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I know that it's time
Like a mess in the other times time
I know that it's time
One day we'll leave where we're not asleep
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Like a mess in the other times time
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I know that it's time
I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know what I'm doing
Don't get caught up in the love
One day we'll get out of love
And no way of time
We're gonna stay here no time for no move
And no way of time
One day we'll leave where we must stay closer
We're gonna stay here no time for no move
Don't leave me.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
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It's Saturday in Santiago, and the fans have arrived in force to welcome our final
two teams to the competition. Hello and welcome to day seven of Masters Santiago. Coming to you live
from Espacio Riesco here in Santiago, Chile. I'm Mimi joined by Saicho and someone who's actually
qualified to judge my pronunciation. You did it. I'm so proud of you. You did amazing. Yeah,
very happy to be here especially in a day like today. We have a full house. This place is
absolutely packed. It is just as loud as it is from home. So it's amazing to see.
Today should be the loudest as well.
I think this is the most people that we've had in here.
I'm not looking forward to that.
I can barely hear my thoughts.
No, it's going to be exciting.
There's tons of people out here,
two new teams entering our playoffs.
And while that playoff landscape,
it's already started to shake out a bit.
We watched our opening games of this stage yesterday.
Any impressions from that day up?
Why me, Mimi?
Yeah, I mean, I'm happy that Nontrim
had the performance that they did.
Of course, on the other side,
we saw a gentleman's head
Inspired a lot of people in the MEA and the fact that they made it here is, you know, happy to see that and for a paper
Exis another day in the park for me. Yeah, it's great to see actually though that those first seeds did not collapse under the weight of
Expectations even though you're lost. I would not say they're joke
Well, two more first seeds are coming in today
We start things off with a BBL playing against the reigning world champs and RG before
All gamers China's brand new number one seated team gets to show what them
themselves on the global stage against G2.
BBL, Josh, I know a team that you are pretty excited to get along.
I'm big on BBL. I am big on BBL. I think this first game is going to be possibly the best game that we've had so far here in Santiago.
I'm so excited. I feel like you already have that one.
Yeah. Banger. Absolutely banger.
Absolutely. The explosive. It's also good to see two completely New Yorkers, as you were saying, a vote for BBL,
who already had kind of like a good year last year, but with this new roster, with everything that they had planned for such a long time.
Yeah, the cross was awesome!
So, I'm just trying to keep his mind activated.
Yes, yeah, he looks like him too.
Yeah, people in the MIA are very smart.
Well, strong, very knowledgeable, evidently in the coaching booth.
I know you want to test our knowledge.
You've been studying up on Soniava and you've made us a quiz, yes?
Yes, I will put this on our producer, Averto, but I'll put it onto that.
And yes, it is time for a quiz.
Mimi, I know that you are big on fun and having fun.
I'm very quizzical. Yeah, exactly. So let's see if also, you know, people watching from home can answer this questions correctly
This is sounds pretty familiar
So you both have to agree on an answer and then when you have it just say you'd lock that answer
All right, let's see how many you get if you get like five
I'll have a price for you. Oh, we'll be food because the food here is amazing
So let's go with the first one who has the most kills at Masters, Santiago so far
Yeah, our options, Martin.
Oh, we have options.
We have options, yes.
That's sort of the first one.
So we have Trent.
Yeah.
Has been playing fantastically.
Kiko.
OK.
How did C, Martin made his favorite.
ND, Izu.
OK, well, I'm thinking my initial answer
would be to go with you, Martin,
except that he only played two matches, didn't he?
It's Trent.
During the Swiss stage.
Whereas Trent had crazy performance.
He played three games.
You can look at Kiko as well, who's had to do the same.
But Trent also hasn't played his playoff game yet.
Yeah.
I mean, not as Kiko, but I mean, Martin has.
Dude, I don't know.
I don't know.
My guess would be Martin, I think,
just because even when they lose,
he still gets like their final answer.
Yeah, let's go for the final answer.
You luck, Martin, and you are absolutely wrong.
You need to try.
No!
You're as Trent.
Trent doesn't play amazingly.
Yeah, he's been a standout thus far.
That's a tough one.
You're getting further away from the food,
but I will give you more chances of getting it right.
Our second question, what makes a completo chileno Italian?
Well, completo is like the hot dog
with all the things in it, right?
So is it A, is it served with mozzarella?
Is it B, made with Italian sausage?
Okay.
C, has avocado, tomato, and mayonnaise.
What is mayonnaise?
Mayonnaise.
I thought that was curio.
D it's grilled and olive oil chat. What do you think makes a challenge?
Italian oh, I mean okay
I haven't heard it, but I know the answer outcomes razor is it's just Italian sausage
Okay, I mean
Everyone loves a bit of Italian sausage famous around the world. Yeah
Sure, you wanna
I don't know. I'm listening to women today. That's my goal.
I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I'm not taking responsibility for this.
Alright, we'll do B, final answer.
B, me with Italian sausage.
I can already tell you that you are wrong.
Me too!
He said why it's Italian, it's because it has red, white and grey.
That makes sense, but also mayonnaise is what we're talking about.
What?
I'm disappointed in you, darling.
You're underestimating how good it is.
Anyway guys, you're doing
Yes, thank you there. Listen. I expected this one Josh. Can you throw me like one drink a question? Okay?
Something for pity. Okay. Okay. I think you will get this one because our next question is who is the most played agent at master
Santiago so far. Okay, I did I didn't know this one. You're it. Yeah, is it B?
Neon neon. Okay. Is it C?
Omen
Is it D?
Okay, Yoru is the instinctual answer, but there are quite a few teams on quite a few maps who don't play them
I think energy doesn't at all. Omen there's too much variety of like team telling Astro are now playing double smokes and neon switches with
I think Viper is probably the answer
I know for sure it was Viper in the Swiss stage now whether or that's changed based on the first round of playoffs
I'm not sure, but I know it was Viper to Swiss. I would go Viper here final answer Viper
Finally, I'm gonna lock it in Viper and you guys are correct. Yes
You know one out of three, I guess I'll get you up in school, you know, okay
It's it is something that was our last opportunity. Yeah, that was your last opportunity
We got a big win we saw one big way we suck and we know nothing me. We know something we 33%
That's still an F minus somebody might get a better grade on I guess being out in the crowd would be Valena
We'll hand it over to her. She's on the floor
Hi guys, I'm here with Kantor our hype man that you see in that stage every day shouting
But he has the opportunity now to shout inside that cabin where you can select your team, right?
Which team are you gonna scream for today? I don't know what's gonna happen there
but I think I'm screaming for G2.
I like it.
Just saying America's in the house, right?
OK, should we see how loud is your scream?
For sure.
Let's go.
OK, let's go.
Okay, now my question is, are you going to have any voice left for shouting into that
stage today? I don't know, maybe not. Well, good, I'm good, I'm good, yeah. Okay, okay, well,
you're screaming really loud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was good. It was perfect. Well, that's it for us.
Back to you. He spent it all on the booth. Which one of you is stepping up and taking the reins?
It's not going to be me. I can tell you that much. I don't have what it takes to be able to
get this Spanish-speaking crowd going on. It's got to be you. Okay, I'll send you out
Yeah, I think you go with it. Yeah, I think I think I'm actually going to go and I will let you know
Because I can break that thing
There was one time that I actually broke the sound barrier and it was
And you know when it was bonker had a 4k clutch on ice box, I remember it was like in 2020
She thinks she's a concord
Today we're putting the spotlight on BVL and NRG in our mastercard
you can get involved with the
conversation by using the
hashtags VCT and masters Santiago
to maybe have your post featured
on the broadcast. Who would you
be voting for Josh? Dude, I mean,
my friends are still perfect at
this point, and I'm putting
everything on BBL today. Okay
Yes, I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to go ahead and
on BBL today. I'm going for it. I'm punting on it but I'm not confident at all.
But is it how big is the edge? Tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little edge, a 1%
edge. Yeah, I think this is so tough to call. Okay, I respect that. Well today,
BBL they're gonna be entering the competition not just for their first
time here but for their debut on the global stage overall. This is a number
one seed from their region who not a few years ago were still competing in
in the premier. Yeah, I think that the way to making it to this stage is different from all
of the teams. We talk about all the stories, but specifically the one for BBL. It's been a long time
coming for the longest times. These players have been grinding the game, especially the core,
of course, because they went on there a couple of changes. But we saw them in 2024 making it to
the Ascension Finals. Everybody was like, they thought that we're going to win. But if I'm
being honest, we were also thinking, why are you going to win? You're not even old enough
enough to play. Yeah, you're going to get the order of the spot and we just want to see
you in our league. So it was no surprise when they were one of the teams getting into
VCT this year. And let me tell you, these five players are completely reckless in the
way they play. They have no respect whatsoever in their best sense for the opponent that
they have in front of them. And it's so good to see that they are the living proof
that the system that Valorant has created for the people to be able to get onto
that stage works. Yeah I think that they're fantastic in terms of how they play, their
level of play, the attitude that they conduct themselves with, I just hope the pressure
doesn't get to them, but I don't see why it would. The way they conduct themselves make
you think that they will succeed. They're all so young, most of them just turning 18
or 19 now, but they carry themselves like veterans. Let's hear from one of their
players. In our mind we are not rookies, we are just same as them. We just did our homework,
we went out there and we just do what we do. We are better at shooting, better at reading
the game, better at analyzing. We are just better. We have no fear from any EMA team or
any team in the world. The concern with young teams like this is always that they'll
take their first big loss in an international tournament, and crumble from then on out.
Are you afraid of that when Phoebe outjobs?
I mean, I'm afraid of it because it would be such a disaster if it did happen,
but I think the chances of it occurring are actually really low.
Like the way that they conduct themselves, the attitude that they have into the games,
I think it's just more likely that they go out there and have an extreme desire to win,
to bring the game to NRG.
And I think that's the kind of attitude you actually want them to have if they're
going to have success out here.
And the game that they bring to the table, Baye, is so unique.
I know you wanted to introduce us to their style.
Yes, yes, yes.
You wanted me to speak a little bit about the macro,
and I understand that there's been so many changes into the game,
but BBL still play pretty conventional things,
but adding in the double duelist.
So I wanted to take a look at Breeze,
because I think that it's a mob that is likely to happen today.
You know, our energy played, BBL also like it.
And I wanted to explain more or less
how BBL faces this round.
This is a bonus round for them against Fnatic.
There's just no-name team that we have any idea of.
Anyway, as I said the way that they are playing has two keys for me one is you're going to see a lot of cypher
And I will get into that in a minute
But for this one I want to focus in the other very important front which is they're double duelists
They're going to be playing lovers rock and the rock together many many times and something that I think we're going to see a lot
Is the dry picking? Oh, yeah, listen. It's like you throw them a bone and they're like, yeah, yeah
Oh, Viper Utility, there's a player on mid, I go and I take a fight.
From then on, they just rearrange in the rest of the map.
You see Rose just trying to move the threats a little bit,
but to me, also something that is very important, as I was saying,
is the Cypher. I'm just going to let it play,
because when an agent is nerfed and you still want to play,
you still want to work around it,
you need to focus on what is still strong about it.
And something that I really like about Curven
and that we're going to see here is how quick he is in one.
You're not going to see this useless utility being put here and broken at the beginning of the round
But you are going to see a lot of adaptations and him changing those trap bars at the middle of the round
Something that many sentinels cannot do so you still have that I have another example very quickly for you guys
So you understand this this is another approach
We see a different viper wall but look at the way that this trap was sorry that this trap was are designed here
The rock is going to be aggressive again dry picking in a corner no surprises
But with the operator that Lovers Rock has for this round, which we're also going to see be seen a lot
There's another layer to this the track was are already gone
There's one that is garden from the from the pushes coming on from mid
And then there's the second layer of cypher which are those cages having that kind of utility
Means that not only Lovers Rock can also leave us
We just saw with the TP but if Kevin goes back on to the site
They always have that surprise factor
So that is what we can expect from Livia and a lot of a question
I'm glad that you highlighted those dry peaks as well because I think that's what makes the
idea of them underperforming or overperforming on stage so important. When you have two due lists
like Lovers Rock and La Rock, especially with La Rock, he is going to be taking dry fights and
just matching up, pound for pound with people. He is going to be looking to try to take fights
against them and depending on whether or not he wins those engagements, it's going to make
a massive difference to their success. What makes these two different than the rest of the
the double duelist Rose on the field?
Well partly it's those dry fights that Leroc is looking to take.
He's not playing as much neon, he's looking to actually challenge you.
But then on the attack side, the way that Rose calls
often puts them as inserts around the map
and he's not afraid to call some really bizarre stuff too.
Where they're double-executing into sights at the same time.
We saw a really interesting example of that on a base during kickoff.
I think he's creative and because they're not worried about,
you know, how they interpret the game
because they've never lost before really.
They're just happy to throw stuff at the wall and see the world.
Look at that first love success, 65%.
Not only he's an absolute menace with the operator,
as we're speaking about, the big names
that they have already gone up against,
because we can speak about regional strengths and whatnot,
what teams did they play to get here?
Vitality, Fnatic.
It was not an easy job for them,
but they squared up to all of those teams.
They showed, as I said, no respect for the names
that they saw on the other side.
Yeah, but Makro is so unique from this squad
both sides of the map. The round you're talking about, where they're just
exacting the entire map at the same time, you really don't see that from
anyone else. Even though they're playing similar comps, the international
competition, the way they execute it is so unique. It really is. It's brand new,
it's different, it's cool, and I think it's gonna be a challenge for NRG to
try to get on top of. Yes, they'll be able to watch the games and see it,
but I'm hoping PBL have spent a little bit of time off here adding
extra stuff into their game. More theory, more ideas, and they're coming
out with the raw fire power as well. The man responsible for putting those new ideas
in practice and managing this unique BBL team is IGL Rose. He's standing by with Jeff.
Here with Rose of BBL, good morning Rose. Now you have a huge task ahead of you going
up against the world champions of last year. So what is your plan for going up against
a team with so much experience and a team that's finding a lot of success doing something
off meta as well?
If you know us, it doesn't matter for us.
That's why we will do it the same way.
We did it in EMEA against Fanatic and Vitality.
They were playing well and with a lot of experience also.
We won against them.
We will do it the same way.
All right, I'll be looking forward to it. Thank you.
And it's easy to doubt that hearing it from a rookie team,
but Bea, given the context that they've made that same style of showing up to premiere,
and then challengers, and then Ascension, and then Amia,
and it just kept working, it's tough to doubt that they can do it against global competition as well.
I also think in just going back to the composition and having a lot of Cypher,
which we expect to see, maybe there's been, you know, cooking something and we're going to see something different.
I doubt it because they're sticking to their guns all of these ideas to seem external to them the idea that you are a world champion that you have a lot of
Experience they don't they don't care like they know exactly what they want to do inside of the server
It doesn't matter what changes around them. Yeah, well another team that has maintained their style even as the meta shifted is NRG
One squad who's
Rejected double-duelist in this tournament the world champions came out into this event with a clean win against liquid
to qualify, but a loss earlier on to Pay-for-Rex.
Josh, if you're rating them,
compared to the team that won champions in Paris,
how close is their level?
It's difficult to say, actually.
I think in terms of their micro, it's fantastic
in terms of the way that they're approaching the game.
They also look in immense form.
My only doubt with NRG is that they're gonna so often,
again and again and again in this tournament,
have to face up against other teams
that feel like they are the ones in control of the tempo
and have put an aggression onto NRG.
I think when you're playing anti-meta styles like this,
it's very difficult to go on a full tournament run.
And I think BBL are going to be another one of those teams
that's like a hurdle in their path,
playing the double-dualist style very, very effectively.
I also do think that one of the best things of NRG
are the EMEA pieces that they have, you know, obviously.
She found the way for us.
Yes, I always fell.
I always fell.
But I think that the preparation that they have
in some of these matches is completely out of this world.
but that sometimes you're talking about that
I'm talking about Bob Bunker, of course I am
and um, what I wanted to say is that when I was watching Paper X versus them
I think that because of the short time that they had to prep and everything
and I feel like they wanted to adjust too much
and they forgot about trying to play that vice counter-comp
Yes, and just focus too much on like what can we do to shut them down
instead of what can we do to win this, you know
it's like playing not to lose
and I think probably that's what put them in that position
and then it came the match against Liquid and it just happened.
That was also a yes, yeah, but it's okay.
Yeah, I think this game against BBL, they do have to be aware of some of the threats
that BBL are throwing out there, as in you got to be ready for them to be dry swinging you.
The thing is though, if you miss the shot, it doesn't matter.
You can be focused entirely on you know exactly where LaRocque is peeking you from.
If you miss, if your aim isn't as good,
you are going to be forced to take those dry fights and BBL have opportunities.
Luckily, energy is a team with high confidence and one of those players is the MVP of champions Paris Brock. He's outside with Jen
Jen here with Brock of energy hello Brock now you're going up against an ascension team today
And I think you know very well how scary a fearless and a hungry team can be
So what do you think you need to look out for and is there anything you guys can take advantage of?
Yeah, I think they're gonna come in like taking a lot of fights
So I think if we're ready for that and we like know that's gonna happen. I think we'll be just fine
So yeah, are you ready for the fight? Yeah, I'm ready
She is a treasure truly but Brock really knows more than I think a lot of other players at this level
How much you have to respect these kind of hungry players coming from tier two and in this
Energy core really only arrived on the tier one level halfway through last year. Yeah, I mean they are those hungry players
They're just one year back. Yes
It's a bit of a different story, isn't it because BBL have come all the way through premiere
But it's a similar scenario. We've seen wookies be exceptionally exceptionally good
I'm like though his response because it indicates that they are aware that
They're gonna get swung and they need to be ready for it
Somebody who will always be ready for those fights is Kiko. I know you're a big fan of this guy
You don't want me to talk about EMEA, but all you do is talk about the EMEA system.
I want you to talk about Kiko, because he's looked so sick this tournament thus far.
Even rolling back the years and getting to watch that jet.
Yeah, I think that we all know at this point that Kiko is an incredibly valuable player
that can play on the dualists, that can be on the controller.
And I think that it's also very important that the energy realizes the value that
that brings in matters that are constantly changing, even coming into these international
sorry, global events. Having a player that is such a Swiss army knife that you can put
an enslaught in him in anything and he's going to have a performance like this, you
know, only made in EMA.
We got to watch the Breeze buying Double Duelists with Kiko on the jet. Do you want
to see energy leaning into that war, Josh, or full commit to their style?
I think of Breeze, yeah, absolutely. Continue playing that kind of thing.
On other maps, though.
On other maps? No. I don't think so. I don't think there's any reason to try
of force, the meta when playing off meta, playing anti-meta is actually working for Enargy. If
you're asking this question two months ago or something, then I'd be saying, yeah, Runkeko
doubled ULIS all over the place, but right now in the middle of a tournament, it's not
time to change up your entire style when it's working.
Yeah, he's looked good on the controller role as well, truly a flexible player. After
his incredible performance against Liquid, we spoke with Kiko about how he's finding
life away from home in this HyperX player moment.
Ever since I joined NRG in November, it's been difficult, I would say.
Just a lot of new things. I moved to LA, playing in a different region with people I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, everything's changed for me, but you know, it's a new experience, new everything, you know?
Like, I'm enjoying it, meeting new people, people from new people, being in different regions, playing different players, different methods.
Everything's just refreshing.
And now on the line, it goes to down to Gankong!
And a really quick, and it's all on deck!
The thing I miss from EMEA is that, you know, I already knew a lot of people there.
I knew, like, most of the players from most of the teams.
I don't play much rank, so it's hard to...
It's hard to get to no one, but, you know, like, to try new things, I would say.
I have a new challenge.
Let's move on to the results of our MasterCard fan poll.
earlier, we asked you to tell us who you think would win between BBL and NRG. The results are in
and 58% of the field goes NRG. I think that's actually super reasonable. Yeah, I think the
smart money at the moment would even be on NRG because they've shown that they're in incredible
form, like the second best team coming out of Swiss. And you don't, like even though the top
seeds did perform pretty well yesterday, you actually don't know for sure that BBL are
going to play to their level today. Yeah exactly and that reigning world champion still keeping
up their form making it to events. We see this up and down performance all the time in Valorant
and I think the energy is being incredibly consistent. But at the same time I don't think
this would be an enormous upset either. I don't think if BBL won it would be like oh my god
how did this possibly happen? I think it is more towards a coin flip in my head. We're
looking ahead to the map Vito, is there any direction you want to see BBL take here?
I mean I'm down to see some surprises from their side. To me is are they going to first of all
Are they going to choose to be team A or team B both of the teams do not like the bind
Are you trying to you know playing some mind games? Have you prepared something specifically just for this?
Have you realized something like it? Do you want to go to that breeze like it like like I'm saying here
What do you think that energy is going to be to prepare for that?
I am honestly open for anything anything but haven't I'm so sick of having we can we stop playing
Just the best map to follow an ever-married virtual.
Yeah, at least, no more havens.
Let's see if Bayez-Pros are entered. The coach is standing by for the map future.
Okay, so this is the map selection for BBL against NRG, because BBL is the better suited team, starts to be Team A or Team B?
We picked Team A.
Team A?
So NRG is Team B, BBL is Team A. BBL starts banning a map.
Band bind.
Bind, band for energy.
Band Haven.
Haven.
Okay, a map pick for BBL.
We picked Pearl.
Pearl, side on Pearl for energy.
Attack.
Attack, a map pick for energy.
Abyss.
Abyss, side on Abyss for BBL.
Attack on Abyss.
Attack, okay,
Okay, let's head off, Ben, starting with BBL. You have breeze, corrode or split?
Banco road.
Banco road. Less ban for energy, you have breeze and split.
Ban breeze.
Ban breeze. So, split is a decider, side on split for BBL.
Defensive on split.
Defensive on split. That's it. Good luck, have fun.
There's so much unusual stuff happening in that map, Vito, in my opinion.
And the final map, if we get there, of Split, is actually towards the bottom, in my opinion, of both teams' pools, so that could be a scrapfest.
But I want to focus on the first one, Pearl, because an EMEA team picking Pearl into an American team, historically that doesn't go well,
but BBL, somehow, across this roster's entire lifespan, are 23 for one on this map.
23 and one, which is...
I mean, obviously, a lot of that is against me at the end of the game.
We don't play a lot. Yeah, we don't play a lot of Perlin, EMEA.
But he can even take an America's team and then also energy going for a base.
I think that there is a lot of the mind games going in.
Also, thank you so much, Bunker, for sending back.
I'm on him, and thank you so much for not letting me down.
And I also want to know what's in that crossword for Strong.
But yeah, I think that, first of all, all bangers end on Split.
And I really, really like out of all the maps that we have currently in the pool,
this is one of like my favorite maps to be seen in.
The first two are going to be electric because they are towards the top of both teams pools.
I mean, PBL are clearly very, very confident on pole.
I love the way that NRG played that map as well.
And Abyss, dude, both of these teams are amazing on Abyss.
And not only that, do you guys remember the last time that NRG lost Abyss?
Because it was one of those moments that you had to be there and it was in Champs-Paris.
That was the third map that started with that 11-1 half.
Seriously, one of the biggest you had to be there.
I hope that we get another one here because this car would love it. Yeah, I'm so excited for that pearl to start
I think BDL's attack side calling there is where they do some crazy stuff the amount of embedding a duelist on both sides such a fun team
To watch and they were excellent in EMEA, but I'm interested how many of us actually
predicted BBL to win today against the world champs as we take a look at this one
It's quite evenly split. You've both gone for BDL. I've heard from you Josh
But there what pushed you over the line for this force a BBL like for me to think that I have seen in EMEA from this team
The way that they have gone up against the best that we have in the region and make them look like absolute fools
Do you know what it's like to see someone different dirt on jet?
Like there's like there are things that you think no not many people are going to be able to do BBL get them all in two weeks
This is such a test of form I think for both of these teams. There are gonna be dry fights
There are gonna be gambles made on both sides and this meta leans towards taking fights
I think you couldn't find two better teams to demonstrate it. It's a team of
Rookies they've been grinding together since premiere waiting for this moment
And now the biggest crowd we've gotten in Santiago yet awaits them
NRG the world champions their opponent
You could not think of a better way to start a day seven of playoffs.
Let's bring out the teams.
The moment BBL has blinded years to attain.
Walking out in front of a global crowd.
This team, they've played together for so long.
They've beaten the best teams at every level.
Now the final hurdle approaches.
NRG, a Swiss stage-tested world championship-winning squad against them.
But if they could do it here, if they could prove themselves at this highest level,
there'd be no one that could doubt PBL.
Yeah, we have already seen them getting the first seed in EMEA,
but this is a different piece. This crowd is completely different,
and it sounds like they have a favorite here.
I mean, I think these PBL players are going to be loving the fact
that they're in front of a crowd like this.
They seem like the kind of people to rise to the occasion.
I think if you are going to have any doubts about BBL's performances,
I think in that finals that they played against Channel Makes,
Crevin looked a little shaky and Rose's calling dropped a little.
So take a look maybe at those areas,
but I think in terms of the fragging,
they should still be good to go up against NRG.
Yeah, Rose said the first two maps of that B05.
It felt like he wasn't himself.
Had to rely on his team to pick him up instead.
They did it.
Y and five maps and made it here to Santiago.
Still difficult against a team like NRG.
Let's focus in on Pearl.
What are we expecting for BBL starting on this defensive side?
I mean, for them, as I was saying,
and I was using Breeze as an example,
it's something that we're going to keep seeing.
A lot of work in the map, a lot of the dualist push-ins,
and a lot of those kind of micro plays
that I honestly think NRG are going to be prepared for.
I'm looking and I'm thinking about the Tejo on the other side.
But I'm looking at any kind of tool that NRG could have to not only gather that information
but separate those two and prevent the trade from happening.
Yeah, I think that's the key, isn't it?
They use a double drone composition, they're going to find it much more difficult.
Lovers Rock, I think in particular, to get posted up on good lines with the Yoru, NRG's
protocols are fantastic in that spot.
I think part of it is, can they disrespect drone utility?
Are they feeling confident to go for that extra little peek, staying in position for
one or two seconds longer, playing with the very edges of what's capable?
those risks is what brought them here. I want to focus on the matchup of
leadership here. Obviously it's an experienced team against one of all
rookies but it really stands out with Ethan. He's been calling at the top level
for years. The only player to have won two champs trophies against Rose on his
very first stage of this size. We heard in the interview that Rose sounds
like he doesn't care like for him every single opponent is the same but I
I think that Ethan, especially, the moments where the game gets more tense and it's more difficult as, for example, chance that last map he always steps up.
I really trust him to be a worthy opponent.
They will definitely have prepped for BBL. They know the style of BBL, but at the same time, it's actually because NRG have gone through the Swiss, BBL have had way more opportunity than NRG to change up what they're doing, to come up with new theory.
I'm not necessarily saying compositional changes, but new tactics, new ways of approaching important rounds like pistol, bonus, rounds with big ultimates, they're going to throw out stuff that NRG haven't seen before.
I want to see big conditioning, like to me also one of the important things, now that we say WBL started on the defense, we spoke about Lovers Rock, we need to speak about the operator, working that economy to make that happen as soon as possible, has to be one of the winning conditions for them.
And with the amount that Lovers Rock picks up the Outlaw, NRG can't get away with their shenanigans with the light armor very often.
I think that's going to be something that they've got to adjust, because otherwise they're going to be sitting ducks there with the only 125 HP.
They've gone unpunished playing with that half armor for so long. Certainly the team that would want to bring it out.
LoRock and Lovers Rock though, that duo really takes over. And I think they are the biggest highlight of the differences in styles.
in styles. This is a BBL that personifies the double tool list, and to no surprise you
see LaRocque and Lovers Rock locking in the Europe neon to start.
I just want to reiterate that historically America's teams have been way better on Pearl.
It is not a map that EMEA loves to play, but BBL, somehow this roster 23-1 all time on
Pearl. A lot of that against tier 2 teams in EMEA because this is and was a tier 2
They went through Premier, went through Ascension, but that is still an exceptionally impressive record
And they're looking to try to bring that to the tier one level
And that also decided to stick together
All of these players had offers from the best teams in the world to join their squad because they all knew the
Firepower and the hunger that they would bring to their teams. On the other side, we're speaking about the sub-empower
I also want to talk about Mada, like his performance, he's you know, the way that he can ace, the way that he can
Find that inflection round for the game
happens a lot of the times and of course when we're speaking about the
double duelist he needs to step up his game.
Figuring out where Mata is going to be
pathing on these attack side executes is one of the big-wing conditions for BBL's
anchors in Loiter and Kreben. If they can get inside a smoke so that Mata is
pathing towards they can try to chop off the head of the snake early for an
RG. NRG is the team that instituted three rookies last year turned it
around to a championship win in Paris. Now BBL in front of their biggest crowd
yet a massive opportunity. We head into Pearl with Uber and Wyatt.
Thank you very much Mimi. Marta, Brock and Scuba in 2025 at champions were the rookies at their
first global and they went all the way to become world champions. They know exactly how BBL feels
coming out of Premier, Ascension and Unbeaten won through EMEA kickoff. Now it's time for them
to face the music just as your opponents did.
This energy team midway through a journey to become the first champions winner to successfully
defend their title at the next global event but they are surrounded by pitfalls, one of them
being this young Turkish outfit, BBL, all players coming up from Ascension who despite when you
look at the comp feel pretty within the confines of the meta running at your neon
are way outside of it in terms of the ideas they present.
I'm telling you, if you got rid of the HUD elements right now, if you didn't know what the teams were, what the players were,
you'd be able to know this is BBL for a Sennarjuice straight away.
Alright, Satyago, into the pistols we go.
Sennarjuice with their distinctive double initiator look.
You're all on this map, as was mentioned earlier.
Crucial for denying those off-lines, but the first thing's first is the pistol.
Already taking the A-Siders, the stealth drone comes through.
Rose with a recon ready to go.
Cybercage minuscured around the outside of the steps in.
It's Rose to fall first.
a crack onto the rock stuck in the corner. Now, NRG steered rolling over BBL showing some of that
signature momentum midway through the round and Loets is a long way from the action.
As fast as BBL got to that site, they all went down just attempting to anchor all in the back,
but it just wasn't enough. NRG do a great job getting into the site, getting the gas,
but then just slowing things down and moderate despite diving into such a scary
situations, able to come up with a multi-kill. Confident. Playing forward, Mata.
So crucial in the run so far for NIG, and Brog's the one that caps off the pistol.
Already what we've seen from Mata there I think is a testament to where he's
been at as a player in this tournament as the one solo duelist, right? Everyone
is leaning into this double duelist meta, so when you watch him on these
entries he has to play with a lot of class in terms of the pacing that
he's working with and there's another moment out back.
He's not finding himself overextended.
He's playing around the Utah that surrounds him to cut off some of those angles,
isolate fights, waits for the rest of the team to catch up.
He's just been so, so fantastic in those situations.
They had a step up when called upon.
Back-to-back Aces last time he saw him on goal here in Santiago.
So, NG take their time.
Given that plaza control up enough that Rose would step in and be picked away.
the rock with that. Shorty pushes up over towards the link not going to be relevant in the moment.
As Sananju just patiently worked their way safely through art split into this side.
Should be able to clean off this round. Maybe motto with the ghost there hoping to take some
further doors just get closer to the convergent paths. Nice kill from Kevin, but traded very
quick by Ethan. Pace here for NRG now to realize they hit the weak side. The gamble
Hamill doesn't pay off the BVL man, never really get value out of the rock.
Obviously, he's suffered a shorty.
Not well apportioned for having to work into A main.
Listen, it's only round two, but Mada is looking sharp so far.
Hasn't really needed to fire all that many bullets to get the three kills that he has on the board, Mitch.
He's trying to hit the step up now though, he doesn't, of course.
Just trying to imply a tap of a spike, but in reality, BVL will hope that he gets some exits.
kicker falls. Imagine the 15 healthy bonus all things considered. Now as we head into the real
buy rounds, definitely wants to call upon a point that Josh is making on the desk as for the fact
that Lovers Rock is the number one outlaw off abuser globally right now. That's his bread and butter
as a player. But contending with NRG's more anti-meta style as they run the double initiator
are able to get more of that info gain and crucially push him off lines. It could be
more difficult for him. This is around where he can't afford the operator. Just going to go
for the phantom. But again, it's been talked about how energy has to respect this in terms of
their armor purchases. They can't afford to come in half armor to get picked off for free,
or with those one shots from the outlaw. They're straight up to all between
Lover's Rock and Mada who tries to peek out of this, but now the space is going to be
Acquiesce's NRG have fostered themselves up in mid.
It's another slow start here in terms of that plaza position for NRG,
but as a group, you see them work their way into Art in a prior round, and this looks pretty much the same.
Now look at this, maybe other, they're pretty fast on this rotate. They've got four players on this side,
as Lovers Rock opens things up with Aespan through a main.
He's going to rig clear it now.
Here, obviously, inside this smoke here as Rose does one-on-over extend.
Mato actually got into R from the A side, and now he's ready to pave the way onto the site.
Deathless so far, the level's rocked, puts that to an end real quick.
Drives to flash himself off on the corner, but instead of the game, crashes on out.
Now NRG, thinking about a pivot, mid is essentially clear.
BBL have no purchase there, so we're going to bounce across to the B side.
Pivoting over towards this B side, Loida has had no reason to leave back.
Halls and Lovrens rock off the teleporters.
Going to be here in time to support, to spike the low HP.
And out of the picture already, LaRocke, and we get valued.
Love us, Rocke!
Ties from up, and it's gonna be down to Kiko now.
Spike is not to head, it's been left.
On the wrong side of connector, and that smoke,
and with time being as low as it is,
Kiko may opt us to see if he can keep a cap on this economy from BBL.
You expect a high low swing protection,
you're just to hold from BBL.
So Kiko falls.
BBL, the first round of Santiago.
Well done there from Loire who was just relaxed backhalls with basically the entirety of that round, ready for the pivot back late.
That spam kill was massively influential on the round. The player coming through A main off that split.
All of a sudden you don't have the recon or the drone coming through there.
An NRG after losing brought just found himself congested in ART.
It was all of us at the dive across the A site by Martin trying to help them, but there was no one to pinch onto in the end.
We're done for a fast A fight here from NRG. You can definitely do that around the table, but Lovers Rock doesn't want to give things that...
AURUS! DANGEROUS! Lovers Rock couldn't even get a crash out!
PBL! Just as they're trying to break their way into the game properly.
Nothing called a whirling.
Mindful of course, and his Cybertrips on the side might as well get a dive in here.
No, secret.
Road to the other side of this cybercage is going to have to get involved sooner rather than later here, but...
Oh, this U2 obscures his vision, he's stuck in after the time, being a Kiko, that costs him instantly!
Oh man, that was over, you know, blink!
NRG are shredding them to bits on this age side, and it's not for BB Hill's lack of getting there in time to fight, they all are tossed around.
Lovers Rockhead, he loses that duel, isn't able to teleport away, and again, it's NRG.
You watch them on these executes, you take that first part of the site,
A lot of dashes over towards short, but then it's the slowdown.
Everyone comes in together.
And the team fight is just far superior for them than Kiko.
Nice little multi-kill early on, Pearl.
We really stepped up for energy earlier in the tournament
on this map, and they went up against Paper X,
took this map away from them in that B03.
He was crucial in clutch, late round situations,
late game situations.
Well, Korma's win condition here,
and I think for BBL, the discussion
is about how much emphasis they want to put on the front A side, the A main fight early,
and also their arc presence, because it seems like with the Cypher on that side,
they've been leaving a lot more loosely held and struggling to get back in.
Yeah, it feels like over on that A side, if you're going to fight, fight. Don't just
leave this loose end of Lovers Rock isolated, trying to figure out what's happening,
especially against this energy combat, it's going to have really overwhelming
the util to take that space if you really need to all out commit or just try to get a bit about util
out from NRG and then back away play more for site control. It's easy to get caught out by this
devil initiating util that drops me wary of that BVL. We haven't seen from BVL on these A-hits
anyone able to post up close on the choke like tough next to the smoke on that you know right
side from the defender's perspective something like that right they have completely lost that
from part of the site every time maybe losing a player earlier in the round too
and then just fighting from backside they don't have the space to make that
work come through it I'm it's away here for round number five little course in
this timeout phase it's a slight tech issue needs to be ironed out here
audio-wise love the throwback to some there you know it's funny minimum
scuba kind of say that they together felt like they had to step into some
I think one of the things that was noted often about NRG is that in general this team is pretty stable and sometimes even virginal
low energy
Some was dangerous in that regard. It was positive for NRG that they were the team that sort of rose and fell on that raw momentum
They had ways to bring themselves back into the game
But you know modern scooters feel like they've had to come in and inject a little bit of that energy
Yeah, and Scuba's own words almost the emotional leader of this team and you know everything in the server has clearly been working with Kiko, he's been fantastic, especially at this tournament.
He just brought him being a bit of a different personality, a more quiet guy, the drop was also a quiet guy and now he's had to change his own personality from being how he felt as one of the quiet voices on the team to now having to rally for them when necessary.
I mean listen they've had no shortage of energy with this crowd though
They've been a favorite this whole time modest been playing to them the entire time
It's funny. It's the insult Lee leaning back in his chair and just you know a slight grin
Yeah, I mean in the press conference Parker said yes, I supply an arena where they cheer for us not getting booed by
They're able to find success in front 20,000 boos and imagine what they can do here the support for America's is
is palpable. And so far, smooth enough sailing for NRG. His next round here going to be half by for BBL.
Stinger and Bulldog in the mix, but outside of that nothing to run home about.
By the way, just to note, five rounds into a BBL game and we haven't seen Lovers Rock with a scoped weapon, that's crazy.
What, yeah, sort of a sense that it's not the best use of credits against this comp with NRG's double initiative.
We will be seeing it in the future though. Kreb and Celeste 4k in the bank. So imagine that's going to be coming up the next round as BBL
They've been over towards this B side. I know you definitely
Make their presence known, but to ultimately just have
Ethan controlling the space on a bit of a back one all the way from Armageddon be pretty crucial, especially to
pummel holes or worth that back A site
Handed a piece of you till to have up to sleep these cycles
PBL off, the only presence shown from NRG have decided for the gamble stack B, but it
looks like they might make a nice rotate back to that A side just in time. NRG having
made no noise on B then for 15 seconds after they did, so here are four PBL players back
side, it's MW3C.
That guy does have a good clear out of close corner. Still the spray is good, the rock
is out of the picture and Nathan's getting a surge ahead of the site. Krevimn has
to Sunder. Mata trying to get around the corner but taking a little bit low. The ping out there
makes it a little bit scary. Scooter revealed that able to get the better of Rose.
So Lava's Rock with his finger has to take matters into his own hands.
It's going to be easily faced from A main and Mata steps in to get his.
NRG are just going to keep going back to this A site. It has been free for them. Success on
every single attempt. This little spam kill from Ethan.
And again, it's this moment where BBL are exposing themselves and fighting back-site and they just hit collapsed upon by the both sides of default
And where's the stall? Right? Obviously, you know, this is a trip being put out on the side even now, and then by Krebben, I think that's really significantly slowed NRG down when they decide to accelerate
And now BBL, it looks like they want to go for this aggro A fight, they have a little rock there with the op of the other side of the map
Yeah, it goes past all these stars.
Wants to fight motto, Rose.
Killed through the smoke, though, and now they can just relax.
They don't have to fight any more aggro than that.
Look at the B control they have on account of your lover's rock there.
Things are looking good for BBL to get a second on the board.
They are lightly holding mid-right.
No killjoy in this BBL composition,
so you don't have to tip-call turret or alarm bot.
I think that NG can start to take up this part of the map and thrust forward.
I have drone from Ethan.
Really makes it seem like NG could be scaling through R
trying to get over towards that A side again. Some exploration towards B with
still a minute on the clock. Energy don't feel any time pressure to try and
accelerate. They can work the map.
What do you think of this? Brock gets a ping?
No way.
No way!
Oh my god.
That wall is not quite as permeable as Brock was perhaps hoping, but
Rose actually might want to follow this up. Can catch him unaware.
Brock fortunate just around the corner takes damage and there's the
Sprite through. You better get up early if you want to step into the
Brock to guard Rose.
Lava's Rock C, so all of NRG grouped up here,
and here's that Armageddon towards back holes.
This gets uncomfortable for Loichi,
but he can step up towards that kiosk.
And here's the attempt at a stall,
but on the side come NRG.
Kiko fell early, but it's gonna be a trade-out.
Yoru's out of the picture, and Sodiob is dropped.
Edge Crevin from upper.
Side crawling with NRG players, and Scuba
finishes the job.
Cannot believe they just make it look so effortless.
What a fast pace, he just pivoted back over towards that B side, instant uses of the ults,
were perfect.
On the last round where they went for the B pivot, Lloyd was in that same position,
Hals, here just gets Armageddon, this is ridiculous, I mean, Rose, the gumption this
way through to her, crouched his crazy work for him before they're mad.
And he almost got the pitter-o-pock, Broke was reloading!
But that's a beautiful, beautiful pivot from NRG.
I mean, you think against BBL, they'd be the team, you know, controlling the pace as to how aggro they play,
but right now NRG really feeling control of the game's tempo.
Top of light, I was put up here, but Lovestrock down to 10.
And outlaw, we found its mark.
NRG are going to take their time. They still have Ethan just containing on that opposite side of the map,
so they can go for a late pivot back.
We'll see if VBL exposed themselves to these sight lines at all to the crosshairs that are
placed from NRG, just on that slow approach.
Last round it was Armageddon to the Nigh Halls.
Cosmic Dividey's playing nice little correction there from Scuba.
Well it didn't know what hit him.
Armageddon, the acceleration behind the stealth drone, even wants to check Halls just
to confirm Kremen is going to go low and Brock holds M1 for the boys.
So it'll be a spike plant now, Lovers rock down to 10 with a Marshall and Rose have to
salvage something from this round.
That Hilo just got completely erased from the server.
Kiko with another kill will be able to get the ultimate into this next round so see if
he goes hunting a bit.
The money is definitely good enough.
Kiki?
And there it is.
A little impromptu Hilo, I respect it, Kiko is tapped up.
I love his rockin' ears, cook, folks.
And this is starting to get out of hand for BBL.
Floor to surround him.
That economy for MNG is getting extremely robust, right?
On top of that, the ult economy now.
Good mother getting that last kill close to the pass.
Kiko gets the lockdown on account of that one kill.
Well played, boys.
Alleyu.
BBL are going to be forced into the timeout now.
Things have really gotten out of hand early.
This is the timeout.
Look, a team that's obviously new to the stage with the way they speak about being here,
that's maxed out confidence.
They start to take every single opportunity for Orphan possible.
DBL know that that is their weapon, that is their advantage,
and they have to abuse it maliciously from start to finish.
I respect it.
They understand what their role is in the wider story.
McMaster, Santiago.
But again, we've seen this happen multiple times where top seeds come in.
Also, that Coinbase win conditions worth discussing.
Where do you go here for BBL?
They do not want to be that top seed team that comes in shell-shocked early and doesn't find a way to recover.
Yes, they've got a bit of Rook still in this series.
Something has to happen here and off for Lovers Rock.
So again, we're going to be seeing what should be a critical central BBL defense side round.
But how do they navigate the drone of both Sova and the Tejo here?
And then NRG's propensity wire to play carefully and then accelerate in an instant.
and keep that site and make it impossible to hold onto it.
NRG have been utterly dominant in the map control game
this entire half up until this point,
aside from the one round where BBL fought
a main early with LeRoc, they had the op all the way up B,
and then they still ended up losing.
They just forego control of so much of that mid space
that was around the crazy Bronco and all that stuff, right?
But it looks like they want to go back to the A fight here.
Look at the disaster, Ujil.
It's everywhere.
Straight away, Man, it goes in for a bit of info.
The top, in fact, Keiko Ling is a no-the-pulse, could have been an issue, but there's Rose taken out, but out of fury.
Rock feels a little bit stranded right now, out at sea, and eventually capsized.
That one-for-one is just not going to be enough.
Any energy tried to continue this pace, yeah.
That cosmic divide is going to cut the site into so they can get into the front safely.
Crevin has that, you know, little cubby to be able to try and spam a planter from Crazy, from Love is Rock.
That's how the bag deal about Shorty play.
Crevin caught out as well, looks like that was a lucky spam.
Yep, into the dugout corner.
Wow, they're definitely not expecting the peek from top defaults coming through the wall. That's crazy.
Spike is loose, Inferno. It's not planted yet.
Still a bit friend-ungee to work with. Donacall's Broke is at large with that Odin.
It's lockdown time from a safe position. Kiko's ever to set this up.
Lovers rock opportunity in this two versus three to stamp his name on the server.
So to show people globally why he's been such a star in EMEA.
He's back into the site very quickly though.
That Nebula will be recalled.
Lovels Rock wants an angle on the brook and all!
That's a crucial shot to be missing!
You'll have another crack of it though!
Thought about the shorty, papered again, constantly.
Canvas to buy this control you till.
Is this A-Sci in the postcard?
Look at this three-pronged crossfire set up that NRG have now.
Players are BB'ing a week!
Wow, what a shot!
Are you choking?
Still though, how can they win this?
The crossfire just looks so good.
Maybe with that divide, cutting it off.
He's taking on the side, ready to fight.
Fridlow, he's able to fight.
Eastern's up to scuba now.
There is a star on the site, but Scuba has to fight for it, and I think he knows.
Here's the grab well.
Lovers Rock gets it to half.
Scuba's not done yet.
Oh, through the wall.
It's gonna be dangerous here.
Lloyd against the D.E.A.s!
It's Scuba!
He's on the outside, looking in.
Crazy attempt from Scuba.
Unlikely hero for BBL is Lloyd on that round.
Lovers Rock couldn't connect the shots, but Lloyd with that tap onto Brock and Main was stunning.
How on earth do they win that out? Cosmic Divide placed at the perfect time after as well.
That was a matter of seconds.
BBL are certainly not out of the woods though. It's a tactical round loss from NRG perhaps.
We're there recently and all that's killed everyone and the loss bonus is reset. Yeah, BBL are in serious danger still.
still. Yeah and no ability for that scope weapon here for VBL. Mother's Rock's been
without a familiar these critical rounds. They've had to give up on lots of this B long.
You see the cross over here by Loeda. Spotted out by the stealth trainers and he also slaps him.
Oh no, the rest of the team are trying to get here in time to anchor though.
Okay Mother's gonna have to fight the horse here. Right at Southo gives him a bit of space
but he's gonna have to crawl things out. Two players open a double face him and here comes
the cavalry! Krebberton already found two. Rolkes having to play off the side, keeping a lot of very low health targets in Scuba.
He's in. That's Rose who already dealt with the Lovers Rockers, really playing off this Ganna 11.
Hoping to try and break this crossfire some way, but Scuba is ready! Just like that, NRG are back to winning waves.
to winning whites.
PBL just look completely out of sorts on their mat pick here.
That jump up from Moira, he crosses to be able to get into a crossfire with one of the
rotators to the site, but then jumps up, tries to get aggro, goes down, maybe felt like it
was going to be pressured.
Yeah, just an awkward situation, and then again, you see from NRG, they get into the
site, they take the space, and then Mada waits, and then a second player comes to
him.
they fight backhuls then they overwhelm those anchors together. This is what you mentioned
about having to play the single duelist in this anti-medicom he cannot afford to over extend
like that. And he just never does. There's so much weight on his shoulders and yet he's
been carrying it this entire event. I mean at the moment Mata is absolutely in the
MVP bracelet hunt. NRG on this round though going up against Histals only. All of them
through ART for free.
The weapon might be stranded here on the A main side of things.
Seems to be accepting of the fact.
Lot of shots coming out instantly as Rose now is speculating with his Hunters'
Jury and sees a whole lot of anything.
A lot of NRG have caught a cancel on this play through ART.
Massive commitment. Just off the drone tries to get a kill.
But ultimately cannot even find a tag.
Look at the pump fake back to A main now.
And as they do that, BBL has just been drawn away from the site, hoping for a bit of a
B gamble setup.
NRG is just slow tempo throughout this round.
It's going to allow for a very free plant on A, and almost certainly a round win.
Yeah, look how deep here, and actually a wrap up again.
Into dugout goes Mata, all your cringe post-bottom intro being set up.
you got the missiles, the stars, Brock has shock darts and Odin's spam.
Okay, but Kevin has a share for the kill, so it's one way to start it.
I don't think it's fine forward there. Still, we have, uh, yes, this whole circus of utility
might use up now. It's time for the rock to attack the ride, the lightning.
Ha! Special delivery would have been an issue, though.
And that post-flight U2 now, just being used, no one really tapping it for the time being.
And again, VBO note, there's no real chance of them to get this BG,
they want to fight, they want to get something out of this round.
It strikes some value, but here it comes, Broke! Straight through the corner of the wall!
Stuber and Keiko, clean up the miss!
They made you believe for a second, but only a second, Mitch. They get that first open and kill.
But NRG just have way too much U2, way better guns.
The Odin spam from Main, they're just going to get shredded.
And on top of all that, around where they used the Neon Alt and the Hunter's Fury.
Yep.
Shoot, Desmond.
Scoob has died once.
12 assists, 13 kills.
He's in their head.
Just have simply not found their footing on the global stage right now.
Lovers Rock is back to the off.
And finally is able to put something on the board with it.
That's Mada down.
Right of those in trouble and that's the Astridown already.
The stall potential for BBLs drastically now reduced.
And Archie want to play it slow anyway.
Scuba left is the insert inside his Nebula.
Will he try and sell something here? He gets ahead of it.
Spot it out! That is ridiculous!
There might be an opportunity for Archie to pivot back.
Or at least sell this further to BBL.
They're buying every instrument.
And how to screw with a guy is absolutely unstoppable.
And he may well have done enough.
Three players up for NRG all over to the A side of the map, the sci-fi tool is present.
Still looking for deeply entrenched post-plot positions as he attack us.
The flick for the first kill is just disgusting, not BBL, they're here in time.
Lovers Rock with a great shot, thank you very much.
Conventional drift here for Lovers Rock.
Krebber wants to play through his cybercages, now he knows he's been across.
You can hear it! Any other drop on them?
Now the one versus one.
No plant yet, Ethan quickly trying to get over towards the B side.
and Lovers Rock hedging his bets with the gate crash in that same direction.
25 seconds left in the route.
And he takes the gate crash right in time.
Gonna be posted on the angle!
Oh my God!
He jumps down to the missile!
Okay.
BB Oubkall still can't away with the route.
Oh my God!
But that's how dangerous Lovers Rock can be.
He comes into the round with seven kills,
exits with 11 in total.
If you can't force him off these off-bikes, he will shred you.
They needed that from him. Bad.
And Lover's Rock is quite possibly the best
AWPer, Outlaw, or Stoke weapons player right now. He's definitely the one
who feels like he's breaking those weapons at the moment.
He just hasn't been able to in this game until
that point. Maybe this could be the rally cry for BVL.
You know what though? He loses the op because of that guided cell phone at the end of that round
So he's back down to a Vandal.
Here's Marder coming in.
Rocks somehow falls from there.
That is slow.
He's mollied.
I don't know if he can get out of this one.
Loveless Rock is down.
Now of course, this Armageddon makes a trick.
He's going to get into a hole.
But Rose has been able to find some purchase
and Kevin steps in.
Now you've really got to make use of this position.
Get it up for right to the Guardian.
A lot of info there for Rose,
but he still needs to swing into two.
A tough ask at the best of times.
Last of times, and NRG post themselves 9 rounds on his first half.
Outside of a couple of individual glimmers of hope from BBL, other domination from NRG in full control of the map.
That entire half, you had that, this star round from Lovers Rock, the 4K, Voida had that other great round.
But outside of that, NRG are just playing on a different level as a team.
The America's support for energy is cacophonous
and a six-round lead, so it's a well-hanging the next half.
We'll be back, of course, with more pearl after this.
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These NRG players are being warmed by it, smiles on their faces, and so they should be with a six-round lead heading into the second half.
This is BBL. This is EMEA's number one seed, finally taken to the state, and nobody is remotely as confident, aggressive, and decisive as they are.
We can see that showcase if they can get off to the start of this attack side.
I want to see if they can storm back into this half
and capture the tempo of the game
that NRG were in full control of when they were playing attack.
Always taking a main, pushing through the links,
or they were everywhere on the map.
They were putting on answers, yeah.
But what we've seen from BBL on their attack sides,
they like to play a lot of 3-1-1s.
They like to push aggressively to take space in lanes solo,
always leave options for Rose to call fast pivots
back across the map.
Look at his heavy, beat-link presence right now.
Oh, this timing.
Crevon's on the whiter. You might over-swing into this if he's not careful.
Tapped down and saturated! Still gets ahead for his trouble!
Yeah, that's not bad. One for one in the hinder,
and that's going to allow the rest of PBL to just know they can take this A-site for free.
And there's plenty of stall here.
Then Astro U2 comes in, as well as a guided salvo.
Kiko's having time-port for him for the rest of NRG to arrive.
Maybe L want to keep fighting for more.
I mean, that recon kind of indicated it, but no, they're back to the site.
A timing here for Enagee perhaps out of flower. Yes, Leighton's gonna be caught.
He's gonna cross to the side now. What nasty work with the frenzy!
That wasn't even close!
Despite BBL getting that sight so easily, the lack of trade onto Kiko,
who was just back-secret, gets that two-tap.
It was a little off-road with the rock out, you know, caught in the open, didn't have the gun out.
And it's just not followed up on and from there it's in that transitional period where BBL are trying to get their post-flights set up
Activated
Their mother just storms in gets that three kill backside and they crumble from there
I feel like this map is just good as done now. Okay outlaw on the hands of lovers rock
Look at the armor. This is a BBL classic
They love to throw the outlaw to lovers rock after a pistol round lost and actually I'm doing the half armor second round anymore
They know their opponents.
Bonkar has watched the Vards.
Moda just goes back a little bit by the U-Till, or no, on the other hand, just doesn't really want to commit too much.
There's no reason to. Also, expecting you might get shot by an ally, even though he has a full armor.
You don't want to take 140.
You don't want to take a headshot either.
No one goes just a little bit wide. Tough reaction shot to hit and that does
confirm energy suspicions. Yeah, they've heard the outlaw sing out, they know full
well. It's fairly big enough for the two of these teams and Vigil knows it. Vigil
do not have a lot to get into this site. They're going to be able to smoke off a
couple of the chokes. There's not much more Storgie to left close.
Ah, relay bolts!
And Struber's sat in the corner waiting for him.
There is a cheaply lost player here for BBL.
And as we can reposition, here's his ultimate of cyber.
KD knows it's coming for him, so we fall back around the corner.
One after another, he accosts them.
And now Brox can be able to step up the course with the Aries to hand.
A lover's rock spotted out in the corner, gate crashed away.
Spike! Plans interrupted.
And this outlaw is looking sad.
Full on, and alone.
PBL are just not able to scale together back side to fight scuba there effectively
look at the distance that was between larocke and that second player who was trying to follow up
hey look how he works this cybercage he uses it against pbl yeah there's just no one there to
assist so scuba has all the time in the world to be able to find that follow-up kill from there
They're the rest of the team are there in time.
That's just so contrasted to the pace that we saw NRG playing at,
when they went for their executes and how Mata never got overextended.
He's a bonus for NRG, featuring the recovered Outlaw from the prior round.
They'll slow down and deny any chance of a main fight from BBL, who is still looking at the round on this map.
Previn with just that Sheriff on account of throwing the Outlaw to Lovers Rock on that prior round.
gonna be able to gather up for a pretty straightforward B-execute here, just leaving
previn that.
Loose end in mid.
Opportunity presented itself there for Mada, shot and missed, refracted away, the Pacen's
have kicked him again, being rewarded.
Get out of here for Mada, it's about to be overwhelmed, gets a shot and the Rockler
drops him once.
What a hinder that, it's three players or maybe two and a clone, I don't know man,
they can't get in regardless.
And look at students waiting inside the site, he's ready to throw down and there
is nothing BBL could do.
to do to stop them. Roy's with two. It's an honorable contribution but not remotely enough.
And that is a bonus round conversion for Red Archie who find themselves all of a sudden
on that point. Just torn apart on that execute. The saturate from Mata was so insane. Kroben gets
caught by Kiko in the link so that all the attention is just focused forward at that point
and with that slow the rest of energy rotate in there. Just torn to pieces. Again,
Skuba is at a very casual 18-3 in 13.
It's the 13 that's better for me.
He's gonna have a triple-double in Valorant. It feels like that's it.
He's 31 kill involvement.
What? He's got 16 rounds!
Mada here is slightly varied position as compared to the previous round, but it appears he still wants to fight.
Spike is at the top of B long for the time being.
That Rose is contento to head elsewhere, but look at this map control taken, look at NRG.
Moving up on this line of scrimmage in B-Link, in R, in A-Main, they're all entrenched.
It was waiting to see if BBL would maybe try to pivot over towards A-Main if there was a situation where Scuba could have been overwhelmed,
but not going to be the case, well, it's a well-timed one from Ethan, he's going to get the hell out of dodge and back up.
Alambob buys a little bit of time, but Ethan's unfortunate moment with U2 on hand means he's going to give that space up
But now deep VBL a crack at the side. Scooby here, not
Concerned about making noise apparently, just gets cut there by the stinger. No, he's just caught between two players
He has to get proactive in some kind of way PBL with a rare advantage situation to try and capture around
Maybe I'll know they're on a clock now that trap wire was destroyed. They're aware of the flaying loiter lit up
Very very low, Rook should be able to finish him off here with this shocky.
And so he does. That's the astral of the picture and here comes Kiko!
The Rook not ready for him. Crevon gives as good as he gets inside, ah!
But BBL are bleeding players.
He's waiting for a push. He's at Hunter's Fury now in response to the tap.
Ethan knows he needs to get started with this sooner rather than later.
Third bolt comes out but Crevon deals with him and Kiko won't have the time for a defuse.
Finally! Some sides of life from BBL.
Not over just yet, that Hunter's Fury really paying dividends with the clock delay in that two versus two.
Earlier in the round, it was their ability to find Scuba in main, he gets droned out.
I'm in the pinch onto him, he has really no chances of getting anything accomplished. That was a very important moment.
She's from there, listen, they got scrappy about BBL with that man advantage they got
and late ultimates, they're able to get this one across the finish line, narrowly, narrowly
niche, but they do it.
And actually, they've got to pay the plackery in this round, got some sheriffs and brought
bucket, brought to bear.
Still boost up pretty heavily in the boards that I main area, but didn't get themselves
a fight, it's Mada, an armor that only with the sheriff here to hold these solo.
Yeah, in the open just going to refract back to link
Full five on five retake the PBL absolutely
winning this out
Position all across the site. He can has one missile
The Rock could use to pick me up right now. It has been a brutal
campaign for him on Pearl
That was what's touching the corner now. See gate crashes on out once a bit of info
With a recon she goes on the creven and already broke one of the site
They're too far away to get full value out of the bucky.
The Rock though choked down the half.
A little bit of swing, Scuba responding down to the corner,
and there's the dash from Marta, but he stopped in his tracks.
Fall on Scuba now, and that sheriff sings out.
He's got two opponents to get past.
Cheeky little tap on Loica.
BBL get there, second in row this half.
They're making a sweat every round when they're getting.
It's just not coming clean.
But they get it over the finish line again.
Narrowly again
We are still so far though from a result that would be convincing for BBL fans. Yeah, we just have not seen a round win that was
Just a distinct
BBL
Pummeted way. Nothing that's an emblematic of their style either. Yeah, it just hasn't happened yet
So the individuals. Maybe round 18. Maybe we'll see it. Maybe
The formation of a comeback attempt will continue
standard recall star goes down drone to send mono back and this dimensional drift is going to get
ripped by Lovers Rock okay heavy old investment though BBL have no choice but to absolutely go
for it. Lovers Rock keep every trying to play up some disaster huge hill and yes stunned up
but it was an easy target! That's cute we didn't know what hit him. What a lovely combo Lovers Rock
thought he might have been in some danger there Kiko actually going to place this lockdown in
the three on four that's gonna route BBL they have to get far away from the site you
They're craving late coming down the link.
Love this rock here, of course, we'll be at a pullout.
That is the lockdown done and Dustin Brock already wants it.
He's not inside that fast lane.
It's at least out to get a trade.
Kiko on the tap, of course, he knows
he's going to contend with disaster, you tell.
Watch out for the link.
Kiko's ready for it.
Extrasensory perception from the brick,
but now, like a throw in a 1v2,
and Loisa catches the check, gets BBL one step closer.
Now that, I think was the best round we've seen from BBL so far.
Those ultimates that divide the drift using tandem and the information that
Lovers Rock gets on the players position, you can see that ping.
So the stun comes down from the leader.
Nice little 2K.
Lovers Rock caught in that same stun.
Still able to find success, crack those heads together.
And then from there, that lock down gets used by Kiko.
It sends BBL off the site, but I like that they went for, like,
an active, noisy refight when they have Crevin late in length.
And he's in so heads up though from Geeko, that, you know,
sixth sense, he turns around and is
able to win the 1v1, and that's crazy.
But it was still a good decision regardless.
I think they played that out nicely.
You can say that NG maybe coasting off the early successes
from that first half, but a pistol win in the second
now have to reckon with the potential.
Now, VBL could fight their way back into this game.
Last round was very alt-heavy from BBL. Dermatial drift, get Slava's Rock in,
and of course Cosmic Divide cuts NRG off the site. Now without those tools,
BBL had to get a little bit more creative, a little bit more inspired about it.
NRG ability up some key abilities off their own with Armageddon and Cosmic Divide
at the ready with Scuba, Kiko Ethan firing on all cylinders.
And in one round is what they need to get out of Pearl with a duck.
I think if you're a BDL fan, you could start to feel a little bit hopeful.
I mean, even if they just string together a few more rounds,
but they can't make the comeback happen because, look, let's face it,
it's going to be extremely tough to do that.
But maybe this is a situation where they're getting more comfortable on the stage,
and that can carry over for later in this series.
That is a whole lot of half armor for Naji Y.
Hop against the Lovers Rock Outlaw.
That is some danger.
And they shut down those outlaw angles,
prevent themselves from having to challenge them so disadvantaged as they are real
strong a main presence and they're lingering here why as well look at the
investment for energy in the meantime maybe I'll have two players who are for
monitors shuts down rows oh I don't know how you're gonna get out of this little
rock one more time and it'll be dog's dinner that's good deals with it but
it's okay strats up on at the site and it's already dealt with Krebber that's
a sniper out of the mix a lot of what part 5 connection with that outlaw it's
It's done, folks. Loving us too far away from the action.
Spike dropped Loose and NRG-3 to roam the map to hunt him down.
BBL just have not displayed the coordination necessary to take
Pearl, one of the best maps of NRG, away from them.
They are in champion contending form again.
They have not eased up, man.
I'm sorry, but BBL with 23 and 1 on this map coming into this match.
A lot of confidence that this team could continue to deliver
they did domestically but I wouldn't say this is putting your best foot forward out of the gates
Wyatt. It has been tough. We're out, spotted now with only 25 seconds left to try and make a plant.
It is all done by the crying for our first map in this series. NRG galvanized forged by their
run through Swiss. Maintain that confidence with a sickening blow to your number one seed
from EMEA to start the series. Pearl is not a close map.
That is auto domination and I think some masterclass calling from Ethan. I mean,
champion across multiple titles, so comfortable on this stage. I think he absolutely worked BBL,
energy, word control of the entire map, the entire game, Mitch.
They're stepped away for now, but up next meaning the analysts are going to break down
this arm burner of a map 1 and look forward to the rest of the series.
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I'm here with Coach Bunker of NRG, now coach, you guys have played against all
different double duelists from all the other regions so far. Of course you're
showing a lot of your stuff but at the same time it seems like it's helping you
guys refine your game plan. Do you feel like that's the case and do you also feel
like you guys are fully adaptable to any type of double duelist? Yeah I mean it
has definitely helped playing into a lot of different double duelist comps and
we're just adding into our protocols and adding into all of our lists of
of what to do and what not to do against specific comps.
So it just helps us and it makes our game plan even deeper.
So much to thank you.
A deep game plan for NRG nets them a win on map one.
A completely dominant start to this series against BBL.
Welcome back, let's hop right into talking about this one.
Because the name of the game, Bea,
in that first half was how prepared energy looked
with this double drone cop.
I spoke about the preparation and also that I was looking a lot at Ethan and the amount
of times that we saw Lovers Rock impossible to get out of certain situations, just being
suppressed and them actually understanding very well how to deal with it.
There were so many moments early on here where this A main fight ended up going backwards.
They made a nice adaptation here, Rose required to use a recon to get score, the Rock pushing
forwards to try to salvage something out of it, but this was happening on the
The B side of the map too, Lloyd went for a really weird jump up peek here which, you
know, I think that's going to catch teams of darts sometime.
That has worked in the NBA!
I have to tell you that has worked in the NBA!
I'm sure it does.
This round though bothers me so much.
LaRoc gets caught by the hinder.
You hear a taeho drunk coming towards you.
You have to escape at this point and yet they get caught by a massive utile dump.
And I think rounds like this showcase that it's not just, oh there's nothing
you can do against this composition.
They're actually fundamentally misplaying how you're supposed to go up against a
double drone combo.
Do you think that this is a mace in how they prepped for this match?
Or do you think it's some crumbling under the pressure?
What do you attribute these failures to?
I think it's a little bit of both.
Like, LaRocque was not finding any success
and I think that maybe if they would have got a couple of rounds going
and maybe get a lot of momentum, would have seen something different.
But to me, there has to be something fundamentally wrong
if you decide to go for this part where you are so comfortable.
Energy doesn't change anything
and you cannot adapt to the literal first base of what that comp does.
I think also though, you've got to bear in mind that they will never have scrimmed against a team that plays this kind of stuff, right?
So, with NRGB and the only team that plays anti-meta right now, if you haven't been scrimming against them, you have not been getting good practice against Double Drone anywhere else.
Looking ahead though, we're going into another map after this. It'll be Double Drone against a BBL Double Duelist.
What do you want to see change for them to get value out of these two Duelists without them getting caught the way they were on map one?
I need them to bait a little bit. I think that last round on B long, I think it was a very good example.
You need to bait a little bit and get out.
You need to let them waste and use some contractions.
Let's see if those learnings are ready for Map 2.
But another success point for NRG and Map 1.
And throughout this whole tournament, Josh has been how good their team fighting is.
I know you wanted to highlight it.
Yeah, prep and team fighting.
So let's have a look at the Verizon high-speed moment in the match here.
So I'm going to take you through round six in this telestrator.
The first thing is based on prep, right?
They know that Rose is going to be holding this situation.
So look at the ante that Brock cooks up.
He's going to go for this attempt with the drone, see if he can grab a tag onto somebody
and then you get this kind of weird fight happening over here where Rose is attempting to get punished.
But this is pre-prep on a round where if they win this, it knocks the economy down a PBL,
so it's the perfect time to bring out a set play that's going to apply pressure.
Once Rose goes down, now the high speed moment happens.
Lovers Rock is determined to use his ultimate to figure out where things are ending.
And I want to freeze around here.
Look at the amount of pressure on Loiter in this situation.
massive tail hall coming back through halls and like to pops his anchor smoke and he's got a question now
Does he swing out the front of it to try to play off his yoru?
Or does he avoid the table and then run back into halls?
And I think this is where they missed some of these moments because to me the very obvious decision when you look at it in the
Benefit of hindsight from our perspective is that with these players posted up like this
I'm just gonna zoom in on the minimap for you as well with these players posted up the yoru is taking contact
Loiter has to swing out of his smoke here and the neon has to commit to the fight as well
This should be a high tempo flood of lovers rocks contact
And instead you get loiter going back through halls lovers rock completely abandoned in the middle of the site and then
Small attempt here from the rock, but he's basically inside a smoke. He does not hard commit to it
So the tempo is actually being all controlled by energy. They have the better team fighting
They're the ones that are willing to go for it in these crappy moments
And I just don't think that BBL really had what it took there. We're going back in a loop here
But I think that this is also when we are speaking about the experience and what separates these two teams
This is one of this scenarios
Yeah, because it's not only that they have not a screened against each other
But the pressure that they were putting onto them all of that utility was designed for the easiest plan to not be an easy plan
Yeah, absolutely. I mean it is experience. It's not just experience playing against the team
specifically to experience on the stage it's in those tiny high pressure high
tempo moments are you gonna make the right micro decision and I think BBL
collapsed on that front yeah looking at the matches a hole as well it was so
dominant not just with those early-round picks of catching players
with the light on foot yes just ridiculous what this man was putting up
there was a time bear where I think he was 15 and one it was insane like we
kept watching him and of course that gave him a lot of confidence and we
saw him pressing the W but as we were showing in all of this those replays
he was not only one 15 and one he also had like 13 assists all of this early
round commitments all of the stars all of the poles all of the conditioning of
how they were going to go up against BBL went through scuba. But you just can't
be losing games giving away 13 first kills if you BBL it was masterfully
constructed from NRG they look amazing right now but I can't be seeing a
a path to victory for BBL.
If LaRocque is at the bottom of the scoreboard,
if they're getting caught out like that,
if the first kills are so heavily in favor of NRG,
they need to turn the shipper around fast
if BBL want a chance in this game.
Because I think this map should have been a lot closer
that it was, and NRG ran away with it.
They look on a different level.
Is this the number one seed curse hitting?
Is this the rookie team showing up and choking
in front of that?
No, no, no, no.
I honestly think that one of the keys also for NRG,
and I think they also understood it
when we're speaking about electric young players
and the way they present themselves on stage,
You have to stop them right on the track.
And is the being aggressive, I don't think they,
all of the, what we're saying about BBL
not being scared about where they're going up against,
energy, treating them as if they should,
as if they are not on the same level,
as if they are going to win from the moment
that they get out, all of this place,
they let them no moment to breathe.
They did, and now they have a tough task ahead of them.
Turn it around in time for Math 2.
We'll have to see what the coach has to say
as he prepares.
Jan here with coach Key of BBL. Now BBL seemed a bit underwater in the beginning, started
the common line towards the end of map one. Do you feel like it was a matter of warming
up to the stage for the players?
Yeah, this is the day. The stage is good. Crowd is amazing. We tried to find ourselves.
We're a little bit confused, but we will figure out at the second map for sure.
What about the solutions to the double drones from energy?
Double?
Double drones?
Yeah, we know that they are playing double initiator. That was so hard to defend it.
They will play, do the same on the second map. We prepared and we will find the solution.
Thank you so much and best of luck.
Josh, what do you think that solution might be, is we ready for it?
I don't know if they weren't ready for a pearl. I doubt they're gonna be ready for it on a base
I think that's a big problem. I think it is on an individual player level
I don't think there's anything about the macro that I would want to be attuned too much
But they got to be there's one thing knowing they're going to drone you there's another thing having built out the protocols for
How do I exactly reposition in this spot? What's the best way player on this?
How do I not get caught by this util?
My eyes just go to the rock because he got absolutely bodied if you had never watched BBL before you'd be like
Why is this guy doing on the team?
He's one of the best players in the EMEA
if he looks to try to take even gunfights.
He should be in an amazing position
and yet the KD was disgustingly bad.
I want you to look back on your experience
watching the steam in EMEA.
Do you remember a game where they took a loss like this
and had to bounce back?
Or has it just been a combination the whole time?
Is this a new experience for VBL?
Yeah, I think that this level of like,
we have the better composition,
we have all the tools to put you in this position
is something that they're not used to.
And I do agree, but I want to see if they actually are going to be baiting out things,
are going to put any kind of pressure onto NRG.
Now they're starting, with them starting on the attack, I want to see a little bit of spice.
I think the defense side was just a massive problem for them.
They couldn't find the right opportunities to fight.
But on the attack side, they actually were starting to put together something.
And if they can get their feet underneath them and feel more confident
by putting together some nice egg techs, some decent calls from Rose,
punishes on Mada on the pushes,
maybe then they'll have the confidence and the frame of mind,
the clarity to start dealing with the defense side, but they need a lot around here.
Still, despite it being an attack set in MAPA, Energy is one of the best defensive side teams
here. This is a strength for them still.
And honestly, I don't think even though we saw some rounds getting there for BBL towards
the end, I do not think that there was a point where Energy did not feel in control
of the tools that they had and how they were affecting BBL. I think that for the
beginning of the game, just take it a little bit more easy. But honestly, with
How aggressively do you like to be from the defense?
I'd like to see NRG do the same.
Yeah, my eyes just again go to Leroc.
I think that guy's got so much weight on his shoulders.
He's one of the players that I have the most confidence in performing at this kind of level.
Because he's got that attitude, he's got that swag.
He's been performing in big games before, but dropping only three kills on map one.
A taxide here, he's got to turn it around.
This team dominated throughout EMEA on their run up before that.
Unusual territory for these rookies.
Can they recover from the free fall in time to avoid the lower bracket or the world champs continue?
We find out as we enter a piss with Wyatt and Uber
It doesn't get easier from here for BBO first the 23 in one pearl is
Absolutely smashed to pieces like now 23 in two obviously as energy take them to task there
We go to a beast now in our second map of the series energy
undefeated this year on that map. I will see why there's a lot of promising
science from what we saw from BBL on this very map. I do like how they can work
kind of all the parts of the map so effectively but they are going up against
a team who seems to have the read on them. On paper coming into this map you
would think it's a banger given what we've seen from BBL and their kickoff
run but you can't help but feel like your mind is changing after seeing map
one and one of the reasons for that is that a key piece of the team
Leroc was not online. He needs to activate on attack here. He's a critical piece of BBL's
strategy for this Abyss map. He will so often be sent into sites as this solo duelist to
sell that they're hitting that site. They will leave him alone, fully entrenched like
Deep on B, Deep on A and Pivot elsewhere. He's really got to come to life or I feel
like the entirety of BBL's idea of how to succeed on Abyss could crumble.
BBL, of course, will start on the attack side here.
We'll be seeing often.
The use of Lovers Rock here to work some of those solo angles.
From some activity up on the other side of the map,
but now it's time for an activation behind this drone on to B, the BBL.
We're going to see scuba anchoring this site a lot.
Pretty much always has the Viper Wall placed here.
So much to all you tilt.
This has really got BBL milling about in the open for now, and even if he continued to slow this down.
There wasn't no acceleration after the first kill though.
BBL were anticipating some more of this U-Till. They've drawn all of it out of Ethan now.
Are they going to draw Mata into a peek? Will he be baited?
The timing is crazy.
There's no one to see anything.
What?
This could be ridiculous. Was Lava's Rock watching for a go?
BBL did have a contingency in play, and Mata had no idea what he was running into.
There's some acute awareness there. Ethan is trying to get some space towards the site.
Low HP, less than half pressing up with his frenzy smoke going to...
Now he'll be thrown down by Kiko, teleports into it, trying to get even further onto this site.
But the paranoia instantly though has to play this slow. Seize the edge of the void around the smoke apparently.
But isn't able to best him.
So Brock here with very limited options.
And the five players breathing down his neck.
None of those shots connect.
Maybe he'll finally look like they're getting off to the start they need.
He can finally start a small ball.
The Rock is cooking two kills to his name out of the pistol and see if he gets involved.
He needed that bad, beautiful tap on to Scuba.
But definitely have to keep your eyes on Scuba, not just because on map alone he drops 22 kills and six deaths.
But because he's anchoring this B site playing the Viper and there is so much emphasis placed
on fighting around the site itself with the Rock diving in.
I think that Scoob is going to have to be a critical piece of the center of the defense to find success here.
Alright, again, the 3-1-1, which is the standard for BBL.
Previn not really trying to work up the middle part of the map, and Enna, he certainly would like to play a death ball this round.
BBL, just three players run right into the site for free this time.
No hesitation, Previn understanding that there are several players who wish to see his demise back towards the spawn.
It seems pretty unfazed about it, but eventually he's gonna be overrun, the saturate made it hard for him to fight for himself.
Still the weaponry, definitely favours BBL and NRG.
Look at Lover's Rock, he's in the defender's spawn on the rotate over.
And then you've got to play through, linked by the looks of things, they are gonna run into Lover's Rock though,
who'll be set up for this, the Marshal, and that's when a couple of one-shots coming.
Well, I'm gonna speak up, Brock, cops wanted the bread-bast, and Lover's Rock knows there's gonna be more where that came from.
NRG just hoped to chain and circle and bait him in, catch him out, and so they have...
OOOH, he's flattening as well!
Okay, Kiko off the map for whatever reason.
He's off the map as well. I mean, they're getting kills, but also they want to deny the orange so they're jumping off.
A little crazy.
Maybe didn't fall.
The round was far too deep. NRG just hoping to play for some kills there.
Try not to give too many orbs up.
So that'd be BBL with their second...
I'll say this.
At least they didn't just jump off the map at the start of the round.
They got to see some ideas, they worked mid together.
So Valorant got played for sure. I'm cool with it. And Lothar should be too.
My lover's rock is going to pick up the rifle, always just hovering my eyes towards him on the scoreboard when we get into a round.
Just to see if he's picking up the outlaw at any time.
Everybody from BBL posted up over towards B.
See if they just try and get in for a fast exec.
Looks quick, that's a very early drone.
Scuba going to be under a lot of pressure as he tries to just get out of the site completely as Ethan gets a fully chimera try and double up anchor.
Getting head of the guide and salvo but Scuba was ready and the rock is going to be fell instantly and Ethan was already there at the rescue.
Scuba tests the clone, preps him to trade it out and the ping onto Ethan is instrumental.
And have the tail picked off.
The rest of NRG just too far away to be able to flood in time to support those guys.
Mada. Second earlier and he might have had a chance despite the trap wire in his way.
Now he's going to have to be patient. Rose is on an off angle as far as he's concerned.
He may not be ready for this. Look at the creep coming around!
And there was no flicking time for Mada. That's not great for Rose.
Kiko and Brock have to figure this out now.
Up on that B site, Smoke being occupied though. Still by Lolita.
He waiting for his opportunity Rose also his position known and noted can he do much from there?
No, we're into the smoke here at first into the fog and Brock is waiting with open arms
And he's got enough time to stick the deep use as well and our G are on the ball
Barely enough time feels like BBL really let that one slip out of a grasp niche
In that three on two
It was a really great kill from Rose to the nine modest flank
They just have to focus their attention forward, but they get defeated one by one
The peak out from Treven first and then Kiko able to isolate a second swing wins the duels
Definitely feels like one of those rounds where
Your expectations get subverted pretty quickly great anchoring. I think after the fact they're by Kiko
Those guys are just trying to do too much. All right by those still for BVL outlaw on the hands of lovers rock
Mod are getting pinged up, but
Rocket double connect that saturate a rock on effected though, but one from motto and so he's
Fundamentally advantage and maybe he should have played that a little bit more cautiously
And we'll be regretting so as he has been a minute and a half to think about it
And Louis the backing off around this B side knows that there's some pressure coming his way look at the rest of the
Me map my credit is all the way back a they're trying to work through main the spike is still in spawn
It's kind of some madness, but the timings are being found
Brock knows he has to make a plan for a timing here because they
Love us Rock is straight up the top of bid
Did I any crossback for an RG? It seems that they're aware of this as well
you're going to see a lot of this from BBL and I was worried that if they were
not playing at their max confidence, players like Crevin wouldn't have been
attempting to find a timing like he did in this round to get all the way on that
deep flank. They will just often run this 3-1-1 and this one is a 1-2-2 and
just leave a player, not leave him, I mean he will just take as much space as
possible if he's left alone. They will not show fear in that way and then
They'll control so much of the map and Rose will be able to call really nice fast pivots off the back of the space being taken by the players
I was worried though that if they got knocked by that first map the confidence was low
They wouldn't be playing this style in that way
But it seems like they're not going to ease up
Great round from Krebben. Big one map is an acceptable time frame to regain that
Composure and that prowess that you had domestically
There's plenty of series to be played here.
It all starts at this engagement where Man is in a bit of a risky spot.
He's actually hit by a saturate.
He tries to saturate the rock, but it gets blocked by the pillow.
They are going to be heading into a timeout call from NRG.
Blancar doesn't want to let things get completely out of hand.
As a BBL team with zero momentum coming into this game,
suddenly, as the lead at 3-1,
They're looking so much better currently on a base
So I think there's some discussion here in our current base win condition for
What kind of moment is a result energy? Yes, sir on defense on a base. We get it
But where are the edges like an e-couch?
Find some equity in this match up and get themselves a respectable roundtable because the map is being stripped away from them losing a lot of control
a problem that they're going to have over on B is that
Despite having both the Tejo and the Viper there, it will still be difficult to actually completely slow down a Moru, Wei Lei, a teleport, Omen style exec.
We saw them get overwhelmed by that even when they got the first couple kills.
So that might be an issue. They may want to address how they're going to play that B side, maybe try and just take it more for a retake or position more for a flood just outside of the perimeter of the site.
And then in addition to that they're going to have to be extremely concerned about the willingness of solo BBL players
To just take all the space down lanes, whether that be a main or walking all the way down mid
It's of course, there's going to be energy coming to this round without any opportunity to buy
Maybe just another death ball down mid and hope to catch them
Enterprising individuals from BBL out on this one. It's just all classics
for the walk down. How proactive will BBL really be in around like this? I guess we'll see.
You know, in terms of players trying to take any of the space solo like we were talking about, but they are very
passive in the spawn, reading a play like this.
Yeah, BBL no reason to expect anything else from NRG. We saw it again on one of the earlier rounds from them.
Now though, Ping's a bit of a security, so they've actually read this in advance that NRG has started
and trying to get into five positions on his A side of the map.
Still so silent for BBL working into this site.
How many players could get caught by this paranoia?
This is going to be a crazy engagement back site.
Not a swing though, off of Aston.
Mothers Rock able to find two before eventually he could be dragged down.
Rows over the top. Easy as you like.
BBL works it around with four players up.
Could have been a strange little situation that BBL may have found themselves in.
themselves in with energy just giving the timing for everyone to walk back site but
they have a much better weaponry and love its rocks on that angle just in time for
the cleanup. Now let's see what Bacca has in store for us out of the timeout. So
everything you really want to see from BBL and that kind of round they don't
know extends the anticipate NRG's tendency to group up together. Okay look
Look at this, actually. Mato is picking up the operator, something to call that out.
He's going to be looking down mid, but it's some pacing.
BBL on this A side, classic combo, dimensional drift into Hunter's Fury.
Off the rip here, does get a tag as well.
Brock gonna be caught out here with a saturate, and now straight through A main.
Come BBL.
Wind in their sails.
And they've also got a new Royal Thief, just to find a pretty picture for them
about how an Anji is set up for a retake attempt.
What a lovely sink of the Util there.
Brock just had no options, no hope.
Pinged out by the dimensional drift, tagged by the hunter's fury, gets hit by the saturate.
He is so cooked, can't do anything in that position.
And then Kiko just gets deleted as well, I think by Lord it will see that on the replay.
Just a good straight up execute onto A to mix in, especially I feel on the round where you know that it's going to be the NRG timeout cook-up round, right?
right? Whatever they had in stores just made totally irrelevant when you get a
big fast exit like that off. And it feels like this map of a business such a
good showcase of, you know, BBL's playstyle. Very quick to overwhelm that
ace side and make it virtually impossible for any retake. If the util came to get
the beautifully, virtually no matter has maintained possession of the off.
Yeah, BBL had more than enough money to try and push forward. Now I want to
see with Lovers Rock going down, will there be the purchase of an off? Are we
getting an off the off battle. So you definitely like to buy it on attack as well.
I don't know the case here. Just rifles, heavy A-presence.
Just going to stick to the rifle.
And again, you've got to be careful playing these trucks.
BBL are going to love to look for a fight here in AMA with that Sattrade and other utility.
Looks like they want to just run it back, maybe this time with the convergent paths.
Another fast exit, keep things simple.
Shot that off the rip here for brawl, no connection.
Oh, well.
Drowed the Herald to the approach of BBL through a man,
and here comes that conversion pass straight away.
Poisoned all back to mid a bit,
and Rock's going to go in and over the top.
He is in that side,
and there was nobody else from NRG to stand.
That's right around the corner,
catches on the matter,
and he could not get out.
Kiko also can only look on.
How does he get involved here?
Flash on in, Lovers, Rock,
at least is able to find the trade,
and NRG are down 2-3, you make it 2.
And Scuba needs an all-time demise.
Well, trying to escape through mid.
Oh my god!
Sort of with a spin move, that's crazy work.
But I think BBL have realized that the way that NRG have this setup on this map,
where they've got both the tail and scuba playing the Viper on the B side,
means the A side is light for delay.
They're not going to get bogged down in the choke by any means.
They can just execute right on in.
At best, NRG can throw a shockdown or two and then just give the side up.
But that push into security there behind the saturate from the Rock was huge.
Right, they basically just have to play that site for retake.
And VBL's decision to go for a more proactive approach after getting this site gets them that man advantage.
Double swing into security, take the trade.
Mardigot taking down, Op was knocked out of his hands as well.
Yeah, they do what they need to do though, which is disrupt the attempt to set up for the retake after the fact.
You can't allow energy to play what they're playing for, what their intention is in that situation.
Well, we are back to the 3-1-1 though, for BBL. They're not just going to try to get ramming their heads into the A side,
and definitely not when Scuba throws the pit over on that side of the map.
Has been around as any for a while, but he's going to have to contend himself with it in this B side.
There's no follow-up for that Satcha right, though. No second player in the side.
BBL will do that a lot. It actually just baits out the convergent pass. Those are used by Mata
BBL love to send Lerak in solo early on B. He's got mid presence. Kravitz gotta be spotted out by this Alistar, but might be able to get ahead of it
Now, Brock realizes that so much of the map is lost to them in terms of the mid
So BBL have rotation options now to get him to tower
Scooby's gotta be sweating. He knows that he could get pinched playing in that pit. He gets out of it and Brock goes down heaven
Oh, it's not a player! Now that Viper's pick doesn't mean anything! It doesn't do anything!
In fact, it's gone!
Scoob is surrounded!
Trapped into site, doesn't want to fall back behind that smoke, but has no other choice.
So, by hook or by crook, BBL are taking his A site control, and now again, NRG have to answer the question.
Maybe if he can do one kill, that Armageddon will be active. This flight duel is so important!
That's not enough, Mata. Quiet so far in this map.
And now all the BBL attention can just be focused forward.
Not a lot of tools for energy to get back in.
Half-hearted as it may have been that Paranoia sets up for a kill opportunity.
But the other angle was eventually retaken by the Rock.
And Ethan's got nothing to see from here.
Fire in the veins, finally for BBL.
And this is a very solid attack side.
You might say bare minimum after the way that first map went, but it's got to be enough.
It's safe to say that they have stabilized on the global stage.
They found their footing.
after NRG's domination on their pick Pearl.
This has been such a solid attack hat.
Those fast execs on the last two rounds on that lightly held A site were really nice.
And then on this round that early B pressure with the dash in from the rock.
And then the return into the A split after Kreven works all the way up mid.
They just encircle Scuba and crunch onto him.
That was an excellent attacking round. I mean, genuinely beautiful calling.
And NRG's defense side comp has all the stopping power of a fart in a field.
It just dissipates.
There's not a whole lot for them to stall out BBL.
To actually disrupt them on these hits.
To really stand in their way.
And then when it comes to retaking Wyatt, without adequate information,
without the U2 left to gain that information of the sites,
it seems like they struggle to get any purchase in these rounds in the post-plot.
In terms of the kills also, just have to acknowledge right now
that LeRoc has completely turned it around.
for finishing three for 17 is now 10 and three on the way.
Like the Rock is a player on this team that can absolutely just take over the way that
they have him play his piece in the strategy, the approach to the game that they have will
often just leave him solo, will leave him extended on his own.
But when he's firing, he can just completely take over like we saw that in the run against
fanatic where he just absolutely crushed them.
So far, this is looking like much the same.
Bunker out of his second time out here as an NRG team,
with both initiator ultimates.
Because those will be used later in this round
or a bit earlier, just on just Furies into the wing.
Yeah, nothing to see at all.
Space being taken through mid here.
Could be able to keep their options open.
There's a heavy main presence to NRG.
They want to get ahead of these sides.
I don't hate the timing, but the Rock was watching for it.
Navo, the way he lays out of the picture.
Rose though at large still, and finally Mata gets involved.
Before this, his kill zone became in junk time with the opp.
Navo, calves out his spot in the round,
and gives it energy, a staging grout.
Nice little timing caught there from Scuba as well.
Mata on the jiggle peak.
Just going to give it up.
Doesn't need to overstay his welcome in this situation.
All the pressure will be on this BBL duo
to do something to crack, open the round,
the two versus four. You can look at the minimap energy there just on their way
dashing through mid to get here in time. It does appear that NRG have realized
that retaking is not really an option for them. Decided they're playing
aggressively over the woods up. A main is the better of the two options.
30 seconds left. Now that's a high-low setup that Loves Rockett for swing into
Deftly handled by NRG.
Finally, just stopping the momentum of DDL.
And the crowd is loving it.
Just with this nice fight into A main.
It's nothing crazy.
It's not a wild U2 combo.
They just press up as a duo, take the timing off the drone, fight, win the duels out.
But that's the thing, I think from NRG's perspective, when you're looking at AMA,
oftentimes you are going to be fighting against a light BBL presence there.
I've been hearing from Strong, he said that he feared playing BBL most of all.
NRG assistant coach, because of their fundamentals and mechanics and those moments at NRG won,
those are the ones where BBL...
Look at this crazy play, the double cage, so Loiter is all the way into heaven.
Ah, the same Turkish default, yep, not this one.
This one gets a catch in mid.
This is madness.
Okay, also, the spike is in spawn, but look, it could teleport to pick it up,
but no, it's just gonna teleport to the B side.
I thought maybe there'd be some wild play with that later,
and now Mata's trying to pick in, but it's gone.
I mean, this is just...
I can see the minimap and my brain is hurting, so...
God knows what it feels like to be on that energy right now.
Challenge is the exact same double-faced angle that Mata did,
but this is kind of what we've seen from BBL.
on a couple rounds, and it feels like it's orchestrated,
but they push up and take all three lanes of the map,
and then set one beat pretty decisively.
Ethan Cartriner retreat as well.
Only Brock on the run.
And that is what makes BPL such a cool team, though.
It's like you watch them and kind of at face value,
it feels hyper-individualistic.
And don't get me wrong, lovers Rock,
Brock, they will take their individual moments
of just feeling the flow of the game
and trying to make a big impact play happen 100% but the individuality is like a highlight
of the strategic approach to the game that Rose and Coach Key have.
But unlike PRX, the aggression we just saw from BBL feels a bit more structured.
It does feel like it's a bit more premeditated about how they surge up the map.
It's not as intuitive maybe as we see from PRX but it reminds me of that in the same
way.
this variation in on a couple of these attack side rounds. They just greedily take the map
and win fights and Leroc is such an important part of that. Being able to just solo take
kills and win them.
NRG are now in danger of their economy being broken for this final round. Ethan Silver,
the Armageddon. This BBL are just again spread across this map, working mid slowly. A
little bit of presence B main.
gonna be really telling that there's no heavy a main presence from NRG on this
round. Look at Mata, he's all the way down B so you can already see the rotate
from energy towards this A side and you know in difference to the last rounds
where there were BBL executes on a lightly held site there can be Tejo
Utah to stall them out in this choke.
He's gonna have his crosshair positioning broken down again, he's gonna force BBL into the side but this is what they want to be anyway.
One for one, Kiki wants to get his tucked in the corner.
Now the guy to tell those how to be respected. NRG flood in from security but a
Conversion pass catches on him just the right time and the Rock has got a benefit from it.
Dive into the smoke, Shorty connects, and down to Scuba, go NRG.
He wants to get in, get it over with perhaps, either way, it's not pretty.
BBL chalk up their knife.
What an explosive execute from BBL, LaRocque.
So dominant, getting into that site 14 for 4 right now.
That immediate dash in, breaks the crosshair.
Kiko doesn't know where to look.
And the backside off the convergent pass.
So well played.
14-4, Isla Rock right now.
And that was with NRG getting there in time.
That was with them having their stall you till they're in time.
Still doesn't matter, BB L or just that hard hitting right now.
NRG wanna mix things up, walking down this B side.
I'm lucky neither Outlaw shot connected, I'll be real.
Playing a dangerous game, but they need to close the gap to get some belly back.
These stingers, this stinger rather.
Scooby's pinked out now, this is looking ugly!
The Rockin' Lovers walk, work the angle together.
Ethan hoping to slow things up a little bit, the dimensional drift and, well, the light speed means they all get in past him anyway.
Lovers Rockin' fight is...
No way, we're going for that, it's a little bit bold.
Against a stinger player? Yes.
Kiko now on the flank, low HP and...
Yeah, dealt with by Loiter.
Ethan's out of neutral, can only fight, maybe work his way into the smoke, it's an upgrade.
It gives away his position.
BBL are really trying to take their time here.
Just pay them some of the piques!
What a beautiful recon!
Brock sets it up beautifully from upper.
And now there's a chance.
In the 2v2, LaRoc recovers the spike.
Needs to get across to him.
Brock is going to see this.
He knows that the way they hasn't crossed the coast yet.
Ethan has a window to catch LaRoc out.
It's just so uncomfortable for this BBL duo.
Working the angles though, pretty diligently in there's Brock.
Helping him clean up the mess.
If LaRoc take it low behind the boxes.
The spam was good! Anything's better!
And N.I.G. got themselves at least three!
Oh my god, I mean hard fought three, but I really like the way that Ethan and Brock were playing that scenario.
They were just ever easing up. You could see the BBL players just stuck in those positions.
And that's how they were able to win out that two versus three.
Well done, but BBL on that half there. Pretty damn good, Nish.
She had a typical first half for RnRT, but now they're going to chance the show with them made of as we head to the second half of a piss after these messages.
Red Bull gives you wings.
We don't want to hear where the false ones are, Viviel!
And where is the fanatical?
No!
All right, I repeat, it's going to win.
Viviel?
We are going to win, we are going to win, we are going to win!
Santiago!
There are some flashes over there, so that they can take advantage of it as well.
We are going through it incredibly!
It's the second day of the playoffs from the Masters!
Santiago!
He is fighting with his soul!
They're looking good, they're looking swaggy out there on that attack side.
Energy have a chance to speak to themselves now, but it's been rough.
Look at the rock stats, actual inverse of map 1, and we're not even done with this second map just yet.
He completely took over the game here, now Energy just playing at a fast pace.
Quick little open onto this A side, and we're set up for a 4-5 on 5 retake.
BEL have pushed down the flank slope, so there's going to be a lot of pressure coming in that A main side that Energy will have to deal with.
And aren't you getting active already back in towards A main though? They want to hold this angle
Yeah, imagine BBL are gonna be ready for it now, especially with the dart connecting
Why it's swing from Lovers Rock gives him the space to bring scuba down, and Mada will be lying in wait as well both crevin
And Lovers Rock will one shot for him
Still not want to get there man. It's just a raw gun skill from BBL
Gives them that second pistol. They are looking like they want to run away with it
NRG were completely aware that BBL were just going to push down the opposite side of the map and flank them heavy.
They had the read on the situation, but lost out the duels in main.
And then at the same time, because they put all of their focus on dealing with the flank effort,
Ethan was isolated on site, he was fighting a little 1v2 minigame, he cut the first kill, but then Loid of Trades him out.
That signature quiet confidence for NRG does not appear to be present.
On this map at least, losing the pistol of course when you go to the attack side after a rough first half is never a good thing.
I know G are forcing up right now, that is a sign of some deep desperation, but you can't really blame them.
EBL are not making it look like this is their map pick, nor their undefeated map.
Certainly is must win over the top and back out, shows Mata.
Knapsock over the edge with the gate crashed back towards spawn.
I'd be able to pace energy if they pull out of A entirely.
And now Mata on such low HP without the tools in the way lays kit to actually open up space
They're gonna have to try to make their way into this B site pretty dry on utile and lovers rock posted up with the outlaw close
Close Ethan like a bat out of hell he sends on it. We're rocked out with a much more safe angle
Is it least better to take a trade? Oh?
My god, it's just full commit Ethan is isolated no one could train in time
Kiko is trying to play it slow, but Rose is just able to escape.
It's too slow. Spike for cover.
This round, this round, the NRG forced in by full armor, whatever weapons they could afford is starting to come out of steam.
And if they pivot back to A, BBL are pretty ready. Yeah, they have to deal with multiple trips.
And actually, while BBL were just stacked up there a moment ago, they didn't drawn away back towards the B side.
side. Okay, smoke towards tower. In we go. Traplier dealt with by the shock dart, so Scuba
gets into the site. He's going to get all the way back over to wall set security.
Preventing he can already speculate, he's getting hammered through the smoke. Yeah,
he's just got to relax and wait for the rest of the team to get here.
Scuba was hoping for an opportunity to time, and that window was now closed.
NRG have no tools to fight forward. They could get wrecked by a timing out of security here,
but quickly they assert control of tower. Now they've got to cross fire.
Tuba has to play forward towards the spike though.
Seiza crimps him, Kevin and deals with him.
Still into the plight and he's gotta go!
It's a miss!
But it actually come out!
Black and blue!
They're fighting with a round!
It doesn't have to be pretty to work.
And it certainly was not.
I cannot believe they got away with the round win there.
They had zero util at the start of that 3v4 post plant.
They just go triple up rope and Kiko gets a head shot with the sheriff.
No one dealt with and the smoke on the spike cuts off any angles from the players coming in from the back to shoot them while they're in heaven
They just jump on top of them and get boomers off. I don't know what's happening man
Well, I can't believe I know G with that out. Don't hope it's not too late for them now
Maybe you're down to nice. They're gonna share it for the rock
Imagine this gets a little slower
He's been expecting a, you know, a mass pushdown mid
a la NRG on their saves.
It's just the Rock who's looking to inch forward for now.
He's so deployed.
He's just seeing if maybe that missile would force someone
out into the open.
Uh-oh.
They have a sense of it, you know?
Rock does have another shock door, but not going to
send it out.
energy really just trying to tease BBL out of formation. They've left the rock
alone in mid so he will have a chance to push up, take some space. Yeah but energy
mindful of this, they know they've left the pocket in mid so they're checking
over towards Roke. Roke's gonna go for it though. It's all about the timing for
him on this little flank push.
Drone here, levels rock is gonna be tested. They're quickly the scuba.
Is that what happened there? Don't want to know in fact.
NRG have got other things to worry about.
The fish to fry are here on the beach side.
The bullets behind them flying.
Rose will be caught.
Surely if I right click here,
it's gonna be Ethan at salvages.
It's still messy wired. It's still ain't pretty.
Oh, look the HP on NRG.
The Rock though got chunked down by the shock dart.
Earlier, a man of man has got the help.
Ethan's got to be a one shot,
Jordan is got to be a plon.
Ethan's recovered the spike.
24 health.
Here comes the Rock, ready with a refract.
You might want to take a bit more of an aggressive position now.
But eventually, the Rock has the step up challenge!
Head shot on Ethan, you're kidding! BBL up to 11!
Shattering energy, just as that hoped to build back in.
What did you say about the scuba falling off the map? You don't want to know what happened.
You know, I thought when NRG were winning the round, maybe we could get a funny little moment on the replay, Mitch.
play Mitch. Don't really want to see it anymore either. That is an absolute disaster round.
We're going to see it. I'm quite sure a decent stuff yet. Yeah, they get the Mali missile.
Oh, it just walks forward and falls off. You just pressed W. That's all that happened.
That's what the job is for the best. As it seems, that's beautiful from the rock
man. Fate feels like it's guiding his hand. He's 0.107. I mean, Ethan just wants to sink
away in his chair and disappear after that round loss. BBL now. With the Headsman's
axe in hand, waiting for the chance to let it descend. In the middle, NRG trying to
be pacey about it. LaRocco refracting away. He's just pushed up pretty close.
Marta being a cure for my hypotension there. He's gonna get himself back on
catwalk. Kiko dropped a pretty low HP already by the way. Lover's Rock has taken
pretty significant excuse me control of a main where scuba is just always
throwing up this wall it allows him to get the orb and play into the site but Lover's
Rock is just gonna play around it get a free kill not be traded not even need
to teleport. Brock has a drone. Walk away. He's not able to force I mean we
talked about this in Pearl. He's double initiate a setup who are supposed to
to deny those angles from Lovers Rock. And it did, on Pearl, absolutely. He's got to try
there, but I think NRG hoped that the Viper War is enough. I think it's one of the reasons as well
that we just haven't seen Lovers Rock picking up the outlaw and up as much as normal, and he
still has been doing it, but I'm used to seeing it in his hands every single round, but he has
been doing a lot more rifling on account of NRG's approach to the game, the compositions
at the running. Time is ticking. NRG need to commit. Rose here. Correction, not quick enough.
The scoop is able to get the better of him. There's a chance to get into tower, but he
thinks twice about it. In fact, he'll go aim aim with the rest of his team. Greven dies
in. Cargly. Maa does have an idea with the frantic moments of spray. Lovers Rock
doesn't have the weapon for the situation at all. Well, Rock at least is able to
but even Loiter. Spike Platt will go down as the Rock walks into a crossfire.
I'm pretty sure both of those players were hindered but he just wanted to jump
across to deny the plant. Now it's just Loiter by Dalwin by scuba.
Okay, once again, Enaji come back up for air. These are costly rounds. They have to keep
forcing into them at this stage. Finally, I gotta see what happened there with
with the rock jumping across.
This was a huge kill for Scooby to get by the way,
that Icel 1v1 in mid.
Yeah, he did get two.
And then Mod is just standing in the corner
tapping with Geeko.
If he misses that shot, I think the round is done
so the Rockets and the Smoke might've gone the kill there.
Anyhow.
Finally, the bottom has fallen out of the bones
of this VDL economy.
They've gone for the full gamble stack on this A side
We'll appear energy you've seen mostly enough for now
Even martyrs starting to peel away from that A side of the map these rounds have come few and far between so far for energy
But now they've got an opportunity
To carve their way back into the match
I'ma get in there for Ethan brook has a hundred theory feels like the post plan here should be pretty favorable
favorable for the America's number three.
We've seen NRG come back from far worse
being down on a base in the past.
That's how their champions run started.
Very first map against the Navy, I think.
Well, far memorable.
Fight plant.
You've got a close with the staff
not having worked out.
Still have some weapons to hand.
Yep, but Robin was considering jumping off the map
but yeah, with the rifle with the bucky.
Yeah, why not?
I'll try to see if we can shoot them.
Again, it's going to be a pretty standard anchor set up here for NRG as they wait eventually for BBL to shan and deliver Marcos' position forward.
Far enough forward, in fact, that he's able to catch on and he ignores the clone studiously. Unfortunately, his bullet accidentally tags it.
Okay, this is a little dangerous.
Lerox up to jump, crosshair position, broken broadcast to give back to Paranoia's forced NRG out of the site.
They've got to play from the fringes now, but they're not accounting for Rose who's given his position away now.
Okay, a little more costly, I feel that they actually would have liked it, Roars will be taking the task.
I'll get this six.
Listen, I know we're in the playoffs of Masters right now, but we're seeing some funny stuff in this game.
I'm dying at Roars having the shot, so he has to peek out with the shots after the long-range smite.
They're getting four kills, by the way. I mean, this is just...
We're descending into Madness a bit on this heck of a half.
Kevin went from trying to jump off the map over it, and he's taking three kills.
Alright, okay.
Okay, we're back to some normal valor until here surely as NRG have to fall by.
BBL have to fall by.
And NRG have a ton of ults to try and actually manifest a comeback here.
Oh, Kevin so crucially, but maybe not expecting that number of NRG players on Catwalk.
He's getting caught on this defensive side.
Yeah, it's BBL all the way out of B already trying to get over towards A main on the flank.
Lovers Rock collecting the information and party blocking some of Algyn's theory could come through.
There's dangerous here, again trying to snarl NRG up within the purview of the Huttus Fury.
Who would there be anyone tagged out by?
But when Giko timing works against him, BBL have it as steamroll.
He lovin' walls at A main side.
Okay, we're gonna see the convergent parts used there up towards that security.
Lighter fighting for it, Lovers Rock who is able to get back in from security itself though, and NRG are off the site for now.
They are in a post-plan, they do have the U-Tilt.
A U-Til are about to find it the hard way, but it gets it to half.
Yeah, that's very significant.
It's gonna come to the back, look at this man from the rock, and they're just sticking his spot away!
Amidst the smoke!
They complete the diffuse!
Just as NRG were unloading all their U-Tilt.
Feels like they give up that ace side so cheaply and they spent heavily in that round.
Convergent pass from Mata, he was really trying to fight back in through the score.
Lerak another sick opener after 26 for 9.
What a bounce back after that one.
That is obscene.
How do you go from 3 and 17 getting bodied on your own mat pick to 26 for 9 against
world champions. On their arguably best map right now. I don't even know. Kravon gets himself a free
neural theft. You'll see the second player coming, but Scuba gets the drop on him regardless.
What was he used? It's going to be a bypass pick inside tower.
The new one. All right, look, that's got to have a Roses there for the trade.
And so the pick goes as quick as it came in. Still A-Sci controlled. It's definitely there
in space for NRG. They've got two players in tower. And Loida just teleporting all the
all the way back towards the spawn and now Rose in, yeah a lot of danger.
Big statuette, convergent pathway, what's he trying to end the game?
There might be something here, from Tower, he is,
Hymnjorn's catch is under Wardsbrook, we're really gonna play it safe but Rock definitely won't.
Over the top he goes, and out of nowhere, BBL produced the rabbit from the hats.
And the commanding dictate issue to NRG, we will see you in map 3.
I hardly know what to say about that second half,
So I'm going to go back to the first where BBL were just utterly dominant on that attack side, worked them up beautifully.
I loved the calling from Rose and they just thrived in the madness of that second half,
especially LaRoc who finishes with 7 first kills and a 27 for 9 KD ratio.
360 ACS, Santiago catch your breath, it's time for a quick break.
When we come back, Mimi and Cole are going to get us ready for our third and final map.
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When we start sound designing an agent in Valorant, we have to consider some key questions,
like who the character is and what materials are associated with them.
Every sound designer has a different process, but I like to start by developing a foundational
sound, something that everything else builds off of.
For Veto, we face two challenges.
Veto's arm and abilities are made out of the same substance as Gekko's creatures.
So how do we differentiate his sounds from Gekko's sounds?
We decided to distinguish these by making Vito's goop sounds more crunchy and less fluid
sounding than Gekko.
One of the fun ways we added that crunch was by destroying a cabbage.
The second challenge was, how do we communicate danger?
We did this by thinking about Vito's abilities as ambush predators.
Imagine you're in a movie, exploring a cave,
and there's a giant spider lurking in the darkness,
lying in wait.
What would the music sound like at that moment?
We landed on this aggressive synth,
which ended up as a foundational sound for Vito.
It's so good.
I'm having a dance riot moment because I can only imagine how warm it must be in there
because it's very warm in here.
I love it.
Can I have a sip?
Can I have a sip?
Making friends already?
Yes.
I love that.
Shame he's out of the beer.
He had to show up to the tournament like this instead.
Josh though, this was a huge bounce back for Paglia.
It was not then, the flying map point. At least that's how it looked, but here, it was their style through and through.
People are talking about this being a micro and not a macro meta, Rose just won this map based on his macro.
They were really playing that game. So aware of those madder flanks early on, round 1, round 3, completely shot Madder down when he was going for those flank plays.
Hyper aware of how energy he wanted to play.
And then when you get up into really important rounds to get the ult snowball going, they're working Crevins lurks through mid, inserting Lovers Rock really deep,
really abusing that avenue through the middle of the map and playing the BBL star that we know and we love where they integrate and fakes,
combo in ults on the cycle rounds. It was beautiful to watch.
We were thinking about what is this BBL, the one that is going to lose today, are they going to, you know, go into that?
We lose, let's see how we bounce back. And maybe it was just one map because there was so much more calm and composed,
especially having taken into account that energy used both of their time-outs in the first half, trying to solve it,
finding different solutions and they were able to freeze and just wait for the reaction and still come out on
Yeah, it wasn't just a bounce back in the macro, but for players individually as well
Not one was I think the worst game I've ever seen from the rock. Personally. It was completely different this game though
Unbelievable he turns it around drops 27 kills this map
Yeah, I think it's amazing to see that he can bounce back in such a short time because trust me
What was it? Like a 3 and 17.
Yeah, 3 and 17.
Yeah, that is not easy to bounce back from.
And it is not that he was there putting out the numbers.
He was going in first.
He knew that there was a huge weight in his shoulders,
especially with them starting on the attack,
with him playing the way that he would have to step up.
And in every single one of those rounds,
oh my God, he did it.
He's such a genuinely amazing player,
and I'm so glad that he's come out
and immediately bounced back like this.
Because it's so rough to see him
perform so poorly Math 1.
Hopefully that means that he'll be able to find somewhere in the middle for map 3.
You're not always going to get performances like map 2, but hopefully you also don't get him completely flopping.
Maybe he will be a bit of a variance player though, when he gets to the stage,
because he does like those kind of high-risk high-reward duels.
Yeah, you saw the highlights, not just of him, but the other Rock Brother, Lover's Rock.
Those two on the entry looked incredible on this map.
They were dismantling the energy side anchors, which are normally so good on defense.
Do you know that the thing that I told you that when we were in the ring, they just needed like a couple of rounds to try and get the ball rolling?
And BBL definitely found it.
Especially the way that they were working them out, that they were working me time and time again, putting energy in such a difficult position to make decisions.
Because it really looked like every single time that they went for a bit, looking for the feels that we thought BBL wanted to give them, they were not there to reciprocate.
Maybe a trade here and there, but that was about it.
Looking at NRG's side now, they beat their opponent on their map pick, the pearl of it, it's so good for BBL.
But, certainly, this has been towards the top of the NRG map, they lose here dominantly, and now we look ahead towards Split.
How are you feeling about the world champs looking at a series that is completely flipped on attack?
I mean, to be honest with you, I think both of these teams don't look that great on Split.
Combined, they are 1 and 3 this year on Split, so it's towards the bottom of both teams, Matt Paul.
I think for BBL, though, they've only shown it once.
They've had a long time to change things up,
whether that be the composition or their approach.
So I actually think BBL might have an opportunity here
to come out and surprise with an incredible map 3.
But it should be sloppy and chaotic.
And I also think that kind of favours the individuals on BBL
rather than the structured protocol perfect play of energy.
You're forgetting something.
And I remember that split very vividly.
And I remember that after that, I thought BBL are cooked.
They cannot win map 5.
And for a second, I forgot that that is Martin's best map on Europe.
He, they went up against the best Euro in our region playing in his best map
and it was very, very difficult for them to bounce back from that.
They did not find the space and also we need to speak about all of the other pieces.
Like for example, Creven, the first time they're playing on the side for the time that he played that split
and we expect them to be double running that double controller.
But I think Creven's playing amazingly today
and split every single time that he was pushing to make, I think he made a difference.
Yeah, his lurks are so impactful on this of this.
What are you looking to see from energy on defense to deal with these lugs?
Well, I mean, they run a composition that should allow them to grab a ton of information.
So in comparison to a base where you have to really be worried about those site pops
and you do tend to leave mid a little more open, on this map I think you'll be looking to
re-clear over towards ramp, re-clear towards mid and you should be able to catch those
lurk timings that tend to come through those two avenues.
So I'm not as worried about like crazy lurks happening here from BBL.
I am more worried about big team fight scenarios.
I agree those were going the way of energy on that one, but when
When it when it's not a map towards the top of energy's pool
I think there's more opportunity for BBL to thrive in the team fights, especially if the Rock is online
Yes, especially if he is online he was on the second map
I agree with that of course mid in one of the most important parts of this map as we jump into the agent select
We see no surprises on the BBL side so far
Kevin has already locked in that vibrant list that we're going to the double duelist although never mind
There's a race before wasn't it?
Yeah, yeah, so both of the teams actually I think look to make a couple of adjustments here too.
Device for energy, what do you make of that? We've seen a couple teams try and counter pick her into double duelist teams.
Is this a strong way to shut down the rock at Lover's Rock?
I mean it definitely can be, but it also gives you less tools to be able to get in, right?
Because you're not running the double initiator anymore.
So I think more pressure on Mada, more necessity to look for information on the defense side.
You know two teams making adjustments here to try their win an absolutely critical match three that neither of them are looking
Amazingly comfortable on in previous iterations at the beginning of this match
I said I'm looking at Ethan not only because of the decor on the first map
But especially in these situations
I think that he can make a difference with him being the solo initiator
I can him and Matt are going to step up big game. I am a fan of the vice
I wonder though how much the BBL is going to play on to that and how much on top of it
Lovers Rock is going to be. I look at the two IGLs going into this map Ethan and Rose
We lauded him for his hauling on map two looking at Rose for Ethan though
He's always been excellent at adapting on the flight
And that's really the task for both these teams as we get ready for map three. The rookies versus the world champs
Only one continues in the upper bracket as we enter map three
Even amongst young, hot headed, trash talking rookies, BBL are in a class of their own.
They had plenty to say coming into Santiago. Coach Kee says we're out to conquer the world.
Lovers Rock says we're better shooters, we're better at reading the game, we're better anglers.
We are just better. And it'd be quite a story for these guys to make a royal run from
Premier to beating the world champions in their first game here in Santiago. And
that last map is anything to go by. It's on the tape.
Those words felt real hollow until Leroc completely took over the server on a
piss. Stunning performance from him after just putting up three kills on Pearl.
That is an unbelievable turnaround against the reigning world champions no less.
And as Josh said on the desk, we're off to a map that is uncomfortable for both sides.
It's been involved in some crucial series for NRG in 2026 and it's been a map that
They've lost against your paper Rex just the other day G2 earlier this year as well
And why this vice might have good stopping power on defense side to erase the question
How effectively are energy going to be able to carve out space on the map and get into these sites?
Lovers rockers takes some early control of the main but sides to pull away as
Bdl are just
So convinced that NRG are working towards the safe side of the map. They've got four players entrenched
Okay, fast lane gets Mata up in the rope room, placing zero time, making enough noise to wake the dead
It was, because we are just inevitably headed towards a 5 on 5 retake unless
Lurak can maybe get a kill here on Mata if he overbeats with the shorty
But you have to imagine he's gonna want to just stay tucked
Mata gets a head of the relay bolt
and Leroc heard some footsteps there, so he's going to be patient.
Out of there with playing Jigs on the edge of his smoke,
O'Kraala doesn't catch Mada, so he actually might have a timing here.
Oh no! Spotter there, apparently, has a run-out from the smoke occurred.
Leroc spots him, and now through mid-ticket, trying to go for a later re-hit.
And that's tank bar is going to make it a little tricky for the Omen though,
his broadbite just had to fight tooth and nail here on the side itself.
Lappas rock steps up, focus here over towards the upper area,
but the reload is all good for Scuba.
He is caught out.
Low hit a peek, Sleekin has to step up, right click gets the job done, but it's always a crossfire.
DBL is a pretty comfy retake, all things considered.
That's so well done, the re-clear into heaven, getting the haunt just after that prowler was modest undoing.
Brock, I dealt with very early.
Brock who by the way has not been able to get anything started on pistol rounds in this series
And normally he's going to give you one Brock Sheriff pistol takeover that has just simply not happened once today
And then after that you saw Kiko trying to go for the flank and mid
Trevon delays with the Molly and then crosses when Kiko's forced to teleport so you're basically a non-factor
He's basically already dead. They can just fight forward that was so well played from BBL man
In order to see what energy competitions close to do on defense
You just need a respectable attack-side round total here.
So far it's controlling you two to try and give them some space on this A-side, but it's ten of us.
He's got himself in a precarious situation there.
So there is some degree of heaven control that NRG take for themselves.
It's VBL's focus was the A-side proper.
So the way in heaven, there is going to be a step up here though.
There is a clone underneath and knows it.
He's looking like a completely different player than what we saw in map number one.
To say it was a 180 might almost be selling at short, which is bizarre I know.
His job is to take over the game.
He is that loose end in so many of these scenarios.
And especially when it comes to Split, I want to see him to continue to play with
that pace and aggression, particularly on defense. This split map for BBL was the most one-sided
L that they took in that B05, you know, upper-final against gentlemates to qualify here. They bounced
back after it, but it left a lot to be desired, and it raised questions about their map pool
heading into this event. If they could turn it around on split though, I think their pool is
It's more well-rounded. It's definitely more fearsome when you're going up against them.
But if they can't NRG, despite mostly losing on this map this year, it's only been against
top-level teams. And they've still had competent close performances. They haven't been a blowout
losses. It was close against PRX the other day, right? So, BBL still need to show some real
quality play here. One thing BBL didn't do much in that Gentlemates game is take that
B main control, but they're doing it straight away this round.
They've had time to work on this map,
and instantly it's a 54 for Loeter.
So that's being covered.
They're part of the map, well and truly under control,
but A is where NRG's Peter Padder is being heard from.
He can use his bad dog up ramp.
And as he does, I just want to remind everyone
that this is NRG not playing a double initiator comp.
So if we're ever going to see Lovers Rock
really lean even more heavily
into just being an outlaw of Bioru. It's going to be right now. Doesn't have to deal with any kind of drone pushing them off a
sightline for the rest of this round. Yeah, a vice composition does pretty little to try to get a sightline.
And it's not even like the vice gives you the audio ping anymore, the flash to fight out. Maybe there's someone somewhere, right?
So you're going to be lacking for info here, NRG. It's going to be up to Ethan. Really? They're trying to keep Thomas quiet.
Krebman!
He's called the Razorfighter, realized he couldn't be up there on Raft, as that's well read into by NRG,
but Bros might try and find a time to hear his side to smoke, he hears it all around him, it's a one for one.
Mardavos ready to fight for Maury, into the side he goes, baits the shot out from Lava's Rock, and so he's off the line.
No time to get crashed away, Lava's Rock, instantly taking the task by Scuba.
That's a nice little catch from Loida, but can Lava Rock find a situation in which he can close the gap with this judge?
does have a fast line does have that relay ball as well so it's definitely
possible I mean hell those two players backsite stacked up they could both get
stunned if it's placed in the right spot if you fast line crosses through elbow
he knows he has to be quick the rock is not running at breakneck speed quite
yet try it out by Loita now really just easy to see we can find it once he
came left and he never take model down instantly he knows where Brock is
This would be the moment for Brock to get something done.
Play for time. Play it safe.
It's parted out in the open. It's not favourable whatsoever, Followeta.
So he gives it a tap. Flash here. Holds it. Holds it.
Gets it to half. A tie in his short. He's got no choice.
Brock just teases him out.
And then Archie lands the play on a rocky round.
That is beautiful from Brock.
Really holds his nerve late into that 1v1
when the spike was getting tapped and the pressure was on.
crucial 1v1 clutch to win. At that though, NRG still in a dangerous place with their economy.
If they lose this next round, it's effectively completely broken.
You have Lovers Rock leaning into the off, picking it up now.
Judge still in the hands of Lo Rock. Both of them doubled up, wanting to fight a man.
Flash in the middle, Mata right behind it. Straight through the poison orb in early heaven
control. He's pushed all the way through.
This pace is insane. There's no way PBL expects this right.
Mata at the head of it, but no! Mata gets the cat amongst the pigeons.
Tatoe extends, but Brokelyce is there to make it a favourable trade and he hears Leroc
coming. He knows the neon as he's coaching.
That is an excellent follow up from Brock. Had to cover so much ground to be able
of the help model. And he retreats, Seekers now being used by Ethan.
They're all going heaven. They're all going heaven. This is very illuminating to NRG.
Paranoia catches on the brook, but he's still really defying for it.
Every angle covered. Crossfire is in place for NRG, and now it's a matter of just sticking it.
And now he's going to have to saunter away from this fight and hold on to the rifle.
We'd rather get that off and go for anything more. NRG call.
a really good multiplayer face into Heaven there after the Seekers cause a little bit of delay
so things up and ultimately give them the information that they needed.
That's super well played from NRT. A cool round that they come, or like idea for the round that
they come into it with, right? With Mata just pushing all the way through Heaven,
getting downstairs with the judge. I feel like most of the time in that exact same situation
if you replay it. He's killing both players. That's the hard side. The problem missing him is crazy.
Yeah, look at it. He goes around him. He's ahead of it. Jump scare, central.
And again, it's brought with the clever follow-up there to make sure Mada's job ultimately is done.
We virtually get the two for one that they were looking for.
Yeah, it's brought me able to follow up in the truth. That is just critical to that
entire round working out. So, I mean, yeah, amongst the range of options and getting side
control in IG, with this Viper and Vice Comp still find a way to get in. Not if you can
run that one back too often, Wyatt, that's the issue.
Trailblazer gets dodged out and now Lovers Rock just wants to reclaim all of that space
with the AWP and even if he's just holding it as the prowler you can see on the minimap
went through, the rest of the team on VBL, they can just put their emphasis elsewhere
on the map. We saw NRG show some early presence on B. It's going to be pretty standard on a
lot of these rounds from Barakasin. Just throw those thorns right down into main so they
can try to take this space early. Yeah, again, BBL, don't have the weaponry here to try
and take B main to crawl early. NRG are going to be able to get close. Relay Boltsy
potential catcher under Luida. He's trying to get off the side, but he has Barna ready
to fight for it! Heads roll! And NRG, one fell swooped up. BBL down to size.
As Lava's Rock can only get a consolation kill before getting on out.
NRG might do a little bit of hunting now.
Yeah, Scuba is only going through soon, so he could be in danger.
He gave the rest of his team the right idea, controlling a main, just go stack on B.
They did not have the weaponry to hold off against NRG, just so aggro through the choke.
No.
Ground on for Lovelace Rock.
No one else from energy really proximate enough, I think, to test this now.
Unless Ethan's hoping for something off the gatecrush, mate.
Don't do it. Don't take the TP.
How many more guns?
Walter White in the car.
No! Lovelace Rock, don't take it!
Bit of Steve Carell screaming.
I don't think Lovelace Rock fans is any of that now.
He will stay put here for the time being.
And then, Archie will have to content themselves with three rifles carried out of the round
And three rounds to their name.
Again, another fast hit, but BBL's lack of ability
to set up in B.
Listen, they had the right idea.
They just didn't have the weaponry to be able to handle that.
Now they'll have an actual buy going.
But NRG are going to have an advantage in terms
of the alt economy and without a mind.
Coach Kee over on BBL wants to get the time out going
first one of the game.
Is that a different if Martus caught in the seeds there?
Just able to dodge ahead of him.
Also, the spacing was pretty nasty.
Marta goes down there, I think, and you're actually out of steam.
Crucial that he gets to defy those two kills,
and then I do quick on the uptake.
Over the corner, I make a spin condition now,
and BBL after winning the pistol on the anti-eco,
having pretty quiet.
NRG with a pace of play reminiscent of what we saw from BBL,
on a biz.
It seems as if I took the squad out on the back foot.
See, right now, in this next round, they're trying to fight to get one of the alt orbs.
Maybe try and get Rose close to the nightfall.
Because they're going to be in a pretty precarious spot if NRG are able to get in using Mata's alt.
Or it doesn't even need to use it necessarily, but they get themselves into a post-plan situation where the non-dropping players get some pick down.
That's something that BBL will have to be concerned about.
And if that does come to fruition, Lovers Rock would love to have a
dimensional grip to get through those pits, try and ping players out to span
something along those lines, right? Let's see what they have cooked up. Coach Key?
I mean, also in a sense a rookie to this stage to spend years coaching some
GC teams that was the challengers with this very core and has ascended right
along with them. Can VBO get Lovers Rock set up
for success that off feels like it's a key component of their success.
And here's that off from Mada just storming through, had an off-back relay ball, it's all about pace, but Roche shuts it down instantly.
Roche's stopping power, that's exactly what you need in a round like this.
Krevet also wants to get involved. Not one to let the game get ahead of him clearly.
And already an actually down to two players, yes. They're in the side conditionally anyway.
Roche's the one with the spike, and he is very sequestered away from Kiko.
That was some blistering speed from NRG that went straight into a brick wall.
Pretty crazy that Rose was able to just deal with Mata, what felt like quite easily in a chaotic situation.
Just fighting him up close in that smoke rock, spotted out by that prowler now.
Retreating with the spike towards site. PBL there, just gonna camp. They don't need to do anything right now.
Yeah, enjoy. Take the site. We'll play retake 5 on 2.
This is a very wishful way to buy in here.
Kiko found two, Grog.
Yeah.
Have to extract yourself from such a situation.
And it all starts with NRG pulling that overdrive and getting matter up into heaven.
Yeah, they do this flat.
Want to go all-pace, overdrive, swipe down, hit.
Let's keep it simple, guys, for a right-to-side steps to the vault and just decapitate
to matter.
Talk about this at the start of the round.
There's just nothing to cover up that sight line from the screen.
You're going to get punished for that against PBL.
There's some variations on that you can take up.
As Lovers Rock would be off in hands, we're going to see it again in this kind of round.
And the same question is going to be asked of NRG. Do you happen to taste it?
Do you think that you're a win-on tactic?
NRG have been getting B-man quite easily, just throwing down the early fines.
Another rocket, another shot. No, that's a pretty tough one to hit, Mata.
Through that, Mali. In some danger, but crosses back. Sight!
Good recovery and I love the TPL cross there from the omen of Kiko is in position and ready
But the judge was not noted close to the B main door and now under the dimensional drift
Lovers Rock passes that info back to Rose
BBL now put their nose out in front
And there was more of a tsunami than a flood honestly the way that BPL played that one out the nightfall initially and
Then La Rock being able to play up close
First, Lovers Rock forces Teleport away when he misses that crazy off-shot attempt.
Then comes right back in with the dimensional drift.
Feels like it's going to be Lloyd, it goes for the Teleport across.
But no, the rest of the team are so fast to support, they'll show just zero caution whatsoever getting back in.
Couldn't see the judge. They're pushed up close.
Fast lane, Hidler off from the rest of energy.
Away we go here round number eight.
Very much a default flavour on this round.
Keep your left with just a stinger into this one by the way. Money not so great for NRG.
In a post plot you like NRG.
It's a matter of getting into this question. Steel garden and VIPers pit.
Right there fingertips.
It's a really ponderous start to the round.
Now we're going to have to hasten this all prior.
A brief acceleration here now.
Mid is claimed, the multi-face gets it into heaven now, so what I'm sure we'll look for an opening.
But he's still on the judge here.
NRG at the moment, just very content to take some space up towards mid, draw out utility while the round is still fairly early.
You can see the spike is all the way back there in market, it's going to be collected late.
But they're just showing emphasis on, you know, a bit of B Heaven, a bit of Vance.
Hey, we could be splitting into either site right now.
Characteristically though again from BBL, no view made control outside of this postie from Lovers Rock.
He's got a respect that's still guarded.
He'll be able to keep his primary for the time being.
That's a great reaction though for Krent and Kiko.
Attempts a walk up and it pulls back on its face.
Shot missed though.
There's a chance here to get into the side for NRG.
Lovers Rock, little flash around the corner some shorty.
Action yes!
Tears martyrs head clean off his shoulders.
Spike loose on the side while Rock now looks to post up on yet another corner.
The Op is still singing out in time.
He's getting very short.
of his ping down by the horns.
Lovers Rock, he's every bit of sleep paralysis
demon he was promised to be.
These B side holds from BBL are looking really fantastic.
He's passed a couple rounds out of the timeout.
It feels like just a little bit early, perhaps, on that.
Not having anyone to swing out in trade for him.
And then Lovers Rock, backside,
is just doing a great job fighting towards Main.
Had Moyda there as well, playing off
from tucked in the corner.
And the Rockins so quick has the overdrive pop.
They are just not allowing NRG to actually get the spike down.
Their mission has been to fight them so aggro just as they're
getting out of the choke point.
And it's so far working exactly as it helped.
There's another time out here.
And so another point-based win condition.
NRG start that round slow.
There's a brief acceleration, mate.
Get that happen to troll.
But unfortunately, things fall apart.
But they can't really capitalize on the steel
In theory, get them in the beat properly.
Force, lovers rock off the end, it's in one play, it's in work.
Yeah, mostly you just get them through B main,
doesn't actually cover anything back-site.
You'd rather drone in that position, I think, for that purpose at least.
Yeah, and it really just felt like, yes, some of those timings
were just not tight enough with Kiko fighting Heaven,
and then you're kind of rounding the corner of B main.
It was just a little bit off kilter for NRG.
We're going to stabilize out of this timeout.
Money is not going to do it.
Future buy is not going to be good.
There's a lot of moving pass in her, she's covered it.
Pretty flashlight as well, of course they get the paranoia,
but Kiko ends up walking into, like you mentioned,
a player stationed behind a Viper wall.
So it's a question of whether they go back
to those fast hits at first, speed here,
but I think the unknown variable of the often the mix now
for Lovers Rock changes the calculus
for the American spot.
Will this be another fast-paced round,
like we saw on a prior,
when they get the spot on Lovers Rock,
but a once to accelerate.
Love to rest the off-the-way from the star player VVL, but...
you know...
chance to ingress him towards his heaven position until he falls their way in and it works out.
Behind the guiding light flash, Ethan's up and a fine crevice.
Well, Rock's spotted out now as well, he tries to play the right angle.
And he has been revealed.
But that's energy, Vance might look you looking elsewhere for now.
Oh, the barrelless spot of our Lovers Rock.
Oh, who was that?
His gate crashed. I don't think it has the effect he wanted it to.
He might have wanted that back towards the corner, but don't read the way.
Flavus Rock swims himself under the angle.
Takes the vice out, but now he's got a contempt for the Viper's pit.
Oh my God, he needed it so low.
Even mid-range could have gone down to the shorty.
Now though, the question of getting back into the side for BBL is a difficult one.
Screens is covered up by their Viper's pit.
And they've got Mata in position to watch in a main play.
Dancing the bullets past the wall, but Lleida's still able to make short work of it.
Now they've got a real chance and they have more than enough cash to go for a risk like this
And aren't you in the pit they can play themselves back into the side that way
Their information now is kind of expired and it's useful this
No, it is really playing forward onto the spike doesn't know if it's gonna be a swing out of this pit
They're trying to challenge you but levels rocks trying to get ahead of it screw that that's the swing
There's lovers rock ready for it. We do that. It's dirty stuff gets it to half an ounce on Kiko
Guardians just not gonna cut the mustard is it
6-0 for BBL and a sick retake!
They cannot be allowed to get away with that.
NRG, I don't know, wires crossed, things getting scrambled.
The pit isn't covering the spike back side.
Ethan rotates up to heaven. The spike isn't planted for him either.
Really bizarre situation.
Freehand cut anybody?
And these little mistakes adding up just to give BBL enough room
To win the round out despite only having two players remaining they win the doors that they're gifted for free
They shouldn't even be in a situation to be taking doors like that. I really I can't believe how much that humble front
I've seen just miss coms on this coms if I like
Now what you have to work with pieces to be picked up I'm sure
That's gonna be a grim mosaic that they actually try to construct
But here's the TP
Fake as it was is energy are no further than ramps and they're down to two
The BBL are just applying the maximum pressure to energy at any moment that they are trying to get through a choke
They're being stuffed by players by way too much util and a willingness from BBL to just run it down the world champs
No respect, just as promised from BBL. Broke's making the shot a little way with the Broke
who's still dealt with it eventually. Just a suspension of disbelief perhaps. Kiko next
out, and BBL now with a head of steam. Eyes forward, seven rounds on this defense side,
already an impressive first half.
I just like this being a map that heading into this tournament you would have had
at the bottom of their active pool.
It feels like their game plan is working exactly
as it's drawn up.
You're seeing Lover's Rock at his best,
controlling the map with the up right now
or with the out low.
And then Lerock is just able to dominate them
on the opposite sides of the map.
The playing so aggro, stuffing them in these chokes,
fighting with energy or trying to get out.
Maybe not expecting Maro to be there so early,
But it's the customary sort of fake TP and B main setup.
Trying to dissuade any further presence.
Oh, it's fast!
I pressed for NRG.
Yeah, Rose is trying to get over there in time
to find some kind of trade.
Oh, with a teleport.
Find him.
It's boyish.
Oh, it's boyish.
Oh!
Oh, enough!
I heard it was against the law.
And now down to three, NRG.
So a spike is on the ground.
It needs to be recovered by NRG now.
BBL just pounced on that.
I mean, she's that trailblazer
Oh, come on! To clear that space!
NRG have lost his flag almost certainly!
Brock, with his stinger
has to try and find a way to get it back to Kade down
caught in the seas
and now BBL get to play with their food
Don't worry about it, it's a bigger fish to fry
for NRG
How do you get back into this if you're NRG?
Mada has the full kit, maybe there's a way
he can fast lane to get the spike
or like relay bolt one guy, try to isolate
Slate slideth him with the bucky
Maybe off the chaos of Brock to try to make something happen with the Phantom all right just a recovery mission
They got the spike and they're out in the meantime Brock is just
hauling his way to the B side
He can't cross to heaven and Marta knows it. It's gonna go the long way around the yellow not far behind
Rose is already posted up in B Heaven rock does have a rifle though. Oh
No, it's made in Brock's to capitalize
Now there's a glimmer of hope giving by the second hours lovers rock gets close around a dimensional trip in a
rock
It's an absolute
Capitulation for BVL in the Masterclass 50 snatched up for energy
That can't be the first round that energy put in the board
I
I cannot believe that. I mean also just what a what a call to say Brock. Just start
running the B. You're a little slower than I am. I'll grab the spike. I'll meet up
with you later. That seems so hecy for love is rock to emerge.
He thinks he could maybe, I don't know, I don't know if he could deny the plant or
scare the plant or to getting off or just trying to catch them like someone would do it.
I don't know. That was a bold risk to take.
Defense side Viper speed though, BBL.
Looking to stuff the truck on the A side of the map.
Sharp from Mada. Sharp as attack.
That's exactly what they need from him, has not been a late-to-split game for Mada so far.
And that's a lot of the re-clear potential denied from BBL.
Barak just has one gun on the by-menu.
Judge. No rifles.
Nothing else for Judge.
You can play yourself in the B-main in a multitude of different ways.
What an annoying setup though for BBL.
Just judge B-main, hit A-main, sure.
And aren't you trying to test every other possible avenue before they go for one of those two?
What's that they're getting to Heaven?
From mid, that's where they go to that control.
Mada is actually going to go deep in again.
Going to play close up down those stairs and he's got the two!
Once again, it plays beautifully.
And this time Mada was on his own there. It doesn't matter.
matter. An afro given to BBL for them to hang themselves with. And Crevon is in a 1v5.
It's an important round for NRG to find at the end of this first half.
A light of smile on the face of Brock after he wins that 1v1 to wallstone against the
judge. We are in silly landmiches. This is going to be an Olympic lose challenge.
It's been a while, last couple rounds.
Okay, we're getting a nice little bang on her third map.
They all like to see that.
Well, PBL, they had some great adjustments from round 6 to 10.
Other domination, and it felt like round 11 was
one that NRG didn't necessarily deserve to win in the 2v3,
but they somehow make this close in the end at a 7-5.
Just a mental half of Valorant.
Now we get our run back of the Mata Solo playing a spawn,
and this time it looks even better than it did before.
Halftime 7-5, competitive start to split.
I don't want me to find out how it all ends.
That's to say with us.
Let's dance a little bit! That's a line, eh? Back up!
Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey.
One, two, one, two.
Up, up, up, up, up.
One, two.
Two, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey.
Up!
Let the car go.
Come on, come on.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Whoo!
The ones who have the cart, come here!
The ones who have the cart, come here!
Come on!
the Equations. They didn't seem to have an answer for that either. However,
this last couple rounds of the hard, I should give some hope for America's fans
here, as NIG caught on to a couple of opportunities, but BBL looked like they
get ahead of themselves. It felt like BBL were in that situation where you
can't do anything wrong. You're just winning in every little micro area of
the game. Every shot is connecting and you start to make a couple silly
mistakes because of that. That's what happened on those final two rounds and
it's resulted in NRG being within touching distance of catching up. BBL are
going to have to really stabilize to maintain this lead in the second half.
Now they're going to play against that stopping power that NRG's composition
boasts on defense. Fast lay move to play BBL towards the A side of the map.
Kiko respects it. Sees low in with the TP, topside of nose and rocks already
But everyone surrounds him. Good damage done. He can save that at least with NRG and now pushed off the action
Heath and Lux are to get away alive because Spam coming his way and that's broken 15 HP energy
They just want to fight Brock is in up top, but he can't connect the shots just yet
A lot of low health players but Brock has got so much on his plate
They're not sure if he brought his appetite for this one
PPL with three players all below 31. They've got 59 health total. This is so winnable for Brock
That couple of straight shots here and there is getting nothing from BBL.
Look at the push up here from Prevent inside the box.
The bait jump out there for Roos down to 1 HP.
It's not enough.
BBL distributed the bare minimum of health amongst their teammates.
And clown on Brawk.
Prevent with the perfect timing to peek out, but that is just BBL playing as fast as
you possibly can in the game of Valorant.
Everyone WT pressed getting into the site. They just overwhelmed these anchors and this energy try to get back in
Ethan was really unable to support in a meaningful way just took so much damage. He's forced to retreat
TBL are in prime position to close out this series their debut global series
Once again same play Kiko got to be pressured on the site this time he tucks doesn't look for a cross
Again, NRG there. You're fast. They have four players on this site.
His classics have to go to work at BBL. They're just not going to let them find their footing.
And they swept away.
Taltan broke again. Who were the classic or simply challenged from?
Rafters ideally make a script about dignified exit from the rounds.
Rose would be the one to close it.
With the triple, with the spike plant, Rose is just one arm away from getting a nightfall
on the very first by-round for NRG.
Everyone on the defensive side there were just gathered up in the site for the slaughter. That was just effortless for BDL
9 to 5 now
So looking for a conversion on this bonus round that would be back breaking for energy
Free those heavy armors brought up by the American squad
See this push up to the barrier on this ramp direction might be an early thrust here from
an RG but they're all caught in paranoia and Kreven fights his early.
Miroxio wants to go for it and the judge sings out.
He'll take the trade.
DBL favour now.
Scoob is looking for a timing here up mid.
It's only their clone that's there to see.
I might get a free one on Loidado.
It's productivity from Scoob.
Oh, you're killing it!
He'll know.
He'll know.
Scoob knows he can get this one.
to the last possible second. But again, it's still a player advantage for BBL.
Stuber on ramp, cut down and it's on Kiko. Has that side presence and in fact, I don't
know if BBL know where he is.
That was such a crazy fast reaction from Lover's Rock. Kiko now walking through
Main. Was he spotted? Yeah, he definitely was. You get another other move over to
the free V-Site. Rose is going to have the nightfall as well. Just in case Kiko
So it's making it close. Why not?
He doesn't have the time to check every single angle the weapon is out in the pocket sand deployed by lovers rock
Delivering on the hype as
Advertised his little 17 and six on this last map and when only going up against one initiator
He's able to off outlaw so much on that first half he is racking up kills
And now an attack with the rifle. Yeah that paranoia that's just a sick play on it and they do it against NRG on the round where NRG go for a
three-man swing on ramp
that is
So unfortunate and kind of demoralizing I think the renna G you go for that variation and have a count of a one little piece of utility
If I'm out here five rounds behind a renna G
the weaponry
It's not pretty
Three Bucky's two stingers. It's a full house of Tom Fowlery in the arsenal
You might expect a fast play into one of these sign early pop for energy maybe to get value out of matters
dualist nature on defense
Not really very little of what was promised by energy's composition has come to fruition yet on this defense side
Losing that bonus or seeing the bonus converted by BBL rather that stings
We have seen a completely different BDL from Pearl to Abyss to now on Split.
The turnaround is unbelievable.
It looked like they were falling victim to the first seed curse, to the debut global event
curse.
They just did not have their bearings on that map, but they take a deep breath, come
back and are just in phenomenal form.
in phenomenal form, playing their style, playing their way of valorant.
Being permitted to play their way.
Yes, it's with the meta agents, but they have their own approach, their own flavor.
To running this, you're running the neon, and it's just working so well.
Ken Bunker will find an answer for NRG out of this time out.
On this round, it's a pretty meager buy with just the stingers though.
Little offensive pops here.
This defense side is what we're going to have to go for.
It's a bit of a short break there by Marduk, twinkle toes, but Dazzle's low in it.
LaRocco's gotten deep in with the B side, but is Solo trying to sell something here?
How long is he going to get away with this?
He's hoping for a push on the corner.
And what is he going to get some help?
I mean, does he even need the help?
How is he not going down?
Okay, so ultimately it's not a fake being sold.
PBL trains you to pave the way, but here's Lovas Rock for one.
Mard comes in around the corner though.
And this 50th round for NRG. Looks like it might be secure
BBL getting way too thinly spread across the map there
Not able to get back to the rock in time yet all that space on B
But those three players are rotating cross map
They feel like we got to see what's again there the Turkish default deep a deep B presence for BBL
But they're not really knowing where to end up in the end
And Mata's having to take four kills out of the round.
Mastika and Thrifty locked him.
I like NOG taking that aggro timing with the fight up in heaven,
when the wall was up.
Just pop flash out of it with Ethan.
Yeah, it's this moment here with Mata.
And with the tarj out,
get the second shot connected pretty sick.
And then insane round for Mata.
Basically playing gun games here.
Yeah, it's up to catch out levels of rock
he went for a play with the Outlaw. Important round for NRG, but it's too early to say if
their head is above water yet.
Lerak has found a new weapon on the buy menu, he has the life off of it, this will rush
over into A. Modern needs to back up, that's a bit too much pressure, okay, the judge
isn't doing that, the judge isn't doing that bro.
Acropole of nothing, let's see him come down through the smoke. Kiko though has
been very dependable on this B side of the map. Great ankle, bought a lot of time
and there he just takes that kill and be main and actually looking a little
comfortable here at least easing into this defense side now. My slide in from
Marta. The Rock has his ankles broken and now it's up to the Lovers Rock and
Rose. You might need to find a mid to B is their solution. This round in the last
BBL have felt really scrambled. Things not being coordinated between players
Going down isolated and NRG finding nice moments to
aggress onto some of these isolated players like we just saw there with
Leroc.
Now NRG just need to close things out as the clone goes forward.
He's the gun barrel.
It's on the rock handle now. Pretty clean from NRG.
And it's nothing. They're not reinventing the wheel here wide. We've seen some of these little pops up on the defense side behind
a paranoia
And then a dive in from the Neon, it's what you should expect if you're going up against, you know, a defense side of Neon in general.
And still, BBL seemed to be a little suggestible in those moments.
Getting caught out by some of these aggressive moments.
Yeah, they had gotten that opener and then Loida just exposed himself on the other side of the map,
so the team doesn't have any smokes to play with going anywhere else.
And now they're playing the game!
From there, it's just easy for NRG to catch out individuals.
And it's going to force BBL into a timeout here, I really can't blame them.
The last couple rounds have not been clean for them at all.
And it's given NRG an opening.
A lot of what was working for BBL on that defense side now gets a little bit harder to employ.
On attack, I'm talking about contact angles with the yacht, for example.
The rock, having those pops up defensively.
Getting value, for example, out of a seize to disrupt a fast sidekick.
BBL have to adapt. It does look like I think they showed up this map fight
significantly since we saw them against general mates there in that playoff match.
A qualifying game. Even still NRG now been able to slow things down and use these
moments from Mata or he gets ahead and tries to break that conditioning to give
them an advantage and punish over extension. Into this round BBL. Don't
I think it's impossible, but maybe they go for some kind of crazy alt play.
They have a rifle, the Guardian, the Stinger, and then LaRocque does have the overdrive.
VBL are a team that have cooked up some pretty creative alt rounds that they use throughout kickoff to
catch teams out, get three round wins.
Do they take a risk like that here though?
Map 3 against NRG, popping ults in a round where they don't have a full buy.
really clear of A here should be pretty important information for energy
paranoia catching on the scroober is gonna extract himself out of the creek
you're a moderate step up in he's dead that's an overdrive completely
stopped from lorak there's that stopping power razor vines denies a fast
push from BBL on to B
Grabbing the lone rifle on BDL, trying to just see if someone on energy would maybe expose themselves in there, not going to be the case though.
The rest of the team group up.
Mod has really started to heat up in this game as an A.
He's absolutely the build around for NRG in terms of his defense side strategy, Wyatt.
I don't know if you actually saw that playthrough mid and yet, they have the crossfire set up as is custom towards Heaven.
towards heaven. There's a glimpse of some headgear.
Okay, Kiko, tap it away!
And that'll be enough for the time being for an RG.
Kevin and Rose last two up.
And once again, Kiko flexes his dominance on B.
Kevin will be fortunate to lead the round with a rifle in hand.
Probably going to get the spike down, though.
So there is a chance.
No reason not to go for it. That is for certain.
So that's Christian where you fall back to on this A side of the map.
And actually you're going to have to make that way over.
Razorvine does deny the early play back out towards Main by Creven,
but he'll get where he needs to be.
Oh, wanted to beat out that wall as well.
I like it.
Again, it's the dotting of eyes and crossing your T's.
The little things here for Creven.
Trying to pave his way for success in his one versus three,
and he'll have to take a pretty raw fight and he sees three guns
into his direction and so the firing squad gets NRG back within two rounds.
Fair attempt from Kreven. I like he baits out the U2, goes back, puts himself in a position
where he tries to isolate a fight to slowly even up the numbers. He was doing everything
right but ultimately that's just going to be such a tough situation for them to
win. Stunner for a shot from Mata. Solid crossfire there, Kiko's been fantastic
on defense overdrive committal just gets fully nullified
now we're playing the game
easy, can't argue with that, three rounds in
a row for an RG, and some important ultimates here especially if they want to
funnel BBL in their choice of direction they've got that bypass pit off of it
faster from Leroc getting up towards A-Ram
yeah instant broken but doesn't know that no one is
too close up. So BBL fight and take some early space over towards A and now the entire team is rotating over here.
They just want to go for this straight up exec. They have to deal with Brock and some delay utility in that choke.
Exactly. That Razer Vine could be big, but Lovers Rock of course concerns them.
All of it there is the Rock falling though. He can place himself onto the site.
It's that Razer Vine spot and then what an angle to find Lovers Rock on.
They all step up and the mastermind knocks them down like dominoes.
Well it will be double swung. Ignorable exit from the round and Ethan is on his feet.
And a wrist like that just going for a fast exec against this vice cop is absolutely punished.
They don't get the info on Brock being there, they're completely stalled out.
Oh.
And you see the duelists just isolated there with Lovers Rock stuck all the way in
and that was just such a heads-up play from Ethan.
So smart to drop down back into that corner.
Not quite Lysol level or refarming from Ethan,
but certainly starting to emulate some confidence.
Captain gets his team back within a round.
That's the fake jump there.
The Rock will hop the suit and Crawford are trying
to cover Ethan's retreat, but he's just got enough.
The Rock will not be denied.
That is pretty outrageous.
Is Brock sure to get back in here?
I mean, there's a slight angle with the Mali
not fully covering the choke.
No, he doesn't fancy it.
There's a risk of being triple swarmed here
and the end as the sign is certainly under BBL's control.
For now, the screen's ready for ball because he crosses back over.
And it looks like Mada wants that head on control again.
And look at this flank from Scuba, but it's just being read by Mada.
This timing control in this hour, oh, he can!
Cannaforka, Luzo, Scuba had a chance and an opportunity.
S is flying from Mada, at least forces the gatecrest,
but that's back to the side.
Lover's rock can just play as an anchor now in his retake.
And Mada doesn't have to do anything but live.
He can just be a nuisance in the back line over towards A main.
Now NRG have to descend in to the Viper's pit.
An unendurable position at the best of times, but they've got to go for it!
Lovers Rock straight through the smoke call out. That's key code for two! Surely not more!
Loiter steps up! Steps out!
Finds that three kill for the Mastercard thrifty!
BBL!
The lights are still on!
This time they go away, but let's just ignore Brock on the site.
We're going to run up ramp and just get in Ethan's face.
Not much stall utility where they're playing with the sky.
Relayball is so good at just the dash in.
The Cease, man.
That fight was so important on the flank as well.
If Scoobal wins that out,
all of a sudden they're the one backsabbing in.
They don't have to worry about aiming late.
They can just get to the site, put all of their focus on fighting towards that hit.
And the AWP is back in.
Played.
Wyatt, Lovers, rocks.
Gets himself a scope weapon.
Oh, the card is here with him there, yeah.
And he just found himself in a 1v3 scenario unbeknownst to himself.
BBL will love to run a, you know, like a full, exact play, everything behind aggression with
LaRocque there.
And then they'll mix it up and just kind of send him solo and try and play off that,
like a bit of conditioning.
But NRG, we don't want to give up there right now.
They just fight it even more heavily.
Pretty good map control here.
Look at NRG yet.
That's all face, and that's crevend down.
That's all for the Viper.
Viper will gone so very quickly and RG are going to realize this new one
else today especially the Seekers train from the rest of BBL.
He's brought from lower.
Paranoia comes in from B main.
That's disruptive indeed.
Kiko's taken out by the off.
Leverzrock spotted as he drops down.
Scuba waiting for a chance to get this crossfire going.
But Lurida could be a problem in the corner of the site.
He's not spotted out.
Two for the Omen.
And Rose just saw the barrel.
Mada backing towards stairs though makes a little bit of noise.
look at Ethan coming through main. This could be gratuitous tying Ethan with a
flash still to play with. We'd have very low as it is Rose. Surely you don't fight
yourself out of this one. No Marta there from CT it's loitered down and Rose can
only get back on rafters and have a bird's eye view of a situation that
likely will spiral out of his control. 18 health. Marta plays close. Ethan with
a double face and then RG quickly responds back keep it close. Still in
the game. I love the way that they played towards that time. I mean they were not going to give him
the rockings. They had three players just ready to fight here on ramp. The counter flash comes through.
He's blinded up, dealt with, and then there was that mid-round timing that Mata and Ethan took
to fight again in A-Main. And at that point they just have more than enough numbers to handle
BBL's pivot towards that B site.
The tight round, you can see that look on Blocker's face.
That cheeky forward at the end of the back of the side by Luida could have been
the undoing for NRG.
And so the Op was picked up by Lovers Rock. That's gone again.
Dropped away, back to the rifle.
And Brof now has the Ode into play with.
An interesting buy from BBL late into the timer.
There was some swaps around with the guns, figuring out what to do.
But it's left him with three rifles and.
It looks like a desire to get into this B-side quickly.
Relay balls here, Odin could be very powerful in this spot,
but Crocs can be flashed off the angle.
Rose into Heaven.
Kiko though is there, yeah, again, great opener.
Rose has to be huge here.
He needs to find the Undo, but Scrooge is watching for it.
Great correction.
We're looking at an even game with things
kicked going in this direction.
HP on BBL is terrifically low.
No control of the map.
Where do they try to finish in this situation?
If for all they know, one player could be pushed all the way up into A main, holding that.
They're going to try to go up mid, in towards B Heaven,
reheat, that's a reheat into four players.
Truly, there is no way they can wrangle this round back into their control.
Can this advance you?
Flushed out himself, Cribb is actually able to get ahead of this now,
but surely Ethan's looking for it.
Coolcom collected, King of Caputia!
The King of the Dead!
Flawless round for NRG, and Easton punched on a throne of skulls.
Him and Marta have been outrageous in this second half.
That duo has been bringing NRG back.
Sick lineup.
The game is even. The heads are in the hands for the BVL coaching staff, as for all their
bluff and bluster, and after you've taken this game to a standstill around 23.
Smoke goes down towards Vent, from Lodin, it's 131 for BVL. They want to press through
that cloud, flash, prowler, the rock up quickly. They've got their space towards
still very early in the round. How do they want to work it? They've got control of B main as well.
The Hilo crossfire. Mata shows first, backs up, dealt with quickly enough, but they might have had the second weapon here, haven't they?
The paranoia goes through the rock, not going to fight it too aggressively though.
Look at the map right now, energy of four players towards B. BBL have really convinced them that that's where they're going to be headed.
Brock understands the assignment though, why play post-plant with this SteelGarden.
And now look at this, Loire can teleport across so they have all five players on this
execute and love what BBL are doing so far Brock. He has given up the site, retreated
with the Odin, can he get anything done with the spam? No, doesn't look like it.
Nothing to see from that crossover. No way to light up BBLs, they get into the site
but again, there is a SteelGarden in play. Here it comes, tough to get out of this
one, Kiko trading out for Loire. Now wants to get onto the site, smokes off that
main position trying to force levels. Rock off the angle he's taking down before the smoke blooms.
Now onto the site we go. Risking and dangerous for BBL. They're grouped up together hoping they can
cross fire this, but one by one they step up out in the line of sight of Brock and he will have his fill.
Match point for NRG.
BBL just trapped in the site after planting NRG with all of the space. They tear them apart.
Loaded from Brock, just a bit too much.
Again, brought his patience, spent the whole round in screens.
Played off a still garden.
Huge retake.
Planting an ancient here in the faces of NRG.
It's been a slog of the game.
The BBL now in an awkward spot of buying up what they can and it is not much.
Ultimate's not really a factor in this round unless Lover's Rock can find a kill, find an orb.
BBL are back into this 1-3-1. Can they take it to OT against the world champions?
Ford gets him into ropes.
NRG happen to try and serve for them. Maybe once again, play themselves in the heaven for at least the trade.
You can see the gate crash was just sent back all the way towards the market from Lovers Rock, so at any point could go back to Roses here with the spike. I'm sweating just watching his point of view. He's hurled for now.
And the Rock has doubled back and it looks like Lovers Rock wants to maybe play proactively, maybe make some noise and teleport back to the others.
It's the same Hilo set up here. It's dangerous. Relay bolt to an Alpeble. How does Rock find success solo over on that A side of the map? Is he ready for Brawl? He sees him.
Yeah, it gets the drift with that kill gets the info on Brock and I'll be the other on the way towards that a side
It's the space in elbow leaves a dimensional drift
Rest of BVL they get past that wall it gets tripped. It doesn't matter
This is going to be a four on three for the game. Oh
Through the spot crevin. I don't know what human and brooks far from down
This is exactly where he shines through the corners. The damage is gone
The Rock is riddled with bullets.
Lover's Rock tries to stand up, and it's on Loida.
1v2 in the post-plot.
We're in the post-plot, Loida!
Takes us to all the time.
It's the stuff of dreams.
Not even the greatest fairness you all have to have
the audacity to put that pen to paper.
And then here we are, Loida.
Extend the lifeline to BVL.
Oh my god, man!
The speed on that second shot, the reaction time, is insane!
How the hell does he adjust back for that?
You are joking, man! I am just stunned. I don't know what to say.
It should be done!
NRG should be moving through the upper bracket and yet we're in OT.
Alright. Oh my god.
So we have as little time as the players do to gather ourselves.
As we head into overtime.
NG has started the attack side.
Lovers Rock has the defence side off the game.
NG has so many issues in the first half.
Full control of A.
And PPL have even pressed up into B main.
Extronding control on either side of the map, NRG walking fully through mid, now fully through B Heaven.
Following the trailblazer, as Mata downstairs into the spawn.
So now these BBL B site players have to be concerned about an additional lane that NRG could be pressing them from.
And so they've had to reposition, but they do have that demane control so they can just flip the map on that side of things.
Big shot, Kraven. Knows also where Mata's gonna be coming from.
Marta thinks twice about fully committing to it. Relay ball, baseline, you name it,
distracts him from the reality of Scuba descending.
Lolita in the back corner of the side and Marta slides on up!
Rose will get the drop on Kiko though. A backstab pays off.
And then Archie still needs to find the spike part.
And Laroque is just still in B main with this judge.
Has to find a moment to close the distance.
Just a bit of the head was enough.
Freakin' to take Lepus Rock out of the game. It's all on Laroque.
With the judge, it gets an upgraded weapon.
understood. Scuba's gonna be able to set up the high-low crossfire.
Florak will long to do his hands up with the shorty.
And in RG say, well, perhaps second try and it's the charm.
Mada is just relentless in these rounds. The fact that he is able to get a kill
backside here, yeah the movement into the slide, the kill on Mada. And because
The Rock has the judge in main can't even really get traded. There's not a great crossfire set up there
NRG had neither extremity to work with so instead they take spawn control away from BBL
Crazy crazy approach to the round and it works out
Becoming the signature for NRG on this map, but now they're for the defense
Rock in the Odin
Match made in heaven, three plays with the Karinor and look how quickly BVL had to disperse.
Nardobo wants to get in there, perhaps a slight over extension.
Sees, catches, Kiko, TP across and the Snakebite, he's just spiky!
He just doesn't know where to go, felt like he was going to walk into a sightline.
This is recoverable though, there was a gap in the smoke but Luida moves forward, gets the spike to hand.
They've still got a deal with Brock on these off angles,
Spamming through the wall and now the Razerbind to slow BBL down.
BBL have enough time though. They don't need to overcommit right now.
They get those thorns out.
Lovers Rock daring!
Rock to swing that line.
He knows better.
Rock snaps him down. That's the order out of the game.
Kiko now has to be as dependable as he's been all game, if not more.
Pucked just below Rafter.
Lovers Rock sees him first.
Now Ethan and Scoob have the worders from different angles pick apart the tapestry the BBL are put together
But it's gonna show, Krippen tries to find a timing with it to trade
So it's up to the captain yet again to save to salvage
The Bale water out of a rapidly sinking ship
And we do it again folks, BBLs stay alive
They had no utility to work with there just pure crossfires fundamentals and they trade out well
This was so awkward in mid for Rose. Great first kill, but it gets straight out by the Mali.
BBL then just slowly worked their way into that B side, and I think Brock may be regretting taking that aggro line where he swings through the smoke with the Odin.
That's really where the advantage is found in the round for BBL.
Is that BBL? I've got an optical time-out here. Out of that round number 26.
Listen, there's no other way to say it. BBL right now are in the highest pressure situation of their careers.
From their coaching staff to all of the players. This is a brand new experience for them.
They've been undefeated so far this year to get here, but bear in mind this is the team coming up from Ascension.
in an OT map 3 debut against the reigning world champions. Absolutely insane.
We've said this before NRG, Marta, Stuber and Broke were here at champs in their first
global. They had to do the same thing, this kind of pressure, this kind of crowd. They
went all the way to be crowned world champions last year. So they know what it feels like
to be in BBL's shoes. They've been there themselves. Does that mean they have the answer?
Do they have the stuff to quench this flame for BBL that is starting to spark a wildfire?
Curious to see when we get out of this, if we're just going to get more Lovers Rock
AWPing, Glass Cannon as well. He did that on the first round. And we have seen this
map of Split be the most successful for Lovers Rock individually. And I do feel
like it just comes down to the fact that Energy are not playing double initiative here.
there's more opportunities for him to pick up these scope weapons and find success.
This is an NRG timeout called after the BBL one, no teams using this opportunity to take a breather
and I imagine why. A lot of the conversation for BBL is about this fast play up mid into
Heaven into spawn from Mada. He's mixed it in three times or so this game and it's almost
always been successful. Last time we did it he was in their spawn. That is something BBL cannot
afford to do even the pushing to be made to try and take some space of their own
response wasn't enough. It has felt like the longer this game has gone energy are
being more dynamic with modest pathing around the map I mean even on that round
on defense they had him sliding into that fight in mid they're getting a
little bit more adventurous with him to have an effort of closing out this
game or you know back late in regulations tie things up bring it to
this position. NRG start this on attack after the double time out call.
Lover's Rock does have that operator over on this ace site on his lonesome.
That teleport doesn't need to get him all the way out. It gets him to elbow by the way.
This is play up mid from Marder. Okay. Ends up being traded out.
Skip, they're going to play close with the shorty. Who was right for me?
Here's it. Oh, it's him. Fisted a tap hazard in her.
Ultimately, it falls into a screaming hip.
That salvage is just nothing left to gather up for NRG.
Lovers Rock makes sure of that it's Kiko on his lonesome, a long way from home, deep in enemy territory.
Lovers Rock in the meantime, just a free little two-piece over towards A main.
Control of the spike for BBL, all in the hands of Kiko.
The loan change in the roster for NRG this year, he has been so good, I think especially at this tournament.
He's been playing even better than he was during the kick-off run to get here has had some phenomenal maps
But what a task he has in front of him
Spotted out blinded up now by the paranoia as time is just slowly
Dwindling the consideration for energy is now they've got a win that defense side round themselves
Stay alive in the series
They said
Strong at least said that maybe over the team they'd least wanted to play they felt mechanically
They're always over-performed. Expectations.
This game, I feel, is no exception.
Kevin put Keiko out of his misery, and NRG are faced with a grim prospect of fighting for their lives.
In this next round.
We'll just see this get on the replay.
Fight and vent was just so chaotic.
Scuba coming through with a shorty, but with...
Ethan gets caught. Loved his rock just switching up the angle there.
And the try-beat from Brock, the little snapshot to remove him from that OZ round.
There's like a coaches for BBL still playing it, kind of cool, comic collected right now.
The tense moment.
Keeping their focus, I wonder if BBL just have a set piece coming into this round though to try to close out the game.
We hit back-to-back timeouts before these last couple of rounds.
Time to see the fruits of the labour from the coaches box.
Fast lane coming in towards D-Lock is in fast as the fight in mid as well!
Okay, everything promised to VBL!
And they will snatch it up happily!
Mark slides in but it's a little too late there, I'd suggest.
Part here over to the B side of the map.
Scoober has to play his way into mid but is marked up.
Browler reveals his presence and Rose just walks away.
He's done enough.
He knows that Scoober is going to be up against the Ogs.
The deck is stacked against NRG.
Such the brawk as the try and work is waiting to be rid of it. Good start!
Lovers rock out the game. Player of honey, still though for BBL and Brault needs to find more health!
There is just no way we're still going.
How the hell is that possible?
It feels like BBL. They're bare with so tax they've got no mind.
In the fact that Brock is encroaching from behind.
Catch them on the corner twice and quick succession.
Just slowly through the smoke.
Lloyd turns at the exact wrong moment.
I cannot believe we are still going.
Four on two has been thrown away.
I think that moment spoke entirely for itself.
Trying to back on Spore to fence side off for Lovers Rock.
Rose out in there just caught and dealt with straight away by Tigo.
Watch our monsters on the cars back.
Like Bambi baits the shot.
Of course, NIG already aware that Lovers Rock could have worked on that A side of the map.
made of his own.
And the VBL defense side ground, Kevin.
It's the shoulder peek and gets a lot of info.
There's a drift on Nass across some of the B side by NRG.
Smoke coming down to the B main now from VBL.
Energy want to get into this site.
Fast lane off.
Stolen the counter from LaRocque to keep him at bay.
At least temporarily.
More than temporarily.
Energy, they just do not want to fully commit to that site.
Apprehensive.
And maybe for the best, because that apprehension is honestly just driving VBL away from this site.
from this site. They've left Loire on his own.
Yeah, look at that. We open.
The time is not quite there, though, for NRG.
Loire is going to be extended.
A state of execution as he gets back to the spawn.
Loire's in the Heaven.
Well, NRG keeps slowly in the position.
And Loire, I think, now realizes what has happened
and has given up the site.
So, patiently, he'll wait for BVL to join him now.
Maybe you're playing to Heaven.
Either way, NRG have five players
ready for the retake attempt.
BBL gathering up now in Heaven. Not a lot of utility to work with Rock and try to create some space by getting in with this fast lane, but that's about it.
On top of everything, energy. Two guys going back through mid on this late wrap to close out the round with this spike planted for them.
Feels damn near impossible for BBL to try and win this out.
He's a low, got topped up in a pinch there by Ethan.
Here comes Rock, timing for keycair. Doesn't quite pay out the way it was supposed to, but it's Ethan blocking it down from the corner.
Enough the Kriven on his own will be sputtered and dispatched by Broke
and RG get that attack side win they were looking for. And that match point is theirs.
A really beautifully played post plan from NRG. Just having the plan that the spike planted for Heaven
immediate double wrap comes all the way back through. Made it effectively impossible for VBL to win that round.
with an AWP with such low U-Till, and speaking of,
Lovers Rock is going to keep the AWP,
Glass Cannon into this attack side.
BBL trying to stay in the game.
NRG can close it out here, send BBL to the lower bracket.
Collected up in mid.
Glass Cannon up on the attack side.
To say that Lovers Rock is attempting a gambit
would be an understatement.
27 and 19. It's been catch of a map for the Auri player.
He's not getting anything out of NRG for free.
Scooby looks to buy some time shortly with a snake bite here.
There's an encroachment in a rope room.
There could be some shenanigans there.
No, here's the activation.
Scooby's gonna give up that ground.
Kiko getting ready, trying to stall out the B main push here and it works.
Inside the smoke, Scooby needs to find a timing, and it might be now.
Yes, the emerges!
The Lovers rock is dealt with.
Still has to be a spike plub, a BBL have lost all of that Heavenside control.
In the meantime, Kevin, he's just way too far away, he can't help his teammates at all.
Loida tries to stop the flashes, he comes on in, Kiko boots on the ground,
and here's the scrape from the Odin. Loida, left, black and blue, and Kiko
gets the fate out of the game, full health, and a dream for Loida.
And it's enough to take down Kiko. Num is even now, Scuba knows. Loida's low.
There's a play towards his left, he may not be able to run as it does for the winner.
Get out there, it's just so unreal!
The more 9 billion realities, I failed to see which one included that outcome.
Four health, three kills, and yet another lifeline extended to BVL.
This is one of the most outrageous games I have ever seen.
They're breaking all the rules.
No regard for the way things are done.
I cannot believe it.
Any player that is called upon to clutch up in the moment, they're just going into
it.
Mada is in so quickly.
No need to force away on account of that. As is Lover's Rock, Cross-Map, Teleport.
No defense side up though for Lover's Rock this time.
Let's switch up for VBL.
Spike left back towards Rahman. His energy is getting exploratory early, looking for a fight, a wall punch.
Not a fight of suit of Lover's Rock better there, but we'll never know.
Mada brought very low, but Ethan made an opportunity to heal up Mada back to at least that 100 HP.
BBL have gone for a re-clear over towards A main. You just saw the prowler expire there.
Perhaps some false info.
As NRG, they do want to end on this A side Rose.
How's he gonna get out of this situation?
He won't be getting out, he just has to get kills.
One kill might be enough, it feels like one end done for Rose.
And under pressure, he wilts!
Spoke towards that Heaven side now, and you can see the Rock trying to play as a whip into the side.
He's going to get there, awkward now, and the judge is a well-apportioned weapon for just such a situation.
He gets away with that too.
Spotter there by Scuba, spray into Elbow, deals with the Neon.
And he is driven from up on high.
Can only find the one for the time being, and NRG, whip around on him.
Get another match point set up for the America squad.
Another chance for them to just close out this match.
Send BBL to the lower bracket, but the rookie team, the Ascension team coming up, under all the pressure in these OT situations have not given up.
Even when the rounds look lost, they're still in it somehow.
Fair enough Kiko, fair enough. I did the same two rounds ago, so I get it.
Sometimes you just stand up too quickly. I almost slipped the table at that.
like that. Whatever I'm justified in. The set up here is being put to the test folks.
The energy is absolutely electric and it looks like NRG are moved by it. They are lapping
it up despite the pressure, despite the seriousness of the situation. It's NRG with their fate
in their own hands. A match point here on Split. A map, you know, Herald is a tough one for both teams, right?
One with the both head slip ups in time, but it has resulted in the most compelling back and forth knockdown drag out brawl
we could have asked for for this to side a map.
They've given us just a moment to catch our breath before we get back into the game.
Looks like Lovers Rock doesn't want to continue with the operator didn't find success with it on that last attacking round
Just going to keep it simple stick to the rifle
Still top kills in this game
Living up to the height
And BBL stay in the game or energy close this out
Time to find out what's on the other side of the horizon folks
Straight up mid, DBL determines to use strength in numbers, but Marder's touched in male and
to follow them.
What a timing!
Krevindel is for now.
Marder's been revealed.
Back in the mid he goes.
Behind that relay ball.
Just overwhelmed by the numbers.
Has to get away, but keep going high!
That might be enough!
Llewina steps around the corner.
Again, salvages the situation.
It might take a little more than that.
Marder re-emerges here.
Overlords be main this time.
And NRG know they've got a bit of time.
But it might take a little more than that.
Marta reemerges here, Overdose be main this time.
And in fact, you know, they've got a bit of time.
Intentatively, dutifully, looking for a free opportunity.
BBL are going to group up and make the play-through.
Small MacGest, who's waiting for a stage stepped into the Broc de Gaulle.
And that's Llewida.
A double face here.
Surely means that this is the end of the road.
Surely the Rock can't get it done either.
And so the Brash and Beusville BBL join a long line of supplicants
forced to kiss the ring.
Enoji are in that form to be the first team
to go back to back winning champions and defending that title.
They look like they could do it.
This BBL squad had everybody worried when we saw Paul.
Were they not going to live up to the hype?
That didn't end up being the case.
They put on a hell of a show.
Absolutely flattening energy on a base.
And the split game is just an absolute banger.
That is one of the most insane maps of power
that I have seen since the game was released in 2020, bitch.
What the hell did we just watch, man?
And now we know for sure the BBL is not just a rumor.
It's not just an exaggerated idea.
It's not a sigh of, these guys out of ascension
This year are the real deal to take your world champions to their limits and almost
Almost get the better of them
And these are situations you take away from I think if you're BBL wide you've got much more tournament here to play in Santiago
It's tough to beat NRG though when they've also got Mata in genuine
I am going to win the MVP bracelet looking for he puts up nine first kills on split
So much impact he has just been outstanding.
Let's go over to Verlina Dow on this stage for our Verizon post match interview.
Energy! Energy! Energy!
I fell like a dandy, that's my fear.
And I want to talk to you even.
Yeah, sure, can we go ahead and come here?
So, that was an amazing match.
Rose, before the match, said that he was not afraid of your experience as a team.
Do you think in that moment that you guys turned around this match, the experience, what's the turning point, what's the important thing?
Yeah, I mean, when it gets that close, experience is everything, and trust in each other as well, and we've grinded it out.
Eventually, we would get two rounds.
Now for my second question also, we have seen a lot of Tejo now in your guys' compositions.
And also, going to that split specifically, you changed that Tejo, but now you're going
to the Vyze.
What do you think that Vyze gives you that that Tejo was not giving you?
Let's us fight a little more, since we have so much info on defense, and we work with
it on attack.
Now for my last question, you guys are going against
Paper Wrakes again. What can you not miss personally or as a team so you can win that match and continue that upper bracket?
We just have to stay on our toes versus them. They're kind of crazy. So as we, you know, just play what we usually do with confidence, that's the biggest thing.
And well, he's also commenting here to be able to win a paper rake and continue with that
to prepare for what is going to be that next game.
They have to play with that confidence, continue doing what they were doing in that stage,
and that they will be able to win.
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Chicos, quiero saber primero cuáles son sus mains.
No sé si lo estoy viendo o si es otro.
Gecko.
Gecko.
Yo también me traicioné.
OK, so I asked what their mains were.
I thought it was Chamber and Sky,
but she's a gecko main, and he is a jet main.
So that's amazing.
Y ahora quiero saber como última pregunta,
¿A qué Tim le va en el día de hoy?
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Because of America?
Yes.
So they are rooting for G2 today because Eric is in the house.
What are we going to do about it?
Muchas gracias, chicos.
Back to you guys.
the first match of today delivered a long overtime on split to send the world champions
further in the upper bracket.
We have one more opening match in the playoffs to get through our last team making their
debut here in Masters Santiago. All gamers going up against G2. I'm going to be back on the desk with
Josh and Vega and I want to hop right into this one and talk about this all-gamers team because
not only do they have all the gamers but they've also made history in being an actual fresh
representative of the CN region as their number one seed. Vega they were a bottom five team
from most of their life just known for having 10 players which looks kind of funny on VLR.
but now here they are representing their region. It did look funny. It did look funny, but I think that
there is a reason why this is the top seed that less people talk about. Yes, we are excited about
many things, but as you're saying, this was pretty much a surprise because for most of the time,
all gamers was not the team to look out for when you're in China and you're looking for
emergent talent. And speaking about emergent talent, that is exactly what they looked
into for this year. They keep a couple of pieces that were enough for them in the past
and they reinforced them with fresh blood. They had a lot. They just needed some more.
And the way that they have gone up against Nova, BLG, Dragon Gaming Racing, and XLG was insane back in China.
The firepower that they've put to have, having that import also in the face of Fanger,
I just think that they could be a surprise. And actually I was talking to G2 and they also
think that surprisingly. Yeah, funnily enough, PaperX was saying that they have lost
to these guys a couple of times in scrims too, or admittedly not here at Santiago.
I do think they've got shooters.
The problem is the CN teams, we know they've got shooters, like for example when we were
talking about XLG, we were talking about Ryder, we were talking about Happy Way.
But this team specifically, you've got to be looking at, again, the Double Jewelist
duo, which we've been talking about so often, where it's Fangir, it's Kira, Kira's flexing
around a little bit.
The firepower is there, if they can get it online, if they can shake off the
nerves and play up to up to what they've been showing domestically there
definitely are chances that they can put the pressure on G2. The peak is there in
terms of the individualism and all those players that were such a standout in
China, Bayer, was Fenger who if you're an international viewer you might
recognize him from his time back with Casey's Academy roster. Yeah exactly and
I think that this is one of the talents that we as EMEA might have
missed out on not not for the side of Casey obviously because they had it for
economy but he was he's only now old enough to play and all gamers gave him
the opportunity and thank god they did because this is one of he's probably the
biggest reason that they were able to make it here yeah for sure I mean Fang
here you'll you'll see mostly on the yoru and then he's gonna be picking up I
mean down almost all of the maps and Kira flexes around a little bit more
but I think these are the talents that AG need if they want to be able to
perform they need to be playing at a super high level because I think the
way that they won in China was a lot of individual moments, a lot of clutches.
What is their style compared to the rest of the world?
Are they in line with playing Metacompses or anything that you feel like is a twist with
HE?
So here's the thing, you're talking about a region that played some breach, played Reina,
played like if you look at all of their matches and then you compare them just with
the rest of the world, they were playing a little bit more like the rest of the
world.
Sure, more international standard.
More into the international standard and what I like about them, there are things
I don't like but there are things I do like about them and is the fact that with having been in such an explosive region and crazy as China can be in
Chaotic they are very willing to just wait for the other team to make any kind of first move and then being reactive towards that and I think that
That is one of the keys that made them get here. Yeah, they have qualified through beating some of those top squads it's an exciting moment for five
rookies to attend a tournament of this size. One of those rookies, Fangir, staying by outside with Jaq.
Jan here with Fangir of AllGamers. Now, Fangir, you guys are the only CN team left here in Santiago.
What have you learned from watching other CN teams play in Swiss stage and what sets you apart from
other CN teams? I mean in my opinion, I guess there was too many stressful, there was playing
so scared. They were losing a lot of like 5-3, some Ecos. About us, we have nothing to lose,
we're gonna try to play our game, yeah. So you're not scared? Of course, no guys,
we have nothing to lose. It's our first season like a team, yeah, it's good.
So no stress? I feel nothing right now. Well, okay, good luck, that's good.
Thank you so much, guys. See you.
G2 come out of the Swiss stage this event with some back and forth
expectations, a loss early on, but dominant games to recover.
HG had the opportunity to pick second.
They went for G2.
Josh, do you think there looked like there was weaknesses
from G2 out of that Swiss stage that led to that decision?
Definitely.
I think G2 not performing up to the level that people expected
if they had them as tournament favorites at all.
I mean, maybe they had rough performances in two out of three
of the games that we saw from them.
They also looked like they're not on the same level in terms
of, you know, a PaperXR and NRG in terms of their micro-player at a high tempo level.
But they're still an incredibly scary team that's made it to this kind of spot so, so
many times.
And even if they're not online, they kind of could activate at any point.
So I think it's a great team to try to pick for AG.
I think it's the best option that they had available.
That doesn't mean they're favorites.
Yeah.
I think that for now, the longest time, we keep waiting and expecting G2 to make a
D-Brand.
Actually win a trophy eventually.
I don't know if the feel is the same for this tournament, this time around, because of what
we're saying of the double duo that's being so strong, how they swap it here and there.
And I will not be the one going on, but saying something bad against Baby Bay, but I don't
think that he's on the same level as the rest.
Hasn't shown that quite yet.
Yeah.
For G2, this is a team who's always had those lofty expectations, who've been waiting
for the other shoe to drop really, with the trophy actually being won.
But now a resetting, maybe an opportunity here against the CN region that isn't struggling so much.
Trent, he was a beast in the Swiss stage and he's standing by with Jen to get a word ahead of playoffs.
Jen here with Trent of G2, now Trent.
Seems like you guys found the right momentum, found your groove in Santiago.
So when it comes to your title potential, where are you guys at?
I think we're getting there. Every game we get better.
So we're just taking it game by game and all gamers is in the way
No stress. No, no stress today. You feel nothing right now. Not really feeling pretty good right now actually
That's good. Good luck. Thank you
Both teams moving each other in terms of their attitude towards this match for the lucky things
Trent had a phenomenal Swiss stage. You're absolutely right
I mean that the performance from this guy was world-class
But I think he was required to have that kind of performance because you didn't see the two jewelers
who I think are supposed to be doing a bit more in this meta, really activating.
I think in theory there shouldn't even be that many kills for people like Trent or Valin to be mopping up.
And actually this year they have been like Valin during kickoff and now during Swiss stage Trent.
They've been the guys really stepping up a plan amazingly for G2
and I think I want to see more out of Jorg and out of Babygirls.
So the pitches that Valin and Trent are playing so well
because they're making up for the failures of the double duelist that should really be getting those kills?
I think they're getting exceptionally crucial fights, but you see a lot of those highlights from Trenna, him winning clutches towards the end of a round,
which is reminiscent of when he was amazing playing the Tejo, playing for that late-round value.
But I think there's a lot of spots where I would just like G2 to close it out quicker.
I think that especially in the game against T1, like how they turn things around on Haverian,
and I looked at Trenna and the performance that he had when we were speaking about the double duelists and the extra aggression that they have,
I think that he faced up perfectly with it.
There's so many times where his utility is just pivotal.
And in many of those occasions, he's the one that is least scared to take those dues.
Yeah, Trent was pivotal in getting his team here.
But we'll see where we're headed for this series with the map, Vita.
Our coach is standing by.
Hey, everybody, we're going to start map selection.
AG, since you're the number one seed, you get to choose team A or team B.
What's your option?
I choose team A.
Team A.
Team A, yeah.
All right, G2 is team B.
OK, AG, what's your first pick?
I don't know.
Haven.
Haven.
Haven, yeah.
Alright, G2, what's your band?
Band Pearl.
Band Pearl.
Pearl.
Okay.
A.G., what's your first pick?
I pick Split.
Split?
Yeah, Split.
Okay, G2, what's your side on Split?
Okay, G2, what's your map to pick?
Pick a miss.
Okay, AG, what's your side?
I miss.
May I choose the attacker?
Attack.
Okay, AG, what's your next band?
Breeze.
Okay, G2, what's your next band?
That's banned.
Um, banned Karoad.
Ban Karoad, last map, buying.
A.G., what's your side on buying?
Defend.
Defend.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay, so as a recap, map 1 is split with G2 on attack, map 2 is a Bisk with A.G.
on attack, map 3 is buying with A.G. on defense.
Good luck everybody.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Good luck.
A.G. have definitely got their best map to start with, split really high up for them,
probably their best, towards the bottom of G2's. Then you go over to a base which G2 historically
haven't wanted to play a lot of, but they pulled out a Harbour Comp, if you remember,
and Valin looked really clean with that. And then you end on Bind, which I'm interested
in the fact that they didn't go corroded. It looks like recently G2 are not feeling
great on that map. They've dodged it a couple of times now where you might
be expecting them to pick into it. Instead, they go to Bind where you have to look
towards baby base chamber at least that's what they were playing most recently and
they were doing amazing at it in America so I think even if a G managed to get a
big win in map one it should still look fairly decent for G2 towards the back end.
It might have been also a change of plans because as we can see Ogre's decided to
ban Haven they have been banning Breeze for the for the most of it and
probably they want to ban the Haven because they don't want to go up
against the Phoenix and whatnot especially after what happened with
T1. Yeah. And maybe that changed the plans a little bit for G2. For Abyss
also you're speaking about the harbor but on the other side are we
going to see the Vita, like how much is all gamers going to be changing the approach and
everything. We were speaking about the double duelist, but for Abyss it will be a completely
different conversation for the Chinese.
It is worth remembering that China finished pretty early. This is the number one seed
who has had quite a few weeks off to prep and maybe change things into this tournament,
while also having an opportunity to pick their opponent. So interested if there's
anything new for AG. But if it's consistent with how they're applying in China, you're
going to need to see Shrimp playing well, too.
He was really pivotal, especially there in that final that qualified them to this tournament.
Yeah, absolutely.
We're high-lending Trent, and I think that on the other side Shrimp deserves the same
amount of praise.
When we're speaking about the clutches, when we're speaking about these very, very
tense moments, he is a player that you can rely on.
When we're speaking also about the talent that they decided to give, he was one of
the pieces.
And I think that he proved all through and through during kickoff that that was
the right decision.
I completely agree.
You need people like him to be absolutely firing for AG honestly to have a chance. We've seen the other CN teams just go
Bomb out of the tournament. We're kind of used to see an occasionally turning up and having bad results
Yeah, but it does bear emphasizing again that these are astonishingly poor
Generally, there's one team that performs you look at like a wolves in Toronto
They always was the only that team in the past. They always get a map
They always get a match even like they don't tend to completely
from the tournament so this is tough for a G there in the upper bracket here
against a G2 that looks scary and they are massive massive underdogs they need
their X Factor players to come online it is lofty expectations though for a team
that is five rookies completely new to this level of play to show up and
they have the weight of the region on them we're not insuring them and it
was very good in the final do you feel that there's any similarities with
G2 where when they're duo's players struggle they're getting bailed out
by the rest of the team having those individual moments?
I wouldn't say it's necessarily the same,
because I do think that G2 has rounds where the duelists haven't even taken,
done anything important, and Valid just decides to push mid and get five kills.
You know, like, there is that initiative coming in from them,
from the beginning of the round.
I think that for the case of all gamers is the other way around,
where it's like, it's the last resort and they have a game plan to go around.
Yeah, G2, though, it is this swap up in what you'd expect from this team all of last year.
It was about chasing the trophy, making up for what happened in Bangkok, missing their opportunity.
Now, much lower expectations, it feels like.
Well, to be honest, I mean, if you're looking at it from G2's perspective,
they need to be coming in here and getting like 13-7, 13-7, 2-0,
in order for you to still feel like they're on a path to blast through that bracket.
They've got actually decent side of the bracket, I think,
But they are such heavy favourites in this.
When you look at what the other CN teams have been up to,
that, again, it's like perfection or nothing.
If it's a close scrappy game,
you're becoming a little bit worried about G2.
This is the game I need to see Baby Bay step up and perform at the international level.
It seems like the opportunity for him to play against the team they're favourite against,
who have looked wuffer even in their region,
to show that he's a player of this calibre.
And I think that especially with them being able to make it out of groups
after after having that defeat they have the perfect opportunity because if we were to have asked
for the teams to choose what seed won they wanted to go up against instead of the other way around
most of the teams would have gone for all gamers and I think all would have yeah exactly and I don't
think we can blame them either you know it took us also a bit a fair bit of time to show that
respect for the Chinese teams until ABG changed things around and I do not and I think that
this is still they are still in that situation so I think that for G2 not only they need to
win, they need to do it incredibly dominant to also get some kind of momentum good in
worlds. I will say though if we're gonna throw a little bit of cope out there for AG who are
the top seed in this. Okay. I like the interview that Chen did with Vangier where he was talking
about the fight that he had watched the other Chinese teams and seen what the problems were
and he identified the problems as they're scared, they're not fighting, they're not
playing like they do domestically, giving too much respect to their opponents and I think if
you can genuinely come into this match thinking we have nothing to lose nobody expects anything
all those all of the other CN teams have fallen to pieces like we just have to go
out there and prove to ourselves that we can hang I think that is the right
attitude to have in games like this this is what led wolves for example on
their absolute and to throw them a bone if you're gonna look at an advantage for
a Chinese top-seam who is so successful regionally no region plays on as
biggest stage as China no other region has as many fans there it is the
closest you've ever been.
They're just insane.
There is nothing but to say a bit.
They let me watch them in the morning and it's like...
Yeah, but their domestic matches feel like international matches in a lot of ways.
So these are players that are familiar with that level, but it is always a step up.
Yeah, it's not the pressure of the crowd that's going to do it to these CN teams.
AGE, it's the pressure of their opponents on the other side.
The quality of the players, the size of the moment, too, of being that number
one seed at the top of playoffs.
in our predictions it reiterates the weight of this game pretty much everyone going for G2 all
gamers last hope of China beta trying to show that this region still has something left to give
yeah exactly we saw in the predictions that only Jen had voted for them and you know I say that we
should protect Jen for that a big opportunity though for all gamers such strong individuals
in their region. They upset. The teams are always on top in China and they face G2 who
stumbled out of groups. Can they get their upset, get a series for China or will G2 start
With their playoff run hot, we start now.
All gamers, five rookie players entering the global stage for their first time.
A team that had never had success in their region, but this year made changes, brought out the best, and today they face Agilaya.
Agitu, one of the most familiar teams on these global stages, trying to recover themselves from a shaky Swiss stage and continue in the tournament.
It's not that AG looked forward domestically, they didn't. They are the number one seeds coming out of CN.
It's that inter-regional parity doesn't seem to be necessarily here so far.
But they have a chance to undo that if they can perform up to the levels that they'll hold themselves to across this series.
A look back at our HyperX map select now, Bea.
We're going to split for the first one.
What win conditions are you looking at for all gamers?
I mean for all gamers, it has to be the double duelist.
We were speaking about the Emperor and I think that he is going to be one of the difference.
If he says that he's feeling nothing, I want that same kind of coldness going into the server.
Because playing on the wayway against a team that is going to be incredibly prepped against that
is going to be a different kind of task.
But we also need to speak about the regional strength and the dominance that he was able to show in China.
It may not be the same here.
Yeah, I think it's really important to realise that both of these teams actually play quite similarly on this map.
It's not that the comps are the same, but they both play double dive due lists.
They don't necessarily have, you know, the Yoru who's always going to be picking up the operator.
That task falls usually to the waylay player, it creates huge amount of opportunity to jump on to people on your attack sites.
So, raise waylay for AG, they've got to try to apply as much pressure as they can to the people anchoring on the side of G2.
It is at the top of AG's map pool, it is the best map for them, they are 3 and 0 at it, they are the kings of this within CN, so it's a time, it's a great opportunity for them to open on good footing
and immediately dispel any doubts that might be lingering in the back of their heads.
For G2, the expectation is the opposite.
They're not just expected to win today, they're heavily favored.
They want to prove that they can still look like a championship-winning roster.
And the best way to do that, beat AG where their best show that Jha and Baby Bay
are ready to show up to this stage and play as well as the other Double Duelists.
I mean, actually, I would like the opposite.
I would like to still have that situation where Jo and BabyBee are not the ones making the difference.
Especially with us speaking about the strength of the Chinese team having that double duelist
and just being very well measured in that.
I want to see the reactions from the other players, from the supported players.
I want to see Leap, I want to see Valin, I want to see Trent proving to us why it's good
that the pieces that they have do not end on just having a strong double time.
More of a focus on those anchor players.
Yeah, I mean, when you see how G2 played against XLG,
that was the game where G2 were able to fire on all cylinders,
really get activated and have those players
that had previously been slumped in a little bit.
For example, Baby Bay was rougher in the PaperX game.
It was a great opportunity for them
to get the confidence back and roaring again.
I think this could be more of the same.
You're looking at the matches that they've been playing
and there is a clear rhythm to what's been going on here
in terms of the CN teams being a bit of a punching bag so far.
I want to see AG come out with some fire.
That's all I'm hoping for from this match,
is that they go out with a bang and a whimper if they go out at all.
Can they channel that energy play as well as they did in the region?
A moment away from our agent select, I don't think we would expect too many changes from AG.
Is that correct that you just want to see them doubling down on their game plan,
trying to find what they have found back in China?
I'm not sure about that actually, because I think there is room for AG
who've had so much time off to have made compositional adjustments.
If they stick with the same style, that's fine.
But I think if you're looking at the meta right now,
if you're going to play Double Dive on this map,
I do prefer the Neon and the way like G2 tends to run rather than the Reds.
Yeah, I was going to say that if they have that strength in one of the maps,
that's probably the one that they do not want to touch,
the one that they just feel like they can build upon.
Just make it their home ground, make it somewhere.
Because when you go into an international event,
you at least need a couple of maps that look like that.
for the side of G2 Esports seed, no surprise is he here though?
Yeah, pretty normal for them, looking back at that double dive composition again,
we're highlighting the anchors on G2, you have to look over at all gamers as well.
Domestically, those are the players that were getting put behind Kira and Fangira,
they led the way in that final, but they'll have to hold up and shut John Baby Bay down on this first half.
And I think I should be on Kira, because Kira is playing a bit of an unconventional pick in terms of the raise here,
Though historically he's always been amazing on Split, and he dropped over 30 kills last time he played this map.
It's the best map for all gamers, the last team from China.
Can they show up and dominate the way they did in their region?
Or will G2 shut them down?
The final match of our opening games in playoffs, our final team making their debut.
We heading to Split with your casters, Akilios, and Paperfin.
Thank you very much Mimi here we go our final first seeded team all gamers making
leader their debut on a global stage the first time that they have been
surrounded by fans on foreign soil yeah I mean a lot to prove here for them
of course with the other two Chinese teams already being eliminated a lot of
pressure a lot of hope is going to be placed onto their shoulders and gear set
at the interview they weren't feeling it too much on the other side of the
It's G2 who has had a pretty good road to get here.
A little rocky, obviously, going up against paperwrecks,
but had a pretty clean win against T1
and really looking to show that they're
in championship form here again at a global stage.
That's what he's talking about.
This map here, this split.
Where the bread has been butted to.
We've seen those massive performances
from these players, but already Kira dead off the rip.
Wallbang shots out from Trent and BabyBang.
Go ahead and collect that first blood.
Yeah, really nice read here.
Anticipating some of this pressure as well.
Talk about, just goes for a check to see
if that was a confirmed clear, but not going to happen.
So instead, it's to the other side of the map.
Look at a presence shown there by AG.
He's going to send G2 trying to find that weak side.
And as long as AG doesn't get too crazy here,
He will be able to just find AU1 all on his own.
That quick star set up over at B Heaven.
Trying to continue to trow up that entrance on that side of the map.
Meanwhile, the trow boys are going down to mid,
and I think they're going to be spotted.
And now they get the news here.
AU1 just tucking back at screens.
He's going to stay put and stay quiet until his team makes to arrive.
But it looks like Jogamon won't want to push this issue and push this position.
Leave at the same time.
Lingering here at the box.
No, not that fight.
And Gere's going to be able to get the better of him,
This take a good amount of damage, now the push point coming in, and AU1 is going to be washed out of screens.
Their advantage maintained by G2 as they look for the pistol.
Alrighty, think you're so weak here too.
You could quickly become a 4v2.
Just going to try to scale forward.
How much you still to work with?
Much at all, the swing in a big, big clean with a shot.
Binds another, there's the 3k, and there's the closer from Jogamo. G2.
Concise in their strike. Scoop up the opening round here on split.
And this is exactly what you wanted to see for G2. Baby bait, getting involved,
getting some big kills. Sharp with the sheriff. Two headshots there at the end.
They just nullify any hope that AJ had in that retake.
And a good kill for Jogamore there too. So the dualists getting involved, getting activated.
Something again that we wanted to see here for this g2 team to you know, it's it's a complete team effort like we saw against XLG again
For now
You're not gonna be looking to really up the pace here don't want to get caught off guard
We've seen plenty of teams win out their ecos after dropping the pistol at this tournament already
She too does not really want to join those ranks
forward checks around the vent, nobody home here.
It's very disconnected positions towards this A side of the map.
So G2 pushing in, basically no opposition.
Once again, it's gonna be a U1, nearest one by.
He's just trying to hide his presence as long as he can.
Chagamo hoping that somebody would reveal themselves for
the lucky to do some damage.
It's going to tuck in close at the door.
Everybody else in a little bit further back,
looking for that lurk, looking for that flank.
Some due diligence.
She's going to be settled on that fast lane.
Sees when he gets out and reply.
Couple of those classics firing off.
Stopping the players one patiently.
HG similarly.
Good just they stuck in this position.
You go down to the spike, see if there's
going to be any pursuit off the back of this one.
G2 players would love to get some ult charge.
And I really want to clear this one to be a hell of a lot easier.
Doggobo still gonna be able to find one.
Leaf scaling forward, finds himself a second.
That was, okay.
Cleans up another kill, but will fall.
So his specter gonna be lost,
but the rest of G2 players get out to safety.
And that will just be H8 going down to the spike.
So two, zero start for G2.
Yeah, okay.
So not bad at all.
Maybe committing a little bit too much there as Leaf,
but that's okay.
You don't mind dropping two
In your anti-eco, you're going to grab a stinger instead, let's see what Jog wants to go for.
A bucking again? Why not?
Yeah, why not? You can find one with it, that's great.
So we're going to have that rifle in Baby Bay's hands.
Just spread the map a little bit here.
A lot of defaulting.
AG really likes to keep two players in mid.
Usually the waylay and the viper,
And kind of keep the Omen over at beat pretty standard stuff in terms of how they like to set up their defensive protocols on split.
Reveal there. Gonna catch anything.
Some spam, counter spam coming through from Fang Gear, but Trent being slow, cautious.
Waiting out this trailblazer.
Fogamo gonna dodge it.
He's gonna go all. Yeah.
Try to maybe take some space, but he's gonna be tapping the orb.
Okay, we'll just be a shift around Kira, getting himself back in towards the site proper.
G2, more they're happy to just continue to stay quiet.
Now about to make some noise, right, as we do see Shrimp start to
slink his way back across towards B.
And she'll set out, just a tiny bit of damage found there on the trend.
Does have the regen shield in behind that one.
It's the... Grassling now going to be set up, relay bolt going through, looking for the kill, but he wants to let us stay alive,
Baby Bay pushes forward, finds an elimination, Vengir's going to be taken down at the same time.
Suddenly player advantage to Scythe. Not quite opened up though, still need to fight their way through.
It's going to be Shrimp tucked away.
Laps through Elbow, towards back Scythe.
Vaunt going to be cleared, the swing of the corner, Baby Bay able to spot him out.
Turning around, watching for that flank, he's dragging to the grab well, overwhelm the taken out.
As there's the finisher, Baby Bay, another multi-kill round for him. G2, get the promise conversion.
Yeah, really clean stuff here from G2.
This attacker's side is looking phenomenal.
The C's connection, oh that's unlucky.
Jog deserved that one. Baby Bay there for the clean up and the follow up.
Another triple kill. He goes up to 6-0 to start the map.
You know one interesting thing I was talking to Josh RT before the match here today
And he said you know he really feels like they can do a lot of damage on this attacker side that AG plays pretty standard stuff
And that falls right into their wheelhouse as a team with the way they're playing now
He's a little bit more worried about the attacker side for AG
With a dash in a spot there for baby Bay spots out to
It'll be a fast one rethink attempts here from AG to try to overwhelm but baby Bay continues to be sharp another kill found
It's been your falls
Since often no crab to be had but baby just catches another one through the smoke
This is walking on water right now
It's Kira
Lingering look at caught off guard here from behind this baby in here with a nice shot
See what the punch all the most of something to do was down so I got being planted a shrimp out from heaven
See if I'm ballin
Suddenly a trippy might just be coming through
Clear the boom bot lead has his work cut out for him sake whether to zone back the player at alley swing sin
See able to find Kira
Trent...
It's safe to go ahead and get that spike planted on the floor.
AU1 in the try to somehow isolate and conquer, but with a singer of that range, this is so unfavorable.
Leaf will find the finisher and they get close to pulling off the thrifty, but still not yet going to be on the board.
Hopefully this gives a little bit of confidence over to AG that they can hit their shots.
You know, they just gotta find their groove, find their momentum.
Again, first time on the stage for these players on the big stage globally.
So good stuff there, Shrimp, one of those guys you're looking at to do a lot of damage for all gamers.
They're going to take a quick time out here, want to talk about how they're going to approach this.
Kind of G2 sort of just finding extremities, finding the ability to get onto sites pretty easily.
You know one thing I really liked about AG when I was watching some of their vods was their ability to absorb pressure,
pressure, like let those big blank hits come through,
and then kind of set up some formations around it,
and fight some really good timings to come in,
get some kills, put some pressure,
keep your opponent pinned down,
where they don't feel comfortable to get that plant.
Haven't really seen that here.
They try to do it in this round, and it almost worked.
But it's, again, you're going up
against a really confident, strong G2 team.
Well, here, just a couple seconds left,
this corn base win condition.
Shrimp, one of the players,
Desk was highlighting, wanted to see that level up for him.
And how consistent he had been back in BCT Charno.
How clutch he had been to close out rounds.
He's really been given that opportunity yet.
G2 just been smothering these players at every twist
and turn thus far, boring the last round.
See, they'll off the back of that timeout call
if they can start getting those gears turning
in the right direction.
Just going to be another one racked up for G2.
Starting to come online as well, that convergent path there, the pit available for Leaf.
I think for a very tricky post-plan.
It's like some mid-consideration, quick hit, even.
There it is.
And you want...
...to see the glower in the head, you know where he's at, and Joggle just holds out M1 to find the kill.
Flipper now eliminated.
That's it, G2.
Just more than happy to kind of pump the plates on the back of that one, and what a timing to be found, Kira!
Oh, no, trying to go for the paint shells.
The worst possible moment.
Oh boy.
It was a massive capitalization.
This is one of those rounds where we want to see the activation of Fengir.
Want to see that clutch from Shrem.
Trade this back. I mean, how we have how many 2v4s the previous series on split.
Let's get a little bit of an action here for HE.
And as Jogamot sprinting in, we'll get cut down.
Your Kiwi on the one over there gets raided out.
Spam coming through, refract.
Force to be taken by Fingier now down to 24,
but the heels are going to be there.
Now into the 2v4, but it looks like they're just going to be backing away,
looking to go for the save.
Yeah, and this is a nice set play for G2 off the rip, right?
Really simple stuff.
You get a little bit of space in the mid.
You use that prowler just to check ahead
ahead to make sure that it's clear enough that you can use the Neon to accelerate up into
B Heaven and then use the convergent pass.
There's just not much that AU1 is going to be able to do there in the, you know, the
unfortunate position that Kira found himself in.
He was trying to go for the grenade and that's basically riled over there.
It's clean stuff from G2.
They're just kind of having their way with AG here so far and tucked in one in Sewers,
in a lobby.
Seems like it should be able to hold onto the weapons.
We've still a ways away.
Not going to be able to close that gap in time.
So we'll retain those rifles.
That's not the only silver lining.
You're going to be able to pull out of that previous round.
It's a great little catch here.
Push forward, pump the brakes.
Yeah.
Here trying to go for a little delay set up there in mid,
but it's exact wrong timing.
Ends up getting caught.
See the frustration.
Starting to spill out here.
For sure this is the side of the map where usually you're doing some damages
AG as well so this has got to be concerning in the back of your minds
that you're not able to kind of hold the line like you would like so they're
going to change up a little bit of positioning here thank you're going
to be the one to watch a ramp it's already tucked in pretty far back
Trent just drawing attention in towards mid you can keep that extra
player locked in towards that space they have to use a boombox to check
early because of how aggressive G2 were in the previous round just to make sure
that they're not pushing forward. Here we go.
Fashions, Satur are going to be lobbed over, but Tengir able to strike first.
Jogamo going to be taken down. Solid opening kill found for HG.
Might just be the best chance for them so far.
Trying to get this round converted into a win.
Look at what G2 is doing. They're trying to push B Heaven to sell a fake.
Maybe they can cut through ropes if they can get in there.
Got to get through Fingier though.
More noise going to be made.
Maybe if he will just slot himself alongside the wall here, the entry to Heaven.
Oh, Valens being so tricky.
He put up two stars over on the other side.
Looks like they're not quite falling for this.
The rotation is coming in.
A1 starting to join in, reinforce this A site where previously it was the weaker of the two.
30 seconds left.
They're going to reposition now. Outward screen, shrimp still sat here.
Psyche, Kikus not going to connect.
Fangir's able to find another, Trent taking down it, having Ballon now.
Gonna be caught, Shrimp starting to come online.
Seize the gun barrel, they know exactly where Baby Bay's at.
He's not gonna be able to find his way out of this one.
A flawless round for AG to a long last get themselves on the board.
Yeah, that's massive. You're gonna get a little bit of extra economy in there as well off of that.
You're gonna have Fangir's ult couple away from Shrimp and A1's ult, GRQ as well.
This is what I'm talking about, but they wanna give you that little bit of space.
just catch you a little bit off guard in your timings
when you're trying to go for your execute.
It was a perfect set up and a perfect execution.
Fenger in particular, very clean, some of that shooting.
So, okay, you got one on the board finally.
See if they can run a few more together here.
Give G2 a little bit of trouble.
Conversion paths online, the rest of the Alts
just a hair away, didn't make it
and tagged up on that entry.
Dives forward, but we'll find a relatively empty site.
trying to get the spike into play.
Could for it to be a little bit difficult.
What Leaf is going to look to try to turn that around.
It goes up.
Jogglebo working here and Raph is able to find two.
Fanger dead runs out of bolts.
Can't find the killer on the shrimp.
It does find damage.
Seekers are available.
Might have to be invested just to try to suss out where this
Viper has disappeared to, but...
He's still not in the most stable position.
Well, decent 4 AG.
They should try to play this one out.
Can they find Gleef?
Another smoke, Gleef looming, baby bait.
Coming across towards backmaps, bottom to one, Ballonet behind Shrimp.
Finds himself a second as GRQ gets taken down.
Now it's just 81, backpedaling out towards safety, trying to stay alive.
They will chase, they will look for blood.
Trent gonna be the one trying to take him down and he shall.
Right fall online off that kill, G2 now up 6 to 1.
Yeah, and this it's just a little counter move that G2 makes here and putting Jogamo behind the box at the top of ramps that really hurts AG.
It's a good read by G2 in terms of understanding that AG is going to be making a quick rotation.
Let's have a player in place that a spot that might catch them off guard and it absolutely does.
If Jog doesn't run out of bullets, he might get free.
Took a little while to get that spray to go through that box.
He's going to have his all. Trent has the nightfall.
A lot of ults. Kira almost to that showstopper, but man, he's had a real struggle here.
1-5 on the scoreboard right now for the Raze, and Javi just off the wall.
He's back to the behind.
Yeah, just quickly pushing forward into that smoke, and Shrimp is there to greet him.
Hello, baby bait, however.
Get on top of Fanger as the refrag drags him back.
Let's find the puncher, one for one. The ghouls exchange on either side.
He's off, thank you.
In the meantime, yep, there. I just walk in the way forward onto the B site,
Leap with that spike in hand while Jr. Q has managed to hear this,
release this over to the team, all going to be sent up towards
Heaven and Stairs.
You're getting a catch. You're a one away. If you find a kill,
we'll give him the showstopper, which could be absolutely monstrous
and trying to turn the tides of this round.
He shells out towards Garage. Not going to find the contact
on anybody. Chicks over towards Drop. Scale forward now,
coming through. It's a drop down. Graph while dragging in
towards 2, but AU1 able to find a kill, leap going to be struck down by the judgement balance,
still here at backside poking and prodding, finding a kill, looking for the follow up against the second.
Tripp now dead, the shorty drawn out, this is Kira there for a brief moment, but it's going to be BVB now.
On high, just dancing around this pillar, keeping them busy, keeping them off their fuse.
Another 3k for BabyBank, it's G2, still not allowing for AG to find that second round win.
Yeah, this is just phenomenal stuff from Baby Bay.
Able to find that kill off of his own saturate,
right at the window of A-Heaven and Valin.
Doing some great stuff there at back site,
using that smoke to his advantage,
even though he can't find the follow-up with the shorty
just on a timing.
Rest of the team there to finish the job.
And Baby Bay, really patient on that counter-lurk.
Starting to do that point where if you're HE,
got to be considering potentially that second time out to call it come through.
Always a tough pill to swallow.
See if they can make something of this one here.
A judge and a singer in the five, but that showstopper now online.
The convergent pass still in the hands of Fangir has not committed that quite just yet.
Yeah. Anytime you have that outlaw in the hands of Leaf and he could be damn deadly with it.
Right. And he might be squaring off against that alt, that big alt that Kira has.
Here's tucked in with a judge though so might not be giving up much there trying to play the position where he shouldn't get value out of it at the very least.
And here Dodgers a Sacher, he gets babydade.
Killed to be found, babydade has been monstrous so far for G-Till.
Gage elimination, a bit of revenge, now spotted on the leaf as well. Just dash across.
Doesn't want to overstay his welcome.
Good to see that for straight being shown.
This one just forced away, and U1 reroutes him over towards alley, three players situated
here, so Relaybolt not gonna be connecting on to Shogamote, GRQ able to find Valin, Trent
out, out onto the Raptors, somehow!
Another find that kill, evens gonna be good for one, but he's tagged down to 24.
Last one standing, and won't be able to find a damn thing.
HG, a relatively clean win, commit in with that convergent pass and get themselves
the second round win.
Yeah, and that early first kill for Fanggear, such a big deal for slowing down this G2 team.
Convergent pass, landing nicely in a trend, just trying to see if he can get lucky with the one tap while he's saturated up there, but...
Nice!
Not gonna happen.
GRQ, nice work holding that site, nice job anchoring.
It's gonna give AG some hope.
See if they can get this to 7-5.
It'd be a nice bounce back for them going over to their attacker side.
What a turn around it would be.
Alt over the top, Jogamo the jump peak.
Spotting him out, Wilkes back away.
Pinchos is going to be locked in.
I'm there to receive it immediately.
It's a bit of a disconnect here from G2.
Got a skill there, way forward through the vents.
Come around off this flank, but now Leaf going to be eliminated.
And there goes Jogamo.
Showstopper finds its target.
And you're now looking for the transfer
and takes down both at vents.
Nice and access, Val and a world away, I just feel they have a free E.D. here, we'll be
able to clean up the enemy element, but it has to be an ace clutch and he's still quite
far from recovering this bike.
It's a bit of a journey, I'd love to maybe just hold onto this gun to be honest, the
money's actually getting a little bit weird for G2 so I think at this point you're
They're just going to try to wait this clock out,
see how aggressive AG wants to get off of this.
But it's just a great hold at A ramp.
See how important it is for them to control the extremities
now, kind of finding out that maybe those counter-floods
that they want to go for or the denial of executes
isn't really going their way.
So a change up of ideology is going to be nice.
And a nice set up, a little flash and go.
Just gonna have to wait this out, see if there's anything else that happens, but overall I really like G2's game plan for the most part too.
They're doing a good job with a lot of kind of misdirections, some neat map stuff, but this round we get some value out of that ult and you absolutely need to as A.G. with that raise in play.
That showstopper has to be a difference maker, see if Kira can keep it up. He's usually really good on the attacker side on this map.
That's where I've been really impressed with him on his entries
This is solid now without that previous damage jog about all certainly would have been able to survive
Who knows what happens with that bucky and hand off the back of that one, but we will have the timeout call from G2
Gonna be looking to say both they want as dominant of a half as you can possibly get
So that sites on that nine to three
Yeah, for sure, and I think here you're
maybe in this point-based wing condition timeout talking about you know how you
want to approach some of those extremity controls how you want to approach the
B main or a main fight I think that's probably the biggest deal right now or
if you want to try to throw some more trickery in there some more fakes you
think that's been what's working the most so maybe go back into that well
overall you know pretty good start for G2 but you know Josh Josh was
telling me you know they don't underrate this AG team a lot of people been
saying it this AG team is tough man they're good in scrims and that you know
doesn't always translate to the big stages but you know you just had Alex
from paper X talking about it the other day they lose on the regular to AG in
scrims so you definitely don't want to underestimate your opponent like the
timing here on this timeout don't let them get high don't let them get
streaky keep them in check so you can come out clean on this map win a
very well could just be a timeout call just to try to ice the players
on the other side of the stage as well.
Yeah.
Say OK.
They built up two in a row.
They're starting to claw this one back.
There's a potential for them to make this a five to seven
and a half.
And they're out of the alt cycles now.
So for G2, it's your turn to be in that alt cycle.
Try to really capitalize on that.
Forward smoke set up here.
Do you reckon they do the tiny little gap to play around?
No.
Bloom across the entirety of that garage exit.
Well, they blinked over towards mid from BabyBade.
There's the reveal on the Kira.
Just quickly make his exit plows packing back
across towards safety.
Fishing for responses.
These are fast rotates from AG, man.
Look at the match.
G2, but they're going to pump the brakes once again.
Not to suspect that they've drawn this attention.
And Leaf will be able to confirm it, but with his life,
a one-for-one go fibers down.
But now you've got them in this 2-2 split.
The back mentality up G2 could try to come out on top
and Valin around the corner goes in the astro form.
They see the glow and they get the kill.
Kira, able to collect that 1-0 player advantage
in the hands of AG.
3-4 for the post shot while swinging the corner.
But Tang is just reading it like a book.
Instant with that headshot that Dash across
to try to scout for information.
It's back across the safety now.
trailblazer to lead the way forward. One of the top of stairs Trent gonna be tucked
here has to clear that out swings into his demise. Wow Stengier finds himself
another. Maybe these presence confirmed in heaven by the guiding light. He will
fall shrimp able to collect it in that timeout call from G2 might have just
bit them in the rear as AG get up to four. They're just really sharp right
now. They're reading the math really really nicely. That two man push out
to be main a difference maker they're playing together here they're always going
in at least pairs if they could help it then you got fangir who's really hitting
some good shots winning some big battles out on the extremity there okay
starting to feel like if this gets to five man I think I'm starting to believe
in AG let's catch up the baby Bay who is having such a solid start of this one
has been struggling to try to find any real impact in these last couple rounds.
Now we go into that last round of the half, conversion path's going to be available for him.
Jump across a main for Joggero so far.
Cosper divide going to be called in,
shrimp opening up with that Oden, but Wilk's pushing in front of this wall.
Backs away, swaps the weaponry.
That will vandal in hand as the trailblazer goes forward to scouting.
They'll find it. No one's really gotten themselves forward onto the site quite just yet.
Flash through, valid able to find the one, but here they're for the trade.
QRQ, now the piece of the pie is it's just a bloodbath.
It's one that G2, family do match to come out on top of.
Single player advantage, but he won, playing here.
Still alive, the double dash across over into elbow
has to reflect back to have that,
and Joggero has the back stab.
Gets a 3K and gets G2, an 8 and 4 half.
Yeah, it's a really nice read here by G2,
expecting the counter flood.
Deal with it, every angle density,
really nice stuff right on the edge
and that costs with the vibe.
most really solid start here for cheap to decent little recovery from a g
let's see if we can find the pistol tread jump start the engine the second half
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We go back into this opening map between A.G. and G.2, G.2 a very hot streak.
Open the door a little bit, allowed for those four rounds to come through for A.G.
See if they come to regret that, if they can have another hot start, try to just
shut A.G. completely out of their map pick.
Yeah, this pistol really, really important here.
A.G.
Oh man, that last round, they could have got it to go, but
G2 just so ready for it. Look at this map.
Expecting mid pressure. This is something A.G. loves to do here.
Odd split is try to create space in the mid and use that as a pivot point
to go A or B.
It's well read by G2 in terms of their tendency,
but right now A.G. showing something they don't usually want to go over towards B.
They're getting stopped by the Gravel and they'll be to the snake bite!
Oh, they're straggling them together. The shot's five out and Lee was able to find the first.
And Joggermo just pushing down into mid, catching AG1 over at ramen.
Does he have a good amount of damage? Joggermo down to 11.
Chance for a freebie kill here, but thank you. Pressure on him.
Dispensified the dink. Tren.
Oh, taking low, but there's the jump off the back of the Stature.
AGR keeping it. We get for another, but now that's the spike in hand.
Dropped over towards Alley.
I got the spike.
Shrimp the aforementioned clutch king for this team.
He needs to throw it again, but yeah,
he decided to walk across to A.
This could catch G2 a bit off guard
and give him some time to try to isolate these kills.
It looks like that's exactly what he's going to do.
G2's probably going to figure it out
in about three, two, one.
Jogged Zerdy on his way.
He's trying to sprint his way across.
The other two are just going to be playing together.
What up unnecessarily here?
Planting out to come in, Jogamo.
An opportunity for that first contact.
But again, with 11 HP, stiff breeze would take him down.
Trying to really lead.
28.
It's very doable for Shrimp.
No further utile available on either side.
Just come down to game sense as well.
Just ability to isolate and conquer.
But Jogamo, even with the health disadvantage,
Spines the head shot, Shrimp eliminated, and that's another pistol going the way of G2.
Yeah, this is just a great protocol setup for G2. They don't get any pressure in mid.
No real heavy pressure, so they just kind of keep pressing, and then they have to grab low on the snake bite setup, and it's perfect.
Can't escape it.
Kira is just doomed huge there that dog gets that kill too and gives shrimp any
chance he has been monstrous in clutches over in China keeping him out of the
equation keeping him from getting hot that's huge kind of judge for jog a
couple stingers bulldog for Trent baby Bay with the outlaw go for that scoped
weapon well for now he's ready for that way later maybe just come landing up
onto the rafter. And there he goes! And there goes Fakir. It's just well read.
Overall, jumped out of the smoke. Kira will be able to collect the kill, but
Trent is there for the covering fire. Meanwhile, Wiffy on the first shot, baby
bacon, taking that refract back over to safety. Meanwhile, 81, getting the jump on
the flank. This man should collect another one, so some damage gonna be
dealt here. As well as the spike plant that shrimped down with a judge in
hand at elbow to try to protect this and pull off the thrifty win.
That's over trying to scale forward close at decency cannot the judge going to be recovered
though in GRQ putting it to use for one but cannot dissuade Trent from finding the 4k.
If he was to be passed over you would expect to get that nightfall fast track G2 now up
to 10 round wins.
Still really nice pressure that they're able to create I kind of like this in terms
of follow-up game plan, even though you lose one to Jog there, he just anti-s you. Trent's
going to get four, fast-tracking that nightfall, but you know you're able to confuse, you're
able to come up on the back of Ramp when G2 is not expecting it, get a freebie there.
So a couple nice little things, at least able to do some pretty decent damage. Jog's
going to be on a bucky. Lulee Valon's going to buy it. Lulee's going for the stinger,
of course.
This has to be the round. Yeah, you cannot afford to have another bonus conversion. G2 pull that off
Stick a fork here in split
You need to find this way to find it cleanly
Still two players lingering outside of a the other three
Pressure applied around garage look to try to scale away in the mid to get the spot on the leaf
The rotation is trying to reinforce from that male side.
They're going to try to see if they can get a reaction.
So lobbed in the one way, trail boys are going to be cleared out.
Man, I'm worried for them.
This has got to feel weird getting vents for free like that.
There was that haunt though.
That suspicion is very well earned.
Jogamore just staying tucked into the corner, safe as ever.
Long leaf playing close to right side, the same aim exit into the site.
But you have B main control, so you can lean Trent a little bit over towards A.
Jog won't be too far behind, coming from male.
Flash out over towards the corner, there's a spot out.
Thank your Trent's back, he's gonna find that kill, swings in, looks for a little bit more,
but it's a shot from Baby Vapors, gonna be damaged, traded back.
Jogamo however now for the backstab able to find the kill once the hold on to the bucky
would seem could go for the left and swap and will do so eventually while plants going to
be coming through 4v4 at the moment AG can they hold their ground?
Feels like he comes down to fang gear in his timings.
Push are being applied on that rampside at least not at the moment Jogamo able to
just get pushed up all the way around towards the backside and keep the timing on the
Looks for a little bit more cannot find that kill and now it's just baby bang the outlaw on hand
Can he finds some more damage? Can he find a clutch right now for the moment looking unlikely?
HG this time around denying the bonus conversion from g2
Push down the shots coming in looking for it, but yeah, maybe they will end up falling big round from grq
with 3k for the Elmen, 8g.
Halfway to tying it up.
Yeah, he's had some really nice stuff here today.
It's not one of the players that's
going to get talked about a lot on this AG squad,
but he's showing up big when they need it most.
Fangir, of course, still having some impact,
but Crossfire they have set up on the backside,
ends up working out.
I got a bit worried there when
Shrynt just got caught staring into Narnia.
But somehow, some way, they're
able to get it to go through.
and Fangier didn't really even need to get involved.
I believe he was looking for the hot.
So I was looking to try to clear that,
but it's just good timings from G2.
All the same.
Can't convert the round off of that one.
So still alive and well.
R-A-G. You expect her in hand here for Valon.
I'm not able to quite get up to a pool rifle.
Well, double tool is push up from G2.
I'm looking to try to maybe catch AU1.
He's got his ult too.
Oh, there's the spot.
And he wants snappy with a headshot.
It's the punishing.
Yep, chugged.
Got the ult.
The ultimate.
He's going to have to use it maybe in the next round.
Scout destroyed.
They're being really slow.
Really methodical.
R-A-G. Normally, they're kind of just like,
you give us face, we're going to take it.
But I think they're just very afraid.
They don't really understand yet how G2 wants to play.
And they need to start kind of piecing it together
round by round.
They're starting to now claim some of that territory.
Gonna try to set up a crunch over towards B.
To the back side, Valon looking to try to clear it now.
Will just intercept as soon as he plants his feet.
What timing to be found as well as the weapon now upgraded.
Post up on top of the box, dropping down, shrimp.
Trying to scale forward up and over.
He goes, looks for that transfer, cannot make it to the blinded, but Trent.
Still here still fighting. There's the backstab on the AU1.
It's a condescent for a three for the lower there for AG, but G2, they suss it out.
That catch from Valon is everything.
Yeah, this is one of those big brain plays from Valon.
He's waiting out that TP and he gets it right as GRQ commits to it.
And then that buys so much time because they take forever to try to clear him out of
there.
They're really being slow about working in towards that site.
I'm not seeing that typical kind of Kira dives in,
the rest of the team's trying to back them up.
Sort of style that they played.
And Fingier talked about this in his pre-match interview
that he said, we need to be ourselves.
And I'm not seeing that on this attacker side.
I'm seeing them being slow, careful, cautious.
We're normally, they don't mind taking some contact.
They're going to keep pushing space, see what you give them,
and try to make plays off the back of that.
They do get some mid-space here.
They're able to create that crunch on the beat like they want.
It just takes too long to develop.
This is one of the big things that the coach
is going to be reminding them about.
Have that confidence.
Don't play with the fear that, as Fankir pointed out,
with being put on display by the other Chinese teams
here at this event, they get too much hesitancy.
Trying to ramp things up.
The final timeout call, G2 one away from map point.
We have to remember this is EG's map pick.
This has been their strongest map.
Get it ready to go over to Abyss.
With the hands of G2, you never really
know what you're going to get other than a hell
of a lot of entertainment.
I'm looking forward to some more Harvard stuff,
because I love the tech that G2 had there at Abyss.
We'll get to that later.
Judge for Jog.
I call for Trent now.
So you do have Shrimps Ultimate.
So you have some ability with the cabbages
to get a little bit of info.
Here we go.
I'm just going to push through towards Mid, I think.
But, it goes fangir, some dive potential.
Fracked at the ready, early lobbed on that saturate, just trying to get a catch, but nobody home.
Joggle now, gonna maybe consider rotating down into the bend itself.
Hold that from below with that judge in hand.
We'll be dead the right side because of pushing, but trailblazers are gonna be able to get the spot out here on the two, so Leafs position now gonna be down.
Right of the rope, trying to get the catch here.
Thank you.
He goes bench down to him.
So Jogamore gonna be taken down.
The Seeker's now gonna be lobbed.
He'll be able to find one.
The trade coming in is AU1.
Strikes him down.
Gets him back into a player advantage position.
And Trent, similarly, on off guard.
He's not ready for the push.
Thank you.
He outdoes him.
Oh, it's just Valin and Baby Bay.
It seems they can make any kind of go of this.
They're very disconnected from one another.
Yeah, and I mean Valin still only has a specter.
Gonna be able to grab an upgrade though along the way
Get the one in mid with they even go for this
I don't think they will going to have to work it out for him without anybody swinging in peeking in the baby bay
Try to pull this off
Those that seem unlikely
No, it doesn't even want to make the noise the swap the weapon we'll just hold on to that spec here for now
Ping out, maybe we'll just tuck away, see if he can find anybody on the exit.
Well, yes he will.
Cleans up one, but the time has been given over, so G2 just half the back away, save these two rifles.
AG, the timeout call, working to treat this time around.
Get themselves up to six once again, a five round deficit.
Yeah, and even though G2 tries to throw kind of an extra body at the problem in towards that nail control,
A.G. is still able to take it, and that's really, really nice.
A little bit of late U-Till coming through, you know, able to take some space,
and then Jog tries to play off that nightfall to see if he can catch him off guard,
but he's fangir holding the line there, giving a lot of space over
so that judge couldn't really do any damage.
Very, very nice discipline, and a little bit pace here.
Not super fast or anything, but a little bit pace here there,
confident to keep taking space, keep scaling forward. That's what I want to see a little bit more of
in the long run for AG. This looks like just a fake over towards B to buy a little bit of attention
early and then a quick pivot over in towards A. Of course you got to watch for jog again,
they've already seen him peek out once down through A main. This time around not going to be there
and they're just going to go for the big push. Usually it's going to be Kira, he's just going
gonna dive onto the site proper he's we got guardian here see if they want to
change up that that idea because of that
over towards the elbow now blast backing up over the top looking for the kill here
on a baby baby has a drop away it's overwhelmed gets around to jog with the
same time maintaining control over main gonna be both lines but just gets the
spot out so I'm back to the bucket with anything here now previously go
forward to see what I'm fine till the tool is up g2 eliminated somehow he is
on touch but shrimp is tagged down to seven. This would be a monstrous 2v3.
He's going to try to run this one back and deny the map point away from G2.
That's a great start, Fengir. Instantaneous with the kill. Conversion pass now at the
ready going to be considered. Both players going to be stuck on the corner and Valon
strikes in, finds it. This Fengir looks to the ace clutch. Seven bullets remaining
In the mag, Valon on the corner, tagged up Fanger still somehow completely untouched, but Trent will play him in.
Plant his feet, find the headshot, and G2 will find their way up to map point.
Just all the U-Tilt slammed in, great reactions from G2 as AG tries to make their big execute.
Just gumming up the works, some stuns landing onto Kira.
And even though Fingir gets tucked into the corner, and my god, does he give it a good effort?
Look at Trent here. Woohoo!
He was the one trying to bait me against the kill, and oh yeah, Fingir, not happy.
He's doing so much.
Absolutely should have felt like he could have got that one over the line.
Now, AG needs six rounds in a row.
Pit now blooming, locking off mid, Jogamo rotating through the vent.
Just looking to reinforce this position.
Still do have Trunk and Baby Bay to hold down this A site.
You would think this would be a tough round here.
You're not going to be able to get that mid control easily.
You're on a weaker buy as AG.
There's a cosmic divide for retakes and Baby Bay's got the first kill.
That's the top fragger now gone.
A huge chunk of energy power taken away from you.
Here at the same time, let the Simps try to get the grab on this orb, but John was right there on the other side of that smoke.
He's not saving up for him, so they're not getting that showstopper online quite just yet.
Dr. Pinkham Baby Bay plays in, Trenton Havin calls out.
C's GRQ, the kill to come through.
Assasurate the C's, the grab well, A1 gonna be just grabbed locked in position as the pit now blooming.
Very quickly chasing forward into this one.
The player's there on high, Trent, to be taken down,
a baby being outfinding, Trent in exchange.
And Jogger around, takes a second from the Realize,
it would seem like, but here it gets found.
It's going to be 13-6, G2, up on the floor with A.G.
And A.G.'s got to pick a split.
Yeah, just in cruise control for most of this.
A few rounds here and there, and A.G. showed some lights,
some really nice stuff overall for paying here,
but not enough.
Now, Ney, a big reset, Ney to shake off that first map loss, come in to this next one of
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I'm here with G2's Josh Artee now. Josh, just wanted to quickly ask you, when AJ picked
you, what was your initial reaction and did anything deviate from your expectations today?
My initial reaction, to be honest, was that I was pretty happy that they chose us.
I mean, it's to be real, I feel like of all the opponents, I think there's a lot of threats
on the other side.
But they're still very formidable, that's the thing.
So while I was scouting, the more I was more impressed about how strong they were in terms
of their double dives and their skill and just like we can't get caught out by fang
gear.
I think he's the impressive player.
So, in terms of expectations, I think our game plan worked really well in siphoning and not
giving them that many openings, and yeah, that's a result from F1.
Thank you for your honesty, and not the PR answer, thank you.
A strong start for G2 to open these playoffs, and it did feel a little PR.
A little bit of PR, just a tiny bit, a tiny bit.
He did work for Middable.
But also, he was given respect to F1, who was actually given a little bit of a problem.
from AG. He got some moments. But let's be real. I mean this is a tier gap that we're
witnessing at the moment. Yes. And that is on AG's admittedly like what should be their
best map. So at the moment it is looking rough right here for China. Josh I'm going to give
you a moment to crash out first. Some positives. Your favorite player, Baye. Baby Baye. Baby
Baye, sorry. Different year, different year, different year. The one American player
you like. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good map. Yes. And I was not saying the nicest thing
about him beforehand. But I think that in general, Baby Bay and the rest of the team, just took
advantage of how many unforced mistakes were on the other side. I think that in many of these
circumstances, yes, they were able to find a lot of value even with nothing, but I don't think
that they needed to break their heads. I like the fact that Josh wanted to put it like that,
and I think that maybe we've been treated to many Chinese teams or any of the teams like
having crazy runs and asked to just go in with them and cheer him for them, but I feel
like this one was a different beast. It's good to see that Baby Bay is showing his form.
Do not get me wrong, but I just cannot help but wonder if it would have been any other
opponent if he would have been in this form. I like that double dash he did into the Heavens
smoke there on the AXX because Fangier the way that he normally plays if you watch
the HE mods, he floods into site, he puts that refract and he goes back up into it.
So punishing him a little bit on the site and then ready to catch the refract. I
They've done the homework. They know what to expect. They know the threats and they actually did a really good job of neutralizing them.
So, yeah, credit to G2 for a very dominant map, to be honest.
Yeah, the game planning was solid. I liked the early rounds where they're like embedding jaw ramp, baiting out that refleur and then destroying them there.
It was solid from G2, but we do have to talk about AG.
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Go! Okay, so here you see the Viper taking contact here, not Snakeviting early enough,
and then also not tucking behind the box. They need a bit more respect in that situation.
They're too slow to make these decisions.
Kira also, I think this one is inexperienced.
Playing on the stage, maybe not accustomed to the new feel of how the audio works,
just insane to be pulling your name out there.
This map, re-clear, they also didn't have a clue what was going on.
They didn't realize that a player could be on the right side for some reason.
They boom-bought left but they don't actually hard clear behind the box.
I mean, these are basic errors and Kira should have been the guy to look at for AG on this map.
Instead, it wasn't him, it was Fangier, but in theory, Kira, last time I watched him play split,
he's dropping 31 kills, he's dominating the game. You know, he's super comfortable.
I think for him, it looked more like a choking issue. For AG overall, yeah, there's a bit of a tear gap, I think here.
I think that we always said in Spain is never interrupt your opponent when he's
while he's making a mistake and so many of those most of those were completely
unforced because you know you can create those scenarios we've seen like team
flashes this and that it has to do and it has it has to be the nerves the fact
that you're going up against an opponent that you knew already was going
to be very strong that maybe it's even exceeding those expectations once
you're on stage we'll talk more about those issues in a moment for now I
I want to hear about diagnosis from AG's coach, ED101, going into map 2.
Here with ED101 of all gamers that are coach, when you picked 3-2, what were you trying to leverage?
And what's been different from what you maybe expected from ED101 today?
I don't think it's easy to beat anyone.
Because we used to participate in such a competition for the first time.
We experienced a lot of difficulties.
This kind of comparison is that we can't make mistakes with them.
Once there is a relatively low level of food, they will catch up.
Then expand their advantage.
Actually, we also did a lot of team fights.
Including how they attack, how to fight.
Our defense might be a little too small.
How to fight.
Then we lost some of our own things.
And I feel like the first map is very clear.
I didn't notice the gunfire at all.
And some of the details of the return home weren't very good.
We lost the championship, then we went back to the snow,
and the game was over.
I gotta say, all the teams who qualified for the playoffs
for the elimination, they're a super experienced team.
But for us, I think we're kind of lack of the experience,
especially on the global stage.
So, I mean, in the four teams, maybe three teams,
Why we picked G2 is, I think their play is super structured, so we cannot make that kind of mistakes when we face them.
If we made a really small mistake, they're just gonna punish us really hard.
And today we watched a lot of the laws of G2, and we tried to analyze them a lot.
And I think the strategy, the tailor to G2 is pretty solid.
But I mean, on the defense side, on the defender side, we just focus on them too much.
instead of focus on yourself.
So we just forgot our game playing,
our game style in that case
and we just kind of like nervous also.
So that's why we lost map one.
Hopefully we can play good on map two.
Yeah, map two, you be yourself.
An insightful answer there
from their coach. He's crediting not only
inexperience but mistakes getting
punished from G2. Are you aligned
with him and what went wrong?
I think that also what he said about
the, I am, I think the way
said about the first half about the defense. I think that towards the end of it
we saw a little bit of more of what I expected what I was saying of them being
reactive of the other team making the first step and then just them making a
decision and that's how they managed to get at least three three rounds on the
board. Okay agent select map two of abyss and it's a mirror that's a change for all
gamers to pick up this harbor comp. It's a big change they used to play the
veto here I think the veto doesn't make too much sense to be honest with you
into what you two are running but it would have been fine it would have been
interesting. Instead you get the Harbour Mirror. I actually think Harbour on this map looks really
strong. Valin was playing it beautifully. I want to see if the theory is there for all gamers and
I also want to see if GRQ can put up some big performances on Waelay. He struggled a little
bit last time. They played it, but he was actually, he had some all right rounds on Split.
He was getting pressured a couple of times and coming up big in anchor positions.
I really hope that now all gamers have the chance to start on the attack and dictate
the tempo. Yes, G2 did a very good job in finding and catching them off guard in some of the mistakes
that Saisha was showing. And I think that now that they're fighting on the attack, they have the
chance to set their own pace, especially with the harbors, especially with the new things that
they're going to implement. Well, a new composition changing into G2 style. Is that what it takes
for all gamers to turn it around? Or is it tier gap real and a quick 204 G2? We find out into
to a BIS with a Kylius and paper.
Thank you very much.
Here we go, AG needing to rebound as we go into a BIS.
But as the distance was highlighting,
there is this big cop change.
Is we're going to have a Harbor v. Harbor
for the first time.
Yeah, that is pretty interesting
that AG did want to switch things up.
But I agree with the desk.
I think it makes a little sense.
I don't think you're getting a ton of value out
of the veto against the composition that G2 runs.
You're not going to find necessarily huge value
of an interceptor and things like that and frankly AG struggled a bit on this
map so maybe a change up is exactly what the doctor ordered but I'm gonna need
some step up here behind Fangir. Fangir he's been really good on this map for
them on the Yoru he can really do damage get that off into his hand get
those snipers into his hand and he can really start taking over rounds. Players
on the back side like AU1 like Kira they really need to be stepping up
in that second line and that back line to keep them in this map so far the
pistols have been elusive see that continues as the barriers do drop
the rip just gonna be drone forward scouting out a main the only one really
at home here on this site he's been spotted but smoke now blooming spike
getting ready to be rotated in think you're still a world away doesn't have
a quick gate crash but it looks like it's gonna be some pressure ramp up
that orb to the fast track that Harbor Alt. Meanwhile, triple presence from G2 in mid.
They're trying to check to see if there's been any fast rotations. They're getting a little
bit of a response, so it's going to pause up, set Kira in the mid here, try to watch
for those rotations, watch for any lurks as best as he can.
He's setting up the star. Maybe luck going to be blooming. These rotations start to
They come through, double walk down.
Jogamore watching for this and collecting the elimination.
It's going to be Kira taking out.
Player advantage, the spike is planted.
See if HE can try to hold the line.
Then here rotating up top, gets the dig down on Jogamore,
has the finisher, but Trent quickly trades it back.
Maintains the player advantage, he's got explosions.
That's Trent with a second and baby baby with two of his own.
Another pistol in the hands of G2, another opening round.
Yeah, and again, it's just really good methodical stuff from G2.
They're finding the player that's looking for the lurk.
They deal with that.
They can set up for their execute pretty safely
behind Valon Tytide.
Even though they lose Jog, which
still gets the relay bolt out in time.
Again, the follow-up right there from Trent
to immediately deal with Fengir.
And then it's just Baby Bay from up on high,
doing a really nice job.
Valon came in today.
I can see he was pumped up, walked down the stage,
he was clapping, he was hyping up the crowd.
He's doing it here again, wants to rally Chile behind him.
And they're doing a great job of it just in their own gameplay.
It's a couple of stingers, Marshall for Baby Bay.
Plenty of firepower, band and a ghost on the opposite side.
He was opening shock dart, not going to find any perches.
Maybe to grab the orb.
He won.
Fengir did grab a ghost, he do have a bandit for AU1, so little bit extra oomph here on the Z-Go.
Recon out, just gonna be back, fettled from baby bank, bit of some serious with that marshall at the same time, ping revealed onto one.
Little snapback, reek of that code, now the push forward, the plant getting ready to come through.
Dead blue is dropping it back, Scythe talking out into the open there for a brief moment, spots out multiple players.
And once again, seems to be the sacrificial lamb, but not before he's able to find another kill.
will fall, baby, eventually overwhelmed, but we've just traded places, two remaining players
and now just the one completely shifted away from where the spike had been planted, Kena
with this Marshal, quick scope for the headshot but cannot stop the defuse, maybe look for
a little more damage, this trend goes up and over the top, looking for that kill, eventually
we'll be able to find it.
The two players surviving some decent damage found here for AG, it is a 2-0 stuck
for G2 once again.
Yeah, just their decision to be a little bit more aggressive.
Try to catch D2 a bit off guard.
Works pretty well.
Throw some of that Astor utility at the front of the door.
They just set up some crossfires of their own.
That's a nice shot from Kira.
Give him that for sure.
But at the end of the day, he's going to be G2.
Bulldog, couple stingers.
Not much able to be carried over into this bonus.
So good opportunity here for AG to get on the board again.
He's finally right in the rope, in the up Jogamot, immediately swarming down mid.
Two players alongside him, a lot of control, but seemingly anticipated as Kira plays back over towards the spawn.
Same setup on the recon, getting ready to fly, Trent alone at back sight for now.
Kira looking to try to hold this angle.
Jogamot gonna be caught off guard, does strike, but now the other two players are well aware of his position.
He's gonna be rerouted.
They're trying to find this around on him.
And there's the stun coming through.
Valon able to collect it. A1.
Similarly, they're going to be taken down.
Some of the player advantage is there for G2,
as they look to convert another bonus at the start of the map.
It's GRQ.
He can go for the backstab through Heaven.
And initially for now, good damage dealt on the baby bait.
They're here to confirm that kill,
but Valon would never come again.
confusing it all the while. It's a MasterCard thrifty. G2 converting it, looking to take
everything away. Shrimp will be able to survive, but it's another 3-0 start for G2.
Yeah, and this attacker side, it's a play, Gagey, at least in recent history.
This is a great utilization of the Storm surge there by Valin. Oh my god, baby,
baby bay that's what I like to see a shot with the sheriff I mean a G wants to
get so aggressive in towards security and going great like some of the ideas like
the way they're using the cove to block off ropes when they go in onto the site
in that eco round but here's another change up G2 happen claims really a
question outside of a man but it's gonna be talking about take it down so solid
Kill found a baby god as well.
Looking for thrifty of their own AG.
Two player advantage already established.
And now, it's bound upon.
Valon has fallen.
Satray into the back.
As you want from up on high,
he's able to take down Trent.
Now it's just lead for the Mount Lawn Head.
Kill anybody there's just connect with, but...
I'm not sure if he's really going to be giving the opportunity at all.
This little setup, this trap.
The temp from G2 just does not really work out in their favor whatsoever
No
Trying to show a different look and it just gets dissected
I mean some of those short-range weaponrys to deal with the neon
Two sappy shots
We will take that every day now has the weapon upgrade
Try to find a little bit more damage the exits are gonna be there
Mid well being watched as well Kira
here and ready. Make sure that he doesn't carry that weaponry over. So AG this time, a lot earlier. Get themselves on the board.
Yeah, it's just winning a fight here. Kind of playing a little anti-neon.
Then Fingir hit that double layer there with those dual lists. That's exactly what you're going to need more of.
Nice shots from Leith, gets the head shot there even at the end.
That's probably a nice confidence boost here.
You're also going to have a couple of ults now for AG.
You're going to have the Harbor ult, you're going to have the Astral.
One charge each from that Hunter's spear as well as the Dimensional Dread.
Lot to try to work with here.
They just go for some kind of set, execute off that reckoning.
Jumping over the top, looking for that stunned back sight.
Dash across, baby mate.
Sitting towards connector.
He's been himself saving the spike.
He's broad to bear, and they may even get tagged down.
30 HP remaining on him.
It's way to the corner.
JrQ going to be losing his life,
but Leaf is going to be trained it out.
Fang gear.
For a little bit more.
Wall falling.
The flank noted.
Baby mate doesn't manage to find the one,
but AU1 trades it right back.
Advantage maintained.
He's constantly divided as well.
Just looks to lock them out of this sight.
A.G. now just how desperately they need these round wins early.
Son of a boy to the recon.
Gonna be cleared.
The swing and a smoke threat to his demise and now Ballon gonna be spotted as well.
Backpedal's the opposite side of the wall but it will be fading here shortly.
Three bulls in hand.
A1 unable to find it.
Ballon now they're trying to play this one out.
I'm just very still available but there's the grab to start it.
See I'm not gonna be giving that soba all down.
It would seem Shrimp will go ahead and confirm that he is not on the diffuse
He hears cure around the back of the leaf will still get caught may G
Two rounds in a row one away from tying it up looking up very alive and well so far here on a miss
Yeah, they're dealing really quickly with some of these tricky plays that G2 is trying to bring in
They use the high tide there to try to set up leaf to push through and he's only gonna get one before fangir reacts
So that's really nice play from him cure watching for that lurk
This is really well thought out stuff, really well game planned for all gamers.
You're starting to get a grip onto their nerves, onto this match, although you're
gonna have a ton of ultimates, or G2 in this eco, they could throw at you,
in particular jogs overdrive, something you'd love to avoid if possible.
and Fingir sitting on his ult, Shrimp, that Hunter's Fury as well.
Double dash forward, QRQ's gonna be quick refract back, doesn't see anything.
Mid-door gonna be broken, but it's gonna be a silent drift away here from AG.
We'll avoid this trap setup once again from G2 as they had the quad stack on A.
Yeah, I like this a lot.
We'll even using the drift over here
Get a little bit extra info just to make sure that B's gonna be a little bit safer
You just have that Bucky of Leafs to worry about
Down, or down to get your quick though
Leave just staying tucked away the Nebula
Looms there as well this way of the corner and it's just a bit off
Clip it into the shoulder not fighting center mass here able to stay alive this bike down planted
Oh, look at that Bucky.
It's a real win condition in trying to pull off a threat.
He's smoked down, going to be falling.
GR2 up over the top of the Raptors,
able to find a quick little transfer.
Cleans up a second elimination.
That's the overdrive loss as well.
Joggle ahead, pulled the trigger on that one.
Certainly is going to be regretting it.
Good Bayer on the back.
Sheriff in hand, nice little clean one tap.
I don't think he's going to be able to find anything more.
The warning shot's ringing out.
You want position here in mid
Briefing board is just gonna be a frank explain and pray cleans them up and a G tie it up at three to three, okay?
Starting to do some nice stuff on the map
really being
Cautious about where the players are making sure they've got good information before they really commit to anything
Using that drift the investor couple ultimates in this round against an eco just to make sure it goes and anybody who watches trying to know is that
that he goes to be problematic for teams in that region.
So you want to make sure that you're not giving any extra
opportunities over towards G2.
Baby Bay is going to have that off though.
We know what he can do with it.
He's put up some highlight real performances with it
over in America's.
We're going to take some mid control here.
They like to get Fingier up in towards Vence a lot of times
on some of these attack rounds,
try to see if they can create some extra pressure
that way.
For now, just looking for that response.
and BabyBae's getting really aggressive over here.
From the way forward, here's the drone.
We'll just clear that one.
Sending out the warning shot,
letting him know if the operator is here,
but it looks like AG.
I think the spike might just look
to try to play into it.
Well, I think they feel like, okay,
well, that ops probably on its own.
We have a harbor, we have some good Util
that can maybe clear it.
Meanwhile, Kira finding Jogamote once again.
Holding on that mid position not allowing for the deep push that fast flight to come through convergent paths drawn out ready sent now
From baby looking for the catch. We'll get on to a couple players who swiftly do make their exits
As them held back here for the moment
spot time
We swing in
Recon for backside at the ready
Brent not going to be in a position to clear this one. It would seem as there's the concuss quick little fashion wave
It's still going to be tagged up at Baby Day, going to be taken down, Shrimp, Johnny on the spot with the Hunter's Fury.
Lovin' the Shockdarts, interrupting and displacing that plant, but now, can't be committed to.
Smoke fades, spot on the 1, Trent looking for the kills, able to find Fengir.
He's got a lot more.
Quick drop down to Trent, Summoner wins that out, AU1.
Should have been dead to the right, so now the Cosmic Divide is going to be called in as well.
The post plate utility being dumped, Trent have leverage, still holding his ground, finds
a third, cannot get the fourth, the jump forward, the shorty, denied!
As Talon and Leif find one apiece.
What a play from Trent.
From the top ropes, Fangier there, left out to dry, nobody's watching that as he's
trying to back away.
And then Trent drops down.
They used the reckoning even there to clear some space.
And now all four AU1 just can't adjust in time.
Trent with 3,000 covering, that's a big one for G2, because it felt like AG was going to be the ones getting up to four and taking the lead.
That's heavy investments as well. Pretty much from both sides when it comes down to the ultimates, but Trent's still one charge away from now having that hunter's fury on line again, so...
G2, got it.
Both economies swung back towards their favor.
Bang here now.
Silent walk down, bringing out a couple shots, a drone for the check.
We'll just make a quick exit to Valon. I'm going to find the punish.
Yeah, Valon trying to gain a little bit of space, but again,
AG's done a mostly really nice job of covering these lurks,
covering their flanks, making sure that any space that G2 is trying to take
is dealt with, especially in the early to mid parts of the round.
Or grab into orb grab for 81.
Yeah. Want to get that reckoning again. He's won away.
He just let it loose a couple rounds ago. Could get it again. He's got spike in hand too.
So they might, if they can get to it, they're going to have it for post plant.
Look at Kira. He's so ready for this. Oh no. No, no, no.
Right in the answer for the perfectly worst. Time is valid.
I'm going to find the second kill. No.
Just get it eventually, but this time on the shrimp.
Push forward. Bang here now. Going to be falling. Jogging along with that bulldog.
Here's the pushing forward.
Up with the shorty as well.
Spamming out these shots trying to scare them away.
As the smoke dissipates, he once again catches a glimpse.
And then you one catch the headshot.
GRQ.
Can he just tuck away? Can he try to hold onto the weapon?
It's a 1v4.
With 50 seconds to go, we're going to win this, but can he retain this gun?
This way of the quarter, he's been spotted.
So they're going to corral him.
Flanks back for one, big bank.
Getting ready to come around the flank.
Shooks you, reading it well, binds another.
But Lee eventually will be able to flush him out
with the Wobeng shots.
There's two players surviving for Cheap 2,
but now they stretch the lead.
Oh, it's a backbreaker.
Oh, Kira.
This is, he's been so good on this map so far.
He's 8 and 6, but that one right there
is a brutal death to take.
And that just gives so much extra room for G2 maneuver,
so much confidence to just press their advantage.
Oh, no.
That's going to get the time out from A.G.
Oh, man.
Brutal one to let G2 back into this.
Stretch that lead by two rounds again.
And into the corner, it's win condition time out for A.G.
We mentioned it, it's the packer side,
kind of where they've been having their struggles,
so the more that they can get here,
the more set up they're going to be,
the potential to try to close this one out,
but start letting G2 run away with the map,
and saw exactly what happened on Split earlier.
Yeah, I mean, it is a different comp as well,
so there is kind of that extra oomph behind it
with the harbor it feels like, you know,
even though there's a harbor on the other side too,
you're still able to kind of cut up the map
a little bit more than you could, you know,
with just running an Astra and a Vito in there.
So I think you're going to see this attacker side
be just naturally a little bit stronger behind that.
But still, there's been a couple rounds here
that are just heartbreaking for AG that they should have won.
And they just give up.
This sticks on a couple deep uses, some rounds
where they actually do some nice stuff
and have some good macro plans in terms of getting
to a plant, getting into some post plants,
but they haven't been able to convert as often
as I'm sure they'd like.
Look at G2.
They're playing very deep, anti-mid positioning here,
but it really combs from both teams.
You can just figure out what's going on.
This high tide is so fast again.
Well, it's above both sides, but there's that reckoning
getting called in.
But look at them there.
They get caught by it.
It doesn't go very deep either.
It doesn't.
Almost now, getting ready to fall.
And you won, however, you'll find a one, but leave looking for that transfer.
Cannot find it, ends up getting taken down.
Stun gonna be connected.
No, and Joggle will find that fade away shot right before the tradeout comes in.
Going to 2v2, the spike now.
Drop right in front of Baby Bay.
Wislow on HP.
Drawing the try to scalp.
Actually cleared, Fendi just get tagged by this, and Baby Bay wants to scale off of that.
This is about falling.
Doesn't have to catch him, but now a 1v1.
The Cosmodified gonna be committed here from Kira.
Looking for the clutch.
Recon,
bidding and Trent.
A massive risk there.
Might just find a timing.
We're pushing out around the back, jumps up on top of the box,
still needs a drop down, 25 seconds remaining as the wall will fall.
Trent disconnects back over towards that connector.
That's understeering.
Here's position.
He could basically be anywhere unless he said the 100th fairy is online.
taps it trying to see if he can get that utile out but Trent not fighting plays it
slow plays it wisely and gets G2 the round win. Really like the decision-making
here from G2 knowing that reckoning was available they just give up that space
where it would have hit they just play back and chug that is that is good if
he doesn't get that who knows. Right I also like baby based decision to push
off of that information that he gets from the drone knowing he's weak knowing
he needs to get one. He's got a fist pump from Valin. That was a big one from Trent
played that so well knew that that Hunter's Fury was gonna be in the back
of his opponent's mind. Played a little bit further forward. Shockdark connects.
GRQ. It's tagged up a bit. Here we go Kira into the vents and Trent's just
leaving. Still has the safety of the door there so just going back to kind
that similar style just giving up the space but trend now get pounced on very
quickly the singer through the door from Kira he's out with the drone there it
is we're gonna try to run him down but reset the aim and Trent just so stampy
with the readjustment finds a headshot gets that punish this way of the
quarter baby they has the outlaw has been geared at all four still five
Player strong, now just a four. Leap will get picked apart.
Shorty fighting value, 8-1 gonna be stunned up and sends out a son of his own,
but Valon's still able to hound him down. Swings the corner.
Whip and scooped up, GRQ needing to do it all, and he cannot.
Three left alive, now G2, large on, seven to three.
A lead of the half, once again secured.
And this kind of retake style that G2's been implementing,
It's been working really well, but again, it's just kind of in some of these individual
moments where the caliber of player of G2 is just a little bit better, a little bit steadier
because of their experience on stage with this Trent again.
He's able to win out of fight.
He absolutely should not.
Here I hear just, uh, sometimes the Stinger would be a little wild.
That's the back ground.
That's a great commitment for it.
Yeah.
We already saw the frustration at the dropping the 1v1 of the previous round
I expected that is just
multiply that frustration significantly
For sure and now you're into some pretty good old cycles for G2 still have the convergent past
grq so maybe
try to get him posted up in the mid but
a bit of back and forth
I can't be considering this mid push and look how deep GRQ is.
He's pinched though, but he's got backup.
And they watch him for it though.
He's going to be winning it.
Rolani just sent him away.
Leho for a bit of a hero play there,
but it ends up going awry for He.
Fengir similarly tagged down to 26 before he was able to get crash out.
And that's your ult man, in a buy round, in a rifle round.
Just save it for the final of this half.
For now though, here up.
I don't know on this side of the map.
I'll be looking for what's in here, the very late lurk or just the call over.
Yes, it will be the rotation call.
Meanwhile, Jogamo here to try to intercept.
Tripp gonna be caught. Relay bolt.
Tazzie gonna be Harvard locked away.
Looking by secting the members of A.J.
Jogamo already dropping down, getting himself slotted in.
Overdrive popped.
He is on the hunt, on the prowl, and he is down, Kira!
Just doesn't know what hit him, and now HG there is no other recourse. They have to save these weapons.
No money to work with, a 2v5, and just no time remaining, G2.
Once again, advancing up to 8, and once again, gonna be looking for that 9 and 3 dominant to the opening half.
Reloaded them on split but kept them by this time around.
It's a pretty damn good for them.
Killed the leaf, shrugged that off.
Last round in the half.
It's just a good hard read, frankly, from J2 on this round.
They have four players close to the top mid.
They just give up that space willingly because they have a trap play set up
and GRQ fuels the pressure, tries to go for a big play,
Finds two players that G2 staring him down. Oh, here we go. Watch this convergent pass right at AG
Catch all of them that with the saturate
Eventually lobbed in if he goes for the double-dash of the Hunter series well available for Trent
Waiting for the setup the recon gonna go bouncing forward
There's the convergent pass looking for the crack the trap here now the hunters here
Yeah, but it's gonna be John Amal tearing a part three
They can straight it up baby, they caught up in the ult and has to refract out the safety.
In the blink of an eye, everyone alongside G.R.Q. has evaporated, snapped out of existence.
What a setup from G2, they get their 9-3 half.
Another great read from Valid and company.
them a little bit felt a little bit shaky for the first half since then they
have it has been all g2 yeah looking clean they are looking merciless and
a g are looking out of sorts and out of ideas they need to get it together to
go to the halftime break we'll see if they can rally back in a second
He's here to invade you a little bit, and I want to ask you, how have you been in Chile?
How have people received you? I think everything has been very clear, but something you have to tell them?
Thank you very much everyone, you are the best master of the history of Valorant, a second home.
And I'm very happy to have been able to meet you and thank you for always treating me like a family, thank you guys.
Well done!
A round of applause for Alex!
Ok, wait...
Is there something you'd like to say to the audience?
Well, I just want to say to all the people in Chile
that this experience I think we're not going to forget in life
you've been an incredible audience and the heat that you've given us here
we'll never forget it. Thank you very much Chile!
Well done! Something quick, Blancado, what do you want to say?
Guys, you're the best master of history
And Chile is the best.
And Chile is the best!
Frites to the Alba!
And back we go.
Into a piss.
The audience keeping up the energy,
but needing to see more of it from the AG camp.
Up to that decent start,
that tie up three to three,
But after that, it has just been flatline for this Chinese squad.
Just a couple of heartbreaking rounds
that seem to have completely caused all gamers to crumble.
And the number one seed out of China
is going to have to dig so deep here on this defender's side.
And it's going to be a four-man grouped up push for G2.
It is kind of one of those pivot positions.
Something you see a lot of teams doing these days.
He's 1-3-1, quick TP over as well for Fingir.
See here though, capping the smoke.
But in a position, it would be a very swift,
flood-retake here for them.
As well, that's not what that shot dart was supposed to go.
Maybe watching too many EMEA vods,
but doesn't have that early damage.
Trying to poke and prod away the G2 players.
So we get them to the back side.
They're not going to be taken.
Maybe they can get able to find Fingir though.
Svalam does get traded out.
Oh, and how has he went in that?
He got not there, it's unloaded, it's already in G2.
Stormed that way through, perfect in the pistols.
They're looking to bring this one to a swift conclusion as they hit double digits.
I don't know if Baby Bay just knew that there was going to have to be a reload up there,
and that's why he went for it.
Because he caught Shrimp mid reload, or if he just felt like he needed to try something crazy,
and it works the treat.
And AG not able to fight their way out.
Trying for that flood.
G2 to make a pistol round, but maybe the decider.
4 right into the smoke and the right clicks are just not finding their target.
Mechi are looking out of sorts.
They're looking shut.
They're looking scared.
As the plant will come in, and ultimately it feels like they need to just group together
and go down to the spike.
Yeah, at this point this should be the end of the round.
Very good job of this.
That's what I would do.
with you. It is a piss. It's in the name.
Gonna fall back here. There.
Postering around. Yeah, GRQ's tucked in like he's gonna go for it.
He's gonna be more than willing to hunt for this one, but
I'll just go ahead and back away. Instead it's gonna be leave for that ghost.
Try to see if he can get some damage, get some more ult charge.
Bottom of the 1, the headshot down, gets himself a second.
Won't be able to find the third.
The G2.
A bonus conversion away from taking this up to match point.
They've already converted one bonus on this map.
Two in the series.
It feels like they might be on for a third.
A.G.
I mean, you might just be forced to rip an early time out at some point.
We'll see, maybe Bay starting to get that confidence blowing,
starting to hit some shots.
Just talking about it so far, the performances from Baby Bay.
It's been some ups and downs,
been widely not seeing that peak coming through.
So far, here are these two maps.
He has been Rocksteying 4G2.
It's been really nice.
That's what you want to see.
You want to see that continuation.
Crazy.
We want to see the rally back.
We want to see some damage dealt.
There's Tripp.
Gonna be caught, too fast enough, looks like they don't quite check in the tower, it's gonna be fast when actually sparing him.
But, okay, turns back to see if he'll find a trend, he's gonna be wondering why the hell did my ghouls call this one out?
Maybe they does better to shift around, find that kill, but then GRQ takes him down, valid.
Arriving, mid-lurk, leads up a kill, swap the weapon.
No, it's gonna be a backpedal.
Could be at risk though, in mid.
Wall will fall.
No shifting away from this. This gives Valin a massive opportunity.
It's another timing.
Do they have to read that B has been completely emptied?
This is no info. Nief is trying to figure something out.
He's scaling. He's looking for a shot there with that outlaw.
He needs the run of that one though.
Another 18 health.
Well, this is going to give time for AG to start sussing out that this rotation is coming through.
Another Cove sent by Valin to try to keep A.G. interested on the other side of the map to make sure that they're gonna be able to hopefully get into this plant and it looks like they will be given the opportunity.
Vandal for Valin, not counting G2 out of this round just yet. Never know with him and Leaf in play.
He's gonna have to pull health. And if he can find a kill, that will give him the reckoning as well.
Leave now posh and forward a tight angle.
Staring back over towards that spawn side.
It will be in through mid.
All three players.
Be ready for the push, the swing in, and GRQ able to finish the job that he started.
Now it all comes down to Valon.
He's a hoppy of the way, they check forward into the smoke.
They're going to be spotted there, they'll be same time.
Kira ready for the drop down, potentially on that flank.
The tuck into the corner.
The patient play!
He's been spotted by Valon!
Oh my goodness!
HOMOS Mexico of it!
The bonus not to be converted!
But damage is absolutely held just Kira left alive!
Just...
He's so smart man, the way he plays this...
He almost hit that transfer too.
But just tucks in behind the smoke, they're checking it, they're checking it, they thought he might try to re-clear that smoke.
He doesn't do that, they don't read that it could be tucked into the corner.
Keeps the gun hidden so it doesn't stick into the smoke so smart, but they're able to react just in time
GR2 lucky as well that leaf doesn't connect with that outlaw shot. Yeah, as he's coming in through link
Still in with a shout match point about pain get a G
See if they can streak together at least a couple more rounds if not make a go of this
Now the reckoning here could just be a a execute off the back of the ultimate
Let's see what Trent sees off here up you know what high tide is out gonna be able to hold on to the
alt nobody on site just put your players here to gain the weight for those reinforces to come through
Talk to us this time we landing a Trent's feet.
That's the first one.
We're a little bit more spam as well.
That one's just gonna be sending out that ultimate, but damage very heavily suffered on the side of G2
Opportunity to exploit that early damage here for AG on the retake
Concentrally cleared out now into the grab well G RQ out done baby big able to find that yellow baby
They find three
You know a balance strings up one of the thing here, then he gets the finisher on his shrimp
And I need to see that one back
This baby they just torpedoed HG's chances of getting that retake even started oh
My god, they're trying to play off the back of the recon dart. They're trying to take space
Yep, he's got the grab well there to help him out to nicely played by Lee
It will be that final timeout called.
Eight rounds in a row when HE needs to avoid dropping down to the lower bracket.
Frankly, things are not going to get any easier for them.
Nope. It is a very staffed playoffs.
And in this last win-based-win condition timeout, just trying to keep their mental in.
their mental and I mean at this point for 18 you can just rattle off four or five
rounds in a row even if you don't win the map even if you don't win the series
you need to get that confidence built for that next one that's really kind of
what you're trying to do here as a coaching staff get their mental back
and check teach them how to recover from bad starts from bad international
stage experiences.
They're gonna have to do it the very weak buy two Bucky's hero Vandal
Stinger alongside okay another stinger you won
a couple times
No outlaw on the opposite side
Looks a good news here for him but three player push out of a main look at her setup looking for trap play
Looking for that kill, but we'll take Joggle it down to 50, but nothing more to be found.
Yeah, trying to get some value out of the Buc-Ease.
Just can't quite do it. Joggle does go down to 50 though.
So, at the very least you've done some damage, more than you've taken, which is none, so that's great.
You can rotate out of this, but you two are just ready for now, staying quiet.
I think maybe as well, trying to get ahead of like a convergent pass, sort of set-execute over from aim-aim.
Those contacts straight down mid Valin is ready for it finds a headshot to punish up to you are now gone
Your one Vandal that you had in hand stranded down bottom of mid
This bucky in GRQ's hands needs to do wonders but the throne is gonna be sent out in front
Trent should be able to get the spot here
Sins it out over the top pushing through the smokes. What's that right side?
Nothing spotted, quite just yet, but there's the tag.
Still able to spot him out, and he cannot escape.
Jogamo pursues.
It's a bit of a revenge for the early damage suffered.
The plant now comes in.
Three remaining players, a bucky two-singers.
It'd be absolutely miraculous.
They worked their way across.
Drone 4, deep.
Out from safety, but Chogamo, he's still just swinging out. Kira plays right into it.
It's taken down, shrimped out, tagged up.
The last one to fall will be 8-U-1.
Finds a kill on Alifa, baby day.
Not quite able to find it. Tread will take it away, but 13-4.
G2, find the 2-0.
As they send all gamers down to the lower bracket.
Yeah, this G2 team looking clean, looking strong, looking to try to get themselves in to deep,
another deep run. Adam Asters saw what happened last year, they want another crap at it, they
want another go, and this is one hell of a way to start.
And if this performance was anything quite dominant, then you would still have those
concerns. This is the kind of play that you need to be seeing from G2 if you want
want to believe in that capability to make a deep run.
Because we've seen how terrifying
all the other teams in the Uppers are right now.
This is a big one for them, for all gamers.
Very unfortunate stepping stone for them.
How many times have we seen teams come out
first half on a global stage
and not be able to find that footing?
Yeah.
Because we have the case of that,
but we need to see the rally back.
We need to see them steady things out
in their next appearance.
Yeah, look, we know there's potential on this team.
We've seen it in China, where they were the top team to come through.
They're the one seed for a reason, but they need to find that confidence.
They need to find their identity again.
Tried some stuff today that just didn't quite work.
Tried to change up the comp on a miss.
Did not really pay any dividends.
And so for AG, you're going to have to go back and really dig deep.
See if you can get one of those, you know,
remember the Titan speeches to see if you can get back into it.
Well, big breather here for G2.
Let's go ahead and send it down to the stage with Valina here from where the players in the Verizon post match interview
Leave how are you I want to talk to you can take that picture. It's okay
So now talking a little bit also about group role in the team you have always been that anchor for your TV
They're playing really slow, playing really fast, but now talking about G2 and your rhythm of the game,
it seems to me like stabilized. It's not that chaotic like type of game you guys had in America.
How do you think this has impacted your role in a specific way?
Yeah, I mean I would say we're a lot more stable now.
You know, we're playing with a lot more of that G2 discipline.
My role is still the same to be honest.
You know, I'm shooting the gaps and playing as a lurker role, so it's pretty easy.
I've been playing it for so long that it's just kind of natural nowadays and, you know,
It doesn't really matter the agent the rules for the same
Now for my second question, after Pay-Per-Rex you guys have been winning 2-0 every match.
Where did you find this consistency?
I mean, I think we've always been pretty consistent, but it's just more so like ironing out the mistakes.
P-Rex is a team that kind of, you know, exploits you pretty hard.
And so, you know, we've just interviewed that a lot.
The teams that we're playing obviously aren't, you know, forsaken, jigged, and divide, stuff like that.
So it becomes a little bit easier, but, you know, it's just mainly about us
about us and just making sure that we don't make mistakes.
Well, I was also asking them that after the game against Pay Per Rex, they won 2-0 in a very, very contundent way.
What happened? They said that although the teams that played after Pay Per Rex are not Pay Per Rex,
they are a little easier, they don't have a game and they also don't have a forsaken side, for example.
And they were also checking the votes, they were seeing everything that happened in that game against Pay Per Rex,
It's going to be a good game and good luck.
Nothing else spicy to say to them?
No.
I like that.
They seem like nice guys, they seem like nice people.
Yeah, it's okay.
If you win now, the next game is going to be against Norgshing.
He's really, really excited for that game.
He's watching the Vox to see how he plays ambi.
That's an incredible win.
He's calm.
He doesn't have any bad words.
He looks like a good guy.
He tells me the Norgshing squad.
So, everything is calm for the next game.
some pictures if you want to.
This is all what I have for the entry.
And we're coming back tomorrow to see those matches
from the lower bracket.
It's either death or survival.
Thank you.
A quick 2-0 for G2,
and we're joined in the post-show pie.
J'all, welcome.
What's up guys, how are you guys doing, what's up?
Chillin', you made that a quick one.
Looks like you're having fun up there.
Yeah, I mean bro, it's so fun playing you
on the stage.
The crowd is high behind you there.
I'm chasing after somebody yelling,
they're like, hey, he's right there basically.
It's fun, that's it.
How is the crowd?
Dude, the crowd today, every weekend game has been insane.
Even when it wasn't a weekend, it's still insane to be honest.
Yeah, compared to the other international events
you've played in, you've played in a tournament already.
For sure.
I think honestly, Chili's my first right now.
And then Tokyo, and then Champions, 2023.
Yeah.
I'm in my order right now.
That's a high record.
She's playing some insane events actually.
All three of those are ridiculously good.
I'm feeling a little bit old, I can't lie.
I got some tenure on me somehow.
I wanted to ask you, sorry.
Recently you had mentioned a performance coach
that was helping you out to a large degree.
You gave him a shout out, but you didn't go into details.
Would you mind like, what was some of the challenges
that he's helped you deal with and what are some
of the things that you've learned?
Yeah, honestly, I was starting off slow.
I mean, since America has been a little bumpy ride
for me, kind of how it starts sometimes with me,
but I was just asking simple questions.
Like, when do I do my caffeine?
When do I eat?
When do I do the certain stuff?
I wasn't even getting sunlight at home. So you know think about that show since I had got sunlight now over here
Chilly's very beautiful. I'm outside every day. I'm enjoying the weather and because of that
I think that just makes me a little bit more like the out of game stuff to get you in the right mindset for the match
Yeah, that's it. You mentioned playing the neon how much fun you're having being back on that role
You played on a lot of metas throughout your time in Valorant throughout your time in G2
There's been a lot of discourse around double doors. What do you think about it?
And how do you like playing in this matter?
I mean yeah, this meta is a little bit more chaotic. It's been a while since I've been on like the chaotic role
I mean I still have it in me, but it took a little bit to come back
I mean I have to learn myself again figure out what I have to do to actually be in those chaotic moments and actually
Take out the people I need to take out. I want to talk to you a little bit as well about
The new style of G2 because Josh said it took a while to get going
So what were some of the big obviously you guys went through an enormous transformation
You were one of the most like disciplined teams out there that played to control everything
And then we get kind of injecting chaos into the rounds and as you say and kind of thriving in it inside of it
So what what needed to shift inside of the team for you to grasp this change?
Honestly what was needed is probably a lot of bad rounds
Honestly, you see the bad rounds and you see the good rounds, right?
It's where you want to like scale and be better and like how do you want to take these duels?
And where do you want to die at basically because it's not it's a team game at the end of the day
So if I'm going deep my teammates right behind me clutching the round out winning the game out whatever the case is
And I think that's just what we got going on right now
What made you confident this was the vision like what made you confident?
This was the right way to for G2 to play honestly, Josh just told me right down on your and you know
Some other kid like Phoenix and stuff. So he's like, you know, you're always dying good
But like we're not in the right spot. So I think we just found a way to just like kind of fix it all and put it all together
Yeah, how have you felt like your relationship for in-game as a duo
But also out of game is developed with baby back as you two have kind of learned this new double-coolest meta together
I mean me and baby are only one day off our birthdays. So like, you know, I kind of bought that up to another day
I was like, look, I'm not that much younger than you
But you know, we know each other a little bit because we're both cancers, you know
We both know what we're feeling that day if we're getting a little bit pushed back
We're like, yo, we got to step it up, you know, we're just trying to be the best people we can't be for our team
Yeah, yeah talking about the tournament as a whole did you did you watch any of the first game today?
I saw you guys were standing around in that overtime dude. That was um, was it four time overtime?
Yeah, it was ridiculous.
I thought VBL had in the bag after that fourth overtime, or the third.
Yeah, yeah, whether we're up 4v2.
Yeah, but then I just saw a Rosé out mid, throwing an I or something, and just boom.
Yeah, whatever happened after that.
And it was a complete changeover for NRG.
I want to show you our HyperX reflex moment of the day, which was back from that overtime,
which was this crazy 4-on-2 that NRG managed to win to flip it.
If you're looking at the competition right now, NRG, VBL,
Where are you rating these teams in terms of who you want to play, but also how strong
you think they are?
Honestly, I mean, the energy has the most resilience.
I thought actually I thought we were going to see BBLs today.
I mean, they kind of crumbled in the overtime.
I think those are the most important rounds.
And I think because of energy's experience and their world champ recent, they're closing
it out.
Look at Brog, 3K.
It's like that, like Brog.
He's walking out, spawning with Odin.
Who does that?
Ryan Jordan.
That's crazy.
You played with Ethan as well.
Won his first world championship alongside him.
Do you credit that resiliency to him in some respect?
Yeah, honestly, I do credit Ethan a lot.
I mean, he is the IGL, of course, but I know when he calls
because he's very smart.
Like, I know what he's going to call because he's so smart.
And I think that's why I kind of beat him a little bit,
you know, a little bit longer.
But Ethan's trying to find a way to beat me now.
And now we're at the international.
We have to play one more game to meet each other
in the upper bracket.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what we're doing.
OK, well, your opponents to get to that spot
would be Mungshim Red Force.
So they're kind of looking like a crazy team right now.
I mean, they also played the neon to a super high level.
Are you looking forward to that matchup against Dombi?
Yeah, I'm actually very inspired by Dombi, bro.
He does so much crazy work.
Like, I remind you of the double-slide neon,
but he does it in one slide.
So he's just a beast, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
And obviously, they're center-plating Ivy, bro.
He's the most calm aimer.
And yesterday, he was getting so much impact,
running it down mid on Perode.
Getting three Ks back-to-back.
I was like, wow, he's a beast.
Yeah, he's absolutely nuts.
I mean, I think that game is going to be fantastic.
Yeah, I agree.
Is there something specific that you're looking at
like how you think the matches is going to go. I mean it's really up to the neon that day I'll be
honest. It's like back then when I played Jing in 2023 it was up to the rays that day so now it's
up to the neon that day. You think this is your game to take over and it's you or Dambi? Yeah I
think so yeah. That's a great way to hype it up honestly I'm so excited to get to watch that map
we'll let you go get some time to prep for that game because they're going to be a tough
opponent. Coming up tomorrow though we have a couple more matches Furia going up against BDL
for elimination as well as mates and all gamers in that second elimination match. Thank you so much for
joining us all of today here in Santiago or watching at home and y'all thanks again for joining us.
Thank you guys for having me. Congrats on the win. It was a fun time. We'll be back tomorrow morning
same time at 11 30 or rather 2 30 here in Chile or wherever you are at home. Have a great night.
I would say it's fine.
It's Saturday in Santiago and the fans have arrived in force to welcome our final two teams to the competition.
And now the biggest crowd we've gotten in Santiago yet awaits them.
The Rockville got chunked down by the shot down earlier.
That's the story!
He's got the elbow!
Ethan's going to be a one shot throw and there's going to be a plan.
Eventually.
Oh, that's a terrible hard challenge. Headshot on Ethan, are you kidding?
BBL up to 11. Risky and dangerous for BBL. They're grouped up together, hoping they can cross fire this.
But one by one, they step up and light a side of Brawk. He will have his fill.
Match point for NRG.
Up in front of Lawina. 1v2 in the post blood.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!
We're about to win!
Takes us a lot of time!
Surely the Rock can't get it done either.
And so the Brash and both for BBL
join a long line of supplicants
forced to kiss the ring.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
A big opportunity though, for all the gamers. Such strong individuals in their region and they face a G2
who stumbled out of groups. Can they get their upset? Get a series for China or will G2 start their playoff run hot?
Dash over, trying to scale forward, close at distance. He cannot adjust to do your cover-down.
GRQ putting it to use for one, but cannot dissuade Trent from finding the 4K.
The Recon gonna go bouncing forward. There's the convergent pass looking for the trap here.
Now the Hunter Serious, but it's gonna be Jogamo tearing up part three.
In the blink of an eye, everyone alongside GRQ has evaporated, snapped out of existence.
Fight to kill Alifa, baby-bay. Not quite able to find it. Tread will take it away, but 13-4.
G2, find the 2-0.
As they send all gamers down to the lower bracket.