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It's Elimination Day here at Masters Satyago and the stakes could not be higher for the
Four teams will be stepping onto the stage at the Espacio Riesto.
Hi, Moeba, and join me on the desk.
We've got Mimi and Kukuka.
Thank you again for letting me in here in keeping a tradition.
We've got three of our top four seeds up for elimination today.
Yeah, it's going to be a very exciting day
and a very sad day for probably two of the first seeds
coming in from the regions.
Yeah, it was really interesting, though,
to see how that first seed battle played out.
I think even though most of them are down here,
I didn't feel like it was in large part joking, which makes me think that the games are going to be excellent today.
We talk about it so much about these top seeds, not having as much time in Swiss to sort of get acclimated to the environment,
but all of those games were very, very close to the number one seeds, seem ready to throw down.
So let's jump into our shark-invested waters with the payoff bracket and see which teams are treading that water in the lowers.
And like I mentioned, we've got all games, Viria, BBL, all fighting for their lives, alongside Gentlemates.
I think it comes in different scenarios where the teams get knocked down here.
Fury of BBL is really the match that draws my eyes.
It's a BBL coming off of the closest possible overtime to lose against NRG.
And a Fury who started that series so well but faltered second two maps against PaperX
and now themselves have to fight for survival.
I mean, America just seems to struggle with PaperX in many events,
but I think there's especially...
I think everyone does.
I think everyone does.
Why we didn't see Kounema?
That's great.
That's enough for me, Mie.
I might lose everything today.
Do you understand that?
second since the last the MIA bias from there. We'll reset the board again.
Reset the counter exactly. Oh my goodness. Alright, come on. Give us a sign of work with.
We're going to win. It's going to be a good day. I do not remember the last time that we had a day where the MIA won both matches.
I don't even know if that has ever even happened because it's been taxing a lot.
But I do agree with you. Like the match that we saw yesterday from BBL delivered completely.
We thought that it was going to be one of the best matches of the tournament and it was.
And for the side of gentle mates, I think that they struggled with a lot of things against non-shim that I hope they fix for today
A lot of nerves on stage
Yeah, I think we definitely are off these in the ATV still seem well positioned, but the competition isn't much easier from here on out
No, it really doesn't and it is interesting too mates that one non number one seed who's fallen down to this position
But still I think looking like a fierce opponent there. I've been told you've got something in store for us here
Just to kick off our this segment. Oh, you want to you want to play some games? Okay? I
Prepare something for you Mimi. Okay. You got one right? Yes. I how good is your Spanish?
Did you your pronunciation is very good? I saw I saw I heard that's my serious go
I can't roll my tongue first of all everyone's right till we had a pronounce the name of the video
I can't do it. Okay before we get to serious
Let's look at the bias in Chile and play again that we like to go lost in translation
Have you guys been playing some games here? Have you tried putting the game in Spanish here?
That's in American Spanish
Voice lines in Spanish and you will have to try and guess what the agent is saying
I will tell you however
Who is the agent that is saying the line? Okay, and then you have to guess so I have to guess the Swedish accent in
Spanish
Just just just just let's hear the first voice line chat you can play along
The coroner use a gorilla sangria. They use the seed
It's D
It was a very significant tone of action A or D and then a final sentence.
It sounded like you were saying something and then the opposite of that thing.
Yes, you said that you cannot roll your R's and you're trying to repeat what you're saying.
I can, that's my throat.
Oh, go to Neyus.
Go to Neyus?
Oh, go to Neyus?
Oh, go to Neyus?
Oh, go to Neyus.
Oh, go to Neyus is one, because Correa in French is to run.
Okay, very good.
Wow.
Yes, it is the very, very good job, Mimi.
I'm happy. Okay. You already you already matched your score from yesterday. I agree with that answer by the way
Yeah, I'm gonna you're gonna go for the next one. Okay, the next one that we have is a viper
Let's hear it.
Uh, okay, so...
Gastemotor.
I wouldn't have translated it like that.
Like this.
I know where you mean that.
It could be...
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I think it's A because Koto is like...
Everyone or all, right?
I said nada, so like it's like a negative, right?
I believe you. Nada is the opposite of Phil. Okay.
No nos quedaremos con nada. Ya se mochado.
No nos quedaremos con nada. You seem confident. I leave this to you.
Come on, you got this. Just look at the options that you have.
Can't take anything with us after this. Spend it all.
Yeah, I want to. I agree with that.
You want A? You like A? Yes, and it is A.
I would have tried a little bit different, but yes, the important bit is like you have to spend it. Oh, okay
Last one. This is going to be gecko. I want you to come together for this one. Okay. I want a perfect score
Okay, I can know I mean it's so
Okay, but you know the spray and like the title that you get a
I would say that's probably that was cool because it's so short and brief and a little
exclamation.
Yes, I think so.
It seems like almost like colloquial slang like that.
But it could also be D. It's a very similar vibe with the sentence there.
I like B.
I like B.
Do you go with the intuition?
Baccaro, that could be cool.
Baccaro, Baccaro's cool.
Exactly.
Baccaro, Baccaro.
Very good, guys.
I'm very happy.
I'm very happy. This is the deal, this is the one.
I mean, she had to use French to figure out the second one.
Yeah, that's a Latin language.
I think that's similar.
I respect you. This is, we're digging deep into linguistics to come out with the answers.
Let's now look here from someone who's pretty familiar with this language.
That's for sure. It's Edna de Molina, and I see what's happening over in our Artist Alley.
Hello, everybody. I'm here in the Artist Alley with Dara Yadab.
So I'm gonna ask him a few questions just to see also and to get to know him better
that I was usually going to have a lot of cosplayers and suddenly I started to ask myself
hey since you have the League of Legends you have Valorant and I like 1-1 and I said
what should I do and I like to suddenly get a little bit of it to give it a pass with something
of Valorant and so I started for example with Viper, I started with Omen and they also started
the job, people who did not expect me to do it, they said no, I pay you more so that you
make this character, I started with Sage and Sky until then they passed the
I was asked for more, so I had two months to do it and I used the batteries.
Perfect, it was amazing, so he's basically saying that he draws Valorant agents for like two years now.
He started first with League of Legends and also when he went to that festivals the people were asking for Valorant art
That's the time when he's also starting to do Valorant and League of Legends art.
He started with the Sage, so a few little agents and then he started expanding all of
his work and also now he's submitted three different designs and he got in here in the
Artist Valley and he's really, really happy.
Muchas gracias por la entrevista.
This is all for us but back to you guys.
It's great that we showcased more than just the talent of our players up on stage
here in Santiago.
for our MasterCard fan poll today.
We're asking you if both remaining EMEA teams,
Gennamaite and BBL will go home today,
purposely to try and trigger Kukuku.
Yes. So scan the QR code and cast your vote.
And of course, you'll be able to get involved
in the conversation using our hashtags VCT.
And Masters Santiago, how likely is that realistically,
gang, if we're going to help people out a bit at home?
All gamers is playing today.
I don't think it's likely that Nate's losing.
I love the softball, you hit it, that's how we work it.
The AMAs loosened everything today,
we're going home on the same plane, dead region.
That's crazy, the reverse, we're stooping over here.
I don't know, I'm not going to support the AMAs.
That's correct, okay.
I was going to say, alright, in Venice.
In our top tier teams, there are a few parallels
between them, BBL are all rookies
who came up from Premier and then Ascension,
and Fury also have players with backgrounds in Ascension,
they've been grinding in tier two for a long, long time,
and also, you know, journeyman even in tier one.
The similarities are there, and I've got to say here,
this promises to be quite explosive matchup.
Two teams that feel like they're prepared
for this level of play despite maybe
not having the longest of histories.
That's what's been so impressive about both of these squads.
It's a little different, obviously,
with BBL having been this culmination
of so much time together.
Fiora was these half hazard pieces picked up
from different sections of former tier one players
or of finding that tier two talent
giving them that opportunity.
But I think what they've both combined to do
is create a very cohesive product
that is greater than the sums of its parts
and is able to not just individually
but strategically compete with teams
that are consistently at this level.
I love seeing both sides of the coin
because we have so many names,
so many recurring players
that they keep making it to this global events
and being a standout for their regions.
But it's also time to look at the new faces,
to look at these new teams.
And for example, something that happened yesterday
that I really liked
is that at the beginning of the energy versus BBL,
you could hear that the crowd was definitely bucking energy.
And by the end of split, things change a lot.
There was like a 50-50 because it is not a crime
to not know, to not be familiarized with the new faces,
with the new players,
but this is the way that they get those fan bases.
You go, you play, you earn their hearts
and then you get the people behind it.
That's how you start making a name for yourself.
Now I wanna drill down a little bit on Furia
because we've got to look at their selection of opponent,
I think in that first game, they lose 1-2 to PRX, but they look really good on that Haven map,
but they choose Breeze and they get paddled on that map, and from there it seems like there's kind of no coming back for them.
Yeah, it happened both in that final that they played where they got smacked by a LIDR and tiered against PaperX.
These second two maps to me were Furia more looking like a repeating underperformances for players like a Lin,
generally excellent at home mistakes in their coordination, but I do want to draw back to this haven because I thought that this was an excellent game plan from
Fioria. PaperX is a team that is hyper-aggressive with that comp, they want to flood, they want to keep fighting into you. And this period squad is very intentional about
waiting, team fighting properly, and shutting PaperX down when they go for that aggression.
Yeah, and we can see their clear plans of just floating the sides. We saw it perfectly on Haven. The utility is made for that. And actually, I think that
They kind of forgot it a little bit by the end of the half
But still they made a very very good case on themselves on Haven on breeze
I do think that the change of compositions that going from the Astra onto the Omen played against them a lot because you could see that the utility
They were using on mid how they were trying to work the map. I don't think that they were a hundred percent
Confident because of the tools the extra tools that the astra give you gives you in so many occasions
It just looks like looked like 2021 where they're just running all together
together and the plan just like the lines just fade a little bit and they couldn't find
themselves on the attack.
One of the reasons I feel like it might have looked even worse was because they lost every
single pistol round in that match 0 for 6. In America, they were excellent on pistols.
One of the biggest strengths for me was watching a limb on the double dot. He got away with
murder with the shorty in those rounds. Here, wasn't finding that same value and
they were starting at a deficit every time.
And of course we need to address the fact that that split ended up with Paper X getting
8 rounds in a row then not finding any success on the defense and I do not know
if that goes with the nerves with maybe being a little bit exhausted playing
against paper X and how aggressive they are but they seem so disconnected like
not moving in unison not being able to clear a mirror properly or like combined
and control this pace. Alright well curious to hear now how Fury have
bounced back with the recovery has been like so let's head over to Jen Lee who
caught up with Azine earlier.
Gen here with artsen of fury and now artsen despite the loss you guys seem to
extremely happy with how well thought the last paper x series was but bbl was
able to challenge energy yesterday as well so when it comes to today's matchup
do you feel more comfortable or not if why honestly doesn't matter we're facing
against the preparation will be the same we know that bbl play have a
different playstyle compared to Piper X but we're ready so yeah it's gonna be a great match.
Thank you and good luck. Thank you.
To me that's important different playstyle different expectations but we'll get to that in
just a second because for me a standout player was someone who's kind of a bit of a journeyman
a bit of a veteran by now was EU in that loss against PRX. Split was a bit of a non-game for
for them. He dropped 326 ACS, but over the course of the series, this guy is on point,
crucially at Scan Initiate, performing in a double duelist meta.
It's very impressive. Eight out of ten players in the lobby today are rookies. He's one of
the two with experience. That harkens back to 2024, attending Shanghai and even playing
Pay-for-X and beating them in that tournament with 100 Thieves. What impressed me about
him yesterday was how calm he was in the pressure of this game and how intentional
look with his positioning to be ready for the normally very chaotic
paper X style that catches players off guard. I think it's also something very
important that you said that even on split I feel like he was one of the
players that kept their head on the game and I think that that is very
important especially thinking of how the tournament might look for them like
the opponent that they have on today is going to be difficult but they need to
think also long term. Step by step but keeping that onto place he showed
consistency even when things were not going their way. No idea survive's
first contact with PRX. We know that by now, but I'm curious to hear what you have to say
after that loss. What is taken away from the game against PRX in this HyperX player moment?
Hey, I'm Fiora EU. I play the Scanin issue here for Team Fiora. Playing against PaperX
is kind of like full chaos. A lot of instinctual plays. You don't have a lot of time to
think so you have to be really good on the fly and to be fair just take your
shots. So yeah, first time I played them, came up with the win this time, came
with the loss of the both games honestly felt the exact same.
This round they won it badly.
They used up a little bit of a loss.
But they can stop it.
Not for sale!
They can!
They've got it up!
They've fallen up!
Guys!
They've got to take it to their limits!
Yeah, pretty much.
Like when you play against PaperX and you play ranked, it's like pretty similar.
You don't really have like a lot of communication.
But PaperX, like the pace that they play at sort of forces you into individual decisions.
You can't really be a team that, you know, communicates and takes like very thorough thought out decisions together.
when you play against PaperX because their style just kind of like pushes you into that.
You have to beat them at their own game.
We might have lost, but there's things that we know we can improve on on Split
that we can only do because everyone was trying their best.
No expectations, just looking to do our best.
Says a lot I think if you're the kind of player that can go up against
PRX and come away with a good result and also head held high,
that bodes well for Fury, but BBL is a different challenge for you.
They absolutely are.
PaperXO is a team that teaches you a lot
when you're attending your first global.
And I think it's a great opportunity for them to look back
at their protocols in these chaotic team fights
and how to stay on top of that against VBL,
who, well, they are a different team.
They will also force you into those fights
where you don't have time to think
like what he was mentioning there.
Now, Picoca, VBL took the world champs yesterday
to three maps, multiple over times on split.
What do you take away from this game?
They clearly are still confident
in watching social media,
but what do we make of their debut on the world stage?
I think it was such a journey,
like starting right off the bat on Pearl,
we saw so many counters from the side of NRG.
I think that they did an incredibly good job
in shutting them down.
This is a beautiful example of using the drone,
Lovers Rock not being able to get out of there,
not being able also to react so quickly,
because in the AMA we play a more slow game,
so you have a little bit more time to react.
That being the first map set the tone,
but also they bounced back on the second one.
When I'm saying that it was a journey
all through and through,
We thought that this was the best of three that was going to define this tournament, and what a great show when it was.
To believe in BBL, I didn't need them to win this match, but I needed to see them playing their style and maintaining their confidence from Amir.
And I think they hit those two things. In particular on this Abyss, it was a great highlight of the BBL map, and that Turkish default you were talking so much about yesterday.
I saw that from Mini by the way.
Yeah, I mean it is a classic, and it's a great term for it, where they're taking practically the entire map at once, where they're duelists or very much on islands,
in having to make intentional and intelligent plays
to let Rose call around it.
They did that against one of the world's best teams.
And while they couldn't close out on split,
they kept their confidence throughout.
If someone is tuning in just now
and they're watching BBL play the same kind
that everyone else is, but they're being told
that they have a distinctive style,
how would you describe it?
What should people be looking for that makes BBL BBL?
Lover Seraq playing with the operator
is always going to be a menace on the defense.
Him and Leraq playing, they focus on the freedom
that you can give to your two dualists.
And Krevyn being a new sense on the attack.
A lot of lords, but playing very, very strongly
actually around those two dualists on the defense.
Rose is an incredible IGL that has proved
that has a lot of leverage to him
and what he can do on the international stage.
And Lojta, honestly, they just tuned in,
go back and watch the overtime from Split yesterday
and just figure out what BBL are thinking.
Let's dive into that a little bit more
because yesterday Lojta stepped up
under some really high pressure situations
and was the reason why we got into overtime on Split in the first place
since Gabe was one of the most compelling maps of Santiago.
His skill gets masked in Amiga because of how dominant his rules were,
but my God, was he performing there?
That 2K with the Guardian.
The only thing that even got his team into overtime,
saves him again in this 4-on-2 that he wins,
showing up on the biggest stage of his life with the most pressure.
After, honestly, they threw to let that go to overtime.
some big rounds loss only for him to turn around can be the pivotal the pivotal player to keep them in. But I think it's easy right to overheat when you're having your debut and you're doing it against the
ring world champions that you tend to overheat you think that the victory everything's going so well so you make a little bit more mistakes that are not forced at all. But at the end of the day you know that you can not count them
I know that the game right now is mostly just about the shooting, but seeing those 2B4s, 2B5s,
it was a different way of enjoying the game.
There's a direct comparison between Loida and EW who we talked about earlier,
and both those players were the guys who kept the team calm,
and were winning the clutches when things failed late against an opponent they weren't favored into.
Now, I have a feeling I know how this is going to go, but I do want to listen and get LaRox thoughts coming into today.
He caught up with Genly earlier.
Jen here and I got LaRoc of BBL now. LaRoc, you guys had your first loss of the season
yesterday. How did you guys process it and how long did it take for the frustration
to go away if there were any? Firstly, hello. It was set yesterday, but
we immediately released it from our memories and focused on the next match, so for you.
We are going to give the best players a must today and we are going to beat them.
Good for you. Today is a new day. Yesterday didn't happen.
Yeah, okay. Good luck and tishikula.
I have heard it said that the best way to fix your mistakes is to forget about the mistakes in the first place.
Yes. What?
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not a therapist so you know what I mean.
Sure. Don't learn from them. Just forget them.
For the sake of argument we'll go with that.
with that now I do want to know is the rock the bellwether for this bbl team
does this team rise and fall on this guy's performances because you know
nightmare on pearl but the domination on a beast was palpable 360 acs ridiculous
and then it feels like he even had a little bit we found his average there on
split if we get that split performance for the rest of the tournament
that's his average is that acceptable is that enough I think it won't be
against the best teams in this tournament most of the other teams in
in this event tend to keep their duelists together on attack
after dive player, meaning the neon or the way like going in
and letting the yoru take that space and frag out off of it.
BBL more than anyone else will separate them,
let them fight individually for extremities
and take their own fights.
That's how Rose likes to call his macro
and why this team is so unique.
So because of that style,
I do think more than the other dive players,
it's very important for BBL success to have the rock
succeeding in those positions where he's alone.
I think that if he's now warmed up to the stage
and the expectations, I do expect more of the second column
that we were seeing, because this is what we have been getting
in the EMEA.
I don't know how I feel about the response
that he was given to that interview,
because I want him to be like, I want him to acknowledge,
hey, I had a bad game at the beginning.
I was not feeling myself, but this is what I learned.
This is how I turned things around.
And that is the perspective that I
thought he was going to have coming into today.
Don't you start to get the mistakes in the past?
To repeat them?
It's not what they say.
But peak BBL is that they have the confidence of never having seen the horrors of the world.
They've like never lost, they've been dominant everywhere they've ever played.
And they've not had a loss like this before where they've been knocked down a peg and have to come back and redeem themselves.
I think this is a new experience and what we get to see today is what they learn from it and how they react to that.
This isn't just a big pond for these little fish, they're shark infested waters.
It is time though for our one versus one showdown in skirmish for side select
We're gonna do all between you and la rock and as
We as this goes I do kind of want to know do you feel like either these two teams chokes
Should we consider their losses chokes coming into a game like this?
I think furia underperformed compared to their expectation in the second two games
And I think yes you can define that is in part being cousin of nerves and pressure
They stuck to their game plan map one were ready for the paper ex aggression later on that breeze in particular
They got caught off by that same aggression as something he did up
They struggled to deal with him and I do think part of that was the pressure putting to that team
I wouldn't say that they choked for the side of fury out to me is more like they run out of fuel by the end of it
I think that the mental pressure of having your opening game being against paper eggs
So having the rookies and whatnot and people that have not been
On the bigger stage can take a lot from you and it doesn't matter how prepared you are the rounds start piling up and playing
It's not easy. We heard it from you and we heard it from everybody around the world.
For the side of BBL, though, I do think that it could have gone either way, but to me it's
the journey that was important. You know, seeing your map that you thought you had prepped,
you thought you knew what you were going to see there, seeing the world champion,
telling you, no, that is not what you're going to find. It is not going to be
that easy. You thought we were not going to be prepared for this because why would
you be a pearl onto us? But yeah, I think that's not necessarily a joke.
I think there was an element of choking for BBL on Split.
They were up 10-5, they lost some key rounds that...
For the last two rounds in the first half, actually.
Yes, very much came down to individual mistakes that I would attribute to Pressure.
But the difference for them is that they did bounce back,
and they found their form again in that overtime to keep the game so competitive.
And that's why for me, I feel a little less worried about what went wrong for BBL versus Furia in their opener.
I think that to me, the way that I would put it down is not that they choked is that they overheat because they couldn't control the amount of momentum that they were getting out of the pressure.
Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I don't think it was because of the pressure. I think it's because the second game went so much like the momentum swift and switch, sorry, and they started getting all of those rounds.
It started happening on split and they couldn't control it. They had too much energy. They thought they were owning on the server and that wasn't the case.
What kind of map data we get between these two teams? Let's jump in and hear what our battlefields for today's series are primed to be.
Okay, so this is the map selection for BBL against Furia. The map select priority was decided through Skirmish, BBL won Skirmish, so you start choosing to be Team A or Team B?
VP, Team B.
Team B.
Okay, just a second.
VBL, Team B, Furia, Team A.
So Furia starts banning a map.
Pearl.
Pearl.
Band for VBL.
Reband, bind.
Bind.
Map pick for Furia.
Haven.
Haven, side on Haven for VBL.
Defense on Haven.
Defense.
Map pick for VBL.
We hit breeze, breeze, Sidon breeze for Furia.
Defense, defense, okay.
Last set of bends, Furia, you have a visco rodent split.
Bancrode, less Bancrode for BBL, you have Abyss or Split?
Bancrode and Split, so Abyss is the decider, side on Abyss for Furio?
Attack, okay that's it, go like that.
So at first glance to make you quicker it seems like now these maps are particularly problematic for this BBL team.
I think the only problem map was Split over there, so yes they did okay, but this looks cleaner.
I mean, I think that the only two maps the VBL are not fun to play in are the bind and the corrode
I like the fact that fury did not fall into the bun in the bind because it's not a territory for both of them
But you can count on BBL not wanting to go there
Haven being the first one for fear makes a lot of sense
We saw the giggles on the on the VBL side being like yeah
We want to defend first because we know what you're going to do on the defense
And I think that it makes it also a lot of sense what we're saying about these strengths the separating the duelists and
most likely thinking about that opera those operative plays the breeze choice
who's interesting to me in America's I felt like that was always a strength for
fury but they're coming off the back of two really bad losses on that map
including the comp change that you were talking about actually I think that
there is a case to be made it to remove the omen again and go back into the
ice like the old comp I thought that the flexibility of what the astra
provided to their macro was better and I just like watching koala on the
jet. My take though on Breeze is that BBL, while they were good at EMEA on it, I don't
like solo controller comps. I think it really limits your macro on the attack side in where
you can call because you have to telegraph where you're placing that wall at some point
in the round. And I think that, well, the Cypher worked well for them in helping them
have fast defensive rotates. With the way theory of plays, I think that they will
have a good game plan to cut down that Util and make it less of a problem.
Earlier we asked in our must-card fan poll if you thought both EMEA teams were going to get knocked out today
Let's have a look at the results here, and I would say a very large proportion of people believe
They're not one vote
But all gamers is going to win their matchup, which is surprising considering that Chinese teams are strong
We'll get on to that a little bit later, but we got some out-of-pocket voters at home
Yeah, I mean I guess I can respect their like peter energy to vote yes, even though they're playing a she but I don't see the
I don't know what it's both of them guys come on. I know that you know
Your respected colleagues will have more reasonable pigs, but yeah, thank you colleagues. Thank you very much
Jim however does feel like all gamers are gonna be able to get through you're the only one the predictor fury. Yeah, I am
Okay, so first of all, I do think if we get a better game out of Alan here, especially that neon play
I have high expectations. I would like to switch back to the Astro in their breeze comp here
I think they can I think they can be in this game
Key to me is if we go map 3 that's where Alan has to be great. He underwhelms BDO still confident
But I think Furia I trust no game plan. It's going into a match like this
I mean I cannot wait to see how this game shakes on out because it is do or die here in Santiago
It's getting loud out there!
The Chilean fans always turn up, so let's welcome our teams onto the stage and find out
who truly has the metal to make a lower bracket run.
The time has come to experience the reality of Elimination Games at this level of play.
One slip up and you are headed home on the first play out of Chile.
Top seed here in Fiora going up against this impressive BBL Alphid who took IMEA by storm.
It's time to leave your cards out of the table.
A BBL is the squad that is refused to be humble.
They were undefeated in EMEA.
They lose a close game to NRG.
After that, they're saying, we should have won.
We could have won.
We had to read on that team.
And now they're showing up again today
with the confidence to continue their run.
The question is, can Furia, who took a harder
lawsuit paper X, be the team who finally
steps them down a peg?
Yeah, this is just a reminder of the maps
we are going to see. I wonder though if it's going to be the same for both of the teams going on to
those three maps. How much have they learned in such a short time? For BBL it could be just a
couple of days in the tournament and back into EMEA, but one of these teams is going to have to
give some explanations back in their region for their first seed as they go home. Absolutely,
they both I'm sure feel that pressure on their shoulders and even though BBL feel like they
they come in here with it all to prove and nothing to lose now they realized that
again a foster sends them out the door curious to see what this haven looks
like we have seen it from them of course since that kickoff we know what to expect
from Furia double controller on Haven choke out the map be frustrated to
play against but surely BBL have a plan we've seen them on this goal
room and neon composition back in our home region they're gonna play with
that structure aggression that you know could be a little bit harder I think to
anticipate as for them it's going to be a lot of a main control a lot of those
fights they want to engage onto those ones to me concerning is that tells the
fury I have on this map when they're on the attack the way that Alan is just
going to slide and open one of those sites when he opens windows see it's
always going to happen I wonder if you are going to be ready and prepared for
that I think fury will have to slow their attack down and put an emphasis
on breaking Cypher utility. If you leave these trips up on that CB side of the map, it opens
the double bluelists from the side of PBL up to be extremely fast in their rotations and
to feel unmitigated in being able to fight for space like a lobby and win the info game
completely.
Glad you bring that up because that's something that America's teams are a little under
exposed to is seeing the Cypher on these live matches.
We gave up on Cypher.
Absolutely, of course, and that's that raw stopping power that could be an issue
for Alam who underperformed yesterday. Someone we're going to be looking to in this
serious squad to step up and really take the game over. Yeah I think that most of
the side utility is going to be in support of the dualists. So it's not
going to just be easy or just taken away. I think that Kevin also gets very very
creative with the setups that he has. As I explained yesterday he likes to swap
things around a lot especially during the mid-round. He's not just going to
be completely passive that is something that does not go with BBL and
Speaking about the Impassive, control of the map is something that they always have on the Haven, so fear are going to have to wash their backs.
Playing the Viper, though, for Furia makes the Solvedier a lobby control a lot easier.
Even with Double Duelists having their Dior flashes, you're being put at a disadvantage if you're fighting through that wall.
There could be anyone contacting up there. So I do look to Nerv on that Lurk roll to see what he can do.
Neon double controller is gonna be locked in from Furia and unsurprisingly BPL have gone for the Yorah and Neon with that cypher mix.
I remember the highest placing for a Turkish team at a global event was 5th 6th in Shanghai 2024.
This team not only can make a miracle run out of literally Premier, but can put Turkey on the map and away, no one has before.
The first time in basically five years that it's been a new Turkish team as well, it's this next generation of talent.
But talk of that talent, Alem needs to be better today.
Furia need to win a pistol if they want a chance against him he is fast
We know the BVL can talk the talk
But can they play the game the way that they've been doing it can they keep up to this or is just going to be a facade
All right, folks, it's time to get this party started. Let's head over to the cast of this with pansy and hypox. Oh
Man what a hell of a game we are starting with today and look it feels like a Cinderella
But there's only one spot at the ball, right?
Mike, there's only so much these teams can do.
The brutality of these internationals is the fact that, really,
you've got to hit the ground running.
Where are we leaning here? BBL or Furia?
I think that's key as well,
because you could look at both opening performances
and maybe trend them a little behind
where we'd expect to see them, right?
Furia took an uphill struggle to get the ball rolling, right?
But then you talk about the opponents.
Oh, God. It's such a tall order.
I think here we are blessed with potentially two teams coming in with great form,
but we need to fight for survival now.
Oh, it is. Again, you had PaperX as one of your first opponents and NRG.
No one got a break here for either of these sides.
So the first time we get to see how it looks beyond that.
Now, obviously, Fury are on the attacking side here, map one.
Getting BBLs on the defending side.
The pro activity is the name of the game when you look at a BBL.
Already taking A long space and they've got Prev...
Oh my gosh!
Go get one. Someone shoot it back.
All right, Alan, that's one way to start things off.
What could be waiting those keeping guard on this?
And he's actually slowed down the scale of the flank.
Look who's on the flank.
And will it even matter?
They're barely breathing.
They are nowhere near standing now.
And it didn't even come into effect.
BBL with a pistol and a belting start.
Certainly an indicator of how BBL...
What I go back to basics what worked so well for them defensively in EMEA is Pacey Pacey flanks
Furiot got to have their head on a swivel
Again, even here the flip side of this is Kevin loves slipping deep on this to enable aggression elsewhere on the map
That's exactly what this achieves on the pistol round
And you talk about no fear
I think a lot of people came away a little bit sour hearing BBL kind of still boastful even in their loss
That sums them up to me, though. They're a team who wants to be.
I don't want to say the bad guy, but they can back themselves no matter what.
We got a little used to it in EMEA. I think some of the other fans globally
may be a little surprised that the bravado these boys have considering their lack of international results, really.
So, again, I understand it, but for them, I think it helps that mentality
that there is no fear amongst the squad.
Now, on the other side, for Furia,
bloody hell, they had to work for it, too.
What a great start they had up against Paper Rex,
reality started to come online and pay for X table pay for X do right there
there's pedigree there but if you're ignoring the potential of fury yeah
discussion out a discussion to park as well with breeze being mapped to all
yes well again criticism I feel was fair I think again we're giving a beat
so that allows BBL to really lean into their win condition which is based
around this tempo that they're happy to play with to clean this up pretty
come, and then the other
step. And so, he's looking at
the HD bars and I'll get a
consolation. Yeah, Kevin will
clean up an Allen. We just
talked about as a moment ago.
Yeah, we've got to see him
online from the get go. It's
a much slower start numerically.
Again, he was kind of doing
what needed to be done, but
we just didn't see that punch
and I think coming up against
someone if they're informed,
I want to see what. Fury look
like when he's informed. As you
said, though, I don't think it
was a necessity in their
previous game. Absolutely not,
but I think here it might be.
Now we'll see if that kind of
pans out as we go on here into
the bonus round. You look at
the purchase of the BL. Oh,
same thing. We saw a lot of
time versus breakfast. Hard
challenge into window. That
clean. That's lovely and a
really. Swift equalizer for
that kind of momentum that
a little bit of a reminder that we know Furia can shoot back.
So now I'm just waiting for that to regress.
BBL, again, I don't think they're really fancying
the fight down middle, gonna eye up elsewhere.
But I like this from Furia.
Again, it was something that against PaperX,
we were so impressed by the understanding of tempo,
that ability to kind of burst, take space,
being really aware of what they were trying to do
and exploiting it themselves.
You know, gamble towards A here,
as you see Furia exploring elsewhere.
some of you till to consider
and it's only really gonna
let them know the inevitability of this plan happening on the seat
and the judge is going to be tricky in terms of
closing the gap here
to really just be able to take away some of these weapons
also repurchase again some damage done about window swing but
really much to capitalize on
Yeah, and for Furia, I'd like to see five standing if there's a chance for obviously see if they can button this one up nice
And simply see Rose trying to get everyone on the same page for this look at the cam
They're really trying to converse the way forward as I will be kind of I guess first contact
It's not clean. The luckily arts in is there safe pair of hands for kills
That is a big round for them keeping four players up like that's gonna create a nice buffer of funds
to be a part of this. It's
just getting too away from the
lockdown very early on parts in
lovely. Find this if you want to
piece something together to find
a response towards this. Window
swing, which I said they were
pulling this out time and time
again. They breaks almost
feeding into some of those
engagements. There was a few
times. Yes, Alematia the one
the first time in a row. I
think it's a good picture. Yeah
and we go back in operation
in hand of the others rule. I
wanted an upswing from this man
and if he's going to get me
first blood like this entries
like this well roses opportunity
to keep space. That's perfect.
That is a tick in the box for
me and I saw early on one
minute and 20 still to play
with look at the cost of
rotation to be be all
the rest of the map here, commit three players towards a site. Here, Lovers Rock, operator
in hand, a chance to find an early pick if Curia decides to get curious, not looking
as if that's going to be the case. Well poised to Greek Revin elsewhere and we know he
likes to slip the net. Oh yeah and he might have that internal
The clock dialed in.
Already starting to eye up middle and seeing no resistance there,
no pressure on A. It starts to feel like it's going to be towards the sea side.
So, Furia can't really take this too quickly.
They still have to clear long just in case someone's pushed up.
But they've got the picture now.
They've figured it out. That's not a problem.
Revan, are we going to go on this?
No, okay. You can sit, garage, maintain space.
You know no one's gone up. They still have the utility in place.
They understand. Everyone's on site.
three players about to flood back in paranoia.
See, now we go.
BBL sent packing Alan is absolutely starting the test today.
As lovers look at Noyta, not looking like you get a say in the matter.
And it's time to say that operator,
that is a much better bit of form from Furia, unloving this.
Didn't see them explore the map.
Typically in this downtime, at least back in the 80s,
they were happy to push from it, even in a disadvantage.
Rose obviously falls so early here,
That really gained much value in terms of utility or that early round sort of macro.
That's actually going to be under pressure here.
We'll find the first.
I mean, the death row kill we'll get is on here regardless.
Certainly looking towards holding on to the operator.
The time's really going to enable Curia to push through their own smoke here, by the way.
Yeah, that's...
Oh, nice!
Got him!
Really nice!
And again, Lovers Rock was the tip top of the board for BBL, and they are not matching
Fury here.
This is a lovely up swing, is where Alan Tomey is just...
The stun just ever so slightly off.
Maybe we'll tuck into the corner here behind Platte, tying things up to a piece early on.
Ultimate's already coming online from Fury.
We talked about Lovers Rock obviously getting his after losing the operator.
But yeah, curious to keep my
on this conceding the first blood.
Nobody really went exploring.
No, and that's it.
Something we'll have to check back in.
Alan's gone down there.
Well, credit in the previous, but the spacing here again.
Alan's way ahead of the pack.
Yeah, I don't actually give across a rifle to Craven.
Yeah, that's a little bit sketchy, isn't it?
Like that.
I felt a little bit like they got ahead of themselves.
I'm like, I've seen a few early rounds like this.
Test the waters, dip your toes.
But I just don't see it against sheriffs.
That's the only thing we've been hurt in the past. We will watch the group stage
Don't let us do that again. All right. This was this was a long journey to get to this point where it feels a bit more buttoned up
Valorant, but
Let's see if this Phantom will come back to a horn. The rock splattered
I'm not sure if he's more than one, but at least the one on the cross
Clones in really good. He's been such a
This feels like they're circling right like if they've picked space towards that a main connector side
But they're wrapping middle EU with a great catch spots out the next layers
This should be called out paranoia is there limiting and really denying rock from spring boarding into too much
He's being slowly hunted down in middle as well
So he should be checkmate if he is great diligence from EU there
How's he gone to here there's no right to be getting to you need to come down
So I'm gonna check a little fuse right someone will check on this someone has to deal with
Come on! Oh, no! BBL!
You have no right to be stealing that away.
And they let him know as early as possible they are back in the lead
and they are threatened any occasion.
They were to stick the landing here,
gifted a kill over towards Ceylon
and it just spirals out of control.
God.
I you're absolutely right Rose has no business finding to in that situation a little bit lazy on the hold here
late drifting to be and BBL
pounce on the opportunity
Four volts coming out of that for furious sure but a blip along the way for sure
And it feels like there's gonna be no rest for the wicked here
Right, it's gonna be high-temperal the hallway three-place actor with sewer is this because of the pressure the rose spot potentially
I want to see if they try and make Furia hurt in these early rounds.
I don't think they realize how many are down here.
It is only going to be Lloyd to kind of giving away a bit of presence.
But again, you're right.
You look at how much faith they put in Craven on the other side of that controlling B, controlling C.
Everything left to him.
Now, Furia haven't figured that out just yet.
You know, that's clear.
But BBL want to be clear long.
They're going to spot a player.
That's Alan.
He'll flash in, turns, has to get up the angle.
And now BBL starting to look a bit more aggressive here, Mike.
Yeah, at least Austrian up and even previously here,
Nottingham after his utility.
Actually looked to re-aggress and re-clear that space on A-long.
It's very forward, lockdown invested here,
but again, there's not going to be a commitment behind this.
Look at middle. This is what I might say.
Is this a fury aware of how BBL like to play?
They get proactive on the rest of the map.
They pressure down middle, and it's going to be a brawl again.
This is going to be such a bloody match-up.
Hunters fury out of nowhere, criminal, a swing, that's one.
He's more case of five try to be on the run here get out of danger out of dodgy
Can't do it Alan Briggs back in lovers rock on the backfill
Said station or work from the young man and now fury a cornered
This is gonna be really hard to play out of a nerve was an MVP and my eyes are quiet
Impactful player in their first series, but this just looks impossible
Eight seconds it's now or it's never I think Rose prefers the never problem than now
Well, that is the level I'm worried about.
That is the form we saw regionally.
They've read this to perfection.
Just a slight confirmation,
you know, nobody pushing any deeper on A-Long,
they know it's locked down to fake.
It's straight away, the Crevin does what's necessary
for him, one kill, lovers rock there.
So early on to reinforce that seaside pivot.
the game.
And the thing that scares me about BBL is, it feels round by round that they win like
that. The more they can start playing their own game. If you're here, I just need to see
back in the game here. I need to see you kind of manipulating the map. Well, trying to
keep BBL on the thumb. Well, that really well tempo, the aggression, but find a
way to put it back in its place. It's going to be just a burst contact piece. Pretty
much I mean the wall goes up but it's still here above it all and Rose goes down
that's a bit of a worrying sign if Lloyd is able to get away with this and that
site now stays firmly in the hands of BDL and look at the spike do you ever see
people go on dude but again it's the fights still going yeah but there's a
good reset he is put the Hunters fury I mean it's gonna reward a lighter but
it's a 3v3 how do you get that spike back go on dude I guess from the TP
I mean already BDL gonna rotate the reading this I know that they're
going to try and retrieve the spike here. Again, having dealt with this utility elsewhere
on the map. So Lover's Rock, let's have a safety net. Haven't already slipping into the
back side of B. I don't think you're going to be expecting to be able to be spread so
thin across the map. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Oh no. And they've left Luraki. I mean, he's been here the whole time. Yeah, he didn't have to back away and this is an absolute nightmare for Furia.
They had to go back in and it's just not going to work. It's a fumble from Furia.
And the mistake from Koala Nubin, that aspect, I just, again, I don't know where was the spike in that.
mistake, but I think it's the exact placement. The spike is down. Maybe I didn't catch the
exact way. It's clicked there, but yeah. Because again, this is obviously the audible
chord. Yeah. A slip up here. Allow BBL to find their fifth. That's gutting. Bye back
the game. I'm going to take
in all those holes now spent by
Furia. No time out yet, which
is the thing that's going to
catching my eye. I thought
maybe Furia would have wanted
to easy to follow this. It could
be but also just that feeling
of how that one went down.
Might have weighed heavy, but
he on the Odeon. We've got
no down on five HP. Show
you where the damage is
towards sewer, but. Very
different looks this time as
well again just so versatile.
Lovers rock and instantly
to break in if that operator keeps holding these sort of lines.
And look how mobile they're big.
Does get caught on the out-drones on what?
Shifting towards long?
Look at Lover's Lock now.
He's all the way down C long.
He's going to be able to piece together what's going on.
Should the autostrotation dip the focus towards mid?
8 HP, 5 HP, 32 HP.
Grevon's going hunting.
They can smell the blood in the water.
And Fury are trying to find options.
But the A site's far from open.
Rose can leave it into the capable hands of Lovers Rock if he needs to.
This fight gets to fully make its way over, but they're trying to make something out of nothing.
There's still so many key tools for BBL here.
Watching their same tenacity from Fury up.
Force now to hold on to what they've got.
Looking to do a buy here across the rest of the roster.
have, unfortunately, yet to get on the board.
Like you said, Pivotal, in terms of the clutch,
in terms of opening up rounds,
in terms of creating pressure on the extremities.
Oh, he was exceptional.
Oh, God.
And there's just no rest here, is there?
Nope.
BBL want to make this one hurt.
Already does.
Not wrong.
Well, if you get to live now, your diamond rifle has gone.
Money in the bin.
I need a timeout.
I kind of want it in the last round, if I'm honest.
Try and pin down what's kind of going right for BBL here.
What you can do yeah, I could understand around the by-round to still happen
But with that you absolutely right with the nature of the fumble in the previous is one that guys right take a price
They're just similar similar down a bit again because in my eyes one of my favorite kind of narrative leads throughout
This has been koala noobs run right. It's hard to not enjoy that you see someone who's
Had to go everywhere possible to chase the dream of getting to these internationals
to see you make a bit of a, I don't even want to say a mistake there, just, you know...
I'd have to see it in slow-mo to see exactly what's gone on there.
It could have just been that awkwardness between the high low of Heaven and Hell, but regardless,
I need to see a bit more from Fury now. Where's that spark? You've fought the whole year for this.
You have wanted this so badly. You do not want to let it slip you by. That's the main thing here.
Absolutely. The Coinbase win condition coming out of this has to be breaking the momentum.
already now a financial buffer.
Allows us to just sit on this operator round after round.
They need to break this cycle. Four unanswered losses here.
Fortunately, we already talked about the finances.
It's not going to be a pretty purchase here.
And that old cycle that came on so early
only amounted to two rounds.
It was a big spend.
And they weren't able to give it well
We're going to go all towards
being that round we mentioned
before.
Unfortunately,
also stacking in BBL's favour
now.
We'll see the challenge here with
Alam on a bucky for short
towards window. Maybe a late swing
with a sheriff though.
so I don't think they're out of it yet.
They've got a good bit of timing on this.
You see Lovers Rock coming back over, but they should be able to get a plant.
And as Lovers Rock will respect it for now, just going to try and play on the angle.
Oh, I said that, he's actually working forward, they're working this fast.
They're not even going to have a smoke drop.
Lovers Rock going to find Kawhalooob.
Dark going to go down middle, and Lovers Rock clearing out.
Alums don't well to get one back, but they're just losing out on the extremities too.
This is going to be Alum having to be a god damn hero.
they've tried but it's a 1v2 and the fuse...
Oh! You don't even need to see it, Nerve!
One more! Oh, he's still trying, he's got the defuse!
7-2, shot there but it's too little, too late.
Period, try to mix things up a little bit here on this eco.
Again, get a couple of kills for sure but I think I'm just happy to smother.
And this is the sort of rounds where Crevin really shines.
There's three potentially four players towards the other side.
Always times his pressure coming out of Garage perfectly.
And happy to be the one in this situation quite often to die
before the push to come through.
I'll bring it back in handful of his rock.
And oh my god.
Where does that go?
Somehow split in between all three targets.
Billa Rock's progress is yet to be noted in turn now.
Artzin going to put him back in his place.
But there's other bodies towards that B site.
Oh, it's a shine the dark, but he's a fabulous one for all and he's gonna be happy with that
You take what you're given at this point, but love is what wants it back. He doesn't let me get ahead every clearing middle
They are feeling brave enough to at least kind of show that you look like a dammit
He just catch a little bit of
Damage on the retreat here. Maybe I'm reading this as maybe a
the game. The drift back
towards a first on the map feels
available, right, Mike? When
you've got that cypher finally
down, they can play the map a
bit better. Here you just
anticipating further
regression, but the
recluences actually coming
towards Suez. Nerve the other
side of this year, but you're
right. The timing could be
awful if they're drifting
back into this position and
lobby. This is the
brutality of VVL. They seem
to read you like a book
still bodies here to try and work with nerve a bit cautious on the scale up and
he's gonna beat them to the punch great good catch lovers rock
we're playing this one trying to keep his composure but they're already pivoting
they're going to be Bruce is here he's seen one he's gonna hear the TP court
arts in great layering and our lovers rock surrounded pretty much here they've
got the spike down and fury figuring it out beautiful round by fury taking
their time really reading them out well and like I said in some of these
rounds, Previns the person that really, you can't see him fall in a situation like this.
And again, it's not to his detriment at all. He's the one that in terms of map control,
in terms of information, allows BBL to explore the map.
That's going to get you fired up there. Yeah, really well navigated by Furia.
Because again, I saw that kind of re-walk towards Sua and I thought, oh no, here we
go. This is going to be the perfect BBL timing where they seem to somehow be able
see the opponent but no really well done by Furia. Just get their third. I mean if
Derv can find this space in a couple of these rounds again you're not gonna
necessarily want to see him fragging out but that is a key win condition on the
attack for sure. It's so hard to read BBL sometimes. They're so diverse in
terms of I mean look at the defensive setup now. Yeah we'll stack an extra
body towards the side for you Tilt.
something that caught many a team out that people were struggling to find ways to handle ways to
Kind of pin down what's giving away the game, but again the utility serve place yet to be pressured
They still keep those four boys on that side of the map. It's full faith
And I mean Rose and it's loiter to win was that a blind shot at his sea arts and I mean into the window
I'm sure if it was over the top of the smoke head of it
we'll notify
sorry identify at least lovers rock and now there's no way they're just so
quickly yeah well and these arounds where Rose will kind of posture up and
make it feel as if somebody's pushing sewers and now unfortunately they're
rotating quick enough where the three decide to pivot back this way this is
looking like it's the case they're trying to fake a valentral place and look
at the reaction they don't know they wanted that that's selling nerve with
the entry they're gonna fight back to the side they don't want to give it
just yet trying to divide behind Lerox can isolate nerve that is the front line
denied on this kind of luck push towards the A site stun comes in slows come in
and the absolute firing squad of BBL matching furious tempo I mean for furious
also victims of their own success they didn't really well the previous round
to manipulate these locations but again Crevin's not down here they found the
kill. It's over the top. They're
just run this one too. Too late.
Walk into the stack here.
Yeah.
I've got to see another here from
give me a little more and look at what they're doing.
LeRocke gonna go and get traded one shot, Leiter tracks him.
Like it's Quake out here, and now EU Quallen Uber Nerve,
barely off to starting blocks.
Luckily Nerve actually tell a lie, has made great progress,
but look who's behind him.
Lovers Rock can undo all that Nerve has done,
and they are none the wiser.
Backpedaling in, and he reads it.
He knows exactly why they were going this way,
why they were so firmly believing it was free and accessible.
And they're trying to clear him.
The rest of BBL can start rotating in.
He's going to make it out of there.
He's so slippery, man.
BBL, what a beautiful play from Lovers Rock there.
Absolutely.
Just going to be a late attempt once more between Nerve
and the EU.
Try and find just number four.
Grevin's already backfield this space.
It's a little theft as well.
Well, better than the devil you know,
go and fight the one you can find, but Lovers Rock still hungry.
Third gonna be punished, quelled on the aggression.
And they know about the other player, Craven, right?
They know he's going to pop this from somewhere, but still lead.
They take the eyes of the price for a second. He's just buying time.
He's being a problem.
He's got to hunt him down and try and ignore him.
Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
Oh, my word.
The baby face to Sastin there.
Look at him, the smile on the face.
And what a way to end the first half without a pacey set piece here.
Where Fury are slowing their default, allowing this space to happen,
trying to read the map, and BBL pounce on the opportunity.
Can I help you, sir?
Here's the bill from dealership where I got my car,
And I'd like you to beat it with a better deal on one of these fine cars not how it works
Guess you're not as cool as Verizon bringing your 18-tier T mobile bill for a better deal today
You are incredible, one of the best, the best audience I've ever seen in my life.
Congratulations and thank you very much.
Viva Chile! Viva Brasil!
Thank you very much!
Very good!
Let's talk a little bit with the audience.
Where are the fans of...
MIBIAAAAAAAN!
FUUURA! FUUURA! FUUURA! FUUURA!
We are the champions!
We are doing very well!
You want to do something else, right?
I have to do something.
How do you know? How do you know?
SEACHIN!
SEACHIN!
SEACHIN!
How do you do it?
it as BBL sitting in 9-3.
Fury up, need to find their answers and find them fast.
Now what that is, I'm not sure,
because I think we are seeing the better version of BBL.
Absolutely, yeah.
I think they've come out of that first series swinging.
And again, you hear what they're talking about,
the press conference as well.
It's not not that confidence.
They came into that series confident.
And I mean, almost just the fate of the day
in terms of form.
There's certainly a concern to see a 7-3 attacking half
versus Paper X and now be a sixth round deficit going on to the defense for Furia.
I think the big thing in my mind for BBL was put up or shut up.
If you're going to talk trash after games, you've got to come out swinging and they have.
I like it. For Furia, a chance, but it has to start now.
Right, let's look at this pistol round, see what they're up to, what can they do about this?
It'll be kept somewhat humbled by Crevin here.
It'll be slowly keeping some sort of eye, audio cues, late presence towards eight.
But while this happens, a lot of pressure around.
Gonna be put in a bit of bother by the back of Plat, but he has support system there.
Watch Crevin now. As soon as he hears these steps, not necessarily aware of EU,
but he's gonna get such a deep position on Graffiti here.
Should be cooled out as well. EU gonna try and backpedal in. Does he replay?
He does! Great! Great heads-up play from EU.
And now he needs to do more. How to go in no man's land, but he's done good work.
Oh, no. Love is rock. I thought that was perfect for Guanyoube there. Maybe to take that space.
Oh, God, they're taking heads, man. Arts in. Left in a 1v4.
30 seconds left.
And the fire behind the BBL boys is far from just embers yet. It's arts in with it all to do.
Frenzy as well.
Look, it ain't easy at the best of times. Let alone now. Smokes in. Okay.
just get a sheriff but it just feels like a door shot.
Unfortunately here the smoke just gonna buy so much time and this is a perfect
example. Again the communication to read of the situation between you and Koala
dude. Yeah absolutely beautiful. Again you can be as prepared as you like for
some of these side hits from BBL and it will just dismantle you.
The rock to clean up with a third double digits on the board already for
and the BBL.
just proving his worth in some
of these slower rounds and his
ability to find value.
in a space that's left on the
table.
What investment will see here
on the side of the few here just
a couple of sheriffs.
the rock to farm up some old progressives who make this opening set-arounds even more deadly
for them.
I'm really angry.
Well, it's okay. Actually, Mike, how about...
Yeah, it's fine.
Well, that's tough.
Ah, the aides.
And at this point, they're already starting to kind of imply that approach towards the seaside,
but very tempered pace, and I do want to see if PBL can keep cleaning these sort of rounds.
We've been asking that question a lot.
And Nerv is going to take Mattis into his own hands.
Why not? Get proactive. It's a high risk, high reward.
You could be able to get the weapon, obviously, but...
Another chance.
This trap sets up here towards Sewers.
I like your lurk before. I like it so much.
Ah!
Two isn't enough to stop him!
Have a free!
That will do the job!
But by now, B is open.
By now, the spike is there.
He's giving them, I mean, a little bit of a wake-up call.
Floids are all done, Furia!
There's that spark.
There's that bit of fight back.
Show me more.
17-7, the Rocks on a heater.
Yeah. Conscious of a flank coming through here.
A lot of time will pass.
Will you obviously tag down ready for...
Rose gets so aggressive here.
He might get...
Does he even get shot in the back of the head?
Odds in! Again, doubling down now.
1v3, Furia!
Find him a hope where it shouldn't exist.
Off a bold move from Nerve, setting it all in motion.
Oh, my word, we could be on for it now.
Come on, Furia, give us a game here.
Don't go quietly out of this one.
Show us what you're made of.
If that's what we can do with rounds with just a sheriff,
there's got to be more to them here.
This happened previously.
This is paper, it was the second half of Haven, obviously side switch, but the flip of round two
put them in a fantastic position to string together some rounds.
You'd absolutely want to see that again here.
Considering the deficit they currently stand.
Oh, oh, oh!
Hero rifle?
Yeah, hero rifle, by the way.
Curse rifle perhaps?
Yeah.
Passed onto the net?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got a lot of his rock.
Yeah, yeah, it went really well for me.
Alright.
He does have a shield, so don't...
I think it's without a little bit of danger, but...
Come on, you're a stability.
Build up a little, find a buffer,
feel out the game a touch. I feel like he's been quiet from a lot of their players.
Couldn't need to see that kind of, I don't know, wake-up call for themselves. Maybe just
feeling possible in that previous one, making something out of nothing. It's a great feeling.
He's gonna have to hold his. Because now the pressure starts to match. The VBL will
pressure these points. He stood his ground. There's a risky swing for Walnut, committed
to the spring on the third. It's a 2v3, excuse me. Zotzin consider it, I think he has. I've
heard it, simply understands it. But I don't think he likes garage look at long. This should
be checkmate. Loiter does have the vandal. And Loiter's dead. You know what we're doing
very well here. Keep it clean. Clean enough. Clean enough for your life. Clean enough
free life. That's fine. Okay.
Yeah, this first by round is
crucial for BBL. So, back in
control. Beautiful on the first
two here, but. Of course, you
know, spray just slipping
through koala's fingers.
Up to scary available now for
you. Some good old progress
on the side of BBL not
I'm looking for them to probably
switch things up. Slow pace rounds.
I haven't found them much success
other than Crevin earlier on.
I might just see a little bit of shift
of focus towards the A site.
Now Arson's setup is here.
You've got Koala noob anchoring
down elsewhere. Defensive
aggression. Lovely.
Even if it's just to kind of keep
space show a little bit of something cool removed that utility for now check
further for Alan they only noted one technically
BBL re-clear this space and look at the progress over towards a they've allowed
these rotations because they've posted up the player towards long Alan's
keeping a lot of security on this side of the map
Well, didn't it? Guadalupe still. Maybe I'll have to play contact off his turret.
Maybe I'll consider it now, I'll trade out, and the Spike Rose will
prioritize towards Sewers. Graven not going to be gifted a kill in the lurk,
at least early on here. It's very deep. You can see they're sitting
right. I feel like they're getting a good read on this, but they still need to handle the sight here.
Guadalupe's timing is exceptionally good.
Paranoia might be a little delayed, and yeah, that allows Guadalupe's rock to go for a swing.
sprays and guys, Furia, fight in form when it matters most.
And the flank feels irrelevant too late in the day.
And we are seeing that Furia can go step for step here.
I didn't misread this situation.
The fact that it's ear up towards Heaven,
I feel like maybe they've conceded sight.
But the confirmation of 3B were here.
Oh, whether or not, it's PBL just saying, let's brute force it.
We might have a 3B2, 3B1.
This is good. I guess absolutely spanked it.
Yeah.
Once I see 70, my interest peaks and they found the final man for the money.
The round two flip, last time put Curia in a position to string together rounds.
Absolutely what they need to do here.
And I like seeing EU's starting to hit a little harder as well.
You see a creeping towards the top of the board,
I see koala new finding a bit of form as well. I think I feel it's been pretty present even in that first time
So time out from BBL. They are gonna be I don't say humble this team does not get humble
They'll just go back in there's no such thing. Absolutely. No, but it now feels real. There's a chance here
This feels possible BBL be put back into place
They now need to adjust themselves here come up with a plan in mind and the purchase will be far from perfect Mike
It's not going to be there.
Let's see Leroy will consider a buck.
He's two-way.
That was ultimate.
And Lover's Rock just won.
And I'm not going to see much else in the form of weaponry to bring in there for BBL.
So the Coinbase win condition to come out of this four BBL.
Just to maybe pick up the pace a little bit.
If they're maybe over-reading some of this early pressure,
previously obviously Nerv and Allen making that presence known towards Ceylon.
And again, their situation is that BBL love.
They weren't necessarily in position to capitalise elsewhere on the map.
Sure, but I think the pace is probably the fix to that.
It might be. Oh, this guy's getting a little bit more scary.
It's getting fruitier as the later this runs.
The Coinbase win conditions are the change a little bit
as they keep buying more bits of mobs up.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, the Guardian just everywhere.
OK, it's not without threat.
Let's put it that way.
And this might be a hell of a chaotic start here.
BBL going right into the blender, Alan.
Crush your back yourself here.
Just fury just at equal matchup.
Eeyoo!
Beautiful impact.
I'll take in these rounds.
You need every one of them.
I'll do the job there.
In the meantime, BBL's opportunity towards a safe site somewhat closes.
Guanyu, scope weapon.
Hold it down.
OK, it is arts into force, so they will get a foot on the site.
Well, they've got to respect this question now.
They'll retrieve the spikes.
And now Kevin going forwards will get shut down by EU.
And a beautiful adjustment coming out of this.
Again, reading into the fact
BBL going to prioritize control in C long.
After Fury, it took it for free, the back of Nerv and Alec.
Alec in the delayed recon with the Hunters. Fury just beautiful from EU.
Shuff down any hope of BBL finding an opener.
I feel like EU is looking like a big game player, right?
I mean, he was super clutched versus paid Rex.
Again, quieter in some of the more comfy rounds, but
between him and nerve. There were so few rounds that
paper X were able to squeeze through.
I've got a plan here.
I've got one before. All right.
Guardian.
We have seen Stranger Things.
Loiter would need a near-on miracle.
A mistake.
What's he got that chance given?
It's going to wait patiently.
They've all slipped onto site.
Nerve doesn't like it.
He feels like there's something off here.
They should be able to get towards a defuse.
I think Loiter's got that was clean.
They are starting to defuse though,
and he's not going to get any more furious.
Shutting down the account quickly.
They managed to navigate what was potentially a threat.
It is nullified.
Brilliant. A slow and steady march back here, Mike.
They're up to seven.
I might just say that the flight's on here. This is starting to look much better.
We are seeing a fired up Furia, four rounds in succession.
They've figured it out. They've got their, I guess, their finger on the pulse really looking at what he's doing.
That is gorgeous.
Yeah, it's just such a beautiful call from Furia.
Reaging, maybe El's mentality perfectly.
A string of four rounds now to Furia's name.
You're with the op, yeah.
kind of solo holding the A side of the map maybe reading this could be that maybe mid
fast pace he's from BBL and I I think they might be right yeah
pressure up towards Gary Gehry odds in
oh he couldn't catch the first but he surely gets the second
and now Furia just putting bodies behind it they have blunted this BBL
spear so quickly they are up for the fight now
whatever the wake-up call was it is still ringing
Inside open now you has conceded
This will be revealed by the new old theft it will spur rose
Towards the site
I will come through here again still some you till to play with the Kreb is actually still got trips through that's
I don't think he's gonna get deep enough to
Put one in comfortably on site as he does you have a way towards CT okay?
Right up left behind
The info, gonna find Kreven.
There's still that trip, still gotta clear this, it's part of the protocol list.
Can they play off this at all?
You're gonna hear it so early though.
There's the cam gone.
And you can see the expectation on the swing.
And it was already sent back.
So Kreven not getting much play here.
This is very buttoned up so far from Furia.
Kreven's next opportunity, passes in by.
Can't do it up for him.
Rose!
He can't!
He's got it on his fury!
He's got it on his fury!
He's got it on his fury!
He's got it on his fury!
He's got it on his fury!
Oh my word, BBL! You have again no right for it, but Rose making something of nothing!
And a swift reminder, even if there's one, if there's two, there is always threats.
And it's crazy, he's two off his own here, but it's almost like they play for this eventuality.
How?!
And they bait Crevin on site, Rose gets two, gets his ult, and is able to secure this round.
absolutely crazy and I was just about to say, this is absolutely what you need to do versus PBL, look as if you're happy to contest these facing hits and Furia passed with flying colours, flying colours on that earlier question.
It's 11-7 but it's just a maybe a blip on the radar, Alan this time, the operator cautious on the beach.
Good cat.
What a lovely reward on the angle.
Finding lovers rock and giving them early man advantage.
Look at Preble as well.
Down at 59.
I'll see a setup towards A here.
Does have the lockdown.
So furious stacking heavily across B and C.
I think it's the spike.
That's really going to deter maybe all too much.
A little bit of a trap here in hell actually,
if somebody decides to get behind the lockdown.
I don't know why.
Life hasn't actually scaled up to sight just yet. 45 seconds left.
Okay, clearing the setup and they're waiting for an overstep there.
They're looking to get behind the retake. Yeah, they are.
This is a beautiful call from BBL.
This is some of the calling that really impressed us.
Yeah, pulling ahead of their years, but is it going to find a reward the one man who could stop it all?
Koala noob, exceptional read, good reposition, can't get the gun out in time.
But still, understanding the intentions is part of the fight, half of the battle.
They still have to break this backline of BBO.
Now two on the side, one in half and set to hell.
Craven denies him any impact and Alan's options looking rough around the edges.
Gonna just take the ball by the horns, get involved, take them apart!
He's still got one more to find, a very little time to do it.
Lloyd's ahhh, he's kept his cool here.
Time to pull the...
AHHHHHHHHH!
He doesn't have the time!
He doesn't have the time! 12 rounds for BBL!
And Furia falling apart of the seams!
I thought they had to read with Koala moved there.
I thought that would have been enough.
I mean even just here it's just a little complacent, but this is such a beautiful, this is why they scale up so slowly.
Rosa's called this so early on in the round as soon as they figure out the Kildore sets up.
Beautifully done by BBL.
being a bit of a wonder could secure them some sort of safety net here on the defense.
BBL continuing to impress in some of these macro oriented rounds.
Yeah, and it is kind of the, maybe the slightly less spoken about side of the coin is how good that coin can get from Rose.
Obviously you're looking at the Rock and Lovers Rock right there, you're kind of like flashier side of the BBL coin,
but again, those sort of rounds are off the back of Rosa's calling. Now into this element though,
I would be a little bit afraid because BVL are happy to take quite an unorthodox approach in
these. They'll get a little out there. Maybe going to be caught here with the spam, but
He's identified very early on
here.
I know that can't slip onto these easy angles in
garage.
It's Alan actually posted up in the operator now.
This is sort of you here.
That's a lot of pressure on this man's shoulders.
Four players slipping through undetected thus far,
putting a lot of the eggs in that B basket.
The expectations on him now, because again there is a glaring hole on the defensive side
that BBL have found pretty quickly.
It's a late out drone.
Look how close they are on sewer.
Is Alan going to be called off guard here?
They are already on the angle.
I don't think he can get out of this.
He should be dead.
To right.
How is he breathing?
I don't know how he's gotten away with another lease of life, but Greba's going
to catch Artsin.
This man is holding space here, but BDL haven't fully rescinded away.
LeRocque is still waiting. There's a slip through on B.
And look how far they are walking this.
Look how far back the Aldrone is out of sheer paranoia.
The plant down here.
And LeRocque, with ultimate, still tucked in here towards A.
Breben will find another Nerval Fall.
I went back to seconds.
A little greedy on that, didn't need it.
Put it into a 3v3, and look at the flank.
It's been noted, Allen turns around, but the time, he's going to play to that.
Lurak's going to make this difficult.
He's going to make him have to pick between a rock and a hard place,
and it's going to be looking towards B.
Can they clear out in time?
Like a knife in the back, Lurak is going to do damage.
Lover's rocked them on the find it, and now Rose wasting.
Oh, he takes it in a strike!
BBL finding salvation from their IGL.
Flirio were building back like they were within touching distance of turning this one around
But BBL dig deep they show that validity and they push through on a 13 to 7
I
The next chapter in the esports history books is finally here.
And they fall into the turns yet again!
He straps up to the plate, and he's a knock this one out of the park!
Now they stop the engraved alongside the plates!
And here we have some fans designing also some great things.
game. So we were talking
here. This is their first
time in an event like this
first time in a Masters and
also is their first day here.
They just got from the
meeting grade with Mixwell and
they're really, really happy.
He is rooting for Fira and
she is rooting for
Let's see what happens.
I don't know what I'm talking about, but I don't know what I'm talking about, but
We have PPL now coached yesterday. We had Lovers Rock saying he didn't really learn that much from yesterday's game.
This morning LaRoc was telling me you guys just all decided to forget about what happened yesterday,
but it seems like you guys actually learned a lot. So what value were you able to find from that energy series?
We didn't learn a lot. This is our normal. If we play our normal, the score and the match will be like
Basically, we've just forgotten about yesterday and what we remembered what we are doing.
That's all.
Thank you so much and can't wait to see the real BBL.
I love a little bit of a double down. I mean that's exactly what we're getting from a BBL here.
Feel like it's their own game they're focused on. It's pretty common to kind of hear that.
hear that but I've got to say they certainly walked the walk when it came
to Haven it felt like you're here on their attack side either running it aside
for you till or trying to fight to clear it and losing what do you want to start
living yeah I think the the biggest issue for if you're on this attack side
was not dealing with that utility you're talking about they kept on falling
apart in that area but it was also as we got later into this game more
issues for them where they're actually winning out a lot of these early
rounds and then it's just the BBL individualism bailing them out pushing them through and that's
exactly what the coach was talking about like how they played in the mea. I think that there were
many things that in the fury game like starting from the attack that they changed and that they
did differently they had some adaptations moving on to especially those a5s that we were
seeing for the side of a fury but then when things stopped around on to the second half
the fury was so successful understanding the initial plan for for BBL and so
slow in adapted into what they wanted to do. They got the opener in every single one of
the defender grounds, but so many of them ended up in being those very late post plans that
they were not able to retake from.
I think we can illustrate your point fantastically with our Hyper Rex Reflex moment of the match.
This is Alam in that second half, but just as you point it out, it's a great start
to the round. Alam is firing his 5-2, first kill, first death for the map here, but
But when it comes down to those clutch moments after all the positive reads we've seen from
Furia, he's not quite able to land a plane in these really important rounds.
Yeah, they were really struggling on the retakes here on the ASI.
Rose was playing an amazing game, we saw that in the same clutch.
And time was the biggest issue.
Also maybe the weaponry that they chose for some of those rounds was not tailored,
like all of the tools that they had was not tailored for the plan that they ended
up executing.
A lot of this game outside of just a macro was a fury who is getting out done in the team fights BBL
Constantly even when they were down numbers were finding moments to expose the player into a one-on-one and get to you before that
Quick trade can actually come in. I want to double back now to this side for conversation
Cuz it's so unique to EMEA and it's something that Americans have given up on sort of playing with and
Maybe lacking experience playing against me. It does feel like that rule stopping power was a problem for fury to get
from their attack side. Let's watch a couple of these rounds and look at how the
rotates are coming through. All of that Cypher Utah is still up and so in this
round, despite this great read from here to go back into that fight, the entirety of
BDL is there and ready to brawl. The same happened a little later in this game
where watch that map. There's a Yoru who can immediately be at A. There's two
players that are already there and because those trips are up the
rotates are in and it's BDL with all of the forces they need on this
site. You then go ahead and look it around where Furious says okay we need to break this
utility not allow the fast rotate and look at Lover's Rock standing behind the trip defending
it to get an opening pit. And I think that especially Breeze being the second map this
is a lot of what we're going to see. That utility helps Lover's Rock and the other
duelists as well so much to move around to have that confidence and the fact that
Furious was not dealing with it gave them so much security when we saw those pushes
in the mid-round. The garage control was always for the side of BBL.
Really quickly, Fnatic are another team who tried to play slower into BBL's side for
Util and try and clear, but that didn't seem like a word for them domestically.
Don't know, especially on Breeze, and as we're saying, thinking about the second map, because
of course now all the pressure in the world is going to be on Fiora's side.
I think that Fiora need to feign early pressure in one area to pull those rotations.
BBL rotates incredibly quickly, then you need to send a force back to deal with the Cyper
Util. You can't ignore it, or there'll be four players ready to brawl you.
Let's hear quickly what Shaw had to say ahead of map number two.
Jen here with Shaw of FuryA now coach the team looked a bit lost in the first half of Haven.
Shields of recovery in the second half as well. So when it comes to your first half what was going on?
Do you feel like it was the game plans that wasn't really working for you?
Or did you feel like you guys were paying way too much respect to what PBL were doing?
I think this is the main problem, we respect a lot.
I think we start in this game with a low energy and when we go back to the different side,
I think we have some good fights on the start of the map and we gamble a lot on some sites
and I think this put BBL in a comfortable zone to plant the spike and play in a good
way.
I think we don't fight in our terms, I think we fight in this day to day terms
And I think we talk about these specific moments right now because we need to change this in the next map
because we start on different side and Breeze is a pre-unilateral map for different side.
So control the game, take it back. Good luck and thank you.
Okay, Breeze is going to be up next on Madoka to get those with decent memories.
We'll recall it was Struggle City for Furia in their game against PRX, but it's a new day.
My concern is about the energy point that sure brings up.
I want to quote Nats and say,
are you saving that energy for the flight home?
You're not calling a timeout until pretty deep into the first half.
I'm wondering, are you not noticing your team are looking like Luster?
Yeah, I was very surprised that he said that because as you said,
it was not until round nine that he called the timeout.
If you say that you were struggling with that,
and that is that there's no balloon because of it,
why don't you close at close before?
Let's take a look at the agent select
because we were having the conversation
And Fira is going to double down on the Omen and the Neon here.
Yeah, I would have liked to see them change back to the Astro,
but they had so little time after that last match.
Going back to the energy conversation,
I saw more from Fira in that second half.
They got every first blood on defense,
and they had a good game plan to shut Lover's rock down.
Once the AWP was in the hands of Koala,
he did a good job of picking the BBL players,
those dualists that are so often alone on extremities.
And I think that can work again on Groups.
Alright, that's enough from us for now. Let's head back over to your casters.
Pantene Hypoq, take us in.
And I like what Mitch said then. What I guess Matt said as well is that
what are you saving it for now, Furia? Right, you are staring down the barrel of a gun.
Hopefully you're saving it here for a map pick where you're coming into the last two results.
Gotta be addressed at 13-2 loss, at 13-4 loss.
And now coming up against BBL who love to play this, probably, we talk about fast and
loose as sort of an approach.
This is probably the loosest map that BBL like to tap into that weirdness, right, the chaos.
So Furia for me, again, it was, it felt like in some situations on map once, a lack of
firepower.
The ideas were great.
They were going forward when they needed to, the challenging BBL, some of these more aggressive
set-ups, but it's a tall order now to replicate that on Breeze, Kevin, already
could have find the timing here behind this. He's gonna hear a couple of those
audio cues so he can just kind of buy this time a little hand, there it is,
strikes to the back and Arntzins down. Gualin, who might want to try and put his
body, no! It turns around, he maybe thought he had a window, he doesn't! It's
Shutting his face as BB are breaking furious these pistols have been absolutely shocking from furious. Yeah. Yeah really has oh man need to
Well, I mean, that's not many more chances to do it
But they need to address that starting on the back foot so often and yes
We could talk about around to flip through saw one on Haven, but
It's just not good enough
I think it's a good idea to
consider it. Obviously, domestic
performance as well. This just
seems so easy for BBL. Get on
the board. It's going to be
gutting. It actually has to be
gutting as well. Jenny like
what a reaction. They can't be
happy with themselves. They
know their capability. That's
the devastating part is knowing
how high you can achieve.
elimination game. There is no bigger pressure. Lloyd's up. It's going to be over one, better
from Furia. Showing a bit of resilience here. Can Nerv find a little bit of something? Yes,
he can! Okay, we've got two big wins here for Furia. Rose is going to try and at least
deny one of those aspects. If the Rock gets proactive, dangerous game is playing.
He could have gone down there, but finds a little bit of safety for a second and
He keeps it.
It's two left now.
Ewan Arson to try and make a recovery here.
Three members of BBL still alive and kicking.
So he's still to play with as well to slow this down.
You're going to be caught.
Lover's rock with a headshot.
Give me another.
OK.
OK.
All right, but again, I'll take that fury.
Be proactive.
Trying to cover the little plan in mind.
Hit that stack.
Isolate the player.
That's fine by me.
I know they're not meant to win those rounds, we'd love to see them turn it around but I'll take a little bit of those silver linings at this point.
Certainly looking for early positives to carry into Breeze here.
First buy round, see what the investment looks like on BBL and Morso on the other side.
There'll be rifles across the board, other than rows.
Coming that scope weapon.
Full shields though, so it's going to be difficult to find an opener.
There may be some chip damage.
Well, Anub identified very early on, and BBL already up mid.
Yeah, and they're going through this crunch pretty fast, right?
3-2 split straight on through.
Can the players on the site even survive? No!
A quick handling of Nerv.
The site should be somewhat accessible.
EU-handed!
Decay just does so much for him there.
Yeah, BBL's tempo is blistering here.
They are showing 0-5.
and Furia gonna try and play this back in with three the retakes were not really fantastic on Haven but Alan's gonna give him an option
and the number's still 6-0.
PRETTY!
That's the rock!
Put it on a show already, that's free for BBL.
I do not want to see Furia go quiet now Mike.
I do not want to see all that potential amount to nothing.
I want to see the grits, I want to see them persevere.
But as it stands, EBL just carry on this slow and steady march.
Already going to see key progress for Lough.
In particular, not necessarily going to have to rely on it with the financial situation that Furia in,
but already you feel like that snowball is just building, is opening three rounds.
They're making the right moves here again in a lesser purchase but we're going to go forward.
There's some information and a good read on the map.
That was locked though.
We're going to remove any sort of hope early on.
Okay nice, chip damage.
And then trying to extend further.
Man, he's hitting.
How is he getting to her about the last round as well?
I like the little window slip here from artsy though.
Oh God, they got it all in mind!
BBL just looking so well drilled.
And look, I know a lot of the Furio fans out there will be sitting there going,
God, you know, well, this feels almost unfair.
But BBL, these are five rookies too.
This is the first time they've ever been on a stage like this.
They haven't had to persevere time and time again.
They haven't run the same sort of road as someone like Koala Noob,
who's had that taste of what it could be like in the past
and had to fight back for it.
first time ever, stepping to these heights, and God, they are lapping it up right now.
Stepping up to the plate, a 4-0 star here, and again, just to come back to the ultimate,
it's already great progress, Hunters Fury available, 4-0s, LaRoc just one way from
the Bladestorm, and already hitting, and you said, back to back, two pieces, I
I don't just get deleted on the angle.
And again, it sucks to say, but Furia have to keep going forward.
Yes, they can't not. You don't want to see them back down.
It's like Hartzell is going to try and play here from the top of Pillar maybe to remove
first or second piece towards this choke point, but
But here again, you can see the shift of focus once more towards mid.
And I want to see if Guanyu gets any play in this,
because the problem is, look at this already, LaRoc's been able to slip into this.
Now I think it's going to turn a lot of eyes,
but I feel like BBL might be playing with that notion almost.
They want to force on these players away, make them feel discomfort.
Nerv's attention is now solely focused towards LaRoc.
He's pulled back a player on CT and now the pressure builds from B main.
main. Hansen still trying to deal with the rock here and oh god he's got a body
he's dropped now it's gone from bad to worse and he's following up this kid is
untouchable finally put down Alam putting up numbers but the site will be in the
hands of BBL and Gwaluw will have to pull off this retake with the operator
I'm not giving it a freebie here, you have to break back in, already Rose slipping a little
deeper here to catch potentially, here she wins out.
Okay this is the first time it feels like there was a bit of hope to this one, they
start building back in right, clearing close, Reven on the pillar, you're gonna take
a much longer route here, all newbs opportunities, looking pretty sparse for now, has to
play forward. Ah, he's getting timed on this creven dust man the shot, but he does and now Leutcher in the 1v2
play it to the right player to the left of the time on his side gonna get one and look at this composure from the young man
Desperation it's 5-0 BBL. Nothing is stopping them here
got to see a timeout here from Curia again even to just force BPL to slow down a little bit
beautiful shot for Koala but again I think he's maybe a quarter of a second off here
heartbreak early on here God man and this man's story Koala gets hard to not want to see him do
well you saw those tears you know what it means to these players to just get the
chance to be on the stage like this and it's similar on both sides but right now
one of them is 5-0 up to the good and the other is watching all of that hard
work all those high hopes dashed here here we are certainly discussing what
their coin base win condition will be a couple of volts to piece together here
Hunter's Fury certainly something I've got my eyes on and it's the investment around a couple of scopes potentially while they're still with the Operator
Helen will throw a rifle in the mix as well. I mean he can do with the old available for the next
And yet so often you want to talk about teams maybe playing a little slower a deeper setup somewhere to catch somebody
But really I want to see fury are going forward. I really do they can't let BBL
to continue to manipulate the map and the way that they're doing.
Time to jump.
This is it, isn't it?
I think we are reading into the potential.
Yeah.
It's quite not committed here, but Art's going to take control of A main.
Three bodies on the other side of this.
Okay, he's up for it.
the X factor. Already checked
on the layer of aggression
going to be sent back and
reset a little bit. Also still
posted up. What was locked on
the other side of this does
now have quality to get onto a
deeper angle in a main. It's
tense. It is and that is
on the connection 3 HP is going in for more. I mean, I guess you got to try and make something
happen. You've got sheriffs on the site. Luckily, Kuala Noobs made it here in time,
but they're pivoting. And Atsin's gone down. The Spikes got the green carpet rolled out.
They're in rotation! And it's a big shot on the way! BBL! Just bulldozering through.
They're so good at catching these rotations. Time and time again, Kuala Noobs. Still with
I miss here
God he wants it so bad. You can see it
Desperately trying to do something for his side. Kevin's back fill in this so it's just layers on layers
And nerves gonna find Rose. Okay. There's a chance here. Do they even think about it? Do they consider it? Does it make a difference?
Just checking in time, but they are putting everything behind this and it's a shot from go on a noob
These are the two players to try and spur on hope for Furia.
Nerve with masses of impact, Koala Noob with two.
This is what it takes.
They're going to have to do it every single round.
Need a couple more to chip away.
Got this buff of the BBL already have.
Again, this is just textbook BBL.
creating this pressure and they would have picked people apart in transition.
You can see he's talking about what it means to this guy.
I want it.
Yeah.
I mean he will fight with everything he's got.
Four of us here to play with for Furious.
They come out of this early exchange of rounds.
Pretty well situated now.
Well, Kevin, continuing to be a nuisance.
finding options, Nerv gonna try and fill the space.
He's ready for it.
Nicely done.
Again, between Nerv and Kwan, who they are trying here,
they're gonna die.
They will die on their feet.
And then they fall away from this.
Didn't like what he was feeling there,
playing from the back of the site.
And you can see EBL signed trying to manipulate
these rotations, see if they can maybe catch a player.
And they've left the rock posted on this B site.
A terrible threat, if unidentified.
Should be seen, should be heard.
Look at Lloyd's position though.
They've got options on both sides of the map here.
He is keeping two players very much posted on this.
When does the penny drop that it's going towards A?
One kill will give Lloyd to the pit to secure this plan
and secure a site hold potentially.
And it feels like a game of chicken on beat.
And it does feel like Furia finally said, OK, screw it.
We're going to have to get over here.
The spike's now down.
Yeah, the rock now will have a chance to slip up to top mid.
The Furia have to pick up the pace here.
Got lovers rocking towards double doors as well.
This is maybe what I'll wait for you on Kuala Lumpur
to get these little bit of a spot,
A bit of information in the paranoia, try and get him into the side, but Leiter's fine nerve.
Koala move again!
This guy will go down swinging if he's going down.
And this is Furia with grit, with determination, and with a fight still to be had.
Signs of stability here from Furia in some of these pacea, more chaotic grounds.
Again, it's just desperation from Loiter to get a bit down, but are you finding Akira
exactly the same moment at Kuala Lumpur somehow, on the backside of that CP?
This is your captain, really, right now.
This might be the hero to try and give some heart back to Furia.
It feels like he's just put on that cape and he's come to work here.
But again for BBL they've been close every time it's needed a hero to be here.
They keep doing it.
When does reality strike again?
Alt-star on the come-through for both teams.
Finance is getting a little bit shaky for BBL now.
Spine-up committed early on here in the mid-push.
Will be noted on the back of the drone but LaRocque doesn't care.
No fear.
Happy to go further forwards here.
Again, looking to sell this fake once more.
It didn't, but Lucas on the other side.
Kualnup will be the one waiting if they do end up going this side, but can Leroc do any damage?
Or has he done enough to be drawing these bodies here?
Well, the winner of the opportunity is almost closing now, because all the two players back towards top mid for Furia.
He's got his way out.
kill before dipping away. Oh, I'm just very from afar and you can see already the hunt is on. They are
closing in on middle here, loitering up on the site. Gua Lanu with a missed shot. Allam in support
watching the left side of Pila finds it. Prev and down beheaded. Gua Lanu again, that's brilliant
for the man of steel. Holding this together. Three left for BB up, but low lock is a problem.
Straight up, middle turns around. You can't do any more. 3v2, palm knot in either. Time
I'm yet to be on their side of a nerve's position.
Should be.
Whoa!
It should have been checkmate.
But the pieces are all over the board.
Shocked up, doesn't deny him.
Rosa's still alive.
Five HP or not, there is still a threat here.
Operator for Kwanubi is almost too much,
but it's got the job done again.
Lovers rock.
You're looking for something.
You can feel the tension mounting.
EU's got it.
You've got to say it. Fury round by round starting to show signs of life, belief back with this team.
As BBL, they actually look a little more hesitant, paranoid in some of these situations.
Fury, in my eyes, have done the hard work here. Sure, the score line is still favouring BBL.
That is so ridiculous to pose. Then to report the shock dart as well.
But yeah, already forcing BBL to slow down a little bit.
It's such a huge factor for Fury up.
You see a timeout called here from BBL.
Again, talk to our chip in the way
of that buffer they'd already created.
It's all but dwindled now.
Maybe going to be two players protected in the purchase,
but great work for Fury now.
three successful diffuses.
It's a coin-based win condition now for BBL.
We shift our focus back to them.
A turn of pace, maybe, if you read into those rounds,
great on map one on Maven.
And we're sort of winning out in terms of first engagements,
which is a tall order versus BBL.
Can they make the same read here on breeze coming out
of a BBL timeout.
You have the neural theft,
have the Hunters Fury available.
We'll be able to get as close to all rifles
considering the buy.
Kuala Nui is starting to excel now on this operator.
And speaking of that, Alan will throw another in the mix.
Then look at the pounce on what is some hesitation
on the side of BBL.
They slow arounds and continue to find these picks.
Okay, forced to wait, they use calling for help.
They are coming, they are at the door, they're at the double doors, slowed down, great stall here.
Gwaldiv can now be on red alert. They've dealt with that first wave of aggression, but furiously careful.
They're looking back into middle of the missed shot.
Alan, so close but yet so far, but to the second time of asking he lands it,
They are starting to match the pace now from BBL.
They're starting to keep control,
read those inserts potentially towards a main.
BBL in that next attempt towards the site.
Are you here enough?
Ready, Orc?
They're both going to find kills.
Stamming until then, though, Roaster
with a little bit of danger to his name.
Mark could be very much a high potential
as Roast wants to play.
He wants to get amongst them.
He wants to do some damage here,
give them a win, Khan, he's got one, a second's not going to be hard as Karevon left in a 1v2,
one to the left and one in front, there it is, Alan the one this time to share the spotlight.
Bafuria have found their salvation here Mike, they found something that works and BBL are yet to find a solution.
Another great read coming out of the time out as well.
Absolutely nailing this early pressure to prevent BBL from just exploding through
double doors. I guess you can see the intention of BBL. Cats to be rotation. Cats
somebody transitioning into mid. Here we are starting to figure things out now.
The problem-solving looking a little better for them.
I mean somehow you know still musted together a buy out of that the plan obviously swaying
It's five to five. We've got a game on our hands.
What a resurgence here from Furia.
We be expecting a little bit of freedom here on the way in.
Nervous said, played this pocket before but unnoted.
And we've been here in Lovers Rock, just not checking.
I'm not sure if Huqor picks a little outside of the wall there, but...
Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter. It wasn't
checked. God, the difference a
couple of rounds can make. It
feels like day and night between
these teams, but the fight
doesn't stop. It's a five man
play towards a and Furia here.
They're holding this down again
to be brave after being
basically bullied in those first
couple of rounds. Easier said
than done as Koala knew still
It's not difficult to not get isolated.
Difficult to really pin down this engagement in mid.
It's Lover's Rock, really, with the only solid range.
And Arsenal just removing Crevin here.
Take flight.
Trying to follow through.
Already furious with a decent understanding
of where BBL are positioned here.
It just feels like that kind of settling of the momentum
to the degree, but it's in the favour of fury at this time.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely in the hands. They're starting to really get a read on the tempo that's coming out.
The kind of understanding. They're happy to leave nerve posted on this.
Now, again, he does have help in the form of you, so he's not alone in this endeavor.
He should. I imagine he has at least one here.
OK. OK. I have the soldier nerve.
I'm looking at three.
You should be comfortable to find it.
and going to note the spike there so going to make Rose have to try and work this one out.
Not going to happen. Furia, they find a lead here. It feels like a very uphill game to get to this point.
They could close out this half with a lovely scoreline. Absolutely. Take a 6-6 even every day of the week.
I'm not sure if they're going to commit to them yet, oh yeah it's three, it's three,
okay.
I mean yeah, an attacking round versus three ops and a pit for PBL.
That's a good man fuel, man.
E you, good one.
Oh, OK, Gwammy's gone down.
The floodgates are open, and NERP might be surrounded here.
You can see Furio quick to try and make up for this potential
problem.
The Rock can't quite land the knives,
and NERP gets to swing, takes away Rose,
driven on the reaction.
This could be a bloodbath, isn't it?
BB L, they're taking in their heels this time.
E you, the last one standing.
You got what it takes for a 1v2 right now.
Good thing the class previous slate.
certainly was.
Oh, that is something else!
A red bull clutch to close and Buria get themselves up to 7.
I've got to say it, he sits at 8-5, but Kowalunu, they're hero in my mind in this half.
The spot that ignited hope with Buria to give them a goddamn chance at this,
but BBL are far from done.
Let's go!
Red Bull gives you wings!
The sound of Santiago!
Now over here.
I want to see everyone with their phones up.
The light is on.
How is the sound of Santiago?
I'm once again asking Furia to please try and win a pistol Michael.
Please!
Please!
Please!
The bar is so low!
Even the crowd's going for it!
Just one!
It makes the game so much easier!
I promise you!
But back to business, it's 7-5.
Operators were apparently the name of the game, right?
It gave Furia a huge chance back into this, and they took it with both hands.
Absolutely, because this is one of the few times we've seen BBL hesitant, right?
Back is shying away from some of these engagements.
It's just the perfect recipe for
Furia to string together seven
unanswered rounds.
The sideswap here.
You yell certainly.
We look to get ourselves back in early here.
It's about to.
It's not pretty.
It's fine.
43.
I see where they took that.
Don't.
Don't.
They're fine. This is good.
They can get the car. They'll have a time on the side.
Yeah.
The while has got plenty of HP left.
Oh fuck.
It's good.
There we go.
Exactly. Right.
Everything is looking good.
Everything.
This could be eight.
Absolutely worthy, and we are walking back in here, obviously already held here by EU.
Fury are you going to know, because they've explored the backside?
They know everything, they've got the info, this is great stuff.
Look at the HP on the rock, you can't do anything now.
He's denying this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, they've done it! They've already got it done it!
A pistol round for Fury!
It felt like he was evading them this entire time, up to eight.
A buffer now to play with.
We need the pistol.
Would you give us the pistol?
Yeah, I agree.
You really do.
I do fear Oddson was like, I'm going to go get it myself.
Yeah, I'm going to go get two.
I only had two before this, but we really need that pistol.
I'm going to double down. I'm doubling down.
I got you. I got you. He's up for it.
There it is.
Okay.
There's no easy games here in Santiago, is there?
Is PBL look to kind of get a little tricky down there?
No!
No, the rock!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're not meant to get to.
Oh, God.
They've got the spike down there.
Not going to be able to press you back behind this smoke, but you've got to be conscious
now of Nerv's position.
Maybe I'm reading the possibility somebody could have slipped the net.
We'll retreat back into spawn.
We haven't found an upgrade off that. The only saving grace.
Yes.
Issue B.
They might, I mean they're stacking towards A but they might just be able to get behind this if they get curious towards double doors.
It's a gamble stack for a reason, right?
That's all it is.
Don't hear whispers yet, the A's.
Yeah, still have the camera as well.
So we'll get confirmation early enough on B.
You're showing caution, probably rightly so.
You don't know quite where that stack's gone to.
Now they know.
Yeah, okay.
Still.
Careful.
There's the plant.
That's it.
Gonna be on the deeper line, but I don't think it was baseball too far.
You don't let anything go on treated
It's not down guys guys
You got a bomb oh no furia not like this. I can't let it happen like this alum
Oh, God, he's gone caught. Oh, it's this could be a disaster
Odds in has to be frugal in the spending of those bullets does well
It's all down and up, no!
An absolute fumble!
PDL!
Gonna absolutely break them in two from that.
That's six rounds.
And Mastercard thrifty there for them.
And that's not what you wanted to see.
It just takes them so long
to get towards the site here.
Again, a cancel on the first plant.
I won't necessarily say that's the fix to this solution, because
the PBL gets so damn close to the site.
Then there's no possibility to retreat, get a complimentary angle to catch PBL.
On the approach back and around to flip.
Look at the money.
Look at the absolute state of it.
PBL.
Oh, okay.
A HP somehow.
He's still breathing.
Now, the question is for how long?
A shock dart.
Uh, so I breeze.
Oh my god, he's making it in a second!
Hello?
A trade?
Uh, any, any traders?
No, okay.
Lloyd gets to get away.
Fury are trying to maybe gap-close on that now.
They at least get the Vandal back, but for a mere moment,
as Lorok's gonna find you.
They did the site as the exchange, but look at the wrap.
Look at the positioning coming out from Lorok.
He's already on his journey.
Nice note from Nerv there.
Identify it quickly.
To be all the way back out from our seat.
We should be able to clear and make sure that they know that Lorax is not around,
but Gualnud is still going to have to overdeliver here. They have sheriffs.
They have so little to play within this.
Every second they pass, this feels like a mercy from BBL.
Great shot from Gualnud.
But Flash High looks for more, not going to see it.
It's indicative, it's telling as arts in.
Not in a great position here.
get himself up to a bladestorm, but BBL gonna be kicking themselves here Rose.
A sleep of the will man. Yeah. It's not often you see him of all people. Yep. Complacent
in those situations. That's the one that really
is going to sting. Rips this apart for BBL. Nice. Okay. And I guess before the operator
That's pretty dangerous and look at the space they have in middle is they're gonna try and crunch be this could be a
Geartie coming down on them. We're all getting closer that curiosity sign a peak
But they are gonna be looking towards be made there it is
Strikes in the back and Alan goes down and now where do they find comfort? I don't think they do
Trying to get the spike down, but fury look like they have no stability to fall back on
This is timing on this smoke as well. So
You have to pause rose again. Oh my God gets behind this
is back and forth is killing me.
You can see him screaming as well.
To play off him, wait for the plant.
Forced to hand a furia.
Always being tested.
Aston is reading it correctly.
He's not getting in play.
It is that spike sound.
Scalp of the smoke elsewhere.
It's going to open up Rose to capitalize on this.
No complimentary angle if you have to transition to site.
What a difference in discipline we're seeing here, Mike.
It's so tense. Rose getting curious.
Ooh, but he's checking. He still knows they're there.
So the smoke is going to be committed towards B main.
Aldron is a reaction.
20 seconds. We're still waiting for the plant.
That is the key factor.
That is what BBL will wait for.
That is their green light to go.
A little bit of a look.
And Fury, I know they're surrounded.
They are waiting for this.
They are trying for something to go on their side.
That's the first domino to potentially fall.
And Arleson keeps bringing it down.
The Rockland springs into action.
5 seconds time is a factor now and it's the deciding factor as Nerve can do no more back and forth we go.
This is unbelievable Lauren. I mean the setup here from BBL is beautiful. Operator paying off massively the Bladestorm from the Rock
And Furia just left scrambling for a response.
They looked paralyzed in that position then.
You saw it, they were hoping for an overstep, a chance to be given.
And nothing is given at this level, it's only earned.
Furia still with the lead, but BBL are far from out of it yet.
Furia react in kind. Can they keep going?
Well, they're going to try.
Now I'm trying to take that space on the site, try and be proactive, but overall it's a great trade for Kuala Lumpur, straight there with him, not letting it go.
Untreated, he's trying to put up numbers, a 3v3, but still no point, and it's with you here, but be careful, it's time to pivot, it's time to look elsewhere.
I was going to say, look where Artsy's got to.
I like that, I really like that.
Is he going to be looking for this, though?
Shut down here, opens up the map now for Furia.
I thought this is an unbelievable game, sheer pandemonium, no matter the buy!
There's Rock.
He's on a clear site, gonna see nothing here.
Penny should drop.
Rock still has that fandom, still sitting frity on HP with the full shield.
Nerv, lovely shot, doesn't need to overextend, stay too long.
That's your tag and the info.
Seer of the Art Team posted up towards spawn.
It's a bit... I get a bit nervous with this light on the site
I think it's pretty far away.
If there's no contact here,
maybe I'll still be checking back behind them.
They've got the dart back for you.
I like that.
Honk should be...
I don't think it's super favourable, but...
Honk's a fury here, though.
Yeah, that should be where it kind of starts and ends.
And I'll see it again.
That slip of position.
Fantastic.
Still gonna try and be a nuisance.
I mean, Mastercard are getting
there. Absolute money's worth
today. The back and forth
bike is just unbelievable.
Quite believe it. I think we've
ever seen this change like this
in terms of thrifties back to
back. Again, though, it's just
such a positive to see Furious
to see Furious still happy to
roll out this pace. Challenge
PBL early on in the round. And
they're rewarded once more.
They're third of the half. Now
a chance for somebody pleased
to stabilize. He's got a
guardian that might be enough
now. Who knows? Who knows
and you stabilize. You have better weapons. You have a nice ult with EU. And you're clear.
Boiter really early. Lovers rock gets no play. Great. Okay, noted. Gonna be slowed down though.
Now they're going to start rotating. So Lover's Rock's cleared, Void's has been noted, the stun...
Actually not as effective but they're lovely clear, very good work.
So now Rose and Creven, last two alive, 4v2.
Yep.
Yep.
1v3.
I'm scared, I'm scared.
I'm scared because it shouldn't be a problem.
But the way these have gone, it makes you doubt.
Yeah, it's what they're there.
Yeah, so it should kind of button everything up here.
It'd be very hard to capitalize on the three.
Just looking for chances and connect to Inferior.
Give them it, and they go.
So stability.
It took quite a few rounds to get here, though.
And they do get to 11.
Inferior finding their footing.
Somehow, some way.
The first follow-up round we've seen here.
Look at the old, uh, BBL had to leave.
Yeah, yeah, because it's been such a back-and-forth exchange.
Everything but the blade saw, which was used earlier on anyway.
But now I have to build back in...
...not much in terms of a margin for error here for BBL.
It's often we talk about them in this sort of situation either.
And I don't just mean the score line,
in terms of the hesitation being thrown off their game plan, thrown off that mentality that they have towards the game.
Llorac still just putting numbers up. Llorac a much, much slower game from him.
Llorac currently sitting at 23 and 14.
He's a scary player. They really are. And again, I think during that EMEA run, we were kind of questioning,
We didn't see BBL having to problem solve from behind, I guess, was the best way to put it.
They did really well overall.
We saw a couple of games when they got close.
Can't see that actual depth to them.
Yeah, we saw the...
We saw, I don't want to say coin flippy, but more risky approaches to rounds.
We never saw them actually hesitate.
We didn't see them actually have to change up their approach overall.
They absolutely have done here.
Obviously, I don't think we wouldn't see an example such as losing seven rounds in a row.
Yes, the team.
It's a new territory.
The five rookies, the sound on the BBL side.
Buria have fought for this.
They fought hard to get this scoreline,
even close to where it is.
So this is far from over.
It's Koala Noob looking to be the one to instigate.
Mothers Rock will take his way out of sight,
and they'll exchange positions.
No connection for EU here.
and the tag at the end.
This is so good to have the Huntsman's Fury.
Only Damage onto Rose here.
Knuckles Rock looking to set in motion.
The Huntsman's doing on the other side here.
He didn't get all the kills.
How? How is he lined up like this?
Alan trying to be as impactful as he can be.
Great work from here on the back lines.
And now he can maybe punish that cross.
Because Alan looks dead to rights.
They can't quite gap closer than yet.
Chuck Darken forced him.
Oh, God, I thought he was dead.
No, he's still alive.
How is he living through this?
Ah!
Outstanding from the man!
What a sensational round from Allen.
Down to just a lick of HB, the shot-dark, falling short.
Adjusts when you need him to stand up.
Finds a 4K here.
God, look at this.
That point now for Furia, still going to see a bite of sorts from BBL.
Appear at the loiter, but it's nerve to invest this towards A main.
A switch up here for BBL early.
the defensive set up. Here you're looking to play in here, spotted on the cross-through.
At this time, not going to make it out alive here. No opportunities for him to do the
damage that he did before. And BBL, control that first wave. Really well now. He's
back towards the pit of
my eyes go towards double doors here already got the rock in a position to deny that transition to sight but three bodies behind that for fury up.
He has to stay on this. He's the one who holds the keys to this site. And that's an ambitious
play Koala Noob. Trying to hit that fake clone through but it's not going to work out here
as LaRoc is. No, actually.
Audine!
How am I going to win that?
Okay, suddenly the site's open! Furia! I don't know how you've done this one
when the lock now has to kick into gear, kick into action.
Look at him trying to shut down artsy,
and he was the one to get rose down.
It's 2v2, 14 seconds, no plan yet to be had.
He's still hunting them down, he denies the attempt.
He's still trying to be a problem,
a nuisance on the side, five seconds.
They need the plan, and it's denied.
Very uproke, another final hurdle there.
Maybe out just about keeping it together.
just keeping their head above Waterloran. Another crazy round.
The Rock for me is a hero in that.
It's knocking on the door of 30 kills here on Breeze.
Look at him having an insane nap two previously.
Repeating a here, Koala.
Caught here in the bay play out from double doors.
And somehow, someway, this ace-type hold
Robins intact. Poor BBL.
Did they fight back now?
The pit for Nerve.
The ultimate available.
Across the board here.
Very curious towards the choke point but
in the lockup, posted pretty deep.
back towards mid here. The
smoke down towards double doors
will prevent LaRocque from
potentially getting behind this
and almost looking to dig their
heels in on site. Well, Crevin
and Lovers Rock.
They may be cast somebody on
these kill tricks once more.
Oh, you will fall. That's a
big win for LaRocque there.
That does free up the rotations
but they're trying to hold on
the back of the site here.
Unwilling to relent, that's going to be another player found, BBL.
Let's not stream this one together at all today, it ain't pretty.
Let's get Crevin' down, but 2v4.
Brother's rock, slippery to pin down, he shouldn't be here, they have no idea about it.
He may not even be relevant to the alt, can't be BBL.
They are not done yet, Mike. There is still hope alive with this side.
the ball is standing as well.
So, a chance to build a bit of a cushion
to swing together some rounds.
Again, the timing of EU falling here.
It's really crucial for VBL to then
shift their eyes back towards B.
Crevin does so well.
Under a ton of pressure,
Lubbers Rock able to shine in that situation.
When nobody's looking his way.
Hey look, we learned in the early round it doesn't really seem to matter the pie, so keep your eyes trained on this dyspheria
That's it now. So close on that but up as well. Nice. You're behind the spam
Getting anyone else out is gonna be the hard part right look at that little crossfire on site the contact of Loiter
Should then play in the swing Rose actually in a bit of a predicament now. Does he get punished on this?
Oh my god, wait, it's not safe yet.
It's still pretty tense on the site itself,
but they're surrounded and BBL keeping themselves
in the right place at the right time.
What?
You shouldn't be getting too there.
And there's still a minute to play with.
They can reset.
Oh, no, they can't!
Paul on the backpedal.
LeRocke gonna polish Alan,
trying to just get out of there.
Oh, didn't get upgrade.
He's got the pit, so if he gets across to it,
he finds a plant,
he's got a bucky to play inside,
but only 32 HP, Lauren.
And the setup is still here as well, Creven still has all of his U2 on site, this is really hard for Nerf.
I think that's going to be an awareness he's going to figure out now.
Oh my god, the orb bounce back!
The orb bounce back!
Brutality as BBL closing in on the scoreline, they made it up to 10.
This is getting dangerous.
31 kills for the rock.
and a still threat in a game 2 kills here. What?
It's not meant to happen.
What?
BBL, double digits now, 3 rounds in succession,
another potentially to break the bank of fury.
What did I say to you? Alan's found Lovers Rock!
It's game on now, the floodgates are open and the ace looks vulnerable.
with a big play, look at the pitch towards the rock, which is for the absolute heavyweight
of this PBL side, but Furia finds in form as they need it, Leite and Greven, the last
two alive, and a godsend of a pace change, might open up the chance of map 3 now, Greven
is on the receiving end and what do you know about devotion and desire? Furia manifesting
MAP 3! We are going the distance! Abyss on the horizon! This is the game we wanted!
Yeah, yeah
I can tell you mine
Every moment
Relax, I'm on my way
I wanna make it
I can't stay back
I hope
Things get on my body
Stick to me like I'm feeling it
I hope
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For example, the sound of Sova's dart landing on a wall prior to scanning is a critical
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Once that window closes, the sound of the dart scanning becomes standard.
Our most recent audio updates also move the scanning sound to come from the edge
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This should give a more clear audio warning when you're close to getting scammed.
back everybody to the Spasio Riosco where the energy has been at peak ever since the doors open today
and I feel like that's justified right now. We're Furia breaking their way back in the series. We're
of course surrounded by a fantastic cosplays here in person but we're going to talk about what we
just saw there because it finally seems Furia have found their footing after losing yet another
pistol and dropping the first five rounds of priest. The start to this game was so rough
for them but where they bounced back was doubling down on a similar game plan to map one which
which is leaning heavy on the operator on their defensive side.
VBL, more than any other team, separates their duelists
and likes individually fighting for extremities.
So when Feria bought into this double off composition,
it did great work to cut those players down,
who very often aren't using a ton of utility
to take that space because they're so separated.
I wouldn't blame people for think that this map was going to go all the way,
especially after the way that we saw Haven,
but the operator plays sometimes two, even three.
As you're saying, finding and isolating those skills, just finding those players individually,
makes such a huge difference. Also for the side of the confidence that we were seeing,
Fiora getting on the stage and just think about how it went, the amount of Ecos that we saw,
how crazy that first half was. Because do not forget, BBL started off super strong on this second map.
And Fiora finally win the second pistol, first pistol rather, of Master Santiago.
And it looks like they go to a good start, but all of a sudden these two teams are equaling each other.
But it does feel like the firepower is much more present for Furia.
Something that we felt lacked in some of his clutch scenarios on Haven.
Even in the second half of Havenite, it was Furia getting every single opening kill.
But they couldn't close these rounds out.
They were losing clutch after clutch.
This is a different story.
Furia looked confident again.
They got eco'd twice, locked it off both times, and came up with data.
Not only a good game plan, but had the individuals performing as well to immediately reply.
And I think that is so important because in Hayden we saw Koala having some of the rounds where he was a little bit lost
And on this one, I think that especially on those first operator rounds
He was such a different maker and I have to say we have to say the same for artsy
Not only the attitude that he was given on stage with that sheriff and whatnot
But time after time when those rounds like oh video got an opener. Oh, this is you know
This is going to continue going the distance
He was the one to show up too big place from Martin in that second half that helped close it out
One it's their eco where he's lurking up top mid. It's a pick there and then TP's back
maybe in the post plant to ensure that round and then very last round of the game
They go for that hard A hit and he's TPing into that new corner where Halls used to be and pinching the players
Adalim runs in on the knee and a very nice individual place for him.
Feels like positionally Artsin was really at his best in that game. Nice to see that energy.
I thought Alem also someone we've got to mention because
quite a little bit on the first map but it's part of this double operator setup
was really impactful especially against a single controller comp or Furia but
was able to stand on his own two feet in the clutch. It's about time we saw him get involved.
Yeah absolutely I think that round after round here it was that they can come back
and do not get me wrong we also saw the rounds where the credit at the
beginning again running out of time not being able to have what it takes to
bounce back from that and be so consistent now we have to think about
about that third map and how things are going to roll out on Abyss.
It's such an interesting one to me. It's one both teams have been confident on. We just watched
yesterday. BBL decimated NRG on this map. It was the best example in that series of them
executing on their style well on the attacking side. They had constant control of mid,
had their newest taking the extremities very well and Rose was calling some super creative
stuff cooked in our gym. Yeah there are two players that for me I am looking at
assuming that we do not see changes in the composition for Fiora because we
have not seen them yet played in Santiago and maybe they decided to swap
something around. One is Nerve he has been playing by perfect the entirety of
the tournament. We can assume that he's going to go on the deco. When we
speak about the information gathering and how important it is for this how
important it is and should be to shut in Lovers Rock and La Rock down
very important and at the same time on the other side I'm looking at
He's having a very, very good tournament, especially compared to what he was doing back in the NBA.
And I think that his pressure on Mets should be the difference maker on the attack.
What I want to see from Furia is proactive reef lures with this double drone comp.
It's very similar to what NRG plays on this map as well.
Once we switch sides, Koala is so impactful on this Omen as a hard anchor player.
So let me see from Koala now, like over the years that we are the Omen Op'ing,
I'm not even sure what that is.
I'm not even sure what that is.
Remember this is a very team that will be able to beat both MIBR and G2 on this map.
And pick up the half planted here in Santiago again.
But you should expect them to look good.
But it's comfortable. They're coming off of a clean win on Breeze.
And this is where pressure really applies for BBL.
They should have beaten NLT. They should be in the upper bracket right now.
But instead, they just had not two turned on them.
And they're at risk of elimination here.
here with no match one.
Anchor is the second map for Lovers Rock as well,
being shut down time and time again.
He has a shot at redemption now.
Something I'm looking out for, though, a lot, especially
when we see VBL on the attack side
is how they push up the map and take all extremities
and even get crevend right up mid.
That's a risky playstyle, I feel that it's going to depend
on Lovers Rock to win a lot of those solo scenarios.
He will.
And if it's furious on defense,
I'd expect a similar game plan of leaning on that off
and trying to punish solo duelists on the extremities.
There you have it, folks. Time to jump in with a side-map of this series.
It's BVLE Sports vs. Furia for survival.
And of course, it's Pansy and Hypoch on the call.
And this has turned into such a tantalising prospect between these two.
Seeing the best of them from map one, map two here,
forced their limits and elevating further.
And we saw that back and forth exchange in map two.
Mike, neither willing to relent,
but Furia would just that bit more to give for map three.
whole new start to things. It is in a stronghold for Furia undefeated here in
2026. PBL 3-1 obviously the previous performance versus NRG certainly a
positive to build upon but this composition, Furia have to address
PBL's ability to go exploring shut down that pro activity. So it will be PBL
starting on the defensive side.
And you're right, just an insane layup here
for the culmination of this series.
Goalicy lovers rock step up.
Rock again shining in a map 2 performance.
A little bit of a delay, but sure.
We'll get there, we'll get straight into game.
And it's like be beyond the other side sit a little bit cleaner in that description
I think but the fact that we're seeing this quality from them is
Unbelievable and it almost feels unfair that we have to say goodbye to one of these two
It is yeah, cuz furious really impressed me in the opening series. It was so good to see them come out
Swing in and a match up that I think and we talked about I even said I didn't want to talk too much in terms of the
selection of teams but you're
Obviously with a tough draw to then come and play BBL for elimination
There's no rest for the week. I don't think there is
Many ways you can give yourself an easy game technically, but again when you face someone like what paper X or energy
But either of these teams that's where they started. We have to get one in Mike
It's official now as the stage gone red
Nice nice
But again, it's one of those things.
At this level of competition, there isn't really easy roads.
And I think they started in the hardest point, though.
But as I said, it's just like, hey, they faced each other this quick.
I don't know.
I really want to see more from both.
Yeah, I do.
Key for me is, like I said, BBL being
put into a position where you haven't actually
seen many opportunities.
And I think just because it's going to take an extra second
You can see them sorting out on the stage,
we'll treat you playing along.
Now, home to keep you guys entertained,
because attention span is a thing we are lacking these days.
We've got a lovely little good look for you
to hit EU scores on the importance of the adaptability
from the current mid-time.
No matter if you're a new player or an experienced player,
you just need to adapt to the double bluest meta.
All right, first clip, 4-6.
I'm all the way over our day.
It looks like there's going to be a C split here.
Playing against cops like these,
there's going to be a lot of chaos in the rounds,
You know, Phoenix is running out, flashing, Eurus flashing, Fades prowling.
The entire meta is basically revolving around chaos.
When you're playing agents like on our team, it's definitely a lot less self-sufficient.
So in a moment like this, we need to rely on each other a lot more.
I don't know what something was doing there, that was interesting.
I'm rotating in through C, I remember just calming.
Chills are chill, I have drone.
Because we're clearly in like a really bad spot, you know, we're all four stuck CT behind a smoke.
So this guy fights with all the UTIL, but I tagged him.
So I'm Odin spamming, just like Brock.
Spam this guy window for someone who's HPA.
We're chillin', we win the round, hit some shots.
Ah!
If you want to be like a top competitor in Valorant,
I feel like you need to adapt permanently to the meta,
to the agents, to the rounds happening in front of you.
If you don't adapt, you're just gonna lose.
Well, I hope we've all learned something today.
Yeah.
I mean, this...
Particularly in this matchup as well,
BBL don't like to run the same things over and over again.
We talk about their ethos, their overall approach.
There are similarities, but E is absolutely right.
You have to adapt to what you're faced with
at the start of every single round.
BBL are gonna have three bodies here
to potentially contest this pacing hit towards A.
And look at the layers on this one.
The Kravon perfectly positioned
fine Alem on that first player out.
You can see that trip there almost being the death
Now the reveal might have been but no again somehow Furia get away. I mean they are bruised, but they are still alive
They slip elsewhere from BVL
maybe
Roses curiosity towards mid, but I was rocked now on the other side of the map
A couple of members of fury ahead of his way fuel so I know of down at 5 HP the rest of fury tagged up a little bit
Still for standing for them
kick in four kills and there is no access to that A site today.
Heartbreaking to watch the minimap there for Curia.
Figures if they've done the hard work,
Crevin's just happy to sit inside this smoke.
We're deterring now for Alan in terms of the approach onto site.
This is farming some freebies here in the pistol.
The PBO on the board here in the decider.
And look at the Minimap.
Furia might just look to repeat.
Rinse and repeat the same approach here.
One less body to contest, but how long?
Yeah, with the weapon advantage now it's bleak.
Yeah, it is.
You're hoping to get away with something
but that parallel timing is unbelievable.
again, it's very old God. It one is in a horrible position here. Yeah, this is just a blender. It is comfort for BBL
feeling none of
furious fire from map to
Dream start and the pistol round and follow-up that we've kind of got to expect
Well, a few round two flips, but yeah
again
We're struggling this aspect of getting off to a good start and a half
two members able to just farm
up the lion's share of this old
progress between Greben and
Loiter.
Switch up now.
Funfuria.
It's quite not committed here, so
just send out some early probes
towards B.
Yeah.
by round. Well, it doesn't seem
like much of a hindrance to him,
does it? Apparently, lovers rock.
Barely got a bit of play in this
though. Try and re capitalise on
the area that almost will gift
it over for fury. They have a man
to the good here. This is lovely.
They can start working that map
still about a minute to play with
and as much as we've credited
BBL for those rotations and being
in the right place at the right
time, it's going to be very
hard to be able to achieve that
now. Still got a comfy set up towards a careful down the span but able to avoid any damage.
Exploration towards mid here not yet considered by BBL. Yeah he is all dead. He should be
dead to rights. You can see Alan trying to just hunt him down. Should set up that
second string. No, they're pivoting back again. Rose now. Oh, they catch two in rotation. And
our easiest position has to kick into effect, and it does. Clutching the play is trying to
make it back from B, so we're in a bit of a weird position now. Court in between where
they want to be and where they're going. Krevon on the swing, going to take down
with a spike here. Krevon's position is pretty powerful in this. I mean, 12 seconds.
He can just deny it from this, and he can go for a run now. Five seconds. All
All he has to do is breathe and he's waving him goodbye, waving about the rounds.
Graven, that is cruelty.
Bonus conversion here for BBL, compounding that early...
Well, the early issues of fury I have faced in terms of getting off the starting but Rose,
the second kill here, just outrageous.
That's the double headshot.
the ball rolling here for BBL.
Seven to zero for Craven to. Yeah.
And again, here's a highlight
player on this map. Not
necessarily on the defense. We
know he's able to achieve
domestically the attack inside
early operating here for lovers
raw out of all the things to
exchange on the site though.
plan from this which isn't too bad considering the pouches they're on they've done well open
plant as well there's plenty of options you are looking for silver lining here feeling ambitious
at the best of times but oh dear that's not it that's not it at all and now it's going
terribly wrong what has just happened there it's a 4v3 euquan who were nerve probably
left a little rattled after that.
Got some stall here at least, Nerv.
Need to use it pretty soon though.
Gonna tank it up to at least half.
That's not bad.
Another tap on, another look.
And it's Kuala Lumpur.
Try and keep this one in check here.
They are diffusing right now under their noses.
Fiora are gonna be kicking themselves for that.
Well, that's the way with this thing of that.
I'm sure how his funds will lie.
Yeah, it's not gonna be comfortable. You see what we brought into that one, but it's a 4-0 start for BBL
Oh, he's right in front of him. I thought he was further up. I thought he was, yeah, he was
posh it up a little deeper with Allen. I believe on the buck here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's where I
thought he might have just got caught accidentally or... Oh, man. That would have been such a big
to use as well. Okay, it's four zero. Fury up. You're going to need to kind of
wake up a little bit here because BBL is going to start feeling this game is very much there.
Is Alan still trying to take some great space in great work alongside nerve for the reward there
into its lighter and the punch is perfect. Finding all the space on the side should get a good
post plan here up against three. Rock looks to try and get to work early. Look how fast he is
on this. A complete surprise for Alan. It's a little bit late to the party. Oh, it's time
to go wrong here. Leroc could be devastating in a bloke, sets up the swing, goes back for
second seven bullets. It's the reload where's the rest of BBL. It's even on now. Oh, Leroc,
that's three. He's still up Rose to maybe succeed in this. I don't want to get tricky
on the TP, but I don't know if he's even heard. Rose. He's going to get half there.
wrap around Iqbalanou, trying to go up and above.
You've got to check it! You've got to check it!
It does! Iqbalanou again!
The one to get Furia on the board.
Another turn of pace here from Furia.
Not shying away from this aggression, this chaos.
They stick the landing.
They're going to go very dicey,
a costly round in terms of the repurchase.
To follow on here.
to get off the starting blocks.
But a very different start here as well, looking at the setup that we've got over towards that
B site.
Yep, to get off the starting blocks.
But a very different start here as well, looking at the setup that we've got over towards that B-Site.
It doesn't actually get fully checked or cleared.
Now it should be good to go, but I want to see if anyone's going to struggle on the way up.
I don't think so, so...
But still, Furia...
I don't know if there's the same deal again on Neutra.
That's the second time in a row that that's happened.
I think you can check behind it, but
it feels like Furia happy with this early exchange.
They don't get the side. They don't get the
plan yet, but they've already dropped Loiter.
Get a bit of a gap here, but still a
trip to deal with.
Alan previously caught by that, but able to
recall back out.
No damage done yet to anybody on
the side of Furia. Lovers rock now on the
hunt.
We'll tuck in now, yeah, we'll tuck in
and wait for contact towards site.
I think it was last time
I think it was last time Oddson got caught watching this, this time he's going to succeed.
That was, you know, the Hunter's Fury that came down the action cost of his life,
and the swing on the side felt desperate, and it's not going to work out.
Fury's patience, pain, dividends, beautifully done.
That is composure we haven't seen from him yet.
Sly overstepped here in a position to really do damage behind this side execution.
Fury, I maybe have found a point of weakness they would feel.
Well, look at that. Lovely.
Stopping out from the smoke.
Like I said, it had carbon cocking if you killed previously.
Fury up.
We've got a second on the board early here.
It's done enough to quell the purchase too.
You're going to have a chair of Bucky Guardian.
It means nothing to me after all this.
No, I don't look.
It means nothing to me.
Up and hurt in the past.
Yeah, I'm sort of on with you, it's quite fine.
Equal footing here of around seven?
Yes, absolutely.
You can see what Fury are doing, they're very understanding of the economy, but aggression could be kind of a...
I mean, they must have discussed it.
Again, sure, coming out with the map wins, sorry, but...
A wild exchange.
Nonetheless, nerve will get off the place of the whereabouts.
You're kind of expecting an overreaction on contact as well if they are on a lighter purchase, right?
Like that might draw an extra body quicker than normal.
But actually, look at what Kevin's doing.
They're playing just on the edge of that smoke.
I don't know if he actually took a look through it or just kind of checked in.
The spike is still while I'm eyeing up.
As much as we are seeing this be presence,
it's the commitment that follows that Securious Partner Rock is here.
He does have help on site too.
And, okay, Alan again.
This guy...
That probably wasn't what he fancied there,
but Leroc's now been giving a new lease of life here.
Can't get the shot up towards that window side and loiter.
You're a lucky boy.
Not only for a second, luck runs out fast here,
but it is still a 2v3.
Don't think this is quite over yet,
because look at that, Kevin's position.
While Noob's intuition is right,
the timing is just wrong.
Now does he get to make up for it?
No, he doesn't.
Punishment, eight seconds now,
and the back line is not secure as Rose gets closer, creeping up on towards those.
Rafters, he's been found.
Furion make it through the round, not unscathed, but at least in their name.
Still the same amount of threat here, BBL doing a ton of damage.
That's the ultimate.
Still backing a little bit on the side of Furion, but obviously,
he's been invested in previously.
and a divide and over alongside that.
It's a timeout called here by VBL.
It's purely a get-with-in-one.
On their side, the Hunters' Fury by the way,
and the TP fought Lloyd's up.
Again, Lovers Rock sitting at 0 and 5.
You need to see him step up.
And also in some of the rifle rounds,
to be honest with you,
The operator play hasn't really been a factor, but for me it's these response rounds, having
necessarily got that financial buffer in their favour just yet.
So lots to consider here.
Coinbase win condition obviously coming out of this.
4BBL potentially rip away some of these rifles.
Also repurchase it again, I mean if they can get up around win for sure.
Furia certainly in control of the momentum here and have identified a weaker side of the setup.
This B-Site execute really suits in Furia here.
And this is when we get to see the problem-solving skills of BBL.
Can they learn on the flight?
And kind of knowing after a timeout, they're pretty not going to run the same thing too.
There's always that kind of like back and forth mind game that goes on.
Furia have a great coming out of a BBL timeout.
Yeah, they have.
Prove that.
to be able to find stability.
For a deadly start. Purchase
back in play for BBL here. They
really need to find an answer
to their woes, which has been
mostly on that beast side, but
now has said the flip of the
script here, Fiora, with the
opportunity to paint a very
different picture.
Rock will attempt to go
forwards, timing on the TP
about to expire, so.
superior with a very solid understanding of that timing, of course the TP at the very
last second, ready though, Art Sync, so we're near his position.
This has been really good for BBL, they've been really managing the scale and once again
they've done it, Rose able to pluck away EU from those deeper lines here, also feeling
those threats from the front, but look towards that slip through here for Art Sync, look
Look, he had a glance.
For sure.
Oh, actually.
Oh, wait a little bit.
I mean, the chance to catch Rose off guard.
Well, it's going to be here.
The drone's going to come through.
Where's the call?
I don't think you heard it.
Now he goes, though.
The radio late to the punch.
Well, like maybe a miscommunication
or simply just the stage.
You can't quite hear it
as comfortably as you would before.
So to try and make this work with just two
and the HP of Alan.
It's just sad.
It's so present in the forefront
front of your mind. The wing conditions get so much harder they still want to
paranoia with Loiter just burned out as they start their build back towards the
site and they remove security. As Upt in the last one standing you have to get all
five not to beat. EBL still have a great hold on this A site that has not been
the problem. They may be curiously reading into the adjustment to be going a
little more aggressive towards mid and B early on. It just doesn't happen. Rose
then delay Rekon here, he's dividends for him, so to find him a kill.
So how do they hold B? Because if you're Furia, well we're not going to go A again. Right? Right? Right?
Look at the minimap now, those spoilers. Looks like that might just be the approach here with Nerv to maybe
part of the seat of doubt, BBL's mind.
Look at the rotation. They thought about it. They're already pulling away lovers rock
He is now over towards the A side of the map. Yeah, no TP sent out elsewhere either
The silence becomes pretty loud
But does fury overthink this perhaps I'm looking at the spike still
This is all mind games at this point
See the Algeron, it's not quite the same hit though
This hasn't got the same sort of you know dash element to it from Alan back of this pressure
But it but it feels like a fake this
This is readable. I think BBL are reading this quite well for now, but potentially a double
fake coming in for Furia, just offsetting the timing. They need nerve to kind of send
a message on towards it. They want to keep these players here. And this is going to
be it. This is the sell. This is the fake. And it is glorious. Look at the minimap.
It's just perfect. That is perfect from Furia. That's what we talked about those
timeouts coming in. They are very good at understanding how they want to pressure opponents.
And they're not out of the woods just yet, but they've done everything right early game.
Absolutely. Rose here, very early on, we cast Nerve, the disconnected piece of this puzzle.
And I'm looking to go forward on the back of that.
He leaves EU vulnerable, so Alan has to hold this down. He's got to find value, and he doesn't.
And now suddenly there's problems. EU's understeer, he doesn't feel secure,
but Koalane trying to find some safety from up above. Dips back towards Sightlovers.
Rock going to try and gap close here. Clear the front. We're down to two now. They've lost
down on that Hunter's Fury. Arts in. Printing in a shift though. It's just going to be Koaladub
left in the 1v2. It's a numbers game now, but he's got the shot. Oh my God, you audacious
man. Went for it. But what a deny from Lovers Rock. Playing it back through. He's already
giving out high fives, but I'm getting nervous to see who's out of the keyboard there.
There's four kills from Lover's Rock, finally showing us something.
It's a great catch from Nerv, because Nerv is in this position to secure EU's late roundpiece
in the form of the Hunters' Fury.
Again, it's like you said, within all the hard work to force these adjustments,
catch a great timing towards B1S more.
It's rose to go over and above
It's kind of dismantles this post plan this entirety
Then they're forced back on to the I mean you actually gets all the way from behind it back on to site. Yeah, and they're able to just
Smother them
You had to call a time out here and if we're talking bigger picture as well, right
Which I think is a fair point now
Now, my concerns happen here.
If BBL have a solid half, which I think they're already up to at six, that's a really solid
number, just because Furious Pistol round wins have been concerning me.
And that suddenly becomes a very large gap.
If your pistols are so bad, you never want to be at a deficit, you have to win the
first half.
That's it.
That is a wincon.
It's a horribly hard one.
There's a reason you want to have at least a competitive pistol, but this puts a lot
of pressure on that start potential.
Now that's obviously not quite yet, we're already at round 10, but if you're seeing BBL up to 6-3 you've got to start thinking about it
and the buy is not great for Florea.
I mean, you're dying to argue 7-3 now.
Yeah.
Unless Florea can find some of that magic.
That breeze magic.
On the back of a hero rifle here, a shotgun, a couple of sheriffs to get you down on a stinger.
There we go, there's the p- oh god, I thought that could have been the punish.
But instantly, Fury just ran a fight forward and well, Nerv, you can't say he didn't hunt
that down with everything he had, but BBL simply still haphazite, have the numbers, they might
just have him dead to rights again.
It's four alive and Artsin, 1v4 and I thought they found the solve on that B-side approach,
maybe just not viable with those lighter weapons coming in.
I'm going to have to face the music one way or another.
Big spender here on the back of Hunter Fury and the divide.
I didn't even notice the Hunter Fury.
Yeah.
And around that's almost going to be concluded.
Within the first 30 seconds here, artsy, trying to slip through the road.
Quicker than him to this position.
Give it an upgrade.
It's got room to play with.
Yeah, the situation is, look at that threat.
Just look where it is. Take it in.
It's a BBL with a great read coming out of that.
I don't know where it was.
Oh dear, they are on site. They are here fast.
Crevin taking instantaneous space.
Has he dealt with the camera yet?
A lot of trouble.
And he's trying to find a wind condition.
He's trying to find anything that can give him some safety.
When we check over the site from Crevin,
it starts to feel a bit more readable.
And we basically know where he is.
It feels like it's there. Oh my God, but you can't predict that.
I'm saying you're going to need to find one more for me to really fully pay attention.
He's read it right.
Oh, but it's just too many of them bounding forward.
A desperate attempt made by the score line
starting to weigh heavy on the furia chest here at 7 to 3 BBL.
Within touching distance, it feels like.
Here's the investment early on.
and the catch is beautiful from Rose on top of this as well. Trying to get a divide really to allow aggression towards backside.
Again they just can't do enough damage on the way in.
This was the plan the whole time right? You can see the setup on the B side from Craigburn.
They're reading and anticipating this coming out of the time out.
We need these last two.
here again. You need these
last two. Now lovers rock looking
to try and switch things up the
touch here and he's been played
in lovers rock with the
opportunity to end this before
it started already going to
take away Alan, which removes
so much potential from
pressuring those sites. The
slow work mid now arts in
already heading that
direction. Loiter actually
He's got a deeper setup now.
He's looking towards Rose.
You can see his eyes trained back towards this area.
Well, it's a well-capped contact.
The drone will force Furia to reposition here.
Okay, the odds are unaffected.
Okay, but what's that matter when Rose hits shots like that?
They're down to three now.
They don't even have a foothold on the site. They've got middle.
Sadly, you can't block there. Where do you go, Furia?
You have to try and face one of these sites now.
You've got to do it quick as well.
Nerv one off the ultimate.
The chance maybe to swing this back in their favor.
So, it's clear.
Crevin's setup is untouched.
They don't know about it yet.
They're still trying to figure it out as they go forward.
And Crevin playing on the site itself.
He has the help.
It's right here, before the smoke.
Oh, dear. There's the ping.
The rotations, flanks coming in, they are surrounded, they don't know Iqbal, who doesn't seem to care though.
But death from behind, it felt like, but again, Iqbal moved!
When they meet a hero, he keeps fighting form right now!
These might be instant mountable onto the time.
He has to get the plant, I don't know if he's even got a chance, I mean, it doesn't make a difference!
Eight to three, various hopes and dreams might be dashed in one more round.
It's time to crumble Lauren.
To come out of that I think with just about 2000 credits
in total to come into a round 12.
Trailing by five.
It's down to such fine margins here but
the clock ultimately supplying so much pressure.
It's a furia.
Roe's starting to get fired up now, yep.
The momentum certainly favouring PBL here in the decider.
This is what it takes to play at these levels.
And the audacious work goes nowhere.
Denied and put to bed.
Furia in trouble now.
Trying to make anything work for themselves.
It's now to get them one.
Loiter instantly on the answer back.
This desperation has given them very few options.
They've at least got sight, but they don't have a part yet.
Scaled up, but still...
You know, I hear it so early on to contest this.
Maybe that's one. He's got to kill, though.
I mean, he was the hero of one of their first games, right?
He was putting on numbers!
He's done it so well here to give them a man to the good,
but Rose, in a huge position, dives in from above.
He's read him! He finds Artsen blind in that!
But now he just wants to get half.
You've got to do more to deny this man.
Nerve now with an autodoo.
He is up for the fight, he's up for the challenge.
Oh my god, he tried!
But try as you might!
You cannot stop the PBL boys!
It's nine rounds!
They are in touching distance of staying alive
as Furia will have to fight against the odds.
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So I want you to listen to what you are going to hear!
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in here is delivering Mike electric it certainly is at 9 to 3 though we come
back to the reality of the real matter and then let's talk about it what are we
just saying the worst possible scenario to be this could be BBL teed up to just
find 11 off with, they said
improvements in that regard
today in terms of the start of
map halves, but my god, they
really need this one.
There's one to get.
It is this.
probably being Kravon's gonna do as he always does with this sheriff.
Create some pressure towards the mid. You can see here the awareness is there.
Sheriff on the other side of things actually.
A commitment just yet from BBL.
Spike will cycle across towards B.
Rock maybe looking to burst this smoke.
I'm coming through here, and that's a little bit of a connection from Artee, looking at the opener.
Nice. He's to live though, can't get treated, doesn't!
Resilient on display, and a good... Oh! Brilliant!
From Artee! We said if there was one to get it, it's this one.
He's given them everything he could.
41HP for Lighter now, a 1v3.
No mistakes.
will be made today for Furia, at least in this pistol round.
Arton, credit where it's due there for the man.
He just did some serious work.
Absolutely.
With the catch here, the rocker, I mean,
toying with the idea of bursting the smoke.
I'm sure maybe they'll await it.
I mean, a double headshot catch there.
Of course, it's fine than the ace.
The tick in the box here for Furia, four on the board, and a chance to maybe claw their
way back into this decider.
Well invested here, not going to leave anything up to chance on this round two.
Absolutely what you want to see considering the exchange.
I don't know if they can identify that by any means Mike, but if they do, he could be
screwed here.
He's having to invest the full kit just to try and play his life.
Luckily, he gets away.
Very diligent work from him.
Play for the retake now, but BBL are trying to get some win-cons on their side, and this
plant might be one of them.
Great catch from Guadu, but a better trade.
I'll go in and make sure it doesn't go un-
avenged.
All of this will be kept in hand for a live mic.
It's a long road back. It is.
And it doesn't have to be flawless necessarily,
but it can't make many mistakes.
No, but these early ones need to be clean
to build up a little bit of a buffer,
allow for Furia to play a little looser,
get down and dirty with BBO in terms of
what we're going to expect
It was attacking side for them.
I'll show you here. Yeah, absolutely.
Cannot give BBL any space to work into in a moment to breathe.
BBL will stack up outside, be here.
Might just be a pacey take with the rifles.
A huge advantage in terms of the inventory here.
And round three.
That's a no-demand of a moment.
We've got them that pistol round.
He has just had an absolute boatload of utility
dumped towards him, and Nurg is going to fall,
but arts it again!
Unwilling to relent!
Wolf surrender!
Finally found by Loiter, but he's again put up numbers.
Now, Guardian, Sheriff of the Bulldog,
on the way back in here.
For fury, Loiter will be revealed.
No plot yet.
Run away from an overstep here.
In that discipline.
Maybe flood the site.
There's a commitment.
And here come the steps.
Start to look forward here. Shoulder up on head.
The Rock's going to keep on the bathe.
And that's now numbers to the good.
Swing from the site. One by one.
They try and face towards it.
So far, one by one they have fallen.
They've read where EU is.
They've got a great idea of it.
A hard scenario.
scenario and near on impossible task 10 made for BBL they are now within sight
lines of getting across that final hurdle curious as well how the pie will
sit here for Furia Arsene a what a hero for Furia so far in the start of this
second half yes this B site hold is delivering once more but again lock out
the site with and then a bigger disadvantage in terms of the weapons.
It's all in here for Furia. They lose this BBL get 11 and they set up towards 12.
So much on this round here. We saw it on map two in my eyes. It was a massive upswing
from Kuala Lumpur being such a key aspect for Furia.
The others then joining with him enough to create that hope.
If it's Arson this time.
Who cares? Someone has to be here though, as the site will fall into hand to BBL.
He's thinking about it. He's really considering it.
And when you're on form, I don't blame you, but he was out on a limb.
No chance for a trade, so he falls instantly off the back.
You looking to get into the back line, see here.
Stop things, but you might just get back filled now.
They're looking for it.
Prevents, 100% lurking up behind this.
They've got him. They've got him dead to rights this time.
Start to understand their opposition.
Maybe half of the battle now.
Still need to reclassite itself. Deal with those deeper lines.
I'm going to give him that foot hold forward.
Takes a little bit of a look.
Lloyd's going to catch Nervo. Good trade.
Gwami's just, well there, Furia!
still in the fight! A couple players down low short, but defuses their six rounds.
Crucial win for Furia. Don't allow BBL to build up some of these key ultimates.
In terms of the early rounds, it's only Loiter to come away with this,
with a TP. Ask it again. I'm absolutely with you. When he's on,
he needs to be this first line of defence and find value.
I'm okay with him going forward and trading. Yep.
currently sitting at 17 and 14 for Furia.
And in the moment, broken the bye now for BBL.
Finance is looking a little bit woeful for them.
Furia's chance is now to claim 7, becomes so much more likely.
Do you want to wait for Hunter's Fury after he already has the divide?
It's only success that he's found early on here.
What can they piece together in round 17?
They have something to work with La Rock and Lovers Rock both.
They have some investment in that, a couple of sheriffs as well.
They're still kind of commanding the way forward, it felt like.
You saw it there on the camera for a second.
Straight out to the drone now.
It's not a player's scene.
La Rock will be giving those first key steps towards the site.
Furiah need to once again continue his discipline.
Lovers Rock I'm curious about here.
He's very far away on air. He can take the TP over.
But he's hunting. He's looking to follow them here.
So maybe something as now the TP comes in.
Here we are. This is what their plan was.
This is what they had in mind.
Banking on Lovers Rock up towards Heaven to allow safe passage through.
Can they beat them there in time though?
Surely Furiah make it back here first.
That close to personal with the stinger.
Oh my God, the timing!
Ka'amu given a gift from the gods on that one.
It's game on now. They need to get back on this side.
BBL on the back foot now. They can't see the spike.
They're playing behind the divide.
Alan puts his life on the line here.
Head down, just hold your breath.
EU's got his back. Loiter's gone.
The rock's gone. We're down a rose.
We're down a crab and birria!
That's the team you want to be seeing.
Not going to be caught off guard now.
The floor is round and the gap gets closer. Definitely a
Chance now for Furia to build upon this early success
heartbreaking
The lovers rock
This lurk to setting things in motion the loiter
To find the plan
Divide invested but you'll take that with now a couple of these other ultimate style to come online for Furia
Alum ahead of halfway in terms of progress.
On the side of PBL.
They're on the brink of a few key ultimates actually.
They have rounds to play with Grape, but that narrative storyline starts to dwindle and we get this close.
This feels like the one that kind of tilts the scales a little bit.
little bit.
Once again, showing they are far from down and far from out.
A different approach in middle from Kreben though, finally going walk.
He used the spotless.
No.
Absolutely hasn't.
He's on a better angle.
It's when the site hit comes in though, this is still going to be hard to handle on
B, let alone with Kreben in those back lines.
to play this spot already. I did face off the camera. I'm seeing under a ton of pressure.
He's going forward again. He does. Lover's lock is down.
So good from Artsin. The difference maker in my mind on this half,
Gryven's flank. It felt like they were looking for it, but maybe not communicated.
Artsin again, the one to be finding these players.
How much can one man continue to do?
As Fyria now should be able to galvanize themselves forward.
Rock, under that first line of pressure, with very little HP to play with but he's found a very vulnerable Kuala Vubh.
An opportunity for the forward not going to be.
2v3 is Rosen Loiter.
Looking to be overwhelmed here.
Uh oh, Loiter is not cleared yet and the time is ticking.
Artsin again!
This guy is a real deal!
Three kills!
Key kills here!
He's clawing their way back in once more, bringing it within to Greben a chance or a set up for
success that he's found time and time again on this map.
As artsy as you said, to rip that away, when you're back in furious favour, the 5th successful
diffuse it
In the second half you feel it now that little change can't you right?
It's that little bit of a momentum swing. This has been a streaky game
It's been five in a row three in a row four in a row now three right back. It's been a wild one
At some point it will have to settle but for now
Maybe this will be the pace we see but again this
This half has been predominantly furious, right?
And it feels like it's been touching go at times.
It feels like it's been on the back of arts in a lot,
but everyone else is there.
And if it's working, it's working.
So where's the soul from BBL?
A couple of these ultimates will be available.
Lerox just won away from here.
So, this kind of BBL I've been sitting back
and maybe banking on,
certainly would have hoped for an extra round
or two to offset that slightly.
We'll see the investment here, light shields, couple of guardians.
Investment could come back to bite them and they will try their hand once more towards
arts in the anchor band for Furia.
Their shorty is well set up well to greet LaRocque.
or Lover's Rock in terms of this approach to Scythe?
Tag on Artyn, I mean he put everything to finding that man, wouldn't he?
Hell, throwing a kitchen sink, but he still stands!
Finally goes down!
Tag on to Nerve as well.
Well, that's huge.
And that's gonna be in tow again.
We're gonna have Humscury posted from the other side.
And actually Lover's Rock is affected so far.
It's getting chaotic, it's Pandemonium!
That's BBL finally coming out on top.
All it took was everything.
The ZU.
You ain't got to look in really.
That's a 1v5.
And Odds dictate it's time to back away and save.
Certainly don't want to give progress towards anything.
I mean, nothing available with this investment here for BBL.
the Rock to carry an ultimate through a BBL, not shying away from the stronger hold
that Furia have displayed here on Abyss. Come out of this with a flawless
round victory. To find 11, still the buffer is there for Furia. They've got
the money to buy back in here. Alan also gonna have his ultimate to come out
of this.
Arson building back towards another divide.
He is slowly removing.
Marge in the fury I have to work with.
I guess the only response really to deal with Arson is to overwhelm him in this situation.
You've got to put an army against him right now.
and play for both sides however as you said Alan does have that up ready to go as does the Rocks and
Mirrod in that front and they're doing it again I don't think BBL were expecting Fury to adapt off
this they're happy to just rinse and repeat okay so they've adjusted how they want to approach
site through degree two managed to slip through to the farm available arts in looking for a
a little bit of wiggle rope. He finds it. Beloved Rock this time. Just quicker on the trigger as now
the trade comes out. Alam, the Rock going blow for blow. But it's a 4v3 favorable to BBR and they
have the plant on top. You now trying to find something with the drone. Just three less standing
fourth Uri up. Can't get a confirmation for Alam to potentially invest here. But he's found
Now, Leutzer finds the headshot.
Now, Kuala Lumpur going to use, still with a couple of...
I don't want to say key tools,
because they can just be done like this!
A bounding shorty, a spray in the dark!
As BBL go back into the harness side of the map!
The man who's been there downfall deleted again.
12 rounds now, like it's touching distance.
That was Rock starting to deliver now for BBL.
Furia will call a timeout here, so much to consider.
Do they stack an extra body now?
Do BBL play into the other side?
Have they done the hard work to force Furia into recovery mode?
They've got them up against the ropes.
Round 21, B, the kill shot.
Goodbye as close to what you'd hoped for.
I'm seeing a Guardian, a Bulldog, a Regen, a Light Shield.
Still usable, though.
Yes, absolutely.
That's more with less.
Last in one from a divide nerve, just two away, still got Allam's ult to play with.
Some tools here for Furia to make a final stand on a miss.
And that ruthless pursuit of greatness for Furia suddenly hits the brick wall of BBL.
12 rounds they face.
You've got to make it count now.
All those games, all those dreams you were chasing.
It comes down to this.
To hold on again.
Fury are putting extra bodies on this B-side.
It's enforced the adjustment, but BBL not shying away from this.
What have you got for face here? The Rock and the Dashing.
Has to peel away though.
other side look for something to lurk in slip the net you can see already loiter
making moves crevin looking to do the same
can't over rotate though if you're furia you always feel like you have to respect this for a second longer than maybe you'd want to
looking at the mini-map
while it has to go huge here if he's gonna contest this site here
it's a bulldog to do it
and this man has been at the helm of their meteoric rise to getting to these events
but today it is not going to align for him.
Lovers Rock removes him and the site is theirs.
Foul come through, nobody to contest that either.
We'll see Arsene looking to get into the back lines,
but there's a trick there to deal with Loiter.
Now looking to slip the net with the TP
or maybe create a bit of misdirection for the use round of kill though.
OK, it's not over yet.
We're back to a 4v4.
It can work towards the site, there's still some utility clear.
That could be a problem.
It's time to put it all on the line.
time to go, Alam has to work into this court, though doesn't get swannone, gets to go back
in, he's still trying to hold on, Furia, digging deeper, desperate to hold on, they do, leaving
nothing to chance, leaving nothing behind. And the defuse is there, they are still
alive.
A beautiful retake from Furia, and this was a comfy post plan for BBL, looking to
to get aggressive. I thought Lloyd was maybe gonna split right behind Furia. Especially
if somebody is posturing up Glover's Rock here. Just shut down. At that point, you're
catching another one here onto the rock. Oh, the double shot that up.
Yeah.
Watch out for the textiles! We're in this shit, baby!
They certainly are not out of it yet. But they've got to do it again. They are
on the ropes. Mike, you said it, we see it. No rest now. We asked for perfection if you
want to even chance an OT. BBL have done the hard work themselves. They've got to 12.
Lovers Rock going to have the ultimate here though. Kuala Lube again has to back away.
He has to concede this. This A site retake will be tested back to back.
Well, we've seen this one before, E.U.
Nice chip.
The shock dart that lovers rock goes working.
Doesn't quite find the player in towards Conn,
but he's gonna see Koala Noob.
It's good info, it gets back towards Sight.
Time to play Retake Furia.
Show us what you got.
Drodes come through, gear nerve.
Get the confirmation.
Paranoid to be posted on the back of that.
Here it is, here's the fun.
Alan, back for first.
Blinded, can't see much right now,
but he's still going for more.
Tries to sustain one away, lighter, Krebber back in.
EU, out of nowhere, finding two kills.
Divide goes up, Lovers Rock has to play it forward.
Arson, the man who started it, EU, the one to end it.
Furia, they're up to 10.
They are very much in this shit.
Just insane, Furia finding these responses.
This is after BBL forced them to this side of the map as well, creating pressure towards the B site.
Where's this man been? God damn!
The buy product of that is now furious with some key ultimates, EU and NERV.
The drawn blood in terms of the finances are broken by here from BBL in round 23.
This is adrenaline-fueled Alan. Ready for it!
Siderfield balled in the start.
Man to the good of the rip.
Very quick usage of the ult and another catch on Moiter.
This is great stuff.
Oh, this is really good stuff.
Furia keeping 5-standing so far.
Hudson's got to be a bit cautious.
Don't allow any chance of naughtyness.
Right, keep it in check.
Opt no good, obviously.
Goes with Lava Chance.
You ain't got it yet, lovers rock and bare.
Gonna be nerfed, bring it last one away.
Round 24.
Big investment from EU.
It's just to try and secure this.
Maybe there will be back on a full bite.
Won't have any ults to bring into this.
Still nerfed and sitting on his.
It all comes down to this in regulation.
BBL again leaning heavily towards A.
How have now the wind in his sails goes forwards.
Early confirmation here and gets out.
Very nicely done.
See the BBL want to kind of backfill that space a little bit
just to make sure there's not really too much chance on here.
We've got tense times, BBL securing at least OT.
No big info about either.
It's a steady build towards a B-side.
Fury now will tuck in.
Have to be conscious of this progress towards mid.
With BBL look to split towards B.
I think they'll get the confirmation here on the drone either.
But now already I
Don't think that was a game plan as it's fallen to pieces
Three kills and BBL have everything they need
Desperate to do something about it though denies the back line forcing them forward and of course
Artston still alive the one who made it possible
The one who stood above the rest now being challenged by everything BBL has
You trying to get closer Rose?
No!
Oh my God!
Azat said now, has to face the music, has to try and make it past four bodies, BBL, the
five rookies with one shared dream, fearing no one.
The heartbreak doesn't quite cut it, Lauren.
What a way for Curia to bow out with this.
There's BBL to stick the landing here, fighting for their lives here in Santiago.
Taken to the absolute peak.
And both teams in a similar position chasing about one feeling, that chance, that privilege
to be on a stage like this.
And they're going to keep their heads held high man.
They fought hard.
They pushed hard.
Two teams that are getting big names to come here, fresh to a stage, they're
the fire to playoffs and put up just an insane performance. It's not quite enough.
Today, they can stand tall. There was a lot of eyes on this team.
A lot of question marks in their form. Wouldn't work on the internationals.
And the answer is a resounding yes.
Come back to it again. It's a situation we haven't seen BBL in yet, forced to diversify,
and really, really diagnosed some of the issues they've been facing but stood up to the challenge
once more.
I'm scared of this team though because that confidence just keeps on and keeps on growing.
The potential is there, the calling is there, the firepower is there. And now they stand
next to the giants of doing potentially a deep run here.
These five friends, these five rookies,
it's a fairytale now.
And once we are ready, we'll be handing over
to the Verizon Post-Match Interview
to hear from the winners themselves.
We are going to start with Lovers Rock because I want to know how you felt at the LSDT and also know where Saka Saka thinks of Lovers Rock.
First international event, you look so comfortable, so good in that stage.
I just want to know where do you get that confidence from?
First of all, the first international tournament, the first event, the question we want to ask is, where does this confidence come from?
If you want, you can go to England, if you want, you can go to Turkey.
I will tell you honestly, I can say that confidence is actually not our coach, but what we have here,
what he taught us, one of the most important things is that we are always confident.
First of all, our confidence comes from our coach, he always tells us to be confident no matter at what point in the game.
To be honest, I was kind of offline in map 2 and 3, but whenever somebody falls down on our team, somebody else picks them up.
That is the role confidence plays on our team. It is super important.
That's really, thank you very much.
Yesterday you had three maps, today you have three maps too, where does this pursuit have come from and how is the mental reset also between maps?
but we didn't get affected much.
And then...
We had to be both of them.
We had to be both of them.
We had to be both of them.
We had to be both of them.
And then we had to be both of them.
That's where it recently comes from.
Yeah, I did troll kind of a little bit on this match, so that is why. On the second match.
Well, in reality, it's not possible to close the game.
That's all I have for you today.
Thank you very much for this interview.
Thank you for the translation, too.
And we are off to our second match,
seeing who's going to be eliminated from this playoff
turn.
I mean, we have AG and Gentlemates coming up.
Go ahead.
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Welcome back folks to Masters Santiago, we are only one series here today, we still got
some more valerant action for you just around the corner. It's time for our second match
of the day where China's last hope all gamers will take on the Mates.
It's going to be an interesting one.
All gamers had a brutal start to their run here at Masters Santiago.
And now playing against the Mates that looked really good in that,
Swiss Stage did lose out to get knocked to this lower bracket,
but has been a really consistently solid team throughout the event.
Yeah. And if you think about it, like from the beginning of the year
and even getting here, Mates just lost their first best of three.
I think that the pressure was a little bit much onto them. We saw some mistakes, some changes for them
But you can just say the Dambi sat on them. That is a reality, I feel like.
Yeah, that's fair. I did want to talk a little about this Haven because I felt like Mates came in with this great game
fun. You watch these first few rounds where they're managing to pressure one side, get these very swift overrotations from Nongshim and then
Hit into that other side, have an open site and play up in their post plans to eviscerate Nongshim.
I worked it first.
You did! And then we come to a round like this, where Nongshin, instead of over-rotating off that pressure, is embedding players down mid.
He's completely caught Mates off guard, they lose players in this round, and that felt like a theme bent on out.
Where Nongshin was impressing in the mid-round, Mates was getting punished when they went to re-clear,
and I felt like Mates wasn't quick enough to find that adaptation in that match.
Yeah, I think that also, like we saw Nongshin that was just way too comfortable in the attack.
I think that the stopping force was not really there for Mates.
Yeah, I mean they mentioned I think how difficult it was to play against Dumbi and just that in-your-face shotgun-esque style
They're looking to stopping power. I think and they definitely needed it
So I don't want to talk about in that regard is mini
Yes, someone that you know you kind of mentioned the cuckoo could the teams built around essentially
It was the Paragon of consistency for this team
But he had a rough gaming it's not sure man as the cypher player if you're from a region
It still believes in Cypher and using in the double-bill list matchup. You needed him to step up
I love how you say we're region that I believe
No, no, listen, I believe, but I think that that perception is only based on the matches
which you saw, because realistically, meaning he's always been a flex, he's been playing
on the smokes, he's been playing on the KO, he's been literally playing anything and everything.
And probably that's one of the, and being very consistent.
So that is one of the main reasons why Jentemase decided to build around him for the roster
of this year.
I think that also the changes that they made on Corode did not make him look
exceptionally good.
You changed the Euro, something that Martín-
With the Phoenix, right?
Exactly, for the Phoenix.
for the Phoenix. So you put a lot of pressure on the key to set them up. I don't think he
was comfortable in everything that was going on around him, and that affected his individual
performance a lot.
For both Mini and the team as a whole, I felt like this was less necessarily a very bad game
for Mates and more so that they just got exposed by Dombie on their defensive side.
I thought that comp was pretty interesting on the attack, the way they were juggling
orbs into the Phoenix, getting a lot of value out of that. But on defense, they
had a comp with tons of flashes that wanted to fight and didn't have a ton of stall
you to but they could never choose when they wanted to brawl instead it was
always long ship taking the fight to them don't be pushing deep into their
post plans and catching mates off guard in a ton of rounds I don't think that
will be a problem today against a team that doesn't have a player as unique as
don't be it's a humbling experience going up against a nonchalred force
who are informed but there's some runway for this team with opportunities to
take those learners in a plight of let's hear a bit more about those
takeaways as Glyph caught up with their very own Gen Lee.
Gen here with Glyph of Gentlemates.
Now Glyph, Starzel talked about the importance of not giving your enemies too much respect.
So in regards to that, how much respect do A.G. commend from you today?
I mean, I'd say we give them very little, to be honest.
I mean, we already played EDG and they're one of the national champions from China already.
So, I mean, props to them for being the first team coming out of that region, but as far as respect that we're going to give them,
I'd say we hold them in very little regard.
And so we're just going to focus on ourselves and play our game and just kind of minimize that.
Sounds good, and good luck.
Not particularly unreasonable.
Best, in fact, I would say. That's the right approach to this game.
Their own style should work well against the maids. It looked so sloppy making tons of individuals
or excuse me at all gamers
It looks so sloppy and make those individual mistakes go back to your structure go back to the style that has worked so well
In a Mia and in this tournament and it should find success
Yeah, exactly
And I think also like for the longevity of the tournament they need that kind of force
They need to have that mentality of no respect for anybody again
They have that benefit of course of you know still be alive in the tournament playing from the lower bracket here and going up
against a region that doesn't quite seem like they're on the same page as the rest of the world in terms of philosophy.
Let's hear a little bit more from Glyph, we caught out with him on his first global event in a HyperX play-in moment.
The feeling walking out on the stage, we did it in rehearsals, but having the crowd there was completely different.
I think we all kind of recognized that, felt it and appreciated it.
I think as soon as we sat down is why I looked at Depot and even said something together where it's like, wow, this is insane, it's such a good feeling.
You know, we're so excited to play.
And so just a surreal feeling, you know, walking next to Kanking next to me, I was watching their
champs in 2024, you know, from home playing Tier 3 Valorant. So now you walk on that stage with
them in the air, the crowd cheer us on, cheer everyone on. It was absolutely amazing.
There are threads of narratives all throughout Master Santiago of Teams that have made a run
from humble beginnings in Valorant and Glyph is someone we haven't had much time to set along
because this is someone I was casting in Challengers last year.
This guy was a collegiate player.
That's why Rift is team 3.
Did you expect him to be here today?
No way!
Not a chance!
Emiah has this funny way of plucking like players, a good example of it.
They find these players out of NAT too and find out when they get value out of them.
But I've been impressed.
Yes, stood up next to Kong Kong and his global debut is definitely going to be quite
a moment.
Yeah, I heard that Nates told them if they don't win a match in the playoffs
here, they're going to send them back to Interrupt University.
He's gonna have to get his EMEA, so he's locked in on not having to do that in school.
He's gonna have to do some networking.
I don't want to wish to end that on anybody else, poor guy.
Seriously though, it is a testament to the kind of tier 2 pipeline.
It's really cool to watch a guy who is just playing for a collegiate team,
thinking that that would be his best path forward to getting this amazing opportunity with mates and really running with it.
Yeah, I think there's also one difference between Glyph and many of the imparts that we've had in EMEA.
We just saw Koala Noob. I remember when he first joined Abbey.
Didn't look good. It was his first fail. So not the best not the best
Wayne like any other in person and crashes last year when he started he was not looking good
I think the glyph from the beginning showed so much value for mates
We were high-pricing at the way that they were playing and interpreting the game with the meta and the comps that they were
Implying onto it. And I think the glyph from the very beginning was a very very important key to it
That's why businesses love hiring college graduates
The shareholder value is absolutely off the charts.
We hope for him that he's going to have to go back to a corporate lifestyle anytime soon.
Let's head across the pond, let's head across the stage.
Let's be real.
It's been a bit of a tough run for China at this event.
None of them have won a single map yet.
We need to talk about what's been going on with these teams
and why do they feel like they're behind
because we've seen literal previous world champions
representing the Chinese region on this very stage.
And even they haven't really been able to put a scratch on the competition.
Where do we go from here?
I think that the biggest issues for China right now, how I see it, is, number one, the way
that they play their micro and their team fights and the protocols that they have behind
it.
China, compared to the rest of the world, is a little bit more insular in that you
have a lot of teams with less experienced players, you have less of a pedigree and
other FPS games with leaders and coaches to draw back on.
And because of that, I think a lot of the teams playing domestically in CN get
away with winning off of individualism. I think that's one of the big ways all
gamers got here. They have some amazing players with a high ceiling of talent but
I feel when you're playing against teams where that will work you don't learn the
lessons of what risks are actually good to take in matches and the better
teams with more protocols will expose you. Most of it is regional strength and
I think that there's been a big step down in the big names you know and
the Billy Billy, the EDG and the SPX teams that we've supported and seen
and making it five and winning champs and whatnot,
but I feel like that has slowed down a lot
since that supremacy wasn't really there for them
even in their regions.
Having people playing Raina Combs, Breach, this and that,
when you put it versus the rest of the world
when you actually pay attention
to some of the lack of protocols
that they have to many of the situations,
you get, they get into the global stage
and look at the reactions that they have.
They're getting shook in the back hostedly.
Because they really have not seen this before.
So now they have to take in this experience.
They said like, oh, we don't,
I think it's a little bit of BS because they were like,
oh yeah, there's no pressure, I don't feel anything.
That doesn't look to me like someone that feels nothing.
Yeah, I think part of it is time
that we're kind of starting to get the next generation
of players like you're mentioning.
It's not the EDGs.
It's not the guys who went to every global event
when China was first showing up.
These are all fresh players
and that all gamers game against G2.
It wasn't just them underperforming
and taking bad habits from their region.
Even though some of that was true,
I also think it was a joke of them just crumbling under the pressure.
Kira is the best example of that to me.
He was a beast domestically and he just looked lost yesterday.
And we caught up with Funky yesterday and he said, I don't feel anything.
I don't believe that for a second.
What now? Let's hear a little bit from Kira himself
about how he started the tournament has been.
He caught up with Genly earlier.
Gen here with Kira of all gamers
and also Ekko for some translation.
Kira, yesterday was your first game here in Santiago. Today is elimination. That's a lot for the team to take in.
Were you guys able to create a protocol to remind you of who you are when things get tough?
Yeah, I think the most important thing is to enjoy the stage right now, because we reviewed
the mistakes we made from last day's failure.
And today I think we took a lot and I think we have the confidence and I think we can
play better than yesterday.
Okay, well, I got something for you to help you out.
Remember who you are.
Do A.G. have enough time to take away remotely enough insight from their previous game to show
up better performance?
We're going to jump into the skirmish here, of course, for Matt's time to let go.
I don't think so.
But I think what I want to see from them actually hits to what he was going for in
that interview.
Cherish your time on the stage, take learnings away from it.
Now, A.G. has shifted expectations because they beat the other teams, because they're
a number one seed.
But at the end of the day, it's a team of five rookies showing up to their first
ever global event against squads who were tested in the Swiss stage, like G2, and
now against a team who looked a lot better earlier in that one as well.
I think this is an opportunity, even if they learn to lose,
just to learn and take that back to China to improve.
Okay, so that aside, I want to ask you guys,
what you want to materially see from this team today?
What are a short number of things that you think they could improve on
that were glaring in their previous games?
I honestly think that they should rely on what was working in the region.
I know that, you know, at the end of the day,
they were the first seat for something.
I think that they got too overwhelmed by what G2 was doing yesterday,
But in the in the first map on that split, the best map that they have, it was not until
the end of the half that they actually went back to what made them strong to just being
very reactive, to just being put in front here, and that's in those first engagements
and just literally just giving them all the space and playing way more reactive.
If it worked in the region, tested here, it worked for a little bit, nothing that
against Jantemates, it could work as well.
By the way, AG's assistant coach just won five to a game.
Shut them up!
Shut them up!
Shut them up!
Shut them up!
Going back to the point what I want to see is them really double down on focusing on their protocols in the micro
I think against G2 it looks really rough in the trading. Just what they were fighting so long.
Do you want cross flies and trading basically?
I want them to focus on the fundamentals. There was way too many basic mistakes of people trying to make individual plays
That maybe they've gotten away with in the past, but they were punished by G2
And will be punished again today by mates unless they're playing together.
Alright, let's jump now. We have our winner. Shout out to Tim7. Let's jump into our fat Vito.
Hey, everybody. We're going to start map select.
AG, you won Skirmish. So are you team A or team B?
I actually was team B.
Team B. Okay.
M8 is team A.
M8, what's your first band?
Bunbury's.
Band Brees.
AG, what's your first band?
Banhaven.
Banhaven.
M8, what's your first pick?
Pick Pearl.
Pick Pearl.
A.G., what's your side on Pearl?
Defense?
Defense.
Okay, A.G., what's your map to pick?
It's Sabit.
Sabit?
Sabit, yeah.
Okay.
A.G., what's your side on Split?
Start Attack on Split.
Attack on Split.
A.G., what's your next band?
Bancrode.
Bancrode. AG, what's your next stand?
Vanavis.
Vanavis, last map is bind. M8, what's your side on bind?
Start attack on bind.
Attack on bind. Okay, so as a recap, we have map 1 is pro with AG on defense,
map 2 is split with M8 on attack, map 3 is blind with M8 on attack. Look everybody.
Okay, high level. Obviously, Perla a great pick here for Mates, that 13-4 against Team Liquid
still lives in my head run free. Yeah, I don't think it's only the Perla. I think that this is
very expected because every single time the Mets has the chance they're going for this Perla
this in this tournament and for the side of AG where we're speaking about split being the
best map watch out because the same thing that I was saying earlier this is
Martin's best map on the side of split but you know it's the best testament if
they really want to like lock it down and play somewhere that they're
comfortable is of course split. Yeah I respect them going back to what's worked
for them I don't think that there was a map in this pool that they could have
went into where I would have given a clear advantage to all gamers so I do
think just going this expected route is a solid approach they just really
have to focus on some of the learnings in their micro from yesterday
and those individual step-ups from the guys that were lacking and maybe get a chance here.
And I really hope that they take the time because also something that we can take from that map veto
is the fact that Gentlemate is going to start on the attack on every single map.
So they're going to be the ones or trying at least to be the ones to dictate the pace.
I want all gamers to be taken advantage but like taking learnings and just taking
its load to understand what their opponents are doing.
Now I think it's like word looking back at seeing some of the strengths for AG that you mentioned
that Fangir of course is a play that can really provide that high impact in some of these situations.
But let's set the stakes here. This is the last chance potentially in this series that China has
to make their mark on the global stage here in Santiago. We're asking for fundamentals to be
improved on. Let's revisit our predictions. Of course, some of the only theory predictors
are all aware of that, but outside of that, pretty much unanimous here from general mates.
Yeah, I think that for everybody, like it seems especially after what we saw yesterday
for the first map. It almost seemed like it was not a fair game and it just seems fair to go for Mates.
G2 is a team that plays a slow defaulty style that has excellent protocols. I think they have a very
similar comparison to the way General Mates likes to play. This is a setup stylistically
form-based but you heavily favor Mates. But AG at this point, nothing to lose. Last hope for
China. Show us what you got. And if you're going to be frustrated, put that frustration into
the game. If it is your last day here, make it count. Go back into your region, be in a different
feast and actually keep grinding throughout the year. So this is not the one time that we're going
to see you on a global stage. G2 completely deconstructed this AG team. They played with
their food. We know gentlemen have that same capacity to pull a team apart. We need to
see more from all gamers. We need to see more from the Chinese region. And I've got a feeling
that today this match is going to be an absolute brawl. So let's get excited and let's send it
down to the stage and find out who will survive to fight another day. It's
gentlemates versus China's last hope all gamers.
Here in Santiago do or die and if a bill of a league of region with low expectation
All games have the chance to do the funniest thing ever the gentle mates despite not being that top seed out of EMEA day
Absolutely put BBL to the test in that kickoff final and they're here to show that they deserve recognition to a great
Opportunity for mates to bounce back a close loss to non-ship in their opener
That was the only number one seed that won.
But for this Chinese team, it has been a historic performance for China in a bad way.
They are yet to win a map.
They are yet to win a series.
It has been years since expectations have been that low for the CN region.
And it's their opportunity to shift that.
Not only that, they are now in a spot that they could have the worst performance ever in a tournament.
They're still in that danger zone for the side of mates.
As you're saying, this is the perfect opportunity to bounce back with the very aggressive maps
in which they will be able to play to the best of their ability and their style.
Find that confidence back that they will need in that lower bracket if they want to make a run.
You see this retooling that's happening here for Genomates.
They actually banned that Corode map away.
That's the one where they switched Martin onto the Phoenix.
They tried an idea, it didn't quite a play up for them, so that one's back to the drawing board.
sticking to their strengths here, no doubt about it, they're 3-0 on Split in that kickoff
and in Bind as well, we saw that against Team Liquid, it was squeaky clean from them.
B-Po's someone I'm looking at, I'm looking at this guy right now because
definitely felt like he was off the boil against Nongship.
Yeah, we were speaking about Dumbi but who was on the other side, you know,
I know that it is not a one for one because they don't really play the exact same way.
But B-Po, out of all the matches that we saw from Jentemace,
all of the two finals and the 10 maps that we saw in two days,
very surprising to see that he was able to keep up with the pace and even though
being a rookie in the scene he was able to still be putting up the numbers the
synergy that he has built for years with Martin has to be palpable on station
it certainly isn't this is a a gentleman here who looking at their
earlier matches in this tournament have been so consistent in this slow style
they're very structured they're very good protocols you have to credit a
a lot of that to Starkzone, the man who's been away from these stages for five years
after winning the inaugural champions. And well, it was a nightmare match-up in style
against a longship who is constantly pressing you, is constantly fighting forward, and is
trying to disrupt your style. All gamers, they play mostly meta comps. They, at a macro
level, don't play too dissimilarly. I think besides your defense sides where they
really get aggressive ever to other teams and to me that's a perfect set up
for mates to find success here against a team whose failings are in the micro
and even though as I was saying they did not lose the best of three in our
region they did know that lose the best of five I mean the time span of two days
had to play 10 maps against the best that EMEA had to get resilience it's
a word that has to be attributed to Gentamates and that is what they will
have to show in the rest of the tournament. Quick fly over the stage
now of course as we are starting to get locked in for agents selecting.
I'm going to raise this yet again. I think it's been a topic of conversation over the entire day
is that how do teams deal with this Cypher play? Can they play slow, clear that? You tell that,
then hit. Why are they going to run headlong into it? That's another thing that's really going
to test, I feel, the macro of this all-games team. With the waylay and the yore, you can't
disrespect the Cypher. You tell more so than with the neon. But where it will cause problems
his second half defensive side, how quickly it'll let mates rotate if it's not dealt with.
Yeah, and I think that also I agree with you and the fact that I look at Starstow when he's
playing with the spade in map site, in map site pearl, I think it's when we get the best out of him
and his signature with Lyft and many of the scenarios makes it so easy for B for Martin to just have
an easy stand apart. Fenger, he was good in China, but Martinez looked like the single best
Zoru player at this tournament. He's been fantastic, continuing his form from EMEA.
Bulk gamers want a chance. Fenger not only has to find his form from China,
but go head to head against one of the best in his role.
Saw the frustration on Kira's face yesterday. We've got footage of him slamming that desk down.
When you're running into a brick wall over and over again, I can see you're that frustration
build, but I think you mentioned it. That's got to be channeled in the right direction.
There have to be some key learnings that you build upon.
And Kira said, we've analyzed all of our mistakes.
I'm going to reiterate the question.
Is this enough time?
Is the gap tight enough between all gamers in the rest of the world
that one or two days prep is going to be enough to overcome it?
No, I think that for all gamers,
they should focus on playing the best of their game.
Like, if they win, that is a secondary effect.
They should prevent the attitude that we saw on stage from repeating
because that's what's going to last in time.
The time is now, folks.
And Destiny rise in both these teams' hands.
The elimination match is about to get underway, so it's time to head over to your casters, Akilios, and Pay-Petit.
Thank you very much, Uber. Here we go. Another team to join Fiora in early elimination.
It's going to be Mates or A.G. The Desk is talking about it. Mates come into this so very heavily favored, but can A.G. take it deep enough and find that miracle to pull off on this stage here in Santiago?
It's it's definitely gonna be tough. I mean, I think you know listening to their
Pre-match interviews saying that they understand what their mistakes were but you know
Correcting what you understand is a whole different beast. So let's see if they could adjust
I think it takes mental preparation on top of you know
What they learned watching those vods to get something to go here today?
Mates they love this B site on Pearl, but you've got a good read early from the side of AG
So we're going to keep pressing forward. Mates is ready.
Here comes the swing.
And there is the firing squad. Thank you.
GRQ both going to be taken out.
What a read.
Just continuing to pump the brakes here.
See if anybody else comes out for a little bit of an explore.
You want maybe able to find a time.
It just doesn't check it.
It's not picking into that corner.
It's a nice shot from Kira.
The peel one back shrimp is well getting involved.
So the blind stars have put himself
into a position where this round could be recovered.
Both flash connecting though has been spotted, certainly has been now.
With that spike down onto the floor, what a clutch this would be, but
it's too much health on the opposite side.
Running low on blocks, Martine will be able to find it, it's Mates.
Take the opening pistol.
So some pretty good read from Mates already early.
Anticipating the aggression, you know, the desk was talking about it and
something I saw a lot in the VOD watching AG is that
they're very passive, usually on defense. They're defaulting a lot.
And so for them to push out like that for Mates to read it,
it's a really good preparation being done.
And it's going to give them pretty good advantage.
Even though Kira makes a hell of a goal of it,
it's going to be too little, too late.
And again, a lot of what Mates is doing is
they want to punish the B side of the map.
Why you have a Neon and a Yorahs?
You have so much ability to take space,
so much ability to clear that backhaul.
And it makes it really challenging for defenders to do anything about it.
about it. The hot-out pass line up. Up over the side, AE1 still there. Add back Hobb and
Martins. His hip fires for a headshot on the fangir. Two-one is able to find a kill. Shuck
down the enemy yours. Stop some building up any more ult charge here. Find Starrso
as well. Starts to making this a little bit more costly for Channel Mates. He's just
down to shrimp. He's going to be rotating to the underpass. Try to see if he can
get anything done swing out and we'll be able to find glippin back down to 30 HP
likelihood of pulling up the clutch here still very unlikely but damages
absolutely going to be felt swing in looks a little bit more it's being low
but can't quite confirm the kill but still three kills found not bad at all
for just classics in the hands of a G but it's gonna be made to that two-zero
start yeah honestly I think you got to be feeling okay right now as a G you're
hitting some good shots players are getting into good positions to do some
Damage at the very least even when things aren't necessarily going your way in the beginning parts of the round. So
Hopefully they can keep their heads straight. Hopefully they can keep up some of this
Crispy shooting that we're seeing early is gonna be a pretty heavy investment here from mates though
We're gonna buy up to three vandals after back with those to save bulldogs
They're gonna be trying to get this bonus converted and really put AG on the back foot on the side of their math
That is usually their best. They were 11-1 on this side versus XLG from this B crunch.
Clear that turret here. I'm just trying to see back behind screen.
Swing in the corner. You want to apply a couple of players there.
Thank you. On high. You want to shut down our team, but now the flood starts flowing through.
Mates, come away with two more kills. The site now opened up.
Seems not to connect to the top of the plant.
Sounded a little bit more patiently instrument drifting across the top, repeats, minds many for his trouble, finds Starzo as well.
Suddenly, just people in glyph.
Trying to get this bonus converted.
It's like in play, but Shryp still coming away with it.
Thank you, Anna Swing, as you will find people.
That's one way to get the blood pumping here for AG.
And it defuses the guy that bonus conversion.
That's fantastic stuff, man. This is exactly what you want to see.
The right player is in the right places, able to deal with many, even though he's in a really nice position to dodge the hot.
Shrimp's able to adjust right there and take him down and gets a second on the start, so...
So, this is also the other thing I want to keep an eye on is Shrimp.
He had 24 kills versus XLG on this map on the fade.
He was absolutely fine, put like a 358 ACS or something like that.
And he's already off to a hot start, 5 and 2.
This is like starting to look to me like the recipe for potential success for AG.
Sure.
And even though there's, you know, this map, incredible four mates, solid, right before we were bumping in.
AG, this has also been a strong one for them.
We're gonna try to get a little bit proactive again with GRQ, up towards the pillar.
One thing that mates does like to do is try to pretend like they're going A when they're really thinking B the whole way, and that's what one of these is.
On that peak, Pipo loses his head.
Another solid shot there from Fingir.
Still have GRQ lurking forward behind the pillar.
Trying to see if he can catch anybody off guard.
Kiera just trying to play him in.
All these jump peaks now, a little bit of a ringer on the rosy.
There's a spot in the kill.
Two player advantage is HG.
Look to tie things up two to two.
Got the turret here to confirm
that there is a change in direction.
Although Starksoke, able to initially dodge it,
Wait, it's for the reinforcements.
Gonna smoke it off, in fact.
Couple nanos.
Oh, that's gonna allow for the catch here, Fenger. Just not ready for that.
Cheeky little play from Mates.
For that access now into the A site.
Nanoswarm for now gonna be holding them at bay.
Stasso going on the push.
Swings around that corner.
The deep watch of this.
Grumkira's side, but he doesn't have the protection there.
He keeps tricking the fight.
I pulled now across the swing in, stars our house and mount down, three kills for him.
And now the player advantage suddenly in the hands of Mates.
What a round win this would be.
And you want me to try to hold the line here, but we'll just be quickly overwhelmed.
Maybe three of the arrival here at Flowers, Martine, playing up close.
She tried to read the angle, spots him, but cannot win the fight.
Martine will find it, and Mates continue to maintain the lead.
And this is just one of these brilliant rounds from Starsehole that we're seeing time and time again this year.
Where he's not only making some pretty good calls and working the map a little bit,
but calling in that smoke, finding that first kill,
seeing the player cross, gets the second, immediately throws the nightfall over to the other side,
knowing that the rotations are likely coming through to really just lock it out
for the other two players trying to clear A.
That's so smart.
and I've been so impressed with him all this year,
the way he's led this team.
I want to try to push forward.
This looks like a pretty aggressive hit.
I mean, but it's just going to be a collab from Martin.
Not deep enough around that corner.
It's a damage subbed by Starship, but that's about it.
Massive value from the push.
Now just GRQ here with this Bucky.
Gonna be grabbed up.
Shot's gonna be ringing out GRQ,
able to tuck back away the saturate.
Not gonna be connected with Starship.
People find Kira over towards stairs.
Now the Nero that's invested is getting the spot on the slide in into his demise.
And he wants to working his way across.
Had them pinged out. We'll still be able to find the kill. People dropped.
Hash plenty available to mates.
We'll be able to find anything more.
Four to one.
That's tough, GRQ here, I think just kind of giving away his position a little bit too
early for free with that Bucky.
I know Mates is being a little bit tricky with their timing, but they're a team that likes
to take pauses mid-round.
That is incredible that he blinds two there.
Trying to line up for a little bit of a utile dump to try to make a counter-push, but
just never comes through.
So, time out already for AG and I get it because again this is usually where you're doing your damage on this map.
You've got to figure something out and you've got to figure it out now.
Again, seen some good ideas in the beginning of the rounds other than that last one but the mid-round stuff again is causing the problems
and this is something that Mimi talked about in the desk that I was thinking the whole way through is that Mates likes to work the map.
They are going to kind of spread you thin,
try to figure out where the weaknesses are piece by piece.
And AG plays a lot of default.
So it's pretty easy to pick that apart.
Just a couple more seconds remaining here in the corner.
There's win condition timeout.
See what AG has up their sleeves.
Absolutely should have had that 2-2 score line.
The drop, 3-5.
It's one of those things that can very quickly get rid
of any momentum they've built up
from that round three win.
Back into a full purchase.
Critical ultimates on the way.
On both sides.
Their mates ready to match.
Dimensional trip, try to scout out.
Plasma provide for the plant, or for the post plant.
Yeah, this is one of these things where they might try
to go through arc, but when they see that there's a big
stack there, and if Mini gets a little bit of space over
B, it might be a quick pivot towards the other side.
But they're going to push forward first.
Flash it already.
Nice flash, yep, like he said in hand.
Sends it out, relay both the drive delay.
There's gonna be people coming away with the kill, thank you, you're struck down.
Barely any damage suffered as well,
Martin just able to snap out of there with that gate crash so very quickly.
Now we'll just be throwing the mask on, sprinting across towards that B site
where for the moment it is just AU1 left alone.
up in tower. All this pressure and then a little bit more damage. Martin once again
just making a quick exit puts him a bit further away back towards club but still
being able to widely beat the forces of AG back to the site.
He wants to fight it. He wants to be exchanged on either side of the night ball.
Dodged out. One of the most hardest now people has that overdrive in hand but
might not even need it. His teammates are just coming all down one after the other to push for the spot out shrimp will fall
People gets his piece of the pie. It's a flawless for mates
Yeah, and it's all about just again
Having the better of that early exchange
Mates there with the ability to TP out
Even though they get flashed up here. There's a relay bolt quick, too. That's really really nice great reaction from Bepo there
And that nightfall trying to use that cosmic divide trying to know that mates are gonna have to push forward ahead of it
To make sure that this retake can't be that easy
For the side of a G and they still get beat to the punch because mates are just a little bit faster
And they dodge a lot of that nightfall too back into an ego back in the outlaw that's under the hands of many
You know the dash up and over but Martin's got him covered
I don't even know people knew the GRQ landing right behind them.
You just let him do it.
Just trusting in his teammate now.
Becomes the tip of the spear, sliding forward,
finding himself two eliminations, fangir, end shrimp, both gone.
Now it's just that Marshal still staring over towards B long,
looking for the lurk from Mini.
Yeah, tagged him up, shot him once,
and knows that that Cypher's on that side of the map.
But it's a clean shot from Kira.
He needs help. He needs a weapon recovered.
It's gonna be a double push after water as Kira finds another one.
Miss plays in it, and you want a little bit.
Now, all just down to Kira.
Vandal, when he'd be scooped up, tap of the defuse.
Could have stuck it.
Knows where one is at, but he doesn't know that Mini was still a world away.
Turn of the flash to jump forward. Cannot find the kill.
Routine survives with two HP.
Catches it with a shorty, and Mates continue the win streak.
Some some nice shots with the sheriffs and poor a you won
The only time that mates have been pushing through water
It's been one player that has come through there when they've done it
So he's only anticipating that one isn't ready tries to greedy greedily grab the gun
I mean you got to love that when you've got martin behind you, you know, you can just let that way they go over
Martin is just sharp as ever
This is one of these matches where I was all eyes on Martin.
Is he just going to frag out of control here and just make 80s life miserable so far?
Yes, he has 10 kills already.
I mean, yes, but also know the thing that we are kind of seeing from the
mates right now.
The rest of the team are keeping pace.
The right there behind him.
It's not just Martin charging ahead, scooping up everything for himself.
So already,
fast improvements here for me to cross the board.
Locked it at the ready.
Wanting to send this until the commitment on that plant is there and until a couple more players from AG are ready to try to flood
Retake off the back of this one, but Mainz are just gonna look to try to fight forward
The old now getting invested and you want a little out of timing catches people and he's gonna be struck down as well
With all the approach intercepting
Cleans up GRQ and Starsell is gonna continue to try to fight forward. That's a sick kill, but doesn't manage to find it
Martín and Glef, last one standing. Backpedal to go away. Still do have the grab. Well, Albi called in.
Get down to a pixel. Catches it straight there from Glef. 1v2 in the clutch from Martín but cannot get it started.
A-U-1. Protects Kjera. Lefuse is in and A-G will find themselves a second round win.
Yeah, this is just good awareness this time from AG.
Knowing that Mates is going to want
to get aggressive behind the lockdown,
so they've got some follow-up plan for it.
Throw in that C's and just completely
stall out this counter-lockdown play.
Really nice shooting there.
Kira again, pretty sharp.
A-U-1 as well.
I mean, I will say for AG, I've
seen some pretty nice things in their individual mechanics.
some, you know, just good shots, but it's going to take more.
It really is. Operator going to be online, though.
And the thing here is, what value he's going to be able to get out of that
doesn't have the eventual drift as well.
He's not going to be on the side of the map this time.
It's like, now that Nate knows that off is there.
Try something a little different. Look at Mini, but they're pinging it.
And just straight from across, avoiding all those shots,
but now the double push coming through to try to flush him out of this position.
Gets the headshot there on the GRQ.
Tags him down low, but...
Can't quite confirm that kill.
A bit of an out-position forward clip on that swing. Dead.
Solomon snappy.
Another two-player advantage available now to AG.
Beyond on the approach, people sliding across, Bang gear able to find him.
Looks like this round not quite gonna be going mates his way
Boring a big turn on from Martina's so a lot of which is intercepting two players
He doesn't have a spike in hand could be cutting all the roadtapes peaks in the tower
You want dead?
I'm fall out towards long not gonna be catching on to the enemy you are here that operator still in hand
But goes for a safer plan
What was that link side?
Now they just double bound forward, splitting apart, looking to try to capitalize the eventual drift, going to be forced out.
And you're seeing them both relaying this over the contract divide, going to be called in, but they both just push forward in front of this one.
Martín here at screens is able to find Kira, and now Fengir has everything to do.
Swaps the weapon over, a swing in to his demise, Martín just too damn crispy with it.
Nate's now up to seven.
I mean, just the call here from Starzo to push again up the tunnel.
Just catches him completely off guard.
Util in hand there for Shrimp.
GRQ's not even remotely ready for it, even though the C's comes up short.
He's still best.
They won.
And Martine is... Martine.
No doubt in that moment you feel like that he's going to come through with it.
Trying to win over the fans here.
I mean, absolutely have their performances throughout the run of the tournament already
have been electric.
Fans here more than happen just to cheer for some good ballerine.
Deeper smokes, but they don't really just wait, mate, from window, and they're just
going to try.
14's turn, goes in, with the dimensional drip to swing in, people trying to steady
it.
Coming to the rescue.
And there's a barrel amount, keeps him alive, pop blast through that dimensional trip.
And right through that cotton hide.
Looking for a catch.
Quite able to find one.
At the back pedal, but you won.
Does just come away with a kill.
Finding that lurking cypher.
Can't get across deep enough into art to really recover the weapons.
They're still just gonna be there with that bandit in hand.
Looks for a little bit more, but my team comes out on top.
Thank you, you're now gone.
Keira dead.
It's just shrimp.
Backside with a sheriff.
Finding a nice shot by his second target.
But cannot get the reload, cannot get out the safety, BIPA would have been one in the tag.
What a rally back that would have been, what a clutch.
We would have witnessed, but it's going to be Nate Sill coming out on top.
Ah, it's so close.
So many little things that could have gone their way.
They just don't quite.
It's dark so, oh my goodness.
That was some nasty shooting.
to be a nasty shrimp to even on the scoreboard,
but the overall round scoreboard not looking good again.
4 AG, a couple more to go here in this half.
They're just really trying to hunker down at A,
anticipating this hit.
They try to put a lot of their face forward, set off.
Clear that haunt.
Question is, do they think that maybe the side is a little bit weaker?
Well, now they have.
That extra presence confirmed by what a flick.
Snapping up to be able to find Bipo midair.
Clean shot form.
That's what AG need.
These last two rounds, they need that opportunity
to be finding value.
They need to keep it in hand.
And it's tough to read mates right now as AG,
because if you're watching some of their vods,
they might just take a pause here.
So you saw them think about it.
Considered the over rotate towards B,
But instead they actually just hold the line today
Reading that maybe this was indeed just a pause but
It's hard without any of that KJU till they're at DB to get an early
Alarm on this because Kira's playing so far back and
Mates is very aware of it. They pinged it out already. I like this for many though as well
Just saying to back wing to the swing to come in towards him
Shots down a you want
Well, just three swing back through shops through club join in with the rest of the squad the plate gets ready to come through
here forward into the smoke, see if we'll find more team to the right back as there's Glimp, cleans up the enemy Astra
Und up there with a Tatra, HRQ, swarms away in the halls. That's a spike now down and suddenly mid is the last one standing
So he had got some bite here
But the time is just not going to be on his side would have to kill them both
They just won't give him that opportunity so he will back away and HG will find themselves a third round win
This one didn't look like it was gonna go so well, but a good saturate and a follow-up kill for GRQ
Steinies this round
So sometimes you just got to
Get those individual players to do some good stuff and it'll get you round wins and that's one of those rounds
Think overall mates macro pretty good, but again the shooting got me fingers been nasty with some of those flicks on the off
That's getting them over the line a really nice saturate there and ready for Stark so
So take them where you can get them is a G
Looks like another
Early a contestion full deeper orb setup
Power to check confirms. This is a double buck you buy obviously people with one good damn well be deadly
live with another so
There's some gaps here
I need you to try to exploit in that firepower.
Now the operator, not really in position to try to shut down this approach.
People are just going to be sprinting in with that overdrive in hand.
The shing and searching around flowers.
You may have heard the rotation there from Fengir.
Shrimp flashed up, took his way back at secrets.
He'll find Glyph. One of the Bucky's now gone.
Fengir able to find Martine, push under the corner.
People's position now known as Aptrily.
Find the damage that he needs at AU1.
able to hold his own. So it's not down to five of many still full HP the Nero
theft is going to be invested immediately. Ping out reveal shows that
flight coming in from Kira as well with the judge in hand. So I'm trying to go for the
plan but once again a lot of this going to be on many shoulders especially now
the thank-you finds another kill swing of the corner Kira takes them
down and HG rescuing this half as much as they can they make it eight and
Yeah, honestly, they look better today in a lot of different ways and, you know, the individual play
Much better some of the macro decision-making much better a little bit patient kind of reading some of mate's tendencies
I'm starting to find they're putting something to really find that
Accuracy when it comes down to the shootings are looking good, but can they get a hot start?
Can they find a pistol in the second half? We'll find out after a half-time break
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Again, David, when you want.
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I'm not capable of translating anything that's happening in this arena, but luckily I don't think I have to.
It doesn't matter what day of the week, it doesn't matter what seems to be playing, it is a party here in the venue in Santiago every damn day.
Right now, we go back into the second half of Pearl. Mates out to a lead, 8-4.
A.G. started to find their footing just a bit, rounding up those final two rounds, starting
to connect with some shots that were missing in the previous, you know, part of the half,
as well as missing yesterday.
Yep.
Cannot continue now.
Back to do another pistol.
That more, and you can see that their pistol round win percentage this year, not so good
for A.G., where it is pretty good for me, so they need to better best the odds.
This time around mini though so much control with that cam
You know just thwart
That attack single-handedly, but it's pulling some players from mates
So they're gonna be some space that's left open that's created by this
They're gonna re-aggress towards mid with three
Not too far away. Yeah, this was there as well
Well, no one's even gonna see that clone on the other side of the map.
Look at this much as end up being a big clench in towards stairs, wait up the nano.
A little bit of a later linger here from AU1, he'll get the spot out.
At least onto the enemy side, Furman cannot find that kill, can't submit it down to 22,
but he collects the elimination in the end.
The face forward, GRQ with that frenzy in hand, with a potential job, the side right
now gone, but he uses scale up, loses his light board, it's a player advantage.
Gonna be established now which is bound upon as Martín makes some shrimp as well
HG scratch their heads wondering where to go and it looks like they might try to explore out towards this defender spawn
Will just tucked away here plan it back site
They know that these players are going to be low in health
Can they hold the line against the numbers?
It's great patience being shown and other nice sees from Starzo there as well at the ran
Here it has to win this.
It really does, and he hasn't seen him neither player spotting out the other.
The Scalp forward, but now, Anicole has him outdone.
Bit too far forward on that push. Thank you, you're having to do it all.
Finds the first two. Here's the approach from behind.
Looking for the double face, and he just cannot split him apart.
Martine with the finish here, mates now up tonight, both pistols in their hands.
Again there's some good moments here for AG, but it's just not quite enough.
And right enough, Nates, macro game so on point.
Great reactions anticipating that AG was going to try to fight back for that space at art.
And then they can just play contain.
Two there, one each.
On the extremities of that essential position that AG created for themselves and they don't give up a damn thing.
Such good discipline as always from Nates.
A G no buy up here really there's a bandit and a ghost
It's the only weapons that they're gonna go for force by attempted
our team
This needs their timing shot now we'll just send him out
Some kind of connection but meanwhile any he's caught the flank here a dead spam through that smoke and stars don't find shrimp as well
Just insult the injury
Not allowing any thrifty potential to come through.
Swing in.
I say that, AU1 still going to be decent with the bandit.
Fits himself another kill.
For the moment, AGR rotating around towards the empty site.
People not too far away could absolutely shut them down with this judge.
You can find a decent timing that can maybe get people out of the equation,
But it's just gonna make sure that this link position is covered watching this wisely and you've gone absolutely dead
Now you know there's a judge on the opposite side. How are you meant to try to get past this?
Spam the rotations coming in all of Bates getting clustered together 30 seconds left
As one team second shot eventually will be reward to decide and Martin does get taken down
Outlaw, maybe not in the greatest position to try to be recovered, but widely it's going to be very happy with that.
Yeah, it's really nice stuff here from Bepo. She's very patient, understanding the negative space on the map.
Knowing that after AU1 got that kill, he might try to wrap in through Link.
Wait, you see? Did they see something? One pixel?
I can't see it, but I'm old, so I just assumed that, you know.
I couldn't quite see that one, but something was out of place, and Mini absolutely noticed it.
Like the patience being shown here, at long A by AG, recognizing that that judge still in play.
But an alarm bot a little bit further forward, played for the longer angles.
Try to get this plant down in the knee or not.
Sometimes it draws some rotations, but right now, mates aren't biting.
No.
They've misread this.
Well, we're not gonna spot anything around mid.
You're on that turret.
E1 just trying to slot forward, closer towards the doors.
Meanwhile, that contact comes in, and you are killed.
Gonna be taken down, martin able to find Tripp.
And you want some fighting back, however!
And just to clean up three.
Just get A.G. into an advantage position.
So, once again, look through.
Deny a bonus conversion.
Yep, that is not a clone.
Oh my god, that was almost the biggest pre-fight I would have ever seen
But it's a kill so it's okay. Oh
It's fine. Take a breather people
Now that
People will swap over all the weapon has the bandal still there
Stairs side now getting joined by Starzo
It's just the mid-round mystery by AEG is catastrophic. It completely costs them. I mean even though
A1, good as gold here in mid, gets three, but...
People's just waiting.
Again, it's just patience.
Some of these off angles, catch.
AG off guard.
And...
You're probably gonna have to rip another time out, aren't you?
Our last one of the map.
Will be sent here, seven around deficit at the moment for AG.
Just giving all we've seen, you've been witnessed from mates throughout the course of this tournament,
qualifying into the playoffs.
It's difficult to say what is, what they really need to do, what they can do, trying
to get themselves back into this map.
Going to, this corn base win condition, seeing what the economy is going to be looking
like and it's got its ups and downs to say the least.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, some of it could come down to finding ways that you can get the Wailay a little bit more involved,
finding ways that you can abuse, to saturate little things like that, maybe just get scrappy,
just try to get in mate's face and just go for some hero big plays and see what you can get done.
I mean, one thing I will say about AG is when it does come down to the Scrap, especially on that ace side,
I was quite impressed with their ability to on the fly just react to situations and outgun their opponents
at times but it's the tough one because Mates again has always got those extra
layers they're always looking for that angle or spot where they're gonna catch
you up guard and we've seen it time and time and time again on this map that it
has worked and AG has often fell for those traps so I think you just brawl
I think you just death ball and you go as well
Virtual Drift, Gatecrash Haken board but already GRQ eliminated his mates, they just killed him a lot, held him a lot faster than AG could have realized, but Tripp has to find two, Kearnal, arriving, last one standing, swaps out the Guardian, gets himself into a 1v2.
This is an absolutely necessary clutch form to find.
Must win.
Saddest moment so far today.
today, economies in the bin.
Well, it's been looking better on the
Astro, but yeah, like you say.
Be going into mates at that point.
There's no real weaponry trying to sell
a bit of a fake, but the problem
is you have that cypher utility over on
a, so it's going to give me some
little bit extra time on this line.
No walk, water then rewrap back
across towards be given to catch on the
cliff. Yeah. Goes for the quick
check, but it's not going to commit
to that angle. Doesn't least have
separated so he can get himself into whatever post-plant he can possibly find.
Okay.
30 seconds left.
He's gonna hear.
We're coming over.
Clear the trip, I know that he's still gonna be backside for the moment.
He tries to work his way to stairs once again, has to clear that, but now it adds a little bit more
ambiguity into the round.
Then he's still a world away, and Kira's just drifting straight into glyphs, open arms.
The kill found, the fuse be passed over to Mini, and that's gonna be
the gentlemen giving themselves up to map point.
Yeah, went for a bit of a scrap, but
starts out just flying out of all the Util.
Shrimp again, almost
with that Guardian. Even though Kira's there to clean it up,
Shrimp alive in this 2v2. It's gonna look way different in that post plant.
And now you're facing some great Alts for Mates, two great retake Alts.
Do have your Cosmic Divide as Kira, one away from the Lockdown as AU1, so you could get
some tools to work with in this round, but you know Mates, see what they want to do,
maybe gonna try to contest A-Long control a bit, we'll see.
Come on, Ford.
We're just gonna go back and away the double dash in.
Jerky won.
Little high catch with that saturate.
Valor chases over.
People tucks away a dugout.
Bit of silence.
Lockdown considered. Alarm bot is gonna be cycling forward.
It's a game change.
Just wanting to pump the brakes, cut the noise.
See if they can get any lies out of mates.
Any information?
They're going to try to crunch him out of arc.
They're just going to try to crunch into this lock down as well.
And people saw the port as Impelavite A-U-1.
Now has it cleared out.
Convertebrite going to be called through.
Shrimp.
This man's going to catch me on down.
A one for one at the end.
But critical ultimate taken out of their hands.
But swing in out of arc.
GRQ.
This man is a fine Starrzo.
He's up in back.
Joining back in, gets himself forward.
In front of this Convertebrite.
Glyph on the swing is able to find two kills.
N'Gear and GRQ both going to be eliminated.
Midi now a 1v2 who's out to try to bring this map to its end.
Can't avoid the nightfall.
30 seconds left.
Fight planted.
Turn the corner of the double face ready.
Spongebob player shifted their way back across towards stairs.
Has to be given that consideration.
Has he re-wrapped? Has he gone through water?
Is he connecting back across towards mid?
The answer of course is no.
Then he needs to check every which angle now in towards main once he sees there's no one here
Does narrow it down should know that they're both going to be leaning in towards that's their side
Islate the kills
That's the swing in here with a headshot
We'll keep a GF float and seven more to go to try to take this into OT
Yeah, this is just a really wild round
but AG is showing some patience even though they're gonna lose this lockdown to this pushout
One can't hold on gets overwhelmed by the relay bolt and the dash in from B-Pult
Stars though there just
Couldn't win a fight it's been really clean for the most part, but
There's been hitting some okay shots
Not another chance, but you used a lot of ults or one away from the way layout though
Well, this time that I think makes
you are going to commit a little bit more to this or they don't want to give it up easily.
Want to make sure that they're going to earn it on that side of the map at the very least,
but jump from our team.
G RQ does pick it up over on the B side.
Kept it up to hurt the exit.
Another sort of rotate back towards the side of the map.
And the more space that they're able to scale forward and gain at a main.
More age might just think that that side has widely been abandoned.
That is the weaker of the two.
As we can see, they have four players
settled here at the moment for Mates.
People again with a shotgun.
Toughed in right around the corner.
Being watched well, and now that B long position
starting to be completely abandoned.
AG, they're liking what they aren't seeing.
Unfortunately, they're not seeing this massive stack
from Mates.
And they're just having a tough time getting the info.
mates is just playing ultra safe. I'm sure that convergent pass is part of the
mental equation there for the mates and why they want to not give up much trying
to hide.
noise now, starting to be made. Defoe just clearing things out the drop down.
Frack gonna be taking back out the judge now. Stale full and plundered up. It's gonna be good for a kill.
Martin finds himself two. Both duelists now dead. The eventual drift gonna be
called in. It's 15 seconds remaining on the clock. They have to try to make it go!
But they are surrounded and outdone.
Look for the title two, Mates, 13-5.
Take down A.G. on Mates' map pick.
Yeah, this Mates team, so clever, so interesting
with how they work this map on Pearl.
Right there where they go.
Improved performance over all of them.
A.G. is still leading.
I have a lot more.
We'll see if they get fighting on there.
Pick up Split.
Otherwise, it's tight.
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here with Paco of Gentle Mates now very one-sided when you guys were able to deal with their
contact place with a lot of ease.
Do you expect anything to be different on Split?
No, we came prepared, we're here to play our game, so I don't think there will be any difference.
Fair enough, and good luck.
These are the easiest games I feel like to break down and analyse.
Welcome back, of course, to the Desk here at Masters of Santiago.
We are one map in to our second elimination match of the day,
And things are looking grim for all game is it does feel like it's a difference on the fundamental level
Which from that point on it's hot getting the weeds about strategy and macro when I do seem to be struggling out there just hang
Yes, I'm trying to take a tone out of the the mates coach it
But yeah, it really does come down to I think that the micro in the team play for AG where they're just making mistakes
not clearing corners and mates is just out there confident playing their game plan, having fun and dominating.
Yeah, you're saying not clearing corners and that is true, but I also feel that there is an element to
a gentleman that is feeling comfortable, that understands their opponent that they are up against and they're just extra confident today.
Now, despite this, despite there being a bit of a gap between these two, maybe a disparity, it does feel like
gentlemen mates have done their homework and our Verizon high speed moment kind of showcases this from the very start of the match.
Yeah, if you watch the scene play in China on their defensive pistol rounds, both the times they've shown this map,
they've gone for a similar setup here where they're playing towards long.
You'll notice Mates baits with that cage in the camp, making it seem like there's only a lurker there,
but from their perspective you see they contact up into four players ready to eviscerate them.
Mates then holds, waits for the re-aggression, and again completely shuts AG down when they go for this forward place.
Yes, this is an outsized matchup in terms of fundamentals and in terms of a neutral performance,
But it's clear that Mates also put some effort into the preparation to have a strong game
plan to dominate this team, because, well, they've been made to look horrible in both
their match against G2, and here they are still a team that was a number one seed for a reason
and demand at least a little respect in your prep.
And I think it's not only that.
I think that just like yesterday on Split, the longer that they have the first half
one on, the more the AG was readjusted to it.
I think that we saw a little bit of that as well.
the deeper that the map was going,
even though Mates seemed more and more confident,
I think that they are now taking the learners.
We saw the frustration,
but I think that they were containing it
way more this time around.
Still a difficult result,
and I want to kind of point out that IGL,
Starkso was really able to demonstrate
a strong performance here.
Looking quite decisive,
couple of pushes up right towards the defenders spawn here,
you know, when he's on the attack side,
in general, just kind of losing confidence.
It's so on brand for him.
He was an absolute newsant,
so when we're speaking about the extra confidence,
was just pushing on to CT time and time again. Even in the situation that you see it's a 2B5,
they're able to turn things around and in many times disrupting the utility for AUE and you know
standing up. If you're starting to see this star so if you take your mind back to champs in 2021
if you were here, this is the kind of attitude that we were seeing coming up for him. But it's
amazing to see him get to do that in front of a crowd this size and play up to them.
When you're talking about being there for champs 2021, it was you and like 10 other people
in the building. He didn't have an opportunity to play against or in front of a crowd anywhere near this size.
Valorant has changed so much since his success early on and him still being here now as a leader for his team
and getting this opportunity to show how damn good he is in front of a big crowd. It is really special to watch.
What we take away is definitely on the fundamental level between these two teams and that's what the gap is.
I'm curious to hear what AG coach Ed 101 has to take away after a pretty thrilling first map.
Here with ED101, of all the gamers that coached, in what areas were you able to spot the improvements that you guys were trying to make coming into today?
And what more do you need to see from the team heading into map 2?
I think today we are not that kind of nervous compared to yesterday, but today our mistakes
is even more fatal, because you know today there are so many clutches with the advantage
we lost and it's way more fatal than yesterday, but in map 2 I think we need to communicate
more frequently like on which angle I'm holding or not and in that case we can do
way more better than yesterday.
Well, it's good to know that you guys
were able to spot the problem.
Thank you very much.
And good luck.
It really is that simple.
I think Coach Edy has picked up on that pretty quickly.
These players don't know what angles
would another recovery for them.
It seems like it is a pretty basic failing
in some of the communication between these guys.
And again, I don't even need to see them win this map.
I just need to see them looking like themselves,
playing together and taking some learnings from the first three maps we've seen.
Yeah, I do not think that everything is bad and it's just been terrible.
I do think that G.R.Q. was a little bit countered, like he didn't have a good map.
He did not find impact with Rayleigh.
I expect for this one to be different for the Swappin'n'Rolls now with Hame
playing in the Omen.
I think that he could be a very important part for old gamers to feel comfortable.
Which we're looking at some grim statistics here.
They are on pace for the worst tournament performance at a global event.
That would be beating MIBR, who only won 19 rounds.
If they get 13 forward or worse, they either tie that record or go down below.
So all gamers, you got all the gamers locked in.
Show me something better here.
It would be a grim realisation if the Chinese era of Valorant was as short-lived
as it's now seeming to be.
This region, this team also slumping so far in this series
and having been able to take away too much of value to bring back to that home region.
It's all fundamental is the issue so far.
So the gentlemates are doing in their sleep.
All games, of course, this is their map pick.
They were demolished by G2 on split to set expectations.
They haven't been able to show a good split, despite that being
where they want to take the game quite often.
Yeah, for the side of gentemates, this is comfort for them,
as we're saying, all through and through.
This is a map that they also like and enjoy,
and we have that showing for the first map to show it.
For the side of all gamers, Kira has a chance also
to redeem the performance that we saw yesterday.
and also a little bit of what we're seeing on the first map.
I do think the Fanger also is going to be pretty comfortable.
I do like to hear that every single time
that we talk to all gamers, they're learning
from every single experience.
They just have to keep pushing for it.
And for the Chinese region, this is their last chance
potentially to show what they've made over the world stage
for now.
So they best put their best foot forward.
We're going to get back to the match.
Take it away.
Killios and Paymentip.
Thank you very much, Desk.
Yes, this is for all the marbles, all gamers,
needing the rally back.
And talked about just saw this map from them versus G2.
We're able to rack up just those six round wins.
They need the full 13 to extend this to a third and final map
to get us over to bind to have a chance
to continue to represent the Chinese region here
at Masters Santiago.
Otherwise, they'll be punching their ticket home
alongside Fyria.
And I think it's as good as a chance
as they're going to get here.
going up against the raised goal rule a little bit.
Less pressure in some ways in terms of what a waylay would
be able to create, like we saw with G2.
So I think some of those protocols
where they got caught sleeping a little bit, hopefully
a little bit more polished today, we're
able to avoid some of those early unnecessary deaths.
They're going for a 3-2.
Meanwhile, Mates has this pretty well read,
Once again, doing their homework on AG's tendencies.
AG not really diversifying the playbook.
Something that you're just going to have to do
against this mate's team.
You're going to have to come up with some new stuff on the fly.
Now they're trying to make their rotates pretty quick,
but I'm a little worried about AE1.
Oh, get the ready.
Seems like AE1 spotted out.
Paint shell towards back side.
C's going to be connected as well,
He's just going to be spammed out wall bank by Deepo
You're on that swing out doesn't manage the challenge wins out the fight
Raise on raise violence and a feeling shot to find Martín as well. We step from Mini. However
He heaven stairs intercepts GRQ. It's over rotating on these contacts
That's opening up space for Mini
Do some serious flank damage
The kill towards spawn has really stirred things up for AG.
Trying to figure out if they do have a solid read of what Mates are going to try to do.
30 seconds left.
Slow, methodical push into the B site and we'll see that it's empty for the moment.
All three of AG, and nearby enough to try to counteract this.
This has happened elusive and they find one here.
Spike now in play, swing around, it's going to be damage exchange, many down to one
HP as the Stature gets locked in from Fengir, swing to the corner, Kira comes away with
4 and ace clutch trying to get the pistol across the board. Fengir still in the mix,
but now take it down and Kira manages to find it. A massive round from this
raise that was lacking on the spot yesterday versus G2 now starts off this map.
Staring down the barrel of elimination comes away with the ace.
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
This is the Kira I wanted to see.
Put your opponent's names in your death boat and go to work.
And this guy was nuts on this map in China.
And he's coming alive. Absolutely brilliant.
He was one of the players having that slower start.
It was all the shift over to Abyss.
started to look a little bit more alive with that Astra.
Wasn't able to see it from on the raise yesterday,
but my god, want to start for him now.
It'll be a bit of an investment here as people
stinger in hands, give them a try to form an AU1.
Outdoes it with that specter.
And here just around the corner.
Two players now tucked in the mail.
So that's where N-Martin have absolutely
been stopped in their tracks.
This is classic, mate.
Take the mid-round pause.
Make your opponents second-guess themselves,
but of the patience being shown here by Fingir.
Just hold your line.
Yep.
Put yourself in a more disadvantaged position
with that bucky, if you do.
Silence here.
Will continue, it seemed.
But now the push, getting ready to come in the prowler.
Goes a check towards him.
Yes, it absolutely does.
Saturate going to be long.
He's turned out finds himself the 3k maybe a bit more
Stars that will continue to push in a you what can we just have back-to-back aces from different players in it to it
Five HP five kills perhaps
See if it's in the cards for him. He's gonna be running forward. No, we'll be able to find it
It will be a G
Give themselves a two zero start
That might be exactly
What the doctor ordered here the confidence now should be starting to flow a little bit more
We saw that even though they got bodied on pearl
They were able to keep their emotions much more in check
Now it's time to get some of that positivity flowing get some of that energy going
Just really nicely held again a lot of what mates likes to do on this map is mid-pressure
They want to try to create space that way give themselves the ability to pivot to either a or B depending on what they like
So in the early round here, A.G. doing a good job of nullifying that strategy that Mates is generally going to bring.
But come around, they're being very, very cautious, very, very patient.
You get a spot there onto the Viper, but often that is a solo player, and Mates is going to try to use that to their advantage.
Both of them across, spiked at the same time though, in mid.
Took an ace of lead.
So we're just sending out the prowler, quick clear of it from Kira.
Not still flying.
Morteen had eaten some counter-spray, but what a time he found!
AU1.
The killer in the previous round, immediately gonna be taken on the equation here.
Main slip to the die.
The bonus conversion.
Getting that Bucky in hand, Fengir tucked away just on that entry out of A main.
Needs to try to get some real damage across, destroyed it, last packing four, tributals
seven out of the sky, this hatch right now on the floor, Fengir, pick it up apart, finds
a second, snaps back, won't be able to find the follow up, but look at the damage
dealt, cliffed down the two HP, paranoia towards site, we're in the only reposition
just tapping is trying to see what kind of reaction he can get.
Kira arrives on this flank.
It's going to be GRQ to find Cliff.
He himself down to 10.
How the timing is going to be found.
And Kira not gotten the kill.
GRQ absolutely would have.
AG finding themselves their first bonus conversion
here in Master Santiago.
Yes, this is exactly what we want to see.
Signs of life, really good holes.
Even though they lose that player in mid,
they commit to holding this eight choke,
and Mates falls right into it, throwing all that Utah
right on top of Mates.
They just mantle that round.
Now, plenty to cheer about now.
Every solid start.
Kira off the defuse, able to get that showstopper.
And then it'll go 6-0 at the moment.
So now along that deathless streak can continue for him, but the Mates,
can't let them want to go for a pacy hit now into the A site.
Shows good to be said.
Kroombot locked in, gets the spot out, the smoke gone.
It's going to be a strip to collect the kill.
The showstopper up and over the top, into the site.
Is it right there?
Smack damage stars those feet.
Literally going to try to trade one back.
Pulls away, not going to be caught by the flash, but does find damage on the Kira.
spot there all the more team pressure this race out but what a snappy shot and
that Martin absolutely screwed as Gara looking for another big round looking to
go 10-0 it will be a you want to find people
and long last agee have a reason to be on their feet and it's the confidence
It's here from AG to play their game, which is anti-execute.
Stop your opponents before they can really get into a post-plant.
Get their feet where they want to be.
Kira here, loved the decision-making.
Spikes on site, knocks it down, and he is sharp right now, just so ready.
They can finally get on their feet, try to get the crowd behind them, but it is going
to bring a very quick time out for Mates to talk about this a little bit and see if you
can put a little ice on this fire that AG has been able to create.
Pulling back into the corner starting to find their bite.
Not surprised at all.
Take a look.
Point of his winning condition here.
Pulled by Galeon to come back through.
Four gentlemen.
It's just going to be two of those half armors.
But as you can see, he does have that operator in the mix.
And the thing I like about this situation right now for AG is that, again, with
that raise there. You don't have that easy ability to punish some of those default positions
that AG is going to post up in. We saw this a lot with Baby Baby in really elusive catching players
off guard, getting space where AG maybe isn't used to people being able to take that kind of space.
But now this feels a little more comfortable for them. They know what this raise style is
going to look like. They have plans behind the glass packs to shut things down. They have
plans at the entry points to deal with what Mates wants to do.
So a huge round for Mates now.
They're coming into a buy to have that pit available.
He's A1, just going to rip right off the gate, right in the mid.
Looks like it.
At least he's positioned to potentially do so.
The Lich is piled into this.
My question.
It's looking a little bit slower here.
Shot's going to be exchanged.
And B-Bow both gonna, he'll tie a little bit of damage.
Wanting to play forward into this thing, and we'll just,
reroute now over towards garage, but Tangier is mentioned.
An operator in play.
Crash, just behind him, goes to the peak.
Shot not gonna be connecting, dashes over the side.
Feskeet himself saved, but AU1 gonna be caught up
as B-Bow's gonna be able to find him.
Here on high, Kira, gonna flush out these players
on the opposite side of the smoke.
Sending out the blastpacks trying to slow it down this approach.
GRQ on the peak, he's able to find a gliff.
Spike brought forward, but now everybody
contained here towards backside.
This swing, the lineup.
Here I am able to fight two.
Sorry, however, in reply.
Consummed down with the Colot.
2v2 with the Auburn play.
And Gears zone back away towards Alley.
Trailblazer out.
It's a spot under the enemy fade.
Fuck's the way, not gonna get caught, but it costs him a mini.
Dead.
Now it's all down to Stasso, and he cannot find another.
Five to zero, the timeout.
Not working in Mates' favor.
Looked like they might have a good chance.
They're able to force the op off of the hard angle,
but A.G. again, so quick to rotate in a position
to keep their opponents pinned behind the pillar.
Don't give them a lot of space.
I mean, if it isn't for a little bit of a spacing,
Issue there and it's just unlucky to be frank start. So just find the perfect timing to swing that to get those two kills
That's a clean-ass round. That really is
11-1 in one now suffering his first death, but not gonna be too bothered by it here
It continues to be a force of nature in this map
Or halfway towards that next showstopper
In which what does have his available?
Not the Cosmoth Divider. One away from Martins ult. They have some really cheeky stuff.
They could potentially pull out comboing those two ults. See if they want to go for it this round.
They're just giving free space, so we're taking it.
Molly lineup actually from minicross and anything that looks like it.
Now looking for the push down. Showstopped a real connect. Fingers going to fall, but click.
8 Flanker has been displaced.
G now just gonna focus forward, get this retake golly.
4v4.
It's now a little position if they can get panned out.
They're gonna overcommit as well, so don't get the plant
in midi, because otherwise, it's gonna be just been that.
Pitting the play for them.
That's towards Heaven, Martín just gonna be jumping away.
All the attention with that gate crash.
The site has been evacuated.
Three players here in Heaven, Martín at name.
Look at the try to hold down the abuse of body blockers.
Well, they're going through eight.
You want on that peak, finding two.
Last battle.
There's managed to force him away.
GRQ, here's some rushing him down,
and Martín gets the classic out.
Finds that 3K, and Mates will get themselves
on the board at around six.
This is good stuff from Mates.
A.G. goes for a hard read that Mates are going to revert back to one of their tendencies trying to go for some early mid-aggression.
They put three players there, but it's all just a push-up ramp. Again, if Mates are giving that space, they're going to take it all day long.
And there's some nice stuff on the site in terms of giving some false information over just beautiful timing as well in that last pack.
It doesn't get any better.
That's something that's happening, registering that it's there, because Shrimp could have just cleared it.
And let me just avoid that situation, hold it a few years either way.
And G still installed in a position.
Let's keep up. Oh, I mean, it looked like he had the read!
But it just gets caught! Boom, bottom hand!
And they just triple-face in the garage!
Now you're gonna be staring down some huge alts.
Converged past showstopper seekers.
So much to play with. Shrymphil, drifted out a bit out of elbow, but Stark so able to tuck in underneath flowers just ahead of that peak.
Not quite deep enough into the corner, so Stark's out.
The peak is placed, wins out the fight. Solid shot, the shut down of the peak from Shrymphil.
The mid-chill drift now going through, scouting over towards screens, checking around, looking for the Viper.
able to find and swing in at many holding his own as well as thank you will fall here at dead
needs look at me go back to back so stringing together a couple rounds here on this attacker side
grq going to be timing checking in towards the site now you want would love to just drift away
because even though the win streak has been big overall for ag up until the previous round
rounds have been scrappy so the economy is down in the dumps
I just silently make his exit.
Flowing back over towards mid.
Mates able to find themselves a second round win.
Just gonna have to keep drifting.
He's got, oh, Lyft actually peels off.
I thought he was gonna try to go through the ropes
and see if he could catch up.
But instead, they're just gonna play it safe.
I mean, economy a little bit shaky
for a few players on Mates as well.
So don't want to fork anything else extra over
if they can help it.
round for mates able to play some nice positions up at the top of a ramp keep
AG clearing some space to set up for those retakes really that's a tough round
for AG you had so many huge ults that were potentially there but they get
shut down right here by this crossfire so a nice little adjustments
They're still having fun despite the deficit.
Coaches sapped up from A.G.
Not as much fun after these last two rounds.
They're giving it over.
They know how just snowball-y as bait steam can be.
The solid starts solid.
Scoreline to establish already on this map.
They are looking for more.
Give it away.
Then four B5 conversion to mates.
Something they want to look to avoid.
Let's see what the buys end up looking like here because you can see in this corner base
when it condition the economy is a little bit shaky.
Might be seeing some Guardians Bulldog singers into the mix here.
Yeah, you know what I'd really like to see here from AG is an aggressive set play where
you can use some of the Sky info to catch some players into a convergent pass and
then a showstop or something like that where you can just go for that big early
play get a few kills I don't think they're going to I think probably they're
talking about how they want to handle these retakes a little bit better since
again that's kind of their MO I think it'd be cool to throw something
completely unorthodox at Mates try to catch him off guard maybe that's what
they're doing in mid I mean I saw the pings come down and that's where
finger is kind of placed so maybe to think about a convergent pass there
counteract any mid aggression that Mates would want to go for but again
Look at the push extremities early.
Will claim control of the garage of the very least,
but going to be taking their time with it,
really trying to suss things out.
A lot of stars placed early over on this B side as well,
but so far, he's not going to commit that extra player
in that direction.
Trailblazer not sure if it saw many or not.
I think it might have because he's peeling back,
but again, Mates has already shown that in their conditioning.
Hold on.
It's not coming through, but G.R.Q. just has to get into the space.
Paranoia trying to lay the flood.
People still able to work his way forward, clear out the rest of the site.
Pass rotations coming in from A.G.
Sprinting the way through the vents and across towards this B. Heaven position.
No way to try to really interrupt that.
Pact coming through the down. Converter pass is going to be invested.
Showstopper out over the top and it's a two for one for Kira!
Sozo and Martín both going to be taken down. Look there for the trade.
3v3, however, is a full flash into his face.
The sink may be going to be lobbed in, but GRQ takes a bit of that damage, gets it up.
Halfway on the defuse, he's 81, finds a kill, and A.G., they find another round win.
The timeout, working a treat, they get the shut down.
They're going to invest the two ultimates, three in fact, I believe the Seekers went flying through.
Yep.
They get themselves up to six all the same.
Yeah, and again, big individual wins out on the extremities,
in the 1v1, GRQ wins.
You know, the convergent past doesn't hit anybody.
They don't care because they know it's going to force them
right into that showstopper.
Spunty, right before you can gate crash out as well.
Timey just a hair off for him.
So now, four rounds to lead.
And here for H8, up to six.
How many more can they get?
Would like to break the economy of mates
if they could find this follow up.
Secure a lead of the half.
Three players again over at A ramp, something that I think the coaches addressed.
They don't want to give up that space easily to mates.
Making some of those post plants too doable.
So we're just going to be committing a little bit of extra early resources in that direction.
Leading pretty hard over towards A.
There's smoke there.
In front of start zone.
Long to see just Martin I think sure forgot the spot. Maybe a mini-map ping out
Be able to see stars there as well
Night ball gonna go across making on the shrimp that pedals way towards back map at site
Lots of time there with that flash that was nice
More players and try to work their way
Maybe just down through events across the mid
completely rerouted. There's a spot out there when he can't make it onto the
rope. No clear that boom bottom now to meet a TP back across in the backside.
Or GRQ. As you say, mini. Ooh, through ramen. Thank you, you're able to intercept.
Rather, it's gonna flip there. Snake Shell's gonna be off in GRQ from
backside fighting himself in second. That one is all on cliff.
Driving onto the scene, the 1B3, the time however she's not going to be on his side, nor is the shot, GRQ with 3, it's AG up to 7.
Just really well held, not crumbling under the pressure, even after losing your player in vents there, AU1 going to go down, then Fanggear wins another 1B1 for him.
for him and this push in full from garage and from back site absolutely beautiful nobody over commits to anything
Using that paint shells to flush him out from the back of pillar
That is stellar stellar teamwork. It's 15 five and two now for Kira an outlaw at hand
As mentioned economy kickback here for mates is going to be brutal and it is
Three sheriffs is hanging on a ghost
I don't know if they're way forward on the side, but they might have just been through the smoke.
Shrimp was able to find one.
People dead on the approach.
And you will fall, but he's going to be good for one.
Good finds another.
Zildale, 3v2 as the dust settles.
Mates have the work cut out for them.
I'm going to pull off this thrifty.
Here it's still a ways away.
Still both flashes.
One used to check corner at screens.
And all of Kira's Util.
of paranoia.
Smoked a block off Martins position, has to scale forward through this one, needs some
damage to blind spray, taking him down to 60.
Giorki looking to try to keep his eyes forward from that side.
There's Martins such an out of the sky, Giura dead.
The approach coming in at Giorki again.
Back to back 3Ks for the Elmen.
It abuses there and HG, now up 8 to 2.
They're just really calm and collected right now, not over-committing to anything, winning
some of their individual battles, showing off some really sharp shooting, GR2 in particular
again here on Split, coming alive, just a little bit of it against G2.
He's much better today, and oh my, I think we're getting the second time out.
You have to at this point
Second commitment on the timeouts here in this first half two more rounds be played out mates
Knowing that they need those two rounds need to make this an eight-four score line
I mean it just hasn't felt like mates can play their game plan on this map
It's been a lot of just trying to go for those extremity
pushes those big executes that I think really fall into AG's hands
That's exactly what they want you to do because they're they generally have good protocols about avoiding those hits on the extremities
That's where I was really impressed with them watching in their vods and
What usually mates wants to do is go mid and AG had a couple rounds where they were able to at least
Make it a consideration or a hard consideration for mates where they didn't want to keep trying to push their luck in that situation
And it's just been
A.G. so, so smart, so map aware, too.
Every time somebody's pushed out in towards spawn, they've dealt with it.
All those little tricks that we're working on, Pearl, are being absolutely smothered out of this map.
Hick and the Cosmodevide available for a post plant, four mates.
Three players.
You're outside of garage, Spoonbox gonna be exchanged.
Faker the TB forward, B-Po just clearing that corner.
So they do have control of garage, these four at the moment.
Well, Spike's still gonna be dropped back over in Sewers next to Sarzo.
So I'm just gonna see if there's any deep walk down into mid.
And Mini's changing his position just a little bit.
Going to the top of Sewery ropes.
Let's see if maybe he can catch somebody off guard from AG.
Push a little bit deep to get a little bit of space and here you go back to the bread and butter for mates
Always you're having a spot quick little tuck away from many not looking at caught
Lies it up to know there's gonna be something the company that trailblazer forward at the same time
Gonna catch your audit clip. He is able to play loosely enough. I think this might be fake
Well the hell of a lot of attention making plenty of noise
trying to make it make you think it's a fake thank you he's held it just the
operator he's trying to find that opener saturate is going to be sent out
slowing them down trying to reroute them perhaps but this point you kind of want
them to push today you want them to go into what's the stack and I get the
pit blooming into heaven on B here I hear in cliff this corner here
In front of Clush, he has a blast pack, pushes Kara back to the wall and clip guns him down.
A crickle misstep. Gives the player advantage without a plan over the gentlemen mates.
The Rufusen were just running down the clock.
I think it's just a save.
Seems like that's going to be the case. Not one of the risks.
That operator. Four players save.
It's made space to strike within the last 12 seconds of the round and this is massive for them as well
Not losing out on any players not losing out on this weaponry
They will be able to retain everything to try to get themselves that fourth-round win
And it's all about this early round pressure
They create a garage that opens up a little bit extra space and they're able to go back in a bit where they want to
go bait out some you chill at a tower bait out rotations over there as well and then make the call to pivot over towards
speed. We've got Kira on an island trying to hold the line.
Okay. Can it be four for mates?
That's a really nice round for them. That's more of what I've seen from them on this map.
So is A.G. going to have an adjustment? I'm already seeing pings from them towards mid, so clearly they're considering that space.
Making sure that it is
Accounted for in some respect get that high five surely by the next map
someday
Walk in towards mid
They're around the corner setting up some stars in the meantime
Phone HL one of the B site and the offshot ends up going wide bang you're still swinging out. Let's have to back away
Okay. Situated to get in male trailblazer, spotting out. There's no one in back of sight.
He crashes there, but just be martin basically guaranteeing his death should he take that.
Elbow. Gonna be spotted and clipped again. Find the head shot. Thank you, dead. Two
players situated here on ramp spot out. On plenty of the paranoia. Now gonna be
But people uncaught by that unblinded, finds Kira, and they just run down Giakiu.
2v5 would be monstrous.
The gun bell spotted, and now would have to be an ace clutch from Shrimp to make it a 9-3.
Won't get the opportunity, massive round for people, another 3k for him.
And for all his fashion mates, managed to find that fourth round to win the close at the half.
Some good adjustments there, but overall you have to be so impressed with AG playing their game plan to near perfection
The best we have seen
Can they find another pistol to take that step towards buying it will mate look for a run back
We'll find out after the half-time break
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This is the last play to be excited about AG.
Some of the most hope that we've had for a team from China, I guess that's
Maybe, maybe give us a map 3, but like you said it has to start out of the pistol here.
Let's see if AG can give him more to yell about, let's see if AG can give him a map
3.
Starting off so damn hot for them here up with that ace.
Look at the first pistol, the snowball that into their first bonus conversion.
Now their first lead at the half in this tournament.
Man, I think they're going to go for something they like to do on these pistols, just go for a big hit towards A.
Here's got a sheriff though, so I'm not sure if maybe it's kind of the normal look.
If normally it'd be Kira blast packing in there, but without those obviously it's gonna be kind of a slower approach
Three players here at the top of ramp
There's a peek it's gonna be a you want him to find the first is martin will fall
Stars are as well tagged down now dead
paint shell flies up over towards heaven
Thank you swings around the back catches many an HG
looking phenomenal here to start up the second half.
It's a great read.
A great little micro adjustment compared to some stuff they've shown in the past.
Both is working out as that sheriff.
Now he's alone and Kira, maybe not the ace but it's another 3k and a flawless pistol at that for H.E.
They want to dance.
Nine to four.
Jeez, it's just a little bit of change
because you're kind of playing to expect
that they're going to go this way.
They're just going to blast back in.
But it's just them trying to oversaturate the angles
at the beginning at the top of ramp.
They do exactly that.
They've got a bunch of sheriffs.
They're ready to brawl.
Brawl they have.
Just a shorty there for Martin is the only gun, the only pistol being bought.
He's just going to tuck right around that corner, meanwhile A.G. being thoughtful here,
talking things over a little bit.
Fang here, pulled this angle down with the Marshall.
Try to see what you can find out.
Agee likes to play this map somewhat similar to Mates where they want to create this mid-pressure.
Sometimes you have a little bit of trouble getting some coordination and sync going.
Let's see if today you can find ways to overcome some of those obstacles that they faced.
face the corner here at Raptors many gonna be good for one but then flushed
out eventually as clip cannot escape another two kills here for Kira three
towards that next showstopper people in martin will slowly work their way
across towards this out of the map given the classic of the shorty just
be the tuck and death of the spike so you do not want to give anything else
over to this raise right now.
Swap the marshal over into his hands.
He wants to go hunting.
Beat boat.
To avoid being put on the menu.
Backpedals away.
Paint shell trying to buy himself some space.
Stucks back up the stairs.
Tagged up, taken low.
Now the rewrap around towards garage.
I mean they need to get into the blast radius of this spike.
As anybody but the Rays who would seem as what they're after, it'll be GRQ instead to collect the two Remainders, AG.
They get themselves up to double digits. As many rounds here on this split as they converse his G2 across both maps, they are looking to send this to bind.
Haha, let's go! They are just so aware.
doing such a good job.
And I like the way Kira's using these blast packs
to mess with the other players.
He's not necessarily just diving in all the time,
like even though he had one that he kind of beefed
against Glyph, other than that,
they've actually been working really nicely
to make a difference in these rounds,
make a difference in these fights.
Who bought out early for B-Fold quickly cleared.
He's just going to trade it right back.
And they're back to make their way in towards mid.
Martin need to go crazy or potentially they're coming right at him.
That's a great lob in.
He back tunnels down.
Opposite of that veteran think it does end up getting punished.
That over aggression many able to find it for the smoke balloons at mail.
Kira chasing in spots at the feet and find Starzo.
Hitch up to clean him up now one away from a showstopper.
Mini just gonna see tucked here.
Flushed against the wall.
The peak coming in and does manage to out to Kira.
3v4 players trying to get clustered and ready for the approach here on to the B site
Well play on the low ground the team before to the 81 he's gonna find another minis now dead the swing in JR Kilkins people
and a G
They are looking for another bonus conversion
He's Martin though the 1v2 the smoke now blooming
Flash gonna be sent. The drop down they're not looking at him, but Martin's not hitting them!
All the things that we said about AG yesterday, I feel like I could say about Mates right now.
They look frazzled there. They're not hitting their shot. They're not making great decisions.
They're individually making mistakes that AG is able to punish but all the credit in the world AG because they're playing so well
They're so sharp. He just yeah can't do it
He just got a little over eager to start that spray wanted to get the quick transfer
I think to try to end the round but now it's showstopper for Kira a judge for B. Poe shotguns a bound
Oh, this will prevent just from getting up the map point to hear that outlaw ringing out
The dash up and over the top and Martini does find the timing, sliding past.
We'll find Kier, so once again that shows Dover not going to be a quadruped for them to contemplate in this round, but he's out on star so...
The player eliminated.
Down to the base of Ram, and he watches spamming on a timing, and people make a noise.
I have no idea but what a kill to be found.
Flash finds Fangir, pulls back.
On the peek, dead.
The Bucky for Martine, still going to be deadly, but Mini with that battle on her hand.
G, her Q just turns up at the time, finds him.
Split gets another, but then gets traded out.
The tap is there, Martine is dead!
And AG are up to map point!
Mates need eight just to take this overtime.
They're just clinical.
Let me tell you, I don't see that happening.
No.
No, this is a revitalized AG team.
All it took was one day and what a difference
it has made for this team.
You just have to be so thrilled with what they're showing.
Here we go.
Flash, trying to set up the showstopper but...
Midi?
Midi's the closest one, lob in, and still will be able to find people not midi dead as well.
That second layer from GRQ, coming up with a kill, finds a second, clip is dead!
Just also end martin, the dynamic duo from Perl.
They were finding such heavy impact.
The last one standing at 2B4.
He's trying to have any ounce of a hope of taking this over time, but there is no hope,
not on this map!
Sarge will have a little bit of fun here to find himself a second, but even he knows
that this is a bridge too far gone.
23 health, 6 bullets, and Fenger to find a provon high! 13-4! I do not believe it! All
gamers are pushing us to distance! We're not done! We're going to bind!
This is incredible! Finally a map win for China and AG! They're showing why they're the
number one seed. Not going quietly into the night. They are
pushing us the distance. One more map to determine which team sticks around.
I was scared of all the strength in this body
But I thought the day would come the day would crown me
But often, place me wrong, but don't chase me slow
Palapasurila, Palapasurila
the worst performance for a team ever.
It's what we were talking about going into this match.
But this was a complete turnaround.
Old gamers actually looked the way they did in China.
Confident, actually coordinated.
It was a complete 180 bath.
Yeah, absolutely.
I was saying, just if you want to be reactive, just do it.
It's worked in the region.
Why don't you test it here?
Get into it.
Move that frustration to another part.
They made gentlemates look like idiots.
I am sorry, but it is what it is.
I think the maids ended up with like 11 first skills,
and they only were able to win four rounds.
I think in so many of these occasions,
as you're saying, Mimi,
we saw a team that I do not think Mates was ready for.
Now, I mean, let's have a look at it a little bit closer.
Let's put it right on the microscope.
It's Kira that opens up this map
with a stunning pistol round eight.
A play we've highlighted and said,
we need to see more from,
we knew there was something lurking under the surface.
Finally, that exact Leviathan is come up
and there it is, Jaws.
Kira was the greatest example of the failures
all-gamers playing against Jitsu. He honestly looked lost in that series, getting caught out with his
Nade out in vents making weird decisions. They were so unusual compared to how good he was in China,
but here he played like himself. These retake runs in particular, bounding in with the double
satchels, so confident with the duels he's taking. This is exactly the man all-gamers needed.
And that's the keyword, confidence. That is something that they needed to take on those
those tools. You're going to go up against a team that just wants to face your time and
time again. You got to square up to them. If you take a look at the numbers and we compare
people for the love of Christ and things that I have seen this game, you've got three
people pushing you to get your food out. I'm like, what are we flaking here? So many
of the decision making that I was seeing coming in for mates, I was like, are you,
are we experiencing the same here? I don't actually see everything, but...
We saw some really odd post-plant structures, I think, for our gentlemates.
Like, you know, BP in one of the first ones,
I think like round four, round five, being caught out in the open,
as the smokes come down in heaven and just sort of getting caught out.
And then, we have crossfires that AG are finally able to put together.
It looks like those protocols are now in place.
Yeah, I wanted to show a couple of these rounds.
This is first this lovely retake.
It's with both the way-life and the raise-off,
but they just execute on it well.
Get half through the Molly, exactly what you have to do.
And then it's just some confident swings from the last two to clean up that round.
You look at another round where they're playing into that retake.
This is a great reaction.
Omenal to Cross as this kind of last minute rotate is coming in from it.
And watch how they set up this Crossfire.
Kira jiggles, fakes out a little, pushes the maid out to push them into him.
Many ice legs this fight as Backside IMG RQ is also fighting off that.
It was these little things that were consistently the failures for all gamers.
and it looked much better in those moments this month.
It's just for me to be EMEA-based,
but I really, really like the fact
that this is the way that they won the map.
It was not like Wishing, Washing, No.
This is us highlighting the fact
that not only they relied on those reactions,
I did not see hesitation.
Every single time that there was an action coming in
from mates, there was a consequence
coming in from all gamers,
and they started on to those ones.
Since we're at GRQ, I think that he had a lot of impact,
and that was something that I was looking for for him,
And I expect also moving on to fight.
Doesn't mean that all games can prove Newton's third law exists.
That is great. But now we have to ask the uncomfortable question.
Yes.
We didn't think we'd be in this situation.
But our gentlemates are also looking down the barrel of potential elimination from Master Santiago.
It is wild to be in this position.
I almost wonder if they got overconfident from that map.
One did not look themselves here on split.
Luckily, we had towards buying.
This is a map where I think they've been competent on.
They're playing the double duelists here.
I think that for the team, this is really about focusing on themselves.
And now it's them in the position of having to fix their fundamentals,
go back to playing together and just reset expectations going into a bind.
Because now, in an unbelievable turn of fate,
elimination very much on the line for the Simea squad.
Yeah, after the first map that we saw, my eyes have to go to players like Mini.
I think that not only this is a very, bind is a very good map for him.
I think that he was one of the few players
I was keeping his head in the game time and time again. We all also seen some of the
Reactions for the side of maids me and I guess this really happened and like they couldn't believe this was actually the reality
Frustration and of course all game is that making great use of their ability to get out of their chairs and do subtract
Well, I'd great to see that from shrimp as well
Kira brimming with confidence a little bit more now
And we've had a chance to look a little bit at the bind of this all-gamer's team, right?
They showcased it in their home region
pretty rough loss against
Shilai Gaming and then like a
very unobstructed win against
DRG. I'm not really sure what
we should take away from that.
It's not super high in their
map pool, but they're comfortable
playing it. I think that they did
get out called by Shilai in that
series and they haven't played it
since. It has been quite a while
remember that was the final. It
wrapped up and now we're back
looking at this map. I think going
ahead at this Vito it was a very predictable
one so I would have expected them to be
prepared to go into Vito.
We're seeing the players now here and Starks are stopping it and each one of them be like hey guys
You know one by one. We got this but that frustration that was there from not one is still in the second one like these are worried
It's the dualists that he's really got a pull-tightening to people. That's big to me
You highlighted in bear that man who struggled so much last map and I do look to Starks up
I think some of the attack-sided calling on that split was a little disappointing to me some very late pivots
This intersects with low information that they were getting punished on in that second
half.
They took that round on a level where they had a cosmic divide on the map, right?
And pivoted back into a base site where they had zero purchasing.
That was also prone by the fact that the moment that that goes down, all gamers starts pushing
main and they're like, oh, we already do not have any reliable information to be making
this goal.
This starts, sorry, this mode start appearing onto heaven and then they're pushing
to, they're putting to a position that, again, they did not expect.
Yeah.
I also want to put some focus on Martin here going into this map.
We saw that one on two where no one was looking at him.
He whiffs and that really frustrated reaction on his face.
He's been absolutely excellent this tournament.
The top performer from the Swiss stage,
the top performer in the MEA,
the man who shattered his own BO5 record
the day after he said it.
And on a bind where there's gonna be a bit more
of these heart execs where he's gonna have to be the one
following up off of Vipa.
I think this is an excellent opportunity
for him to turn it around
show why he's been so dominant so far in 2026. Yeah and as I was saying in the
beginning they're going to be starting on the attack on every single map. Bind
is not going to be a difference. If that confidence is back it has to be
showing off from the first moment and for the side of all gamers we just
have to rinse and repeat. Let them take the space, let them make the
first move, react onto it. You've been so good onto it. Now something we
saw back on Pearl was that clearly Getamate despite maybe feeling like
They had a fundamental leg up on all gamers. They read into that pistol round strap pretty closely. The data is limited
I think in terms of what we expect from by now as well
But this is a team that I don't feel like comes in the game under restorating their opponents
Which serves the world because when that opponent you underestimate starts to claw back into the game
It can really get in your head looks like some of the individuals here on the main side getting frustrated with themselves
I recall the 1v2 attempt from my team or a cool people struggling in that game
And Stavros thinks picked a great opportunity to go individually down the line and make sure everybody understands what is on the line
And to make sure they quote-unquote don't save any energy to the fight home
That's the beauty there right of winning that map so dominantly they come out
And I think they'd likely could underestimate all gamers after how much they stopped them in map one
But they have another opportunity because of that map one win
They have this chance to reset to close out and prove that that split was just one blip on what's been a such a successful journey so far
Changes here that we're seeing from both of the sides gentemase
Do you know the most unorthodox thing that you're going to see is that they're going to have glyph playing on that astra?
Most of the things I use I love the only one
Back in the NBA no brimstone for that side and of course starts
So it's taking a moment to think because as you're saying, there is a lot on the line.
And we've raised them so incredibly high in EMEA on the first final.
They made it to the fifth map and on the second one, they were able to close it after two very tiring days.
Is this the way you are going to go back home?
And could it be all gamers still wanting to send them on that flight?
This team that got really decimated by G2 in their first match, followed through map one here,
looked like a shell of that team that won first seed in China.
Now finally, playing like themselves,
an opportunity to get the only series win for their region,
and to stay alive.
Realistically, if that last map is anything to go by,
we are just beginning to scratch the surface
of what all game is, are capable of.
And it would be a shame to see them depart
without getting to show the full suite of
what they have at their disposal.
You'd say the same with Gentlemates, though.
They fought their way through the Swiss.
They showed that there's depth to EMEA.
It's not just that number one team has we didn't expect this match has gone the distance
But who's gonna come out on top and the woman to find out a killio to play with him do enlighten us a
Third and final map is a G
Not going down without a fight not allowing the Chinese region
To how out of his tournament without having a single map win that they are still in this they are hungry for it
They now have the opportunity
to eliminate gentle mates as we go over the bind.
This is still going to be a very tough battle.
Twice we've seen it from AG this year.
They're one-on-one on it.
Mates, however, have not dropped this map yet in 2026.
Yeah, and I mean, you're going to see...
you're going to need to see some of that confidence from AG
that continued momentum from split, some good decision-makings.
It concerns I have for AG watching their vods
is that they sometimes over rotate on this defender's side.
They kind of fall for some of their opponents' early traps.
Their positioning sometimes gets them caught
where they're giving up first bloods in spaces
where they actually have the strong side held down
and a lot of kind of individual mistakes
that we didn't see on split.
We need to see that continue.
Neumau Mates is so good on this map.
They're so tricky.
They're so elusive.
Everybody taking it easy, but A.G.
He wants to try to deny short, putting in three players at short eight.
That opens up that showers angle for Starzo.
He's going to try to get in there with his teammates, create that extra angle.
Here we go.
And Sheldon going to be locked in here, just trying to hook into the corner.
Martine will be able to flush him out, but the net gets towed!
How?
Run the replay now.
Just show me what happened.
I guess the C's? C's name? Grab two of them?
Blow them up? Either way, what fashion can shut down the attack?
Was it triple on B though? Were they just in the poison cloud and from the decay?
The replay will tell all, but as far as I'm getting now a 2v4.
The spike will be recovered. Did they just take the teleporter?
Did they try to play this one forward? Looks like it's going to be the latter.
Pushing their way up, looking for some of that dry contact, but Starzell ends up falling,
and GRQ continues to deliver.
Ramizal, one of the last map to now, a 3k for Brem here on Bind.
They just get blown to smithereens.
Absolutely amazing.
Huge.
And this is again starting to mix up the ideas for AG.
They often would play like kind of pretty far back on their pistol rounds.
rounds like the 131 that had kind of been popularized and it's going to be an
abyss split here, then here. It's flashed off the angle at the very least.
Spam out though and they keep his position disguised. Look at that third, it's a
light shot on the cliff. Down now to 15.
Well, he won already. Only damage pushed back against Starzell puts him to 69 health
And this is going to lead mates scratching their heads, wondering how in the hell they can even get the plant now.
It's going to be tough.
Got one AG player.
Holding showers, holding short each, respectively, so...
Kind of bully your way through. Going to be tricky.
And it's two phantoms that you're going to have to deal with.
Also, you've got Shrimp, who's rotated over. He's got a Spectre.
Just gonna have to try to find a way to explode onto here, stars come down.
Go back, pedal, spray out, shrimp, you'll be able to find the one, GRQ.
With the other now, it's just Glyph, flushed out, eventually flawless, anti-eco from AG.
Now the question once again becomes, can they get another bonus conversion?
Had both of them on split, can they go three for three?
I mean it'd be crazy.
The last time they played XLG on this map, they started on the defender side and they got bonused.
And now they have a damn good chance to do the opposite here.
And Mates has got to dig deep. They're rattled.
You're going to need some of that magic.
I mean, it's a similar comp that Mates run to what AG is used to facing.
They've kind of had trouble with the Wele Yoru stuff and so far so good
Patience here for mates
Spreading the map a TP check there or fangir right back over into their spawn though towards safety
Mates is just gonna play this cautious. You did get some damage into martin down to 70 HP
so already
Not exactly the way you want to start this as mates
force that judge you know it's gonna be around somewhere saw it at the very end
of the round in a you one's hands you suspect hookah most likely but they're
gonna try just set up for a big hit they wait out the prowler this is the
strong side it's on spot out looking for the saturate hit shrimp will get caught
until at hand trying to get that C's through and stars out catching a you one
Alive and well here in the anti-bonus, our mates.
Spotted on the GRQ.
2v5.
And with the weaponry, even with the economy the way that it is.
Willing to be trying to play this one out.
Still have Kira, who's just a world away.
Unlikely, it will just be the back off.
Maybe GRQ.
See if anyone gets a little overzealous on the side of gentlemates.
What's going to happen?
Kira could play for some exits here.
I think it's all the way around back through that spawn.
It's like maybe a couple into the teleporter.
The things are coming out.
I don't think he's going to go hunting for this one.
So five players will be able to survive.
Flawless here.
Four mates to get themselves on the board nice and early.
Avoid the catastrophes of split.
See if they can string it together.
Tie things up two to two right off the rim.
Some really nice coordination being shown here by Mates on this execute
because they're going to get the player at back site right as they need to clear that saturated player around the corner.
So they're able to win that fight. Yeah, a little bit of frustration for Fengir, but
that's just really nice discipline being shown here, knowing who needs to cover what angles to make sure that they can make that
punish go on the shrimp.
Just little things there.
That gets the job done. It's a big round win for Mates.
Don't allow any kind of snowball to start falling.
Here, he wants the orb, he'll be granted it if he takes it.
I want to have a contestant from here, and I'll think you're just going to be jumping
back across towards that B side of the map, but he's rotating back towards A.
Now on the jump peak, plenty of damage going to be suffered, Trim tagged down to 33.
I mean, he's just standing there with a knife!
And okay, plays his feet, still going to be good for one, but at least he's
to find the trade spray out many down the low to HB remaining on the spiper
The stars have started to call rotation back with more teams able to find thank you now grabs of that orb over halfway to the dimensional drift
Spikes in hand the walk up from Kira. He is not gonna read this at all
Completely outdone now the teleport a taken
You know that prowler catch on a one that you still in hand the seas able to get the crap and repeats it
GRQ pulled into the corner, ice lake for the third.
And suddenly, AU1 into the 1v1.
The hellboy's going to be taken, but he is there with the fake back.
Martin utilizing the time that he does still have on the clock.
Cuts back through market, works his way over to the A site.
And this is a scenario that did not go red here by AG.
Oh, man, A1 almost had it, but still has a chance, still has a shout.
He's been given a golden opportunity, but Martinez is reading his approach absolutely correctly.
Come down to just that reaction time here.
A1 on the peak, and Martinez has the head shot.
Tied up two to two.
The damn was that on a knife's edge.
I mean, GRQ has been phenomenal since Pearl. Pearl, it was not great.
Oh, look, let me just say this, you know, I'm not trying to be rude, but I hope I never
see him play Waleigh again. If he can be playing smokes, it seems like it's where he's right
at home. Rimsone, Omen, just running every time.
Maybe it's just time to shift Kira around a little bit on some other maps, too. See
Now good he can be on the raise he's got some way to hit him, but Martin
Exactly the guy that you want those scenarios as mates come through with the big clutch
Also as the drift now to boot Starksville one away from his all
Many outlaw there just a clear prowler, but let's give some info over
A.G. thinking about getting a little proactive on the map over towards Hookah, but real danger
is going to be to say side.
Potential Gryff is still going to be invested here.
Mates know that they cannot allow any wiggle room for A.G.
He gets a spot on the two players, sees them towards the back, gets a catch on to the
Viper, but he's going to be dodged there by Fenger.
Just a Guardian at hand.
It will fall.
Oh, try to throw the reload on the bandit.
He swings the corner and A1 loses his life as well.
Very well set up now to gain the lead our mates.
Linton play five players strong not even to take a damage.
Being suffered so far.
And this flake approach, the angles just being watched and mini.
Has him get the rights without outlawing hand.
Just getting the man to keep players tucking back.
Even just going down to the spike.
Looks like Mates wanted to get a bit of blood, wanted to get some more charge. They chase forward and will be able to find Shrimp.
GRQ can collect a single kill.
They'll just lay her in that mall and keep himself protected for the remainder of this one as the spike gets ready to dead at me.
So Mates now up three to two, securing themselves the lead.
Even gets the girl?
Yeah, I can't get out.
Just a bit too late to be able to recover that one, but it does have the money.
have the money. He tried. Tough round here. Outlaw, so nasty in those anti-ecos. Great
awareness, great discipline. Looking for those lurks, looking for those flanks. They're starting
to see mates, get their head screwed on straight. Start to find some open space on the map.
And again, two players over at shower. So, A.G. really wants to maintain control
of the extremities here, but that's opening up this mid part of the map for Mates, losing
that dimensional drift that time.
Really clear out the site too.
Once again, Mini.
Oh, has the spot.
There's a chest shot, and that's going to be shrimped down to 10.
They're just going to A.
He's going to get punished here.
Two players over towards showers.
One going to be revealed.
It's the catch.
He missed.
He missed.
Oh yeah, the orbital.
Orbital, not situated at all for that plant.
More cut over towards Dice, and that
could be a critical misstep from player
that has otherwise been fantastic for HG
across these last two maps.
They dropped the op over to Shrynn.
Trying to save it over if this goes awry.
White not going deep enough, not flushing out
Martin, that's grabbed up there by the Seas,
but has the exit.
Just taking that gate crash away.
Their own play now layered in, continuing to delay on this defuse.
And Martini able to find one.
People get another strip now.
Gone.
That's the operator stranded.
It laps.
Spengir will be able to find one alongside Kira.
But Mini just cuts him down to size with a shorty.
Office recovered, but Mates now
starting to go on a bit of a win streak of their own.
What am I and seeing the time out?
The energy coming back to Mates.
They're coming back to life.
Got to try to slow that down.
It's going to be a week by into this next, what I mean,
Martín again.
Just so good at reading where his opponents are going to be.
Nice stuff for Minnie on the backside.
Keeping that space in check.
We're just going to keep rolling.
So that operator, like you said,
they're going to keep it over.
It's going to be actually going out towards market.
Check that angle, starts all around the corner, we'll just be setting up a prowler.
Still gets a grab and trim.
Yeah, we can just back away.
Getting brutalized on these holds towards Garden, but...
Kind of curious if they were just gonna rip the...
...convergent pass there to see if they could just catch those plays.
Oh no!
He's gonna finger push it all the way out!
Warned anticipating that reacquestion from him all the way out of Hookah.
Get's himself on a fantastic line.
Refines both of the ults that Mates had in the back pocket.
There's one way to get this thrifty going.
That certainly could be it.
Gira one away from having a showstop of the spot on the headshot.
Not gonna be connecting.
I don't know if Fengir has reposition too.
Hale, last patches.
Knocking him around here.
Glyb however, I don't need to worry about too much
as it's gonna be Martín coming away with three kills
to break open this site.
2v2 the one bandit and hand shrimp still just with that bandit.
The bandit, rather.
Since the nightfall, Martín is just scaling in behind him.
I don't think he's got any read of this whatsoever.
Recovers the obstacle to the swing out to his demise.
Cliff will be able to find the kill.
And you won now.
Need to clutch it out.
There's the spot on the 1, but Martín arrives in heaven.
A 4K is made snout get up to five round wins.
A good shout into this round for AG.
Phenomenal stuff here from Fingier gets the collab.
But it's Martine with the outlaw,
followed up by the Shorty to essentially nullify this round.
It looks so good for a moment,
but he's able to get into U-Haul
and break the round apart.
And now you are going to see that timeout from AG.
I think you've got to figure out a way
to deal with short a little bit better,
a good start on the pistol.
And since then, that's been the space they've been giving up.
That's the space that they've been leaving open.
And Mates have been chomping at the bit to claim it.
Even though they tried something a little bit different,
I like the kind of idea here from AG,
where you're like sending shrimp and A1 out.
So to try to bait for this operator,
It worked.
It got mates not considering that that pushout could
be possible with those two players there.
The last few seconds of the Queen base
win-condition timeout now expiring.
It's back into a buy, but starting
to feel like a must-win round here.
Needing to break this base, ice mates a bit.
Conventional drift of a showstopper available for AG.
Hit as well as a convergent pass there,
but Martine after another massive round.
One charge away from another dimensional drift.
These are two teams that showed a ton of resilience to get here.
We're going all the way in some of their best of fives.
So there are no strangers to these tough situations,
to these maps that are do or die.
See what they can do. Mini with the out now.
Manny with that off, shut down Kira, and there's that showstopper.
Martine finds Fenger, this aggression is beautifully counteracted by Mates.
Now we're not going to get the reconformation on the Manny.
Already HG very much on the back foot.
And it's been a lot of what the early round has looked like for Mates where they're
Pretty far back.
They're looking for those plays out of showers out of the TP
there, and Fingir just overstays his welcome.
They've been willing to give up some shower control.
But now, Martine just going to use the all better
safe than sorry here.
That same thing.
Just pull, I want to get it over,
and GRQ just strikes right into it.
Well, hey, you want not really in a position
trying to get disconnected and saved.
Shrimp, however, would absolutely be considering that.
See if you can find any kind of punish here,
but not going to be putting a dent into the economy.
Maybe just some charges towards that nightfall.
About the best that you can hope for.
Clone to lead the way.
Doesn't send the shot out of that.
Now does clear it.
Just has to back off.
teleported trying to corral him stars out every dialed it on the angle and he has
the kill back to spraying corpses but this time he is in the lead he is looking
for that win taunting across the stage his mates continue to march on already
up to six you're gonna have the Alts again maybe you can get a frifty to
go here people though still sitting on that convergent paths one thing I
I really liked that I saw it before this map started.
The Starzone was going up to each player individually,
hyping them up saying, it's OK, guys.
We got this, I believe in you.
Giving them that confidence, showing that he's still
there to lead the way.
You're really showcasing it here.
And obviously, Martín is going absolutely nuclear right now.
But I'm not counting AG out just yet.
I still think there's fight in this team.
I think you're going to try to hold the off angle mini with the outlaw.
Two would be one hell of a way to try to get back into the driver's seat.
Oh, no, no, no.
Here comes the chill peek.
Oh, okay.
Nice man to avoid getting caught.
Tracks back over towards the same side of the map.
Spike, however.
He's going to get rotated in, but here a quick shot on a star cell.
Finds him and he could recover the weapon, he's going to try to go for it here, there's no further opposition.
So Vandal will be collected.
Yeah, that's huge. No further contact, it's allowed for these rotates over, it's just a matter of dealing with Mini.
Oh, he's walking along that wall.
Then he's got himself forwarded in the lamps once again.
In the meantime, the entry, getting ready to come through, saturate, the swing coming in.
GRQ gonna be taken down as Martin finds a second trip gone as well.
Peloport taken, Kira holds his own!
But anyway, Shubham, Martin's still fighting.
Joe Stopper's been pulled, Martin with four, lobs it in.
Does not find the damage and Mini clips him.
Seven rounds now for Mates.
The lead established, four and a half.
They will continue to try to stretch it.
It is again a lot of this push and pull. I mean Kira great shots my man
But this push and pull with the way lay gives a G grief a shrimp keeps going into this corner and keeps getting punished
It's these protocols that a G has that just aren't quite there yet to deal with the way lay
And you can't get martin any chances. Yeah, because you allow him to start heating up and he's gonna run you over
he's 53 and two
So any of the shortcomings that were witnessed on, split, widely being shrugged off by him.
Back to that pearl form. Look at what they can cuss.
Divergent pass, invested in the sanctuary, gonna be lobbed in the back, tuck over towards the cup, B, and people are still gonna be able to find both kills.
Trim a G.R.Q. They need some damn help.
Just unable to hold this site. Now Fengear's well taken down by the teleporter. AU1 is only good for one.
Here to save the mates to continue upward.
Now the stretch lead by six.
Dude, can't wait to see that replay.
Beepo there, throws out his ult, creates his own space,
and gets a 3k in the round.
This way like multiple different ways giving AG grief and this is the first round
where we really get it to see it from the frag department not just team up our
team department. I think anybody's gonna be drifting here as direction. Oh boy.
Also ever. Rounds continue to go on. How long can you afford to wait for your AG before you do have to
invest that second time out that final one of the series but potentially of the
tournament.
And then for AG here you can get up to four you're feeling like okay well maybe but
it's the same score line they had the last time they played this map they
were only able to get three on the other side.
people and the confidence just has to be flowing.
Pitt try to dissuade this.
We've seen that in general, mates don't want to mess with that Pitt,
at least not initially.
That might be a follow-up plan.
They can create some space elsewhere.
They'll just happily take that.
But this allows for AG to set up a strong side onto A.
How we're not going to find anything.
So it allows you to just keep holding your lines,
keep holding your angles, but it's an accoutrement of weapons. Stinger, some
sheriffs, just the one carried over rifle for Kira.
Poking prod, off-forward, right there.
Just a position to be in. Does, back away.
Closet behind, now going to be called out onto the site. Double dash forward,
saturate lobbed in, not going to be connecting on anyone there. Kira going to be
Spotted by the Prowler and Gere fights too!
With the sheriff, Pipo and Martín both dead.
Splitting out, contained back at short.
The two players trying to advance their way out of showers.
Some unable to scale.
Suddenly, 25 seconds remaining.
Ultimate going to be invested.
The spot out on the two.
Ken meets to make a goal of this.
Just enough start spotting the first elimination.
They hear the exit around the back.
Lately interrupted for now, just spam through that smoke.
Mini trying to protect.
This is now just Starrzo trying to hold his zone,
and he will fall.
But if he was to come in at an AG,
long last able to break this win streak,
get themselves a third round victory.
They look to try to recover this as much as possible.
Make this that 8-4 scoreline.
This is really nicely thought out here by Fingir.
able to get some of that Util out, and there's some bait there on the other side in the way
of Kira.
All of that fade Util comes through and that's when he's able to rescale, go through the
Cosmic Divine and find those two big kills.
That breaks the round open there for AG.
It's going to be an op for Martín, an op for Fengir, so both Yoruz going to be
Sporting the snipers
One away from a nightfall are both shrimp and stars out
GRQ as well really close to that orbital strike so both teams want to take control of
This long be your meanwhile sniper battle
Actually, I'm gonna leave the way in finger. It patiently Martin
call it up
Now the Dimensional drift out of the equation for AG one listen to worry about a trip
They have his work cut out for him is here comes the swarm
Here able to fight a little bit down before HP
She'll contain them hold them back for now
With 3v3 just be a pivot
Their way back in this time towards Luca
Just gotta see all the shorty just way forward. There's a shorty. It's no
Starzone now at a 1v2
Tonight, both will go across will be able to connect on just about both players
I do think but he's gonna get on the dropout
Two rounds in a row everything spaced out here for AG a
Massive win streak in between for mates to secure a four-round lead to the half
Okay, we've got some fights still here
AG able to recover just in time
And they find the pistol or mates look to just run away with a remainder of this cap now that they're on the defender side
We will find out after the half-time break
We are very good. It has been a long day, we know it. We have seen many things happen today.
But let's guarantee the environment before you have to go to rest. What do you think? Are we good?
Or are you tired?
So I think we are pretty good.
I want to know where the fans are.
Nooo! The Gamer!
Very good, very good, very good.
And where are the horsemen?
Where are the fans?
The Gamer!
Who is going to win?
Are you going to win?
Allgivers?
Oh, oh, oh, the series is going to take you.
Gentlemen!
Santiago, I can't tell you, I'm going to tell you
always looking at it from the side.
They are an incredible audience, they have a warm heart
The floodgates open and Mates ran eight straight to get themselves a four-round lead of the half
And it could very well all come down to this pistol for either squad
Absolutely, this is crucial
lift there
top of the smoke
Kira has to respect it. You know back off the heavy stack of AG
Happy to see man that they've given it their all today. You have really
They put on a show.
Hopefully they can dig a little bit deeper.
It's just hanging back in the spawn.
Waiting to see which site gets that early contact.
Which one they can quickly rotate to and clip on that peak.
Spawning out multiples, and that's going to be the full rotation call.
It's hesitant now.
We'll leave the two on the Lingard B.
The fast setup encases that TP pivot.
It's shifting across, working his way over towards showers, Brawler to check around.
Shell's still available for this race. Plank gets ready to come through.
He tries to go for the reposition. He'll be able to fight two before getting taken down.
Clip just with the one.
Look at another pistol here for AG.
Mini, slaps around, damage dealt, finds the kill, fang gear falling.
It goes on out, but it's just not ready for the tuck away from Shreya.
Rather, Giakil, from out front to find the kill, but A.G. by themselves, another pistol
win.
Love the way that they're thinking about this ahead of time, expecting the reaction.
As soon as that spike goes down, they've already created so many different angles,
so many different layers for mates to break through.
They try to play off the pop flash, and they already knew.
That was AG, a step ahead of their opponents, and that gets them a crucial pistol win.
Give it back to them across the stage now.
They have adrenaline pumping once again.
Just a share.
And the Bulldog, Marshall, Specter and a sheriff here, just the one sheriff as you're mentioning
here in the hands of many.
That's the only one over here on B.
So far, AG, it's going to seem like they're sessing out the weaker sides of the map
to start.
Peek! There is the kill. Sheriff out, down on the floor.
Fantastic work again by Fang here. Just inching his way forward.
He's all... he ended up being a fake. I'm not sure...
I'm not going to read this well though, but that little pause from Mates.
Catch on anything. I don't think the haunt did either.
Smoke dissipating. Pull back.
Spot out. Noise now going to be made. Shrimp. If I continue to keep that attention tied.
Teleporter will be taken. Already, Martín dead, and you won. The lurk board in the back
site. Now about to have contact. You have to jump out of the smoke. Refracts back. The
Sinkbite going to be later there at their feet. Hanger at the same time. Able to find
a headshot as Glyp will fall. 5v2. Looking to make this again flawless. You want
pushing forward, one shot potential on the stars out.
Don't have to worry about him though.
It's just going to catch coming in.
They're both taking down Kira, able to find the final two kills.
Recharges towards that showstopper as A.G. again,
get the flawless anti-eco.
And again, they're going to be looking for a bonus conversion.
I just love the patience I'm seeing here from A.G.
Not over committing, off of lack of information.
really being diligent to make sure they know where mates are before they commit
to anything. Once they see a little bit of extra contact over towards that B side
that's the immediate call to pivot. Take that open space. Nice find for AU1 there
as well. I'm in a solo battle. Again they're gonna be patient they're gonna
be cautious. They've got showers control they've got long B control so
They're establishing themselves early here on the map.
Fangir is trying to look up and over,
see if he can find target, trying to go for that jump he killed.
That's another reset on this Nebula.
People out of the angle in Fangir just jump away.
There they'll have that spike in hand.
And they haven't seen anything over here,
so they're starting to think that maybe this might be a little bit more
Clear the lane.
Realize.
Got the boom bot.
Paint shells to try to clear these angles, but they're trying to just escort forward.
With that outlaw, kill is gonna be found.
Blastback not taking the very far, but still out towards safety.
Goes Kira.
These people just cannot collect anything off the back of that satchel right now.
The teleport is gonna be taken.
Oh! Hey, you want a can?
Looking forward onto this ace site.
Stasso.
Now they're trying to hold the line.
Look at the isolate, but Kira eventually does manage to hound him down,
him down, but he's in an instant amount of damage.
He won, slaughtering for the judge in hand, swings out,
finds another, and suddenly it's just glimpsed.
And what a shot!
Oh, that is disgusting!
Another bonus converted, HG!
Now what a way from tying it up!
This is just beautiful stuff.
That outlaw has Martin one shot,
He's tucked into the corner, and then he suffers.
I mean, Stars will try and do what he can,
but AU1 scaling so far forward tucks himself in
just enough they don't see him.
Oh, man!
Oh, man!
That is stunning work.
Marshall Fucky's stinger, two sheriffs for mates
to try to maintain the lead, pull off a thrifty.
I'm still in hand here. We're fangir
Holding down that showers angle the meantime
Big approach
up through hookah
Prowler to search a double stack angle over at be long
Again lack of information hard to get a good read here for AG
And there just hasn't been any noise over here for a you one so he's calling in the reinforcements, but this is right into
to the heavy stack. They commit. If he troubles them, he goes sitting there with a Bucky and
lands.
Smoke's blooming. Lift there. Stinger in hand and try to sway, try to interrupt that plant.
Shots just not quite connecting. Stars are as well. Spamming up some shots from that
shower. Side. With that presence known. Heat coming in. Damage going to be dealt here.
having the drop down and people times for the bucky able to connect.
He rolls off the enemy race, top of the defuse.
It's people trying to find this exit out through left, but he cannot.
It is a firing squad opened up as many falls down the two HP.
Pick the part just the one casualty.
It's all gamers tie it up at eight to eight.
What a hold there.
Didn't look like it was going to be easy for all gamers,
But they're able to keep themselves in control despite that early kill for people.
They just hold the line, create a little bit of verticality with those setups initially.
Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
They're sharp, they're fired up.
And that's going to bring out a timeout from Mates.
It's going to try to cool them off here.
It's difficult.
You can tell they're starting to find their footing again, just like they did on Split.
Neck and neck, into another buy-around.
Four Mates, take a look.
Once again here, the Coinbase win condition for them.
You can see there's not going to be too much money behind this.
Glyph bought all the way down to zero.
Mates need to start getting some cash back, the heat that starts snowballing.
That's a bit, and they're still going to have to have that worry of an outlaw on their head
because there's only going to be a one player with full armor going into this.
Yeah, it's definitely something you have to consider and also you have to consider the showstopper in Kira's hands.
The good news is, is you have some ability to maybe
pull some trickery, get that showstopper to hit a target that can TP or refract away, for example.
So some thought can be put into that, you know, where do you think that's going to end up?
Setting up the poison cloud in a little bit of a different spot.
A lot of teams want to put it on the box to set up that one way.
They're actually putting it over at short A.
There's a stack here. It makes 24 players on B.
So G-managed to suss this out.
Front-facing players initially, though, just going to immediately peel back.
They're so worried about that showstopper.
as the gate crash set up already make a quick escape that ends up being the
angle check through towards mid actually shows some present scares them a
little bit
some doubt make them think yeah far continue to push into this b-site
this could very well end up being a geez I'm doing in the round maybe a
Fengear, get some space, and then AU1 might be able to get the pivot to go through.
AG's taking a pause, just depends on Martine here.
He's starting to scale forward.
Trying to get this forward, Lurk, going once again.
This time AU1 not alone.
Has been in the past, Martine, much with the conic glimpse there.
Meanwhile, GRQ, dead, Starzo able to find him.
Just outside of that teleporter, which has now since been taken.
Rotations quickly are arriving.
The team took the way here, back in truck, the pink shell not gonna flush him out.
Showstopper however, might just do the trick.
Lobs it in, it's a triple!
Let's in, finds Wanda.
It's taken down, and now it's just Arzo.
That's good, God!
How is it connected that?
Oh, it's going to be kicking themselves.
Does AJ gain the lead?
Unreal, Unreal.
We're all just tucked in there because they think it's safe
because Martin's forwarded.
Kira just finds the perfect time.
But I love the way they play the beginning of this round.
They're being so patient.
R.A.G. They're looking for their moments. They're looking for open space.
And it's the scaling of Fenger and AU1.
Mini.
Couple of marshals.
Hilo set up around the corner.
Mini.
able to find the kill. Martín with the assist.
Solid early kill to be found to try to pull off the Strifty.
That's a freebie.
Still a lot of work.
Needs to be done for mates.
Said reshuffled.
Re-set up this Hilo.
Tucked into the cubby.
just get them peek in one by one just being very thoughtful our AG I think
learning from some of their mistakes let's see there's another one GRQ and
shrimp will be in the train to back 3v3 with the weapons advantages or gonna be
grabbed up GRQ now with the orbital strike on my looks just gonna send it
way
Well, it's better of it. Well, never mind. We'll send it out. They cycle to smoke in.
On the front, check out the rest of this site.
So it does have that nightfall. Still is just checking around. He is so wary that he wants, once again, on a flag on that A side of the map.
Of course, nobody isn't.
Can Mates make a go of this from here?
Marshall Sheriff, Judge.
Tonightfall, not gonna be connecting, nor will the Seas.
Have you left blooming the saturate?
Just shot in the mark, but people points ahead.
Shot!
The trip lines up two!
Flip up and over the top of two, but 81 will cut him down.
AG have made their way up to double digits.
They're just so resilient.
And now it's their turn to run eight in a row
under their opponents.
Shrimp, big time plays from the player
who is big time in his region.
Gets the double headshot on the swing.
And you better start believing, even though there's
going to be a lot of ults here for Mates
in this next round, we're going to have
to converge in paths.
We're gonna have some action quick scoped in players
Once again, it's the oros
Battle of patience there
You're playing on the narrowest of angles but now starting this forward a bit
Riding that wall
Jumping out spots out plenty. She's gonna be getting some damage able to back away
Since he's alive and out, giving the space surrendered here at Showers.
Reclear this one.
Shrimp.
It's going to be good.
Clean up the kill on the enemy Viper.
It's taken down.
It's the nightfall now.
Lost but traded.
Not having to deal with a potential pit in the round.
They might line up for Shrimp there for a second.
He might get two.
Here we go.
Martin.
It's one of the difference right between the two players.
his feet has him rerouted. Convergent path is going to be sent in.
Keep the catch in the keyroom. Yeah, he's tucking away. The flash forward! Catches people! Catches
the glimpse of Martín on the exit as well. Clear advance once again could be re-established.
That's what you want. He's out there. Swings out. Finds the time and he catchs
Tarzo. The back of sight. Glyff trying to go for this approach. Work his way down
short. GRQ watching for this, winning it out and Martin will have to back away if he can.
AG1 wants this kill. Martin wants this off. He's already pursued a little bit deeper
and the Oriole has gone. Can they suss this out for now? Seems like they are very convinced
that he's lingering somewhere around that B site.
But the thing that AG know for damn sure
is that this route is theirs.
And they are going to be two away from advancing,
from sticking around here in the playoffs of Master
Santiago, and eliminating gentle mates.
I just love the map control that AG is taking here.
They're constantly pressuring showers or long,
making sure that they keep mates on the back foot.
And then when they get onto that A site, they're fanning out.
They're using those extra angles to their advantage.
And Mates is pushing through those smokes.
They have no idea where it's going.
They have no idea who's going to be where.
And they're just crumbling underneath it.
Just tremendous stuff from AG.
The macro's great.
The individual firepower is great.
Kira's once again going to absolutely crazy on the raise.
Everything you could want.
And it's Mates who ripped their second time out of the half.
Last one of the series.
Looking to avoid it being the last one of this tournament.
Three round deficit Mates have been put in tricky situations and they've managed to bite their way out before.
Can they do it again here? The economy in the dumps. The only thing carried over, they will be able to get themselves
A solid up by, rifles across the board, aside from that judge in the hands of Glyph, from
the defender side, you don't mind seeing too much.
You're gonna need to get some kind of recovery here as mates, they look shell-shocked on
stage right now.
They are completely rattled.
There has got to be some kind of glow up from somebody.
Getting a massive position from many.
Maybe just wants to take the Vipers pit, put it down right off the rip.
HG here.
Catch them initially. They're going to keep scaling.
Rowlett is meant to find it, but now she's going to be cloned sent through.
Seems like you're overall wanting to get overzealous.
Wanting to get caught off guard.
They're within that pit, so we'll just give up that space.
Hey
It's your solution just try to navigate it. Yeah, exactly just try to go around the other side of it
But that means you're gonna have a couple angles to deal with from star so and beat people
I don't have a martin with that gate crash set him up right into heaven
Have that off dialed in as well as the dimensional drift just it just dissipated
Right ball goes across to eat before now catch on the one with Kira
Catch on a shot to the side of the head people able to find an opener
They try to get Mates back onto the board here in this half, pit now blooming through.
Straighted positions.
The question is what do you do if your Mates dimensional drift is there?
You absolutely have to invest this.
Fartzine swaps over the weaponry, starts on that with that operator, gets himself the
bulldog, chases forward, spots out the two players.
Sattrate lobbed in, the field goes up and over the top, but he just can't come down.
Martini the exit able to find Fingir, but Bini now eliminated as well.
Shrimp finds Cliff, the player advantage once again in the hands of A.G. but Martini still fighting.
Still fighting for this win.
But G.R.Q. out from short.
Massacres the remaining two players.
A.G. are up to match point!
This is absolute madness.
It looks like Mates is going to be able to get this to go.
They throw so much at trying to clear the pit, but when they make their dive through,
it's floored it and Shrimp plays that so well to tee up GRQ for that finish.
It's going to be a scrappy buy and there's a couple outlaws here for AG
knowing that all of Mates is going to be one tap to it.
Bang Gears got one, Kira with the other.
You got a Guardian, a Judge, a Spectre, another Guardian and a Vandal.
People's correct on that ping and if you just pulled the trigger
would have been able to find a kill.
The idea is to try to play that judge hand, keep the glyph disguised on that angle.
Look how much Mates is committed early to this A side.
It's been such a pain point for them.
We have to over stack it just to try to deal with it.
And the full shift, the rotation is coming through.
Exactly.
Tarzo trying to work his way across the B.
This will get very dicey very quickly for Mates who need this one.
round win who need for in a row where they will be going home pain shell over
towards back site right over the top there towards mini send damage gonna be
suffered with minor at the very least sarsow
just whittling away here I'm cleared who's meant to find the kill many now
gonna be taken down on reveal on the one thing here sneaking in around the
back and Martin is dead to right people gone cliff the last one
standing just a judge in hand. Where were you? When all gamers qualified to their
first international? When they were on the break of elimination? And when they
eliminated the second seed from the NBA?
The sound of hundreds of pets suddenly silenced.
The rumors of China's demise were greatly exaggerated.
AG, an absolute stunner.
They had brought their best when their backs were against the wall and its hugs on the
all around. They say, uh-uh, we are not a zero team region. That's right. We are a one team
region just like you. Unbelievable. I am just so thrilled that attacker side
flawless for AG to close it out. What a bounce back after getting 13-5 on
They come out swinging and take the reverse sweep, and they take mates out of Santiago.
And what relief those players must feel, what relief the fans back in China must be feeling.
Something to cheer for, something to believe in all gamers.
Repping showing why they wore that first seed what perseverance to get destroyed just a day ago
At the hands of G2 to come out here and beat mates. Let's hear from woman in the Verizon post match interview
How are you doing today? So I want to talk to you that last day yesterday was really really difficult your advice
so you were really frustrated but today you used that frustration in your way
you guys continue to play that amazing stage round by round do you think that
frustration from yesterday helped you guys for today?
Kola Satyako!
Guys, I mean it was yesterday it was really hard day it was our
the first match on the stage on the world stage we was a little bit
shaking but right now today we're going to the first map I can say was playing
really bad because he was losing 5-3 in 5-2 a lot of like idiot rounds and
after I just say guys no don't care about this fucking game don't care just
play the game and yeah we just trying to play better than every game
definitely and it showed in that stage
And well, it was a very complicated day, very difficult, a lot of frustration.
But they were losing their rounds in detail.
That is, those three of them, the other five, said, don't worry, that's why they finally got to this stage
and they broke it in an incredible way.
And you said it, it's your first time in the international stage, you're the rookie,
and you're simply popping off.
How are you feeling with this amazing crowd also by your side, chanting your name?
I mean it's feel amazing the crowd in Santiago really amazing. I didn't hear it before it's like I feel so fucking good guys
So you can't say like thank you guys. Thank you everyone
You're the best
And you heard it!
I'm just very happy. Never in your life have you heard someone like this
support the team so much and it's really impressive and I thank you all
So now, I also wanna know, you have been really popping off in this stage and also that experience you guys are gaining, it's amazing and it shows but what do you think was the biggest obstacle today that it can help you for the next matches?
In my opinion we're just playing like our game, our default game because
like how I say already yesterday was like really shaking, we were playing so bad
we're not doing our rounds but right now after the first round I'll say guys
please chill, just tripping everything, it's only Martin can put it there
I'm sorry guys, like, sorry
It's okay, it's perfect, you got eliminated that guy
So basically we talked a little bit about what was the biggest obstacle today
It was that yesterday they were a little bit more timid, they weren't able to shoot those bullets, but he said to his team,
calm down guys, the only one who can kill the other guy is Martín, he says, sorry guys, but definitely the only one who can shoot and finally with the calm they could win what this game is.
This is all I have for the interview, thank you very much for this interview, here for to go if you want to take pictures with the fans too.
And tomorrow we're continuing with this playoff brawl, we're gonna see who's going to win that upper bracket and continue.
within the road to the victory of this Masters on Gale.
There you have it, the former KC Blue Stars player, Fangir,
with a couple words to say about his upper classmen from that era that he was in EMEA in Challenges.
Unreal scene from the floor here in the Espacio yesco. My goodness,
we're calling it up, at least we're treating it like one and Tom Paper maybe it shouldn't be.
The seedings definitely have all gamers as the best out of China, but we weren't expecting this level of game from them today
They legitimately looked like the worst team in the tournament by far after the first three maps they play
And then they turn it around come alive on split and then this bind was an incredible performance
They can drop around in the second half to dominate gentlemen and we can speak about the difference in the compositions and in the regions
Maybe this is something that they're not going up against a lot in China like not having the
Sorry, having the Astra here and now having the Brimstone, what not, but like you can expect from a global stage
and they played around that utility so incredibly well.
Again, the resilience of like the other team getting the first kill and it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect our plans.
The individuals stepping up every single one of them had moments in this Vestekine, especially in this last map
that they can be incredibly proud of.
Maybe Bako should have told his team that, you know, Funky was the real deal.
Yeah, he should know obviously bunkers old coach being vanquished by their very player
Let's have a look though at where our bracket is now
We have just seen fury are and
Gentlemates to part the tournament and so all games in BPL awaits in the lower bracket the loser of notion Red
Force and G2 an energy and PRX those upper brackets semis will call them are looking
Incredibly tempting. Yeah, those two games tomorrow. I think I just gonna be absolutely
incredible and super excited in particular for Nongshim G2. I think it's a G2 is just coming into form against a Nongshim who
Looked themselves right away. They live up against me. Yeah, they're the best first seed so far
Like you could you cannot say anything against us
So of course that is going to be very elective and then we have the rematch of paper X versus energy tomorrow
It's a date that you do not want to miss today already
Finally, we went the full distance of the six maps and I would really like to see the same tomorrow
That's it. The fun don't stop folks. We've got plenty more where that came from. So thanks for joining us today
We'll see you tomorrow for more action here from Masters, Santiago
It is do or die here in Santiago
It's get a loud out there, but Chai in fact always turn up
So let's welcome our teams onto the stage and find out who truly has the metal to make a lower bracket run
Ring BBLs, they're here to punish.
LeRocke gonna go and get traded by a shot, Leiter!
You know about the other player, right? They know he's gonna pop this from somewhere.
He's gonna hunt him down and try to ignore him.
Oh, dear! Oh, dear!
Oh, my word.
The babyface assassin there, looking in the smile on the face.
And one of us, we need a fucking pistol.
We just need a fucking pistol.
Info this is great stuff. Look at the HP on the rock. He can't do anything now. He's tonight
Okay, they've done it. They've already got it done it
Epistol round for Furia. It felt like he has evaded them
Lots of ends and I've seen again that slip of position
Fantastic Rock still gonna try and be a nuisance
Gonna make it work for it, but I think he knows you can't turn this one around
What the hell is going on?
What's going on?
The blow!
Juan over near you, still with a couple of...
I don't want to say key tools, because they can just be done like this!
A bounding Shawnee, a spray in the dark!
As BBL!
Go back into the heart of sight of the map!
Are you trying to get closer?
No! Oh my God!
Shazatsu now has to face the music, has to try and make it past four!
BBL the five rookies with one shared dream! Fearing no one!
I've got a feeling that today this match is going to be an absolute brawl.
So let's get excited and let's send it down to the stage
and find out who will survive to fight another day.
It's gentlemates versus China's last hope, all gamers.
The frag is gonna be taken back out of the church now, still fully plundered up.
It's gonna be good for a kill, Martín. Binds himself too.
Both duals out, dead, the eventual drift.
Gonna be called in. It's 15 seconds remaining on the clock.
They have the time to make a goal of it.
But they are surrounded and outdone.
Spammed out wallbang by Bipo.
You know, on that swing out, doesn't man have to challenge.
Raise on raise.
Violins and a bailing shot to fight Martín as well.
Trinket's locked in from Fengir.
Swing to the corner.
Kira comes away with four and ace clutch.
It's right in the pistol mix.
And now, take it down!
And Kira manages to find it.
It's a delay.
Audis diffuse and Marcine able to find one.
People get another shrimp now.
Gone. That's the operator.
Stranded at laps.
Fengir will be able to find one alongside Kira.
But Mini just cuts him down to size with a shorty.
Nice! Come on! Stand up! Come on!
Why are you standing up anymore? Come on! Stand up!
I'm standing up. I'm not crossing down. Come on!
Showstopper, however you might just do the trick. Lobs it in! It's a triple!
It's good! God! How is it connected that?
Where were you when all gamers qualified to their first international?
And when they eliminated the second seed from EMEA
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Thanks for watching guys!