
is staring at him.
Fenno still has the vert up above
and will deliver his 13th kill of the game.
Rebels finally break the trend
and find their first round on the attacking side.
Oh boy.
I mean, it's not the most structured round.
And I don't want to believe the Monty
didn't get to get a ton of action right there,
but I do think it managed to call
like where to attack from.
My Alkra back stepping, attacking from pillar.
The Monty is just a distraction on Call of Rafters.
Immediately after one round, Monty gets banned away.
I love that adaptation here from Team Heretics,
on a standard, hey, this is gonna be their crutch operator
when they're struggling.
And I'm honestly so disappointed,
like utterly devastated that it's a bandit ban.
How many bandits have we seen?
How much bandit trickery has happened?
And what are we dying to?
The aggression, the post, the verticality,
the C4 is the information game on the defense,
and we're banning the bandit.
That could come back to bite them.
Yeah.
That kind of triggers me.
I mean, I would have been happy with a pulse band.
I would have been happening with an Azami band.
I would have even been okay with like a Wamai or a Thorn band.
Because the Wamai has been really good.
We even saw the way that interacted with the Capital Fire
and previously the Nomad, which obviously is banned here.
The Thorn as well,
ban out traps to enable more aggression.
Maybe they don't want to ban the Pulse because they think they can bait him like they did last round.
I'm okay with that.
But Bandit just seems like such a waste.
And if you're worried about also, okay, so let's play it out, right?
Let's say you fear the Maverick ban because then Bandit really gets enabled, right?
Because you cannot just maverick the wall.
Okay, but now you have Monty opening and you can just go for a full run clear.
And if you ban the Pulse instead, Monty has almost no counters left that's being commonly played by Team Heretic.
So and on this map like bad it is countable on every bomb side on the top floor band that is easily countable from below with
So on the basement you just have to roam clear. I mean, yes, it's hard
Like you said monty's up. Yeah
So, yeah, it does feel a bit of a whatever
Situation maybe rebels said, you know what we're better. It doesn't matter
There's no IQ though. They're not really respecting the course potential right now
Now this gandit jump in, shot from the hand fin on the Demos, looking for a fight completely
scornful.
Get him, get him, get him.
He wide swings it.
Doesn't hit the shot, takes a lot of damage and responds.
This is a rep-walls thing, screw it.
We don't want to go for a passive round.
Let's go aggressive again and guess what?
Mato, 1 HP, a LEMSH injured asset to building it is completely falling apart
in the first 40 seconds.
And...
That's a crazy nitro.
And they're down for the ball!
And a lot of those thinking of nitro cells.
One operator enabled the...
Oh, it was the pulse.
It was the pulse who had full info again and got a big nitro cell kill.
Probably couldn't land it that C4 while blinded.
Guys, just because you know based on your teammates on site where that's going, this
is a bit of a rough one for Rebels.
I think we're going to hit 5-5.
Look at the health bars.
A Leng, Lingo and Mk2.
Combine their health, they're about 50% of a full health player.
They cannot play the game right now.
They'll die to any straight bullets, any impact grenade, any bit of damage.
Whereas T-Meritix, they're sitting back.
They've got the 5v4, they've got plenty of time to, you know, play around with, to keep falling back and playing the layers.
And they're just waiting for Rebels to make the first step, playing around with the Denarii laser traps as they should.
And once they're responsive into Rebels, let's halt the anchors.
They're gonna flank us. They're gonna go into our guns and we'll get some free kills. Well, you're not!
The enemy is very disciplined. You gotta pick this apart, and right now you're feeling to do so.
I have a tricky feeling that someone is gonna die to a Denarii laser.
Especially Mato if he tries to go up blue stairs, which I saw him tend to do before if there any on the staircase. He is cooked
May comes out. Akui still tucked in this corner skeptic with shotgun at the door into electrical
That's a loseable. You're making a hell of a lot of noise there a lens
I would have thought the pre-fire would come out after he tanks a bit of damage from the fire
Skeptic is
Unloseable in this situation gets the kill on to lingo Mato does make his way up the blue stairs
There is a denarii tripwire and he will not get a chance to get to it
No, because well heretics have bitten down hard flawless round the third flawless round in this game
And we're at five rounds a piece. Oh
Man such a frustrating round
Again, it just feels like the strat book and leadership from from team battles. It's just very thin
They make an adaptation right to take the fake timer in real time out two minutes of strategy talk
They conjure up a single round victory in the attack and it was because the Monty the most stable kind of post tertiary attack
By the way a little bit easier statistically and then it's straight back to city business
Very unstable very fast they go into electric window
They don't find the opening pick and instead of kind of resetting the round and getting back outside and restructuring it
They just stand still and you see we're holding this angle and we get C4
That could have been a matter of jump back out the window and what does it before drone the floor beneath?
you like or have it gone down there you can have solid snake take that space of
the scanner for free so now it's 5 5 but it does feel like team heretics are now
the ones pulling the heck with the strategy with the counter play to go
but keep you now just to add a bit of spice they enable this bombs up in the
class I can give them the whole we control it was here 90 bottom lobby
and team rebels this is the moment when it gotta show us there's a
clinical execute the step one two three this on paper is one of the least
defendable bombsites in all of Rainbow Six Siege Pro League this should be the
place where they should be able to get around comfortably. Right it is one of
the least defensible bombsites at the pro level in Siege but there's also a
little bit of magic about it when clash is up yeah and when teams have their
backs up against the wall I've seen so many defense rounds one on this
particular bombsite. I don't know if it's about to go for a fast entry here. He did see someone.
Oh, I really like that idea. It does get traded out by Lolo, but I never thought of that. You
can hot jump into a window with the Kali 1 hitting the barricade. Smart idea there.
The 1 for 1 trade, I would say, is not worth it.
No, no. You lose to Solid Snake. One of the most, you know, strong gadgets in the game
may be ever in the attacking side, giving so much free intel. F2. And the more kills that happen,
The more pouches that will drop on the ground to pick up a grenade a flashbang a smoke
Loosing soliciting early and it's better on 14 kills so 13 before I got that one, right?
And they've been in limbs jumping in who's here or six different story
You can make him go for one I just in the grave
But then always I'm gonna be probably the most vocal player necessarily when you have another play like a lynch and live in the server
So it feels like a miss opportunity of value
Link on HP on start to a C4, but he has box they have the IQ this time around
to scan for the Valkyries, to pre-placed the forest, and they've actually gotten good
vert control, they've broken the Luffy Wall open as well. On paper they almost have every
step necessary for a plant, except how do they actually start getting into the bomb
site? With the Valkyries that can be watched, with the Clash Shield hovering them, when
a flank occurring at the same time, is it going to be a matter of just smoking
here for a limb from the Caldean running into a smoke grenade? Or is it going to
be about playing for kills, maybe?
All three Valkyrams are up by the way. I noticed Aqui flicking the three of them. One at the top of CeCe's stairs, one in server and one on site, and that has enabled this plane from Zara.
He knew he could run across the entire top floor of the map, and he's also going to know about this other player that's hunting him down.
Actually, I think Aqui was on the wrong camera for a brief moment, which is why Lincote didn't get spotted, so a good trade from Rebels.
from rebels thankfully that's something that they needed but they're still in a
really tough spot that clash on the bomb site is going to be hard to kill even
with the Kali and Lolo is holding on to this map control. Linko and Lems both
low HP and vulnerable to those razor bloom thorn traps no time they're just
gonna have to go for it flash comes out out comes the skeleton key shotgun
Lolo is gonna go all the way downstairs into the basement there's
There's no time for Rebels to go hunting for that. They need to try and look for a plant.
They need to try and find an execute, and the kill will not happen for Massive with the
shotgun on the bottom side. A Lems is having to do all their heavy lifting himself, and
he can't find more than a single kill. It's Team Heretics who claim the first matchpoint.
They're getting so active in the sewer. I mean, it's just a great flank there from
Sauron top floor, and it's such a high risk position again. It's a stable round,
before anybody's round to win and you go for a flank probably knowing or assuming
there's a flank drone somewhere but he finds the kill he gets the intel and the
second attacker and he stalls the round for so much time now it's down to a bit
of desperation from team rebels and these attacks are just not coming
together we're not seeing them be able to execute get to the bottom side
consistently they're getting flanked all the time the C4s are landing and they
willingly went for the one-for-one trade. I mean, yes, they had the Solid Snake, they
scanned the player in the corner, but they're jumping in the 90-window hallway next to the
bomb site. Like, surely there's gonna be a trade game happening sooner rather than later.
So if you make that play, you accept going one-for-one. And I just don't see that
being worth it, like I said. It's the Solid Snake, great gun, great gadget, top
fracker on the server that you're surrendering to kill and mute on drones.
all camps. Yeah and again Thorn was not banned and there was barbed wire there and they knew
about the barbed wire. I don't know if they knew about the Thorn trap but even if the player
wasn't there to try and get back here with the Thorns SMG then that's not happening
and here's the highlight of it. I mean he's probably going to die to that trap
even if he doesn't die to Lola's gun. I do like the game plan there from heretics.
A lot of layers to that defense.
I mean, like I said, I did notice those Valkcams
at the start of the round.
One was on the CC stairs, the fish stairs, aqua stairs,
what do you guys call it?
And one was in server.
So that is a pretty good coverage of enabling a flank.
And it's not all the way up to where the plant,
sorry, where the eventual flank needs to happen,
which is on to meeting,
but it's pretty much the entire pathway to get there,
which is huge in its own right.
And it also gives so much map space.
It tells you if there's a backstab
coming your way from CC stairs, which does actually inch closer to the bomb site.
Really good idea from the get-go for heretics.
You know, it's just about getting active, like, not being afraid of playing to win, so to speak.
Like, a terminology that we like to use.
There's the whole, like, playing to win and playing to lose.
And no matter how much pressure that's on you or what's on the line,
if you start being afraid of making the play,
Crono could playing to lose right you're not seeking the the winning moment
You're probably gonna end up giving a bad result
You start using a thing of instinct and confidence you're playing off second guessing doubting
reconsidering every single move in the server and
That's the thing for some of these players that haven't played you know in
Big grand finals or big states matches that much in the past possibly because they're younger in their careers
You just haven't been on that kind of team before
You're not gonna know how to deal with this kind of pressure that this is it right now
You're being tested and so far it's one team doing better than the other and it's not team rebels
Yeah
We're having a brief tech pause while we investigate something
Sorry, that sounds very ominous. We're just we're just working through something
I don't know if we should explain that all the boring details right now
I don't even know what happens
So while you were talking just a little bird he was telling me
Basically, one of the teams thinks there was a bug in that round, and so we're just quickly
investigating.
I'm curious.
One player from Rebels apparently thinks that there was a bug to do with the Valkyrie or
to do with the IQ, and we're investigating that.
I don't want to pretend that I know all the details because all I've been told is
a very brief five second explanation while you were talking.
You should totally just write it down on a notepad somewhere and hit enter so that
I could take a peep, you know, just for curiosity's sake.
I mean, I'll just say, firstly, I'm not the admin disclaimer.
Oh, you're not?
The information that I've been told.
Well, I'll tell you, Pengu, what I was told.
And I'll tell the audience, but I want the audience to know that this isn't up to us,
nor is it outcalled, and this is all alleged, et cetera.
So apparently, Marto claims he couldn't see the Valkcams, or there was a bug to do
with scanning the Valkcams with his IQ scanner.
And that's what he wants to get investigated.
Now in the round, I was really aware of the Valkyrie pick and I wanted to know where those
Valkyrie comes from.
And I noticed Aqui, who was the mute player, who died right at the start of the round.
I was looking at his operator card to see which cameras he was spectating.
And I noticed him flick between three Valkyrie cameras.
One was in 1F cafeteria, which is the bomb site.
Or is that next to the bomb site?
That's the bomb site, I believe.
was 2f server which is the upstairs bomb site that you often play with the server right there
everyone sits behind and one was in 2f cctv hallway which is like the top blue stairs.
From watching where marto was that round he was nowhere near server and nowhere near top
blue stairs so there's no way he would have seen those found creepers I mean I don't
I don't think he was looking at the right direction.
I don't think he was looking at the right direction.
But odds are he was scanning the bomb site.
He's not about chemicals.
Bro.
Totally.
Like you're checking meeting.
Like you're checking meeting.
A checking con may be electrical.
You're checking lobby.
These are the spots that he was probably checking.
That said, I would have expected him to see the one in cafeteria in the bomb site.
Yeah.
And I don't know whether that got shot.
shot I don't know exactly what his claim is whether his claim is you know how
you can see the gadget with your scanner but they should be out of like z-ping it
yeah maybe he tried z-ping and it didn't work I don't know exactly what he's
claiming you know what that's pretty much that's what we're investigating I
think there's a bigger problem at hand right now okay they had a flank drone
in the jungle and nobody was still dying and Sarah flanked and the drone
literally sees the angle the entire time and they never check the camera
Sarah went back after getting a kill and shut the flank on which they never checked by the way
I think they should they should talk about that if you're a team variables right now who didn't watch the flank cam
Who took my personal opinion like I don't care if that if IQ's gadget destroys all valkyres with a single button press at the start of the round
They're still not winning
Yeah, yeah, that's the thing right let's be real fair is fair everyone has a chance to speak up and share their opinions
So that's why we're here if you think that there's a game bug that has you treated unfairly then you have every right
Yeah, except you have every right to say guys
I think maybe something happened this round
You know we take a look at it
Well, we don't that means take a look at it and then we'll see what happens from there
We'll get you guys an update
But it's important that players do feel the safety that I can share these things also mind you there is a lot on the line for
This matchup
This is not like a over just here for the vibes
No, they're fighting to have their literal careers intact interior personal play because the loser faces relegation
So, totally. You're going to want to replay the round to say issues.
100% and if you look at the standings for relegation at the moment,
so of course only non-partner teams can be relegated and the relegations are done through the SI points.
So we have four non-partner teams in EML. We have Twisted Minds, GKE Sports, Rebels Gaming and Team Heretics.
They're the four that are currently in contention.
And right now, Twisted Minds has by far the most SI points
because they made it to top eight
at the major in Salt Lake City.
They got a thousand points for that.
For reference, well actually 1,050.
For reference, the typical amount of points
that you would get for a stage placement
is if you come first in EML, you got 400 points.
If you come ninth in EML, you get 35 points.
So Twisted Minds getting 1,000 for coming top eight
at Salt Lake, like they're not, they're safe, right?
So the battle realistically is between GK who are 270, Rebels on 180 and Heretics on 100.
Now that puts Heretics in a tough spot because the difference between coming last in EML
which you get 0 SI points for, or coming let's say 7th, you only get 100 if you bump
yourself up 3 spots in the league.
still only get a hundred and like I said they're currently 40 behind Rebels and 150 behind GK,
so they're 80 behind Rebels actually. So yeah, Heretics really are a really dumpster spot right
now and Rebels need to be careful that Heretics can't jump up too far.
Oh boy. The beauty and the horror of relegation, you know, like new players come into the
the space, new teams from tier 2 because we have a chance of grinding and achieve their
dream of getting to tier 1, but for there to be a space, we've got to really get someone
and say goodbye to some teams, organisations and players. That is just the life.
Of course they can technically re-qualify, relegated means that you're relegated to
the tier 2.
You are banished!
Circuit? No. And the tier 2 circuit will be part of the tier 2 circuit. The most
important part of the tier 2 circuit happens during the off-season. It's the Challenger
series and that'll happen just before EML starts next year. So in theory you can get relegated,
then go play Challenger Series and then get your spot back. But Bangu EU just infamously has the
strongest tier 2 scene in the world. And look, I'm not from EU and I don't think EU is the
strongest region in the world, but I think EU has always had the strongest tier 2 in the world
And that has been demonstrated by the number of times teams in EU Tier 2 have in the span of six months gone from being just an EU Tier 2 team to international championship contenders.
It happened with Team Empire back in the day when they were in Challenger League, literally six months after Challenger League, they made it to an SI Final.
Exact same thing happened with that old Team BDS roster one year after the same thing happened with Team Empire.
Talk about team heretics. We've had multiple EU tier 2 teams make it to 6-in-letational through SI quals over pro league teams.
Makers project zero, which became team heretics.
Yeah.
It's, I mean even Alula club, right? Like at the EWC, I mean they obviously came through a separate qualifier, but they didn't have the worst performance at that event.
I think that the tier 2 scene is extremely potent in this region and if I was Rebels or
Heretics, I certainly wouldn't have to be playing for my spot.
It's also a matter of the odds of the organization sticking with the team to drop out of Pro League
and how not a single player either wants to leave and go on a separate path or gets
bought out by a different, you know, maybe a tier 1 organization team.
It's such a rare thing that you stick together through that.
There were times when we were really far back in the past.
We used to have ends or a CISO, D4, you know the Finnish team they got relegated once
They went to CL and they cried it out for a year or whatever they came back to pro-play and
Boom they're back into business. It does happen, but it's quite rare and mind you some pro players
Let's take a limb check. I used to play against this guy 11 years ago in the year once season one totally qualifier
We're talking 2016 January something crazy like that. He's still playing
currently 11 years later and I'm casting him he's at a different time
his life right maybe I could be a wife and a kid and that may be a real job a
more busy now by the way exactly I'm turning 30 next year so how much longer
going forward how realistic is it to stay in tier 2 and grinding for probably a
small to no salary you're probably gonna want to go a different path at that
point so that they could also be a career ender for certain individuals because
you're just you're not there anymore like the age means that you gotta have
some more responsibility into care of life outside the video game.
Totally totally and also something else is that if these teams lose their spots, the best
talent on these teams will likely be picked up by other teams in EML.
We have a little bit of an incestuous league, that's just how it works.
You look at the roster changes that have happened, people going from shifters, fanatic,
Plasmos here now with
With the rebels guys, but I'm sorry with the heretics guys, but it wasn't long ago that he was on shifters
Yeah team play skeptic for example. He's gone through a couple of different rosters
You see the talent often jump ship
And I think that if these teams do get relegated
You'll probably see that the best players teams go to different teams. Yeah, very very possible
We also had, I'm not sure if you saw it, Jim, speaking of Tier 2, there was a Tier 2 finals in NA, I believe yesterday.
Was there?
Yeah, Team Ricky, Mingo, all those guys were playing, it was some sort of like Tier 2 final in, I don't know where it was, I want to say Panama City, but I don't even know where it is.
Oh, it was a live event.
Yeah, it was a live event, small crowd I think, small fans, some Tier 2 teams, etc.
And they've really been poppin lately with different content creators making teams and playing we got mango and a controller
Who started make it as a controller player in PC lobbies like playing a tcg everything around
There's been some good store lands. That's all fits co-streams and tweets about as well
Brazil is they all started showing some of their tier 2 tournaments too
And they've shown some great fundamentals in trading crossfires and just showing how lethal Brazil is as a region and exactly where their talent
comes from because
You said you might have had like long divots you were living there
It's maybe the most prominent tier 2 scene of these in the eyes of the public
But Brazil they're just you know, they're popping out new stardom championship level teams every couple of seasons. It's absurd
Yeah, for sure
We've had a lot of great stories here in EU one player that I always love to hear about is deep back
We have a little content piece about our good friend from fanatic
So let's go and enjoy that and then before you go, we'll back into the game.
People thought I was done, but I'm here to stay.
We had a really good stage.
We got into the playoffs, had to face G2 in the final to qualify for UWC.
We beat G2, so that was like very motivating for us.
the team as well gave us confidence so at EWC we also played pretty good it's all
up to Deepak we've seen him win a 1v2 already here on court is able to do it
again he knows where the first challenge is coming he has to turn his back
because he knows how the window wide
Fnatic hold on and take the round!
We lost two games, it was against Fury and FaZe.
Both of those teams ended up in the finals.
It is over! Fnatic will be going home!
Fury, are you next? Esports will go quarter-finalists!
We were happy that Ozen said at the same time,
but very motivated to go on into the new season.
But unfortunately we lost two players,
two players, a citizen and a pitcher, they're going two shifters. So we have to do a rebuild
going into stage two. We have to build a new identity. I'm not sure what this is going
to be yet. It's going to be hard work again, but let's see what we can do.
When we first got the news, people were leaving. It was kind of demotivated as well, like
Seb, because it happened a lot of times as well before. It just feels like going
back to split one. What has kept me in this game is because I love competing and
you've played football before I just can't get enough competing. I've been in
different teams, different organizations, different situations. I think that helped
me grow as well so I just want to win like lots of our wonners in Berlin like
the title it's been a long time but it still feels like yesterday.
He took the crown from the leg to Dan!
They take it, they take it, but that's not how it feels.
That's not how it feels.
They are the champions.
They are the champions.
They are the champions.
There's still dreams about it, but as a user,
there's motivation.
I want to go back to that, go back to the stage.
You're playing a video game, but it doesn't feel like it's...
You could choose something bigger than that.
And that feeling is like the start wall.
as well when I go back to.
After joining Fnatic and successful years,
when my contract ran out,
I definitely had talks with people, with myself.
I really want to keep doing this,
like what I'm doing this for.
I've struggled to find motivation as well,
because we just didn't have the right people
and that's really important to compete,
like I have a good group of people around here.
I had doubt, but I found motivation within myself,
like change some stuff in real life as well, find something outside of the gaming as well like to motivate you.
Chancellor window ended a few days ago and we just got our players.
So we don't really have a lot of time to practice for the new stage 2.
We just have to rebuild again, we're starting from zero.
We have some good foundations.
When you even pick up one new player, it's like a whole new team, different environment in a team.
in a team. We're just going to keep working trying to make the major. I do really want
to go to Japan so I'm going to try and fight for it.
Yes, I'm going to get back to the level. I know I can achieve it as well. I've been there,
I know how it feels. The only thing is we have to grind for it. It just feels like
I want to do this more and more and more. I don't want to stop. I just flip switch
and I'm just back in it even more than last season.
We do have a really strong core, so we have the experience and I feel like if we can just
survive the first week or two, so we have extra time to come back into the league, I
feel like we can come back.
I'm not done yet, I still want to keep playing.
I know I can play at the biggest stage, I want to win trophies again, so I just want
to say this is the beginning of the next chapter.
Welcome back everyone.
You all enjoyed that piece about DPEC, a real walkthrough of every lane, but of course
another one of the OGs who's still kicking around, he's still competing for Fnatic and
went to his first event and God knows how long he's back into it.
He'll be playing later tonight with FNC, but for now, thank you, we're still quite
deep into this game between Rebels and Team Heretics.
And my, my, my, do we have some spies for you guys?
Look at the score.
What's that? Wait, what's that score? Didn't we already show 11-5 when we left, didn't we?
And that's 5-5?
We have confirmation that IQ was not able to successfully use her gadget last round and
as thus the call has been made, the round will be replayed for the sake of competitive
integrity in favour of Rebels.
So that round that was won by Heretics, which was on the tertiary bomb side of Cafeteria
kitchen by the way. That round has been wiped from memory. What round? That never happened.
Actually they're picking a different bomb site now. Pengu if this goes all the way in overtime
we could be talking about the first 16 round. Technically true, technically true.
And like I said different bomb site, bit changed up from operators in both sides of the coin.
Again that kitchen site is a bit of a one-off. You surprise your opponent,
It works for a Dostond and you really don't want to go back to back because now you've shown your card
So it makes sense to me as the white heretics would shift the bombsite elsewhere
So we got to see rebels now again if you guys did not watch what happened earlier
I just forgot it because a lot of time passed rebels been struggling on the attacking side simply staying alive
The big guys would jump out see for so that a cat let's see and just not finding the opening picked
So we're kind of watching rebels right now if they can slow down the pace a bit
Stabilize this round and not lose anybody to silly angles in the server for the first 60 seconds
They've done a great job, but on this jump in the wind though. I do fear for the life of the Lynch
He's alive
I quizzed a bit of an awkward spot though. He will fall back not too interested in finding that anymore
He's done the damage. He wants to do
Rebels looking to try and continue taking on to this top floor bomb site not top
Above the bombsite, I should say, with a lower HP on the Blitz, he's going to be a lot more scared to try and do so.
Thankfully, Top Floor looked pretty well vacated at the moment by Hereticz.
For the first time in this entire game, Penguin feels that the defense is not playing ultra aggressive.
It could be on one of those 5v5 lead rounds, you know, you can't see that, he dies to lingo, up above from the middle of the counter.
the great user such hammer and watching the great angle and team heretics were cut off from getting back towards the
Bumper slide earlier in the round so this could lead to maybe to a second kill we'll have to wait and see
there are three players in the first floor and just one here in the basement team heretics
they're feeling that mixture of if we fall back right now they're too early we're giving them 64
seconds we know they have a sledge they also do have a ramp but with no boogatrons left in pocket
there is a goyo i think the calls we made now for team heretics would play around the timer
Burn the Gorycans just at a 20 second mark lift from the server and only watch a couple of angles with the gun
And rebels the counter plays to go faster if they don't go fast enough the timer will be their biggest enemy in this one
Yeah, heretics are happy to let that timer wiggle on down
30 seconds now to go and this could end up poorly for rebels
If just a few fights go against them and there's the first one TCSP comes to life a big
Slugshotty play from LASMO, Linko out of it as Feno tries to desperately make his way down the stairs
He was 14 or 15 kills before we hit that re-host now
He's looking for a little bit more a good entry, but Lolo is there lying in wait a lemm Stullo HP
Tanks a bit more damage diffuser needs to go down from him. Zara team kills LASMOs with the Goyle
But the defuse has been locked down and there is no time to win the round for Rebels
So heretics will win the round replay regardless and find match point for a second time
Different round different bombsite exact same result a struggle of an attack there for team rebels is simply utilizing the timer correctly
Maybe forgetting there's a good on the board
I'm not sure but they push in the final 20 seconds of the round three separate gore virus are popped in like
Disabling those ways into the bombsite and to make matters worse. They did not push together
The blitz wasn't in the mix. It was a solo push down the cargo stairs one by one by one. It completely falls apart
Leaving only the one question left now the team heretics where to want to go next where to want to maybe punch in this victory in regulation
7-5 looking extremely possible for them
They're gonna go tertiary as they have to I guess
Let's get up there traps their information
Going to try and spread across the map or down again utilize the pulse
Hmm
That bandit ban James
It's showing technically and correctly that it was a bandit
Hi, is it there's a kite nearer than a bandit benefit in order of rebels there?
Do the opposite bandit band it instead of the post and they have struggled every round pulls us pick that from the fact
Gotta go back to it
I fully agree. The C4 game here from defense on both sides has been huge.
And that pulse, even though Rebels successfully baited it out and got the 3v1 to act weak in one down,
it's so clear that the value has been monumental for heretics.
Even here now, if Ackley does decide to continue the trend the heretics set last round of being quite passive
and that is a time a little down, it still gets so much value from that cardiac sensor.
Rebels may well want to play aggressive once time ticks over, once they have a bit of control
they've got the lion to enable that aggression. Well the first kill is on to Fenno. That is a
real tough spot for Rebels to find themselves in and the dot-dots in the chat from Zara.
This could be it Pengu, this could be the 7-5 for Heretics. I was convinced we were going
into OT, but Rebels are struggling to dig deep after that re-host, the one that they instigated.
It's the IQ of the counter to the C4s, the planned denial to get the information,
also the top frag and Seraphendo, who is always in C3 mostly or two, but before that it was on
14 kills, I believe. So a struggle in the server, Alliance Gang going out, the other members
now of Team Rebels have to step on his challenge, Malta finds Acquity, back to even numbers.
Lolo could quickly switch it back again, doesn't need to get over it.
What's the progress with the Zara?
It's certainly interesting in doing so.
Linko taken out.
Now a lot of pressure alleviated.
Nobody from Rebels is upstairs inside the building on the top floor
as Mato tries to make his way in solo on IT.
Zara hangs up.
The dope could be called, but we'll get targeted by the devils.
He needs to play the game here.
It's gonna be a double swing.
Mato finds the first one.
knows that skeptics trying to take that fight as well but skeptic doesn't commit
and doesn't get the refrag.
Mato is one of the only players who kills the Rebels
since the Rehost and he's now been shot out of it.
It's all up to a lambs and ass though, both of them will fall!
And Lolo says left, right, good night!
Rebels might have called the Rehosts,
but Team Heretics have no intention of letting this game go any longer.
It's a regulation win for Team Heretics.
Breaking it, breaking it down
Before the time here couldn't be done
You're gonna ask me
What the heck, shit?
Fuck it, you're gonna ask me
Can't believe you killed
You're gonna ask me
What the heck, shit?
Well, I got really close, but in the end, Heretics walked away with three points.
We get to talk to the winners.
Zahra is standing by for a couple of questions.
Good evening, Zahra.
Congratulations on the three points.
That was close.
How are you feeling?
It was a really close match, but I think we played really good.
Like we started really bad on attacking Alpha, but after the timeout we started
to get the feeling of the game.
we keep getting better and better like in the game.
Zara, speaking of breaks in the game, obviously,
you were facing an unprecedented situation
where you guys were leading, you had much 0.65,
obviously then a decision came through
and you had to replay that round.
I'm just wondering mentally how do you guys
approach that round because I could see in the chat
that you were getting animated at the end for winning.
So how did you approach that one?
I mean, after all, you can do nothing about it, so you just go next round and get the win.
You can really do much if it's a decision.
I thought the mental was good.
I started typing a little bit, but nothing else.
So that's very good.
And Zara, one more thing, I think, obviously you've come up as a staple player on that
roster and you've had some really good matches this season.
I think that Grubby mentioned you and saying you were all about the lurk and can I reduce you to that?
Do you think that you've got more than that in your play side?
No, no, he's coping. I don't agree with him.
Like sometimes I lurk but it's not my gameplay. Like most of the times I'm a spirit.
Okay.
Fair enough. Zara, obviously the teams maybe not in the position in the league table that you want to be at
with the threat of you know missing out on playoffs but also maybe relegations in the
cards how much is that affecting you guys on the day-to-day how much is it
affecting your thinking? We don't really think about that we just every day we
show up in scrims and we want to get at least 1% better every day. It's a very fair
way to to call it Zara thank you so much for your time and have a good
every night. Thank you. Good to hear from Zara there about not only just this game, the mental,
but also things outside of that and kind of our whole perspective on this journey here and the
final few games there might be playing inside of you now. Yeah, I think they can really be happy
about the mental game here as much as they'd like to say that you know they didn't really have
the choice in the decision, that's true but the way they handled it was really good.
They're able to not beat Rebels once but twice in my opinion with winning these two
two rounds in a row, and I think it shows a lot, especially when I mentioned the lack
of experience on the side of heretics, and we looked at the other side of Rebels, you
know, players that were in the lead, players that in my opinion have had more experience
at the tournament, especially looking at LMS, for example.
So for them to, you know, level up, go on the watch trajectory, follow that up,
especially carrying the momentum of last week, despite only taking one point, I feel
like that's all a good sign.
Is it too late?
That's the question still.
was a close game against a weaker opponent. It was, but I feel like there was a lot of
positives to take out of that. I think, yeah, their attacks were maybe a little bit bad,
and I think Zara mentioned that, but actually once they got onto the defense, it was dominant.
They faced adversity that round, you know, round 11, if that got replayed and they lost
it, that could have spiraled down once. They didn't. They won it. They got over the
line full three points as well in the context. The playoffs race, the relegation,
well, mainly the playoffs race, because that determines the relegation race, it's
so important. They've got two winnable games now in terms of Super Week. They can
they can make a run and they
can't say in this league, but
it hinged on the fact that they
got three points today. So to
come out of that round 11, that
big time out, you know, and
actually win it, I think is
testament to why this team's
out right now. Yeah, it was a
really close game as you said
heretics walking away with
those three points, but it
means that we need to move on
to our second game of the day
we got Falcons and Secrets
coming up next. And I feel
like there's about a million
angles that we could take
for this game. You know, you
got June versus Old Org,
but I think we decided to
take a very creative one for
for this one. We went and took a look at some of the oldest players, not only on these
rosters, but also in the whole ecosystem of Rainbow Six Siege right now.
Yeah, they're older than almost everyone on the desk.
Why did you have to look at me? Come on, bring them up, bring them up, because they're
younger than me. That is Breeday and Hungry, obviously, in the club of 30s.
Look at that. The two of them playing each other. How beautiful it is that we have
long-standing players with long careers. I mean, Hungry was a pro player before I was
the last few days. He's been
on this BDS Falcons roster for
the longest time has been to
grand finals has been at the
top level has been known as a
clutch. God hungry on the right
hand side of the screen. No,
here's the quickest ace inside
of throw play has been their
creative player and actually
he's a big reason why secret
how are rejuvenated are
revitalized again. Yes, I
mean, look at hungry smiling
and rightfully so he is kind
of reborn back into your one
building the foundation upon which Secret was able, maybe, to clinch their way into play-offs.
If we look at the way they played, there was first, obviously, on the other side, I think, a really good show.
And then on the side of Falcons, there was a week, I would say so.
A week, week.
A week, week? Oh, I think we ate a week.
A week? You know English.
I can't continue that one.
Realistically though, it was a poor week on the side of Falcons. I felt like obviously first being upset by Rebels
Yeah, a couple of days ago, but also losing to Virtus. Pro in what was not a close match in that the NGP dominated that one
Yeah, and so Falcons have showed a little bit of cracks here and there
Whereas you know on the set of Secret it's been it's been a really good one
So you know my main question looking at this is is there a world in which Secret can repeat what they did last
last week against which tonight's
for example. Yeah, exactly. And if you
go back about three weeks ago, it
would seem unfathomable that Falcons
and Secret wouldn't have been a
sure thing to Falcons. You know,
we've just been saying, yeah, Falcons,
easy win. They used to dominate EML.
We've seen them dominate EML. But as
you said, they've had a week, week
or two, Leo. And then Secret, and
maybe on the emerging side of that,
an encouraging side of that, where
their performances have improved and
their results have improved. Let's
not forget, actually, this team
went toe-to-toe with Betts Pro,
but for losing five clutches,
the game. They're going to
be in a game against the
current best team inside of the
ML as well. So I think secret
you know, despite the fact that
they have three new players
with the guys that you see on
the screen that creates hungry
and croc. They actually have
rebuilt and they're doing well
and their performances are
following. So this game on
paper. Yes, Falcons are the
favorites, but it's not as
clear cause it's because of
the different momentum that
they have coming into this
one. But the one thing we
need to know before we go
into the match is which map
is selected. It is Larry. We
just have secret get a win on
in fact, they won it just one week ago today, but what's actually very, very funny if you're a Falcons fan is the last five times
You've seen your team play on this map. It was against one opponent Leo. It was against us, bro
Falcons have finally decided to change their screen partners. Great. Amazing. Maybe we'll get to see Falcons play against another team
It's just a regular map for those two teams is the line between Falcons and VP
So they play all the time and Falcons are clearly comfortable taking VP there. They want more often
and not against VP as well. So if I'm Falcons, I'm feeling very, very comfortable with this map pick.
Yeah, but despite looking at the socials, I think people have been listening to what you two were saying on the rest here about the momentum from Secret that they're having, because 38% for Secret is if they are well.
Yeah, it feels weird. Obviously, Falcons are the heavy favorite here. And another topic I think is, I felt like Secret were a little bit far behind in their strategy on the map when they were calling, and I think that listening to the comments, I heard Noa make a lot of short calls on the map,
I think he's already bringing the old secrets vision of the game, and I think him paired with Hungary worked so well with the team.
I remember him basically in garage baiting Noor to get him killed.
So I'm going to like the fact that Secret, I think, brought something quite new, the mix between Hungary's style and Noor.
Do you know what I like once again? No, Kate Bandit, but I'm letting you know.
Kate Tothlubot, and again, a very, very powerful operator inside the mirror.
I think he's specifically up on the top floor, which is the site that we're going to go into.
How many times have we seen the Isami played behind the desk,
but the mirror window popped towards Ops and you've got a really awful angle for the attacker to try and get rid of it.
So get Kailh off the board, get Miro off the board straight away.
Obviously the Isami is still there to be dealt with, but that's two of the main protagonists off the board.
And then how do you feel about the Soul Snake and the Capitao coming out from Talcots?
I feel like that's the target banner, obviously. Maybe Soul Snake for Noah and then the Capitao
also because of the utility-based objectives on the set of Secret that are really good.
Especially, like you said, to remove the death player, for example, with a fire, but also let's not forget
Capitao is very strong with the smokes on the Bungbong side to make sure that no one on the vert can deny the plant.
So obviously these two reasons make it a very strong operator.
I still think that Ying and Laz and Shield operators being up is still a good sign on that.
You can't run everything well.
No, you can't.
You can't run everything well.
Especially with that.
Ying and Glaz and Shield operators and Capitao and Snake have to pick your poison.
You have to pick your poison.
Alright, well, secrets start all in the attack and they still have so many awkwardness left to play with it as Falcons vs. Secrets.
Thank you very much. Yeah, we're getting into it. Can't we? We're already 20 seconds into action phase.
I'm excited for this game. I feel like Secret Falcons. There's a little bit of magic to it for you and I
because we casted the first game that these things played against each other when Doom jumped over to Falcons in kickoff
and Secret upset them. Secret won that. Noah had them say game.
And then we casted these two teams in elimination match at the Esports World Cup
where Falcons were the clear favourites and Secret knocks them out, preventing them from going playoffs.
There's just so much going between these two teams. There is every single time.
Grease helps out V-drills, who's found the first pick and that names everyone.
Oh my god, are you kidding me?
He's going to find this next one. I can just taste it.
I can tell you already, he gets it with the pistol.
Oh, it's always happening with Falcons and Secret.
Secret always seem to turn it up to the next level whenever they play against Falcons
They hit the reset button revive crease getting back up instantly pop the lines charge me just make sure that the Falcons are not
Reaggressing back into those flights drill is really finding something on the entry make hop out of my mat
It means the user can stick here by the window and stay aggressive line to Falcons and need to play this opening
Goose they have to lash out so you could know it. They're so disciplined. They're so experienced, right?
Hungry saying guys, do not take a risk. Do not swing anything. Let me get in there on the blind beard move forward
Let's play for a plant creeps goes down. No 4v2 and starts to go down
It does indeed June is in a good position now
You have any utile it's all gonna come down to his mechanics and the coverage is there from drills
What a round from the young gun three kills three and a half if you count that opening which was basically his
is great start for Team Secret, really setting the pace early on against Falcons.
It's ridiculous. I mean, again, just catching them completely by surprise.
They're on Scout there, their game plan, their strats, their expectations,
and you're thinking, are they gonna get in the shield and walk in the building kinda slowly?
No, no, no. Game of shotgun in there. Boom, boom, pal.
Gets essentially with his three kills. He gets here between him, I think,
and creeps there at the beginning, but the valley here.
Joe's stuck in the corner, Steve fords his left, enemy to his right, just keeps on going and somehow a single point of HP
finds the third. It's beautiful.
Phenomenal start there for Secret, what a round. Drills in particular, but Secret as a whole, that was a team effort, right?
The coordination to make sure particularly they got that first kill.
As you said, hungry to make the call with all his experience.
to say guys, slow it right down.
Let's play for the plant wing condition now that we're in the 5v2 or 4v2,
whatever end up being.
Falcons, often reminded whenever they come up against Secret that it is not going to be
an easy game.
Jume against his old teammate and Noah, I guess, his old organization.
Falcons, definitely the favorite team coming into this
matchup on paper, right? You're talking about the third place team in the League right now.
only two losses so far to VP and Rebels they've even beaten G2 they beat a very powerful shifters
team Seeker on the other hand they've gone three in three three wins three losses one of their
wins being in overtime and they're down in seventh place on the standings outside of
stage finals contention at the moment secretly at every point they can get
Yeah, quiet or second round so far and as I see it,
Corkson dies, so nuts are quiet after all.
Tharkin's also a bit of a flank towards Warehouse.
Juice, he's the ankle.
Does he get spotted?
I heard he does, he spins around the corner,
but doesn't go for the fight.
He's so tempted to.
He's about to get swung, but he takes down his old teammate,
looks for a little bit more, but drills will shut him on down.
He has been the star of the show so far.
Good fast control here from Team Secret. A quick and dirty drone on Warehouse tells them it's free and after they trade out one onto June,
they do find themselves behind mostly because of that early pick from Breede, but it also depends what happens offside between Creeds and users.
Meanwhile, Drills wants to go for more, actually has the perfect pre-aim, but doesn't click in time and Solotov will take him down.
Now the only hope of secret is trying to punish users on this rhyme
And they haven't been able to convert that kill as of yet
One more sort of thing that's found for secret is not going in the right direction
still winnable clutchable if if you will but
Very tough position right now for hunk increase to work together
Still roamers still a bomb slide and the longer that timer will tick for the Goyo gets more and more activated
He has one on Falken right now, but pretty actually.
So he'll work the bird, repeat the hatch, get that grenade in there, try and clear a bit of utility.
And he's probably staying good with the wind conditions right now.
He can play for the run flank, and then he has to sit to clear the side.
I'm going to actually drop by the way.
Yeah, he did drop, and I think that's what Spurdley could fact to go for that rotate now.
He catches Kreed.
Spurdley on the bomb site, he starts the round, and he closes it as well.
Well, good response there from Falcons, despite a very pacey start from secret in both rounds.
Now, trying to take free map control, Falcons adjusting a little bit to this faster style of game.
That's the thing about Lair, a lot of ways to play it, especially in the attacking side.
The fast takes, the slow takes, playing heavily around, you know, going for a plant or going for kills.
And also all the three primary bombsites play out very differently too in terms of like win conditions, especially for the defenders.
Secret finding, not much in the opening, not much in the mid-game either.
It's a full-on lockout of a round there from some Falcons.
Good round, no stress.
Now onto the middle floor bombsite here for Falcons. They're not going back up top until they've tried all their favorite bombsites first.
And I'm very keen to see what secret door about this
How do they counter the plantar from up above the solace and the warden of the ultimate duo on this bomb site for denying that plan?
It was interesting, the giflacks actually banned it, and that's not something you see every day on this bomb site
No
Well, I mean it is a very good reason for it
Normally you'll just turn the walls because benikai gets banned away
And then you have one player you should play in the middle of the two bomb sites and you are just, you're screwed
Right where there's gonna be the Capazile Fire arrows, or there's gonna be the Grenade Spam or Shield Rushing or whatever, you die.
By playing the Bandit, now that it's left open, you can try and trick the walls and stop them from even being opened in their first place,
and then you can put a lot more attention upstairs, not worrying about the verticality and securing the Bumpside,
but about denying the roam clear from the attack.
So Falcons with this, they can put their focus in one simple spot, and really enable players like a Breedy, like a Doom.
That smoke and warden combination that can stop a push
both the Blitz and the Ying being pushed into this round as well here.
It's a great counter-pickeration here for Falcons.
Yeah, I really love this. I feel like this is Twister's handiwork,
the way that Secret have prepared for this one.
Candela's about to ring on in. Drills, Noah comes in for the nurse.
That he beats Mr. Mokrade, finds the flash, can't quite find the killer,
as if yet hungry, happy to deliver. Here comes a shot he play from Drills.
He finds his opening pick. He's well-steakered up to a flying start.
onto the top floor at June is the only operator that can withstand those flash bangs and he finds one.
Will he be able to take down the Blitz indeed? Nitro is still not detonated as he looks to try
and find the second player but he does get caught. Secret into the 3v1 and this bandit that's meant
to try and make that bombsite unbreachable now has far bigger problems to worry about.
Sight very strong, it doesn't matter if you know 1v3. Thankfully the shield is death though
So when two different attackers are hungry and drills are half each piece of windable
here for League of Facts, that's trying to isolate those 1v1 ankles and try and find
the kill.
The VRT game is really powerful here, but you need horizontal pressure at the same time.
Wow, Drills goes for the Sniper, shoddy, and it works out another great round from
Team Secret.
Three in a row they have played fast, with conviction, with a clear plan in mind
for before the round even begins.
Two on up on their attack.
And if I'm Falcons, I'm having to have a bit of respect here for Secret.
They are really bringing their A-game today.
Did you notice the game breaking box that happened previous round there for Secret?
Oh no.
They had Hungry on the Grim and Noah on the Blitz.
What's that about?
How do you have Hungry not be this youth player by the way?
What is that about?
A what?
Yeah, Hungry actually enabled Hungry to get the kill.
No you don't!
Oh my god, the flash? Yeah, this exactly right here.
Got the flash and then Hungry got the kill.
Maybe that's the idea, it's just to try and help Hungry with his KD.
Hungry wouldn't mind here though.
Hungry would have lived against him.
That's the difference between the experienced boots player.
And the non-experienced boots player.
Oh my.
I'll tell you what, he's not gonna die if he plays Monty.
Certainly not like that at least.
No, it shows sells.
He uses some leak effect.
Might make his life a little bit harder,
But if you get one of your wishes, Pengu, you get nowhere on the Grimh for this round.
Now this one brought nowhere on Grimh, on Grimh, on the MTA.
Oh, let's back to number. They realized where the buff was happening too, so they fixed it.
So, right now, the recipe for success on Secret, it's very simple, okay?
Get drills on a shotgun. Demo shotgun, clean shotgun.
It doesn't, this guy's a mammoth dude right now.
He's really finding his playstyle on this metal flare.
I also will say for Falcons a little bit of a question mark on the Blitzband
I feel like that's the... the fear is actually not that this was made in the...
Yeah, it's like you look around one and two fast paced rounds, but obviously not at Blitz in the action necessarily.
Round three, the Blitz becomes the main pushing force and you think oh my god they're gonna keep playing fast
We gotta clear the Blitz
But it's almost like they forgot that Hongbi is one of the best monthly players of all time in the whole world
And now that's left for wide-open for the rest of the attack inside of Secret.
Yeah, I think this is the third different shield operator that Secret have brought to the table.
And even just the little detail like that hung on the weights until the razor bloom activates
before piecing on out to make sure that he can burn it for free.
So all the small things that adds together to make the difference from the highest level
and the average level.
I have you coming!
I might now shoot.
Shoot.
If not, if we're not burning the blitz, what would you have banned here for far
from the Monty?
So, the Monty, because it can be brought out and changed the entire pacing and strategizing
for a secret or the game of glass, depending on the counter picks and the warden, uh, that's
all quick.
Oh, that's so unfair.
That's all quick.
Now it's gonna die.
That's a potential 3 kill here for Leaky.
Oh.
C4, by the way, I can hear it, lingering, but with Sophia being downstairs hopefully
They have an ingling if not discreet dangerous territory for hungry
That's the last race of loom talk to me see right there since back effortlessly doesn't take any damage properly behind the monty's
He's all goes out hits the harbinger, but month stays alive
That's okay, that's worth of this door and I see in the harbinger creates does fine one with his shotgun entry secret
Phenomenal with the shotguns today on there into the 3v3 creeds in a bit of a gunfire
And he's struggling to win it at the moment tons of utils still to his name as drills continues going big in hungry
will ADS with the Monty.
LikaFak 1v3 doesn't have utility with this Monty.
So much time here for Secret to work this, but drills will fall.
The plant's still not poised as of yet for Team Secret.
As Hungry doesn't have that diffuser, and it looks like Team Secret want to go hunting.
Hungry might even try and lock LikaFak out of the bombsite.
Creeds ideally should be trying to get that diffuser here, but no Secret is going for kills.
And LigaFak can now just try and hunt down that other player.
I don't like this game.
I think by the way, this feels very risky here for Team Seeker.
LigaFak knows.
He's such a good player.
In a reveal position.
LigaFak goes for the corner and does take him down.
Now it's a 1v1 onto Hungry.
Finally, the diffuser has been gained again by Team Seeker for Hungry.
Has to 1v1 clutch with a pistol.
And let's be real, this just...
He hit him with the smoke.
I mean, Hungry can try and bait the plant without the shield and he's back.
go for a pistol. He knows that the effect is half HP with that kill confirmation and knows
there's no C4.
Sorry, oh no, his feet are going to be exposed. Wow. Big 1v2 for Lika fact. He plays it perfectly
and Team Secret make the critical mistake of going for the kill instead of going for
the defuser. And with that, Penguin, we're tied up. Two rounds each.
It's a shame. I mean, so I didn't know where the defuser was on the floor, but
I assumed it was the C4 and the ace in up-sroom and it was confirmed later when they
went to pick it up, it was in fact in Upstream.
In my mind, the first thing that I thought they should do is the Monty just walks at
the bandit.
Like he said, lock Leithaek out of the bomb site, Kriegs has a shotgun and Reaper with
30 HP.
He can back off, go into Upstream, pick up the Fuser, walk into site while the Monty
just keeps tabs on Leithaek.
Instead, it's the Monty running away and then Leithaek, I don't know how, he
had the perfect read right here of exactly where Kriegs would be, despite that the
The hunk was still far away and I noticed this nobody checked the cameras from falcons. They were all dead
He just knew he just had incredible game sense in that moment on a standex that was happening
Even though it was illogical and arguably a bad play from secret
You know team secret knew exactly what went wrong that round as soon as it got down to that
drills apologize
Which is interesting because drills is a guy who died in security in the 1v3 and
And he said my bad guys that was my round but like you get back later wall bank him to force the movement to think it
That was not his bad
But when someone says my bad don't worry about it
It's about taking the pressure away from the people who actually messed up, you know your creeds your hunger, etc
I'm just moving past around
Joe's thing my bad guys don't worry about him. Okay now it's to do we go next and he himself is seven and two
He's been owning this game
So he's not actually gonna feel any of that pressure any of that like, you know
When you make a mistake you're not gonna keep making it, please
Yeah, in how many rounds have you played where you lose around like that, which was a 1v3?
Yeah, and then immediately someone like drills says
Why did we do that guys? What are we doing? Why would yeah come on that?
That is the worst thing that you can do for your team and yeah
Even if you are top-fragging even if your mistake was minor or non-existent
Just take a little bit of ownership a little bit of humility and it gives confidence to the rest of the team
It shows that it's not us against each other. It's us as a team against the enemy
And wow very good. I love this another really fast rush from Team Secret
As they take very quick control of the staircases immediately a response
But I would call that a worthwhile trade if I was Team Secret
There was a yoga drone deployable shield on my disk and the gas pipe
What a shame.
Where a doom on the shotgun on the post here that got buff recently, by the way.
On top floor, it spans the player down to the hatch here,
and it is stunting the push here from Team Secret.
They're fighting above, they're fighting beneath them,
they're getting fought from every single angle.
Yeah, I didn't even realize that they had Doom on the top floor already.
I don't think anyone knew.
I don't even know if Doom knew.
No one knows that all of his teammates with a Jago payload
They wanted to go for a fast rush and it ends up very quickly they could deal with one of the biggest obstacles in a baseman attack which is those stairs.
Unfortunately for them, after it got traded back and then they lost the player to Juneau they have so many things to worry about.
Firstly, where is the pulse? Do we still have to worry about him on the roam? Secondly, how do we convert to these kills?
Well, we have a numbers as a advantage.
That's a very awkward spot. Again, when you do these like fast plays it's all or nothing and you all need to believe that and commit to it.
A grenade spent to force out the yokai drone, but Breda is better. He's drifting on this table, avoiding the CaliT, the explosiveness, and he's keeping it alive.
And as long as they have at least one yokai, the plan is not going to happen. Full starters, you can stop it and make that 7 second timer start over.
But secondly, they get all that information, there are two C4s in part, waiting to be used.
Yeah, Breda just answered the phone, which means he can get his... active again with the yokai.
Yo guys, Noah now covering with the XK23, but it's like the Yo guys are not in position.
The flank from June might make this winnable though, in the post it's a 3v2 now for Falcons
on the retake, he's trying to find a third kill on the round, a lot of damage done, trying
to go for the refrag, but Noah will be cornered by Solotov, hungry now in a 1v3.
This is a big ask for him, with June still upstairs, takes him very low on HP, but Solotov
is covering while Brede sticks it. Brede does so much work in that round without getting a single kill
and Falcons finally take the lead for the first time this game. That's another awkward round
their position for Team Secret. I mean you can argue that they should have both gone up the staircase
and retaken the verticality but instead of one guy stays below, one guy goes above,
they forget about the verticality that they make themselves as the attackers
and he dies with the pulls up above. It's a bit of a mess. I love the early game,
I love the aggression they get the plant down miraculously and then it falls apart again
It's the moment where team secret
They are so good at doing things that are difficult
But then they kind of fall apart in the moments where they've low key one around
Look at this start four man collapse in the staircase. Okay, they skipped up floor. It happens
You know, they're not a perfect joining they do can see for they don't get stunned by the yoga drone
But then this right here that 3v2 problem solving was not good enough
Good energy from Falcons now. They've had really good reads in these rounds even though
Secret have had great ideas and great executions. The patience from Falcons to rely on Jume in
that round to have that impact. Roaming was huge. And the fact that he actually was on
the top floor at the start when he had his first kill. He then went down to the basement
and then somehow was back upstairs flanking again in the late round. That's Jume for
He's everywhere all at once. He loves those info gatherers. He's played the pulse now. He's under the Valkyrie
Final round of the half here for secret
Once again a shield is broke this time
It's the black beard as we go to the split bomb site again Pengu
This was a great attack from team secret executing onto that top floor very early on
Putting themselves in a nice 3v1. They managed to convert
They do the same again
So much is about those opening engagements
I mean secret they made down super close from there behind and the ones where they're ahead. Well, that's the round victories
So if I'm them, I really want to just again keep focusing at first takes a flash for what get another rush
But it's not to hit each other. Oh guys guys. Oh
That's bad. I mean hungry still alive
They got the top staircase control and they even get to kill the pick off downstairs
So it's not the end of the world, but it's not ideal
Hungry is useless
One HP, that Blackbeard cannot have any impact and he will surely go down.
SolarTubble will finish him off, Nitro comes out from Jum, doesn't find it's target.
Secret have the top floor control they've been looking for, but they need this kill upstairs.
Breide just tucking away and he wins the fight!
Wins the double!
Never kill this guy!
And old man, the Frenchie has still got it.
Breide with the two pieces.
Falcons take the half.
Four rounds to two.
And I think obviously four rounds to two,
It's a distance score on the side of Falcons. I just want to, I guess, go closer to why Secret won the first two rounds in an attack.
I feel like there were some examples of simply on their side, and I spoke about innovation initially.
And let's take an example of that attack. It is on the Bunk Bomb site, and we're going to see multiple roamers up top.
That is a usual defense on the side of Falcons. And the setup from Secret is very interesting.
They're trying to pinch Brita here, so they're going to have drills coming from long.
You're going to have Noah and Hungry push at the same time, and you're going to notice something really weird.
I want you to pay attention to the position of Brede, he's far advanced here, playing quite aggressive towards that crossfire.
But pay attention to these guys on the top floor, Solotov really far away,
Juseus and Jumevn further away, Solotov is supposed to be helping him, and that's the problem.
Secret, they rush towards Brede, they take the gunfight to him, and Solotov reacts too quickly.
As Brede is getting pushed, pay attention here, as he gets killed, who do we see here?
Slightly behind him, that's Ella, but that's already too late, because that's it, Brede is dead.
And instead of turning back, Elax still commits to the fight, and in turn, she's the one that's stuck into a crossfire once again.
And so that's the same problem, a slight delay, and that's it.
That's two guys getting killed by the crossfire on the set of Secret.
Now eventually, Jume is gonna win his 1v1, but then again I want to point out,
I guess, the positioning and simply on the set of Team Secret.
You have Jume here, the last player alive, he's just killed your Blitz.
Instead of slowing down, Hungry takes the bait, challenges Jume,
You have Ash coming to stop Jume from going backwards.
Jume is not safe even if he tries to flank, he's gonna die.
And then Drills is coming here, making sure he can challenge at the same time.
And so here again, perfect positioning on the side of Team Secret.
They take Jume down.
It goes to Shul.
That's the secret that is down 2-4 right now.
But despite all of this, I still believe that Secret have stepped up their game.
Yeah, I agree. I was so impressed.
They were aggressive, they were fast, they were ferocious as well.
And it wasn't just that round, it was the second round.
The first round that they won and the second clip that we've got in terms of showing team secret because their entry game was so good
If you look at the side, you've got drills here following a flora's drone
By the way, baiting out trying to find a creative way to get that entry pick and he doesn't just get one
Incredible day must play throws the nape knows somebody will swing for his teammate kills that guy and then follows through
He just leaves the defenders in an absolute puddle there and it was so good from secret. Unfortunately, love
That's where so good stops.
Yeah, because they were getting so good entries.
In fact, they won most of the entries in that half.
And then in the late round days where they were falling apart,
they let Leakey fact get a one versus three.
They fell apart in the post-front
when they were playing on the basement.
And it was just the late rounds really, really that they
will ultimately, they will let themselves down.
Will that be easier for them now on the defensive?
We talked a lot about the two rounds, the secret one,
that we do we think of it kind of like one,
the half of that is a good starting point going into this.
But they could have done they set themselves up to win the half but they didn't quite get those rounds closed out
They did most of the right steps and then failed in execution where that's gonna be usually the case against a team that is
Most mostly more experience in that side of Falcons obviously so good
At closing up rounds even though they were at the man's advantage and really quickly is our hope for the defense
Then yeah, I think so because I think that the late round situation
We're gonna favor them if they can take the same pacing and take the same lead in defense
It's gonna be easier for them on that side to preserve their rounds.
Well, it sounds promising for secret. What can they do in the second half?
Big question. It's a question that always remains on our lips.
Second half starts and...
Falcons really get themselves a bit of a buff at the end of the first.
Thank you. I was very much on the secret train.
I noticed Leo was on the secret train. He decided to review one of their rounds.
There's something always a little bit magic for secret when they come up against Falcons,
but that thought is split especially with how the last couple around three in a row ended in favor of Falcons
particularly the 1v3 from Leak of Factor and two-piece from Breedate
Securing in a bit of a rough spot
It's not even secret about when you're up against Falcons when it's about the prospect of their play style and coming together and finding their own as a roster
As we're always saying this is secret where they keep reiterating the roster
that he'd losing players making roster changes only know a left half in that old squad from last year or beginning of this year rather
from SI
and they keep reinventing themselves
Successfully in good ways being a strong contender against teams like Thalc and it's very impressive to watch
And I think the attacks a scoreline of 2-4 doesn't show the full potential
There are a lot of good moments and I could have been poor too in favor of secret had the details not to pass them
Well, I'd be feedback not stop them with this big clutch
Quick and your breed is face cam right now bro is so locked in and I love it that said nitros are about to come
Here's way crocs and to start
Waiting for the outcomes of nitro. What a land
That came from way downtown up and over the hills from far away
It takes down the only hard breacher of falcons
You can kiss goodbye any chance of opening any of those reinforced walls on the bomb site
Whether it's the one from ops whether it's the one into the plant position, but look at this Falcons quickly
Pounce on the chance. They say it doesn't matter. We know that our win conditions have changed, but there's no reason to delay
Forward three day would go to support at bathroom control and mezzanine so quickly
I also feel like secret is happily giving the space up
They know that he fought the through my because I heard the extra three made about to go off
So they know that there's like no more, no second level of outbreaching, so and they're right
Something by the walls protected by the bomb site the self
Guru Ganesh in the hallway, C4 in pocket, three talks with Dave on Elamine
All they got to do now is dedicate who's gonna hold what angle and make sure that there are no gaps they're taking
You know, two of them creeps downstairs in the 1v1, but that means there's one as a tag that's worried about upstairs
That's right, you can see Falcons know that they need a pick, Britae gets in the position
into the box site now is about to be in all kinds of pain, but he finds the kill before he's traded back by a
Solotov a blind nitro from hungry doesn't find the target
Can Solotov look to the deep?
He can't good night. How does that land from June?
He's had a massive life around two big kills users helps out as well team secret
We're in prime position, but Falcons rip it from their very hands five rounds on the board now for Falcons
That's Doom right there, the big playmaker with the utility, with the fracking, the flank
watching, getting it all done in the server, but it's also secret having just one critical
error.
They have two players that are going to be the ones to make the play.
One is the Omai, who has the only C4 for plant denial.
The other was a smoke, the only other plant denier with the toxic babes.
Both of them either go down or don't land with their utility.
The smoke died to the 2v1 in the middle of that smoke chaos, the Blitz and the
kindly pushing on in and then all my forces in the c4 towards the desk
position while there's a smoke up and they know they're not planting so they
don't get anything and what's falcons realize is guys we've killed one plant
denier and they used to see for the other we can just go to a default plant
location now despite the wall not being opened up we just holding up on the
keyboard we win they have to now push with their guns in towards our guns
before they can deny the plant so secret again they cannot troll the
teeny tiny details and falcons somehow to spot all the chaos in the server they
once again have the perfect read maybe the benefit of the ideal dying there
from the fact because his entire brainpower becomes how can I call the
shots and how can I tell him to execute now from the grief this is the
natural to start at all that should have been a pretty convincing reason to
think the secret would be around smoke but I love the way that falcons all at
same time decided to go deep and hunted for those kills and then they fell back into a
plant position.
Absolute miracle from users and June there.
That's what you pick up players like that for.
You know that they're capable of having moments of quality 2k for both of them.
Falcon's just so in sync right now.
Like a complete unit, Syncret had some really beautiful ideas on the attacking side
But when it comes down to the minutiae of these tiny moments Falcons just have that team chemistry that wins out
I was really on the secret train this game unashamedly so
Rightfully because every
Every time we cast these two teams secret seem to win
It's not because every time these teams play secret
win and I feel like that's finally turned a new leaf. As Noah and Jim both go down,
a little bit of aggro, probably too much aggro from Noah I would say. Drills has been the man of
the hour for Secret today, he's got to hit 10 if he can hit this shot on the stolotov,
never mind, F2 wins out against the Scorpion. A lot of early fighting for Secret, three
My player is dead, only 50 seconds into the game.
They're stall out, secret, they're discussing right now.
Do we go for the last shot and risk losing one more defender
at the cost of maybe getting a kill?
Or do we just play by the bomber side and wait for them to execute?
It's a tough decision to make.
They got double C4, they got yokais,
but if one more defender dies and they don't find that kill,
that 4v2 is going to be almost unavailable.
Right now they have a good chance, but they cannot afford to lose any more members
Yo-kai giving some of intel with the book of the hack in the cams
They should know now where yo-kai is you're checking the cameras and honker knows that so go for concoction before play
Is here a lash you might actually go for the black bead here. It'd be very risky
Oh, that does get a lot of damage on debris day. Wow, that's so much damage problem
It's coming from the other side of the league of fact
He does have a lot of crocs in but then crocs and quickly is the only one left remaining
There was no new jam at a safe hungry
From the Jago payload and so it will deliver the killing blow onto the Echo.
Now Croxen are trying to stave off what could be a match point here for Falcons.
Brede low. Thanks to Hungry's heroics earlier, Croxen is capable of winning in
this moment but he needs to play it perfectly.
Just has to worry about the gunfights right now. Nucket is traded to most by the
Blackbeard shield. He should know that Brede is low on HP but don't make
that your priority. Just worry about the angles.
If he gets just a bit of damage on the Breeder, that should be it.
Breeder takes the gunfight, wins it, but no!
The trade from users and Falcons...
Six rounds on the border, four round lead over Team Secret.
It's been five in a row now.
And Team Secret throwing everything they have got, Falcons remain one step ahead.
That was a disgusting way of playing it there to be won.
I mean that in a positive way.
Ignore the Blackbeard, don't worry about it, worry about the teammate, the angle behind him.
They recognize that.
BB just right clicks out of nowhere and when he chooses, I'm gonna go for the kill.
It is so unlike Breedy.
It is not his usual Blackbeard playstyle.
And that's the mind game.
I'm gonna do the unusual thing.
I'm gonna go for the swing, the 50-50.
The statistically worst play, but in this case the best play possible because it works.
Croxton was just gonna charge to the other corner.
He gets caught.
Down to such low HP, Falcons 6-2 now and take your hit, they can start going to different bombs as they have been, but nothing's working.
They're being shot down, they're being stopped, and they are not able to figure out the playstyle to counter Falcons' pushes right now.
It's been a good mixture of utility, entry, but also strategy.
Falcons are paying a lot of respect as well in the serve on a standout.
Whenever Seeker is going for a play somewhere, it's not one guy being silly.
It's two or three separate players making that play together.
But get ready for the trade game every single time.
Yeah, it's crazy to think that out of the eight rounds we played,
six opening kills, one by Team Secret,
only two for Falcons, and yet look at the scoreboard.
It tells a very different story.
Falcons have got the round win.
Both of the times have got the opening kill.
But often when they get the opening death, they trade it back immediately.
June now gets the opening kill. Four Falcons. Drills does fall and a lash out from Creeds will even it up to 4v4.
It's a good sign for Secret, but still losing Drills early who's been doing most of the heavy lifting in the Fragment Department for Secret.
Doesn't go well for their chances of keeping this game alive.
The tracker goes out there towards creeds downstairs. They know where he's going to be playing from.
So we're watching down the staircase, locking down the rotation and there's a question to be asked here.
Do you hunt the soul roamer in the basement and try and make that 4v4 into a 4v3?
Because with both the Blackbeard and the demos, it's a very lightliness that you can get the killer without losing any players.
And it looks like they will go for the hunt here. So they got to lock down the staircase, wait for the next tracker,
share the information via the dangles and avoid the whole drilling phase of this.
Joe actually might drop the hatch just a little far away though.
Coming up the stairs, I'll attempt to come up the stairs here for Creeds.
This is wasting a hell of a lot of time. I like the way Creeds is playing this.
Yeah, he did very well.
That's all I'm telling you. This is no to abandon the basement.
Go up to the top floor. There's so much work to be done here in this round for Falcons.
So they tried fishing downstairs to kill, not gonna pan off.
So don't even worry about anymore.
Alright, go back on the top floor and spearware, you will get flanked late round because this guy has to find the way back to the side
and the only way from Illa is gonna be a staircase.
So you put the Jones forward, dead guy can watch them, other members keep pushing forward and dance towards the side.
June can do a bit of a counter to the final damage tracker, but Sadie doesn't find much value with it.
So it's mostly down to Breeday who's on the blibid to find the entrance as the shield operator.
Flank is on the docket though for Kreeds. He slowly makes his way forward.
Breede tries to do a little bit of damage. He's now wary of the flank but Kreeds
is patient, hasn't revealed his position as of yet and Breede cannot afford to
watch his flank. He is gonna be a big shock on play on the bomb site but no
falling back again. No need to over peek here for steep roll. Don't do it guys.
Hold the crossfire, he has to push you instead of hitting him, kill him!
Creedz does eventually make his flank happen, and, well, thankfully, Secret getting aggressive at the same time buys him enough space to do so.
Breda now, the last one left the line, 1v2, I don't know why he went downstairs,
and now the other line as well will slow him down, prevent him from marching on forward.
He knows that this round is lost, it's just about trying to salvage a little bit of humility after Team Secret do find a third round on the board.
And finally putting to rest that slew of consecutive rounds found by Falcons, five in a row will
not become six, Team Secret still have a very long way to go to push this to OT.
Like I said before, one guy's making a place, never one guy, it's three per person secret
there.
We only saw the frontal push from the breach and it looked very dicey but there was a
player flying it in the hallway as well making that a guaranteed trade worst
case scenario.
All braiders come out. Could this be a Breeday Tiger Band or a Joom Tiger Band?
Yes, Joom will be. They most removed from action and a Wamai in response. I quite like that.
I think in Wamai, Goya or Smoke, which is like those annoying
operators that can change the pace of burning a lot of utility,
and Dalgons can lean heavily into
as I said, U2, if that's the style they want to go for. They can play the shields.
They got a lot of different ways to attack us that open. Even stuff like the glass, the ying is going to get crazy with it.
I love the enthusiasm for Drilst. I heard another My Bad. My Bad. My Bad. My Bad. My Bad. My Bad. My Bad. End of every round.
My favorite thing to do after a round is just gassing someone up. Like someone gets like a 1k and they're like dude what was that?
It's SIL! You're him! You're him dude! That's him! You're him bro. I love that. I love that energy.
But look, my bad is pretty close. That's the next best thing.
But yeah, look at good stuff, a secret.
I think that the assemblance of a team is building here for a roster that has been plagued by getting poached over and over and over again.
And of course, having three new players this stage alone.
Yeah, not fun. Not fun at all.
But seventh place in EML is actually not that bad. I mean they're on the verge of a
playoff spot here. They've got their three wins to three losses but the
upcoming games are gonna be tough. It's Falcons and then tomorrow G2 which is
never gonna be an easy game. And then on Wednesday to close it up,
Rebels which is gonna be a very big game because Rebels of course are on
the verge of being relegated especially with that last-day thing there at
and they have everything to play for.
Would be surprised if we see Seeker in Osaka, or at the very least in the stage finals for ML.
And then it's possible that's...
Certainly what I've learned over the last year especially,
good early kill on the Turim from Crocs,
and first they took away his demos and then they took away his life.
Thursday, the glass, the shield, they're both in action,
but the Doom dying early, as mentioned,
That is the glass in the grave in a bit wind condition off this strategy.
It was gonna be about getting to the bottom side, smokes go out, last covers and that
will catch the C4s or never mid-air, maybe even deny the solo smithing down with the
plant that's going down.
Now, do you commit to that first plan but without having the glass or do you have
to opt for plan B?
Darkens, they gotta make that call right now.
The thing is, they're up 6-3, if it doesn't go the right way, it's not the end of
the world, it can go again.
Steve on Croxton is still ready and Resolutov might not be, this is Falcon East and then
he may kill but he lacks the information to toss it on out.
As it is a pretty far comes out from Solotov, Croxton just passes this one.
He does not have the audio cue and Solotov tries to shoot it, doesn't have the reaction
time or the mechanics unfortunately to get the job done.
Now Croxton can sneak into an aggro position, uses his herding, takes him on down.
Good little chance now for Falcons but they are still fighting from behind and use
us in the late round we'll need to use that chip behind the disable the wardens glasses
and the solar scanner now it's time for hurry to get into position no one can't deny the
plan from behind the Monty shield I can't believe the plan has just gone down good damage
on the pre-date but it's not enough thankfully the flank might help out drills finds two
of the kills needed Noah the other one and secret keep on keeping on four rounds
on the truck two more to push out T slow and steady is the pace and all they
What I need is that, you know, one big opening kill or a big clutch moment in any given round
and again they lash out together very well played, understanding the radicality of everything
that they can lock down any plant position and when they get hit with a curveball, hey,
they're planting behind the Monty on the door, drop the hatch, go for a flank and overwhelm
them with the manpower in that 5v3, knowing that Breedy is super exposed while going
for the plant as well or where he was behind them actually, wasn't Breedy planting.
Team Falcons will call their tactical timeout, feeling that pressure of, okay guys,
and starting to slip away, all wingers are one round, we know exactly where they're going to go,
let's just cook up one good strat and get it done in regulation.
Yeah, time to talk to Giulio in particular, get some insight. One thing that I keep in mind here
for Falcons is while on Team Secret Attack, they tend to define success from having some kind of
pre-prepared. Let's go for this really specific strategic tactical rush, right?
On the flip side for Falcons, they've had some good game plans, but the attacks that
have worked well for Falcons haven't actually been when everything has gone
to plan. Remember in that first round they attacked inside from Falcons? They
actually lost their thermite to a nitro cell in the first minute and a half of
the game. They still won the round, not because they had a good plan going
into it but because they were in sync on their reactions. As soon as they lost that player they said
okay we're diving in. We're using the Blitz, we're using the Blackbeard, we're taking the space
and then in the lay ground they execute with some big kills particularly from human users who
have done a lot but also Zolotov has actually overtaken both of them in the kill department.
So this final round like you say secret very likely to be going basement,
top floor and middle floor and lock so Valkyries can take that entire tactical
time to cook up something very specific based on what setup they see for the
secret. Last time Team Secret played down here in the basement did not look very good at all.
I was gonna say for Brede's sake, sticking that monty for a little bit too long in the
attack, a repeat phase. I liked him on the black pit earlier, I like him conceptually on the
blitz. I just think that Valkyries need to have a bit of pace to your momentum
up against secret. That aggressive in your face play style. Getting our doom on the yank.
Like this. They're in there. They get one. Almost straighted back. But that is what they want.
They want to shut down secret and not make them feel comfortable around the map and in the server
and take it down. Cruising to damage the proxen is really exactly that. And look at the map
control. We're 30 seconds in. They're breaching the side hatch. They've gotten more or less the
full room clear that these are half of the map portion that they actually care about.
And then you can get breathing the action you have four contellers and two with a shot gun like this
Therapist player production was half HP and smoke
He's not gonna have a good time and if you want to they can actually attach an outside the building and catch this
Smotoxic babe in the air and deny him the possibility of delaying for 30 seconds
There must have been some really good pre-placed drones here surely to enable Jim to just spread through that entire
part of the map and you can do the job of a buck or a special ramp with that
shotgun let alone the fact that there is a ram coming as well here comes the
concussion or rather the EMP onto the echo he actually finds two of the yokai
drones meanwhile that smoke does go off so Croxton able to buy a little bit of
time and space second one about to go out as well does not want to let
anybody get past that smoke grenade needs hungry to come in and support
with those yokai's. Problem is, Solotov is still there with the EMPs ready to disable it.
They attacked the falcon just real quick earlier, they have so much time here. They don't mind
getting soled up by the Toxy Babes. They have looped a minute and ten seconds, all of our
tank is in proximity. Now they're going to impede the yokai's, then they're going
to push on down and because Crooks isn't having speed, he should be a really easy
killer.
Sees the racelimbs as well, does disable that. Here comes the yokai, into action,
it does not work, LigaFact lands both kills thanks to Brede's support now the
Yoka comes in but it's too late. Cantrills come for a flank, don't never mind
Solotov straight off the gadget and on to the gun hungry in a 1v5 and all the
years in his experience cannot buy a clutch like this. Can't even find the
first one. Big 4k for LigaFact and a flawless round to finish for Falcons.
A full three pointer today is exactly what the top rewarded to continue their chances of locking in a stage finals appearance.
Team Falcons came into today with a mission and they looked to deliver that a big rush match against Team Secret.
In Paris, well, you can forget about it. Don't worry about what happened a couple of months ago at E-Squads World Cup.
Team Secret cannot do the same again.
I
Hello guys, this is Dorthy from Machine Crew and today I have a pro tech to show you guys
for Ian and me.
Today we're going to talk about Zuflia and specifically the buff that she just
got recently. The buff being that she has more explosive and stung grenades. We're mainly
looking at the explosive grenades today and a different way to use them instead of just
opening walls and patches and things like that. The way that I'm going to be showing you
today is to actually kill people with your impact grenades from below, like vertically.
A bit of a throwback to kind of the old made meta we used in the Nade, people threw
I'm droning here on bank and a very common spot for people to play is inside Janitor here, we call it Janitor.
So let's just say we know this guy is here and our attack is already over the windows.
They're flaming him, they're shooting towards him, they're just baiting him.
No way he's going to know that I'm below him, let's just say.
So I'm going to ping him with my drone that he doesn't see, obviously.
And then I'm going to take my Noose of Fear launcher and...
And the f**k, f**k, f**k, f**k, f**k, in the end.
So that's kind of an old way of killing people,
particularly with the big, not yet the main buff that Sophia has recently got.
You can kind of bring it back, and kill people again from below,
but you only have one chance at a 50-year-old 3-year-old.
Yeah, but that's pretty much all I'm saying.
Maybe you guys didn't know.
It's becoming more common in pro matches now,
we're going to see a lot of it this stage in the ML, but yeah, that's my full tip for you guys.
Falcons get it on some incredibly close rounds, but they get the three points in the end and
we get to talk to Jume. Good evening, Jume. Congratulations on another three points. How
are you feeling?
Living, I'm feeling good, obviously. It's always nice playing the old team or like
what's left of it, no one twister. So yeah, doing good.
June, it might have been a figment of my imagination, but it
might have been real. You guys were getting dominated on the
entry, especially in the first half of today. What was it like
playing up against Secret? Because they were going absolutely
crazy with the Ying Shotgun, Daymoth Shotgun, it was it was all
going on.
They definitely were catching us off guard quite a bit in the
in the beginning, like we didn't expect it to play like
that. Actually, maybe a little bit, but definitely caught
I think it's like something we struggle against sometimes, but I think we adapted quite well
In the end there and brought back like most of the defenses
How do you adapt how like how dear who was it that was you know was it a specific call out like hey guys
We you know we need to be ready for this because they they are playing a maybe a little bit differently. Tell your expert
I think one mistake we did before that we didn't do today is we played too passive like sometimes actually having a bit more
Progressive to that playstyle actually was bad and just playing fully to turtle fully to fall back
Just trying not to give them the end you pick. Yeah, I think that's like what we try to do today
Like fight to actually contest a bit more not letting them just do whatever they want
And and zoom speaking of the the entries that you get lost. How do you guys manage to win so many late rounds?
That's the biggest question for me
Good question. I think just crazy players. I mean we have pretty we have
everyone in the team is just insane. I think just individual performance and
that's basically it. Do you think that back against the wall the experience really
shine in the players that you have in your team where they're gonna be able to
have that micro team play and play for themselves in a way that they're better
at that than most of the other players in the league? I think definitely I think
definitely like if you're more experienced you stay way more calm in
those situations and you can catch like people off guard they're like oh
my god we need to win this round it's a 2v4 yeah don't give them the
pick and that's where you if you die it's just like already like a mental
blockage to the round kind of for the rest of the team. And then just a question
out of curiosity I noticed both you and Noah have Doom in your name is there a specific reason as to why that is?
I just did it for fun and then I was like oh you should also do it Noah
while we were playing Rainy was just like oh yeah sure we didn't even hesitate
and now we just it was we called today the doomsday.
I wish we'd fought.
Yeah, we could have fought that one.
You next time just send us a message, please.
We'll make a postcard out of it.
Sorry, sorry, next time I'll let you guys know.
Alright, well, Joom, thank you so much for your time and I'm sure we'll speak against
you.
Thank you, see you guys.
But Joom say, oh wait, that would have been so good for the last match.
Last performance today goes towards permission at one time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, but look again as much as we talked about our close routes.
you mentioned as well by some big players on their roster that are able to turn these
rounds in their favor because the 7-4 could have very easily been even closer than that.
Yeah, and actually, you know, we're fortunate enough to listen to the team comps. They were
very relieved to have won that on the side of the team Falcons because they know they
were in a game. They know that they were against a team that was giving them some crazy
situations and crazy plays to try and manage and play through. Seeper arguably should
have had a lot more success on the first half, this round in particular. And yeah,
And then Falcons really had to dig deep. They really had to dig deep and find it, you know, they were getting caught off by C4s and all sorts of stuff going on, but they managed to find a way.
And as June said, you know, there's some insane players on the side to see Falcons that just have the individual ability, the individual composure.
Round 7 was great, for example. That looks like that round was dead and buried. They managed to hold that nerve. Yeah, this is beautiful.
And once again, it's a lack of composure on the set of secret.
Like, just taking that round in particular.
Hungry, he's stuck in the corner, he's got a C4.
All he has to do is wait a little bit,
wait for the plant to go down, and then send a C4.
Instead, he panics, you can sit on the cam.
He throws his C4 randomly to the desk, blows it where no one is,
and then dies to a grenade.
And he's also the one that dies in the 1v1,
because he was not planting in a safe spot.
So obviously, he's not the one that took off,
but in that 1v3.
But it's just a couple of examples of the lack of composure
that you could see on the set of secret
That did not happen on the set of Falcons and in the end that's the difference between the 7-4 for Falcons and 7-7-4 for Secret
Yeah, Secret, if they were to miss out on playoffs they're going to look back and kick themselves
That game against VP with all the clutches that they lost
And the game against Falcons today where they were in so many winning positions and ended up losing it
That's two mega teams in this league, that's the top two of this league probably in all honesty where they arguably should have taken points off both
But still they came from really far if you look at the performance from last stage
It's already like an incredible improvement.
I think it's safe to say that we've had really high quality games so far for our first two matches of the day.
Our third match will very likely be the same.
It is our match of the day.
We've got G2 going up against Virtus.Pro.
Now both of these teams will be fighting for a spot somewhere among the upper bracket, hopefully.
But if you look at the recent history, it's been a bit difficult on the side of...
Yeah, I mean they were they were the consistent teams
They were the consistent team of EML always on the top except for that one matchup
I feel like ever since the very second playday of this season where they play G2
Yeah, that's the only time we saw VP BG2 and I was in a BO one and ever since then it has never happened again
That was a very fast game of kickoff. I remember a second game second games on
On Consulate, I remember, on Mito.
Yeah, mostly on V3s.
My such nuts, how do I remember?
It feels like years ago when we remember, yeah.
Yeah, but yeah, it's a weird one.
I feel like we have this weird triangle of love
between G2, VP, and Falcons at the top of EML.
Falcons will be G2, G2 will be VP, VP will be Falcons.
All of them will be O1.
But in the end, you'll be O3s.
Very often Falcons is the big winner.
And I will say this in this game,
I'd like to see things shift a little bit.
The reason for this is,
We've seen VP beat Falcons comfortably on Shelly.
We've seen VP having worked hard since CWC.
I feel like I can bring something new to the table and maybe break the curse against G2.
Well, if we're looking at the standing so far,
Virtus.Pro is clearly doing better in them so far than G2 is.
As it says, both upper bracket 4, these two teams,
of course, what you get for finishing inside the top four.
But for G2, this would be a really good, especially if you look at Falcons getting their points,
DK merging into that one as well.
there's a chance that maybe even
twisted minds were just one point
behind could overtake them.
Yeah, both of these teams are
sitting kind of nice and pretty
in that top four and the
determination this game
determination won't be to be
all and end up for where they
finish in the league. However,
if either of these teams have to
win this game in regulation,
they will almost 100% guarantee
themselves into that top four.
Of course, where's that point
because when you in playoffs,
you then get that double
bracket. You get that second
chance. You get so much
closer to making your second
major. And therefore it's
very, very good. And that's
the first game for both of
Yeah, as a reminder, all you need to do is win 1b03 when you're in playoffs.
But if you get basically guaranteed two chances at winning 1b03 to make Osaka instead of one,
that's the big, big reason why you want to make that 4.
Yeah, it's also good to see that all the Verna's pro players are now there for the bootcamp.
Something that was discussed last week in the interview.
It'll surely help with their synergy because there's one specific player on the side of G2
that they will have to absolutely put a leash on today.
on today. We already mentioned
him as our emperor, not just
the king, but our emperor at
the start of the day. Stop it.
Is it a stellar performance?
Well, week one, he was the
president when G2 played a 4v5,
then they played up against
Falcons, lost both games, and
stomping actually really on an
individual basis struggled. Then
after that week two, week
three, and then into this
week as well, you can see 57,
37 on the KD. He became the
king and then moved up to
Emperor of our League. He is
absolutely controlling the
battle for being the best
being the best player inside the league,
Aperture basically 10 kills,
hard map so far across the entire league,
which is really, really strong
considering those first two results.
And there's something beautiful about Stomp and playing
on Bank against the top Terran L team
and brings back memories of the first season of Stomp
and playing against Falcons on Bank.
It was so, so good.
He actually had a nice against Falcons
and they broke that huge win streak.
And that's an example of him playing recently,
going completely crazy.
on Bank as well against Rebels, but also before that on Border, he's been absolutely crazy
for the entire of, what, two weeks where he's dominated the charts. I feel like he's been
the MVP of the league four-play days in a row now. Absolute crazy performance from
him. He really has and he just has that confidence and ability and actually speaking to some
of the players that play against him, they said one of the big things about Stumpen
is his ability to play with patience. Now if you look at this clutch, he didn't
over peeking. He kind of toyed around with his enemy and he was just playing. He was composed.
He's willing to allow the situation to move into his advantage before he'll make his moves
and that's one of the things that makes him such a special player.
Probably one thing that you learn on console. I feel like that's the playstyle that you
learn on console to be a bit more patient because obviously you're not as free as mobile
and as good with your aim. So I feel like it's really helping him.
And it's quite impressive for a young player as well. You know, sometimes when you
You have the confidence. You don't know that fear so well, so you're willing to swing things a little bit more.
But one more thing we need to know before we can dive into our match of the day is, of course, our map Vito.
Don't he shouldn't be getting away there. I thought he was getting up from his chair.
You've got a game to play. It's going to be on bank. Check. That's quite something.
Yeah, that is quite something. Actually, I had some of the players from G2 and the Coach of VP in my mentions this morning
because I did a little video about a G2 shot on bank the last time that they played it off against Rebels.
and Alomar happened to tag Dark and said be ready.
And then Dark replied with two pictures of him
being in G2 on Bank with two separate teams
and said, I'll, more or less, I'll be there.
And now we end up on Bank.
So we have a lot of drama.
We have a very one-sided social media predictions
that will say that.
Just to get history here, historically,
I would say this is one of the best VP map.
If not the best VP map,
they've had an incredible track record on it.
It is completely 100% win rate during this season playing it against some of the very best teams in the world, including Falcons.
On the side of G2, it used to be a map that we had not seen from them all the way back since Olex City, except for that one game against Rebels last week, where they beat them 7-0.
Flawless. Flawless. Absolutely crazy comeback from G2 on the map. And now we get to see VP play it against them with a recent bot.
and of course we've now got a from the banner off the board from the side of vp sorry from yeah from the side of
That means that the counter wall the range hard breach is going to be closed off as well
So the counter wall says show up breaching the open area to kitchen wall is going to be really really difficult
And of course it means for the hatches you rely on the hard breach uh can open themselves
I let the the eco ban. It's like yeah, I I actually wonder I want you to check the stat
I think it may be the first one we have in the ml
for the entire season. But it is very interesting. Taylor obviously against the
playstyle from VP to be late-round denial with the Tachanka, the smoke and the
Ekko combo that they love to use both on the baseman bombsite but also
aggressively on the top floor bombsite to guide their rumors. And the reason
why it's strong and one of the things that we've seen is the blue stars
player is often supported by an Ekko drone. In fact in the previous game
when you've got an Ekko drone it's so strong for removing the shield and
and then the blue stars player can get the kill.
Get rid of the echo, you don't have that problem as well.
I'm so glad we ended up on bank for this one
because honestly, I love the drama,
I love the cheddar on social media,
but you know what, let the game do the talking.
Thank you very much, yeah.
I'm so keen to get stuck into this one.
Pengu, originally we were rostered on
to do tomorrow's EML game.
We had to change over to today,
and when that happened,
there was the first thing you said to me was,
oh my God, that means we get to do G2 first today.
And now we're here, baby.
ready for we got a banner and a slot thing with that speciality of an evening
top floor bomb site and you pointed out the echo target band some of that we
almost never see happen especially the first rotation of operator bands because
mostly a reactive counter oh no they're playing echo that's annoying it's
been working really well let's get rid of it no no G2 with the foresight
they're planning the preparation saying we're anything gonna allow them as
I think a round of ankle here in bank.
Yeah, I love that really early ban onto the Echo,
an operator that is better the more time
you've had to plan around it.
And I think that a lot of credit to Dark.
And when he's coaching ability,
he really did bring this VP roster together
after the six-invitational.
Since then, these teams have met a number of times
and VP has not beaten G2 since kickoff.
So a lot in the line for VP technically speaking, right, like, you know, just a bit of a statement
if they can take about it again, especially with Tom being like, here is a desk brought
up.
I think there is a lot on the line for both teams here considering the implications
of this match on the standings.
You want to maximise your seating and then G2 missed out on going to the Esports
world cup despite having a phenomenal group stage. They can't afford to have the same
thing happen this time around. The better your group stage, the better your chances
at course because you get that double-edged second life in the upper bracket.
I'll need to win 1-b-0-3 to make it through. Shaco finds the opening pick Dan, who actually
has the best entry stats in the entire league. 14 entry kills are just two entry deaths.
Died early very unusual for him
Steve wrote us for a little bit uneasy in the server getting pressure from lobby from you know in the garage downstairs top-floor from Benjamin's and the ram
Trackers come through on to make you was paying the smoke
But the worrisome thing here is actually good his skies inside a teller's office with the visual class key
Cannot get targeted feeling by the team was with her feeling indeed. They got a south students. What's in there?
Nice little peak there from doki
three-way pinch on disguise to play a lead now for G2 a perfect start to the
round it's a dream that time is ticking away Alamow has been standing here in
front of this bulletproof camera for a long time just making sure that nobody
knows where he is Pasha has an inkling you can tell Pasha's just doing picking it
I think he's this is the shadow he does he's figured it out out goes you get
back there trying to get in the mood and it works beautiful from Pasha can
double down, yes indeed he can, he's working wonders now as G2 fall apart, they had a two-player
advantage at the start of this round now Stompin and Doki have to pick up the pieces, have to go deep,
shotgun in close range but Neko gets bested by the AR, it's all up to King Stompin, 1v2.
He has been leveling up every single playday of the tournament, so far beautiful long angle,
lands it on to Pasha, 1v1, low HP for Stompin, Rorick has to play this perfectly.
He baits the timing, doesn't know where he is, baits him off the plant,
and Stompin, 4 fits the round to VP.
So, so close, they're challenging me in the 2v1, these one of them were,
I think I was running in the distance, Stompin makes quick work of it,
gets into a close position, but not enough time to work his magic in the clutch.
gotta say the fapasha big brain play right there just having that feeling of
there's somebody lurking somewhere in the garage and they had the BP that cannot
see the nuke and will hear the footsteps if he moves but anima still for
such a long time and it's one of those moments where if anima gets one kill and
cuts off the entire problems of rotation super worth it but right now
because he didn't find anything his entire team had to roam clear in a 4v5
And then the mod dies, Benji starts pushing down thinking I got the gap, I'll catch the timing, he dies shortly after, and what should have been a guaranteed round victory too, becomes a huge clutch for Verity's problem.
Seeing the final kill cam from Stompens POV there as well goes to show how close that was. He actually, I thought he got off 1-0-0, but he got off half a second before the round ended and pre-fired.
If you had the right read about that exact spot to pre-fire, that's a round win for G2 there, and a 1v2 for King Stompin.
But not to be. VP starts strong, just spiping down 3v5. This is going to be back and forth, you can tell already.
Both teams bringing their A game today, and VP diving into the strat book early, Clash comes out.
early run down below Shaco to solo lurk it, Pasha is waiting for him, free kill for Pasha,
goodbye Shaco.
That's Pasha having like three very high impact value kills now, right?
He got the two peas downstairs, Alamon, Benz, Master, and Garage and Main Staircase to
kind of make them into a winning position.
Now he finds the opening pick onto Shaco and Deimos.
Probably the best or second best operator to get rid of early.
It's gonna take a little bit of the fracking power and aggressiveness away from T2 right now,
a bit of a penalty as well if you will, but they still have utility, they still can play
for execute, the Capitao, the Sins can work together for a plant intentionally,
Adam and Kali will just counter the clash one to one, they got half destruction on Stomping,
so the round is by no means over, but you do gotta try and find a kill somewhere in the 250 too,
and I think Capitao Fire Arrows would be the best shot at that.
Do we need to use those capitol fire arrows before your ex-cantor actually getting in that building is one of the hardest things to do on this bomb site.
Especially when it comes to getting that plant down.
I spotted in Lobby Pasha, he's so tempted to go for an aggro pick, but now the pressure's there, he doesn't need to worry about too much.
This is a very aggressive bit of hard breach as well.
That's going to open up a massive hole looking into Janitor closet.
the closet, and meanwhile the reply from DMP comes in the form of peeking all of these
angles that G2 have opened up, which I think is the right place here. They've got themselves
a two-player advantage and the script is flipped.
You still have two brow or a Rooney playing in that front disposition. Now you've got
TCSG from Dan right now on the goal, you're doing the exact same damage with that ACOX
scope. The G2 are locked out. They've lost the sense that can shroud the entire
bombs that enable that push that has down to Kebsa Aero and the smoke and fire rather and Doki
who's on that repel also suffering a lot of pressure. G2 are desperate for a peek right now
and Verdi's 4-player playing so patiently they're not giving them anything for free.
Yeah I love this from Neko despite his flash shield getting knocked back
repeatedly it doesn't matter he's putting the pressure on all the pressure that's needed
Stompon tries to go deep does find his pick but his teammates are falling
before his very eyes is now just stompin and doki who's knocked him from airlock
almost finds the angle and does finish off Dan a bit of an impact from pasha down below
but he's offside g2 need to focus up on the objective and the final two kills comes swiftly
for vp back-to-back defences on an attacker-sided map this is a great start for vertus pro and a
very rough one for g2 i mean it's the attack and start off bang you really do want to find a
a bit of success and preferably very soon, otherwise that confidence that you have built
up in the prep work and going into this matchup, it can fade away oh so quickly, we gotta see
those interplayers from G2 start to warm up into the server, Benj having a hard time,
Shaka having a hard time as well in the second round, Pasha just being one step ahead,
same story for Dan. I'm curious what happens though when G2 do find an opening
pick and convert it correctly because I could see it going very, very quickly.
British Pro are holding on that previous round, but they are trying so hard, they have to
clash, they have to go your APOC, they had all of the right tools, it was still not an
easy round between the whole one.
For sure, and even if that first 1v1 between the day loss of Shaco and Pasha on for the
roam of Solus, that goes out of the direction.
The round looks very different.
Suddenly, you've got no roaming Solus constantly peeking from Lobby, putting pressure,
It had enables more aggression from the window players of G2, you also got the Deimos underneath
the objective wreaking havoc on everyone in the bomb site including that clash completely
different scenario to what ended up happening.
G2 now really need to win this round.
Of course operator bands come out after this round and VP can get rid of another powerful
attacker in doing so. Meanwhile they've showed certainly different defenders that G2 don't
have an obvious ban. Go to star from open area, Alomel gets the twitch in there, looking
for these Volcan canisters. The Goya has been picked a lot, it's been really good.
4vp and that could be a target.
It's going to be a good little drone come before, get a good bit of vert, get a
nice shot on cover as well, get your back land, nobody seems to know. They saw
There's a lower gun barrel there by the top elevator wall.
Second, I think they're also in meetings.
That top floor commitment right now, a farm where there's probably a very unusual extension.
Unusual can be good though.
Gadget G2 by surprise, playing a bit of a different kind of pressure.
Stompens turn now on the nerf to avoid the Gadget Tree's information gain.
With the Echo Band, not as influential I guess in a way.
There's a Valkyrie, there's no way of really gaining any extra bit of information in this round for the defense.
Yeah, the gnaw potentially could find the pick onto doki if he lands that lance
But just nearby to doki is stompin perhaps the reason why he's playing the nook is to try and bait Danny
Thinking that they must use alone don't he has to try and pull it out
Indeed that's exactly what happens stompin tries to go for the kill right after the gnaw lands the lance
He wants to go for it again.
Dan finds it. He can now hunt down.
And surely he'll find a kill.
Indeed the shield killer is in the server.
Dan takes down Doki and VP
look poised to go 3 for 3.
Good kill for Shaco finally
having an impact in this game.
But he's going to need to do a hell of a lot more than that for G2.
No diffuser.
Still a man down.
Plenty of work to be done.
It's game plan B for G2 as you said.
Ryan, once you're in Shaco you'll find those most inter-killers
with the Gamers tracker.
Last Pukajonga for Benjamaster.
Elamon no more Twitch drones.
It's kind of just guns blazing here on top floor.
And the Bible would give away the location off Elamon.
And we know, like I was waiting right on the corner,
but the laser gives it away.
These pesky lasers, he has the wrong lead.
Now here's the footsteps.
Here comes the peak.
Rorik with the TCSG.
You just don't lose those with the TCSG.
He did not go speak for the double.
You've got to ban the Goyo now.
I think you just have to.
The impact we've seen multiple rounds over.
From not just the gun, but the utility, hear the Vulcan's ring out. It's Shaco in a 1v4.
This is an undual impossible, surely.
VP have been perfect, there's even a Keeber on the soft walls preventing any pre-fights through the walls.
Shaco won't even find one. It's three straight defences for Virtus Pro. They are locking banked down.
I'm not really loving this right now. I mean Shaiiko is on demos and often a very strong
entry player and he's just like in the middle of the map playing cut-offs and holding passive angles.
We're also seeing now two rounds of Nuke. Now the basemen sneak in strat I fully get because
it's a very unusual thing to do. In the round that we just witnessed there's a single
buddhiproof camera and then default cams and we have Nuke walking up lobby stairs into the
arms of a defender looking at him. It feels like a very low value pick there on the attacking
inside. I wasn't going to comment on the upper defense in terms of me predicting them because
I was expecting something unusual. I was not expecting the Thatcher, but this is kind of
cold. Now it opens up the door of a lot of minigames right now, right? Whether you want
to do the Kaid and the hatches, or just plant an island, you know, for like C4s, Conceived
Babes, and I think it really unlocks the basement bomb site more than anything else.
Yeah, particularly if you two were hoping to use that Thatcher to deny C4s, maybe
We're expecting a Goyo band now
I know that maybe I'm just leading into this Goyo band too much because that we didn't end up seeing it from G2
We saw the Izami instead which to G2's credit has been picked every single round so far
But perhaps VP were predicting a world where the Goyo gets banned and then the plant that I will need to be C4s and
Gas pay is perhaps a tachanka now all of that except that the chanker will get
Targeted by the Thatcher so now they ban that Thatcher
C4s are in play for plant denial, Smokes are in play for plant denial.
Khyde for hatches, like there are so many new things that opened up, it's a scary time
of thing to be G2, especially if you look into the details of the rounds.
G2 have not been problem solving that effectively, I would argue.
They've been getting the building, they've been getting the first initial foothold,
but then they lose opening pig, or they don't have enough, or rather they don't
have the right operators to go for a full round execute.
And now it's going to be forced into less flexible operators, right?
Either secondary piece or a must, or it's going to get on Maverick.
And it's not that every operator that has secondary piece or bat necessarily, but the safest choice
is going to be a Maverick.
And that is a sole purpose, just for the has, where there might be a kite pole.
Now if you're doing it right now on the attacking side, you're looking for the five
defenders.
Let's say you only join four, you have to assume that the fifth is a kite and
stick the Maverick.
OTS-R didn't steal off our defenders, and now DOKS and MARIK for quote-unquote no reason,
because there is no kite, so it's again the minescape.
It needs to be so slow.
It is.
You've got one-setting canopener, also no twitch, you're gonna have to use your nades,
which to be fair, there are sticks off, but nades are gonna be used to clear out
the Vulcan canisters from Goyar and the shield from Tachanka, and I actually think
another reason that Japan has value here is because of the Dreadmines from Fenrir.
It would be really nice to have a Thatcher to EMP those before you go your execute.
Server stairs, like you can EMP the warden or smoke like the toxic babes and just rush the gun
Server staircase, that's also gone now.
So I think there's so many mini games that Thatcher enables and like I said the threat
of a Kaidon basement was so big that they picked the Maverick into no Kaid.
So they have a wasted attack and operator now, one can argue.
You know Doki could have been a striker in this case, he could have had a grenade
and heart-breaching which Benja obviously does but now it's like you have the Maverick who just
has a gun and two frag grenades it's not the best one I've ever heard.
Fuse shield is a bit bad here you can probably clear a lot of the Goyo's and the Dreadmines with
the fuse charges and they'll breach the hatches with the tin cans and then you've got your
shield to try and turtle plant or go for an outer plate. We wouldn't have Tokyo on it but
there's so many potential here. Now we're going to need to see the Nades be the primary util
clear capture here for G2 as we see them tossed out now to clear the Vulcan canisters.
Thankfully they do have plenty of, there are six grenades in action for this round,
they're in server, they've got the glass, half the round to go. In terms of where G2
are on the timer, they're actually out on you ahead of the curve. They've already burnt
all but one through the canister and they can pop the wall whenever they throw my guns
into the server which is right behind them out there so he's going to be in there now
They're going to have a good 50 seconds, 40 seconds to work with, and while they are
against with the smoke and the Tashan Gah, they do have the chance here of a pro-execution.
The big question for me is, will G2 thought their trap on the hay and try to go for a
default tent with glass covering the smoke, or do we go for a 3-2-1 attack from every
direction and just force the chaos in the suit?
It's going to have to be the latter.
Surely.
need to be some chaos created here by G2 because of the amount of plant that are still 3 gasp
babes remain. That's 30 seconds, let alone all of the Chankers fire as Stompin starts
to burn. We're going to need to see some of these G2 players dropping hatches, Benjy going
down the main stairs at the same time while Alamow tries to cover. There's just nothing
you can do against Neko here, except for from the other direction. Gupik from Alamow,
goes out. This plan is going to be impossible. Alamau somehow manages to survive walking straight
through one HP stomping. We'll go for this plant. And Alamau will burn into the flames.
Stomping as well will quickly follow. It's an impossible task for G2. They did hookline
and sinker straight into the bomb site. VP lapped it all up. Four rounds straight
on the defense. This is a massacre.
It's so good. I mean, this is such precise gameplay and we see the Jews in the background there from dark
You have to assume that he has been so influential for these sorts of things
I mean every player knows what angles to watch for. It's a shy guy line up is crazy
He doesn't even get seen by the glasses hide man like a small cabinet in the other bomb site
G2 they had that option go for default plant take the bait or fan out and go for kills dropping lobby dropping elevator
They are disrupting that setup and look at this, they have colors in loctering gold,
you see right here, he was scanning when the plant was going down, you can't de-impeen
with that shirt, because that shirt spanned away.
What are they doing?
They have no idea exactly, they're playing straight into the strat.
Like you need to do the counter, you need to do the adaptation, they see a half-tent
and they go, guys, let's go for a plant, I have a great plant spot in mind, they
go default!
The fire hits them, the smoke hits them, they realize after a couple seconds, okay,
It's not good for default, and if I watch him first, almost dies the fires, it's not been sprinting, you can plant right here buddy.
The issue is VP know that. There are two plant spots on the bomb site that you can realistically go for without using a shield or a sense.
Behind the chassis and default by the breach. They have lineups for both with the fire and smoke.
How many chances left now for G2? You need both these rounds. There's no way you win
after being 1-5 down. Shaco snuck in. It's been a Shaco v Pasha match so far on for these
lurks and roams. Surely Shaco has hurt him and indeed the
made will force out the play. Pasha still gets pretty damn close. If that shot had been
on the head then that's it. That's really cool. With the P90, it continues between the
two of them. Yeah, they're really going at it back and forth with nobody in duals.
Saigo's going to feel relieved about him actually getting that frag, but G2 they need
more than just kills, need problem-solving, communication, peeking things apart. And
we're talking about those things, you know, we aren't looking towards Alomau as
This is a leading figure. As a captain, I'm looking at Doki on that london roll to say guys this is the strat, play around me, we're gonna walk up to staircase, hey you watch that angle, okay go again to the top of the wall, we gotta pop that open so I can progress the round.
It's all about step by step but it gets better. If I can injure that navel, confirm the kill, so I could go for two in the round, so point by his teammate.
G2 could just win this round on the killing department, maybe they wanted to dig too deep in the strat.
This bomb site is very hard to defend once you start losing manpower because of how few
positions you can play safely on this top floor.
Next focus will be Skies in elevator.
Once you lose Skies the round is pretty much over, especially with the Monty in play.
Smokes go out from Doki, Stomp all about to use those.
Upside down with Hell as well for Alamow.
Guess what? Skies can peer through the smokes.
If he sees Alamar on the Spider-Man repellent, if he sees Doki from behind,
this might work out. Stomp him.
Thankfully wins his battle against Rorik.
His guy says goodbye to Spider-Man.
And all of a sudden it's a 1v3 for Neko.
He can't withstand it and G2 finally find their way onto the scoreboard.
Forget that round.
It is Shagill.
They are flanked lobby.
Rorik hits the beams.
So the majority of the bullets, and somehow Alamar stays alive.
They missed the Wattenin elevator, but the Monty doesn't die from Doki protecting himself with the shield.
Not a perfect round, but it is a victory.
It is exactly what G2 needed to stay into this one mentally and of course just in terms of like having a chance of winning comes side swap.
Because this is the attack inside of Bank. When they go to defense, they gotta have some crazy setups themselves.
Otherwise this Bank matchup can be over very swiftly.
Yeah, that it can, but we don't have to worry about top 4 defense anymore if you're VP.
It seems like no matter what bombs we go to, there's always a little bit of a battle between
Shaco and Pasha at the start of the round, and whoever wins that has a huge advantage
for the rest of the round.
Again, that round would have looked very different if Rorick had won that gunfight
coming up onto Stomp and from down below in Lobby.
We've literally been Benj on the repel side and Doki alone on Banana.
Like that would have been a 22 with Rory playing below 1-10 elevator.
That's, I would argue, very favorable on VP's side, but of course still playable for G2.
Yeah, well I will say for VP, or rather for G2, a lot of energy in the post-round kill-can there from Doki, the facecans.
Seems like G2 do believe, and look, a second round here and anything's possible.
That said VP bring out all the stops clash hi-yid
Especially with that thatch a band this is gonna be such a headache for D2 to deal with but they're cooking something stomping on the Amaru
This is gonna be a high-tech execute from the basement up straight into that kitchen bomb site
Third round of nook against no camera operators. It's again
It's a gun with two frags in it feels like now if you ask me in that knee strat
You know if this is what the strat needs you gotta play it, but it's kind of all I've been stomping
He's been on support. He's been a third man been reaching those walls now. He's gonna be a playmaker
I hope to let the default cam up here in lobby just for the sake of it to enable the gadget of the miracle which has been popped
We'll see what the plan is there's two hatches, right you can go up the corner
You can go up the elevator for main staircase
Either way it gets better because I'm also buying stands all of a sudden
You want to flop that bomb so with the rush strat on the corner hatch, you're gonna have members of the entry to make it go.
caught by Shaiiko, great patience and Skars, Skars realizes the hatch is actually reinforced.
I don't know where Stompin went up but it certainly wasn't the Rio'd hatch.
Now Alamow forcing the plant down. Skars cannot do this. It's going to be a second round of the
board for G2 after four in a row from VP. They took their time getting into it but G2 now
look textbook they look confident and this is an impossible task to skies a
great way to get their heads back into the game and they're gonna need it nice
it'll tap there from skies Alamow big rounds and with that G2 are well and
truly here to play on bank yes they are we see two rounds from G2 which is a
good recovery from this half which initially looked super strong for
voters broke we talked about the echo bend but for this row also didn't
even need that when it came down to their late route.
Absolutely. Yeah, it was just a recovery.
VP was so good at making G2 play a utility game.
You know G2 for gunfights.
You know them for trying to find gaps.
What would VP be doing?
They were giving them nothing.
If you take a look at round four,
you will see that they comboed the smoke
alongside the Goyo, alongside the Tachanka,
and the solace to know when and where
the plant was going down.
And they have their lineups on point.
We see a lot of pro players miss the lineups, actually.
Neko was fantastic on this, so was Rorik with the timings.
What does it force G2 to do?
It forces them in.
Alomar has to walk in through the smoke.
You then see the front triangle
down from something in an off position,
and Dan knows exactly where that front is,
and he is dealt with very, very quickly.
That was VP's whole wing condition
against the side of G2.
Bring them into the later on.
Bring them into the excuse.
Make them force and clear and play utility,
and that's not necessarily the strength of G2,
but it is the strength of VP.
That's why we saw them go up four rounds in a row.
And I would say this is the biggest difference from anyone executing this strategy.
We've seen the strategy played in time and time again.
The difference with VP is they're so consistent for a reason because they spend the time in
dry runs, they spend the time making sure they know their lineups and they spend their
time knowing the wind conditions the right way.
And so when you look at a set of G2, obviously trying to funnel through that was not going
to work.
And this is where I think it's surprising.
All the LMAO I think would not have been shy of maybe calling a rotate, calling
a hot drop into a vault, maybe changing the course.
the win condition to kills, but instead they just continued forward and I feel like sometimes
I feel like J2 can go head butted against the wall and won't find the right angle or the
right adaptation and I'm quite curious about it. I wonder if it's due to the roster, I wonder
if it's only because we're in group stage and they don't want to show everything or
I just wonder if there is a global lack of vision on the state of J2 that prevents
them from making the calls that they were so good at making before.
But then what helped them win those last year rounds out were they looked much
more dominant.
give you a look at the pace that they kind of operated with you saw in round 5 you
saw Shaco get a very early intro kill himself into open area just found a
little bit disruption in round 6 you saw the nut play through lobby that had a
lot of success for G2 they tried pulling in rounds 5 and 6 they tried
pulling the game and where the game was won a loss and they engage with into the
early round once they were doing that they were successful they managed to see
out the two rounds but as you say it was round recovery really because bank
I generally would consider quite attack aside in I think the top floor and
open area, fixily out okay to attack and the basement, if you get your diamonds right, it's fine.
So the fact that it's 2-4 still puts G2 at disadvantage.
Yeah, that's my worry here also on top of that. VP, defense used to be their weak side, it's not anymore
and attack is still their very much their strong side so they're only going to go on an attacker-sided map
on a strong side for them and on the back of leading 4-2, this is going to be a really rough one to pull for G2.
But then for, you know, to give the G2 fans any kind of hope out there, right?
You talk about them kind of pulling the game towards them and really searching for those opening engagements.
Surely on the bank defense you can do that too, right?
You can try and force the engagement and get that ground back, no?
I feel like it's hard in bank.
I feel like you're trying to roam up top, right?
On the top floor.
You can get killed from almost any rappel from ATMs, CEOs, where you're gonna be at a disadvantage when you try to roam.
The only way you're gonna try and roam here on the base is gonna be a archives and open space.
and clearing out Qichan on that side, and even then, I think most of the time you get surrounded, so
I would say in general, it's not the easiest map to try and win early on an opening agent when you're in defense.
Honestly, it seems like the odds are stuck up against G2 then, with the way this first half went,
with the way they're painting out the picture for this second half, and G2, I mean,
you got such a good check record here against Virtus Pro, can you keep that up?
great question G2 have a chance to try and come back on their defense but I
agree with Jack attacks where it's at here on bank G2
already you did I did we all did I just want to you save a jack
I just want to throw a bit of love this way man you guys are all in
Copenhagen you guys a lot of good time in Denmark I'm down there in Australia
I'm just trying to build bridges, you know, so if you have a pretty long bridge, maybe we can extend the bridge that goes to Malmö
See if it'll help all the way to Melbourne. Let's not do that
There's a bit of an ancient battle between the Danes and the Swedes, okay? Let's just stop at Copentic and let that be that, okay?
No more bridge building here, my friend
You're right. The desk is right. You're right. I'm right. Everyone's right right now
It is just usually an attacker favorite map here in Banggood. How?
skill the vertical word building your defenses from the preparation I'm
expecting some pretty good attacks as well you know what they have certain
expectations of what you two will do in this setup and then they're gonna have
counter answers like for example pick that shirt become a ninja player take
down doki that right there it's a huge counter play and you and I were
talking while the disc was actually going on this set up in G2 it could
it does two things really well but that's it it has a much bigger roaming
presence with the traps with the Valkyrie for intel so the fighting has to happen on the Rome game
that's already failed. The second step for G2 that's quite strong is when they're back towards the
base and bomb side they have a lot of traps to watch the various hatch drops if VP don't go for a
server take but if they do go for a server take the only planned denial is going to be a three
toxic babes in the pocket of stomp in on the smoke. So right now G2's win conditions
they're falling apart pretty quickly unless they are out benja caught off guard and i don't know why
nako seemed to think that this start of open area was clear turns is back to it now the diffuser
is actually down this is all i feel like g2 have to hold on to this for as long as they can now
they have the diffuser down and like you said they don't have much you to the plant that i
compared to what vp brought where's the goya where's the tachanka this d4 from benja was
was used early in the round, not for plant denial.
Doki's bourgeois, same story,
which means they really have to win this game.
They have six can openers,
and if not open, the corner hatch in open area yet.
They have five canisters in the pocket.
It's all their utility.
They're still fighting Benjamaus.
They're hiding by the Cupid Goals.
But what can hatch with being open?
Oh, thankfully the third is there.
They swing together.
All could fight here beneath the hatch.
There could have been a lot easier there for VP.
Alamau's gonna continue peeking these hatches,
kind of because he has no choice he has to wow what are you doing down that was a
very aggressive and unnecessary play I'll now find the second kill surely he's
gonna go for more shaco on the floor finds one what the hell was that G2 just
steal it because shaco and Alomar peek everything that was VP's round to lose
and they let it go by I mean that is G2 for any curveball that is the most
unusual basement around I'm not even gonna call the Rome game they were
living for the roam, okay that's the wrong life right there. They were everywhere they shouldn't be
and VP were so busy trying to pick it apart or doing something differently that they didn't just
do the basics. Break the corner hatch, little bit of bird, drone open area, support the blitz and
just clear it's nice and simply. They were expecting me to one or two roamers but as I said it's
the roaming life. Every single member was there from G2 to cast them on the jumping down
That's what I said earlier. Those trap operators are so strong at denying the push by the side itself
And that's in VP has to speed up the pace because at 15 seconds left
What around indeed what around what around what around boys
That's what I say as well when my entire strat is just peak
That was crazy especially at the end down in VP
They had a lot of the ingredients, they had the advantage in 70 ways, but there was also about 17 seconds left on the clock when Dan dropped the server hatch.
So as much as I do want to kind of go in on Dan, I kind of can't blame him with the amount of money.
And if anything, that's VP's fault. As you said, they didn't do the basics of just opening up that corner hatch, putting that perceived pressure on G2.
That phantom pressure has been loved to pull it.
And as a result, G2 had the ability to play their style of game.
But you're not gonna beat G2 by playing this loosey-goosey-wormy-wormy-type business, that's not the way that you beat them.
Beat them where they're bad.
Don't play to their strengths.
If you're only getting missedy, they will happily match you and take you to that kind of playstyle, that's for them sure we just saw it.
VP though will recalibrate and try again on a different bottom side, thankfully for...
I think both of these two teams actually, every side has very different ways of winning.
Obviously, opening pick is always going to be a huge deal here who can fight for it, but
basements often around planting Nile or sticking on the room for way too long where it's very
challenging.
Top floor is a lot about power positions, you know, playing in genders, uh oh, playing
in meeting, playing in caught window room or front desk as it's called, and just holding
over the strong gun.
So, for Verdi's pro now, they get a pick at a part step by step.
G2 can really sit in specific corners of those power spots like I mentioned.
They don't need to do anything until they feel too pressured.
Yeah, that's a lot of spaghetti for them to clear out with one on a sea car as well.
Neko can now move all the way up Banana very safely.
Doki forced the user's gas pretty early in the round.
How did VP actually just love Doki? That's a great question.
Oh, who knows we had the Riori in play.
And now Doki is forced to contend with Neko who's actually up and already causing a little bit of pressure on the top floor up here, upside down the pole from Rorick.
Just watching the tanks, Neko goes to ADS and gives a good installment surprisingly enough.
He's gonna open up the gates right now because that middle link, that connection of the deep ends has been completely destroyed.
Everyone's alone, isolated.
It survives.
Rose almost in the bomb side. Neko here can do so much feed information, threatened for kills.
Doki able to lash out, find Pash, but Rory quick on the trade. Neko now continues to march forward by space here for VP.
Now they're worried what are the lost conditions for this round, getting flanked, but you've got to focus up on the win conditions.
And that's the key to extremely claustrophobic two-players in Janna closet right now.
Now, Rory makes his way forward.
Benjo will swiftly take his head off.
Number one player in the league right now
has been quiet today is Benjo.
Shaco lashes out as well.
It's just the three of them up for G2's guys.
He's been all taken the life of Shaco.
It's time to go for a plan here for Neko.
But he wants to try and bite off this play.
And first, guys guarantees the kill.
Our Mal in position down below to deny this plan.
One impact, Grenade opens up the angle.
He finds the first one.
NAKO CANNOT PLANTS!
ALEMAO SAVES AROUND THE G2!
And the lead has evaporated from VP!
The final Infekkin hit in pocket by the way.
There's a 1 or a don. There's no time for the attack there to reposition because there's only a second or 2 left when the starter planted down that diffuser.
It's a can verters pro. They get messy with it. They fight. There's a guy soloed to upscore. We're about to flank.
We're about to swing. We're about so many things in the server.
month you're gonna just walk around said there's a defender over there let's go
hunt him down, a defender over here let's hunt him down instead it's like a half
plant half hold half push and G2 again this shows us how good they are in the
chaos of the round when the logic is gone where nothing makes sense. Mind you
Alema was playing the solace upstairs in Jerus for the longest time he jumps
down the final seconds when you realize that the timer is so low that
it doesn't matter what happens on the bomb side he can win from beneath
He dropped right there in about 11 seconds left
What's that shield was continued all the way and that might have cost him the round
So close to having successful
Yeah me too turkey and sky just need to win that fight that's what it came down to that was a huge 1v2 from
Very hot still 1v2
To his credit he played that perfectly. He had to win a gunfight through the floor
or against guys with a better weapon than he.
Well played from G2.
I thought that was VP running away with it,
but now G2 have shown that not only do they thrive
in the chaos, which we have always known about them,
but they're happy and very good at forcing
this chaotic playstyle even against a VP
who are really good at playing structure.
Now VP are very execute heavy
and good at playing that style,
but they like to play smart Siege.
They like to look at a setup
and think what's the best way to counter this?
It doesn't matter when the round becomes this messy, chaotic, back and forth that G2 like to force it,
then it's a very different playstyle, very different ballgame from what VP, that specialist, is that.
On the round, we're on Monty.
Like the Tiger Band, that's the round that you asked me.
See what he can do.
Laker was good before, just ADSing people, going for a couple of picks.
I'm just getting all this map control so quickly in the server
This is C4 from the end of the way, but it's on the other side of the building, C9F Square
Well, there is no current entry from the attacks are probably not gonna matter a whole lot
Indeed to actually yeah, there's a fall on the peeling back those layers
Mind you, they got doubt camps and double C triple C4 actually
So they're trying to fish right now and bait out a single a kill and if you find that single a kill then the Shaz worked
Patrick goes to the target on the doki. He's been waiting so long
Yeah, Benja has indeed now he has to get off the angle
Vulnerable to someone peeking from top square like down here. You tosses out a drone immediately spots out
Okay, so there's a century down below that could be a potential C4
Benja takes a lot of damage guys from up above takes them down
That's you're getting a lot of value out of these breaching charges
We've seen it twice now for VP and the Monty will survive to get down onto the ground floor.
He's got a stabilizer now, wanna see British pro not get into the messiness of the round and let G2 thrive in their chaos like I said before.
Paid structure, paid stable, go for step one, then step two, then step three.
Try and play for that win condition off the plant. You got a factory MP, you got a Monty.
You can just theoretically drop the hatch, walk in the double door with the Monty, cover him perfectly and win the rubber out forcing the real gun flights.
And the twitch has given a lot of value here. Dan knows there's no utile stopping here.
No traps waiting for him on the other side of this door.
Neko alone does feel a little bit of pressure, but quickly forces Alamow back.
Now he wants to take the fight, but needs to make sure he has a crossfire stomp
and alleviates a lot of pressure here.
And Rorik would want to... Oh no, it's gone...
It's gone devastatingly the wrong direction now.
Alamow finds Tsushiko, who was waiting the whole time for the backstab from Blue Stairs,
finds the final pick, VP were poised.
they had the position and yet as soon as they went to execute they do not find a single kill
three rounds in a row vp have found the opening kill on the attack three rounds in a row g2 have
stolen the round listen i'm all for g2 winning i really don't care about the buyers right now but
the way in which vertice pro loosening is is heartbreaking call me old-fashioned but how in
the world is the win condition not that you just can't drop the corner hatch with the montee
the factor has the as the emp alone shout to catch the toxic babe or the single c4 lift in
pocket, they had a player open arrow window, they had a player main staircase, and they
had a player generator hatch.
They had all the cut-offs, there is zero way to take it out of the plant, unless they hit
the gnarliest headshot of all time.
Instead they double-jumped generator into a killbox, walk into the bomb site, throw
into a triple crossfire, they just jump in the window and die, and it completely falls
apart.
From such structure and defenses to completely messy attacks, I don't know who is calling
the shots from VP right now who's failing to fulfill their role verbally, but this has
to simply come down to communication issues.
Yeah, and look, Pengu, the fact that you're pointing out such clear fundamental issues
that are facing VP who are so above these kinds of issues, and you look at the face
of dark during this tactical time out, you look at the fact that G2 have just won
five rounds in a row, and there's a very simple answer.
This is not an intellectual or strategic battle that VP are losing.
This is a mental game that VP are losing.
They are capable of so much more than this when it comes to the calls, the executions,
knowing what the play is as a squad.
They're just not doing that correctly because they're losing the mental game.
They have been hammered away.
They were up 4-0.
Now they're down 5-4.
They've been reversed swept and for the first time in this game G2 has the lead and now
they hold all the cards as they go back down to the basement.
Another Thatcher ban by the way, we're seeing some mirroring here from G2 saying, oh you're
on a ban, Hibana is, and Thatcher we can do it too, let's see what happens.
A British flow cycle, why?
I think they played a lot of that Thatcher on multiple bomb sites as well.
It was good.
Exactly, it wasn't really fully utilised, because I never saw them utilising for their plant, it was a bit confusing aspect that I was faced with.
But it does go away, they've got the Galatyr, the DMRs, yeah I mean they didn't, but it could if you wanted to.
But it was for lack of trying for once, it was for lack of trying.
You know what's funny is what we do see now brought out is the Echo, which VP did not ban, although G2 did, and they were on their defensive.
or rather they're attacking side when they were hitting the defense bands but as we talked about with them the
Thatcher bands earlier now. We're seeing them have picked now by VP and it changes the whole scope of the situation
Maybe I have a station as well for G2
Deciding to reinforce the admin hash. Well, it's not a forgot to do the first place
You never know what you're doing. Do you need some attention? Oh guys, um, he had just talked
We just get a real quick you never know you know I think I think you're probably right on that one typically it's just the
Hatch not the admin hash. That's actually
Yeah, it'd be weird to keep it something attached with them. Sure. Even if you're not one of the kind yourself right now
Also guys, I think animal had a very slow start to this game
But it's actually a pop dog with the solar struts downstairs to two or three piece
Oh, yeah, but he has been carrying sweet and gold after heading out some necklace to cause the attack
He has been fracking out on defense
Yeah, Alamau also has the highest survival rating in the entire league at 52% which is a crazy stat
He's well above or at least 10% above his next competitor
You'll see that right now. I mean not only is he Frank
We also have the second least deaths in the entire game
It's a really high impact and does not take unnecessary risks in order to get that impact
I'm on to this round surprisingly enough, I get the frag grenades here and the BBs taking
service heads control.
We see the Syrup there, G2 are fully fallen back.
They know there's no batching Bs to like locate the Yoka drones because that's your worst
as a mini IQ as well.
They got Gorya fire, they got toxic babes but I will say this, the current base team
from Redis Bro, they can just stall out, bait up a bunch of babes and then go
for the plant.
Gorya finally popped.
they can't now with the 20 seconds being burned away actually maybe people
plan is no longer possible no not really with that you're open you would have
if you hit is oh my god there's a yogurt server waiting watching every single
move right now and even on the phone set as well so G2 whatever attack happens
in their direction you have full intel by the ace and VP are committing an
entire play in Rorick to watch the flank which is never gonna happen because
G2 know full well that this plan is not going down stop and does get
That's a really big kill. It's onto the smoke. That means the plant might actually be possible here.
Neko's fast to go for it. This puts more pressure on our Nakao.
Niyoka draws out. Kyo's and I dress all get shot at.
One more.
Plank denied by the Niyoka drones.
The down one's lower.
Continuing to try.
Continuing to hold down the line.
Niyoka's trying to get one second left on the clock.
He needs to go for the plant once again for Neko.
The Niyokas are not in position.
The plant going down.
And indeed a will.
A 3v1 retek now at the plant down.
Neko trying to battle.
He has three players from G2. He needs to try and take these fights.
That's one kill. Can he get a stack of one? Knocks him back, goes straight for the plaza, gets him off of it!
But Alamo! Clutches up for G2! I can not believe it!
He is having a moment when he takes the whole team, puts it on his back,
and Alamo single-handedly wins the round for G2.
Perfectly played. It's a 1v3 on this shield.
You get the first kill, you run in, you BUNK the defense to go for the final kill, here's an ammo, it gets off the defuse, flicks back on the ground, you BUNK the floor, but you cannot do it all.
There's only so many bullets and so many plays you can make in a single round and once again with the clutchness, the survival rate and the crazy usage and juggling of those echidrons, it's ammo, again, leading his team into another round victory.
Woo, Neko is insane bro, like that almost was a clutch.
This could have been played better by Neko.
There's one thing, the second he throws the grenade, we should instant the ADS to the door,
maybe we'll see it in every play.
So what's the Nade?
Nade, insta, lock the door, I don't see it, whatever.
If he throws the Nade through the rotate, he cannot get something to rotate at all.
He doesn't pre-ADS the door, so the anchor gets to close the distance,
and they get to play the crossfire and that gives the defense a lot of space to work with.
If you make the rotate infinitely against the door and win that first gunfight,
all of a sudden you control the space. That's the only thing that could be optimized,
but I'm watching it without anything to lose. Nothing to lose, no pressure, no feelings.
He was feeling all the pressure out there. There was Yo-Kai, there was Redpings,
there was Yo-Kai, I was so much happening.
6 rounds in a row for G2. 4 rounds in a row that VP have found the opening kill and lost
the round. And to lose it like that, absolutely half-breaking. They got so close. They threw
everything they had at it. As soon as Stomp and fell, I thought it was over. The G2 have
so many layers. And for the first time, Hangu, we've seen the G2 that don't just
They can play the strike game too. They can play the plant and I'll win condition
It's not just about fragging out like crazy. There was a scumbag dying
I think you had a one more toxic baby if I remember correct in pocket
So like that could have been even more time denial
So VP get opening pick the shut down the smoke and still G2 are so clutch
In the final moments of the round also the lack of a thermite imagine that wall was opened up in a much bigger passion
Not like a can opener
So many what ifs, so many time retails now deciding these rounds, but one thing is to take consistent
D2 in the second half year in bank have completely turned it upside down and made it into a defender favorite bank at this point, both of these two teams
Extremely defend the favorite tank. Unusual. Also teams finally getting on the the Thatcher, Hibana, Thatcher
So the Hibana ace band become a more popular
I want to kind of say that wild card might have made them more common because they kept playing when I was casting them like
You know we seem such and it seems like after we see them do it now all that seems to doing it as well
But who knows where she started it, but I'm not to walk over. I would say that
The bands that I'm seeing that's excited me the most in this game is a thatcher. Yeah, I think that was genius
VP are extremely good at using that thatcher and
That band is really rocks the boat for them and look at Kairi now
It's about to defend a bit with young bank now. They're all being reinforced off
Does that get the kayak law or actually still hasn't
Alamow cut off from the window is beautifully played there the Grimm's bees
Making a real tough job for him to try and stay alive
And that is five rounds in a row that VP have got the opening pick on their attacking side nor the north
Oh get that if Shaco gets faded the North trap is removed from the Neko shield and the kill is found on today
Sheiko 2 plays near vantage now as Stomp and hunts for more, brings out the Nore
Can he try and get the kill? No, Yorick will shut him down
This could be the first time that VP finally have some form of a response
And what a fashion to do it as well a flawless round for Virtus Pro
But still not a happy look on Dan's face one more round and they push over time
I just watched back the clutch there from Adelaide by the way the previous one on Beastman
the ridiculous, ridiculous clutch. Let's get out of here, see that again. Everyone in
chat is losing a duo dude. It's not too loud. Dude that was, oh my god. I'm sorry, I'm
sorry to all of my neighbors for that clutch. Single hand wins the round, it's
with these two things.
Insane. I mean, look, the reason I said Alomar single-handedly won the round was because of...
Bring it up, we actually have to have a look at it.
So the only reason this became close, because the Yo-Kai drone is still denying the plant
at three seconds to go, VP go deep and actually find most of the kills, or find two of the kills needed.
This was so well played by Neko.
Yeah. Again, Grace to Spades, Ronstin, Insta-Fonks, Ronstwoz to tend to know that that's going to be a priority.
Here's where he comes off it, flicks his teammate, but Atomile just actually commits to the swing and it's just faster right there.
That's a 1v3 that should never be close, and he made it. I mean, we're talking one bullet.
If his hero covers the space, it's a 1v1, he can bash with the shield, maybe he stays alive.
So many possibilities.
my question is should naker have gone to finish off the player that was on the
ground or did he need to take fight with all of us so that's the issue he had to
pressure all of us who forced him off the defuse because otherwise time would run
out and I could use so close to it if he went all the way to the road say it
and killed all of us then he would have died to do you go behind him because
he started shooting as well he literally didn't have time to do both
things he needed to go on the guy force a lot of all like the guy
behind him and not that animal somehow. Like did you play this so perfectly that I don't think
there's a way in which we should win that one if you're naked. And again would have been very
different if Thermite was open. Yeah we can play from stairs. Thermite's open but yeah I mean if
that wall was fully breached completely different situation for Neko he doesn't have to push deep
he could play that from a million other places. Exactly so many small details the beauty of
of C's being showcased in a single around.
I mean, not gonna say anything actually,
this is a little bit out,
but I have a certain score I would love to see right now.
It's not there from Skye's,
misses a crucial shot right there.
There could have been another opening pick.
Fifth in a row, I believe at that point.
That would be six in a row.
Six in a row at that point.
There we go, miscalculated.
And now they drop the gen hats.
G2, two in the same shot,
you obtain the layers and folding them back,
Everyone gets out with full HP, they got that, triple C4, the same Valkyrie, this is the exact same round with the Monty on the attack.
Okay, this is the final test for Virtus.pro.
Can they open the hatch? Can they avoid the C4s? Can they find the Valkyrie? But most importantly, can they plant?
There's one key difference now that works against them, the Thatcher Ben.
What I said before, dropping hatch EMPing cover angles, it doesn't apply because there is no more Thatcher.
Yeah, and the the lesion as well is going to be no doubt in position to be ready when that drop happens
They can't plant straight away. They're gonna have to pull a goo out
There's no doubt that shaka has put some of those goos underneath that hatch
Well, at least I should bloody well hope so because it's the best place for a goo mine in this round
Could well indeed win the round
I think that part of the reason why vps is so terrified to use this hard breach is because they're worried about those c4s
And now that I'm all about her it might be too hard too impossible part kills for two different VP players
They're still Shaco in blue stairs that could backstab if VP get bedded in
I think the wind condition now for VP has to be opening up the hatch
But look at the time of this
Yeah, I guess one gonna plan the basement or so far away past judge so far from bomb site naked
If you're going to buy no look you might go down
Falling apart and finish him off
Pasha is way too late on this flank, Rorik and him alone trying to salvage this game for VP.
This man has two ATV kill, Benja just keeping away, doesn't have time to get the defuse.
Pasha doesn't have a chance to get the kill.
Benja puts the final nail into the VP coffin.
G2 do what seems impossible.
Seven of the last eight rounds, they stole from Virtus Pro without a single opening kill
On their side, unbelievable from G2, they take the win and well deservedly's flow,
the battle of the Titans has won by G2.
I don't know where he's gonna go
Bring it right to the floor
Try to tell me it couldn't be done
You're gonna have shit
We want that shit
Let's kill
We want that shit
We want that shit
Well, our match of the day sure has delivered, but G2 eventually walk away with the victory.
That means we get to speak with the winners.
LMO is standing by for some questions.
Good evening, LMO.
Congrats on the victory.
Listening to the player comments, you guys are very hyped and very energized.
What was this game like from your side?
The game was very fun.
It's always a banger against Cp.
And yeah, we could secure the victory.
We prepare a lot for this bank the whole week, actually, thinking if they're going to ban
a Thatcher, second ban, or the Harbridge, and then they did the same things, Harbridge, Thatcher,
and the whole game plan on the defenses.
And I think it pays out for both teams, actually, because they started winning 4-0, and then
we came back on the defense.
But it was a lot of hard work, I think, for both teams, because we practiced against
them a little bit in the beginning of the stage.
And we knew this bank would be very tough.
Speaking of that Bank, Carl, you replied to one of my tweets in the early hours of this
morning, tagging your good friend Dark about a... I tweeted a video of you guys on Bank,
and you replied saying, take notes, Dark, and then he said, one more chance tomorrow, boys.
So is it fair to say, as you've just insinuated, both teams knew that Bank was going to
be the map that was played today?
Yeah, we knew Bank was going to be played.
I mean, we could have started at the end between Fortress and Bank, so I guess
You're also prepared for the fortress a little bit of the the ego challenge there to see who has the best fortress on the league
but I think both of us knew it would be bank and
I even I even replied to your tweet to take notes because I I was actually expanding the echo band for them
but they ending up not doing it and
Yummy was just insane
Fair enough for enough and then just on that actually because they were they were very good at dragging you into the late round and the utility side of
And then in turn you was getting a lot of your success on bank when you was getting aggressive and it was a lot about the gunplay
In the first four rounds
Were you guys a little bit worried because he was having to play a lot of like execute by siege?
Not to be honest on the first first four rounds actually it didn't happen because
On their basement defense they just they do Alden on the wrong
so like several wrong threats from them and
We just took a lot of time to like clear the map and I even tried the nuke on garage
because we knew it was a gap there the whole round, but they powered me on the late round,
so I guess they played really well.
And then on CO, they got the early opening Q1 staff, and then the round was kind of hard to win.
But yeah, open air they also bring the lure for the spiral shoot, that's something we were
kind of expecting, but we had some idea to counter that, but it didn't work.
But yeah, it was a good game, I think both of the teams knew what the other's going to do,
and we end up with the win.
Carl, just looking at that game and then to that game you guys played,
Honestly, so many comebacks and like I'm just I'm just wondering, you know
You lost the fourth first rounds and after that you won six rounds in a row
And then the Hatchex game was also crazy come back. Where does that come from?
Who's the voice that comes up and starts, you know, changing the vibe?
I mean, I don't know. I feel like we I feel like the way we're playing Siege right now
It's just like we have a total confidence that we can always win the next round
So it doesn't really matter the score. It's just like about the next round
So I think that's what really happened against eletics and it was pro today
I get it was like actually two different games because the erratics
They changed like the whole border to play against us and it was really tough match to read into
But the big game was kind of like the opposite like they just did what we were expecting
So the does like but with some smaller
Changes and we just knew we could always win the next round. So like it didn't really matter
we were down 0-4 we had total confidence we could come back in on defense.
Yeah and and honestly looking at the conduct strats how good were those defenses from you guys
because obviously most of the time bank would be attack or side it did not feel attack or side
when you guys were in defense. Yeah I don't know bro I feel like I mean at least from the screens
like bank is being like kind of easy to play but VP bro we know how they I mean you can see
the bands like we should bend all the same operators on the yeah on the defense side
So like you can see like we both kind of like have the same knowledge of the map and it's always gonna be hard to play each other
One more question before that you go LMR earlier to say to me as Doki how he was feeling about the fence
He wasn't too happy with their criticism and comments on social media. How is your standing with them? Is there anything you want to say to them?
Wait, what the doki complain about it?
He was like, oh, I asked if you wanted to say something to the fence
He was like no cuz sometimes, you know when we're losing like
to us on socials
I don't think it was after a really tough week 1 from you guys.
But he didn't want to say anything to the fans. How did you understand me?
I mean, we didn't play the first game.
I mean, I guess that the...
It was just the first week, guys, because like...
Of course it was hard, because I couldn't play the first game, and then like we got insta-loss.
And then I guess the second game against Falcons, we kind of had that in our...
Still in our mind, you know, like...
And we ended up playing the same map.
So it was just a complete mess the first week.
So like, after that, I think we came up and we showed the good team that we are.
That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for your time, LMO and good luck with the rest of the two week. Thank you guys. Good night. I
Heard something in the interview that I'm really excited for if they play a vessel three against voters, bro
Do you think the fortress might come out with a little ego challenge? I hope so. I hope so
I mean we often see these teams playing in best of three against each other due to Falcons VP
It's always the three teams that are landed that elect at the back end of our stage as we see here in the highlights
that in theory, up towards the last 30 seconds of the round, VP have either the
advantage, either the position to go and plant, either the man forward to flood
the site, or all three together. And despite all of that, they lose all three
rounds. And that was on the back of G2, playing through the right-wing condition,
but also VP being quite like Luster in near-time management. You can often tell
from players in the interview they're kind of emotional. Obviously it's always
a winners interview, so they're happy to have won the game. But we often get
interviews where it's like relieved or it's an overtime and they've trolled or whatever.
You can tell how long I was just buzzed that he's played a really high level game of Siege
there. That was two of our top teams going head to head with the tiniest details deciding
rounds. Echo drones, you know, in the in the late round, even though a plant goes down
or the utility or when to get aggressive or the micro adaptations. I mean, when you're
in the game as a player or a coach, you'll know that is that like those games are
absolutely buzzing to play. I mean, he was feeling it as well.
13 and 7, he was the AGL, I mean he went crazy as well.
Yeah, impressive performance from him there and of course these two teams are teams that we expect to be inside that upper bracket.
And then for our next matchup there is a team trying to merge themselves along that top 4 and the top bracket.
We talk about GK going up against SwissTedMinds, both teams find themselves in top 6 as we already mentioned.
GK looking much better and there is one standout player who has been showing up not just in the interviews but also inside the games.
Yeah, that player is going to be groovy. Of course, if we're talking about interviews, he's been fantastic across the stage of GK as well.
You know, not too far behind the stomping numbers. We was calling him the Emperor, you know, and I think probably it's been a real shining light in terms of this GK roster.
A big voice in the team. We hear him very, very often in the team comms, calling adaptations, calling the mid-round, being a very, very vocal player and he's putting up the numbers later alongside them.
He's found the perfect role, I feel like. He's really floating in that roster,
and I think it's really important to see what he was a couple of years ago.
Just he came back, came into tier one, showed that our promises had a really rough end of
staying with Team Secret, ended up being picked up by Team Fnatic,
and then struggled really hard with Fnatic. And eventually many people were calling him out
for not having the tier one level. He granted he wished through tier two,
And I think not many people expected him to bounce back that hard I think is that is that the pick of his carrier so far
I don't know where it's gonna pick him
But that's reminder everyone that you know he was ideally it's in two top four in the world at TWC
And on top of that here in this stage one of the best credit player in the league
Well for Trusted Mines
There surely will be a tough cookie to crumble given the recent performances of GK because if we look at the side of Trusted Mines
What is going on?
They had such a good start of the stage and then from there on they haven't won a game in three games in a row
Yeah, they did actually they won the first three a game against you to a cause and then they put up against rebels shifters rebels
Of course
We know bottom of the league right now and a clue very very close game against shifters that they scraped through it
Would be an honest since then they've really had a difficult run of form having played up against heretics VP and secret
Take VP out of that that seems down the lower end of the table and the twisted mind
We have been going on quite often Leo said they've won the transfer window
They've won while they've upgraded in place and arguably they have but the results
Certainly the last three play days are not showing just like shifters
It started well and then and then starting to feel really rough for them
I think I think that loss against heretics really hurt them and I've they've not seen the same since then
I feel like we saw all of the flows from a young team that has been together for not a lot of time
show itself I think in these games and I'm just wondering now that they
have had a little time can they fix it. There's a few positives that we're seeing
as well when we're looking at the rounds we're listening to their calls for
example as well. Yeah they were actually really surprisingly good I felt like
there was one retake in particular that we can take a look at on bank
why they all connected together
And it all stems from a really good pick from Blaz initially, right?
But initially that was the plan. They had Blaz set up in boosters ready to retake.
They had everyone ready to get aggressive on the bridge and on the plant at the same time.
Mowgli challenges the windows, Blaz challenges the archives player and Flanks up square.
And we see all players commit that wants to the right call.
And that is exactly what I wanted to see from a roster that lacked experience before.
It is this kind of micro move and adaptations and I'm hoping to see more of that today.
Speaking of those comps, I don't know what they're talking about right now, but they seem pretty excited and pretty hyped
looking at the team comps between the Twisted Minds players.
As I said, it is a top matchup. It is a best of one. It can really determine their position inside the top six as well.
So I want to take a look at the map veto and see where this matchup will be taken to. That is going to be cafe.
Yeah, and this one is going to be, I would say, on a favor of DK. Both teams have faced team heretics on it.
Remember when we mentioned that Twisted Minds had a big switch that was on cafe that was losing to that team
Yeah, and that is the big switch in my opinion geeky they beat heretics comfortably on the map 73
Twisted Minds they lost against them and that's the big difference between those teams
However, that was two weeks ago a lot can change in two weeks, especially at your own level
And the big thing for me is really special minds is the community called it close 50 50 which on form you'd say
that they're going to be
going to be. They may be
favoured. You can maybe, you
know, especially with the
recent international success
that teams had and performance
out of this week table. But
the one thing that will say
for twisted mind is they went
up against her six. As you
said, that was the loss. That
was the one. In a difficult is
the spark that started this
line. They'll be wanting to
put that right. They know
that they're a good team
on cafe. They know that
they're not quite playing
attacking team on the side of cafe. So can they start getting a few rounds together and then snowballing it from there?
It's more the defenses that's actually been a struggle for them recently on that on this path in particular.
What do we think really is going to be the stronghold for them on on the attack bill?
How to do it without the Monty, without the Soul of Snake?
Yeah, I mean not not surprising to see that honestly looking at their side.
Obviously, Twisted Mines have abused both birders with their lurking style. I have some is really scary with the Soul of Snake.
I don't think it's going to be much of a finger for him.
Tricks is still going to be able to face Vitz or his Blackbird and as you can see we're going to see that play the day most here so
I don't think it's that big of a deal
I like once again the combo of the Azamino and my band especially for a map like cafe where strongholds are the key to hold natural crossfires
All right, let's see how well twisted mines can do the kind of regain that momentum the game is ready
So send it back over to Dev Marta and Pink
Thank you very much, yes, an important game for teams that have had all kinds of ups and
downs throughout the year, twisted minds with their rejuvenated roster seeing if they can
contend with GK after an incredible performance at EWC.
But Stage 2 is a whole nother kettle of fish here, and for today both of these teams
are looking to hopefully lock in a chance at playoffs.
They're currently both sitting within the stage finals contention, but nothing is
These are done deal as of yet.
Souls filled in the cards.
All about the match by match mentality and not worrying too much about the end result before the stage is actually over when the final game has been finished.
For GK, a team that was doing so well internationally in the EWC just a few months ago,
I'm not sure if they've been finding the exact time I'm intending to hold on for here in the second stage,
but they're still in a decent spot.
Then again, they were never like rocking domestically, they just started taking numbers to qualify for the Intentional Tournament, sometimes it was like that.
Yeah, coming for Twisted Minds, I'm looking at a position where it's like they started incredibly strong at the start of this stage, and then they're on a 3-game lost streak.
On GK on the flip side, it's like, hang on a second, how did these guys end up in second place in EML 13 points? You look at their results and you see they've only got two losses, one of which was in overtime.
impressive right but you look at the games yet to go still Falcons and G2 up
so this may well be some of the last points that twisted minds could
realistically get on the board before we move into stage finals and 13 points was
the cutoff for making it into stage finals in stage one so GK really do
need to get some points out of this game to guarantee that they will make
it through. Stakes is similar for both teams. Tricks is king of the trade, get up close and
personal with the Tuber out, wants to go for the flash and the ADS. Takes him a second
but the kill is his and J-Lad comes to support as well. Sarkz will trade and ask, does Hell
amounts of damage with that clash? The Brazilian always seems to find his way to have an
an impact as Sark helps out Bluzz in a 1v3. Good luck to him, I don't think he's got this.
Speed to self flash, you got some faith here James, anything is possible, just got to work
that match, so the only problem is the clash. The clash will stop any push and grant full
information here towards the defense, the good crossfire from bottom-red to double-dor
or for kitchen rather, and just ask waiting deep in the bomb site. The guy could give
Move it up and flip it further back in my mind and got a stick to suck around actually, not
four battles bombs, I was just going to be asking the clash, good first round there from
the side of the boys in GK.
For me I see GK and you're right and I think we've been talking about this consistently,
nobody expected them to go so deep as they did in stage one, nobody expected them to
get the upsets, they've got them the spot at the Esports World Cup and then once
we got there nobody expected these guys to make top eight let alone top four they even took a map
off of phase in the semifinal they also took a map off of dz in the third place match as well in fact
they were one round away from winning that third place match and getting third place at ewc insane
to think when we don't often think about gk even as a top three top four team in eml they're
they're not one of the big three G2 Falcons and VP, but their achievements speak volumes.
They're also the only team outside of FaZe who beat Fury at these worlds, World Cup,
which is insane to think of, and they took them down to zero.
But GK still have this way of sneaking these wins despite not having the street cred necessary
to follow.
But one player that I always feel drawn to is Vast.
Obviously he has such a storied history on his team liquid days and his career in the
Brazilian scene, but since joining GK, he's that guy who will jump on the club.
He's that guy that will be doing something different.
He's the rock that will be immovable when the rush comes to the bomb site.
And I think he's a large part of their success
And we take the fight to the GK Ross you go how did this come together right?
We're watching any old ones. I don't know man
But I'm for them and you if you look at this roster like oh you've got an og Brazilian and og
American and then three kind of like
I love it.
Socks, 8B of it.
I'll tell you that much.
Oh my god, you poor.
Flazed, openings.
GK, they're just running circles around twisted mines and they are not making their life
easy on the attack.
They're not going to staple lines, they're executing, they're running slow on those
things.
So what now?
I mean GK, they've done the damage.
They want more.
They want to take that move.
They take everybody.
This is the first one when they're both this time no class to stop him.
Guys, it's not team deathmatch. You don't have to finish the game with the first-minute
round. Blyas wants to make it a 1v1, but Yogg comes in to support just in time. Great delay
there to enable his teammate to come and support GK. Find two rounds and they're
wrote. So, his mind's really getting a taste of their own medicine here. They are
the team in EML that we say likes to play aggro, and GK are giving it back to them.
I love it.
I mean, Cathay is a very old map.
I feel like we've seen, quote-unquote, everything the map has to offer.
And yet, it becomes a game of disruption.
Don't make it the usual. Expect the kind of Cathay.
Just get in their face.
Play the pocket-to-brow. Freeze the claymore slash air jab.
Fly out the window. Go for the kill. Jump back inside.
It's worked once now.
Question is, will it ever work again?
Because now, Twisted Mind should be ready for these sorts of mind games.
But then GK, they pick it right up again.
Sark's back on top of our ass on the pole.
So many ways of getting information.
I mean, y'all can the musty.
A little bit unusual, but I'm all for it.
It feels pretty good so far.
Still can't quite feel if musty is actually like a...
generally speaking, decent operator, a kind of mid.
But on cafe with all those single outdoors and limited ways of turning on a staircase or a hatch
It probably is mossy's best map here in cafe
Reconnilius coverage. Yeah these days with the extra pass the larger radius of effects. Yeah
I mean you said a nitrocell you got like a fast operator that's got the secondary shorty like it's he's good all around it
He's just not like brokenly good at any one thing
Even just the fact that you compare a mozzie pest to a mute jammer, you can burn a mozzie
pest with a drone.
Yeah.
Use your stash to monitor your teammates one, whereas a mute jammer, that doesn't do anything.
So he's up against a pretty tough competitor in the mute.
Can't argue with him, why is he doing drone at all than mozzie users?
Like literally.
Well, ironically, I think that's part of the reason that makes mozzie and mute
both less good these days is the fact that we don't need to drone nearly as much
as we used to. Now the shields, the solosnake, the general pace of the game speaking of...
Yeah, and a mute stuff counters so much of that as well. Here is a bit of aggression though,
as the first pick's been found for twisted mines, Trickslow gets down after, I believe it was a
C4 from Aston. Yeah, okay, the C4 from Aston, if you injure it.
I can de-mail him. It's fucking fun to kill those socks.
Yeah, it is. This is not the cafe that I know and love. This is not the boring, you know,
It's still on Windows that's methodically clear stuff. This is a team deathmatch type of cafe and it's really working out for both teams
Ask has got the idea of exactly where Mowgli wins the fight
Mowgli expends the entire magazine, out comes the reaper for Ask. He finds one traded back
It's all up to Yogg now to try and clutch up against two twisted mines players
Both low HP. Yogg has a Nitro. Does he have info? See the yellow things? I don't think he's got a lot
He does have a Nitro that could win this round for the squad.
If Plyz wants to go for a passive plant, Yogg's surely going to tank the damage here.
Rips out the Nitro. That doesn't go far enough to get the kill.
This now becomes very difficult for him and Hasham will secure the first round on the board for Twisted Mines.
I love how both teams are just so committed to this right now.
Like no one is saying, you know, we're going to respect your place.
No, if you're going to run into us, we're going to run into you.
Watching fighting happening on red staircase, top floor, outside the building, inside the building, all at the same time.
And it started off with the attack, pretty much going for a direct bombsite rush that got stopped.
And somehow it ended up with the diffuser being on the top white staircase, planning and dining.
We're all over.
Double shield down in cafe with the solid snake as well, so taking away a lot of information right now from twisted mines.
But it does have that diminishing return effect.
You're banning two shields, but there's still two more that are available.
You still play the fuse, you still play the DB.
Oh my- Oh!
One of those really awkward gunfights for both players.
Askers lucky they got one in the end, but...
You saw how he went for the confirmation kill instead of being like,
Oh, I'll get this second, then I'll get the information.
No, no.
It's like, I've missed coming to shot.
I will guarantee the one-for-one trade and see if I can get the second one.
Yeah, look, it was probably going to get traded no matter what.
And that was a big ask for Yogg to try and clutch that up.
I think Twisted Minds played pretty well in the 2v1.
I feel like two rounds of Twisted Minds will be pretty happy with this half-cafe.
It's hard to make this map not defender-sided.
If you funky map, like after Siege X released and the rappel changes happened, we can like
sprint across the building and go from one side to the other back onto the roof first.
It has really shifted the piano hold.
Like we usually see people take Asami or just run around the piano and kind of just
control the space, but now it feels so challenging as a defender and Asami also
very popular banner pool, same with the warm eyes, same with the mirror.
It just, this banner face is pretty rough for the classic cafe, ripped apart.
Most of the pillars are the classic cafe defense.
And that's why they're running into them.
Like as we say, the tube route, the poles, the information game elsewhere, the mini-games,
and also the clash.
Clashing Castle, the two only defenders left up right now that can give you some sort of protection,
environmentally speaking.
That's a smoke.
We're gonna walk on back, restrict the uh,
respect the capitol, impact the headbook and deny the silver chop, well done.
But there should be one more talk, it's the final cell now.
That one has to hit the mark.
And no other impacts there from Ask,
as we see a very early aggro in the building tricks.
Pull straight into the hands and start with the Reaper.
Bit of fire for Ask to try and deal with as he falls on back.
Shalad has enabled the taking of Bakery, but it's cost two players.
Well, GK have lost their warden. That's okay. It's worthwhile because the glass is dead.
So the value from warden isn't as important anymore.
The amount of pull shotgun after they buffed the damage by a little bit is insane by the way.
It's across different regions and it's finding a lot of success right now.
He also got the Reaper not that long ago so Pulse has really shifted up a lot
and they've matched him to pacing up the game a bit more perhaps.
He's waiting on the corner, waiting for his third kill.
But he's alone, I think he just hurt that final good step.
Wait, oh...
Yeah, three on the round.
Blast, cool pantless.
And now it's just Mowgli and J.L.A.D.
And no fire left to try and deal with Ask on the Clash.
Just one smoke dart to try and cut the line of sight.
But now they're gonna have to frag out.
Guess who's up in the face.
It's Grubby, out comes the shotgun.
That'll make quick work of J.L.A.D.
GK three rounds up on the board grubby's very happy about it and
Twisted minds. Yeah really struggling here. I
Mean, it's thanks to to GK space-style. I mean, I it's such a confident
Cafe is it's full committal to the bed
No one is like hiding on side and checking the drones and oh guys
I'm not gonna be like everyone swinging the clash walking out of the building as to solar roaming on the first floor
with no support. Like in a traditional happy setting they honk him, they take him down, but
though it's one by one by one. And I think this is maybe Twosomeye's trying to do too
many things simultaneously. And those small cracks are being obliterated in the server.
Yeah, once you see Grubby and the GK boys start getting that momentum and there's
There's no better way to be playing a loose playstyle, no better emotion to be feeling
when you're just laughing.
You're running around the map, you're treating it like it's TDM, of course you're playing
it smart, you're playing it around each other, you've got the youth of the back and up,
whether it's the clash or the falls or the traps or whatever it is, but you're
also just laughing.
So you're not overthinking anything, you're not second guessing yourself, often you're
just swinging before you even make the thought process because it's just instinct
at that point. The playstyle is working out very much in the favorite GK. And this is the
hard thing about cafe attack. I mean, you made a good point about the way the repel changes
affected the map and we've got so many power ops these days. But at the end of the day,
it's still cafe and power positions have always been extremely potent. And defensive
aggro has always been extremely potent. This is like the best born peakers heathen
now. One of the few maps in ranked and in comp play that still has a million
viable spawn pigs and it just means that the attackers have to fucking guess
everything they do on cafe. And also that three minute timer is a bit of an
illusion because like you said that the first 30 seconds you spend getting to
the roof. Once you're on the roof you gotta drop two hatches or the skylight
into the building or wrap them in the window like it's challenging to get
going and build that first bit of ground that is gonna be your base of
operations on the attack and it's why we see me just because of those yeah and
the layout of this map makes it very hard to drone and prep phase which means
you can actually like infer before the round starts, arse flashes out for an
early kill from the second floor he's actually running in it's like socks is
running in and out of the building he will get punished by blazz again
another very chaotic ground the traps slowing twisted mines down just
briefly.
There's so many split attackers who get out of the building, inside the building, no primary
push, he's kind of putting out their feelers, but again going negative in the trade, GK leading
by one player, kind of.
I mean, Grobby's alive, but he has one point of HP, so maybe not really leading by a player.
Yes, that's the Dukupi call.
Every single time they go for it, there's a 15th that can pull down, I believe,
between each Dukupi call and the same player.
So, Grobby can now breathe.
But I have to worry too much. I'll talk to him in the next 10 seconds.
But then I have to worry about it once again.
With that in mind, he has to be in his spot,
preferably deep by the bomb site,
where he's not going to be immediately afraid of a gunfight,
because if that happens, he'll be as good as dead.
Well, he is on the bomb site,
but he's also on the immediate threat of a gunfight,
but it's fine because he will find it.
Hashem does find one from the grave, which is made.
Grobby's still hiding on that bomb site.
I don't even think he's behind a reinforced wall.
I think he's wall bangable here, he's a blast.
He is indeed.
Blast's gonna land some gnarly shots.
Show me some of that G2 Blast quality, my friends.
Weave the angle on to Ars, out comes the Reaper
as he gets closer, strange with the smoke
but the position revealed, Ars brings out the shotgun,
gets him and GK up for one.
Defense, untouchable here, twisted mines.
cannot find their way into this match flow state right now from us coming this
guy's running circles right his enemy he is always just weaving in and out of the
battles and always surviving I mean no one can stop this guy they try different
shields they try different interoperates the ying that they'll could be like a
dozen matter they cannot get in the building properly without losing a
player they keep getting basically spawn peeked but not really in spawn just
like right outside the windows and doors I'm not sure I don't just the
right now I'm hitting the hard reset button five guys going together like if
you're not take top four five guys hit top floor five guys five piano five guys
go cigar like you need to just get more guns on one angle push or losing the
individual battles across the matter of different areas right now final
opportunity now as well for one down look don't want to go far one down or ask
this disconnecting so I think we're gonna have to rehearse unfortunately oh
Oh, two of them crashed
10 seconds left before insertion
Yogg looked like it's moving we got a lot of skills like his DCing so we're probably gonna hit her
Oh, just cheeky fat rehearsed here, man. It's cheeky fat rehoes. Oh, yeah fat with a pH bro
Okay
Now that's a live check
Did the cameras focus on these monitors? So we're getting blurry grubby today
What do we got? Let's judge some players' backgrounds. I like this from Yogg. The good
old pro gamer setup in the living room, kitchen, open-plan kitchen. That olive oil looks good.
I wonder what he's been cooking. We got a 240p U-Pore with one double ISO so we get all the
shimmering effect this takes me back to the YouTube 2009 2007 good old days of
the worst possible viewable YouTube you know the real orc youtube was there's
an every single tutorial guide was like a soundtrack and people typing a text
document there's no voiceover but like you're typing hello guys today I will
teach you how to install this file on your PC and at first they were
Scribing out the words second by second you're like sitting there waiting for it and then they got better
They have pre-tied the text like step one. There's hot do this that to do that. It was a crazy evolution before people have microphones
Welcome back to another episode of Devon. Thank you. Oh
Yeah, I suppose it's a long time ago
But I mean that it was like the I'm not the song is called it's like iconic YouTube tutorial song that every single video had
And it's like it stuck in my mind because it's so annoying. I don't know you're gonna have to send it
You have to find it and send it to me. I mean, I bet you I can find it by goop by YouTube being two words. Let me see here
What are the words YouTube tutorials song meme I'm gonna see I can find it
Hold up wait, I think about I wish we could be pumping this I think about it
I wish this was loyalty free. Can we just pop on the broadcast come on
Just a little YouTube tutorial.
Oh, wait, this isn't, wait.
This is not old enough.
It's not old enough.
Oh my God, look further back.
It's so old that the newer memes
don't know that it's the actual meme.
Hold up.
You're really odd digging into the archives today, Fengu.
I am the golden era of future tutorial music.
I see this one.
Oh my God.
I really respect.
Oh my God, I found it.
I found it.
This is it.
All right, come on.
Hold up.
Here so it really opens up with the guy typing in the text document. Hello guys. Welcome to my tutorial and the music
I don't know if I know this this is so I know I do know it is oh my god. All right
If anyone's playing along at home, it's the golden era of youtube
Tutorial music. Yeah, that's the video. It's the video that we're watching
Yeah, so every time you know you're a kid you're like how can I get Minecraft for free
And you just go to the craziest virus filled websites and you click everything you put in your all your personal data
And you go oh no they hacked my account. How could they figure this out? Oh my god, and then you realize that you really gave them access
during the hard way back in the day
From experience by this yeah, I download a more RAM. I've been there as a child
Like that's mean now, but that was a real thing back in the day. Okay, because you know it's better now. We know better
Like the jump scare videos where I downloaded more ram last week. I have two terabytes. Oh you don't know
Like you know that the jump scare videos where it's like a normal thing could be like a combination of fun kittens
And I said that jump scare loud screaming kind of noises. That was a big thing for while you'd send videos to your friends
Oh my god, that's cute kitten. Oh my god
You just freak out I just for me nothing gets better than a good old rickroll
Ravel is iconic obviously that's uh iconic exactly most harmless prank ever but people got so triggered because oh they got me
Oh, it would be like, you know rainbow six siege two released. Oh my god. Watch the trailer now. Yeah, did you see this you just send them the link
This is the Rick World.
Love it.
I fell for those many times.
I fell for one recently because it's been such a long time.
I think it was a game announcement.
Oh my god, did you see the update?
They make a new update for this game that they haven't done in years.
Oh my god, really? Show me.
I clicked the link. It's naively believing my friends, of course.
The first time in 15 years, probably.
Nolly. Nolly stuff.
I'm trying to figure out who who's got the best background here. I mean grubby's just got like
preparations for the war. He's got he's got all of the the upcoming weeks and winter months worth of
drinks for him to help out when he gets there. I mean I want to be where Yogg is man. I want to
see someone cooking something up in the background with being up a storm. I'm curious where Yogg
actually is do we do do we know I don't think we know like if he's in Serbia with
like all the other forces because ask us there and allows there so I would
assume the yacht also have gone there because he got some friends at least
that's true I don't know good question yeah I do wonder what the visa situation
is like obviously it depends where you're from it's probably a little bit
easier I would expect an American passport might make things a bit easier
but it depends on the amount of time required and yeah perhaps for Alamo
I want to ask Serbia was the obvious choice on the Brazilian passport.
Hmm.
I do wonder.
You would have thought that they would bunk in the same place if they were on the same
team and in the same country.
Well, yeah, but how often do you on a screw me to teammate, live with your teammate, play
with your teammate like all David did.
Like you got to have some sort of luck as well.
Didn't you?
In GT didn't you guys like have apartments that were all in the same building or
something like that?
Yeah.
I used to have some player apartments that we moved there during the G2 Berlin days, right before COVID in 2020 and uh, or 2021, 2021?
Hold up, I'm thinking.
2020, okay 2020, yes locked in. Final answer.
And uh, it was like two and two, so you had like, what was it, Virtue and Citizen, because they're the new guys, right?
Oh, you shit!
Yeah exactly, so they shared an apartment, like a two bedroom apartment, so they'd have their bedroom and like,
they're set up in the same room and I shared kitchen and bathroom. It was
Uno Shaz, it was Silicin Virtue, it was Sua and Cantor Occhetti sharing. Yeah.
Look I don't know I think it depends I think some people like living with other
people something like that. I've lived alone for like five and a half years and
I love it. Maybe I would I think I would get sick of even my best friend
Like I've gone on a whole lot of holidays with my best mate and like after like four days. I'm sick of it
Also like being work colleagues because like if you're a pro team you're just like having a work colleague right like you got the job
They got the job congrats. You're now buddies, but
That's not the same as living with like your best friend like you know long-term fish, you know
And also sometimes scrims are all created in the politics of e-sports or roster changes
And if you live together, it does kind of add a little bit of pressure and awkwardness and what happens if one guy get benched?
Like, do you live together for a bit after like what happens then?
Oh my god.
Ah, I do.
So did you hear that?
I did hear that.
I did think that's the most interesting kitchen.
Maybe it makes sense that they're actually together.
So yeah, you're going to ask her in the exact same apartment and they do live together, which is is why we're having technical issues with both of them.
because they're sharing an internet connection.
So that's why we have been in this technical pause,
by the way, for those who've just tuned in.
The score is 4-1 on Café Dostoevsky,
GK leading on the defensive side.
We have one more round to play
before we swap to Twisted Minds being on defense.
And unfortunately, we had a little bit
of moonwalking happening.
Jorgen asked, doing their best Michael Jackson impression,
And unfortunately it has not been quite the thriller that we hoped
Yeah, nice
Did you repeat amnesia the doctors in oh dude
You just you just unlocked something within me referencing that game
They were in the heart of my my school
We used to carry slender seven pages on a USB drive you could boot up on any laptop and we just like rocket during recess
No, I actually played the first two amnesia games. There was also one called a machine. Okay, name them
Oh, okay. Good job
That's correct the doctors then I actually I watched someone on YouTube play it like before I'd ever played horror games
And it was like the best let's play it ever seen and I was like I have to play my PewDiePie
I played it myself and it was even better and it was just absolutely terrifying.
I had this rule that I wasn't allowed to play it until I was like living with my family at the time.
I was a teenager and I was like, I'm not allowed to play this until everyone else has gone to sleep.
And it's like the middle of the night.
It's all cold.
I would force myself to play it.
Just to make it more terrifying.
Like I didn't want to play it in the day.
Like lights off, everyone's asleep, you're about to ruin yourself.
Lights off like headphones locked in no light in the room except for the monitor and in that game
That's basically no lie, and then you're like trying to find tinderboxes to keep the lamps on yeah
Yeah, don't go insane
Incredible game the second game is a lot more story-driven. I liked it still not a little soundtrack was awesome
I actually bought the soundtrack on iTunes. That's how much of a
I can play one of this. I could play one of the songs on piano
Not much of a mess. You mentioned like it was like a crazy
Let's play play for was it PewDiePie by any chance or no?
I have no idea. PewDiePie kind of became famous through Amnesia and Amnesia became popular. Really? Yeah, that's where he started
He was like maybe it was I don't know. I was never like PewDiePie watching. He was carrying around like the one of the idols
Or like the little item she can carry and was like this is the funnel
is like carrying him around in particular stuff is like a lot of memes maybe maybe that was it
I remember because I never watched PewDiePie like knowing it was PewDiePie I just stumbled upon this
one let's play it might have been him I don't know interesting I didn't continue to watch any of
whoever this let's play as viewers were after but it was like kind of but I heard that so I
played those two games and then I just never touched another amnesia because there were
none others at the time and then there were a few made by the same people or like the
composer recently did them um yeah but then i heard that there's actually
another amnesia game that i never played there's a there's a third one
yeah i bought it on steam bunker or something or whatever is it that one
something like that yeah i bought on steam i still haven't played it but you
know me and we talked about this all the time i have not played many video
games in a while um yeah you haven't you're a bit behind me to it
it gives away my defense is currently 621 in the morning
things i'm trying to build a game right now jim you said you want to
play when people are asleep when it's kind of dark outside and 6 a.m. kind of fits the bill
it's not dark outside bro i can see the sun coming in through my wing but that's when you know it's
about to be bedtime like when out you know when you're having the land sessions you're walking
okay we can see the sun we should probably still have two matches to go i kind of go to sleep
we have a match and a couple of rounds because i think there's going to be a fast one i think gk
they're looking to get it done quickly we'll see but i see i think gk looking to get it
down quickly while we have two players with no internet.
No, no, they're on the player cams.
They're booting back up right now, man.
Oh, wait, Yogg looks super connected.
Oh, no.
Uh-oh.
Yo, someone from Alomar, this guy
played out of his mind today, getting
to play for GK real quick, because that's
a strong performance from him.
Hey, if they're all in Serbia,
surely he can just run up to Yogg's PC?
No one will know.
Oh.
True.
Yeah, Alomar did tweet that if he would have internet
issues again, he could actually
play an ask setup in the future. I think they like arranged that. So like in case of you
come to my place, I could be your place kind of thing.
That's a good idea. I like that.
So we're not too far out now, guys. I was gonna say like we did get the comms that
were pretty close.
Oh, it's good.
I was told in chat, somebody said that you get benched by going going back to
like players living together, right? Somebody's which I said, imagine you get benched
And one minute after that, Pingu turns around and tells you that you have to leave.
I can't imagine that's funny because that's kind of what happens at like events.
A lot of the time, like literally like the players like get eliminated from the event.
They walk over to the other booth.
They shake the players and then they walk up to the admins and the admins are like,
Hey, is this flight for tomorrow at 9 a.m.
And you're just like crying because you've just lost, you know,
You didn't make it to the plan. It's brutal
brutal
Like you'll fuck you have any anecdotes of when that happened to you
I mean we've you know not to be that kind of guy, but we've never had an early exit from a tournament
That actually had like it. Well, we made it to top eight women early exit
Was that top eight? Yeah, just top eight only took six thousand stage. We lost in topic
Oh, you didn't make it so we won with the oh my god
We're playing main stage top 8. We're gonna destroy everyone and then we turn around and just go as long as stage
It's only top 6 of stage with our GG it's over
So because we made it to top 8 you stay the entire finals and you just watch your team
And then the other time we lost earlier was in Croatia for OGH OGA
Masters final and we came on a mine
We came on a first day played Friday lost Friday and just stayed the entire weekend
Other than that we've either made it to the fall
I had to stay in Split in Croatia for the weekend, the poor thing.
I was a gamer, I did not leave the player room.
I just sat there, I bought a game at play to 20% and I went back and I was still angry
the entire time.
And we all did that.
I think Ulu and Kenzo was on that talk of us playing like Renden, whatever from the
ashes.
Meanwhile, you're in Split, which is like one of the most beautiful places in the
world.
That's what's the major there.
Next year.
Let's go back.
I would love that.
We're back though.
Hashtag bring the major to Croatia.
No, one of our observers would love that.
I do think that we are so back in the server,
no one's disconnected for 30 seconds in,
so this team that we're gonna play on,
4-1 for TK, they're pressing on the defensive side,
don't lose a disruption,
Ask was popping off, dropping like 25 kills already in five rounds.
Not actually, but it feels like it.
He was literally everywhere on the map,
winning almost every single gunfight.
Grop, you're all starting to fire up,
so gotta keep your eyes peeled for those guys
in their playmaking abilities.
Yeah, Grop's super keen here.
to try and contest this guy, like, or someone
peeks out their head just too much while throwing a nade,
which is exactly what happens, but guess what?
Tricks is there cutting him off from
the repel of the new balcony.
Upside down repel with the holo-side
and he lands every shot needed under Grubby.
Good start in the round for Twisted Minds.
That said, Peggy, we've seen two of the rounds
where Twisted Minds have gotten the opening pick on the attack.
They've still lost the round, so
The job is not even nearly done yet.
I do like this one just a minuscule. I think they've done some deep thinking during the technical difficulties of playing much slower, much more together, like that was my final point, right, play five gaps together, push ready area.
Don't give, don't give the one-to-ones Hashom, that's how you were losing before.
He goes down against even numbers, and that's a thought that the active gaps have gone, active cameras gone, multi-soul is upstairs, push as well, down to one HP.
Yeah, this is rough. They thought that was a free kill, by the way, onto the bomb site
because they had a cam on it. Now, after closing personal with the shotgun,
Yupo will take Mowgli down before he gets a chance to use it down into the 3v3 twisted
mines. Thought they had a little bit of stab, a way to rip out the heart from this defense,
but it's still beating. It's still alive and well.
GK have fallen back, given up a little bit of control, and now they have plenty
of info gathering from yog at the bottom of white stairs. Sark's all the way down on the
ground floor at bar. This is gonna be a retake here. Looks like GK they've given up so much
control. Sark's likely to flank the brown stairs in the late round. He was the only one
on the same floor as the objective.
I'm not doing it, can't go for a penalty. Do you have that final C4 in the thread of a flight that you set?
Actually, they start penalty. I'm completely wrong here. C4 is there for you for the not being utilised.
They've all done it, they've all done it!
What the... C4's timing!
Could not have been worse there for J-Lad. Yolk jumps up on the laundry box at the perfect moment.
Blaz now has to go to get a couple of beers.
This heart breach is gonna work against him. He does find one.
C4 understarks. He's kind of being thrown under the angle.
Upor denies himself, get shot out of mid-air, Blyas looks for the rear temp, but now he has to stick it!
Upor can take the 1v1, but Tricks is perfectly poised to cover it, Twisted Minds.
Find the second round as we close up the first half.
I feel like that second round here feels a bit of salvation.
What a chaos at the end there in general.
A very strong half though from Masanajike.
Yeah, I felt like they were in control most of the times of their gaps.
That's the biggest thing, these Twisted Minds.
I didn't see them really at that full front.
You didn't see them go for full clears or trying to problem solve utility.
No, it was all about multiple pressure points.
Seeing if that pressure could be applied and then create some gaps.
As you're going to see, most of the players are pushing from one side or the other.
Yeah, the reality is, Gike played really well for each other.
Oh, this fight by the way.
Yeah, that fight was rough, I'm not going to lie.
It's like the same one downstairs by the way, no, on the reading one side on the last round.
But I feel like overall, in these situations where it's 4v4, 3v3,
I feel like he can't have more control really abuse the natural customers of the map
You know why they had control as well that comes was so good
There was two two considerations in that comes always ask all grubby saying guys
Here's the gap here's where they might go for be considered be considered
Be considered be ready, and then the second bit and this is everybody on the team
Actively calling out where they had each of us crossfires where they had each of us gaps covered where they were holding
So that everybody knew exactly what they were doing and as a result of that the guy on your screen
he can see Sark's had an amazing first half.
Yeah, everyone needs a bridge in defense.
Sark's was that guy.
He's the one that went from the extensions back to the side,
back to the extensions back to the side,
downstairs for the flank, hitting it.
He's a nightmare to play against when you're in attack.
In fact, he was the one, I think,
that was flankier at Brown's stairs on the last round.
It's so annoying to play against someone like this.
And I felt like Twisted Mines in general
struggled to control that.
Now going on to the defense for Twisted Mines,
we talked about their attacks
a little bit right how they can find that gap kind of.
What are they gonna have to do on the defense here?
I mean, Kefri still is a little bit defunter favorite, I guess we could say.
What can they do to turn the momentum around here?
I feel like they need to apply the same rulebook that DK applied.
I feel like DK will play very similar to how the team minds played.
It's two teams that I think have a very similar play style.
And so the main thing on the side of Twisted Minds is,
the map itself, like you said, is most of the times defund the side.
That by playing close to groups, by making sure that there's always one guy that voices the win condition.
That always gonna voice, okay, we're gonna see a backstop come from here.
They're going to hit a plant here, they're going to be aware of the surroundings, that's what I expect to see them as the main, I would say, win condition on our side in defense.
Well my grip, it's nice to not see a default man in a cafe as a map.
I mean I like the Jager, as I mean, as I'm used to it.
So you can leave the Jager's army up, you can play the castle inside a piano and shop and everything else, but there's nothing that's protected that why my Amni-Jager is gone.
I absolutely quite like that man, I like it.
I guess good, but it's going to make things a lot easier I guess for GK to deal with the issues that Twisted Minds are putting up for them.
How can Twisted Minds still protect themselves if they don't have a Yegor or a Wamai to kind of help that first line of defense?
I have a theory as to why we think this is strong.
GK loves to spread around the map and they want every single player to be able to deal with utility by themselves without having to call someone to come.
So any operator on that lineup that will have NAITs or will have some denial will be able to get rid of any utility in front of them without having to call someone
All right. Well, I can clearly see the vision and the idea the game plan that GK has for this. Let's see how it turns out then
Yeah, let's have a look I love the idea here going for the double-catch bands
At least we're seeing something a little bit fresh
When was the last time you saw a Jago or MyBand because it was once upon a time?
Yeah, it was made up on Cafe, funny enough as well, with the U2 made it back in 2021, not one as it was
Yeah, but no, to the point I had been at hell of a long time seeing both of them banned
It's still quite hard to see either of them. That's the reason for MyBuff
So all four, a bit of creativity. We saw that's your bands early between 2.2 and VP
both of them banned the tattoo by unbanked, feel that today's been a bit of a pleasure
in that regard. So let's make grim so their high presence rate both in ban and pick if
they're obviously open for good reason, very strong interoperators. So for the attacker
of DK they got all the shields to work with, if it's level, it's like a cap attack tinder
and like I said, any strong individual attacker can now get their burn utile, I'll tell
you whether they're active utile or free, don't worry about getting caught in the
you
see the braver in action yes
the grubby
so the most valuable thing ever
he shot it on T2PAMs
our defaults happened
it was hurt by the brawls
oh wait did the attacker shoot it
no
i thought the defender shot it
You're tripping me bro, it's-
Can I-
Can I-
Can I-
Can I-
I'll be your mind tricks on me love.
You-
Oh my god.
You twisted my mind.
Betcha it was throwback from like an hour ago,
and we're discussing funny things about the game of war.
Throwback humor is the best for your-
Just like Hush-Om's ready to throw back.
Right now.
Yogg is down.
Straight into the bombsite here for you,
for all I love that.
What a beautiful like-
Displosion!
The energy from GK they really did throw back straight into the bomb site one kill off site and then they just send it
That was looking beautiful for twisted binds until it wasn't in the my open it picked it got the rounds
They got a bomb from it over they just send it in through freezer and we find every single kill
GK they're fired up. I maybe it's just a cafe man. I'm not sure but they are running it on defense and they are running it on the attack
Yeah, 5-2 is a huge lead to start with, especially because we did have a bit of concern.
We thought maybe this whole thought to split in the first half is just the case about
defense being favoured, the great reed there, and as soon as Hashan back onto the bomb site
with the scope, he immediately gets picked.
True.
Wasn't that sad?
I gotta say, I'm not sure.
What an attack I gotta say, I don't know about you Peggy, but I always feel this whenever I play siege
Winning on attack is so much more satisfying than winning on defense
Okay, it does depend on how you're winning if you're playing Shelley
Must fit your attack and the entire round is finished in my party under on the room extension clear
Sure, I don't feel very satisfied
But if you like a cafe attack, yeah, like if you have a plan that comes together like have a top floor tech
Yeah, I'll watch the jump bars rappeling get the kill take the hold of the troll planty
Like I love when a plan comes together right that doesn't know about attacks
But often when you play ranked it's like the enemies are running into you
It's been a TDM match and whatever, but when the plan happens. I also agree. I think attack is a lot more satisfying
Yeah, I mean a lot of the time I feel like the best thing you can do on defense and a lower level ranked
Etc is just sitting and wait and yeah often just to utility and hide behind gadgets
But I like a lot better to see like if I bandit trick a wall successfully
Oh, I check the default camps and I state that you may not get a security because of it
I feel like that's very rewarding personally. That's what gets me going in Siege. We need more people like you bengoo
The world does
Just for that reason
Nice when they run fast.
One of my notes I play with, he's like that.
When he played in those pro league silks, he was like support, echo main, smoke main.
And he's the best person to play ranked with because he's like, oh, watch that camp for
you.
Yeah.
It's so good.
Everyone needs a ranked team that's like that, but they'll just be the yes man.
Watch my ankle.
I got you.
Watch my camp.
Yeah, I got that too.
Inter drone.
Yeah, I'll get on that.
You just put rest around to look quicker.
Or you can play shields here like yours.
Same story.
Walk in.
Yeah, I'll do that.
Check the corner.
I can throw grenade for something.
Very... perfect.
Huge.
Well that's for you guys.
That thorn trap's gonna hurt for Yogg, but doesn't matter because the rest of his team are fighting all the picks needed for GK here.
Twisted mines being picked apart again.
Jay, that dude's gonna need to do something.
He's the last running player on the top four.
He could drop down the hatch, the drop of a hat, but he wants to get a little bit more valuable before he does so.
GK again, they're everywhere. Downstairs in basement, on window rappels. Tricks is ready to
want to shut from the white staircase. Worry about the rappel upstairs on a C4. It doesn't
matter. Uper gets a kill elsewhere. GK, I mean, how are they gonna get stopped? They're
just finding every single kill.
It's time over.
Look, Berkeley. I know you've had a few good clips in your career, but this just
ain't one of them. 45 seconds left to play.
GK still have their shield up dropping down at the laundry mode. He's just waiting for his first of what could hopefully be
5 freebies to come this way now. They know exactly where he is. There's the first kill. Grubby quickly shuts him down
Four match points for GK. Askers having a laugh and it feels like the delay between
The technical delays has been longer than this second slew of rounds that we've had here so fast
I mean they're definitely going for a speed run right now. It's full pace full control and twisted minds
You know what when I think of them as a team like they're great
Don't get me wrong
But they're not a team that is like you're all dark steers strategic mastermind slow pace
You're gonna counter-strike you and read you and sit up all these problems
It's like they're great guns
They're great at that disruptive play style the exact thing in which GK are doing so successfully themselves on the defense and the attack inside
They're being hard countered at their own game
and it is not close it is a such a one-sided fashion and I would argue that
the game probably should have been over right now because the last round in the
half that happened was a 3v2 in favor of GK and it has some small missed
timings in the go-to-fire with against him and they lost the rounds a 4-2
split it arguments should have been a 5-1 split like that's how dominant this
has been for them.
Twisted mind state, it's an article timeout it's not gonna get much easier for the
the stage they got fanatic and then they rounded off with Falcons right now
they're in fifth place three wins three losses which is probably not gonna hit
the benchmark keep in mind that team secret also have three wins and three
losses they're down at seventh place it all depends on how the points work out
and also round difference twisted minds are very lucky that their first
playday of the stage was that cursed 5v4 against g2 in villa where they
got a 7-1 which means that not only did they get a full 3-point but they also got the round
difference. Now Twisted Lies have to make sure that they round off the rest of their stage
in a good way and at the moment it's not looking like it. They lost to Team Heretics and overtime,
they lost to VP and Team Secret and Regulation. Now they're about to lose to GK in Regulation.
That's a 4-gaming lost streak going into the match against Fnatic. If you don't
be fanatic, you're cut.
Like, to put it politely, absolutely cut.
And then we start talking about, I mean,
relegation probably not going to happen because of their
performance at the main major should keep them above.
But it's maybe a six-mile period of having very little
to show right after they had such an impressive goal of
making top four at Salt Lake.
Let's see if they can get some more rounds on the board or if they will just be run over
here and G.K. will finish the job.
They got a small line up, Yawk on the shield, Robbie on the flank watch with the Grady.
They got a lot of utility there.
I could 8 Fragment in the server and there's no one by Oyeager.
So I'll be damned if there won't be at least one Fragment kill this round,
Jesus.
You'd be pretty disappointed if, despite all these bans, you can't get kills with frags.
Out they go.
Squatting player on the retreat.
Glider takes quite a bit of damage there from the F9 as he falls back.
Nitro doesn't find anything for Harshal.
And he continues to fall on back.
Again, Jog is creating a lot of space for the team.
Players on rappels cutting off the angles.
The nades can continue coming out.
Only two have gone out.
Here comes a third.
Still five more to use as well after this.
All falling back so early in the round.
And I think this is just their confidence
being stunted a bit.
And despite falling back, the one-out carries.
They're watching it from the balcony.
Cross-leve asked, is watching the run-out?
Saving his teammate on the window or a pall.
They don't have to know what to count,
such as the gridlock.
Phenomenal teamwork prediction there from the side of GK.
They're watching every angle correctly.
Now we're gonna have three guys trying to protect the site.
Player below, pre-place E4 from the post-action
so no active plant denial any longer.
Six seconds to go.
So much time still for GK to figure out
how to put this plant together
and still a ton of frag grenades.
Yeah, I do feel like GK won at least another pick
before they go for the plant.
Knowing it for a while,
the plant denial is very much on the cards here
where almost all of the floor
inside the bomb site is soft and there's a pulse in play.
We know that pulse is down below with the shotty
and the pre-play C4.
You can't go for a plant in a fight before.
You've got to go for a little bit more than that.
You've got to go for a kill.
But Yogg tries to commit to it.
Is it just on top of the marble floor?
A nitrous film nearby could kill him,
but wow, the flank comes at the perfect moment
to get the kill after the plant has gone down
and Grubby able to trade it back.
So while Yogg has fallen,
It's been at a fine cost and now hopefully in a 1v4 certainly ain't gonna win this one GK
7-2 they obviously annihilate twisted mines
And there's nothing more to say except that GK have made a statement and twisted mines are well and truly in a
three losses in a row for twisted mines and an
Assessing out for them to gather the dumps and their next match against fanatic GK looking very hot to make top four
on top six gear in stage two.
a seven two is our fastest game of the evening so far three points go the way of a GK
we're gonna have a quick chat with a groovy hello groovy good evening congratulations on the three points is this kind of like how you expected the game to go as well.
Yeah hello good evening yeah I mean we kind of expected that you know in the game no matter what I mean we knew our opponents I mean they're also a good team but we just like it's again it's twisted minds.
The roster can change, but the players and the kind of background won't change that much, so it was easy.
Was your experience in the map, Kirby? Because obviously you guys played against Heretics.
They played against Heretics as well, with very different results.
So I was very surprised to see the map allowed through.
I wasn't really surprised because of how the map works, like of the map pool, like they
banned the maps that we expected them to ban, so Shalva was gone for example, so again like
our map pool is kind of like the same as there, but we do have kind of like bigger
experience on the maps that we played, so we knew it was going to be either Calf or
what was the map open there, you know, for example, we kind of expected it, you know,
so it was easy as well to predict.
Grubby, open question about relegations.
Are you aware that the rules have changed and it's not stage points anymore?
Is it a point taking into factor?
I don't know, as a team we are not worried. We are not thinking about relegations.
The first thing we are thinking is about making the playoffs, making the top one
and going to the soccer and then performing as a team.
Because this week, the past week, I think we kind of unlocked ourselves as the players once again.
So it's time to develop more as the players and do better job.
And that's all. We are not worried about being relegated.
If you play that good, you know.
If you play bad, you're going to get relegated. If you play good and you deserve to stay, you're going to stay.
There's also two things right about relegations, which is heretics and rebels.
The reason I was asking, to be honest, looking at your performance, you've got EWC Top 4,
you guys are crazy good in the standings right now, and you're honestly in a good position to get into playoffs.
But the reason I was asking is because despite all of those results, obviously they're still very close
in terms of SI points to rebels and heretics.
So in a world where one of them went to Osaka,
there could be a world in which you don't go close to Twisting Man
because they've got a lot of points from ZOLXG.
But I was just wondering, at any point, did you guys look at it?
Or are you on the highway to Osaka?
Well, to be fair, we just found out that it's just high points like a week ago.
So we said, oh no, guys, but it's time to get ironed and that's what we did.
There's a famous code, guys.
During the AWC, I remember it happened before Wildcat game against Furia
when Hertz said the game is for big boys not for babies towards baby shark and all I'm gonna say
the same goes to Hashim because he types in scams like he's the best player in the world and when
the game comes he cannot perform guys so that's why he never type in scams guys guys and you
grind the game to be good that's all I'm gonna say okay I respect that I thought for a second
Leo was maybe scaring you with a whole like no no no no no no no no you don't scare at all
so that's really good now um groovy I heard you say you kind of like unblocked yourselves
How did you do to contribute to that?
We did a lot of things.
First thing we had to go over certain scenarios with the team.
Obviously when you have the honeymoon period, when everything works for you
and the behaviour of the team is good,
sometimes you have a bit of downfall as a player
and as a team that the skim doesn't go into your favour
and you get more frustrated and everything
and the practice kind of feels less.
And we just started working on it.
We're starting to keep being positive about the game,
ourselves don't know their team or how they're gonna play, just about ourselves, about ourselves, keep going, keep going, even if the
things are not going into our way and again we are kind of, I mean it's hard to say that we are back after one game against
We set minds, but I do think that we are finally on the good track again to be the same GK that we are on EWC that we just
don't choke so many rounds because people want to ego-peak or they just do stuff that won't work and it's kind of useless in our time.
I'm glad it's paying off and one more question before we go. We listen to a lot of teams,
So we'll listen to a lot of like crazy strat names, but Gruby what on earth is the Bombardillo-Crocodillo what in the brain what?
Why? What's the idea behind this?
It's the simplest that for the strats for me as a player
They like we need a phrase that it will be easy to catch people on the point
You know so if you're gonna say toom toom sakura everybody will know
Oh, this is the thing that we are doing you know because everybody's on the tiktok everybody knows
So this Bombardillo-Crocodillo, you know
So we kind of like we kind of use them so people are on the on the same point and people don't get oh
But what we are doing? I don't know how the study scout, you know, imagine you have a start code stop default
You know like nobody will pay attention to that but when they hear bombardier or crocodile
They will know it's the one where I walk down with Monty. No, it's this one. It's this one where I play Monty guys
You know, so you just like funny phrase to make our brain work guys. So you have to deal with this guy's in big
2026
I respect it. I understand it.
Yeah, you know what you made? You made it.
Listening to the Cup 7 more entertaining.
I was waiting for the next name.
There was a certain name, but I can't remember it.
There was the Tung Tung Sakuur.
Balerina Kapucina.
Balerina Kapucina.
There's gonna be six, seven, six, seven guys.
Oh, my God.
There's gonna be a lot of them.
I'm sure we'll hear those in your games
in the Superway.
Groovy, thanks for your time.
And I guess we'll see you tomorrow?
See you tomorrow, guys.
I'll be there no matter what. Wait for the replay? Is it Falcons? No, it's Falcons. I will be there no matter what.
That was great. Alright, awesome, Grumi. Thank you for your time and good luck.
Thank you. Good luck.
I'm too old. I'm way too old to have done any of that last minute.
I understand that as well, because it works, right? You get everybody's attention, everybody's back on the track.
And I feel like Wajike is saying that they kind of re-unlock themselves as a player,
constantly putting in that effort to get everybody on the same page, is paying off for them with this result.
Yeah, I think so I said at half time the team synergy there comes they're playing for each of them
Everything was on the same page today. They were dominant and I think realistically
I think it asks that it turn the comms. He's like guys. We were actually this was when they were on much point
He's like guys were actually eight in a lot, but I trolled two rounds and that's how they feel
They feel like they control basically everything. There was only a couple rounds this round in particular
Well, they didn't quite get the full control. I'd you know made a micro decision wrong apart from that
Ah, that was almost perfect.
The important outcome of that interview is the fact that Gike went through their honeymoon,
then went through the first big slump of their team, and that was in the last few weeks.
And finally, Mady has started coming through it, we'll have to see during the playoffs
in the 0-3s, but most importantly, also tomorrow in the B1s against Falcons, however,
for them to come through, play against Twisted Minds, and show that much of a gap between
the two of them, they've maybe elevated Twisted Minds really quickly, but sure, most importantly,
I think Geeky is really leading up to the expectation of being a top 4 EML team.
This was our fourth game of the day, moving on to our final one, and this is for those
of us that enjoyed that drama.
We've got shifters going up against Fnatic, and shifters have the opportunity to do
something very funny here.
They can put the final meal in the coffin for Fnatic, earlier you know with the
the transfer window to two of
the best players and now they can
also take their playoff spot.
If they get this victory here today,
we can have a look at the team heads
ahead and compare their last stage
position versus their current position.
And this could be iconic.
Imagine shifters actually take their
two players and then take their playoff.
Yeah, I mean, let's just go back
three months ago for that relatively
cruising there up there in the playoff.
Still go on to beat G2 to make
the WC and it's all going
swimmingly. They perform well at
AWC and then this in comes this stage shifters young couch citizen young out
that shot and you're going to have a spot in playoffs currently as is and
obviously they go up today and actually put it perfectly there and they could
put the final nail in the coffin after putting the first one in during the
transfer window I have a worse scenario bear with me it goes to over time
okay yeah two points go on the side of static one point goes the sale of
shifters yes twist and mines and secret jump over them at the end of
Super week they make playoffs, both Fladdick and Shifters end up eliminated, the top 4 stays
the top 4, but on top of that we've got Shifters and Twisted Minds make playoffs, none of these
teams make playoffs, and Deadshot and Citizen were taken for nothing, both teams are eliminated.
Wouldn't that be crazy?
Sure.
That could happen, that could very much happen.
It is not laughing in my head though.
Yeah, well, I mean, the easy thing is they cancel each other by going to overtime.
Basically, overtime, but...
Yeah, that's what happens.
Yeah, and no one makes playoffs.
And we've made, we've broken about a team that was snappy, that was super good,
that went into WC, that made a lot of waves there for nothing.
That could very much happen.
Yeah, that could very much happen.
But we know that Ships is putting in the effort for this final week, right?
We talked about them being on bootcamp, you know,
the players themselves have confirmed that as well, you see it here,
on your screens as well, all players together on the same location.
It's going to help massively for their synergy as well inside this festive one. Yeah, but the lobby is ready
So we're gonna pull the map beat up so you can tell about the bootcamp a little bit more
As we've seen the map our final game off today will be on clubhouse
Well clubhouse is a really interesting one actually because we spoke to frek last week and
Shifters are coming into this on the back of a free lost streak. Yeah, they lost up against VP and Falcons
They felt they played well, but just lost the game
They played against you to on clubhouse and they got absolutely just taken apart
They didn't control the big moments. They didn't play well, but Frank just put that down to a bad day
Not that they want come down the map
So to see them go back to it is maybe trying to fix a few things for fanatic the ultimate answer is we actually don't know
Yeah, we're not seeing them. We're not seeing them play it. It's a brand new team brand you caught
It won't be the same fanatic that says in a deadshot would be on in terms of the way that they will play
I would even argue we're going into the unknown for shifters because that one game where they page you to they were
the game. I think they're
really good. So smashed. Yeah
I would not take a lot and it
was just random big plays. Don't
care the red stars, for example,
but I will say I think the
fact that they are on bootcamp
is very, very good. I think
they've timed this really well.
Yeah, allow the players to get
in. Get used to it. You
know, they're on the bubble
in terms of their leader
opposition, six in terms of
coming into this play day.
They can pretty much make a
playoffs charge now with a
big dominant win against
could well pay dividends for the
next week or so in terms of
getting playoffs and beyond.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. You've
got nine points at stake and
who knows along the boot camp
is if it goes through, you know,
to the playoffs and to be a
phrase that would be that would
be absolutely amazing. The
points at this stage in the
season, the weight and the
value of them become so much
more because there isn't there's
only a finite number of points
available to the teams. The
results start swinging the lead
board so much more than they
do with the start of the
stage, even though it's the
same amount of points. So I
such a well-timed bootcamp from this organization to bring everybody, you know, even the coaches
that come across the Atlanta there. So, you know, I'm expecting big things from shifters coming into
this game. I mean, they currently find themselves inside their top six, and they would also love
to lock that in by the end of the super week. Our final game of the night is ready to go.
It is. So, we, Pengu, it's a grudge game. Of course, shifters fell to the phonetics best
players and only the top six in our league go to stage finals and this is six versus seven.
So it's a very important games for the ramifications of the standings. Our last game of
today, Kangaroo, how do you feel about Fnatic Shift? I feel great until the second ago. Now I
feel a little bit, you know, but I'll get over it. I feel better eventually. I want to see some
good seats gameplay, which these two teams really will show us. We've had quite a
fast-paced day today. I think across all the matches, a lot of fast entries
some spawn peaks and once that first couple of kills gets strung together, the round just ends
seemingly a couple of seconds later. Shifters, the Natsay could be a similar story I've
received if you're going to clubhouse. Which tends to be a more... Oh, I was going to say
a structure map on there, but no rubber classes in the tank is dead and the pace will be the
exact same as before. They're a great billion in the action. That is so rubbish. I actually
love that. Also, what an operator to take down with the Tchenka. Max value.
Yeah, huge. I absolutely adore that. Even if Deadshot hadn't found here's wherever you did find it from.
Dante and DJ, the two new players on Fnatic, they replaced Deadshot and Cidiz and they just do not have the same level of experience there.
There are dead Vittons making their maiden voyage, their first foray into Tier 1 and yeah,
poor guys have been doing phenomenally well, but you could say the same for Fnatic as a
whole.
Wizard has been the one that typically has led the way for this roster, it's also great
on his role, the shifters are the ones who are very much in control at the moment.
Just gotta figure out what is Cat 1's play risk, there is by Cat 1, this is a 1 good
Nade holding the angle and maybe causing that kill, but great use of this.
How many kill barrier actually to block off the angle and make it a little bit harder here for Nade?
Second file Nade, a fire as well.
Good damage onto Nade, though, and hopefully- oh wow!
How does he find the angle? I think Nade must have ADSed a little bit too prematurely,
but that said, it's fine, because shift is, trade back every single kill,
and Fnatic will be cleanly dismantled as we see.
the coaching staff will see Lulun in the background congratulating the boys
after a very strong opening. Oh hold is that that is that Kangaroo Kenny in the
background that I spot there is that us? I think that was Kangaroo. I thought it was
so before we saw him from a distance I thought it was Helby because I didn't
help you like leave the team recently for like a gazillion years but I
I believe that is a good sir kangaroo
It's hard to tell
But I think I mean his Twitter bios is looking for an active T1 team
So
Who'd be a trial run, you know
Bros on the spreadsheet straight away after that by the way, I can he lost each sleuthing
Cameraman do some sleuthing
Find us this stats find us this stats
Rewind pause in hand
Hence more after seeing this kangaroo clear the image
To be trialing I mean dirt that boot cam the vibe security gets at that personal relationship and build build a rapport together, you know, so
These days we are very much in the matter of having a low temporary analysts, but yeah
Unlike agriculture you would expect wouldn't be endless, but actually in a system coach, so it can get a lot deeper in the level on site.
Disgusting. Disgusting.
Nice.
Tracker's gonna...
He's not me! He's not me!
What the hell are you doing buddy? Get out of here!
That ain't gonna work man. If you're playing ranked or something.
Yeah look, Dante I'm sorry but this is not ranked.
And you are the Azami which means that you generate you till during the round and that you still needs to be
Surviving into more than 20 seconds in
Be a very fast game
Hold up
Don't get too far into yourself right now because she doesn't got a fully stay locked in
They might have been an easy first round and a good opening peek of the second
But if they let go and get a little bit sloppy at any point in this round they can turn the very quickly
You know, because the clash, the counter-rub in the blades, the L mines, the WC4, doesn't
take much of an edge to get back into this one.
That's neat.
There's the mute jam, I told you, to enable the Excalibur.
There's a piece of them, though, I'm not sure.
They're not rushing into this for shift-throughs.
They know that getting that opening pick by both of them is so much time, they're
going to flip the attack.
They think the expansion is so headed if you run the minster, it gets obstacles
on one side here.
And it'll be right, I'm doing one day defending it.
Robbie has his shift key taped down in this round, just like he did previously.
He's capability quickly, looking for the trade.
What? Not get the kill on the T-Pek fully blind.
He finds the pick, and they well have restabilized the round here for Fnatic.
Freck able to trade it on back, even though the finish off hasn't happened,
but he has the read on to Wizards going for the flank,
and now shifters are in a perfect position.
Problem for them now is that Smith works headed back to the bomb site.
DJ not too far away as well miss can put a hold on this execute for shifters smart
to know what is injured about installed attract the family and they can see the
class closely so no sector of both members are now from the defense but can
they get a plant down probably not dead shot goes for it does mean that freck
is alone they need to focus up on DJ he's the deadly track you want to
That's my tracker out Smith you keep feeding info are you running road comes through from freck and yet
They're not going for the plan as of yet
I mean no needs
Smith's here trying to play the shield the plant fake. They're just trying to bait out DJ
That's the game plan here for shifters deadshot and freck. Oh damn it Smith finds one now into the 2v1
The real hero there has got to be D-Pek.
The fact that he found two kills to stop the rush, one by fully blinded by the Blitz, that
makes all the difference.
Had he not gotten the kill, they could instantly start planning inside a gym, they can track
They see the clash, the round is basically over, so the fact that he gets the Blitz there is massive.
Maybe Robbie was a little bit too eager, when he gets him, he gets the Blind Bear with the Blitz,
but then he doesn't change his location, doesn't mainly bash him first.
You see here, it's risky to go for the ADS, but in a deep-picked, weapon-swapped, spray-hip-fire, probably like up to kill.
And that's why we do see a lot of more experienced Blitz players go for the Flash, wait a second for the Blind Fire,
fire and then go for the ADS or you go for the knockdown now small things like
that it's risky well the thing about the flash depending on how close you are
the flash last last long and if you get unlucky and it's a really bad flash it
can be a really quick recovery and then you think that you can ADS but actually
get done because they've got their vision back. There is that and also there's
just like a death zone like if you're beyond five meters even if you're
staring at the blitz you will not get blinded so there's a lot of small
tricks with the blitz. I'm gonna say that the death zone when the blind is there and
I can say how long the blind would last more because if they flicker with
the right at the exact right moment and then slowly the radius they're
blinded by a quarter of a second but they do the hand animation showing
So it's tricky to deal with.
Third opening kill in the room for the side of shifters.
They are mighty fine in that department.
This is a defensive down the passive using the castles.
So I have the biggest loss of software.
This is the family of the previous round.
Fnatic though they fight back.
They trade for blows.
They almost dead losing the mute.
Again, a decent trade but they aren't behind the numbers.
This is the aggro there.
They're so quick at the start of the round.
They just have no point.
They just said that.
can't get back to side safely after dropping down oil pit he will fall on his retreat from
the blue hatch now smith desperately looking to try and find a kill he can't notch any
further forward or he will get revealed by the bees as he looks to retreat the same thing
will happen now it's just him and Dante 2v3 on the bomb site with almost 2 minutes to
go such an uncharacteristic way for a basement deep.
One of the fastest paged clubhouse I've ever seen in the first three rounds it
This is the bloodbath and it's not like shifters are not bringing utility, they're playing Grim, they're playing Harbors, they're bringing the good listens.
They would like to get to the bomber side and execute.
And they can say, we're not gonna let you, we're gonna try and stop you as much as we possibly can and they have done a significant amount of damage,
both towards the utility, but also the health bars of shifters.
They got the Egoio, TCSG, they got the fire,
Sassie knows he's over here, left a gun to him and musty, so he uses the gun for hire instead.
Shifters, if they can get the Grimby's down in the sense of trying to isolate the defenders,
or figure out what side of the Bumset they're on, they can cut the Bumset in half and just go where they're safe essentially.
It's a tough call though for shifters, do you split up so that you can get the supplies?
Or do you look to go together so that you can re-frag?
It's the worst thing to happen is that you feed the chance of playing this, just scaring me.
They are very much pushing from the same direction, descends wall, rolls on out, and enables the aggro here from NAV.
Who finds the gap all the way up the hallway and finds both of the kills needed.
It's beautiful.
From Fnatic, back to shifters, and they're looking to shift the needle here.
Three rounds deep, and shifters are looking in control on the attacking side.
That's Kangaroo Kenny. I just enhanced and zoomed in the photo right there. That's gotta be my boy
You know, let me do it right now
Adam on Twitter. I don't think you do. I think you add him on Twitter. Is that you ensure I should just move cam
See the response to I've roast caught in 5k live on the blast us extreme. That's it
I'm happy for him. Hope it works out
I mean, a little disgusting in the background, it's always a joy to watch the air that happens
in front of behind the scenes.
The players have both in ears and the headset, so they're not hearing a damn work most likely,
but that's the point, they're not supposed to be distracted by the coaching staff.
But I love how much action you get to see.
Obviously, if you're on a bootcamp and a coachy, so I'm just hiding in the background
on their own PC, you don't have to see them almost ever, but they put in so
much work behind the scenes, prepping the team, managing it, organizing screens, organizing
bootcams it's not just as simple as getting five random people together and
playing the game there's a lot of things happening on the orc side and
everything else as well look for shifters and that old BDS call that kind of
came into shifters after the former BDS French roster went over to Falcon. It's
been a really long road with the same support staff. Obviously LaLune dates
all the way back to Wolves and for the longest time, Vitality, yeah, for the longest time
I was working with Helby and obviously back in the day coaching players like Deadshot,
plenty of others, it was, yeah, a bit of an end of an era. We talk about a lot of infamous
duos in Rainbow Six, most of the time we're talking about players, but Helby and Lilloon
quite the coaching duo for a very long time with Woolings into shifters so
yeah a bit of a sad breakup there but I could I could definitely see something
cooking here with Kangaroo Kenny coming to help out the moon with the roster.
The bottom garage hold that is in there it gets to kill King this time
he can have to kill Triton with the smoke on him just pouring through it
with that UMP of castle and the three shells required but I mean is it
another fast mini-executed from shifters they actually get what they desired they got the
pick they got the map control they kind of reset the round now they can go back and say
okay do we go for a catwalk attack do we go for a run player because they're so
quick to the action they have plenty of time to now figure out what the next step
is gonna be he lost because they were so fast well I think it's a recharge that
many of the magnets which does make it easy to go for that rush yeah it's
great point. That said, these days with Wuma, you get so many magnets right at the start
of the round.
Yeah, like, 130ish, I believe you get the last one, like, this, this, whatever, how many
you get. It is pretty fast, so much, here too.
But yeah, you're right, I mean, this is, I will say, this has started to become a
bit of a pattern here for shifters, like, within about 50 seconds to 80 seconds into
the round.
Yeah.
Every single round, they've gone for some very fast executes. It's usually just
on to one specific position but as teams start to get reading into that and they might be able to
figure out the pace of shifters who are otherwise being very very aggressive at the moment,
where's it really desperate to try and find one pick if he waits too much longer he will surely
fry from citizens fire.
If you smoke off the road you can try and push up the staircase but oh my gosh misspines,
smith kills! On the back!
What an angle! From above!
All the way phenomenal!
all the way in from cash through the wall into garage from lounge that is a
huge play there from Smith's incredible work it certainly helps he was playing
the DP 28 which does so much damage and can create vert itself I mean I am
possible now for Nathan deadshot shank of fire it's gonna be a problem he has
to remind him missing the fire going for a weird plant spot BP gets shot
Nave has to cover a fine shot.
Fire out, that's going to be dangerous.
Nave looks for a real attempt here.
Smith has been MVP of the round four for Nave,
but the Fnatic alumni now on shifters
look to try and clutch it up in the 2v2.
Dead shot, does land his,
surely not one more for Dead Shot.
As a Swiss, makes his way forward,
Nave comes to support and the devilish duo
get it done from Fnatic to shifters
And now, doing it to their old team, this duo is unstoppable.
Ridiculous 2v3 by the way, holy moly.
They had a Sofia Concaution, a Sofia stun, or Sofia Concaution, Sofia Explosive, and their one smoke grenade.
They used all three perfectly, they prone, they get the entry, they avoid the fire, they plant in a weird spot, but they get the 2v1.
So many small victories again, their synergy is crazy right now.
being buffed up by the bootcamp and all gets empowered by that early push,
giving them enough time for mistakes to happen and the rounds still being salvageable.
Phenomenal movement there from Smith finding the double kill but it doesn't matter
because shifters, they're more clutch.
I love that energy.
From NAV.
Love the energy from Deadshot. What a duo.
Citizen was absolutely loving that.
And now Fnatic find themselves in a real tough cookie spot. 3-1 in deficit.
So what's the like to say? What do you...
What do you necessarily talk about in these moments? And the only round Fnatic has currently
was that Jim attacked Rush, TP gets a blind kill, the clash was great from Smith's adante where he was playing in that round
and they get the 2v1 victory. That was a super close victory.
All the losses they've suffered however has been brutal.
Either like around like the previous they probably should have won, but they didn't
or they get rushed early every single time. The news is opening pick every single time.
It's a bunch of like guys that's not that early, but that still fight them.
When we get advantage that not make mistakes, it's not like anything that's worth discussing.
It's not like we know, we know we shouldn't die, we know we shouldn't make mistakes like Dahl, but you gotta fix it.
And it must be a communication thing for Fnatic and how they want to react to these things in the server.
And I think maybe right now it's gonna be a case of let's not fight them early.
Let's try and slow down the pace here on defense. If they want map control they can have it.
If you wanna send five guys in lounge, let them have lounge, don't die for it.
But now look at the attack on lineup rather, and I'm seeing a lot of execute heavy operators.
I'm seeing the sense and the ying.
What happens now if you give shifters all the map control they want?
Now they're planned for a bombsite execute.
So I'm very keen to see how both teams are adapting to this round.
Alright.
Final round.
Second to final round, I should say, of the half.
I'm getting a little bit too ahead of myself, aren't I?
Second to final round of the half.
The clash makes a reappearance if you go back to Jim Bejum, the only bombsite for that
because of one so far and you're right, you look at the lineup from shifters, they are
primed and ready for execute.
I really love the sends picked here from Deadshot, we've seen them use it twice before
already in this game.
It's very versatile, you can plug up this window, I saw I think it was an NA warden
player get like a two or three piece from this window because the smoke was used instead
of the sense. Here comes the entry from Frek. He goes to Deimos and guess who's there? It's
Robbie sneaking on through. He always seems to be sneaking on inside for shifters as Dante
lashes back out, tucks down the Deimos and Deepak inside of office. He finds one but he's
pretty much trapped now. Happy he escaped, surely not.
If you go on the hatch surely, if your navy's on the roof, if you go on the
right now. This is a complete free kill. So is the clash. No one's in the office
absolutely know it. So they're missing out on incredible amounts of value.
C4 prime tier for the last one. Window goes down. Perfect timing. Does a ton of
damage but does not confirm the kill. But this shitmethanetic are fully a
driver's seat and this clash of smiths is destroying them on the entry. They
cannot get a footmode in construction. They cannot get in the
building and now there are two attackers literally on the roof. Yeah I
I feel like this clash has really changed the scope of the game here for fanatic
And it was the same story the last time they played Jim and bedroom
This looks like a real lock up here for fnc unless shifters do something crazy flashbangs from Nate
Why enable that?
Drank into the track as this wants to put his shield down one kill for deadshot is not gonna be enough
And he won't find anything more deep back has an unbelievable round three in a row
And now it comes down to just the final round of the half and I could capitalize on that attack time out
But they're gonna need a third round to make this half palatable
I did a give up CCTV
Played in construction and to be fair the opening death happened there for for an addict trying to fall back trying to give the map control
Up a little bit too late. Maybe but the thought was there the communication was there. That's a good sign
They have been winning now twice in the gym bumsite. Is there only victories?
Those are the concerns on this final round. Can they get the 50 half?
Would a 2-4 be the end of the world? Probably not.
But I do think a 3-3 is necessary to have like a good shot at this because of an attic on the attacking side.
It's good not fully proven in my mind. Like there's this potential.
You know, there's good days and bad days, but I don't think they're in a spot where they should
convincingly take it over shifters on site 12.
That was just an extra big exhale so I could load my stats.
Fnatican V lowest attacking win rate in the entire league at 18% at Bolo, Rebels at 22,
Heretics at 27, it's way below shifters who have the third best in the league at 49%.
Ooh.
We're using 17 at 18% attacking win rate.
That is, um, that's really bad.
It's really bad unless you flip the numbers then it's pretty good, but you know it's not that simple
Yeah, I mean 81
Anyone is basically
What would you face plan?
Yeah, that's interesting one stat though that I actually have overshifters is the entry percentage
Funnily enough 48% compared to shifters 43 shifters have the second worst entry rate in the game and
and this game so far does not show that whatsoever because shifters have found
every single opening kill in the match
should we do it again? I like the smith on clash action it does
look a bit of a crotch for the team but it wasn't bend away and it's an
every guy I do think you need to do it my only concern is that it's never a
good thing when there's one thing that you need to have and also have some
Okay, so now it'll be fine because it's not bendable, but if it troubles in the future against a different team
That's not gonna fly again. That's the concern that I have
Nate goes into clear up possibly a good chemistry
Just to check you're the motor door
Shifters are still not foot. Oh
Wow, maybe okay. Can I just say?
It's huge that the Goya was placed really high up. Yeah
If you used to placing Goya's around if you look really high up
You can place it slightly higher than normal and clearly the one on the door DJ has done that
I think that's part of the reason why it survived the grenade in it
But the neighbor bouncing a bit too deep into the room may be as well
But the thing is because it's us the grenade they should be sure that there are no rules
And if they try and commit to that plant later on that could go back to bite them instead
Maybe fast kitchen action perhaps not but these roly-poly's they're getting pride everywhere motor door kitchen hatch also
It's enabled the pillar of the right here, but oh, that's it's a game off part of the plan
It's about the confusion, okay? If you don't know what you're doing, the enemy will not even know what to do neither.
I was just gonna be able to know everything that's going on because he can just stand here and wait.
I don't see any more atlases.
That drop deal with his clash whatsoever.
He can just sit here.
Yeah, but Nafe is not behind. He's down one, deadshot.
In the bomb side as well.
Shift has somehow contrapped the kills from nowhere,
and Nafe finds the final one as well to close it.
Unbelievable from Shift.
and he's going to find a double
kill. And as he does that, it
puts shifters in a really
disadvantage situation. It puts
them in an effective two versus
three. Now this is the value of
having nafe answers and on your
roster because we got to listen
for the next couple of minutes
and we're going to see how
we can get to the next couple
of minutes and we're going to
get to the next couple of minutes
and we're going to see how we
on your roster because we got to listen to the team comps and they've said very very quickly this was almost instantaneously
It's okay Jimmy, which is deadshot. I've got a plan
You're gonna get rid of the bulletproof camera that was on the server stack and at the same time
I'm going to plant the fault and as you do that
I'll tap it and we'll double peek red stairs together
That's exactly what comes you see the smoke coming in here and you see as soon as he does that deadshot pushes in
finds the insta kill Red Spazz and off the back of that NAVE is then actually able to stick the plan and they win a round
That was a two versus four of an almost
Instantaneous shot call from NAVE. That's the value of having that experience and that vocal voice and now sing back at that round six
What happens here? They're stuck in a position where they're trying to execute on baseman. They didn't clear the goyos on church
There is a class facing them on kitchen hatch
There is the clock is ticking. How did they execute here? It's Naif once again that finds the gap
I'm pretty sure he lurked all the way towards long. Yeah, exactly
He decided to push when everyone is tunnel visioning on the execute
He's the one that pushes deep in long and gets the backstab the crucial backstab onto church and that enables the entire thing
That is the value having not enough not not even an ideal but a shotcaller that has the vision and now given the freedom
to not be the agile closer to the Execute, who can use this game vision to unlock situations like this.
And this is the big difference between shifters and Fnatic.
Shifters, they're able to find these gaps and execute them properly.
When Fnatic, I am very scared of the attacking side here.
James mentioned it before, lowest attacking team in EML, 18%.
They're struggling hard on that side.
I think we're starting to see the big gap between the two of them.
And that gap will only get wider if Natic just attacks the same way they've been doing in the last two play days.
Yeah, and to add to that drama, it must be so sad for them to sit there and watch the players that used to be part of their team.
Yeah.
Do this against them, but they're fighting these gaps where they're getting these 2v4 also, 2v3s off, and pulling these rounds off the back,
where we're hearing the vibes as well, on the comms and fitters, right?
It's that kind of team play chemistry that you're getting from being on a bootcamp, being all together in the same room.
Yeah, and most importantly, like the victories, they hit harder when you're next to your teammates.
Yeah.
A good call made by NAF, won them around on server, the one that you showed here.
Another good call was, you know, the one here in round six.
Every single time a teammate does that, literally next to you.
It hits different than when you're at home.
And you can see when it matters, because all of the staff gets hyped up.
How do you see Kangaroo Kenny there, reunited with his buddy NAF, after the die-zero adventure?
it hits the whole group together,
that gives cohesion,
and then the cohesion translates to the game.
Just very quickly on the bands, obviously,
they've gotten rid of, from a shifter's point of view,
they've gotten rid of the ace and the family as well.
Finatic won't have that available.
And I think actually their key strength here
is going to be causing as many problems
for Finatic as to figure out as possible,
because Finatic kind of will struggle with that.
We've seen them struggle with that
without lower tat win rate.
Yeah, with the soft underbelly,
the thing that keeps Holland ticked Finatic
and keeps coming back to them for shifters. Honestly, you've got a really good starting
point. Going into your defensive half, what can you do with it?
That's the big question, isn't it? What can they do? No choice other than to have an
utterly miraculous attacking half, which is a big ask for FNC with the two rookies
on the roster. Even though Smith had some fine moments on the clash and it's Janko
lost, huh? So you actually pointed out, Deepak, where the hell did he get 10 kills from?
Yeah, I mean, I recall like four or five of them because they were very instrumental in
the two rounds that they didn't win, but 10? I'm not sure. Well, he, in heaven, he gets
one more. He finds Citizen the Bandit on a drone hole. That's the way to get a kill?
I mean, it must have been because now it's had the drone hole and he's inside, so
drone hill kill in 2026 we got back
I remember seeing citizen win pro league finals with Navi in 2019 and bro is
still dying to drone holes I mean look it happens to the best of us happens to
the best of us but that's that's gonna be a tool to everyone ever that happens
maybe there's also very low in his positioning he's to try and stay alive
using those magnets for as long as possible DJ on the verge of pushing him
but supported by that shot it's a very good look I'm so sorry it's not long
looking so good or they lose the glass with a big wing conditions but they got
the back that downstairs missive what you did see could get a kill to all my
but they're respecting the red stairs too much perhaps and if I was missed
they just say if you said one HP the fire should have gotten the kill right
Don't add to it. You gotta get in there just to be a bit jazzy
Just honestly send out the lifeline explosive exactly it'll kill him
I mean he doesn't know this but we do even if it gets caught by the magnet and he's too close to the magnet
That's not gonna work out well for him. I mean DJ could it just could cost us their case
I think on for the kill instead you're gonna be just fall down there stock
We pick with 12 kills now on the main breach gets won by the air store. He's dead
DJ still start up now. He dies where's he been to fall down dancing in the middle of a bomb slide
He's in a triple crossfire. It was looking so good for that egg
They had all the right tools all the right positions that the backs up that the potential, but they stand still
They don't see the shield. They don't see the one-eyed. They don't take the fights. They get shot down in
Such a strong position. It shouldn't have happened
I'm seeing plenty of levity on the shifters faces this game never seen dead shot smile as much as he has
Today a lot of positive energy shifters having the time of their life
They know exactly how well they did on their attacking half and now on defense even when things don't go. Well, Lex isn't getting picked
For that is exactly what I would expect his reaction to be
Well that made my night
I love citizen. It's one of those runs where you're watching your back being like arms
I'm so pissed off, but then when you really don't got thank God we we don't have to discuss what happened
We just move on from this my team
It's like the I don't know about you, but like for me
I I'm like the ultimate overthinker whenever I'm playing so I'm like as soon as we lose around
I'm already thinking okay, so next time we go back to that bombsite
Yeah, they played like this and I'm like thinking about 300 different things
And you're like trying to implement that into action and then you just get spawn peaked or you die to it drone all and that's just like
The one thing I wasn't thinking about and then all these other plans that you had just don't matter that was
The phase of a man feeling all those
Redemption for all me citizen there nice nature and the capital is gone
Why are you a citizen or Ben?
You know, Ben, I call him that because we're close like that.
He was one of five going to this round and like that fifth death was to the drone hole.
He knows that he feels like, he's like, okay, I've done my part in the attack, like I was
in the push here, so I was there for the trades, whatever, but now I got to find my
own as a roamer and defense.
So getting that C4 kill and immediately finding the back of his team is like I said,
redemption.
It's going to feel so good for him.
He's done his job as a Valukary.
Now you just put down the cams, grind intel, it's done for hire, good ol' impact tricking
on the kitchen hatch, uh, double goryo and dirt tunnel for stall time to now later on.
Shifters, they're trying to just have countermeasures, so intel on blue, goryo fire and dirt tunnel,
intel on the kitchen hatch, so they can try and figure out where that attack will
be happening from.
By the way, that was a late round FALT cam throwing in the kitchen, I think that
shift is suspected that the IQ might have been kicked and if you're wizard the
start of the round you check kitchen there's no cams or you see one camp
and you shoot it and then citizen mid-round throws one up through the open
hatch now there is a Valkyrie camber in kitchen attack don't know
Oh did they? Yeah they shot it. It was really good you know spiel there but they found it instantly
He looks shorty, maybe he didn't install stuff.
Yep.
Well, yeah.
You know, anyway.
Also, I'll just go and, like, sit with him.
Oh, well, you know.
Okay, to defend your point, let's say the kitchen camp was still there.
Oh my god, amazing information.
The problem is, having a defender with the freedom to go on cameras in this late round state is very challenging.
The benefit of never dying early with a Valkyrie is that you can now be an active cam watcher the entirety of the round.
But right now, who's in the spot to do it?
Probably nobody.
Maybe Nathan Dirt Tunnel but it's risky, rather have gone off. Steve Boko South doesn't find any damage or kill.
Well then in the last few seconds here, 35 to go.
Triple wall opened up is the only point of entry made with Motor Dwarf.
Mighty Dirt Tunnel had double Goryakastor, they cannot go there.
Can't blow the Hibana charges though on the triple wall.
Oh, pistol kill here for Smiths would be big, especially with Dante falling.
Great shot from Wizz up above the hatch, but he needs to make sure that he can drop down safely.
down this hatch. Thankfully, the Narelle's is now dispatched with, but Citizen has lashed out onto
Wizards from inside church. He's just completely owned to the bomb site. Shifters are going to take
the match point that they've been looking for. DPek 12 and 6. Doesn't matter on your KD. He
won't even find the next one. It's a four point lead here. Four shifters. Match point in their
hands. Fanatic simply cannot keep pace.
That deep egg chasing, those stairs, it was like looking through the kitchen floor, like
I think he was so certain there was a guy downstairs, but there wasn't. So it's not
a part of the main push, but did many get to see exactly what happened on the
motor door. The citizen didn't have four kills in that round, but
the Blackbeard died, the IQ behind, or sorry, the Muncie died, the IQ behind
the Muncie died, and it just completely fell apart.
But I mean to be honest that attack never had any real teeth like the second capitol gets C4's bomb peek and they don't fight the kill
It's a 4v5 bombs that execute. They cannot go to the tunnel. They cannot go blue
So shift there's no exact what's going to be happening main stairs, moto and church tripping are and the benefit like the way you generally
Want to attack that basic bomb site is either they didn't know what you're doing
But you got all the counter tools the capitol for the AK's position the shield to drop down go for a plant
the synths boots, you know, cover the planter, whatever, or the enemy doesn't know what you're doing to execute, right?
Are you gonna drop down the blue hatch, have no one get a kill?
Can you double boost their tunnel in the last 20 seconds? Do you rush in from the other floor?
It's one of the other. But doing a predictable attack without the right tools, because that's three years around,
it is just so hard to break the Kopa's defenses that way.
This is a very structured map where there are certain win conditions, certain walls always being reinforced, and certain things
you always have in mind to stop the attackers from pushing so the attackers
drop they still have to counter the missions like I said to make sure that
you can break apart those systems and you can actually go for those pushes that
you desire. The shifters from Cune the Pays ever since the very very strong
that connected they're simply a passenger right now in the server.
Reload it, cover me!
Dropped out here.
What could be the last round here?
Full shift is...
They've got the, uh, clash.
Something extra for Fnatic to deal with this round.
And...
There's a lot of easy ways to try and dispatch with it.
I was going to say the class is going to be huge but so this is the downside with the
clash rework.
It used to be you never put the shield down because you couldn't and you just had to be
able to damage your unkillable.
Now if you want to put down that shield and look for 50 swing you can and you can sometimes
lose out the gun fight and now the class is dead the shield is useless.
This is shifted to the first time in a long time playing from behind.
Now it's about clutching up and trying to find a kill somewhere to eat him back to me.
Yeah, they tried to do that with the Nitro there from Freddy, but it does not land.
I have Intel on the enemy.
Oh wow.
There's so much Intel.
That's everyone.
All the remaining players here spotted by Wizard.
Massive value here for Fnatic, but how does that actually affect their call for the plan
on how they're gonna attack here?
A bit of patience from the shifters.
Oh my god.
They just wait for the right chance.
That's exactly what we needed! Oh my god, fanatic!
Not like this, my friends.
Wizard had full info, and shifters have lashed out perfectly.
Smith's low on HP.
It's saying it can be said for two players as shifters.
Smith is deep behind any lines, but...
Yeah, Nafe knows that he's got that defuser.
He also knows he's being hunted.
He pre-fires, but doesn't win the bomb site.
And now the defuser can quickly be recollected by Wizard
into the 2v2. Okay, they're back. They got Scanner, they got Cashman, Gnade, they're super
winnable but they gotta play together 30 seconds. They can take a second here, communicate
how they want to play this out, what different locations they're going to be. One office,
one master Thor, can go for a crossfire. Freck, the first into the blind fight.
F2 in hand, Pod Wizard doesn't aim at the right direction. Freck will take him
down. This could be the end of the line for Fnatic and indeed the final blow done
by deadshot it couldn't be more poetic if you wrote it and scripted it
shifters a dominant win over their old rivals in fanatic 7-2 and a beautiful welcome to kangaroo
kenny to the shifters squad phenomenal result firing on all cylinders shifters looking in fine
form to make it to stage finals yeah they are looking mighty mighty fine i'm just gonna go
are you not working for shifters again like that really put things at the
perspective for a roster that has been trying to find its footing trying to get
itself back into the conversation for stage finals for quite some time but
it's a setback for fnatic and a big step forward for shifters
Well, this just seemed like yet another day in the movescan.
Four shifters, easy points, going their way, only very little resistance shown from Fnatic,
and it was good to see shifters fight their way back from even positions when they were
down in men count, getting these important picks, getting these important things.
And that might be so important for that fight to be top six.
space when he did that drone hold in round 7. He was not happy but he will be happy with how his team
popped and how much control they had at this game because realistically they were in control of
start and finish. They knew exactly what Fnatic were going to do. They had the answers, they presented
Fnatic the problems and even when they were losing the first pick they still won every single
defensive round. Props to the pick by the way the only lone standing wall on the side of Fnatic.
Longest standing player on that roster, most experienced player and probably the best at line they could have.
Really tried to keep the team together but honestly just obviously shifter's head and shoulders above everyone on that side.
You know, they have a boot camp but we still don't have pictures of that shot and of citizen on that graphic.
Maybe they can send one to us. They deserve it with all good stats.
Honestly, looking at the performance from shifters, I'm really happy to see finally that breakthrough may happen in that game.
I think we've been waiting for that breakthrough for a long time.
We felt like they had the potential. We've seen them play and go toe-to-toe with some of the best teams in the ML.
But never, never again having that ceiling to breach.
This time, obviously it's only Fnatic, but I'm expecting that to come through against some of the best teams.
And I'm just, you know, maybe hoping that we see a B03, we're going to see that in playoffs.
It's kind of a perspective that we painted for them by especially with these two pickups that they're doing that
They would move themselves or kind of merge themselves inside the top six
I think with this result they get a step closer to it, but still they're fine a few games
You know there are some big games to lose if they've shifted
Yeah, I think so I think they've got a couple of big games coming up
I think the the good thing is they've got a full three point streak today
They've got good round difference and crucially also twisting mind is lost
So she just kind of puts themselves up into that spot looking upwards where it's a man's gonna be looking downwards
That's the team that's going to be now targeted by the teams below them.
And I think they've got a couple of winnable games coming up.
Super weak, right time bootcamp, like all the right green flags are there,
you know, they're heading in the right direction for this team.
So I think that's, you know, very, very positive.
And we're slowly reaching the standing spot where that we anticipated,
which is the top four that we had in mind with Falcons, G2, VP, Geekay.
Then the two spots that we imagined being in playoffs,
that would have been Twisted Minds and Shifters.
and then eventually, Secret Heretics, Trenadic Rebels at the bottom end.
I guess it's exactly how we imagined it.
So far, I think the result of the first day of the Super Week is telling the truth.
But still, no one is safe here.
Secret can still jump over to the mines, for example.
The split clearly between the top six and the bottom four is not acted yet.
Now, and technically, events with some mines having to play against Falcons, for example,
They can still have a rough time going into the Top 6 and really securing their own spot as well.
So I like that we're seeing that this fight for the last two spots inside the Top 6 are so close.
Because sometimes you have a lead which is really top heavy,
and then there's teams in the bottom, they're really struggling to get any kind of results.
We've had some big upsets as well inside the stage already.
Yeah, and some teams are not going to have any pressure at this point, Jack.
Yeah.
They could very much create some big upsets.
Yeah, that's the thing.
You know, anybody can be anybody.
I think we have a very, very
competitive region, as one might
say. I know our good friend
Jonah would say NAL maybe has
better quality or whatever. But
we do have a lot of competition
where anybody can cause an upset
against anybody. You look at the results
today, particularly the secret again, once again, growing
else with one of the top teams, arguably will
feel they could have done a lot more
against one of the top teams as well.
Realistically, I think they're probably
going to be the team that causes the most
And looking at the results for today, of course, the very long game that we had at the beginning,
which saw heretics get those three points, which is super important as well.
But even throughout the day, I felt like the results, they make sense, but still, we're
getting some really comparative games.
Even that game with Secret, I mean, of course, Falcons win it, but some of these rounds
come really, really close down to 1v1s, down to Toast sticking out from a plant
at Falcons winning rounds.
Yeah, I'm excited to see more of Secret.
obviously the strength in Falcons is just how good the players are and the experience
and they were so annoying to play against when I was playing against them just because of
their ability to close rounds.
I would say on the side of secret though, we've seen that slow ramp up, we've seen the potential
start to work well.
I think we've seen Noah step up as the shot caller, we've seen other players step up
together, players that were really hungry and without any, you know, pun intended,
but like, players like Creed's for example that were given a tier one shot clock
as well that really wanted to prove that they had what they deserve, really a tier 1 spot.
And I felt like they proved it slowly and surely.
But the problem is it's a bit late, so is it late?
Now we'll see the losses of Twisted Minds now are giving them a shot, so there's still
very much that potential to make playoffs.
That's always a concern, right?
It's always going to be, would I, could I, should I, if you have these games where
you just fall short of playoffs, you just fall short of having yet another year
inside tier 1 and you think back of those rounds and the moments and the particular
things that you could have done different in those situations, but as we say in a super week,
the games come at you very fast. As we can have a look at our schedule for tomorrow,
this is what we're dealing with, our five best of ones for tomorrow, that top one immediately.
Groupie did say we'll see you tomorrow, but against Falcons, that is certainly not an easy game.
Multiple things here, by the way, like Falcons geeky is going to be an absolute banger,
chase Secret once again, Secret facing a top team, and I'm kind of...
You know what, that could be a fun game so much.
I actually, yeah, I actually agree with you. And I think if secret can deliver the same quality that we've seen so far in G2 play to the top of their game, it's going to be a really competitive one, although hard on the side of secret.
The two games for me that I'm really actually looking at is the in this race for the top six is game two, Fnatic against Swiss in mind.
Swiss in mind to the team that sat there in sixth looking down with everybody kind of coming out of them. Fnatic included, but mainly secret.
that a really negative, like, looming cloud over the players.
But if we talk about, you know, statical spot in top six,
we can turn that in a very positive way.
But that is for us to be determined in our final two
playdays of the Super Wiga final two playdays
of the group stage as well.
That's it for us today.
We've had our five games.
We'll see you again tomorrow.
We thank you so very much for watching,
and have a great rest of your night.