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Good morning everybody, bonjour, and welcome back here to Paris.
We are on the Bravo stream, and we are on our third day, we're kind of halfway through,
damn it.
Yeah, flying through, a lot of siege are in play, still more to come, we finish the
grips on Friday, then we'll really know where we are, but after the first two days, we're
in a pretty good position to know who are the front runners at the moment.
Well this is the really fun thing, because obviously we now have our first team overall
confirmed for at least the next stage, which is Wave, the team that you and I covered as
open game yesterday with two clean wins and all the other sort of messy results and the rest of
the groups well people still need to pull it out but I think today based on the magical work of
Sprabuni behind the scenes we can start to really gauge in on who is going to be making it but before
we get any further I think let's see where we're going to be going let me go a bit further but
today's schedule across the two streams so you're obviously here on the bravo stream on the left
hand side of the screen or you have the a stream the mainstream but well there's some fun games
There sure already qualified teams. We have the open obviously
Elevate versus furia falcons versus the nip which you know how that group is going demo
Who's gonna really be the ones to say and surprise and secret and ending up with well your favorites fear X
Fluxo
Fluxo, you know, right? That's your real favorite. So here X are my favorites. I forget that you stay for fear X
Yeah, it is the off-day in fact they are resting and probably to be fair as the fear expand between a pair of us
Well, this is earned and needed but enough about those teams
We have obviously two groups that are playing here and be for Bravo be for better stream
Who knows and here is the shape of our?
Current day to come and this means elevate our opening game at the bottom there demo this could be
be, do or die.
Yeah, very important game here for Elevate today,
just to let everyone know what the circumstances are
for Elevate.
Currently, they tip at zero points after two playdays.
They will still play today, and they will play tomorrow.
The fifth day is their offday.
So they're the team where maybe they have to sit back
and hope the results go their way.
However, with how things have started,
and the fact that everyone in this group so far
has been able to pick up some points,
it leaves Elevate in a very sticky scenario
where they have to get some points on the board here today.
If not, it's kind of out of their hands, and they're relying on other teams of the drop points.
Namely, Wildcards, the team that they're chasing down of Wildcard,
are able to take just a single point today, and Elevate get zero.
Sadly, that's going to be at Elevate out of here.
Yeah, I mean, there's that sort of heavy risk situation right now.
You're up against Furia, you're up against a very strong team,
a team that you'll probably have familiarities with, based on these roster's histories.
but also a top dog team and we always knew that this group was going to be dangerous
and with the way it sort of started, we'll see if it means to continue on the other side. The other
group that this stream will be covering is group D, your opinion. It's the group of Death,
Blacksay W7M, currently only one game in, sitting in the middle, but I sort of think that kind of
builds the shape of it. Enterprise, unfortunately, off to not the best start for the Aussies.
Yeah, and I won't get any better than up against Team Secret today, who are currently top off the group, so yeah, the Australians need to dig deep and find something.
However, you do have to say that for Enterprise, it's not too ugly, because Oxygen still have not got a win, but as we can see, Oxygen have an extra playday compared to Enterprise, so still a lot to happen in this group, but for Enterprise, it's a big game to then get secret.
Well, and they'll have to try and sort of sort that out themselves in the meantime obviously you've got those brawls
You've got those battles and you've got a lot of possibility
but
We're not gonna be there yet. That's the second half of the day there. Oh, that's so far in the future
We have at least five to seven hours of seats between us and our halfway point
And it opens here elevate versus furia now
Now, Furia are the roster where I think people will have a bit of preference across the whole tournament.
They're obviously a very, very strong set of contenders.
Do you think that's a fair thing to say?
I think there's a fairytale-esque to Esmet because it's the last dance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Different things that could be happening in the near future.
So I think for Furia, this would be one heck of a way to do it as the last dance is going and win the hammer.
And I mean I was even speaking you know some of the Falcons guys, you know they say I believe or not
It's actually up against us because this team
Always is gonna be the one that I think Falcons know they always have to be careful because furia
Well, we see what we've seen what they can do. We know what kind of team that they are
I think it's always the thing about having a team that has their
Creditation having a team that has their history and having a team that has kept the competition hot after that as well
it shows the possibility right you have kill record breakers and setters you
have some of the biggest games we've ever had feature these five players and
this is still early doors for them this is still in some ways a bit of a warm-up
and you know how hot can they get you you the sky is beyond the limit this is a
steam that can operate in space their opponents well they have a long journey
to try to catch up with them elevates. Now obviously they, as you said, have had
two-year playdays already, they've had some long sort of work to be done and
things haven't quite hit the mark for what is obviously the Brazilian born but
APAC representing roster here. Can they try and hang with the big dogs of their
own home region? Yeah I think it elevates surprised me, I thought that they would
have at least got some form of point but get too old and too old and each of
their series so far, it doesn't paint them in a great light. I mean, I thought the elevate
roster throughout the stage was looking good. You know, we look at the players, we know
these players extremely well, you think about the experience, obviously Saiko has lifted
a hammer, resets, think how long he's been in that Team Liquid roster, I mean, it's not
as though they're anuting. We know these players.
Yeah, I think that's entirely it, right? And we've also had two similar stories throughout
this you've got two Brazilian export rosters towards the region and one of
them is having a great time and the other unfortunately isn't and that is the
side of elevate right you're looking at over the four maps they've played they've
been two owed twice they have gotten well they had 186 oh and then it was a
two seven one seven one seven like it's just fully sort of dismantling them as a
team and whether it's a mental thing it's tough to reset because they don't
have that day off, they don't have that break day, or whether it's just we need to try and
just lock in, you haven't really got easy opponents to do against here.
Obviously for Elevate, I think you have to think about the matchup now that they're
in.
Yep.
Against, they're on region in a sense, I know they're APAC and the Brazil, you know,
everyone knows, it's, you know, it's cast at the back, we know the whole Brazilians
coming over into APAC, we know that.
So, these Brazilian players, they know Fury very well.
Exactly.
And vice versa.
I think the worry is, if they couldn't do it in BR6, in the Brazilian League, where
they all played against Furia, what's going to be the change now?
Well this is always sort of what we talked about in that opening game that we had, where
there was another sort of similar region and similar region against each other even though
they were removed.
Yeah, Black Dragon's D-plus, yeah.
And have D-plus been able to hang?
Yes.
And, well, they keep going.
Where are we going?
I think map dependent is going to be pretty important here for, for Elevate.
Yeah.
Why don't we do stuff like that? Let's have a look at the maps.
Plus I think about the chance that the talent team can start to...
As we get, where are you expecting? Where are you hoping it elevates?
I will be taking us to the bank first, off towards Chalet,
as the follow through and a potential ending on Club Demo.
No surprise with the bands, I think Furia have kind of shown that they're looking to hide console and labs as best as they can
It's been there to go to bands for a while now. Yeah into bank and Furia
Going to bank on a map which not mistaken. They've at the last six times that they've played it
They've only won it once. Oh, do bear in mind though two of those losses did come
During the major where it was up against Falcons and team secret and I will say
or actually it was Falcons yesterday or the day before, whenever they played it was this event.
First day, first day. Falcons and Secret and just generally in the EU are all really good
bike teams so I'm not surprised that they go there and lose but still a fairly close game.
I still know Fury, they love this map, that's why they leave open, it's high preference for them.
Yeah, well that's the thing, in the the grand scope of the year it's an 8 to 5 but at the same
time for Elevate 6 to 1. Yes they haven't been tested as internationally as obviously
defense theory they'll be able to have a little bit more working for them. You'll, again,
peeking curiosity by seeing how much they remember about each other, right? Because,
as you said, same region, you've got hammer lefters either side, you've got all of this
old experienced pressure. Is it going to be something where they can rally and is it going
to be something where they can start to pull some bits apart?
roll. That's a lot closer than I would have expected to be on a roll. Yeah, I think, would
it be fat probably? I think we might get, I mean what, what does that times like a 7-3?
Well, let's find out, shall we, here!
Starting in.
On the bank?
Look at this, look at this bank.
It's kind of...
Is that a tambourine?
No, there's the coffee mugs.
Why would there be a tambourine?
I know, that's why I was confused.
I know that's why I was confused
Do you ever just look at a map? No, well, that's like me got is that Godzilla? No, it's no of course
It's not imagine Godzilla be at the bank people who do the siege events
imagine if there was a
Godzilla event anyway if you had no guest
We're unfortunately a little bit of a tech issue got a mouse issue not a real mouse. There's a mass
It could be a... to be fair, there hasn't been clarification between the real mouse or the electronic one.
We're not sure.
Just running around.
I mean, Rami. Could be Rami. We don't know.
Oh my god, we are in parents.
Exactly.
I need to go to this restaurant.
I need to have his ratatouille.
You go for it.
I won't be able to hear it.
No, well, I don't think Rami would make chicken nuggets, which is all you eat.
I can't say that.
Anyway...
We'll be back in sooner rather than later, hopefully, and we get some time to take a
breath in this early morning.
As we were alluding to, Bank generally elevates.
They've been pretty successful recently.
As I said, they haven't been as fervently tested.
As you said, there's been international games from Furia.
I'm thinking me wrong.
You look through the teams that have been in elevates history.
Most of them are at this event actually because it's Waybo, it's Fearax, it's Daystar, it's
Waybo and it's Daystar and a couple of other teams are in there.
And they are able to take those wins, they are able to put in solid performances against
obviously teams where we've already had a loss against Daystar throughout this.
Not on bank, that was a Chalet lair that low, but that was a 7-2 Chalet.
That's why I'm worried about the Chalet, you know, whenever we get to it, but certainly
for a bank, this is where Elevate has to get their points, this is where they have to get
the map win, but I just know that yes Furia, you go back and you look at the recent results
that they've had in bank, I don't think any of the results that they've had where they've
lost bank was particularly bad, like they went in and they got 7-1-7-0, it was fairly
close games if I'm not mistaken.
It was, I mean it depends what you're thinking.
I think it was Seven Force, again, secret at the Major, I believe.
I also think that they, I think they lost the Enterprise as well, I think it was Seven
Force.
I think a D plus loss, 8-7 as well at the Major.
It was a 5-7 to Enterprise, a 4-7 to Secret.
They did beat Foxy W7M.
That was in their own league now, that was in the SEL finals.
And then a 5-7 lost to Falcon.
So all fairly close.
But if we're talking about names of teams that are at this tournament, they're just big names of teams.
Like I said, the two European games, Falcon and Secret, phenomenal teams at Bank.
You know, we've seen that how many times inside a female where Bank is being a fantastic map for those teams.
I mean, G2 as well, you have to mention, even VP have to get a shout out too.
All this is just Europe best at Bank. That's it.
You had a hit first.
This is why this is why you've got the sort of other region play they're trying to catch up to the page
Famously, yeah, that's Fabian still lifting the hammers will he get another
Is that content? I mean if he goes too clear of everyone else to a finish. Oh, it's who could catch him who could
Pengu oh, yeah, let's bring him out bring him out
Anyone want him anyone?
Thank you
Free to a good home
No, we'll get some free. Okay. We'll get some slight costs to a good old
How's it going way for free? Can we still get that? He's got the pedigree, huh?
Yes, I've got the pedigree. I've forgiven myself for even told you before always get a price always
Like the hand towels
It's like a spa
Players they have a spa day. He's like just following up into a lot of different shapes as well
I've noticed by the end of the game. He's gonna have made a little swan
Big mouse
the issue
Trying to catch it trying to get rid of it
We'll hopefully be in
Very soon now. Let's start talking about the other map. Obviously so shall a we've already kind of written on the boards
Yeah, we've had a
It will go and club again. It's always one of those maps where it's up in the air, isn't it?
You know, you just everyone should do it at this stage. It's gonna be down to probably individuals and how well you can play and
I'll be Frank
Furia I think I have the better
individuals
Tim somewhere Tim if they've got audio and all he loves that yeah, maybe maybe not anyway you were saying
No, just I just think the individuals and fury obviously are going to be of a better standard to elevate and
I think whenever it comes to the clubhouse, I think they'll be a better unit
Yeah, I mean club we've obviously
Well, I say we've obviously had it a lot here. We have it a lot everywhere. It's clubhouse, right?
It's the de facto the side of the default in other ways
They both had successes on it, but the truest test as you said is down to the fundamentals. It's down to the
sort of individual players right it's down to how they can try and get there
the problem is elevate when they get there the sort of 41 recent record
they've got they lost to Waybo and then they beat latent dragons shark
LFO and soul start yeah it's not exactly not a gleaming resume where you've
worked for some of the biggest companies whereas on the other side of it
furia their sort of most recent record two wins and a loss the loss was to
a shock fire rebellion, but they've beat in CAG, Osaka, and Flux, so W7M. So it's sort
of, you know, you have to make the comparisons of the stats against what you're weighing
them against, but that became that conversation point of D plus Kia and Elevate. Sure, we
can see how they do. If you take great players from anywhere in the world and put them in
towards any region that you usually expect to have some success, you can have it as individual
imports like on sort of Alamo a lawyer came over to EU yeah or when we send
Alfama literally everywhere around the world Leo he did the whole tour or you
didn't make it to Brazil that's the only thing he didn't get to yet
you told him he's going we can we can have again is anyone want them again
We'll take bids. We don't mind.
We're just gonna auction off.
Oh, we can do a package deal.
You get both of them.
Oh, you have to take...
Tengu and Alphama.
You have to take...
You may like it in the fragging power, but...
Great conversation.
There you go.
Who could there replace?
Maybe whatever the highlight clip.
I'm gonna let production throw up a highlight clip.
This is who production think...
Oh, stats.
This is who production think Leo should replace.
Wow.
Wow, production that's crazy. They didn't actually say that they said I have a JG nice to
That space and to be fair, I mean yee-ha I'm actually I need that hat today with my look
He's had and often does a phenomenal sort of step up into
See those all too often nope
Yeah, I mean look the fury of the email feel so we've
We've talked about everything about this team, I still think that the Grand Slam year that
they had, I just think, wow, just, and that final, just to hell with everything, the nostalgia
hits you.
Obviously, they kind of went through that period, didn't they, in 2024, where things
weren't too strong for them.
They went out, I believe, in the quarter-finals against the Liquid at Manchester, didn't
they?
And you know what we see good lips of them getting back to their former selves at reload whenever they won that event, but
I mean if you want to win it now and really cement the legacy, this is it
There's always the element as well of
You hit the sort of heights. What do you focus on? How do you build and how do you change in towards matters?
There's the comparison of this team
Versus others where you sort of look at what their back line is and you know
You'll have fully boxes the driving force and he sort of I'm not gonna say it's like job firebell in when you get Canadian and then for
Sort of guns on top there is still a little bit more support structure
But when you have KZ when you have her when you have to be known to I
Mean the work that those three can put in is just sort of putting bodies down
We've already seen one of that two point okay D's but the other two are still I believe kill record holders for the event for us
I Brazil and
which is just a meteoric stat, the way that they can dictate a game, based on that element, and then obviously, as I said, then you've got three books, and then you've got Nate, and then you've got this backline support and structure that just sort of brings it all together and to go back to the thing you just said before, what else can you really say about this team?
he's sort of fashion
all of the casey that we had
desert that jacket
imagine chat imagine that is where in that jacket
i mean we could just post the photo we could just post
that has a kind of hoards
where's he for the race track yeah he's
you know he's got a race to make
uh... again forty two eighteen yeah all of us and all of us
all of us look at you but i got it
Great entry statistic.
And I guess we'll have to see how it compares with the other.
I'm trying to work out based on his expression,
if that was working or not.
That's okay, yeah.
Good, oh.
The wireless.
Wireless.
see that tricky thing getting it connected it's fine it's fine oh good these
are the best words that we could ever hear should be too long now everyone
everyone can picture how long it takes them to get into a custom game yeah
don't say these things because then okay the other game is just had a round
boom so at least one round behind a stream right now it probably looked
happy so I have some heretics around he said the word basement basement next
basement next a stream spoiler alert you go basement for heretics do you know
where we're going hopefully into the game thumbs up good thumbs up drum rolls
please the ground crew have okayed the the flight they're like waving the
little light things we're ready to take off the fist bumps are in oh thank you
everybody for bearing with us we are go go go all the way in towards the bank
go elevate versus furia okay we handled a lot there thank you for sticking with
us with the option to find our way in towards the game and oh boy howdy did we
take it where are we going to be on the band because this is always that point
where you get specific play I think it's first sale bank yeah you've got a few
options there's usually you'll work as kind of sets in terms of what you want
to ban and one thing that we see is obviously shield bands Monty is
phenomenal on this map we know that straight away we see electrification
ban being one of them and then also the range to our breach and then there's the
I think yeah, you need to go for that and I mean we also seen sometimes teams actually double down on the range
Hard destruction and they go for like an ace and Habana and that makes the top floor really tricky to attack
So there is still that form of range orbit so there's a count wall can still get opened up
So yeah, not not not all doom and gloom for theory still options there with that top floor in terms of their bands
I just think it makes that base a lot easier obviously their top floor
More attack is going to be a little bit more difficult because there's still going to be
operators like Castle, like Azami available to themselves.
But overall I think for the basement which is where Furia will be attacking into first,
they should have a better pace about it.
Don't worry about getting through the caves and the hatches, mirror windows we know, it's
always a difficult thing to deal with.
But as we know the way that the mech has kind of developed in bank, it's all about how well
you can clear that open area hold that teams will go for.
a bit of a swap round there on the final sort of approach.
Ray was going to make comment on Philippox bringing the sledge and utilizing that for
quick rotations, quick control of the top two, but no!
Ooh, Semp wants to see about maybe going for a little bit of a hop and a run out here,
try and get somebody on their way towards garage.
They also prepped on the top floor, but yeah, that didn't quite work, did it there, buddy?
Semp gets caught, can get himself out and survives.
the most important part, but now you're looking at just being a sliver away, it could take
a bit of a spray through a soft, it could take a little bit of wing damage.
Look the line up on the attacks of Furia, obviously you mentioned about the Sledge, also
would have been really helpful for going upstairs and then sledging those roamers, but in terms
of clearing roamers, you've got plenty of things for that, you've got your Doka B, you have
your Deimos, even the Brava, if you're able to hack like a default can, that could still
perhaps get you some information.
And look at the IQ, getting value,
you can see the players on their phones.
Ping's out, there's a guy in L-Bear now,
you can spot these Valkyrie cameras.
I think that's entirely it, right?
Think about what is on the side of the defenders,
you've got those banshees,
but you've got the double down of Intel,
Valkyrie and the Mozzie for IQ to play with.
And don't forget, there is also a combination
with IQ and Dokopy,
where whenever the defender goes and switch off their phone,
the IQ scanner can see them.
Well, they found the Mozzie via face check
with a brava drone,
there's nobody to immediately get the swing round so they can sort of still play in this
play space. They've got a stretch above currently and there's Ion taking a bit of damage but
not enough to kill him in the Deimos tracks and they'll just peel back on towards the
hatches. They can try and drop through if they want but they're being watched and waited
by JB92 ready to try and add to that already impressive 2.0 KDKZ. In the meantime is going
a little bit blow for blow with somebody on the server side but the first trade comes
out for Leapox fine step. Ion finds JB92 and that's the man watching the window for the
escape but they're not happy to leave the open area just yet without at least
taking one more for the trouble IQ is gone Deimos is downed I'm gonna go for
the cleanup just yet can they get the pick up here damn I
more or less a 2v4 because crossing that divide with the big old impact
was gonna be really difficult oh missus a shot so that does open up the
potential for the revive but Nate is still just unsure because he knows he
He's got the player swung in towards that wall, he's just watching for it, resets it, picks up flip hooks, the revive is successful, but I mean they're still in a great position here.
No, a bit more damage done, obviously now the 3 vs 2, but they know exactly where they are and they're still refusing to give up the territory.
Keep it as a 2 vs 2, there's 20 seconds, they need to hit the site, but they're not gonna see it as Ion gets himself a second for the round and Nade with the kit, about to be rounded on from behind.
And there it is, Raps! Raps up round! It's an Elevate opener.
Yeah, I'm happy to see Elevate go with that style of play.
Don't let Fury in the game. Fight them for everything they're worth.
And they did that. I mean, that's a basement.
You wouldn't think it's a basement, because we didn't see any basement played.
But it was, and that was just a phenomenal roam.
You front up the kills, you're playing off each other.
I think the only thing with Fury is you maybe needed to look for more options because it was very
Just tellers and archives that's where everything kind of stem from there wasn't much pressure coming in from like
Kind of copy window for example
That's always a good place to put somebody just to watch the rotations
Even get somebody you know pushed up top square and walking down square looking to challenge on the quad wall
You know there's options to still for fury about just couldn't get it going just couldn't keep the numbers in their advantage
Jesse Rive will get some kills, but I'll pick up more.
Full start, we'll find out soon enough as we...
What is almost a full 5 rotation, Hibana is always useful.
In the right hands, the gun is brilliant.
Yeah, it might not have.
Which gun?
Okay, I...
Even during its phase of having only 21 bullets,
we'll always love the primary assault rifle.
Yeah, ain't nobody using that.
Woo!
I don't care. I don't care.
Ain't nobody using that.
Yeah, DMRs are a thing. Yeah, we're in DMR city nowadays. It just
I'm sad now. You've ruined my morning
Davey92 to be fair you could give him any gun
You'll still probably find a way to make it sing either way the original point is Hibana when you're looking at sort of the
the canter the corridor angle when you're looking at maybe if they bring in a castle and you want to
pop all of the castles as much as possible who is better than Habana? Yeah of course we know that
Castle Azami will always be brought to this top floor that is always going to be a given you need
that extra bit of cover that you need to make for yourself because Windows is the name of the game
whenever we look at top floor. Castle Barricades easily dealt with and it just exposes resets
Over towards the CDO, towards that front desk.
I think they are looking for a spiral tape, but what a peek from Psycho!
Oh dear, nobody! Over towards Lobby Window is actually covering that angle.
I mean, it's a risky taking, you know, for Psycho to go for.
He could have easily have died from a multitude of angles, but just catches them at the right moment.
JV not in the correct position.
Wow, hard locked out quite early. A lot of utility in the pockets of a player that will no longer be seen.
Instead they're gonna see if they can try and drive the glass for lepox underneath just gets caught by ion
Dodges either side another fight to find
Connects a couple together and even with the track all you're getting is the reveal of who killed your friends the grenade forces to play great little pinch from KZ
Fair enough. He's already done his work ion and earn his keep
It's just the aggression isn't it. It's really working for Elevate Furia losing a lot of
bodies and just not trading back the kills. KZ and JV92 in the 2v4 scenario. Very separate
from one another. You look at where both of them are. One pushing in towards Square, the
other for me. KZ though almost got the pre-fire but Raps able to pick up the kill and JV caught
in an avalanche of pain as he walks up the stairs. Honestly, Furia, they need to give
their heads to Wobble because this is not looking good.
Well, how do you Wobble? I don't know what that means, but no, that's incorrect. You
have a timeout. Fury have already called their timeout here and fair enough.
I don't think we'll get much for awkwardness. This is for Maria.
Well, they might be familiar, I mean even then, even to be fair, if they're speaking
the language I understand, it's still very hard to hear on the Bravo stream, but we will
try and be quiet so you can get it unless we definitely come here and then we'll just scream I think.
I think straight away Igor's noticed the way the elevator approaches us. Very aggressive, very in your
face, taking the early engagements. I think the correct way to go about it is try and slow things
down and go for a more control take if you're furious. You know moments like that, they're taking
these risks that's the way elevator play in this. Yeah you have to try and stop the momentum now
Cause we know the brazilian, any brazilian side with a bit of momentum are terrifying to go against
You look at the line up, I mean straight away whenever it comes to control, yeah bring a shield in
You know that's going to give you the stability
It allows you to take portions of the map in a more concentrated manner
So fully pox, pick up the blackbeard, yeah great take
Lion as well I think it's going to be really helpful
Trying to keep those rumors at bay stop them maneuvering around the map
That three second ping now is big old difference
It gives them room to play and it gives them room to breathe and they're trying to take it and
Not get taken amongst it because elevators you said they're playing aggressively
They're leaning back into it
They're making sure that they are the first point of contact and they're heated up. I think it's very fair to say
Fully box on towards a black beard not taking risks, right get the shield in get yourself round these corners
go for a little bit of a face check let's not try and play the gun game right now
it's sort of suffering us we're great at it fine but adaptation is what makes you
the best at siege and they're gonna try and adapt towards where they're weaker
right now cover that off instead casey gonna be led in here just get a good
of the opening stretch more dmr's dmr city you're about to be maybe checking
someone on the front desk don't do it don't do it don't do it they know just
just just just don't do it he hasn't done it
see the more slower approach for fury the really just waiting for these angles
to be swung and here comes the blackbeard nobody's with him though yeah
they got the cover they got KZ stems been got through the wall though and
there's actually two that come through in the same second the executors popped
dropped off quite cleanly but now a 3 versus 3. The Blackbeard gone, the Nook gone. That
was their point of Ingress removed. Can those players have been able to get themselves above,
get on the verticality, get one more catch, racing, hoping, and just collapsing upon Ion,
a 3 versus 2 demo.
I think for now the win count for Furious probably looking to try and expose the amount
Vert that you have is there's still a decent amount of that upstairs and if they can try and cover off some of those angles and then take in
control of tellers and archives
It forces everyone back
Maybe you can maybe try and get the hatch open if you can I think
Could be an option for them. Yeah, they are gonna go and open up the hatch
So I assume it's gonna be an open area drop
But they need to make sure that the player can
Oh, they knew.
Safely dropped them.
There we go.
He's killed the guy, so now they can go for it.
Well, the last player here is caught out,
hit the fire extinguisher, stunned, a little bit rebuffed,
a little bit confused, and a lot of it dead.
Oh, he's slapping the fists.
At first, I thought that was a fist bump,
and really aggressive, and I was like, don't you think?
You'll hurt yourself.
But they needed it.
They need the energy.
They need to lock themselves back in.
They need to put this to bed sooner rather than later if they want to keep fighting towards the top spot.
Because all that we've talked about Demo, of these elevate players, they know these players very well,
they should be able to get themselves together, all of that stuff, it's the same for Furia, right?
Technically it's not a same region matchup, but it's players all from the same region.
They need to make sure that they say, oh no, any other Brazilian teams, like the ones that have beaten us before in finals, or semi-finals or quarterfinals, we will beat them every time.
Overall, I mean, Furia, you know, they didn't want to go as quick as maybe what they went for previously, they were just really hoping that Elevate would get a little bit angsty and go for those things, and then win those engagements, and that's what worked for them.
However, that's the full rotation done, and that's kind of the third bombsite, which attackers
should be winning.
It's the other two that you have to try and crack, and certainly this basement, I mean,
we've said it was basement last time, it wasn't really everything accorded towards that top
mid-floor.
We never see any of that bottom floor attempted from the attackers, and that's because there's
a really good roam game, a really good fight from Elevate, and the fury of kind of solve
their issues of that time, and you'd hope so, after what we've seen in that game.
mid-floor attack, they can try and play that more controlled element to it.
So this, because of the changes in dropping down and not being able to get your gun ready,
he's happy to sit here and sort of propose, look if you come down here, I will get you.
Yeah, you can only drop a shield down there, or you flash the gun out.
Yep, so trying to bait some utility there, trying to bait some attention and they're just not playing
that game. They're going to see if they can try and instead drive the nook up once again,
Swap over towards JV92, up towards Spiral, then we've seen attempted, nook plays, we've seen attempted Spiral plays, neither I would say worked, they're one and around just did, but it wasn't really what they wanted to do with that.
It's just a quicker, clearer chase onto, well eye on, two people invisible to each other's cameras, who's gonna be the one that can get the catch, or they're just gonna drive on towards Green, get the person on Beeper's doorway, are they watching towards this angle they are?
Ready for it and that'll at least give the warning that well they're taking over the space but reset sets one KZ
Sets it back inside the site adds putting pressure on towards it
You said are they gonna ignore it? Wow, they've driven themselves up on towards gold hatch drop down found themselves in the vault and locked off
The rotate background for leapbox
Waiting for the catch
Hoping somebody else tries to show up, but they can't cross the divide whilst they have green stairs. There's one
There's two!
Hearth gets himself three for the round!
Fights four!
Fights four!
And Furia finds that Furie!
That makes them a top contender.
Yeah, great play there for Furia,
knowing how heavy LV invests into that roam game.
They've just sidesteped them, and they thought,
let's go direct into the site.
If we are able to take ATMs and control lobby,
we then have that hatch available to us
Let's just drop down into the bottom floor elevate time out
Can't hear a whole lot of this no, I think even if you could speak Portuguese it's difficult very quiet
Both tack timeouts used in the opening four rounds, that doesn't happen often.
I think the circuit breaker timeouts where obviously, I don't know, I think it's probably
for both for Fury, it's one stop, elevate, get the momentum, but then also Igor saying
guys look at how they're playing, we need to do something different.
Whereas I feel for elevate, they want to now stop the Fury momentum.
maybe that this is where they're gonna try and adapt to the adaptation and
it's a whole mirror that we're in well we've got ahead of us now is a lot of
seeds really this was really good as well from us realizing okay what the play
was let's go straight directed the bombsite we know there's gonna be
roamers where are those roamers gonna be trying to rotate back in the site from
it's gonna be down those hatches yes and they're probably not gonna take gold
because they, or the vault hatch, because they know that somebody was in that position,
they'll expect that to be watched, so you go in towards...
...elevate it. You could try and go the other way, you could try and hit an open hatch, but
it's, again, I would say the open hatch is a bit more worrisome, because it can be watched, right?
You know that they're in garage as well. They could have a cross on that as soon as you hit the floor.
So where can you drop on a hatch that's quick, that isn't going to lead you into a firefight,
Well, usually elevator because even when you're defending it, you don't really have somebody actively watching it
Oh, the attackers are watching it. You would expect such a thing. We
My lovely audience
My all right demo
And my loveliest production crew. We're back in a timeout. I just wanted to I woke up on the wrong side of the bed
I'm walking you give solo cast
I had to do solo cast yesterday, to be fair.
Yeah, okay.
Maybe that's why.
I woke up on the wrong side of the bed because I had to run around.
I also sprinted.
I had an incident with the chocolate bar where I had one in the green room, in our little
sanctuary amongst the chaos and Leo Alfama someone who I trust so much sat
next to him I walked away an unnamed member of production crew came in and
asked if they could have it you know what Leo said yeah go on took my chocolate
but I sprinted sorry I did have your name on it yes no you have to start
labeling your proper anyway well okay is that why you just write your name on
this desk
I've heard my name is there's PC so yeah it's like you can actually demo in the
back in the player cameras, writing his name on like, I'll be walking up past the player
present. It says demo. There's the letter. It was dare moe. I haven't we had a peak
in towards the player area. I haven't really been around there. That's where that that's
where the hosts live and the analysts and they're better than us okay if you say
so I don't know I'm just I'll be honest I don't really take notice of them I don't
bother okay yeah all right you're why do we need to you're too cool they are
very cool okay think about it right who's cooler right this is a
hypothetical chat you can answer as well if you want who's cooler
desert shoe
or laxate laxate
get me another
okay
guzz
or fresh
okay
james dev martis stewart
or foxy
Oh, this one's got you. This one's got you some people in chat. They're already immediately on it
I'm gonna go
With fucks, okay
Well, they're put proven analysts three odos that is the end of our analyst versus castors who's cooler series
So let's get back to the rainbow six siege series. Hopefully sooner rather later
I was gonna actually pull us in but I looked like we're not going immediately in and I've ruined
Just focus in the one that everyone else I know I
Well, I saw fist bumps actually I saw fist bumps on the player camera. I saw some sitting up and I was like oh and
That's his origami going
We'll have to find out later, because we are back in!
Hohoho!
2-2!
All timeouts used, Elevate took 2 rounds, bam it was super strong!
Fury just took 2 rounds back, bam!
Super strong!
Elevate timeout, and now we're here!
Now we're here then.
Yeah, in towards that top floor again, still with the Castle and the Izami, and of course
the Aruni 2 also provides that extra bit of safety.
So the correct operators of course, the only thing that they've obviously dropped because
they know there's no longer any range to outreach to deal with, you don't have to worry about
bringing in the electrifications.
Nobody's going to be able to open up those candle walls.
However, I think now that leaves you open for everything else that you didn't ban.
And straight away, we're seeing the ying, we're seeing the grim, and I'm thinking they're
just going to strong arm their way for the windows.
Like we see so many teams do, you know, they've got the Firmlight, immediately that's gonna
have to be a square take, so it's gonna be square, probably into playing off the windows,
dumping in a whole lot of Util.
They've got the smoke so they can smoke off the breach, and then just walk in and plant.
Now let's see how much of the conversation about momentum shifted any.
That's the width of the waves here, they've, themselves up on the window, they're gonna
Trying to get the clarity over top square get themselves in now step could swing out wide from the position at this point
But is gonna stay closer towards the flag itself and keep themselves a bit safe not wasting any real time here though
Ball opened and so is his army
Why on did you notice that straight away JV?
Just kind of hand the back of his head hold on a minute. We know what these guys are
We know the way they've played
There's a big likelihood one of them's gonna get a little bit cheeky and try and kill me whenever the breach gets opened up
And he was ready for that is the adaptation. That's the difference that we're seeing from Fiora compared to the first two rounds
Well the smokes come in towards the coverage the castle window as it pops on the back of whatever's been extinguished here
Just trying to hit some angles some holes some hot shots on towards nobody's home
But look all the pressure on these windows on that breach
They haven't done anything on towards the canto side of the back. Nade has the future keep that in mind
It's not JV on the breach so Nade is gonna have to either
rotate that diffuser and maybe walk in for the breach or he's gonna have to
swing in those are options getting rid of the barb making sure that they can
apply some pressure elsewhere now at this point there hasn't really been
anything that's forced to elevate truly out of position right resets are still
on towards the reception desk he still have stamp around the vending machine
around the flag for the swing and you still have Jalladiers that important
integral denial position the core of stopping at this window plant so what
you do here from the side of Furia a rotate round on towards stock a rotate on
towards top square try and get the push the pressure in a little bit flat a
little bit laterally draw all the focus over but you still have made on the
windows with the kit so you have to get at least one more player out of the
equation you have to draw a little bit more focus the beast starts to roll
stem says to get the double on the swing and now they're in but they're gonna look
all the wrong way there's still a catch from me but it's caught right back even
No, so balanced out. Technically a 2 vs 2, cleaning up inside Janitor's either side with a big rifle!
And it just sings and screams a piece as it tries to pop, at least the second player hit with a bit of a stun,
but surrounded at all fronts at this point. Saiko can't find the root out!
I wish I spoke Portuguese. I have an idea. I have an idea.
He says with a smirk upon his face. That attack from Furia.
Little bit worried whenever you see the Ella appear with the double kill.
But that was actually who they were targeting.
I don't think that Furia were really too bothered about trying to get a plant down.
Mostly because I mentioned it's the Ying with the defuser and had to swing in by themselves.
And you look where Diffuse's Rouge dropped by the way, it's in towards the front desk.
Yep.
The main person that they wanted to kill was that Ella, over towards Vending.
They knew they had an opportunity where they could push in from Square,
down through the corridor, have the Grim Jump in through the stock windows,
and you try and collapse that guy.
Stem was able to get two.
However, they traded the kills back.
You know, really, really well.
A very important kill from KZ, being able to upset the balance,
goes into 1v2, and it's only a matter of time before Furia get that kill.
great free rounds in a row here for Fury, a really good half already and they still got another attack.
Still got another attack and also that was the one after the timeout as well and yeah it was a
little bit longer, there was the sort of tech pause afterwards but still the conversation as you
called it the timeout was to stop my Fury's momentum right? If anything the tech timeout probably would
have helped a little bit and slowed that even more and just put ice on the game but unfortunately
the elevate couldn't quite find a way to shake that out of that cup as fast as
furia did it was a fight it could have at points gone either way but now we'll
see if they can try and fight their way it's an open sight but it's heavily
contested on the top four of elevate we're currently sitting on the second
story and piece themselves together I think one maybe just slipped their way
down they have to watch underneath ion I think is inside archives with the
Yes, just down, reading all the player, reading all the sort of use of utility.
We've seen Yings played and they're just making sure that they're one step ahead of any of these approaches from the Intel game too.
Yeah, Furia, just opening up little portions of the map, putting pressure on the elevator trying to restrict that movement.
We know that they're going to go over the shields.
They've been working for them, playing that control style siege, great information being gained by the leaf blocks.
by an aggro. Oh, not aware though of Ion, inside of tellers,
catches him as he exposes his side, down goes the shield.
Huge first take there on towards, well, the shield,
but there's one back and there's suddenly two.
JV92 created out, okay, they've maybe lost at least one
on the side of Raps, they've lost the warden,
but they've lost the lion, they've lost the blackbeard,
and now they've also lost the solace.
He's in sight by the way.
Yeah, I was a bit confused and, well,
seemingly so, the defenders.
What is he gonna do?
Where's he gonna plant?
They've got just solid roof above them.
There's a bit of a fight, but hers isn't covered.
From the swing on Beeper's door,
they've just absolutely swung their way
into the site, and I said it.
There was so many defenders up top,
and, well, maybe Fury realized that too, demo.
It's exactly the same as that basement.
They've ignored the roamers.
They just walked into the site.
killed the one guy who was there and then all of a sudden the elevator thinking hang on a minute
if we're if we're not in sight then who is it's these guys it's furia these guys
four two and furia i mean have just turned it on and you can see you know psycho from the opening
two rounds super loud super hyped as the team should be put it out they want to make sure that
they can bring the fire in the fury because remember if this series is another 2-0 elevate
suffer I mean it's pretty locked in that that's all she wrote right there needs to be like a
three-way tie or something yeah I think the the way it works out if they get zero points then they
only have one more game to play which is against wild card and wild card also play today and while
I get one more point even if elevate to a wild card wild card could be on five points and an elevate would be in four
Yeah, they can never catch day star also keep in mind if they take zero points from this game because even if they start doesn't
Win another game because they beat them
The head-to-head then is in favor of day star. So the only team that
Elevate can catch
It's it's gonna be wild card and they still have to play each other at that's the that's the fun thing about this
But, like I said, they need to get points here today. They need it.
Well, Furia, we said if they can mop this up in the first map, then the second will be even quicker.
You're on to Chalet after this. You're on to Furia's Chalet. You're on to Chalet. They love to play.
And also, the Chalet that Daystar 7-2 can elevate on, on the opening playday,
Lost Furia 7 Ford Falcons on it
Elevate need to find something here and they need to find it soon
Yeah, fury I might be able to take this first attack
But then it's a five to then it's just a little bit of repetition and they just need to make it stick one more time and then
You have five rounds in a row that have gone away from them
Look at the the operator bands to from furia disabling a ying and a glass
You know, there's big pushing operators that we see a lot
But I get pretty standard bands, I think, overall for Elevate, yeah, you've disabled
to get a top floor, hold with the Izami, and then you've also got rid of the cage for the
hatches.
However, it has left the shields open.
That's one thing that Furia have not went out of the way to ban, but probably expecting
shields, the echo comes straight into the lineup.
He tried to sneak his way around the cameras, so he didn't get hit by the EMP balls from
it, but just found it at the very end.
should be able to, on a repetition, you know, Davey90Z, the long watch on his own gear and
that Twitch drone won't get.
That little spread round.
Twitch themselves, those, are maybe going to hunt for some revenge.
Remember how the drive-thru came on that drop on the vault hatch?
Ignore the top floor players, when we had it as an attack from Furia, we're not quite
getting the same here from Elevate.
The Deimos doing his best to see if he can chap anyone out, force them back towards the
site.
drop themselves down and just get the clear on these top two floors and you know it's step by step they're not leaving anything to chance they've got them on to you that's just gonna roll the man mountain through
just to find that everybody has already left
yeah need to be careful raps he does know that there is an echo on the board
so we just have to try and make sure somebody's with him so he doesn't get caught out in the open and
There's the drop you look at the time. Yeah, I mean a minute 15 remaining
They're still Goyo there is still that the chunk of you have to get through in terms of going for like a kind of default play
It's probably not gonna work for elevate
I dare say I think a hatch drop might be their only way out of the triangle a default infre blu
I mean you still got the blue guy the deal of this. Yeah, and more time
Wow, whether they go from here a great roam from fury not to really get kills the waste you tell but just the time
Also, it's sort of gone a little bit under the radar, but I said it before, anyone could
pop off on this team, and remember how Herds and KZ set kill records.
Oh, Herds and KZ.
Since I think they opened with one kill between the pair of them, some of the past five rounds
got themselves up absolutely massively, and well, as the blinds come through, we'll see
if this pair can do a bit of damage.
There's the first.
Herds plays this position, and he's going to pull himself further away.
Why not?
20 seconds demo.
They either have to try and hunt him or just push the site itself.
They rotate.
team rotate on towards the back of the opposite side they're going to go towards the hatches yes
the Monty is a little bit held up on this position but he's the one with the kit they need to try
and drive these kills ion finds for leapbox and jv92 finds double puts it back down for psycho either
side and there's the fight there's two one versus one but with five seconds they still need to try
and plant a pistol swinging it's way around will hold on but herds just has to get this little
No, he can't quit getting, can he get the shield? Oh no!
Oh, that was close.
Oh, misses the mic with a ping.
Woo, but able to get it with a shotgun.
Yeah, close affair.
But LFA, I mean, they just had the panic drop, didn't they?
They just had the tran fight the way through. They made a good attempt at it, but you just had that feeling.
How were they gonna kill them all?
I would just it wasn't gonna happen for them and I mean a great play as well from herds
We knew that player blue stairs from the waist even more time for them
I mean he just ran away
He did he ran into dirt new if you want to push me you got to waste even more time
I can still kill you so there's so many variables in that round
But I think the biggest one was the time and that's where elevate fell short
It's also if you sort of look at the bands right you're thinking about attacking that basement site
You've not got a ying so you can't really instigate in the same ways and you're not got a glass as well
Which a lot of the time they'll try and dig in get the swings around it on those sort of awkward angles and
Those fights on the ground floor around server
Those are the tricky places to try and get yourselves in without those sort of you know swing round get the blinds
And then push on the back of it up
5-2 though, and credit to them for how close that got, I mean they just had to send it
and it almost, almost, made the distance, with the clash pickup here from Nade, I'm wondering
if that's going to be a bit of a, not a more panic response, they're a team that loves to
play their own game and they're 5-2 up, but just slow them down a little bit more, right?
The same way they stretched the time of the previous, do the same here.
Move forward, move backwards, make them have to take stock, make them have to try and push
you out of that flag position.
We'll see if they take the bait or they end up with a little bit more time to work with
here on the execute.
Yeah, I think the Clash comes in kind of the replacement for the Azami that's been banned
away because you still need that kind of fortification operator and you know Clash isn't necessarily
that where you can place that cover it's just not going to move I mean she's
movable cover yeah you get you get what I mean it's kind of the same but not
really which then why am I saying that sorry I do that all the time I think I
puzzle myself here okay class great pick really really strong we know the
utility she can eat up and in terms of how you deal with that if you look at
elevate great much I mean realistically I think the one that we've reached for
is using the impact the MPs and then spring that are other than that there
You know, you don't have a Nomad, you don't have a Cali.
So they have the Mute Jammer, obviously, so are the walls, and...
Well, as the Impact DnP comes through, here's the Breach, and this will make that Clash position, well, not impossible.
KZ, though, I think is trying to peek out on towards the Hibana currently, and they'll see how that...
We're for hollow, by the way.
Yeah, if you got anything from that, that's a real shame on you, Moment.
They're gonna put the Pressure on towards the Clash, but again, this is what the Clash does.
It's there, she's like, get through your flashes. I'm fine.
It stops people swinging in towards salt square.
Ooh, but they might swing in elsewhere. Mrs. The Moment Nook! Oh no!
That could have been huge. Instead, they slink their way away. Now they'll know, but how much of it was a snappy reaction.
Maybe they thought that shot came from Canter. There's always the possibility it was the breach to The Nook.
I think I got a little bit lucky here. There's the swing. No! Mrs. Toon!
Oh those could have been huge first takes instead. It's herds that gets rid of Ion
Ace is gone. You assume most of their work is done
But what else do they have to potentially smash their way through the quad wall?
What else has been used from those Hibana pallets really?
Is that wall still solid on the square side demo?
This is such a tricky position for elevate where they're getting themselves into good positions
but they couldn't find the kills. However, they are able to get them down on the Fully Pox and they can maybe now go for the swing in.
It is the floor as with the detainee to keep that in mind, but he's gonna trap them and they have to vault over the double windows.
I mean, 15 seconds, still a clash. They haven't got the quad wall, but they're just killing through them.
This really should be Furious locked in. Hertz is able to get one more. The positions are so swapped round. Hertz for three.
And at this point, 2-1-2, they don't have the kit.
They're trying to drive themselves close.
They've picked it up and holding F.
1 versus 2, playing on the cover.
There's the swing round.
There's a bit of a scratch onto the first for the down.
There's a second for Psycho!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
There is the pop-off that that player had in the opening two rounds.
And there is a fury.
They're not quite done yet.
Lois.
Sorry, an elevate.
Big 1v2.
Essentially, because the guy was planting.
Yeah, it all came down to Psycho to make sure he could hold both of them.
And he had both of them in. And a headlock! No problem at all for Psycho!
Wow.
I can't, I just think for Elevate, the timing is so, so fine right now.
Woohoo!
Both of their attacks have went right down through the wire.
And while that time it worked for them, didn't work in the basement, so I always think if
you're really playing with the time you're playing with fire, you know, I can go either
which way and it's just total chaos really, those rounds and I think Elevate have done
really well to fight against Fury here.
I don't think they've kind of sat and rolled over, I think they've shown the spirit.
I love the reaction straight away whenever that clutch comes in.
I mean Elevate, they're not out of this game.
I think that's the sort of swing as well right because think about what they lost and how quickly that's come with a plan B
As I said, they couldn't get the breach in the top square side
They couldn't get the control there. They lose the ace and then they just had to swing in and send it in
Yeah, it's fair play to make that stick
It's fair play to make that to come and it was as close as you could get
But Furia really should have reacted maybe a bit sharper maybe a bit different maybe push
But then you go well did they do anything wrong they waited for the plant they tried to take two versus one and
Psycho just popped off swung out the side. It's really narrow narrow margins. There's not really
Oops a right or wrong decision
It's just
Sometimes things will land and the unfortunate realities of the game
Hurds hurts
Oh, that's right back 16 free deaths. Yeah, and think about it
Two of those were in the opening two rounds. He has since the timeout
gone at least like what 14 to one
I'm gonna find out you can understand why all the mouth here's them you understand
Just unbelievable performance
Well, that's a bit of a spanner into the moving machine of Elevate, as that is the
Firmite gobs, making those big breaches that you would like to have maybe towards the quad
wall, which again is always risky to get a Firmite charge than that, so not gonna have
that option.
Still got the Acer.
Still got two Salmas, still ways into the bomb site of course.
Now Elevate, they turn their attention towards the Tellers and Archmage Hall, but no, they
missed the mozzie who's now crossing the site however resets there with a pickup
using the vertical gameplay to do your advantage
herf has gone 16 to 1 since the time out didn't get a single kill in either of
the opening two rounds was the entry death in the second just for the update
on how crazy his performance has been and how much the team talk has worked
for him but one of the hard breach has gone they don't have this position though
And well, they're just gonna get the clothes down. Where's the pressure? Okay. They've got a little bit of the wall opened
No one near as much as they would have liked for just throwing out all their Salmas and that is the heart breach done
Oh, that is
Sorry, 17 to one 18 to one
Since the re since the team talk the mental reset
Nade gets one. Nineteen! Nineteen to one, he got the last one. How? He has gone, I...
Eighteen. Eighteen. Have we had a twenty bomb yet? This event? I don't know. I don't...
I want to say no, because I think we would have heard about it. I don't know of any
stats people can get a check on that have we had any 20 bombs I'll find out thank
you he's on for it all kills all he needs I'll like the beacons I mean it's
crazy if you get rid of the opening two rounds you'd be looking like that score
I don't want to say maybe the best single performance by a player ever, for not having
the opening two rounds and going 18 to 1.
No, no, because you always have to compare it to the kill record, which is what, 27?
Yeah, that is like that, it's crazy.
That's fair, but this is a 6-3, right?
If this goes into overtime.
Which I don't think it will.
No, but if it does, at this rate...
I'm like over the past four rounds he's had three triple kills that's crazy sorry
I need to I'm having a moment and now they put him on glass they need to slow
him down. What do you see? What do you see? Odd's on at least three kills of the clash.
Oh I like it. News of the clash. I grow inside of dirt. Gains a little bit of information,
kind of tells anyone on the attackers that that's going to be a no go zone unless you
you want to try and fight against that shield. See for elevate. I think they are going to
try and want to go for that sweep and clear from top down. There's that open area hold,
but as we kind of learn from the first defense of Furia, they're just looking away a bit
of time, not really after any fights per se. If that little bit of pressure gets added
in, then yeah, they'll just drop and see a very early approach coming in from the nook.
I mean, the pacing here from elevate is a lot better, and this is what they need to improve
on because then it leaves them a lot of time for that endgame. JV92 gets the
opener on towards Stem, the Deimos is gone and this good end sooner rather than
later before herds even gets beyond 20 kills. They've lost their chance at
hunting down these loose players and they're so cautious right. They're getting
themselves in and getting some of these breaches but you know you can see that
pace that ferocity that they had at the very beginning of the game is just sort of dissipated.
Okay, just wait for it right. They get themselves through, and they get themselves to rotate,
they're getting their control here, and also more options. Remember last time the pace was slow
towards the end, they couldn't quite get themselves in and amongst the site itself until the dying
throws of it. There's not as much util denial from Furia, not seeing the Dejanka, no smoke
picked up to. Only thing that there is is going to be the Goyos, which, whenever you're
bringing in the Twitch, should be dealt with fairly early on. So still a pretty good position
I think for Elevate to be in. But it's just going to be that clash, we know that's going
to be a big issue. All the double drop comes in and they're going to be shredded, one of
them goes down, a little bit of a whiffage here, but the C4 able to pick up the kill,
no missing that and as a 2v4, kind of a urge to get the 20 bomb and he's both of them.
He does. You need to see if he can try and get some of this control and just take the fight and on the clash.
Maybe just saving it. Saving it for a little bit later. There's the swing round, a bit of pressure in the down onto one more.
But, oh, there's caught by a thorn trap. And there's the final one!
Furia!
They had a bit of a shaky start and then reaffirmed. Oh yeah.
This is the team that we are. There was a little moment a couple of rounds ago where we got a taste.
of a response from Elevate but unfortunately that was their map gone. Now ahead of them,
oh might be frozen out from Chalet 18 to 3, 18 to 1 since the time I was called off the
round 2. I mean, how do you beat that? Well you don't need to try and find some kind of
solution but whatever a player is just on one. You know and really heard he could do
do no wrong, he was killing everything that came near him, for hell of a year thinking,
how do you, how do you beat something? I asked like the terminators in there, how do you
go against it?
Yeah, I mean, it's one of those sort of performances that we said where it's, this is the player
that wants to win, right? This is the player that has said, I am going to take all of this
control, multiple three Ks, multiple bits of confidence. And you're thinking, Hey, what's
a good map for people who are confident in their guns right now and confident to move
roundabout oh shall I you have a follow-through you know that sort of demon
he's about to get bigger and bolder and fair play for the team obviously it's a
team game to sort of prop that's kind of performance up I still can't get over 18
to 1 that's just alright just any other day for fear yeah that's true
hopefully I thought you're gonna say it's an any odd day I'll get this just
you haven't dropped 18 kills doesn't mean that's not real.
No.
My games were over too quick.
I wouldn't rank five rounds.
Anyway, five rounds.
So not four.
No.
19 to three.
As I said, but you look at the rest of the team, right?
We talked about this at the very start of this, that backline of
Nadine, Filippox, their job is to sort of support the team.
And as I said, it's a team game.
On the other side, it's not that the killing game was generally
million miles away from a few of the
out of it players this doesn't you know
sure step was a bit behind as an entry
it start off really well for Elevate you
know I think they went out of the
doors gunning ready to go but that time
after me go it was really well placed
they then slowed their pace down for
you they knew what they were up against
we see a few times where Elevate tried
to go aggressive but fury ready for it
they were expecting that style of play
and whenever we seen the side twitch and
we go to the attacks for Elevate it was
the time management. That's what really done the men here today.
Well, what's the mess in? Taking a quick break before we're back with map 2.
Welcome back here on towards the stream and we are sort of throwing ourselves in towards
maybe the ultimates here for Elevate. They have lost their map pick, they did not find
the cash reserves in bank they were hoping for, so instead they have to see if they can
out Ski Furia, like an 80s action movie, but...
Will the villains win?
Can the heroes, the plucky underdogs, find something here, demo?
Are Furia the villains?
No, but like, you know, like an old Ski movie...
What?
Okay.
They don't exist by the way before you even start, though that is not a type of movie.
Wait, you don't know about like, okay, we'll have this discussion later.
First, do you think the underdogs can pull it off here in Jalek?
I knew.
Okay, well, do you want to elaborate, buddy?
Ah, I just think Shalé has always been a great map for Furia.
I mean, I think the top sides in Brazil have always been good.
Oh! I mean, I'm not the only one.
Whoever that 6% is, believe it.
You're going to get a lot of channel points.
Hey, believers, this one's for you.
It starts, as every great movie does, with potentially impossible odds, with everything
stacked against them and only 6% believing.
That is not how every movie starts.
The best movies do.
No.
Okay.
rings you're not going to beat me in this
what are the rings did you think that it
was easy for the hobbits to get the ring
the eyes and god do you think that was
easy
whoa I'm testing you move away
is anyone in the back he wants to come
work instead of this because this is
cause of issues I love the idea that you
think me yep the girl who dresses up in medieval armor and fights people doesn't
know Lord of the Rings enough to test you on silly but you do medieval
fights oh I do really no idea yeah if you follow me on Instagram I think it's
all that kind of post now I didn't realize putting on armor and fighting
people was going to be so cathartic. When I got my esports Siege common D last year.
You get that? Yeah, I hope. Oh, I should have.
I feel free to let it on that. But I got the trophy. I'll show you the trophy right now.
Here it is. I always bring it with me. I wish I was doing it then so I could have had that
in the video because I think that would be, and this is maybe the nerdiest sentence I could say,
I think that would have been the coolest thing to have in the video is fighting an armor.
And there's gonna be people that are like, that's so nerdy, and I'm like, I don't care!
Okay, I don't care! I care.
We're gonna rehearse again, if you hadn't of guessed why I've started this.
I had such a cool build in towards that map, and then...
I had to throw it all away.
Throw it, but jumpy to the audience, no one's here!
I don't know, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
I'm chilling, like it's just, yeah, just that fury.
Do you know they actually say the third day of any broadcast or of any show or any work thing if you start a new job?
The third day is the toughest day. What is that? Because that's the day
When you're juiced before your body gets used to the clock and gets used to the reset and the exhaustion of the three
Women used to the clock as in like
What?
Hate to break it to it. There is an hour time difference for us
That clock
I am Australian! What does Australians get? They just have to suck it up?
Yeah, they do. They should. They probably will.
I'm talking about, like, the idea of what a nine to five is in this case.
Like a day of work, or a day of a show, or a day of whatever.
It takes three days.
Yeah, but you weren't playing the five before this anyway.
Not directly before this.
What I was in before you got into this game.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I mean, if you start any new job.
Anyway, we're back in the game.
I'm gonna finish my point. I don't care.
If you start any new thing, the third day is the one just before your body has acclimatized to your new routine.
But the exhaustion of the first three days of getting used to the new routine catches up with you.
Also, I'm in my early thirties. I don't care.
Anyway, we're back in Siege! Let's talk about Siege, shall we?
Monty, Glass, Ella, Warden.
Gone. Okay.
We don't get a lot of Ella bands, to be fair.
Well, I always seem quite a rise in in pick rate hasn't she? Yeah, I think for a few reasons one
I mean the gun has kind of been back to its best over the past number of patches and the changes that's happened
and then obviously the
The play with shields where there's just been so
Much of it in the L.A. being a great canter where you can get that shield bash immediately and get some pretty easy kills onto those shields
Yeah, makes sense to remove the L.A. and I'm a very strong operator
I'm currently just because it's the meta.
Um, Warden, again, it's just gonna open things up for a ying here.
I think that's gonna be the main worry now without that operator.
The flashes are gonna be a big worry.
Um, so certainly, Elevate need to be careful of that in terms of U-Tilvanile.
I mean, there's none from Elevate.
They've actually went straight away for the orcs.
So obviously expecting shields to be brought by Furia, and they'd be correct.
There's a double shield setup, Blackbeard and the Blitz.
And straight away, by the way,
By the way, whenever I see a blitz start to slow walk up to a window, they're gonna go
through that window.
It's the best way to play your blitz is you try and keep it as quiet as you can, and then
you get the three, two, one, and go.
I can only assume that they're expecting this top place fire hold, and he's gonna sprint
in through the snowmobile window, and then up the main stairs and try and kill the guy
top fire.
This is the first bit of pressure they need to try and apply, and get resets out of the
bottom of the staircase.
They said, yeah, he's going to try and clear out below.
Herds get stemped in the meantime, there's one shield with a kill, that's two shields with a kill and Herds!
Can he do it again?
That's his twenty bomb over two maps, but he doesn't get the third for the round.
Ooh, good gun for just that sort of rebuff, and oh, oh, he has that shield coming!
Get out of there, go, go, go, Mayday, Mayday!
Via the wine, up West Main, and they're not quite in a position to catch the fleeing player, but only just Psycho.
Sinks his way back round, a bit of a run around, and think about where he started.
He's not actually too far away from where they first drove him, but somebody is lurking, somebody is hiding,
somebody is maybe about to make a friend with a big blinding bit of metal, and oh no!
The worst time to pop up, moves away from the blind, with his three players coming in for the execution.
Casey, locks it down, two players left, but there's still one player left and there's
still no players left, they are no longer still trying to hold on.
I love Blitz, I do, I really do, honestly just really good operator for Shallay, you
know Shallay is a fairly close quarter map where there's a lot of engagements that there
ain't a lot of kind of maneuverability for the defenders, and that's where Blitz is great.
You know, you think about the areas that he was able to find those defenders.
One player right on the snowmobile stairs is able to say,
Oh, I'm right here in front of you. What can you do?
Same with the vigil trapped inside of games.
Nowhere he can really escape to and really for the Blitz.
I mean, Nate didn't get any kills, but it's that information.
He was able to pick up information on, I believe, at least three players that round alone.
it was the consistency of it as well right and I think at what point did you
try and pick some let's go anti-shield operators they've obviously banned that
one shield well they tried to force the oryx and he got picked immediately by
the blackbeard which is the irony in that so where do you sort of go from there
because we've got another yeah the blackbeard got the opening too yeah we've
got oh actually we don't I was gonna say we've got another two shield but they
moved away from it because that's the other response. The attackers get two
things. One of them is the power to win around with a section of operators. The
other one is to know what the defenders have picked. If you see them go anti-shield
and anti-gadgets, then you've forced a playstyle. This is a team that's so good
at adapting they could just move on to something else. Yeah, now they've completely
ignored the shield. That clash now being brought into countersedge shields is now
going to get countered by the Nomad that's been brought in. So it's just
counters upon counters here today for Fury and can actually expect from them such a smart team and
they're ready for everything to play any style of siege if they need to. But yeah. And I think that
the main worry here, if you kind of look at the general setup from Elevate, is because they're
so fearful of those shields, they've went turtle, they haven't extended, they've just sat inside a
bedroom and they've gave so much map control, you look at where Fury are situated, they've got
themselves in towards Top Fire. They're ready now to look at opening up that breach. They've got
two minutes to go for just a very default play. Now Psycho on the clash is trying to hold on to
the verticality. There's obviously pressure on the piano window and they have the keybers to give
themselves a little bit of wiggle room in case it gets a bit too direct and a bit too costly.
They find the drone but at this point they're still just trying to ping utility and look for
for these positions, try and find the Kai-Plaw.
It should be catchable.
The only thing is just there's no vert, obviously,
for kitchen.
That may be the only worry that maybe Fury
have once they get upstairs.
And I mean, they are taking quite a while
to really get these breaches open,
because don't forget you need both open
to really make this kitchen plant work.
I assume it's going to be the dining plant, rather than
the kind of kitchen drop and go for the plant.
A little bit scrappier that way.
This is much more of the traditional kind of seed
that we like to see.
Finally, we're going to get these walls opened up.
But half wall, that's always the danger man. That's the play that they need to try and find.
Well, the flashes roll out. They've used the tub to slow down the breach on the wall, but resets also breach this KZ.
In the meantime, keeping control of West Main as the pressure just starts to bleed into the site.
Ignore the verticality, but you can't ignore resets as they're able to get JV92 on the trade.
Holding on again to this West Main position has entirely stopped the approach.
They've had to peel back, focus on the wall that they still can't get the second, will follow it round.
Do they have enough will it pop off in time should do as the wall is opened up, but now 40 seconds demo
Yeah, and it's the clash isn't it?
That's what they need to try and isolate herds has still got an air jam
So we can utilize that to try and stop the clash from the approach
But it's gonna have to try and be a plan and they're just gonna try and get themselves tucked in behind the b-bomb chassis
Now there is that verticality look at them watching patiently down on towards the plant spot
But he's spraying and he's missing he can't quite stop the kit going down and now
As they do finally find the end of it 17 seconds, but a 2 versus 2 with a clash in the mix as well
It means the math is a little bit shaky
Are they gonna see if they can try and stick it elsewhere?
They've got herds watching for this flight watching for this cover and he's going for the spreading fight another one
Can he get himself a 4k? It's a post-blog! Yes he can!
This
maybe
One of those series we and herds remember for a long time
That's one of those days for him. One of them days. I said I'm back. You could do no wrong. He's carried that over
Yeah, really scrappy. I think in the end there for fury and not the
Traditional beautiful style of seats that we like to talk about they really had to work for that
Obviously you look at that kitchen. They wanted to go traditional you open up towards office
You have that reach stops players on the vertical if you clear half all which was actually the kicker
They did not clear half what we've seen the clash able to stop the initial plant go down
And then they had to kind of think okay now what do we do?
There's a player upstairs. We don't have time to go and challenge them
We have to try and plant in an off plant position and that was just beside the plants
However, you can still get killed from the position of half wall this kill that he got onto the clash was so
Important if he did not make that happen
It was really easy from Psycho just to sit up there and get another kill from the player going for the plant
Wow
Big big plays from herds
And to a lice it
Say okay
I don't want to just keep sort of arping on to it was where he was before 1893
Since the time since that time out adding now this six and one
taking away the two deaths. What's the mental mass there Gemma? Is that a? What does that put us?
24 and 4? 24 and 4. That is uh, wasn't the toughest math. That's a 6 KD. That's a 6. Oh my. KD. It's unbelievable.
Right and there's almost this element of how do you stop him? It's pretty much impossible right now.
It's gonna really take him slowing down if anything. But also you kinda want somebody too because I want to see how far he can go.
if this was a series that got to a third map you're probably looking at the
chance at breaking a record here and just gonna do their best to prop him up
there's some pressure on towards library on towards anybody might be trying to
read this approach but spread out either side just keep them under a bit of
pressure slow the two shields but you can't slow them that much there's the
blind there's the pop there's one there's two jb92 points one in the meantime
as Casey does go down, but they've taken out the Solace, they've taken out the Denarii
and now they're being taken out themselves. They've lost the Ying and the Twitch back
and forth. They're still refusing to give up the territory, but Herds gets this one.
And now another three versus two. There's a lot of time here for them to try and hunt,
demo. Yeah, and this is again just beautiful from
Fury. You know, they baited in last try and where they didn't bring any shields, we've
obviously seen the kind of hard chilled counter in the form of the clash, got really no value
from that and then straight away as soon as the the kind of anti-shield operators are gone what they do.
Let's go back to the double shield and just completely bombard that top floor and they took that with such
ferocity and now it's just the case of getting the shield set up get a bit of information feed that
to herds let them get the kills and away they go with another round win and oh timing there for herds
almost got the slip on the psycho and now they're gonna try and see if they can move in and go for
The plant hola C4 to say hello and there's the swing from Psycho!
Herds!
Not aware that he was right beside him on the corner.
And now for Epox, a 1v2 to try and clutch up with on the Blackbeard.
40 seconds.
He's not gonna take the window up because then he's sort of in a bit of a sitting duck position.
So instead rotate your way around, keep them guessing, maybe you'll be on a door.
Make them have to wonder where they can set this 2 vs 1 up.
The problem is, he's gonna have to drive away in either way
And now he's got them sort of both in front of him
That's the angle that he would like to take though
They're gonna see if they can just spray around be one step ahead
He's got too much to watch and as that pops out
Just slows him down. He covers the divide a bit. He's over the top, but psycho
Steps back in and locks what was almost another round away from them into their favor. Yeah, it's off there for Flee Plox
They have to communicate very well, we have to talk about...
Obviously, Fleetbox in the sticky situation. Elevate time out.
I mean, first of all,
too quiet for us to eat in here, even if we could speak Portuguese.
Second of all, I think this was going to come regardless.
But also think about how that round was at one point going to go away from them, right?
That they were in the three versus two, they still had loads of time.
A minute 40, more than half of the total round, had a shield up,
had all they needed to build,
and then just went for the execute and the execute was punished.
Games still over this entire tournament so far,
especially the games that we've cast,
based on how I've seen it in that and good potential about other games,
is the best site for defenders.
Just has been so logged in, seemingly throughout this,
and also still not the first pick for a lot of teams.
There's some that have sort of gone there first.
I think Shopify Rebellion did in the game that we got there.
I'm trying to remember it anyway.
But otherwise, it's the problem is bedroom,
and the problem is kitchen well I will say I think shali is one of the maps
where all four are viable we've seen success from all four teams would play
all four but it is gonna be a tackle side it's you know that that's the way
this map just plays out we've talked about the the crossfires that you can
establish whenever you think about the windows towards the capiano balcony area
obviously big window towards the top floor too is an issue you've got top
fire plays just so many different cutoff points that you can really abuse from
the attacker standpoint. So four two halves are expected and at the moment we're on par
for that you know it's it's two one if we have a repeat then there's the four two
half that we're all expecting. Now obviously with that time out we couldn't
quite hear and even if we could we couldn't quite understand what was being
said put across there, some elevate, but you wonder what the conversation is
based on the pick up they've still got the denari, can play against the shields
can just cause a bit of a problem on the hop-in windows, obviously, and those are...
Think about, you know, you're on towards Ivy Window, you're on towards Piano Window,
they're awkward bits to clear out first without taking a lot of internal map. You need to otherwise
get your way up the stairs, you need to cross cross library, you need to cut your way across.
It's... there's a lot to do to get rid of small bits of gadgetry without just bouncing in a drum,
obviously. So that's not really how they like to play. You've got a lot of flashes and a lot of
flash of players and... are they just gonna go straight towards the site? There's some
and smoke's plopping in, there's a nomad that is so tempted.
Maybe they had to read that this is clear,
they know that there'll be players either side,
but they do not know, oh yes they do, Hurds!
Off to the races once again,
Psycho washed inside the bath,
and now spraying through for the next, what are you doing?
Wasn't listening, was locked in elsewhere,
that's two for Hurds!
But he's probably not gonna stop there,
he's about to be swung,
JV92 is the cover, Heard's, he's well aware he's about to have a fight but JV92 has that support structure
KZ's caught, there's JV for Stampin'
That's just one more for Heard's
Can we get a head check on uh, on Rats?
He's with headset on?
He was enraptured by something else
The guy's spraying for the walk right beside him and he just, I don't know
Just no reaction!
Guess I'm gonna get in here maybe.
Wow.
Look, overall whenever you think about what I said where you can really use a lot of the windows and use those cutoff points.
I mean, Furia, they used that really well. I mean, they isolated those kills.
They made it so Elevate had no breathing room at all.
And I suppose now probably the worry here for Elevate is you just use the timeout.
and you go into that round you get absolutely destroyed I think that's
sort of what happened in the first map as well right when we had the timeout
called I that again this it's just hello what do I always say the lights are on
somebody could be hurt nope so he's now 10 and 2 on this map you are fiction on
Because I want to see a record broke.
It's a kill watch right here.
It's a kill watch.
Yeah, this is the opposite of like a fraud watch or a hate watch.
This is a kill watch.
Because you have to pay respect towards what is possible and what is possible is breaking records.
And 10-2 after 4 rounds.
At this point you look at the rest of the team as well and you're thinking,
well and you're thinking okay Casey's got himself even, JV knows he's in the
positive and Nade and Flippox are playing the support roles. But it's
everything. One thing the support players will not be bothered as long as they're in the game.
But this is what we talked about at the start like this is how we said this team likes to operate is
you have three of the best gunners in the world with a very solid backline.
You got Nade who can play like just any operator that you need him to.
Yeah. Flippox obviously has an IGF. Wow. Big Nade. Big Nade. Oh did you see that?
the oaric stash across oh he's playing with him he's stashing back and forth he had to dodge the
aid into the flames and he goes back across again but they're ready for him this time of even more
you tell okay he's able to find one in the meantime somebody else picked off but jv knows two
he's caught they've still got this territory they're still trying to hold on to it i'll
wait you can see them stepping back in they don't just want to sort of hand it over kz gets caught
out they've now hopped in towards library and oh good yeah great resets knew he needed to win it
took a slightly different approach from the player that was further away and
for what feels like the first time in a long time
a man advantage in towards the favour of Elevate, okay, good position
and you have a bit of limitation on what they can do and think about where the site is
are they just going to try and run in? Surely not, the black boot is going for the face check
he's about to be swung from over the top and there's the catch, alright, 2 vs 2
now they're doing the verticality need!
gets the coverage and now it's a two versus one Ion all that's left was the
top player on the first map for them can't quite catch the second and now
with a shield it's a post-blown situation they know where he is they know
he can't leave they have either side they're just gonna run the blackbeard
in and bully him!
what did we say about the support players yeah they're pretty good
That's such a clinical fury around though. You see that happen all the time.
I think they are just absolutely spectacular whenever it comes to winning rounds,
but they have no right of winning.
Whenever the odds are so stacked against you,
think about that scenario.
Elevate with that aggressive round game,
which worked well for them in some parts during bank.
They went for the same approach.
Good team play using traps a lot better.
That little bit of barbed wire as that player jumped in through library.
That helps, that prefire comes in.
And then the two remaining players have no back control.
All they have is what...
I think it was Bar, was that it? That's where they came in from.
And they were very clever in how they went about that.
They heard the rotations, they knew there was two roamers.
They heard them rotate up stairs back in through piano,
and they thought, as they're rotating back, as they're transitioning,
why don't we just try and double up on the one guy in the site?
And that's what they did.
The solace exposes himself, loses it,
And then we see them in the perfect position.
Those players are still running back to site
as they are geared up behind that dining table ready for the plant.
And then from there, so easy for the Blackbeard to control that space to stop that aggression.
The shieldwork today has been so impressive and furious.
And it's not done yet.
Now, apparently on the Blitz, on the site that they did lose.
Now, you said elevate.
We'll be looking for two.
Here is time to make that come together.
Obviously they weren't a million miles away last time. It was a bit of a brawl on the site itself and the plant was just swung round on and
Well, actually they were in the advantage and it was stolen away from them early removal of the Goya canisters of the utility and of wraps KZ
Quietly making sure that he can get his one get his entry and
Put down who could be a problematic Roma later on wraps has had these positional moments
He's been able to strike back and now well
Well he's out of the equation, which means that the catching of the rest of the map
is something that should be a bit simpler.
Yeah I think that having that opening pick for Fury that just opens up their options
now they can use that extra man to cut off different windows, different positions, hit
a backstab maybe, I mean Shaly's got plenty of those, it's a very large map that roamers
have a lot of fun of, as well as the kind of lurkers as well.
So we'll see what they want to try and go for, obviously we're going to be looking at
this jump in through the big window. Try and get the shield in the back and go for the
plan. The only issue is, what about C4? It actually killed them last time, remember?
Let's jump in and just got annihilated and resets in the same position, ready for the
C4. That's a clone. That's not real. Don't panic, everyone. That's not real. Just didn't
think he was going to head run into it. I mean, there's not a lot of that. If it wasn't,
if it was someone else that wasn't fully boxed, maybe that's the possibility. But they have
some of this verticality. Ion has JV92 though. There's the Thatcher gone. There's potentially
the chance to see four if they got a base of half to one. Yeah, that's it. The Thatcher
could have stopped that, but at this point they can't. Stemp still has blue, still has
this lockdown. You can see Fury are wondering where to go first. Well, Hurd goes first,
takes Stemp. That's that blue player gone. There's a close fight on the right. Does he
know about Denari? Oh, does he know about the jump out? Oh! Rotten timing, rotten location,
And now the Blitz has to take the one versus one. It's Nade with the kit. It's the Nari with the gun!
Gets the hit and Ion locked it above. Now has the kit above a locked hatch. Psycho has herds.
This should be the two based on the work. I said it before. Ion had been that top performer for
Elevate on the first map and had been quiet up until this round. But what a round to find your feet.
20 seconds, Gazy, and they are not offering him anything. They've got the dead man playing above.
It's a locked hatch. He could try and rotate out double if he really wants to, but why would he?
He's got the kit. He can waste time. Even if he dies, he's still got to come that way.
But he won't go anywhere close. Four kills for Ion. Great play upstairs, being able to retake library.
Obviously the Eanna just went with the clone, it's so loud, isn't it, you can hear it scan.
And it's a very long animation as well, you're locked in that for a good period of time,
so it's really easy for Ion to jump out and get that kill, and then look, just ask the
front up a full flash with the blitz, and obviously there's a bit of luck in the side,
couldn't see, just sprays and hooks the vest, and hey, it worked for him.
Yeah, big round from Ion, big individual performance, Elevate, even though it's not been a pretty
sight in some of these rounds, four to half, so there's still potential here, but their
attacks need to be a lot better than back.
Mostly their time management, that was the issue for them.
Oh yeah, everything was late.
It was late, it was a bit scrappy.
It wasn't a million miles away at points, which is a good thing in some ways, because
you know that as you said that time management if they can find an extra 10 seconds 15 seconds from somewhere else in the round
It almost execute could become a great excuse could become there are whole teams that have built on that mantra
Of we just need that final 30 20 seconds
We just need that little bit of time and we've got everything there
I mean it's also a long animation to get out of as well
That is probably the moment great read from Ion
and stepping in, Nose Shield is gonna come his way, can hear it, obviously very audible,
starts the knife before he's even hit by the blind and then sprays and hopes and
sometimes hope is a nice thing. At this point, no, here are on their defense.
Starting themselves on, as I said, the most successful site. As I said, some teams will
opt to start with it. And this is one of those teams, and if they get themselves again into that
5-2 position as they did before.
This guy in a 2-0 is the limit!
That's 10-4!
He is an absolute nightmare!
We already doubled digits, 12 kills!
We still got quite the way to go.
I mean, what a performance today.
The kills just keep on going.
And this is on the mirror by the way, he's just running around!
That's the mirror!
Roming mirror?
You're supposed to be a sad incite mate, did you not get the memo?
You never heard of a roving thing.
They're day most tracking the mirror!
What would you do? How do you go into a herd? Just having fun with it, you know?
I don't know, four shields. Well, three shields, because it's a band one, but...
Just rushing with the shield, I don't know.
What can you do?
Panic.
Minute gone, and what control have Elvig gained?
I mean, yes, they've got themselves in towards Solar.
I'm sure they eventually will work their way in through Piano and in through Office and
get ready to begin this clear out in towards Top Blue, but it's quite a bit of utility
I have to go through.
Got the Fen Rears, you've got the Wamai, of course, that's going to be the heavy hitter
to eat up a lot of the utility, specifically those Candelas, if you can get them.
However, this Twitch Trone, who get a lot of value, is able to get one in the Mirror
Windows.
So it will force a player out of box, actually force him all the way back into the bomb site.
So this is looking good from elevate, but we need to see that execute on this top floor, the next 20 seconds I think.
I've been able to start just a bit of pressure on towards Ivy, get themselves on the window as well and get a bit of wiggle room.
Oh.
You did not.
You did not?
No.
You did not mean to do that.
Million why he didn't jump back out? Maybe he did. Maybe hang on. I'm gonna go back inside. I'm gonna do it the cool way
Now the blinds roll out as does nade gets resets and pulls out that switch that big gun there goes
They must as well. There's another crossfire. There's just all of them being fed into the machine of furia on the top floor
Falupox is found but look behind you. They're all around you KZ
Easy!
Alright guys!
Claims another.
And it's just so cool and calm and apart from that course really.
Yeah, just gunning them back.
I mean, the Util dump attempted.
I think obviously the Warden played a massive part.
Having the operator top fire doesn't have to worry about the Candela's rolling in.
Always going to have that coverage.
I mean actually I'm pretty sure that the warden kind of got beat to a lot of those kills
Whereas he's gonna be the main man to stop those kills coming across infre bluen and obviously towards the staircase
Over towards the double door that leads in the top fireplace. That's his job to cover that cross
But never really got the opportunity
Fury I just got him and we knew this
Whenever it comes to individuals, you know that fury I've got
actually fantastic individuals in their team
Herds is currently 30 to 7 over the whole series
over the two maps
so that's what 4.25
yeah note that it's obviously the first map was a 7 3
this one is currently a 5 2
they kill herds
They can win the round.
Is that your logic?
Well, I also can't camp because they've won two rounds and he's died four times this map.
So sometimes it doesn't always work as well because also the rest of the team is pretty good.
Let's get back to the drawing board. The problem is, okay, if you look to the other side,
if you look towards it, yes, Temp is a little bit behind and hasn't really been able to get himself into the series.
Ion as well.
And Max kills five.
But max kills of one player on elevators five and that's within seven hours. Yeah, well, that's the that's what they're missing
Right because outside of herds the max is six on the other side
The the sort of split there and fleet boxes obviously one and three place for oba. We'll talk about that
It's not that they are as a team a million miles away. It's just herds is that difference back to right now the individuals
Oh, haha, is that for laser free? What was that matter? Oh, I've seen many
And he still walks away with a kill!
You've gotta be kidding me!
And back in Yellow Stairs, and back in Consulate from back in the day!
All those nades!
And they still couldn't really stop him, they did find KZ though.
So, they got two for their trouble and lost one.
You're looking at the trade out, JV92 had the utility that will no longer be used, no C4.
There's some pressure but no wraps!
To respond to Blackbeard, Bot resets, very importantly, gets that instant response for the double hards.
We started this round by saying he is the difference factor.
What's three more for the tally? What's two more left?
He's able to find his first, he's tracked, and he swings right into it, he's expected, but he can't!
I think we all will believe for a second.
Yes, until I seen the demo's track, that I think was a big decisive factor there on that 1v2, whenever one of the players knows exactly where you are, you can feed that information through to the teammate, yeah, it got me difficult for that clutch to come in.
Really good you tell them, I mean, yes, the Mira was able to actually stop and still get a kill, but they cleared the position, which was the main thing.
They cleared that position, they forced Furia back into those crossfires.
That's what I'm talking about in Shelly.
You dump that Util, players have to move, and because the map is fairly close range,
and you are going to be exposed to a lot of exterior angles,
that's where you can catch them as they try and rotate off that Util to not get killed by the Nades.
So yeah, very impressive from Elevate, they knew exactly what they wanted to do.
They had that game plan.
Everyone was in position.
3-2 won, Ingo to the nades, they have to pull away, they pick up the kills, they have that
man advantage to overwhelm the remaining player and they win that first attack for them.
So Elevate, again similar to Bank, I said it on Bank as well, they're not far off and
they can still do this but, again Fury, have they shown any signs of slowing down?
I don't think so, there hasn't really been a moment I feel where Elevate has controlled
the series.
You know if Helvet wins her out, Fury's straight back in again.
Nade took a little bit of damage from somewhere.
I was about to say something else, but then I saw her as health going and it always takes my attention.
Just gonna slip their way away, they've got time to waste.
The Sledge should be able to make quick work of those castles, but as soon as you start hitting them,
you open up to a pressure from IV windows, so you need this.
The pressure to come across from the library, draw them in, catch them out, and well,
There's still a black bird running at you and there's still oh almost the catch on towards the player another window another fight and something
That he wants to try and dabble in he knows the sled just watching him on grenades, but he gets away with it Casey gets one
You can see rats taking even more damage the air jam to try and force the player
But now they're in piano and they have that man watching on the back
Flee pox was inside of Marty actually barricading itself in and now he's on the flank
This is gonna be big for him should get the freebie and he will
The 4-2, the player outside has to enter the day, Moss has massively hurt and the catch hasn't worked.
Resets!
Had a big round last round, is he able to get himself towards the first engagement?
More tracks, more time, they have a lot of it here.
Elevate, they can cook, they can try and isolate.
Only issue, look at where both the attackers are, they're so far away from one another.
One towards the opposite balcony, the other inside of that from so in terms of trading each other,
other that's not gonna be there for them they have to win individual
engagements that's why they're doing this big big rotate getting themselves all
the way around the problem is the kids it's in piano they'll know it's in
piano and they're ready to try and swing around to put the pressure JV finds
stump and that leaves just resets will herds get a kill this round he's gonna
try and he's gonna fail resets gets himself a second it's all of the VP
again they can just peel back there's a minute it's a two versus one the same
thing you said about the attackers, the defenders are going to learn that lesson and set up for a trade game.
We do not want to give resets to one versus one engagements because in fairness, if we're talking about two OKDs,
well, he's there as well right now, he is the shining light and the fire and the fury of the elevate
and the one trying to bring them up another level and up another place and get a very precious point.
Ooh! The only point found though is at the end of a JV92 bullet.
Yeah, that's gonna be match point series points for Furia
So I mean whenever elevator will win a round Furia straight back in get their own round
They are not allowing the momentum to build for elevate and they need three clean rounds to make this happen. I
Mean, I will say the time management is a lot better
I mean there's something to execute a lot earlier
But that round they didn't get the kills that big flank from Flee Pucks no flank protection as well
has to be questioned how is he allowed to rotate from inside of mud up blue
stairs whatever your attack is stemming from that side come on you've got a nomad
as well don't forget yeah it's this sort of awkward split of it right is
they're learning these lessons but it's late in the series yeah and it's against
a very tricky opponent I think things like that drive across the top would
probably be better but the fact that Casey can pull out those little moments
the fact that they can have these little backstabs and they're confident enough
Do it. That is Furia. That is the opponent that you're up against and that is what is punishing them and
What I love about Furia is they never make the same play twice. Every single round there's always
something new. There's another obstacle. You know it? Like you looked,
herds, spawn peeking in the mirror, straight away that's the obstacle. Next round,
Flugbox hide inside a mug. You know that's the way that they're maneuvering around this game
is they're always adding a unique element that Elevate either have to deal with
or Furiel when they're out off of it and there's just so much to take in like there really is
they know everything they've got every trick in the book
they wrote the book they wrote the book is a good book better than your book
i found you sure my book well it was just like 51 phrases you know like that section
i had a bloodlets yours is just a stocking filler this is the main gift couldn't get
get it published. Tried everyone. Tried Parker, but it's not actually published, it just looks
like one. They're looking for the player, just tucked, the C4 won't catch anybody and
herds, slips away. They're gonna see if they can just try and draw some focus. Again, they're
shaking things up, give themselves some smoke coverage on the rotate across the top and they're
back towards the site. They entirely abandoned anything on bedroom, anything on that side,
But they made sure that they were known to be there.
Which means Elevate will be slowed down a bit.
They won't be able to just jump in and swing and
they'll have to re-tech and check every corner, every drone, every angle.
Luckily, as we said, their learnings do it faster and faster.
Is it too late in the day? We'll have to find out.
But to be honest, this round and how he's gone in the past couple,
my eyes are going to be on resets.
If he can get himself into an engagement early,
if he can try and get that body down that he's been so consistent with,
maybe they can apply some pressure elsewhere they know.
There's stuff to steal and bite gum.
Demo, they're gonna start trying to steal it.
Yeah, again, the bands, I think, are strong for Fiora.
The demos, which did cause a lot of issues,
were being able to track some of the roaming potential
that I think Fiora have tried to, obviously, exaggerate
and then elevate.
Yeah, get rid of the Fenrir.
It actually opens up then for your own backstabs
if you want to go for it.
So, I think whenever you look at operators being brought in,
like your Brava, like your DokaBeat,
if you can act, you might be like a bandit
that could have been brought in and replacement for Fenrir.
You have the dog we call again those rat players could really shine. Oh there goes hard
But KZ gets stepped right back and JV92 is traded immediately what a run what a rush and what a ride
Elevate have just taken furior on really good execute there the entire team pushed what they needed and
They're not done yet
Yeah, I'm really good pause as well from the bridge lock because can there's no traps is no Fenrir
got himself into position where he was able to work that kind of kitchen
corridor and overlook in towards blue catch anyone who could have rotated down
and also in through the hatch so a really good little setup where you're gonna go
for that free to you one dump the util in if you're a try to drop off there's
players sat in the correct positions to catch those rotates so yeah great round
from elevate furia just getting called out there lack of information maybe do
they ever consider perhaps a Valkyrie could work for them just a little bit
extra info they had a valkyrie did they aren't ah yeah she was the first dead and it was the
hands of her it's but they usually wanted to know oh yeah there is one there it is there she goes
i mean it could have been stolen by the brava it might have been sort of stepped ahead it was
a good response to be fair valkyrie a knight now on this map so i think if you're not bringing
either an iq or a brava to deal with her then you're kind of just giving them a lot to work with
either way this is now the moment for
elevate obviously it was the moment for
they have been unable to thread two
rounds together since the opening two
of the first map since then yeah they've
gotten a couple rounds here and there
but it's the consistency that's
unfortunately plagued them they've
taken what is the most successful site
on defense is the first time this game
defenders have not been able to win out
games now they're back towards the site
that they got their first win on their
attack towards Fedser. What is going to be their MO? Will they try and shake things up as you put
it? Furia, like to change what they're doing, like to bring new adaptations and you've got to be ready
for that and also ready for your own game to develop or maybe as they get the read through and the
step into it's the warden of herds. It's just going to peel themselves a little bit further away,
waiting for the chance of a swing. Just need to keep an eye on this blitz, that's going to be the
the game changer here for... for Elevate.
Where they're gonna utilize that shield?
Looks to be West Main and, ho, he's got a drone.
Oh, thankfully for KZ's been able to spot that out,
or else he would have been a sitting duck, but still.
Will be up against that Blitz at some point,
and they're gonna have that pinch, and he's gonna be trapped now.
No! No! No!
KZ says not today!
What a shot on the eye on the Nez!
Just killed the round dead for Elevate!
They lost the Blitz as well, resets though,
As I said, he's been the man of the moment.
He's trying to make sure they keep fighting.
Brings at least one of the bodies gone,
but it's for Leapox.
It's that back line.
Think about what they've lost though.
That blitz, he said it was the main warrior
and they were too laser focused on charging down.
And unfortunately, they were just baited
into the verticalities, an easy pickup from above.
And, you know, they've fallen for a ruse,
a bit of a trap of their own.
Reset takes a bit of damage.
But getting that kit back,
When you know it's being watched from above, you've already lost a man with a shield on it.
And you are pressured and pressed for time. What do they have here? Demo.
A buck, fine. Four flashes, and then some bees and a call. They need to try and get Aggie.
They need to get themselves in and up there.
But all the roots are watched and well sort of trod.
So instead, it seems like a bit of a deeper rotate. Now they've got the kid out of there.
They have to try and find what is a clear side, but they haven't done anything on the library side.
They haven't done any of the clear on the far side. Everything's been focused on West Main.
Need to try and find a pick. Maybe the buck from below could...
try and pick off the kill. I mean, right now you see the guy behind the bomb chastity? That has the same dunk, but...
you won't know that. Maybe here's the call. Maybe he has an idea?
Oh, just misses him. He look at this!
From here, somehow get out of that! How do you do that?!
Cycle was on the window, could have caught the rotation, and he also gets a kill on the stem!
You're not allowed to do that!
Pre-firing the Angles, but we won't see the rest of it!
Furia!
A dominating performance, led by the brilliance of Heads and KZ towards the end.
They just sort of leveled themselves in.
But I mean, how do you stop a team that plays like that, Demi?
Look, that is Furia at its best. I mean, the way that they have operated that shalei, they had so many, I mean, think about how many strats they had, they never repaid it the same thing twice.
They were always catching Elabic by surprise. It was always different. I mean, the team play, obviously the individuals, which sometimes what it comes down to, you know, individuals wins the game, two has the better players.
Look, we know Furia, we've seen what they've won compared to the side on Elevate, this, this was what was expected, I mean this was how I'm sure the predictions went.
I think by the end he was around 32 to 10 over the series.
He's just doubled boy how it started today, no?
Yeah, it's just...
You say it, the player on his day, how do you beat it?
Unfortunately, you don't in this case and you know you've got to give credit obviously towards elevate especially towards the end
They started to look they started to get I think they approached
The day with the right game plan go aggressive don't allow fury in a brief drop them
We've seen that on bank, but it just shows how good fury are they can change their play style like a light switch
Oh, yeah, they can do everything in this game and they show my Igor called the very early time out
They changed their playstyle. They wanted to play passive. They knew how elevate we're going to approach this and then once
Fury I get just a little drop of blood. They're on you like a pack of sharks
Well, although they fought now unfortunately in their throat and they've got to just watch what happens next
Yeah, rough for elevate now
It kind of sets them up where they need to rely on wild card to lose. That's where you are. You're actually your hate watching now
They're gonna be hate watching wildcarts. We gotta be to no surprise 32 and 10 RMVP is
62 EPS by the way the game heard all around this area playspace and hotel and world and everything
Else it's just been a phenomenal game from them and what else can you really say right? This is as we said a statement game and
I mean
It's probably gonna get even worse from here, but from here actually where it's gonna go is in towards a break before we're back with game 2 on the B stream
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Right here on this stream a battle of EU in North America
And it is a battle the first place in the group as well it is and the thing is
Wildcard we've only seen him play a single a game so far at this event
So it's a big question like how good are they actually but historically
We know they can put up quite some good numbers and do it fighting making top two top four appearance
But reload and Munich major that's right in wildcard. They're heating up
They have a chance to not only jump over Falcons
But even jump over Theria who currently sit in first place should they win this game?
So to simplify it whoever wins out of Falcons and wildcard will make it to first place in the group in doing
So if wildcard are able to get even one map in this game
Elevator out of the tournament. They were the first team eliminated from the sixth invitation. Oh, it's crazy, right?
I mean the going throughs I didn't think it was gonna be out without a fight
No, they are not getting anything done unfortunately the runners up from the APL finals second best team in a pack
Arguably and that's not at all what we've seen so far here at airside
I mean elevate just to cast your minds back to play day one their first game of the tournament was
Arguably their heart that they're most important and their easiest against they start they fumbled that now
They fumbled two more games their last chance will be taking wild card spot and wild card
They're certainly not looking to get that's let that slip away from them
Let's have talk about wild card now this North American dark horse the youngest roster at the tournament
And yet these dark horses, these up and conners have demanded our respects through results time and time again
Yeah, they're having a talk about, you know, the crazy gunners like the cancins, the dash, the baby shark
But honestly my focus here is the guy right in the middle, Spiker, the IGL very early in his career still
And he's been showing why this group is so good, leading his teammates forward strategically
Both at Reload and at Munich to great success and he's now getting all this passion
We see him in the player camps and interviews. He's a very passionate player as well.
Spiker, the IGL for this roster, 21 years of age.
And yet his career has actually technically lasted for almost five years.
He's been on teams, if you look at his Lycopedia pages, original rosters.
He's put around the block a few times, and yet he's still such a young player.
Man, he's looking drippy in that cowboy hat and chain.
And he's looked pretty solid so far through the tournament.
He's not usually relied on as one of the core fraggers.
And yet you look at those results, he's going positive.
He's looking solid so far.
I mean, the roster on paper, you look at it and go,
what is happening?
They got Baby Shark, who's from France.
They got Baschus from Brazil.
And on paper, this shouldn't work, but it very much is.
It really does.
And we saw that with particularly their first tournaments
on the international stage that we really talk about a lot
is Rio.
And people say, well, you know, reload.
It was a bit of a different tournament.
Those teams were invited by being Ubisoft partners.
And so there's always this asterisk.
and yet they got top four at that tournament.
Now they failed to qualify for EWC subsequently,
come around to Munich,
not only did they qualify,
but they actually managed top four again.
Exactly.
And that's when the story gets crazier and crazier.
Had that not happened,
I think we were just gonna write them off for this one.
But because I've had those big success stories already,
now the question is, how far can they go at SI?
Good question.
And you know, the question that we've been asking
this whole time about Six Invitational
is what about the Parisians?
What about the Falcons?
This roster has done just about everything you can do in Rainbow Six, except raise the hammer.
EWC champions, major champions. Shut up about your pro league finals. It's 20-26, Nicholas.
But Falcons, of course, the kings of being runners up. How many times have we seen them get so close?
And yet, no cigar. A year ago in Boston, they lost the grand final to FaZe. Just a couple of months
ago in Munich, they lost the grand final of a major to M80. Now, everyone's looking at these guys.
and like, well, if you're not gonna win in Paris,
when are you?
It is.
It is exactly that story for them.
And the goat story for Chicago as well.
Can you be the goat without the hammer?
It's a talking point,
we've had a lot off the last couple of weeks.
Some people say, yes.
Some people say, no.
I'll die on that.
Yo, there's no way.
I think you'll agree and say, you know what?
I will only be the certified goat
when I get that hammer.
And we're in Paris.
Home tour, third time ever.
We had Paris make in 2018.
We had a Paris aside during the COVID times in 2021.
and now we're here for the third time Falcons.
If they can make this story happen.
There's also this question mark about,
what about retirements?
A player like Breedy, been around for a very long time.
The roster, very successful, right?
Making so many Grand Finals, but by their own standards.
Going to a Grand Final losing six times out of seven
is a failure to them.
Breedy's second oldest player at the tournament,
29 years of old.
We don't have any 30-year-olds at the tournament.
If he continues his career for another year,
he'll be in his 30s still playing,
And this is his 7th, 6th Invitational yet that hammer has eluded him for Shaco.
I mean, he had a fantastic game yesterday against LL8, 140 EPS.
Let's have a look at the maps though.
Oh man, let's have a look at Breeden.
I mean, damn, that is cold.
Again, the jacket, the fur coat, I love it.
I mean, this guy, he's not a stats player, but man, it really doesn't matter.
The values he provides to the team.
If you recall in the last season against LL8, right, he literally had a round on board
where he's C4, single-handedly would win the round in a 2v2, and there you go to Lair,
when the very final round on Echo, he gets four kills.
I think he finished the game with seven, so four of those seven kills is the final round victory.
Secure that game for them.
So let's now have a look at the map, Vito. We're playing the best of three series.
So you get four points on the standings if you win it 2-0, three points if you win it 2-1.
If you lose, but you still win a map, you just get the one point, lose with no maps,
You're out of it and for wild card that would mean that they still are not out of groups now having a look
What are we digging into here Falcons get the third?
Oh, sorry the second pick border for wild card man. That's gonna be a bloodbath
Very interesting, but you know what border this event. I feel like in general border into club into a fortress
Man, I really hope we get the third map here. You and I haven't actually casted a three mapper
No, we were gonna get fortress yesterday had that game gone the distance
I'm really keen for this one and you know what Nick just having a look at the maps border being first picked here by
Wildcard guess what Falcons played that yesterday against elevate and while they did win that game
It's the only time elevate have ever pushed any team at this tournament. Yeah to overtime. Yeah, that's very scary for Falcons
It definitely was a bit of a vulnerability for Falcons
I think that entire map of border kind of came down to Shaiq whose efforts while anything else
He was so good at getting the entry engagements
being that free roaming spirit, getting so much value for his team. If Shaco doesn't have that
performance and there is a squad has the same performance, that could be Wildcard easily
taken away from it. Yeah, I really like this play from Wildcard. It's daring when you go up against
one of the highest rated teams in the world and the social prediction certainly agrees with that
statement. Falcons, very nice result there from you guys. 69% of you reckon that Falcons will take
the cake here but wild card have their number on border let's find out
so falcons on the attacking side lockhart starting defense and i always have this small thing from
From my previous playing days, I think going into a big best of 3, almost regardless of
what map you're on, going on the defensive side is gonna feel just a little bit better
to settle into it.
It's still early in the day, they can just kinda set up the defaults for the paper and
make Falcoons problem solve every step of the way instead, Aubrey abandons a lot of options
but that Asami, almost every single game that we have been casting teams has been removed
action that's gonna stay the same as army mirror gonna play around the
bombsite set up and the protection around the map and then doggie and
demos those entry and early kind of pig operators removed from action it's
interesting yesterday Falcons against elevate ban out the as army and the
smoke as their two main bands and they had some incredible rounds rushing in
thanks to that smoke ban their third band ended up being the solace actually
which was really to further lean into that play style of going for those
Executes obviously the solos is kind of the perfect ingredient if you don't have the smoke to just smoke off a potential rush
You at least have the solos to find out where they're planting
That's it
But yeah, no it looks like a bit of a change of tack here for Falcons
Maybe they're expecting wild card to go for really fortified defenses with Azami and Mira, which are part of our architect's
Operator lineups they want to remove that from action, but it's not removing all of the heavy power position operators
There's some left.
Collash and Dash is actually hiding in the corner of Armory with that operator trying
to prevent Falcons from knowing and potentially picking into a counter.
This is something that Wildcard also did quite well both at Reload and Munich.
They're very good at having kind of two main play styles in a map that's kind of pre-configured.
What I mean by that is that Wildcard right here, they can spend the clash, the first
three rounds, force that third operator to be the clash to then have another backup really
strong operator after it. Let's say it's gonna be Valkyrie Echo, C4s below, whatever, and
they're probably gonna have two halves to this one in terms of playstyle. But for now,
it's gonna be Dash on the crash and Armory Breach helping hold control over CCTV, Assisting
Bay who's playing by that CC door. This works almost like a substitute to a mirror window,
for example, except it's complex. I like this though, the clash can get very aggressive
and put the shield down actually go for a swing.
That's why I don't know where he just took damage from.
We've been all the way just walking, breaking the shields, what's the actually?
But how on earth was this expert?
I don't know.
Oh well, Falcons get to work.
You can see how aggressively Wildcard are playing there, they're peeking.
This reminds me of the W7 M-game yesterday on board, a problem with peeking a little
bit too much is that if you lose your fight, you open a gap for Falcons to move in, but
baby shark goes up for two big kills.
Meanwhile, sneaking into the back of Archives,
Paredé is looking for a plant and it goes down!
Completely caught off guard, it was Spiker's job to know about that plant on the Solus
and deny it from below.
But with only one kill on the board, Falcons managed to convert that plant
and now they look to try and hold it in the post.
The Clashier could be a problem, just like a Simon can block off an angle,
the door or window and go for a long run defuse, but for a kill.
Surely this retake is going to be a challenge though.
3-day out here on the window, he could deactivate, but it's not gonna work!
Baby Shark finds his third kill, and the Frenchman stands up to his domestic rivals
with a big kill and a big opening for Wildcard!
Both teams playing that to perfection. I mean, this is a new look from Falcons.
Them doing these kind of halftakes where they're pressuring CTTB and they're over committing to the play.
It was just to sell that they are going for that attack when in reality they're planting Arkham's door
with a Thatcher denying a C4 toss, and a Monty blocking any bullets through a smokebang.
It's genius from Valkyries, but then Wildcard, they take their time.
They were not rushing towards Archives and stressing this situation.
They knew, guys, we have a 4v3.
Use the clash for information, single out the various attackers,
and we will win this round very comfortably.
And it indeed was a comfortable victory,
because Baby Shark got every kill of the information from Dash's clash.
First get a first run into this game Nick, and I'm already seeing great stuff from both sides
The fact that Falcons they they saw that gap on CC immediately go in meanwhile, but like look at how quickly
Shaco jumps in here. I respect the balls like even though it didn't work out
I respect that he had that aggressive play and just the quick gap finding
Adrenaline of going for it, but then baby shark held on very nicely
Meanwhile Falcons like it's just so many layers of good things happening for proteins
It is I know some people are gonna go back and say oh, but Shai could jumping in and then you know
You died to a C4 and break door the whole point of Shai could jumping is that you're selling the attack happening somewhere else
Yeah, when reality in Falcons mind if they plan 3d5 that's around victory in their strategical mind
Of course, you can then lose it a clutch it whatever but on paper
They got exactly what they wanted you said that the clash certainly helped a lot that round
Clash not picked this time around the oryx. Yeah order oryx
Solus, Valkyrie is a lot of mobility here in this lineup, a lot of information gathering.
Looks like Wildcard want to play Lucy Goosey.
And they're showing their various play styles, the fast, the slow, the information gathering.
And this is going to test League of Facts more than anybody else because he is the brains of Valkyries calling the shots of
where they're going to go, where they're going to push, when they're going to go plant.
Phenomenal drone, but if you can't find a kill with it then it's just information to kind of slow down the round on site though
So it's actually enabling leaker fact to go for an early entry, but baby shark wins the fight despite there being info on his position
Thankfully shaka can trade he's deep here in supply
But he's not actually on the verge of entering into the bomb site
I think falcon's got a little bit baited by this info from use
I don't know why users is watching at leaker facts dead. He can just be watching that run
I'm just gonna say the issue is now IQ is dead those Valcams. You're not gonna find most of them
I also think this is a case where you could rep ping the balcony to private mental pressure as well
Because they thought they had the upper hand but Valkyrie didn't know he was under pressure
Maybe that was like completely ignorant to it, right?
How is it you have a drone on-site like full viz on the one side player and you're still losing bodies like this?
very unusual for
Falcons to be committing so many mistakes if you're losing so many gov has especially when you think that they would be
We gotta praise Baby Shark, they are shooting back, they are fighting one to one against
the crazy gunners of Valkyries and this is going to be Plan B now, we're going to reset
the round, paying costumes, paying first for the issues, it's a full horizontal attack
against Bruticality of both the Solis, the Valkyries and Baby Shark picking up kill after
kill, this round it has no teeth games.
Unfortunately it doesn't, uses his low HP, he's trapped in bathroom.
consolation for Breda on the baby shark but of course that just means he can sit
on those Valkyrie cameras oh wow very lucky flick there from Breda quick
reactions they goes down into the 2v2 but low HP on both sides
Spiker is the decisive player here because he's got that electronics
detector on the solace he can play to plant an eye in the late round there is
no need for wildcard to over commit and it should not be possible maybe there is
away if there is a will. Greenpeace ground for protection for spotting on the very
galaxy. Oh, they faked it. They dropped the defuser to make it look like they're planting.
And that's why Spiker is not going for it. Yeah, he seems to be aware of the play,
and now it's been duped out again. Breide can be spotted. The plant will surely be denied,
and with that wild card steal a second round. Very well done. Again, there was this brief moment
of their were wildcard on paper. So Chidi, they had to wander around. It was 4v2, they
were the Calyptus, the Valkyrie, etc. and they wanted more. Popping hatches, trying to
take down BD with the camera information, with the solace information, and then they
lose a couple of gun fights and they say, okay guys, we're kind of throwing. But then
we see wildcard again, I think most notably with Spike being alive, see guys, I can single
handedly win this, just don't move the muscle. And there is this thing that I generally believe
even so deeply, and it is sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
Yeah.
The simple act of being alive gives you so much value in the game, right?
Let's say Baby Shark, he dies in League Effect during the beginning
because he's looking for that gunfight himself.
That means no one's on bomb side.
Now a rush makes you vulnerable.
If Baby Shark, let's go up mouse and keyboard.
The guys above him can watch the vertical angles.
Baby Shark's AFK, he's the centerpiece.
Sometimes you gotta chill.
Yeah.
100% saw that perceived pressure. That means so much
Wildcard are looking really solid in the first two rounds here. They are. I'm still a little confused as to why
Spike and you that that was a fake plan
I thought that was a genius play from Falcons dropping the diffuser in the side
He was looking like maybe he just didn't even see it because he was actually
He was looking the complete opposite side of bombsite ironically if wildcard were a little bit more switched on maybe that play from Falcons
Would have actually worked and they would have killed the solos
It is a nice bit of cat and mouse skill that we don't see that often because
With the solidest change that happened a long time ago
You can't see what electronic you're looking at unless you overclock the gadget which is limited charges in the cool down
And spider didn't know the charge so he wasn't sure that was a drone or a planter or whichever
But also mind you when you're playing on land in a very controlled environment
There's no crowds not a bunch of noise your game sound. It's really good
He might have heard that no plan was happening. Yeah, I knew they were faking it as well, but we don't know for sure
Oh well, third round in for Falcons and they're starting to get a little bit desperate.
The pressure mounting, they didn't look too hot yesterday on this map and today is unfortunately
for them more of the same.
This story of Shai can just pop an obvious today, right, and that doesn't happen, I don't
think they win that map against the Libby.
Yeah, which is grim, I mean if you're even losing games to Elevate, that's not a place
you want to be, Elevate on the verge of elimination if Wildcard even win one map here and at
at the moment, starting to build a little bit of a case
for why they might be able to win border.
Defected again very early on the IQ.
Thank you this time, no Valhkir came to speak of,
uses find Spiger on the solo, it's a very valuable target
and canton has burnt all three toxic babes
just stalling 3D out at the East air store.
So right now, Valhkir, they were ahead of the curve
because later in this round, nothing should slow them down.
So once they get in, it's gonna be guns place
and get a fast gameplay.
That's right, the value from that soloist maybe will end up seeing it banned after this round, but for now it's eliminated from the round.
So what the Falcons do, trying to poke and prod on CCTV, here comes a big entry from Solotov, supported by the Blackbeard on the other side,
who will go down, Dash gets the last laugh on this clear and actually manages to fall back to server,
As well, a second kill now for Wildcard.
Falcons are left reeling with 50 seconds to play and not a lot of options.
A lot of just 1v1 gunfights right now.
Yes, Breedy baited the entry 4 sorts of really successfully.
Then Breedy gets 1v1 by Dash instead of Armory.
Kansen takes down Shaco, but I'm east there.
Where Falcons, they just slow things down a little bit there and Shaco gets a body with him.
You can 2v1 Kansen and go for a trade.
Too many individual ones happening.
You're just a bit apart in the map right now. Maybe that's because you get back to dying early means there's a bit more separation in the server, a bit more chaos.
But Baby Shark and Dash both very low on health with 20 seconds to go.
Retaking upstairs though. Oh, this is genius. They've got the numbers advantage.
Are they being watched? No, they're not.
Use is looking down the hatch and now Solotov is left in a real pickle.
He's found it down onto the first one, but just around the corner,
Kansan can lock the site up for Wildcard.
Three rounds and Falcons are left wondering, what the hell do we do?
Honestly, right now I think if you're Falcons you gotta slow down the gameplay and it's a bit awkward because border we think of as a very fast paced map
but right now they're getting punished. League of Legends 0-3 dying first every single round practically
and we gotta see them have two small bodies on the map. So I think slowing things down, playing the first minute 30 seconds, like five players alive
Look for the play, make the play. It's that or you speed it up for the players who are not already playing fast
And get them with league back in the front
Falcons at the upper the bands will call a tech timeout. I wish we could hear what they are saying
Yeah, all right, we listen really closely
I like that, honestly you catch there.
Oh you did?
Yeah, a little bit.
What about you?
We need extinct notes if you want.
Okay.
about isolating kills. So catch the guy east, look for the easiest point of entry, one guy
we can isolate, get that one kill. And the pivotal thing for me as well was Julio at
the end saying, that's the way we get back into the game, that's the way we get the momentum
back. And that is so true. Sometimes I think in tactical timeouts, coaches and players,
leaders of the team often focus so much on what the strat is rather than how do we build
our confidence back, because we know how to play this map, we know how to play this team,
We just need to get our grove back and I think chasing the little wins like an isolated pick here or there
Is it actually so on the money there for Julia?
It's a very small map so opening kill could get you very far into the map taking East air CC very pivotal in almost every single bomb site
Speaking of bomb sites
We're in costumes. This is this is second time we're seeing a team
The losing team take a tack timeout and the winning team throw a curveball
But Gordon at least played sights in the game
I mean this is exactly what happened yesterday with Falcons in the elevator right and Elevator ended up winning that round attacking this bombsite
Maybe Wildcarts saw that and thought hang on a second Falcons made quite a few mistakes on that customs attack
Maybe we can you know bait them into making the same mistakes again
No, sir, my this is the thing about picking the
The fourth priority bomb site is that you're not gonna have a clear cut plan necessarily on it
And we're just talking about how you got to isolate the Easter's player and then start doing recent around or whatever
Well, this is not gonna play out like a regular round because that a regular bomb site and you said well
There's no thermite
We'd only have he banner to work with anything and a single set of can open it. We do have one site
Yeah, I should look at the use on the striker actually, but the guy that has it
But again, it's very small holes
you can make towards the bottom side and that just tells me they're gonna go for a heavy upstairs take which they are right now
Here on the stairs and CC door because they don't have adequate
Hypersuction, so how are they going looking for individual players they can isolate?
I think they did that for East and well wild card just fall for the map control
I think is a good move here, especially playing an operator like Oryx
I mean Dash can quite literally dash around and get back upstairs through one of the hatches if he wants to in the late round Falcons
We'll have to make sure that they're very wary of their flanks
I do wonder if they know there's an Oryx in tow. They probably do at this point in the round
Another thing to note is the operator bands that came out just before that tactical timeout Falcons didn't get rid of the
Solis instead they went for that smoke again. Yeah, they did this thing right? Okay, make hike
Well, it's gonna save it out of thermite to pop the floor next to the hatch
I was worried about these kite claws, but spiker trying to get a little bit too much value was tricking it rather than
Pre-placing it probably thinking that EMPs, but we know that they built. Yeah
Um, and I think Wildcard, or Falcon's story yesterday, when they were attacking this bombsite,
they were doing it very much horizontally. Now they're actually taking a whole armory,
archives, top floor portion, doing the verticality, then going for side execute.
Now the neck of Furbine makes a lot more sense because they're not going to fight on the breach.
It's an entry pathway, but they see four, it's playing solo top, and the destruction.
Back up the wall as well. Yeah, now Breida is going to have to do the job,
and a miss opportunity for Lika, in fact, there. He wants to go deep.
There's actually a player just around the corner from him, in vents.
Kanzer wants to get aggressive. This UMP packs a bunch and packs a massive amount of damage in the long range.
He does get the down and the finish on a leak of FAC.
The UMP serves him well.
And now a massive advantage for Wildcard. Two players, Falcons, look desperate again. They might have top floor control.
But what kind of an execute is possible when their numbers are dwindling?
Spiker finds one, traded back by users who needs to go big.
He grabs that diffuser, gets back into the site, and looks for a plant opportunity.
Got the solid stalker, overclocking C from very far away. Nade's flash is going on,
a plant took me happening. Shaco has to cover this perfectly.
Yeah, but he might not be in position. They've got info on the plant spot from Baby Shark.
The verticality won't be able to cover it, but if they just played it slowly,
surely they can find users and another round for Wildcard!
Falcons cannot deal with the customs attack and wildcard are running rings around them
It feels like the same thing is happening four rounds in a row Falcons losing players early
That was the longest five players that fit live
But then secondly go for the war on jail the C4 happens again
They're playing 45 two lost opening picks in a row as well for Falcons
They keep losing, succeeding these early round advantages.
The entire strat that was called for Julio in that tactical turn out was
look for the point of least resistance, find a player we can isolate, and go take him down.
And Wildcard, whether it was intentional or not, they actually played into that perfectly
by baiting and then falling back so it was impossible for Falcons to isolate individuals.
And it's not really a matter of like, oh, if I was missing this one player, it's kind of missing everybody.
Minooka, the kill tally. No one's really getting a lot of kills in the server, I mean, that was a 4v1 when the round ended, into a 4v0, obviously.
There's two kills used, 0 and VGFAC, 1 on Shaco, 2 breathes, 2 solo tops, no one is hitting their mark of average expectations, they're all beneath it as how they find themselves, 0-4.
Or, strategically, the first of them Falcons was actually excellent, but they still lost it to a clutch from Wildcard,
getting a great Bumsat retake on Armory Archives.
But since then, strategically, Wildcard they're ahead, individually Wildcard they're ahead,
and they're defending Bota, which you cannot just hold the same air, so you hold CC, you hold E-Stairs, and you play the side.
Of course, you're going to be rotating, making some few adaptations here and there,
but if Falcons are struggling with clearing E-Stairs or 4 rounds in a row, they're probably not going to fix that in round 5.
We did story off the scheme. You know, it's funny about their last round as well is Falcons ended up not really doing what Julio said
Instead they tried to fix the mistakes they made against LLM at bombsite yesterday
Yeah, because yesterday they didn't do a very good job of doing kind of the normal step-by-step
They didn't take top floor like he said they didn't
Mounce it like a plant centric attack
They ended up getting desperate and kind of leaking through the map. Yeah that time around they tried to play it vertically
The problem was, Wildcard, like, well, Falcons are playing very predictably this round.
We can go for runouts, we can go for picks, we can go for retakes.
I mean, Dian's a main door runout, it's just one of those things that...
Some casual stuff, man.
It shouldn't happen, but it did.
Shaco gets to open and kill, they get a bit of Easter's pressure, and that's the cancer
he's placed below in the pretty counter, usually on this door, inch powerfully.
They should...
How?
In a way, in, but then we die.
I mean, it was a right idea for Falcons, like, play slowly, looked at just peel away at
But no baby shark is just running amok. He's gotten re-aggressive into break room now
He's fallen back into fountain. I really like this from wildcard continue toying with Falcons playing with their food
Baby shark is seven and one at the moment and in a game where you've got shaco and leek effect and breeder in the
Server they are being shown up by a Frenchman on the opposition side
I don't know that's shaco being too fast to jump the gun try entry before the bike beard or bridge is too slow
But going for a back play they finish down the corner, but we know that there isn't they have no information
They're a dry peaking everything so risky, but Breedy is a very panel you he's a passenger player
Not a bad thing. There's a different style of choice. He's always behind the guns
That means Falcons are entering blindly without the shield
Breedy's got a get in the action in first ideally here
Tending is not going to be possible because the Gory canisters are open that balcony and also
It's just not really possible because while kind of numbers advantage and they're showing they could at retaking baby shark
wallbangs. No cam by the way. That's unbelievable. Lekevac hits the dirt and now a 2v4 for poor Falcons.
So it's below you cannot plant D4 that looks plantable but it's not. He's gonna try. You have to try.
Spyker is gonna know about it. He's now activated his gadget. Usus has to get desperate.
Spyker is just periodically checking his gadget and I think Breda knows about it.
That's why he's not going for the plant as of yet. He can impact the wall beneath and impact the default plant spot.
I didn't think I could find some kills, but it's over.
I have a feeling that not only is the round over, but I think the map might be as well, baby shark.
I'm out being sexed with them! I am out being sexed with them! I want that to work out!
It's me!
Consensually, of course.
Oh my god, bro!
Oh my god.
I've never heard such a statement.
After doing the things that he did to them in the server,
But I see the vision.
Why have we had such a horny Six Invitational so far?
I mean, Balancine's is an undercorner in Paris.
Yeah, we are in the city of love here and Baby Shark truly is making sweet love to Falcons right now.
My, my, what a showing from Wildcard.
A mid-tier team from North America with a few imports from Brazil and from Paris
are showing up the promised ones Falcons everyone was saying this is their
moment to win the six invitation in France and yet there's a Frenchman on
the other side that is doing away with them with the Italian hand this one
man I mean the thing about the wall bang that he got from top-middle stairs to
the soft wall from top middle into the soft wall and fountain no cams were
There it was really a blind wall bang one tap headshot
Scorpion diff by the way just a little spray and pray there a wild card of playing this so smartly even at the end of that
Round you would have noticed they still had a player in CCTV
So that if Falcons had gone for a lurk to try and push up and take 90 control and then put pressure on baby shucks position
They would then get pressured from wild card because of the player in CC
You ended up getting a kill at the end of it as well. And this where I want to pray spiker again
I'm sure other people are also chiming in, but Spyker is playing this super passive world downstairs with Solace.
He's sole purpose, they go off mouse and keyboard, deny the plant if it happens, and then you have Babe always keeping on the CCTV control.
They're playing all these different wind conditions and no one surrenders it for free. This could be a one tap.
They know about where the lion is. This is great.
So as soon as the E1D went off, the lion, he stays actively
detectable by Solace for a few seconds. Spyker knew exactly where he went.
I don't think leek effect knows that spike is right here. He could bonk him with a shotgun here, but now they can open pick
Oh second one as well
Understood
This game is surely done
Shaco finds one and two quick kills under these wildcard players
The 2v3 is still in the unenviable position even for players of his caliber
Great shots, but too little too late. No, you're 2v3 down 0 5 in round score
And we still got spiker solace played every single round is playing again passively falling backs and guys give them that control
Give them that control what you can do now a wild card
You can retake that top floor with dash who's in armory if they go for a plant hatch drop
And then you have spiker always giving perfect information where the plan to store him down if the plane numbers advances
There should be no way for alcoons to get a plant down or a windmere
Falcons have to get at least one more kill
Brede with DMR in hand, makes his way down the east stairs, diffuser in pocket.
And yet he knows full well there's no universe where he can get that blad down even if Bombsight
control is acceded by Wildcard, not with Spiker alive on the solace, but it's Dash they're
focusing on for now.
They know exactly where he is, and yet he still gets away with a kill!
He had Nathan Brede, two Nathan pockets!
Shaco goes down because Brede did not support him adequately.
Shiger got two egregious, two advanced, and now the clutch king must get it done in the 1v2.
The light wall covers off one position, but it impacts, reopens that angle.
Breeding needs to navigate this perfectly into the crossfire as he jumps into the side,
lighting and wading his baby shark!
He makes it a 10k!
And six round strikes for the North American underdogs!
There are some glaring issues in the server a headscratch there from Shaikou and the player cam. They are trolling
Absolutely trolling these small scenarios
When you know you have a player stalked by the Bieber metal door exactly where he is
Why you grimmed up his ride you heard him there in the area
He has to be in that exact location you yellow ping it you swing it when you have two
Fracrenades in the pocket you chalk on bad boy out either he moves and he has to swing you you hold the ankle
he dies, or his dance slunk gets exploded by the grenade.
Instead Shai-ku just swings it, thinking, I can just take the gunfight.
And you can, but we talk about the risk assessment, right?
A 50-50 gunfight is not good if you're already playing from behind.
Because that 2v3 turns into a 1v3, that is unwinnable.
You need to play it smartly with a high chance of success to get that 2v2 because then the
round is wide open. Wow. And 6-0 on defense for wildcard. Now we move on to the attack.
They themselves have banned out the smoke as well. They've taken a leaf out of the Falcons
playbook. And what does that tell us? It tells us it's going to be executed. It's going to
be aggression. Yeah. They're going to be everywhere all at once. Yeah, you might have your roamers
pressured on one side, but you have no idea what wildcard we'll be getting up to on the
onside at the same time.
Yeah, and it's like when you're up 6-0 you can make the most outrageous strategies because
it doesn't work.
Well now you're 6-1, you're 6-2 and 4 Wildcarts, I mean they've obviously expected themselves
to win here but they would never expect a 6-0.
That means they have so much more in the tank, so much more prep work, so many specific pocket
strats that they have not even considered using just yet because it hasn't been necessary.
Different circles on Falcons, pretty much only utilizing the Solace as the main character, and I don't know, I mean I've never seen League of Agus 06 in my life, I don't think.
It's so impressive.
And his first death like four times.
I don't understand what we're looking at right now.
Like he's so good, like League of Agus is still in my mind the perfect player that I've ever seen.
He's a fragger who can lead.
He's a leader who can frag.
Exactly, he does all the prep words, the strategies, the communication, the problem solver.
Brito is one of the best support players to ever touch the game, one of the best clutch players.
I mean, Guses, obviously phenomenal fragger, solotov, great fragger, but also renowned for his comms.
And Shaco is literally a fucking Shaco.
He's that guy. He's on Mount Rushmore for a reason.
And yet this game has not been there since it's not about one specific person.
It's been just all the the cocks working together not really being in sync. There's small mishaps. What's working together the cocks
Yes, I heard something else. I thought I thought I thought my baby shark. Yeah
Oh, here we go
I saw it the boss key active there for a second from Solotov. Who was that contesting him the other side maybe kanzan
So it's up one this gunfight on the attack twice
He's gonna have to it on defense here for the first time.
The Bay is tempted. Oh here we go.
An opening kill once again for Wildcard and it's Shiko.
He's not been the man of the hour today, not in the slightest.
What do they do away with their advantage now?
Good read onto that nitro cell, gets shot out by Spiker as the fire erupts.
The Dokeby call is a ringing Falcons have not picked up the phone.
Oh they can actually, there's a player right here that's near, that's LigaFax06 right?
Not a kill to his name. It should be easy.
Rackard, they can't go for a plant just now. They have no shield, no coverage, just a smokes, too risky.
To get one more kill, they can just fuck the bomb site.
That's a kill.
Big sneak in from Gassu. It's Baby Shark.
Shutting him down is Leaker Fak to find his first kill.
Nitro Sera comes out and that claims a second.
Spiker is down. The Fak is still fighting from behind.
Bash needs to get active now with the Daemons as he targets Leaker Fak.
They're inside of Archive, Solotov not too far from him on the other bomb side, but Wildcard, they're split up.
That means that they can surround them.
The Mirror window needs to be dealt with.
Might be able to punch it, good nade, and smacks the Mirror as well.
League of fact needs to stand up big.
Solotov gets aggressive, but gives away the advantage to Falcons.
Wildcard!
They have done it 7-0!
A clean sweep, a royal flush from the Corchester.
Falcons have been embarrassed and wildcard of guarantee that they will make it out of groups.
Falcons have always been known to start slow at an event.
We're talking about day one. Maybe that bleeds a little bit into day number two.
We're on the third day here James and they are still not walking up. They're still playing at 50, maybe 60% capacity.
and they are paying the price heavily right now.
They are one of the fan favourites to go all into Grand Finals and fight for that trophy.
Go to one more Grand Finals and right now,
they do not look like they are good enough to go there.
They were fan favourites in Munich to win it all
and yet they've stumbled at the final hurdle in the Grand Final.
Everyone said at last 6th Invitational in Boston,
close but no cigar, they'll get it done in Paris.
And this is the second time that they have lost the very first map in a series.
They went down to Furia on the first playday in a 2-1.
Now against a team like Wildcard, they're struggling.
This is dire straits for Falcons.
We expected so much more out of them, not just to lose a map, but to lose it 7-0.
The alarm bells are ringing.
But you gotta praise Wildcard because, yes, Falcons are playing a little bit less than what they usually are.
but Wildcard played that so greatly in so many different ways as well, right?
And I generally believe they really have mastered the out-of-border of not doing too much.
Baby Shark was doing a lot of things that game, okay?
But the rest of the players playing four people together,
and Baby Shark being a loose card, it worked really well.
Yeah, oh Wildcard, they've really turned up the heat here.
Falcons need to get on their bike pretty quickly, map 2 coming up after this.
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Everybody always talks about being mentally prepared for a game.
And no one really knows what that looks like.
Especially that pressure of SI and the player that eats you up.
So, we have something to celebrate.
Of course, Wildcard is taking a huge map away from Falcon Startings off on border.
And there's something that we gotta just kind of bring up here.
Would Wildcard winning just a map in this BO3 series?
And it does mean that Elevate has been eliminated from SI 2026 here in Paris, so 0-7s in the
chat for those guys, first to exit the Valkyries, it's a climb in front of them, they can still
bring this back and go from 0-1 down to a 2-1 victory, it's not over for them, but it's
going to be difficult given the fact that it's got 7-0ed on boarder, Wildcard, you know only
playing one game so far, one map so far rather here today have shown very little
right played a quick series yesterday, wide map today, Falcos might not have the
full picture of what to expect in this matchup and that might just have shown
on boarder but next up different map right different story things can
certainly change. Yeah that's the question clubhouse very different type of
map to border I'm just looking back at the results we haven't seen either of
these teams play clubhouse as of yet this tournament looking a little bit back
further Falcons didn't even play it during the regional finals that was the
last time they played clubhouse didn't play it at Munich either wow it's been a
while it's been a hot minute here for these teams but of course if Falcons are
gonna get it done anywhere they're gonna get a few rounds under their belt and
hopefully a map it'll be on their pick but have a look at how much that social
prediction has slipped Wildcard are well on their way to winning the hearts and
minds of our Rainbow Six fans. Time to see if Falcons can fight back!
So what's gonna happen next? I think operators were very important on
border for Wildcard. I noticed that an attack right now but they were abusing
the solos to perfection and it felt like falcons kind of missed the mark and
walked to ban against them for you know success purposes. Falcons go in defense
now they can kind of again play their basics do their setups. The thing about
clubhouse that on paper if you're good at attacking it it will be very attack or
failure because you can pick about every single side very strategically.
However Wildcard we didn't see much of their attacks in order because they
We're only playing a single round, but we know that they're very very formidable on the defensive side.
So the question is, can Rocko be as good on the attacks as they can on defense?
So I've had a chance to look back at the history books of both of these teams.
Now last time Falcons played this was all the way back in stage 2 of last year.
Okay.
In the EML they lost it to Secret twice actually in that bracket.
Well Secret played Club Boss last night against SSG and let me tell you, they beat a lot of good teams in that match.
Yeah, look, secret are clearly a good clubhouse team.
I think that, you know, since that four months ago,
Falcons have worked on their clubhouse,
clearly brought it back into their rotation.
But, you know, it's not too dissimilar
a story really for Wildcard.
They actually haven't played this since the Munich Major.
Actually, I guess Wildcard
haven't really played much at all since the Munich Major.
I guess not.
Didn't play any old finals,
and it's kind of an offseason already qualified for SI.
But yes, they did beat NIP back there,
which I think is a pretty good result, 7-2.
They're lost to FaZe, 3-7.
So clearly Wildcat, they're a clubhouse team.
So I want to say they're a favorite map,
not their least favorite map.
Similar story for Falcons.
As they start on the defense, they
get to dictate the pace a little bit.
And we're seeing a bit of thorn.
Now we are.
I really like the Auburn Abends, by the way.
Falcons go for Grim first, into Maverick.
The reason why that's very important
is if you ban the Maverick first,
your opponent, Wildcat here, can just ban the Kaid
two brow expecting that to happen instead of Falcons opted to ban Maverick the last and
Valkyrie then predicted that and ban Kite at the exact same moment so good read good setup here
pretty evenly matched already in terms of prep phase and just a bit of a a bit of an extension
here for a four Falcons rather starting below and soaring up above holding office control gym
master bedroom. It's a four man lurk. Yeah I like it. Very extended, very loose, and a few traps
to support it. Solotov. Roaming with the castle, I mean these days, right, that UMP packs so much
of a pump you really can use it much more as a kind of roamer's paradise weapon. The dash with
the candelas will create that space, force him back. The castle barricade does protect Solotov
as he falls back down. Oh, Nitro SL could be big. It does actually get the down on the
dash finished off then by Solotov. But meanwhile, two players from Falcons have gone down. I'd
say this is a pretty solid exchange here. If Falcons are able to get back to site safely.
Might do a Thorn, can very much confirm both Bay and Baby Shark. It's just a little bit
of damage goes through, but Thorn has been buffed so the Razer Booms, they trigger faster,
they will explode, and they have a bigger radius, but the drop-off distance of damage
which also are bigger, so you can be further away,
but you still take a little bit of damage.
There's no way that they would survive
even the outskirts of the 3rd tribes' detonation,
so yeah, you're very much right.
Be careful here.
Now there is also the Goryo fire,
and the funny thing here is there's a spare razor bloom
pocket of Shai-Gul, spare Vulcan canister
in a pocket of Bredi and Goryo, so...
Could put these down in a wonky spot mid-round thing
and get a little bit more value,
but for now, it's Wildcruits sitting up the bomb site
for an execute, they got can openers,
got four of them, got soft destruction, smoke and pattern capitol, this is still completely
winnable on the attacking side.
On both sides, I don't know, attack do have the numbers advantage next time.
But they have no health change!
Yeah, and also, well, Shaka's just put down his last storm trap, I don't know where that
went, I was gonna say, he could use it as a night plant later on, but he's using it
to protect himself, oh there's one on the church door, likely some here protecting him
in blue as well.
Now with the yin going down, there's far fewer utility to speak of, but we still have the
fire and the smoke from the capitol going deep in and the thorn does finish off baby shark
it seems like sharko has been worth his weight in gold
finally on the board
after failing to win a single round on the first map falcons fire up at the start of the second
that's a lot of energy from the side of falcons i'm not sure if baby shark maybe exchange the word
up to as they crushed each other in the hallway or something because League of
Fank that looked personal yeah yeah wow
you had them shouting about the thorn did you know
got him with the thorn trap yeah so like right now the thorn change if you are
let's say you're sprinting through a doorway and you never stop running you
will outrun the thorn explosion but if your ADS walking down a hallway and you
start sprinting with the natural human reaction time and you see it popping next to you, you
will get hit a tiny bit. That's what happened. He scoped in, walked in, started sprinting,
got hit at the very end. Injured because he was obviously very low health. If you get
hit at all, or two of them actually, well. Yeah, I think two people died because of
contrast. If you get hit at all and don't get injured or die out right, you will get
the same debuff as with Frost. We can sprint, although for a much shorter duration based
on how close you were. I think it capsized at 20 seconds, but not in timely seconds.
Still feels pretty long, especially if it's near end of round.
Yeah, you pushed the bomb side, right? You can't sprint anymore?
He was Batman.
Yeah, that thorn is very powerful in the right situations.
Yeah, that's it. It's not the best, like, pick it every bomb side, every single round.
Ideally, you pair it with, like, a milusi benchy or a barb wire, some sort of slowing
effect, and, like, success rate goes up tremendously with that.
Well, a new round and a new chance for Wildcard. Falcons...
A new operator.
Yeah, a new operator as well with the Carly Pick, very unusual.
It's going to be a top floor gym bedroom defense for Falcons.
Once again, using this castle, they're seemingly liking this operator.
Castle and his army, one of the first games we've casted with his army hasn't been banned.
Yes, that's very true.
Also, a fun fact, you can now electrify castle barriers.
Ah, yes you can.
Haven't seen a once basically, but it is possible in this case that wouldn't really count to the Kali, but it would count to the ace
That is true
Also, you can now
Electrify
Counter ass breaching charges because that yes. Oh here. We're gonna be juggled
Yeah, and then the clash blocks the window and goes to this genius. Oh
Cheeky the Kali countering the class. That's not something you see every day
Maybe Shaw gets a better agree day, but then he overpeaks a little bit and Leak effect takes him down
The thing is they knew they had a Kali available because they used the lance to destroy the Kaisa Farakids
Maybe lack of respect there if he uses not thinking that he's gonna go for the swing
Yeah, yeah, you are right with a Kali being down early. It does leave it down to just a capitao single or five arrow perhaps to
I do wonder whether the breach is actually crouchable or walkable here, is it just a line of sight?
I don't think I should catch it, I think it's a vault hole.
Oh yeah, okay.
Well that's good then, that's good enough.
I actually hate vault holes.
I think it's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
The fire has come out, denied the bathroom position.
This is surely where Wildcard decides to make a move, but there's one man in deficit, so
it's awkward to try and do that.
He wants to try and smoke off the angle, meanwhile Bay has snuck inside, but it's hard for him
to find a safe place to stand, Kansan though finds the opening, still the clash is alive.
As I say that, users get spotted, one by one they fall, and Shiko's the last man standing.
A 1v2 situation, no U2 to speak of, just Shiko and his mechanics.
Spike, Spiker tries to plant, gets off of it, and sits him back down again.
What is this guy on the ball?
Oh my.
Spiker is big smiles across the table.
Okay dude, you say so.
I never knew that Wildcard was quite, that Baby Shark was the hype guy for this team,
that he really has been this game.
I'm loving it.
I'm not gonna lie, Spiker did pull that round out of nothing.
It's like you're stuck in the windows outside, clashing the hallway, he just fires off bathroom,
smokes off the rotate, jumps in, delayed, and then takes down three people in that round.
And I really like how they played the 2v1 because the guy covering Spiker was very low on health.
Like one bullet takes him out, right?
A lot of the time we'll see a team where they'll plant with the guy full HP, the guy covering
dies and then the guy plant is in a really bad spot. Instead they start planting to then
both swing and force the 2v1 gunfight, baiting the guy covering, it's genius. It's the one
way you probably take down Shack with the 2v1 right?
No, very smart. I love that play from Wildcard. I tell you what, these guys are looking like a
really good team. Every event comes by and we're like, oh you know Wildcard, they've kind of like
conned their way into a few results. Like in a Rio for example, a lot of people
people call that events all kinds of words. A lot of people put an asterisk next to it,
so it's probably a nicer way to say it. A lot of people put an asterisk next to that
event and say, well, the bullet format that we've used for group stage was not the most
competitive. It was very fun. It was not the most competitive integrity for a format.
And then obviously it meant that the top eight teams weren't necessarily the top eight teams
we expected. Wildcard still made it to quarter finals. Sorry, send me finals at that alone.
4. And yet they've really proven since then that they are not a Mickey Mouse
team. The usual setup here right? The sense for the block of CCTV. It's been
fragmented to clear out the Casabarca. That's a very expensive way to clear out
the utility. It is in fact the only fragmented server so they have no clear
play of the stations. As Kavital also is not being brought for this one. They're
They're forced into a Master Bedroom connector attack
because they cannot live after us in any capacity now.
And Falcons will know this.
So it's gonna be, you know,
one or two people by the bomb site
and then three or four people roguing, fighting back.
Candela's ringing out, nice entry from Kansan,
looking for a second one.
The AK-12 serves him well as baby shark
up the main stairs, comes in to support.
Wildcard now looked to reset as Falcons
are pushed back towards the bomb site.
He's very well played, so dashes on office hatch, ying spamming down, then drops to the single con wall to cut the rotations in half, if the guy's in office he's stuck and if not they can't come back to support that player.
They get two kills, they get back out, they watch the flank and they reset the round. Plenty of time, plenty of utility and they get the main breach as Breedah is not...
Oh, we got it. Okay, nice. That's a very, very in. What do we final take, you guys?
There's plenty of spare
High-bridge here between Kansan and Spiker. The problem is that Breda will need to be forced out of position
Awkward
Yes, Falcons. I mean they've done a good job of protecting that main wall
But into the late round will they be able to continue doing so?
I mean you can so if you get interconnected you can actually wall band a soft wall between the sides and then deny the bandit from tricking
So if they can get into the conwall here and cross that barrier, it'll be fine
That is using a cat opener downstairs on stock door for a
Double red stairs push it baby shark. Maybe this is a different kind of attack. Oh, what is this off-angle here for three day?
It does get traded back that means that the wall is now vulnerable and Shaco has been isolated
You're right, babe. He's watching him with the DMR
Hits him with a bit of damage
Kansans low HP, but he does dodge that first form trap looks for an entrance and now he's left all alone
Shaco is still stuck but there's no diffuser to speak of for Kansan, a bait here with the Salma and a double peak here for Falcons as they take the lead.
Very well held there from Falcons, understanding the priority of what angles to cover,
but I will say also a very impressive attempt of an execute sitting in two players down bottom red going for a one for one trade.
trade, somehow it's Shaco stalking Kelor getting three kills and saving the round for
Falcons in the end, but it's a really good effort from both teams. Wildcard could have
opted maybe for a default plant attempt on that single one connector, and maybe it all
works out, but at the same time you don't want to lose to a single C4 from the bandit,
right? So that's why they go for that other play instead, spreading out, using the man
advantage to their favor.
Attackers need to locate and to choose the spot.
A good try, doesn't work out, and now with these operators and Falcons, that's gonna
be a deep roam. If you get back on Skopo's you're getting a Capcan on the board and an operator
that we used to see every single damn round for a while, the Mute! Makes a reappearance!
Mute and Smoke, the SAS boys having their once again time in the spotlight.
Falcons, I like the idea. I mean you got a bit of U2 on site, you got a bit of running potential,
but I just don't feel like Wildcard are going to be susceptible to the Skopos Capcan play.
It's it's kind of like a chase and I just don't think just you wait the way the wild card of playing
They're gonna be vulnerable to it and look I'm ready to wait Nick
But are you seeing these repicks from the attacking side? I am
They did also hide the captain on the entire per face there
So he's gonna be running top four put down those champs for your right when he's attacking lineup
They can go for a dirt kitchen simple clear. They can go for a blue rush
They could also go for a full run clear with the double shield book could be then have glass from late round execute
I think they're planning this
I
Think what I'll cover this op in a lineup
They're gonna put they're gonna leave the inactive shell in there so that someone sprints past
It's just a full bait set up here or okay. Yeah, see that they're gonna try and bait them into like destroying the inactive shell
I mean and then the person's gonna run past the cat
Absolute cheese with the highs this is like the kind of thing that I would do in casual and it's definitely gonna work
if Wildcard go for the clear. I don't know if Wildcard will though because he's got this
Glaz Monty pressure inside of dirt instead. So this is the case right now. There's four
smokes on the attack inside but three toxic babes on defense. If they want they can exchange
those three smokes with three smokes then get full third control absolutely for free.
Only leaving a single of smoke left for Bums and Execute later on. That's risky business.
Here comes a second smoke. Toxic bait or fall back?
That was a terrible smite. Well they fell back so I didn't know.
Scared them away. They didn't take kitchen control first though.
That means the dirt players can fall back from free but we see two players blue, two
players third and a third or the fifth player rather somewhere else in the map.
This could just be a brawl by the bomb site but look at these crossfires.
Where's the rest of the team here for wildcard though?
Dash is coming from blue is about to be spotted by leek effect and impact grenade will make things very awkward for him
The Brazilian take into low HP and then finished off on the feet angle by Shaco
Wildcard do not have enough ingredients here to make this work
They need pressure from more angles and they currently have here's the fifth player baby shock on the main stairs
He's in bar slash strip hole with the entire to come up earlier last smoke to go out. They gotta go right now
What can you do Kansan here the gas it locks him out baby shark needs to find his kill run straight through the barbed wire gets deep
Flashbang might enable him to take the fight against leaker faculty wins it
What to say now for wild card when everybody falls but kansan on the class no smokes in pocket 1v3 and the diffuser is cold on the ground at 8k's
Falcons extremely
Oh my god, I'm I need Leo and
Baby shark definitely dropped a bar in the hallway. I'm telling you he did a hundred percent
So our producers French and they just told me I don't even understand what he said
I will say this I've never seen that attack before
Practically in my life from our car. Yeah, and there's a reason why it's really good. What's really bad?
It's really bad because no one else does it because very low chance of success
Yeah, it's really good because no one else does it scientists might not know what they were trying to do
But it's a very slow attack, right?
I think the fact that Falcons had a smoke on the board
Yeah, please change that story. There was no smoke there. It was only Goyo. That's probably winnable
But now the smoke just completely choked it out. I'll say like that's just absolutely choked it
That that's amateur mistake on shields
You don't ever want to play on a staircase and this goes back to a very infamous clip
trailer. Kino in the NAL on server blue stairs. When you're on a staircase with a shield,
your tippy toes are sticking out because you're elevated slightly and your feet have an animation.
So Dash just kind of died. Yeah, he makes that mistake once. Yeah, hopefully Dash doesn't make it
again because he's going to be playing the Blitz this round at least. Yeah, he's locked it in now
or an action face. It's been a bit of a drought a few rounds in a row. I mentioned building for
falcons, we've certainly heard the energy at the end of rounds, leaky back is going off.
Let's get that energy back from wildcard. I want to hear what baby shark's gonna say next.
So a bit more passive, for good reason, why not find that round success just yet.
But this again, mind you, this is also wildcard going for very unorthodox attacks,
almost every single attempt that they have. They could go back to defaults, maybe secure
second or third round to keep up being a little spicy and see if they can make it work.
It's funny because unoff-dark attacks is actually what they became known for both in reload and
Munich. They don't play the most conventional style of attacking rounds with mixed results but
again I really respect when teams try to innovate and do things differently. So even if it's not
working on paper being down 1-3 I really like the fact that they're trying. But again you're
You're looking at this as I'm going to what are they trying to do normally?
It's very
Chidagraph what the attacks are I don't know what we're doing right now. Yeah, it's strange because wildcard their attacks
I'm well, but didn't get to see many on board up with a fire off
Oh nose baby shark
Fires himself off in flash team flash on the bay. He does get back control somehow
I managed to get a bit of damage up for a good flank from leek in fact back up the main stairs
It's desperate now for wildcard and dashes taking a hell of a lot of damage. Give me a flawless rounds
Time to fire up the Falcons
I'm just that one
This is...
This is peek, okay?
This is peek right now.
Peek leek effect.
Maybe shark, definitely quiet for this one.
Come on, mate.
Bit of a mistake as well, missing the cats on fire.
Again, I think the attack on paper can work, but it takes so long to set it up.
It's so obvious that it's rush is gonna happen somewhere.
True, and then, you know, team flash.
Yeah, missed fire, missing shots.
Blinkifang is the only one yelling, the rest of the team is going at it again.
Like when your IGL starts, I don't think about this game like, can you please lock
in?
He's meant to be the leader, he's meant to be the one with a head on his shoulders,
and he's the one who's smack talking the most.
Well last round of the half now, and Nick, there's a very real chance we could end up
5-1.
At that point, I think we're pretty much guaranteed to get its fortress map, please.
It is fortress map 3.
Oh man, I'm so excited.
There is a reward for all of us at the end of this one.
You can cycle through to win the map.
You map second time ever played in Q1 Land?
I didn't get to watch all of the other one.
I saw bits and bobs, but...
You have to place your opinion on the enemy's desk for that one.
Oh, you did.
You need to secret and Acer's Geat.
Very exciting free mapper.
If you guys are thinking why is he just doing the top bottom pellets, well, the thing is
they patched it.
It doesn't work anymore.
There's no more Hibana trick.
Hibana is phenomenal for hatches and you kind of mid at walls.
Yeah, she's very mid at walls.
And with Ace having flashbangs as well, it does mean that Ace is quite nice.
But Thermal was banned the way by Falcons, so it's either Hibana or Ace either.
I still can't believe they buffed Ace twice.
But they buffed all the hard bridges, right?
Cause Ace was really good, but they just, they gave Ashe flash, they gave, they gave Ace flashes.
And they meant that he's immune to mute, so it's like, dude, why'd you buff him?
He's already too good.
I buffed all the hard pages in either a small or a big way.
It's definitely made things not different, but feeling better.
He buy me as much quicker to activate the gadget as well, to then reload every shot, so to speak.
Bang has been on Blackheard, Glitz Duty, Ying, Shotgun this time, Office Hatch for the third
time.
There's a lot of useful man.
Oh, it's a rush.
Yeah, just jumping straight into site.
If they can find this kill right here on the users, and they will, then the site should be theirs.
But they have been bloodied. They've lost more players than Falcons have.
And Brito has held the fort at the top of red stairs with a shotgun.
The clash shield now being used by Baby Shark against his opposition.
He's going to have to go deep, and he's in a bit of an awkward spot.
Dash is not helping him out too far back.
I can bring it on!
Let's go!
I'm gonna kill you!
I'm gonna kill you!
Let's go!
We're biggest.
Good one.
Nice, nice, good one.
Man, it's 5-1!
What the hell is this series?
As far as I was praising Wildcard on all of Border,
I feel like they're forcing these rushes
rushes and Falcons aren't even roaming anymore. It's 7-0 on the first map, it's 5-1 on the
second map the other direction. Are we ever going to get a close game? Fortress. That's
where it's going to go. Third map, close series, new map, no one else is going on, call lots
of difficult. The thing is, I feel like Wildcruiser just kind of misreading the situation. Falcons
had practically zero roamers and we're going for a side rush where there's cowografters
that are so hard to clear top bet is difficult all of the centric area like
server green box and they're playing clash into it it felt very forced for
me but the good news is now I'll go to defense they can't throw the rounds super
fast in their arches anymore I'll have to go deep on defense though because 5-1
is don't care how one-sided the map is 5-1 is never a good look look even peak
20-second meta theme park. I didn't want to go 5-1. But you often were anyway.
Yeah, and it was possible to come back, but it's not ideal. Certainly not on Clubhouse.
Falcons have really got that monkey off the back. They started to build that
momentum. They've got it well and truly back on their side. Four rounds straight,
five out of the last six. Border is now a distant memory. It's time to lock in and
Finish off this series keeping in mind that the Falcons win the series. They do take first place in the group
They're in this kitchen hold of the asami a deep third with the okay a spawned hand on the kennel store
Good night. Shai Ko baby shark back alive on defense. I respect that the same thing
They're on board all right running around going for pics and he's looking for more to spy already getting a big one
Soundfuse there though, trying to keep Jiggler fighting back, blue with the uses, cuts him
off, beautiful, and this way you could argue that baby shark, you could have taken the
one freebie, dropped the hatch, played around 5v4, but at the same time it was this exact
aggression, there was a big reason why they won some rounds on border, but you're trying
to keep that up, but Puffhouse is a very different beast, it's much more about the executes
and the breaking things apart.
And look, you could argue it's a worthwhile trade, you've gotten rid of the Grim.
Yeah, it is a good trade, but he could have stayed alive.
Yeah, it could have been better.
The thing is, Kenseth was roaming in kitchen with the hatch open.
When his duo, Romer, dies, he's kind of forced to fall back.
So you lose two areas by one person dying.
It's a big thing for other people.
Yeah, look how actively Wildcard are trying to play here.
Constantly looking for another kill.
They're almost dead.
And there's actually a rush.
Surely the kill comes out from Spiker!
Guess the double!
It's all up to Solo top now.
And he's deep in the bomb side.
He finds one and we get into a one versus one, Bay on the other side.
He can scopos away.
He can.
And there's no diffuser here from Solotov.
He's actually going to hold his ground and win the fight as well.
Wildcard finally back into the game.
They found a second round.
So if you scopos TP away, the Deimos tracker dissipates because you're
on a different character now, if you will, at the scopos.
so you can trick it that, but then TPing back
can be quite tricky because of course
you're starting to map control.
Instead, it goes through a wide swing
and captures Solotov with a headshot
in the mid-grenade toss animation.
So pixel perfect timing to clutch for Wildcard
to get another round on the board.
He's gonna like this one.
He's gonna like this one.
Yeah, phenomenal comeback.
I see here, CZTV up next, but that's how the thing started last round.
This roster is actually really well paced by Falcons where they drop kitchen, they go
down blue, and somehow they hit an injured and afflicted really safe around for this
team.
Yeah.
I know, is it real?
Is it possible?
2-5?
Come back?
think the mental state of Balkans is a little bit vulnerable and you know one
and nine death here and there around slipping away. The beauty about
players when talking about like there's the Ashton or Baby Shark or League of
Thak when they're getting loud is that you are in a more in my opinion at least
vulnerable state because you're not having as much control over your motions
necessarily and while it's really fun to watch the viewer if you're a teammate of
League of Thak in theory here and he is very emotionally like oh they're gonna
I'm gonna check down Baby Shark, I'm gonna yell at him and stuff like that.
You are gonna be focusing on other things in just the game if you're going out of your
way to specifically talk a lot of person by yelling at them.
At least in my mind.
Falcons, phenomenal team, one of the best in the world, one of the best to ever do it,
but if you had to rank the best teams with the worst mental, they're probably near the top.
I don't know that a lot of Falcons fans would hate to hear me say that, but...
been the final careers for a while, right? The mental boom they
used to themselves. The more that a game matters, the worse
they're going to perform. It's funny because in Munich, we saw
Falcoots being very silly. They're, you know, yelling and making
cat noises on stage and all these things are losing the mood.
And they said in interviews that, yeah, they're having an issue
with being too tense and the nerves getting to them. So now
they're having a bit more fun being more losing the server.
Then they still, and they played really well all of Munich,
but they lose the game's final to a phenomenal M80 that was
powering up right and then this event they're not as silly they also had a
rough start so I put that first again. Falcons have looked far less dominant
than they did at the start of Munich. Solotov deep in oh wow uses this tossing
this all the way from outside of Kahn down through the logistic hatch he's not
overpeaking though he's looking to just play the cutoff angle on the other side
of this is Bay who's peeking from out of sight into connector. It's interesting because
this is almost Wildcard playing exactly like Falakun's advice, versus on his exact bomb
site. There's the pick that Yuzus looking for, I like this from Solotov on the Nomad, pushing
in deep. It's Yuzus and Charlie Wildcard are not long for this world. Spiker will go down,
it's all up to Baby Shark, but he's made a 1v2 with a big C4. Where's Brede? Where's
Leaka-Fack, if Breda is still upstairs on the roof, comes around, he's going to spot Leaka-Fack in just a moment, surely baby shark gets a bit of bullets in his direction.
Breda can go through a plant, Leaka-Fack to cover, no nitro cell remains, baby shark hears the plant going down, but he doesn't know where it is.
And as the extinguisher gets popped, he has to get aggressive, he manages to cross amongst the smoke, but he still doesn't know where these two players are.
Both on repel sees the first one, but leek effect can hide
Brute's playing this perfectly as well still on repel the only universe where baby shark wins this is when he gets two
Impossible shots he based the first one tries to bait the shot
Not my falcons
And Lika fact continues the target of insults to baby shark. I don't really want to say what he said
But let's instead listen to Lagones coaching the boys on wildcard
Speak up Lagones, please
Very quietly spoken unfortunately, I think you like some more than the girls
I can't even lip-raise him because the chairs in the way.
Do you think that what Leake of Fax yelling at is going to be getting to Baby Shark at this point?
So this is the thing where Leake of Fax is a very experienced player.
Baby Shark is what we call an up-and-comer.
He's also being hard-togeted by one of the best players from France.
I'm telling you, there has to have something happen in the hallway between map 1 and 2 because this was not a thing in map 1.
No.
It's that or it's because Baby Shark kept yelling towards Falcons in the first map and perhaps they heard some of it.
It's true, but like, he wasn't yelling anything that bad. He was more yelling to his teammates like, I'm having sex with the world.
It was funny. He was being goofy, right? Where Falcons are like, it's personal for LikaFast.
I tell you, something the bathroom happened between maps.
This is actually very occupying about playing against each other. There's usually just one bathroom and you share it amongst all of us.
So, between the map, if I go to the bathroom, I'm going to see some wildcarts and falcons in there.
So when you're a player, you walk in there like, okay, there's the guys I just beat a loss to.
Yeah, actually, yesterday, after we finished casting the Falcons game against Elevate, I went into the bathroom and League of Facts and StuFlex were having a full conversation about what happened in the game.
It was then over. But Elevate were in the bathroom too.
I know just talking about it in front of them
I remember being a little bit jealous that I was in an English-speaking team because when we played Empire and the Grand Finals
It's I'm again same bathroom. They can speak Russian. I have no idea what they're saying
But if I go to Fabian, hey, I think we should ban this operator. They can hear it
So it's like sometimes I wish we could speak like a really foreign language that nobody else speaks but yeah, it is what it is
So I got a one thing on that
I
Mean to be fair the most deadly language would be Danish
You and Benjamin the same day
Craziest tracks or smack and no ability with that production. Yeah, your brother told me that your Danish is not very good
Anyway, that's that's kind of rude from him. Hey, he's right
I have a bit of a foreigners accent when I speak Danish nowadays because I speak it once a month or when I speak my mom
So my family is like you sound
Cute when you speak English, which is another word for like a idiot.
Oh yeah.
Oh look, they say that when I speak English back home, so...
We're going on a journey to get the Castle Barricade here from the roof to the top floor.
And we got it!
And yeah, we did indeed get it.
Nice breaching.
It's all about the holes for Falcons. Breach open that jacuzzi wall.
Breach open those Castle Barricades.
Hang on, is this bar?
This is...
It's Bar.
We've missed it.
We are so distracted.
Yapping too much.
But it's Bar. Hell yeah.
It's BarCard playing costume and playing Bar here.
It's what they did on board and they're doing it again.
They're running it back.
I like it.
I mean, Falcons have a 0 for 2 at playing the...
What's after tertiary?
Quad...
Quad...
Quadrary?
Bombsite?
The fourth preference Bombsite?
Bombsite.
Bar games have not been pretty good on that.
Again, it's very orthodox.
Most teams haven't seen us for a while. I really rate this bombsite personally. I think it has a lot potential. Let's see if they can come out victorious
So what's the plan here? Stop peeling away at the light. Destroy those castle barcades. Get close to the bombsite
But don't get baited into trying to plant too early because of those
Valkyrie cameras and those three yokai drones active from bay also an nitro cell from dash speaking about yokai drones
That was very active and leek effect finds it takes it down trying to scout outside of strip bay now
gets on his SMG
I'm also trying to stay alive in the late round to keep those young guys active.
35 seconds, this is gonna come down to the wire, like I said, the yoga drones.
Only one C4, but there's too many impact grenades instead.
Use is down to one-inch peak, it's shot from out of nowhere in garage.
But Falcons don't have a super clear take at the minute.
I don't know, I mean they haven't actually taken a lot of control.
Finally, Shaco finds that kill on the dash and that's goodbye C4.
Trying to peek onto that player in the bathroom, it's baby shark.
A second shot from the Grim comes out, LikaFact going for the backstab.
He's sprinting through it, but time is ticking away.
Less than 10 seconds remain, Kansan finds one, but LikaFact's going massive.
Breda trying to force the plant down. Is there denial from Baby Shark and Spiker?
And Spiker needs to get back into it from above. Baby Shark is not able to tonight plant in time.
And Spiker comes in from garage for two, but Shaco and Solotov can hold down the fort.
It's up to Baby Shark now to stave off the feet, but Falcons are about to close Clubhouse!
They are back baby! It's a resurgence for the French roster and we're going the distance of Fortress!
Beautiful, the recomposure, the knee effect still staying lippy as well.
I think this is Falcons getting that fire back, right? They're finally showing all their emotions,
they're alive, they're awake, they're making good plays, good re-dentations and Wildcourt,
They tried to play the most on all the dog's clubhouse I have ever seen, and it did not work this time.
Well, that Sleeping Dogs lie is what they say, but it looks like Wildcard have awoken the beast.
Border is a distant memory, and next up we're going to Fortress Falcons.
They've woken up, and they are taking no prisoners at all.
Exciting times. It's gonna be our first third mapper.
Oh my god, finally!
A POI SERIES!
Every single game we've cast has been 2-0!
And yet we've still only had a 7-0 and a 7-2.
It's been fast.
It's overtime time.
It means fortress, overtime, golethane.
If we get a wild card that plays very much their own style,
we got Thalgus and more fundamentally sound,
it could be a banger of the map.
Oh yeah, it's prepped me.
What do I expect on Fortress?
I barely played this map, let alone casted it.
It's very new.
Honestly, I think Fortress plays out very logically.
You either have to have your direct attacks,
or your cross over clears.
It plays a bit like Night Heaven Labs or Chalet in my mind.
Oh, I'm so excited for that. We'll get to that in a minute for the last moment.
Let's cap off Clubhouse. From the get-go Falcons, they were in control.
Wildcard got an early round at the start of the first half,
but as those defenses went on for Falcons, they just got more and more in control.
That should have been a stinker, actually.
Yeah. I saw when you were 0-4 playing these shields.
I'm like, you know what, you're playing shields, the executes aren't working, whatever.
But then it became a ying player, and our defense played various operators.
He never really found himself in his stride in the server.
Meanwhile, all of Falcons, they were much more fired up in the scoreboard than on board.
Unusual for Dash. He was picked up from Brazil because he was a great fray around that old double 7M roster.
He's a great shield player as well. And we just didn't see that today. At least not so far.
Third map is still upcoming, Fortress Man. I'm so excited for it.
Do you think Falcons is going to run away with it from here? The momentum is squarely on their side.
I don't think anyone's going to run it.
I generally believe Fortress will be a close one when I saw it for the first time yesterday between Secret and SSG.
Very similar story, it's a bit of a back and forth.
Yeah, I don't know, I just want to see a little bit more of the baby shark we saw on map 1.
He was so...
He was doing things to me, he was doing things to Falcons as well.
Fortress is our third map to settle the best of three series.
It's coming to you just after this, so stick around for more.
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We saw League of X screaming the players being more locked in also the individual's logging in together with the timings and coordination
And we did not see on boarder and it says it's a perfectly what is gonna happen on the third map
And what third map is it?
One non-territory of Fortress!
Dude, I'm so excited!
My first chance to see a pro game of Fortress.
Those people's first chance.
Yes, well of course we had SSG Secret yesterday.
But tell the viewers what you told me about 10 seconds ago.
It's a fun map. It's going to be a bit of over-clearance and roll-clearance and data attacks.
And a lot of possibilities if you can play styles.
I think I'll tell you why exactly have Falcons vs. Wildcard to be phenomenal on this track.
These guys are gonna interpret the map very differently to what we saw between SSG and Secret yesterday
Yes Falcons and Wildcard battling for first place in Group B
Who will take the cake? You're about to find out. Let's dig into fortress
Good luck, have fun. In fact, League Effect only said have fun. No good luck on his side.
He doesn't want to give any luck to Baby Shark after what happened on map 1.
I'm curious, that's going to keep going on for even now.
Even now, you know?
Yeah, I mean, like you said, there must have been some kind of beef, because Leaka Facts,
well, he's just vendetta against Baby Shark.
He's not the one to target people, usually.
No, but he was.
He was yelling at him in French.
He was animated Baby Shark.
Disgusting!
You are disgusting!
You are disgusting!
And he said some other things in French, which our producer translated.
No one could figure out what that was.
Oh, no, our producer translated some of it.
Yeah, but I just can't say it on broadcast.
All right.
He said he was not a good player, that's a very nice, very much a PG version of what
he actually said.
It's like a thousand ways to say that.
Alright, it's time to dig into it Falcons, they get to set the pace here, they get to
choose the bomb site here on defense for the first round and it seems to be we're going
to the bomb site that is the most favourite at the moment in both the pro level and in
the ranks level.
That's exactly it.
we see each side we can take a little quick kind of tour and what's supposed to happen.
Like I said, I think this plays a lot more like your clear, your Shella, United Heaven Labs.
Here's two primary attacks. She has a bathroom here in the bottom. On the right hand side there's a nice
wall that's going to be very much reinforced. Beautiful green tile. A lot of people are going
to take the bottom half of the map, you know, kid storms and push up into that area, breach the
bathroom wall and go for a plant. So this bottom half, that's the first attack. So we call the
the roam clear. Then we have the more direct approach because the top hand side of the map
you're gonna see on the floor below us you're gonna have main lobby going towards the lobby
stairs and then up we go towards this bomb site. The knee up from the right hand side top
that drop from construction you can walk down together with the lobby control and just start
working the breach and of course the hallway into force. That's the more direct attack.
That's the two primary ways to see people in ranked and yesterday between secret and
and it's just you attack it, but of course,
they'll have a third and fourth room, sure.
Yes, of course, and that's just for this bomb site.
But notable that Falcons actually opened up
rotate holes for both of those main bomb site walls
that are reinforceable that you mentioned, right?
We've got the one from top of main stairs
and we've got the one into bathroom,
both of which already have rotation holes made by Falcons.
And that's why I said it appears a bit like Chile.
You can close the walls, open the walls,
but offensively or defensively.
And the funny thing is, Valkyries have countered the direct top lobby attack, like you said, with soft walls.
Meanwhile, on the extended roam on Kid Storms, they have triple or double reinforced wall and they're actively bandit tricking it.
This means Valkyrie or Wildcruits, sorry, are facing two different problems.
On one side, it's the breach where the maverick is, on the other side, it's the long angles shutting them out.
Oh wow, it's a quick rush from Dash. In he goes.
And he's right on the verge of solitif, good flash, and finds the OP from straight into the games!
But LikaFak will trade him back with the Nitro Cell also finishing off Solotov.
Now it's a peelback from Falcons.
However they have lost the exchange. Good map control taken by Wildclaw.
Very much worth it. Blitz is dead but what is Blitz's job here?
It's full map control and they have accomplished that.
Bandit fell back towards the bottom side, reinforced the final wall rather in Balfroom
and cannot actively go for a bandit trick.
The issue is they've probably recognized that Maverick is on the board for Spiker.
So Tricking is probably not gonna be a possibility, right?
If Waka gets the bathroom walls open up, they are primed for a default plant on the wall and bathroom.
If Valkyries know this, they have two options.
Since they've also C4, you either have to go for a kill or two by putting aggressively in the hallways,
or rely solely on Breedy on the smoke to deny a plant.
But there's a whole mess here.
Oh!
And Link, if that can just contest, the whole Asus Open Spiker was caught in a bit of an awkward spot
Where he's vulnerable to the hallway to his right and now to the breach wild card I've lost their advantage in the numbers
And now timer as well 40
Good night Shaco
All right, maybe when it black out of sudden fuck
Landing might be hard with 30 seconds left this breeding. It's alive. They go for a push good flash
Good entry Ganson seems to have an inkling on what's going on Bay helps him out
Now it's all up to Brede fully flashed again as baby shark makes his way inside in the bathroom Brede holds on
He's got gas babes to work with but he won't even be allowed to find the first kill
Wild card kick things off on fortress with a bang
Really good aggression
aggression.
It's a bit of a spiker there for a second.
Really good aggression and timings.
Again, I think the one from Kansen completely turned the tide because now they get man-powered
ventures and he just pushed through the bomb site.
Had Shaka been alive on that back portion by a horse, he can just be a turret looking
to his left, to his right and shutting down those exact entries.
And so Falcons, they change things up immediately.
We're going to go to games and dorms, which, look, a lot of people say is a secondary bomb
But look, I love the little breakdown you did at the start for that first bombsite
Can you do the same for this one as well because it's a little bit different
There actually is an external wall onto this bombsite directly. Yeah, there is so in the very bottom left hand side
We'll see where spikers start the round right below where Shaku's running
There's a double wall leading straight into the bombsite. That's gonna be that direct attack
You get that wall after the replays. Yeah, well, maybe we can break down the previous round if there's anything more to say about it
We're breaking out. What's up? Boom. That was it. That was the whole round was just that one
No, I do love that from wild card great exit great entry and of course baby shark to close
Make a breeze that exterior wall. Here we go. Cut the bump side completely in half right no rotations are happening
Then you go in with dashed it before with the vending window next to the breach
You also go to the drop bottom right hand side
We call this the blue drop where I'm from because it's not a blue tarp where the top is that's a direct attack
The breach the blue drop very simplistic very direct
Then if you go to the top portion of the map the same thing as before right?
That's the wrong clear you go in lobby you go in and take horse control
You push closer and closer towards the bomb side and you do the thing in reverse now
You breach the bathroom walls from the inside bathroom in towards meeting an attack from that side
So again direct attack or full map clear
Reloading.
Of course, there's that main staircase right in the center of the map as well, which can provide bank avenues towards both sides, but it's quite isolated. That hallway is pretty dangerous.
He didn't even know MAPS land, and there's such good sound on that staircase. It's just wide open.
There's another closed-off staircase, so I just find often we just get heard.
Essentially, it's good for a bank there.
It seems to be the room clear at the moment for Dash as he makes his way forward. He's got support as well, I believe.
Kansan was just behind him
Now they're looking to breach straight on into office and
The horse control from soliton as he peels back towards bathroom and Falcons
I mean it really was just shoot drones and fall back there all abandoning the Rome
Retreating on the side now will they reinforce this wall they can't and none left
There's a good reason for this that softball has been shot open for a very good reason if you play thermite
You actually put it on the far right-hand side off the bathroom wall and explode the meeting wall next to it
That works both ways. We're pretty sitting and put a thermal charge on that side and blow the bathroom on as well.
So thermite can have a lot of tricky effects on this map, but because the whole trickery that we're seeing
is going to be the maverick and ace coming out rather than the thermite.
But those small tricks can save around.
And that's some tech that teams have figured out so quickly about where you can put these exothermics.
Kansans drone spotted very early there as further up wildcard are breaching open the
wall directly onto site from inside a bathroom.
I spot there for a second.
Now this actually isn't the objective in my right.
You have to go all the way further deep into games in order to plant.
Or dorms of course.
But this map control completely cuts both of those bomb sites in two if falcons do
succeed that map control.
I'm taking Rafa, the hamming gun, blue drop control, because Liga Faker is playing there, nor the outside breach on Kit Storm.
So they have no real control right now.
What a good mate.
It's a 5 in position, 1 direction, and they have 20 seconds left to do so.
It's gonna come down to a frag fest in Solotov, kicks things off, taking out Dash.
He's had a very, very quiet day. 9 kills to only... 9 deaths to only 1 kill previous match.
Baby Shark needs to get active, but he's been watched by Liga Fakken on site.
Shaco and Preeto pick up the rest.
No more yelling at Baby Shark.
No more yelling for an hour locked in.
Very simplistic attack that I was saying.
You really want that split pressure.
Much like I say, Night Heaven Labs, Orange Shelly, you can't go 4 or 5 people from one
side of the map and push over because the bomb sides on this one are quite strong.
So that's why I want to get that external wall opened up or a backstab.
And while Baby Shark did try and flank the blue staircase with like 10 seconds left, it was a solo push.
Super risky, and he's very far off his teammate, so now I have to maybe 3 people push the front, and 2 people push the back next time.
Yeah, it's a hard bomb site to attack, I think particularly because you can't just go into meeting and plant, you have to go one step further.
And then there's a crossfire from the door inside of games, and the breach on the dorms wall.
So yes, I think Wildcard maybe need to think about a bit more of a split push next time.
Yeah, I mean, they're playing the Maverick every round.
Oh, they could have some parties.
And it's great, but did you see Maverick once last round by using the gadget?
Not really, no.
Not really, because they didn't get to the walls that are relevant for the Maverick at the inside.
True, and you get so vulnerable playing that Maverick.
Yeah, so if they had gotten this exterior wall, just with a little Maverick line,
that can actually see where Preview was playing on the bandit, or you could actually play on the bandit.
So, small things again, new maps and there will be things that get missed in different interpretations and what not.
There's no only correct way of playing this one.
But I'm curious to see especially how Falcons will attack many rounds in the future compared to Wildcard and see those different interpretations.
Do you have an idea on whether Fortress is an attacker or a defender side at the moment?
I would say it's an attacker favorite in ranked play.
Really?
At that level at least and I think it'll start off right now maybe with a slight favor towards defense.
I think in three six months from now it'll be a tiger favorite really well
I think it's much like pop-ups where you can pick apart every single bomb such strategically where the defenders will not have many win conditions
And kind of like night have an episode she lay you're relying on a few good kills or good moments in the round as a defender to the good shout-out winning
We'll see
I also think that downstairs bombsets are very strong and no one's playing it yet
No, well Falcons has actually decided to repeat master
and bathroom instead of going over onto the kitchen bomb site which I'm an
orhamon but sounds like kitchen is more favored very much so so far at least
yesterday's matchup that was the case so this is the other attack right the more
direct one they're working lobby they're working the construction job they're
locking down the things with no matter gridlock the thing about this attack
that can get tricky you can easily find yourself stuck in the hallway right
up off them plus they haven't brought a heartbeacher and it's that's one set of
Ken Openers from Deimos so very limited heart destruction and it's not range
destruction but this hallway right here you can get stuck so easily Bay's got
the gridlock F90 for those long angles and Shaco's trying to duel him dashes
force back by the gas top of main stairs and you're right it's very
claustrophobic here for wild card they've got cans on the other side in
in tower but I mean he's somewhat isolated as well where did that flank up from the ladder
again they're missing that back step potential horse door there's a door from the outside
going straight in there's that long hallway called museum hallway there's also a window
from the outside they can utilize they're all just stuck inside the building right now
actually no spiders in the window that's great I mean he's only on the side window he's not
pressuring the door on the other side he's going he's actually rotating there we go
so he might actually be able to make an entry from here but he's gonna need to have a big
impact because baby shark's gone down. Spiker misses his opportunity as a player sneaks right on past him,
but meanwhile elsewhere Wildcard have found success. Bay can start making his way up this hallway
towards horse and to regroup with his team. He will take down Lika Fak, looks for another one,
but Solotov holds down the fort inside of bathroom with a deployable shield to boot,
Put cans and find his number and wild card and roughs under the bum side
Great cover great cross and again the rotations were perfect
We're just talking about how the window and the horse door is so important for the back step of tenager
And then they came through and then instantly baby shark is praising dash. Oh, you're so good me so good
Spikers good IGL. I heard spark in the background. All right. Can we get bogey? Can we get null back?
Like the IGL Brain versus Intuple.
You need both. You need Baby Shark to be your hype man.
Especially like if you're Dash and last map, he had like an absolute stinker of a game.
You need someone to hype you up.
And it's a Falcons tactical timeout.
It was the utility, then you get sucked, you know?
Yes.
Let's say that the team is a member of Ako,
and don't play Ako, but play something to the paper.
Just take the sheet, you know?
You have smoke, you have a semi.
I keep my play.
You just try and then play, and they'll do the post quality.
The other one was easy because of the score.
But if I see that they're not that slow,
they can actually put in time, but this is something to farm,
OK?
Yes.
Yes.
OK.
Keep in mind, we just had the last.
Yes.
Let's hear this.
I'll hear you there.
Go.
How far did that go?
Yeah, sorry, I thought they were done talking and then they went.
Yeah, we just had the last operator bands roll on through.
Falcons banned out the Doka B, which is what Baby Shark's been running for a bit of a look,
which hasn't been that successful to be honest.
But Wildcard banned out the Bandit.
And I think that changes things quite drastically for Falcons.
I think it definitely can.
Mind you that both Kai'i and Tubrao are still open,
but then we have to talk about the Elephant in the Room,
Thatcher got reworked, and now you have five EMPs, which is three Tubraos,
so Thatcher will always win and get the wall opened up.
So yes, it does actually change things.
And we heard, not so much of,
Julio, the coach of Falcon's saying guys,
if they have enough time to go for the execute,
when you fight back before they get there,
and before he said, let's play further out on the map
and fall back a bit instead of just giving them
too much space at once.
When you ban the dog to be,
that does make sticking around a lot easier.
Hard though, if we go back to the previous bomb site,
that's quite hard.
If you go for a main stairs take,
you don't need a lot of map control.
That is the bomb site, right?
Exactly, like, Falcons can't extend on dorms and fall back because they're not even pushing dorms.
But that's where this tertiary bomb site comes into play.
Kitchen and cafe.
Because this is going to be the most amount of map available to you for a bomb site.
Think of Chalet Bar.
We can have one guy playing by the bomb site, just locking down the 3-inch of points,
and then four people running, starting, you know, over in Master Bedroom, piano, solarium,
then falling back and ending a mess in the top blue.
This bomb site works very similar.
You can play extremely deep around the crevices of the map, and then slowly fall back step by step if you want.
Quick entry from Dash, breaching around used to open up dorms, makes his way inside.
He used to be careful, there's a player on the main stairs, it's League of Facts.
Spots out the gridlock's tracks, takes him down.
I think it makes you really vulnerable on that stairs, there's a window just outside, so you never know if someone's watching you.
There's two 90 degree hallways to check the second you walk up as well.
3 angles which has left and right and is a dark kid's thorn so... tricky.
And I feel like right now looking at Falcons, they opted for the Valkyrie C4 below
and trying to play for, you know, again falling back with the layers,
rather than fighting for the live top floor, because they have 2 spare reinforcements,
yet they left the kid's thorn's walls to the exterior completely soft,
which dask breaching charge for free.
Speaking of breaching charges, it's time to get to work on the ver, I mean,
You said that Falcons could play quite extended on this bomb side of kitchen and then fall back
But yeah, they've just given away the vert for free
Mean you see the bombs are right here. There are some strong power positions, but it's kind of like most bombsides
It can't fit five people. No, you see right now. We're looking back like where am I gonna play?
Okay, now we replace my position because I'm getting tracked now
I'll play on cams but there's vert everywhere this one hat so we're looking at right now
That's gonna give a lot of pressure that falcons have to respect the main office round as if you hot job
You're in the middle of the battle. Hmm. I guess found Dash though. Oh, wow good cam at Main stairs does spot baby sharp
I don't know where exactly Dash fell, but Shaco. He's just hanging around on site in cafeteria
It's gonna bunch of those soft angles proning etc. The back end as well with the relation
We were planting by the way. Yeah, biker how's spiker just managed to sneak inside
He's going for a plant and I don't think anyone's in position to deny it Bay covers
He's now choked out by the gas but seemingly it doesn't matter
Falcons have to go for a retake in canons getting active in the bomb site for two-bit kills hungry for more solotov finds him
Spiker is loaded baby shark on the daemons can target solotov and continue to harass him from above
An eye impossible retake for poor solotov now as baby shark continues his pressure from above
Well, Spiker can sneak back into site.
There's no way that Solotov can dual him both, and the track from the Deimos as well.
He commits to it, he falls up again, continues to bait him, and there is no time remaining.
Baby Sharp confirms the kill, the round for Wildcard.
A plant that happened out of nowhere.
I think they dropped a half to fire the smoke, and the smoke player in defense, I think it was Breedy again.
Just not in the right spot to deny a plant. It was way too late while the toxic babes did get one kill almost took out
Spyker once you get into a post that we see it divert the hatch the soft destruction
It is again almost impossible to win in a post that even one you want
It's hard right because waiting is the bomb site. That's where they planted the tiled area
Yeah, but the safe places to play a more like kitchen and furnace, which isn't actually the bomb site
That's it. Kitchen and furnaces. So you actually, yeah, so it's funny. We call it the kitchen bombsite certainly not kitchen
No, you can't plant in kitchen can you?
That's a good question because there's kitchen and cafeteria are right next to each other
It could be one. So this is kitchen where we're looking now and then to the right. That's cafeteria
I'm not I personally don't know where you can plant this right here. That's waiting now that or vending whichever waiting
Yeah, you can plant in there clearly. That's where they plant you can't plant in med which is to the right
I actually don't know for a fact if you can play in kitchen and cafe, but I know that you cannot plan furnaces because I've tried
Yes, I'm gonna guess you can't play kitchen
But obviously like kitchen furnace are the two areas where it's easiest to hold cafe and waiting both have vert
There's a hatch above waiting. Yeah, surely. It's actually quite hard to hold that bomb site
Maybe her mom is gonna end up being my matter. I was saying I think you need the deep role and played the top floor much more
As if they didn't contest the top floor at all. They didn't even reinforce as you said the dorms external
Yeah, if you bend the bandit, I was like, okay, so if you bend the bandit, you can still play the kaita, just like reinforce walls with fustadorians, you just have to slow them down step by step, so again, I think the benefit of the tertiary bomb sets downstairs is you can do some crazy running around.
So before the rework, you could plant there, that's great information, but what about F3 work?
well thank you observer but this is a fun thing is that I've only played this
map in ranked I actually used to go back when I was a former pro player of
course to go into custom games and do extensive testing where you can plant
spots boost plus etc nowadays I put up ranked and I play it and not many people
get to play tertiary bombs because you gotta win two defenses out of two to
get there also we have like a million terrible maps that aren't in comp in the
ranked 4 so it's hard to actually play the comp.
I think you're a truth king.
In dash goes, straight into the gas and straight into
uses his waving arms. That was a very lackluster attempt
there from poor dash and Spiker on the glass has also been
finished off with a spray through the smoke no less
from Shaco. Now baby shark looks to target Shaco but
this is a bit of a rough position. He wants to play it vertically
but it's not going to work out, at least not for now.
This is a very awkward spot to be in the wildcard. They are going for a much more direct attack this time around onto dorms.
Playing from top blue, but Britae is now harassing them with the Echo.
I like this, the Echo and the Smulchers kind of deny them both their shields and get a lot of information as well.
A little bit of value from Baby Shark downstairs, getting damage from the Ligafang and Shaiqo, but again, they gotta work this hallway and bombsite walls to get any properties in the map and they're not gonna get it.
Jacket is gonna swing for another one. The Fenrir is being so difficult, users get aggressive, finds Kansan, Bumside unlocked for Falcons.
Actually quite like Uses on this smoke and Breeden on the ankle because Uses plays in a much more front forward position.
He popped the gas before Blackbeep dumped in and it was a complete perfect counter play.
Breeden naturally will hold on to those who are in his life or plant an hour much later on.
I think we'll be able to get a back call somewhere.
You know, it's not a back call by Sparger, but you could make a neat tent plate.
Just like...
Sheer 1 at GL.
We could just split.
We might find a gas somewhere.
Literally the meta though.
Yeah, literally.
Literally the air top D-Ram.
It's not a back call, but it sounds really outrageous when you just listen to it in our context.
Yeah, you know what's the funny thing is that is literally the current era of siege like
If you're like eye-telling your rank stack and you have this expectation that you have to sit there and be like guys
You play here. You play here. This is how I was like. No, I mean like sometimes a good leader is just like guys
Let's just like fish for a bit and see what's good. I don't have to say that like being a gel
Commonly nowadays it's more about giving guidance rather than struct specific instructions, right?
So say you go for a split take it's ever on the same page about how you can approach the attack to stop
But you also all know that you're gonna have to find stuff and see what's happening in a depth in the fly if spiker stops going
All right, let's play the matter for this wall grim not the flying put the black beer jumping that window take that gunfight 80s
3 left for degrees that's probably gonna happen because well something will go wrong
So you start very very broad term
We're doing this but take and then you get to your stop positions and that's me start working the round step by step
So again very common thing to do and I don't think spider will be wrong
There should be a gap somewhere because there are so many interways both upstairs and beneath
This is the final bomb site
for
Falcons of the half and it's one that wildcard have now won twice with two different styles of attacks
Not the only bombsite Falcons have found success of was dorms and games
So as we go back here
What's the play from wildcard? I mean what a minute in I think it looks like they're not really going for a full clear like
I did the first time are they gonna for top main?
I haven't really been so I don't really have top mania either this big thing is kind of just going in everywhere
And then they have brava twitch is gonna slow down the early stage of this round just using their gacta tree
So the first minute 30 seconds. We shouldn't be seeing a whole lot of action which we haven't but yeah, this bit because the play right
We got that explain pressure and kids forums getting the breach
They've tried to clear you to the T-biter bombs out earlier on the Trig and Brava and then they're playing outside
Missy and Wendell, Codney bombs out in the Harvest well. They're needing Falcons to make an overrotation somewhere
Get caught by those window angles users will go down traded back is Bay by Brede and
And the trade is like a spike are gone. Kansan's in the gap into the objective
He's found the gap that they were looking for and left Shiko all alone
Trapped in the hallway trying to make his way towards museum
He's stuck at the horse right now behind his keep a barrel behind the shield a wild card lock him out of the side
It literally looks like a wasp gonna be a gap for the longest time and then boom out of there are three people in
The bomb site in Tansen. He has been so good in his map. I just getting in there
So side swap, it's a 4-2 half a wild card, one of those rounds very much being a clutch
in that kitchen bomb set I would say, that one came out of nowhere but still, despite
this being a very new map, good attack or success.
Yeah, 4-2 split for wild card on the attack.
As we move onto the defense of Kaid and Bandit Band, hey Falcons, alright, you see what
It's a very hard destruction oriented map, I mean every round I'm on bad to trick and something and I'm asking for a Jager or a Runea or a Maid to help me survive the grenades and you can win and lose the round to simply off the breed, especially on the kids storm bomb side, but you can bunker up everywhere in theory, that's the beauty, you can play like I said on Shalei, open walls or closed walls and then you can play your front four operators or your wall deny operators.
It's funny though because Falcons were placing so much into these world denials that didn't play kaiid once in that half
No, I think the thatcher rework is my fear. It was eventually banned
Well the bandit was banned. So when the bandit was banned away
They never tried the kaiid to bra, right?
And the only theory that happened that is that factured now counts it before that you have three MPs to burn three solar canisters
I think conversely the argument there is if they're having to bring thatcher
Yeah, they're weak somewhere else. Yeah, they're weak somewhere else
And that's clear the reason why bad Falcons are banned banned and Caius
It's because they don't actually don't want to play many hard reaches exactly they want to play your operators
I mean you're Demos and you don't could be nice, but they're banned out
Yeah, you know, but you want to be playing your Grimm you're gonna be playing all kinds of other stuff
Etc. Finally enough they're not really bringing any of those operators except for the Monty
But it just gives you flexibility where if one important person dies
You can still get through the wall and man you with the mute nerve not stopping ace or can openers mute
Isn't the water I'm operating anymore. He's purely a drone denial. They most don't give you the now whatever
So it does mean that falcons can guarantee no matter what get through every single wallet desire
And just have more freedom in the server
And I actually think the month here for a new map. That's what I would do. Yeah
You walk through the man who goes a guy on yellow ping set up the flight drones
Yeah, well now we gotta see Breeder do something. He only tends to do when he's on the shield
He has to IGL and lead his team forward because he's the only one with eyes in front
That is quite extended here in the hallway as well on the warden. I quite like as a pick
I mean glass game a bow felt
When flashes on the board especially with a some band you're probably gonna have flashes in your lineup
And it looks like Falcons are teetering on the edge of a map clear
Breeday has already made his way all the way up to briefing and he wants to smack this mirror window
I remember that goes directly onto the objective
Yeah, they hold this holy to his right and just walk up to the you know the strong
Oh, that's a C4. Where was that from all the way downtown? He jumped out the window. I think it tossed it up
There's a window downstairs. That's amazing. I love that from baby sharks styling on Shaco
But Falcons have decided it's time to hit the go button. It doesn't work for them Falcons are picked apart as wildcard re-aggress
We speeding it. Leica fact wants to go for it in Kansan hook line and sinker
Solotov 1v3 now 1v4 as dash is about to get picked up no diffuser
He can grab that in a moment, but he wants to try and use a sound cover from this Selma to go
Dash is a sneaky snake on the floor
5 rounds for 2 for Wildcard, they have built this momentum.
Not sure what happened to Breedy that round but he disappeared way too early and Kensen
again the hero of our card.
He's 11 kills.
Didn't catch the beginning of that but it could have been like we're screaming like
into the world but it's not comes issue perhaps it's stressing in the server
Falcons are by no means like on the verge of elimination they're not that they
are making it to play offs but yeah but it's not enough what's true there's a
huge difference right so five teams in your group first place goes straight
into the upper bracket and you skip around in the playoffs one step closer to
the hammer second and third place upper bracket so you have two lives but you
Don't skip around you have to play another very well-matched team
That's a hard spot to be and then if you end up fourth in your group
Which is likely to be Daystar or wild card you end up in the lower bracket one life
That's it. You get no second chance. It doesn't throw it pick fourth as well the whole
Picking your opponent thing. I believe second two picks three or two second seed picks. Oh
Oh, okay. Yeah, okay
But yeah, so Falcons look they're not on the verge of elimination
But you certainly would be expecting it's them or furia who are gonna end up getting that by in the upper bracket
and
With how many games they've dropped so far
Certainly wouldn't want to be in that position they need to win this but they need to come back three rounds to even things up on
On their attacking side, but baby shark has found his mojo back again with that C4 outside. So devilish
He has to be careful of because if you look at the defending lineup
This is speaking stall and time denial clash Mira and to brow without a cage or paired with they want to say okay
Falcons we had a pretty slow attack last round. We thought you we won whatever what happens if we don't find you
We just burn down that clock. So it's very important that wild card
They don't take the pipes too early. They can stick around like Canson and baby shark and play a bit acro to Jones
But they must fall back step by step and play around that bomb site
Falcons like you said very slow last round. They're trying to expedite things this time around even the barricades
That shows a wild card of trying to slow Falcons down that just adds what two or three seconds of snacking that
Solotov makes his way further
Drones up takes down a mirror window kicks on peeking. You guess what?
Style points for Wildcard as they fortify the bomb site further, but Shaike, he snuck his way up, he's got revenge on Baby Shark, but now he meets his maker in dash on the clash.
This is my fear. Baby Shark is a great player, but he's also usually just a little too far in the front lines, so eager for a fight.
Could have played behind the clash, playing safe again behind that bomb site, but Ghost on early.
And he got Nikhil, he's the hero, right now he's the villain, 2 bar goes out, they can stall for 36 seconds of total time
And you stack them back to back to back at the max duration of 12 seconds
That means that when this wall gets opened up, falcons have less than a half a minute to work with to make all the plays
Big nitro, oh he's frozen in the thing, so it freezes him as well, he can't pop it
Ah, unfortunate, Sparka
Salta wants to keep on picking, he's gonna reinforce it again, not again!
This one will land on Solotov.
Can't confirm.
Falcons, they cannot find their way into this bomb site,
and even with Solotov picked up,
Wildcard continued peeling back the layers
and re-fortifying the bomb site.
Still one Tuber out canister in pocket,
as the wall attempts to get breach cancel,
we'll just freeze it again.
League of fact might have flanked here on the boot up.
There it is, there's a clash shield,
but they're not watching it.
This is the perfect gap of the right timing.
Uses, he makes his way forward,
but the clash shield gets activated.
League of fact goes down,
Dash is holding down the fort with the clash.
When Solotov finds his entry on site,
Shaka will join him and Wildcard at the drop of a hat.
Just for that, you're a spark!
You shot him down the corner!
No!
Let's look out!
By the skin of their teeth, Falcons get the rounds.
Nine seconds left.
Had they stalled for nine more seconds,
that play from Spiger, a ratting in the corner,
will win the round on zero seconds.
But they were quick enough to the punch. Perfect timing for that flank.
If I could apply that pressure, making Clash look in the technically wrong correction,
saying, hey, look at me. Look at me. I'm the focus.
We also saw a news mechanic that came out last patch.
It is how EMPs have been reworked recently.
It used to be the longest time that let's say I am a smoke and I toss a smoke canister.
You would have to EMP the canister itself so I can't pop it.
You can now EMP the smoke and disrupt the signal from the other direction.
So when you had the two brow or the mirror rather in the two brow freeze tossing at the C4,
the C4 wasn't jammed, the mirror was.
Because the mirror has to leave the freeze to pop it, but had you tossed the C4 into the freeze,
you also can't do because the C4 is blocked.
So the signal can get disrupted from two different directions and that's very new.
Only a few weeks old.
Players are still getting used to that.
You saw the confusion get popular like why is it not popping exactly? It's funny. It happens like back in the old days
You can't get you couldn't get on your cams
While you were next to a new jammer. Yeah, because it's being blocked, right?
But now that effect is universal for all gadgets
And applies to the freeze as well look Falcons finally get themselves around on the attacking side
But they are still trailing behind by two and
They can only afford to lose one more. Otherwise
Wildcard take the series and with that I believe they'll also take first place
depending on round I think they might lose that on round if to fury as I think
fury will actually end up at first place yeah I think I think honestly maybe if
they win this literally seven three they might just etch it out but it's very
close yeah I think I think fury has got the number on the round count but of
course what really matters is just winning this game for either of these
teams as three points up for grabs. The loser will still get one, but the winner will get that triple
threat. Falcons I think, not so much the point, this is a mental game. I've been like okay, we're
in it, we don't have to worry too much. They're not worried about getting grouped, but they are
worried about being good enough to keep hanging with the better and better teams. Because every game
at this point, we can start seeing more and more teams get eliminated. If you're in the bottom of
the group, you're about to elevate when Wild Card won the first map of Border, so they're going to
gonna be going home as the f*** that's a nasty wall bang from leaky fact that's a
tilt of a baby shark I could hear leaky fact yelling a baby shark in the room
next to us where that game is happening right now I mean leaky fact he is a
vendetta against this man baby shark dead really early two out in a row again I
said it it's like the big strength and weakness of this team is how he can
get a couple of kills and pop off early and have a lot of value oh he dies with
nothing to his name and he is useless, worthless, just watching the cameras, thankfully Dogobies
will be banned the way so he cannot get disrupted, he can give good information to his team but
you're down a gun and that's the most difficult thing here, a lot of angles to worry about
on the kitchen bomb site.
Still good damage on Shiker and Leica fact that-
That's true.
And Falcons out once again very slow on their attack.
This is getting forward in the deadlines, they got a blitz that's been undetected, they
can just pop that go button and they're not gonna know what hit him.
But you need to make sure it lands because if it doesn't if these candellas don't give falcons an in then wild card will claim that point dash
Talked away in the corner. He's got a solid spot
He'll also have that one way angle using the key but barrier leave the window and if users jumps in
He's gonna die. I think dash will get him. Yeah, they seem to have an inkling shikers watching the position
hiding under the window
Goodbye to users and with that Falcons. They're sitting at a standstill a second one jumps in Bay doubles down
Pre day in Solotov now desperate does he go for the plan or does he look for a kill?
Pre day needs a little bit more, but Bay is still lying in waits
Solotov covers for one Pre day continues to try baiting back and forth Bay knows where he is
Wild card a reprisal and match points over Falcons
Can we bend the glass?
That's a question because I ain't seen a glass yet.
Interesting.
Final ban of the game. What is it to be?
Mere Grim. Okay, I was wondering if we'd see the Tuber Al.
I was wondering if we'd see the Ying.
I mean, Goya looks really good on paper right now.
Yeah, they're baby shark, instantly locks in.
I was gonna say, cause like, if you want to play
for that denial with the mirror, the two brow,
the only thing they can kind of replace that,
it's gonna be the Goya, and that's your game plan.
You gotta pick it up.
But it does leave a lot of shield play, both the Blitz
and the Blackbeard open for the attackers.
Oh, Ha-Mum, it's happened, it's done.
We have seen all four of them.
This is classic.
Yeah.
This is a game from Wildcars.
They did it on Borda.
They play Customs.
They did it on Clubhouse, they played Bar, and now here they're playing Hamam, which, I mean, I guess we didn't see this in secret, SSG, do you happen to see it in the room?
We did not, the first time, unless I missed the round. The first time at Tier 1 LAN, we are seeing Hamam on Fortress, I mean, this is so exciting.
And Falcons, they have shown that they are really bad when it comes to playing the underplayed sides.
So, I don't want to talk about the exact map pushes, like I did with the other bombsite, because I'm not too familiar, so I won't go into detail, but there's one thing to learn for.
If you go to the B bombsite downstairs, that wall, that's the site, and there's a little half wall on the right-hand portion, so you can breach the exterior wall, walk into the close right, and instantly go for a plant.
That's the cheese. That's the big vulnerability. If you're roaming too far off, or don't have a plant in that, like a C4 or smoke, that is how you lose the round instantly, so just keep your eyes peeled for that.
There's a Goryo, there's a C4, there's a Smoke. It shouldn't be possible, but who knows?
We've got Thermite as well on the board. No PAE, no Bandit, and no Tugrower either, so that wall will be breached very quickly, directly onto the bomb site.
Now, Kansan's gonna have to stay nearby just to call for the team.
Dash also can look through the smokes on the warden so he's nearby while caught our
wary of a rush.
And you know, they spoke about should we bend the glass, but they said no, let's bend the
Grimm, play the warden instead in case they bring it.
Very good foresight from Spyker indeed.
And much like the other bombsite downstairs Kitchen, it is about playing around the map
and stalling for time.
Hamam, as a bombsite, is not the strongest if you're playing five people on it.
as much as I keep saying like should I like not even lapse extending around the rooms around the
bomb site rather to maintain control and maintain crossfires and they're doing a good job at it
they've surrendered top floor entirely they're all playing on that primary floor below but they're
looking for a flank up a staircase watching those go away shiky wants more low on health as well
this seems to keep happening to shiko he gets shot from an off angle he hasn't figured out yet and then
now he's 20 health 20 needs more time to get used to the map get used to the angles it's hard to be
entry in the map is new. If you're a droner, you're just droning out, this is clear, this is clear.
Exactly. It's an entry though, you're fighting unknown angles.
The vert from the ram here is great. We already see a lot of the bomb site problem is it's not
the parts of the bomb site where Wildcard are actually fortifying and playing.
Yeah. And there's still a lot of roam games. See, all of these Wildcard players have fallen back
into Hamam itself. Still, they have the ability to protect the B bomb site
shouldn't execute come through. Solotov makes his entry.
You can plant outside now on that beach that I said really can walk into the outside and plant by that half wall with the beach cover
But is the smoke gonna be in position to deny this plant where is can the plane the plan starts
It's the smoke misses. He's gonna have to go again
But really will be able to confirm the plan and impact is ticking away at the damage
But he will get the plant down before he falls
Solotov covers for a second now looking for a little bit more
He's maintaining control as a nomad edge out goes off Bay car land this
of the Falcons refuse to go down without a fight.
They play so weird. Again, I think the biggest thing we're learning right now is how much that top
of pushing matters because the verticality is so strong Wildcard will call it tech timeout
because they need just one more round.
I didn't make out much of that, unfortunately.
Not a damn thing, I gotta be honest.
I've done my best to listen to Lugonis.
All of her was like, oh yeah, wait, don't buy work.
And I was like, wait, what am I worth, bro?
Tell me, please.
What is it?
It's funny, because I can hear Falcons clear today.
Yeah, well, everyone, so when I was on the analyst desk yesterday, I was obviously in the player room, because that's where you do the desk from.
And watching and listening to ASUS G and Secret, I'm standing five feet away. I can barely make out what they're saying.
And they're not like getting all three of their length like, one guy from the game stairs, oh I got him, good.
They're so disciplined in their comms, despite it being a super back and forth game for Falcon Zora Passionate Team.
Falcons are a passionate team. Yes, and I also think when you're coming from your native language to English for the primary three players
I breed a League of Fag and Shy go into English. I also think that affects just your discipline in that language. It's a foreign language
It's always tricky going away from native tongue to a different one
And I think for Falcons back when they're BDS
It was a very big decision for them to make that because when you can speak the international language you can pick up practically any player
Exactly, yeah when you're stuck in French you only can pick up French players or French speaking players. They could have picked up Baby Shark.
They could have picked up. I mean I think Blast or BDS was a big question mark for the longest time and it never happened.
No, I think most of if not all of the big French speaking players now playing on English speaking teams, Gen G would be on the exception.
Yeah, they were X Gen G I should say. Oh true, yeah.
Boom.
Well two match points still for wildcard to get it done after the 7-0 on the first map in their favor
They stunned us falcons replied in tow the 7-2 on clubhouse
Fortress was always going to be the question mark and we've already received quite a few answers the last question
Being begged is can falcons hold on?
just waiting here for the first push to come through again Falcons risk
assessment you're down 4-6 you cannot afford to make any mistakes and die
early in these rounds my BD also is back on the mountain for a second attempt C4
tossed out BD half HP solo top takes a little bit of damage but everybody
stays alive we can reset the round now watch our flag on their signature
operator of the solace they have perfect information if and where that plant goes
down, Falcon have to problem solve, and lightly play for bomb side control and play for kills.
Shaco is just trying to deal damage from that doorway outside, but it's so awkward. You can't
whoever makes the first move will die. That's the thing. That's it. If you try and
make that doorway too aggressively, your dead Shaco gets aggressive inside and dash. He's fallen
back at the perfect moment to enable Shaco to have that control. Moving around the FNAT mines,
Which ones are activated now could be the answer for dash to have a little bit of control
But the movement from Falcons that get active in the sights
4v3 as a bird looks probable and yet there is no very capability
Sneaking in from behind the Brazilian get some before being traded back by Shaco again
Oh, well kills to his name. He looks for a little more, but from down below
Spiker still may just be able to deny the plan
Baiting shark has been forced further back. The users has decided it's time to get that bomb down on the grounds
Three players low on HP for Falcons as these two heroes from Wildcard look for a retake.
Spyger has an impact grenade. He can easily find a kill into the.
Spyger hits another headshot. Lucky number 13.
Three bullets all he needs.
He's got the SMG-11 in hand.
Finding the first one quickly and bring him!
Let's go!
But it's another narrowing. He ran to the corner for users.
ONE MORE ROUND FOR ROTEY!
So much space taken by Breedy in that round.
He walked through the entirety of the bomb site into bathroom.
When it did go down, it comes with a trade.
And when you have numbers advantage going one for one,
it's always gonna be what you want to achieve.
The 4v3 to the 3v2,
to just completely locking out the last two defenders playing off off the bomb site
So now wildcard having the biggest question mark that they just had to answer there is guys
What bombs that do we go for and it's so tricky because you might have let's say spiker the agile captain saying I think we should go dorms
But the four other players the non captains could say I think kitchen is better and you have about 15 seconds to decide
Falcons have now had successful attacks on the dorms exactly onto bathroom
Yeah, and onto her mom. So the only bombsite where wildcard have actually won every single time was kitchen
It was only the ones and it was really just because of a mist drone
Enabling that cheeky play from the the window which was there was Bay
That's it wildcard in a very uninvivable position now despite having the match point
It feels like that momentum slipped away. Oh it does and pretty to no surprise again
It's gonna stick the Monty and I think if you're having
individually difficult performance. I don't think Breedy has per se, he's making a specific role,
but he's finding so much more value just being able to take space for his teammates.
When Breedy plays the blitz and fires early on the entry or he plays a gun or a heart-beaching
operator, they get stuck in the hallways and outside the bomb slide. When Breedy plays the
Monty, they know for a fact, unless he completely trolls it, which he doesn't tend to do, they
can't get in the site. They do have a fighting chance to threaten the plant, and Natural
Waka start over-road-titting, move ramping. Oh, we got to deny the plant, run in, do something,
and the other players of Falcons is going to get some freebies in the server,
and that's how they start building a big lead.
And Shaco is landing every shot today. This map, I mean, like, yeah, we've said that maybe he was
still getting used to it. There are a few angles where he's taking damage from, but he's still
Dragon the hell out better than a 2.0 KD 13 and 6 right now
Lake effect starts the drone work it looks to be a bit of a split take here for Falcons
They've already put a lot of pressure directly on dogs, but now they rotate back to tower
It's again that opening killer so eagerly waiting for and it's been baby shark so many times
It's been three kills. I think for the last four maybe five rounds
It's been a while you see like three three three four five is shark. You kill baby shark
League effect to baby shark so let's hope that shot shot go kill bae baby shark kill
Solotov finally an opening kill for I could count as well this is the best
player that you could possibly get on the floor
shocker able to get revived where is he's been over there he's creeping down
saying please someone's gonna have to help me the hatches open as well now and
is where Breedy has to come into action to give information but look at that it's
It's Breedy, solo with an injured Shiker, and two flankers.
Oh, this is taking so much time.
Falcons though, thankfully, can bait for one.
Spiker goes down.
Shiker will eventually be picked up, but he's going to be low HP for the rest of this round.
Okay.
So, now again, we're looking at Breedy to get information to make the correct place here
and assess the situation.
League of Facts, solo flanking across the other side.
Remember, as the IGL, this puts more pressure on Breedy now to, again, lead Shiker forward.
He jumps over!
Kansan, no! Risky play from Kansan, but Dash will hold the forts. It's not over yet. Falcons still need to make their way forward.
They still have the mountain to mount their attack. But Lika Fak needs to get active. He's on the lurk.
He's so close to this bombsite as Yuzus tries to regroup with Brede. And they may force Bay out of position.
Because picture perfect from Lika, second to follow, and the Falcons are flying high again.
All of the time is on the docket.
The most important round in a while for Falcons, they need to make that comeback a reality.
And the team is split in three groups.
Shaco and Brede, while Shaco injured Brede has to make the hero play and somehow cover
Shaco's back the entire time.
When you have user solo flanking, leaky fact solo flanking, the IGN lane is split, there's
no clear goal, just a matter of trying to link up and meet by the bomb side.
Leaky fact it's two kills, one with the grenade, they're slouching the position and then the
second with the information of his teammates in the hallway.
It's beautiful, it's precise.
It's exactly what we expect from Falcons and it's happened so late in this tournament,
but it has happened.
This play by Kansen, I gotta say, I cannot defend that one.
Vaulding over, I mean, there's no way the Monty is solo and even if he is, you had a
teammate in the hallway about a two or three seconds sprint away.
If you wanna make a play, you gotta make that come say, guys, it's double the Monty.
Somebody trade me right now.
I'll wait for you for four seconds, that's it, gotta go.
That did not happen.
They stay on defense and right now. I don't know if that's where they want to be
No, we really just need a fresh on things up for wild card now
It's been three rounds in a row for Falcons
And they've tried so many different pom sites. They've tried everything. I mean down to oh, no
We're going still back to bathroom like kitchen is the only one there's technically
undefeated for wild card
Bathroom here was very rough last time they played it Falcons took control Falcons so dominant Shaco
really deadly on that external door.
Making a few adaptations though.
Getting the Ella on the board of things is excellent to stop both country shields.
We need a child this month.
The plant, and also it's an instant pop when they walk in.
The Finnrich does take a good second to really kick into effect for example.
The Lucy can spin it for half a second.
Ella is instantaneous.
Easy to rotate and toss them around.
Lot of coverage.
Oh baby shark.
Again he's so early in these fights.
Where is he?
He's on bombsite.
peaking people that's the problem is look I really appreciate it on border but
you have to know when to quit change tack he's four and eight at the moment he
can't be taking unnecessary risks sit on cams like make some callouts for your
team like shoot drones but don't actually contest fights not yet it's not worth
it now I'll go back to my old point of sometimes doing nothing is doing something
and baby shark is for this map at least I need to learn a bit of that see the
The thing is, LigaFact just tried to put a Claymore down, he's got breach in charges.
If instead of trying to get aggressive, Baby Shark looked for a re-roam downstairs for
a potential late flank, he might actually have more success.
I mean, there's only a few drones left here from the side of Falcons.
One of them has to be a flank drone.
This is getting a little bit dangerous for LigaFact.
Confidence.
You keep going here, my friend, or?
At what point does he stop pressing W?
Okay, there it is.
He waits for the breach to go out.
He's actually eager to watch the flank, it seems.
knows that the lack of claymores may punish him in the late rounds. Solotov has now breached
a deep angle into bathroom, but that half wall is still a very safe position to play.
I believe that's baby shark. Yeah, it is. Careful not to overstay. You're welcome.
One bullet, you're injured, right? If you're head or you're dead. And he has a C4, so he is
one big part of the planned denial. And the thing is, as long as you stay alive,
Falcons have to go for a deep push. The more guns you have allowed to shock down
Entry engagements the better planning again, not an option to see force of smoke that has to be thousands going for kills again
And Bre day can be the tip of the spear here with the mundane
He can march his way into bathroom and poise for a plant force three aggro cans and no steps up and takes out shaco
Where is baby shaki's on the floor?
But there's no nitro cell to know the plans and so it is confirms
Solotov in awkward spot, the smoke is gonna gas him out but he will survive. No! As he rotates out, Bay catches him.
Breide needs to be the one to watch for this plant now, but he's been covered off by cans and 13 kills to his name.
The Ella looks to continue his flank. It's just users to cover.
Spiker now picks up baby shark and we're in a 4v2 for wild card and the Monty's
gone down. Breide cannot stand tall. Uses as the last one finds one but not the
seconds. It will be a fourth match points opportunity for the North American squad.
It comes down to a huge touch and again a small slip up right there are two C4's
and what I said could happen did in fact happen. Baby shark hit by one bullet in
the shoulder gets injured. C4 doesn't exist. The second C4 from the warden got shot mid-air
from the solo top because he had to sprint into a poor position and toss it while actually
blinded his warden. Couldn't have time to get a glass on first. Just panicking the server.
The smoke toxic babes were not spent early enough or well enough to shut down the plant.
But what a retake. And here we are. Finally wild card. Get a defense. It's been a while.
It's been a real drought. Three rounds in a row. They struggled. And their reward is
to switch on to attack where they were loving it. 4-2-1, 4-2-1 attack, yeah at the start
of this game. We need to see a little bit of a resurgence of players like Pabyshark,
I mean again he's made too many poor decisions, 4-9 now, a real far cry from the domination
of the first map. So it was 4-2-1 for both teams actually?
Yes it was.
Getting us to that 6-0 run.
That's how overtime works my friend.
Well if one team gets a 4-2 then the other team also has to get a 4-2, otherwise you're
I have no counter. I surrender. I have no counter to this point.
I was thinking where we've got 5-1, you don't go to go 4-2, right?
I have no... I surrender.
My only point with this, before I got completely distracted by me being on the wrong side of this one, I guess,
is that I've got to own it now.
The theory at first is that this map might start off a little bit different of here, because it's so new.
But most people that I've spoken to would say in a few months it will be, no matter what, attack or favorite.
That seems to have shown up earlier than expected.
These teams both know how to conjure attacks on this map, and I think that's really telling.
You can go for your really direct structure attacks, but you can also clearly do a bit of split theory, if that works.
You can do split pushes, right?
Both seem to work on this map.
Definitely.
The only weakness of this map, if you're to get really nitty gritty, is I think much like Night Heaven Labs, in two years from now, we'll see very similar attacks that we do currently.
And I think that's where the weakness is, the longevity, but it could make a small change here and a small change there, like we have to coastline bank and border over the years, that could then refresh you up that map.
But that's a story for two years from now. Right now, I think this map is generally speaking top five in the entire map pool across ranked and pro league. I think it's phenomenal, I love it.
And I honestly am so impressed and surprised you could make the old fortress that was a disaster for map into a super playable one.
Yeah.
So kudos.
We've been treated to a great showing of it as well between Falcons and Wildcard.
Quite a different game to what we saw yesterday from SSG and Secret as well.
But only one of these two teams will walk away the victor.
Yeah.
Falcons needed more than Wildcard, that's for sure.
Falcons have done the thing that I love the most.
Uses on the smoke, Breedy on the echo and the reason why I love it, I said it earlier.
uses place more in the front lines of the smoke canisters, using them to stop a push and do damage,
whereas Breedy is more plant denial oriented. This means the smokes are likely going to get
used before things get bad to give Falcons an early advantage. In a wildcard going to attack
for the first time in a while, they're a bit slower than usual, trying to get back on the pace.
And this dorm's bomb site is the one that Wildcard failed to attack both times.
It looks like Falcons are taking out a leaf out of the Wildcard playbook and they are
Peeling back the layers and re-reinforcing the previous
Rotate holes on the bomb side
Those surprise haven't seen a thermite like he hasn't been banned away yet. No picker whatsoever
And it's it's so good here to get both of the walls opened up
And then that goes out no real follow-up, but there are in meeting room here comes a secondary the bridge heart destruction
And now falcons are stuck in a toss pot because the main wall outside has also been opened as a crossfire baby shock
What are you doing again? He's called his pants down and an aide really pushes dash back as well
Spike is gone down. He is gone for two. It's all up to cans and to stave off
What could well be a flawless round he finds the first like me a consolation prize. We're going
Penguin we're seeing all 15 here on Fortress
It was hard to call
When falcons made the comeback on pop house, but we both said surely over time is on the menu for third mapper, right?
We've gotten there into OT we got all the way to
7-7 scoreline and we are thinking so deep in a strat book in terms of adaptations
Small things that can fix around and counter play. It's been a tasty treat
This match a real morsel between Falcons and wild card from the get-go
7-0 on the first map. I'm still reeling from that wild card
Nobody expected this level of fidelity from a roster this young the youngest team at the events
Yeah, and it's funnily enough. It's the oldest on the roster Kansan
He's got the ink kills right now experience man
We saw a bit of young blood on map one with baby shark, but he's really struggled in the last few
Falcons have come to life as well
You can't deny I mean clubhouse was a great showing a lot of fortress has been as well
Especially on their attacking side and that is where this game will end
One way or another we settle it in the next three minutes
Falcons look to attack wild card have tried time and time again
Which bombsite is the right choice? It looks like finally they've decided to go back to cafeteria
There's one big difference from this attack of the previous Valghans.
There is no shield play in action from Breedy's back on the game like before.
And you look at it like historically on this map, Breedy has had the most success by far
when he played the Monty.
The plans are either going down or his team is getting good value around the Monty operator.
So I'm curious to see what they want to do.
I heard one thing from League of Fag- Oh, what?
I heard one thing from him.
He said, I was going to flank these guys and play solo on the IQ.
He is literally dead in the first 20 seconds as he entered the building caught off guard
by Dash.
That is the worst round, the worst moment to lose League of Fag early.
He's a playmaker.
But this time, he's going to sit back and call his shots from the grave.
He's the energy of this roster as well.
He's the leader of this roster and now he's leading from the grave.
And again, he don't have Brady on the monkey, so getting in 4v5, it's not going to...
You're going to need to check your pub off right now.
There's a go full crazy on the entry. We've seen it. We've seen it before. We could all see it again
He's been informed today. He's been informed on Fortress
But it's been hard to clear medbay here where we're currently seeing bay hold on
the verticality comes through from
Falcon solitov with the hammer he needs to isolate some of these players on the bomb site
He's got nays to work with as well to flush them out of these corners medbay's gonna still be hard to clear
But inside of waiting on the a bomb side. I feel like he could have a little bit more success
Yeah, met me is kind of like office on clop as a back bone
Combined the entire side together. There's no verticality. It's on the roof upside
So you can only walk in the door or the two windows or work the hats next door and either scenario
It's hard to kill him can some takes down cycle to the crazy entry is also now in the grave
breathing on the ying maybe just turn to carry this one it's looking desperate
the Falcons here wildcard are just sitting back and waiting for them to
make their move against the world we've been one of them times but now it's time
for a kiss goodnight tell me a second day but Wildcard have just made love to Falcons
They fought hard and they fought long. We started off on a 7-0. Super dominant, border.
We got a clubhouse, wildcard doing unorthodox attacks that we're not working, falcons shutting them down.
And then we treated to the newspaper fortress and no one was gonna know what happens next.
8-7 victory for wildcard. Well fought victory.
And they are once again at their third international, going from reload to minik here to a side, proving just how capable they truly are.
Aptly named as always, Wildcard always find an upset over one of the Titans of Rainbow Six.
And today it is the tournament favorites of Falcons who have suffered their second defeats in the group stage.
While we know that they will make it into the playoffs, where they seed into that bracket, be it in the upper
or in the lower bracket of the playoffs remains to be determined wildcard are making a very good case
for why they are not a flu team they are the real deal i'm so keen dude that was such a good game
it was a really good game especially map one map one i was gonna say low key is sure about
pop I was the way that it ended or the way that it happened rather but I think map one and three
next up even then we still got bar like we got something we saw every side past them's bar and
Hamam yeah, thanks for my card. I'm loving it. We saw her mom
Man, I'm loving it also eight seven and seven oh in the same series as well
I don't the irony is not based on me with that, but canson dude
I know in the second half is a little slower, but the first half was canson's world on forces
He was literally shutting down every single push from the side of Falcons and also getting so many gaps on the attacking side
He finishes 29 to 20, 3-1 on the entry and is finding so much consistent value across the board
But I want to keep racing Spyger. He's the IGL and he's 23-20. He's 4-0 in entry
He's calling the shots and they were celebrating going guys. Okay, you can yell and scream
I'm gonna say pick Tokobi, pick Nomad. This is gonna be the next attacking round
He is so focused on just what's right in front of him and keeping the squad together as that pillar in the middle
It's funny. It's only Kansan's second six-invitational, but I do remember his first one.
I do remember his first one. I can't think of any little bank closures.
It's because, yeah, the iconic Kansan spot on bank. It's only his second SI, and he's doing this.
I'm loving seeing what we're seeing at a wild card today. Falcons, though, man, they have some serious
soul-searching to do, but the potential is that we see the prime Falcons just right beneath the surface.
fact, they can bounce back from a 7 0 on border and then still be within match point distance
on fortress. Big volumes about what that team is capable of, but this group is is heating up. We
know elevates going home, but furious it at the top and then it's wild card falcons. What is going
to happen with the rest of this group? We'll find out as SI continues until then stick around
because we've got more matches coming up right after this.
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Everybody always talks about being mentally prepared for a game,
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Especially that pressure of our side, and the player that eats you up.
Let's go!
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Everybody always talks about being mentally prepared for a game.
And no one really knows what that looks like.
Especially that pressure on that side and the player
That eats you up
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It's just me right now.
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Of you?
We got a little bit of you.
Welcome back to the VStream.
I'm Fluke.
This is full demo, full colour picture.
Don't invert your eyes.
turn a look away because we have potentially another defining game, Secret versus Enterprise
and Secret on the verge of confirming themselves as escaping the groups.
Yeah, good performance history from them. Big win, SSG inside their group, that's obviously
gotta be one of the games to watch it was and almost a little bit of a wobble near the end
for Secret where they were sat 6-0 and then all of a sudden you blink and it's 6-5 but
They got there in the end, so Secret starting to build a good amount of form now, and they're
against a team who has yet to really find their form.
Yes, this is the worry right now because Enterprise play today and then they are off tomorrow,
but if they lose this series, that means their fate is in a way and in effect out of their
hands.
They might have to just sort of sit and watch and see their joy and potential of escaping
groups disappear.
They just haven't really been able to get off the mark.
was always the sort of you know you come in as a bit of an underdog team you look at this group and
yeah you've got SSG, OXG, you've got secret, you've got all these teams that are going to
put pressure on towards you and then oh who's the last one? Oh, Fluxy W7M, it's just been a rough ride
and now's their chance to see if they can try and grab fates and try and turn these scores around
them. Yeah it's not the prettiest of sides, some players have done okay but we're not having the
full team performance that you need if you want to excel at the 6th event. There's no
ways about that. Everyone needs to be pulling their weight. Whereas if you look at Secret,
again, everyone is filling that role here so far. And Secret, I think, should be feeling
pretty confident knowing that the SIG match is over and they took points away from that.
Yeah. I mean, it's the sort of split of how everything goes with Secret, right? They're
team that we know and we've talked about the history of this tournament isn't the greatest.
You know, they've struggled to get in before but they've had high expectations. They've had a
fantastic year of domestic and international siege and now they're going to see if they can try and
well keep that going and keep the pressure hot and high especially and this is a mild spoiler
with some other results that have gone away from them but what hasn't gone away from
one certain Frenchman is this our head to head an entry battle of our two entry players between
the two teams and Mowgli just seems to be that little bit sharper though the actual entry
statistic isn't a million miles away from Bapen. No, I think Bapen's been been fine. You know,
I don't think it's a case where the entries haven't been coming in for enterprise. It's
more of the team performance like I mentioned, but but for Bapen, he's holding his own. You know,
I believe he was positive that we've seen the previous graphics. So he is doing doing all right
Words from ugly. This is the kind of player he is once he hits that bit of form and he hits that stride
At some points. I think he's unplayable because I've seen it for years now inside of eu
Where the guy will just pop off and go big. I think whenever he first joined that roster
There were the question marks where we know sometimes he can disappear
And he doesn't have that impact compared to you know dropping 18 gills
Yeah, and it was about him finding that consistent form and I think the form hasn't proved substantially
Since being on secret compared to a stent whenever he was in walls
Well, this is the sort of thing about a player like him. He's very energy based
He sort of built himself up and and sets himself up and he needs a decent
Backing with it. He never really got that on the previous roster. There was great players fine
But I don't think they really got in towards the style that he wants to play now
When you look at this roster when you look at how June throws himself in Noah as well
sort of come in and had these big moments on these bands. It's just a little bit more
of a set up. Shallay is our first pick for Enterprise and then on to Night Haven Labs,
which is Secret's pick and ending in a lab. Yeah, this was always going to be a quite
a difficult band phase I fought from the side of Enterprise, mostly because the two bands
that, look, I think everyone needs to go for is Border and Bank. Those are Secret's best
maps. And, you know, if you're Enterprise, you like those maps. You will play a bank,
You will play a border, but you can't go for it.
You have to try and take those maps away from Secret.
And in Secret knew that.
Secret knew they can have the pick of whatever they don't feel like playing, and that has
been Fortress and a Consulate, which leaves with Shallie Labs and the Lair.
And again, for Secret, they'll be happy with these maps.
We've seen the Lair.
We've seen the Labs already.
Shallie, I think it's been a while since they've played Shallie.
The last time they played it in an official match would have been at the Major up against
Furia.
And beating Furia and Shallie.
We know that is quite the feat to do so.
So they are skilled at it.
They just don't get really an option to play a lot of the time.
I think with how things go, well, we've seen one team freeze out here before.
But will we get a little bit more of a success story for the start from Enterprise?
The belief here is all kind of what we expected.
87% of you are backing secret.
But do or die, Enterprise.
It starts here!
Now, you did raise the point just before the turn of the break that
it's a map that had been won by secret up against
uh... period
the other statistic on the side of that is
within recent history in a similar sort of strategy time
it's the map
enterprises one loss on this is they have a two to one history but
that one that divide is there
lost was against furia
the loss that secret stuff against it was against wolves
you know that the arguments of what team is more likely what team isn't
more likely there is is impossible it's cyclical in some ways
but getting that sort of test against a team like that.
If we're going by the Furia Barometer system,
theoretically secret, better than Furia,
Furia, better than Enterprise.
Okay.
If that's the logic you want to go for them by all means.
If the logic I'm putting in a certain order,
I'll have to disagree with said logic.
But what?
That's because it's me.
Okay.
Wait, what's wrong?
I've shown my working.
I've shown my working.
I don't think that's correct.
Oh.
Don't think the astrophysic...
physicians
I'm not going to take anything seriously from somebody who says the word astrophysicians
Is that that is a word though physicians is it not is that not
Is a word
No, but physicians
What is that?
Looks like we'll be discussing this a little bit longer.
Now, I guess we didn't really talk too much about the map ban, so we can get back into that for just a taste.
Shalé is obviously having one sort of swing, one sort of effect, one sort of moment.
But then you look at Labs, and Labs is where they wanted to go from the side of Secret.
We've seen a Labs from them already, this tournament, a 7-3, OXG, on that opening playday.
We've also seen a lair from secret as well and that was a 7-3 against SSG
They're going on those back-end even if Shalé goes away from them. They've shown the other two maps
We haven't seen those maps from Enterprise throughout this tournament at least
Which does put a bit of worry in
Have you and I have the most rehosts
Is that something that you keep going off
Someone probably does.
Do you want the pride of that?
We have the most pride somewhere.
No, I'm not saying I want it.
That's like whenever Tim and Desk give up, we have the most over time.
Nobody cares.
Well, they really care.
It's on a drone skin, I think.
People care.
They do.
If you could have anything on a drone skin, the demo drone skin.
What do you have?
I think it's obvious, isn't it?
pull the face in, and then I forget that this is an audio based medium
and the people don't really understand.
Is it not obvious?
That's so good!
There you go.
I knew it.
Oh, you can have this moment.
No.
Of us talking about what to be on a drone skin.
We could just throw some potential arshics, chair skin moments up.
I'm just a drone.
Put that on a drone.
That's not a moment.
You just said that and said that's a moment.
Without a drone, without a drone.
I am curious to see how those develop, but we'll hopefully be in this game in just a moment.
Do you see this going to three maps?
I think Shallie is going to be where it is, because, I mean, look, Secret, yes, they don't really get an opportunity to play Shallie a lot of the time.
And look, they have had great wins on it before.
I think back to, do you remember, this game we casted it throughout Stage 2, it was Wolves vs Secret on Shallay, and Wolves, I thought were about to win, and then Secret somehow pulled over Heist, and I don't think they deserved the win, I think a lot of people agreed with that, but somehow they did.
When you started this, I didn't remember it.
Yeah, and that was a game that sticks with me. Yeah, you know, and I think for secret
You know, we've seen them where moments where they've had a bit of a wobble, you know
And just depends if they can hopefully play like the Furia
I could only assume we're gonna go back into a Rio's because there's no bands
This this count as an additional rehearsed on my tally look Savage is crying so these Rio's
Savage is crying because of recent email results
not his but in the tournament no that that's good for them they want all the
morale they want all the backing that's true I think the the ironian and
everything is you know that the little tier 2 team who could is currently up
showing our tier one teams nobody was prepared for heretics it's amazing
it's fantastic there's obviously there was an intense game that was happening
on the A stream as well, which has ended, and I know this because the door that connects
R2 rooms, Xenox just poked his head through, and I think it's slightly breaking the door
but that's unrelated. There's the man. Yep, there he is. Love the guy. Shield player,
close to my heart. Savage, it is great. Savage is fantastic. Got bronze with that roster
a very long time ago as a very young player just came straight out of the
tier-free circuit straight into secret and he was putting that team member
used to be teams of you know like Keenan used to be on that and I think yeah
Slebbin as well you know he's like a lot of people and and finally he's got a
really good team around you know the five that him and Twister been able to
build is great Savage as an IGL he loves to have that control he loves it to
micromanage as much as they can and they've got players who can do that with them. You know,
I think they've got a really good mesh of team play. Talking about player on the other side,
sort of sitting middle of the pack for the team themselves. It, you know, has been able to sort
of get themselves in. You're looking at obviously the first point of call and ingress and as we go in.
Back at the top of the band phase. Got to run it through again.
again. Assume a lock in the same bands. That is so expected. We've seen this actually already
play out once. I can't do the whole, I'm so surprised because we have already seen this
before. Two shields also removed. We saw a lot of blitz usage when we actually cast this
map earlier on today which is a very different story we're getting all the
talent walking through you said what a world all right heads on locked in
enterprise the story that we set if you missed it enterprise must win to keep
their fate in their hands. They have a day of tomorrow. If they lose this series, then they must
sit and watch to see if they are eliminated or not. They do not have the power. Obviously,
after this game, we have Fluxo W7M against OXG. So there's always the chance that more points
can come in. Oh my word, look at this perfect graphic that comes up. E.P.'s fate is out of
their hands with a loss. Secret secure, upper bracket, with a win. Secret. Well, I think everybody
really expected them to do well, but a securing of upper brackets. Oh, isn't that nice?
You're thinking, you're staring. Just have a look, just to set up. It's technically our job.
It's quite a heavy extension and from the defense, I'm seeing Denari trips over towards the library, so...
So, certainly quite a bit the Enterprise have to try and go through if they want the library control.
But, look at where the attackers have started off their approach.
It will be towards Solar.
So, very well could be a Solar take, and there ain't a whole lot of you till apart from a few One-Eye Discs.
Nobody playing in behind the plant's portion of that Solar Room, so...
Could be pretty free, I think, for the attackers is to try and go and take it.
I mean, Noah is in the position right beside the window.
Can't really move, because again, I'm sure that big window player will just restrict that movement,
and there's going to be the glass who is a little bit worried of the runouts,
which can happen from either trench or have also seen big runouts in through the main door, for example.
So, yeah, just have to be careful in that position.
Getting themselves the smoke cover has released us the first, with Jim and Noah biting back almost immediately.
That would have been the swing and attempt. The smoke will cover the actual approach and the windows. It's still a brawl.
Close on the door itself and all try to escape the range of player, but unfortunately the width was just not there.
So what has it taken? Bappin's getting some pressure inside and down on the outside. Spray's a bit too high.
They should be able to get the player up just in the safety of the Solarium stairs, but Noah, more than ready, waiting and willing
for them to try and push their way back up.
The kit, if they know about it, stuck, just around.
With a minute 10, the glass still on the back end window.
They're waiting to see if they can maybe get a lucky pick.
The problem is, demo, no more smokes.
Everything was thrown, they'd execute,
and now, nothing in their pockets.
What can they make stick?
Yeah, they've got nothing, no Util.
And really just the general vibe of this all-or-take,
it has been pretty limp in terms of Util
and taking this ground.
This is where a shield would have been great to have,
But sadly they don't have it in the trampley, we're kills and somehow Jim misses that on that!
But Noah is there with the trade, back but hole!
Goes down to the smoke canister, and a glass and a 1v2 player has it all to play for!
Well, that's not gonna help fill his lungs with any hope.
They know exactly where he is, they know exactly where he needs to go,
and they know exactly what kind of operator he is.
You just have to make sure he's not able to get that quick swing pick on towards you.
Two versus one and...
Yeah, how else was that gonna go?
Instantly locked in, instant start.
You gotta give credit there, obviously, Enterprise.
They went for something a little bit sharp.
They threw everything at it. They got a couple of kills, but...
Secretress locked it down.
If you're gonna go solo direct on that take,
it is very simple because you don't need a massive amount of map control.
You don't have to take control of library
and do the whole clear, that whole song and dance,
you can just go trophy, which is very easy to take
because there's a lot of cutoff windows
and you stop roamers being down there,
and then you just sit on the solar rappel.
But if you want to make that work,
you need to have a great sense of utility
and also players who can play on the crossfires.
You think about the cutoff points, big window,
over towards bathroom, over towards piano,
even a backstab towards the office door
in through the balcony.
Those are weak points that you need to put pressure on.
If you're only fronting up from Solar and just pushing one way, it's so easy for defenders to sit there and just hold an angle.
There's no- the util that they've tried to stop the defenders playing it in that bombsite is a gridlock.
Yeah.
Gridlock thrown just in Solar, it makes no difference.
Seeker are going to enter into that, they're just going to sit and use the lines of sight that they've made.
They need to do more, they need to put more pressure on Seeker. That's too easy for them.
Talking about making things too easy, and probably the game that you and I talked about and covered in Stage 2 that adds a bit to this statistic.
Secret. Their attack and defense rates on this map, only 27% on defense on Shallay.
They cannot really find the strength on the side of things, 68% on their attack.
They know the side of this map that they prefer, they know where they want to get themselves locked in.
Do I love as well? You've basically just described the 4-2 split on Shali, which is what we're used to.
Yep, you know, so I think for Secret, the more defenses they can get the better,
because we know how good of an attacking side they really are.
That's it, unfortunately. It's a little bit more 50-50 from the side of Enterprise.
They're looking at about 57 on the attack, but technically better on their defense, 42.
So, their split, they're probably after at least that 3.
See if they can try and put the pressure on and try and keep things a bit more stretched away.
where a secret are happy with two, yeah, as their opener.
You can see all the pressure coming in, they're trying to get Noah,
looking and shepherding him onto that opening, but it's Mowgli that gets player.
We talked about the importance, we had the graphic comparing the two players beforehand,
and well now they've got to peel away, pull back, and where even did that happen?
Mowgli took a little bit of damage, but they've lost the Twitch.
I believe he swung from catching corridor and was able to pick off the Twitch.
I can't even leave the twitch with inside lobby trying to make sure nobody could go for the ace in the sledge
You were attempting to open up that connector wall
But as you can see from secret they're not really bothered about connector wall
They still have this full hold upstairs in towards library
They found another pick in the meantime a great drop there from savage because he knows danger was gonna be coming towards them
It would have been those fire bolts and yes secret now with a two-man advantage
You just sit inside sit in your hands hold your angles play across fires have the trades
That's the main part of Chalet as well. It's awkward to get into.
Awkward to get into those windows. There's usually more threat coming from outside the building.
The traps that you can lay as you force people to cross. Big open chasms of space.
They don't have that working for them. Instead, they're having to be a little bit under the radar,
slipping their way up blue, trying to get this take from snowmobile stairs onto the player up top,
but worried because of the cross angles. There's the first. That's Mowgli, down in the basement.
Or in fact, up from the basement, Bappin, pushed his way up, they just missed their stock player, but they found an angle, but no, Jim!
An Adrian won a piece!
And not even the trade-out, great network there from Secret.
Yeah, again, Secret just didn't really move, they didn't need to.
Enterprise, I feel they need to try and force the mistakes here from Secret.
They need to try and make Secret panic, I think on both of those rounds.
Secret have just been so comfortable, you know, they've used their utile, they've got the picks when they need to, they give them that advantage, and then they play it safe, which is not a lot happening for Enterprise.
Would you like to know a fun fact about the stats that you're asking for?
No.
Oh.
Go on then.
Alright, now this doesn't in all this main obviously include the games that have already been played say, but
At the start of this the EPS rating secret are the only team where every single player has at least a hundred in the EPS
The entire team is over that threshold. Pretty good. Just shows how well they work as a team
Yeah as a sort of five-man strike force these networks these trade games every single aspect of it comes together to create something that is
We're seeing right now from Enterprise. Very tricky to find a way to dig in and start to pull players out of it
Wave-o aren't a million miles away. Speaks is the only one that isn't there, but he's only four off 96. Can we give it to him?
No, okay
Oh go on there. Ah, congratulations. Wave-o you also get the accreditation
Waiting for
Anybody to try and make a friend here, but would you say this is a bit of a cautious line up here on this approach?
Yeah, yeah, I think you see the black beard be brought in the lions there
Just gonna give that a little bit more of a control to it even the demos to see if you know somebody's been droned out
You can spot somebody you get the demos give you that active information
I mean Jim I think it's gonna be the player in the hot seat
You look at where he stationed in towards the connector of bar and well
We seen from from our shop fire a ballying game yesterday sport a nightmare playing in this position because the shields can close you down
really well, but look at the difference between Shopify rebellion yesterday and secret they're playing together
Two players have came to the aid of gym one player and bar one player towards blue
You create that triangle that bit of pressure that you need to have so you can trade your teammates
Ripped and ready to go. There's the track on the back of it
And just gonna see if they can force any utility out from the other side today moss
No studies on the prep line this fall this breach is a pin fuck
How much attention will be paid towards him?
Quite a lot, yeah, fish are above.
There's also almost the response though, there's the impact attempt.
Oh, he's tucked himself in. Relays get saved by Bappin.
They found a breakthrough. Two-hand was lost and no, Relays has gone down.
Not entirely sure where from.
Is that Goumine? Must be the Goumine.
Yes, caught out by a Gou.
But hey, gets him back up to his feet.
And actually, I think with more health than he had just before he went down.
It's like an old-fashioned reset.
Well, I've been at 15.
Mowgli, able to pick up one.
And don't forget, he's the smoke.
He can still try and stall out a good portion of this round.
Now, for Enterprise, it's where do you go?
You've been able to take above.
But remember, it's a kitchen bomb site.
They still have to work their way for the bomb site
at some point.
And I just don't know if they have really the time management
to do so.
Good pick, though, on to Noah.
Oh, Adrian has to see if he can maybe rotate and go
for the reinforcement.
I mean, that is a ball play but it's worked out for him.
I mean, then he's been able to pull that off so impressive but they're inside the site.
So, how do you find a pocket and a safe place to plant?
They're looking at all the verticalities, trying to get rid of the bullet-proof and then the ID.
Oh!
Oh, no!
The shield!
Maybe drifted a little bit too close to the sun and like Icarus, his shield has been shot.
A two-up piece with 25 seconds to try and connect this but they don't have the kit.
They're just having to drift underneath and hope that they can slip on by the vertical angles,
but they're still having to break their way in.
Mowgli gets his third for the round.
He's come down the stairs. There's another Goumine.
Just to put another needle in the toes of the problem.
The shotgun popped and locked. He's still got Adrian above with the DMI.
He can swing that hatch at any point, but look at the positions they've taken.
They know he's got to come to them, so zip back, relax, and...
I'll take another round.
Yeah, time, not with them, they make the panic play and hopefully just, just sits down.
Just has a lie down and waits for him to come to him.
I mean that was a big kill at Moe, they gone through the Blackbeard.
Had the elevation, could see over the top of the shield able to get the pick on through the Blackbeard.
And once you lose that shield, who would have been the primary candidate to go for the plant?
Hesitation sets in for enterprise and that's where the mistakes start to happen.
I mean overall for secret it was all about that roam game waste as much time as you can I thought I get Adrian
I thought they're gonna really ball play going for that reinforcement
But then that gave them the security to go upstairs and then just play the verts
Well, we are definitely not hearing any of this you're nothing
So, I had a little bit about pressuring the map, pressuring the util, a little bit of
earlier it's good I mean we said it at the time the start of the previous round
they're playing cautious look stop simple stuff simple stuff that can be
rectified very easily yeah from enterprise think their positioning is
good the way that they're actually supporting each other but they're just
missing that little bit of a trade game that you till clear obviously which
they mentioned themselves but again two disastrous this all this will be the
big round to see if that time it's gonna be successful to get them back on track
For if not secret, you know, could we walk away with four defense? I mean, three already is great if you're secret because we know how strong that attacking half is going to be for them, but right now with three defenses, could be enough already, and they could still get more.
Alright, that was the that was the sort of wind gun that you and I put down was
Secret usually 20% of their defenses usually get that to force it on towards their attack and
Every compliment paid towards them the stats how they work
He goes one goes one got rid of back in as well there goes the sledge there goes your grenades or at least half of them
And there goes the player. After a timeout, I mean, what a way to try and shake the mental,
right? Yeah, a lot of teams will do that, is after
a timeout it's been called, they'll do something stupid to catch the opponents by surprise,
because the opponents have obviously heard a timeout, and they're going to have the game
plan in their heads, and then that happens, and, oh, it's a bit of a demoraliser. It is
the sledge. Don't think it's a massive miss of an operator. You might be missing the nades,
but you've still got the backup from the Deimos.
I think one of the things about the nades, which also ties into the floor, is the conversation
about trying to get rid of utility.
Nades are great, especially on this map, talked about it earlier, you're thinking about anything
that's under a window, hoppings, just getting the bounce around.
It's also important to note that that would be their main way of clearing somebody out
of the half wall position, which as we know is typically quite an issue for a lot of the
attacking sides.
Jume is cool.
I hear on the glass, he's been able to have pretty decent moments, unfortunately.
I think the danger operator here for Enterprise that they have to try and spot out and find
is going to be savage downstairs on the solace.
If you want to try and go for a plant, that's not going to happen.
Him downstairs with the gadget with the impact grenades
can make short work of anyone wanting to plant that diffuser.
So it just comes down to, is the drone work going to be strong enough to spot that solace?
The other two players, they're just going to try and waste as much time as they can,
which then helps Savage in the long run.
No worries, we fall into the final minute
and they're still going to try and find the solace underneath.
And he's just going to solo go for the fight itself.
Savage is moving away. He's expecting it, anticipating it. He knows there's nothing on Celerim's side, so why not?
They still have a player ducked in behind this half wall. This position we talked about, but two Nades might be able to do the distance.
They also still have two smoke canisters. Sorry, they have at least one less flash now as they go for the straight flank.
Swain from Mowgli has the coverage now. Where are those doors going to go? No work as Savage knocks two-hand out of the equation.
in the glass though, as I said he's good with it.
He proves he's even better than that.
There I decide, they're going for a push from both ends,
but they need to try and isolate either Mowgli or Savage here.
You can see the pings are coming through,
he's expecting the swing either way.
There's Savage winning his one, Mowgli.
Can you do the same?
Yes, you can!
And the timeout has not slowed them entirely,
but you did see Secret start to sweat a little.
Yeah, again, very close.
It comes down to winning those engagements,
which could have went either which way.
Yeah, for Enterprise, they're going to look at that
and think we had the man advantage and we let it slip.
I mean, they've done the correct thing.
They put that pressure on the Savage below it,
forced Savage back upstairs.
But that all-important swing,
that kill right there from Mowgli to shift the tide,
that's one of the players who would have been covering
for the plant on the breach.
You know, we talked about your half wall,
I mean, Glass just walked in and killed them,
so that was that sorted.
But other than that, I mean, it is going to be another loss round of Enterprise are thinking we need to be playing better than that.
If you have that man advantage, it needs to be better. You need to close them out.
Yeah.
Because you're setting 4-0 and you still have the bad side to come.
You have to go on the defense against Secret on the attack.
Enterprise.
Can they still try and take lessons learned?
Right?
You know, it's a game too off, you might be able to get yourself a bit more familiar in defense,
they aren't statistically too much worse on their defense than on their attack.
Yes, they're going to have a very tough team to hold out against.
Secret of secret, they're brilliant on their attack, especially on a map like Chalet,
where you sort of do have a history of it. Mowgli has been on, obviously,
roster, they always think French Rost is a great at attacking Chalet.
He's been on two teams before Secret, and that's it. Yep, French team,
Wolves was one coming in the other. Oh can anyone name the other what team was he in before he joined wolves?
Totem oh, I reckon I remember the name
I'm trying to think if I ever cast it you didn't know that was the CL team. Oh, okay. Yeah
Yeah.
Memories.
I can't see that.
You and I, once upon a time, back in the day.
Very long for you, last month for me.
I'm still doing it for a bit longer.
Hey, listen, we're both here, we're both back.
Alright, baby.
4-0 and Mowgli is almost...
Well, he is.
Not that, but Savage and Adrian...
So consistently.
They make sure that they respond and they respond in a volume that the Australians can't ignore.
4 to 2 and the players the next to take the scrape at this point. How do you build? Look
at what people have lost, demo.
Yeah, I mean they've tried to play really fast for the clear. Don't forget that this
hit, we're dealing with a bar here and they've tried to come in faster for your in-free trophy,
in-free bedroom. But you look at the positioning, you look at that structure from Secret. They
He knew straight away how quick the enterprise
were going to try and take that.
Everyone was there to support one another.
Mowgli died straight away.
Somebody's inside a dining ready for that trade.
Upstairs ready with the windows, ready for the swing ins.
Nobody was in the bomb site, but they knew that.
They've done their prep work.
Will it be a flawless half?
OK, enterprise give themselves a lifeline
to withstand what is going to probably be a large, crashing wave of secret.
They still have one more chance.
Monty is on the boards.
I would describe this as a Panic Monty.
I think it's fair because, you know, they're not...
It's not that they're really doing anything specifically right or wrong.
I think they're not a million miles away from putting the pressure on, but the engagement
game and the trade game especially from secret has just been I mean if you look
at one of those deaths that enterprise had you guys just jumped in piano blind
no help and then three guys swung for three different angles and murdered him
yeah I think okay I'm not counting that in my compliments to enterprise but
you're right secret is a very good outfit there is no doubt about it how
good that team is and it may be this is just the reality of it yeah I it's sort
of the comments that we had about the game that you and I cast earlier today, are we
going to get more outside? Savage is ready to hop on West Main and obviously he can
get a bit of a read in case anybody tries to tuck on the wall and drone and getting
close and also the players above as well. He's just sort of filtering any of this approach.
Maybe someone's on the rafters, maybe someone's on the walkway. He'll get this and he'll
feed it to the team and there's a little bit of vertical. If he wants to use it to the
Twitter and get some work done and oh disconnect I believe and oh that is
exactly the player I was talking about so he's not gonna see anything
have a pause yeah it was very late crash hey listen you and me I and you
it's not a job to allow that's someone else's job well that's unfortunate but
Hopefully we'll get back in as quick as we can because there was a nice flow to that. There was
We'll see
I mean for enterprise, maybe it's what they need
But self-reflection
Hey, it's always that question right of nobody ever wants this
I think the lads I'm gonna preface any of this topic before people start saying anything nobody ever wants
this in a game at all, but
Does it work in favor for you've got secrets on a roll and just sort of going through and then you've got
on the other side enterprise who
Struggling and trying to find themselves back in
But they're also sort of now having to stop as you said they were building momentum, but I will also say that the round just before
Compared to the round just before the round just before
It's much worse
So it almost gives them a little bit more time to reflect on the timeout that the sort of conversation they had
Not too long. Mowgli. I mean he was obviously a highlight at the start of this and he's
a highlight. Real. Yeah everyone from Secret I think is playing very well. Yeah. Good spread
across the board. See Mowgli had that big round where he had the 4k. Oh those are very
clean 2k along with Savage and that's another partnership that I think is really benefiting.
It's the Mowgli and the Savage pair up.
Both of them, I would say, are two halves of the same brain
sometimes, the way they think together.
And I think you mentioned as well about the way
that Mowgli and the way he wants to be IGL.
I think Savage is the perfect match for that.
They understand the save wavelength.
I think that benefits a lot with that team.
Whenever you have Mowgli, who we know,
can go in and just go crazy on the scoreboard
and any savage there, making sure everything else
is happening.
And look, I think everyone from SecretLook, Jim, I think has been incredible since he first appeared in the scene.
Yeah.
Easily has been top five players of Europe for a good old while.
Noah?
I mean, the redemption story, by the way, of Noah, just a shout out for that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Noah is this first stage inside of EU, this miserable horrible.
And then we see the stage two and the turnaround.
I think Kangaroo Kenny has to have a play because the coach and always I think really drive them with that
But that redemption story was incredible from Noah from where he was to where he's now got to his phenomenal
And then look you've got Adrian who is still fresh on desks rookie of the year
Even though this is like his first year player for years play seats
It's something like that. Third year running. Still the rookie of the year. Still the best newcomer. It's an incredible year
He's been having for the past three years. I think the thing about Adrian as well is
was always brilliant online and then would hit to the live stages and he had a really
rust start to a secret career didn't he? Yeah, but since then since the teams come around again
from the brilliant you know support staff behind of Mr Trista but Savage I think as an IGL you're
looking at this as a sort of mix of personalities and as I said the point was about Mowgli where
previous rosters they maybe he wasn't really jealous and I also think on the previous roster
from Mowgli he was the guy on that team he was the guy you're looking at yeah yeah you know um
Very similar to the comparison we made with the old BDS team with Shaco,
where it was kind of him and then everyone else.
Whereas now, Mowgli's joined this.
You know, Mowgli's not the star player because it's a team full of star players.
Exactly. But it's a team that's developed together, right?
It's a team that if you had these players individually, you'd be like,
yeah, they could be great.
Yeah, and again, you can look back at the history of them.
And there was a point in all of their careers where there wasn't a lot happening for them.
You know, think about Savage.
We've already mentioned about the Grubby story, same as Savage.
Played at 2SIs, never had a win.
Yeah, and now...
Well, what a perfect end it would be for what has been a brilliant year of Rainbow Six.
For this roster.
On the other side of it, obviously.
Still kind of, unfortunately, struggling.
Throughout this showdown we've...
You know, you've always sort of got the questions on
Individual regions on OCN on a back north especially and on the sort of ones where you can get these star teams potential, right?
You can see them sort of take over a region
Dominate yeah, they did from chiefs didn't they who were the team who wouldn't have team bless kind of who are always at these events
but now it's these guys who have appeared and
Then you kind of want to go, okay. Well, let's see how they can shape. Let's see how they can
and sort of grow and sort of improve and we had mixed story I think is the best way of putting it they beat
Weibo back in Munich, but then when they were sort of pushed to the brink
Yeah wild card was a loss. Yeah, you're looking at a loss from W7M
But then you're looking at the fury game they took a map that it could have been
Something and it's still hmm you look at a game like this and you're like yeah, okay fury was could have been something secret
Could have been something and you want to see those teams spark somewhere, right?
you want to see something happen doesn't always happen there's a lot of hope that
I had for VRX based on earlier on from talking about APEC North teams and
support and obviously Kaga Saka had an amazing start to the year yeah and then
the rest of the year kind of happened to them mm-hmm and
they're from D-plus yeah I've all of it which is the crazy one it is what they've
We've been able to do this event.
We're back in. Back in.
Back in. Five... oh, a secret.
They are off to the races.
They have been locked in on their defense,
and we have but one more swing of it.
Defenders, protect your bombs from being defused by a gas.
Because I believe the ruling finalizes
45 seconds into the round.
45 seconds, so two minutes left in.
But I think because all of the operators were already locked in,
they have to.
I think if it happens to prep phase,
you can change things
i can't entirely remember the ruling on how it plays on the attackers
so i'm not going to pretend to, i'm just going to trust that there's people
we don't do this job, this is not our job
i've read a few rule books over the years
and occasionally i'll blood them together, you know we got to
seven rounds now?
actually wait, when the last time you and i were casting in traffic red
would have been oga pit
back in 2018
was it seven rounds then?
yeah because i think it didn't...
was it?
yeah, i think i've...
i would have to go back
it was, if it was it wasn't that long ago
i distinctly remember the change from five to six
yeah, yeah
because that came in at
a december event one time
OH!
that's, yeah, i mean, OH!
oh no!
this is king rat
oh no!
that's how he's known in europe
this is what he does
oh no!
about as usual
they go to thinker
they go to the spray through and
does that go the chance of not
suffering
the wrong side of the force half
not sure comment comes through but
it was up to seven
you've lost the finger you've lost the chance at the drive-thru you've lost the
chance of just supporting what could be
quick potential pressure getting through
you know look at all the swing positions as well you've obviously got the
warden to play against any of these smokes and this glass who is
I'm not going to go too much into your opinion number two of them going against each other but
I think you prefer glass but what if the warden's in the hands of Mowgli
he will want that smoke he will want that fight
June they're executing
yeah he got relays
are they executing? I mean there's not a lot happening I thought they were I mean
they're throwing you till upstairs and nobody's
really pouncing at it, they're still outside.
Again, not doing a whole lot.
And I don't get why you're not sat 3v5.
You don't have much to play off.
I mean, in terms of you two, don't we call them a few smokes and that's it?
Oh, we somehow got out of that.
Slipped his way around, dreams on for three this round.
Two Hanna's found and that leaves just player and Baphin. Nope, just player and it might have been a flawless half
but it's a flawless round as well. The cherry on a delicious cake for secret is
cooked up but unfortunately no Tim Tams for the Aussies. Six-0, defensive half on
On Shall I, you don't see those.
Have we ever had one of those?
We have now.
My word.
I mean, honestly, trust me, doing that is very impressive.
That really is.
On a map like Shall I, where we've already
talked about the benefits that the attackers have
with the math crossfires and the util.
And how strong that is in combination,
where you can set these cutoff points and pinch players
as the util comes in.
I mean, Enterprise has basically showed us that they did not do any of that.
And that's been the difference.
Yeah, I think it's...
I'm wondering how it's gonna sort of translate to this the other side,
because at this point, Secret's been running as a very well-owned machine.
Oh, well, here's the thing about Secret.
They've got so many cheese rush strategies,
that eventually one of them will stick, and that's all they need.
That's how they work.
Do you think we're gonna see six potential cheese rushes?
Do you think, at what point do you think they would stop trying the cheese roll?
Oh, I mean, they'll just, they'll just try anything.
Really?
They'll get it eventually, of course they will.
But, I will say, similar scenario yesterday against SSG, they always had a wobble.
So, the only thing you can say about Secret is they've been in position like it's already yesterday.
They know.
Less than 24 hours, and they almost choked it.
They know how to lose their own games.
and
You know enterprise just needs to try and find a way to try and punish that
one of the things that sort of
One of the things that brings a little bit of folly
I'm gonna say is the thing that could be the end of this is the only two kills per round
We're currently getting from enterprise. They haven't really been able to push too much further
You've got obviously back and player have gotten themselves a bit closer, but otherwise a team based
Two kills per round is just on the hat like shall I?
Not quite putting the pressure on.
We'll see now if the Blackbeard can be the reason for that.
They're waiting to try and bait the hop out from Mudrum.
Just take their time.
They can offer support.
They can make sure that they have all the coverage.
Two hands in here.
There's a leg. There is a leg.
There's a foot! You see him?
Oh, they got the leg! There we go!
I was worried. I was worried. I'm the one dressed like a cowgirl. He's the one that pulled the yee-ha.
That's two hand gone. You're now looking at a black beard that's even more emboldened,
sure. You've got those alemines, the grismots to try and find your way around, but otherwise,
there goes the lead and there goes the slow, and it's a high risk. Unfortunately, no reward play.
Now the buck, free to get in underneath.
Dude, start getting some structural work done, but they've got another catch here dining.
Oh, back in! Beautiful swing!
Really important pick as well from Bapham to take out that buck.
The way Secret would have then wanted to set up was have everyone in the windows,
and the way I mentioned about the way you pinch players.
You use that buck to clear them out of those positions,
you force them into the crossfires, and you get very simple kills.
the whole BAPIN!
The confidence to go for that great free-fire on the Adrian Savage though, was hunting so
hey, at least you're a BAPIN, you were able to get another kill before going down so now
you leave your team and you're not a bad spot, I mean it's free versus free and still I think
for secret it's not having that man advantage to have that collapse now may be the issue.
Look at big window, BAPS were somebody may need to rotate too but I don't know if they're
going to go for it.
I mean Moly really can go anywhere if he wants to.
There's also the element that you've got rid of two big structural players, right?
You've got rid of the Capric's house. You want to throw those bolts.
You want to defy as the force positions of the smokes to cover the plant.
You've also now not got the buck. So, the verticality savages the man taking over the mantle.
Not sure if they've got a secondary shot in the pockets of Mowgli,
but they're just trying to force the space with what they have instead.
There's the rotate round on towards the balcony pressure on the bathroom window.
They're trying to pinch out this player, but 30 seconds, what they're gonna do, cut across
bathroom, maybe get the cross on the angle, maybe draw on piano side, and then just plant
in on the inside of the soft wall, the nary trap.
This is gonna basically stop Mowgli from entering here.
Relays gets one, there's the black beard trying to bait the fight, there's two C4s, one C4s
still in pocket as well, and he's hoping they find attention, there's the destruction
of the denarii, Mowgli's just gonna send it as a shield in, not for very long, and
now well it won't be a flawless release gives them at least one they get
themselves off the board yeah good value there from the denari you know
Mowgli knows he can't jump in because if you get by that that's the slow effect
you move so slow if you hit one of those lasers in pretty useless at that stage
but still for secret look they've got a lot more chances here to close it out and
the top floor is gone. Has there been a blunder from looking at the way he said that?
It seems like he's discovered something that he didn't know before.
That was such a beautiful shot.
Yeah, I mean, Bapham played big.
Beautiful shots there.
Great shots.
I'm wondering if he swung the double door because he knew, or he heard the backdoor.
Yeah, he knew he was going to get killed anyway, so.
He was just like, got to choose one, would rather take the fight than a guns up fight
of the person who expects me to go for the backdoor.
Yeah, I think it's easier to kill somebody without the shield in their face.
Sometimes.
From my experience.
How good the shield player is.
I thought you were a big shield.
Of course.
Of course, of course, of course you are.
I'm surprised that Savage hasn't pulled out the Blitz,
because I think Blitz is fantastic and not like Shelly.
And obviously, whenever an Enterprise has already shown
the roaming, isolate them,
but I do know, first speaking to him,
he prefers the Blackbeard. That's the only thing he has over me.
He'll admit this.
That's the only thing.
He's just changed to prove you a point.
We've had this discussion, he said I can't operate the Blackbeard and I said I'm a better Blitz and we both agree with that.
So we'll see what he does with the Blitz.
Are you going to criticise Savage's Blitz play?
Of course I will.
Yeah, maybe Savage, if you watch the book back later.
He doesn't, don't worry.
I've asked him, he doesn't watch the Blitz and he goes, oh did you hear my cast?
Oh no, I listened to it.
Ooh! So do I. Relays is gone, unfortunately. They've lost the mozzie. Now the pester you assume was trying to be a pest.
Get outside the building, try and shake things up. It's a decent game on Chalet. You know, take the risk. You have to make sure that you're meeting them with aggression.
Unfortunately, that engagement doesn't quite meet the favour, meet the balance, instead, see through.
They get themselves in, they get themselves at least some grasp on the building.
You can see here, player in bathroom, they're just gonna double up, make sure they don't get caught out.
Ooh, no it does though, player finds one, there's Dream getting Fisher guy in the meantime,
they're waiting for somebody to swing on this door and it's still a shield, reading the information.
Mowgli's there for support, they've rotated up, but Bapbin has it!
Sucks one up in the bar! Babbin!
Brilliant two-piece yet again! Two-hand finds Adrian!
And now a sledge with not a lot of health.
He's gonna start trying to open some angles, but look at where the kid is.
They still got players vertically and flat watching it inside the bar.
It's an awkward recollection.
He slipped his way past the first angle. He's expecting a swing from the second.
Good premonition, but they can just sort of waste that!
Two rounds.
Yeah, good trades. Really good trades from Enterprise and catching.
Secret by surprise. I mean Moogli looks stunned when we get swung.
And Savage went for the pistol. Didn't work out for him. Down goes the Blitz.
But yeah, for secret, I don't know. Maybe just dragging their heels a little bit.
Maybe not having everything checked before they make their attempts at going for the clears?
It feels like Enterprise are obviously...
They're going aggro. This is a very aggressive place that Enterprise are bringing into this.
They're not allowing secret to set up.
They have to make sure that they're making them uncomfortable.
Yeah, it looks very high risk because if you lose your engagement, they lose the round.
But at the moment, it's working for them, so just keep going. Just keep rinsing the same thing again.
again. Well really it's up to Secret to change and adapt and how they want to go about things.
It's also worth sort of mentioning the opening kill has gone their way twice here, Secret,
and they haven't been able to turn it round. To say it's the high risk, it was, we relays
the previous round to you and the round before when it was caught in mudroom. Those are risky
procedures, but the, hey, prognosis turns out okay, by the end of it. So Secret, they
really just try and lock this one together. If this round goes away, you assume a time
We'll come from the side of secret because
That's what's going on. Oh, no, we're doing that secret thing that we do
One for all at all for nothing enterprise again, they are playing
Just a secret go all the way to OT or even just close enough because you speak as we can see them in the misad
Oh, whenever we're six five we start to worry. Yeah, so even they know that they could have really close yesterday against SSG and
Look, you need to be able to close it out because, you know, if you keep letting teams get back into it, eventually one will clean sweep you, one will get this full six round back, so you need to close this out in good time in your secret.
Relays almost got baited by the drone there. I mean they knew each other were close, but I don't think Relays realized they knew that he knew.
the destruction
towards the window. They're not just not gonna sit around fair enough.
You know that there's gonna be pressure that's coming around. You know the utility, you know,
but they've probably got the capitao, which they do, they've got grenades, which they do.
Don't give your life to them. Do you see how my utile are still towards fireplace?
You have a shield set up where player is on the Wamai, and again, if there's a Wamai,
there's probably gonna be discs not too far away from him.
So this is gonna be the point that Secret need to try and combat against, and they also have a good deal of utile.
You've got the Grim, you've got the Capitown, you even have the sense if you want to try and cut off an angle and rush him.
But not just where my ADS is up there as well. They are really building.
Top Rafters is a power point in a power position and as the first bolt gets used on towards that position it's already been left.
Well, where are you going to put the second bit of fire?
Secret. They're going to have to try and put some pressure from the ego about side.
See if they can try and pinch out on towards player, on towards backhand's position there, but otherwise nothing else has been tested.
He's sort of looking at piano where they've started to make their moves across
They've still got time and the shield's gonna go for that stretch as I said on towards this position
Try and build from it to the other side
There's the first place the bees try and force the player into be a bit scared of what's going on the grenade
We'll get rid of the shield. They'll slip their way back in the sense roll goes out
There's the cross there's almost a bit of team damage, but fish oh finds one savage gets the response and they've actually strong on their way in
Great shot!
BAPIN!
CONTINUALLY CAUSING PROBLEMS WITH TWO HAND GETTING ONE IN THE MIX AND NOW!
Oh!
3 vs 2, SAVAGE!
You said he prefers a black beard and yeah, he's moved off the blitz and found himself a two piece...
But...
30 seconds...
No kit.
Do they know...
front of the player?
On the stairs now they do! Good drum work from Savage!
That would have been nasty if you...
That Jager just sit there, but still not a great position from secret. They don't have a lot of time left.
They need to try and pick up the kills quick.
Nagle's out to try and keep that Jager at bay, as Savage now just trundles all in through Lobby.
Diffuser gonna be picked. They just have to try and drop the hatch and plant.
Well, they've dropped the hatch and they've not planted.
Savage gets himself a third for the round, but with six seconds, then surprise, just needs to keep a bit of width and bapping.
Needs to keep doing what he has been doing. I set it at the start of the half.
I worry they're only averaging two kills per round back and went you're right
So that's gonna be my average now. What a second half. He is having so far. They're doing it
Halfway to the comeback being completed. I mean
I'm waiting for the the twister timeout
Twister called his timeout very early on in the SSG game
I believe it was six two and he called the timeout after sg got two he has left it here
Is he going to call the time right now before we head into the next round?
He has to.
Blackbeard has been banned, which we'll find out about in just a second.
There's the second.
And Wumae was the response as well.
I think they've sort of realized it.
I'm getting nothing.
It's not even the case if we can't pick it up.
I know the timeout with Twister. He will kneel down beside Savage and just kind of speak to Savage and just look at him.
And he talks very quietly. That's why we're having a few issues picking up.
There he is.
There we go, knelt down.
But it's just very difficult whenever he's like that.
But you get the general idea. I mean, I assume it would probably be the same kind of time
I did yesterday where it was. I think the phrase he used was, it's a marathon, not a sprint.
That was what he said, and it just take their time, go for the motions, and we'll get it
eventually. And they did get it eventually, even though they left it very late. But again,
for this team, for secret, they are starting a bit of a trend now, where they play really
Well the first half and then they start dropping off, you know, and it is that choke element to it
So just hey just something I picked up on
That's so but doesn't happen here for secret but for enterprise
That's what they're after and I get enterprise the aggressive playstyle is working for though. Yeah, and whenever they're hitting great shots
That's also the gunners are gunning back and we keep mentioning the name. Oh, it's brilliant
Yeah, it's fantastic to see and just keep riding the wave. You don't know what can happen
The pressure hasn't went in prize, the pressure's on secret, if secret let it choke, that's more of a disaster.
Sorry, I was in the voice end, this is still going.
Alright, now they're done.
That was a lot, that was like 20 seconds at least.
Every boy in the town.
I mean, no, no, it isn't.
Two shields gone, blackbeard's gone.
And you know, you know, he's been able to make some work happen with a blackbeard, they've
done some damage, but I'm wondering if getting the mentality away from the blackbeard and
that shield might be something that helps push them over to the end.
Fisherguy almost caught out first.
He said the entry hasn't always been the de facto decider of how the rest of the round
goes, but the last round was the first time Enterprise were the ones to get it in a bit
of a time.
They're getting better at it. You need to try and make sure the one game you had under your fingers sort of
Grasp doesn't slip away. So right now the setup from secret seems to be again the traditional solar take where you're gonna open up with the
A to use the ranged heart breach create that breach in towards bedroom. However
They also have a backstab in the form of Mowgli. He's currently towards library by himself on the dogma break operator go for the backstabs
He's drummed himself in, he sees the opportunity and a great pick from Mowgli.
That is going to disrupt the lineup from Enterprise and now Secret's throwing a pile on the kills.
Jume gets the second, Bapin, the sort of savior in the second half of this game is gone, but...
Two-hand Fischo and Player of Algonaville to have their own impacts and now they've got to have the biggest one of all.
And what a way they can have a response for the timeout called from Secret here.
Five versus three.
They aren't rushing to anything. They're still holding onto the window.
Savage isn't going to be the first point of call. Let the Deimos get some work done
and let's see if we can try and make things a bit easier for ourselves.
These Deimos tracked him so they know he's inside the bathtub
and this is a scene duck at place for an aide to come in.
Brilliant from June. Very simple. A 2v5 and you just don't see secret land.
Let's slip from here.
Oh, that was nice.
Can you try and do it a couple more times? The calls are coming through.
There's the awareness. They're still underneath obviously with the revolver
There's still tracks coming together and now the swing round player getting aggressive at 2 versus 3
The track was on the player on the far side 2 and
He's waiting to see somebody pop a head up if he gets tracked
He is dead because they've got the watch on the window and they can just try and drive themselves up in two fights more
Grimby's again high risk. Oh again. They know where you are and again
They might have been able to make it count. He's sort of putting holes everywhere
He's seeing feet but look at the timing demo 20 seconds. How long can you play with the man in the corner?
Not much longer, but not much longer at all to this map as secret.
Don't let it happen again. Oh
A little bit sketchy there in the 2v5 also in a 2v3, but they still make it there in the end.
Great value there from Jim from the demo. He's picking up two kills
from below. Great work from him, but secret look they got the job done the first half.
That's the main thing. What a stellar performance, but enterprise
Not a bad attempt of a comeback there. No, I think that's the sort of split of it, right? Is it was a
Weirdly sort of put together shall a statistically a flawless defensive up doesn't always happen
Especially with these teams and how they like to play
But just maybe too much the game was away from them by the time. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, if it had swapped the other way who knows how it could have gone
Well, we'll have to find out how it keeps going after a quick break
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Well, welcome back to what could be. No, you are not allowed to wait. Is Mingo
something in? Imagine. No, no, no, no, not going to happen. No, we have maybe one
more map left for Enterprise and their hopes and dreams of SI and going beyond
groups or maybe two more maps. We get a massive rise of the Phoenix. Brand
new enterprises. First of all, do you have a look at, either way, Night Haven Labs will
be when we try and piece it together demo. Well, it's going to be a tough map for them
into labs, which is important for secret to get this under their belt. What do you say
I like how they're just talking over to you.
Yeah, well, Jim's just there, isn't he?
Jim's just there, isn't he?
I will say, by the way, Savage sounds fine.
Savage in the game is a little more difficult to understand because the accent starts to come in.
So what do you think I will say about Savam?
Just, and that's from reports of Tunes.
Tunes, like, sometimes I don't even know what you're saying.
So, Knighthaven Labs.
This could be the final experiment for Enterprise.
Or, can this be the start, as I said, of a story you don't believe in them?
Time for them to prove you wrong.
We had a very defender sided game previously. Obviously a flawless from secret in the opening
half is going to be something that dictates that, but one of the points sort of brought
about it was, well if Enterprise had started on their defense in Chalet they weren't looking
too shabby they put a few rounds down before secret hit the panic button now
they get that chance now they get that chance to sort of demonstrate how far
they can go on this half
well see how it starts off I mean already with the bands we see the double
electrification bands no bandit no cage should make these walls pretty simple
for secret to get it and get it opened up I mean there's still ways around of
Of course, we know with denying that wall access, most of it's gonna come from probably a mirror.
We've seen the kind of awkward bridges you can make, you just plump the mirror when they're right in the middle of the wall.
And it means that Fermi has a pretty tour of time, and to be fair, sometimes sort of ace,
because then they struggle with the impact trick that is still as common as ever.
If you look at the line of, oh, look at that, there's a mirror, and four impacts.
Yeah, it's gonna be that sort of attempted slowing down the hard breach, limiting what they can get.
Obviously the walls aren't going to be electrified, you're playing with what you've got as you said, you've got these other elements that you can bring in, but as we've seen many, many times, it's not the easiest trick even to pull off, you know, you can say, oh, this is what I'm going to do, but it doesn't mean it's going to happen.
See, I missed a few times already this event, where, you know, you really do have to catch it. I mean, if anyone remembers the old impact tricking, where the radius was massive, the gold age, we could impact over the top.
I mean this was actually a map which had a lot of issues with that where they used to have the
You know the wood paneling above and it's the impact for crazy in this map, but obviously that's all been changed and
Mira has had to be brought in
Also note that they placed the second mirror window looking in towards garage
So connector fake might actually be pretty strong for secret you know up against that mirror window that typically is gonna be on that wall
Getting themselves in quick use of the heart breach the said they've got the swing angle and
Don't put anyone on the other side of it, that was just preliminary check, I'm sure.
I like this from Seeker already, straight away, you know you're not dealing with any of electrifications,
get in there, open up all of the breaches,
and then you just kind of take your pick and you do your drone work, you spot a bit of a gap,
and you go for it, so yeah.
Not bad for Seeker at the moment.
For Enterprise, we know that the struggle will come whenever all the Util starts to get dumped in,
in and again there's a decent amount of that with that capital being brought in
and don't forget the fact your EMPs are available and they can be quite a bit of
utile picked off you think even the elements for example can be disabled
potential crouch walks up a backside could also be on for them
That's ya that funky new cannon supplied by Buckeby gonna get rid of the ADS's for
the capital just gives them that drive up on towards the rafters make sure that
they can put the pressure much quicker than they probably expect
Oh, I like this.
Oh, he's in, and he's in, and he's in, and he's across!
There's two for the trouble, but that will just alert the rest of the team.
The diner is open, and they're serving up.
Players, no, that fish is apparently hard to chew.
Fish a guy.
Is able to at least get one more on the back.
Swear, they're almost suffering from the same thing.
They took our territory, let's just bite back.
The C4 can't get one, but the player sure does.
Downed out on the rafters.
And finished off! What a weird way for us to start!
A major stall from Secret, I mean, Mowgli made such a great play, that's what he's designed for!
And you thought that Secret was gonna play off and explode into the bomb site, but they didn't!
And they've almost left the door open!
And well, if you're a guy in player, they've been able to bash it in and get themselves into a 2v2 scenario!
And now for Savage and Jermits!
What are they gonna push? Where are they gonna go together? A connector and an E-Box is being the choice!
They're gonna see if they can try and move around on the side of the shotgun, but it's tight. They've got...
We'll see two smoke bolts to go for coverage.
You can't beat him, because you have to vault in, so you're dead. So really, for Fisher Guy, he wins it off the back of himself with the shotgun!
They've gotta try and double up. Go at the same time. There's some of the coverage. The shotgun's either side, but they get player through the smoke and they're down to the pistol waiting for the shotgun to come!
What a great little pinch and play, lucky to get the mirror.
But the follow through, brutal.
Oh, fish, you have to be swinging that e-box door.
You have to.
Look, player got caught up trying to rotate through the smokes, I think.
They try and get himself into pillar so he can assist his teammate.
But whenever Jume is gunning down player, fish needs to swing now.
way too late, he actually missed the shot, he did miss the shot albeit, but look we've
seen plenty of times, a shot can just kill like 4 people from that position before.
Yep.
Oh, I couldn't quite lock the door.
I mean, Jim's thinking how am I alive?
I'm thinking the same.
I think Mowgli was probably thinking that at the start of the round as well.
Look, great little heads up play.
Oh, I can't think of the lucky.
Hang on a minute.
I've gotten this close to the IT door, nobody's really shot at me, and maybe just walk in,
here and away he goes. I think Fresh would describe that as a waddle intersise. Hit him
with the waddle, come. Secret. Well, I said this could be a chance for Enterprise to prove
defense is the best offense and the only one between these two teams, unfortunately not
the best way of starting it. However, for what could have been an absolute tragedy of
a round, being able to get it into a two versus two way you have in some ways, the upper hand,
There's still that spark, there's still that momentum, there's still that idea.
I'm going to keep the rotate, the site's hot, and move down towards the bottom.
How much of a stretch of the map are they going to try and hold on to here?
We've already seen how good Secret can be at closing down, and how Enterprise loves to play aggressively.
Loves to stop them setting up. It's a bigger play space here.
There's a lot more places for Enterprise players to lurk to cause problems,
slow secret down a bit or it might isolate enterprise players even more give secret space to set up
It's a really hard balance until you have to strike now as you can see obviously going for the full
Jack and clear on towards connector on past jungle on towards electric. They've got to make sure
Everything is safe
Currently so far it is
So now let's focus on the midfloor
Yeah, just slowly finding there
Finding their drones, let's see if they can spot out again, the weak points, we've already
seen Mowgli expose that, oh well there's nothing here stopping me walking into the site, again
they're going to try and do the same, however Bapin has been spotted out on the vigil.
Of course, Khan can't do it, you know what, and oh dear, Mowgli, there's a little drone
in the middle of the corridor, and Bapin able to pick him up again, Bapin has been the guy
I asked today for enterprise.
And obviously that was the comparison we had at the 7th day, it was that entry game.
Right, it was the battle between Bappin and Mowgli.
In this time round, Bappin's the one that can be that extra.
The Blackbeard, what are you doing? Relays doubles down!
And Bappin gets his own, this is an absolute slaughter by this pair, the roaming duo.
There's one, at least, and Adrian gets on towards the second, is expecting a third and it makes sense.
But I think they just left them to their own devices, right?
They've all gone back to the site. They don't need to. Two players on their own have just taken out most of the team. It's still a 3 vs 1.
Just sit in your hands, lock it down. You don't know which way is he coming from. It's pretty obvious now.
Opened up in towards the Animus hatch. He has flashed out the player behind Animus, but we know there's a player right beside him.
I'm just gonna see if he can maybe try and go for the floor bang I think.
Oh, almost find in one, but there's a time now isn't it?
You know, 30 seconds doesn't have time to set and check every vertical hole drops in.
There we go.
Easy kill for a player.
Enterprise.
I mean just a pretty standard Roman secret struggling with it, you know, but I can't
happen.
Closing issues.
I think that, I mean, for what I was talking about before, of how Secret of Great is sort
setting up and closing down. Did they pay enough respect to all those two players? You could see
they came in very wide, right? We had, you know, the first was a one versus one, maybe one versus
two, depending on how it shapes up down the corridor. Then there was another isolated fight,
the Blackbeard going almost a step too early, gave their life away because they gave them the
ability to go for the knife and it just was a little bit, a little bit hodge-podge. It was a
a very British phrase. They're gonna instead rotate their way back up towards the top and
see if they can make it stick here instead. Let's see how things go. Less messing around
in terms of the hard breach with the current setup. They're just gonna try and get things
open, not play with the pocket breaches, not go for the gun game. Yeah, I mean you look
at the lineup. The Blitz comes in for Savage, ying as well for Noah. I mean typically whenever
we see those operators is derived from fish is where a lot of those takes will come in
from try and get the shield rotated around take the rafters and then switch the play
over towards fish use the ing blind everyone send the shield in but even still the shield
gone as well savage on the glass it's even secret just not really sure what they want
to bring themselves but they stuck with this line up again i still think fish is gonna
have to be the play based on the operators that they have but they're still going to have to go
through the kind of motions of let's get all these walls open first fall and again it makes
sense you look at the bands you target the band you target the kade there's reason for that just
don't make this part of the the kind of game a lot easier for yourself well they're buying a
slightly messed that one up fine fine fine what are they gonna do bandit trick it hang on
How is that little bit survived?
Breach looks good.
Some strength in that metal to hold it up, isn't there?
It's like the finest bit.
To fight the physics.
Aw, they tried.
They gave it a go, demo.
And well, can they pass through it?
Probably not.
I think, and they're just going to instead try and...
Oh!
It's fine, it's fine, it was fine.
It's absolutely bristaud, IT is exploding, they get three, they get two, they get down to one.
Vissogai, suddenly he was left knocked for very long.
Nice breach, that's all they needed.
Yeah, the explosive nature of the operators going in, obviously the Ying creates a lot of chaos,
but I don't know, I think that breach really stole it for him in.
Yeah, I do like that you think, oh, the preach is looking pretty bad, and he just strolls
on through, just crouches through it, but yeah, again, it's that ying, it's the power
of those operators.
I think that the next band now for the attackers is going to be pretty important in terms of
what they target.
Plenty of options, you know, you can go for the shields or, yeah, there's the ying, it
goes, and also for secret, what was the issue that they had, you know, with some of those
walls?
Yeah, it was the mirror, so get rid of that operator, and you're good to go.
So secret to one at the moment and don't forget. I mean, this is the attacking side
This is where we know secret and their pedigree and their attacks are
So good. Yeah, so about just racking up as many rounds as you can but for enterprise again
I don't think that
It's necessary to play bad and some of those rounds
It's just that it's a lot of you till the kind of take in and all it takes is missing that well, you know that shot
Once or twice and really open things up for secret the thing about this top floor right is twice in a row
It's looked quite thin from enterprise secret are a great attacking side
But think about obviously, you know, we went from laughing about the breach 20 seconds later
They're inside sight and everybody's dead. Yeah, and the narrowness of a site that needs to be played in the rotation
worries you right if this is something where they're just going to continually
have it to keep going here yes if they win this they can go back down to the
basement then you've got to go somewhere else and you're not going to go to kitchen
nobody goes to kitchen so what can they change what can they try and adapt any
other side of things with the mirror gone now walls well I mean they made it look
difficult as the previous round and well they might still find a way to make it
like difficult but no yings, this is none of that, immediate drive-through with the combo
ban of Grimm, who are they trying to close down? This is where we saw the sort of fall
from their first, oh from their round win, even Enterprise, they were able to pull apart
the players that entered on the far side of the map and as I said before I think Secrets
didn't really pay enough heed and their aggressive respect towards those two roamers from Enterprise,
this time you assume even more lessons learnt.
We'll send out the call, no kills have came off the back of it so that's more of a call
just to get them into position and oh Jim, somebody's spotted that punch hole that you
made and it was Facew's inside of games right now, needs to be careful because we can see
that Jim is still in surrounding area over towards the 90 corridor.
Oh, there we go.
Tracked it on!
No, he turns away!
The worst possible time!
Mowgli's able to get revenge from the round before,
but with Fischo going down as well.
Look at the gap spotting again from secret.
The way that they're using the drones
to see what's to the weak point,
and then they target that one player.
Ooh, Relays does find Adrian.
He looked a little bit lost to the top floor,
but now they roughly know where his army is.
Is he going to try and dip away out?
There's the motion.
And there's the flashes coming through and just finds a little narrow passage of safety
and is still looking for the aggression in the fight.
But then, finally, falls back, 50 seconds or so left and instead they're gonna see if
they can try and maybe push up fish, but they know about it and now they know you're the
only one left.
So, two and...
Secret machine, once again in the opening half turning pretty well.
It's the calls for me, you know, it's apparent to see the way that they're playing this game
where they're not committing to anyone's side, it's not a traditional way where, again, you
just think, okay, we're going to do this take, it just feels as though, that's how you say,
You know what guys, let's just get set up all around the map, we'll do a bit of drone work, and we'll see what comes up.
And again, it's using the players in the right place at the right time, being able to explode at a moment's notice.
You know, one minute secret, if there's nothing, and then you look away, you blink, and they're there.
It's like a weeping angel. You look away for one minute for secret and they're there.
Now the entry statistic is one that we kind of had our eyes on at the start of this and generically.
It's been in the driving seat for secret. Two in a struggle and four across all of it.
But you're just having that first body on a map like this, I would say, in some ways more than
Chalet, it's so important to have that extra person to go for those big wide close downs.
Right, look at how many different fights have happened on those bigger sites, not the top
floor where everything is very close together. And you sort of get a bit of a painted picture
of how this can go. We'll see if they can try and maybe find the success as they did last time,
but I think the lesson isn't really a structural one in terms of like how they approach it,
but more of a mentality one of we need to make sure that we approach this in this way. It's going
to be maybe a shield driving in towards the site. You can see they're just checking it,
hoping that those roamers, that pair that was so successful last time, won't get involved.
I wonder if they're going to try and go for a main breach plant.
And Adrian's down here, and there's something that's pretty common where you just smoke out the entire room and try and just plant on the breach.
But, whenever you have a warden that you're up against, it is risky to go for that.
I mean, Savage is with him, so it makes sense having a shield. I think Savage may be ready to go in here.
If he can, there goes the Dukami call.
There's the smokes.
Oh, there's one for us. Relays gets one. Savage gets out.
They're gonna see if they can stick the plant and they breach the top of IT as well draw some focus
It's a post plant with at least a four versus four tucked behind the shield and Mowgli is caught up by the end of it
But two players left in a post plant situation 30 seconds
What on the vertical gets the first Noah steps in makes his presence known and sees how much of this he can control
They've got to go for the two versus one is the rotate relays waited and why the side he's out
He's off. He's gonna leave it to a one versus one below and make sure that Adrian he's got the cross. He's cool as anything
There's a big gun waiting for the swing, but they need that vertical
They need that coverage and this is the fight that could dictate it all
Oh, he doesn't pay enough! There's one, there's two! There is the round!
Secret!
I just want to make note of that.
Just that tiny little adjustment from Adrian. You see that he was a little bit deeper holding onto the bomb chassis
or onto the diffuser.
He then steps up and plays hard right off that breach.
A position that typically not a lot of people will play in
because, again, a C4, you're gonna be exposed, for example.
But because it's so, oh, nobody's gonna be sat there,
it then catches enterprise by surprise.
So really well played for major
and just that little micro adjustment.
But again, the shot calling right now from secret,
they're getting everything right, the correct call.
They see it slight on site.
They can see there's a lot of roamers. Open up that breach, smoke it out.
I mean, obviously they would have had to have known that the warden was upstairs roaming
or else that tape would not have happened.
Oh yeah.
But they had the information and they went accordingly.
They smoked it out. They used the blitz as the bait.
Adrien just had to stick the diffuser.
Yeah, brilliant. Love it.
I said, what's gonna be the change? It's gonna be a take and it was.
I did say, are they gonna pay the roamers more respect than in a way they did?
they said which is not gonna mess with them this time. Let them have the rest of the map.
Let's focus in. We'll do what we need to do and I love the fact that they put the pressure
on IT the second they went for the take as well. So that vertical player who did get
at least one couldn't then focus on anything else because if he dies then they lose a big
bit. He has to look up a retake as more possible than no take.
And now 4-1. This defensive half of Enterprise has slipped away and probably dreading getting
on to their attack with how it went on towards Chalet, but technically they are better on
the attack on Labs. They've got more of a preference for it. Unfortunately for them,
secret, much better on their defense here. 62% is their defensive rate. Against, to be
fair, Enterprise's 69% attack. The second half of this could get spicy, but it's down
to the mentality, I think, of Enterprise. Bappin has been one of those players who's
stepped up when they need to. Falls away from the flash, not going to get his life taken
away from him this early. He's desperate to get this opening pick and that's the confidence
you need. A drone rolls by, the worry is if he goes down these stairs he will get caught.
Oh he just missed out on the drop player, he's being surrounded and relays, goes. He's
about to be drawn so now he's going to go down these stairs. Buck says hello, puts a
bit of damage in, goes for the flash, he was shooting the player on the tops coming and
great. Phil Axter. Yeah you can see that that's the difference there from secret. Whenever
the struggle room game already it's the only round the enterprise of one was
based off just roamers running around this is the flip side this what I meant
by the risk versus reward with the aggressive play style the enterprise
go for if you don't hit your shots you don't get your kills which that's
balanced at the end of it this is what CG you have to kill people this is what's
gonna happen you're gonna put yourself in those defects where you just don't
have the numbers I mean that is great timing there for fish yeah right place
Right time right guy there goes at least savage, but I'll be calling the play from the afterlife
The buff is still getting work on and because it's the four versus three
They have the man to be able to do this they can try and set the air jabs up force them back out of electric
Now it's a shotgun in this position. We said it could have won it before very tight angles being toyed with through the
verticality
Fish's happy to try and swing into the left while aware of some of these locations this defend me look
They're retaking on towards e-box, but I looked away on the Mowgli
Back and forth just to and left
Swings out with a pistol does get one, but
Five to one
It feels like, as a way of putting it, it's just lessons learnt here.
Bye.
Secret.
It was a great half again.
Same as Shallie, very dominant.
Not the perfect 6-0, but still, close enough.
Now for Enterprise.
They have to go on the attack in front, and they haven't wanted to attack this series.
That's probably the worry, is it not?
I I think it's a very fair thing. We'll put that in the concerns pile
I've looked at the concern quite a lot of concerns at the moment up there. I can see
But secret also have concern I mean
We're worried about them and but I think for secret now that just go and close at 7-1 just go and do it
Do what you need to do
Secret is a team that they can be their own biggest enemy. Yep multiple times
So here with 5 to 1. Enterprise on the wrong side of the flawless and to be
fair obviously last map the half was what 6 and 0 and then they got themselves
three rounds back they started to believe this time they can get themselves
three rounds back then lose one but then still you know have a bit more room have
a bit more as long as they can keep themselves off of map and series point
they can keep the pressure up and that pressure is almost doubled for secret
It's tough being on the 6th position sometimes to get that last one.
Imagine if you're two steps away and things start to go the same way they did before, right?
You start to see the patterns the same as you did against SSG, right?
It's the difference. Can be.
Is this just Hopium for Enterprise? I don't know.
Look at the bands.
Same bands for the defense again, where we're seeing the Kade and the Bandit.
And therefore, the mirror's gonna come in to make those breaches awkward.
Adding some protection from grenade.
Attackers are a secret.
Band the Grim, band the Blitz again.
Just operators you just don't really want to play against
because they cause issues.
We're well aware of that.
I'm going to enterprise their lineup.
Just the one hard bridge, which can be a little bit of question mark
because typically the way that this map plays out
and especially this top floor,
you almost use the reinforced walls kind of like two sets of walls.
Yeah, you have the exterior one, which is your IT
and your outside connector.
Oh, yeah, and then you have your two sets of inside walls being your garage wall and then also your inside connector walls
Yeah, so only having just the one guy with three cellmas
You're not gonna get everything up with that especially with the mirror being played against you right especially when you know
They're gonna be trying to make these free tools or could you get yourself a hop and this is all last
One which means that anything on the rafters position becomes very tough. You know, they've got the key but it's they're gonna be trying to play that
Extension they're gonna be putting pressure in it's gonna just eat out more
utility whether it's guns whether it's whatever and then they've got pockets
full of flashes gonna see if they can try and swing around the corners they've
used both frag grenades already somewhere as well the clash itself is
gonna be that constant problem she's just getting a read here against the
floras I'm not entirely I guess they're just getting rid of the position yeah I
mean you've not been a counter to this clash that's the worry with the lineup
that they've brought in so really for Adrian as long as he rotates correctly to
to where his team needs him, should be fine, but half the round gone and we still have
yet to get to that kind of phase two of what we see on labs where you then have to start
moving into garage, moving into connector and taking those positions before then you
start going in towards the bomb site, so they're kind of very close here at the moment.
Where are they trying to get the push from?
Obviously they've opened up pressure.
Can't go that way.
No window.
Actually two twitch drones in the pocket player, so maybe but get a cushion in as always that is it
Is it gonna get in there? Is it gonna get shot? We don't know another e1d
That's pressure on the player here in ebox
Maybe gonna try and bounce the pressure over the top and cut this in half the player
Oh beautiful take June unfortunately at the Fisher guy in the same second
They have rafters now can they try and just swing their way through player still getting some work done player
Get himself three for his trouble, Jume. He's gonna swing out on towards Evox and get the luck in great pre-fire
But now they can focus their attention back towards this side
You've got Adrian on the clash in their own engagement of one versus one. Oh, oh no, oh no, sorry
Adrian on a dime finds it
And that leaves a one versus one the clash looking for his time and he finds it all
Oh, I mean, what a play. The quick switch from one to another one to another one. So impressive
from Adrian. And it's that clash. I mean, you came, you seen the player come in free
fish. The shield was there. It kind of fit against him. Wow, Adrian just took his head
off and I mean wow but again for for an enterprise it's weird because they once
again I feel were in a position where they could have won that round where they
had a really strong advantage with the 2v4 and they let it slip and I think that
kind of sums up the game for them today got themselves up into pretty decent
positions and then they just slip through their fingers it's a shame it's
gotta be frustrating right it's gotta be frustrating knowing that obviously all
the things that I talked about is trying to stay off of Death's Door for as long as you can,
being in a position to start off strong. Start off as you mean to go on. Yeah, it was built by some
great player-player driving in with that switch, getting some damage done, and then unfortunately
it goes away from you in a manner like that. A clash of three-piece
whilst being surrounded with buffs. Enterprise. Still not over yet. Obviously,
As we showed at the beginning of this, if they lose this series, their fate is in effect out of their hands.
Their day off is tomorrow. They will have to watch other teams play to see if it dictates their chance at surviving groups.
And that is nothing anybody likes having to do.
Secret, in the meantime, they win this. They can confirm themselves up a bracket, yep.
Big for them, again for secret, has to be up there is probably at least top five in terms of predictions
who people would have put to do pretty well. I think a lot less secret would be high up there because we know the capabilities
off the team and really the rise off them over the past two years you have to say it's been really strong.
Again, see if they can just close out here and now and for Enterprise, I mean pretty swift in towards this top floor
They're looking for that pinch but Jim has the hatch open and he's gone
Only wasting a minute and oh almost Jim gets caught out by the verticals, but he's alive for now
An enterprise have got what they've wanted. They've been able to gain that top floor control and now they can continue this sweep in towards the mid floor
Yeah, they feel themselves back. It's been quite quick, but they're not entirely giving it up yet
Jim no but himself tucked on the inside of the kitchen waiting for anybody else to
Maybe go for the pressure and actually he's still kind of confident. He's gonna rotate up
Jim's gonna see if you can go for a like a sneaky back stab. They are watching for it. Yeah, but I think it's watching for isn't it?
Yeah, yeah watching and waiting. I'm not sure how aware they are
But it's to and gets Mowgli that just puts more pressure on June whether to move and try and go for the fight. Oh
Oh, Jim, you're dead.
Oh! What?!
How?!
How, how, how?
Jim.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
He...
His reflexes are so far.
He is just one. I can turn to burn that guy next week.
I just watch that and don't even understand.
My brain can't put that one together,
but Jim, pure
or can, I mean, tragedy.
Oh, I feel so sorry for Babin, he's sat there for so long,
and you see Jim look away and then Babin swings.
He moonwalks at him.
He moonwalks at Babin.
Not good.
Send him to space.
OK, four versus four.
And then you know that there was a loose threat player.
There's a knife onto Adrian, but Adrian
gets fish-o in the meantime.
on entirely sure how that piece together but they're inside the site. The kit behind the pillar, there is Relays massive kill on towards the lurker, but to Anne he pulls up the plant and he finds a slightly different location.
They have the pings, they have the pressure, they have the first, but they have themselves going for the platform.
It has to stick it all for play for all for nothing. It's down on the kit and it is secret.
Good shit, man!
But get themselves both maps!
They get themselves up a bracket!
An enterprise!
Unfortunately, get themselves the worst seats in the house tomorrow
where they have to sit and watch to see if their fate is sealed by people that aren't them.
Secret!
Big old win, they close out in good fashion of 7-1!
Fantastic from Secret!
So that's how you come in today. Get the job done and go next.
It was the lesson in a way, sort of put to them in the first map.
Things were looking shaky.
Things were peeling away from them.
Secret were doing secret things and, yeah,
the performance that followed through whatever conversations they had
sort of showed what this team is capable of.
And you said it, people expect them to be at least the top five team.
There's a lot of teams, actually,
that people expect to be in that top, and not all of them.
Apparently playing like it. Secret.
Well, they just might be that difference maker.
And look at the team performance.
Everyone there, everyone having a great time.
June gets the MVP today.
But again, everyone had a part to play.
I don't think they're...
Yes, June may have got the most kills,
but I don't think there was a standout on that team today.
I think everyone stood out.
No, I think that's sort of the idea of it.
Right, they make sure that the operators team,
We saw Mowgli make the big plays that he did, Adrian with a 79% cost as well, just is continually offering towards the team themselves.
And unfortunately for Enterprise, although there were these moments being a little bit slower to get into what Chalet seemed to,
unfortunately hang over their heads throughout the rest of the map.
And, wow, unfortunately that is another loss that they have suffered, another couple of maps.
But, where do they go from here?
I watch it from the sidelines. Secret, where do they go?
Probably to celebrate and cheer and knowing that team prepare for the next game.
Yes, we know Twister, there'll be no celebrating. Job's not done yet.
Job is not done yet, not for a team that wants to be in the top five, but for you and I actually, for today.
Our job is done! So we'll be going to a quick break before we're back with the final game of the day on the Bravo stream.
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Welcome back everybody in the sixth invitation here on the B stream things are heating up
man we've been treated to some crazy upsets today I was just saying before to someone
else off-screen while I was playing a little bit not me yeah table tennis yeah I was talking
to someone for you yourself how crazy is it that today we've had two upsets over two of
the tournament favorites right Falcons lost to wildcard and 80 lost to weibo yeah I was
Watching the way about getting going Fabian's getting smoked. It's right. I didn't know ha ha ha apex pretty good, huh?
He goes no, we absolutely told we should have one seven one there dog
This is what everyone says as soon as they start losing. It's not that they played. Well, it's the replay badly
I mean come off the way we actually played really well
I gotta say that they did it's under lock in for this game though
We're heading up for fluxo w7m down from Brazil against the North Americans in
Oxygen this could be promised to be a great game. Look we saw fluxo play
Yesterday, you and I casted against Enterprise. These guys were deadly.
They were, but there was also a little bit of a side dish of ego that was served in that matchup.
And I feel like if you go into this game against OHG with the same ego, over-challenging, over-peaking, not respecting your opponent,
I do think Flux with WCNM could lose either a map or the whole series.
So I do want to see a bit more composure from them today.
Well, they do have to be careful not to get complacent.
Of course, Palu, as you'll notice, we talked about yesterday,
He's changed the spelling of his name to Payalu, a shout out to of course he has announced that he
and his partner are having a baby. So he's going to be a father, very exciting. Of course on their
opposition we've got the North American roster of Oxygen. Now Nick, I know what you're going to say,
well these guys came from the LCQ, these guys should be a bit of a walkover, but they are a dark horse
not to be underestimated. Yeah, they've been made all year in NA, but every single time they go
internationally they make it big. Top 12, top 8, top 6 and top 3 are the last four events that
OXG have achieved and in fact last year they were an LCQ team into SI. They beat SSG, they knocked
out both Chopper Fire Rebellion and G2 from SI last year in the player. So definitely do not
take oxygen for granted. Also just watch Thoros there in the middle of his screen. He's actually
torn off one side of the jersey sleeve to have that bicep out with the tattoo looking
all nice and cool. Here's the stats though, and actually they played two days ago. I'm
thinking these look pretty horrendous. They actually got kind of...
Yeah, they got slapped around. They were playing against Team Secret, who are a very aggressive
ego team, and yeah, Secret currently undefeated as well in their group. The thing is, you
look at Oxygen's game the other day against Team Secret and you think about the way Team Secret
play, not too dissimilar to the way Fluxo did in the 7M play. Oxygen have to be careful going up
against really aggressive Rosses. You can see from the stats individually they didn't perform that
well and that's going to be even more further now that we look at the stats here. Asim who's not
typically one of the core fraggers, he's more of the backbone player but 95 Eps, it's actually
pretty respectable but I mean that's the best of the whole team. So I was saying this is the best
best performing players and both two teams. It was Lobin and Volpe together that really
early spearhead kind of aggression with Lobin getting the majority of those entries and
kills there for highest EPS in the end. But as we said, that same challenging with the
spearhead was the same reason why they were struggling in some of the rounds and why this
looks so game got a little bit too close. So again, I want to say a little bit more respect
from them, composure, discipline, because when you face the better and better teams,
You gotta up your own level as well.
Very much so.
Look, OXG, they have their work cut out for them, but we know what they've had.
A lot of these players have had plenty of experience.
Adam himself, I mean, he's actually played for some pretty good bosses in the past.
He was on that unwanted team, wasn't he?
Sorry, I was not listening.
Was Adam unwanted?
Oh, this is testing.
We need to know.
I actually couldn't tell you.
I'm getting up his thing.
Which team?
It was for one team, which is...
We're checking.
We are checking we are checking maybe he wasn't on unwanted. I swear the first time I saw Adam
I was really impressed
He was unwanted. Yes, if you're still having it you feel so elevated. Oh, thank God
So he was on CL4L when they made their debut
Oh, yeah and Montreal and then he switched over to unwanted who obviously went really deep at SI last year
That team ended up splitting going a bit everywhere. Obviously. I love the M80 roster is that old unwanted roster?
And he of course
Very true now we're looking at load but now this guy is like the ultimate ego child
Like that is his bread and butter and he's always been like that that guy for the longest time
It's funny because you know Brazil in the first inter tier one siege
It was a lot of like high sensitivity fighting play style overly aggressive
And then it was when you work in super consistently and then they came off like lowest in the TV T a bit more structured
We're still aggressive when they have to be and I think face clan actually speaking of Brazil
They mastered keeping the Brazilian aggression when they have to go crazy
But still being structured more like a European and North American team see folks right now
He's typing in the old time. I mean, yeah, you guys see that so we have on a second monitor
We can see the game will be right now
Forest and Volts are in a verbal battle right now
Volts was saying you guys can't even win a major and then Forest returned and says at least I'm not a cry
baby your whole team knows that you are a crybaby and involves his smiling and
he's just a kid he told me you guys are mm-ing terrible yeah I said who are you
guys none you are none oh my god they're all laughing like this is this is just
like it's clearly not actual being they're loving it but they're they're
getting pretty deep in it forest is such a keyboard warrior look at him guy is
It's getting fired up too much man. It's way too much. It's a low bin. It's greater than bulbs
Literally true face of our EPS score. Literally true statement
Talking about like the two highest
Great, right? It's not really a bad comparison
It's in the context obviously Flux at over seven and had a huge win yesterday over EP like pretty dominant to nothing
Oxygen I try to bounce back after getting slapped silly by secret try and say that ten times fast
So very much a different story for these two teams Fluxo looked at poised to potentially top the group if they can keep up their
Momentum as we get into the map beta for this best of three
It's not order we have the first pick and we are going back to border
Why does it feel like we just keep on playing this man?
I swear the last three series that we've covered the last two I have watched were all happening on border and or bank
And we're going there straight again with night him and laps as our decider if needed. Yeah
I'm really excited for bank. I haven't casted a bank as if yet. We have not casted a bank
We've seen like five of them in the green room true. We haven't casted. Oh, sorry. We have casted laps
I really enjoyed the laps though. Yeah favorite. Most of the moment border, you know, I'll I'll take it
I'll leave it, but it's gonna be a great map for Flux a w7m. They looked very strong on this yesterday
Against enterprise oxygen are looking at bounce back. There's no way
86! There is no way to camp on this app!
You guys are absolutely capping, you're joshing, you're kidding yourselves! North America can
need to conjure some serious strength here for oxygen because FlukeZW7M are about to give
them a show!
There we are.
Fluxo the username starts on defense and they are already going full Portuguese in the game
chat.
Vamos and Florece.
Obrigado.
Obrigado, boa boa.
It's all we know.
It's all the Florece and something else, but I can't say that on broadcast.
Maria's been teaching me some Portuguese.
He keeps saying, oh, I wish I could speak a little bit.
I'm working on it. I'm working on it.
I've actually been on the French Duolingo while we've been here.
I'm still terrible at that.
Learning French?
Yes, trying.
Trying and feeling.
For trying.
Oh trying is doing and doing us all we can do
That's an ego move right there. I mean oxy the light
Let's ban the water and then play with the glass flux. Oh, I didn't know perfection. I
Love that we're actually seeing a fair bit like last been this event
It's funny because if you go back three to six months, we've barely seen any glass whatsoever
But it has a place for certain teams and of course very specific matchups
OXG can't get first place with a map loss
Flux soul secure upper bracket with a two zero victory
okay
That's very exciting a two-oh win here for Fluxo guarantee top three in the group there for upper brackets
Yeah, and of course, yeah, you know or OG stat isn't that bad they can't get first place with the loss
You know it could be worse. Being locked on a first isn't bad at all.
You could you could be in a bit where if while I could get a map they're gonna get eliminated.
That's a much worse step to be facing. Yeah, look of course right now in the group.
So this group is Team Secret first, Space Station second, Fluxo W7M, Oxygen and Enterprise at the
bottom. Oxygen are potentially at risk of elimination from SI. If they lose this game then it'll
really just come down to their last game which is against Enterprise and whoever
wins that will stay alive in the group. And they have SSG right before them.
Oh sorry that had SSG as well. Because OSG had that day off already. If they go 2-0 in
three series they'll actually first place assuming that SSG and Secret both
lose some games. So they could go from the second last slash last type to first place
if they go 2-0 here. Very true. They keep it up. I will see what happens for
OXG as they start to mount their attack. They're poised around a couple of different spots.
Gricks are here on the AC balcony. CC's getting drained pretty well as well.
Oh, that's a run out from Bob's. That's a decision made.
And here comes the thinker to boost up.
Looks like Dodas is trying to keep the Blitz at bay with that nitro cell, but it blows for nothing.
In goes... Oh, wow! He wants that shot!
was that shot. Somehow he finds the shield, a kill, and ah, amidst the chaos, W7N get themselves
back into it. But not before Forrest is inside with that diffuser. Loben and Dodez looking
for a retake. Loben coming from fountain, Dodez now from metal, and then he has to isolate
Grickser. 2v2 into the retake, but Forrest is low HP and finished off. A shot to the
foot from the DMR is more than enough. Gomez looks to clutch, but Dodez has that DMR. They
They know exactly where he is though, there's plenty of info and a big rotation from Gomez.
Godes needs to get right on that diffuser before too long.
Gomez has poised very well though to swing him very quickly.
It's a bait and a switch and a 1v2 for Gomez.
A very messy round but it was counting in a good way with that.
It was incredible how Forrest runs in and gets meleeed by the Aruni but still gets one fire off
I don't even think it made sound it just happened at the same exact frame so they trade he gets made it
He gets a one tap gets on the planet immediately right here. Look he gets meleeed fully got broken and still what is like frame perfect
I'm sorry like last frame same
He was in fully ads is like a partial hit five but close quarter of course
Can you shoot mid ads while you are shield you can shoot before getting fully accurate not in the very beginning
But like as you a ads in there
interesting
You guys are continuing to talk smack in the oil chat.
I mean clearly fluxo, no oxygen's typical game plan, right?
You know, for us to say you guys are counter-stratting us, how?
Because we're a glass band.
And then they said, we run new strats.
You guys are being counter-stratt cars.
They also call, uh, Volts are baiting Barry.
Okay.
Uh, like a lurky Larry.
Or an anchoring Andy.
I feel like that first round is kind of sets the tone for how ridiculous both of these
two teams would like to play sometimes, right?
They're just matching them each other so well with the aggression and confidence.
And this is the thing.
Oh, she said, you left the shields open.
We're seeing finger being played.
Now Jock's turn on the Blitz instead.
The line keeps being picked out to slow down the movement of Fluxo.
pushed through the land charge last one I actually killed Gomez I was kind of a
set moment but you know it is what it is
actually it wasn't Gomez because you know he was the cultured but he killed
somebody else in his team rather yeah but no it's a lot of utility operators
though the sense is still coming up to play sledge shotgun
Bumza is downstairs but they're looking for that archives window
I wanna play there's a clash waiting for them to get off
I like this from Dott's great way to counter up that shield play
Dodez? Something I'll find-
FOR A SO LONG, ADAM!
Quickly inside with the shotgun and the bulbs is covering dots supporting with that clash
and Dodez has found a second now with that TCSG.
Grixer and Yogg together.
Oh, they're so lit up, especially Yogg on that Blitz.
I mean, that's the worst nightmare is a Blitz having low HP and no thinker to heal him up again.
Desperately, he jumps inside, looks for something else elsewhere, but there's no roads out here into sight
and now the jig is up, they've been spotted on the camera.
and Fluxo have top floor control they can easily dominate from above
kind of funny seeing people rushing armory archives
it was not the bombs I just threw a wrong deal
and Dodgers is farming, TCSG in hand, good for three
looking for the four, Fluxo are you ready for this one?
yeah look at that
Volbs goes hunting, job done
and Volbs immediately in the old chat calls them bots
this is classic textbook W7M
Thor said, oh, he got lucky lol, play faster.
Reben says play faster, as if they're not just rushing over here.
I mean, to be fair, they went to the Arkhouse balcony, countered to 10, and then they went.
I think they slashed it a little bit behind the curve, so they had to wait for it to like
rappel on in.
Because there was that rappel change made, I think it was upon Siege X to launch, actually.
Now, start the rappel in animation at close barricade.
Yeah, and because of that, you can hop rate with Sledge.
Exactly.
hammered in on the animation, bang, and his shotgun hand is one tap.
Oh my god, these guys are spending way too much time in the old chat, way too much time.
I think Pharah should spend more time on calling the strat for his team.
We'll see for the third round, no shields pick up so far.
Fluxo WGN going to the bathroom, the teller's portion, which not only means you get around
clear top floor, and that's where the clash of mobile come into play, slowing things down,
They got the Kaid for the fountain walls as well.
Surprisingly enough, yesterday, when we saw Fluxo, they were not playing much utility at all.
And now already in two rounds they brought the Clays, they brought the Pulse, they brought the Kaid, they're smoking.
They are definitely giving more respect to Oxy's playstyle so they're going to account to you by slowing you down.
I do wonder, are we going to see a clear here from Oxy?
Yeah, surely.
They've just rushed twice in a row, they've brought the Thatcher, and funnily enough, like when you see Thatcher these days,
I'm thinking it's a rushed stuff.
Yes.
It used to be you see that you're like, oh, they're gonna play methodically. They're gonna open walls now
Now I see that you're like you're actually not much. I just saw the cadence thought you know what let's get that
That was look that could be right, but then again
They didn't bring any other hard destruction and ace which you can get a single hatch
So that you have very limited heart destruction. Yes, they also have no soft destruction vertically
They shouldn't have run EMPs on Capitao here. Obviously you've got the fact that you don't need the secondary EMPs
You should have brought the can open is
Also, that's a big ticket item to tick off the list know about and make sure you're not gonna fall victim too late round
Could have been worth to play breaching charges on nomads
This was sort of flashbangs cuz like if you get top of control
Or maybe that's not that might not be the plan, but they have no word if they get top of control
Right now. They're just looking at passport of the East stairs
This is not a usual attack
And I'm not sure they know what they want to go for here
Like they haven't taken any map control. Are they gonna try to push clear first?
You cannot clear wading if you don't have mezzanine at least there's control.
I think they thought there's a player bottom east. They fired it off, hoping for the swing but there's no one there.
Like baby kill, I don't know where Dota's died. This has been such a weird round.
Arthur on the spent. They're just inside passport, fishing for one more aggressive swing here by Fluxo.
But I feel like they've made their one play and now they're gonna play more back.
Let OXG make the first move because they got office control, fountain control.
The only area that OXG have is passport and e-stairs.
Those are great starting points, but it's not great end points.
Well, they're gonna keep finding picks.
That certainly makes it easier.
They haven't looked at pressure workshop.
Dots are still holding on.
Where is the play here?
Oh, here we go.
Forest is just waving.
Fighting his time.
Dots absolutely deletes him.
And OXG starts to falter a little bit.
I mean, yes, they found two early picks, but what's the idea here?
They haven't fully taken top floor.
Now, Adam with the Thatcher could potentially counter that clash.
Yeah.
It could be planted or both.
I don't want to see the Thatcher being implanted with the Captured, right?
Yeah, and he's actually going to start to go for the plant.
No one's denying Volks is just around the corner.
Volks is going to straight up swing it and take him down with the SMG-11.
Yeah, I really have no idea what Oxygen are doing right now.
They might be able to win the round regardless just by fragging it all out.
It all comes down to vaults and they know exactly where he is they shoot him and that is the round done
But I'm still just so confused what the hell that was
Very scrappy round bug with teams
But I mean if you're actually you take it and you can argue that they're playing it pretty well because you're kind of just punishing
Flux soul from being so aggressive in the server. They keep swinging so they keep getting picks
It's called a, what was it, baiting bunnies?
What was it?
Baiting barry.
Baiting barry, that was one.
Baiting barries.
Yeah, I don't know.
Like, I don't think Vols is baiting.
I think he was playing plant and all on the objective and he was never clear except for
the smoke canister, you know?
I mean, he could have used a smoke canister.
He didn't need to.
He just killed the plant with his gun.
Yeah, but it's like in the perfect world, like, I was covering that, right?
So you should go to Walker and take the kill.
True.
Like, you know, I think that's an oxygen problem.
I mean, that is.
I think it's funny Oxygen is calling Vulp's a beta when they're the ones that literally
sold their planter at the market.
But they wanted the round team so it worked.
Yeah sure. Again I don't know how that. They had two early picks. They had a numbers advantage
and then they just somehow pushed. Barther and Workshop found the other kills at the
end of the round.
To be fair I mean Foxo did just abandon the top floor.
They did for seemingly no reason.
Oh they were worried about the bomb site. Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean it's just a week. We've seen a lot of border.
This is a weird boarder so far.
We're used to people fighting for E-Steris,
E-T-V-E, doing the clears.
Yeah, exactly.
The whole three people passport into Spombsite is a new one.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, I guess.
What the...
Rear can be fun.
Sure, and look, this is Fluxo's map pick too.
So if Oxygen continue this, two rounds out of three,
keep that going, keep that pressure on,
just maybe they could find their first win of the tournament
I was hoping for a kali there from adam but uh she swapped off it
I feel like we've seen a good amount of variety the first three days here in his eye
I've seen kali but oh here's a good trigger question for you
what's missing yeah what operators haven't we seen
rook, dock i've not seen myself
there i don't think we've seen kali
yeah i have a lot of cfpsd i'm thinking of actually
I know we have seen once so I know really yeah yeah on on a shallow earlier because ace of
pyright the caster showed me a clip that involved so you've seen a I was in a good bit of off
the regular type of operators I'm looking at a list of all the operator thunderbird only
was going to play or thunderbirds missing out we have definitely seen oh sir yeah we have
I'll work you sing as well. I'm a we're seeing
Nook I've seen alibi we have
Yeah, and a by we have so jackal mostly we have jackal. Yeah, so I'm gonna distract
I just listen all the operators we've seen but meanwhile
We're finally actually seeing a little bit more of a normal attack here fight for East air's
Oxygen fighting now for CCTV. I don't know how Gomez has managed to sneak in here while Dodas is still holding control of
all the security somehow he didn't have the angle on the gun
and he sandwiched in Volp's E stairs behind him
Dota is in front of him in CCTV
so you're right how did he find himself so deep in the building
look at this he's in the middle of the map between two enemies with the case
that means that he needs to escort back outside the building to get to the bomb site
or to go help get some kills from Dota or Volp's
and that is looks like he might actually be retreating
oh he's gonna run straight into his open man
Oh, it's a bit of a duel. Come on, Gomez. This would open up the round.
He finds his kill. He's being watched, but Volbs has been read!
Both of them are there, and now the call-out can come from Oxygen.
They know exactly where the last two players are, but the diffuser is now taken by Fluxo W7M.
Grixer does his best mission impossible and dodges those lasers.
Dottis is retaking this position, nitrous cell, easy kill onto Forrest, it's Grixer in a 1v2 with the LMG.
Where is Grixer and Forrest been all around?
Why is Forrest just debating on the big prone on mezzanine? What the hell is he doing?
I mean, it's still winnable for Grixer, but I mean, come on man, you gotta have your boy Gomez.
He's saving kills, can't do it on himself.
Even health bar is super thinker or actually no health boost left remaining so even ground 1v1 30 seconds
But Paolo has a c4
Grickser against Paolo Paolo the goat himself
So many SIs we've seen him at the first time he's played out of six
Invitational for a team other than team liquid and he holds on TCSG in hand a few bullets and a final killing blow under Grickser
W7M find themselves a second round I don't know about this one man it feels
disappointing to see OXG just sell their teammate and then Jogger straight in
chat Vobbs bailed out again it's a matter of a thing just looking internally
right now I'm thinking what can I do to help my team is because that round felt
there was a 1v3 1v3 1v3 Gomez was very happy to swing the hallway here with a
yellow ping that he was kind of baited because it's a 2v1 not the 1v1 he was
told that he was gonna be fighting even rounds though two to two flip so we'll go
downstairs to ventilation workshop a very virtually orange bomb set the
solos can spot out this is one of the most common solos bomb sites in the game
you can see both bomb clubs from above see exactly where the planet is going
down for the drone side the claymores or jump outs
actually they have two options right again go with side rush and hope that you
you can cut off the solos or you can pierce it or simply clear the top four.
We've seen a lot of rushes on board recently, not just from Oxygen in those first two rounds
but a lot of the other boarder games that we've seen.
The Falcon's game earlier, that was crazy.
I think we might be going to see a bit more of it again, have a look.
Grimdoke would be, sand bullets and not least, Finkr, this again is set play, telegraphed.
The Solos is going to be the heart and the soul of this.
Solace and the smoke are the two big operators for me in this round and denying this rush
I had a big fan of all she bring in a thinker to get away shield operator
I feel like a lot of teams they bring the shield but without the finger and on one side when you get the finger into the action
You're investing a lot into the shield at the same time. Those shoes are so strong. They're often worth investing into
Yeah, look, it's great until you
against his smoke first I didn't I didn't hear you explode I heard the second one
the smoke finger damage multiplier still exists I believe it's us yes so if the
finger is active wow a trade oh no no no direct trade of two kills elsewhere
Grick said doubles up big in with the SMG 12 looks for a little bit more he's
going sending it all the way towards security and he finds volps as well a
3k on the round he has been the hero. He couldn't clutch up last round, but now he's finding an impact
Though it is really feeling the pressure here in security sees that ball. He needs to be careful because Gomez is hunting him
lobin 1v3
Much better take right there was the oichi players playing together 3v1 against the member in security
The funny thing is before that push even started they dropped a few surpensively in spawn
So far outside the building that nobody could risk dying in the back spot. That means they're gonna go for kills, but that's risky
In close range forest should have lobin's number, but he's already low HP and keep in mind lobin's UMP now
Packs a serious punch two bullets to the leg and that will be forest down on the grounds
Don't give lobin the chance because he'll take it and run away
Hey, Grixxer, he's found three kills this round.
He must find the final one as well to close it.
To take the lead through OXG.
But Lobin, he's feeling so good right now.
He's just turned a 1v3 into a 1v1,
but Grixxer will not let that slide.
Cold, calm, collected, a big 4k.
The keys outside mean double door,
and they're thinking 3v1,
they start walking at this guy.
He's shaking the bombsite.
Nope, it gets way too close for Comfort.
Grixxer, the hero from the very beginning to the very end, finding entry after entry,
and of course the entire round clutch at the end.
But it does show a couple of weaknesses here from OHG.
There is definitely some sloppy gameplay.
There's aggression, and there's calculated aggression.
And you know, they did such a good job in the very beginning, only to then get overconfident at the end.
But they get the round victory.
And in the end of the day, that's all that matters. They are 3-2 now.
I like that. Obviously they have shown us that they don't just have the ability to rush, but they can also go for essentially like a top-floor career.
But with a lot of momentum, and it's still a very fast pace, we're just missing the diffuser.
I feel like if you get that 3v1, and you need to blitz in with the case and cover, or you get the blitz pushing the glass guy with two guns in the same direction, that's really clean gameplay.
But the whole Gomez with Grimm walks in first and gets headshot and then blitzes up and dies after while Gritch is in the drone's up floor
That just feels a little bit too uncomfortable for me
But yeah, going back to operators, Thunderbird, Rook and Duck, that's all I can say
Yeah, Thunderbird, Rook, Duck, Calf
I'm a Calf, I've seen Maestro
Finally, that's all defenders, so that means every single attack has been played
I will be honest with you, I have not thought about
Every attacker, but it's funny because
Yeah, I'm pretty confident having seen a huge show. Yeah, it's our fuse. Okay. We've got a fuse. Okay. We've seen a fuse
So you may have passed it a few rounds. Okay. Yeah. Come on this man. Yeah, we've seen a fuse
Okay, it's funny once upon a time. It was the attack that had a zero. I've seen zero
I haven't personally but it was funny that cuz zero is totally a valid operator. You might see
Apparently our obs sorry our producer says it's been played on
It's funny once upon a time attack had so many operators was just fully out of meta, you know like a
sense grim
You know the shield
Like there was so many operators just like unplayable on attack and now
Yeah, teams are really changing things up look here since wall off the triple to get some protection get some soft destruction going
Has a DMR of course, but we're planting. We're actually doing it. Let's get it done
There's no one here!
He's snuck in the backside, he's forcing the plant down, and in the 5 vs 5, Fluxo, have a bit of a wake up call.
It's time to answer the phone, time to figure out where the hell Oxygen have put that diffuser down.
The post plant is too strong, a first kill, a down, Loeb and finally brings something back, but...
Gomez is locking this down for Oxygen.
4v2, Palu involves finally making their way into the bomb site, but Palu is still going
to deal with the Blitz who is still inside of Teller's on the site.
Palu is way too late, he's about to get a face full of Forrests who will find him with
that Blitz.
A quick chuckle and the North American squad have another round on the board.
Now that is a nice round for Moe XT, they've been playing this roam clearing style for
So long the very end their final attack around they'll just hit the side directly
Know that folks who have been so good at getting up that space expecting that very aggressive room clear up above
That is counter play that is four side that is calculated
That is so much better and they get a clean final round victory on their attack inside four two up
We'll go back to defense and they keep having words towards Wolves
Pablo are you the side player the bomb is down son. What are you doing?
down into another operator band phase as we switch the house these guys will not
get out of the old chat man forest does not stop man like at this point I'd be
muting I mean I it's smart you picked a glitch you run it down if you die fast
back to chat if you stay alive made you a plan and thank you type a year and a
half
Oh my god forest dude, like this is yeah
I don't know man
It's such a clear rage bank like this gotta be no there's no way to get in rage bank like he's just long
He's just trying to get on the skin Jenna distracting
The thing is you can do really poor rage bait, but if you're also winning at the same time
You're bound to talk about it. Yeah, it's like, you know, you can sort of you want but if you're up for a tool
Valk's you know, he's five and five. He's bound to be a little bit triggered
It's also like the most tilting thing when you're getting rage baited by the bottom frag
Like it'd be different if it was Gomez been like I'm so much you guys and said I weren't doing not he's been silent
I mean, it's funny Griggs. I had one good 4k aside from that. He's only had two kills in this game
Yeah, but he went around true. He's not only one around but like forest has just been like doing nothing except
The chat.
Hey, you played the last round, okay?
True, and he did get the final kill, but you know, it's definitely been a lot more active
in the chat box than he has in the server.
This is what we don't see every day.
A lot of people don't tend to take that staircase and they tag inside, but...
Is it this?
Yeah.
It's funny, there's something that has changed a lot, okay, in the very first couple years
of the game.
like spawn pizza and ass coming and people kind of spawned anywhere on a map without much start and then that's five years
Especially there are certain spawn points in the game that are just insanely risky
Yeah, like cafe if you spawn Christmas market, you're bound to be stuck in spawn like you're asking for it, right?
There are just certain areas where you should not go there. Yeah. No, you're right. It's funny how that's changed
Because spawns don't get changed like practically ever cuz like ain't no one worried about the smell after a lot of spawn pigs
Thankfully yeah, I mean door and ATMs. I want it what it used to be like like you one spawn pigs
You could run outside for five seconds. Yeah, I mean, that's why people spawn me there
They weren't spawn peaking because it's one rushing it went into your spawn
Are you only the old um, probably have C4 spawn? Yeah, that's true
This could actually just be a simple us around the running at the windows under the sun
There's a lot of impacts and the C4 here for LXG
So I think this is gonna be a very challenging execute Cork looks so we do have lobin down below with a box
There's one C4 has to save the round because there's no thatcher
It should hit but the timing is crucial gotta play the perfect in-game sound than bog is below waiting for you as well
Oh, that's contesting this with a DMR though. It could be deadly fire is the fire shield. Surely the plant will follow
Spading it.
Plant?
Dots begins planting.
Kriksa is waiting for it, and then he commits, and Dots baits it perfectly.
So well done.
An impact though, we'll destroy the shooters, gonna have to get a second one, but Fuxo have
managed to whittle away against two kills.
Another shot into the foot for Gomez, and with that, the Osa is down.
Fuxo have to pick up the pieces of this Tatted Round, and look for another plant.
Has to be a smoke now from Kriksa to second attempt, Lobon on fire downstairs too, has
to maybe help you see upstairs. It's a 2v4 on the bomb site. It's time to send it upstairs I think.
He has to go for it. He has to get up there and support his team. But Gomez
should have the sight on lock. Lobin has found one. But Gomez stands his ground. A triple kill
out with the pistol. But he goes down to Lobin as well. Forrest now on for a flank. He's got the
info and he's made it a 1v1. Let's see if he can walk the walk like he talks the talk.
Palu to force down the plant diffuser halfway done he fates it Boris knows
about it scoping in hand Palu peppers have been a damage and Forrest clutches
it he can hang with the big boys he doesn't just have a bark he's got a bite
Forrest rings circles around the map he started upstairs ran all the way down
below played with the bucket a little bit and then ended up have to chase his
own tail up the middle stairs for a late round flank in the 1v2 but Gomez he
bought enough time he got enough kills to give that space to forest that in the
boot room of camera information was enough to give forest the call on where
to push and when to take the fight
oh man and look he's looking a little bit more locked in now he's getting serious
So much of this game, just talking smack in the old chat, now he is lucked in 5-2.
Thank you. What was your expectation coming to this game?
Because I'd made it pretty clear that I was thinking, look, Oxygen matched up Pauli against Secret and aggressive Team Fluxo,
was so aggressive against DP, they looked so confident on boarder, others are going to be a bit of a wild wash to know.
Well, it's funny because my whole point is that Fluxo had to give a bit more respect in the server and they're almost giving too much respect, I think.
First, attack around to go for a very default archived push with the OSA or was nobody in
the building.
Second round here showing the Monty with Varora also showing maybe not gonna be the most aggressive
style to it.
It feels like Fluxo yesterday they just went for gunsplay with an outpat outmatch enterprise
and they did right very successfully.
But here it's a whole different game plan.
But mind you when you've shown Barter in a game just a day ago and you're gonna go up
against OXCV who you know watched that game.
You might just want to flip that stratbook upside down and do something different.
That could just be what this is.
You don't want to be predictable.
Well Fluxo came into this game with a clear read on what Oxygen were going to do and they
were all wrong.
The Glazband didn't pan out, didn't matter in the end because Oxygen had too many new
ideas up their sleeve and now, well, Oxygen, first player has been spotted, Adam contesting
that vert all the way up inside a break room, good kill for Dodas.
I could have already said, I really think that, in this playing around Dots now on the
Monty, you die, you're picked, you got numbers of ventures, you got really good drones already
pre-placed deep in the building, the only way to really lose that is to start throwing
bodies for no reason, and mind you, they got Raora, they got the Grim, they got the Monty,
they have so many ways to either displace the defenders of RHD or fortify their own player
positions with information or counter intel.
The dodge goes into cross turn and sees the player by the very hands to avoid the verticality
himself.
But don't turn your back to the enemy either.
LHD.
Very much fighting back.
Here comes the Ryora that's actually going to give us a little bit of space funnily enough.
And now the numbers are even.
Dodas has been caught.
I didn't see where that went down.
I said they're trying to mount an attack through Passport.
What is it with both of these teams and looking at a really pressure Passport on a Talos
attack?
Oxygen did the same thing.
Just a little bit to me like Fluxo, I'm not sure exactly where to go
because they're flipping the attack for the third time, but in the midst of that chaos,
Bob starts finding a free pick,
Overruts hit upstairs,
Yogg is dead, as is Adam.
Now they're in East stairs, on the other side of the building.
Not even if Cam falls.
The map darkening from the dead player's worksheet, they can't call exactly
where this attack will come from.
And to be honest, I don't know it either.
Dots has to show us still where that Monty wants to go.
Oh, big run up, this could be something.
Oh, Paolo gets him.
Bit too ambitious there, Gomez.
And you get red.
You can't pull the wool over the eyes of a player that's been to 8-6 evotationals.
2v4 now.
OXG looked desperate.
Grickson with the bossy, but he misses.
His critical shot.
And now he needs to fall back.
Fluxo just need to convert this number's advantage.
They got 30 seconds to do so.
Paolo misses his opportunity, but Volpster's not.
Forrest, he's clutched up the 1v1.
V1 he won't have the same luck in a 1v4 or will he first one found plant down
But ball is got him dead to rights and fluxo w7m look to try him now to come back
I have to get the right players in the right positions
They control costumes upstairs to ease stairs and honestly. Yes, they did have to make a couple different decisions
You know three rotations first upstairs then passport then ease stairs
but they did get full map control in the end with it.
How he's successful, combined with OXG making some crazy run-offs like a punished deeply,
Paolo shutting down two separate players by simply just holding his ground.
That's the thing, OXG, they gotta be careful.
They keep playing aggro, they keep playing right into Fluxer's,
wading arms, another round of defense for them,
and this time they go all the way down to Fence Workshop.
It's their first time giving this one a go, and this is the bombsite.
Feel like we see the most rushes on there a lot of teams will go for those vents rushes
What's the plan here from fluxa? You got plenty of ideas that you can run with we've seen the osa
We've seen the riora now the Monty's being teased out
Oh, actually you gotta be ready for anything and they're not running a solace here mind you
No, they are not
Long side is a little bit weak. Last second attack I re-picked though, away from Monty, onto the Brava.
They get a line on the board. This kind of screams top 4 roam clear, nice and slow, do the vert, lock down the flanks.
Very old school style attack. And again, exactly, just for good measuring, Kits of the C4, right?
And you can still afford to enter in case one dies. The thing that does surprise me though is that, again, Fluxo,
I expected a lot more chaotic gameplay. I like we see them a bit more restrained in the server
I do think it can match a really nicely against Oxy's playstyle forces getting picked off very early
What was that?
Oxy jumped out the window
Come on
Okay
Must have been hiding and then Volbs popped the window open and he jumps out himself I guess something like that
Maybe a drone bait
Yeah
Something like that
It needs to be good playing these kind of plus one positions where the four other members are trying to do plan a
Loeb and lurch are plan B just again
He's scouting the middle of the building that customs portions of blue and if he gets a freebie
That's 5v3 and you can start pushing the bombsite if he doesn't find anybody they know it's clear
Yeah, I like this very passive look but on this bomb site that customs position is so powerful
Especially in the late round and there's so many reasons why OXG may move into it
Perhaps it would be yoga dropping down there in the late round. I mean, he could always
Actually doesn't have any way of opening the hatches. Unfortunately
Vops starts to make his way in from passport as well Gomez and yoga together are playing in CCTV and break
Here we go. So now the hatches are gonna get opened by Gomez
But they actually have info on Logan down below. So it's a very different story and Gomez wants to take the fight
Yeah, I think we should start to feel the pressure think how falling apart they need to find a kill somewhere and answer to their problems
But though it is waiting holding angles with the ACOG in hand superior weaponry on this distance Adam falls elsewhere to
Palu who was really starting to wake up in the series
It's not sit a cracks here in the defense for OXG
We start to see Fluxo building this momentum Yogg will trade immediately drop down lopin's waiting for him
He doesn't get the kill not immediately shot gun in hand. No, rather. That's the L85 and he takes him down
Grixel would trade, but he needs a lot more than that in a 1v3
The thorn must do it all
You know wallbang at these damn DMRs, man. It's one pot of health. He needs something in the server. Thanks shot
35 seconds. Bob's and Dodds can't afford to play this wrong. Bob's can go and rejoin the team
But no, he'll ego chill. He'll take that fight
He'll take that one any day of the week and he'll take W7M one step closer to tying the score. He says sit
none
No, any none forest says you bait dude you jumped out of windball and involves as you got baited
That's very stuff. That's boys getting silly with it. Yeah, he's such a
Like it's just such a rage bait. It's so obviously rage bait from forest at this point
Over the bands.
Oh, okay.
Oh, what? And here we go.
I really like the fact that both teams have read into the glass warden band in the warden ying band at the same time.
Yeah, it's so funny.
And the thing is, I was going to say this, when you bend the warden, they can bend the ying, you get the glass.
Or you bend the glass, you get the ying.
That should be the train of thought here to utilize the power operators.
Oh, here we go.
The target in Gomez.
Gomez hasn't said a word still.
He's just sitting there.
Gotta say the one guy in the server who hasn't said a word is top-fragging
He is 14 and 6. He's focused on the task at hand getting OHG AW
He's teammate, however
We're just here to try and tilt the flux so it's the ground
Gomez is Basilian. Yeah. Yes, he is
You know Gomez, he is Lucas the
Yeah, because that was for him AD back in the day. Back in the day, right?
Well, Kino is still there, but he's also a Brazilian.
He's Brazilian when he's losing, but American when he's winning.
I think that's how it goes.
That's like how D plus is elevated, A-Pack when they win.
Exactly.
Ah, my A-Pack goats! Ah, my Brazilian froths!
It's the hate-watching versus love-watching style.
And there are two sides to every siege player.
There are, there are really, really is.
Alright, so lock in time for Oxygen, you've had a lead 5-2, you now slip to 5-4.
One last chance to hit map point without Ofluxo catching up.
I do feel like the Brazilians have started to wake up, all they have.
Obviously, the first couple of rounds in a BO3 is about feeling out your opponent's
playstyle and what's changed from the previous opponent.
When you go from Enterprise into OHT, there should be a couple of differences.
I like this pace of influx so early on. They don't refer anybody's early, always Monty first in the building.
Again, establish that first bit of map control, assess the situation, and go from there.
The big obstacle for this one could be the mirror windows.
They do have the Hibana X Kyros, but certain mirror window positions can be hard to breach with their range destruction
because you can shoot them from crossfires in different areas of the map.
Such a quiet round.
Yeah, I'm just a lot of measuring before making the first incision.
Defense is keen to peek, I mean Gomez is playing security with the DMR, that's the pivotal position.
Yogg's also got long-range capability with the boss G, he's playing security as well.
So it's a lot of investment here from OXG into maintaining control of that position.
Not to mention, you've got your mirrors, you've got your mind magnets to protect you as well.
Well, Yogg's also going to be hard to drone. Never mind, don't even think about it.
Just, oh, he's dead.
Ah, on the pixelify as well. That's why he bring the boss chi.
Dodez is hungry for more though. He's looking to catch up with Gomez.
Yeah, like this in Dots, he's pushing into security to the end.
This is not the defenders, but Gomez is ice cold.
He does not care about the Monty at all, it seems like.
Until now.
Now he's feeling a bit of pressure. Impact actually damages himself,
but if teammate damage fobs will take one down,
Gomez is going to fall as well. Dodez who controls the 90 hallway. Grickza with it all to do 1v5.
A consolation frag but he's got a lot more to do. Nitrocel goes to waste while the Monty is still
at large marching into site. The Deimos will track him. It's just a matter of time before he goes down
and Fluxo W7M tie the scoreboard. This is where I'm going to get a little bit worried about the
Operator bands right the Monty has been so good every round that was brought out by fluxo w7m and yet
They opted to ban the ying and I just feel like well first of all
I mean oh gee time out, but I feel like it's only gonna get harder from here because fluxo has figured out oh geez pace
So what do o xg have to say if we're really lucky and really quiet as a mouse maybe just maybe we'll be able to listen in
I think there is no microphone in that room right now.
Oh, wait, what?
Yeah, we're trying.
So, it's actually...
Oh, here we go, we might get a Hikizi.
Let me get the job done.
That's such a forced thing to say.
The thing is, I feel I love that guy.
Forrest reminds me of my old teammate Junas in this case, because he's what we call the
perfect soldier.
You say, go in and 1v5, and he goes, yes, I will do my best, and he might fail, but
he will do as he is told.
As a classic case of, let me get a job done, I got this one, boys, and then you might troll
the play entirely, fail, whatever, but you generally believe that you can get it done.
And I think that sense of, even if it's false confidence, or if you're just delusional confidence,
I think it goes a long way. In this case it was about the virtual force it let me play the visual
I will get that job done and it's playing that disruption game
We just kind of like running around gadget public don't know where I am shoot a bit run away
Whatever just annoying your opponent a bit pair that with the mossy from Gomez
It can be damn tricky to get your drawings in and get any active relevant information over something
Yeah, so unfortunately we didn't really get much of an inkling on what the plan was but
yeah, second last chance here on defense.
If you look at the lineup, right, it could be a matter of denying the information and
then playing some traps to weaken the attackers but the problem will always connect to this.
There is no single solution for the Monty.
So you can play Vigil, you can play the Nausea or Mute, whatever, Monty will still just walk
in face first and go.
room is clear, there's an enemy here, enemy over there. And that's the problem with the
Monty, it is a soul operator that does a very specific job that no one else can really replace.
Bending the Blitz just means you ban some of the aggression and the entry capabilities,
but you can still enter it with Blackbeard, with Monty, with Fuchsial, with Oza in theory.
So it's nothing really you can do against the Monty walking up to Inverse if you have
a specific PC utility to deal with that. Echo could be pretty good here, but it's just
Hard to justify sitting on your cams on such a small map.
It is.
Maybe just maybe the LR if yoga keeps a few of those Grishmats in pocket might be able to fight.
Maybe the impacts from Forest or Gricks or Gomez's C4 could help, but we'll see.
The way Fluxor used the Monty last round was devastating.
For me, something I'm really watching out for, Pengu, is at the start of this round, who finds the opening kill?
Every single round that Fluxor have been on the attack, they've been the ones opening up.
with a first kill.
Yeah, that's because of this reason right here.
They're playing very slow earlier, very methodical, very precise.
There goes a C4, big piece of useful wasted.
Fast as well, force to fall back straight into his grave.
It's just so textbook, it's just so well played.
Here comes the nitro cell, bricks are baited in, and dots will fall.
Forrest is covering Paolo, who desperately tries to refrag his dead Montaigne,
and with that oxygen have flipped the script,
Lopin will at least bring back the numbers to an even situation.
Info gathering from Lopin as well, there was a ping on forest position and now numbers have flipped again.
Jog and Adam to try and do their best at holding on on the 2 vs 3.
The good news is, no more Dugger because, no more Lion Chargers, no more Monty.
It's just about the gunfighting and they got the Finry and the Illa Obelives.
Great guns, great pre-placed gadgets and yellow pink information, they know they're out on the balcony.
If Adam goes for a swing and finds one player, you're back to even numbers, and it's gonna be much more winnable when it's even.
And Adam has the bulletproof camera that one of his dead teammates is watching inside our archives,
trying to support him and call out when Dodez is going for it.
It's a crossfire, and Adam wins the fights!
Suddenly, Oxygen have a chance at putting themselves on map point.
Fluxo need Vopes and Lobin to step up. Both of them have already broken 10 kills,
And now Lopen approaches the bombsite SMG 12 in hand two flashes in pocket as the first and second go out
It should be a full blind situation, but there's a crossfire. He dominates the first
Adam will stand tall for one and for the double
And he is back in action. My friends Adam has brought oxygen map point once again
It's crazy how it was actually two easier shots that end up winning in the run because mind you
When it was that 2v3, it was the white peek of archive store half across the map
That's the hard shot to hit. That's the one that he opened up that clutch with and then he just stood his ground
Lobin did not think they're gonna be a second player in archive
So therefore he sprinted straight in and met his end flux. So
5-6 call their tech timeout. No, it's come on, man
He's gonna have the vibes here
We're gonna go over here
We're gonna go over there. That's a good idea. That's a good idea.
That's a good idea. Do that one. Yeah, bring it over. Come on, guys.
Evolpes is just like, hmm. He's got two timehands.
I don't know if I'm gonna have to dinner after this.
He's like, hmm.
Hydration, of course, is very important.
There you go. Wow, that's so locked in.
You know Norris himself is... he's been through a lot and I mean in a possible way.
He's been through the rise of the old W7M that is now Fury and through all of that.
Then they pick up a new Ross and he's thinking, ah this is Doom and then they win the major
and then they get this iteration of the Ross and Paolo joints and Norris has been there
through all of it.
And I thought for the longest time Norris was purely a manager because he's such a
vibes guy but the guy is much more involved than what meets the eye and he's crushing
the whole thing.
He's always a big smile happy phase
Norris wasn't with w7m
For the theory of time I'm a trolling. It's my thing of low trolling. He was on last which is which is the same roster as this
I'm trolling. I'm sorry
I'm trolling. I was it's not a man. It's that's right here. He joined w7m in March of 2024
Which is exactly when fury are picked up. It's good. He's back chicken's nose
I actually thought he was with that squad then went to those then came here. I thought that was his journey
I'm sorry. I'm bleeding you wrong
Oh, come on, yeah, I mean, the results, the coaching. Here we go.
So, bear with us. Can you play some elevator music for me?
So, his first S tier event was SI 2023 with Team One Loose.
And then, event, you know, he just basically just followed this team the whole time.
But there's we go, bro.
Well, that's what you thought.
It's not an order of dates, yeah.
I have to sort it by date. So, you can see his first...
No, you're right.
So, he's gone really far back. In 2022, he was with Team One,
which eventually became maybe,
maybe I got my, my wires twisted.
It was actually the one roster was thin enough
and not the W2N roster.
But look that low roster was actually really good.
Let's not forget, you know, they, they were,
he's still been around.
They went to SI 23, got top 12 there.
SI 24, that wasn't so great,
but Atlanta, of course they were the runners up.
They actually lost to the then W7M now Fiora roster.
And yeah, so Norris has been through a lot,
but he's been for different teams.
Well, for this team.
Yeah, through a luxury team.
I think he really gave a lot of respect to him in Rio when we got to see him during all of the
The drawing show, the draw show, yeah, really a lot of respect given to him and to this team as a whole
So a slow start though. The boys had the
The wisdom of Norris and I don't think too much is going to change
We're again expecting them to punish OHC by them swinging first
but I think one big shig up here, Grig's here on the clash.
This is the all answer to shut down players pushing you to hold on to a specific area.
Especially with that Monty that we've seen so much of.
It's not picked this round, but we've seen plenty of it.
Or Lobo's very low on health as well. This could be Occi's round.
Oh! The balls!
Wow, that was quick!
And Dota's finds a second as well!
He's eclipsed 14 kills looking to overtake Gomez.
But Lobo is very low!
Oh my god, Volbs.
He had a chance, but he's worried about the bait.
No!
Surely not.
Palu comes to support.
It's going to be a kill for Volbs.
Gomez shut down.
Grickser now in the clash is all alone.
Forrest tries to support him from deep on the side.
It's all up to Grickser as he makes his way back.
He needs to sneak on through, but Palu closes it.
It's a big round for Palu.
Double kill with the AR33.
This game is going the distance.
Palu's everywhere.
I'm telling you, all these attackers must find themselves in the right place at the right time to save a teammate or save a round.
And it's funny because in the first half, he's nowhere to be seen.
Then he just spawns in and says, I'm gonna be the hero.
Time and time again.
OXG, I was praising the clash, but there was no one even remotely close to the operator.
They were trying to flank from office into E stairs. It was read easily by Fluxo.
Sprit very far apart for a very small map. Those OXG defences and things will not change no TV stay on the same side
I like the idea for oxygen here right clash has got info on this one isolated player of vaults
Let's send two guys after him problem is Palu was there waiting and with human vaults holding that crossfire
Neither of those oxygen players could breathe
VOLPS is now talking mad smack 3 and 12 oh my he says that's a yog once upon a
time yoga was like a young up-and-coming frag in North America
he's now been around the block quite a few times he's been to double check my
numbers here is it six I was gonna say six as well I've got it written somewhere
wait wait wait wait six six six invitations for Yogg now and he's
recently transitioned into an IGL role for this roster and look from what I've
heard from people who know North American scene role they wouldn't
typically imagine Yogg to be an IGL figure and he's struggling in the
fragging department it's a lot of extra pressure as soon as you have that
leadership role it's a it definitely like it's very few people in the world
that they can take the IGL role and not have a 20 30% decrease in
individual performance, because there's so much more you're thinking of beyond just yourself,
but Yogg has had a really rough first game two days ago, and a really rough game so far
here on boarder. But with that being said, Orc sees a team are a bit disjointed and keep
dying solo, peeking windows, jumping out and doing silly things, and it's not going to
make Yogg's job easier, because it means he has less people to control around him to get
the job done.
This is looking perfect here, from Fluxo W7M, you've got the braver in the side to clear
out a lot of utility, you've got the glies as well.
He's got to find the bulletproof camera first, because that's what's just EMP.
Yeah, but now he's got two drones, one of them is going to work, right?
Yeah, there you go, got to hack that.
Okay, nice, get this.
Nice.
There's just no way that this isn't an easy round for Fluxo.
It looks really easy, right?
You got glass smokes, you hack the BP, there's president, in fact there's no plant denial
No Intel this could just be
Oxygen there's one a security one and ninety and to an office
Okay, here we go Adam is the only player in archives right now poised to try and stop the class. He has a beep boop
That's it. Yeah, he doesn't he doesn't have an outro so they're gonna walk over dust in the staircase
You're not tossing this motion a plan probably by the window
And then they're gonna start laughing because it's OT warden band coming into fruition here for fluxo w7 and go does I guess
Distracted elsewhere. I really feel like the Brazilians could just be focusing up on archives right now and yet
They're still distracted deep in other side of the map
It feels like it's just parlu all alone here one man the entire bombsite
Thankfully, we've hit some kills from lobin and dots to make things look a little bit more possible now and yog is trapped on the other
Side of the map lobin is cutting him off dots though patient
He doesn't force the plant down too early and now there's a rotate from down below Grick's it has an impact
But you can still plan safely on the concrete in the bomb site and there's two players ready and waiting to cover
Oxygen have to spring into action now into the retake. Do they know where any of these players are?
Because well a pile is going back outside dots is in archives and lobin inside of fountain
He's been spotted by yog
But with that it's just yog left see Palu outside dots prone on the floor
And it's an easy finish to a long game for fluxo w7m
75 is the scoreline and oxygen. Oh wait
It's seven six seven six wow they had to have
It's hard. Oh, it's that easy, but it's hard dude. I thought that was it
Oh, yeah, I thought I don't know if you noticed, but I actually thought the game was oh, no
I thought you just hyping up the moment for what it was a big moment for
I was like, why aren't we queuing the victory news?
Brother, this has been a chalked map, you know what I just got with that?
It's been a chalk map.
We can do better, okay, oh, she can do better, and the folks can do a little bit better too.
Today, this is on us.
We own this.
I'd like to formally apologize.
But it worked well.
This game has been so weird.
I don't know what it is.
No, it has.
I do agree.
It has been a bit of a rollercoaster, bit of a circus at times, but it is shaping up to get better and better and more and more competitive.
Oh Xg, you know, I feel a little bit of a yawk here because he did everything himself that round and he got himself into the 1v2, you know, post plan, they're fouled, they're building nothing you can really do, but he tries and he tries, but they keep playing 4v5, they keep losing opening member.
Stop throwing in the start of the round, boys.
It's been a long time since we saw oxygen on the attack, but they were pretty good in that first half for two split if you recall
Let's see if they can conjure up a little bit of that magic they had at the start of this game
And we're actually seeing for the first time an OSA out of the oxygen side
side.
Alright, that was a small buff to Osa where you put down the shield a little bit faster.
Not super significant, but it's a nice bit of quality of life change.
You're exposed for less time rather when you do it.
I just feel like we've seen this Osa archive store plan one too many times in the last five
years and I just feel like it shouldn't really have much of a chance of working.
It very well might, but I feel like it's definitely difficult.
There are no impacts.
But the Thatcher helps.
They're all at CC4s.
The Thatcher.
The big question for me is the DMI of Bodez and the TCSG added dots because when we saw Fluxo running the strat on the OSA
It was the Gomes DMR that absolutely farmed him. They popped the first squirre canister
There's the factory where you can catch any C4 midair, but there are two of them
He's going for it right now. That's just peaked it.
Jogger is covering, the first C4 gets taken down, the second one is absent, Jogger is covered with the LMG
leaving Fluxo W7M reeling, nice shot by Lobin, he's going to have to have a miraculous position though
HOOOO! One other one for Lobin!
He gives the nade?
To dodge the nade, pressure from down below, it's being covered by Gomez vertically and Jog another nade will confirm that kill into the 2v2
It's Dodas and Palu who have both been so phenomenal today.
One must cover and one must get on that case right now.
Palu, the father, tries to step up, but he has no idea that he's being shot from the balcony.
Yoga can sprint in, see them both and claim their lives.
Waco in the distance, Pengu 15 rounds of oxygen and fluxo here on boarder.
Phenomenal post plant, having a player below on the tight angle covering the long arm, having the player outside on the balcony covering the close arm as well.
They nullifying each other perfectly saying there is no safe way to go for a counter defuse in the post plant.
And I gotta say, there was some great shots hit that round, but it's all for nothing because post plant is superior to almost everything in this game.
And the very simplistic Osa plant with that should rework it worked so well
But it looked kind of funny seeing fluxor just walking with two people just getting
Said nothing they could do because they have no plant denial
Just to see force and it's a bit unreliable these days. I take it back. It's the Osa that you're
I said that she was good
I mean look if there were impacts maybe a different story
There are a lot of countermeasures and the reason why I'm not offended at a tag is because you don't know if they have impacts
Also, another way that that could have been counted is just anyone playing below, like
you don't even need any Util, you just need to be below that soft floor.
Which the funny thing here is that Fluxo, they actually had a player themselves, the
buck, downstairs and dated the attack, but then they were completely oblivious to it
when they were defending.
But again, it's been a long game, 7-7, you're bound to forget to miss some of these things
in small minor details.
He's almost again still, haven't said a word in a chat, he's 18 and 10.
He has not slowed down, he's still getting a bunch of kills all the freaking time.
He's bound for a 20 bomb, teams.
Two more to go, last round.
It's possible, Gomez has been so good.
He's really making up for the fact that some of his teammates have struggled a lot of opening deaths for oxygen.
They're rushing, they're rushing!
It's a rush, they're straight into the building.
Vulpz, with the backpip, and he gets Nikeshore down in this world!
The battle continues! Fluxo!
They need to reposition, they need to get back in the building, the two of them are outside.
Dodas in offices with that diffuser, cold on the ground and tellers.
Griggs may be low on HP, but look at this, two C4s still available for OXG.
They've weathered the storm of this early rush, and they're set up very nicely to continue to talk up the pressure here.
But not if LoB keeps landing shots like that.
Adam is down, out of the game, and Fluxo have a chance to recompose.
Gerks are one point of health, and one C4 is so important to stay alive to have that piece of uterine pocket.
But mind you, there are two full minutes left.
The awkward part is that already when you go for a side rush and you have people staying outside the building,
you're going to have a hard reset in this round.
The thing is, Fluxo can now start heart destroying, do some DMR, soft destruction vertically,
get their flank drone set up, and that's actually pretty smart from Palu.
Instead of having a player on the bombsite window, there's a drone in the window frame,
it's visually cutting the bombsite in the half to know if anybody crosses left to right or vice versa,
and it's smart because it means they're going to keep three people in the building,
looking to pick it apart, rather than having a guy AFK vulnerable on that window who could get
swung and die, and that would even the numbers down. But they're still, again, over a full minute
to go and flux all these guys as much as they can.
It's a waiting game for Oxygen, isn't it?
For all the smack that he has talked in this game, he needs to stand up now.
He needs to have a big impact.
He's just around the corner from Loeb and he's looking for his 19th kill of the game.
Good read.
Forrest been spotted by Palu from way downtown.
Griggs has got to do it all himself.
I think they know he's somewhere in there.
Does Loeb inject the corner?
Doesn't and it's a freebie for Grick sir. How does he do all this still a C4 in pocket?
He could always go upstairs use the cardiac sensor. He could double back
He's got the UMP it packs a punch as Dota's for looks the troll find the plan
She's he's gonna stick it. Come on the nitro cell is available
An oxygen take a deep breath and get the job done
Look so W7m gave him a run for their money, but the North Americans are here to make his statements
One health and a dream, one C4 on the board for the entire team.
And that is all OXG and Grig Sir had, it's all they needed and it's what they used to get the job done.
A surprising first map, a turbulent first map, but OXG, it was a hard-fought victory.
And a well-deserved one at that, the Bulls have a lot of questions to answer.
They looked in control the whole way through it felt like it was going to be a fluxo w 7m map and yet at the final hurdle a big
1v3 clutch from gritsa to finally get border
Done next up though, of course, it's not done with got bang after we even go to the third map
But oxygen after struggling yesterday against secret. This is exactly what they needed a win under their belts
19 Gomez, 18 Lobin, almost as bad length to get it there.
Hyra's in costume, no matter the value of every single round, but James, we need a small break before we return with map number 2.
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Could pump that all day long it is a good song such a good song man. I'm so excited to see off and back in person
That's what I heard. I heard the room. Oh really? I heard that room. I don't know. I heard a room.
I'm down for that. We've got to get to the main stage before that happens. We've got to get to the main stage.
We've got to get through groups. We've got to get through Fluxo W7M and Oxygen. What a first map.
8-7, bang it! And man, Gomez, he really stepped up that game. Look, Loben also was really impressive.
142 PS, but if we just focus up on Gomez for a hot-minute 19 kills
He almost broke that 21 he did and the thing about though is that it felt like a times
Especially the first half who's the only person fighting back for OHC
I please help this man and then eventually other people started really showing up York big shot as well the final three rounds
You get into the battle every single time and got himself a couple of kills
But on the other side of Flux of the WCNM, they were all fighting back all the time.
It was a rough matchup.
And if you watched it, it was an 8-7 banger going at this things.
Gomez again popping off round one, two, three, always going for those montage clips.
Yeah, that was great.
And look, there's a route, this gets shot by the way.
They can just plant from the ground possibly.
But look, yep!
So close.
Didn't quite have the reaction time there.
There's Gomez getting ready for Bank which is next up for OXG. It's their map pick and we're about to get into it.
Oxygen and Fluxo. We haven't seen Fluxo play Bank as of yet, but yesterday against Secret, Oxygen really struggled.
They lost 7-3 and yet they have enough confidence that they're happy to pick it again today.
Surprisingly enough, yeah, and if you don't think about Brazil, they are quite formidable at bank.
If you look at teams like FaZe, NIP, Furia, they all played at a very high level.
That doesn't necessarily mean that Fluxo will as well, but they scrimmed those exact teams all the goddamn time, probably also on banks, so...
In a good shot here, they need a fit map.
And it looks like Oxygen have still won the hearts of minds of you back home. It's time to get into it!
Fluxo, look to fight back!
Gear on, Bank!
And into the map we shall go. I love the art direction. I love all the visuals we have
for this one. And it takes me back to Boston whenever I see it right here because we've
had such clear art directions and styles. I love that. Yeah. I love that the six
inventational's now really do each individually have their own kind of
graphical direction. For me, it makes it more memorable in the sense that when I
think back, I'm like, oh yeah, that was Boston. Yeah. This is ASI in Paris 26 and
it's not just another major event. I'll tell you what this art style actually
reminds me a bit of. It's Berlin. Do you remember Berlin's graphics design? It was
kind of grungy. I actually don't. You don't? I actually don't. Berlin up until this point,
Berlin had the best graphic design of any event in my opinion over Boston as well
You said this event I think I think so I preferred I preferred
That graphic what I recall from Berlin major was it was very hot is very summer in Berlin in the theater
No, AC and I brought layers James. I brought layers to my outfit. That was an event
I so I was so warm. I just closed my eyes and took a nap in the hallway
Next to our green room. I stepped for a couple hours or it was a it was a lovely time
It was a lovely time W7M the original W7M actually played at that event
They made semi-finals all the way back. I could not tell you if oxygen played
I was a long time ago, and I generally don't remember if they did they probably didn't go very deep. I
Don't recall either actually
But whenever I think about HD, I do also think of Fox and laxing, you know
that you know came into that organization and kind of filled the first
I was abroad in York as well at some point and whatnot and New Yorkers had a
state you know she as well this year with SSG now so I feel like OISG just
has a lot of history nowadays. They really do and it's like I was saying at the top
of the show you know Oxygen you forget about them because they tend to be
mid-pack in North America their best result in the last three years was
fourth place in NA but when they come to Invitational's when they come to
majors in international events, they look a lot better. They were top eight last six
in the national and three is going Montreal, they were top three. How deep can they go
this time? Well if they keep up the performance of Bank then maybe they can
look pretty solid.
It's a bit awkward on the staircase but look at this, Volpe's there for a back step.
It should be a freebie. Oh there you go. Nice shot there from Volpe's, they knew
exactly where Jogger was. Dodas caught him and held him in blue at the start of
around there must have been some info to know that Yogg was still at the bottom of the stairs to
enable that rush but taking on the smoke in the first minute of the round Nick that is pretty
devastating to XG. It buys you a lot of spare time that's what they're mature and it sets it up really
well for this first round. Like on paper you've already won the most difficult task that is getting
server control but planting is still going to be tricky against the shunga hitting hatches difficult
Well done from Lobin there. He managed to track Gomez while he was distracted. I believe chasing a drone?
It caught that Roma very early on. This is a massive advantage. It's only being furthered now by Palu taking down Adam.
The Roma has been completely dismantled. The blue stairs player killed first. It's just Gricksa and Forrest.
And pretty much no hope with a minute and 20 seconds that they can hold on.
That's partially open, now it's fully popped, but you see a blabbering thing to yourself, nope.
Let's go, I'll see you later, Alligator, Grixxer, 1v5,
Fluxo W7, I'm a fired up after the first map and they look to finish it quickly.
It's a flawless start to bank.
It's just one of those rounds where one small thing goes the wrong way and all the dominoes
start to fall shortly after, losing server control, losing smote, and perfect entry from
demos with a second onto Gomez and from there he's kind of lashing out in an act of desperation
hoping for a free kill somewhere but he's not giving, not surrendered over by Fluxo W7M
and they're attacking on bank a much preferred side by most teams here because most people say
you know what defend you understand it's kind of impossible sometimes. It can be challenging
especially as the medics have evolved like a lot of the big power-opsic lads, ying, blitz, monzi,
They really just find their form on this map of bank.
I could say the same for a lot of different in-power operators.
Echo getting a third drone.
That is pretty good on bank, actually, yeah.
But how many teams have brought Echo to the team in this event so far?
It's not that many.
No, it's in occasionally, but it's just the current meta, right?
Like, if you want to play Echo, you have to have somewhere safe to sit on cams.
And...
Okay, here we go.
Ready for this?
Okay.
Potential buff idea for Echo.
He can use the drones after he's dead.
He's the only operator that can do that. Like he can actually move them.
Like because an aircrew needs a huge buff.
Maybe take one of the drones away and let's do it.
Okay, I'll take your idea and I'll balance it a little bit for you.
It has a battery, which means he has limited action use of it actively, but can't do it.
That's actually what Rainbow Six Mobile, which is coming out very soon.
Drones have a battery.
They have a battery after death.
Yeah.
So they took the peace implementation that we had many years ago where you can just infinitely use them
I said that's kind of strong. Let's give you the after death feature with a battery timer. I like it
And then it's kind of balanced. It's kind of like dual front dual front has dried off the death, but it's on battery
He also a better. Yeah. Oh, at least it was lost. I mean, it might still be
I don't die that often. It's the last time I played it was a while
Very fair
but uh
Just look in here. Kylie versus Klai is pretty good matchup. Yeah
Surprisingly enough, Bandit does make an appearance to trick those walls by the top elevator, which is very smart.
But there's also a kind of smith, you can use the kind of lens to store two-band batteries and use none left in pocket,
so one kind of lens can open up that bridge entirely.
Kind of use elsewhere, outside the steel windows, right below Dot's feet right here.
One thing I'm worried about here, if it looks so, is the Azami from Gomez.
I wanna see Kali really help out and start taking those out.
please here we go now how many shots does it take from carly's sniper rifle
to actually destroy a keeper barrier that's what i'm not sure about i'm gonna save two or three
oh you almost got him that was good the combo the car is perfect cover one covering him just
keep on forcing him back and dots will manage to get an exothermic down because of it it'll blow
We have a gaping hole on site.
Plant potential here is a little bit limited as there's no shield to block the bullet angles rather.
And Adam finds a long range shot onto dots from top square all the way from the quad window room.
Oh wow, the clash shield is using the clash shield for the defense!
He is still going to be affected by the clash now as he falls on back.
for a domination of stock room from Dodez, lends itself to a crossfire, and Talu's found
Yoga's head with that sniper rifle.
Oxygen is struggling to find safe places to play, and Grixxer is all out of smoke grenades
now.
Round the corner from Volbs, I think Grixxer's gonna have to make a play.
I think he has to get aggressive outside of stock.
Bams injured, one side by the Kali, now confirmed, and Bangers all the way down stairs, Deimos
tracked as well as they know who's side is super vulnerable.
I mean, Griggs has got to get Agra here, Forrest has to win his fight as well, he's fighting Lopen, he does win it, Griggs will find one before he's shot down, 3k for the Kali, and Palu is landing every single shot.
I mean, again, this story for Palu, this entire games of fights, he is the ultimate player support character, he's always there covering somebody's crosses, or their rotations, or somebody's in trouble, Palu will deal with them.
But there's push about here the abandoned the clash shield due to the grim bees and then the attackers retake it and use it against them
Come on now
Very strong on the attacking side
Palu is looking as locked in as ever. I got to say it is so nice to see Palu
Having a reprisal post liquid because I think when sometimes when you see players so iconically linked to one team and
And then they eventually set decided it's time to leave that team sometimes
Often times that ends up being the end of the start of the end of the career
I mean even in hindsight now right next announced his retirement a few days last week's ago
So Ness follow the duo that was looking for that hammer for the longest time found it
Paulo then went to a different team not not getting to new heights, but getting to heights and doing good, right?
Yeah, Ness gets then of course retired
And kind of said you know what I had my go at it retired with no hammer
Yeah, and there was a story that we were all waiting for and we're all thinking the second he gets the hammer
We'll stop seeing him as an active pro player because it makes sense
He got what he thought so hard for and seeing this retire before getting there in the end. It does hurt
I think you're actually joining us here in Paris. Nice. He's here already already
I haven't seen him, but I've heard that that other people I had someone else talking about
I don't know. Okay, so it's gonna join the Raza streamball passers- Exactly, I was gonna say the Raza crew, you know, Kamakaze, all of these Brazilian goats sang out together.
That's nice.
Still having him around, and if you're a lucky fan, you can still get to see him and meet him as well.
Maybe, uh, please go say hi for- You might not show up in the future, you never know.
Get your photos, guys. Get your seat in, tourists.
I've looked at W7M, have gotten to work on this next attack, they've already started strong
here on Bank 2 in a row and it's time to tackle a third different bombsite, Oxygen take
us to Starframe open area, a lot of different ways you can play this to me, I'm just surprised
that we're not seeing the Azami, we've played it on the top floor, it's a great op, without
the Azami, without the class, it's very hard to find safe places to play on this bombsite.
Oh, this.
And again, I'm a big fan of thoughts here.
You saw this in Monty and Border, Blackbird on Bank.
He plays such a nice pace.
He's always just sitting around,
not feeling too eager to do anything all the time.
The reason why I like it is there's less risk involved.
You need that by being fully plant later on.
It's the only way to get that diffuser safely down the hatch to the bomb site.
It's awkward when you're finding a close barricade,
when you barricaded that yourself earlier on.
But that's what Yogg is doing.
doing is in the basement and this is a great thing about the open area bombsite. You can
start top floor fall back go to basement and just kind of creep up any of those two staircases.
Not still instead of going for the hatch it's going into Taylor's archives perhaps for a rotate
instead or to work this quite wall which is currently fully electrified. Oh and I've got
the raid on Yoggles coming out from blue stairs as well. Got the bees though. Oh he's actually
to sprint through them that is a play in a half and he gets targeted by the daymask as well it's
It's gonna be an entry before us. He's holding off and he gets rid of dots with a C4
That's goodbye to the black bead and daughters as well. And the day most falling means there's no more ability to cover
Yoga who was on that flank the whole time now. They're dealing with a lack of map control
Lobin comes in from the other side spots out Grigsibor loses the fight
Foxo W7m are falling apart oxygen running rings around them shot through the smoke impressive from volts
And with two players low on the Oxygen side, maybe there's a way to get the job done, but
with Palu falling without dealing the damage, it's an impossible task.
Four of bulbs and Gomez taking him down, gets a first round of the board for OXG.
SMG12, by the way, crossed the entire bombsite, disgusting long range angles to shut down
any inter-passibilities, but I think the big moment there was Yogg and Forrest playing
that play together.
That's the thing they are missing on BW, that would be a solo play from Yogg or solo pick
from Forest, it's going to be Yogg sprinting into Grim B-Sing, look at me, look at me,
and then Forest swings the bombs at double door with 3 separate attackers you're looking
at.
He goes wide, gets one with the gun, C4 Blackbeard for the second, meanwhile there's a flank
from Atom into Archive's Tailors as well.
That is a team play.
And that's what we didn't see much of on BW in the first half, they are finally coming
to life here on Bank.
It kind of answered my question at the start of the round, I was saying, what are these operator picks?
Like, where are the anchors that are really going to create an architect, a solid place on the site?
Well, it doesn't matter because the game plan was always going to be playing loose.
It was about retakes, it was playing in active defense.
The players on site are going to be peeking out onto the attackers while the flankers are going for their flank.
Like you said, it was picture perfect teamwork.
Meanwhile, this round is the opposite.
It's Heady, Planned, Denial, they finally get out that echo and the Tashan Gang,
And then, this is the big thing that I like, they got the orcs.
And he's hiding in the basement.
The reason for this, when the attackers open up one of the lobby hatches,
they can sit in one Yoko drone, jump up and check the area.
If it's clear, orcs can follow shortly after, and now you have a crazy flank.
Because the only way to flank this bomb site is up main stairs, or up server stairs,
which is always contested.
The only operator in the game that has another avenue is orcs going up a hatch, and it's so rare to see.
Yeah, and Gomez, I mean, he hasn't even put down his bar bar, he's gonna do it later.
He has been hiding the entire time, he cannot be spotted.
I mean, the thing is, he has to not be spotted until he goes for his flank.
He has to be AFK on cams.
He can't go for a roam now, he can't go shoot drones and fall back.
He has to literally, like you said, just sit on cams, on site until the end of the round.
It could be genius, it's a huge risk, but I think it might just be the perfect play for OXG.
No, it's good.
This is what we call old school style seats in my book where he's still in Goldfall.
He's not gonna move from that spot.
But literally he will hide the entire round and they open the lobby hatch immediately,
bait taken, buy fluxo, W7M.
So OXD, the only thing they have to do now is not take any risk at all, no one's gonna
peek a damn thing.
They're gonna get foxos super comfortable and just try and drone the lobby area with
the Echo Dome and then go for a flank play.
That's not gonna happen until maybe 60 plus seconds in the future.
So the big thing here is, Yogg cannot die early in server, he falls back, way too early
for a normal round, but right on schedule for this strategy. Also, Fuse played in case
it wasn't played earlier nowadays. It's in case of Goryeul, he can pop all the canvases.
Same guy on the other game, NBIT, when it's 7-6 by the way.
I thought Norris was too furious.
Look, there's him. The big thing here is that...
Here's the drone. Oxygen has to make sure...
Here's the flank. The flank before the yokai.
This is very, very early. They even knew about it.
From top floor. I think he heard it.
At least he's found the kill, but yet now, the jig is up.
Oxygen know that there is an RX at large,
and they're gonna try and hunt him.
The thing is, right?
I don't think that actually that could have a play
because, as you said, the jig is up.
Now they know that's gonna happen,
they can even join it for the dead guy.
Ideally, you know, the Orcs would create all the chaos
and confusion, maybe in 20 seconds,
when they start pushing the bomb site.
Now, you're just playing 4v5, which isn't ideal,
It's still super playable that kill also has so much more value the later in the round exactly the chaos effect
Usually you think you want to kill as early as possible, but no
It's actually better later in the round in this case
He could try again when you start going for that plant attempt you can't do much inside anyway
Let's go for elevator hatch if you go to elevator hatch
He's only gonna be just around the corner from going all the way to the top floor
Yes, it hasn't been targeted he hasn't been scanned by the attack
Which means that Deimos can't target in the dose is still very worried about our it's going through potential flank the plan
We're going down to C4 from Yogg and you're right.
Lobin missed his chance with a Thatcher.
Now he's locked out of the site by the fire.
It's desperate times now.
The go there is dropping into the site.
Lobin as well, but both of them will fall eventually.
Vops, he's lost.
And Lobin, who's locked out of the site this whole time,
he didn't save his teammate using the Thatcher.
Now find themselves in a 1v3.
What does he do?
But just wait for the round to end.
Oxygen.
Perfect defense to the basement. Oh boy. It's messy. It's scriby
But again OXG old-school style siege a very simple win condition with enough stalling on the bomb side to make the play work
Yes, Oryx find early, but he got the job done
He got the kill he got bit of chaos and just held on to the back portion of the bomb side being a flank watcher
Essentially allowing echo and to shun get to work the side to plant denial
lowbound thatcher, just a second too late with the EMP actually swapping off the
gadget I think to his primary weapon going for a different kind of approach
as the same second his planter gets C forward. Unlucky as we say. But this is
the thing about OXC is that I was a little bit afraid watching their border
thinking I don't feel enough depth to them but then again you have to also
also in hindsight I'll go, but that's border. The nature of border is that it's going to
be a bit more scrappy, a bit more messy with it, that's okay. But I haven't seen OSG play
all that much recently, so I kind of went into thinking if this is all they have to
offer, they're not going to make it very far. And as you've been saying, they tend to make
it pretty far when they go to international tournaments.
I think it's a valid thing about just the Namiya point that I haven't seen OSG play
a lot recently, right? Like historically they haven't been in a lot of matches, right?
they didn't make Munich Major,
I'll put it in my head, they didn't make NAL finals,
let me just double check that.
Oh!
Oh, sorry, they played the LCQ, that's the thing.
They actually did play NAL finals.
They did play NAL finals, actually,
sorry, got top four there.
But then again, Tamsun's here, you'll see them live,
you gotta go watch the VODs, they've got passion.
I guess they did play a lot of games recently,
but not at the top level.
Their last time on the international stage was EWC,
which actually was a really good performance from them,
by the way, top 12.
I mean not really that's actually not pretty good of a 16 team 20 maybe not amazing
I was gonna say it's not actually that good
Now he's glazing
Look, si25 they were great top at top at si that's pretty good
It was impressive I was just a bit lost to unwanted actually Adam beat them
Hey you can't beat him join him yeah
No if you can't beat him pick him up recruit him
Exactly make the enemy weaker and yourself stronger
So what are we scanning here that's the funny thing we doesn't know exactly what he's looking
It's just a blob on the on the scanner until you know the operators utility they could kind of show up once you
Scat like once you deactivate a EMP. It doesn't tell you what it is. Yes, it does. Yeah, so you'll know afterwards
I was like is it a camera?
In this case like the only things it could possibly be is a yokai drone on a runigate
Or a person on their cat
I don't actually have camera show up. I don't actually know it should
I was looking for that.
It's a rat pig.
It's a geeky rat.
This is a...
You're surrendering it?
There's so many.
How much is this gonna work?
What do you reckon?
This is gonna work 100% of the time, if he jumps in.
100% of the time.
But he might not jump.
Oh!
It worked anyway!
It worked anyway!
He didn't even jump in!
It doesn't even matter.
I like how he just goes back there.
He's like, yeah, I'm just going back into my spot.
Don't ever say, mates, get out of here.
I was never here.
That was a little bit silly.
But worth it, right?
Blimey, this is dead.
You're going with passive utile.
This is so worth it.
Yeah, no, that's very much worth it for Yogg over the content. That's an IGL play right?
That is that guys my eye will create a second. Oh my god. I GL Logan says, you know what heck it
I'm getting in there. I mean, look at the quality. There is plenty is a okay
I'm trying I mean lobin. I think this is time to hit the call first
Yeah, if they're gonna be called and then planted they go can stop them, but now they're in general
So now it's awkward. No. Oh
Is that the second run as well very nice getting hard counted Gomez though on the retake here
He might not make it possible, down below, he has to fake it, but Lopen is at least
baiting out a lot of movement.
What's happening?
Out of the OXG guys, and that's going to enable Volbs to get active, but not active enough
to take down Grickser.
Here comes a big play from Lopen though, he's taking him down, he's after the fire,
and now Grickser has to do it all.
No more Yokais to speak of, 1v2, Paolu to cover, and he's looking so hot with it as
well.
Acoge in hand, sees him, takes him down, Fuxo W7M, another big round of attack.
Oh, Lobin, Lobin, Lobin, man. He's like, I can just, I can sneak in, I can hold if they're never gonna see coming. Trust me.
There are two Yo-Kai Choans ready for him.
How did he get away with his life, man?
And get, and gets to kill too.
It was, it was, Brad had barely started.
Oh, whatever. Time to answer some questions for Oxygen in this tactical timeout.
Can't hear much, though.
It was so fun.
I had to double check this because I haven't seen much of
So used to be redeemer was their coach now redeemer's moved to a general management position and Kizzy has picked up the coaching role in gang I
Heard our coach tell us mentioned there is a world where they cook up the fourth bombs that which never
Dude, we've already seen that so many times like oxygen did it customs, right? They play customs
Yeah, what was our first game today where we saw the fourth bombsite played the wild card
It was what they did they did it on all three different maps, right? They did it on border border clubhouse sub-house and fortress
Yeah, they did. Yep. There it is. We're going for for on our fourth map
map out of four different maps. That is beautiful. That is basically portic.
Alright, I've done some research here. So, you know, we often talk about the primary
site, the secondary site, the tertiary site. Those are called ordinal numerals.
Sure. So what is the fourth one? It's the quaternal.
Quaternal. So the quaternal sites. That's awkward.
So we're going right now to the Quaternary site for Oxydrupe.
That doesn't make you sound smart saying that.
It just seems difficult.
Quaternary?
It looks like there's an alternate spelling word.
Quarteries.
Quarteries.
Which sounds so bad, but it's easier.
Quaternary sounds so much swankier.
Swankier is the word, yeah.
Swankier is the word.
Yeah, it's a word.
It's a word.
I agree with you.
I just wish we had more bomb sites
because I want to get to the Quaternary site.
Okay.
Y'all are saying you're all a song, InfoAndies.
Is that how he said it?
I'm not sure that's a bad thing though.
Like, who doesn't like Info?
Literally a compliment.
Too much sound.
You all need InfoAndies.
Yo, some InfoAndies.
Dude, that's literally Rainbow Six Siege.
You don't want Info?
Go play a Super Shooter.
How about stop playing Valkyrie and Mozzie
if you want to talk about Info?
Is it you guys?
Like, you're playing Ekko?
You guys are playing Ekko.
Come on, come off of it.
Oh, no, but do you reckon he had him?
Do you reckon he had info for that kill?
Cause it doesn't count if he has info right?
I don't sure it didn't.
Cause he got caught. I don't think Adam's got any idea what's going on man.
It's 1-6.
That is just rude.
The issue with this bombsite is that
you kind of defend it like it's CEO by holding top floor
except you can't afford to buy top floor
because it's not the bombsite.
So it's a weaker CEO kind of
and you can't just play it vertically
like a lot of other bombsites because
top floor isn't strong enough to hold.
Hell yeah, you're just gonna die if you try and hold it vertically
Well, you also can hold it purely on the side because every single area of both bombsite is soft destroyable
Virtually by the Rams right the meta typically in the good old days when this was played was to play open area and elevate a whole
Way and around the bombsite around the bombsite you vacate the bombsite once they take top floor
And then you look to retake all Gomez though big nitro cell pre-placed on the dots that finds his kill
And he's now looking for a little bit more wants to get active and make his way up the stairs
Dodes, I thought Dodes was going to be cool with his pants down with that IQ scanner out, but no Volx was there ready to receive
That's kind of a solo play that I didn't want to see that I spoke of earlier if two people find together
He'd time it or he'd do later in the round maybe it works
But many of them ten seconds walking straight up a staircase after hitting a C4
They know those Valkyries then because it's Valkyrie who C4 with them, right? It's a first thought, okay
C4 B, C4 B, there's gotta be a Valkyrie somewhere. That's obvious. They see Lobby, they see ATM
So both I think remaining Valkyries are the same portion off the map and Doris has the IQ
That means OXG they're mostly flying blind for the rest of this round
But timer is on the O2 side 30 seconds to go
Well, they still have Lobby Cam up because Adam's on it right now
But Gomez is actually just watching his teammate
So I think that telegraphs to us that Opsdyn don't have a lot of info to have
Oh, no they have tons of info. It's just that Gomez is coming. In the wrong area to be there. It's a Lobby all day
It's mostly Lobby and Elevator all day, but it's not in the bomb site inside of our cars
where Volpz is going for his plant right now, Mozzie just around the corner, it's Boris.
He tries to go for his nitro cell, but instead he does land the shot,
and that means that Fluxo need to find someone else to get that diffuser down.
They're gonna try and go for kills. Y'all get back into it.
Where is the diffuser? Doesn't matter!
Fluxo go for kills, and one by one, 0x2 will fall.
He vaulted over, means this really went for a ball bang, and some of the kills the final player with
player with 3 seconds left on the dots. Pure chaos. A little bit of panic there from Fluxo W7M
but they get the round victory to get a 4-2 half to stop things off hot here in bank.
Oh Xsteem, they gotta get some really good attacks on the board now. Come side swap.
Nobody went to pick up the diffuser. No, I mean they sort of tried but they kept getting fought back.
Scared the hell out of me. I mean this is Volx right here. He was right here. He's the one
that died with the diffuser. He's had a cross with it.
Yep. They just had to go for kills, but that's something that Fluxo, W7M are very happy to do.
They love Fragment, they love the chaos. And they probably love that they've just finished that
4-2 as well. I think they're very happy with that for sure. I mind you, there are only one round
of winning earlier as well. Yeah, I was going to say, see, one round of winning. This is the thing,
on boarder because top right is a 780XG which in my brain means they lost but that's because
left hand side is fluxo on the top banners so my brain is like new graphic because it's
all graphic and mix them together like wait I know you're right yeah well it's true in fluxo
because oh actually you won the map so so there were one round of winning boarder and then a four
to half on bank things could be so different with one round difference in fact fluxo actually had
three match point opportunities on the first map all of which they blundered
or oh sorry they only had two they only had two i read that run both teams had two yeah because
all the time well no because well because oxt had six five and then w7 and push day two
and w7 won the first round and then oxt pushed to round 15 so both teams had two match point
opportunities and obviously oxygen one the final one this time around oxt i mean look to their
credit attack on bank that's what you want to be and getting two point defense is not bad at all
and i mean to be fair one or two of this rounds easily could have been in the other direction
that's your attack very clutch and fluxo in the previous round very clutch as well so it could
really be anyone's game still now i'm running as a round when doesn't matter if it's a no one's gonna
remember this year round go oh but actually they were so close technically it's like no it was a
2-0 win, shut up.
And, uh, what do we say, Floxor confirmed playoffs assuming they come out of this with a positive 3-round difference or something?
That is, Floxor getting more than a third round means they're guaranteed pounds, right?
That's a third round, you mean a plus 3-round difference.
That's in the series, right?
I thought it was just literally getting 3 rounds right then and right here, which means they've gotten a 4.
That was my- I can double check?
You can double check.
I thought it would be plus three round difference because it'll come down to tiebreakers of like you know foxes worst possible result from here on out
Even if they do that
There's some numbers. This is why we have numbers. We have numbers people
You have a numbers guy his name is super bunny and here's the numbers go
He sits there on his computer running stats
So I'm going to look at what Oxygen are cooking right now, because Adam's actually snuck inside.
I'm usually going to see Adam, the one on the Daymos on the lurk, and he has struggled to find his way onto the scoreboard in this game.
Looks at W7M down. Oh, sorry, upstairs on the top floor.
And the plan seems to be something on the back of the Sen's Ying combo.
He's just on that rappel, I really wanted to go for a- oh he's already breached open a wall, man we've been so distracted, I've been so behind on the progress of this round, so walls open if you can help.
And we've also had Hibana breach the Janna wall, so Oxygen are really isolating a lot of these positions, I like it.
Now they can sense off half the bomb site, a walk in breach, a rappel in the window, a gulf for a planet because they can't play in Janna doors, but they're playing dodas in the hallway instead, they have to go for a white swing to contest the angle.
angle. So, OXC in a good spot, but look at this. Lobin creeps up middle, so this can change everything.
Adam has found dots down below, though. That was the C4 that Fluxo had in their back pocket.
He's been careful. He's made sure that Lobin won't be able to survive sneaking inside of the bomb site.
Fluxo looked to get desperate now. Look at Dota's, the way he's peeking top square. Very, very risky.
But there's only two players on OXC who are even in the building. They're just biting their time,
waiting for the opportunity to go for this execute. Meanwhile, while we have the main push with the
sends going down for the plant, Forrest has snuck his way up from Lobby's stairs and now is it going
to get active, affected though. Oh my god. By the Denari's laser, he wants to try and have an impact.
He just needs to make some noise on this side of the map while the rest of the plant goes down
from the... This is far too late from Volp's as the plant will be confirmed. A night impossible
retake now for Fluxo W7M as Oxygen can just wait on their windows and hold this in the post.
Palo's in lobby though, looking for those rappel angles of time correctly and get a kill.
I'm going to try and get a defuse going. Adam's covered off one though, he was not
in sight. Good shot from Palo. Gricks are going down. He was the player on the windows.
Now York and Adam have to do this from really awkward positions. Adam baited into moving up
And Volpz has just found one! This is so winnable! They know exactly where Adam is! He just needs to deny it!
It's up to Paolo to clutch, but he is so far away! Oxygen have done it! Adam's found a big 3K and it doesn't matter about the last one!
There is nothing that Paolo can do!
Beautiful post-planned by both teams once again, but having superior positioning will get you a round W in a post-planned
in the post plan and they played it so smart for OHG.
Instead of having two people on the window rappels,
both vulnerable, two ATMs on lobby peek from Paolo,
one person stayed inside, one stayed out,
giving them two different positions of win condition
instead of a singular one.
It started off really messy, right?
The 5v2 OHG defined two picks,
but Fluxo made a great effort at fighting back,
stalling it and buying it off time.
Also, I got the numbers, I finally found them.
So I was told, quote unquote, if Flaxo win three rounds, they qualify for playoffs.
If Flaxo win 2-0, they are locked for the upper bracket.
That's obviously gone because they actually won the first map, so they're not fighting
for, well they've got the three rounds.
So as far as I know, Flaxo is guaranteed qualified for playoffs.
They cannot get eliminated.
But they get the upper bracket with a 2-0 win.
And the other flip side of that, is that Oxygen still have a chance to get first.
place but they do need to win 2-0 to keep that chance alive. Of course that's because they lost 2-0 to Secret.
Let's be real, I have a feeling that Secret might be taking first place in this grid.
I think Secret is making it top 4. Secret are looking really good right now.
And you have, you know, Falcons didn't have the best start. And Spargera learned
for what happened on A-Stream in case you didn't see it. As far as we know,
Shepalfire Billion either took a map or the series or phase, which means they're vulnerable as well
So if you set up a secret even better if the top three teams were expecting to go really far,
Orange is steamrolling the competition.
But I feel like this is the sign in general, the story is, it's anybody's hammer to raise.
Yeah, it's really looking a lot more open than what we thought coming into it.
We thought it was just gonna be M80 phase and Falcons fighting for that hammer.
Maybe fury if you really want to cope it, but yeah, I mean I was always on the fury train
But I know a lot of people weren't but all of those teams have now suffered a loss at least in a map
None of them are flawless so far the glass getting Agra here
It's yog making his way into open area lobin hasn't actually been cleared out of tellers yet
Dots is
Under a bit of a pump as well. Lobin still managed to find one. Why is bricks are pushing solo the yin?
Oxygen are trying to use a lot of their uter. Well, this is a strange way to play
Dots was actually supporting his roaming teammate and tell us from inside of Elevator and
Such an active aggressive defense. Lobin's on the back of it as well
He takes down Adam with a quick one tap who is left droning the rest of Oxygen
Fluxo are running a muck on Bank and
Oxygen now have to deal with these pesky roamers
So why it could we can be so strong that third yokai drum is you can just pay them so much more high risk and high reward
We're gonna behind it and even if to take down low pins out of janitors. He's done enough damage
He's got five key bears and pocket five for goodness sake
I would love for him to use it so the drone supporting him. He's gonna have info here on to Gomez
Oh, my god kill because of it Gomez was trying to deal with the yokai harassing him
But it's an open to get four finally traded back by Forrest
But it's an impossible task for him now one V4 as the capitol must get to work
Yorg says look take a bow that was well played for Lopen. I don't think Forrest has got anything to say about it
Fluxo W7 and we're about to go up five rounds to three and there's pretty much nothing that Forrest can do about it
Beautiful Rome game.
He even hit Forest in the shoulder on the final one.
There's been a one tap for the ace, the 1v5.
Docs finds the kill instead.
Forest goes down.
One of the easiest rounds of their life.
A one man Rome with one Ekrodrome
literally wins them everything in that one.
The ace was denied, but that was still one of the most impressive clips that we've seen so far.
I mean, that's peak flukesaw right there.
That's the stuff they can do.
So classic.
And it's just all scattered ahead by the yokai.
It's exactly what we've been waiting for.
Hibana's shooting the yokai, looking down,
and gets shot from above.
Like, it's beautiful.
Great play.
So it's a W7M jumping straight on that meta change now
that Ekko's got that buff.
You know, that's the cheat code in my mind.
If you can get a positive dopamine reaction from playing
all bitters like Ekko, because if I'm an Ekko player,
and LoBin finds those 4 kills, in my mind I'm thinking I got those 4 kills, like I get the dopamine
but I feel like a lot of players will feel like they didn't do anything because they watched their teammate do all the action
You're such a support player though, and you actually do get the dopamine hit from enabling your teammate today
100% and I feel like so many people don't get it and that's why I think you have less support players
because it doesn't feel good to play it, but if you are the type of person who can't get that feeling
But I unlocked that dopamine man.
Get out of the air command and say you go here take this kill that's free and just feel good about yourself because you did that
That was not low bin pulling all the strings. He only used the mouse
That's why I love Valkyrie like my favorite thing is to play Valkyrie and then sit on a cam with a pre-play C4
And just wait until I see some more go over it
And then I just pull out to my teammate mango and that means blow that C4. Oh, yeah, it's mango
I'm a mango call that okay
We use the dog or cat. If you have two C4s, we have dog and cat coordinated to specific people.
Until you play with a Spaniard. Because doga is Spanish.
Well, he's Spanish. And he says dog. So the first time we're like, what are you saying?
He says, I spot the C4! And I said, go get doga. There's a G in there, my friend.
He goes, I'm Spanish. So then we made cat for goga.
Nice.
Cat.
Cat.
Good old days.
I like mango though.
You want to use words that you don't often use in conversation in the middle of a round,
so I would never use the word mango usually.
So that's pretty good.
It sucks to be human.
You've got to be eating more mango.
Exotic fruit.
Nice shot there from the volts.
He's been immediately...
You see his player stop moving because he hits the old chat with a bot call out.
dodge there of the thorn trap but it's gonna have to think about going somewhere else even on the
doka be alert there is two dangerous almost damage done but not what he was looking for there for
yug volps is going to run around upstairs it's gonna be a quick swing from dots wow look at the way
that fluxo keep on peeking they just will not stop swinging gricks are low hp as he tries to pick up
the pieces of this tatted round for o x g but i think we might be just on the verge now of map
4 Flux at W7M. You might think this is just stupid aggression. No, no, no, there's a Yoka Droner Loppy.
They're spending the entire time, they're peaking off information, off yellow ping, communication.
Once again, these kills are all Dotsys. You're sitting on double digits by my count now with that Eggmo because he's getting his teammate so many kills.
Two to go. Gregser and Gomez, they'll pop the quad wall open. They'll try and work together.
Again, four enemies, acrobat Yoka Jones, go in fire, thorn traps, it is not going to be an easy way in, in fact, they might not get it at all, they're going to be battling outside the bombsite, Volp's good for four kills, bot, bot, bot, and bot for them.
Have a laugh, take a bow, take a stand, Volp's, oh, he's just loving it right now.
Effingbots.
We type effingbots.
He is having the best time right now, I said sit down and shut up.
Forrest said we don't care.
Volps has really come into himself in this game running around like crazy.
Not only a couple of shots as well.
You are terrible.
This is the most smack talk I've heard between two teams that actually clearly love each other.
This is a bit of a bromance between Volps and Forrest.
It's another reason why I wish the players are positioned opposite of each other because right now they're next to each other the wall between them and
There's other series so that they're mismatched doesn't stop
Leaka fact from he was screaming screaming French insults a baby shot. I love it
Remember we had an incident all the way back when TSM was in Siege
their coach Bagel, he was having some fun
banter with the enemy coach and he's like
he's stuck in a middle finger but it was
while the camera was showing him by chance
yeah it was it did not go well because
one of those like yeah it's too far you
know but he was I'll show you how he did
he was like this like very quickly up or
down like this innocent like childlike
behavior like oh it is kind of naughty
but I'm gonna do anyway but because of
pure timing that he was not aware of he
was on camera so yeah I think they got like a small fun or a small warning or
nothing significant it's one of those like okay dude let's not do that again
let them have fun I say let the kids have their fun yeah now that I'm an old
man I think I can say that the kids I know how old I was at my first
6th imitational 19 20
What are you?
I was SI 20 a 28 wait you would have been 20. I would have been
Sorry you casted them. Let me stop and take this okay math is hard
2018 I
Would have been 20. Yeah, that was so hard because I'm because it's
December the game is in February my person told me something like what how's that correlate with the dates?
Yeah, well, you're you're one year older than me and I was 20 and that's in the fires
No, no between my career from 18 to 25 I was just null I didn't have an age
It was I was existing and then I retired and it was old
That's not work for me
When you're around all these youngsters and living this lifestyle, I feel like you get kind of frozen in time a bit
We're all gamers. We're all gamers. Some more than others, but we're all gamers
Now all gamers didn't qualify, they just made it to the end.
That's funny, Rose got jokes.
That's the Chinese team, that's right, they made it to the grand final, lost the day start.
Oh, yes they did.
So now OXG looked to be cooking again with the Sen's, now this worked pretty well last
time until it, no this actually did work, it did work pretty well last time, it did, yeah
they had their yin coming up from lobby though which they don't have this time around, instead
they brought the lion. Do you like to use the lion though? Mind you the operator
bands, right? The yin and the acus of target bands galore. Very big fan of that.
I was gonna say, let's start banning acu up in the acu every single round.
I imagine you ban the acu and you bring the acu in the future. That could be
kind of good, no? Start target ban in different directions.
Duggy people go sit in the means aggression galore, get off the staircase,
get in that bomb site, try and find a pin. Or go main stairs. I don't think it's
gonna work the clash is there waiting for him for us to have to have the timing of
his life but a gap created lobe and shut down after his heroics last round I'll
have to sit out for this what could be the final round of the map fluxo do they
have the guts to try and peak now or is it better to be restrained to try and
wait for the push it looks like volps has answered that question he picks up
his head and yoga takes him down 3v5 now for fluxo as the flashes come in and
and the plant begins to go down for Adam.
It's time to get on the retake.
Dodez looked to try and take one down.
Grickza is in position.
He's gonna have to take a jump outside.
It's successful, but he's the last one left
and they know exactly where he is.
Oxygen, breathe, new life into this game
with a massive attack onto the top floor.
And it's another round on the board,
closing the distance to W7M.
I mean, usually they have this great coordination
and timing when they want to.
They certainly are capable of it, but half the rounds they're desynced, miscoordinated and the other half they're just really on point.
Flock sold to them, they do the same thing as on board, they call it a very late tag time out in the hopes of closing it out right now, right here.
OHG two more round victories and we're looking at another OT potential and a comeback at that.
I don't know a word of Portuguese but I'm pretty sure they were swearing.
This is no context for that comment at all.
Like, alright dude, if you say so.
Of course, this is still a chance for OXG to talk, because he, having a few choice words
for the team.
Time to get back into the...
Basement.
Again, defense with Smoke and the Chanka and Galeo.
This is going to be a tough nut to crack for OXG.
The only thing about this lineup is that you're heavily investing in the exact same thing.
It's action one basket style vibe.
You can literally bring out just the fuse on the attack and one fuse charge and clear
all the goyos by the bomb side.
Anything that's pre-placed effectively and then the goya doesn't exist.
But that's the beauty of C's.
The counters, the back and forth, Twitch can do a similar thing currently, so their attack
are re-peaking into.
Funny enough, they're sticking to blitz.
This might just be a substitute to the Monty Bean Band away, it can go for a plant attempt
to get the sense involved, the issue that I have, okay?
Normally, when you play a shield operator, you want to plant on a default basement wall
where you're exposed to a garage and a pixel.
The shield will block the bullet, that's when the shield plant is so phenomenally.
But the main issue is, the shanggye is so good at firing off exactly that same spot, so
planting default no longer exists.
And that's what the sense comes into the picture, to plant in an off-default location.
And because Echo is banned, there's going to be very little information on where that spot is going to be.
That's why Echo banned here is so good.
On early info as well, I think it'll be really telling how much Util Adam's able to clear on the Twitch
once he gets his drones into it as well. You're really going to be targeting the Goyo canisters,
But you could also potentially get some of those magnets depends on where lobin's planning on playing
He's actually got three in pocket the moment. Is he looking to late round trying to find a fortified position? Is that the idea?
Will he fortify himself maybe on the wrist side to prevent like a
Flash on a plate here we go. This is Adam
bringing in the twitch drone
These be prioritizing those four Vulcan canisters if he's able to get one of the two brow
Shots as well that does buy a little bit of time for the hard breach game
Yeah, the main prior will be the Goyas
I'm a little worried here because Paolo's playing smoke on server stairs
And I don't think OHC has figured it out yet
They may be spitting a half turtle the thing Loba didn't server Paolo on the server stairs taking certain toys
Gonna take a lot of time unless you full sprint straight into him on the staircase and then just go for
for broke. Now they see the OMA, they have still not seen the smoke. So I feel like time
is going to be a big problem on this one, unless either go for a backside take, which
is possible but arguably more difficult, or if you simply speed things up very shortly.
Jogged is crouch walking in lobby right now off screen, masking the sound of his shield
like this, maybe looking to go absolutely crazy on this hatch. Cause he's masking the
shield somewhere second on his backpacks. It's just so dangerous. It's very high risk
down the main stairs or they're going to give up, so we're going to tie up. What is this play?
Oh, this is so awkward. This is so unusual. Strike down the main stairs. Gomez finds his,
looks for a second, locks the boat down. As it sends Lightwall, covers off the red hallway.
That's good. They've opened up this round. They've cut the side in two, and now they're looking to
hold it in the post. What can Fluxo do on the retake? Paolo's out of position, and Volpz, though
He finds one needs to get really active down through gold. Paulie finds one. Oh my gosh another the Brazilians are bullying them
The bulls are breaking the bank and Grisha cannot do anything about it. Look so W7M has sent us to a third man
It was such a good execute
It was such a good push they get the plant down and good postman
But the only downs that are the attack the postman isn't safe
You got us keep fighting by the bomb site and that well the question that Brazilian coordination was too much for
Actually that final round sadly no comeback with them thankfully for everybody else a third map on the dog
I believe not here in laps. Oh, yes, it is a
3v5 retake to send us the distance as well
massive rounds massive game for
W7m after a grueling border it looks like bank is a little bit more achievable for the Brazilians
Oh man, I am so keen for labs to cap off this series both these teams giving it their all which one will stand tall find out after this
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Basket are you ready?
The Sixth International 2025 begins now.
We need to watch it, Ceci. We need to watch it.
Everybody's on top, dude. Who do they do it?
Everybody always talks about being mentally prepared for a game.
And no one really knows what that looks like,
especially the pressure on our side and the player that eats you up.
Well, well, sorry, I lost my shit at that one.
We were meant to be looking at Loven, because he had such a good game.
He had such a good game.
You guys remember that top floor, pew pew pew, he was a gunner and man, he scrubs up pretty nice as well, 139 EPS 12 kills, 5 deaths and the one that really springs to mind is his solo roam on the top floor, retaking.
You say solo, but let's just talk about the elephant in the room. He was supported by the echo drone, okay, and that's the reason why I got 4 kills single-handedly, single-handedly.
He literally killed the Ibana that was looking at the floor shooting the Okai. It's a complete Phoebe because of the Ekko.
If I had finished my sentence, I was going to say solo roam with the Okai.
Then it's not a solo roam, is it?
It is solo roam.
If you're the only player roaming there.
So Ekko's not a player.
Like if you have someone like on cams calling for you and helping you with your roam, is it still a solo roam? Yes.
It doesn't.
Supported roam.
Yeah, okay, sure.
I agree to disagree with this guy.
Well, you're not wrong. You're not. I'm just messing with you.
You're not wrong, too. I'm just messing with you.
I was messing with you. You weren't messing with me. I was messing with you.
I might agree that it's called the Solar Room, actually.
It's a ported Solar Room! Come on!
It's a ported Solar Room.
Here we go. Let's have a look at some of the replays from that map of Bank.
It ended up being like 7-4 in favor of Flux.
So it was a pretty tough game.
Look right there of them. This is it. That was the moment.
Bang seconds and he hits the shoulder. He does and here he is. He's finally made his way to his chair
And we can talk about him again, but yeah phenomenal rounds from him
He's like the ultimate ego player like he's always been known as him a bulbs. I remember chatting to
W7 and at the time they would the team one Los Rosta back in Atlanta
Two years ago, and they said lobin is our guy. He is our tip of our speed
He is the guy to ego swing everyone. Can't look so w7 and get it done here on night haven laps
Or can OHG
make the comeback possible, get their revenge and actually lock in one final
time. The story so far in this pure three for the Americans have been they have
some rounds where they are showing their true full potential then they have other
rounds where they're kind of missing the basics. Consistency is the one thing I
think right now for them that is kind of holding them back.
Yeah, yeah, look, LXG was so good on boarder and to me a large part of that was just their ability to keep on
Like doesn't matter how many rounds that we had one crazy 4k, 3k play from Fluxo
LXG just didn't accept defeat
With how many retakes we've seen from both teams
A lot of retakes
It's becoming quite a long series, right 15 rounds on the first map, 11 rounds on the second map
Now moving into night Haven labs we could be slated for another long haul game
OXG starting on the attacking side
Which to a lot of people is actually where you want to be on night Haven labs
Which is an attack-assided series so far if I'm honest with you like Hank was
Attack-assided boarder was attack-assided just the maps were playing right there attack or favorite maps in general
I mean if you put in chelé for a base to five now there we got four or four
Fortress funny enough earlier was also a 4-2 attack.
We could have a BO5 of all Attack of Sighted Maps.
Yeah, it's possible, no?
That's sick.
That's the world first, I think, in Siege.
Yeah, I don't think we really ever...
Even in the LMG meta, which is the closest we ever had.
We still haven't had two or three attackers for the past.
Being an SMG level player in the LMG meta was probably the closest thing to creating a game that I was.
Did you retire before LMG meta?
I was talking about ranked, actually.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I was really playing ranked and I died with Fingertown, but you go, thank God I'm retired because how could I hang a newer spot on MMG?
You retired just before the LMG, maybe you retired in the 22nd meta, right?
Yeah, the U2 meta, yeah, U2 sink, I was like my last, yeah, you were my goal, yeah, you used to play Thatcher IQ in the room of cafe to figure out where the most
sort of things are for the EMP, then Chalk in the EMP, toss in the nades and hope for the best.
I don't know if I think about the same thing because you definitely weren't playing Thatcher because you had a hundred percent ban rate.
Well, that's also true. Here's the game.
Well, there's the rare case where he wasn't banned.
It's funny to think of the current banned system where, when you're defending, you've been attackers, and vice versa.
Back in the day, a year and a half ago or whatever, if you banned an operator, you banned them for yourself as well.
That's how it used to be for the longest time.
I do love the new bans.
Yes, we do.
And I love seeing Oxy to get to work with the recently buffed hard breaches.
Speaking of Thatcher, he's made an appearance. We've also got Thermite.
Two of the charges have already been used and it's amazing thing about thermite now
You realistically only need to run therm on a lot of these bombsites. You can get so much work done
If the can open is more like
Just in case I get back up in through my thighs
We get tricked or impacted or whatever, but the job one first step rather in this set is done
Get the breaches cut off the rotations and maybe try and get catwalk control from do it is on the asami
Likewise, as he has spare reinforcement in the Poglar Fox, so they could close it off and go on to...
...be played, two of them are going in, the DM has come to life, Thoris finds one, and he backstabs the clash...
...before being traded back for it as a matter of the damage is being done, and Gomez with the pistol will find the final kill.
It's a 3-2-1 go, and Oxygen flood the site.
Remember what I said, that sometimes, OXT, they are the most synchronized team that we have seen.
other times they are a complete mismatch on the timings that right there is a
prime example of OHG when they're playing the very best but also the
biggest strength of Forrest as a player. When he was an SSD he was often playing
Thermite Ace, some Shields and whatnot, more supportive ish rolls but half the
rounds I'm telling you James, he was in the middle of the bomb side first in, last
out, getting things done. He's then gone to OHG, a lot has changed since and he is
still that crazy player when he has to be. No hesitation, full-sensitive, and it gives
the teammates behind him that same confidence that, guys, it's push time. No one's going
to stand watching for us, make their play, they're going to follow him into battle.
It's all about being sick together, you know. One of my favorite sayings, which really does
pertain to siege, is I'd rather have five guys committing to one bad plan together than
five people having five different amazing plans that they're committing to.
I don't you know I said that first?
I did.
Well, it was Fabian.
Yeah.
Fabian, I mean as far as I know the first time I heard you said,
he's not the exact same thing, he said,
it's better that we have one bad plan together than having no plan at all.
That was like kind of where it came from.
So not Albalanstein, not white, but Fabian Halstin.
There's a stone in there, Halstin.
Halstin.
Staten is a stone.
I love that.
Fun fact.
I seriously committed to that, not that it was a bad plan, I think that was a great plan.
And that's how you get those really dominant rounds, right?
But it is true, everyone plays the game differently, but at the end of the day there's a meta for a reason.
Most effective tactic available, a lot of people refer to it as.
And that is what we also see often from teams right now, you know, you do an overtake, you do a kitchen, do a bit of vert, take the exo stairs.
That's exactly what we're going to see right here.
Type thing.
Type thing.
That's what we're going to see right now.
It's the ram going to get to work on the vert.
Got the monty for the late rounds.
But there's still a lot of roamers active here, which I'd be pretty worried about if I was 0xG.
You get...
Vulps in control room, dots in storage,
and Dodders is supporting them as well from season stairs,
but it looks like OCS is going to commit to Exo for now.
Another curious on what the Thatcher is for, the Band Bandit and Kaeyi, and now watching for the C4s vertically,
by busy gripping out the Monty Tech, you can do a very limited attack, only take the breach,
little bit of vert and go for a straight plant.
30 remaining, that's a cover C4.
Yeah, I know, I mean, Dotz is also distracted, he's potentially in a plant position, but it doesn't matter.
Big nitro cell, but Yogg's found two anyway, doesn't matter that Forrest is dead, he was been worked his way in gold,
He did his job and now Dota is a little scanning hard beats, but it's not going to stop those
hard beats any time soon, unless you get out your gun and start getting a wriggle on.
Man, he should be a 3v3.
Oh, a whole guy.
I'm a nuke of a nitro cell.
Maybe cover here.
Another nitro cell.
He has saw me.
Doesn't land.
Yoga finally gets taken down, but Volbs 15 seconds and still 2 to 5.
He'll have to tuck in and commit here.
I think Adam is in position.
He can just sprint up and take him down, baits out the first one, but he won't be able to commit to it.
There's no time now.
Volves out of Valiant, effort, he finds all the kills, but it doesn't matter because Oxygen get the last laugh.
Another round, another full send commitment from OHG, again playing at the same pace,
and we did see the Fiaturus sort of commit to action.
Gadget was out waiting for a C4, but it just arrived so late that Fiaturus came off of it because the plant went down.
And then, funny enough, the C4 get takeout right here.
Yawk on the Monty.
But this is great. I mean, limited take.
This is a classic when NG first came out.
You take those staircase, you walk down, you go for a pen, you play Maverick also on the beach, for example.
There's not a ton of counterplay, especially when we're seeing less than the smoke being picked up in the game.
Again, it's smoke there.
It's all a bit.
Yeah, that's it. I mean, a lot of these plays from Oxygen, it's all about the quick pace and the synchronicity.
And that's exactly what we needed a smoke babe here. That just immediately says, okay
Well, this person now can no longer have an impact this aspect of the map this little area this little you know
five meter radius no impact and it completely enables the entire team a reposition
Oxygen I think this off-paced play style is working wonders for them
But at some point surely flux are we're gonna adapt and we're seeing the smoke picked right now
And I think it's important to talk about how this can be so effective, right?
If Okshi want to play fast players, gameplay, and go for plans, why they're banning Bane
and Kaid?
And there's a really simple reason for it, really.
By banning Bane and Kaid, they're not going to worry about getting the right maverick
for the wall, verticality, grenade to Bane, or whatever, they don't get stopped on the
first step by just breezing those walls.
And in such a crucial step on maps like Clubhouse, Light Nightingale and Laps or Heart Destruction,
it's a necessity.
So by betting better kite, they can open up the attack and land up and be much more flexible.
Now, they breach it. You think in C4, we got Thatcher?
He's watching with the gadget before the C4 being tossed on out.
They are covering each other so well, using smart, simple operators to get the job done.
And this again, it's simplified because of the operator band's bio-exchange.
You know, talk about mantras, we've talked about five of them before.
One of my favorite mantras in this game is KISS.
Keep it simple, stupid.
That was a nice jump for him, but yeah, look kiss kiss it works man. Literally just pick simple operators
Don't over complicate the game. Keep it simple
There's a reason why simple works
There's a great player that guy simple
He works very hard dots on killer DS 11 almost a second as well
This smoke is perfect. It keeps the black beard at bay. Meanwhile, Dodas has helped out
aggressive position from Dotsy all the way in with the SMG11 and he finds the
kill you smoke so advanced with the SMG11 on an angle like that it's a dangerous
game to play but it works and Paolo is now playing swing to win a double for him
flawless round for Fluxo W7M that might be a kiss round right there keep it
simple stupid they chose not we're not gonna then bring the pain to us we're
gonna challenge them before they get close enough to go for execute swing
the breach, swing IT, get the smoke involved, go for perfect counter play, they redore XG
and now they get another Auburn ban for both of these two teams to target each other and
be like okay what do we not want to face up against? I think Monty should be pretty high
on that list. Here comes the ban. Monty and Clash on the other side. I think that's pretty
solid from both teams. You like that the Clash ban is kind of nullified by the Monty ban
I'm not expecting it does open up the blitz though. That's a if clash is open
The only should you can kind of place the Monty everything is a super unfun by be it blitz much more open
And you can still do the fast takes just without the Monty
So I think it's pretty good read
I mean there's a given one who's gonna get better my mind as well. It's just like it's just too good here
Okay, I only just registered flux it up and said I'm actually banned out the nomad
That's an unusual one and that usually signals that they want to go for more roms. They don't want to have to check
Always they won't go for flanks. I mean mind you let's look at last trial in retrospect, right?
Had to be the nomad air jab on the dollways into it that plate doesn't work anymore
If you if you take garage control and air to both the rotate again, you can't retake it
Yeah, I know a lot of American teams. I'm thinking of like Shopify rebellion just off the dome here
I believe they play a fair bit of no met themselves in this perhaps in times again G2 does it as well
So I like it. Yeah, but if that was kind of telegraph a specific place all it does says look guys
We're gonna be flanking we're gonna be retaking
Oh, I said what's the spawn pig with the SMG 11. He's playing no no with smoke James not just his new limit with smoke
He dies here. That's goodbye. Let us three gas bay and it's all against blitz and blackbeard
You want to smoke a life at this round.
They doubled down, didn't they? Two shields.
Yeah. Why pick one when you can pick both?
Funny, Blitz and Blackbeard are similar, but the opposite.
Blitz is the ultimate close range shield.
Blackbeard the ultimate long range shield.
Huh? Speaking of speaking, that's true.
Technically, it's true.
Well, Blackbeard is the only shield that can negate the melee project system
by using the gacha to charge back.
But good players will dodge that.
Okay.
Why would you play DMR when you can play at 1275 with ISMG11 and get a headshot one tap all the same?
Good players would just play ISMG11 and hit the hydra actually.
It only was that simple.
His doesn't always win.
Let's fight later darling.
Let's not do it in front of the children.
Agree to disagree?
Blackbeard is in fact the best long range ship in the game.
And it's the best close range ship in the game.
You're not wrong, but I'm giving you shit for it.
I'm used to it at this point.
Abuse in the form of loft, a confusing act of loft, that's for sure.
Moving on, Vlok said W7F decided to go for controller in the ground floor bomb site.
Obviously, they could have gone back to basement, but really, I think they're going to have more luck on the tertiary.
I think this is where the shields can kind of flourish though, like you get those shields in close range.
Also, you just banned the Monty, right? You kind of changed the pace of the attacks of OHG,
And now you hit the quote-unquote weaker tertiary bomb site
Things are pretty good shot
Smoke to toxic babes with the R no C4 so there's limited worries here for OHG as long as I get in the building here
They go here. We go. This is aggressive isn't it straight on inside lobin trying to hold on
He's found one with the C75 on a Gomez. That's a gnarly shot brings out the oozy as well getting very close
Oh! Not a good player, I guess.
He does!
He doesn't manage to dodge the dash from the Blackbeard so he does get knocked back.
Well played from Adam on the shield to guarantee that kill.
But it's not over yet for W7M.
Palu and Dots can still bring this back.
35 seconds, the clock is on their side.
I'm just gonna play it on a timer.
Mind you, two shields are going to be alive.
It's only one-half gun, really, four over.
or excuse or Grixxer has to do some heavy lifting and allow Forrest to go for a planet
tent looking towards that bottom Garrett's window. They got to go in and clear that hallway.
Oh, double kill mines on both of the shield. That's bad. That's really bad. You know,
allow... Is it due for a lot of aggression here from Palu as Forrest is on the floor?
Dots is out of gas, but he can just hold on with the shotgun.
Seven seconds.
Here, deep on site, and the feeling here from Oxygen is that they need to go.
On the one...
They found both of them. Palu needs to survive. Grixxer doesn't have the diffuser,
And it's got no clue where Paul is run off to.
Big clutch for the old man.
And another round for Fuxo W7M.
Oh, the good minds beneath the window.
It's such an old-school trick and it still finds its way so many years later,
stealing rounds just like Echo on Zero Seconds.
It was practically the only way where you win that
because with two shields and close quarter proximity,
that should be a round loss for the defenders.
So close.
Flock so very much fighting back and I think really good counter pick since you brought it up about the whole
Smoke is so great against the fast-paced style. They have picked smoke every single round
Leash in one of those three rounds and it's worked perfectly for them. It couldn't have been a better round to have
No, we could not you're going up against a
Double window jumping with 20 seconds 3v2. It is the perfect position to have it in it's a dream and now oh xD
They're probably gonna be thinking okay
Maybe we need to drone ahead in the prep phase figure out if they've got a lesion
Maybe we won't commit to the double shield now this time. They actually don't have the lesion at all
We're seeing the castle make the reappearance another architect operator in the mirror to join and then it's late round area denial smoke and
Goyo, but the x-factor the new thing here is the Valkyrie
Info and roaming potential
Flanking potential. It's a lot mind that nomad ban still persists
The crazy thing about Valkyrie is that, just having the cameras alive for just information,
you don't even gotta act upon it with a flank or whatever, that's good.
But you can literally get a free C4 kill often, that's amazing, a free flank like you mentioned,
even better.
Even just like late round, it's a 3v3, you have a camera in garage and you can see, oh
no one's gonna drop out.
Exactly.
It's just the info.
Knowing what's clear.
Knowing what's clear, knowing what isn't.
Especially in late round 3v3s.
That's what I like, Valkyrie playing aggressive so early.
Valkyrie can die, but with a kill at the start of her round, she can just feed so much info to the rest of her team
Her cameras end up being like an extra teammate in the late round
It's funny how Valkyrie came out with the techniques second season
First after the politics and started as it's all black guys was already in dust line dust line
Black eyes was in probably gonna start it. That's like him out right after
After a year one system on public finals
And I remember seeing it because I was there live and we saw a player thought that's crazy
And we saw a falcon thought this is the simplest operator
It's just it throws default cams in new positions. Yeah, but oh my god
It's a good because back then there was no echo no maestro no bulletproof cams
You only had the defaults that was the first external info operator in the game and ten years later still coming to pick and then yeah
But the example of keep it simple stupid the Valkyrie is designed
Yeah
Sledge got a hammer. There's always that still gets kids. It's the trophy. We're playing for my god. That's iconic
Well Adam has really torn up the floor here, but
Flux left on a really good job of hiding making sure they're not exposed on the main areas of the bomb site
But oh boy a large part of that is because of the Rome game
I mean look at Vulture's all the way on the top floor the verticality starts to bear some fruit for oXG
Yoga, this is perfect timing though.
Volpe's answers his phone.
Does he hear it?
Yeah, I think he heard it.
He looked that way for a second.
Volpe doesn't know idea though.
He's going to walk into his way and shut the cam.
Oh no, this might be a fair fight though because of the pre-fire.
Yoga's position, both flashes go out and that gives Volpe a chance to run away.
Meanwhile, Forrest is going for that plant.
It's covered vertically, but the retake up above from Lopen.
It's been enabled by those Volpe cams placed earlier in the rounds.
And now, we might just see Foxo come to life.
Vertically, Dots contests and finds the kill,
depletes the life on the side, but Forrest is in a real pickle.
He's forced back further and further.
Yoga and Forrest now have to cover this.
They can defuse low-key.
Surely not.
Dots has one HP. They just need to find the kill.
The timer is committing to it! There's no cover!
And Volbs will do exactly what he needs to do.
Duster stick to the fuser and the round for W7M.
I love it when a plank comes together and I love it when you point something out and it happens about two minutes after the fact.
You said the Valgric camps are so good for a plank, I'm putting it in garage and seeing if it's clear or not.
They retook a garage only for the reason of getting hatch control.
Then they can long arm it from below the hatch and just watch the single breeze.
how they make that playable and we've seen floxos obviously there's so many times in this game
win retakes that should never be winnable they take the round lead by one three two up and they
do it in a classic floxo fashion oxygen started so strong so good labs two rushes in a row both
plans uh both round wins now we've seen three in a row for floxo and the retake potential
unbelievable. Oxygen really needs to step it up now because the momentum has been lost
and Fluxo is starting to run away with it. And again, why did the Blitz back out of single room?
It's such a good spot to play in, right? There's two reasons. Well, one, the head to
above was lost and his teammate didn't want to take the aggressive fight. Fair enough. Second of all,
they played smart. They threw in a toxic bait into a tiny room. The Blitz either stays and will
slowly die or he got to escape and go somewhere else. And that's the thing. Every single round,
Anthos rushes they've seen smoke played every single time and is literally winning the multiple rounds now in this comeback
And we are spongebob. Yeah, of course it is. It's lovin and to take down forest on the ying
That's gonna hurt big one. I mean it is the key operator to get a cabital to make a difference here
And and we're second. We're up the mirror with this swing
I think this round might be in the books for fluxa. It feels cooked by completely over
And it's one of those momentum killers where oh you see that a plan and you're gonna go here
I'm gonna go there hold this angle and now the round is
Statistically over of course still plotchable, but it's gonna be plan C. You gotta hit a crazy shot go for crazy killing get very
creative with this one
No walking now it'll go through it's not even worthy for in it because there's three exothermic charges trading the only C4
born of three Harpage devices, it's just not worth it.
So Paolo could have, but he's not too, that's smart.
Under the stakes of this game, Oxygen already have a loss on their first playday,
no points on the board up until this game.
Now they've guaranteed they'll get at least one thanks to winning the first map,
but if they lose this series, that's all that they take home,
whereas if they win it from here, they get three points.
Voxo already have a win under their belt over EP.
secret currently tops the group space station in second place fluxo will jump
up into second if they win this OXG really just need to get a start to their
six-invitational campaign and right now fighting in the 3v5 with low HP and
fluxo just eager challenging everything it's not looking like the North
Americans are gonna have any peace of mind anytime soon.
Here comes the Swing there's a good one counter attack from Adam but the issue is
not finding the people that swing you on the window on the outside is how you
you get inside the building and fight the mirror windows, defend your minds and toxic
babes. Time is ticking, 50 seconds, element triggered, they know you're inside that small
electric box and they're going to wait for you to enter the bomb site door, cross fire
established, shock and keep it close as well, and the mirror window still unbroken.
I can't count that mirror window, the only way I can think of is the flash isn't really
going to do much. It's became window-balled.
Did they get closer? They smashed the glass?
Yeah, they flashed and sprinted in.
And they popped the wall, really?
Okay, wow, this is impressive.
This has opened everything up for ROXG.
If Grixxer can be really deadly on that main breach,
maybe that means something.
Adam's just had a massive round.
The Nade lands.
Dota has the clutch.
He finds the first and the second.
Grixxer called upon now as Dota falls back.
It means it's Grixxer's moment to shine.
No flashbangs.
He has to go deep and pre-fire for one.
Out come the shot up, but Dota's will stay at tall.
It's a big 1v3 for the Brazilian.
A W7M are choking oxygen.
So easily winnable for Flock.
So the 5v3, the Spombics, the aggression, the confidence.
Adam, 3-4 kills out of nowhere.
Grenade, shots, prefires, whatever.
Just into a 1v3 clutch in the end.
because OXG walk in one by one by one.
It's where we see them being so good with coordination and then three months later, that happens.
Consistency is the biggest problem for most players, for most teams, and right now for OXG,
it is probably the sole reason why this game might not be theirs after all.
Oh, Polly, man.
There we go.
such a big round from him
and at the end of it the big clutch
pa
do it is do it is do it is
it was that it was not
when you have to watch. I got you baited because of the clips from the previous round from Paolo
Paolo did good though. I mean he was on play by the breach of the push kill or second kill. With popping the mirror I mean that's active defense from W7M
now he switched sides
attackers need to look at him. Oxygen onto their own defense
We talked about how it's been an attack is matchup, that's finally been broken here by W7M, and not because of the map choice, because of their aggressive defences.
That's it, it's performance base, which means OHC cannot just sit back and go, it should be a 4-2 spitfire as well, because it's the finish side of it, no, no, it was an incredible performance, breaking the norm for Fluxo, OHC have to match that craziness, that performance to then go into overtime, and they're playing that in a lapse.
It is not really the place where you're expecting a 4-2 defend the side at half now.
Not at this level, maybe the lower level, but the higher level you get,
the more teams really figure out how to attack.
And we've seen that at S.I. I've seen some really good attacks at this S.I.
Yeah.
We saw the G2 one, the self-grenade into self-thermite challenge.
That was phenomenal.
That was a funny one.
Oh, beautiful.
I mean, I think we're really pioneering another G2 team.
It's funny because we're sometimes seeing teams that are absurdly talented.
Like the G2 roster, like many of us here as well, and they're just having it, taking the absolute piss of themselves, just dying on the player camps, talking about interviews, saying, no, we're so awful, we think that's so bad, it's just like, we're playing in their side, man, like, we're the nerves, right?
I love that clip of G2 mating and exotherming themselves in the round, that made it to like mainstream non-E-sports Rainbow Six community, and people are fuming, people are like, what, this is the quality of this pro, this is the world, dude.
I got attacked and said, Bro, G2 need your backpink and I guys, this is one round of many good ones that they have.
Are there many other ones that are much better?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, it's even the best of players who make some silly mistakes on time.
Some of them are forgivable, some of them are not so much.
But we're all human after all, and it's so easy to be here on the couch in the chair going,
well, if I was playing right now, I would have just gotten the 5v1.
Like I saw this guy on chat every time he would scream, like let's say you play catwalk graphics with pop-ups and you die and you go
Dingsy wouldn't die in catwalk rafters, Dingsy wouldn't get spawned pink, Dingsy wouldn't go in the building like
he's always counteracting the pro players move and saying Dingsy would do better
and I was like, you talk your shit man, you get it, you got it
I love when people say that about spoiled or stomped and then they get farmed by other teams
and then some of the bros can defraud or something like
Stomping stick by seeds like oh he's gonna drop 20 kills against Falcons
Look he did alright
He did, he dropped 20 kills like I felt this
Sometimes they are that good, sometimes they try to be that good.
Well, I'll tell you what, Foxo's had a pretty solid attack so far.
I mean, have a look at that breach on the main wall.
Volks, nice angle on the forest.
It's almost going to find a second one, I think.
Contesting Gomez now.
He's got a low smoke down here.
He's killed onto the warden, so no more smokes that you're going to have to worry about.
You can use them as much as you like, without them being blocked off by that warden.
Yoga is in a world of pain the flash the mate is forced back deeper and deeper
So can surely go for their execute now meanwhile
Lobin is coming up from warehouse. He could come up the stairs and I was in I'll as dots is forcing this plant down
You're right. There's absolutely no denial. In fact, there's nothing at all for OXG. They are being starved right now
W7m have continued their reign of terror five rounds in a row
I mean, there's a classic attack on that human lab. We've seen it so many times to do it so well step one
get the exterior breach on connector and of course an IT breach. Step 2, do you go for an
aqua-garage attack or a meeting IT attack? That's really how you play it every single
time. A very small variation, but they do it so thoughtlessly. Opening peek, all the breaches,
fire, smoke, Blybiel has a shield, walks in with full cover. There's no real counterplay.
Oh gee, the only thing they could do in that round is hit a nasty headshot because strategically
They were getting suffocated from the very beginning.
And it's awkward when you play a map, let's say like an oryx in the public meds and not that long ago, or chalet or here in Night Haven.
Sometimes, on some bomb sites as a defender, you don't have a lot of ways to win on paper.
And that's where you gotta see the hero plays, spring into action, and make the magic work for you.
Play for map control, play that aggressive roam, go for a kill then fall back, play the layers, whatever.
As far as just talking to himself, we just check him somebody.
You know, Vulp's is... Vulp's is going a little bit too far in the shadow of you.
I mean, they're doing pretty good though.
Yeah, you said too far.
Yeah, I think he needs to curve his language a little bit.
Oh, it's a too far, okay.
Yeah, it's a little bit too far.
Okay.
I thought only that would be enough.
That's not so bad too early though, if you're Vulp's still losing balls.
That's the thing.
Vulp's is getting very excited.
Oh, Dott's taking a hell of a lot of damage on that Blackbeard Gomez.
That was very much worth it.
Down the late round, Monty's feeding me very vulnerable if he's un-chielded.
Docs I am never on extending this round again. I'm staying fully up even then Gomez has an impact grenade
That one of the nitro cells even if it's not like they're gonna form
Yeah, dude the phone absolutely I could absolutely kill him now actually going down the basement for the first time
It's up the flux sort of figure out today go for a map clear
Intervert which is probably what they're gonna do with the ram or do they focus up hard on site?
They've actually got plenty of harbour each utility you got ace and double sets of can openers
A lot of options here for the Brazilians.
I like this kind of roam clear.
You clear this into Sota machine, down the stairs, do a bit of route like I said.
Monty can escort the Fuser case into site, go for a plant.
So now against strategically speaking, what can OXL do?
Well, they can play with the C4s below with the clash slow and information.
They can clash slow the intries into a Thorn Trap and also try and get a kill.
Or again, get them and hit some shots.
That's kind of what's on the board for OXL, but they also have flying potentials because
They've got a bunch of map control and Valkyrie cameras, but that means the bummer site is a little bit more vulnerable than usual
You're prone to a rush so they're gonna smoke off the angles of fucks
Oh, it's been straight down the stairs and catch the rumor
But there is a refrag yoga inside a kitchen
Makes his way around that's a whole bunch of pressure though. They're dealing with that class. I'm actually gonna take him down
Doss needs to be careful not being exposed and alone is low HP if someone else comes to support
He's only got this pistol. They can't finish off that clash as of yet. He just keeps on falling back low key
They might be able to look for a plant Gomez comes back to side. No worries worry because it's a player outside the breach
Oh might be a suit up
These are not just the player on the Monty, but the guy behind him now for us to get in position
It's a lot the dots. It's a 1v2 for the montane and up against for us on the clash
It's GG. There's absolutely no way the dots can clutch this the clash
He's gonna stop him every step he takes every move he makes stock in the site knows what Gomez is
But look at this the cover is perfect crash playing together to be one
Oh, holy nuts. What if he won for dots?
He's got forest on the floor, but can he finish up?
Big round from Gomez he steps up for OXG when he's needed and they finally stopped the bleeding
He was a jiggling beacon on the corner
Let me find a shot just trying to burn down all the ammo and then close the gap because you have some left in his pistol
But no he does not get that off again a great read from fluxo going deep in the bums
I believe as Sami Keebas from Gomez he had five in pocket by the way
He had all the keepers of spare and then he goes for a prefire onto the Monty
But kills the guy behind him with a stray bullet
again, I said it
Strategically, OXG were losing that round unless a play would happen somewhere.
That was the play.
Gomez made it happen.
Just like back on the very first round of Border,
he was the star player for this team of OXG.
He is finally back in that spot.
Yeah, OXG, man.
Looked finally another round on the board, but...
The job's not done yet.
I mean, two more rounds...
It doesn't get easier.
And yeah, you're right.
It doesn't get easier from here.
They're gonna have to keep rotating through different bombsites.
That's the danger right like you start winning on defense and you can't crotch one side
How they gonna interpret this it looks like a little bit of Lucy goosey one thing I'm really liking is the lesion and valkyrie
Right, so of course lesion. We've talked about that if you're going up against shields. It's the perfect
Ingredient to deal with that ailment. We saw that with flux. I used it so well in oxygen round the double shield
But I like the valkyrie as well
We've seen flux so use that to perfection even the solace
I'm just gonna make sure that Oxygen know where these plants are going through
because both these teams are playing these attacks so very fast.
Yep, Spear has certainly been the win condition for Bulb with Team Attacking.
And again, I'm not surprised by it because people are very comfortable with playing Night of Unlapsed.
It was widely accepted in both ranked and competitive play as a very good map that we want to play, we want to learn.
And when you do that, you learn it very fast.
There are the maps in the past, like let's say a theme park that even by now is only kind of half accepted
I feel like and all teams go let's just ban it let's not play it and when you then eventually do it a play like well
We don't even know all the intricacies of the map all the small things right?
I didn't it's been very much figured out the highest level. I would say a close to at least yeah
People are be looking at Palo and going why is this guy always looking at odd people's monitors?
I'm telling you, it's completely legal, by the way, on LAN.
You can't screen peek.
We even had a player called Woogeyman from Fieryx sit at the edge of the table,
turning his monitor so everyone can easier see the camera that he's watching
or playing the Monty, for example.
It's a LAN thing.
In Brazilians, they play LAN every week back home in the Mystic League,
so they're very used to it.
Yeah.
I was trying to figure out what Polly was doing with the batching.
He's staying outside B.
I think his intention is to do a late round to figure out,
Okay, is there a solos? Is there a pulse? I can just EMP.
He knows what the Val'Kan means because you can look at a top left.
He's gonna EMP it and jump in probably.
That's clearly gonna be a Val'Kri'Kan. There's nothing else that it would realistically be.
He's already spotted it.
He's watching a C4 watch now.
Frag goes down, and yeah, he's watching it for a pulse or a solos.
It's his job here, just to watch for pulse or solos.
Hasn't seen anything. They're trying to bait it.
There comes the nitro cell. Come on, keep out.
That EMP. Active.
He needs to be ready, and on watch for it.
Dot starts forcing down that plant.
It's still off the Palu to cover, but the smoke, that's one thing that Thatcher isn't going to do enough for.
Dota is on the ground, Forrest doesn't realize it, but he actually wall banged in until he was down.
Poor Volbs in awkward spot, finally finished off.
Oxygen is starting to breathe deeper into this game.
Lopin and Palu now to pick up the pieces of this tatted round, 2v4, but Lopin for the backstab finds one.
Good on Forrest, a 3k on the round. He covers it off and Yorke with the shotty.
gets another one on the board for Oxygen.
Beautiful, playing close together, playing for the fighting, playing for the denial.
And once again, it's like the seventh round I feel like.
Smoke is the MVP.
The ability to stop the plant because the fancier is gonna shut down the C4s,
it is working for both of these two teams,
and honestly, there is a world right now where smoke gets target banned
to enable Foxo to go for those plays in the future
unless they wanna change the strat book and not do that ever again.
Did it not ban the smoke?
One more ban comes out and it is in fact going to be the clash and the capital and here comes
tactical timeout from Fluxay W7M was again here a whole lot unfortunately but
But um, as you know, so the thumbs up.
Fence bombs and ready to go once more.
The classic saying is, I wish I spoke Portuguese, but I also wish I could hear more.
For a long time, Europe was seen as the best-reaching in the world in the Oseach, right?
We go far enough back.
Brazil has been on that throne for a while.
Oh, dude, ever since 20… what do you say, 20… 21?
Yeah, 21.
21.
And when an IP won SI.
Yeah, and then since then, it's been more or less than for a long time, right?
At least in most periods.
Occasionally we'll have like in a G2 or Montreal or something like that, but yeah, it's my well
Okay here on that by the way. Hmm. We've had nine six invitational. This is number ten
Yeah, three wins for North America three wins for Europe three rings for Brazil. This is the tiebreaker. Is that no this is time for a pack
I was about to say
But weibo is gonna slide in there
That would be the craziest thing by the way because we would have to make the top five conversation by prediction only by dark horse
Or is it a match in this?
Wabur is one of the only underfitted teams in the tournament.
Especially in the only 3-0 teams.
They do.
They do.
They do.
They did.
I mean, we have other teams that are 2-0.
You know, Fury, Team Heretics, that's another few.
But very few are 3 and nothing right now.
It's just Team Secret and Wabur.
But my point was like, when you're from the best region,
you might not be as interested in other regions
because you're doing it better.
But WinBest has been so strong for so long,
It makes me more and more curious in the differences and what they do differently, especially with that communication.
Because they sound like they're always fired up, but they probably sound very disciplined at the same time.
Like, it's one of those language barriers that I have, because obviously Portuguese is a sound, so they're very warm people, like I say.
Like, the way they act, they behave like Maria, who does the interviews here with us as well.
She's always so like, very animated culture.
Very animated, yeah.
It's very energetic. It almost like it rubs off on you as well.
for sure and you definitely need that when you play siege you need that energy
to the long series long series yeah i mean what 15 rounds map one 11 rounds map two
nine rounds so far now into our 10th very long series here for these teams
a lot of plants a lot of slow rounds going the distance an air jet going off but there's no
one there to answer so we just gotta tank it the burn it a flash to go out a second air
We have to see for a trade?
Keep still in the frame, yeah.
Though this also stepped back, hasn't the Heaven that experienced and the sound cues to work together.
But this has been the least explosive round for the attack of Flock.
So, but look at the attack a lot. They got the brawler, they got the nomen.
They need to set things up before they can start fighting.
But we're just about in that spot where we're gonna see some action.
It's been very slow, but there's still a few of these mirror windows.
As I say that, the ace of Selma is certainly gonna help out with that.
Open is the wall
Hey, all goes down in the awkward spot. It's really hard to challenge this angle once that mirror is gone
Are they gonna look for some kind of retake here?
It's possible the port's looking but here we see though it is in electric box denying the wall denying the push
There's only one more C4 impact in pockets. They could deal with it. There it goes. It's the door frame as well
Come on guys
That's two for two missing the mark, but 35 seconds if only there was a smoke and defense right about now
Well without it they're gonna have to do with this setup one shotgun from bulbs and that's a close range fight
Flooding into the site now and he finds another one with the DMR
Forest is on the floor all up to Grick sir you'll find two but it ain't enough
Match point for Fluxo W7M
Boa Boa and the push comes through again that is a tight timing for the
Brazilian players they're working together and it's so smart to get a
primary shotgun to fight on that e-box store because it's such a hard fight to
win and we're gonna have back-to-back tactical time-ups because OXT down 4 to
6 have called their own tactical time-up
be ready for the rush some teams they will have mostly players talking
attack talent. Some teams have a bit of a mix and some teams, like OHG, eat all the coaching
staff. It's Kiki, who's calling every single word there. I mean, the thing is, there's something
that I learned through Fabian mostly back when he became a coach at first for PSU talent, right?
I was like, Fabian, you're a man who says a lot of things over a very long period of time.
What do you prioritize in attack talent? He was like, well, and of course it's like,
classic, it depends, yada, yada, yada. But it really is about prioritizing what is the most
important thing to say and how can they say it in the least confusing but also
shortest time span possible and then of course when you have a team where you're
not all speaking the same language as you need to tongue you also got to make
it accessible for those people as well and often I find that coaches will have
a specific player that they're kind of talking to because they know they can
relate to message correctly afterwards right whether it's because of language
barrier or because of how you think about the game because you might be in the
same team but the way the coach is thinking and the agile is thinking and
the interplayers are thinking are completely different and that's a good thing but there has
to be somebody translating that thought to everybody else sometimes that's why we call upon people
like your canadian on champion for billion always say having troi he can translate a lot of things
i'm sure to all his younger players and here i think it's uh mostly dots being spoken to right
usually in the from flocks or side of course really i i think so it means that dots and or
Or Lobin, whenever I'm listening to him.
I notice Lobin is, like, for someone he's typically just like a no-brand friend of him.
He's really attentive in his tactical fine-outs.
He is.
But Dodges always is kind of very centered whenever I see the tech time-outs, just kind of looking and listening.
And also playing his shield operators, obviously having a bit of a voice.
Whereas Kiki's, he's walking down the aisle, looking to talk to all the players all the time.
It's kind of funny to see the difference there.
Fast injury is set.
He's ready for the rush.
Lobin fast in and fast out.
Good shot from Jog.
Confidence, right down four six is that that gunfire can quite literally be one of the big reasons why you win or lose this one
It's the first and the last four rounds that oxygen have actually found that opening kill flux
I've dominated this early rounds and now without lobing without those dirt could be calls and still the mirror windows at large
There's a lot of work to do this round time is ticking away. They don't know from a bird switch turns non
Oh, she for shot midair though
It's getting shot from above so that forces him out of position.
Grixxer takes his head clean off, 3v5 now.
Volps needs to push through a refrag.
Whose laser is that?
That's not his.
Is that his teammate?
I think it's actually Yogg, whose bottom aqua stair is double door.
Surely he can see it.
Surely he can see it.
He's going to have to know that Yogg is there.
He actually knows about Grixxer, now he knows Yogg is there.
Here's a lesson for you kids, be careful where you point your laser.
Give away your position.
mind blind somebody too right be careful always does a kid don't blind people
with the leaf keep it on people's faces oh always finds a second one but yeah you
whistle a little bit Gomez takes him down looking for a refrag now Pali with
the DMR as well in close range the DMR is a bit fickle and Gomez will best him
with the SMG 11 voters 1v3 caught on the camera they know exactly where he is
Oh, it's a good prefire on the forests
He's got a decent e-ball on the other two
Doesn't have a diffuser though
As LXG fall back on the site
Oh, they're a bit scared there on the hatch
They see the cam though
There's no diffuser
You see a good spot actually
And both of these oxygen planes are isolated
Lot of damage done
But Yogg goes for the reload
He's not going to expect it all to go in the box
He's not going to expect it all to go in the box
He knows! How does he know?!
He makes it a 1v1!
No!
The Bulls are angry!
Flux don't fumble the first map but fire up to the finish and undefeated they remain at the sixth of the tational
Did he run towards OHG? He's still missing. He's gone
Up the chair into the hallway. Yeah, he's already going straight to them. Oh
My god, that was so unwinnable in the 1v3 so unwinnable. What was that game?
I mean don't take about one versus three
and he lands every single shot to perfection.
He touched earlier as well.
I'm top four as a Sami.
That is two set with one B3s in one map.
And this was such a crazy series.
Cast your mind back to border.
8-7.
Two-match point opportunities that Fluxo W7M fumbled.
Oxygen got it across the line, only to lose on bank.
The distance was required for it,
but Fluxo said no overtime on the third undefeated they remain here but it only gets harder from
here on out they've got space station and team secret still yet to play hopefully they can take
a moment and really relish in this hard-fought victory because they were pushed they were and
i mean the thing is i feel like ohd there definitely is a pretty bright light for them right
again it comes back a little bit too consistency but for foxo the biggest story is they are definitely
like you said, there's something
about this W7M organization always
finding ways to keep us entertained.
Yeah, these guys look they've
demanded our respect over the years
with a runners up finish and
Atlanta and a championship a year
later in Montreal. They would
by no means tournament favorites.
I think a lot of people always
regarded them as a mid pack team
here at SI likely to make top
12 maybe top eight but not go the distance
distance and they're certainly making a little bit of a case for why this incredibly confident
ego-challenging team could be in contention for one of the top places here at SI.
It's funny how we started off this entire segment with Lobin as the highest EPS for his team and
we're ending the segment as well but Lobin is the highest EPS player for his team. He has stayed
mad consistent all throughout and he plays many different positions, many different operators
But to this Inject S, time and time again.
Very true, but like I can't help but admit all five of the players on this roster really had their moment.
Like let's not forget Dota's insane clutch ability, Palu's had a few big ones as well.
Yeah, Palu and Boulder was who he was everywhere.
Even DOS, who typically we wouldn't really talk about as much because he's a support player.
He had a few really big moments, especially on those shields, but unbelievably that ties up the day.
Today, here on our B stream, it kicked off and unfortunately we didn't have a massive
result on the Elevate Fury game, but man, our games have been awesome.
Personally, I mean, Falcon's wild card, that was so good.
Big surprise.
EP Secret also a bit of a Peter out, but W7M Oxygen, we got the good games today.
We got the tight ones.
We had the fast ones, the other days that's what they have assured.
Here is the group bracket situation.
Secret I think have actually beaten expectations.
Yeah, we thought they're gonna be good, but they are really good sitting a very high bar and taking down SSD in a close game
Sure, but then running on the teams like Enterprise, which is no big thing there and also taking that OHD in their first play D
So yeah, I think the bracket is kind of playing out the way that we expected low-key though like one through four
Yeah, look group D is looking pretty competitive. I think Enterprise the one team that haven't really
They've been below expectation. Actually, no enterprise. Oh, sorry enterprise
On the flip side of that another APAC team Waybo have exceeded expectation
And I'm mentioning them because they and team secret who are here in group D are the only teams that have gone three for three
So far it's been quite a day here at the six invitation and upsets on both streams
Of course tournament favorites going down in Falcons and M80 both suffering losses
I don't know what's going on with that phase game on the other stream
But that's where I'm gonna go check out right now
And I think it's where you guys should too because it's time to close out the B stream for today at the six invitation
It's been such a pleasure as always paying you but we're gonna be back tomorrow for more SI
So why don't you come back tomorrow for now? Let's go watch phase versus Shopify rebellion
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