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I like it, I like it too, I don't know who we're going to train
How's it going? It's going to be fine
We're quiet, we're quiet, we'll follow it
We're cultivating the style, it's going to be like a lot of fun
And the air, how it sounds, the heat that burns
The house is full, when your dad is in this house
Lookin' out, saying it's over now
You tell the tone, I keep on on trying out
Yes, they're standin' at me, standin' round
I get further and further, lookin' out
Starting in the back, baby
Come on, so it's good to be
I just want you to see this.
You should be afraid of me.
Stop being a bad baby.
Come on, so it's going to be.
I just want you to see this.
You should be afraid of me.
You should be.
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Today, four teams are fighting for survival and two are about to watch your dreams of
lifting a trophy slip away.
Hello everyone and welcome to day 4 of Master Santiago coming at you live from Espacio Risco
in Santiago, Chile for our first elimination match of the tournament.
I'm Golden Boy, the current guy yelling at you right now, he's dressed as an old school
Puerto Rican landlord and I'm joined by White inside show.
We're going to break it all down today.
The fellas are back in town.
The fellas desk.
We're the fellas.
One last rider.
One last rider on the sun.
I'm told Mamie gets here.
I know, but then she is the ultimate fella, so we'll see what happens there.
Of course, folks, we've got two teams already qualified for playoffs.
So that means six squads are going to be fighting for those last two spots.
And it's only going to be four after today because elimination is on the docket.
Fags are going to get packed.
Yes.
Clothes thrown and secured.
Don't forget anything in the hotel rooms.
Do not.
But if you want to take the soap, though, if you want to take the soap and the lotion
as well as the napkin, take it all.
OK, it's there for you.
All right.
That's Ross Fane.
You know, the jar and just fill it up with the body wash and the shower and just take it all out of there and put it in a Ziploc bag.
It looks like you were playing the pump game over there with the banner.
We've got to get over there. We need to do a beer stand before we leave on this.
I need one bit with the ridiculous pump game over there.
Alright Alex, please. I'm asking.
Alright now folks, we're starting off with EDG taking on T1.
It's a Masters Bangkok rematch and then it's going to be XLG going up against G2 Esports.
Of course, make sure you stick around for the end of the show because we're going to
have the draw show to determine our final Swiss matches.
But as always, we like to kick things off by asking you a question because we have two
CN squads that are going to be facing elimination today and that is the subject of today's Master
Card fan poll.
We want to know how many teams you think are going to survive.
Is it going to be 0, 1, or 2?
Stand the QR code.
Cast your votes.
I'm curious to see how the results of that one
are going to be considering how people
are feeling about the CN teams coming into the tournament.
Hold on.
How some people are feeling.
Some people are cast up on them.
Some people are thinking that solo on Wyatt real fast, OK?
And we just want to talk Shane real quick.
What?
It's not Shane left.
You guys are overreacting to him.
But one game against the world champions.
Oh, God forbid a team loses to the reigning,
defending world champions.
You know why you're right.
You're so right.
You're so right.
Unfortunately, they have to deal with the three times
America's champions as well today.
We'll see how that plays out.
Three time non-winners of the Benson Globe last year.
So XLG, they could win.
I also didn't predict them to win today.
But it's like a first thing.
It's a reverse.
He's going to hope.
He's going to hope.
If I predicted XLG, I would have been the only person
to do it.
You don't know that.
You don't know that.
We know it.
We haven't even looked at the price.
We don't know that.
Here's the good news.
The good news is hopefully you're not as wrong as Wyatt because you'll have opportunities
to show your knowledge with Shotcall right on Twitch.
Make sure you find the icon.
Go ahead and click that.
Shotcall will open up and you'll log in.
Predict what's going to happen in a round.
Maybe when surprise is, be smart.
Make good decisions.
Okay.
And honestly, that's a phrase that you should follow for the majority of your life, by
by the way, just make good decisions.
Trust me, it'll pay off in your new 40s.
Make bad decisions, they're all fun.
Don't let seed, it's weird, like,
it's like the devil and the angel, you know what I mean?
But he's right, the bald devil with the mustache
and the bald beard, angel, whatever.
Anyway, of course, before we get to today's matchup,
we're gonna play a quick game, as we always like to do.
This time around, it's one that has been summoning
from the depths of hell itself.
It's a three face.
And what kind of scrabble games are you playing?
Three face.
This is a very simple game.
This is a very simple game.
Why?
Check yourself.
Calm down, dog.
I'm making mistakes.
I've been making mistakes over here.
I've got to say, anyway, you may seem to find me.
We have three pros.
We're going to combine them into one hellish creation.
And our crapshoot analysts over here
are going to have to pick and decide and put that on our play.
You don't need to call them a hellish creation.
Oh, no, it's in the deep.
OK, well, the bottom is leaf.
OK.
I don't like that.
We've also, we've definitely got Jorgama in the middle.
No.
So it's leaf, Jorgama.
OK.
There's a sheet here.
I'm telling you, don't worry.
You have two of them right.
I don't want to wait.
There's both.
The top, though.
Am I seeing?
Is that a munchkin?
Let us know in the chat who you think the top one is.
I don't know.
I don't think it is.
OK, you want a hint?
Is it, I think it's an EDG player.
You are correct.
Yeah.
But now I'm trying to, exactly,
now I'm trying to cycle through who on EDG this is.
I don't, I think it might be nobody.
It's not nobody.
It's not nobody.
And it's not CB.
It's Moggy.
It's not Moggy.
It's Gichu.
It's Gichu.
It's Gichu.
It's Gichu.
It's Gichu.
We had together eventually.
There you have it.
It's Gichu, Chagamo, and Leaf.
All right, that's number one.
Just another two friends. Sweet baby cheese.
The one in the middle is easy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, you got one.
That stacks? It stacks for sure on the bottom.
Okay, you have two so far, and the top is a happy boy.
Yeah, okay, there you go. Congrats.
Whoa! You're popping up!
You're popping up!
Wyatt River.
Real XLG fans, we knew that was happy way
in mere moments, buddy.
He's the top three, you know, you're picking for top three.
He's more purple with the platinum blonde hair.
True, true, but I think Purpo's a little bit more free-sheet.
Yeah, it's a bit all over the place.
Alright, here's the next one.
We got...
Okay, so it's definitely Baby Bay on the front end.
And it's definitely Kankang in the middle.
That one was easier.
Oh man.
Very, very distinctive.
Well done.
Well done.
Okay, folks.
Well, you know what I gotta say, this was a lot better than in rehearsal.
I think rehearsal was harder than rehearsal.
Yeah, rehearsal was a little harder.
If we combine the three of us together though, which one, like how would we create the best
version of ourselves. You have a stash at the bottom. Oh, so I'm going to get the bottom.
And I think, well, you've got to get the bottom. You've got to get the bottom.
It would be kind of crazy to have your hair on our face.
So all I'm saying is to the community, if you want to actually make that, that
actually would be kind of cool. We'd love to see it. Like, see your creations. In any case,
let's go ahead and hop into our first matchup of the day because we have T1.
We had an opportunity to catch up with Munchkin about returning to his old squad and his role
as I.G.O. was taking a listen.
I'm trying to be a good person and have fun with my teammates.
I think that the moment when my teammates come to me, they can say something to me.
So I'm always trying to smile and I'm trying to be a good person for my teammates.
I'm ready to prove myself to everyone who doubts me.
2016 is a new year for T1.
struggled against a very quick pace Team Liquid losing 2-0.
And, you know, look, it felt like why there were moments
where you could have seen T1 potentially rise up,
get that win, maybe force that map three.
But it really just felt like Team Liquid
were giving them everything they had.
Yeah, with Munchkin talking about joining the scene,
being the IGL, just going to refer back
to one of the talking points before this game,
which is that I felt like Munchkin was adding some structure
to the madness of T1 with the ability to just run around
and shoot everyone.
But that being said, Team Liquid, they ran at them and shot them,
and T1 did not have the structure on their attacking sides
to be able to deal with that defensive aggro.
In fact, they actually collapsed towards the end of split.
I think they lost five out of six of the final rounds of regulation
in order to get it into OT.
So, you know, that was their game to win
and try to push it to Haven.
And they fumbled it a little bit, I'd say.
Yeah, one thing, though, that we did hear from Munchkin
was he was coming into this team as the IGL.
But in previous years, though, it
was Stax, who would typically be that leader, in-game leader,
especially emotional leader as well.
And one thing I was not prepared for from Stax in that series,
his output, he was a really impressive man.
And that's exactly what you'd want
to see out of a veteran like that who's been here,
who's done that before.
They're going to need him a lot today.
Yeah, they absolutely are.
But I also think you could spin it a different way
and say, you're not always going to get that out of Stax.
Like, you've got an unbelievably good performance
out of Stax there, and you still ended up in a 0-2.
I think Stax was crying though, and if he can get...
I'm not even looking for this kind of performance again from the guy.
I'm looking for maybe like 75% of this, and some other people.
65% to be all right. 65 would be fine as well.
Let's take it, we'll take it.
Yeah, this was Stax's best series of this year so far, and they need close, GB.
I agree with Josh. I don't need all this out of Stax, and if you want to win this game,
if you're a T1 fan, you shouldn't be feeling like you need all this out of Stax.
They were qualifying here with everyone else being able to go crazy
I think what you're really hoping for is that the rest of the guys on T1 who were maybe a little bit quiet a little bit inconsistent
Get back to that peak and to win a tournament when you have the guy like stacks in this level of form or even the 70%
Even 60% even 65 that can that's where you know it boils over the top
Yeah, they're then suddenly you know won't they're going on a run these guys can actually be in the tournament side position
Yeah, I'm more worried honestly about the mental side of it when it comes to this
It was actually good to hear from munchkin there in the piece of that we listened to earlier where you're saying I tried to be as
Friendly as possible
They can come to me with anything because we know that T1 have had their issues before in terms of frustration boiling over and I think that
That's something that they've got to be aware of especially when they just go run down by liquid
Yeah, I was actually given this talking point from Seth, so I didn't discover it myself.
I did no research to get this. He just told me in the green room and I said, I'll be using that now.
Thank you. Which is that actually historically, there are a number of maps from Munchkin IGL teams
in the last couple of years at Globals where they get to 11 and end up losing those maps like
genuinely a concerning amount of times. Yeah, you're going to need to see them close out those
critical rounds there but you're also gonna be looking for some big performances as well and
when you think about big performance you got to think about Meteor and the reality is I think
Meteor really just found himself between rock and a hard place and that is in more ways than one
because he was honestly just dealing with the might of Team Liquid. I mean just look at what was
happening here. Yeah I mean the first clip shows it perfectly where he's just holding Breeze mid
and the Horde to run at it. And all these clips are practically him versus Miniboo.
Yeah, and dude you got a neon in your face and then you got two guys behind even if you do deal with the neon
I'm not saying that meteor played a bad game. I'm saying you got overwhelmed by the pace and aggression
Yeah, if anything I would look at that more as like a hey
This is the thing that team team one might want to address in case I don't know
Maybe EDG decides to get a little bit more speedy on those push. Should I be real though? They're not doing that
But yeah, I mean I think that game you can really just juxtapose it against how gentle mates handled that
Those are the pushes they were getting
Destroyed because they're running into multiple players set up in positions and sitting back in nine as well
Right and in the case of that game against C1. Yeah, it's just the number of times
You saw Meteor alone like on split defense. He's just that one
Extremity watch over towards a is pressed up just a little bit like past ropes
Yeah, and suddenly there's three guys in his face. Yeah, dude. Yeah, get over one by you, so they're sliding at you
It's all types of it. It's certainly stuff. I felt like a product of the situation.
Undoubtedly, you know, have the read on that game. Exactly. And there's one thing though
that you can take away from this is that these are all incredibly intelligent players who will
look at what happened there and be like, okay, well, we'll worry about that later.
They know the opponent that they're going to be running into in this particular instance.
This is one that they have faced in the past. This is a rematch.
She faced two times in Bangkok last year. So it's actually jumping,
Get a little bit more knowledge with Izu.
Genly had an opportunity to catch up with him.
Gen here with Izu of T1 now.
Izu since Autumn's move to EDG,
he's been implementing new ideas to his new team.
Similar to what he had done with you guys last year.
So what's it like having Autumn on the other side
and leading your opponents today?
Well, we actually spent a lot of years together and we won Master's Bangkok together.
And I know he likes to run some funky, unique comps as well, and he's a really capable coach,
So I'm excited to see what it's going to be like facing EDG with Autumn leading the team.
Thank you very much, Iizu, and good luck today.
Thank you.
That is so interesting that the coach of T1 who won Masters Bankhog with them is now
coaching the team on the opposite side.
It's such a weird move for Autumn to have gone over to EDG.
As far as I'm aware, he doesn't speak Chinese.
I think things are having to go through the team system.
He's been kind of coming up with new fucking comps for them to play and new ideas.
But I think EDG require a lot of work right now.
They are still finding their footing.
And that's a big task for Autumn as co-head coach of such an unusual project.
Yeah, I know. Quite interesting, of course.
It's not out of the realm of the ordinary.
We have seen coaches from other regions come in and coach teams in the past.
It's not something that's like all out there.
But this is certainly a difference in style without a doubt why.
And that being said, I always feel and I feel that you have to feel to just keep saying feel over and over that.
When EDG are coming into any global event, ultimately, they still have Kong Kong and Chichu who have the ability to just take over a game as a duo at any given moment.
Yeah, you know, actually, so glad you mentioned Kong Kong and Chichu because before the tournament, as we jump into discussing how EDG is going to be performing in this one,
We want to see what kind of incredible feats they can pull off in this server,
but more importantly, we want to see if they can handle real-life reflex tests. Let's check this out.
Here we are here at its time to test the reflexes of none other than Kong Kong as well as Cheechoo.
Hey guys for joining me. Are you ready for the test?
Yeah, of course.
All right, well let's get to it. I believe we can start the game, so get ready.
Yeah, ready.
Any minute now.
Alright, one.
What? What?
Alright, got two in the end.
It comes at you fast. It's surprising for sure.
Alright, we'll do some quick little movie magic, get reset, and then it's going to be Chichu up, so cut.
Okay.
Wow, movie magic, it's all reset.
Anyway, it's time for Chichu's turn.
I think you have a little advantage because you have to watch Kong Kong go,
Let's see if he can beat the score of two.
Two.
Can you do it?
Maybe I can jump one.
I can't do it.
Do you have any words that you have beaten Kong Kong?
I think I better that head.
Excellent.
Well, thank you so much for joining me and good luck in your matches.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, man, let me tell you, Seth, you killed that one.
100%.
All right, well, hey, listen, let's see, it reflects this, okay?
Maybe not the best situation.
You're out of the G2, though.
He is better than Kong Kong.
His words, not mine.
But EDG, though, they're going to be coming to this one without a doubt, as in underdog.
They dropped two straight games to mates to get to this point here.
We saw yesterday how good that Mates team is.
So was it a matter of Mates just being so good that they were outperforming EDG sideshow
or did you feel like maybe EDG didn't give us everything that we know that they're capable
of?
Yeah, I don't think they gave you everything.
I think that EDG actually found themselves in lots of winnable positions and ended up
making far too many mistakes in those spots in areas that they should have been able to
close out.
You know, they got themselves into winning positions so frequently, but that only matters
If you've got the discipline and the fundamentals to be able to make the right decisions to close out games
And I think the T1 are just going to apply a lot of pressure in similar spots
I'm a little worried that that might be close to the best that we're going to get from them at this tour in regard to having
Such an all-star showing from Kong Kong
That's not enough to get them over the line on Haven and I don't know if we've
We've seen them play enough rounds throughout this kickoff run into this tournament to make
me believe that they're going to be able to clean up enough of these.
Dude, I mean, Kankang was spectacular too in map 1.
And if they can't get it done with this, I am worried.
I think though that it did showcase you wanting with the up in his hand, right?
Yeah.
And he was still...
Because coming into the event that wasn't the case, right?
Well, he was still...
Did he be more of a rifler?
But he was still hopping on these maps where he placed Chamber on, on Hayden for example.
But yeah, you're right in the sense that most of the time when he was playing like the Neon, which he did do on map 2,
he was mostly with Rifle in hand.
He actually ended up hopping a lot there.
He just wasn't playing a character that is best suited for it,
so he wasn't in as many spots to dominate and take over the game in map 2,
which I think he kind of did map 1.
I just feel like when you're...
because, you know, coming from America's, right,
we cover like, Osbos and players that are capable
of being able to take over a game.
But I think at this point here,
at this level of competition,
you are gonna need just a little bit more
out of this EDG team.
You need more out of the squad to help out Hong Kong, right?
Because, yes, he's there for a reason.
He's one of the best to ever do it.
But at some point, man,
the Jansport can only hold so much.
You know, you gotta let, you gotta let back, back go.
I don't know, what do you think?
The guy with the Gucci bag tied on his shoulders.
Let it go, bro.
Yeah, so I'm like, do you agree?
Like, someone's got to step up here, but who is that?
Chee-choo.
I mean, that's just the obvious pick.
But, well, in terms of history, what we've seen from him,
but I think the real one is CB.
That dude's got to lock in.
He had some good rounds, but there were other rounds.
What is this guy doing?
Where is he positioning himself?
When he was playing the neon, he was
getting some good kills, and then it felt like every time he got something accomplished,
he just wanted more. He was sliding in so often and getting killed because of that.
Over pushes. I have concerns with that. If he just, I don't know, reigned it in by like
20%, 15% to 12.5%. I think also, we may be hyper focused on the players here, but actually
there's some of this that comes down to maps and theory and like what you're bringing in.
And I think one of the areas that EDG might be able to find an upset is by leaning into
the more unusual stuff that they were running during China.
And that means corrode and bind.
And I think bind has a decent likelihood of happening in this series because T1 also
loved to play that map.
And EDG run a really, really strange composition.
I'd love to take people through in terms of going into the Telstra.
Because have you ever seen a team on bind right now running Phoenix with the harbour?
So look at this comp, they're running smoggy harbour before the big harbour buffs that
we've just recently seen, alongside a double jewelless comp that has the phoenix.
So what's the theory here on the attack side?
Well as you can see they're going to use this new kind of whirlpool ability to block off
showers and that creates access into the showers area fairly easily actually on your attack
side for you to farm up ult orbs.
And who are the two people going in this direction?
Well it's the phoenix and the harbour.
So you're going to be able to get, you're going to be able to get Shower's control,
Belong control fairly easily with that new ability from the harbour.
And then what your comp also allows you to do, if I show you the mini map, is to be able
to get in more easily through Hooker.
So this, the fact that this comp has so many walls, we'll show it from the attackers perspective
here in just a moment.
Look at this, you're slicing off all of this area of the map.
It's also very difficult to go through this, I mean you could challenge it by trying to
swing through here with a flash or something like that, but it does allow you to do more
hooker waterfall strategies than you might otherwise be able to do with other compositions.
But I think the real power of it is something that EDG have figured out on their attack
side is that Harbour's ultimate now is monstrously effective from B long.
So this, you know, the new Harbour ultimate, it throws out a big wall that pushes forwards
and this is essentially going to cover the whole of the B site.
You couldn't do anything against this if you were trying to hard anchor on B.
So you already see though, within China, the Tai Lu, the team that they're playing against
here, are running a B retake wall.
They're just playing B for retake.
Really unusual idea in terms of buying setups generally, but when you're playing against
a Harbocomp that has the ult, you're not going to want to stand on site against this.
They're going to know where you are, they're going to be taking it away from you.
You can't even flood very well here because the high tide's up in your face.
They're using a Phoenix ult to completely make sure that they have the space.
And then they even have, because they know it's going to be a big 5v5 afterwards, they've
got a razor to be able to play for in the post plan too. Now this comp falls to
pieces on defense like almost any Harbour comp does though. We were watching Harbour
recently right when Liquid pulled out on Pearl and it doesn't look good on
defense but at least they've got some like cool theory ideas that could catch
T1 off guard on attack but it's it's cheese. Little cheese you know might be
might be okay unless you're lactose intolerant but of course so a lot of
pressure on this squad and they were feeling that when they faced up against the gentle mates we did get an opportunity to catch up with
Chichu you spoke to him about the loss of gentle mates in this HyperX player moment enjoy
So you have to do your own thing, and you have to make your own decisions.
These are all very dangerous.
So every step is very difficult.
But you still have to do it.
Because this is our game.
If we just do it, we can win the game.
I'm 100% sure I'm going to win this tournament because we're going to win the trophy.
I hope that after today's match, we can go even further and win the championship trophy.
There's a possibility they might not be playing for a trophy after this.
We asked a community in our MasterCard fan poll,
did you think any CN squads were gonna survive?
Oh, no, okay, never mind.
I guess that's a 0% chance at 63, 20% say 1,
and I'm assuming that one is XLG.
So, yeah, I mean, what do you guys make of this?
Well, I think it shows you how much the CN squads are underdogs, right?
Yeah.
And that means if they can land a big upset,
I think it would be the first huge upset of Santiago, actually, if EDG or XLG come away with a victory here today.
Alright, now before we get into the match-up, we need to figure out who's got the side selection.
So we have our 1v1 skirmish. Today it's going to be...
Whoa, Ezreal vs. Jenny?
Who, help me out here!
It's a crazy poll.
What is, what's going on? Who is this guy?
Alright, so when EDG won the World Championship, they had a play called Simon on the team.
They decided to drop him.
They decided to drop him. I won't go into the drama around that fair
But Jenny was the first player that they pulled in to try to replace Simon
Then that didn't work so they went for HFMI can't say the rest of his name
And then that didn't work so they went for CB. I didn't think Jenny was even still traveling with EDG
I didn't realize he was still a sub that went to master's events with them. Maybe it's just a skirmish
That's what they're not what I like the concept of flying out a substitute player
to just dial in place skirmish in the practice room every single day so you can win every side select
I actually don't think hate that idea considering the state ideas we've seen it in in the regions
You know we've seen the coaches play and I think like when you're talking regional battles
Maybe a little bit different but here every single advantage that you have in a Masters event matters
So I kind of got to go with the smart idea
Yeah, I mean he's pulling it back a little bit here, but Jenny the op is scandalous behavior as well
That's wild. Okay
What are we doing here, all right, I mean this is diabolical stuff
Oh man, I was rooting for Jenny, we were selling this narrative.
Julie won't be subbing in today.
Oh man, I'll be subbing in.
Well, we got our side so let's go ahead and see what's going on with the map picks and bans.
Take it away.
We're starting map selection for EDG against T1.
We already had skirmish T11, so you start choosing to be team A?
We team A. Team A is of team T1, team A, EDG, team B.
T1 starts Baniyama. We then call Kurod, Ben for EDG, Ben Briz.
Briz, net pick for T1.
We pick side on bind for EDG, defense, net pick for EDG, abyss, haven, pearl, or splitt?
We pick haven. Haven, side on haven for T1. Defense, defense, second set of band starting with T1, you have abyss, pearl, or splitt.
So we are getting that bind map where we illustrated the Harvard play.
First of all, just curious to see if they continue to run that comp.
Definitely might be incentivized to do so because Harvard's just straight up buffed
since they played it in that game you were doing the Telstra draw.
Now, that being said, I think T1's bind was looking phenomenal in their kickoff run.
They just played a straight up meta comp. They have the Yoru Waili,
but they were dismantling all the competition.
The last team they went up against was PaperX.
It was a super one-sided game and easy Zoru was outrageous
drop 29 for eight.
Oof, I mean look, you're going to be needing some Herculean performances
across the board here today because it's Elimination Day.
Only two teams are going to stay alive and the crowd is ready to go.
So let's go ahead and kick this bad boy off as day four of Masters Santiago starts right now.
And here we go as you have a matchup between two teams who faced off against each other,
Masters Bangkok two times and they traded wins but when it mattered most in the lower bracket final
It was T1 who got the better of EDG 3 to 1 now
This is where the pressure lies Wyatt a masters winning core team versus the core of a team that won
Champions and one of them is going to be going home this early in the tournament
Who can bounce back today can con con keep up that level of outrageous performance that he displayed in that
first match just trying to be the hero trying to get them over the finish line
couldn't do it but maybe it'll be enough today it must be so surreal for the T1
guys to look over on the other side of things that aspect is so cool to look at
but we start off on bind and I am so interested to see what that agent select
looks like but I would agree with you the T1 and their favorites here I think
they're the team that should be in the driver's seat during this game especially
We end up on split. That's the amount that EDG are really good struggling with.
I think it's going to be tough. It's going to be an uphill battle, a big upset if EDG wins.
If EDG are in one note unbind with this harbour, it feels like the usefulness of that comp will expire quick
and the meta-defining comp that is ran by T1 there should just be able to win over consistency throughout the entire game.
But when we get to Haven, again, it's just back on that man right there.
It gets to be on the chamber. It gets to be that primary offer.
How much of Autumn's understanding of T1's current playbook do you think is going to factor into this one?
Or did KDG bring enough unique ideas with the essential same core to the extent with the T1 squad
to make it a little bit different to throw Autumn off the set?
They definitely have changed a little bit since that Bangkok kind of era.
And I think it's not as much on KDG in my opinion, it's more on Munchkin.
The fact that you've changed the IGL and brought in a guy that does play quite differently.
They're not hardcore scrapping all the time, fighting, fighting, fighting like they previously were.
I think it will have adjusted to the point where having all of them as a coach on the other side doesn't give you like a deep insight into your opponent as much as you might think.
But it does also feel like on T1's side they know that Autumn likes to do the weird wonky stuff.
So they have to have that assumption and as we've been talking about them breaking down all this footage and gameplay,
Surely T1's been doing the same thing, seeing this Harbour play through and
I mean we saw how Harbour was kind of full flat yesterday on the defensive side.
We've talked about it a lot. This is going to be very interesting.
EDG need to figure out ways to clean this up.
Yeah, obviously it's a very different style from Team Liquid.
But look, we didn't see T1 show adaptability in that game against the very distinct style that they had.
Capable of showing that adaptability though. That was just an outlier.
I find that I would assume honestly that it should be easier to do against this cop than the way that team Liquid were approaching the game.
I really want to see if that man, NoMedia, can step things back up from having a real struggle showing against Liquid.
One of the multi-time trophy lifters globally in Valorant. That's rarefied air that he exists in.
And that first series is certainly not indicative of the level that he's shown years at this point.
Absolutely not. I think as well when you look at the other side of stuff, like EDG.
We're talking about them being the underdogs and of course they have that legacy of of winning an incredible world championship in 2024
I think it deserves a bit more credit perhaps and we're even saying that think about the other teams that were around at that time
You know Gen G your your sentinels. Yeah, you know the other squads that were around in twenty-two. They're not here
2024
Like, these top teams of that year, they're all gone right now.
They are not attending Masters tournaments.
EDG have managed, domestically at least, to still keep their head just above water
where they can make it to these events.
And if you can just get that push, you can wake up a few of these players
and remember what they were like a couple years back.
And EDG, they were headed into this tournament with some positive momentum.
Yes, they got knocked down to the lower, lower brackets in their run.
But they went on a run in that four series wings in a row to get here
And you have to feel like there was the potential for them to be peaking at the right time just off that streak off the confidence
They were going to get from that. Yeah, but they just ran into such a strong
Gentleman's team to open it. It's really fascinating
The juxtaposition between what we were seeing from the EDG prior to this and heck
I would even go as far as save T1 because look I'm gonna call a spade a spade when we went into that massive Bangkok event
There was no one in the world that was predicting D1 to win that whole thing.
So I'm seeing a team who won an event who was like,
oh my god, we did it!
Versus now, a T1 that carries way more confidence with them,
and it's the flip side for EDG.
They used to be the team that came in with all the swagger in the world,
but now it feels like they are lacking a little bit of that confidence.
Sure, I think that's reasonable framing.
I also do think though, in terms of early days here at Santiago,
So T1 will be more disappointed about being a 0-1 team than EDG.
I think because they've come in with a decent seeding, they would have expected to win that opener.
Well, I just got a little spoiler, which is the fact that EDG want to continue to lean into what works,
which is kind of picking up the AWP, playing the agents where that weapon is most useful.
Statistically, the Chamber has been his best agent this year.
They've swapped up, obviously, fully away from that horrible good.
This gives them a chance, I think, of this mind. I don't think I know. I absolutely agree with you
I think the solo Jules chambercom so we've been seen in America's run by teams like G2 100 teams
They've actually been immaculate RRQ's been doing it in Pacific
It gives you such an ability to control the tempo of the game folks the last time these teams met T1 sent EDG home at Masters Bangkok
Will history repeat itself? Let's set it back over to your casters. Here's pansy and Hypoq
this this feels like it needs to be redemption in my eyes might both of
these teams performing to a degree that I think is less than their potential so
far they've got to show me something here to warrant moving forward yeah I
think more so for me it's EDG on the side I'm so happy obviously to be coming
into the fight see some changes because again it was just it wasn't it wasn't
No, you didn't use that.
You used another word, but we're on now, so...
Okay, Joe.
The Compass agent selected production told us we are now live into the game of the defending side, EDG T1 on the attack.
We've got a set standard early, an adjustment in composition from EDG, which, as said, I think is a very good indicator, hopefully, that they are looking for adjustments at this point.
So the T1 already showing presence here towards B long, no contact elsewhere on the map, so
he's making moves just yet, but all the way on the top side already, EZ is going to find
G2.
Yeah, and it just feels like there's no side back man, EDG just get bullied, Kung-Kung's
here, but by now the plant's in, there's 5 on the site, they've got a deeper post
plant down long, where you meant to find that next layer in, it would be really hard to
to take away all of these crossfires that can be put in play so quickly.
I'm sure that's a 3 HP, but he's having to disconnect here,
and already Yuzu looking to wrap back behind EDG here.
Smoggy, hasn't made moves just yet through CT.
As gorgeous though, a proactive post, come on, I'll take that.
CT, not bad.
But it lost to Uncuncun here, down the 2,
she's starting to really lose in numbers, and the time,
and Yuzu with 4 in second kills.
That reposition, Mike, that's what I want to see.
Take the ball by the horns, get active, get involved.
And so much time to be something to get in there with EDG, just desperate to...
Well, somebody to overpeek on site.
He's covered into hooker here.
I mean, it has been the conversation of discipline throughout this tournament.
And to be fair, I don't think T1 are the first team that comes to mind for it.
But you're not going to get how many of them...
Yeah, exactly. So I think it's going to be interesting to see that as well.
I do want to touch base as we go throughout this.
It was a key issue with EDG, primarily.
the amount of times that his anti-ecos would slip away from them overpeaking, you know,
player disadvantage situations, or advantage situations they'd lose in.
I want to see that mentality just tidied up and, well, buzz up to a good start.
So, I come, come, that is, I don't want to say the floodgates open, there's still two players
to a shower, and Moggy's gone.
There's only one there now, so it's a little tougher to imagine this going any other way.
Nearly a CB, obviously still towards, I can take back to the showers, but...
...this little wait. Only classics on the way back in here for EDG3, left-standard.
Really break through and find an opening here, and Buzz just looking to farm up.
Once left on the table for now, CB the last to fight.
Those are lovely teammates to facilitate, he's on the right path.
Stax, come on, man! Stax! That's really unnecessary point.
Flash along with a court here, so I'm just gonna have confirmation with the power going back through.
Second flash will indeed confirm presence.
So you can put a player on that.
Yeah, I was gonna say still just two here, but now see if you can look into my moves.
I think I've confirmed two down long, but in the meantime, look at the sight here, buzzes in,
and okay, you are lucky the cheater is on the case, because they look absolutely dead to right there.
Nobody in the corner looking baffled as to what was coming.
and the mollyquist is about, Munchkin gets him.
Hold on, it's a 3v3.
This is a bonus for T1.
This was not meant to be the big threatening round,
but Chichu, the hero of the hour, goes down!
Meteor!
That's what I'm talking about!
Four big kills!
T1!
Getting the bonus in hand.
That's Meteor to find out.
Somebody struggled massively for that opening series.
They take away here, Convert of Bonus, 4-T1.
Initially, Chichu finding two freebies,
effectively on the way in here.
CB's slightly overstepping to the snake bite, which makes him basically a free beat in response.
We've got some big performance already, Paz sitting on 5-2, easy 4-1, Meteor 4-1, and Stax was the man who stood out to me earlier.
Well, yeah, Stax has got his scummy kill in his mouth at the time he is.
That is wild, we're calling it scummy kill.
I mean, it was, it's nothing.
Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong, it's just...
So, Kong Kong goes walking. He's had a little look down short, posted up for now. Not gonna get much play early.
One of that 3-1-1 spread throughout Bind.
And P1, very meticulous in approach thus far.
See how EVG wanna... maybe hold this again, you've got Bucky's, you've got...
...shelves that don't have Kong Kong.
A team on the money today, it feels like they've warmed up near...
Yeah, this isn't the round you'd imagine. Masses of work to be done, but I like that from CV, but it's just laboured Cheechoo on the case.
This guy's gonna be trying to pull up some naphthas here. Cheechoo is online! So smoggy! Baz tries to break the backline that they lost.
Gets it back in hand and now the spike can be recovered.
Smoggy's got an upgrade there, nobody's still on the bucky. We'll have a chance to hear the reset from T1.
Thanks to find it upgrade so
Thankfully a full 2v2 reset here
I will confirm the rotation plenty of time to find this karma. That's gonna be the issue for EDG
Oh, I was
How far munchkin was willing to go on this because obviously they might know about the dogma
I've heard that potentially, but they don't know if maybe
Smoggy had already started that rotation. It's not the case. You see the pinks here actually potentially look at the cat somebody with buzzes
Oh, maybe teeing up munchkin on contact here from elbow
It got dangerous and I like what he did you were trying to do they got in their faces
They weren't playing scared and that but it doesn't really make much difference here to you one keeping stable looking solid
And that's what I'm gonna be happy with it. They can keep this kind of clean approach. Lovely
Certainly threatened this
Teaching you again finding two kills. He's trying. Yeah
On the top of the board for EDG but nothing else to write home about
Closer and closer to some of these ultimates, but already with the investment coming from T1.
Firm leading that with guard. Same setup, once more.
Standard approach towards this B site holding.
T1 have found their point of weakness it would feel.
G2 somewhat kept this together last time, fighting two in the kind of cut,
But that's great from CB waiting to catch up the push up,
denied Bosley ability to springboard in, break that front line for it.
So, Eiji have held off the first wave.
Yeah, great learning on the fly here, just to duck inside that smoke.
Don't know how that initial burst towards site.
T1 having backed away though.
They're still going for this one, and there's no additional rotations coming out.
If you're happy enough with the three here for Eiji.
He's playing black.
A little bit further back on this.
T1 really looking for a fight.
That's the one. The swing from CB, they felt dangerous.
And again, taking risks when they still had information to be used.
I don't like this. They've made something out of nothing. The rotations are on the way.
That's a raise of miles away.
Yeah, I... I'm getting a little bit nervous if this is what I'm seeing now.
But there's still a chance. There's Kung Kung, Smoggy. They want this one back.
Stacks with five seconds until he gets maybe the horn if he even gets a chance to use it.
The tucked inner corner.
How will they read this plant, though?
They take it all the spam connecting.
They're just gonna play this calm. Can he get one for free? That's the question! Yeah, he can! The second one's Kong Kong!
Surely not again! Stacks can't do it! Kong Kong can!
And EDG are finally on the board! I got insanely nervous seeing last win from Backsite, though.
The challenge into CT here.
Energy is so far, I don't know if T1 are thinking maybe somebody's already up close and personal.
Getting the challenge.
Wasn't really necessary here.
Energy allowed a way back in to this retake.
Wait, that was to kill?
I thought CB was maybe just spamming into that.
It was literally one bullet.
Oh, excuse me, I'm working.
MISE!
Zee will post their first year.
Do have a couple of these ultimates available
to come into round six.
The pit, the orbital strikes.
Zee being nobody, actually, just want to wait.
Not pretty close.
Finally getting back in, and then getting proactive.
It looks like flashdown.
Do they then go for a fight?
He's just caught.
Yeah, terrible timing, utility at hand,
and rewarded for Zee B.
Good trade for lunchkin, though.
Not going to let that go unpunished.
The ZV was already basically halfway out of there and Jack spammed Meteor on the punish
and now nobody looking vulnerable.
Look how far away the other players are, they're going to notice President's high flash but
he just wants a backpedal.
No, he's sticking around.
I don't know what he was hoping for there, but that probably wasn't it, four players
to the two and the site is very much T1's.
Give this up almost, the operator in hand for Cancan.
Two big investment to risk here when they're already up against it in terms of the finances.
T1 probably already reading that very well with
how deep Neteal is exploring towards CT now Teteal
tagged up only, down to 89. Plenty of time left to find these kills Lauren.
Yeah they're going for a team. Teteal will hold it at least for now but you're looking to buzz here
and there is a slower approach from Munchkin. I don't know if that's going to come in
either but let's see, I think that...
Woo!
Alright.
Alright.
Thunk up.
I don't know if we're on a show, but it doesn't change the round outcome.
I don't know if Munchkin gets LOS on this.
I think he's just trying to angle it.
Alright.
So, it looks like...
He keeps the operator, okay?
I swear I was making real sure on that, but 5 to 1.
I also just feel like HIDG on getting the information they want early.
I I don't know how they want to go about finding that again and just looking at the timing of rotations
They've been behind the curve a little bit and then with nobody kind of overstaying is welcome. Yeah, it sounds out plastic
Maybe I'm trying to allow him time to back all the way into CT because she's already there
There's no reason for an extra body to fall here
You can see how quickly at that point. It's just yeah, we're gonna say we have to say
Yeah
I and again
I want to see how they probably solve getting that early information because I don't mind that they kind of went for that aggressive start
I'm sure on B traded out one point in the end, but that's not reliable enough
I think I want to see them try and be a little bit more fluid with those rotations here
So just check it in
With the coin base win condition as we can kind of see the flow of things. It's pretty one-sided
Yeah, I think probably coming out this time now the week edition for them is going to be building a plan around these ultimate slow
And they've already been able to stack these up at a four-round deficit
Yeah, maybe not here in the buy round for sure
but there needs to be something proactive on the side of EDG. We're sending probes out,
and you see them swing out from hooky here, but a little bit bristed. CB's immediately out there,
there's no contingency, somebody can't have swing in that. Like you said, I think I believe Munchkin
likes the media on that trade, and unfortunately then CB's caught transitioning back out of hooker.
So yeah, for me, certainly the response I'd like to see here on the defense from EDG.
They're abusing this. Yeah, to make use of some of these ultimates in the next few rounds at least.
That's a tough start if you're looking at the mini map. Now how long does Cheechoo get to play this?
Oh, well, now I know.
Time to try and do something.
and get my account, shockingly.
Sight is going T1, Ezreal's there, they've got a nice moly towards CT, he's got safety to pop out.
So they get the plant, and it is a 5v4.
Now, a frenzy, couple of upgraded pistols for no much, it's basically mostly really Kung-Kung at this point
to try and do something, nice flash, and of course away the first layer, CB then takes some steps.
Most of this post-plant is towards Long, but then look at the space between the next players coming through.
Luckily, Kung-Kung lands a great shot, Mithril is now in no man's land.
Asset back into Watuka, Ezreal next, point of contact.
Kung Kung's found him again.
Okay, that's a second-body drop.
He got some more of that, Kung Kung.
That's just back towards long.
Yeah, gonna catch nobody.
And this is where they kind of, you know, the fun stops, right?
This is where they start really tightening up that post-plot.
Ah!
Another?
I mean...
That's of course.
It doesn't change the outcome,
but it certainly looks pretty T1, though.
Again, they found a pressure point.
They're not really letting up.
issue being buzz is going to have a second all to a by round a huge, huge tool in terms
of site executions here, especially with EDG hanging around to contest these site hits.
And it becomes a thing in my head of like, okay, when we put come come towards B, when
we start trying to make him move around the map, and then is that the time that you on
decided to flip it up and change things around, right? But I feel like you've got to try and
get this man active because these three players are not holding this B site and you've got
to find something faster. You're
didn't change what the round's
going to look like. And once
again, we're seeing similar
scenes. Yeah, let's hit the site.
Can't come to the home again.
He's going to be able to connect
on the flash here. They won't
necessarily tell them anything
different about any other round.
They are trying to play towards
belong at least like I prefer
this, but then I want to see what
the layers are from T1, right?
This means that, okay, B is not
free and available. Cool. So
So let's see how the rest of the map feels.
We're gonna have to deal with getting past Kong Kong, potentially,
because we haven't seen anything else.
And I like the rotation.
This is better for me, DG.
They've gone proactive on the X-ray and T down B long.
Freed up, nobody.
Has got Seekers.
So this could be incredibly useful,
a 3-2 split towards the A site.
Three through shower.
Smoggy's gotta be careful there,
because he's in a fairly committed position.
Does that have the trap?
He might have the TP as well.
Flash.
Here we go.
Come on, come on, come on, face it forward.
TP's back, and Smoggy's blind as anything.
You can't find a shot in time.
And Alcum, come, come, delete him!
T1, this is masterful from them!
I've got to say it, I'm loving what I'm seeing.
Initially, I put it to EDG for not adapting well enough,
but T1 are looking like they are on point today, Mike.
And it's almost like they're not expecting
some of this investment to come.
They're in positions that, like I said,
Smoggy is fully committed here, has the trap.
Yeah, but what do you fall back to?
Malcolm's got so much control from TopTruck that you can't just rely on him in this scenario.
And they just absolutely buckle under depression that T1 are able to apply.
Still no solutions found.
And if anything, that's compounded the problem of, oh, he hit the side of Malcolm.
Was that? We hit the side that had the third player on it. There was that rotation from nobody.
They were there. They had the right read.
still just instantly fell apart as you said maybe smoggy
point of position that didn't really favour them you can see where he died even on the minimap there
it's just there's no backing from that so T1
I'm very impressed with this T1 side they had an explosive start sure but they have been
largely in control for this since that point forward I haven't
seen a robust reply from EDG
You just know what the discussion was in that time out
I can just look at some of these kills
There I say that
Seemingly three once actually get through the Joe point like unless they stop them in showers there and there's a plan in place to
Really secure that
He could stay alive the pit's gone down buzz is playing insane right now. He is deadly man
concon
I mean, they do much with this. He's still lingering around.
They might have a good idea. Yeah, they're a crowd there. Absolutely.
Pop flash on it. They're going to go hunting. Kong Kong's falling. T1.
They are sharp. They know exactly what T1 would, excuse me, what EDG would like to do.
None of it's working for EDG.
The flank considered potentially by Stax as well. Yeah.
Simply simple stuff for these boys. This is their bread and butter.
Nobody in Smoggy.
Have fun, I guess
Slip into the pits loggy last one standing now noted munchkin
Remove his head an 8-1 scoreline here
PDG
Mountains to climb to get back into this now and she won't hit in this sort of pace time and time again
Oh that reveal timing. She's got to know he's dead then
It's heartbreaking because what two rounds ago we were looking at basically all five ultimates available
And he's you've got nothing from it. They call a second timeout here in round ten
I guess we could then discuss a little bit of the comfort in this composition
But when your coaches look like that, I'm not well again this issue
I was happy to see the change, but whether this is just kind of a knee jerk reaction
In terms of some of the win conditions in terms of getting CB into a position at least on the defense here to play it
aggressively, at least trim the fat a little bit. I mean, at this point, hell, go for a trade. Just,
just get a kill. Get a kill on somebody. Ahead of sponging a site here.
Yeah, before Buzz is on site, try and get a kill. But it's easy for us to say that, obviously,
it's easy in this position when we get to see everything. But there's not much stopping T1
when they're playing like this. Exactly. We've seen the strength of these boys.
But the issue being they're going to sit back and watch this half just pass them by.
That's the devastating part, right? We were talking about redemption and that resilience.
EDG are a world-class team. They are not doing that now. That's the difference.
Issue being as well, what we saw previously on Haven from EDG, again, they just looked
kind of lost for answers, right? Their go-to wasn't working.
And then where's the adaptation? You get a few rounds from Kung-Kung and
talk about it not being kind of something you can repeat over and over again,
as much as you'd like to say otherwise.
look and that's the the issue is solid I guess series and teams were seeing now
is the brutality of unactualized potential as you said this might be EDG
watching this half pass them by and for T1 they are firmly in control of the
momentum the default just see if they can identify any overaggression that
could be the solution that EDG wanted to go to right here that makes it harder for
EDG right they are going to be behind the curve in every possible solve they
you come up with. T1 now finally expecting the aggression. Easy with a scope in hands.
Smoggy. Pretty snappy shot onto him. Okay, that's good. You've got a man in advantage.
You don't need to do anymore, right? We can chill now. I don't want to see this. I don't
want to see this. I really don't want to see that! T1! Why? There was no need in the G.
You had the advantage. You had two players off. Okay, they can deny the plan at least
for 45 seconds. Munchkin's got his own. He's still got a more. He's still got two smokes.
And he does have stacks by his side as well. Oh, dear stacks! He's on it!
EVG breaking their own hearts! Man, they had that one in the bag!
T1 drift into these sidelines on a short. And again, they're looking to punish the other side of the default, which is just...
That's a dream, if you're T1. You're not meant to catch them walking like that.
It's not meant to happen.
They call that a shot from smoking was beautiful.
Yeah.
It's like CB's court here.
Just he's not even ready for this engagement
as they're about to walk out.
He's setting up to be the one to slide into the open.
Very bizarre.
That that will kind of shatter the mental of EDG now.
Yes, we're talking about a high caliber team.
have tons of experience, but
sounds like that where you feel right.
We're off the starting block
and it just gets ripped away from you.
Recover anything, a buffer, right?
Give me enough that you can make it through a pistol round
on the second half.
I'll take that.
So they're going best, smoggy deeper.
You're hoping for a one and done.
Maybe then allow Kong Kong to come into effect.
Yeah, it's playing with the rifle here,
but it's going to be the full force of T1.
one easy it's going to be up to reveal absolutely everything that's going on here it's so simple
T1 this is just systematic domination and Joe they're pulling no punches why would you
at this point they won the job done they're rough start to things and they're not going
to let it happen again T1 are in form Mike it is just lovely to see they're just so efficient
of this composition in terms of
Izu and Buzz just finding value
round after round.
A flawless round to get to 10.
And look, this is T1's map, you know,
but this is not what you wanted to see.
This is not what you wanted to see.
This could have been a great, great elimination game.
So far, I feel like EDG are on the server.
And I like EDG. We know the highs of this team.
I can't stress it enough.
So it buzzes about to get stepped on as well.
God, he's 15 to 6.
Yeah, he's just playing lights out right now.
Look at me up there, Michael.
Yeah.
Michael, why is there three of them?
Yeah.
OK, we've found one.
Again, because they're reading this like that, they're like,
guys, you have to push us, right?
Yeah.
You've got to take space somewhere.
You can't keep playing on this kind of like passive line,
just gambling and guessing.
And he's going to take way out of that,
but gonna note that there's a push down towards Shua.
Shua. Shua. Shua. Shua.
So gonna take the extremity on that. That's fine.
Now we don't need to overextend. We've got a little bit of info.
Let's see how T1 wanna react.
Right, whether they wanna then put their attention towards.
Let's wait out for rifles. Now...
Stacks and Munchkin with their ultimates to invest here.
Gigi getting curious on the other side now.
That could be an issue, depending on timing, yeah.
I like this so far, actually, but it was deep on the enough. I like what they're doing, but sadly, Buzz is just breaking backs out here, man. Straight away, he's got so much value every time.
Oh, look at that. Oh, my god. It's just too good. It's just too good, and then Ezreal wants to try and capitalize, and again, you can understand the intent.
Counter-Strike's insane there.
Hold up. Chichu's in a great position here, but it's actually going to be done. The damage being done elsewhere.
Down to a 1v1. Stacks up against Chichu.
An opportunity for a piece of silver lining to potentially fall to EDG's hands.
And Chichu could have walked this out.
He does get a stick around too close.
Allows Stacks the chance to find a quick kill, not to beat.
Aunt has to go for it.
Down here, we'll cut line inside Chichu.
Won't be able to pressure this.
Might just spot the edge of it.
The confidence is going to be on Stacks' side, but the HP is on Chichu's.
to get a step closer still a
sees and the horn in hand.
It's playing on the corner
spots nothing yet and then the
penny should drop right about
now.
There it is.
Stax turns, looks for it,
can reposition well.
He's playing ring a ring a
Rosie.
Which he drastically are
everything.
Oh dear.
It's there for Stax.
T1 looking untouchable.
My just absolutely insane to see
them operate this level.
So little answers similar again a much worse storyline for the similar thing we saw in the opening series
That next level of adaptation never really came from them and we were waiting
We were waiting and hoping we would see it simply did not come in in time or a tool 11 to 1 to scoreline
I'll go anyway.
Can I help you, sir?
Here's the bill from the dealership where I got my car,
and I'd like you to beat it with a better deal on one of these fine cars.
Not how it works.
I guess you're not as cool as Verizon.
Bringing your AT&T or T-Mobile bill for a better deal today.
I can see your soul, I can see your soul, eh?
Hmm
La puta mirada ahi oh
Los casters están acá
No parpade en no por puede o quieres
Me gusta me gusta como San Ries eh
Y que hacen los casters a y
Hmm
Que es
If you're tuning in for a bimer of a game, I'll have to wait for the second.
Yeah, unfortunately, there's just very little to pin hope to on the side of ELEG.
I think it's a good one.
Unfortunately, even with that
previous composition.
They struggled massively on the
attack, so.
Yeah, first half is anything to
go by.
Be a flash in the pan here.
Is she being out again?
We'll talk even when we get
there, but it's it's not
necessarily as if this gets any
easier. No, it's only doesn't
and I think if I'm looking at
Maybe just get a player feeling good to get them online.
I just didn't have bad points necessarily, but it wasn't just an individual problem.
And T1 can take really chances.
They can take an aggressive start and they can hunt down Kung-Kung,
which is a deadly sentence to say, but when you're hitting shots,
high-fives has been, I don't blame you for going for it.
Leedy G already looking battered and bruised coming away from that.
I'm sure you will lurk all the way up long, but again,
it's he meets your already positioned towards heaven
in anticipation, they've conceded this space
and he's going to catch G2.
Really good understanding from T1,
he needs you to can turn away from this,
and that's a fair fight, actually,
a CB1 in and gets some control,
wants to get the sheriff, gets it too full,
it's two targets, can't find him,
Stacks with a double, triple, for Stacks!
Oh, dear! Blink, and you'll miss this game.
I'm trying to pick up the pace a little bit here. Catch T1 off guard, but the contingency
in the form of meteor. And even here they get the sound due confirmation of Kankang.
And T1 is happy to go forwards. Set peace with the flash off EZ. Simple as you like.
Well, Stingers, sheriffs.
You might force it.
What do you think?
Big work for the analysts right now.
Okay, Munchkin's got a judge and he's got no fear at all.
CB put to his grave and he's not backing down.
There's no reason to. There's no fear at all shown.
Munchkin just pumping damage and he's a staggered guard.
It's gorgeous! T1 just put it on a show!
Wrap it up! 13-1! T1! They are not going home yet!
They want to stay here and they have shown why.
EDG barely are looking this time. Not a single player breaking double digits.
Quiet throughout. So it's time for them to figure it out.
is on the horizon and they need that to work or this one will be over before you know it.
One man down the line!
What a true involved!
And why he's hunting down that time?
The time to read the next chapter in the Esports history books is finally here.
And they fall into the turns yet again!
He straps up to the plate and he can knock this one out of the park!
Now they shall be in great alongside the plate!
Gen. Lee here with T1's KDG. Now that was the T1 we know and the T1 we wanted to see.
In your last series against Team Liquid, you guys talked about how you struggled to adapt to the neon way-lay from them.
But that is not the problem you're going to have with EDG here today.
So do you feel like that is the reason you guys were in full control of the game today?
And we're still trying to get used to the big stage and to the new environment, I think people, the players are feeling a lot more comfortable on stage and that might explain our good performance, and also comp-wise, we're still kind of trying to adapt to the neon way-lay, but yeah, it did help a bit with what happened in map 1.
one now thank you so much KDG and hope you guys keep it up and you blink you
missed it that's right folks dirt team to one you heard coach KDG there say
and we weren't feeling too comfy on the stage but I think they're feeling pretty
damn good now after the shellacking Wyatt that they just gave EDG just
highlight real stuff from every player on T1 they boiled them they dashed them
they scrambled them, they turned them into a super homogenous that's on the stage floor down there.
Okay, that's a...
They're just gloop, they're just gloop on the floor.
Ocals wasn't ready for that visual, but you know what though, there is something to be said though just about how Wyatt T1 were playing this.
We were seeing brilliant executes out of them, the thing that was happening to them in the series that they had against Team Liquid,
they were doing against EDG, overwhelming their opponent and leaving them with little to no option.
They're incredible on these attack sides, running this hard meta comp.
They're one of the best teams with it.
You can see every single time they're getting into these sites,
the sequences of utility were just so nice.
So many times going into sites that had multiple player anchors, three stacks,
and they were just dismantled like the defenders didn't even have guns.
Like they felt like they couldn't even shoot back.
Even when you saw adjustments, like flashes, everything, right?
Even when you saw adjustments though, right?
It wasn't enough because they would just find another pivot that they would move to
and then they would find a way to exploit that.
Yeah bro, where were the adjustments?
Kankang spent most of the game just AFK on A.
They didn't try to post them up on Rukor and it didn't.
I mean, this round, look, this one's a fun one.
They go for the pit in this round and, oh, apologies.
This is a different one, but again, look at Kankang.
He is almost AFK essentially, holding short
in a lot of these positions as T1 group on the opposite side
and they're just looking to overwhelm.
It's it's very difficult when the whole point is that the chamber supposed to be a big threat all around the map
And he's just static you one position that he won't get around it so easily. Yeah, so I mean listen, I don't
brother also
The five on three's that were being lost as well. Yeah, just
Frustrating because it's not like they weren't in very winnable positions in these rounds
It's something you were talking about before heading into this game. There was an issue in the prior
But it's like five on threes and then over pushing the one time in hookah
They get two kills on short and then there's three players pushing out of hookah. They just get gobbled up
It's an actually insane decision again on B. We saw the clip in that reel
Where CB just jumps up into hookah and dies after you go in five on three
Needs to be mentioned as well. Can we talk about plus his impact even what he had five first kills
He was all up in their face all up in the grill non-stop gave no room to breathe that way
They was just oppressive and there was just nowhere for the and again
You're just seeing on the executes when he's going in how much utility is being placed for him to get those kills
That round where they countered the vipers pit down short Insta they know it's coming because they have the alt
Hot goes over the top instant double-dash just free kill fighting in that pit when the Viper gets lit up by that initiator
Util, all of the other big execute rounds, the flashes from Izu so well placed in all
of those moments.
IZU was amazing.
Late in the half when they just started steamrolling over that A side, they just are so good on
mind man.
Yeah, they are good on mind.
I mean, we're looking forward to Daven and maybe the Kang Kang operator having much more
value over there, but I'm just looking at the way that they navigated the Kang Kang
up in this attack half thinking they're just going to do something similar again.
Yeah.
So where he is, avoid him, hard hit the site.
And now they have three lanes that they could just kind of work around the map, but it's
a bigger map than Bind, so they can move wherever they want.
I think EDG have to really step up their ability to make Hong Kong's positioning a threat.
And I will say, I absolutely expect that to be the case on Haven, because they have been
playing this Haven cop.
They, in kickoff, had some good defensive setups.
I think we saw some good setups the other day.
They're definitely more dynamic.
for Bind, they changed it off the harbour stuff, presumably just had less time to add
some density to their strat book as far as how they're setting up that defense.
So they should be better on Hayes.
Speaking of that strat book though, let's actually send it over to Jen Lee.
She's getting an opportunity with Autumn to hear his thoughts ahead of map 2.
Jen with Autumn of EDG.
Now Autumn, instead of the triple controller on Bind, you put Kong Kong on the chamber,
giving it a little bit of a change in composition.
And it seems like the general theme for EDG here
in Masters, San Diego.
So heading into Haven, where you do run the chamber as well.
What are some adjustments that you can make
so that you get more value out of Hong Kong
and its operator?
where Chambers is absent at. They really need to be aggressive and really should
head but that didn't really happen on bind but when it comes to Haven we are
well prepared we're prepared to work as a team to make the struts work around the
Chambers so I think we could put up a better performance. Thank you Adam and
good luck. I agree that they'll probably have a deeper strap book in order to put
up a better performance on Haven. At the moment though they're tied in terms of
least rounds won at a global event with MIVR in Toronto. So that would only happen if they
got 13-0, obviously they would tie with 19, but you know, you haven't had a great experience
out here yet. Buzz trolling a little bit with the veto hover for a second and then, oh no,
I will be playing the neon actually, but this is all about getting Kangkang in better positions.
And honestly, I feel sad saying that because they should have way more win conditions, a
team like EDG. And yet, the only one that we've seen this tournament at all is Kangkang
has to play like a literal god to send it on to earth and I'm going to need CB on
this map to rain it in man because he had those moments on by where he was
trying to do too much yeah way of damages by being caught and we saw that
on Haven the other day this has to be his best map of this tournament so far or
else EDG will be going home early. EDG needs to dig deep but T1 just needs to
stay the course let's send it over to your casters Pansy and Hypoch for the
call. So far it feels in Santiago there is nowhere to hide if there are issues
they are seen if you have weaknesses they are exploited and EDG just got
basically what could have been an email on map one. Basically it is completely
absent from that first map the issue being well I'd say the positive right
EDG are starting on the attack. They're going to have the ability to come in here
And basically a doctor they have to what they struggled massively versus gentlemaze was the downtime coming up with some sort of
Decision in the mid-round. Well, they're a player down players did a good. It didn't matter. They were just lacking ideas
Very concerned for the defensive half here, but I guess I'm sorry to T1 if they don't feed into that then allow EDG to
Build any sort of snowball
Alongside CB and can-can
maybe there's still hope. There's a big difference in players at this caliber when met with a brutal beginning, you can pick yourself back up.
There, Chichu has done just that. That's where he's gone. Picking up where he left off, Chichu, with you to really put numbers up on that first map.
map and there wasn't many.
True, Munchkin can't be reserved with utility but the investment there to try and stall out any sort of springboard
instantaneously towards B. And in the meantime, T1 re-clearing potentially towards garage.
And I think they might catch a body here on Chichu. Let's see, no, Chichu's still standing.
Okay, man, Chichu! I guess he's going to try and do what he can.
If it's on his shoulders, so be it. But a 3v2, Munchkin, ah, dead to right.
that's all on stacks now. They
should have this. 22 HP. They
should have this. You're right.
All good. All right. There we
go. E D G matching map one
score. The bar is set now for
improvement. Help me, Michael.
trying to be nice. I don't
I mean, Gigi does really well to fight two more in Garage.
Even so, Team One WeatherCryptor almost catched EDG in mid in their pivot.
But a sigh of relief here. Pistol round on the board.
Finally get some guns.
So surely they get the second.
There is a stack towards A-long.
That's four players there.
Oh dear, that's a bulldog.
If he recovered, I think he should be able to.
Nobody's near enough that he could potentially go and grab it, but they're really repositioning.
I like this. They're looking for those small win conditions, those small moments, and they might find another here.
Nobody is going to fall. Cheechoo falls!
This is not what I want to be seeing. It's a 3v2.
Come, come, come, Smoggy. Smoggy's turned around.
Thank God for Kong Kong! Thank God!
the game. It's a good one.
God as meteor was the one who
wasn't with that four play pack
of players. And by all rights,
this should be safe. It should
be. Can't scope in hand. Yes,
they five HP, but there's no
way to get sour this smoke,
right? Well, it's too defined.
There we go. Thank God for
Can't come. Everything's fine.
That's all you need. Everything
around one of your players to
I'm going to be a little bit
naughty with it right. Play
those four plays. That's like a
really big risk. Get really
active. Do you know that you
going to feel a little bit
shaky? Absolutely. Yeah, you
want to absolutely apply
pressure in these early rounds.
Force EDG into recovery mode
once more trying to fire him up
though. Kong Kong is not going to
let this one slip without at
least trying. See if there's
a bit sketchy a big reinvestment here 3dG buzz on the hunt
Tuck up here deep on a long
So we'll enable some rotations come through actually gonna
Confirm here with the drone down through sewers as well
They can still
Sponge the hit is the next part, but they've done really nicely at getting some extremity information
I don't know if that album is...
The drone did not spot him.
Oh no.
Well, Yuzu, you have been given a gift.
And that might deny a little bit of an input movement.
Oh, Yuzu!
That's stunning!
And the mistake gets punished.
And frustration surely for EDG.
Is that could have been a lovely step in the right direction.
The two heavy hitters thus far though still alive.
Look at Kong Kong's HP.
Yeah, barely.
11 HP here, Buzz still controlling the space elsewhere, I mean they would need a miracle
to get a spike out of this situation.
Yeah they would.
And again you look at the crossfires, Hong Kong good as you may be, I don't think you
can get much play into this, you might get one but it's then getting spiked, getting
any further, I mean it would be legendary if he does.
Again, the map still feels completely in control.
I think they're just trying to live as long as they could.
Not going to happen, Munchkins.
Already taking away Kong Kong.
As Cheechy's options become zero.
And he is being hunted down, as you can already see, Buzz.
There's still going to be some money for the buy here.
If Cheechy can hold onto this rifle, well, he's A-buy.
Buzz is getting closer. I think Cheechy's heard it.
Cheechy, can you hold onto this?
It's a prize possession. He's done well there.
And I think he should be safe for now.
So, EDG, going to have to bow out of this one.
And again, a mistake with the alderone, basically.
Yeah, because they're looking to pop with this dart,
because they're confident that close has been...
Oh, my God, they're so close as well.
And that's, you almost just drawn the eyes towards the link.
That's why they pop off this recon towards backside.
Absolute confidence in the utility, but...
Very small mess, and it's a disaster for EDG.
Hi, back in we'll be shaky.
Yeah, CB trying to play ahead of this with Smoggy, Ezhu really close by.
I don't think he- Oh, what a turn from Ezhu!
One HP not going to be able to live any further!
In the meantime, Baskort, Cheechu down, so the numbers are sitting very well with T1!
Up for the brawl, up for a fight, they bring into a BV2.
EDG at least have some safety in space, they don't know how much so yet.
We need to get the spike and reset a bit.
For the HP though, T1 can wait this out, CB down to 51, Kung Kung at 72.
I'm expecting T1 to come barreling back in to secure this position.
Again, just question marks elsewhere, it was fairly all in from EDG towards Lobby.
Both rifles here, I mean if Munchkin's full on challenging towards Long,
to open up the A-Sight.
I think he certainly could.
I'm just playing relatively safer now,
but when does that want for information
start to, now, it's there,
and he's actually got the drop on him.
Ooh!
A con convo, hits a great shot.
He gets to recover a little bit of that HP down to 39.
That's all, not going to utilize it,
and he looks for the fight.
Spots him out, this has to be clean,
and it's not Meteor's there!
Nice stuff from T1, again taking risks,
but taking names.
Beautiful crunch.
immediately even there with the
paranoia you're just so worried easy
who's not going to find anything off
that yes it sets the rest of the play
in from long yeah easy to so well to
adjust it you see what he sees it it's
the ping on the recon adjustment is
beautiful for the numbers just
favoring see one of this situation
and with a great catch but the damage
is already done early on. It's a really, really tough 1v1 to win. Stacks like in what you see in.
That's two big rounds. They've gone quite close as well. That's quite hard for EDG2 to play that.
I mean, fine. Back into this map for sure. Yes. To the forceful we've popped here by Kankang,
which we'll probably send T1 a little further back to a passive hold.
The ultimate's coming online here.
Both sides got the Hunters' Fury for stacks in the TP for Izu.
Come on, come on.
Gonna apply a little bit of pressure here towards mid.
Ooh, she's gonna be caught there off the dropside, but I see Smoggy better on the span.
That's lovely. That's a big pick there.
So nobody looking to clear garage this time, meticulous.
Let's get Info and Munchkin. They don't quite know about Buzz yet.
That operator is in play, yet to rattle off a shot, so if they try and scale through garage with some commitment, it could end in tears.
It's all just because of so many problems on a couple of these key angles in garage.
Again, creates a question mark for EDG to play behind.
I don't think you have to get the info on Hongkong's whereabouts, but Stax wants this.
And Justin really checks, that's really nice.
That does allow for the rotation from Meteor to come in as well.
They've got at least two bodies here. So do they want to try and hold on site? They do try and play back slightly
They're gonna go forward CB couldn't get his gun out in time meteor and stacks make a mincemeat of EDG
And now stuck towards long they have to bank or maybe cheat you've given them something be already highlighted much kids making it really hard to work here
Should cast you through here
Absolutely does for the course of time from skill. I don't do damage
Oh, no, there's no options and nobody left with nothing to do but die T1 just in control
just all over the place for me to try to basically hit two different sites here after taking casualties
I love that little recheck from stacks as well the algorithm not enough to really quell that
Yeah, they're involved here, but CB again is just full confidence.
And it's just totally racking on the other end of that.
He said maybe just reading that it is just one player towards A, but even so, it's a role of the dice.
As soon as you see the nano pop there.
Not really an opportunity to cancel, but CB's just not quick enough.
And the other team, Basman over, over delivering, already taken to a cheat you, freeze up those
rotations, back towards stack it out B with his attention from the utility, CB again it
was a wild attempt, nobody great shot but again their bodies are here.
It's scrappy at the best of times, they've got themselves again in a 2v2.
Oh they're actually an attempt to cover the spike here but it was a little misdirection
yeah.
Oh it's so sick for Munchkin.
He's always seen both. Smoggy is dead, Muskin outdoes him.
That's just beautifully done here. The misdirection from the pit is there to catch them immediately.
That's so good from him. Just understanding the opponent's wants.
He knows the desperate, right? Yeah.
Oh, CBL East here finds the open.
A couple of beautiful shots coming out from EDG.
Just can't get across that second or third hurdle within the mid round.
The loads of ults here for EDG, though.
So much to play with.
So what the operator here for Buzz, for me, is the issue.
One player on the other side of the safety line is CB trying to posture up a little bit.
Trying to clear through short.
That's why he's spotting his thing.
Look at the challenge B here.
Munchkin just greets CB.
Yeah CB hoping that maybe it just wasn't actively on that but they now know there's
no bodies behind it.
They didn't quite get contact on A along with that out drone but they're not really willing
to back away.
They still have five players up and a couple of volts to play with but meteor now goes walking finds another body drops it
Can't come on the trade, but the numbers now sitting very nicely for T1. They still have Munchkin in a great position here
He was just so happy with these sorts of rounds, but they can just swing back and forth
Catch a player here and there
I'm trying to make progress towards a but there's still two players from T1
Well, look how deep Buzz is. He's got nothing on the other side of the map. So they can
put bodies to this. They'll leave Munchkin just to be safe on B, basically, maybe just
holding case there is that late lurk or a late slip. But they can just leave these two
players with 20 seconds. Chichu gonna catch a chance, but that's that flindle now. 17
seconds. Where do you go? Look who's in spawn. Buzz is waiting and easy. You gotta pull the
there it is the crowd started to kick up but with eight seconds they've got the
wrap on them they can't even go back down below or down middle should I say
boss was waiting this is just a massive from T1 Mike they are in such good
control of this game. TTT again just not quick enough to make a decision here
similar issue like I said they struggled massively in the downtime when
gentlemen were calling freezes previously here on Haven they're just
doubting themselves a little bit of split focus alongside that just leads to
disaster after disaster. Five unanswered now EDG will call a timeout.
I also quite like how adaptable T1 would be to an extent. We're seeing a dash of
aggression down middle of there from Meteor who saw that push down C long with
the operator. These small things are just keeping that map information perfect
for T1. It's risky. You're putting bodies on the line to get information but it's
working wonders as you said with that little hesitation from EDG of where
They want to end goal to be it's just perfect for T1. This is just lovely so a timeout not too surprising
Edgy need answers a good start. They found the first two but well from this point onwards
It's been all T1s obviously the coin base win condition here
Yeah, that's we've obviously said the win condition wants more is piecing something together around these ultimates
We need to see them go towards something they practice some of this well-drilled and just execute a game plan
Yeah, because right now their understanding of what's going on around the match
just isn't solid enough for them to sit in this default rely on potentially
Kang Kang or CB to find openers that aren't really well invested. T1 are just
winning out those engages like I said they're happy in those sorts of rounds
especially Armageddon much considered 10-3 already he's had a light sale start
to Haven. And it's nice to see this for T1 because look they had a really hard
game to start with I think it was closer than people in kind of walkway if they
only saw the scoreline of it in certain extents I think they played a decent
enough game but at this point this is elevation from them and I like seeing it
and here's some more versatility for you buzz willing to go for an opportunity
oh it's rewarded again nobody gone and that is a quick first blood about the
one-minute 35 mark
piece of something to get a hero less of purchase. That's a big investment. That's a big kill though.
Munchkin going to go down but Buster holding space. He just sits ahead. It takes off EDGs.
C1. They are everywhere EDG want to go. Building masses of momentum now.
Still have the pit. The Hunters fury to work with here for EDG. They'll be coming back in on the
by round. There's so many people. On the other side of that peak.
Set up one outside window and I'm begging EDG now. I think we all are. It's just
they don't have many tools so you'd hope they just stack up and try and play these trades but
again. We'll take Kung Kung out of the round. Again, low hanging fruit, but that's the guy
you look to in rounds like this to be able to just brute force a sight. Look at the other
side of the map. Buzz again. Just omnipresent. They have the turret set up. I'm pretty sure
to catch it. They do make any progress through garage and there'll be a reaction. And then
look at the deeper position from Munchkin. They are getting a little creative. I like
kit take a couple of risks why not I don't mind it and if they don't check
this okay thank God for that EDG at least crossing that one off but they're not
committing well issue being easy as a lawnmower yeah easy as you post it up
the top of the box here buzz it's where you don't know the spike as well luckily
they got that back in hand quickly but they're just being herded there's still
two players on this side of the map smoking towards sewer so easy you can
just watch this you've got stacks waiting in case they come up towards long
unaffected by the paranoia.
Gonna stop.
I mean, this is on the back of Chichu.
Try to do something miraculous for EDG.
30 seconds left.
But Buzz in the back lines.
When do they consider it?
Two already.
Chichu none.
The wiser doesn't even get the voice line off.
Doesn't find spot out Smoggy until then.
On the hunt now, Buzz looking out for the night.
Smoggy! Hold on tight!
And it's G2 to step up and be the hero once more for EDG to try and get this one across the line.
Smoggy finding his second kill at a crucial moment.
Bunch is looking to run rings around him.
Response found here will keep it within three still hope left for EDG.
still a buy-and-play couple of volts to maybe lean towards
TV direct and start
One dimensional
For me DG there's no real attempt to force any of the players that are backed off
They're not challenging towards a long on the side of T1
They're happy to sit on site
Yeah, much deeper alarm bot as well, down on P.
An early warning system allowing them this three-play stack towards A with a bit more confidence.
Even with that smoke there, DG aren't walking towards it.
So they can keep someone like Buzz present on C.
They can keep the pressure down on A long, but Chichu's the one who's been standing up for EDG,
but quickly falls down, and now the pivot through garage, Buzz, waiting.
Does he get what he wants?
I thought I lined up! Boss! Oh God, he is looking lethal on the back side!
There's nobody in Spargy trying to piece something together, but nothing feels available.
They've missed that window as well to follow through on that pressure.
Now huddled into the garage will freeze, force T1 to explore elsewhere.
20 seconds left.
He's going forward here. He's creeping.
Too much on this one. I think they were pretty good on this for 20 seconds, but he wants the job done.
done he's got places to be. Confidence man. You've got to know there was another behind this.
And we buzz back site. The cross might be the depth of him into the smoke and hoping for the
best line. Second not going to happen. It's T1 again. Just the information game is theirs from
start to end. We break the bank as well. Just with EDG. Get one on the board. Wait a second I
I should say sorry. Hunter's Fury is still available but the bar is not going to be pretty
if anything. Cancun just one away from the tour de force, maybe fight for an AWP here
but it almost baits T1 into maybe contesting both extremities. You can see the ping over
towards C long there. Absolutely going to challenge it.
Yeah, and a very quick start as well.
Buzz is straight down C long.
They've evacuated A, respecting the alt coming through in the pace of the tempo from EDG.
I mean, they could give it up now. They got the lockdown.
I need you getting closer now. No lurk in middle this time, so no worries in that front.
CB clearing.
But you've got to feel as though you're walking into a trap here. Stax knows it.
And there's that lockdown. There's the chip damage on it.
The shock darts.
Now drone just waiting for their moment.
Little bit of a cubby, bit of a corner.
It doesn't feel comfortable as Buzz closing in as well.
Oh, the sack might not fully clearing into the corner there.
Buzz is quick, Buzz is really, really quick here, Cheechoo's heard it, he's got to get
his gun out and get ready, he calls it in, and he's got the shot.
In the meantime, he's just taking down CB.
D1's under clear sight, and wait!
Did they just steal that away?
In the wide open as well.
I didn't even cast the defuse going through there.
Show me the replay.
How the hell did they get away with that?
I thought there were still bodies on long to fight back in.
Ashes inside the smoke.
Oh, it's a little...
There's no pressure back towards site.
And again, two kills come through, we'll find the response, but...
It's as simple as that, the lockdown just securing the round at 4T1.
Tour de force here.
That's about it, the EDG.
on the hunt once more and I like it. I like that he's got that killer instinct reward or not. Yeah, he does have his
But it just applies further pressure
The second layer to that is easy here with the operator
Did you again fountain space but nice
Can you get any further progress here?
I don't like that, but I like this discipline as well from T1, an aggressive start, they
fall back, they've got man advantage, they give up the A side, they can play retake,
they don't need to overstay their welcome, they've still got a lot of kit on EZ, lot
of kit on Stax, Buzz still sitting pretty good on Util.
This is nice, this is good quality valorant from them now, whether we see them sick or
not yet to be seen, but they're making EDG have to play into this, they're not getting
3Ds now. Yeah they have to work so hard to find something feasible to work with.
The plant will come through here but it's a full 5v3 retake for T1. Operator in
hand for Izu. Only U2 left as of T1. Can they scale out correctly and still
some dangerous players? Chichu breathing. Always command a little bit of my
attention at the very least. Crossfire between nobody and Chichu that is what
banking on here. E2 sent forward, falls. Now the fall off can't get it done just yet boss, breaking
the ankles of nobody but still. J2 trying his best he can, leaving CB in a winnable scenario.
A quick reposition and understanding of where Meteor is. This is big from CB. Keep your calm,
keep your nerves, and get yourself a damn chance. Four rounds! A red ball clutch, keeping EDG alive.
We've won in rounds from CB, they deliver one here, call it a lifeline, but EDG after a brutalising first half, following suit from Pind as well.
Again, there's a chance to come back here. EDG certainly putting up a fight here on the second map.
That is as best we can hope for their recovery at the very end, 8-4. Let's find out if they still fight in EDG.
Let's go!
Who gives you wings?
It wasn't a pretty first half for EDG, but with four rounds to their name, they're not
done yet.
But a reminder if you're just tuning in, if you don't know the stakes, this is elimination.
There is nothing to be left outside of the server now, no time for excuses and no time
to do it again. Do you've got to turn up now. T1 has elevated in my eyes Mike. They've looked
far better on the same page and they're not making mistakes. I'm talking about some of the things
that EDG struggled with previously. Ken it was losing out on advantages particularly on the
defensive side of Haven. Not really knowing where to pressure, when to go forwards, when to commit,
being punished time and time again by gentlemates. Certainly something they have to have picked up
In the review
It's a fixable things
What they have is what we wait and find out look at munchkin though
Put some pressure on kung-kong's position, but for now it is T1 very much iron up this B site
Very passive hold as well from meteor down towards C long looking to potentially catch CP and he does they've read them very nicely here
Nobody still guarding b site. I'm coming out on the wall. Hang on. Yeah, hold up. They're trying to quickly pivot
But actually T1 is going into the blender. That's good. EG right place right time
Does get the kill
I don't know if that was as necessary as it feels now, but I guess they've got freedom on one side of the maps
They can start figuring out where to go how they want to approach this. They're in fact through middle. It's a plenty of time
to get back towards C here and
stacked down to 20 HP.
Meteor has to do the heavy
lifting and see if he can fall
back from it, right?
But they already doubled up.
Not cleared.
Meteor safe passage.
Yeah, this worries me because I
don't think nobody was looking
this way.
Meteor, the timing goes down.
Kong Kong going to keep this one
looking good for EDG.
Three kills in the rounds and a
chance to build up in the second
hall. Great conversion here.
From EDG. Almost falling short
here on B but the pivot from T1
caught just so they're about to
make through the garage.
Credit to Smoggy and Chichu in
that regard. And Munchkin, I
think maybe Spotted just as he's
retreating back towards Lobby.
Unfortunately the timing of that
kill to come through because he
This can't go basically the whole map to play with.
Yep.
Okay.
Let's round by round it.
That was the only threat I guess maybe outside of Meteor to a smaller extent, but EVG let's
let's keep 45 alive.
Okay, early contact and now burst from T1, T2 has to back away.
Take a picture.
Yeah, and we have a slip of a player here and it's Bars!
can we cheat you good trade from nobody further ahead they could pause
isn't smoking yeah they could absolutely pause and they found a weaker player
come contact up a forest you want to reheat nobody has to go above and beyond
to try and keep this one in hand see these positions should be safe and
smoggy for sure is it blood yeah well again yeah composed during this chaos
here T1 certainly a threat on the back of buzz find an opener meet you again
slipping the net again it's just only a slight misread on the positioning doesn't
get him a second kill.
The EDG here and the follow-up perch is not gonna be comfortable at all you don't
have the chamber obviously to offset that slightly but I mean it's a bucky
a bulldog and a guardian. Okay, but this this keeps them step. It's still, I'm waiting for
it. Scared, crap. Okay, one comes five, he's gone out of there. All good. I should get
nobody posted in towards sewer. And they still have two plate positioning on that sea site.
That's one, that's not two, but Kung-Kung luckily still here, the Paranoia does just whizz past, not going to find what they need.
Still by the right, still, EDG very much in hand, four players back to tie here, T1. Banking on Stax, who's dropping bodies.
I'm still waiting for this one to feel secure, but it's just not. Stax gonna see both of you.
Ah! T1! Just pause for a second and find everything they needed.
Another 3k from Stax continuing to deliver top of the board now for T1
Hudson's Fury in hand for him get difficult round for EDG to win given the inventory brought in here, but
plenty of damage done
It's necessarily gonna cause a massive
issue for the buyback
See exactly how it's out. I mean still rifles across the board here, so
Yeah, this is the one you really need to springboard themselves into a string of rounds.
This is the one that kind of makes it feel possible, right?
Like you're still very much in the game, 9-6, not over by any means, about 7th.
Pips it well in check.
Smoggy's been left alone for a while.
Nobody has made it over towards the A site.
C long being checked. I like this. Okay, I'll drone towards long. I'm gonna spot out at least one and then in time I can post up
CB down on C long free up Kung Kung for potential rotations. I like this
Come back in. Let's see if T1, uh, that could be a big bait actually the recoil here
So I think I've noted the trap
There's no unsure of where he wanted to be, but he's gonna deal the damage back.
C.B. is going ahead, just on the out drone!
That's lovely!
Munchkin not wanting to trade, apparently.
C.B. gonna be on for another!
He's not denied T1, still trading in effectively somehow.
Chichu gonna be denied, trying to drop down towards garage, so the plant's gonna be in here, T1.
He's still a little behind the curve here.
Still three alive. Do you have a paranoia? Got some good U2 on nobody as well.
Certainly a chance to make something happen here, especially with BuzzTank down to 20HP.
Yeah, but look at Buzz getting pretty active in this.
That's kind of wild. Catching the timing of the paranoia. Oh, it's punishment.
Nobody, you got no options. Going back away. This outcome is rough, Mike.
like that, double digits for T1.
And this was the round that could have brought EDG right back.
This is the one that they ultimately
want to stabilize off of in terms of the finances,
in terms of just about getting to this first old cycle.
T1 is still less than halfway to the pit.
A huge tool on the defense.
T1 looking to stretch their legs now,
in touching distance of closing this series.
again, CB would have a chance to really run away with this round.
I thought he was going to double down on that.
Yeah, I mean, the stun, almost catching.
We had just a little hesitation from Smoggy.
He's looking to set up smokes and
buzzed with 20 HP going aggressive.
You can tell when the confidence is there, can't you?
Really see it.
Again, the problem is the buy, right?
We alluded to it in the importance of this round.
I think T1, reading that early utility quite nicely.
I see we will at least get to claim A long as a start,
and they've left Kung-Kung on the other side of the map.
They've left him with a lot to handle
if they do decide to pivot this way,
so the B site is looking at the end destination for T1.
Hi!
I'm just curious to see...
That's lovely.
Off the back of the orb, we're all connected.
Easy wall fall, so...
Ooh!
That's it, get in the doggle!
Munchkin's down too.
Okay, game on!
Fight on!
Buzz, still standing on the site here.
Where's the fight back?
There it is, in the form of Kong Kong,
Taunt of Force, tears him apart as Meteor put to work.
Stool out on this spike.
Stax has still got Hunter's Fury though,
so they could buy a lot of time here.
But Meteor has to get a kill.
He does, he's trying, he's not got it though.
I think Stax knows those issues.
The shock dart not enough.
He's sent another one, but nobody's sitting on this.
And here it comes, he tries to back away in time,
so half is achieved.
Stax, this would be legendary, not gonna happen.
They made sure it didn't.
There's the grit from EDG we were waiting for.
A thrifty to get them back into this.
Ken, a chance to really run down the clock here,
but it's force standing for EDG.
The Hunters really just not gonna do enough in this situation.
Great response here.
And this is on the back of productivity towards A.
To get this orb, give them an opportunity
to contest this PSI hit.
Come, come, delivering with the
Tour de force as well as we've
come to expect, operator back
in hand for him. And now
another chance for Edg.
Do you like this one? Yeah,
dig their heels in now.
Once you look at the cause
issues once more with this,
hey, long look.
CB's kinda trading off behind them.
Hmm.
Deep down, drawing towards Long.
Like, not sure if he's going to catch Munchkin.
I think he might.
No.
He didn't.
Nope.
They're here pretty quick on this, so CB has to be pretty rock solid.
I think they feel it though.
You can see that lean of rotation.
No contact elsewhere.
It's us to feel a bit obvious.
There's the check.
There's the body.
Stunned to follow.
Nobody does well.
Takes away Munchkin.
Can't get the follow up.
Okay, floodgates now open.
And T1 flood the site.
There's the understurry, but Stax not finding the same success. The smoggy.
The control of the site itself, leaving Meteor and Stax very limited amounts to play with here in EDG.
Having the numbers and having what could be a key round.
Stax can't do it, EDG.
Very nice. That is a big, big round to win.
No solid info here for Stax to follow up.
But understurry, a chance to really punish that position towards Graffiti, but...
The pressure here from CB just enough to keep their head above water.
Yeah, you got a credit.
He's read on the map as you said.
No contact elsewhere.
A wild commitment to the spray from Buzz.
Unfortunately, he can't find the second.
Cheat you to seal the deal.
We'll see a T1 time out here.
and the money
Not going to be there to support a purchase for a couple of ultimates. Lockdown
In-hand for me too. I'm keeping it easy
Bucking in hand, but Buzz does have his ultimates so boy makes win condition coming out of this
I mean it's a tall order on a lesser buy, but certainly have to feel as if it's around Buzz
Yeah, I think that is the main one to look out for it. There is a chance for it
But first off we've seen actually EVG start to win the momentum game in my mind too
starting to get some stability behind them, starting to figure out that form that we've been waiting to see kicking to effect and
T1 responding in probably the right way just slowing things down themselves here having a chat having a check-in
Because look we've all been kind of talking. I was talking down EDG. We've been talking accurately about their form
I think that we're holding them to this standard. Yes, they are currently seeing right, but it's like we all know the potential highs
We just haven't seen that really spark yet
So, if this is enough to maybe reignite a little bit of that, I'm all aboard.
We all know what they can look like when the ball gets rolling, when things start looking good.
Just gotta keep it going now, they're still not in the lead.
They've certainly done what they can to bring this back to a reality.
Kung-Kung, waiting. Poised and patient as ever.
I say that, not so patient now.
He wants to hunt towards that right side, big shot!
That's Buzz gone. He's still standing. He's still looking for more chances.
No respect. Given, only earned. But it's a 44. I was gonna say, you take a trade every day of the
week in that situation. It's your T1. Finding Buzz is the only good thing in that, in a way,
for Edie Geeks. He was one with the alt. He was one with the bucky that could have maybe
built something around it. But Stingy still remain. There is only one on the A site.
She's just got to play this to perfection really.
Yeah, EDG now considering the rotation as T1 will drift away.
Don't catch the A player of EDG.
To be fair, T1 have been quite consistent in going back to those A site hits.
So, maybe a decent read, but it gets a bit sketchy for nobody.
He could be overwhelmed here.
Quite easily, even so, Stingers in the right place for it.
And they're going on this one.
Nobody better be prepared, going to get one, and he can't get the second.
There's the overwhelm we were worried about and that judge,
let's see what that reset looks like for the post-plank.
Conklin's getting closer, the vibe was bit on top.
Well, lockdown as well.
Bloody hell, they won this one.
Damn, they didn't like it.
They don't like that EDG were getting back in the game
as Meteor goes walking, fights,
and completely asleep on the wheel.
Gichu, and EDG, did you forget who you're facing for a second?
And just leave it, initially this is leaving Gichu solo on 8,
But then they leave another player solo on B here to hold down in an antico in a committed position.
This is a one and done with the way T1 are playing.
It's never a solo endeavor in these sorts of rounds.
EDG asleep at the wheel here.
That's a bumble in my eyes because this was, again, a great timeout, good timing.
But still, you can't be slipping at this point.
T1 now with a chance to push up to 12.
Higishi back with a good buy though. They do have the operator with Kan-Kung.
They do have the ult with CB and a judge. They've got what they need. They have the tools ready.
Snack's going to figure out what's going on here.
CBM to actually get away, doesn't he? It's spammed off the door.
T1 fillers if they've created enough pressure here, but Kan-Kung!
Just can't find the shot.
That could be the green light.
They're trying to go on they here comes the teepee as well
He is gonna be surrounded if he wants to try and stand his ground and take the fight here
The heat-ticking style has been removed. EZU gonna eliminate that
The latter for the part here actually denied by the shot dot. So I'm missing. Yeah stacks give him this now
That's time on T1 side
But a paranoia to work with here
It's slow down this retake coming through for me DG
Yeah, I like that. Mijio though, gonna find Chichu. Mijio on the follow-up. Stacks on the swing! It's Mijio! It's free!
Beautiful. T1. So solid in these holds, Lauren. Unfortunately, again, it's another round where somebody just has to go. Absolutely insane to turn the tides.
Flip the odds in their favor, the adjustment with Kong Kong ever so slightly off.
Catches buzz here, but Izu just sticks the TP in hell.
Nasty.
And again, Kong Kong here, he's in a spot where I have to commit one way or the other, right?
I don't blame him for going from swinging.
I don't really blame him.
This is an operator, right? If he gives up the site without finding a kill,
it's not necessarily a playback input. Hold that ball!
It's aggression from the word go! Izu instantaneous in finding CB.
And even with that pit towards long, the map deals a little vulnerable here.
They are trying to batten down the hatches, but T1 are playing a good game.
Nobody wants info, and Kong Kong wants a kill.
He's gonna get it, AIM.
Oh, he stuck around for the second as well, committed to the spray.
This is desperate, and it's dangerous!
And Smoggy gets the backpedal. He's just slowed down.
down. It's a 3v3 Cheechoo, brilliant. There, removing the threat on the A side of the map.
And Smoggy, unwilling to relent in this position. He once sees you dead. He's got him. Buries him.
His buzz on 20. This would be something to remember.
17 to 15 though. He's not having a bad game. The map feels small.
Has he got the timing on Smoggy? I don't think so.
This fog is should be able to slip away here.
And I'll read you in the situation really well.
I'm going to force Buzz to make moves, explore the map,
and force the plant out here.
Chichu picking up the slack in mid as well.
Discipline. That's all this is, is discipline.
This is a slam dunk round.
Oh, we did spot him.
He's seen one.
the other side. It's been
smogging here. In a quieter
performance for sure. We'll
give EdG something to cling
on to. We round separating
these teams here on Haven.
You know, Fairfights Gigi on
the other side as well. The
pit towards Long and still
But the buy is still there for T1.
They're looking to explode, see?
I mean, Buzz got his ult and a judge, so...
Kong Kong is here as well, though.
It's not a light side of the map.
Kong Kong needs to be ready.
He's had moments in this position, but Buzz is on the way.
They don't know about Smoggy, and Kong Kong's the one destroying them currently.
He's what takes towards backside, but by now there's barely any of them alive.
to get out of there and he's
got nothing to do about this
round.
Munchkin left a drift.
Hit a brick wall on the
seaside here in the form of
Kung Kung.
Smoggy just cooking in that
snake bite, but the TP just
draws the eyes of T1 elsewhere.
Munchkin now put in a similar
bit, well, much healthier, but
there's a full one behind him.
He's got a bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
little bit of a
There's a full 1v4
Elsewhere, I mean, Ultimates
A couple to play with here for EDG
There's still a chance of some sort of purchase to follow this, but I mean with three way below the mark
And Buzz now not having an ultimate to offset that
T1 effectively giving up another after this
Yeah, and I'm just I know it sounds silly in a 1v4, but I'm just happy to see discipline
I'm happy to see just yeah with what's gone wrong for EDG today. Absolutely, and I hope I don't have to eat my words in these moments
I said it now well a
1v4 would need a catastrophic
mistake to lose
Munchkin
Especially
Come on
Come on, come on!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Oh!
Nothing can go wrong here!
The expected outcome.
Oh, of course.
Of course it is.
Top ten.
That was snappy.
I got really nervous.
He's drunk.
He's...
He's reconned.
He's not where he is!
Beautiful catch here from Konkkon.
The TP up to the top of the box.
I guess the question becomes money wise. What does T1 want to do with this thing?
Yeah, like I said, there was three way below the market where you want to see they've had
some absolutely lethal 50 rounds. Wouldn't surprise me to see some level of investment
here and like you said they've already kind of guaranteed why not throw
something else see what sticks yeah I guess in terms of the mind games that
psyche here are gonna be sweating bullets I said have some
ultimates to play with don't be smoggy and come come we have theirs available
here to be fairly comfortable in the purchase behind this as well
anybody falls here as they find their 11th.
Yeah, yeah, packs a punch.
Everyone still want to probably make a go at things here.
Not without a question.
I mean, it's a secondary objective.
Pull some ults out if you can.
I mean, that would be a dream come true, wouldn't it?
So do you try and then...
How do you try and draw those through?
I guess let's see how much pressure you could have had.
I mean, it's yeah, there's no way
Can't, can't, can't, can't. Ah, he's swapping back and forth on the side, but...
...you get the Hunters Fury out here.
That's what I'm seeing if they can get done.
Now, stacks.
Let's check here, yeah.
Gonna at least look left side. That's three players drawn towards a B site.
Maybe how they wanted to imply they wanted to draw out the Hunters Fury is just fracturing Bs,
so they can get a cheeky plant. What's gonna happen?
Be very careful on the way out, taking the long road here.
Got a player pushed up, I'm holding the C long walk down.
quite some time here and then almost a similar scene on the other side right CB
down on a long so it makes almost a mirror how this goes buzz being very
loud about it but munchkin tried to start working didn't work out how did CB
die there and smoggy might get caught this is how this happens thank God for
concon but it takes a lot for it and nobody's dead it's still exchanged
they've got an upgrade for stacks yeah they got two rifles and a judge now this
This was never meant to be the threat, it was can you get a wincon?
As we'll post up, there's a ramp here T1 going to freeze behind this.
They'll be cheering the right place, they have the bodies here.
Hong Kong's low, that's fine, that's not the end of the world, the others are here.
It's not going to paranoia though, to play with.
Boss is in, boss is found, a victim!
No T1!
Can Hong Kong save the day again?
He would need an ace to keep them alive in the tournament right here, right now.
And they are watching, they are waiting.
The issue with being an icon is they know what you're going to do.
13 to 10, EDG bowing out as T1, right there wrongs.
I think it's just not enough.
But it's just not enough.
Deliver a lifeline.
Take us to a third T1.
Fantastic from them today.
Again, Stacks certainly the highlight previously here, but
Buzz Munchkin and everybody stepping up for T1 today.
All at their moment in the light.
Unfortunately, as you said, EDG has fallen short here.
That's going to sting for EDG.
These guys are competitors, right?
That's not how you wanted to happen.
But on the other side, on the flip side, for T1,
it's a breath of fresh air, a chance
to get away from under the heel, a chance
to show what you can do to turn the odds in your favor.
maybe a chance to go on a run it's a long road still I mean that buying
performance is a statement to be made here of the form that you want to bring
in here in Santiago again just to say it once more buzz playing above coming into
this series really for me me to all the person I was looking to really step up
a little bit so it's what we know historically he's capable of but from
he buzzed that it's just looking at it and it's all in a winning form. Yeah he is absolutely
on point I think that's a really good way to say it that that form looking like a
carry from map one to map two and again Izu in unison as well but yeah this has
been a good display for T1 a couple of worries and woes might be waning slightly
now for the T1 fans but still EDG it feels like it's still a lot to be done
to this team in the future.
Missing all those key aspects that made them one of the best there is,
but for now it's time to look towards a further distance Q1 can run.
They'll be here in front of me in the Verizon postmatch interview.
I'm here with Stax and also with Jain, who will help us with the translation.
So guys, I'm here with the stacks and also Jen that she's helping me out with the translation stacks
First of all, we heard that you can speak Spanish and you actually fluent
Can you teach me some words? Can you tell me some words in Spanish and also the audience?
Que pasa hermano?
That was nice and now also I want to talk to you about your performance
We saw your performance in Pacific, but now you're so good.
This stage, what was the stage buff? What was it?
I think the fans of STAX are much better than the fans of Pacific.
Is there a secret?
First of all, the fans of STAX cheer us on in the battlefield.
So I think we should focus more and show a better performance.
I think it's a Santiago crowd. They are making us feel like we're in a battlefield and they're rooting for us
So they help us focus on the game and they want to make us put on a best performance ever
So now for my last question I also want to talk about that pass that game against Jim liquid
that last map and also closing the series with so difficult. What were you guys missing to win this match?
I don't think it was down to the amount of strats or the level of performance from the team, it was more on us, making, well, with our individual performance, so that was what was missing and I think today against EDG, I think we were able to show our true colors and show the world who we truly are.
definitely be careful with 2-1 ladies and gentlemen and you want to
basically comment that it was not because of the lack of strats, the problem of Team Liquid
but it was because of personal reasons, because of everything that the players couldn't be shooting
and they weren't 100% personally, but now they could show it to the players and
so be careful with this T1, that's all I have for the interview.
Thank you.
And now, just wait because we have this next match coming up.
We have XOG and G2.
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Welcome back everyone to day 4 of Master Santiago and our second elimination match of the event.
It's XLG squaring off against G2 Esports.
Once again I'm Golden Boy here, yet again with sideshow and Wyatt as fans begin to roll
in.
They're getting excited because this one, hey listen lots of question marks coming into
This one you know why it's sweating over here. I thought you were about to say and regrettably. I'm still here
Guys that's this is that's the last opening right for the fellas Dallas Dallas fellas guys
Can we please get a prayer hands?
Mimi's gonna kill us you understand that right and rightfully show so as she should but let's go ahead though and cut to the chase
Let's talk about G2 Esports.
Well, they're chasing a dub.
Why, it isn't the International Trophy.
That's right.
Oh, look at that.
That's words we can string together to make a cohesive narrative.
But here's the thing.
Unfortunately, that narrative gets shattered when PaperX absolutely obliterates you
in some of these rounds, some of these maps.
I mean, it felt like we were looking, not like a team that won three championships in a row
in the America's Region Sideshow.
A team really struggling to find themselves.
I think there were moments actually in map 1 where it felt like, hey, hold on, maybe G2
actually got what it takes to bring the game to PaperX and then it slowly fell away from
them and then completely crumbled in map 2.
So I would generally agree with what you're saying, but I do think that there is a large
difference in terms of the quality of teams that they are going to be playing against,
in terms of PaperX looking astonishingly good and I'm not a...
I'm not a...
I'm not a...
I'm not a bone with a Wyatt!
I'm not gonna cope crazy mode. I'm not gonna cope crazy mode.
Just to touch on G2 though, back on that map, I was really impressed with Jaws.
He had a great second half in that game, playing and Neon was turning things around.
And honestly, I thought Trem was okay in that series despite that horrific one singular moment,
but I thought he was playing alright aside from that.
Like there were some glimmers of hope from G2, but ultimately not enough.
Yeah, well, I think we do have to talk about the mental of the team coming out of the back of that.
Because there were some absolutely heartbreaking moments, as you're alluding to.
And it did feel like they were still trying to find their footing.
They heat pressure on themselves.
Yeah, they do.
But here's the thing.
One thing we were worried about was whether or not this team found a way to bounce back,
whether they could motivate one another.
And it's actually an opportunity we can go behind the scenes a bit.
IGL Valent tried his absolute best to rally the team, but here's what he had to say to the squad going into map 2
Boys listen
Whenever we're down a map and we feel like we need to catch fire again
It's not by one person it's by the whole team. Okay, we're a team of five
It's 20% each player. All right, you have 20% of a job to do on this map to win us this map not a hundred
You know what? I can't disagree with that kind of logic. Unfortunately for them in that map, too, it just wasn't happening the way that they wanted it to.
You can, of course, attest that to an incredible performance from Paper Rex, undoubtedly, but there were also some rounds there that were just going the other way that were just depressing.
Yeah guys who were hot on map one leaf as well
They started to cool off on map two and I felt like you could just see in real-time things
Crumbling yeah players. I think showing more negative emotion than they typically would like Trent who as I was saying
I did genuinely feel like he was playing pretty solid in this series
I think even on map two aside from again like that ISO moment where he missed this
You know divide here coming out of the kill contract
he was getting some big impact kills in this game but it just shot him so
many times that's what it sounded like reading the lips and there were moments
after that too on cam where it's like that negative reaction just continued
yeah and I don't think it's like that entire round that ended in the I saw
all four little pieces was a 5v3 that should never have got into a 1v1
scenario baby base one of those other players I think you have to be putting
focus on and I think the fact they're up against XLG here is a great opportunity for him to
find his footing. When I was looking at what Baby Babe was up to in terms of just watching
his POV, I feel like he did not adapt to the big stage against Paper Eggs very well.
I was seeing a way better performance from the guy in America's. The stats are going
to tell part of the story here obviously because he's playing like half as well as he was in
America's but when I actually just watched his POV, his aim was way shakier. He was less
confident about the fights that he was taking and I think this game has to be
where he gets back onto solid ground. In terms of what he brings to the team as
well with the vibes, I mean he's trying to get the ball rolling early which I
think is a good idea let's be real. In America's when they had moments where
they bounced back though it often came from maybe making a big individual play
and then generating the hype off of that and then everybody started to feel it and
you could see them oftentimes pick up the tempo in their gameplay start playing
faster, more aggressive after a moment like that, but there was no moment like that to be, you know,
the catalyst of a mental turnaround. It was just this slow crumbling.
Yeah, and I think just, you know, one last note I would say on G2 before we move on to XLG is purely that,
you know, I mean, often forget that this was a change-up that we saw from G2Comp toward the tail-end of kickoff,
where they're implementing their double-dualist ideas, being a bit more, you know, proactive with Baby Bay,
getting involved. And this is the, that was the first test outside of the America's
right for everyone knows him. And you just so happen to be going up against one of the
goats in Forsaken and Paper Rex, which is a tough one, which is why it takes us to the
other side of the field. It's XLG. Now this squad got to call a spade to spade. They had
a rough start against NRG, but they did manage to pull up a couple of rounds. Wyatt, and I
And I want you to give the viewers a little bit of that hope.
Well, contrasting to G2, they're a team that has leaned into Double Duelist, the strict
Douroo basically full-time meta, this entire kickoff run to get here outside of Onhaven,
which is clearly their worst map, and they have a perm of ban.
So that just put them down significantly against NRG, who are masterful on Haven.
But when they got to Abyss, when they started playing this Double Duelist on attack, Raga
was a dog.
He went 15 and 8, he had 5 first kills, 0 first deaths, that's when he started to see them heat up.
And I think genuinely, if they can get off on the right foot, if their shooters are shooting and they've got shooters, we know that for a fact.
I think that's where things could get dangerous for G2 if they haven't completely rallied back from what happened against PRX.
I think part of the problem though is that those strengths were only really showcased on one half of one map.
Their attack side on Abyss was really nice, had a lot of threats to NRG.
But they need that over more ideas.
Make sure that your attack is on all of the maps.
Find some more footing on your defense sides.
You can't just have that one note to success.
There's a lot of question marks here for this XLG lineup.
You had an opportunity to catch up with Lysor.
Following XLG's opening matchup for this HyperX player moment.
I lost this game, but I think I learned a lot from it.
I feel like we can do better in the next game.
Because I find that we learn a lot from it and progress.
Even if I lose this game, I don't think we can do better.
Because I think we still have the next game to play.
We can jump out of this game and learn from it.
Then we can use all our experience and ability to take the next game.
The first day of the game, I think our team's hero pool can be covered.
I can play a lot of places, and I can play a lot of high-key places.
We can monitor both smoke, both ult, and then solo smoke, and then play a little bit of information.
Basically, we can take out all the items that are on the main map.
Then we can play slowly until we get to the information, and then we can monitor the ult.
All of our players have the right to go in.
from that HyperX player moment that I thought was quite interesting with him saying, like,
hey, you know what, Lyser said we lost, you know, but it is what it is, right, kind of
trying to brush it off.
And I kind of have to expect that because you went up against the world champions, you
know, that was a tough matchup for sure.
And you showed that you can't contend, but this is going to be a little bit of a different
situation because those people who managed to get the better of you in your first matchup,
G2 have gotten the better of domestically time and time again.
There's certainly going to be a lot of work that needs to be done here if you're XLG.
Completely agree with that one.
I think it'd be nice to get out to a good start here and have at least a bit of an advantage in terms of the map veto scenarios
But at the same time, I think they're gonna be in a difficult spot because of that perma-band that they have and then
Yeah, I've lost over to Haven. This might be one of the most important skirmishes honestly
Yeah, or a matchup because you do not want to be playing Haven first
I'm just going to assume the G2 are going to pick into that map and that being said
They only played it one time where they debuted that Phoenix comp. Do they rip from paper X?
Yeah, regardless though, I mean you saw that Phoenix comma have a huge amount of success in the hands of paper XO
I'm a yeah, and it had success in the hands of G2, but they definitely had the surprise factor. Yes, they did play it
Yeah, that's true. I mean
We're seeing the form of these players
Happy way in a position where I'd be able to close things happy way coming out of kickoff as the
highest-rated player pretty much across the board in all stats. Yeah, I mean China. I'm not playing duelist
Yeah, just incredibly credible. I mean just look at the stats that he was putting up both of these players were absolutely nasty for their teams in kickoff
Yeah, he really is astounding mechanics. Oh wait a minute
I'm telling you this is a high-class skirmish. Oh snap
Oh, he tanked bro. Okay, Valin. Oh
Oh, oh my god.
Oh, dude, that is a filthy shot to end it.
Bro, that actually might hurt a little bit in this one.
Oh, boy, all right.
So I do believe we might have the map veto flying up here
in a second so we could show that.
What do we got, Cole?
Because I am quite curious.
There it is.
What do we got, Cole?
Yeah, so we got a bis haven and a necessary breeze.
So Corode, Pearl, get blocked first.
Split bind floated toward the end.
Those get blocked.
Why at your thoughts?
So we do go to Abyss first, which is nice for XLG.
It comes to open up.
Yeah, but they're not starting on the attack side,
which I think would have been their best opportunity
to really get some momentum into this series.
And if they started kind of beating down G2 early,
if they have that aim firing on all cylinders
with their stars like Happy Way, like Raga, right?
Then I think you could see G2 mentally
getting into a tough position again, show.
But starting on defense, this team, XLG,
They don't play with a lot of fire. They don't play with a lot of passion.
It's relatively safe.
Yeah, I do want to see them pushing out more on the defense side across their maps.
I think that would be much nicer to see.
Bit of vertical rotation, bit of confidence to find those timings.
But I do think that the pressure in the opening map might actually be more on G2.
When we've seen them in this double-dullist, new style of theirs,
the comp that they ran on Abyss was like a jet yoru that...
They mangled the execution of that when they ran it in Americas.
Question. Do you swap it up?
Do you go back to what what brought you to the dance initially because maybe the double duelist in quite hidden here in Chile?
No, no, no, I don't think they swap it up and go back to like double initiator short short
Okay, but I could still see them swapping the duelists around having like they they pull out the way
Lay and you put jog on the euro instead just a bit more comfort a bit more
Standard running a jet. I think we need a little better. Yeah, they had to breach on the map as well, which was
How's everyone feeling coming into this game? Wyatt?
I mean, I'm telling you right now, I don't see XLG. You're done.
Wyatt! No! Wyatt, come on!
I went with G2 in this game because I thought everybody would pick G2.
I wanted to curse them by getting a G2 picked off the board.
Jen's done. Jen did you dirty dog!
Why I'm sick. So I want XLG to win. I mean, I'm a G2 is a favorite, but I wanted to curse them then. I'm hearing excuses.
No, you do not get to cast G2. Oh my god. Okay, it doesn't get to happen that way.
Oh man. All right, folks, when you hear the crowd, they're ready to go.
NS is hyping them up on this stage, but this matchup is going to be wild.
Can G2 find a way to dig deep, get a clean win or does XLG manage to send an America's champion home?
Let's bring out your teams.
Ruinal!
XLG!
Di-2!
G2 Esports coming into this one having to feel confident because they have been in these
situations before, these pressure filled situations for XLG on the other side.
They know they're going up against a juggernaut, but they know they have what it takes to be
able to take down the best of America's.
Let's see how this goes down.
You can feel the aura permeating in the air when Lysor steps on to stand up.
I know.
This is an insane matchup.
Honestly, it almost feels wrong to say this.
Hard to believe at this point since she's been around for a while.
But that being said, these are two of the best ascensions of all time.
Are we in our most successful following that narrative?
I mean, it's legitimately true.
Yeah, you do kind of have to say that, don't you?
Oh, wild stuff here.
Once again, your series layout, your HyperX series layout.
Of course Abyss, Haven and Breeze if necessary side show.
While XLG are massive underdogs in this game, and you've just watched EDG get destroyed,
I think this first map is going to be genuinely way closer than the rest of the series perhaps as well.
But because I think that we have yet to see G2 really prove that they can master this map,
and they've looked a bit uncomfortable in comps that they've run previously,
and this is home territory at least on the attack side for XLG.
So, yes, it's an enormous uphill battle, playing against the America's three-peats,
but XLG can start off running here.
But we know that G2 is starting on the attack.
So, you're an XLG fan, you're Wyatt, you got your XLG T-shirt,
you have your XLG hat, and your flappers are ready to go.
How many rounds do they get on defense here, Side Show,
that you feel confident about this XLG team when we swap sides on to the attack?
I mean, they need as many as they can, obviously,
but I mean, it's an attack-sided map in general.
I'd be really happy if they ended up getting 5 on the defense side.
Maybe even 4, I'd be fine.
But I think the wincon is that G2 crumbled their attacks' strats.
Because that is what happened when we watched them play against Furia.
They beefed their attacking execs over and again.
Yeah, and Furia on that map were incredible
at those fast retakes, floods back in onto the site.
And I do think that's something that this XLG team
can absolutely land into versus playing like overly aggro in early rounds now look man on screen right now
Raga you have to pay attention to him in this matchup
Yeah, Raga was incredible on the attack side. He was putting up so many first skills
Happy way serious shooter they need these guys activated and on the other side
It just has to be all eyes on baby back his debut map. He struggled can he bounce back?
Yeah, the pressure is Andre, but the thing is is that if pressure has been on this guy since he joined the team
He's been put in a lot of positions where he kind of is like a maker break almost for the squad
Especially when it comes down to the mental
Absolutely, and I think that the mental is gonna be so interesting to track across what we expect to be a fairly close opener
Because you've got lights all standing up on one side no man popping off
Then you've got baby Bay who's gonna be trying to bring up the energy on the other side
Yeah, I think that that aspect if you see one of these teams start to go quiet
You could be a big concert. I am drawn though to the man that we just saw on your screen their leaf
Because I think when the going gets tough you can always rely on the one leaf to get you the dub
And he needs to be in honestly exquisite form here today
It's gonna round up the rear and pick up whatever slack is left on the rest of the field
Yeah, he is just one of those guys that is talented enough to put up star level performances take over a map on any agent
That's playing you did that throw kickoff breach fight for whatever
But what is he gonna be playing here?
Yeah, because I think it's gonna he was on the breach playing on a base previously
I don't want to see him on that like I know you're saying he can't pop off on any
Yeah, he's
I'm not saying I want to see
I need to see him in the surf. It's just more likely to pop off if you put him on other roles
Like maybe you could see a Piper coming out here if they wanted to play something like that
Alright, well they gonna run. Yeah, I'm excited to see this leaf is going
Coming oh my god, I like that dude. I like that. It's kind of cooking. I think this map you can really make Harbour work
It's good for flood defending and actually really nice with the time
The agent that Harbor is works really well with Valin.
He likes to be able to cut up the map, manipulate space.
That's a good agent for him to use.
Almost no one is playing Neon here as well.
So he's got Neon problem.
That is weird.
Folks, this is it.
Time to get this second elimination match underway.
We got just the casters to call the action, fellas.
Have fun with this one.
Here is Achilleos and Paper Thin.
Once more into the bridge, G2 Esports looking to rebound after that loss to the hands of PaperX XLG, looking to do similarly.
They're not wanting to go the same route, not wanting to suffer the same fate that EDG just did.
Absolutely. I mean, this is really important for their region as XLG, because you're starting to look like maybe, you know, everybody might have been right about your region,
that you're shaky, that you're the weakest region coming into this, but this is the team that a lot of people were pinning their hopes on as the most fundamentally sound,
as the team that could actually potentially do damage here.
But NRG proved that they were a step above, a class above.
But we are going to go to Abyss, a map that
is so, so important here for XLG.
They're going to start on that defender side, the side
where they got absolutely bullied,
which is shocking because it's a side of the map
that they were rather good on domestically.
They had a couple of 6-1s where they closed out maps
really efficiently on that defender side.
Now, going into the Abyss XL Cheese map pick, G2, nothing to change up the comps here, shattering our expectations with Balan bringing out this harbor.
You're going to be looking to see what that storm surge and the new high tide really do for you here on the map.
Okay, well, we're not going to see it in this round. Forget it. Balan's already dead.
Pick the part there in mid to be able to find the opening kill of the map.
why even fairy craft why do I bother sometimes you get shot you die but
spike is still gonna be planted all the same for G2 but it's a 4v5 see the
retake looks for XLG double push both duelists working their way around towards
the spawn and Leepers is not registering this at all Trent will be
able to drape on back but you still have Raga on that angle and I don't think he's
gonna be red at the moment they try to hold forward has to clear out these two
players but it's only gonna be good for one Trent mouse free in the corner
Finding a timing line, so we're going to be struck down.
But for a little bit more of a happy way,
we'll get him with the ghost.
Marcus' participation on that flank,
not going to be needed.
XLG find the opening pistol.
Yeah, that's exactly what the doctor ordered here for XLG.
Get off to a good start on this defender's side.
Just a nice pick here through all the reveal there.
Very nice.
He just kept kind of spamming through.
Valon tried to assume that he was going to stop with the spam,
and he didn't take the price.
A couple of players that got caught out in the open here,
kind of a 3-2 split, cover mid,
and worked their way back in towards a retake.
No man immediately trying to height the team up.
Need a lot from him on this way, Le.
Little bit of a struggle.
Last time out against NRG, but they got here.
It's like a basket B exec.
Look at this. Push the pace here. Strong goes up and over the top. Leo giving the tag on to one.
Both of safety for Fallon, but it will still fall. Happy way has the transfer. Looks for a third one.
That's an abortion, but Leo is there. Picks up the pieces.
As Jogamoke is taken down so far. Looking pretty damn flawless,
but Lee will be able to find the finish on the enemy Astra.
So much more work now needed and necessary as baby bait.
One before with just a shorty in hand.
We know where he's at.
Trying to go for the nosecope ends up costing him, but Raga will get picked apart, but he
can just swap out the stinger for the outlaw.
Out of the spectre, dribble the weapons around, and that's a 2-0 start for XLG.
Yep, pretty good, pretty good.
Gonna take that as XLG.
Holding the line nicely up here.
That's a happy way.
Sometimes things can get a little disorganized for XLG on some of these anchors that they
We're trying to attempt
NRG does such a good job of
Diving in there and hitting you with some util and then knowing when to dive back and things like that
But it really tricky for the XLG defenders to we plant their feet hold their lines
mid aggression though
Gonna see much no man's gonna go for a push here potentially and swing it out
Going the right past island shoulder
Quick little refract back to safety
And it leaves, okay. On the linger here, D-Window. Sound happy way. Solid first advantage found, 4G2.
Not to play out this anti-bonus, but Lysor lurking forward into the smoke, will be found, baby they spotting out the head.
It's the shot. That's now two player advantage to get rid of this right into the A site. Raga however is here in position,
fighting down once again.
Baby V goes up and over the top, clears out the enemy Yorio,
and now it's just Leo to try to make this a bit more costly,
but his position is known.
Shot starts to find a little bit of damage,
but I don't think there's much more realistically to be done.
Let's find a crazy shot on the Baby V,
but likely he's just going to tuck back,
wait for the spike to explode,
see if he can catch somebody on the exits at the same time.
So Lee's not going to give him the opportunity,
comes up with a 3K and G2 Esports
to themselves on the board.
Okay, exactly what you need to do here as G2, very clean anti-bonus.
And we're going to have happy ways all at least one away from his,
bragging that those two have been able to do.
But I think for me, what I'm really curious about here is some of the early
round macro that I'm seeing and a lot of attention being paid to mid by both teams.
And it's something that with XLG is where even in rounds where they lost,
I thought it's some really nice ideas on how to take mid.
Like you saw that two-man window push against Brock where you got that double kill
It's like that was the right idea. Just you got outplayed and things like that
I get CG to being aware of using that neon a little bit to do some scouting
See Raga can get some value out of this push
This is a widely aggressive three players just around the corner, but it's gonna be able to find one and get out scot-free
Fast enough the punish was thrown out
Go up and over the top got the ping on the happy way
Maybe they try to set up a exaggerate, but it's not gonna be all the fine
We cannot get the flake raga finds himself a second and a happy way up over the top takes out red
She do just not knowing what was hitting him here on this side of the map
Find themselves in a 2v5
Looks like it's up. She's gonna be maintaining the lead and stretching it three to one boring some incredible clutching the hands of Valorant
would have to be an ace
Finds the first to get himself on the board sets up the smoke, but
How are you meant to try to tuck away and stay alive with 48 seconds remaining in the round just 21 health
Have to see some mistakes from XLG to give him much hope
Try to wait it out
The walls trying to find that stray shot they know that he's tagged up. He's down low
And now
His way through that connector
Haven't recently sussed out as to where Valon could be
Do they want to pursue deep enough to find him?
Poster him out and take the weapons away
So he might have thought he's slinked his way back over towards the spawn so ten seconds left for the moment
Valon looking likely to be able to retain this weapon
Yeah, the execute there for G2
Again, a little bit out of sync, I mean this is something that started to rear its ugly
head against Paper Rex for G2, it's just not being able to coordinate as well.
And you know, I had a quick talk with Jog before the match and he said, man we just
got to get on the same page, like that's what's killing us, and you know, you get that identification
and Baby Bay can't track down the target fast enough, he's a little bit slow to the
punch there behind the recon utility, and therefore he can't get the saturate to land
and Rager's in a perfect position to punish it.
So a lot of these things already gonna be thought about
because E2 is gonna pop an early time out.
They're not liking this early deficit
that they find themselves in.
And I think for good reason,
because XLG, the defender side,
wasn't exactly where they were putting up
the best performance versus NRG.
That was when they got over onto the attack
and their triple dive on the B site
was just causing so many pains for NRG
to try to deal with it and slow down that pace.
If XLG is able to get a very strong start from this defending half,
they're pretty well slated to be able to take this map.
Yeah, absolutely. And to add insult to injury for what was going wrong for XLG,
because what you're saying is 100% correct.
On the rounds where NRG started to slow the pace down,
where they started to hold some of the mains a little bit deeper,
when XLG wanted to get aggressive, they were just dismantling them.
I mean, time and time again, you know, it's kind of nice here, I guess,
XLG, you don't have to worry about some of that Tejo utility.
That was really giving them grief in terms of getting caught by, like, you know, the drone,
and then you can't dash as the way they, and they get player caught out.
Like, some positioning mistakes from XLG.
Like, that was one of the big things I noticed on this defender side was positioning mistakes.
Wide swings where they're out in the open when they don't need to be, trying to take fights
where they're not favored because they could have changed their angle a little bit,
maybe had a better opportunity against the NRG players.
Things like that.
So far, looking better for XLG for sure.
Let's see what G2 has dialed up.
Stingers for Leaf, everybody else rifles.
Oh, late TP here from Leisner, trying to go for a trap play, but does have to back away.
G2's starting to suss that one out.
Trent does eat a good amount of damage, so down to 43.
Always swap the weapon over, but run it into the hands of Leaf, who's gonna find a headshot,
but cannot confirm the kill on the no man, so he just dashes out the safety.
Utilizing this cosmic hide.
And it was so early and because you've got three players at the front of a main there
You think they're gonna make some pretty fast rotations here over towards B, but
Just clearing that space now
You know little bit late see a happy way
Want to get involved the recon dart thwarting him initially and looking for flanks
again
Sprinting around that flank working his way across the attacker spawn now Valin most disconnected of the G2 players
He's gonna try to intercept this Yoru, but now, starting to get the read to try to go for the check, swings out, and we'll be able to win the fight, the critical headshot.
If you've got much of them, you're still gonna be able to take it up a big day. Two massive kills, form found over at the connector.
Just get traded out, but now, a 2v2 is Trent trying to utilize it.
A Hector's Fury, but doesn't get a shot. Happyway is just sticking this, and he's in a rough ditch!
It's a transfer! We'll drag him off. Happyway looking for the turn, and it's gonna be Trent narrowly coming out on top.
That was almost catastrophic, but G2 will be able to find the round win.
That is on an absolute knife's edge.
Trent there, hopefully that's a confidence booster for him, but he's able to get that clutch.
My goodness, Valin a really big win.
Baby Bay hitting some good shots.
Just want to throw it out there. Excited to be able to cast him.
Good friend.
But yeah, that was scrappy though.
I mean, I think that really could have gone XLG's way if baby bait doesn't hit those two shots
If Allen doesn't win yet, there's so many little things that could have gone wrong for G2 again liking the macro from XLG
It's a sharp shooting from Raga and happy way in company. It's gonna send out the alt there
It's a quick exit and I have this later linger from leaf look at him
So position in the attacker spawn knows that XLG have been going on these flanks once the try to intercept rather than be the one that got punished
They're suspicious of it.
We have some weaker weaponry, but now Trent taking that point.
He has to swing from behind, finds the first.
Now man, Leo could just push forward and try to just dismantle the players that are there on the site.
Up the pace, and it seems that that's exactly what they're going to try to do is Valon.
He's praying and praying, but he didn't get a bit of damage, he didn't return.
That's a slow down to the approach, but at the same time Hattieway is able to find Baby Bay.
Valon's tagged down the two, so finding, so finding that elimination.
It's all down to Jogamot and Leaf.
Here's the rotation into the site.
The time's starting to get away from them.
Hats to go for the full stick, but Jogamot will strike in off the flank.
Finds that kill.
Leaf wanting blood.
Will be rewarded with it.
Nothing to be retained here on either side.
All players dead, but G2 tied up at 3-3.
There's really just good awareness from both sides.
I'm quite impressed with what I'm seeing from both teams in terms of how they're thinking about these rounds,
how they're thinking about their strategy.
Maybe they're gonna out dual Raga, create some space, that's what you're gonna need as G2.
And again, XLG has the awareness of that late lurk from Leaf, even though it ends up costing them because he's patient enough to wait until they've fully committed past that angle.
Tons of ults here for XLG. This is a very important round for them in terms of the ult economy and their actual gun economy.
Switch for the dashing again, catches the glimpse of Phelmex, fracks out.
This is all a bit of a ruse to try to keep some attention tied to what's inside of the
map at the same time, leap in mid, with a win out the fight versus Leo.
Throwing that silver utile, not going to be available for the potential retake as Raga
is nearly fished out.
Oh, that's our position.
Raga on similarly.
Happywood just goes for the spam, finds the kill, Raga haven't even gone to the dimensional
drift yet.
That is just unlucky at the same time.
They now going to be taken down at the player advantage over to the side of XLG
With the pop flash out, Ballotucki in the corner eventually will fall to push forward
We'll do the cognitive eye and lead narrowly able to win it out for C-Orbitz could be paranoid up
He sat here, team it, the cubby and Lysor will be able to flush him out XLG not allowing for G2 to gain the lead
Yeah, it's such an important battle for mid that's going on to give that extra player advantage
You get to see it on screen, but Baby Bay was the follow-up layer after he sold a bit of a fake.
And Leaf clears the first, and Baby Bay has to worry about a bunch of different angles,
and Lyceaur comes in pretty late.
He gets a big win out there.
Draga, all that info. This is huge right here.
That second kill, the fact that he's able to double down on the players coming out of the Cosmic Divide.
Absolutely brilliant.
Come on, man! Yes, Arturi!
Back up on his feet.
The man hyping right alongside him.
He's to be excited about in the G2 camp at the moment.
Happy weighs 12 and 4 right now.
That was so highly rated coming into this tournament.
He is showing why.
Even a stinger variety of an eco.
Well, this attempt here for G2, just a couple of sheriffs and classics otherwise.
I feel like this is a bit of a headscratcher for G2.
You don't get any contact here, posting up players so deep in mid.
Now there's finally a drone that goes on an exploration, but I don't think I saw anybody.
Oh man.
Look by the shot.
One player going to be taken down, some big Leo.
Very strong awareness of this position from BabyBank.
He's home drift across.
BabyBank out, last one standing with the classic.
should just be gender rights and he will be 5-3 XLG already having a very strong defender side G2
just like already needing to win this follow-up round that got three ultimates try to utilize
yeah i think this might be one of those times where
try to go for those big set exact place see what that kind of rehearsal has looked like the practice
in the lead-up to this map for G2, something that worked to treat for NRG.
It might be a moment where you can try to double down on that a little bit.
Hammer this B site, it gave XLG grief to try to hold this down.
So, time and time again, and NRG was able to brutalize their way through.
Like you said, tons of ults available.
Every way, just drifting inside of the site.
Just get summed up as a player at the bottom.
No, maybe he lands right there in front of his crosshair.
Now he is still free to dance around this site.
Doesn't divide them to be called in again from Leap and Raga all around the back.
Finds him right as he exits out of the astral form.
Which is the smoke and Jogamo!
Mo's down three! Gets the fourth!
What a timing to be found!
That is one hell of a way for him to jump-start the engine at just the one kill before.
He just tears them all the pieces in the blink of an eye.
Only him. Only him man. Unlucky talking to him from Lysor. Oh man, he just he could not have
timed that better. Literally everybody's U-Tiller TP'ing, just not looking his way.
Unreal, I mean that looks so good for XLG and a late dart there from Trent,
maybe base ahead of the curve. So again that coordination between those two
players, a little bit lacking here on Abyss. I go TP in the mid,
That's what's gonna be scaling for the slot.
BOSS! And he absolutely destroys two!
Unbelievable transfer to be able to find Valon as well.
This is such a snappy reset.
No man tag low, but does have that regen armor behind.
Meanwhile, Raga trying to hold here in a main.
Seems like they're suspicious.
There's the push, but he's at the Guardian, he has the one tap.
We'll just make a very short hop exit back into the site.
They cannot find the punish.
He needs to stay alive.
His leap is on the approach here,
but Braga just catches him, exploring around main.
That leaves leap now.
And 1v4, it just feels like every time
she shoots through, find their foot,
and they get that round win.
XLG are able to just kick their legs right out
from beneath them.
and it's big plays from Lysor this time.
Comes out, the two for one hits him on the slide too.
That is filthy stuff.
And Raga, tough angle for Babybees,
has a lot to clear there.
Raga, so sharp with that Guardian.
Yeah.
See the frustration.
Not wanting to have to use that second time out
in the half. He's just going to be holding that one overdrive now available for Jogamo.
So a decent amount of firepower into this one. Hinder will connect, but there's no real
way to chase in and find that punish. You know what, noise made in mid. No man, just
scales in. It's flushed against the box. The swing could come through for Jog, but no,
it hasn't gone around that top mid pillar.
They know he's there. They at least suspect.
This danger pings over in his direction, I know for sure.
And there's the catch.
The overdrive not to be seen in this round.
Once again, a player disadvantage.
2G2. Clear the recon.
No info going to be gained there.
Raga just staying flushed against the wall to push forward.
Ballonet in the front, one for the Cigar.
Baby Bay as well. Getting involved. Finds Lysor.
The Harvard now taking down.
It's Frank explaining, playing for Raga, but eventually finds the reset to eliminate Lee.
8 lead, drop down baby! Saturated silly, will find himself a third.
Now they're going to go for the back side plant, but he is happy with all the
opposite side. This guy has been a menace. Now on the approach, the one eating the
early damage. He's gonna have a lot to play with here. Stars are coming up. See
how he wants to set this up.
They still try to make it look like he's pushing there from the spawn side, but he's wrapping the window.
Maybe just a micro, but he's not going on his approaches. Damn impressive, but Trent will be able to find the kill.
Lung survivor once again, G2. Unable to get these round wins cleanly.
It's very sparse when they pick him up as well, but in with a shout to try to make this a 6-6 half.
They nearly have a stacked deck, it's four ultimates to utilize.
I mean it just feels like
Some of these rounds come down to some hero plays for G2 where you need somebody to get that big 3k
To reverse the great starts that XLG is having again
I can't credit XLG enough with the the macro ideas the strategic view that they have
Sometimes they lose in these scrappy battles and they get caught in the timing like we saw a jogamo earlier
It's time. They're gonna be happy way over
He was sidestepping, which is up in towards tower,
slowing to be cleared, overdrive not going to be popped.
Happy way, isolated, picked apart.
Long and long not looking over, step however.
The hunter's here, he's now going to be called in.
Quick check around the back, with a ventral drift,
is in from Raga.
See what he can spot out, get these defensive positions.
No, he's seen Gammir, everything makes his exit.
Now they get ready to go on the push.
Biggie Bay however, still on tower.
Takes that life, so it's a two player advantage
to the side of G2.
Swing in, maybe they find themselves another.
Drawed it dead.
To be easily out.
A nice clutch to try to get XLG a lead of the half.
Huck is here now coming through, scouting him out.
And Valon will be able to find this shot on the drop.
Six to six.
We are all tied up in the half.
That was a really nice round there.
A really nice set execute for G2 off of that convergent pass.
A relay bolt to follow it up to clear out the corner
that Haffey way is in.
Really nice setup on this one.
And then he could just hunt him down.
You have the noble pulse there too, great stuff.
Well, G2 were able to sit back, watch XLG play this attacker's side previously.
What have they learned and can they shut it down? We'll find out in the halftime break.
Come on!
Let's go boys!
Red Bull gives you wings.
The coaching staff continue to talk with these teams G2, every difficult straight by to make
it up to 6 here at this half.
Can they find an opening pistol?
Try to run this one backwards.
XLG once again going to find a very successful overall attacker side of the map.
energy so many fits on sand swap sides have to anticipate that's going to be
the same yeah I think for me when I'm looking at this from XLG's perspective
I'm trying to get the read on how does G2 want to play this half with this
composition do they want to get aggressive because they've got double
duelists are they gonna be setting up a lot of traps at mains with the neon
waylay combo because you have so much ability to just stun up slow up you know
saturate your opponents and get it get that free pick and get out things like
But on the other side of the coin, because you have a harbor here, it also starts to make you think maybe they're gonna play a bit
retake heavy potentially because you have some ability to do that, too.
It's actually just a pretty spread formation, deep post early.
Shot him off, trying to get up there.
Oh, sees the TP forward, just has it back away.
Props down, giving up that space, and now XLG will be in control of the site.
Fast rotations gonna be coming through.
Wall, happy way.
A late-linger in the mid, gonna be spotted, but he finds the headshot on the trend.
Jeez.
Damage even now.
Jog him up.
Dead as well as we'll be able to peel one back.
So a 3v3 as the dust settles.
Thanks for the moment.
Two XL G's.
They look to try to hold this line.
Maybe they swing and finds the finishing shot,
but happy way trades it.
Leaf again now on the hunt.
There's a spin over the top.
He's unanticipated and on red.
Nicole there to try to protect Leaf.
Just body blocking as well as the defuse gets held up to completion.
A 3k for Leaf.
And a pistol round went for G2, puts them in the lead for the first time here on a miss.
There you go. Now you get to see some real value out of Harvard.
Especially on a pistol round, shields gonna be tough to break.
Great presence of mind there.
Set one up high low there for G2 on this retake.
You know, the star comes out immediately.
You drop one underneath, set up another one up top, get that high low.
And it's so difficult for XLG to get the read on that.
Really nice retake for G2, it might be another pistol going the way of XLG, but
hang on, I want to shock dart. That is a massive bit of damage. Three players
tagged up halfway, even the blood of that. Follow-up not going to be able to find
anything more, but still G2 very well set up for a clean anti-eco.
Drug up for field, take him down, baby bait with that outlaw on hand, able to find no
as well. So now, Duelist eliminated.
Okay, he'll come in. It's just Lysort.
Loan player and full HP. He has a shorty in hand.
Playing his backside position.
Trying to see if anyone falls into his trap.
Seems like maybe he's gonna jog him. I'm getting a bit of a read of this one.
Just sliding forwards, turning around. He's trying to find him.
Eventually, we'll be able to turn him up before Valon falls.
The cleanup will be swift.
Four players surviving. G2.
Damn clean move up now eight to six
Bit of a discussion who wants the ults or but make sure you get the you know for one of the right play
I'm sure you've got all the good weaponry
So I really like this round for G2 in terms of what I'm seeing in their defensive protocols the patients here
You know the early darts they're gonna be waiting for that second follow-up darts
See if Trent can you know double down on that get a kill
There's a grab wall there as soon as the execute comes through to cut the pieces of
XLG in half and then you've got the recon stuff to come through after that to get that vision get that early kill
You just play that flood retake so they have a much harder time getting that plant down
Flood retake but a really sort of a hold will call it
But all that looks really crisp and sharp from G2 well lower hearst
Clear there for Jogamo so he can keep pressing forward and it's a big stack from G2.
He is not alone in this. This is a massive push out. Three players, but it looks like they will just fade away.
Look at him go on the flank, big bang. Fires out of shot. Will be able to find the clone. Tucks into the corner now.
That was the saturate. Lobs in.
Double dash over the side. Little void getting caught.
Shock's at the ready. Some pading here from XLG. Just trying to get this U-Tilt out of G2 nice and early.
Back now down to push forward, no man on the peak, able to find one, Jogamo eliminated.
Leap, desperately trying to find that kill, eventually will be able to do so, but now it's
going to be baby bait eliminated as well.
3-4, attempt to the wide swing that lies, we're able to find the track, Valon however,
Stinger in hand, comes up with two.
1v1, the spike, never planted.
So Leap just backs away, he dips out of the site.
Let's go for full rotation.
Where does Raga feel that he can plant this?
The safest?
Oh, no way.
Does he also?
No way.
Maybe think that he can cut across.
He's pouring all the way around.
Leaf tucking in over towards mid.
Raga, does he peek the angle?
He's gonna have knife out and Leaf plays it to perfection.
Another 3K.
And now a bonus conversion for G2!
How does he read that? Unbelievable!
Saw something in the tape and he's like, I bet he's gonna try to go the other way.
I'm just gonna hold the angle, just in case.
You know, if he still plans B, that's fine, or excuse me, A, that's fine.
Beautiful. Beautiful stuff here. And of course, Valon with the Stinger.
Such a scary weapon in his hands.
No, no, no, no, no.
Up to 15.
Give it to him the finger lag.
A series of massive rounds from this guy.
G2 now by themselves in a very healthy lead.
Three rounds up.
So timeout call from XLG will come through.
Guy to steady things, but...
economy going to be in a shakier position.
Could be a buy-down, Bucky's thing or something like that.
come in but take a look at the coin at base win condition and I mean I'm curious what they're
going to look to try to do off the back of this one because one of the big things that was working
so well for them was constantly attacking the B side of the map. Yeah that might be what he's
talking about here just some some ideas and how to maybe set up your spacing a little bit for
these post plants because again these flood retakes that G2 is going to be able to set up with this
This composition are extremely scary.
You have so much utility to cut off space,
to cut off vision, and then explode into an area
and take somebody out with that knee on Wele.
It can be really, really tricky.
And probably just calming the team down a little bit too.
You had some opportunities there
to not give over that bonus, but few shaky moments,
despite some really good stuff at times from XLG today
in terms of sharp mechanics.
Oh goodness.
Trying the same shot there this time, able to be avoided.
For the most part, a little bit of damage on the happy way once again.
Follow up, gonna be able to sent in.
No man, not quite landing there in tower.
Trent will get revealed.
Tucks back, sends out a drone of his own up and over the harbour wall.
Get the spot onto a couple of players.
They do back cuttles now. Here comes the drop down and Trent able to find the timing.
Raga not reading that he's being flanked.
Out of that position, ends up onto the wayside.
He's been looking for another no scope. This time won't be able to find him.
Timmy Ballon, his turn to find the 3k, his turn to take the lead.
G2 hit double digits. And this high tide is so cool that Ballon is using here because it cuts off the forces.
This time instead of using a grab well to dissect the execute,
they use this high tide and they're able to isolate players, set up those flanks in front of it, and then once that drops,
then you've got the density of angles for yourselves for those crossfires to take into the main.
really nice setups from G2 on this defender side. I like the variety that I'm seeing. I like the protocols that I'm seeing.
And now they're leading over B expecting a change up in ideology from XLG.
XLG actually still thinking that A could be their money, but they're just going to go in towards mid-vent initially,
but it's a TP back just trying to bait some rotations out.
As expected, this is such a pivotal round. If XLG aren't able to find it here, he again kicked back G2, two rounds away from taking the map.
So all the economy as well in a very healthy spot.
Check from Lysor.
Cancel some for now.
Drona lead forward. Cosmic Divide got to be called in from happy way.
Svalin sending out the ult. The hit onto no man, just pushed us forward.
Absolutely tears him to pieces. He's just locked him completely out of his sight, now sets up another wall.
Trent just now arriving.
And I sent through but balance still holding close turns the flash and has to have lined up
Look to that fourth one's out of bullets. I saw able to hold his own
We have to be an ace clutch
Get them back into this to stop G2 from advancing up to 11 round wins. I
Would hope he just is saves here
Music might have to
at the time, grab the orb, at the time it's just not there on his side, 10 seconds remaining.
He's just tucking in along the wall, set up another smoke and try to stay safe, try to
stay protected.
He's sprinting in around the back.
He pursues in a bit deeper, might be able to find him.
Probably Demi-Lenna will dissipate Lysor, holds his own and find a 3K.
And does nearly manage to get that ace, but he cannot find the round win.
Well, I mean, still Lysor looking sharp, but it's all Valin.
He just shuts this round down by himself.
It's all for this cosmic divide because it's only leaving that small area in front of the
bridge for the plant off of its angle, so he immediately counters with the reckoning
and just pushes.
He's like, if they're flooding, I'm going to hit them with this thing.
They're going to be slowed up, and I'm going to just come in and deal with them.
And then he has that follow-up smoke utility to give himself that extra room of space so
They could set up that crossfire outside of the main.
Beautiful.
Great reactions again.
And it hasn't been too long since the previous one,
but here comes the final timeout of a base for XLG.
Now a five-round deficit being neck and neck.
They just haven't been able to find a single round win
on this attacker's side.
And this is where we thought they were going to be favored.
Oh, for sure.
Especially after what you saw against NRG,
where they're actually able to make somewhat of a fight,
somewhat of a comeback there.
But this is just, I think, just better
game planning from G2, especially on this A side.
I was hoping that there'd be some exploration of B,
but as G2 coming out of this timeout,
I'm thinking, leaning B again, why not?
You could just leave two on A and you can lock it out anyway.
Might as well.
I'd love to see some kind of early aggression here
from G2 and one of the mains.
But it's like maybe they're just going to consider something
we'll see.
They're going to keep hitting this A side of the map.
Yeah.
Just fine.
Fallen not there.
Doesn't have the ult online, but you do that.
Baby bait with an operator.
Wide angle from backside.
See if you can catch on to anyone.
Smoke will disrupt him, though.
Quickly makes his exit.
Meanwhile, he's going to just break in the door,
cuts across into mid.
And look what they're doing.
They're completely fanning out away from the naysight
because they're scared of that utile that's been hitting them
when they've made those executes.
They're just going to take space instead.
Trying some mind games there, believe Lysor.
He can think about where he could have TP to, quick cancel.
Valon is already hugging back towards that defender's spawn,
so knows that he hasn't gotten himself into that position.
That's been provided.
Same time, going to be called in.
But pretty much all players with XLG
playing in front of this. Three players now on the side itself.
Traga, got a fish for something there with that share up over the top.
Lysor with the Phantom. Give it a fly, Traga, with a push forward into the smoke.
Gets ballon as well as Trent gets taken down with the Huckets fury.
It seems like this time the timeout call, working a treat as Aleep will try to tuck into that cubby.
Will just get picked apart. David Day stopping it from being a flawless,
but will not be able to hold on to the operator. It is a master card,
for XLG to rally their way back into this map.
Yes, you can see the answers here for XLG
is they know that holding those deep post plants in a main
isn't going to be effective against this comp,
the way that they're able to layer those smokes.
I mean, you saw it this time with the cosmic divide
cutting off main, that we have to play a little bit on site,
so that means we have to create space at heaven, at worlds,
to make sure that we have those extra angles,
that we can have a little bit of a safer post plant,
so they're going to commit some extra resources to that area.
Resources to that early extra bodies to that early. So now we need to see what kind of adjustment g2 is considering
But it's looking a little stock standard other than what Valon's doing
They may have that refract. She's the dash and he's right there in front of no man has him out done
Shorty more than enough to get the kill
XLG with that kill and still not going to be leaning fully into A. They want to explore
in the mid once again.
Valon just around the corner.
We almost certainly dead to the right of the singer of this range, but then again, anything
anybody can work a miracle with that gun.
It would be him, but Leaf going to be the one getting taken down.
Conventional drift going to be invested.
Valon looking to try to get the collapse on the happy way.
He'll be able to do so, get himself a weapon upgrade.
Meanwhile, Raga forward onto the site spotting out the two defending players of Jogamo.
Snappy with that shot, but quickly is traded out.
So no man keeps him in with the advantage.
Valon actually taming the stinger.
Virgin Path's going to be invested.
So it's helping J.
Besting heavily into this round.
Valon's still going to be good for one.
Jump spot, sees another, trying to hit the stun.
You know, eating a bit of damage, sends out the recall, will have the clear, but gets the double ping, knows that they're advancing from this position, the Shockdarts layered in, hold them back, swinging the corner, and that should be the clean up of Trent.
That's what's standing, leading hands just enough time.
Running out of it though, in no safe way to try to get a defuse going. This round will be XLGs as no man finds the 3K.
Three more rounds to go, and they'll be tying us up.
Yeah, it's looking really nice
this mid pressure
That XLG able to create
Really disruptive guess a weaker by 4g to here
that
refract position
Get easy or no man
Nice work by Leo on that backside to really buy some time delay delay delay with his utility
3 kills baby, I'm back!
Alright, I want to see more of that then, no man, keep it up.
Or ultimates available though for Jitsu.
There you go.
Double dashing forward for the cp spots, happy way.
They're high enough and loses the fight.
Flying across Joggleboats, plants his feet,
Hunchley is able to clean up the kill, meanwhile in mid.
And it takes them around and now the days is that they're saturated from the
old baby able to collect lights or that leaves just no man this time needs a 4k
once G2 will be getting themselves up to map point there's the first looks for
the second won't be able to have it Trent will shut him down G2 one around
away from closing out their opponents map pick up a this great adjustment here
from G2, starting to push towards those mains.
If your opponent is going to commit a lot of bodies towards mid,
that's going to open up some space for you
to send a little bit of pressure on the extremities.
And that is exactly what G2 does.
And it's really, really nice there.
And you have Jogamot a slide pass
to set you up with those two player situations.
Don't give Happy Way any chance to make any hero plays.
Here comes a big one.
There's a huge set up coming.
Oh, not just a bit.
They're finally trying to attack into this B site.
Pupter's fury gonna be opened up.
Lee Fallen able to find one. A piece of Duelist aren't gone.
There's an entry power that died. Dispatched.
This one's still yet with some fighting him.
Has managed to find a kill.
Strong enough. A Bucky in hand here around the back.
May be able to find this spike, but it seems like they're wise to this.
Staring at this position.
But turns away from it, and that's what jungler will find the gorgeous timing!
Another solid shot them from Lysor, seems to always have his number.
He needs so much more.
Refract takes baby out to safety, saturate close just in case the counter swing is coming through.
Happy way in Lysor.
In the top key performance for the squad thus far on this map.
And everything they do in Valon has another timing.
Okay, we'll just have a leaf take him out off screen
13 to 8 g2
Struggling in that first half, but they look clean from the defense. They take down XLG on XLG's map pick
Yeah, you really have to be impressed with some of the protocols and some of the big ideas that you have especially with this
Harbour for g2 and now Haven gonna be coming up next the desk was assured that this was going to be the pick of G2
It is we'll see if they can close it out or vexel jean can fight back and take us a map 3
Yeah, let's go.
The time to write the next chapter in the e-sports history books is finally here.
And they fold and he returns, yet again!
He even stops up to the plate, and he can knock this one out of the park!
Now they shall be engraved alongside the plate!
So long, guys, to kill us here, and I've got two players moving to that Raga, as well
as no man from XLG.
And today, we're going to be playing a little game called Masters of Art.
I've got a marker for each of you, and the way this is going to work, and we'll start
with Raga, is that I'm going to give you a prompt.
You're going to draw it on this canvas, and no matter you have a minute to try to guess
what he's drawing, and then we'll swap around, and then you'll have your own little go at
it.
So this is your prompt, Raga.
Draw your best to draw this from memory.
Actually, I'll start the clock.
Okay. Can of beans.
We're off to a ripping start.
It looks like... I think it looks like...
Wait, I'll forget how it looks like.
Wait, five seconds remaining.
You're drilled.
No, no, no. You understand now.
Cam's trophy.
Yes.
yes
Master's trophy Santiago trophy. Okay. There you go. Was that like 30 seconds? I think not too bad not too bad
All right, 30 seconds. Very nicely done. Let's get rid of
This one not to destroy your fine art
We need a blank canvas
And uh, no man this is of yours
Oh gosh, okay
So we've got a minute on the clock. Okay, and uh go ahead and start
Wow, off the rip, he just got it straight away.
I don't know if that's just, yeah, the fans got game knowledge, but it's just good drawing,
either way.
He's not too much in game.
Well, it seems like this synergy is going really well for you guys, so best of luck
the tour of it.
For us.
Easy as that.
That was...
Then here with G2's Josh Artina, and the other one is
with G2's Josh RT now one. What happened to baby Bay because he's back in form and two why neon
instead of the Yoru. I mean Andre baby Bay assured me that that first match was a one-off.
He just had to get out of the system just a lot of throws it is what it is.
But it's a nice game for him to bounce back on and two neon over Yoru. I mean I kind of gave Alex
his choice of like what what those do you want because right now it's the
Duelismetta and like we just want to have different flares and something that's
like really hard to like deal with. So he picked Neon? I mean it's Neon or Yoru
and we thought Neon's not bad actually we got inspiration from another
team and like it's I think it'll work for us. Well thank you so much and good
luck. All right well G2 picks up the win but I gotta say that was like the
most baby-bay thing for him to say. I imagined it. No, Josh, bro, no, dude,
I was one off. It's all good. And next time I got you. That's like, literally how it
probably happened. But hey, he had him, and it was a great performance from the
waylay for baby-bay. But really though, sideshow, the talk of the town was the
harbor going into the game, and it seems like stats wise, the harbor coming out of
it was playing quite well. Yeah, I mean, you don't even need the stats. The idea,
The theory was all really really good. It was the best harbor in terms of the ideas that they had and the way that they were playing it
I love the way the Valin was playing on the defense side as well, which is where we've seen most of the harbors struggle
Yeah, they're usage of all of the utility pieces was easily the best the alt value on those
Repushes back into that a site on defense. He just completely nullified a hit with the Astro ball pushes up close
They totally lock out XLG. Yeah, the defense offensive game plans really were sick
And also you had individuals that were popping off that takes us to our hyper X reflex moment of the day
And this one's got to go to the dog Jogamo because he decides he wants to go for first second
Thirds and heck why not I got some force down being and he does so in such quick fashion
Crucial round as well.
Dude, Lysor is barely on his screen.
It's just like an effect behind him.
Yeah, I love the pushes though.
And the theme continues of George
just having his best run of games with his team this year.
Just after going back to the duelist
he's more comfortable with.
Yeah.
A little bit more dynamic in some ways.
I like the Neon as well, because I think, you know,
they're playing a flood defense and retake style.
You don't need the Yoru for the early fighting
because they're just going to allow the exec to happen,
and then either quick retake or flood defend them anyway.
The Nio makes perfect spot.
And I kind of like this idea of, like,
what are we going to throw here?
Are we going to play a Yoru?
Could we play a Nion?
It sounds like that's maybe somewhere
that they want to go with that, which I think
is quite fascinating.
Also, too, we were seeing some great plays from Baby Bay
as we had talked about.
Jen had asked Josh about that.
He was reassured.
No, guys, I got this covered.
And hey, I'm glad you did, buddy,
because look at the stats there.
I mean Wyatt and a huge difference from that first game. Yeah, I'm really not going to give you a deep dive on any
Particularly crazy aspect of his play how he's passing around the map, bro
You just looked at him on the camera. Yeah watch this POV his aim was just on point today
Yeah, he's actually just feeling comfortable the aim is looking good. Yeah, that's really it
Yeah, he was looking at him in the paper. It was like he had I know it just wasn't in there for some reason
Yeah, but I do agree with what he said to Josh Artee is probably just a one-off
I don't think he's gonna be volatile and go back down to that level or I think this is more what you expect
I will say though
You've already come out of the game with a bit of a stinker
So at this point now you have to only just continue to add on from there if your baby base impressions on I think it's safe to
Say he's it's have a pair to destroy. Yeah, this is the perfect game to get the ball
It is and that is happening
But let's go ahead and shift the conversation over to XLG.
What is going on over there?
Because coming into this one, why we were like, hey,
they just need to get four or five rounds.
They got six on the defense.
Yeah, they win the pistol.
They get several other rounds by actually being proactive,
having defense protocols where they're pushing down
the extremities on retakes.
They actually have players flanking.
They're taking so much more map control on defense.
This was a great half of them.
It felt like they were set up to get the win.
Now, obviously, in hindsight, we know that G2 just had a phenomenal defensive game plan.
So you ultimately shut them down, but another hopeful take away, if you're trying to extract
any cope remnants that are left for XLG, they made some good changes, they made adaptations.
They did, they did!
Clawing for any cope that's left.
He's gonna lose his dang mind over here, people.
Well, let's see what's going on with the coach of XLG.
We had Jen and Opportunity to catch up with them head of map too.
XLG, please.
Here with Havoya of XLG.
Now coach, Kaven is coming up next.
Just wanted to ask you, were you guys able to make your haven stronger after the energy series?
And what were the discussion around it?
We are going to be totally different today, comparing our last match to heaven.
So you want to see on the stage how it goes and hopefully it is going to be way more different and finally I can recognize my team
from Amis and we become more ballsy and I hope my guys are gonna step up now.
All right, thank you so much and good luck on Haven.
He asked for his players to be a bit more ballsy. I like that. We saw that a little bit in that defensive side.
So you need to see them while I had extract that a little bit more going into this one.
Did I hear him right and saying that they're going to do something completely different?
They're going to be a different team?
Oh, I hope!
I don't think he means the comp. I think he's not that stylistic yet.
Yes, because they were ultra passive on their defense,
and you don't want to be playing a ton of retakes on Haven.
No.
The amount of times they had to go for like five on five over towards that A side,
you do not want to find yourself in that situation nearly as often as they were.
But again, just to return back to this,
Yes, the defense side looked improved and yes, that is some cope that maybe they'll play the defensive haven better
But then when they got on the attack G2 had already anticipated
Yeah strength of XLG and neutralize the utterly I mean that attacks outside they got almost nothing done
At least also to the credit of XLG if you address the individuals which we haven't yet
Lysor stepping up again. Yeah, he drops 20 there happy ways aim looks superb as did Rargas
No man was hitting some shots here and there too, so I don't think they're out of individual form
They were outplayed in the macro. Yeah, but I just think the individual stuff from G2 is gonna be bonkers with this comp
You know, it's a comp that they nicked from paper X. Yeah
It's all about individual stuff. Their attack side calling was great when they played this comp previously
They were able to have some really hard-hitting
Executes around Jawa this Phoenix and then later in that half use them to sell fakes
They were really working the map. Absolutely. You should never see 100% defense win rate on one of these stacks
Because the last time we saw this competition composition for G2 they beat MIBR 13 to 4
Yeah on Haven so this is gonna be an uphill battle for XLG. Can they bounce back for stat map 3?
Here's once again Achilles and paper thin
It all comes down to this for XLG needing to win on their opponent's map pick,
needing to have a strong performance on this haven where G2 have looked electric with this
new comp, with this stylistic change. And that's just to push it into that third and final decider
map of Breeze, otherwise we will be saying goodbye. Yeah, exactly. And it's an impressive comp on
the defender's side because of your ability to take fights at some tough
angles especially around the Phoenix in the order with those flashes you can use
it against some of that Viper Util to cut through it to kind of slow up some of
the attacks you know let the neon go through and deal with the back layers as
well if you've got some good plans for that John speaking of Kerr ball out
just got a punch. He's spotting so many players between Eraga who runs him down
Leaf dead at the same time. Zadoulas are eliminated. Ballon nearby enough, but
XLG pumping the brakes a little bit, not just storming the way forward into the
C-site. Drone at the ready. Will be sent through. Baty bait. Scaling forward as
that smoke dissipates with Rager gets the better of him. Checks in, trying to go to
the side. Forward ballon. Will be able to shut him down. Now a 2v4.
Why is XLG a couple of ways with another pistol around the wing?
It's going to be a full pivot across the A site.
A good call on the pivot here.
You know there's at least one there, so at worst,
potentially facing one other over on A, so
you can open up a bit of space if they have.
It's just a lot easier on yourselves.
Two healthy players on G2.
A long lurk from Valon, but an alarm bot there to check him.
So good diligence being shown.
with hanging on to some of that U-Tilt, now the flank has been alerted to.
The other choice just has to clear it.
Looks his way down through sewers now, the turret set up as well.
Just get that further alert and Trent has already been eliminated.
He's looking for the key, KJ on that drum.
Jump across, but you know Matt will be able to play elusively.
Val, I'm gonna be good for one, but no man has a 3K.
Got a fast track that lockdown on XLG, they find themselves in another pistol.
Yeah, just keeping it a little bit simple here for XLG,
able to avoid any damage from, you know, pretty nice curve ball.
It's because you're just a step ahead of it as Rarga doesn't get caught by it at all.
That's the neon and he's able to just slide past with the frenzy.
And then hanging on to that KJU tilt.
Makes things all the easier.
He's letting him know he got another 3K.
He's going to be bringing a bulldog is no man into this round.
this round.
There's the Bucky for Leaf.
He's strong enough.
He's going to be looking to do that ching and fursination.
Gather Orbs as quickly as one can.
Trying to get the fast track on the alt.
They're going to be passive about this.
What's those shotguns there if there's some patients shown by G2?
You might get a little bit of value out of them.
You never know.
Headhunter for Baby Bay 2.
See what Leaf has in store for us.
Smoke is going to fall, so it has to drip back around the corner,
around the corner, but there's no one to clear this drone for him, and that would just be Valen with
a shorty, but doesn't actually check the corner. Now they have it confirmed. It's got no way to get
out of this position, but it looks like XLG don't really want to even try to challenge it too heavily.
He'll hop the back away, but they do get a shock dart in to take him down to 25.
Same time, a lobby control in the hands of G2. Valen still holding at garage with that shorty.
Just trying to hold tight angles, trying to see if they can get some more value on these
close range guns, but Leaf hasn't moved a muscle.
Find the swing out, no easy way to clear that recon, and Valin won't be able to make much
happen with that shorty himself.
We'll find one, swing around the back, we're not going to be scooped up for Jogamo.
So we'll cut up the damage he can get with it, he's down to 42 and doesn't have the
U2 to try to heal himself back up.
We'll just be playing it out from this low health.
They're all going to be lobbed in, quick little double swing out from the site, Lysor will
be able to collect the kill onto the Phoenix.
Seven baby bait.
Doubled up here inside the garage, we'll swing in, Lysor will collect all four kills
for himself.
And that's a 2-0 start, a very clean one for XLG.
That's exactly what they need once again to start the map.
They can keep that momentum going.
Just great patience there, anticipating these players that are going to be around those corners, around those angles.
They dealt with every single layer of it very nicely, even had a little bit of back up there for Raga when he gets flashed by Tagamo.
So, well, then what I'm seeing, this is really clean, efficient stuff, you know, sticking together as a team, working together as a team, coordination seems good.
Let's see if now G2 can disrupt that event.
They can find themselves a bonus conversion, this would be monstrous for them to run their way back into this.
This baby bank, tucking back.
Swing on to the corner, and Rocket's able to find him before he can even TP out. Not even that much damage could be found.
Leon still at 85 health that is a critical pick
That creates a lot of problems for G2 now. So you're gonna have to throw bodies to get info
It's gonna come down to some of these individual moments these individual players trend
Prouler just get a little bit of confirmation of presence has to re clear sewers
This is looking like it a eventual be hit
I'm gonna try to keep this attention on A.
The jogger mouth out here.
In man, gets a transfer and massacres four!
Out of nowhere once again!
And if you're wrong, you're just scratching your head, wondering what in the hell just happened.
Finds a jump here on the leaf.
Steven's way out in the mid, but now they have his position noted.
The spike still dropped outside of window.
Trent looks forward.
Raga, wanting to try to isolate him,
find this kill, will be able to do so.
Now needs to just try to stay alive.
Five HP.
Will go his separate ways.
Joggle on the prowl, look at the drag.
Get the catch, spots him, but can't quite find him
through the box.
But powell is there, situated on the C site to clean it up.
It does get messy, they lose three players.
So damage dealt to G2.
Next LG cannot find the bonus conversion.
Oh, again, those curve balls.
But those last two shots are outrageous from Joggleball.
Oh, my.
When he hits, it just seems like he's
going to take a round for you.
He's gonna find that 3k, that 4k.
Now he's got the ult.
Shocked him there before Leaf. He's got the judge.
He's gonna be posted up in the garage.
Trying a lot of pressure here.
One of the things about this comp is a fate.
You're oftentimes left on your own at long A.
So your protocols and your ability to kind of escape danger have to be really, really good.
You can see the XLG wants to try to put some pressure there to see if they can get him overstepping.
stepping, but as far as he's being patient with it,
the judge confirmed.
He's just pulling back enough to get that game crash out.
You know, the judge is going to be in play just
on the other side of that door.
Well, this one, very cautiously.
Well, we'll be able to spot out Lysor.
Looks like this is going to end up being an A lean for XLG.
It's like to be collected, but two players
already scaled up at long.
Trademark will be heard and noted.
Should give you a little of extra time here.
Another change in this comp from G2 compared to Paper Rex
is that they run the Astra instead of the Omen.
So you have some stars there at the front of the site, too,
to maybe disrupt this execute.
Ready for the Seas Molly.
Catch them right here on the entryway.
Seas and the Molly end up going out a little bit early.
And now looks like XLG is going to be calling for a pivot,
potentially.
Will rotate out, but this might be right into leaf.
He's got that Judge now situated here at B main.
And then he looked on, and he out sprinting 40s.
Unable to confirm the kill with that Judge Trenton now coming to the rescue.
Needs it to kill on the wrong end.
Time is getting away from XLG.
They're gonna try to go for another fast pivot.
10 seconds remaining.
They find one, but it's already gone.
He absolutely squandered it.
As soon as they run into that Judge, it all goes awry.
They're trying to hold onto these weapons.
The Fallon will not allow it.
G2, four players surviving, tie it up Q2 to 2.
You can see the understanding that G2 has of the push and pull of this composition on the map.
You know, don't give up too much as that fade.
You have that trademark there at the top of sewers as well to give you a little bit of extra comfort to play a little bit deeper.
Because you want to disrupt the executes.
You want to get that Phoenix into position onto A to throw those curveballs to Violette.
extra little bit of time maybe find those kills on the entry players and
That forces XLG away because you have that extra layer with the C's Molly and then the grab well as well
So it's really difficult like they wanted to bait it out
But then they made that decision to pivot and then there's that final piece of the puzzle for G2 with that shotgun
Well into the time out on the coin base of win condition
I mean the boy in the coach interview said he wanted the players to play a bit more ballsy and so far
I mean we've seen some intelligent play from them bumping the brakes when they knew there's going to be shotguns on the other side playing into that anti-eco
Clearly they're aware of how G2 likes to position here
But seems like those last little moments not just trying to just send it into a site
Respecting that sees Molly a bit too much then trying to go for a pivot and miss reading and losing track of leaf ends up costing them
So I'm really expected of boys getting in there reminding them of the tendencies of G2
And he's probably wanting them to be a little bit more proactive in the early part of the round
It's just taking a little too long because they can get that plant through probably if there's another 10 seconds 15 seconds on that clock
When they pivot back towards B
Or at least try to at least make a better go of it, but it's it's just too little too late
To
Move the trademark a little bit things to know it's over in the sewers
Full-hour by Vargas. I think that you want to invest the overdrive into this
Absolutely. I love that. Garage is where the trade mark is. Look at this push out.
This could be pretty rough here for Leap potentially, but looking for the catch.
Valon pushes forward, Bills at Space. They know exactly where Lysos ended up. Happy
way. Will Pinch pushes way forward. He took the enemy Astra to try to gain this face control on
on the C site.
Spot out, the quick shot happy way,
going to be taking down Leaf, still here, still fighting.
Good court, and Big V has the cleanup.
No tripped in to be found.
Silver linings at Raga, never got the opportunity
to pop that overdrive, so still does have it.
It gets into a sticky situation.
I love the protocols here.
Leaf going to push further forward into Covey,
has the TP to back out.
Valin has that extra layer to cover.
Even though Raga is able to get through,
he took a bunch of damage on the way in.
Baby Bay getting there with the outlaw to help secure the round.
So good coordination again.
The big thing here for G2 today is that mental game and the coordination.
That was something that was absolutely killing them against Paper Rex.
Once they seem to get their feet planted and start to go, and there you go.
Baby Bay gets an opener at this time of the operator in hand and happy way.
Spin the hero more often than not for the squad.
It doesn't get taken down, but it's a very nice clear on Karats from No Man.
Leave a bit of a rough start here on this yore, just the one kill we found thus far.
And for the entry, push forward.
Instantaneous with that one!
Juggernaut nearly able to stay alive.
Seem to use a check board, and Leo just tucked into the cubby.
Doesn't manage to outdo him.
He's a now to a 2v3, but Trent on a swing instantly unify Leo.
by Leo. No man now dead as baby scales all the way out of a lobby.
It is all down to Lysor.
One big two to try to clutch this up.
The way he's been shooting today though.
It's absolutely possible. Yes.
Determined or not, but he is standing and sitting after this round.
Spike down planted.
They get the TP, but ends up getting caught by the Cs, stuck in position for now.
Maybe they're just going to be joining in alongside Trent here at the garage, now expiring
because they have another for another five seconds, G2 start working their way forward.
The Lysor, the quick peek, he's able to isolate one, he's looking for the second, but Trent
will find him through the box.
The defuse is in and G2 stretching the lead, now up 4-2.
Ah, heck of an attempt here by XLG.
Some pretty good stuff on the execute.
Raga almost has two.
He's jogged down to half.
And he's going to get cut down, but that's swing by Trent.
Huge baby bait.
Great job expecting the re-aggression off the clear of the alarm box.
Swapped guns there, too.
Went over to the phantom, found one on the ground.
It's really nice on-the-fly decision-making there from a lot of different players.
on G2. Trent just barely able to win that last one against Lysor.
He did pop the Tour de Force, so he had that long range option just in case.
So we'll not have that, but I don't think he minds it too much.
We'll have catch up plenty.
And now has an outlaw, which is going to be useful against everybody
aside from Raga.
Once again, is going to be looking to try to utilize this overdrive.
So we have a blaze wall, and there's Leaf against this Nebula.
Pop! It finds Leo as well as the spike.
Happy way swinging around the back, but he's already out like a thief of the night
It's a quick gate crash out towards safety, but no man trying to fight back here at sewers
a little bit of a system from his old man
But we'll be taking down some out a 3v3
It's raga winstingly dispatched a lot of shot from leaf
Cleans him up and now again a player disadvantage
Gonna bring around the Rosie here on the B site. They make not spotting out happy way
nor the other way around if he hears that TP and now will be able to strike
but no Lee still holding his own. Liza once again asked to do it all maybe they
think he's seen the gun barrel the second shot will connect five to two once
again economy broken down the overdrive still in the back pocket. Excel change is
not getting into a solid position to really even start these runs. And the
The thing is, is even though Leaf takes that one player, you know, it's just pro-activist
from G2, he gets out and then they immediately re-aggress in the sewers because they know
that that's where you're going to want to plant that lockdown from No Man.
They want to prevent that before it even has a chance of getting through.
You're cutting the ults away from XLG before they can even use them, putting them back
onto an eco.
Just phenomenal calling and game planning.
Clear of the recon, baby bay.
Panic jump from a lot of shot.
From no man, shutting down lead.
That been not going to be recoverable here for them all,
but that is a very critical opening.
He's trying to, has taken some forward space.
Dandel at hand.
Larmbot will have heard that come back online,
so should know that they're going to be trending
towards this side of the map.
Any cognizant though of the space they've given up.
The wall raised, the foul and the chase.
There's the clear, there's the overdrive coming through.
The blind connect mid-rogg is still able to find it, goes out of 4HP, narrowly survives.
Jogamo trying to get into position.
To hold the line here on the site.
Sends out the molly, the curve ball through, gets the connection on the ball to Jogamo!
Ooh!
It will be sat down, but such damage dealt.
gets it into an even numbered situation, but do they read this flank? No man on the approach
will have eyes on baby day and he will have him dead on the rights. Or he can even drive
a knife and no if you want, but no, we'll just go for the head shot. That now leaves
Valon. See if he can clutch this out. I'm going to expire Valon, I believe able to skirt across
So no man is not watching for this at the moment.
A critical timing to get this into a 1v1.
Leo on the other side, tucked away down below.
And he will be able to fight in a MasterCart
thrifty for XLG to win their third round.
Big stuff here.
Popping that all, and even though you get team blinded by Lysor,
let's just pop it.
By that.
I keep scraping my microphone with my T-cup.
That's OK.
I'm laughing at a couple different things here that round that were kind of a little bit wonky, but you know what?
You get through it even though jog again almost pulls off another 4k. That could have been a difference maker
Holds well that ends well there that's gonna be a big sigh of relief from the coaching booth
Especially if they're able to string together consecutive win
Now you're finally getting into maybe doing some damage to the economy here of G2
All about the fall but had to wait just pulls back out to safety.
You have so many alts here though as G2 so you could play further back you could play
a little bit more retaker anti pressure like we saw on heart on a abyss with the harbor
where you find out where that exec is coming through and that's when you hit him with the
alts and they're in position to maybe do that.
to run it back at it. He's the cosmic divide to cut him into pieces.
I don't think they quick up the spot on the ballon.
Shut down the TP over the back side.
Jog him on. Just gonna be snapped back to the ultimate, but not before he's able to find no man.
So now that lockdown unable to come into play.
He's leading the charge, scaling forward, but this Nebula about to dissipate,
and he is right up into the open. Leaf on flat.
Makes quick work of him.
Jump peeks to find the other players.
Once again, Lysor to try to clutch it out, but she's 16 HP and a 1v3.
Missing the window to find the punish, but has the haunt reveal.
They know that they have him completely boxed in.
Trenton will clean it up and G2 get up to six.
Yeah, again, it's just a good read at the beginning of the round here by Valin.
I think they might go see. Let's put our heavy stack that side
Got some of the ults that we could potentially utilize doesn't even
Need to use the cosmic divide there because they just cut it down to size with
You know chagamos also
Good stuff just great great planning and yeah
boy is probably just
Wonder in how am I gonna fix this
Happy way is a shotgun there as a viper
Bit of a spot out on that cross.
Mano gets popped.
Clear out the corner.
Now the push can continue.
Lockdown going to be in play.
You see no silver.
Just be that nightfall coming through in Chagamo.
Unscattered in this position.
Just scales forward.
Is able to find that kill.
Now sets up the wall, tucks away into the corner.
Meanwhile, Leaf is still applying pressure from A main.
We're trying to keep this Phoenix protected.
Pit now blooming in the spot onto one line.
So we're going to be picked apart as Leaf is able to find that kill.
Bucky comes in, Valin gets taken down.
Joggenbeau just storming his way forward into this pit,
but has not been able to find that Viper quite just yet.
Puts himself in the wrong end of it.
This happy way has to clutch it out.
K-to-K dead here, just around on the swing,
tucking into the corner.
Leaf decayed all the way down to one.
Has the read, has the shot, and G2 have the round win,
as well as a lead at the half.
This is heartbreaking for XLG.
They invest so much into this round.
And they just can't get it to go.
The money's going to be a little bit
scuffed here for a couple of players.
And pull that shotgun through to try
to save a little bit extra cash for this pit.
And it almost works for Happy Way.
A lead just in time and moved out of that corner.
Happy Way would have got him because he probably
with a body block in and then just shot him, but he's quite there.
That one's starting to feel it, G2 across the board, starting to feel it.
Swing in, right into the cross here, Baby Day and Raga, dead off the rip.
They look to try to pull off another thrifty, but Jogamo has this sight on lock.
You cannot play against this Phoenix out in mid, just continues to tear the limb from
Lim.
Maly's haul really comes down to No Man being able to pull off a miracle with this lurk.
He's slinked his way all the way through that sea site around towards the defender spawn.
Maly tucked into the corner, goes unread, happy way caught off guard and now No Man is in
No Man's land.
Should be no world where he doesn't get anywhere near that spike, you would think.
Maybe to get the catch here, and yet we'll be able to find the headshot.
He needs four more of those, even in a clutch scenario of the operator, not necessarily the
weapon that you would love to have.
Full flash connecting, cloned over to the side.
fall for it, but Leeb is just swinging around. He's looking at the knife! And that is just
downright disrespectful from Leeb. Unbelievable. Oh, dearie me. Oh, boy. You know you've got him.
And you're just gonna go for the style points. You're gonna try to take our off. Cool story.
I can bring a knife to this gunfight. No problem.
Thanks to second right click, but eventually he was able to drive that
dagger into the heart of no man, potentially into the hearts of XLG and the Chinese fans.
This time, great shutdown. Maybe they unable to find that opening pig Leo.
The hell out of shot, the crunch, which is forward into that fast lane, binds the kill on Naraga.
The Hunter's Fury from Leo frantically searching, trying to find where he ended up.
At the same time, Jogamo storming his way forward.
Get some damage in, but cannot confirm the kill. Snaps back with the run-up back.
And Lysor has been spotted and dealt with.
Tread down to 26. I'm not gonna find anything else.
Cosme divide for now, still gonna be holding them in position.
And just on the opposite side, the wall to fall, the spot out, and there's the spray down,
jog about far too wide still it.
If they want to try to rotate out, Valon is watching the exit.
Exactly, and if they try to keep pushing A, that means that that Util is now not going
to be available to confirm the presence of a lurk.
Let's see if they can get done.
He's going to post up, up in towards the lobby,
and start to make his way forward now.
Pinging out the window, expecting that maybe that's where
he would have repositioned to.
It's 30 seconds remaining.
The half to make a go of it.
It's the last round of the half.
There's no saving here.
There's no padding of the stats to be had.
There will be a double face out of Sewers.
The 40 health between the remaining players
and Jogamote still here.
They're still looking to be the gatekeeper of this site.
The top of the plant now has to be committed to.
Happy with finding it.
It's going to be narrow margin with the ball,
and we'll get there before the plant can come in.
So all the same, this round, this half,
and maybe this map is G2s.
Now, they're just so clean with this comp.
And even when there are mistakes here and there,
they're able to bail each other out
with some great individual moments.
That was a huge shot from Leo.
Trento, double down on this with low health.
The 9-3, the tournament lives on the line.
XLG need to rally back.
We'll see if they can get the opening pistol
as they swap over to the defender's side here on Haven.
Go, Santiago!
Go, Santiago!
Santiago!
Santiago, how are you?
I have a very special guest,
for those who don't know him,
which would be weird,
It is Golden Boy, Spartan talent of NA and well, I think everyone is welcome, Golden Boy, Golden Boy, Golden Boy!
Oh my God!
Hello Chile!
I am Golden Boy from Vicente America and I am very grateful to be here.
Thank you Chile, are you ready?
Thank you so much, man, thank you so much.
So, ¿Qué les parece si vamos a editar un poco a los equipos?
¿Dónde están los falts de Chile?
G.B. having some fun here on the stage.
How about K.D.O.?
He loves the problem.
Absolutely loves it.
I mean, he's been watching from the America side of the broadcast,
the English side of the broadcast.
You could tell he's been getting jealous.
But also that this is such a meaningful moment for him.
It's all the more meaningful now for XLG looking to find some success here on a global stage.
Couldn't make it happen on their map pick and now they are looking at a six-rounded
deficit.
As they shift over to the defending side of this map, G2 have been running laps around
them.
Yeah.
Jog him on taking point on this Phoenix.
He's been incredible, and it's only one round outside of a pistol in the
in the anti-eco
That XLG found but it's all because of jog that Phoenix is
Just so oppressive and the way he utilizes its way pilots it maybe they can't connect on the Leo there
I'm gonna start cycling the orbs, but
It's just so good with the curve balls
There you go
Let's finally get a shot through takes him down to 45
Well, Raga, gig push out into mid, but the power is there.
Can every cognizant of this, but he actually turns making plans as speedy fights do!
How in the hell has Raga done that?
Raga was still going to go pushing forward, big big, gets a piece of the pie as no man
will be taken down, and suddenly a 2v2 with Hell's advantages in the hands of G2.
They're trying to get this plant still, Leo, quite far away from joining up alongside Happyway.
Only one more headhunter bolt shot for Baby Bay, a little happy way.
Oh, it's gonna double face towards Garage, jogging all the one to collect the kill.
And now Leo to do it all, still another curveball, yet in the hands of Jog.
As if he could find this elimination or death, he's gonna be one away from having that
run it back available in the anti-eco.
Maybe they just pulls back deep, disconnected position, goes for the check, doesn't manage
to find some damage. Leo now at 22 and Jogamo on the flank. They will just hand it to him.
Fast-tracking that ultimate at 3k in the pistol, double digits now for G2.
Ah, heartbreaking for XLG. They needed that pistol and they needed it bad.
And it looked like maybe Margot was gonna give him the opportunity. He has 13 health when he gets those two kills.
But it's just not enough.
Ah, yeah.
Frustration.
Old man knows they missed a chance, missed an opportunity
to get it jogged
with another multi-kill round
to put himself up to 18.
18-8-1.
I know an America's caster's wife
who is very happy with this performance.
For XLG.
I wish if there was, damn,
the other side of the stage. TP forward. Leap, gaining that space and finding a kill.
Happy Wave is going to be taken down over. Lumber the Slider from Raga to his demise.
Picking them apart. Lim from Lim. And suddenly it is just Lysor with the
classic to see if he can stop this from being a flawless. Leap has the spot.
What are you meant to do?
Not much.
They're just going to eat crowd together.
See who they can try to hand this kill to.
And it will be Leaf to claim it in the end.
Flawless on the anti-eco 11-3.
Nice discipline from G2.
Immediately getting to those crossfires.
Using that util to slow down the initial hit again
So good today with their util that when those floods or when those executes come through that there's a piece of util there
Cut it in half
Surgery being done by G2
So G desperately need this round to say the least
So much more behind it. It's just the first step on a very long track
Okay, okay, no man
We'll find Val and that is a critical pick
Push out there and just immediately falls back to the safety of his utile
To go on the corner and he's gonna be looking to maybe send the salt here
Let's see if you can get any kind of rise, any mid exploration from XLG that he can punish.
He wants him to take Leo, get him to spot out on lead.
Check in the corner, here's how many weapons are on the opposite side of that wall, and
we'll swiftly back away.
Yeah, I don't think I'll get much value out of the alt there.
Leap poking in front, he's trying to sell this as an A hit, and for now it does have,
okay, three players on the side of the map, but it looks like the rest are going to be joining in alongside him,
given how much space he has gained.
still looks B all the way. Oh my god.
Finds one, quick punish. Raga sends out some shots, does get some damage through.
Now Happyway really needs to be the one to try to hold the line.
So much damage in response though, down to 35, now the ultimate is going to be
stamping him back, give it the corner, the slide board. Raga, able to find babybay.
Gives a shot, that's right, turn the flash, but Jogamo is a little bit faster.
Finds a headshot, gets a second. As he wants this bonus conversion, and once
this map finished. No men in Lysor. They have to win this out. They have to clutch it up.
The Chagamo will continue to dissuade and deny.
potentially another 4k for him with this phoenix. He just committed the ult. He's already halfway
Wait for the next one.
He is just so electric on this Phoenix.
He's just great with the decision making.
OK.
Well, man does collect one at the end.
Takes leaf out.
But still, that's bonus converted.
And now you're at match point.
Nine in a row.
It's when XLG need to try to force this into an overtime.
Okay.
Something very curious happened, but it is going to be XLG calling a timeout.
Off the back of this.
The Chonga Molotov is just so damn dominant.
So patient.
Baiting out those rotations away from the B site where they can channel their energy back into that.
That side gets some value out of the Alta at least to figure out a position and then he just goes to work
Starts digging the graves of XLG
Perhaps the final point-based win condition for XLG
This has to be
You know one of the greatest speeches yes of all time one of the best reads
To try to rally this one back
I mean we have seen miraculous comebacks, but right now it just feels like all the gas is out of the tank for XLG
I'm
Having a hard time figuring out how they're gonna stop G2
Maybe they'll get one or two
G2 is just so comfortable and you're still gonna have
That outlaw a couple players are gonna have no shields though
We out of the fight
Who's it gonna one tap everybody?
But it's that militia by anything and everything you can scrape together here at XLG
Push all their chips onto the A side pitchforks and kitchen knives, whatever they can fight with
Bit more impact than that, but
Sweeping out into long maybe get the not gonna be able to find the shot. No, okay. It takes a good amount of damage
Okay, she's gonna have to say tucked into the corner now
Nebula gets popped so he has a bit of an exit strategy
Drone at the same time able to go on the chase four players behind this one. It's paranoia goes across
Drops down into mid. This is solid aggression from XLG
But they still would love to try to find a catch an old boy baby. They what he shot and I find the follow-up
I'm talking about absolutely can
Sends out the curveball knows that he's surrounded Valoran tries to peel off some of that pressure
But no man will still be able to collect two
Get it back to even numbers if the spike has been planted during the chaos
with Trent now all the way over into B.
I think it's well into C name.
Now's that Vandal pushing out the critical kill found.
Happy way, giving them a lifeboat back into this,
but Leaf is trying to make it sink.
ADS is in, gets the tap for the Red Bull Clutch.
13-3, G2, looking dominant on a haven.
They choose 0xLG and eliminate them from Master Santiago.
A beautiful bounce back for G2 after a tough loss in their opener here at Master Santiago.
But now we are starting to see that these new ideas, this new G2 has legs to it.
They're going to continue on. Find out who they're going to face shortly.
But you know, definitely this is a big one for them.
for them getting that confidence back getting those wins getting this
dominant win on Haven I think it's gonna really write their mental for
whoever they face next. And unfortunately for XLG it feels like even
still with another exposure to this global stage they're just unable to find
that footing the best that they looked versus NRG on that abyss but we just
didn't see that from them again when they got to that attacker side just
still more work to be done more development to be having for G2 if
they are now finding their form whoever they get drawn against should it be
shaking in that boots because they're looking much improved. Big shout out to
baby Bay stepping up to the plate where he fell short in their opening series
looking much more steady here today. Oh god yeah he had a really nice one. Leif
was great everybody was great on G2 today everybody really pitching in
contributing Valon's Harbor was the best we've seen with this new iteration of
the agent. Fight far. We haven't seen much of it.
They're minor exposures. Yeah but this year even with the unbought Harbor some
We're still playing it, but he looked brilliant talkable of course. What else can you say? Yeah, I've been dropped 394 ACS of that last map
Let's go ahead and send it down and hear from the players of a rise and post-match interview
Yeah
Baby
You promised me that you were going to speak Spanish if you qualified to master Santiago.
Where's the Spanish?
Hola.
No, you can do better than that.
Me llamo Andre.
Okay.
Give me something.
No!
You said that you were going to learn Spanish!
I love you Chile!
That's right.
He promised me that he was going to learn Spanish instead of Spanish.
And they saw what happened.
So now for my second question, you said that you were in a lot of internationals, but now, as a player, you're the rookie in Valorant.
How are you feeling in the stage right now?
Yeah, I'm feeling pretty comfortable. I mean, we had to play like one of the strongest teams in the first match. That was kind of rough, but we knew we were going to bounce back, you know?
So, I'm feeling good on the stage and let's make a run.
And well, sobre también lo que ha sido esta primera torre internacional que David ya ha estado,
sí bien ya ha estado en otros, pero en Valorant es el rookie, finalmente dice que se sintió muy, muy cómodo
dentro de lo que era el escenario, obviamente le tocó una primera partida que fue muy complicada,
pero quiere hacer esa corrida, quiere llegar a lo que son los play-offs.
So now for my last question, that first match was tough match, you said it,
But what did you guys didn't have that you had in this stage today so you can win this match?
I think we had a lot more discipline and I think that's just that show today.
I think we were running it down a little too hard against PRX and they're the team that normally runs it down.
They weren't running it down at all.
So, you know, you live and you learn, we fix that and yeah, we want that run back.
I want to give PRX again.
That would be so cool.
And I was also wondering how that first match was,
who knew that now they could present themselves in this stage.
Basically, it means that a lot of discipline,
that if the X-factor was running,
a lot of goings and foreheads constantly,
now they can fix it,
but I would love to face Paper Rex again.
That's all I have for the interview.
Thank you very much for this interview.
You can now go and take pictures with the fans.
But now, ladies and gentlemen,
We're going straight to the draw show this time correctly.
Don't you worry, because we have back-ups.
Senoras y señores, tenemos lo que va a hacer este draw show
a continuación para descubrir las próximas partidas.
So I'm here with Nick and Greg from ComOps, Nick.
Could you give me the pleasure to give out the rules
for the people?
Hey, everybody.
So we'll be doing the draw for the one-in-one teams
to advance the playoffs.
The winners of these matches will advance.
The losers will be eliminated from the competition.
There's a couple of rules with this draw.
So first, there's no repeat matchups allowed.
So in our situation, that would only be T1 and TL,
cannot be matched up against each other,
has a reminder regional matches are allowed.
Yeah, okay.
Entonces las reglas para esto es que sí pueden haber
matchups regionales, no se pueden repetir partidas,
entonces para tomar eso en consideración.
Also, how is this gonna work?
How are we gonna position it also the cards?
Okay, so the first match is gonna be on the first row,
and then the second drawing will be
go into the bottom row.
Then we will move to the third slot,
which is against the opponent on the top right,
and then last, the fourth slot.
Perfect, thank you very much, Nick.
Y bueno, básicamente, el rollo va a ser así.
Vamos a ver el primer, la primera bolita va a ir acá,
la segunda va a ir a bajito, con la tercera
vamos a ver el primer enfrentamiento,
y con la cuarta se va a definir finalmente lo que va a pasar.
So let's go, let's do this.
Estamos animados!
You can go ahead, Nick, please, and draw the first ball.
Let's discover who's going to be this first team that's going to position right in that first spot.
Vamos a ver quién es el primero. A continuación.
And we've got G2!
Our recent winners are going to go on that first log.
Nuestros ganadores van a estar en ese primer eslote.
So now we can go ahead and draw the second ball.
Reminding you guys this is not the opponent. This is going to go underneath G2
Recordando no es el oponente, va a ir abajo de G2 para definir el segundo match. Go ahead, please
and we have
Energy
We're not gonna have an America's match. No, I'm not gonna match the Americas
So now let's see who's gonna be the opponent for G2
Let's see who's going to be the opponent of G2, ladies and gentlemen, let's see who are we. Who would you like to see out there?
Okay, let's see, let's see who it is, G2 is prepared right here and it's team 1!
We have team 1 against G2 for life to qualify for that.
now and we know that Tim Liquid is going to be playing against energy, we know that Tim
Liquid is going to be playing against NRG.
So those are our matches ladies and gentlemen, this is our match, what do we think?
Is this good?
Well everyone is liking it apparently.
That's all for us guys, thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
And of course, there's a lot of other things.
Thank you very much.
But we have no.
Nick, can you go ahead and also talk about the schedule?
Everybody.
So just as a reminder, this is not the final matchup order and in approximately 10 minutes
we'll be sharing the matchup order, if it's going to be TLT 1 first, or energy and TL
first.
So please follow on social media.
There.
Thank you very much.
Recordando que estos no son los matchups o horarios oficiales para estar posteando
en diez minutitos en las redes sociales a que horario va a ser cada partida.
So now, this is all from us.
Thank you very much, Kuriki.
Thank you very much, Nick.
Muchas gracias, chicos.
Gracias a todo lo que tuvieron por acá.
But stay tuned, because tomorrow we're discovering
who's the fan singing to playoffs.
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Flash man. Congratulations on the victory. I'm not going to put you to work quite yet
Because you've been working all day on that stage for now
It's mean why we got to do this rise and high-speed moment of the match real quick because your boy jog a mode decided
He wanted to get out there and do things and have fun and just click heads very very well
No one leashed him with it with the duelist switch ups
I'm not gonna be told this round so bad because we wanted to give him a ace
That's very uncharacteristic of us, but like we just wanted to give me so bad
Moment, but let's go ahead and talk about that match
But also just in general how you guys feeling and I was a rough loss
We heard Drey talk about what happened and you know you guys knew you were going up against a very powerful team in paper
So, was this like a frustrating thing, was this kind of like expected, like how do you
feel coming out of that?
My emotions afterwards was just extremely disappointed, honestly.
There was a lot of preparation time that went into this PRX match, you know, like, we knew
about this match weeks ago, you know, we flown here to get ready for this match and everything
and we just played so poorly, and it was really like devastating to losing that fashion.
And it was kind of a wake up call for us that like, we still need to focus on ourselves.
I think we were focusing a lot on them in that match and that led us to just like, not
hit flow state, not hit the things that we want to do in the game and just bounce off
each other because that's what we're best at.
And we kind of just went into this game on a more clean slate.
It's going to continue to be like that and I'm glad that my boys showed out today.
That was a big like trust rebuilding match because of how poorly we played versus paper
X.
So that was awesome.
Yeah, y'all also came into this playing the new comp on Abyss after you'd only played
it.
One time in the loss during kickoff, leaned into the buffed harbor.
So how in general, are you feeling about the Harbor buffs in terms of bringing him into
the meta and then just on that abyss map specifically, why were you leaning into that
agent?
Yeah, Josh kind of pitched the idea to me because of how overtuned Harbor is.
There's some niche things about him that gives him more than he should be doing.
And so we kind of have been trying to abuse that on this map.
Honestly, it's the easiest map to slot in Harbor as well, I would say.
So it was one of the first things we tried and it clicked into us.
So we're like, let's run it.
it complements your playstyle too? Definitely, I think I'm kind of unique on smokes. I like to
mix up my playstyle. I like to mix up my plays and having a literal shield can just unleash you to
the max. So I've been just experimenting in scrims. I've been doing some demonic stuff in scrims.
And I'm glad that I could show it on stage two. It was a rough start for me on the attack, but
dude, defense was just like it perfectly hit like what I thought was going to happen in my head.
Yeah, one thing that, you know, we've known you guys for a long time and I know that you
you guys all have those difficult conversations.
After that loss, and you guys say you were disappointed,
were you worried that you guys weren't gonna be able
to have that talk in this kind of environment
to like bounce back in time,
or did you always have it in the back of your head?
It's like, we can do this, we have the capability.
I think history matters for us a lot,
and we have trust in the past.
Back in Bangkok, when we reached the grand finals,
we actually had a pretty similar story
where we lost to EDG like really bad,
like 13-1 on one half.
And we were able to have that talk back in Bangkok
and just lock in for the rest of the games,
and it seems very similar to this moment as well.
So I think for teams that have experience like us,
we're able to just look back and say,
hey, guys, we've done it before, why can't we do it again?
And honestly, it helps that the personalities on the team
are so cohesive.
We trust each other, we love each other,
it's always easy to kind of like put each other on flame.
Like Josh was going in on us,
hey, you're messing this up, you're messing this up,
you guys are playing like ass.
And we were just able to like put it together.
Got to have those shots, got to have those shots.
Otherwise how can you become truly great?
Right.
Specifically, I wanted to ask about the dynamic
with Jogamo right now, and how things changed after you moved away from him being playing
like mostly permawayla, and even last year back to basically being permanent yore the
entire time. How that dynamic has changed with him now that he's flexing through a bunch
of different dualist roles. How has he been feeling in that role with the team, and just
how that's kind of changed things for you guys over the role.
I think Alex had a lot of pressure on himself last year when he was on solo duelist
Yeah, it was like the key role in the team that you know
He's a duelist player. He's supposed to play good whatever and I think it
He performed great last year everyone remembers the Bangkok performance as well
He dropped like over a hundred kills, but it's a lot of stress on him and now that we're running more double duelists
I think he's able to play a bit more free and have his own micros have his own plays because you also have Andre
Now who can like be the primary guy to dive in so I don't think there's as much like pressure on him to make all
the space and do everything perfectly he can he can fake he can go in he can
play slow yeah and that's kind of the nature of the double duelist when you're
when you're playing solo duelist is just everything is you go first yeah now he
can mix it up more has it been really intentional to let him just like off the
leash go for way more solo plays I feel like especially on defense like when
you're watching his neon on split he'll just be fighting over like be garage
alone he'll be pushing in like sliding in relay bolting but do you guys
basically just feel like yeah we trust you to go for these plays yeah definitely
like it and if it doesn't work sometimes it's okay if it's working the majority.
I think that's like a major trust point on our team is like if you have a read in a match
you're you're competing on stage don't overthink it. If you have a call go for it. It's still
a work in progress because of course sometimes maybe we tend to overcook it like we saw Paper
X like we looked a bit not really tight not really together and so it's still something
we're working on but eventually we can perfect this chaos and eventually bring in some order
into the team is how we word it then we'll have a bunch of different looks we can show
and he's going to get his two and play safe and, you know, well, you know, I mean, just
to wrap things up, I will say, like, you know, we've always known you to be the team that
prioritizes and really enjoys that structure.
So it was a tone shift for you guys at the end, but it's, it makes perfect sense that
you guys are thinking about finding that happy medium, you know, that balance and as you
continue to only just push forward, I think you're just going to continue to see that
refine more and more.
Yeah.
I mean, they got you on the team, brother.
My mind is going to get fake, you know what I mean?
Appreciate you.
You're the number one glazer.
You're a good bro.
I'm a boy right here.
Yeah, that's my boy too.
You're going to take my job one day, so watch.
Not anytime soon, though, damn it.
You've got to win a championship.
Now, of course, though, let's check out the final Swiss matchups.
They are set, ready to go.
And I believe this is the order that we
are going to be broadcasting them in.
So confirm from production in the back.
So it will be NRG versus Team Liquid to start today.
And then G2 versus T1.
What do you think of NRG Team Liquid right now, Valin?
I think that's a great matchup.
I think TL has adopted a style of way more aggression.
You see them playing Neon, Waylay,
and even in a lot of their interviews,
they're talking about how fun it is to play this kind of style.
I saw Matt talk about that.
NRG just had a taste of that versus PaperX.
So I think they're going to match up well versus TL.
And then our match, like, there's some history there, man.
I remember I told Meteor he couldn't shoot back.
And like, ever since then, he's been gunning for my head.
So, like, oh, man.
There's going to be a banger game there as well.
And tomorrow is going to be insane.
I'm excited. That's a crazy. Yeah, we were talking about it on day one. Yeah, the G2 D1 was my finals rematch prediction
Yeah happening already. It's kind of best of kind of messed up
But you know it's gonna be a sick game without a doubt. I mean all all these things have been playing so well
How's it been with that crowd up there? Oh my god, everyone's saying it but really really it's like the best experience ever man
Yeah, the crowd is insane and I've been hearing a lot of cheers for me
like I know they they they love me out there
so I'm here in Valorant Valorant
I so appreciate it you got to lean into the head
us okay
see almost
almost head us all right folks well we're
going to be back here tomorrow with two
massive matchups and two teams are going
to be qualifying for the playoffs and two
other squads are going to be eliminated
from masters Santiago you see the schedule
there we're kicking things off with nrg
versus team liquid and then it's going
gonna be a banger of a match of G2 Esports facing off against T1.
It doesn't get any better than that.
Folks, we thank you so much for tuning in.
We'll see you same time, same place right here in Santiago, Chile.
Adios, folks.
It's Elimination Day.
Only two teams are gonna stay alive,
and the crowd is ready to go.
So let's go ahead and kick this bad boy off.
It's day four of Master Santiago starts right now.
But Chichu, the hero of the hour, goes down!
Meteor! That's what I'm talking about!
Four big kills!
T1! Getting the bonus in hand!
An attempt to cover the spike here, but...
What's a little misdirection here?
Oh, it's so sick from Munchkin!
He's always seen both!
Smoggy is dead! Munchkin outdoes him!
And they are watching!
They are waiting!
The issue with being an icon is they know what you're gonna do!
13 to 10
E.D.G.
Bowling out as T1
Right their wrongs.
If we combine the three of us together though, which one like how would we create the best version of ourselves?
You have a stash at the bottom.
Oh, so I'm back at the bottom.
Dude, you've got to get the ball.
You've got to get the ball.
It would be kind of crazy if you have your hair on our face.
I would be.
So all I'm saying is to the community if you want to actually make that, that actually would be kind of cool.
We'd love to see it.
But this matchup is going to be wild.
Can G2 find a way to dig deep, get a clean win, or does XLG manage to send an America's champion home?
Let's bring out your teams.
Which of this mode can you talk about?
Moves down three, gets the fourth!
What a timing to be found!
Tossed it's going to be scaling towards the side.
Tossed it's absolutely destroyed two!
No! Yes, Laser! Come on, man!
Let's go!
Jog him out, out here.
And then get the transfer in Massacres 4!
Out of nowhere once again!
Doesn't fall for it, but Leibach is swinging around.
He's looking at the knife, Em!
And that is just downright disrespectful from Leibach.
Unbelievable.
Giving them a lifeboat back into this, but Leaf is trying to make it sink.
ADS is in! Gets the tap for the Red Bull Clutch! 13-3, G2!
Looking dominant on Heyman, they 2-0 XLG, and eliminate them from Masters Santiago!