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discretion is advised welcome back to masters london the stakes just got a
a whole lot more serious. We have two matches, two regions and two teams going home. China
is up first today followed by Pacific. Winning you live. Lose and you're done. As always,
I'm your host Victoria and joining me are Billy and Minnie. Guys, we saw some great
games yesterday, but today stakes are really high. This is not what we expected and it
feels too soon almost to send teams home. Yeah, it does, but I'm hoping that there's
a little bit more confidence from today for the teams playing regionally means
that some of those jitters and some of those early matches where with these
teams were the losers I hope that it picks up today. I love the man in the
banana suit I'm gonna be keeping my eye on the audience today to see if I can see
that banana suit but yeah I think it's obviously a Saturday because we have to
say goodbye to some of the teams but also exciting because we get to make
regional matchups exciting. Definitely and I think they haven't shown what they
really got you know we were so excited about these two China teams these two
Pacific teams coming in with a lot of hype and speaking banana man. I hope they go absolutely bananas today now PSA for all the twitch chatters out there
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Can you guys put these titles and a sentence for me for you know the American in me?
you're gonna be really upset with the one that I'm gonna use, but if the Pacific teams know
How am I gonna gutted or you're gonna be gutted because today we have to say goodbye to a Pacific team
Okay, or Pacific are playing quite rubbish right now. Oh, I I hate you guys
I am being bullied all this death right now back. Let's pull up the Swiss bracket
So you'll see exactly what they're talking about right now. Yes
We have another day of regional matchups between DRG XLG and also global eSports and full cent
It's absolutely tragic. I was talking a lot of trash
I was boasting a lot about Pacific and and I do think DRG is gonna go really far and you guys
You know are calling me fraudulent. So I think there is a lot of regional pride on the line
We've got both a pack were supposed to be the dominant region right now
And then China as the region that there's a lot of doubts about so I think there's a little bit of a
a narrative spin that some of these teams are going to have to do today and try and
up the performance for us.
A-Pack are supposed to be the dominant region, but are we almost looking at it?
I mean, EMEA has been called the one team region for a long time.
Are we saying the same for Pacific this event, potentially?
Ah, I'll take it.
When we give you guys so much crap, I will take it.
You guys at EMEA is looking absolutely fantastic this event.
Now, we had some hot takes yesterday, which included my DRG and GE run.
You had an EMEA going on a good run.
Let's get on to everyone's predictions.
We want to know which of today's teams you think is most likely to survive their match
today.
We've got DRG, XLG, globally sports in full sense.
So scan and log in there and make your vote.
What are you guys picking for today?
Who's making it through?
I would go XLG because I think that first game is way too, the second game, sorry, is
way too close to cool.
I don't know what full sense we're going to get today and global have looked really
good.
But that game is a banger.
I think that xlg have shown a little bit more dominance there. Okay. How about you? I think from my perspective
I've not been super impressed with the way full signs came out the other day and so for me
I think it's got to be googly sports. Okay. All right for our takes. We'll talk about that more later
Now let's check in with Frankie who's hanging on outside with the fans
Diage versus xlg who is London predicting? I predict the RG. Yeah, I do
DRG. DRG. DRG. What? Why DRG? Well, they are a very strong team. I just believe that they're
better overall, personally. I didn't mean to sound so shocked, because obviously DRG apparently
winning. Guys, I told you it was DRG. What do you make of that? I mean, when they were going down
the line, I had to like figure out what Frankie had asked them, like, who's winning today or who's
I was like, wait, everyone's saying DRG, but it's nice to see supporters come out and cheer
on their teams here.
I wonder why that is?
Why are the locals picking DRG?
I have no idea.
I think the Loldo is cool there.
They do have Dragon in their name, that's kind of cool.
Maybe the fans should be on the desk instead of me.
Yeah, we need you to look into this.
Now, before we get into the match today, let's watch the XLG boys joining Achilles
for a little game we like to call the perfect player.
Everybody Achilles here and I'm joined by XLG's Raga as well as Nova gentlemen.
Thank you for joining me here Masters London.
Congratulations on making it to the event.
We're going to be playing I'm going to pick your brains a little bit here.
It's not so much a game but I want to know if we can compile the most perfect player.
If we can take everybody that you have on the XLG roster,
match them into one person based on a couple different criteria.
what would that look like and who would kind of make the cut.
So I'm going to give you guys some, you know,
some topics and then you guys can discuss amongst yourself and put forth a player
from your team that you think kind of fits the bill.
So we'll start off with the first one, mechanics,
who on XLG has the best mechanics in both of your minds.
And it can be yourselves.
You don't have to be bashful about this.
Do you want to start?
Happy way.
Happy way.
Um, yeah, it's probably between happy way or himself, Rorga.
And I assume there's other things you can put a happy way in so I'll give it to Raga personally.
Okay, so Raga's gonna go ahead and take that first one.
This is obviously a big one, a lot of teams struggle with this and it can be hard if you start spiraling.
Mental, who's the one who's really, you know, keeping everybody in the game?
You?
Yeah, I'm gonna not be humble about this one. I think it's me.
I think I'm the only one that would like actively like cringe myself out to try and boost the others.
So I'll put that I'll put myself in that right category. You said crit yourself
I mean what are some things that you've been doing the thing we haven't seen to try to rally everybody some of the things
I say some of the times I shout it's just not the right moment and I'm just I'm just forcing it out to help these guys
But what about player movement obviously something I think it's very niche for a lot of especially like newer viewers
But people who've been watching the game and when you really see a player shine and excel the movement is one of the big things
It stands out to to the viewers and to the analysts
Who would you say on your team as the best movement?
I guess, I'd have to agree. I'd have to agree. Probably happy way.
Lurking. Who on your team do you think is finding the best critical timings around the map to just catch people in transit rotating on sites and whatnot?
It's got to be the two Lurkers. I would personally put Lyser on the list just to have another name on the list.
But yeah, it's one of those two.
game knowledge. Who's the one that, you know, maybe you don't understand how something works
about the game, you know, and interaction, something like that. Who's the one that everyone goes to
for clarity? I think it's Leo. We could maybe split some some tie breaks here since we did
that with everybody with a little bonus question. I think that this could maybe end up being the
more contentious one, but who is the best aim on the team? Captain. Captain. So obviously he'll
He'll be humble about himself, so he'll be the happy way
advocate, I'll be the Raga advocate.
I mean, both are quality, both class.
I think it's harder to see it in certain dualists.
For example, like Neon, it's harder to see raw aim
because you're having to jump and move and stuff.
So, happy way maybe gets more highlight plays
because he's like Viper maybe,
like you just have your gun, you don't have movement.
I'll give it to Raga personally.
Okay, I mean, I think you're putting up a solid argument
and we are obviously yet to witness this,
but seems like we're moving away from that neon meta.
So perhaps that will shine.
I'll agree with you.
Having watched Raga, I know that you're an absolute beast.
So I think that you can go ahead
and take the best aim on the squad.
But guys, thank you so much for joining me.
Best of luck in the tournament.
And yeah, I guess we're tuning in.
Thanks so much, Achilleos.
And now we have a special guest with us.
It's Paper Rex Wendler.
I wanna know how you convince Alex
to let you go from the bot dungeon.
I had to do some live research here,
so I decided to show up at the arena today.
Yeah, well, the reason we want to pick your brain
is because you actually have a lot of experience in VCT
China.
Tell us about what you were doing last year.
Yeah, so last year I was the assistant coach for JDG,
had experience prepping against XLG, EDG, DRG.
We never played in an official, but it was a team
you had to keep tabs on for the star power
player that they have.
Yeah, yeah.
And we were talking earlier, you think
that the China region is massively underrated and we're going to break that down in a little
bit because today we had the regional battle between XLG and DRG. So XLG dominated last
time these two faced off. Do we expect that to continue on the London stage?
I think I want to kind of like highlight the stage one finals that they had back in China,
right? It was that lower final. You saw DRG actually pick the Lotus into XLG. Now we've
the team. They've been
hyping up XLG composition meant
that they start that best of
five on a back foot really
considering that they ended up
13 toing them on that map. And
I think at least the positive
coming into today's that one of
these teams will win a map a
master's event. I know that we
can make the argument that you
know, XLG have won a series of
champions before, but as terms
as mass as far as masters goes,
not seen either of these teams
win a map just yet. Yeah. Okay
China teams a little bit of crap over for not winning many maps when learn, but what do you think of that?
Are we seeing the best of China on the global stages? Not yet
It's something that I think the teams that have been internationals. They have the talent to play. I've seen it. I've prepped against it
It's just a matter of when they can take what they're used to in regionals and apply that to the international stage
Especially with the regionals. They've all played on like masters level stages
So it's not like they're coming into an environment where they're not used to the crowd
They're not used to things being loud not used to game sounds not applying. It's just
Getting over that hump and I think when they do they'll be fine. What do you think is that hump like what specifically I?
Without like fully knowing I think it has to be some form of mental because like the game preparation is there
And like a lot of these teams are taking things other teams have done
Such as like EMEA style play or installing those types of protocols or playing at a faster pace like APAC teams
So if they're doing this, there can only be one other reason for that result not to be seen at the international stage.
So basically, when they're playing on home soil, they're playing fantastic.
And when we say that these teams look dominant, like EDG look dominant over in China,
and people are saying, oh, but it's a weaker region, that's not actually true.
I don't think that's true. I think the region has a lot of talent dispersed, I would say,
through like definitely the top end teams as you would in any other region.
region. Now, do you think XLG or DRG, you know, we're kind of seeing the DRG is like a slight underdog here. What, what do you think
of that? I would say so. I would say I expect XLG to to clear through. I do think it will probably be about a three map series for
sure. But I do think XLG does have a slight edge. Okay, well, I think I agree. I think XLG have that strategic style that seems to
work very well domestically. Most of China, I'd say a little bit lacking in some of the fundamentals
of the team. I'm not sure
what the team is. I'm not
sure what the team is. I'm
not sure what the team is
strategically, but XLG have a
little bit of that EMEA style
that contains a lot of those
teams. So I do expect actual
G XLG to come out on top
today. Yeah Well, the teams
have a lot to prove today.
Again when they first showed
up onto the London stage, you
know, it's not the kind of
performance you want to be
showing the international
stage after repeat visits
here. So it's kind of curious
that at this point they haven't
managed to find their flow
definitely have my eyes on is Bukashu. He was not performing to the standard that we were all hyping him up to be and
Raga as well. He's expressed a lack of confidence. He continues to lack of, you know, confidence and he's specified
It's because whenever he leaves and goes into the global stage or something that he just can't seem to pick up on
Yeah, I think for Vikashu is like a difficult one because he clearly is the star player of this team
I would argue that there are times especially on Lotus with this new composition
the team. They're running
life is taking up a bit more
of that space. So I do give
him some grace that I don't
think he's necessarily being
set up the same way as he was
domestically to shine and it
is a lot harder once you get
to the global stage. I do
think the firepower is a
little bit harder to play
against and I think that that
is where having a full team
step up together would help
Luccasio shine a little bit
more. I had said that one of
my concerns with this team
was you can't just rely on
individuals to be able to win
out a series. You kind of
from your perspective, like, should it all just be relying on Vukashu's shoulders? What do you
think of this? Like, do we need to see chipping in from other players on the team?
I think it's a mix of a few things. Like, I definitely think Vukashu is a player. Like,
when you have that Star Calibur player, you don't want to take away from them to help others.
You want to make sure you're enabling them equally to your other Star players at the same time.
The other thing is there's things that I would, team is weird. Normally, Vukashu is the guy that
Hero buy up. They make sure he has the big guns to take over rounds when he needs to, and that's
that's something we didn't see last year from them, so.
Yeah, there was a round where they all bought,
and Bukashu had a sheriff as our player,
that was very strange to see for me.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so I think there are a lot of things
they definitely want to adjust coming into today.
And last time we spoke to Bukashu before facing Vitality,
and he was saying, well, we're the underdogs today,
so we have no expectations coming in,
but many, it didn't really look like that, did it?
No, it really didn't look like they were bringing the game
out at all with aggression.
I think part of that, especially on the first map notice,
again. They switched away from double joules. This team's strength is playing double joules,
doing four ones, going in aggressively and letting Vukashu clean up on the other side of the map,
or go for huge lurks. And we saw none of that in that game. So part of it is compositional stuff,
but also when we went to Breeze, they also didn't look like the same team. They weren't giving it,
they weren't sending it. And I think this team is at their best when they're playing aggressively
with comforts. I'm curious about the scene in China and how performance approach is coming to play.
This has been hugely integral for the team of Paper Rex with Panda on your squad to help out with the boys.
What do you think about the performance coaching over in China?
From what I understand, it's something that teams are investing a lot more into now,
I think with the repeated international stage appearances.
It's a clear gap as we talked about with the mental side of things.
I know when I was at JDG last year, it wasn't a huge focus.
Like me and the head coach Ego, who was our head coach at the time,
It was kind of a combined mixed effort to apply the mental side of things, but from what I do understand teams are investing more in that specific coach now
From my experience as a coach is really good to have that extra coach that performance coach
So that coaches could just focus on the strategy a little bit more the day-to-day and having someone to just focus on the mental side of things
I think would be really great for a region like China. Yeah, especially as a head coach assistant coach
You actually have so much on your plate already and to take care of your team
I think that's a huge task and it should be dedicated to a single or maybe duo team there and in fact a happy birthday panda. It's his birthday today. And okay, going back to the teams gently got to have a chat with life to see how he's living his life.
It's longed so far
Jen here with life of DRG life Vukashu talked about the importance of underdog mentality that you guys have
Does this approach remain the same when it comes to today's matchup? You know, it's regional
You guys are familiar with each other. Yeah, I think this underdog mind is really good for us
And I think today we will revenge ex-NLG. Okay, it's time for revenge. Thank you so much
I mean, it must be so different,
of course, going against a regional team,
a team that you're so familiar with.
How do you see these two teams stacking up today
in terms of familiarity?
Yeah, like regional matchups, I think, are hard.
I think you can attest to this at internationals.
You usually prefer early on to kind of avoid regional matchups
until you have to, just due to the shared experience
both teams have against each other.
So it will be interesting, like, if we see these players
kind of release the shackles a little bit
and just get out there and make more aggressive play
their make more aggressive plays and find that momentum that they need to care for.
Yeah, in an interesting way, this is the perfect time for a regional matchup for China.
Like, I think both the teams looked a tiny bit shaky, especially DRG.
I think playing against a team you're a bit more familiar with, a bit more comfortable with,
could be the momentum forward that they need.
I think as well, we need to consider last time they faced off, it was a BO5.
We're in BO3 territory here as well.
So, I'm wondering if that maybe has any kind of implications on how the series will go.
Oh, I'm sure it will.
So, we're gonna have to ANC.
and energy. We're playing against XLG and XLG did look a little bit more lively than DRG. I would
have to say, but again, you know, we've only seen both of these teams once so far and XLG's triple
centicomp was giving the champs. They're giving them the champs energy, a really tough time on
Lotus. So what was going on there? I mean, they had a huge lead on this map. Yeah, I think that
to begin with, they did really well, right? We were looking at that sea site and at moments that
actually looks like energy were like tilt sending it towards that seaside and I think having this triple sentinel composition looked really really nice you can see these deadlock walls and these deadlock traps being used very early to kind of stop where energy were ever looking to go towards we see it with the sage wall as well and even on the attack they were doing some nice things trying to sage wall boost themselves up to find themselves in positions where energy weren't going to be able to expect them from you saw it from the omen as well TP onto different boxes to and I think.
using the verticality of the map to their advantage in moments.
It's just unfortunate that they ended up letting it slip away from them in the end.
Yeah, I think a team like NRG struggled on the attack side, that's surprising to see.
Because NRG are a team that has that coaching staff, that structure,
great mid-rounding in teams like Ethan.
And so if XLG are causing problems for teams like NRG,
that is a great sign for them on this map.
Yeah, definitely they walked away from this map knowing they probably should have converted on their side.
So it's not like these teams at the event are are struggling with their map pool. They have strong maps
They have that foundation. They just need to keep working towards that next step
Do you think Excel you should have won that match against energy? I would say yes
I think I think if they convert that Lotus there they can carry that momentum forward for sure
What do you think the problem was on the Lotus specifically? Why do you think they should have won that? Um, I think energy
We misplayed a little bit, especially on the T side as mentioned, like they did a lot of
like just blind 104, like one person on C, four people on A, and you're brute forcing
into a Sentinel comp, where I like to refer to it almost as like a jail.
They have three different walls they can throw at you, you're just stuck in site, and that's
what they want you to do.
So Energy was essentially playing into their win condition.
So it's about going around the map, destroying those walls and making it a little bit more
measurable for ExoCute.
And this gentleman, we were so excited to see him bring his good stuff on to the stage,
but he's been falling a little flat here.
What does he need to do to find his regional form?
I mean, can he borrow Panda and like have a little chit chat?
Yeah, like, Raga, I thought was always like easily a top five player in China for sure,
especially the Duelist role.
Like when he's confident, it's scary.
So as I mean, he mentioned himself trying to find that confidence on the international
stage.
I think that is something teams should be waiting on to show.
Yeah, I think the awkward thing now is just become a narrative that is in his own head
and trying to unwind that as a person.
Like, I think that's extremely difficult and he's going to need the team to support him
in whatever way they can to make it not become a thing.
If he starts slowing these games, I'm very worried for him.
I'm hoping that they can build some momentum early.
Maybe no man's up shouting, giving him some hype.
Maybe they can feed some Ecos towards him or something.
to get some momentum on his
side. I think it is really
frustrating if you're Raga if
you're a Raga fan because you
know that he can perform well
regionally and now it's just
waiting for that moment for him
to be able to step up on this
global stage and show everyone
the kind of caliber of player
here so we can see the stats
that he would usually have over
here in his regional league
throughout stage one in
comparison to how his
performance has been in Masters
London so far, not looking
particularly great so far, so
we're hoping coming into today
that kind of narrative that we're building against him at the moment.
Yeah, for me, XOG is Happy Way, Raga.
If those two are popping off, then they can win games and even at Globals.
But Raga hasn't been fulfilling that duty, in my opinion, where Happy Way has.
What do we want to see from Happy Way then, besides just...
The same thing.
Keep doing the same thing.
Yeah.
I think Happy Way is the consistent factor that whenever this team does go to global events,
he's consistently performing.
He's the one that's showing up when it gets to the big stage.
Well, I think he's going to need to keep showing up and pass on that good happy energy to his team, especially Rarga there.
But let's see if Lysor is also in a good mood ahead of today's regional rivalry over with Genly.
Ben here with XLG's Lysor. Now, Lysor, when it comes to today's match, how is your pressure level and how are you guys handling it?
I feel just less pressure, a little bit. Maybe no pressure.
Close to no pressure?
Yeah, because I feel, I have full confidence for myself and for my teammates. I still believe we're winning.
Sounds good. Good luck today.
Thank you.
Yeah, he looks like he's a good spirit. That's a good sign. Lyser was also, you know, part of that Wolves run last year in Toronto.
You know, where you guys won a trophy, you two won a trophy last year, or maybe half a trophy.
I don't have a cap. That's all it is.
for that, but I don't know
what I'm going to say. I
think I want to have a trophy.
Yeah, half a truck. Yes, I
think. All right. Well, uh,
anyway, Lycer was part of it,
so he kind of understands like
hope, you know, like they can
do it with the right mentality
going in and speaking in hope
because we do have a Pacific
game happening later today as
well. We are asked all of you
who's going to survive today
at our MasterCard fanpole and
the results are in. I want to
ask you as well. Who do you
OK, so talk me through your thought process.
Why do you think like it's yeah, I'll just say like XLG,
I think has more experience in the roster.
I think like we mentioned, if we do see happy way,
we do see Lysor, we do see Raga show up to the potential
that's expected of them.
I do think they should be able to get through this series,
even if it does go through maps.
G on the other hand, similar fashion.
I think the team has a lot more international experience.
I think Frost is a prep heavy team.
And when you're going into those regional rematches,
That's something you really need to account for to make sure you can convert that series.
Oh yeah, even with full sense beating out global last time.
Even with them being out global last time.
Alright, well I can agree to that theory there and it seems like a lot of people are agreeing with you guys as well.
Now it's time for the 1v1 showdown in our skirmish side select.
We got a duel and it's between their coach Nathan Dee and Happy Wake.
Tell me about Nathan Dee, have you had any experience with him back in Sien?
I haven't talked much with Nathan at all in CN, but I've heard relatively positive things that he's a good guy.
Relatively?
Relatively.
I mean, compared to you?
Compared to me, yeah.
You and your coaches do quite well in these, so I'm kind of interested.
2-2 already.
That's not too bad against Hapigway.
I would take 2 rounds against Hapigway.
Have you been doing any of those skirmishes?
I haven't in a while.
We've relinquished that to Alex, and then we're trying to get Tommy.
Oh, that would be sick. Why aren't you doing them?
Can you put it Valorant? Can you play?
I'm all right, but that's what I'm trying to push Tommy in there, you know?
Do you find it's actually better for the coaches to go into these skirmishes
to kind of take that pressure and wait off of the players
to be even thinking about that pressure before you even get into the match?
I would say yes and no. Like, we kind of treat it as like a funny bit
because the veto for us a lot of the times is kind of, is what it is anyway,
but I do think there's something...
This is not me!
This is not me!
They just turned up the view, and it's kind of side to side.
You see, in his face, he's like, that was so stressful.
But in terms of like, prep, I do think that there is a mental component that the coach does go in.
And like, if the coach does get the player, or like, even pulling that time up so your players do have more time to prep is always good.
to take away or distract players from what they're used to in their game day prep, so
I do think it's helpful.
I think especially for these teams where getting into that good mental space is essential,
and I think if any player was like, I don't want to do it, I think I'd immediately be
like, put me in, coach, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, definitely.
Imagine if coach, you're like, beating your star player, I think that would wreck my mental
too.
Now, you guys might not care about the map veto, but most teams, I think all teams except
your team care.
Let's see what the map ban pick is going to be for these two teams.
Alright, hello guys, let's do the map hitter for DRG vs XLG.
XLG won the skirmish, so they are picking their side.
Team B.
Alright, XLG is Team B and DRG is banning the first map.
The first bar is Lotus.
Sorry, can you say it again?
The first bar is Lotus.
Lotus, alright, and XLG banning the second map.
Ascent.
Ascent is banned as well, and XLG, I mean DRG picking the first map.
Pick heaven
Haven and sight for heaven please
Attack
Alright, and excel to pick sir map
Fracture
Okay, then sight for fracture please ERG
Attack
Attack
We have breeze, pearl and split left, BRG bending first
Second bank, breeze
Breeze
And we have pearl and split left
Peril is banned, last map is split and DRG is picking the side.
Defense.
Defense, alright.
So I will give you a quick recap.
We start with Haven, ex-LG attacks.
We have Fracture next, DRG attacks, and if we have the split, decide the map, DRG defense.
Everything correct?
Yes.
Alright, thank you guys.
Okay, this is a little unexpected here.
We were expecting a lot of spec. We were breaking it down, Billy, but that was their first man.
Yeah, it looks like DRG have learned their lesson the last time these two teams faced up.
Of course, XLG ended up beating them 13-2. So now on the global stage here in Masters London,
wanting to completely take that away, not even risk having it in the map.
Yeah, DRG also picked it in the last series too, which is crazy.
Going from picking it first to banning it, which is quite hilarious.
I do think that this is a good move, though. And I think DRG going on to that haven,
I highlighted it as maybe the best, they are the best on Haven in the group stage,
maybe a hot take, but I really like the theory there from Dierju.
Do you think they're the best, Haven?
In Swiss stage.
In Swiss I would say so, yeah.
Like, and this is also a very big comfort map for Rukashu,
where the way you pointed out with getting him online,
having him be able to take those aggressive type plays,
this is a map you want him on if you're looking to try and convert the series in your favor.
All right, well, we will be ending on Split here
at the very least you guys think this is going to go the full series or xlg you seem to all be supporting xlg
I think this definitely can i think drg have to win that haven though fracture as well though
It is a little bit of unknown territory. I don't know what drg are pulling out here xlg
Voni played it three times recently, but they did beat ebg on this map
Well, in fact, let's look at all the talent predictions. See anyone else's on the drg boat with me because right now on the desk
It seems like I am
you know, I'm not sure. I'm
not sure. Right? Yeah, you're
you said DRG top three
yesterday, didn't you? Top
four. Top four. Okay And now
they eliminate today. Don't be
so ludicrous top three now, but
top four. Absolutely. No, you're
the only one. I am the only
what I believe it DRG like some
of the fans in here. Come on. I
think this it's time for them.
I think we've seen a lot of
upsets happen, especially when
it comes to regional rival
rates. When you face so many
when they're up against the global eastwards,
they finally won against you guys
after like using seven billion times.
So yeah, I mean, like I said,
when you're looking for that upset,
you want that map that gives you that advantage to do so.
So DRG starting on Haven, that's a real hot start.
They need to convert that map
if they do want to win this series.
Well, wise words.
All right, it's time to go to the stage.
We have two of VCT China's finest talents
and both have yet to catch fire on the global stage
With an elimination game to force the issue,
let's find out who answers the call.
Over here in Masters London.
I can't say it's too much pressure, but the most overwhelming moment as a pro-gamer is when people play a lot of games.
I'm focused on the game as much as I can.
If I try not to make a mistake, I think I can do it well.
If I lose, I have no chance. I have no chance to lose.
I'm just trying to make a mistake.
I'm just trying to make a mistake.
Of course, I'm thinking about the season 3.
It's pretty.
The best player at this tournament.
It's the definition of love.
Despite going a mile down here,
G has made this a little bit easier to take the shot.
If so, there's...
There's C1, a triple kill, and they've thrown that double!
This is a competitive game.
If you want 100% confidence,
you have to change your confidence to win the game.
I have 100% confidence.
Going forward I think it's the constant reflection of ourselves and at some point we just focus not on the enemy and how we think we're going better.
I hope you guys don't choose LoL this against us because we won't make the second sleep.
I think in the next game we will continue to play as a team and we have no idea what to do.
So I hope that in the coming years, we will be able to let go of our emotions.
You can throw us into the ground as many times as you want, but every single time, we'll get back at you.
That's right, Frankie, we have a limitation on the line where regional teams have to send
each other home.
We have XLG versus DRG.
At the last time, these two faced off in the best of five.
E and XLG came on top.
on top. Now we have paper X1 where with us you support in China last year. Who are some of the
players we should be keeping our eyes on? Of course we're going to talk about Rarvan Lukashu,
but who else? I think WSL is a big one. He's the IGL for XLG. So assuming that these star guys
can give him enough time to call and read the map and make sure that he's comfortable in this spot.
Elimination stages are hard, so we need to make sure to support him as best as they can. From DRG
We're looking at Spirit G1, very strong player coming out of China, puts up big performances
in China when he needed to, and Nick is also a very strong fashion initiator for them as
well.
Yeah, I think for DRG's side, especially on the first map, it's Spirits of Life for me.
I think that they are extremely good at this map when those two players are playing as
aggressive as they should be on that defense side, going over the track plays, letting
Vukashi do his thing on the other side of the map, and the same story on the attack side.
It's Spirits of Life going in, and letting Vukashi work the other side of the map.
This is the time for them to win their first map at a global stage.
And we're speaking so much about Spur in life here, the two.
Wailing and Neon is what we expect from either of those on this map.
And I think that this is obviously an identity that we've covered,
that has been really working in the Chinese region.
And now we need to see how it happens,
whenever we get to see that regional matchup on the global stage.
Yeah, I think there's no excuses today.
You're playing against people you know, you're playing comfortable.
I don't want to see any nerves today.
I don't want to see any stress.
I don't want to see Raga crumbling once again.
I want to see him confident in full force.
Honestly, the whole team are riding in.
There is no excuse today.
You're planning against opponents you know.
You know their playbooks.
You know their tendencies.
You know the players.
Now, Wendler, we saw both, we saw DRG ban out Lotus.
We were expecting Lotus to come in here,
but it looks like they have some learning lessons.
Do you think this is a positive side?
Yeah, I would expect it to be.
DRG is looking at just, hey, we're gonna come into this.
We're gonna take away their best map.
And we're gonna try to target the weak pass in the bull
and just get through this series clean.
If you're DRG, your back is quite literally up against the wall.
I want to kind of echo the thoughts that many have there,
that you really have everything to put on the line here.
This could be one of these teams.
Well, it is one of these teams last time up on that stage,
because let's not forget, one of them will be eliminated after this.
So you need to kind of come out, show that best showing as best as you can, really.
And Haven is going to be the first estimation between these two teams.
Let's see what we got on the agent roster.
Yeah, expected here for DRG, similar compositions for the same compositions before life and spirit, spearheading the team with the double tool list.
They're going to be following that sky dog when they're on that attack side of defense.
So when they're starting, it's all about the trap places, about the early round aggression.
I love watching that haven right now, and I hope in that it sees it out today.
XLG side, they've gone for a composition switch.
Usually they've made a Gen G style composition, and I have my criticisms.
They're way too passive on the map with that composition, and I hope with this new double
Judas look that they're going to bring out the fire a little bit more.
Yeah, the big question is, especially between the two initiators, DRG working with the sky,
they have a little bit more info they can work with combined with the Cypher camera,
whereas XLG are just stuck with the Sova.
So after they burn that drone, it's going to be, can DRG force that drone out from Sova
and kind of eliminate information on the map and then find where they can kind of glitch
with the double duelist in there?
I think if you're XLG as well, we're seeing this now come into London.
It looks as though Phoenix and Jet has been their read on the meta.
I think they need to be able to make it count, especially starting on this attack side.
You are going up against a Wele and a Neon on the other side,
who are going to be pushing out those extremities, fighting for a lobby.
We will see that paired up with this guy as well.
How synergised this DRG team can look,
I think is going to be one of the key things starting on that defense.
With Spirits on that Wele and he has another Jonas to work with him,
he is phenomenal.
I think look out for him today in this matchup.
All right, well, thank you guys and thank you.
Wendler, all right, to take us through this regional matchup
of China, we have Achilles and Payford in.
It's looking to be an action-packed day.
DRG XLG backs against the wall.
Illumination is on the line.
Only one can stick around here at Masters London.
Yeah, I mean, so much to prove here for both of these teams.
Some rough outings for them in their beginning series.
They couldn't get any mats.
Even though XLG did come a little bit closer against NRT,
it's still not what you wanted to see out of the CN team.
So you hope that today whoever comes out of this, it's a momentum builder.
It's a confidence builder and they can go into that decider series
and make their way into playoffs and represent the region.
That was a very quick clear on the cam in mid.
XLG, going to be suspicious about this potential lurk forward.
That's the spirit in position to maybe try to get the catch on a happy way.
He continues the scale forward, but it's gonna be Flexen able to find the first close.
Rager's gonna be taking down with a happy way.
Finds one in reply.
Koshu challenging in for this fight, does take the brunt of the damage from a happy way.
Now he's gonna be approached upon and taken out.
Koshu with a repeat in the garage, he's able to find them at the same time.
Lyser now fighting forward, taking the fight right to their doorstep.
Bring it back into a 2v2.
One enemy remaining.
You can tap him alive.
Now just Lee out backpedaling away.
The VHP finds that follow up kill, but cannot get the round win.
DRG will take the opening pistol.
Yeah, so just some good trading early here for DRG.
They do a nice job as well as sneaking some players up the gut,
up the middle early.
Find that little bit of extra oomph to this to make sure
that Happyweight has no real hope of getting out of that situation.
Bukashu with the sweep back to the doors.
And then of course, WS Layout.
Hold on as long as you're at the end.
Little bit tough.
Got one, but again the trade's good for DRG.
So, a really nice early kill.
More flexing through the smokes.
There's a big difference maker there.
Hopefully.
Ooh, look at this though.
Yeah, full force.
Wow.
Stingers across the board.
Full armors as well for the majority of these players.
Intensifying that outlaw on the other side of the hands of Bukashu.
the hands of Lukashu. For now, we'll be looking to circumnavigate him. They are going into a stack
and it's a very quick pit for DRG to try to slow this up. They don't think he's going to be sent
down first and foremost as spirit. So we're in the corner able to find a good amount of damage,
no man could be taken low without taking down quite just yet. They can't lie, not stay here,
but the rest of the team absolutely does. XLG is looking incredible. It's a very snappy shot here
from Lukashu. He's going to need two more of those right on top of the boxes.
They take the gamble, they win it all, one to one.
Yeah, we've been seeing this a lot this event where teams on their opponents map picks,
if they lose that opening pistol, they're wanting to go into that four-spire.
You know, energy's done it, so this is, I think, a pretty good strategy where you know that your opponent is, maybe, a little bit better than you in some ways at this match.
So there are certain advantages you can try to take.
That's an eco round, baby!
Nice one, too.
You forced spot there, no man like...
Still, it's the right call, and it works a treat.
Just a punch to the cut for DRG.
He's at no man now, with that outlaw.
Ooh, he ended with a corner right,
wouldn't probably collect his kill,
slides into the corner himself,
and now the tail went out, we have to open the corner.
No man.
The Schmubman able to get himself out the safety of life just cannot capitalize now has to back away
And he has nothing but a classic in hand. Yeah, beautiful paranoia there from Lysor as well to make sure that no man gets out of dodge
Very clean exit that could have gone a lot worse
Without drawing the curve ball going to be send in and know exactly where he's at in Roger will be able to fish him out
Life eliminated Molly over the corner can also just step into that get the heels going and Roger suddenly is just one away from
having that run it back online would love to not have to use it in this round it
comes down to it will commit it just to ensure the game lead. XLG paused though.
You gave DRG the time they needed to get into place to try to set up this defense
they get a little bit of a spot too so still is maybe gonna get a little
Nicey for XLG.
Swap of the weaponry.
Passed over as Nomad will take four.
But it's a bit of a sparing.
With a man in a hand and a Lysor.
Back to against base.
A couple of eliminations as well.
And Flexin is going to have to go TPing past.
This one will not be noted. No one in the audio range.
But to try to find the round wind from here would be miraculous.
So XLG well slated to move up two to one.
Just a question of how costly can this be made?
They're on the angle and Raga to take him down, XLG, clean stuff over all, 2-1 start as we
get ready to go into the real buy-round for DRG.
Yeah, I mean you're seeing some encouraging signs here for XLG, Raga looking really sharp
to start.
Spirit to go out.
I mean he's really impactful on this man when you go back to the last time he's kicked
squared off on it.
In the lower bracket finals in China it was Spirit Z1 and Bukashu who were leading the
away but here for XLG even more important you're going to be coming into this round with two big
ultimates like you mentioned the Phoenix we also have the Hunter's Fury 4W Slayers so you've got
a great opportunity to get a 3-1 start here as XLG if you can find your opportunities.
Nothing found there with the early Util to gain a little bit of space at the very least but
But I'm just trying to fish maybe for a Hunter's Fury opening hit, seeing as you can maybe
punish Makashima.
That would be great if you could catch him out.
So far DRG playing a little bit further back, looking to re-clear some space.
No man just watching, waiting for this pop flash, not going to be connecting off to him.
Goes for the peek, is able to find Spirits E1 immediately.
Re-peaks it, gets himself a second, but it's going to be Nick coming away with two kills
as well.
Duelists now eliminated and that run it back out of the equation.
Does he have an immense amount of damage?
Obviously cannot feel himself back up to four and half the way.
Well, continues to be on point with the aim.
Immediately gets him back into an advantageous position.
The C site opened up WS Leo pushing forward, clearing that space.
Cameras still is there.
Will now be cleared out, but the plant can come through.
Love to see WS Leo get a little bit deep here, but we're going to try to play this up close and personal.
United, Filesum.
Not going to be playing back, doesn't want to try to go, but I understand he might just be regretting that decision.
Lukashu, always a player to be respected.
There's happy way, now needing to try to clutch this out.
Incredible player in his own right, the double approach.
He's on the angle and he has them dead, a massive 3k to tie it up at 2-2.
Got to question this post plan a little bit for XLG in two ways.
Not only the Hunters Fury, but you have so much on the back side of this, you have all
of your Cypher util out watching your flank so you know that Long is likely to be still
clear or at least maybe there's one player there that you have to worry about
but you're gonna set up for the long post plant and made that a little bit
easier on yourself don't give Lukashu those opportunities because he is
electric and he will capitalize more often than not. It's gonna be a glass
cannon by four life though. DRG able to get that win trying to scale into
something bigger still a lot of ultimate. We're close to a bunch of DRG now.
Two, one away from three out of their five volts.
Back off the spirit.
And minor damage going to be suffered, nothing.
They can't shrug off for now.
Nearly a stack to deck available for XLG.
Two charges away from having five ultimates.
BRG still trailing in that department.
We'd love to get these online.
Seekers in particular, going to be great for that info gather.
Let's see if they have the confidence to just make this a-hit go.
Looks like they will.
Well, that is a hell of a shot.
Just they immediately shut down that ultimate.
Relay pulled as well and invested just to try to slow down the approach.
No man still does go diving for it.
Spears you aren't going to be taken down.
This starts looking a bit more difficult for them.
Leo has been tagged up.
Can he get into a deep position though to try to utilize this understeer?
He's going to be my question for now.
We'll just set up with the drone, sending it up into Heaven,
spotting out two to three players.
Good amount of info, gonna be gained.
It's like one of them trying to go for this entry.
Slide down into the box.
Six of them on the first leg of that transfer.
Over the life's orbit.
I'm sure we'll be able to take him down, but not two rallies back.
Two kills of his own.
Drop down to becoming in.
Nick with the barrel stuff.
He's able to find no man and now it's a high one.
Happy way once again.
The Seeker's gonna be sent out.
Caught a shoot.
Me take him down.
Happy way gets it into the 1v1.
Nick just scaling forward.
Close to my post that has that elimination, gets over all of the views, makes it decently closed, but cannot win the round, it's going to be DRG once again into the lead.
And again, these post plants are really shaky for XLG.
Jump over!
You can get on the point that I'm concerned about here is that WS Leo, he's the one planting, he's the one who's already got his ult, he's the one who needs to be in the back line.
They need to spread out, give some space to kind of set up the crossfires a bit more.
I'd like to see personally
Releasing the coaching staff frankly get involved here early for XLG because I think there's a lot that you need to tweak
don't give them the opportunities and
Restoration with the coaches because you're you're giving yourself advantages and every one of these and then you're giving DRG opportunities
To run it back with some big multi kills
some good retake efforts.
Gonna be a pacey hit onto the C site.
Many players near and up by though for DRG to try to get a swift retake going.
The player for now gonna be holding happy way back to paranoid.
Gonna be sent forward into Koshu.
Forced away with no medicine.
He tries to push up in the window.
He just gets taken down as Koshu has activated.
Finds himself another kill.
Comes up on top of the window.
Maybe a bit of an overstep is nice where we'll be able to find that one,
but they're still so very caverned.
He came and Leo, dead to the fog and DRG.
Now moving up four to two.
Well, you give Mukash the opportunity,
so a little bit of help there from Flex.
He sets him up nicely.
The throw, a little bit of util in there,
all right before the flash gets through.
Swing in that corner.
And again, I know this one's an eco,
but you're chewing through an alt cycle here.
4 XLG and you're giving DRG a shout back into this when you should have had them on the back foot quite heavily
Instead they've strung three together
You might be kicking yourself at the end of this one, but
See how they want to change it up looks like maybe
a little bit more of an aggressive seed push
Widely avoiding it I think you know early in the rounds because well typically Bukash is gonna be over there
and that's often kind of the strategy you're gonna see CNN team's employees avoid wukashu at all costs early and
Try to put him in bad positions and post plans, but so far XLT can't accomplish that
Trick yeah
Really able to be avoided the paranoid as well gonna be sent to try to get this trap play
sprung on to abuse Leo
I think I did it, go for it, go for it.
some weird setups where you're leaving your sova late to try to watch the flank with a drone when you've given up a ton of space to DRG early at the spike too by the way.
And again WSL he's putting up numbers sure. He could sit down that Hunter's Fury for 4 or 5 hours.
I'm not going to have much of a voice to keep going like that, but who cares if you're able
to find the win, avoid that elimination.
It will be that timeout call for XLG.
We take a look at the coinbase win condition.
A lot of these ultimates that have been built up just have not been able to get committed
into these rounds.
Well, it's kind of of their own making.
It's not like BRG has put them in position.
I'd say that previous round. That's the only one where I'm like, okay, I get it. You really didn't have an opportunity
but it's
XLG is a time they have the opportunities to position around a little bit more and I really hope that's what the boy is talking about here with
the boys is
You know that you've given yourself some really good opportunities in some of these rounds in terms of finding the open space on the map
map getting to a plant relatively safely
But then your your post plant setups are a wanton so you know it is a different comp here for XLG
it is a change of ideas so some still kind of uncomfortableness with with all of this
which is jet Phoenix composition that they're running I suppose but still I think some absolutely
basic fundamental things that need to be tightened up quickly for XLG.
Still able to give themselves a buy going into this one.
Couple players with half-armors, but no outlaws in sight on the PRG side
Let's look at her quick check down towards that sewer and spot it
Meanwhile refract activated as it's pretty one wants to go off this push down in the mid
We'll have that expire
Just takes the double-dash out the safety. I think it was supposed to clear the trip. I think it was recalled
That are late placement from Picasso either way
Warning having the silver get rid of that you till nice and early
Throwing up through the window. I think the plexi might have slipped that net
Doesn't get spotted but isn't gonna try to press the issue either decides to just back away. Yeah, happy way
Gets away with one a little bit there, but this whole time XLG has had three players sitting here holding control looking for that DRG push out
I'm gonna get confirmation of presence and look at the heavy rotation from DRG. They have phenomenal reads right now
They've really starting to kind of figure out this XLG game plan
Nobody's just trying to swing a corner and Nick just finds them on a timing that is catastrophic
I'm happy to do everything that hunters very fun
They're gonna be invested in running able to find their first elimination but quickly you trade out Nick off the flank side
Was able to find the kill against himself a turn and XLG are getting shut down at every
twist and turn.
Ten seconds left.
The DRG just feels like they have the read, they have the aim, they have every key advantage.
That's another ult committed to no avail now for XLG.
Yeah, and I get nice sharp shots from WSL, but it is going to be Wukashu right at the
end that takes him down.
That's gonna be another gun dropped at the end of it. There's no time left on the clock there
Yet he did pull it you're right he grabbed it right time really heads up stuff from Vakashu
Nick has been really sharp over here at Long A
So where you got those two pills earlier where there's that 3v3 scraping
He's just locking it down. I mean
I mean, that is so scary for XLG that, you know, you've got Pikachu on one side of the
map who's going crazy, Nick on the other side, so the extremities of the map are completely
locked out.
And now you're pushed back to another 30 attempt.
Sheriff's of Canada and a stinger to try to make a go of this one.
And the Baraga is going to lead the charge forward into the seaside, but again, the heavier
staff from DRG is leaning on this side of the map, ready to counteract this.
Meanwhile, Lurk okay, not going to go punish.
Happy way, lucky to be alive as that case is about ready to fall.
Plant does not go through, but Raga hits too.
Belters shots, lets him to hit a good down, the ult can be popped as well, and it's enough
of a distraction.
Nick wants to try to collect this, he will be able to buy Raga after all.
He's on the second no man eliminated, but the Lysor gets this into a 2v1, the plant can
now come through safely.
Happy way.
Scaling forward and wielding.
Will it be a shot? It's going to be a MasterCard thrifty for XLG to find their third round win.
Okay, that one looked pretty good.
Able to just take a little bit of a confidence push, a good call off the rip.
Pretty good honestly.
He's been rough for XLG, but Draga's looked pretty sharp with the aim.
A huge kill with this thinger there for no man up close and personal.
Protecting that Phoenix ult.
Very nicely done there.
Can't always be sunshine and rainbows.
Bit of dismay there, but PRG still.
With a pretty heavy lead. Oh my god, no man. Come on. She's catching Stray's left rain center.
Another brutal way to try to kick off this round before you get into the cage.
And Raga will be outdone Lysor only able to find the one in return and now it's a 2v4
Where to go nowhere to TP to
Oh got tinked but able to kill anyway
Oh, he's close being taken out by that wall bang. He's gonna try to rescale this position
Because you're still very suspicious of it and with the swing out
Yeah, we'll eventually be able to find it that leaves Lysor now in a 1v3
the spot out. There will be Scrooge C1 to eliminate him. DRG up to 7. A lead confirmed at the half.
Now just about how big can they make this? I suspect pretty big. Flexin just taking shots
off the smoke drop. Just says, well, if you guys are pushing this way, I'm probably going to do
the damage at the very least.
Now still the often play, I don't even know,
DRG's fully aware that it was
bought by life, I don't think he ever had to do anything
in that round, but...
I don't think he fired a single shot.
I don't think he did, and now you've got the convergent
paths as well.
Four Spirit D1 against.
This time they learned
to walk out after the smoke.
Couple guns in the hands.
Happy way in Lysor, otherwise
And it's in a sheriff which is frankly so do you want to do it?
This may be one
Ready to go this hat right into the water the flash for those could be lights or a dad of this fight on the floor
No, man. I'm the one shot. Now. It is just WSL a one before a hopeless endeavor
No way to really make a goal of this
No, you don't even try to assist in it
to get his life over. Can't survive this round. No weapons to be recovered. No spike to die
to. Just has to pick left or right. He will find it. Now Nick will get him in the end.
It's going to be DRG now up eight to three. He had been running away with this map. Yeah,
really just steady stuff overall. Trying to sell a little bit of a bigger trying to
create an extra angle with Arga there. He's all on his own. Goes down to Bukashu.
Then Spirit D1 does a great job. He's done a solid effort on the way right. Taking a little bit of
contact. Refracting out. Making sure that he's not giving anything up early. Getting a little bit
of info for his team as well. So CRG ahead in a lot of different aspects of the game right now.
Bukashu's going to grab an O-ing.
There we go!
Slide every level down to the overdrive in behind this as well.
Life is fine to see if you can find anything.
Catch any stray shot story you won't be able to,
but this does establish a immense amount of map control for DRG around A.
And it gets Nick very close to his seekers, one away.
So all that space game gives you a ton of map control here too.
Kashi's got the early warning system right on the C site.
Looks like a bit of a crunch.
They take that space they just get like set up on a line with that operator and now everybody else can continue to lean between C and B
exactly
You know from this incredibly well
Keeping back out and no man I
Don't believe in curses but at a certain point I'm starting to become convinced
He's died three times and they haven't been able to see him.
You're preds of this stage haven't convinced me.
For a point.
But here's that op.
Never cleared it out.
Oh, he is just picking in the pieces.
He's looking for another life so we'll be able to send him down.
But again, it's going to be a 2v4.
The Neural theft invested, I believe the third one of this half is Lukashu.
She's been rocking them up so quickly.
Spike planted.
There's a hunter's fury, but yeah, no opportunity to use it.
Bucaccio immediately there, shuts him down on that exit back over the mountain now.
Convergent pass, sent down Lysor, slowed up with no real angle to try to play around.
Hinder will expire, but the views is being stuck.
He is dead.
Bucaccio's got three, and DRG hit up to nine.
I mean just ahead of the curve pretty much the whole way through, yes, XLG.
through in the force five through in a little chaos.
Got themselves two rounds, but outside of one more,
that was all they could muster.
This needs to be one hell of a dependent side from them.
Side where that bread should be bought.
It could not really get the gears turning on this XLG side.
So, they'll break that guy.
They'll put the plants together.
And whether or not they can act on
is a completely different conversation,
a completely different matter.
But with elimination on the line, they've got to be feeling the heat, and DRG got to be feeling pretty damn good.
In the halftime though, let's go ahead and send down to Frankie, he's going to be standing by with a very special XLG fan.
I am here with Maria, who is no man's girlfriend.
First of all, it's quite convenient that Masters is in London for you, isn't it?
Yeah, well, I live in London, so I conveniently, I just came from work, ran here just to watch him play.
and I think like every other part I'm stressed watching this right now.
I can imagine, but you've literally seen No Man's Life change because you guys got together before he became a Valorant Prime.
Yeah, we actually met in Exeter University playing volleyball, so yeah, his life has completely changed right now.
I currently live in London, he lives in China, but we manage this very well because we support each other in anything that we do.
Who is more competitive though? You or him?
Oh, definitely me. 100%.
And I love playing against him, because it just brings my more competitive side.
And I love winning against him.
So you ever play Valorant together?
Well, we've tried, but he definitely doesn't let me play his ranked games.
So mean, but maybe you can jump into some games of deathmatch together.
So if you could say anything to him right now to get him back into the game,
what would that be very quickly?
Honestly, I just rushed from work, got into many tubes, run here to make it on time.
James lock in lock in James. Okay, you heard the woman. Good luck
We'll see if you lock in because at the moment it has been a rough showing for XLG
Everybody very close in the kill department on this squad
But you take a look at the other half at DRG side and who cost you
He is showing up. He is having to be in a way that he was not able to do in that opening series
17 at seven and six
He is just so rock solid and you know like the desk was talking about these two teams facing each other that that comfort that they're
Gonna have you were expecting some step up some confidence from the players that we were really looking forward to seeing here in London from China
Edmucatu was one of those top of the list for a lot of people one of the best
Sentinel players definitely the best Sentinel player trying to no doubt about
that oh there's a little bit of damage on the light
a little early scan but of course the sky there Nick is going to be able to put
him back up to a hundred
slowly scale forward and I mean Leo's all on his own
He needs to be good for at least one here, if not more.
Paranoia goes across, Vakashu starting to scale forward, he's been spotted out now,
will be overwhelmed, Spiritsy 1, you'll find that kill, Raga, practically clenched
forward, will only be good for the single kill, Spiritsy 1 finds 3, life gets another,
and now it is just happy way.
We try to clutch this out.
Solid and clean kill onto Bukashu, gets rid of the raid boss, but there's still plenty of characters to try to dispatch.
His trailblazer will have to spot out and he's going to try to reposition at least fake his way back into heaven.
Heals again, going through.
Double swing, ready for the one side. Player in hell will be taking the bite and taking that kill. DRG.
No pistols are there as they hit double digits. XLG trailing by seven.
I mean, this round for me is just a great microcosm of why DRG is so much better on this map.
They're given the extra space, there's zero information about this, and they have a great little setup on the execute.
It's a paranoia to lock WS Leo in. They're going to get a player up high, and while Bukashu's swinging into him,
he has no hope there, and then they're able to just turn on his time and eliminate the flood.
Because they know that once that corner is clear, there's only one other place really.
That XLG can come from.
Happy way Lysor are going to grab sheriffs or argue with another bandit.
He's considering this swing.
Spot on the one.
Those get some damage in.
But again, this guy is there to nullify that.
So armor lost.
Looks like DRG will maybe anticipate a force by here.
Give it a go for those full armor.
There's no outlaw to be seen.
This is so good.
Just a dive in.
Have the refract ready.
It's more than you'd like to see, so you can do a quick pivot.
Just really solid stuff from DRG.
And again, it is just WSLEO alone, same position.
I see the steam mates quite far away.
I swear to the nearest bar, he's gonna go push out in a minute.
WSLEO tries to take that bike, gets the head shot through, but cannot confirm the kill.
On to Bukashu.
Bikes planted.
There's a tripwire.
Now gonna be broken.
He's got the sound, wanna try to watch the angle.
Bukashu's gonna go back, put it on the way.
with the botch on the camera setup, but as he wants to push forward to the corner,
it's a gorgeous head-shop around the way, but he has a hell of a lot more than he's able to find in another.
Flysword also getting involved, the plexon doesn't land up as great down as there,
and with the final peek in, Nick will get them over the line in this close, but not close enough.
It would have been a massive potential swing for XLG, but DRG are now just two rounds away from taking his opening map.
Just a few little hiccups in the micro department, like the idea from WSLeo to push down towards
sewers, you know, show something a little bit different than he did on the pistol, catch
him a little bit off guard.
You know, the three man flank also not as good as I'd be on here if it's a cross round
number.
GRG with those specters just a little bit too much, left in the tank there.
Now you're coming into the full rifles as XLG.
Can't take any more mistakes and oh boy, that's light.
He's taking care of him, but still damage done.
He's sprinting at him.
Flexing as well, storming his way forward.
Good spray and spray through this smoke.
They're not going to be rewarded for that quite just yet.
He's leading up to the other round of the corner.
Shot disconnect.
Roger everything out well.
And flexing up into heaven.
He's able to find two greats as angles in the dropdown,
but it doesn't really matter too much.
He gets them into a 2v1 as they look to get up to that point.
It's bringing the corner in a happy way.
This is not a running DRG.
They just have a full run of this map,
and it feels like XLG.
It's time to just focus up and get ready for fracture.
Yeah, the confidence and the comms are just flowing.
When you're getting that opening kill with the Stinger,
it's life as well.
And then Flex is a great idea here to get up into heaven.
It makes things so much more difficult for XLG,
where they maybe had a shot into that.
States kind of spelled out that hit, maybe,
and then all of a sudden they give up
that little bit of extra space and going to work was flexing from on high
so have to buy up no other choice is XLG no armor for happy way just a guardian
John gonna be seen plenty in mid
guys who are dead flexing him over there on the side I think he was on top on B
He ends up getting picked but Spearcy won and Bukashu both going to be eliminated
and happy when he finds another Netherscale port out of garage.
The warded it with another kill.
XLG some signs of life to be shown here.
He spikes in and drags this one back.
He's got the ultimate.
He can pick up the spike.
The world's up to immediately going to be invested off the back of that.
himself into a smoke but at the quick scale coming through half an hour reposition yeah
I went forward no man arriving on the side behind the box the barrel will not
be spotted and that's a confident swing from no man exactly what you need to be
seeing if XLG are gonna try to give themselves back into this map yeah for
sure and talked about happy way there no armor and a guardian and he hits two
crazy good shots from a link you see right here one of them at least oh the
second just happened through the wall I mean maybe it's about time something went
exhale trees way I suppose but there's a lot more of that because the economy
still not there to even get full rifles where our girl on a specter has his all
WSL has the hunters fury getting close to the alt cycle for DRG so this round
Winnable for XLG.
Just need to get there.
Make some struggles.
Fastly now.
Grip gonna be cleared.
Spirit Z1 able to just dive over the top.
Makes his way over the plant.
And he cares for the Sunder.
No one gonna have to wait for him.
He'll immediately snap back on the ultimate.
Just down around the corner and already eating more damage.
Hector's theory sending a desperate bid from WS Leia
with her hazard.
He's been topped on his plant.
So loads of Nick immediately rewarded with it now
This we have needing to pull off. They want to be three and because she was on
They find that their first win on the global stage as an organization congrats to them well earned that was phenomenal stuff
They will be eliminated from Masters London. Don't go anywhere.
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on Haven. What about fracture? Because you've been floating it instead of bending it.
I think we've been practicing for a few times. I think the game was pretty good this afternoon.
They picked a map that was not clear, I think they would be afraid.
first global map. Unfortunately,
on against one of their brothers,
XLG today, but they look absolutely
dominant on Haven and like you were
saying, Minnie and Billy that this
team is one of the best at this map
so far in Swiss. Yeah, I think that
they looked phenomenal. They did
everything that I asked from them and
they look like they're extremely
confident both on the map and on the
server. I'm hoping that momentum carries
them forward and they get a little bit
of confidence under them now. They are
They are good when the theory is good when they're aggressive together when they're trapping when they're understanding when to play for the retakes
This team cannot do well. I mean look at Nick. What a great performance 18 and 6 and 270 ACS
I believe that was but yeah, you kind of touched on the retakes there, Mini
I think that we saw this in the very early start of the rounds considering they started on this half
And it was really nice, right?
I think the way in which DRG were able to retake these sites a lot of the time was with intention
it looked very coordinated. Not only that, you had a lot of individuals stepping up in those
moments as well, including Vukashu, who we'd said to keep an eye out on in this series.
I do think XLG made a mistake in some of these post-plants though. At many times,
they're in advantages. Even here, like pushing into garage as a protocol on their seaside of the
map, it just didn't look like it was coming together for XLG. I think that they clearly
have structure and they think about these ideas, but some of them weren't landing at all. And the
the man on your screen here, Vukashu, he even won one of them by himself looking very strong
today, this man. Yeah, this is the form we've wanted to see from the bee god himself the
other day. We were talking about it and he did a shot, but today he absolutely did. He
looked a lot more comfortable, a lot more at ease and definitely way more at home. Yeah,
man, I'm hoping on fracture, he can do the similar kind of things. I think if they played
the haven a little bit like the fracture in the sense that the strong side wants out of
the map, some of the traps up, let Vukashu work the other side of the map, that can be
be very dangerous going into fracture.
Definitely, and we do want to break that down.
I'm also curious about what XLG is going to do to mental reset,
heading into map two with coach Hoiva over with Genly.
Len and good read on your opponents.
It's just shots weren't really hitting for you guys.
Would you say that was the case, and how can you fix that?
I wouldn't say that was the case.
I think we started really well, we just had really bad post-pants, that was the moment
that turned up the game to the DRG's way, so now it's time to reset and be ready for the
map.
Great, thank you so much, best of luck.
This is a map that is all about those retakes and post-pants, so I want to see that fine
chewed, hopefully the theory is a little bit better there from ExoG.
I think coach Quay is right.
It was all about those post-pants early on.
Yeah, that's exactly what you were saying just now.
And now they're going to have to mental reset.
This is something that we were discussing
at the start of the show today,
that this is something that XLG need to work on.
We want to see a little bit more from Raga as well.
Now, going into fracture, like Nathan was saying,
he picked it because, you know,
they haven't really shown any event at all over in China.
So there might be some surprises coming in,
but we know VCT China like to adapt styles
from other regions or perhaps from EDG.
the top teams over there. So
I'm wondering who they'll be
adopting from today at all. I
don't know about adopting styles
from other regions when I think
about the jewels that they
play because they've been so
waley and neon pills. So I'm
curious to see if that continues
on this map. No, in fact, they're
going to go for the waley in
Phoenix, which we've highlighted
time and time again. Many how
important getting those Phoenix
or to set yourself up for
success with that ultimate is
especially on a map such as
fracture. Yeah, he actually
haven't been playing this map.
It's always the first time we're
I think that that composition can do the things that I want.
They are going to be going in aggressively to double-joolish,
to cash you one side of the map potentially,
with them going in, and then on defense, similar thing.
XoG, they're pretty good at this map domestically,
but I will say that I don't like similar theory in China.
I think that they don't do a lot of the push-ups on the defense that I like to see,
and I think that that is the key thing I'm looking for in the defense.
Are they going to be pushing out,
or are they going to be bunkered up and just letting DRG bring the game to them?
Well, let's see if DRG closes out.
I'm definitely all eyes on Bukashu.
Primmy has even said he's afraid of him.
So let's see what he's going to bring on to the server
over to our casters, Akilius, and Paper Thin.
I mean, with a performance like that from MAP,
one can't really blame him.
Bukashu certainly looking alive and well here today.
XLG, and now the team on the back foot.
They are the ones that need to bind this win to push it to.
That third and final map of Split,
Otherwise, we will be saying goodbye
Yeah, and I really liked a lot of the way lay stuff from spirit Z1 as well doing a great job getting info
Doing a lot of really smart things
XLG
Not gonna be connecting as a crack out me while the light continues
Push forward finds that kill the log on how one of the problems have a real real fun one
But that's that your eight does not connect cautious headshot dies
Trades coming back in as Nick looking forward, front of Jen, at the top of the plant, a rush
out of the smoke and halfway going to be taken down, Nick gets a reset.
He finds himself a second and now it's all down the Lysor, finds the first, looks for
the second, some damage going to be dealt, but he runs out of bullets and he can cast
you, will be able to strike him down, three for three in pistols, DRG, then he wants this
to end in a two zero.
Again, it's that setup from SpiritZ1 to get that opening kill, and then Nick, the little
reposition, the quick pivot and the no man, he has looked sharp today as well.
BRG, feel that the confidence is absolutely blowing.
I agree, that was very, very good.
The coordination for BRG here, it's so good, and again, you don't have any idea
as XLG. Really what DRG is going to be bringing to the table. No buy up to speak of that all for XLG. Not even abandon it.
Yeah, can't try to go forward here. This defender's out of fracture. More often than not, you're going to get punished.
Fairly empty b side quick rotation is going to be coming through from XLG. The plant can come through.
They're just trying to thwart off any quick floods.
Trailblazer does try to get some in quite just see the edge of the costume.
Oh, no, wait, that was.
Silent ride of the rough, but happy we get to be down on arrival.
Look at the guy to get these pigs, but Nick does around.
What would he's done?
It would seem the ghost in hand this time around.
It's going to be good for another 2K swing out.
This big C1 will fight Lysar.
Wallace and T eco for DRG to build up the economy.
They're just really, really steady right now with the ghosts, even after the dink, they're
going to get settled in.
Let's go!
Let's go!
You can hear how fired up they are.
Still a little bit away from some of these early alts, or DRG though.
XLG
Hivotal around here. I haven't really been playing both collection
They've just been running into the site so far and just killing everyone exactly
We're not at the same time pushing forward towards tree
smoke is there, but
The RG want this to be a pacey hit into the A site this time around
There's a cage gonna be popped the camera still gonna be situated there in the trip wire yet cleared out on the site
Meanwhile that double approach on South side continues to come through
XLG looking to try to have DRG corraled, and a happy way that there's a big win to be found as Lightbulb could take it down if it cost you.
Quickly trade it back.
They've got to break through Flexin.
Experiency won here.
Experiency won, pushing for Flexin. How about there's gonna be the one coming out with both of those eliminations, and suddenly it's two players left.
No man's been spotted.
He's trying to swing it out.
Challenges with that specter, he wins it! And that is a bonus conversion for DRG!
A monster has started to this map and XLG once again, reeling!
I don't mind at all what XLG tries to accomplish here in terms of getting those early aggressive flanks, trying to come from some different angles. They just can't win the battles.
battles. DRG is just better. It is coming down to shooting in some of these moments,
whereas I thought on Haven it was a lot more of the macro ideas that DRG was excelling at.
But here, that round right there, they knew exactly what they needed to do to DRG.
Hold the line at A main, and you have that round pretty well established because you have Lukashu
still up a drop. You have that extra angle. If you can keep a third, that's just nigh unbeatable.
It's going to be sheriffs for XLG in this one. Playing it pretty close to the vest.
DRG is curious about if there's going to be another push out. They're going to be
very aware that this could be around absolutely where XLG just tries to group up and get aggro.
Raga, pretty wide here, but that second peek is a little bit delayed, so we're
conscious still able to come away with that kill, but he gets taken down. Flash
is gonna confirm that there's no presence out on this attack or spawn side.
Weapon can be collected, so we are able to get a vandal. We left to pass that over
to a teammate though, but for now we'll just be taking that rope across to the
north side, and we're flying. Blinded out, the level died forward, the spot out. Quite a bit of
damage on the happy way, but he's still able to find life. But he'll go ahead and shot.
Can I find the follow-up point just yet?
Backpedal into the night ball send, but it's going to be Nick now. Eliminated. No man.
Bind spear, Z1, likes in. Cannot line up, halfway with the crouch.
Dodges the shot, but it's a master card.
Thripty for XLG to get their first round winning here on Fracture.
So this round to me kind of comes down to the fact that Bukashu is feeling it, and I get it,
and he tries to go double down on that second kill.
Stick around just a little bit too long, and that opens up so much map space
that immediately WSL able to use his Util to understand that there's no one in spawn.
He could start leading that side of the map.
They throw the Tejo drone over towards drop, towards radar.
They know that's clear.
They could immediately swing over and they hold the line really, really nicely on site.
That right there, very good round from XOG in terms of using their Util to get information
and making plays off the back of it.
They can spring back into the map from around like that.
Gonna be right this rain, but still plenty of work to be done. I'm planning on trying to try to chew through from the RG
Should be together majority of a buy if they should drop this one
I like to see them try to funnel an orb here into life's hands to get that run it back going
but they were thwarted at the initial target over towards a main so
Just grouping up and kind of
Considering how they want to do this XLG get confirmation. There's still presents
Watch out, Raga.
He's trying to take the spike.
Pop flash, gotta be sent through, and he's gonna be good for one, but Prakash is just
counter-swinging in.
Strikes it down, makes it a one for one, so run it back, gonna be gained in-depth.
He's obviously out trying to maintain control of this position.
Once again, he's eating quite a bit of damage at the start, but it looks like DRG still wanting
to try to end this at A.
No consideration of a rotation towards B.
Just wanna fight.
Gun here.
Wait.
The 30-set pop-watch attempt there.
Did you see him trying to make a big move?
No, man.
Top of rope. The top of raptor.
Comes away with two.
Spotted on the gun barrel.
Still with the back pedal fast enough.
Now, how have you really meant to try to get this spike in play?
Nick will just be given the opportunity to drift his way forward onto the site.
And we'll call you down to the angle.
Finds the opening kill.
Happy way eliminated.
now a 2v2. He's got to get it all done on the cannon. Forces him for behind the box.
Three bullets remaining. Pival's the camera for a brief little second now. He's only got one shot.
He's out around the corner. Another man! He locks in a 4k to get XLG. The second round.
And this is a huge round for him. Able to lock that door down as the take home.
Gives his cry when he gets those multi-kills, the 4K this time.
Beautifully playing, using that U-Till really nicely on the door open.
Kashi almost comes through with her holics but just gets put in a really awkward position
because of the Armageddon, really nicely fought out there by no man.
I think DRG there...
HORKAAAAAAAARGH!
What the heck?
What's that crowd, my man?
Uh, DRG there just got tunneled on that, that cypher all.
It just felt like they really wanted to make sure that they could get that in play.
I think it would have been better if they maybe left one player there,
and they made through a bit of a fake and rotated back the other direction, but...
Just really wanted to use the neural theft.
This time...
A flash around the corner, nobody home.
They're on a weaker buy, a couple rifles there from Akashi with Brexit.
Oh, that's quite a bit of damage.
No sky this time around.
No one can heal that one.
I'm not going to see anything around halls.
This means XLG will send another player back towards beam and look like that's exactly what they want to do.
Yeah, this is a good timing.
Lexin watching the backside here, but the seekers give away the script.
Great timing on this one.
It's off-door open. Secrets will just get cleared out.
Still continuing to leave two players.
That's not another location starting to come in.
The earth after applying the drip down.
The light, the enemy is on to it.
Caution, he's able to find no man.
This they'll have left for trying to set up that flash.
It takes him too long.
It's like sending the enemy to collect one,
but will get flushed out of the smoke.
It's not going to cost you now.
There's no attempt to be invested into this one in life's position.
position completely and utterly given away.
Fides and a skate up the top of the rope and he cannot, and XLG suddenly have marched their way back into this map, tying it up three to three.
Yeah, this is just really solid defensive stuff from XLG.
Playing their positions for the most part quite nicely.
Love the patience there.
The weakened Wei-Li go up and over the top.
You got to worry about the follow-up players.
Not much that Spirit Z can do one above you anyway.
Everybody just kind of doing their job. So timeout for DRG.
First one here of the batch. Coinbase win condition. I mean I think I'd like to see them just work the map a little bit more.
It's getting a little bit too predictable and they had a good idea there. They had a moment where they waited the drone out from the
from the Tejo, and then they were trying to push forward.
But because there was that extra layer there with the Seekers
from WS Leo, that really kind of just nullified
any advantage they had in the information game.
And then they just tried to force the issue.
And I'd really like to see them spread the map a little bit
more here.
Plus, you have a couple odds you could really talk
about coming into this next round.
You're going to have to converge a pass.
You're going to have the Orville strike.
Two really big pieces of the puzzle on this attacker side.
Yeah, not only that, but wanting to maybe just, yeah,
Like you said, play the map, rotate around, try to play that orb collection game, get light, old-cycled up as quickly as you possibly can.
We just saw the one committed in that last round, he didn't end up leading to much of anything.
He needs to be able to find that impact.
There are a long side, Spirit Z1.
For now though, it is going to be Pukashu leading the charge once again for the team.
Saw the stat card there during the timeout break.
She shows you how rough that opening performance was, but here today, Pukashu...
He is showing up.
Can they separate themselves from XLG once again,
or will XLG be able to gain the lead?
Some pressure gonna be applied here.
The box gonna be good,
and the open stuff gonna be called in,
but that one to the north side is a bit delayed.
Salah's gonna be set up,
and he's just trying to stick around and hold his own.
Will only be good for the one kill.
Well, for sure he would've just taken the exit down the road,
but same time though, here in the underpass,
Stavius Leo has to jump on Fluxon.
Oh, certainly felt like he was going to be favored ten times out of ten that position
It's not committed to gosh you pushing for the only gonna be good for the one happy way cleans it up
2b3 in this post plant now both players situated on the site
Dash forward
Up in his happy way, it's fancy one.
He has them lined up, and he may have just rescued this round.
The saturate dodge, the headshot connecting.
It's Raga.
Into the 1v1, but the time is going to be gone.
The swing out, he will have to spray down,
but there's just nothing more to be done.
He has to accept his fate.
The spike will go off, and DRG will regain the lead by one.
Oh, that's a heartbreaker for XLG.
I think they play this really nicely,
But again, the individual moments where DRG are shining,
the fact that life gets one of that position really,
really massive.
But then you're able to clear Flexin' Out,
a good understanding of where he's
going to want to go, where he's going to want to position
himself with that orbital strike.
Deal with it early.
Saw a little bit on Haven where towards the end of it,
they were able to clear out a WS Layo
that is Hunter's Fury because they over-sacked the flank angle.
Well, we'll see.
But anyway, ERG's players bailed them out.
That's all there is to that round.
They just had some huge clutch shots.
Yeah, no, I mean, it's a big one to come away with.
Let's do a quick little tech pause here
where you just get everything taken care of.
See, time is gone.
No way to really try to get that diffuse going.
But this has to be a bit of a mental reset, I think,
as well here for XLG.
You're starting to run it back.
You have a round like that.
Get away from you.
You know what you're capable of.
You have you played the closer of your series between the two teams in their opening series their masters London
You need to be able to just get that reset through get focused back up and get into the game because you know
What you're capable of you typically when you're playing against each other regionally come out on top of this matchup
I agree and I mean I think this is a good opportunity to you know strut your stuff as no man as the leader of this team to really
Just say hey guys
We're still in this. We made good big picture plays. Let's tighten up the the individual stuff a little bit
We can get into this and get back into this no problem
Well, not too bad. We got through that one pretty quickly
Now you get back into the action as XLG. It's gonna be a very mixed bag by
They try to make the final assessment see what they want to land on
Just abandon for WS Leo
as well as no man rifles across the rest of the team.
It's a triple dish approach from DRG.
Look at that crunch that way forward into this A site.
Now no contact with the shots.
Look at that seize Molly.
Practice ready, so just trying to scale forward, get a catch here.
Here's a log out, but nothing to be done in flight just yet.
The poke is gone, this after a good shot down line.
Looking for the reset to try to take down a log out on the other side,
side but he just cannot quite lean that up and flex him.
He's now looking his way forward over the sands.
They sound lifeless, ways to go around.
No, man, the timing is just so very tragic.
Tries to go for the intel.
And in the end, but look at this.
It's going to be a very scrappy round.
Ends up being pretty damn clean for DRG.
Yeah, like we called for the time out here to kind of spread
the map a little bit, set up for that A crunch.
Really nice job buying a little bit of time over at A main.
their life almost had to almost just ended the round by himself effectively.
Marga finally able to get to aim under control. Nick continues to just be sharp.
Whenever you see him he's just clicking heads but again it's the best thing to do.
They get the dish relatively free and they just swam through to get the planks.
Yeah, it's tough.
The frustration continuing to build on that means that it's going to be a timeout call now for XLG.
So what a piece burnt so far on fracture
Getting ready to go back into another buy around. We'll take a look at the coin base win condition
Not quite there and a lot of key factors. It's gonna be a lot of half-armors
And no ultimate behind this one. Let's rocker can get that early or
Yeah, I mean I think here as XLG you're probably talking about some of the ideas we saw
When they were able to get those successful crunches early kind of disrupts the RG before they can get really settled in get into those executes
That's the kind of big picture stuff
I'd like to see because even though they're
Sort of in the right place at the right time you have to give up a lot of space over a dish there
And then your left where you're taking fights and even ish
but that's not gonna
Really do you well when a couple other players are on the other side of the map because of a type of default you're running
Now gRG just gonna swing right over to the other side
Move happy way in his util over to the front of a
Little bit more proactive our XLG
Double brawler
But XLG are shutting it down at every twist of turn
Life on the exit and now the last one standing
XLG with the chance to make this flawless will help we will help them build up that economy
No doubt about it great hold there by Raga
Talking about another one of those players we wanted to see have a glow up on the international stage that one
very clean
You have to be the 1v5 miracle from life and there's Cypher Util on his way in so it should
be pretty challenging just to even get one, maybe get the plant through, there's no guarantee.
30 seconds left.
Here's that camera toggle, these players getting closer and closer to Dish, it's losing his
window of opportunity.
Trying to get the spike in play.
Well, swing the corner, it's going to be a flawless for XLG after all.
It's a happy way.
Instantly has the shot in XLG.
They're going to fight their way right back into this map, just trailing by one now.
But I like a lot of the things that XLG is doing early in that round,
sending out backfinding missions around the map,
and able to win the contact.
You know, after a lot of that, you two get wasted by Nick quite frankly.
He's just not really able to find much off the back of it.
It's a double power there.
A little bit questionable, and like you said, sees misses.
This is, so,
Tina Paraga nicely who's now matched Bukashu in the kill department.
The two superstars for their teams.
Kiddings have to, when they need to.
And a couple sheriffs.
Just a Bardian for spirit.
D1, Bukashu with the rifle.
They're gonna try for...
4-1 split, but...
Really fast location though from XLG.
Camera cleared out, doesn't get the dart though.
Does actually get the dart through.
Skirtsy went out of the drop-down, removes that trailblazer, checking around Sands, we'll be able to spot the two players out.
Lukashu with that alone, dandelion hand, arriving.
Yes, that drop, Niki's able to find one with the trade up his hair, XLG looking good as life, and Skirtsy one both get eliminated, now Niki's dead as well, the spike on the floor.
Lukashu having to do an immense amount of work if they want to get back into this round.
Got the spike.
Weapon and the spike both to get recovered and looks like they're gonna try to maybe
Reclear back towards halls or even maybe suddenly drift their way out of here
Or do they fight in the sands this should be dead open the door though
I never mind they pick one piece they find their targets and now the neural test is invested
Take themselves into a 2v2
The door opened up 30 seconds remaining in this round 30 seconds left no more
What's the try to work with here?
Some shots fired at Lysor, tag to 65.
They now have to be committed to this position.
They just stack up, save up that high low.
Trying to make this not impossible for Flexin to break.
The trick cleared, swings in, and he came out by a single kill.
XLG, tie it up at 5-5.
Still there was hope here for DRG.
The surprise maneuver through the doors
Dr. G has them
They know where the players are and they just try to go and fight them
And they're making noise over there so I can rotate it rotate in a position to cut them off
Yes some head scratchers here
Almost able to break through his DRG
I see some opportunities.
Oh, Raga.
You're able to see pushing forward that outlaw.
A little bit of spam out, but let's go ahead and listen to the DRG.
We're going, we're going, we're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
We're going.
I'm going to buy the
NTS, he's going to ult
I can throw a grenade, can I throw a grenade?
Come on, let's go
Go, go
He's coming out
He's not here, I'm going to buy the grenade
Keep going, I'm going to buy the grenade
Come on, come on, I'm going to buy the grenade
into this round as DRG basically wants to try to rescue it.
This whole set up life, drifting further forward up through the smokes,
but has not been able to spot anything to play out as he tucks back in.
No man is there. Has to kill another note that's revealed.
If you're going through, we've got you. Runs out of bullets and flexes.
Runs out of life. XLG. Back into the lead.
With the potential to make this a seven and five half.
they're doing such a nice job getting aggressive early with the outlaw really
nice thought-out stuff because then they have them corraled on the other side of
the map and it gets a little one with some of the smoke some other things but
you're in the right positions you're able to execute you're able to
capitalize that's exactly the kind of game planning you want to see from XLG
who's really showing they have much better macro ideas on this defender side
a fracture than they did on Haven. Nick does have his ult, no man has an armageddon. Not
gonna be too close, maybe Spirit Z1 gets into his Lysor as well, one away from an orbital
strike, so a lot of things that can swing one way or another, that ain't stop a kill.
South right towards tower, happy way, however, just playing forward on the side, it's still
a little far in line. Since Z1 is practically bouncing in the corner, we'll eventually get
taking down some kashu.
Ones up.
Here's out Lysor as well.
Got to get the spike.
The three of you, bring it out into the post plant.
Don't miss me too much.
All boats exhausted.
Double approach from tree side.
No blazer as well as that.
Still trying to spot out anything that they could possibly get.
Molly already flexed.
He absolutely slipped this approach to pot flush.
It's sure as if there's no one forking into the smoke.
Nick will find the one to frog and then takes him down.
Molly infested.
The swing of the corner.
is having to back away as Bukashu is trying to get himself into the tower.
Tarzan sucks out, they're going to double base forward into this one and Bukashu
will eventually be able to win this to take it into the 1v1.
The swing of the corner.
Betoraga saves, crouch, gets that kill, and XLG, they rescue this half.
Same move up, 7-5.
Yeah, really impressed overall with how they're able to pilot this composition,
use a lot of that information that they're able to gather.
Entry for Spirit Z1, but I saw Nixon down,
always jumping around trying to change guns.
Checked the back corner there.
Kind of an odd moment there where it's not like DRG was mixed up
on what they wanted to do in the heat of the moment at the end of that round.
I think if they feel a little bit more patient, flank out to the other side.
I feel like that should have split.
So certainly some issues there,
but as we go into the halftime break,
Let's go ahead and hear from Nick in our HyperX player moment.
It's been a long time. It's been a long time.
It's finally the end of the World Championship.
So no matter what, I think it's a very important thing to be able to show yourself perfectly in the World Championship.
I think it's not just me. I think everyone is the same.
I think there might be some, but I think that in terms of the situation we were in last year,
I think we really have a lot to do, but I think we have to watch our own performance.
I know that there are a lot of international fans in the tournament.
I can hear a lot of people cheering for us in the stage,
and I also feel that they can support us here.
I hope our next game will be able to beat Yuqi and not disappoint their expectations.
on the way of DRG.
You feel like as XLG, you put yourself in prime position,
able to bounce back after that bonus,
able to come through with a positive defender's side
on fracture, no easy feat for any team
no matter who you're going up against.
Was this a real opportunity to send this to Splay?
Which, of course, would be wonderful.
Always, what right gains you feel like on there?
Clarkson and Lukash, you're both playing forward
into the smoke, the flush, coming through,
and he answers, I can't move forward anymore,
pull the trigger, please, you won't find that kill.
Lukash gets the other now,
which is a little bit of prading places.
I don't have to wait a moment.
Little player advantage is all of DRG.
Right, Clarkson.
And that's on the south side of the B site.
Consideration given, we'll push through that underpass.
We will just drift their way forward and that does have no
man isolated purple gonna be sent in. They're able to find the
kill that if used out tapped one, but it's immediately dealt
with. So, Cascio, clear that shot. Leo on the follow up,
able to find one, but now needs to try to separate these
kills and he cannot. Perfect in the pistols. DRG, they take
another and they are one round away from tying it up. Yeah,
They're really ahead of the curve on these pistol rounds able to tuck a couple players into a smoke and catch XLG completely off guard
Lexin gets the kill on the happy way then Vukasha was going to work a great flash there and only on his own
XLG expecting more players to be coming from the arcade side of the map, so they sent their two of the three up in that direction
turns out that
It was just DRG coming from tree
Now because you're gonna grab an outlaw. Maybe yes. This is one of those
Moments where I feel like you could see the force here
So she's opening the secret full classics
They want to try to go for a AC hit towards a but look at where all of the RG are at
Four players just because you operate all over the moment. It's Molly for the lies store is nearly burnt to a crisp
He will swiftly come through from WS Leo.
He's sparing the blushes there.
They still need to try to fight their way forward against these four players.
DRG and Light was able to strike first.
Light's going to be getting that target all the night in.
He's going to find a second, and Happy Wake is trading.
Fight back out.
We've caught you on our rival.
How does he have a long hand?
And he dispatches them.
So two candles, he suffered the DRG.
They went out the anti-eco.
They tie up 7-7.
They went out the anti-eco and they tie up 7-7.
They're just mirroring XLG the whole way here.
Not the great clock fire setup for the light.
That looked like a juicy set of the multi-kill.
It could have quite come through.
Mr. Reliable.
They'll hold the line there with the outlaw.
Get two big ones.
They're able to keep over two of those Bulldogs plus the outlaw.
outlaw all full shields though for XLG's they did not buy up into that round at all just
classics so they knew the score they knew the situation DRG wants to start taking a little
bit of space they're getting pretty aggro over here.
Shalanga and Prakash should be able to hit these shots he can to be needs to be headshots
if he wants to take them down otherwise he needs that two tap same time though turn ball
into the heart, the Swing out from this all side, and that is going to be DRG delivering themselves on a silver platter.
The player is going to kill a piece, but then we'll be able to pursue deep enough to find a kill on Naraga.
Krasher quickly arriving on the scene to try to shut this down.
No damage dealt, self-drone able to get the spot out of him. He's been revealed, touched back, able to play a happy way.
I'm going to have to see that one of the replays for sure.
But this is still an arduous task to try to get this bonus converted.
Seven rounds remaining in this outlaw.
Incineration on the Mall, even Flexin pushing forward.
Bronn will be able to give the spot on Light Sword and he does connect with that shot.
So we'll force an armor rebuy, but no bonus conversion to be found this time around.
XLG holding their own.
I mean, I think the encouraging thing here for DRG is that they are being aggressive in the early parts of the round now.
It's climbing just a little bit off. I don't, why not?
He's like, you didn't die. I mean, the tracers, I suppose, but incredible.
Incredible game sense, but, you know, XLG just being patient. They're waiting for that pushout.
They're anticipating it and DRG just kind of kept shift w'ing the whole way through
This time XLG
Big crunch setup top to bottom
Only two players home
Cowboys will lead the way Stimby can gonna be chucked out as well. Raga ready to go for the dive in
Well, it's gonna be a pain reveal but it's enabled a fight
He's up a bullet between the eyes because she will be able to take down the enemy sky.
So 4v4 with double dash 4 and Rodney, everything that's made with Nick, pushing forward to top, Jen.
He's going to find that black kill because she's still fighting, but his back is turned as he straps out onto the site in the happy way.
He takes that every single day of the week.
Now, Spearcy won.
The one with the clutch in the nose that is going to be invested.
Saturated to the side as he gets revealed, he's trying to isolate and swings forward,
But it does it by the opening kill happy way gets the eliminations gets the 3k and XLG get up to nine
The more I see of this comp from XLG the more I really do like it
You know a lot of teams kind of raise their eyebrows at the China region wanting to play this guy
But it gives you so much information on the map that haven't been drove there, too
Really does kind of make it easy for XLG to kind of pick the sites apart one by one now
Bucaccio is still Bucaccio. He's doing stuff there. He's up to 21 kills.
He's giving you a shout into this round as DRG.
But it's the ability of XLG to just slowly but surely
on these executes, identify a player, take them out, find the other, take them out.
You know, if there's a weird lurk somewhere, they're able to react to it pretty quickly.
The comm seemed a little bit cleaner, a little bit clearer.
So DRG wants to take the final time out of the map
map and try to see if they can get into this and rectify it is not going to be easy.
So G so far has been pretty clean, pretty clinical and it hasn't required too much in terms of spreading the map or running some weird stuff.
They just come through there with a simple crunch.
Now you're on a weird by pretty standard.
I think for DRG it's just the same with Rikasha having a handle.
There's two ultimates on the other side that you have to be worried about.
The convergent paths and the orbital strike.
If you try to go for a pacey hit through halls, through arcades, wherever it may be.
If you get hit by the convergent paths, an orbital strike is going to burn you to a crisp.
That goes there.
See if DRG are going to be able to successfully avoid those ultimates out.
Flexing is going to be going for a stinger alongside the Vandal Lukashu, otherwise it's
Sheriff's abound for DRG.
I think they want this orb, try to get it into life to get a run it back going perhaps.
Or they're just looking for a surprise.
Trying to welcome XLG who's been pushing that B site, maybe expecting them to double down,
but instead XLG is just looking for that early aggression again, being patient just like
We saw him the anti-bonus fully anticipating the Southside crunch
Trailblazer though
Leaning forward in the halls clears the way and that will have XLG now starting the scale towards that site
Just Nick nearby with the sheriff
Not worried about that dish position
It just has to back away meanwhile the three players to start working their way towards that attacker spawn
And Happy Wake gives it a consideration. He checks back, just behind this tripwire.
Widely will be able to keep these players contained. So Spike now in play, DRG.
How do they remotely try to get themselves back into this one?
Wife is trying to find the catch. Will be able to find one, but Lysor refills that space, takes down Q.
The battle now walks.
And it's just Nick and Bucks trying to see if they can get any sort of damage through.
If this is around here, it feels hopeless for DRG, no real way, to try to fight them
their way back into this one.
Nick will just get flicked, Roger will take him down on XLG, will get themselves up to
double digits, three more rounds to go to push us to a map three.
Part of the problem that DRG is facing here is they do have to try to take contact fights
It's at some point in time because they don't have that extra layer of information gathering
because they've opted for the double duelist.
And you're not given those opportunities of XLG just kind of flips a coin and guesses
correctly on which side of the map to go to that you're not.
Then when you're trying to make those push-ups like that, then you're going to have a tough
time, especially with just the Ecos in hand.
And now, Mikosho has to go for glass cannon guardian.
Force in the three-beats round.
Just great equal disadvantages
that can absolutely unfurl this for DRG.
There's no ability to confirm that prowler here for DRG.
They threw one through, they spam a little bit,
and XLG just cuts sound.
They might have gone too far.
On the way forward because you're just tucking into the slow.
You're trying to fish for anything that you can get, but it's going to be forced away
by a salvo who will long as diving up the top of sight, converging past Attenborough
already, give it a consideration, but we'll just table that for now.
With the plan, the Seekers are now available considering that Trailblazer first and foremost,
Can't just stay put for now.
Run it back.
Gonna be sense.
Leading to Kingdom.
Good ball.
Out through the cage.
The stun is in line.
Held it at bay in a happy way.
Snaps it back.
Flicks in.
Gonna be tagged up.
Reflect.
Gonna be taken away.
Little legs it down.
Over towards safety.
This happy way tried to hold the door.
Nick will be able to find the one.
No man with a kill.
And Raga joining in as well.
Just locks them out.
Holds them in this spot.
It's a conch shoot.
Upgreets his way to a band up at the time.
It's just gotten away.
There is no hope for this round.
XLG will advance up to the 11th round
with two away from sending up the split.
And there's no money.
No money at all for DRG going into the next one.
And again, it's just so hard for DRG here
because they're not able to confirm anything
off that early prowler.
They have to just kind of guess that maybe that
was a little bit of a fake, a little bit of a ruse instead.
Again, XLG just slowly marching their way forward,
the rest of the way through.
And then DRG just tries to brute force their way
into the door to clear main.
And XLG just holds the line.
They've got the angles.
They've got the crossfires.
They've got the ultimates as well.
Didn't have to use that sinker.
Didn't have to use the orbital strike.
It's just Raga's invested.
Four sheriffs and a stinger to try to get back into this good high back.
Matt point away from XLG.
A little bit of juke in there with a trailblazer.
Gets a spot out just under one.
Yeah, I like this though from XLG.
You see the Phoenix and a lot of the times it's been the double duo's
paired together here for DRG, so go the other way.
Quick rotations though.
He's coming in, up and over the ball and goes Raga.
Got you got that damage the real reveal is there but as we're back at the
safety some flexities unable to capitalize on that one meanwhile no
minute lights were able to find two kills of a costume and light both can
take it down dead on the site dead at arcade
I'll have to see a makeup pivot here they slowly approach but XLG still gonna
be feeling so very favored here continue to rescale forward a little
going to be coming in. Capital Rope there from the Spirit C1. Now, he will fall. The cleanup is
going to be swift and just XLG. From a catastrophic start of this map to now, map point. DRG need
5 and a Rope. They want to see overtime if they want any hope of closing this into G0.
Dude, Lysor saw one bullet tracer. It immediately deleted somebody. Incredible.
Yeah, he's getting the patience on display.
There it is right there.
It's Bukachu, nonetheless.
That's the target to find.
That is the best target to find.
I mean, he's got almost double the kills of Nick
who's second on the board for DRG here.
Operator for life.
This needs a hit.
And it does not, Raga just swings out, takes the fight
and absolutely knocks him out of the park.
I have to get some top of the elimination finds the second as well brings it back into the 2v2, planks it, unable to confirm the kill until just then.
He takes the fight but Bukashi will win it.
DRG not done yet.
Four more rounds to go with the operator carried forward.
Still, it took a lot.
It felt labored for DRG, but you do get that wombo combo to go.
I mean, convergent pass hits basically everybody on XRG, and then the level of strength you
have a new can do.
sit there and watch it knock it out of the park happy way you know normally I'd
say I just hold on to the neural theft but these players today just seem to
want to make the big ones they want to go for it see them with wugashi too yeah
I'm doing a wedge.
One's not doing it, I'm having another one online.
I'll try to get shipped it over.
I don't want that doors positioned, but this guy's smoke is there.
I'll be skating for now.
Looks like XLG.
This is not poking broad for them, they will look to explore elsewhere.
Yeah, they're getting curious about where the duelists are for DRG.
where Bukashu is, is of course, generally going to be on BC.
You're pretty well aware of that, but they've been able to still do a good job of nullifying
that Cypher, using again this extra layer of drones.
Happy way.
He's got some reinforcements.
Making a lot of noise in this push.
Z1, hacking away from the angle now.
Nick playing forward, clean taps as he takes down three.
Monsters with the Guardian.
That should be more than enough for DRG
to continue to run this back.
30 seconds left.
It has to be a 2v5 as Flash attempted to be sent,
Spirit Z1 dashing his way through the doors of curveball.
Now to try to slow off this approach.
And XLG are completely boxed in
and locked out of the site.
One enemy remaining.
Shoot the rocks in the south side, finds Raga.
Nothing to be carried over still.
A good amount of money.
XLG, they will have another buy.
But for DRG, that is a flawless.
That's a confidence builder, if you're next.
Oh, man.
Disgusting.
Taps.
Oh, a follow-up after getting happy way,
and then the wallbangs.
To finish what he started, I mean,
XLG in a pretty nice position.
They read the play, but...
He hit the punch.
Three more, my friend.
Unfortunately, I mean, Nick gave a consideration that nightfall did not opt to send it out.
Doesn't have that a long time to go with that.
He's ready to go.
Baseboard and the whole con flexing.
He hit him in the fight, a Raga.
That one.
I'm just looking a little bit lucky.
Flash out of play.
Catching up in that one now.
Car shoots, gonna be struck down.
Lyser was able to die and kill them.
The Armageddon immediately gets called in.
XLG, they find the window of opportunity.
They think they can end this right here right now.
And Lyser, he will get taken down.
He's happy right here.
Smoke's forward and immediately destroys your players.
So here the corner, Lyser fights, flexes, and now it's all on Nick.
It's the first that I fall across.
Able to connect on to just the one player.
Double tuck into the corner of the heels coming through making sure that Lysor is
top-back up. And this just looks nigh impossible.
Tripp wire as well in his space. Liam on the swing gives him a freebie. Could that
cost him everything?
Here's the trip. The scale forward from a happy way.
One two face and he cannot separate.
A massive number happy way coming alive alongside XLG.
They will push us the distance.
Yeah, a really nice bounce back here for XLG.
Really like a lot of the ideas and fury behind all of this
Tronage and information gathering that you have.
A map three to settle it all. One of these teams is going home.
One of them sticking around to Masters London.
We'll find out who that is after the break.
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Welcome back to Masters London. We have the regional matchup between the two Chinese teams and of course, of course it's going to go the distance XLG bring it back on fracture. We had a lot of question marks going into this map. We haven't really seen these two teams play it and it was a little close in the beginning but XLG ended up pulling through.
I liked a lot of what XLG were doing this map. They got that kind of structure to their team that some of the teams don't and I think they looked really good.
I think that they were doing a lot of the push-ups that I wanted on the defense and on the attack side it was a lot about waiting for anything that DRG would throw at them.
They weren't sure what DRG might bring to this map and so it was a lot of just a little bit of waiting and then exploding afterwards. It was a very nice map for them.
and we're going to be able to
see a better performance from
both teams and so far so good.
We got it on both maps, and we
didn't have time to break down
the agent composition. You guys
had a lot of remarks about
that. What do you make of it?
Agent wise, I think the X O G
playing in the town is going to
be a great opportunity for
the team to see a better
performance from both teams.
So far, so good. We got it on
both maps, and we didn't have
time to break down the agent
I think the xo g playing the tail in the sky
It was noted on the desk a little bit weird because usually you'd expect the double jewelist
But the thing that is quite nice about the composition is that because you have the two drones and there's four quadrants on the map
You can always clear them out with those drones be clear for information
And it set up braga really well on the way
If you've got sky flashes coming in to know where enemies might be or might not be you've got the tail drone as well
It made braga's life a lot easier. Yeah for sure
I think happy way as well firing on all cylinders here today, and it's just been really nice to see them come out and have an
Improvement think Raga as well someone that you've just touched on their mini you mentioned pushing out on the extremities a lot of
The time doing this with snipers as well and having those initiators to help set him up
But honestly, I think considering we came into this matchup talking about his regional performance versus his global performance
It's nice to see him have a better map and actually excel in some of the clutch moments
Yeah, it's so confident
He's just standing really tall in those moments like he's getting the first shot off and then staying for the second
That is the raga that we've not been seeing at the global event is nice to see him ramping up
And hopefully brings this up onto the third. Yeah, he's probably remembering like wait a second
This is different than a normal global matchup. This is still regional
So again very happy to see him back in form on this map
And I hope he can continue that moving forward because we want to see raga thrive in this environment
We know how talented he is.
PaperX1ler was remarking on it earlier.
This guy is something to be feared over back in the region.
Now, let's take a look at the HyperX reflex moments
that we have here.
XLG have a fine time going down the other side.
What I really liked about XLG here
was I mentioned that disciplined approach.
And what I meant by that was just holding and waiting
for these pushes out from DRG.
We mentioned how on this map in particular,
those extremities are an area of the map
you really want to be able to take control of. Maybe a little bit of too much aggression from DRG,
getting a little bit, you know, wanting to see what's behind that and try and beat up that Cypher
chip, but XLG doing really well to be able to contain that. Well, I like the combination,
they tried DRG there, the flash and the reveal at the same time. I think G2 called that the
photograph combo. I think it was a nice idea, but didn't work. And I do wonder that later into the
half, DRG weren't rotating by pushing out. They were usually going through spawn and maybe XLG
that you're going to be
holding some of those pushes
early on might have set the
turn for them. Well, at least
you got what you wanted there
from one side. DRG taken a
little back, but I think that's
exactly what was happening
going to fracture. So it's
really fun, especially for
those of you who have been
following VCT China. You got
something a little bit new. Now
we are going to go into the
final map today. How are you
guys feeling in terms of your
predictions for XLG? Is it
renewed? Yeah, I have haven't
I think they're going to be
a lot closer. I don't want to
disappoint the DRG fans too
much, but they are yet to win
this map in their own region. So
if they were to do on the global
stage here, I think it would be
quite a statement, especially
when consider them trying to
make that playoffs run as well.
Of course, I think something as
well that they're trying to do
is they're going to be able to
of course. I think something as well, the DRG are maybe a little bit annoyed about in
that last map when we consider things, is the fact that they've been flawless on all
of the pistols so far this series, they've yet to drop one, so I guess the main thing
for them is can they get off to a good start by winning out that first pistol, which they've
been able to do so flawlessly so far today?
Yeah, I think going on to split, the interesting thing for me is what are DRG going to play?
They've been trying a few different compositions and one of them is having Fukashuu on the
I'm not sure how to feel about
that. I do like some of the
subs he's running, but the
side for seems to be more of
that comfort. So I'm
interested to see what they
decide on that in the end.
Well, we were talking about
Raga's confidence coming in.
It's looking a lot better, but
now that we are on map three,
this is an elimination match.
One of these teams will be
going home after this final
map of split between the
teams. I'm not sure how to
final map of Split. So what happens now with Lukashu looking a lot more
confident today? Raka finding his form you know facing another Chinese team but
will he remember this confidence going into this map? I think this is the time
where they all just need to put it all on the line. I think that they're playing
against people that they're familiar with and I think that they're showing a lot
better game today all of them with individually and as teams so I'm hoping
that this just comes on to the third, the old bangers end on split, and that is what's going to happen today.
And a quick reminder as well, we kind of set this match up as no one expects anything from this region when we start to look ahead to the end of this Swiss stage 2 playoffs.
So if they can come out and actually show why they are a region to not want to mess with, right, we need to think ahead to playoffs and the fact that those number one seats will be picking the teams that make it through from Swiss.
Show them why the rest of the competition should be feared of what you can kind of provide on this global stage.
That's right. I mean, a Chinese team has done it before. Of course, there's EDG. Wolves had a fantastic run over in Toronto.
Will one of these teams do it again? And I would love to see exactly what you said, Billy, for one of these teams, or both of them, to make everyone quiver a little bit in their boots, especially with Shanghai around the corner for chance.
Yeah, I think that's a big thing here is that it'd be nice to see these teams ramping up getting more experience here because at the end of
The year's champs is the biggest tournament and it's in their home country
That would be such a beautiful narrative going into that event rather than having this narrative that maybe there's you know something to prove
Exactly exactly here and this is again
We think that a lot of the pundits have been talking about a lot of the analysts that
that. China seems to go on a
little bit trend, right? Like
they didn't have the greatest
performance over in Santiago.
Hopefully things pick up a
little bit today, but again,
it's so hard when it's a regional
matchup elimination and you say
this, but I feel like this year
so far when we consider the
global events have maybe been a
year of unexpected things
happening when we think about
the winner back in Master
Santiago being long shim so
honestly, having nothing really
to prove here and being kind of
can they do it? It's actually a strength and we kind of have heard some of the players say that
already being looked at as the underdogs, they really need to go ahead and utilize that now.
Now, yes, exactly. Being one of the underdogs here, DRG is, let's say what it is. A lot of people
haven't favored DRG coming into this, but I'm seeing a lot come through today. We were surprised
by Lev as well. Most people were expecting NRG to come through on that, but Lev stepped there. So
So I think there's also a point where you have rematches over and over and over again.
These teams know each other so well.
The players know each other so well.
Perhaps this is the split where DRG comes back out on top.
Yeah, Vukashu has been playing extremely well today.
And I think that is obviously the key thing.
Spira also doing quite well on the way there.
I want to see life pick it up just a little bit.
If it's both the Julius firing with Vukashu, I think that is the win condition.
On that fracture life, some of Miss Phoenix flashes here or there probably won't be
I'm not going to be able to
play. I'm not going to be
able to play the Phoenix this
time around. Did you say earlier
the other one of the early days
off Phoenix, not that hard to
play. If I'm not finding
myself in my right games, and I
do expect the VCT pros to be
able to do a little bit better.
I'm not going to lie. We've seen
it disturbingly and quite a lot
actually. Surprisingly, they're
just like us, many. But no man
is also playing on this stage
So he's got a whole crowd to play for two. Yeah, for sure. And we heard Frankie speak to his partner earlier today, obviously cheering him on.
And I think it's really nice to have that friends and family support here on Masters London at the global stage.
But as you mentioned, this man on your screen right now, Nomad, he wants to be able to stay as long as he can.
Let's not forget elimination is on the line here. Yeah. And I think the thing I like about this guy is the amount of energy he brings, the bravado.
And I think that for this team it's such a key piece to have that energy coming out
We've seen sometimes, you know, it might be players struggling a little bit or a little bit stressed
And if no man is hyping up this team on this third map even if they go behind a little bit
I think that's what they're gonna need
When learn was speaking about WS Leo Leo a little bit earlier
This is a player he had his eye on is he meeting expectations many
I don't think it's going to
be a good idea. I mean, he
have a very strong map if I
remember correctly, and I
personally don't think it's
about his individual form. But
if he's calling well and has
that individual form, that is
great to see from my IGL split
a map that's not too
complicated. My opinion is not
going to have to think too much
about it. Unless the cashew is
on something weird like that
advice is most split is mostly
about sending it together and
to see any slow plays. We want to see a banger on split as we get the agent draft coming through real
soon. And again, not only do they have no man on the team, they've got Lysor. He's been there before.
Talking about the fashions, it does seem like life is going to be on that face once again. A little bit
of a stretch up here. I like it, but he's going to need to raise the performance from the last map.
He didn't look extremely comfortable there. Hopefully a little bit better here. Luccascio as
is on that fight. So I think this is the big thing about this game. Power XLG going to get through his vice set ups. They're very good at slowing down the double
Julius with the thorns and the wall. Yeah, this is something that you need to consider, especially starting on this attack here, Mini. I think another thing that we should highlight is the fact that we're seeing the
We're seeing the rays and the way they on the other side alongside the sky.
Clear identity for this team so far throughout this event.
How much mid aggression are they going to have to be able to take control of that space?
Well we are about to find out who will be surviving another day here at Masters London.
Is it DRG or XLG as we send it back to our casters, Achilleos and Pickrithin.
Down to the wire, our final map to determine which one of these two teams is going to be
sticking around at Masters London, which one will be making their early exit?
DRG have not been able to find success on Split all year long.
Not since the China Evolution series.
Can they find it here today?
Uncure their demons.
Find another map win on a global stage.
It's got to start with life picking it up on the Phoenix in particular.
Again, trying to find their identity into this new meta,
into this map, even.
Like you said, they haven't been able to get a win.
They've tried a bunch of different stuff.
So back to the drawing board again.
Is it going to be enough?
You know, XLG's been decent on this map.
They are going to make a slight change into no man on the raise.
Tucked in position, all on his own, his life.
They need to be good.
They don't want enough to, but the draft laser
will lead the charge.
Wives way out of the happy way, able to collect that opening kill.
Light down, gonna be taken down.
Blind is in there, and flexed in the middle of the bottom.
Just a second.
But Raga, quick in reply, maintains the player advantage.
Tagged down 22 HP, but the plant can't come through.
Koshu and the Spearzi one now arriving.
And that screen side, and the dink is gonna be found.
Lysor taking low.
Raga taking down.
Koshu able to fight the kill, gets himself into a 1v1.
That's only with 10 health.
A deep pull back from Happyway in a reposition.
Could rotate up the ramp if he wants.
Koshu has to check every possible angle.
And there you go.
You approach down, up into heaven.
The flash at the ready to turn of that in Happyway will just swing and take him down.
Finished.
The previous map of the 3K starts this one with the same XLG will get their first pistol
win on this attacker's side.
And it's just a rough set up this time that, I mean, you know, you've been seeing some
great pistol round theory from TRG all day, but even this one, just a little bit awkward
because Lightfall on his own is just prone to being utilled into death and he was.
Now, that was a nice response, but part of it was they get a little help from WS Leo
there, team flashes, and that tees up Plexus, or at least get two, so if it isn't for that,
I think that's a much cleaner round for XLG.
Well, that ends well.
She's here confirming a little bit of presence.
Pre-quire with the Marshall 4 No Man,
but he's just going to peel back after a little bit of a ding
up, healed up no problem.
And then, like, trying to create a bit of a distraction
on the other side.
I'm sure if it's too bad, it's here for DRG.
Yeah.
Very little chance to get some solid damage in.
I think it's a good shout on your defender side of the screen.
Life, one of those players with only a classic though.
Right now, they've got a good read on this round at DRG.
They've really kind of sucked out XLG's tendency here.
Just can they do any damage?
There.
The first of all, all of the ground is going to be coming in, and every leg comes in, shots
kind of get around the opponent, but flex it again as it will deliver on two.
We're going right up over the middle there, and it's on a third of the right quad.
Want to start your flexing.
Is he able to find some significant damage here?
No man, he may be able to swap the martial over for a spectre, depending on where it's been dropped.
He'll be right there around main and that's where life is now arriving but with just the classic in hand.
Just so unfavorable to try to make a real go of this. Seize the specter but all these problems are out in the open.
They'll have a nice headshot but no man will be able to shut him down in XLG.
Scrape 5 of the 2-0 start.
That's really good damage though. Getting some serious value out of this bandit.
Oh
This one right here great decision again
I like you see this a couple times from both of these teams where they just let the diving duelist go past it
Oh, just you know settle for at least getting one
It's really effective
Flexing's gonna have his all coming into this round
Only a couple specters an outlaw a stinger a sheriff for WSL
So the firepower severely weakened after the damage done in the previous round
and through we'll get the identification wall popped,
the dash out.
There's Spirit Z1, only down to 4 HP though.
Yeah, he ripped it.
Rough way.
Yeah, very rough way to try to start this off.
Especially given that no man still does have the paint shell, so if you put some in the
right position, initial first, we'll just clean up the kill.
Another prowler ringing out with that outlaw.
Yeah, he's the hell god, you know, three players susceptible to it.
Well, it's vice, you tell.
One down.
One for no wrong, the entry, wrong, got to make it his way forward.
No man, he will still go.
He'll come up and make peril.
Stops him in the happy way with that outlaw on hand.
Cleans up two kills.
Excell G.
Wrapping this one up with a nice little throw on top.
They look to convert this bonus, and I don't think that you can go for this if you're flexing in life.
I certainly don't think you should.
We'll just have to back away and allow for this one to go over.
XLG, the best start really that they've had to a map so far.
We can finally find some more weapon upgrades.
They still do have that Stinger Inspector in hand.
This round is absolutely over and XLG are looking alive and well.
They want to once again dispatch DRG this time on the global stage.
stage. Yep, they're getting the pickups too. So the economy is going to be flush coming
out of this. It looked like DRG had this round pretty well read, pretty well locked down.
They've got the vice-util in the right spots and it's just no man fearless. Get on in there.
Who cares Nick isn't even looking at him
And then there's happy way who shows up to the party
Since thank you very much. Thanks for the damage done. Oh boy
ERG players
feeling
That should have been theirs and that might be a
Sign of things to come
Still gonna have that outlaw to contend with a couple players full armor
Of course because they're able to carry over from the previous round with the same
But they're only cleared by a sheriff, they made a little bit for light here.
No ball out, make sure there's no one scaled forward in the garage.
And for a little bit of trap play with the grab well.
An immense amount of utile committed to this.
Just trying to maintain some control of that position.
XLG will just pump the brakes, he'll keep it quiet.
Try to instill that doubt into DRG's heads.
the only thing XLG has had to commit so far in this round is the boom bot.
Prowler doesn't see anything. They're so patient. They're so aware.
Life again in a one and done.
Reclear the trailblazer there. They swing alongside it and life gets tagged up.
He's got the hot hands to try to get a heal boom. Yeah, he's gonna say have to commit this.
To try to hold the door, we'll be able to find a one. Roger gonna be dead on that entry.
They back-killed him, not yet found.
Big heart reveal spotting up to reposition to back-site.
And Nick from up around the table, five, two kills left.
Sheriff, light, and he can put one as well.
The cleanup is done.
That is the exact kind of round, exact kind of impact
that we need to be seeing from this Phoenix.
His DRG, get themselves on the board.
I mean, it's on the night's edge.
And you thought that maybe it would be the Phoenix.
He burns alive, instead he escapes, gets a kill.
Nick, absolutely deadly today.
He has been incredible.
He's like 14 coming into his mouth.
Yes, a lot of that was on Haven, but he still had a solid fracture.
He's going to need to continue with that,
but it's more about the positioning there from life able to get out.
This time a clear of the prowler.
Kind of show a little bit of presence on the other side of the map
While they scale forward here, really close to Spirit Z1.
Raga, ooh, the gun barrel's been seen.
Spirit Z1 now, one of them trying to get that kill.
He will.
This is first one on the board.
Taking the exit down at the vents.
Well, life again.
Putting himself on a bit of an island in happy way.
Will be able to strike him down.
The one for one at the end of it.
Critical ultimates out of the hands of both teams.
the other side of the mass.
Something a little bit different.
Could scoop up that orb, get the showstopper.
That would be potentially pivotal.
They're just going to scale up mid.
Slow walk up and flexing.
He's now drifting quite far back.
We'll give up that space so heaven can be taken relatively for free.
Or is it over me?
She's gonna see one star in a little time, but besides this is to go around a little bit longer on the A side.
Kick now, let the cancer matter poison on. Will gets struck down as happy rage.
Once again, starts to take over.
Another 3k form, the spike brought to bear.
You know, reassessing the plant position.
Another 2v4, have the money.
They really want to try to commit to this.
There's no way, there's one way from having a showstopper online.
Welcome to my world.
The pit will be invested though, because XLG do not want to let DRG back into this, that's
more than enough to force them to give up the retake.
I'm completely fine with using the pit here, just to make sure.
I mean, things can get so scrappy, so wild, especially with Lukashu still alive.
We've seen what he can do.
This team, well aware of it, they've faced it many times.
Better safe than sorry here.
what looked like it might be a bit of a rough start after losing Raga for free to DRG.
They're able to win against life this time. He isn't able to kind of hold that off angle position
at the door and make much of it. You need to give him a little bit of extra oomph behind some of
those holds if you want him to be the one to be guarding the mains. And give it away that happy
way has been, you know, just killing everybody. Sure. Commit the pit. He'll probably, you know,
No, we'll surely get another one before the half is out.
And that's going to be a timeout call now for DRG.
Trailing by three rounds, trying to assess.
They can really give themselves back into this.
Economy is still in a decent position for them.
But that's a lot more to be worried about on the other side.
Because XLG, they've got money.
They've got plenty of ultimates on the upswing,
as you can see in the Coinbase win condition.
I mean, what's crazy about this is two players on XLG
don't even have a kill yet.
And they're still up 4 to 1.
But I mean, happy way, another one of those players that, when you think about XLG, you think about, usually, I'm thinking the one-two punch of Raga and happy way.
Usually, they're the two that are fragging out for them.
So if it isn't one, it's often the other. They're both having pretty solid starts here.
And that's a really good encouraging sign for XLG, on top of having four rounds already on this attacker side.
And even though they don't have those eliminations, you can see five assists apiece there, four
to Bucalio and Lysor.
So the Utils getting placed exactly where it needs to.
The Splashes are going in, who assist for Happyway, Raga, etc.
They come away with those kills.
A lot to talk about here for DRG.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, you're going to have to really be a little bit more, I think, consider it with
how you're going to play those main angles.
If you don't give those up for free, it seems to lead to potentially better results.
A lot of talk has to be given over to life to make sure that he's not doing anything
too crazy.
I do like that they're giving him some help as well.
Over on the garage side, XOG though, has completely other thoughts about this round.
They convert your pass out onto the site, the FNL from Roggens trying to avoid those
thorns that do widely hold back the remainder of the squad, but as does Expyre, they can
of the scale forward and Buxen's gonna be found and have it happy way. Taking off the Astra,
denies the possibility that Cosmo divide coming through for a retake. That one's dead gonna have
to heavily rely on life. Leading the charge with this run it back. That's now that showstopper on
the other side of the heads of no man. You know, looking for a scout. Oh, keeping the angles.
Old for Alden Lysor, who stood up on top, immediately gets a shut down, the Paranoia
going to be sent through.
Two players going to be spotted there and having the shoestoppers still table for now.
Clear the flash, clear the hog.
That's going to be a happy way of holding things down at main.
Three kills found, technically on for an ace.
It's bearded C1 is frantically trying to retreat.
Kasia with the one hidden to the corner, trying to find any value you can possibly get.
He is definitely the way right now, for this XLG team.
Absolutely devastating, holding down the flanks.
He's 13 and 2.
Yeah.
And a great little play from Lysor.
Again, not getting a kill because it's on the run at back, but he's stalling out.
He's buying time.
He's creating confusion and chaos there that's going to key happy way up.
It's a whole lot to absolutely brilliant coordination.
Marga trying to be set up himself, a little shoulder peak like, can't find a shot in time.
Just to refract back and XLG.
going to see that phoenix and try something a little bit different looking for other things
on the map right now.
We're going to try to maybe get a little bit more information.
No idea where the vice setup is just yet.
As we can see it's up in front of A there.
Now they're going to try to scale forward, life in position, a little bit of a crunch.
He's gonna run him down. No chance even trying to send out a curveball.
Just overwhelm him so quickly.
He'll take from Flex and maybe catching one there on the happy way, but...
Well...
Control over this then. Kashi wants you on the other side, but it's just gonna be a one-two bomb.
His Raga will be able to win it out.
Lukashen just cannot play Wackamon well enough.
Now the site taking the opposite still in hand. This cause gonna buy it again having to be tabled.
30 seconds. They're shifting into position, but surely just go for the save and it should be. I mean, maybe you try to scoop up a gun here as flexing, but
Even that's risky business
Work his way over to one. We'll be able to have it
I think Spirancy one just gonna be looking for any kind of exit so they could possibly find
But even this
Is incredibly risky if you lose this operator. You cannot buy another one
He's taking a corner. He's setting out a shot now. Okay, we'll be able to sprint away.
Raga trying to chase him from behind.
He tucks around the corner back into the defender spawn.
Raga is out for blood. He wants to try to find this.
Take this out of their hands. He's shot up, missing Raga.
He's able to fight flexing. He's able to find them all!
A door caper, Raga, and a massive critical overstep for DRG.
They lose everything.
That's awful for DRG to say the least.
But I got to give XLG a ton of credit.
They seem to just be a step ahead of DRG in a couple different ways.
One is just hitting those flashes before DRG can even do anything about it.
It's like the timings in DRG's heads aren't there.
And then smoke goes down to cover up the mail.
There should be a response from life.
There's nothing.
Then the end of the round there just so desperate to pick up another rifle and try to go for something
It cost them everything. You're fucked. And okay, okay
Now where has this come from? Yeah, screw the off leave it on the floor
You don't need it just keep that panel in hand keep tapping heads like that
What a time to come alive from a question of push to losing all the weapons to just
saying, okay, I guess I'll carry.
It's just the contact fight here and he wins every single part of it.
Oh, what a tight angle he takes against Rager.
That second one is unbelievably fast.
And the final for the 90As, but at this point is DRG.
You need everything you can get as clean as you can get it.
I mean, you also want those old churches on the live
because he's still too away from having them on the back.
But that is a lifeline found for DRG
to trying to get themselves back into this.
Yeah, I'm destroyed.
Trailblazer cleared.
There's so many ults.
You've got to find a way to get some value here.
It's so much as great for retake
as the thing for DRG.
So they're happy to give up a little bit of space on this round, try to play that give, but
to yourself up style, a little bit of damage into no man.
See slots forward.
So XLG's answer to this is to try to take some mid space, see if they can find some picks.
It's BZ1 now, maybe starting to feel that if he had a chance to check back around and
clear this male position, then has to drift back away.
He's in the spot there on the Raga.
He's looking for the entry, saturate.
Fucking because now, he's in the seesaw.
He's only still able to find the one.
35 seconds now remaining.
The blind's popped out.
Straight up into the face of an infinite, spicy, penalty.
He's back over.
From back, some of them seem to have found that kill.
Nice with the last one standing, dead.
There's life and lives in heaven.
DRG.
Be able to string together another round.
Nice stuff again from Spirit Z1.
Ooh, it just barely dodged that.
Actually, it looked like Nick again.
Crazy good on the sight there.
Able to deny that.
Timing with the blast packs into a dropdown off the rope.
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Starting to get the energy going here, starting to believe that they can run this one back.
XLG though, they want to try to ice the squad a little bit, so a timeout call.
Another look here at the Coinbase win condition.
Happy way still very far out in front.
Also Leo still yet to get a piece of the action.
Like you mentioned earlier, Happy way almost into another ult already.
One away from another pit. So absolutely love that he ripped it
I think there's a few things for XLG that I'd like to see them be a little bit more proactive with the orb
Sort of collecting and funneling into no man or raga your choice. I find with either I
Think there's a few times where they missed opportunities to collect just a little bit extra in some of these rounds
Maybe you don't want to give the information away and you're already winning anyway, but maybe some slight macro things to tweak
but then also just making sure that you're being a little bit more consistent.
But DRG has learned their lessons.
They're doing a good job now of absorbing some of that early util pressure,
backpedaling a bit, and setting up for a counter punch.
That's kind of throwing XLG a little bit off guard.
Looks like a minor hiccup here.
Oh!
Somebody spilled their drink.
Well, that's a shame.
We really should get like the sippy cups for the players.
I think they have them.
Well, but it's not like, you know, really.
Sure, like an actual like a child, like a toddler.
For a toddler.
That is correct.
I think we should absolutely do that.
We have rebel branded sippy cups for players.
Oh, oh, turn it back on.
There you go.
I love that.
That's great.
The best reactions of our players.
Well, it shouldn't be too long.
Get the desk wiped down.
It's faster than a first hand warmer.
That's true.
That's true.
At least I don't have to worry about that here at the moment.
That was a little bit awkward.
Oh, I'm being told we have a replay of this as well.
Excellent.
Let's take a look.
Slow mo.
Oh, right in the past with the high five.
Well, unfortunately we can't see the pack, so we don't quite get that angel-esque reaction.
We should just be moments away from getting back into this one, and hopefully for Lyser,
he'll be able to recover.
It's going to be tough for him, you know.
The mental maybe in the bin now.
Who would have known, but...
Alright, let's see what...
XLD took a timeout.
Let's see what the theory is going to be here.
4-1 split. This time on the other side of the map, it's a happy way to really pressure up the ramp.
Here's the top spotted.
Finally, the 3-5 going wrong. Something's into this one.
Trying to set up a disaster right now. No man.
The build-back space peeks in.
He was able to find the kill.
A little exit light headed down around the corner.
Gets himself over to the bedside as the Seeker's going to be let loose.
Obviously out.
Finally, the guy in the team forward.
Two success.
Happy way to save time.
Completely unanticipated in this position.
and now that's more than enough.
XLG to say, okay, let's backpedal, let's peel away
and get ready to join in with the Viper on the other side,
but they're still expecting his walk forward.
I gotta say, it's damn good for Bukash
to still be able to find a kill there.
That's great patience.
Great understanding of the tendencies.
XLG has a line up,
and it's another massive round from him.
17, 4 and 1 as XLG.
Move up 7 to 3.
I know happy way has a tremendous round again. I really want to give a shout out to the coach and the IGL here
I think the idea to find ways to get happy way into a deeper alert creating a lot of that early a pressure with your douless and
Then that pause there understanding that a lot of teams would
React off of happy way getting that pick up at B heaven and immediately try to make a pivot and instead they take the pause
Beautiful beautiful calling
Still four ultimates to try to work with. Lime's gonna be invested immediately here from Spirit Z1.
Need to try to make a goal of this if you start allowing for XLG to get more rounds from here.
It's just not gonna be looking great when you shift over to your own attacker's side.
Smoke out three players on this side of the map.
There's a happy way of scaling forward into this nebula.
A little bit of damage from the friendly fire, but he peeks out of the smoke and he's able to find one.
A player advantage now.
You see one dropping in and there's that second pet now blooming.
You're really trying to make this unassailable.
He does have the seal gone and he's going to be investing that immediately.
But there are shorties around here.
Before he's forwarded to the smoke, some of you can see one still able to find a headshot.
Looking down, looking for a little bit more.
Shlickering, life over the rescue.
Small retakes, Pikachu low.
Happy way at seven.
Trips over to back side.
He continued his poke and prod this pit.
Maintain it.
Turns to the side, finds Pikachu, and strikes him down.
XLG, up to eight.
Looking for a knife.
It is a wall.
Nice little shot there great coordination here and happy way
It's absolutely electric at 19 kills
In 11 rounds 19 for him. He's barely died. He's been killing everyone. It's incredible
Patience to is one more kill that everybody else on his team combined
He has done so much here, and now no man seeing the economy of his opponents.
The thing is, is they do have three players that bought the full armor, so the outlaw
can only find two targets, does have the showstopper in the back pocket as well.
Looking for that opportunity so far, Bukashu, playing that elbow angle very tightly, although
it has been identified, they ping it out, so they're pretty well aware.
It's going to be the response to deal with that use some of that sky you till clear that angle
you just got to worry about spirits you
Oh
Oh gosh you go smashing that's the showstopper gun catch the big one right back out the wall pop thorns
holding them in place for now and build it on a rocket but the quick clear of that trailblazer just
Trying to disguise SpiritZ1's position.
Will check you to put force to XLG.
Repositioning.
TP out.
Side of garage here, four Lysor.
I'm gonna try to recreate the garage at the same time.
Cease is gonna be lobbed in WCLEO, able to drop down.
Which relative safety.
I'm not fighting one of the three players yet.
Trying to deny this play from coming through in 10 seconds remaining.
I have to make the go of this.
Smoke now going to be blooming in front of Alley.
Cover the line, looking for another one.
He finds a kill, Lysor now swooping forward.
Lysor is pushing the smoke.
He's absolutely gives up his life for Lysor.
He's going to use the back.
But no, he's holding against him.
Still able to find the one.
to try to split them, and he cannot.
And DRG will scrape by with a fourth round win
to close out this half.
But that was so winnable for XLG.
He wants some individual mistakes.
But this right here, the absolute backbreaker
to find that race that early.
But I really would have liked to have seen Rarga just tuck
into the corner.
I did the pushing, the smoke, that you know
they're going to be in there, and he gambles and just isn't
it.
Let's go!
And I'd love to take that four longer.
Let's still a four round lead for XLG, DRG.
We'll see if they're gonna run this back up in the halftime.
for some translation, now Spirit Z1,
staying confident has been an issue for you guys,
but when it comes to today's match,
do you think it's gonna be an issue for you
against a familiar opponent?
I think it's basic for a pro player to stay confident in the match, so today we will definitely
reset our mindset and keep confident to face up against them.
Thank you so much and good luck.
Back in, we go, XLG out to a lead, DRG, across this series, overall have been clean in those
pistols and that's what they need to jump start. They're way back into this map.
They do not want to go quietly into that good night. They want to be sticking
around here at Masters London. Do not be eliminated. Do not be sent home early doors.
We will see if they can make that happen. OrbexLG will once again stand tall over
This squad happy way has been a blessing from a higher power for this squad so far
Now he moves over to the defender side. We should be even more favored for sure and in general XLG pretty
Steady on their defender side. I'll say on split. It's not like it's
Super well-favored compared to their attacker side, but it's good enough and even going up against drg
Of course different comps, but earlier in this stage
They were six and six on their defender's side, so that would be good enough here to get them to win.
Get them the ability to continue on in the playoffs.
It's time 2-3 setup.
Can't believe no man pretty far back.
Mostly go.
SlySor continues to stick with the classic.
Just a little bit of patience being shown here by WSL.
Looks like they want to take a little bit of contact, but it's a bit of a key being done here by Light.
Once again, the light's trying to play on his own, make something happen. W.S.Leo. Back of the map, it's Swing of the Quarter, and here's he one able to find that hill, and W.S.Leo's quickly going the ball there after DRG.
Fighting a clean start, not even a lick of damage. Suffered in life, he's able to find the back step as well, catching Leisor and transit. Happy way, Swing of the Quarter, still clean with it.
He's away with a kill, sits at the snake pipe, swing in, Pugashu dead, he's got Nick as well.
And now he has to do it all.
The 1v2, the ace clutch in life, will shut him down.
A solid effort, but DRG will take another pistol.
This is a creative pistol round, again, overall been very, very impressed with DRG's prep
in that regard.
Giving themselves huge advantages throughout a lot of this series and this one using life to sell a fake up mid.
Now it isn't bid on super heavily by XLG, but there's a lot of confusion on site there between WS Leo and No Man on how to respond.
Spirit Z1 gets in so deep before WS Leo even thinks about throwing a flash or anything and then No Man just gets caught completely by surprise.
Nice.
Modern investments, but also a heavy stack.
Rollin, gonna be sent forward.
It's gonna be Raga, however, bumping the dust first.
He's gonna see one more button to one line,
so he's trying to make that shorty work.
But to no avail.
Barely any damage suffered as well.
As happy where, I mean, he continues,
and he will do this incredible work here for his team.
Belter of a shot down.
Will be able to collect that outlaw.
And everyone is vulnerable to it, but he's just going to check it up the side of the map
Not wanting that to be recoverable
How much more can he get
You almost feel like he's good for two
Keep playing like this experience
He won gonna be player dialed in on the angle with that bulldog
And yeah, we'll be able to find a headshot of 3k for the chat and DRG overall a
A clean anti-eco, now two rounds away, and if they can find another bonus conversion,
then oh boy, this map, this series is back on the menu.
Oh for sure.
They were able to fight back.
XLG kind of gets what they want here, but there's enough Util in PRG's back pocket that
they can throw in.
The Molly, the C's, everything.
Just slow that down, so you can't get up close and personal.
Some of those classics in the shorty
full rifles
no outlaw to be carried over but
Life won away really like to get this orb
Little bit of denial
In fact, he's not gonna commit to it the paint shells enough
Send life into another direction that would be such a critical out here
to get this bonus converted instead he's just gonna be locking down mid watching
the flank for his squad seems to be carrying over from the pistol because
of this double stack in mid it's only Raga playing on this position peaking
down the bottom ramp and he is quickly gonna be overwhelmed that aim punch
coming through from the specter and Nick is able to find the headshot on the
back end of that one happy way now wanting to get rid of this potential
flank but knows that they're losing time on the site itself so has to just cut tail, rotate
around.
Meanwhile, no man will be able to intercept him, gets that elimination back, brings him
into a 4v4.
DRG now situated in the post plant.
Paranoia going to be set, Nick.
The backpedal should have had the vision there but WSLF still just a little bit faster on
the draw.
He's still alive and well, finds the kill, lightsword dead.
That's an upper main trying to find that elimination, but Happyweight comes into the flank.
Spirit C1 now.
Getting involved with this Happyweight tries to bail him out again.
And it's just enough.
Two players surviving.
Significant damage suffered, but XLG will deny the bonus conversion.
As they go into the next round, Happyweight will have another pit on line already.
This is still way closer than the bike as XLG.
It took no man winning a 1v1 against life with a weaker gun to get it the job done here to really give yourself a shout into this
Because you're able to
Be able to claim some of that space at heaven
Give happy way some firing lines where he has been outrageous
I mean 25 and 7 is
It's an insane carry performance.
One that you typically get the witness too often, I mean granted we did have Kiko just
a couple days ago in their opening series, nearly breaking the best three single map
kill record as well as the best three record.
This is a critical moment here for DRG, a five to be afforded.
I mean, give them how rough that was, even will the way down the two players.
It is going to be scrappy.
So we'll have to see what they're able to piece together on this.
Yeah, for sure.
And I'm, I'm pretty curious here for DRG, why they would want to take this time out so
early.
There had to be something that really went wrong, either in the comms or in something
they practiced that the coach was like, Hey, we need to shore this up right now, feeling
the pressure. Maybe just being like, hey, we need to make sure we're taking a little
bit more heaven control or something like that. You know, when we get that opening
kill on the Raga, like that opens up that ramp for us guys. That's a great opportunity
to set up a really challenging post plant for XLG to dissect.
He's going to get spammed out, that up and over comes through from the jet, they get
the spot, they get the spray.
So far they've only been able to get this Phoenix off, but now they will have him dead.
Obviously, they'll be able to find that elimination, Trailblazer trying to scout around me, we'll
be able to see the spot where all of this is flexing, the reposition is towards back
Excitin' Spiritsly 1, maintain control of screens.
I'm falling into his intonation, but Happyway from on high, still delivering.
Oh my god. Takes Wakashiro down to 10.
He's gonna try for it again, but it's not quite ringing out.
Riddles away at the magazine, needing to go for the reload.
Wakashiro now going to rebound Happyway, get to the flexor to jump out of the smoke!
From the double face forward!
And what a rescue of this round is XLG
They get the Phoenix all out they get the nightfall and they get up to double digits
This is ridiculous for WS Leo with the stinger to
Finding some big kills there as to deny that heaven control
I think that's exactly what DRG was talking about in that time out and he's the one who shuts that down and again
It's opening up that space for happy way who is
He's so good right now, I don't even know what to do, I mean I'm just watching him because
he's just, he's going to win you the game.
Yeah, this is a happy way show.
Yeah.
We don't need to watch anybody else.
Maybe spirit with the blades, because it's going to be popular that he's going into this
round.
XLG there looking so very favorite.
Is he going to try to play in the mid, happy way gives that consideration over to the
pit.
He's not sending it though, I mean he's just hitting Bukash through boxes, again, he's
C1 however, with a solid headshot,
Marder getting a downpatch, she'll lay it in.
No man tries to stem this time, and this approach into mid,
and even more damage getting down off the spam.
Oh, they've got an amazing shot from life.
Drips into the vents.
It's the one tap kill, no man now eliminated,
and that's a weapon grabbed up for the Phoenix.
I mean, if I'm DRG, I'm going over to A.
I'm like, I just saw the Viper.
B, I don't want any business.
I don't want anything to do with that right now,
but being patient.
XLG also kind of thinking similar thoughts. They're actually already rotating in that direction, but
The pause here from DRG. We saw something similar from XLG on the other side where
You know able to get some damage done and then they take a pause and it kind of baits their opponent into a bad rotation
Seemingly so far. We've done that. It's just
I'm gonna be able to suss this out and it looks like they have
Going to gamble into the right side blaze wall setup into the drop down
XLG now have to wonder do we try to go for this? I mean happy way has been pounding
So I feel like he's gonna be good for a couple. You know that a few of these players have been tagged
Do you want to give potential weapons over all charge?
You try to rally back into this I think I'd save it looks like that's what they are going to do
So a bit of time to reassess to communicate with one another and figure out how you're gonna shut things down for DRG
But same thing can be said
Game plan ready to be situated
For that next round, but they're gonna be moving up to seven. I mean, I think XLG there had some okay ideas
It's just they got overwhelmed and a really nice flash from life this time
Open up that vent
We just wait this one out so
Great eco round
DRG, keeping it close, it's just a matter of can they muster a few more good rounds as we get the MasterCard Drifty confirmed.
MasterCard Drifty to get within three, still winnable for either side.
Probably best to play as a team.
Weapons down, back in the hand and it's going to be right around the edges for XLG.
What a start, what a shot from life.
That's perfect.
Crosshair was already dialed in perfectly for it.
You can see the frustration there on no man's face.
Feeling like he should have been able to get out scot-free.
All set up from happy weight.
Ripped back around towards male.
I'm curious if he decides to go for this pit again.
Committed from the previous round.
And this time, yes, we'll try to go for the investment.
They want to challenge it.
They're at least going to spam at it.
But happy weight, no fool.
At least they really want to go walking out.
So many teams will do this when you pop that pit from male.
Try to spam you try to catch you cheating a little bit further forward.
No man reinforcing the pit here.
Maybe this time to test on the Lysor.
I'm giving how many times because she was able to kill them through smokes.
I know I would have been shaking in my boots if I was no man trying to walk out
like that. At the same time though, Raga able to take quite a bit of space over
and a man getting a ton of information, but still the double commitment that
wanting to try to get this orb into the hands of the VSLios.
Now one away from having the Seekers online.
Abbeyway is going to be abandoning the pin.
Chipping his focus over towards the side itself,
where Light Sword is going to be under some pressure at back side.
They're all connecting in Abbeyway.
He's able to find the first.
Light Curling in any experience.
You want him to scale forward,
but will get shut down.
Now he might just get the better of them.
And it is a firing squad set up at the garage.
Eighth flawless round for XLG.
To move back up by four, two rounds to go.
And they will eliminate DRG.
It's that proactive defense that you were talking about over on the other side of the map that allows the happy way, the comfort to leave that just a little bit earlier.
Knows that WS Leo is going to be rotating in to fill that space behind him, wins a big fight against Flexin in mid, and that just allows XLG to focus their fire at the front of B.
The team is finally overtaking him. 30 kills across the other four players. Happy way there in 28.
What a stat. Yeah, it's still just insane.
Hey, he is so fun to watch on this Batman. He is all over the place. Look at that damage on the spirits he won.
Oh yeah. Six health remaining.
That's huge. I mean, Lysaur on his own there, able to thwart any kind of push.
the isolated player just pops up makes himself look bigger than he is huge you
know that vents is clear off that hot I'm spammed I think you're just gonna try
to rotate here through vents yeah I'm gonna say be just saved by now deep enough
those could the insta get there on this spirit
I'm not supposed to hold it for now.
Marga again, left alone.
There's a trailblazer.
We'll try to clear back around through ramp.
They waited out.
The push get right in alongside this wall.
Flexing around that corner.
The swing, ready to come through.
And Marga will be able to get the adjustment.
No one at the same time is able to find life.
It's the approach.
Looking to be shut down through mail.
Happy way here.
It's a belter of a shot from Lukashu to find that shutdown.
There's a hell of a lot more that needs to be done, and oh my God, what a shot from Nick.
Time, however, it's nearly gone, it's 10 seconds.
It's going on.
Over here, I don't know if we're going to be able to do this.
We might just be giving match points over on time.
Interception, the Panic, and DRG.
I'm scrambling to try to find an answer, but they run at a time, they run out of lives,
and XLG are now up to matchpoint.
I need question there, just not expecting Larga to be in that corner, it's like he turns
and doesn't really register that he could be there, and Larga has the benefit of having
the rifle where it's flexed and only as a sheriff wins that battle and then they get
caught DRG trying to figure things out they don't have the time they don't have the luxury
much of anything some half-armors here obviously I'm just gonna be peeling back around the
opposite side of the cognitive eye to get the spot out once it's in the pop-up once again
Pete's in but Makacho out for main is gonna be able to find that kill in a happy way taken
down a two for one for DRG who can't be picky they take that every day of the
week no man now making his exit a check in towards heaven and will regress back
that garage the paint show avails of trying to lay run it back gonna be
committed first and form of the jump out and jump in reply curveball gonna be
connecting cannot regain his vision past enough life is able to find the
kill we're gonna fall back here logger now arrives because you still on that
flag still on the approach turn in the back they nearly line up for him but
It's only going to be a smattering of damage found.
Barring the 1v4 from Lysor, it seems like DRG will continue to hang around a little bit longer.
It's waiting if anyone will give him the freebie given the peek.
DRG can just stay statue-esque, make their exit safely back through the garage.
Hold on to these weapons that they so critically need.
Lysor trying to scale forward, but it's a well timed and well red haunt.
Did you deduce?
It's a star set up, they'll get a little bit more out of them as far as the utile is concerned.
Lysor will try to backpedal away, but it's gonna be caught.
Spike will take him down, but he gets life to boots of some damage from a DRG.
Not quite done yet, but they need four more rounds to take this into overtime.
For sure.
Whoa!
That is Crispy from Lukashu.
Need a lot more of that though.
This is a great little round.
You're able to sell a bit of a fake on the other side,
create some space for yourself, keep XLG guessing.
Now they're going to have the op in Raga's hands
along with that convergent path.
So some opportunities here to really do some damage
in this end of the series, send XLG further forward.
I saw a statue ask just gonna be sitting
as usual
Leo
Gonna look this back over towards male side flashes and go deep enough to actually get the confirmation though
I'm sitting within the poison orb
Meanwhile prowler similar scenes not gonna be able to find the catch
Climb down
Someone's on this town before he loses his weapon
But he ends up losing his life no matter how they arrive all around the back
However, in the pitch in, finding one spirits, you're not going to be taken down on the site, but life's all will quickly get traded out.
The trade-up is there.
paint shell committed.
Life setting up the blaze wall, gets the heal going back through.
Backpull at the ready, immediately invested.
Connection on the one, Raga able to dodge that out, but needs a different weapon, still has that operator in hand.
Life could potentially just be their demise playing from this top rafter position.
The swing coming through, and Rager's not looking for it.
Staring over towards Alley, and now no man has to back away.
Will go for the save, and DRG continue to hold on by a thread.
Three more rounds to go.
Really nice utilization of their ultimates here.
Using that steal garden to clear that space up towards B Heaven.
You'll force WS Leo to try to make a hero play.
You hold firm, able to turn the flash well enough.
Even though no man able to do a little bit of damage.
Still a shot here for DRG, just like there was towards the end
of fracture, starting to claw back.
But was that space created by XLG too much?
Nice positioning there.
Rago was scoped in so he could even
see what was going on up top.
XLG wants to take the time out wants to end this don't give them any more hope
You're also giving the opportunity to make the need to communicate with this team again. It's always a risk from these positions
Will it end up costing them will we see TRG?
Continue to be able to persevere because the money at the moment not good for XLG pulling all the trips
He didn't end this series would be
So damn impressive, but it also feels so very unlikely given
when the D.R.G. been able to play these last couple of rounds.
Yeah, I also am a little bit kind of scratching my head
with having that convergent pass
and putting the op in the Rargas hands.
I know you want to use that op to lock down some space.
There was a good opportunity maybe to close it out on that.
Now you might have to wait,
But they are going to put the Phantom into his hands.
No man.
Going to be a good guy.
Give his gun over to your duelist.
Let them try to do some damage.
So mostly an eco, half armor for Lysor.
No man as well.
Going to scoop that up.
They can pull off here, be miraculous.
Three chances to try to close this out to Yargy on the cusp
of bringing this to overtime.
London. Do you want to see that OG come through? No? Alright. Maybe they didn't hear me. That's
all good. XLG fans? They might be. It could be the case. Well, it's just a matter of if
you got you or anybody kind of falls into this trap. They're going to try to scale off
the orb, Spirit Z1, left on his own to watch this.
Raga going on a walkabout.
That's Spirit Z1 just around that corner.
That's the phantom.
You're putting all your eggs in this Raga basket.
Oh!
People of final one, trying to pump the gash.
You cannot make out the safety.
Spirit Z1, quick to trade it back.
And that's one of the weapons now.
They want to try to recollect this one.
He's going to make some damage, but halfway through the pressure, his life will fall.
Now there's a chance.
A very real one.
Did Lysor not get the gun?
No, he didn't manage to find it, I don't think.
Either way, we'll get tops back up, Leo, having the heals.
Brings him back to full, but now they're gambling on the wrong side of the map and starting to get a read on that as there's 23 seconds remaining.
And in transit, they can now grab that weapon.
They're gonna have to try to play this one for the retake.
Hooks in waning the opposite side.
And ramp wall.
They clear him, a paint shell available.
He rebounds under the corner, no man could just flush him out instead of just sleeping
over towards heaven.
More of that peek.
Flashback down.
Two is the my spirit.
Up the main, able to find the one that pushed forward,
that means Leo able to find a kill before he gets taken down,
but it's going to be Spirit!
Dobbin' Ace gets some seven A's to keep DRG in this series!
This is a really nice recovery from DRG,
finding the open space,
and then leaving, I love leaving Flexin up there at top heaven,
and get a pain point on this A site for them early in this half
that they've not addressed.
We're going to give the information over, and Spirit Z1 gets the Bladestorm, gets the kills, and keeps DRG alive.
Another mid-fight potentially brewing, maybe. This time though, happy way.
They're just going to dump the poison cloud forward. DRG wants to get aggressive. They know that they've just cleared open vents with that haunt.
They've got an opportunity here. Again, three players over on B, I mean, XLG, this default.
Not really slowing DRG down at all. Happy way. They kept pushing him. They need to go big.
Of course, you got some U2 here. You've got the curve ball to try to flash up if you want.
Instead, try something different.
He's trying to hold the back Paranoia as well, going to be layered in from Lysor.
For now the scale forward, and very slow on this approach.
He won't find anything.
That's a decent pan out on this B site.
There's no man poking and prodding trying to confirm that kill, but just cannot get it
through.
Happy way now.
The one lurking forward flexing again behind the box.
There's a spot now.
Quick turn in Happyway, able to find that kill.
Hops the vice wall.
He's just going to go counter-rotating back through sewers.
Once again, Happyway looking to deliver on-around wind to bring this series to its conclusion.
All of XLG getting clustered on that screen side.
Converting path is going to be sent in, but it's going to be experienced.
He won again, able to strike.
For two kills.
Roger, Leisor, both going to be taken down.
Spike having to be committed to the plant coming in.
But a timing from Habyway out of vents, able to intercept life on that approach.
And Lukashu and Nick now have to do it all.
The face forward, the kill's back.
Oh!
Let's us up!
And DiG, they do it again!
Unbelievable!
It's map three, it's split, you better believe!
It's a banger!
I thought Habyway with that kill might have done it.
But Spirit Z won.
He has been so good!
And then of course, Rukashu when you need him most comes up with a crazy bubble.
This unreal scenes here.
And yes, the frustration palpable on the XLG side.
Another pit.
Timeout call is not leaving anything but like you said, a little pit available life.
Trying to get another one back.
Trailblazer forces Flexin quite far away.
I think they're really trying to get that paranoia out of Isoar, at least try to see if they can get a pick on him, but he hasn't even given up anything.
Credit where credit's due. Isoar's been a rock at that B main entrance.
Once again, no man has slotted inside of this pit. Try to help out this top braggart.
A curveball around the corner doesn't really do much.
I'm going to just keep him pinned there. So that does open up a little bit extra space, though.
It is just Leo. Yeah.
The wall raised the call coming through. It's about to drop.
Send me out the flash.
They haven't gotten the full entry onto the site plate yet.
Nick is just about to leave.
Look at that one.
He's hanging in the spirits. He wanted to force him away.
I don't know where the kill is going to be traded out.
The spike now. In play.
The Duarga able to find the Koshu.
One of the heroes of the previous round that try to keep things going.
DRG, can they make it this close?
Only the full shot of the mock happy way wants to say yes.
His life, the oldest lost,
BXLG when he's dead, and he's just nowhere nearby.
Hell the bay, pushed away, life.
He cannot find it, but it feels in him.
And XLG, they were pushed in here, and said DRG home.
He holds.
DRG gave it one hell of a run.
Their mass pick of Haven tremendous.
A falter on fracture and just shy of the mark here on Split.
An amazing performance, but happy way
was not having any of it here on Split.
He just would not allow them to lose the game.
Generational.
35, 12 and 5, 397 ACS with four first bloods as a Viper.
Commiserations though to DRG.
You're the first map win on a global stage.
And perhaps for them it's just going to have to be a step
by step affair.
We saw here what they're capable of.
We saw how they managed to qualify two of these global shows
in this performance here today.
But XLG continue to be a step ahead, a cut above.
Yeah, this year for sure.
The XLG players just a little bit better,
but a lot of luck being shown on stage there.
Everybody knows how good they are
and how important this match was.
You know, a little bit of hope here for XLG
to maybe do some more damage.
We saw that their Lotus can challenge
some of the best teams in the world.
Whoever they face in the next round
is going to need to see even better.
Yeah, good luck.
Good luck shutting down Happyway.
That is a hard carry performance.
And whatever they're paying them, paying more.
It was absolutely insane.
Generational, as you said.
And if the rest of the team is going
to be able to heat up alongside him,
then XLG could have become a terrifying force here
on this global stage.
They survived the fight again.
It doesn't get any easier from here.
A constant uphill battle if they want to make their way
into the playoffs.
We'll see who they get drawn against.
We'll see how they perform.
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No man is signing autographs.
Of course, he is.
He's just saved his place in the
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It's no man.
I would love to speak to you if that's OK.
How did you manage to close things down
on split before it went to OT?
When you have a happy way, things seem to work out.
We can't be a one man team going into every game,
but it's nice to have those kind of players.
And he's hyping up his teammates too.
Definitely. He's not selfish at all. He'll still jump for us, he'll do everything, but when he's on fire, it's dangerous.
What was your reaction to DRG letting you have that fracture pick? Because it's been their perma-ban for over a year now.
I think when we have a map like Lotus, it's kind of a pick-your-poison. So yeah, I think they knew our Lotus was going to be strong.
And for you, no man, in the words of your girl from Riu, who I spoke to earlier,
How did you lock in James? That's her favorite sentence don't get her started
You just focus
Vive up the team and see what happens. Well keep focused one more game before playoffs. Good luck and credit
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Hello there, welcome to couple questions.
Jenn here with Autumn and Petman.
Would you guys like some tea?
Yes please.
Okay.
I don't know what tea this is but yeah.
Would you like some sugar?
Yes thank you.
No we have no sugar.
Oh yeah.
I like it.
Right.
Is it hot?
It's good. Yeah, it's pretty hot.
But it's good.
Is there anything you want to do in London?
Me?
I think if we're able to have a day off at least, maybe
I want to explore the city more.
Because I believe there's a lot of nice places here in London.
I want to at least go to Big Bend because it's not too far from the venue.
And maybe do some shopping.
Shopping. Oh, by what?
They just clothes who been here from London. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, what about food?
Food what we try actually we tried something ready, right?
English breakfast
English breakfast. Oh, yeah, and then
What that's some waffles. Oh, yeah, waffles. Yeah, oh waffles. Yeah, okay
You told me you wanted to try building a meal deal and it's like
like, British people are really passionate about building a good meal deal.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Do you want to try?
Sure.
Okay.
I think one is ham sandwich.
Ham sandwich.
Yes.
Salted crisps.
Salted crisps.
And about...
That is objectively the word.
worst meal deal ever. As Frosty said, that's a great trash, straight trash.
What about you? What about you? Like, not the meal deal, like, just for you to try?
Um, that and what would you like to do in London?
I'd like to win obviously, but try some fish and chips.
Oh, fish and chips.
Yeah, because I eat that a lot back home.
But apparently they didn't have flake here, so it might be kind of mid compared to Australian fish and chips.
Okay, so it seems like you guys have a lot of food to taste, meal deals to build and games to win.
So last question for you, what would be the key for GE to go far in this tournament?
You'd have done.
You'd have done? Okay, that's it?
Korean player, yeah. You the town?
I'm the one Korean player.
You the town? Yeah.
Alright, so I guess we need you the town.
Alright, thank you so much and enjoy the tea.
Thank you.
Lovely little British tea session with three Pacific folks.
So it's a little funny there.
Welcome back. I'm Victoria, joined by Minnie and Billy, and we have Slakey. Welcome. How
have things been so far?
Yeah, really good. Yeah, much to get proper into the games. People are like, whoa, you
have them reactions now. I'm like, yeah, I can hear the crowd looking like people are
with me, so it's been great here.
Yeah, yeah. I've been hearing a lot of that, a lot of more emotions coming out of you.
So you should come out of your house a little bit more. I think we're all going to be appreciating
it.
We had China just now. We have XLG surviving one more day.
DRG going up now Pacific, our region, or my region, is up and we've got global versus
full sense. This one's extra special because not only do we have a little bit of a talent
reunion going on between crews and frosts, but sliggie, you know, you're one of our favorite
co-streamers over in Pacific. You've been watching all of this unfold over the last few years.
And this is a huge story between full sense of global esports. Everyone kind of knows how
how close Frost and Cruz are back from Talon.
That's Frost is essentially a mentor for Cruz.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, it kind of took him under his wings in there.
You can see they're very, very close.
They watch some games later with each other
once they're both qualified.
And it's always like mind games of these two.
Frost always talks about it with like the map veto
and like, oh, he got his best maps on this one.
So I'm very excited to see how that's actually gonna turn out.
Now you started the whole PaperX train together with Mini,
but this year you've been kind of high on full sense.
Yeah, I've been pretty high in full sense.
I thought they would honestly,
I thought they were going to do this
at the beginning and kickoff,
but it just needed a bit of time.
Maybe get crews actually back in there.
Hasn't been the best performance I would say at the moment.
I'm expecting a little better from them.
So yeah, we'll see.
It's a slow start right now.
Oh, definitely.
In fact, let's recap a little bit on what happened
last time for global esports
when they played just the other day.
the first game of the year.
Yeah, and last time it was
extremely close game with
Lev. Honestly, I think global
should have taken that series
to nil and they lost a little
bit energy going into that
third. But yeah, I think that
for it to be that close to a
team that is already qualified,
that's a good sign for global.
It's just whether they're
going to be able to continue
that momentum or this weird
regional matchup where there's
a lot of mind games going on
whether they stumbled today.
I think we're global. It was
clear that they could make
adaptations. It just wasn't
quite happening quick enough.
that 2-0 throughout the Swiss stage.
You're almost looking at global e-sports
and thinking it's unfortunate that they weren't able
to close that out, but against a tough opponent,
it was fair enough that it went to all three maps at least.
They lost a lot of pistols as well.
That doesn't help.
They were definitely really upset about that.
And Ball sends, you know, this team,
the last time they played against global e-sports,
they won 2-0.
They looked absolutely on fire there.
And speaking with the mind game,
and the crew's picked into split, expecting Frost to be prepared and strong on split and expecting him to almost like take a seat back because he thought they wouldn't expect it.
Yeah, it's like an interesting thing where like if you're really good at a map and you don't expect your opponent to pick it necessarily, then they might not practice so much that week.
So that's the level of mind games we're talking about here.
like, they're good at this map, but I know they're not going to practice, they don't expect us to pick it, which is the crazy, like, I don't know how to get into these heads of these two, to be honest, like, they're on a different level.
Yeah, definitely. They know each other so well, and when that happens, it's almost like if you see Bambino and Big Time get together, I'm sure there's like a whole level of toying there.
Now, of course, we just had to send Jen Lee down to chat with both Frost and Cruz to see what the vibes are like leading into this match.
Here with Cruz and Frost before today's matchup now, Cruz. First things first, how did you
guys process the last game against Foot and walk in here with confidence today?
We just forgot what happened two days ago. It didn't happen.
Is that a good thing, Frost, in your opinion? Short-term memory is a very good thing.
How'd you prep the GE boys against FullSense?
You didn't have to. We knew it was going to go to the same match, so...
Anything you'd like to say to that?
You didn't prep as well.
Surely you did, but you know, it's going to be an emotional day for you, too.
So anything you'd like to say to each other.
I still don't know how you want to know treatment.
I don't think it's going to happen today.
We'll see.
All right, we'll see.
I love the banter.
Actually, when full sense laws, crews just stick around to watch what happened
with global eSports, and then he rode home with global eSports, knowing that
there were going to be opponents today.
So they're really close.
Like I said, these guys are almost like they're ex teammates.
They are mentors for each other.
They look up to each other.
Cruz is often given across a lot of credit
for teaching him a lot of his coaching style,
which we can see lend into how full sense is playing.
Now, Global eSports gave us our first free match here
at Masters London.
And it was a bit of a heartbreaker,
like you said, against Lev.
It was really close.
We saw them crumble a little bit,
but we have to give a lot of credit to Utah.
Yeah, exactly.
I think that he was a player that I didn't have you know on this team
I did he wasn't the initial player that I would go towards but he passed the itus a little bit and then coming into this event
He stepped up his performance massively. He surprised me with how good he was in that series every single map
He was just dominating a lot. I think a big part of it is getting him off of the neon to be honest with you
I was looking as neon as roughly like a zero point nine rating you look at him on a jet
It's like a one point one was a point two rating difference
and then we're getting him on a bit on the chamber as well.
I just think like getting him up, just getting him off the neon honestly is just great for him.
So I think the NARF in terms of the teams that benefited and the players, he's up there.
Yeah, I think the way that he performed, especially on that last match, backslip,
you're almost kicking yourselves for not being able to close it out, especially given the individual performance he had.
I mean even just the movement on the raise I think has been really impressive, especially here on the global stage.
Which is so funny because we're watching stage one, or it just...
the team in terms of stats.
It's usually bad men, especially
this year, especially against
big teams like paper wrecks. But
the other day I think we needed
to send out the signal because
he was missing. I think for
Patman. Yes, he did have a rough
performance the other day, but I
think the strength that he's
offering this team is the amount
of flexibility. Now you could
argue that that's maybe what's
costing them here, especially in
for a series because they are expecting him to flex across so many different agents many yeah like
there he's on the waley with an operator that's not something i expect to see from pat man i think
it's really difficult when you're expecting this guy to go across a lot of different things i hope
that he's not going into his own head it's all about this and he's the pat man that i was watching
in pacific yeah today he was uh he was sticking around with his refractal lot as well and getting
utile done to a little bit i felt like he felt a little bit uneasy and i kind of wanted him to
to maybe not make as many plays as he was like trying to make it just let the
game come to him. Do you think he was like trying to? Yeah, I really did. Yeah.
Yeah, I think he has been guilty of this and usually it pays off. But when
you're on the global stage outside of your region, things do change a little
bit here. Now, guys, I really love Apple crumble, but I don't like seeing a
Pacific team crumble. And to be quite frank, that's what happened with full
sense. Just the other day, this is so uncharacteristic. This is a team we're
are hyping up so hard coming into this event, and they were not playing like
themselves at all. We say this, but of course we saw that
Pulsing roster kind of crumble when they were on the grand finals against PRX
back in Pacific, and I think we have to bear in mind that this was a team that
hadn't lost a single map in Pacific up until that grand final against PRX, and
I'm worrying that that might carry into the rest of this event for them. Yeah, I'm
already worried about them on the big stages right now. It hasn't looked
great for them at all. I'm hoping that they can go back and just get that
confidence together. I hope IGL
crews is able to just build up
their spirits a little bit today,
because they're going to need it.
I look to the stats and there's
four of them in the bottom 10
right now in terms of stats, so
it's not great. It's not looking
good. Yeah, I just I want to see
a little bit more confidence, a
little bit more team play. I
would love Kilo to kind of go
with the group a lot and
actually help his team out. I
felt like he was very individual
with a lot of his failure, too.
Yeah, I think that he's so
integral to the success of the
team. We talk about JIT boys as
a second goal. Of course,
of course, Primi, but Kilo is really huge as their flash agent there.
Now, it's time for the 1v1 showdown in our skirmish side select.
And today we've got a duel between Frimi and Crystal.
Let's see how this goes.
Okay, I see they're pretty locked in.
They used to send in their coach, Teela, to do all of these skirmishes.
And this time they're locking in.
They need Primi to...
Oh, he's in the operator, so that's a good sign.
I think you should have to get DFT to find the operator in the skirmisher map.
We got a banner P-Stake surely, we have the banner.
Surely he doesn't 5-0 him though.
Oh my god!
I think that kind of sucks the tone.
I don't think Premier was in the bottom 10 of the start, so I think he might be the one.
I think a little bit more up there.
He was the one that was above them all for sure.
I think he was the person last time when they won 2-0 against Global.
He was just Premiering them the entire time.
So today maybe we need that little bit of Premier action.
We definitely need from full sense. Anyway, we were talking about the map you know the mind games
Let's see what frost and cruise have landed on
All right, welcome guys today we're gonna do g vs. Fs map veto so Fs won the skirmish and they're picking their side
Team B team B
All right, then G events the first map
I'm not gonna do it to you
Bane Lotus. Lotus, or Rites, then FSBans. Ascent. Ascent is banned as well and GE picks the first map. Split. Or Rites. And the site for split please. Defense.
Okay, then you're my pick
Breeze breeze and the site for breeze breeze attack attack. We have fracture Haven and pearl left G bands first
I've been in fracture.
Fracture is banned.
We have Haven and Pearl left, and you guys are banning.
You ban Haven?
Alright.
The Siders Pearl and GE picks the side.
Pick attack.
Okay.
So, quick recap.
We start with split, FS defense.
Then we have breeze G attacks and if we have pearl G attacks everything correct. All right. Good luck guys
I'm sure there are a lot more mind games going on but friendly once in cruise had learned a little bit from the last
Time to do the map view to sliggy. Yeah for sure
I think he was like kind of a kind of at least acted like he was expecting the split
But then there's like a pause after something like I'm not entirely sure he thought that the split was actually gonna come
I love their faces off to delivering them up because that was good. They picked the opposites, right?
Yeah, the interesting thing is the last time they played it was full sense picking the opposite map
It's like they picked each other's opposite maps of the mind games already are going going in crazy
Well, the last time they faced off full sense one two is zero
But we know Frost knows Cruz so well and he can possibly out read him and possibly out do primie
We'll have to wait and see who's gonna stay in the game for London
We have high expectations from global esports, the misfits of Pacific with everything to prove.
There's no pressure, but the most pressure I've had as a pro gamer is that I play a lot of games.
I focus on the game as much as I can.
We've been calling in Budotown the whole game. We might have to change it to Hindotown. The guy is just taking over.
If you try not to make a mistake, you can do it well.
Of course, thinking about P.S.S.S. is pretty.
Last time, when I faced P.S.S.S.S. in Ho Chi Minh,
P.S.S.S.S. was very overwhelming.
This time, we won't repeat the same mistakes.
I'm not sure if I can do it.
I'll do my best and I'll do my best to win the game.
Two-sense, you have to be careful this time.
This time, I'll do my best.
It's the pinnish of both.
has sent three Southeast Asian teams to the global stage.
It's not just paper wrecks this time around.
And the world needs to see what these two teams
can bring to the table.
Now we got sliggy here at the desk with us.
You've been pretty hyped about full sense.
How are you feeling about them today?
Oh, after what I saw last time,
I need a good start here.
I need to see a pair store.
I really want them to take this first map.
Yeah, I feel that completely.
I think that full sense is probably going to come in.
I think that they're going to have a game plan.
They're going to set out those first five rounds, and that's what I saw last time when they played split.
There's some very weird tactics going on early on on the split.
They look like they had massive reads, and those mind games were in full effect.
We just saw Primi mention it was Primi time in that promo.
We need to see Primi time in the server here today.
Let's not forget, full sense for the roster that sent PRX down to that lower bracket regionally,
where we consider how they performed back in Pacific.
They need to be able to blow out against Global Esports today,
if they want to progress through this Masters London.
But Coach Frost is part of this team in a weird way.
He has been part of the process of putting this full sense core together.
He brought Brimian, he looked for Kill-A-Lush, he knows them so well.
So when you have two teams who can read each other like this,
it's really hard to say who's gonna come out on top.
And not only that, when you consider global eSports,
we kind of hinted at it earlier on.
They managed to push left to three maps.
So yes, you have that familiarity.
You also have global eSports that have gone away and probably prepped coming into the day.
We've spoken about how great they are when it comes to those anti-straps.
I think for me global eSports obviously look like they're in battle form,
but for me it's about whether full sense, build up the confidence,
the fact that they're playing against people that they know I think is an advantage for them
because they're not going to be as scared on the stage today
and I hope that if they do win today that they don't go back to what we saw last time they played.
That's like the one benefit of having the regional match-ups if you have a team that is like a little scared
and you're like, oh, we've been in this team before.
We can do this.
And then you get that momentum going forward.
So yeah, I'm hoping for a lot better from Fulsen.
Absolutely.
And I think that's why we're finally
seeing all the matches today go the distance,
because they know each other so well.
They're so much more comfortable facing each other.
They know all the tells, all the reasons.
At this point, it's trying to outsmart each other
and play their best game.
Now, we have some players here who
are here for the very first time on a global stage.
The first time we're having a full tie squad in years.
We also have our sole Australian representative
in the form of Autumn coming to the stage.
He was formerly from CN.
So we're seeing a lot of players come back together
on the stage.
I think you mentioned something really important here.
A lot of young players.
We used to bring up the narrative of this young player
is crumbling a little bit.
And then it didn't happen for a long time.
But now we're starting to see it again.
So I'm excited again to see if it just continues
throughout the whole event.
Yeah, and the thing to me is that Padman
is literally a tournament winner.
He won that Toronto Trophy.
and I saw a little bit of that in his play last time.
I think that he said that he's got the ego now
to play at this tournament the way that he should,
but maybe Sliggie putting out there at times
a little bit too much.
So I need to see a more balanced path today
for Global Esports to take this victory.
Yeah, that's right.
And with this agent comp coming out right now,
I mean, at this point,
they already know each other's game.
I think it makes a huge difference if Remy steps up.
I think, is it fair to say in terms of firepower,
full sense is definitely on top?
I mean, normally, normally, yes.
But here, maybe, who knows?
We will have to wait and see.
All right, to kick off VZD Pacific.
It's not Seth, it's Tom and Mitch.
Thank you so much.
Victoria, yeah, dude, we've got our own paper here at least.
Look, it's a pleasure to get to see these Pacific teams.
down on our stage here in London, but a shame that for one of them, it will be the last full
sense versus GE. And Tom, in terms of this matchup, it seems like Slicky's lost a little
bit of his confidence in full sense, but he wants to see them come out with a strong start.
Hard to know though which map could favor which team, considering how the Vito went last on
that track.
Yeah, the fact that they've come in and picked each other's choice, it kind of tells you
the game of chess that's being played. Maybe both teams trying to switch up the Vito and
ending in the same place, at least for the first couple of maps,
which of course, last time out, full sense won both.
The wall up over the wall already,
looking to try and make that fast play into the A site.
With a very late lurk that will eventually come in from Crystal,
a post-bond looks very likely indeed.
A plant for sure, but no ramp control when that comes in.
Full sense are already scaling down that ramp.
Britney's found his first.
The Sage wall still in play means Crystal's gonna take a while.
the pace from full sensors causing problems.
Uniton has fallen at the hands of Primmy.
Everyone, but G has.
Down with heavy down.
Crystal breaks through that wall at last.
The spike being tapped to the right on top.
Crystal expects he's done a wonderful job already.
Stuck down!
Primmy, and he won't find any more!
A red ball clutched from the man who was late to the party.
Thinking back to the last series as well,
that first map was where Crystal was incredible.
Like he started the series off with a bang,
I think it's going to be very important that that's the same case because I was already getting flashbacks to the last time these teams play where Primmy just goes,
oh yeah, better than these guys, I'm still going to run around and just rack him, so to shut that down early.
It's also worth noting as well that although GE are coming in with diving, the exact same comp they ran last time, it is a change up for Falsense.
They brought in the Sage, they moved Jit Boys off of that secondary jewelist, I think he was on the raise last time now.
So clearly, even though they didn't pick this map, 4 cents still expected it to come through.
Defense pushes on both sides, and now they've got the reward. Autumn surrounded at Delwood.
It's at least a Marshall picked up for the defensive side.
Other than that, chances of anything going their way here seem very, very slim.
Tiki won't spread themselves too thin.
Playing with those two on the site, regardless of who's taking the fight's crystals, just clearing out B main.
And they look to take these fights together and on range.
Should make it very hard for full sense to get anything.
Permi having the chance to one-shot headshot.
It definitely makes things a little bit more difficult for G.
A little bit more dangerous because with their investment, you're at least losing something even if a player goes down.
There's the first to be lost. It's only a stinger. It gets worse from here on out.
Yeah, I think that was just an attempt to maybe catch an all ball to.
In this case, the rest is just going to be going down to the spike, not really giving any
opportunities. And I think that's the right call to make. The next round where full sense come in
with Dubai. And I think it is a very interesting talking point. Going back to this matchup from
last time out, obviously it was a very very close match towards the end of the Pacific
stage and especially on this map in particular, it does, well even a breeze, I think going
into breeze though, there was a lot who would have thought the GE would have favoured, but
it just came down to some of that individual mechanics, someone like Primmy being able
to take over rounds, they had no right winning. I think overall my sort of thought process
is that GE might be a better team, it's just if he's going to run right once again as one
of the most mechanically gifted players we have in the scene right now and in fact some
people putting in all the way at the top.
He wants a chance of really claiming that title.
They have to make it further than this, a victory over GE needed to start, not looking
good.
GE make it to the B site, fight through the smoke, land the opening pick, and avoid going
any further.
It was a mistake if they kept stepping forward but now the walls block permy off and Autumn
is in a position that I will say is rarely cleared, but he's about to walk right into
chip boys. Now they know. Yall look at surprise no longer there. The poison orb put in a very
unusual position, but that has Garner GE flank control. They'll keep D main for full
sense to fight through, especially at the time where it's at. They've decided that they're
just going to save a 5v4 full save. It's the time and having an operator with no shields.
Like it basically would just be like, okay, is someone going to give Premier a fight or
Are we just going to hold onto that gun into the next round?
And for GE economically, this is maybe the best start
you could ever hope for.
You win the first three rounds, and the only players
you're actually going to lose are ones that still
have weaker weapons, and they're going to go hunting,
going to go running in to try and remove some of the weaponry
on the other side.
And there you go.
Harvey takes the kill, and even gets away with the gun.
This is a great round for GE.
Yeah, I mean, that really was the cherry on top at the end
for GE.
A 3-0 start usually means that you're
gonna run away with the half obviously for full sense still saving weapons
they'll be able to buy up they'll be able to fight for this round but not in a
very convincing way I mean even now you're taking the look if they play
with those rifles you're gonna have two players without shields I don't think I
ever see people really do actually playing without shields I think maybe
you have like the cashew does it every once in a while where he's like the
hero just a rifle with no shields but especially like there's a decent chance
that somebody on the other side has an outlaw.
Docks and screen down.
They don't, but I guess just having the confidence in Primi to maybe take over the brown,
then that's a great start.
Already eliminating the lurker on that A side of the map,
it means that the amount of control has already gone,
and the pace needs to be picked up now from G.
They blow it off the side, where there was only one player,
instead they fight towards the numbers,
but it's worked out at least to start.
The Lulule will contain that space,
has help if needed from Leviathan down below.
But in the end, they have to give up heaven.
GE, again, running into the numbers there.
They've gotten very lucky with that pick through the smoke.
They've spotlified them up close as well.
And all the while, Topman was working the control.
He'll fall, but Guditan, keeping it competitive,
rolling in their favor over the res there.
Man advantage now locked in for GE.
That pick is needed for full sense.
And that was a chance.
Without it being found, they have
to hope that someone on GE is going to step out of line,
Give them a way back into this site.
And he pushed it back towards the spawn behind.
He's actually the one to be caught.
And now stuck in the corner is Crystal.
But again, he seems to be on fire at the moment.
Cruz doesn't even know that there's a wraparound coming in
from behind his position, seeming dead to rights.
And it will be an easy kill in the end for Udotan.
4-0 up.
That risky purchase alongside the save weaponry hasn't paid off.
And again, we're seeing a great attack side
half coming out from GE, which thing back to the game versus Levy attack. It was exactly
the same. Their attack side was great. Well, they did. They just played into the hands
of full sense there. We had one player grabbing the pick outside of A. B site much more heavily
reinforced two players in heaven, one on the B site, one in vents, ready to strike GE.
They play mid because they lose their flank. They push forward. The Coinbase win condition
for full sense was having the players in the right position at the right time
and they got unlucky to lose one to a spam. I'll give them that for sure. But GE,
finding a 4-0 leg up, stealing that round out in the end, dealing with the save
with four players, grabbing an upgraded weapon as well. The credits are in a
fantastic position for the attack side and for full sense they're pretty much
faced into an eco. This is going to go from bad to worse for the defensive side
coming out of this pause and at that stage you're 5-0 down with GE being able to buy and buy and buy as you win rounds
this half is getting out of control. Yeah you can kind of understand as well why this this map was actually picked out by GE
but last time they lost it was 13-11 and it was a 7-5 defense coming out of a pool sense. So right now they are already on the back burner
are on the back foot, of course we don't expect the game to be identical within its
score lines, but I don't think they're going to be over the moon with the way
that this has started. You can see Alton going straight in for that outlaw, you
can understand why, a chance for potential freebies, and the only real danger in
that round, well I feel like I'm being a dead horse, it's for me again. So far it
has been for me, I think he's got the same kills as the rest of the team combined.
A lot of it coming from the pistol, it's been quiet on the defensive side for the
first four rounds, but it's not likely to get any better here.
A couple of kills from Frenin could certainly help the situation.
G are stepping in to his turf.
Here we go.
Oh, he's got him!
A bold play indeed.
He thought he could isolate the outlaw close,
but there was more than enough backup there for G.
I think they were very ready for that after the last round push-up
Where all time gets caught alone and they have to try and react to it
They have two players supporting him ready for the swing
And after they pulled the rotation all the way over to the A site
They now walk into a site that only has jit boys in it
Now he does still have a full belt of utility
But it's how much you really want to invest going into this round
There's the wall they are gonna have to break down immediately
That will sound the alarm for the rest of the defenders.
Something that's slow.
I don't think that slow actually stopped them at all.
I think it was a little bit shallow.
Yeah, it let them out of the choke.
So they're able to fight around the side.
Nice job.
That works out for Jim, boys.
Okay.
Trading here is fine, and now it's looking even better.
Another found by Kroos.
And now in the blink of an eye, full six.
A full control.
This round shouldn't have even been close, Tom, but...
This is the light in the dark for the defensive side somehow.
Yeah, evidently he did buy enough time, but I'm surprised because it seemed like he didn't.
A Mastercard thrifty is the way that Fullsense get onto the board.
And I'm not sure if what was said in the board is his cruise as the IGL, you need to hit some headshots.
But I'm not sure this was the round they even expected to break back.
Just those quick rotations eventually coming through.
And just everybody on their side landed their shots.
Finally, full sense, have made it onto the board and well, they get a huge economic boost.
That operator is going to be back in the hands of Primmy.
And we see if GE have a response.
Yeah, we thought Primmy, with his blade storm, would have been the main reason they won the round.
And he did leave Utoton down to one hit by the sheriff, which meant he couldn't fire his showstopper.
So the impact was there, but it was everybody else.
I hope you're great defense by Jet Boys as well.
Buying that extra time, as you said.
The first round found, but it means nothing unless we can back it up with another.
As we said, GE, they're going to be buying and buying again.
The defensive side needs to have a lot of solutions up there.
Sleeve, last round, work.
This one is a start for Frimmy.
Abbey, down and out of the round, right away, they're fleeing.
The spike's being taken to the other side of the map.
There's not a ton of control there for GE, but from what we can see, a full sense, they've
left the B site over, taking the name instead.
I thought Autumn would take a bit longer before showing his hand.
Particularly pretty, the Nipple buying time, having to be broken.
One of the new factors of G. You have to deal with the timing, not working out for cruise though.
Crystal able to turn things back again, the positioning though.
From Leviathan is perfect.
And although we saw a big clutch in round number one from Crystal,
this one definitely feels an awful lot tougher.
And although their credits are still in an okay position,
It's whether or not he wants to gamble the gun here.
Well, I don't think he gets a choice.
There's a fight coming his way.
He's just about made it around, but now they've seen him.
Now they know exactly where Crystal is.
And saving this weapon.
With 15 seconds on the clock and plenty more after it takes away.
They're slowing him so he can't even make it out.
A fight is needed.
It's won by Crystal.
Seven and one right now.
Popping the reload and ready for another fight,
But I don't think they'll throw their operator at this one if he tucks in
That weapon is going to be his for the next round saving not just the gun
But his KD as well making that look a little better
But four to two full sensor definitely climbing back into this despite a bit more of a blow being dealt there than it looked like
Yeah, I think crystal I'd you be very happy with that you get to keep your weapon
Credits wise you're in a pretty good position to still buy into this round and you've reduced the economy of your opponents without really having to move
I will say I think that's going to be one of the easier kills for me today
I think also it becomes a bit awkward because we know the G love to have that sort of sage water section off one of the angles when
Pushing in towards the A side
Maybe they're gonna pick up the pace a little bit here
Already seen that operator push down mid instead and although they've sent it early if they go walking back
They might end up in a bit of trouble. This is a dirty angle from prim
It's gonna be giving up now.
For G8.
Let's take a listen in with the comms in this round.
Just jump first.
I'll be picking.
You don't need to stay first.
I don't see.
I have a problem.
There's more.
Maybe not up here.
Maybe not up here.
Hey, they're rotating.
Just go.
Go, go, go.
Go in the samba.
Go in the samba.
Get the event, guys.
What's the event?
David.
Guys, you need to move fast.
They're walling.
Yeah, I will run and I will ult this site, okay?
Yeah.
I guess it's coming down.
They want something guys, I don't know what.
They want like heaven.
I need to smoke city, I'm smoking city now.
There we go.
I'm smoking boning.
They're coming.
They're cruising.
Away for the nightfall to come in, that's going to reveal Kalua for sure.
But he's got support and that slow buys all the time full sense need.
No chance for G to scale on the back of the ultimate.
30 seconds now to make it to the site.
They got it up to pace.
They thought they'd find an easier A site, less heavily defended.
They were dead wrong and now they're just dead!
Chip boys, locking down Heaven and it is a clean and clinical round from full sense.
That was all him as well.
Like they go rotating into a site that ultimately is the less heaviest act of the two.
Again another round you can basically put down to his utility.
The wall blocking up top, the slow forcing them into an awkward position.
And then even just breaking a gap in the wall, so then spamming shots into the faces of opponents.
It's compositional change for Jet Boys, is putting him right at the top of the board alongside Primi.
And you could already see the G having to take a pause. Maybe they're just to adapt to that one-agent change.
Well, they made the call, they're re-hurted in the listening, the rotation back to the A site.
They saw the rotates to B, they thought it was going to be more heavily defended.
defended, but man, when they hit into that A site,
the slow, as soon as nightfall comes in, stops the play.
And any idea, any notion of walking in A,
which already Kalua was on site,
Jip Boys was in heaven.
It was gonna be a tough fight anyways,
but now it became impossible,
and the change of direction just led them
right into the rotates of full sense,
right into Jip Boys, who, yeah,
I mean, that first shot through the wall
was a little ridiculous.
I don't think he had any intention
of killing someone with it,
But they created the opportunities capitalized on them and now GE with a 4-0 start they crushed the economy in full sense as well
That should have been 5-0, but they find themselves contested very early on
Got that round 5
Might come back to bite them
Of course that was one of the issues it felt like GE had on their own defensive side and this map was sometimes playing ahead of a lot of that sage utility
I think that's what GeoBoys is doing excellently
He's just using that utility to create awkward scenarios and that looks panicky from GE.
And again, when it's your map choice, even if both of you are happy to play it,
you don't want to be looking panicky from a 4-0 up position.
Orbuff from Cruz, he's going to stick around.
There's no free passage for GE.
They are looking to fight for this.
The only problem is, look at full-senses setup.
It's not like you just have one player up in heaven, no, we've got three, two ready to fight, and one holding a paranoia.
The second that they step into crew's angle, paranoia is coming.
Well, not when he stood there, but when he stood here.
If you want to know how confident they are in Giovoi's sage, he's solo A.
They have three heaven and then they have one operator on the B site.
And instead, it seems like they've got the perfect read.
G walking straight into a stacked up heaven.
That's where they might be sent very soon this time.
It's Kahlua, who's just destroyed them on entry.
That wasn't an eco.
That was a full buy investment,
and they have just been slaughtered.
Again, for GE, when it comes to that moment
where they want to pull the trigger,
where they want to blitz in,
there's always something waiting on the other side.
Last round, they name a couple, it's been the slow,
for full sense.
It's been a while from Sage, but this time around,
it's a paranoia held by LeVoniton for quite a while.
From the get-go, FullSense knew what they were facing into, that G.E. wanted to fight for mid.
They might not go for those kind of battles again.
Neck and neck.
If stopped G.E. from pushing up to a five that seemed possible to avoid,
and up on top of the wall, I think G.E. got spotted.
Okay, there's the pick for Patman, for G.E.
I think as well, Patman has to read that,
Okay, if Jit Boys is here, no one else is. He immediately tee-tees up.
Crews under pressure, but Kalua already getting rid of Autumn. Autumn's been having a
a rough time so far, but Patman's impact in this round cannot be understated.
Getting rid of the man atop the wall, taking over the spawn control, still battling for it.
It does, however, send them towards Primmy. Now Patman's been dealt with as well. Kalua on another.
It is everybody stepping up for four cents, and all that is left is Udo-Ton.
Facing off against his rival, Jules, and he will manage to win.
That Leafs gets him to plant his opponent, starting to wrap around from heaven.
It's a little bit disjointed, but it's not going to work out.
I think he hit the headshot through the wall, but Kalua survives with 25 HP.
Couple really big rounds from Kalua as well.
A full sense showing up across the board.
It was a very slow start to this defensive side,
but they very much figured it out now, and you can see GE struggling to come up with solutions.
I guess we've seen those a-hits. They tried to push and pull the rotates. They tried to fight from mid and even in this round
They successfully fight from it. They shut down Jit boys. There's been a problem for their attack side pace
But it's not enough
One round in the lead the first to hit five is full sense and GE even after the timeout. It's the same old story
3.
Early mid control going to be challenged for by the other side.
They've been changing the setup on the defence almost every single round.
Whenever you're trying to predict or counter what they're doing it has been different.
Primmy's been everywhere. Duetboy's been everywhere.
They are swapping spots and right play for a time almost gets caught by his own teammate.
But the heals there for me to be right back up.
That control has been taken, but more so just as a protocol for G, just to remove the eyes
on that side, but when they still have Jit Boyz peeking.
And now what?
That operator they saw moments ago, it's sad on A.
There's power noise caused issues for G before once this wall comes in, it could do again,
but the TP to backside from Patman has made them reconsider.
Leviathan just backs out. They're gonna get from the plant and that's very dangerous in this round.
The Viper's pit will make this a very tough retake. Again, this is the pit we're seeing most often put in and coming from spawn is almost impossible.
They do have the man advantage. Gee, have the terrain on their side.
Another heal for Brittany. He's gonna take them well over 200 damage in this round, but it doesn't matter.
He's still standing, still kicking. They even have a res available on either side.
stopper as well if necessary and it might just be Patman already cleared. They're gonna need someone to step up on the G side and it is Unitomb, but he's eliminated eventually. Back down to just one.
Primmy to try and turn it, but he's managed to get rid of Autumn. But that time is now ticking. Surely too far gone and Harvey has it covered. Sure, full sets hit five first, but G fight right back.
Yeah, it was the decision to give up that B site to let the pick go down, but I thought full sense might have the leg up with that pick right there catching the flank.
Dealing with a lot of the wind condition for this GE side, but unit on right here more than worth his salt.
That double just made sure that the pick couldn't be pushed from both sides.
Fought that little bit of extra time and well time was of the essence in the end. 10 rounds in and we're neck and neck.
Full sense they fought their way back, but now you have a solution
Well, that's the rest of the day
This is what happened last time. This was the guy that it's gonna end up on the most wanted list 4g fans because
Primmy just seems to have a vendetta against them a headshot through he's coming over the top
She just about dodges the bullet, but there's a second player right alongside him. I want crystal
He might have the spike on him, but that was the only silver lining in this round.
Fullsense will take the lead again.
Yeah, I mean this was just Grimmy's round from the get-go. Ridiculous kill to open us up.
Then Patman tries to recover, lost ground, flanked the AWP. Nope, he's looking at you.
You're gone as well.
So far.
And even in the end on the site, he's the one jumping in, firing the AWP, so they think,
oh, I'll swing out and deal with him then while he's cocking that bolt back.
But he's got three teammates swinging all inside him.
Very nice stuff for Fullsense. Again, the team.
I don't even think he shot the guy that was shooting.
No, no, no, no.
He just, just picked an angle.
That's one way to get around to the board.
I have to get the lead as well.
One round left to play for in this half.
Full sense.
Looked like they weren't even going to get started.
But somehow they could be leaving with the lead.
You can see the difference.
then versus their regional rivals against people that if you look at the
coaching staff they probably even called family at a time they are feeling
comfortable trades back immediately it's turned into a game of death match in
middle and while Cruz has gone unchecked just hiding lurking within the
darkness and everything's coming up for full sense in this moment he does have
Rez available but who is an option to even Rez? It's whether or not he can even get out of this position.
Oh, I don't think he can. Maybe he can't.
And he can heal himself back up as well. Still the Rez won't be possible there, but I think they're going for it in B main.
He's going for a jumping kill. So we end up back into a 3D3.
That's a little bit of a mistake from Full Sense. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite them.
They've still got Primmy holding the cross, but the first shot doesn't land.
He's a little late on the second as well. They've made it through. They've avoided the main danger at least for now
But pretty's waiting for another chance. He misses a second time. It's gonna be the downfall of him for shorty's out
though. Pretty survives that little bit longer. He's going for a long-range shorty kill knowing that crystal is already tagged
In 20 seconds as he swaps over to the rifle crystal flees a plant will be found here
The position the crystal decides to play from will be everything
He now needs to outmaneuver Primi.
He's not going to beat him on reaction time and the problem is he's so low on HP that
it just has to be that he picks the right spot and he is quick enough on the trigger.
The problem is for Crystal, it's not a great place to stand.
He's picked a bit of an off angle corner but again timing is everything, like Primi
could have gone in any direction and it just depends if he looks at the right
way but pretty not checking initially but then we'll turn back around from 4-0
down. Fullsense are gonna turn this half into a victory and just like last time
they go in 7-5. Now we thought that GE would be 5-0 up they end on that score
line and on 5 for Fullsense this has got to feel remarkable. They were shut
out consistently and closing it out with a Red Bull clutch as well. They have a two round lead
now they move to their attack side confidence at an all-time high for this squad. And Primmy,
well he is certainly leading the charge 17 and 5g. You've got some ground to make up when we come
back in here. So much should have been a commanding lead and well it's been great to see them down
on this stage here at Masters London. They brought some fans with them. In fact I've heard Frankie
is standing by with Autumn's parents.
If you thought it was hard being a fan of these players,
imagine being a parent.
Tanya, you were basically giving me commentary
during that round.
Do you watch all of your son's games?
What are your thoughts on the half so far?
We do watch every game.
We've never missed one since he was in India, China,
and now Pacific.
Look, I think they can come back.
Yeah.
Wayne, what do you think?
Do you believe in your son?
Oh, absolutely, absolutely. And I believe in GE.
So they'll come back second half.
Yeah, and there's nothing like having the belief of your parents.
I mean, it must be a big thing, Autumn, knowing that your parents are watching
you on the sidelines, right? I wish I could talk to you about this,
but I'm going to talk to you, Tanya, instead.
What did you say to your son before this game?
Just go for it.
I know he'll bring it like he always does.
And I believe in him.
We believe in him and GE.
I know you do.
But finally, for you, Wayne, what's
it like seeing your son on an international stage again?
Nerve-wracking.
Nerve-wracking.
I think we're all racked with nerves right now.
Let's get into the second half.
Well, it might be GE's pick, but it might as well be Full Sense's.
In this veto, Tom, I don't think there's
a clear winner or loser.
That's decided on the server.
and for full sense after the first couple of rounds,
it was looking like a clear decision,
a clear cut series, but they have fought their way,
not back into the map, but into the league.
I think you could just look at the sort of body language
of the full sense players in comparison to their first game,
and it's completely different.
I think it's like we know these guys.
Look at the coach, you're just smiling.
Cruz is just having a great time.
He was singing halfway through that game.
It just has a different feel when they play against
that regional rival one as it was had a sliggy be saying it they've beaten
before it's just a different ballgame all together and the G while losing seven
of the last eight rounds sure they're gonna feel comfortable going into
breeze this is another map that you go back to Pacific and they've been
fantastic on but I'm now starting to almost look at the man can they beat
the players on the other side is the map almost irrelevant that's exactly it it's a big confidence
builder playing against the regional matchup playing on familiar turf even so far from home
gee all the defense now it was a stellar start that stellar starts all that really remains
from that first half four zero to seven five the pistol could put them right back
But then punching distance. Full sense of found control of the A site and a plant even coming in for heaven as well
They've got so much control. So why not late flank as well from Leviathan?
This could be a problem for GE. They're only now making it to screens. That's the skin everything as they were looking for this
But it's been so far behind that I think autumn is tracking instead though their opponents have got aggressive even still trading evenly
But now Alton has to sort of either make a decision to try and check for that flank.
It's clear that it's in their mind, but timing is the main thing.
The second he drops down is a problem, but while he does, he's caught out-printing.
Even still though, Lovato has been holding on to this upper spot,
but Alton will hit this shot anyway.
It's another pistol under the belts of GE,
and maybe they'll have a strong start to this second half as well.
Oh, that might help the nerves down there in the audience,
maybe even on the stage as well. Two pistols needed for GE to keep this
competitive in the early days of half number two. They've done a wonderful job.
As she said, that flank looked like it was going to be the end of the round, but
it's the fact that Autumn finds the kill in the player down below saving the round.
And then as soon as the smoke blooms and the plant is for Heaven, you kind of know
what you're facing off against. So they group up and take the fight together.
They're much needed pistols secured and this should be the easy work, but full sense for
doing decent.
In fact, they found their first round on a buy that was not pretty.
There was a couple of pistols in a blade store that only was there for damage.
But now they're on the attack.
This is where the pistols can group up, can be very scary.
For now at least it's farming those orbs up.
If you can have the res online for your first full buy, it's going to be a huge, huge, huge
huge safety net for you, decided against pushing all the way around to a 110 little bit of
mid control for them but I like what you're doing here Tom it's so passive from the squad
they've walled off B heaven and now they're just playing as many range fights as they
can there I have invested heavily sure it's SMGs on a couple but there's no pistols there's
no one that you go okay if they go down they've not invested as many credits into this so
you're a G fan you want to keep this nice and clean crystal looking to get up close of course
getting towards that nice call would be nice and already it's going to get rid of primmy
i think that second orb is being taken so you mentioned it they've gone all the way back around
the world it's only going to be the one in the end yeah chip boys has got about i was going to say
say has got it. He's got it online. He got two orbs, he got a kill and then ended up going
down. Look, that is about as good of a round for an eco as you're usually going to hope
for. Kill someone off to cover your way. The only one landed on the important man. So a
success for the attack side in terms of their goals in the previous round. But again, this
is where it matters. This is where you have to convert. For a second there, I saw the
on the attack side, no shields on crews and I was wondering what we were doing
but he's gone for the rifle.
Get early slow.
Knowing that there's weak weapons, they want to try and deny that control.
I like the repressure but there was a player waiting further back with a paranoia on the attack
just to make sure that his teammates were covered.
The enemy has been spotted, Autumn. One of the rifles under serious pressure, just gonna
have to try and play within the utility after you get seized. There's nowhere to go, they
even expect Utaton flanking. Of course, risks are gonna be taken in this sort of round and
the rifle left behind, but they will hold on strong.
Got nicely done by full sense, no res needed in this round.
I know what my get out of there with a lot still on the table, but when you look at what they were up against
But she had two bulldogs and then it went to SMG's
I think it's certainly a
Forgivable round for the defensive side usually we see players or teams even coming into this bonus round with like three maybe four
rifles, I'm not even talking bulldogs. I'm talking phantom's vandals, but
They went for that lighter buy so that this round could be theirs both teams getting out of this early half
Kind of what they want a 2-1 as expected the res online for full sense the economy decent for gene as they now get a really strong
full buy everything that they want
Is in play?
But a win for full sense here just really gives them the chance to
Go and skyrocket into the lead on this attack side to hit that double digits
And he's got another through the smoke.
Spams from Jet Boys have been on, and I think Primi was even thinking about going through the Viper utility.
But once you get an opener like that, there really isn't a need to know that G are going to have to try and switch up their positioning.
War being broken.
Just look at the full gamble.
You can understand it from global esports.
So you're in a position where if you try and spread out across the map
the chance of victory
It's low
But also the chance of you losing all your weaponry is very very high whereas in this standpoint
Either you get a full stack
Or you keep your guns. So that's the hope at least
Cruiser's trying to sell a bruise not realizing that of course there's not gonna be anybody on this B site anyway
But of course they've got to be as diligent as ever
That ninth round is all but guaranteed.
Oh, they're giving him, priming the wall.
The timing on that was nice.
So he can jump up and take early heaven fights.
But again, no one's there.
We saw this very similar scenario unfold earlier,
where full sends were on the defensive side.
They called for that four man save.
They only got out with three of the rifles.
When G having to do the same thing,
they put all their eggs in one basket
after losing the opening fight.
And again, a kind of an unlucky fight for Udothon to just get spammed through the smoke like that.
And that's enough for them to say, hey listen, let's not throw the weapons at a negative win rate round.
Let's instead save it up for this next.
Give full sense that 9-7.
Because you lose that 4v5 retake, like we said.
Eco next, full sense on 10.
And then things get very, very spooky.
Also, then all the ultimates start coming online as well.
so it genuinely does just get into that almost domino effect.
The worry though is that
FullSense have now built up a pretty hefty economy
in the first few rounds of this half,
and we get to really see that true combo breaker
to what was that streak.
Sure, the pistol in second round felt like it could be
a bit of a momentum shift,
but right back on the horse go, FullSense.
And sure, when we look back to the last time
These two teams played split was their choice, but if you pick this as global eSports, the
expectation is you take it home.
G have changed up the setup now.
Two players waiting on A, a high low in play as well.
Utaton and Havi are going to wait for contact.
Hope to take them down.
You've got good utility to fire in for slowing them down as well.
Obviously, the entire utility belt of Sage, Utaton with the Nade as well.
But this high-low setup does have weaknesses, the rifle for Havi, but Utaton only has that
sheriff.
The late round full-sense duo come towards him, but the shots don't land, at least not
to start.
Utaton's down, Havi taking a lot of damage.
He's not put the wall just yet.
I think they're going to try to fight this on ramp now, in fact, wall goes down a little
later, just waiting for the utility to come through.
Spam back up to the ton!
And if anything, it feels like an advantage at this stage, and with how much spam damage
has been you can understand now the hesitation for four cents to push into this you've seen a snake bite you've seen the slows
Now you've even heard a horn you know there's three players
on this a side of the map
While still having that man advanced it's that's the thing like you look at Patman's position and it's great
But he has to get a not even maybe just one even two if he doesn't get jib was as a res
So it really is he has to just go ham here and they already know he's there
Yeah, Primmy sent it first, head ripped off, and now the rest are just scrambling to drawing it into position.
Now they've cleared the site, not even a shot fired towards Primmy. They know that they've got control.
Plant needs to come through, and it will. Going towards default. Heaven control held to allow that to happen.
And again, GE, now facing into a 2v5. Well, they saved in the 4v5 when money was low. Now money's a little bit better than it was by a couple hundred credits.
And they're in a 2v5. The call is to save. But this time Fullsense say, you know what?
We've got a little bit of extra cash in the bank and we've got a couple orbs missing as well.
So why not send out at least crews to try to catch them? Kalua wants to get in on the action as well.
There's no way to get out of this A site now and the walls will slowly close in on them.
Crystals already down. They know exactly where the last man is and Autumn's on 10.
for full sense they reached the same 10 rounds and done flawlessly these last
couple have looked clean as well it was just the realization and I then said it
put Patman in a horrible position where it is basically like it almost felt like
he either needed to get to one of them in jibbois or he needed just almost to
get everybody and instead it's just pretty me running around the corner and
getting his 20th kill of the map having a fantastic game but it's not just been
him. Killer has been fantastic. Gizmo is like, I think his stats are almost misleading. The
amount of impact he's had with that Sage has been impressive and considering, I almost
feel like that was them picking it up to do what GE were trying to do. And they've been
doing it better. 10 to 7. And the way that they just got slaughtered in that round is
rough. Losing a lot of those openers, having to try and take risks.
And well, for four cents, considering they have lost both pistols, even losing a bonus
round and they still sit three rounds in the lead, this is going to have to be one hell
of a speech coming out from Frost to install some faith because right now I'm not on board
that they're going to turn this around.
Well, yeah, it's been six zero in the early halves put together seven rounds for G at this
point. You need a miracle to turn this around. For full sense, it's not just the fact that
they're three rounds ahead. It's not just the fact that the economy is absolutely stacked.
It's the fact that the last couple of rounds have not been small mistakes from GE winning
or losing it. It's been full sense dominating. Yeah, there's times where they run at them
again. Since the start of the half, basically, we've been like, well, at least if the initial
fight goes bad, they've got that rest to work with. They even farm the orgs early for that
purpose they haven't needed it okay you the time at the operator opportunity
but I'm just thinking back to the last series he had he was impressive luckily
crystal it's he's not well but premiums just back to that this point and there is
that race we said it's been waiting there for a long time cruise maybe even
was willing to take the risk just to be the ones trying to hold some for me
It does just feel like he goes into a match versus G.E.E. and just goes, I know I'm going
to do well.
Like, every fight he's taking is squeaky clean, and for the remaining three again, a mass
deficit.
There hasn't been a retake that's been even throughout this game.
Well, so far there hasn't been a retake from G.E.E.
They've been saving every time.
That's true.
There have been plums.
There have, yeah.
Not even a shot fired afterwards most of the time.
for GE. Look, your flank's just been spotted. It's a 5v3. I hate to say it, but we might
have to save again. And it looks like they're making the same call. Fleeing once more. It's
not a good look. We've had pauses with no changes. We've had the defensive side having
to call for four versus five, two versus five, and now three versus five save. This time
at least they're allowed to carry their weapons forward because I think it took full sense
It's a while to realize, wait, they're actually not going for this.
Yeah, it has got half of saves, which considering this is elimination on the line,
a chance for full sense to do the double over GE.
Student maybe becoming the master.
And to be honest at this point, I just want to see some life at Global East Wars.
these rounds have been too comfortable.
Like the lowest credit player I think has 7,200 credits
over on the full sense side.
Which is because no one is dying.
Like that's the point where it's not even,
Kenji win a round, it's can they get some kills?
At least there's no resident line this time
but Primmy's one away from the Bladestorm.
The Alts in fact, more stacked towards G for now.
They do still have the operator in play.
It has to be now though.
I mean, Primmy just being alive scares me more
than most players with their Bladestorm.
In full sense, looking to chip away
at some mid control crystals, the man standing on that line.
They take it.
Every big blow to start this off.
Our shields all come back on.
Rez is there for, or Rez, he'll lose air for him as well.
And it's a good job,
otherwise he would already be out of this round.
He's being tagged up heavily.
The K fading.
full sense as they wade out in mid they got pushed back the old comes through and they're happy to
just sit and wait assuming the GE will close in on the flank will push forward but 30 seconds on
the clock it's time to make a move now but that is the one good thing is that that all saved a lot
of additional time really looks almost ready and set to try and just make a play through this
Smoke is somebody on the other side ready and waiting just watching for him, but again, they get both skills
They're running out of a smoke and it just still looks so easy 15 seconds
Autumn has to try and hold the line but that one two punch of jiffles and primmy is just
Unstoppable to standing
At this point I almost want to see them go for it just so they don't save again
I don't want to say the word could be a circle
Oh, God, never mind.
Well, Uniton showing them the up.
They're not going to let him away with that.
Primmy running it down loses his life.
But in the meantime, full sense have cast a wide net mid
and flank covered here towards A main.
Uniton has at least one more fight in him.
If he wants to get out with this operator, at least it
seems like it.
Those are the most exciting part of the round
is whether or not the G player gets to save.
That's being most of the round.
It's so depressing!
Like...
You know, Tom...
There's also just an aspect of do they care if he saves the gun?
They've had so many buys in a row at this point, and...
They're gonna try and take the gun out of his hand.
Consolation frag, maybe? No.
12 to 7.
5 in a row now.
For 4 cents.
Honestly, the only surprising thing that's happened in this round is that he did actually die.
I remember when this started, it was three kills for Primmy in the pistol,
Crystal bounced right back with his own, won the pistol out, we thought, okay,
Primmy has some competition, nope, no he doesn't. There's no one else fighting for
that title here today, at least not on map number one. Five chances for full
sense to close a game out at the start, it looked like they didn't even turn up
to play. This has been one hell of a turnaround from this squad, losing both
pistols and a streak of rounds in the first half and yet here they are
conceding next to nothing afterwards. All his teammates left. They initially set up
with two players. In fact, Crystal's the two most expensive weapons were at this
corner. There's the brawler, there's the respawn. He looked like he should have...
How's Crystal alive? He's being killed back up but was so confused. It must have been a
a lecture, Pammin, trying to be the hero.
Pushing to the spawn audacious.
A 3v3 is maybe the best scenario we've seen
in a long time, the TP behind, it's aggressive from Pammin.
Finally, someone stepping up for global.
G-boys.
To try and close out what would be
an almost perfect half.
He's gotta try and go around the wall.
They know exactly where he is,
slow strone out, needs an isolated fight.
Finally, GE have found something.
An eighth round onto the board after a massive hiatus.
He's so unlucky not to get away with that.
Somehow hit the leg, and short cruise
fell in the end, and this is it.
It was a paranoia and the TP catching both players.
That's what gave them the way back in.
And for GE, they need to do it four more times.
the team that didn't they they say four times in a row
if i'm not mistaken
well if it wasn't four in a row it was four out of five
looking at that timeline
this is the first of the second round that they found
outside of the starts to a half
plenty of work to be done i like the boost from jib boys here
haven't tried it so far
crystals
i'm gonna fall for that one
The teammate to shoot it, but yeah, I think
Maybe realizing that something's up and
I'll be now sat on the wall of his own his teammate
Likely to be there the first point of contact the prowler
If an information that somebody's dead, but they were almost trying to bait that the deeper player
Might not get caught the premium operator not something we've seen so much from on the attack
Might just throw a spanner into the works.
Unitons not in the best position to use this up.
Going back up through vents would be a death sentence.
They know that they're there now, but Crystal can't get out of this corner.
The showstopper those landed the double.
Cruz and Kahlua stood right beside each other.
Wrong place, wrong time.
And G8, man advantage to work with. They've slowed the play patterns in danger, but he's gotten out unscathed.
Down A.
All for now.
Okay, a warning shot from the vision. It almost cost him his life. Primi, holding the angle.
There's none of the time left and almost managed to find something through. Instead, he's quickly found a double and somehow made this one a reality.
he'll have himself a post plant once again.
Order to try and keep them alive and primmy to do what he's been doing throughout the
entirety of the map.
Looking for the man up top, the timing slightly away from him.
We'd have to listen for the drop anyway so that might just give him an opportunity to
re-clear while that time ticks away his opponent.
Just waiting for him to give an angle, waiting for him to make a mistake but primmy is just
sitting in this corner, using the time to his advantage,
not expecting his opponent to push his utility,
but once again, Autumn is there to save the day.
GE live to fight once more.
They still need three more.
It's a narrow, narrow margin,
but GE just about make it through.
Small heartbeat visible from the squad,
but think about this round,
Pop Man getting away with one down below
and the double that came through from Uniton.
The fact that it ends up in a 1v1.
It's definitely still a worrying factor.
With three more in a row needed,
and pretty on 27 and 10,
it does feel like it's just a matter of time
before GD slipped.
The good thing though for GD is the more rounds
that go by, even if they're close,
even if it's clutching,
even if it feels like they need to be going the other way.
The more that go by, the more the pressure
will mount onto Falsense.
They've been laughing, Jovial feeling confident.
The GA now starting to win a couple of rounds back.
Res fried the side, a lot of volts.
Building up.
Falsense to play with.
And after what has been a lot of A-hits in a row, it seems like they're going to be.
Yeah, the B-play going through, Leibler attempted by Cruz, wants to get into that pit, and he's chosen his time just right.
Those players in main don't need to push out anymore, they want to rely on this space taken by Cruz.
He's used the pit as a smoke to cross into vents.
That's a big problem now, full sense, they're going to regear up for this A-hit.
And, um, G, you have to know it's a possibility.
You can see how cautious they're being and reclearing into heaven. They're even putting the boom bot through
Don't think it's gonna make it clear crew so they could see where it went
But if that information has slipped by they're in big trouble and indeed it has
Unitons being caught completely unaware
Chip boys sees them on the backside. They know exactly where they are a moment later the round is done
13 to 9 full sense started slow in both eyes
But my god they showed up in the buy rounds and the buy rounds have really just felt like they ran away with it
Primi doing it in style once again, and it's safe to say GE need to reset after the break
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Oh
I think he's a good player.
He's a great age player and this character, this agent, it's just really suitable for him, so yeah, that's why I made the decision.
Great call and thank you.
Welcome back. It definitely was a great call by FullSense with the new comp looking really good. Still winning split against Global Esports.
a very different full sense come in today. This is the full sense we wanted to see against foot.
This was the primmy we wanted to see pop off against foot. So it's crazy happening now against
their brothers on the other side of global esports. And many we were talking a bit about
the mind games between these two teams and we are really not exaggerating when we say these two
teams, Cruz and Frost know each other so so well and you can see the mind games come through even
in round one. Yeah, it started off right off the bat. It almost looked like Global knew that Full
Sense were playing the Sage somehow and decided to do an interesting strategy where like they
basically ended up ruling over. Yeah, in fact, let's check out our Verizon high speed moment.
It was so good we had to show you guys. Yeah, so here we see Crystal throwing a little bit of
effect towards the B side of the map, making noise there, baiting out the Sage wall from
Full Sense on the A side of the map. We see it there and then you see Full Sense's rotation
across beautiful call here from global and then global on the other side are going to use the
facts that they got the stage themselves to wall boost over and then they get the A site completely
for free red carpet site for them the mind games came in early but what really impressed me was
that false sense despite going down despite not having momentum into this game pulled it back I
was extremely worried for them I thought that with the lack of confidence for the last game I
thought that going four and a half down would have been a death sentence for them but good to see
that they picked it up afterwards.
And I think it's unfortunate if you're global e-sports,
because you could see those really good ideas coming out
on the pistol rounds.
Obviously an improvement from what we saw previously.
And as you mentioned, Mani, being
able to get that kind of lead in the beginning,
but full sense, just finding this unleashed confidence,
I think.
Yeah, and Primi is the guy that we've
been highlighting leading up into this master's
run in a venom, and then he didn't really
show up the other day, but today with this up.
I think he held on his up for so many rounds,
I mean, it's just just
destroying people 10 rounds. He
had the operator throughout this
game, which is kind of crazy,
and I think I agree. We've been
waiting to see primmy time. He
said himself throughout that
trailer as well, and I think
that the fact that he bought
that operator from run three, I
believe it was glass cannon
operator. No shields. Just
shows the confidence that
they're having, which is what
we asked for from them coming
into today. Full sense couldn't
global couldn't get a sense for
the puzzle that full sense had.
It was either go to the stage
So great game plan here from
full sense. Yeah, and the man
who ended up coaching crews was
Frost. In fact, let's see what
Frost had to say about all that.
Here with Frost of GE Frost
started out as for all couldn't
quite close it out. You guys
feel like you were giving
for me too much respect or was
it the content from full sense?
I don't actually think it was
any of those. I think it's a
byproduct of us thinking maybe
that our individual skill is going to win us the game in rounds and we're also
not listening to each other when we communicate there was a lot of fumbles
with someone says something and then somebody does something else it's just
unlucky. Right hopefully things get better thank you so much and back to the
game we go. I mean unlucky is one way to put it which is Frost's favorite way to
put it but global esport is sports is also looking their strongest when they
are sticking to the plan you cannot play separately when you're going against
a team like full sense where you have so many cracked aimers. You cannot win that alone.
Yeah, I think that what Frost is saying may be correct, but I do think that the fact that
Premier is there and the Sage is there, it's a lot harder to deal with those things once the
operator is online. The Sage wall is online. I think that some of that nerves, some of
the not listening, that happens when game plans break down a little bit. So I do think there is
a combination of things there. And it's almost worrying because we are in the global stage and
fundamentals slipping away like that. And in a very important match too, let's not forget the loser
here will be eliminated from Masters London, not being able to continue through this Swiss
or even make it to playoffs. And I think it's worrying now because of course we're going
on to Breeze, we're going on to FullSense's map pick here in this BO3 and let's not forget,
FullSense dominated GE last time they played on this map specifically.
They have two very different approaches to this map, you can see it here in their comps
with double senty versus double...
Oh, they changed, Gepo is a change, breaking off of neon duty, he's not being good on
So Neon in this tournament, their solution is,
Jipoi's let's just play the Sage.
Interesting idea, the Sage is designed
to slow down the opponent,
and Jipoi did look good on the last map.
A similar strategy perhaps of,
do you want to go into the Sage,
or are you going to go into Primmy?
Primmy can get that up online early.
That is another chess match for Global to figure out here.
Well, Big Time must be so delighted right now.
When he was with us during that football sense match,
he was raving, hyping up the Sage on these maps.
So this is going to be really exciting going through,
And we can see that full sense is an absolute momentum right now.
This is an elimination match, though.
Can global eastwards bring it to a series
as you set it back to our casters, Mitch and Tom.
Well, now if it becomes real, you're heard from Frost.
They just got a bit unlucky.
Well, one more time they can get unlucky,
and that will be it out of the contention for playoffs,
out of the run here in London.
And for GE, it starts on the attack side.
I do like the changes from full-sense though that neon was not working and now it's on G to make it work with you
The time you had a bit of a tough previous map
after job
He has a tough map quite often when he plays against full-sense
But we'll have to see if that's a running theme already though about a star pistol round primi to trade
No, I'm waiting on the angle, but it's for me once again a one-man army does somehow still seems to be alive
But they are training everybody else. They just can't kill primmy. It's been the issue
Throughout the entirety of this so far now the rotation looks to come in
From Cruz crystal again and a pistol round clutch to try and bring it home
And of course who else but primmy will be the one to take the pistol for full sense
I've always found it a cop out man when we look at teams and someone goes. That's the guy
You know, there's so much more going on behind the scenes to make things work, but with pretty I got nothing man
He is just unbelievable. Every time he's tested, he comes in like he's been studying all week for it.
That's a 4k, one-upping his opening pistol in this series, and finding the win this time around.
I guess this was what was missing. He has to kill the vast majority of the team, not just post.
It must be funny to coach a player like Primmy, because it almost feels like half of what he's doing is just off-filling.
So you don't want to tell him not to do the things he's doing, especially when he gets away with it.
as much as he does. 4-0 up already.
If the first map wasn't...
already his playground and there's his fifth kill.
He wasn't happy that he didn't get the ace in the last one,
so he's going to kick things off onto Autumn,
who is of course the player that was probably most dangerous in one having that headhunter.
Now, it probably keeps this up.
We're going into the bonus round with a Bladestorm.
I like that you said if.
Yeah, there's always a chance. I saw him have like a single bad round on the last map, so...
Did you? I didn't spot that one.
It was where he only killed one person.
Ah, okay, I only got one person.
Very weak performance.
A sage won't go in, a minute or so left on the clock.
This is... gone up just as GE round the corner.
I might run that clock down a little more, but we'll at least give an orb over to Crystal.
And as they chip away at that wall, it's very obvious to full sense
where the play is coming through. Chance for the blade storm.
We're priming.
Jit voice is taking all of his kills, but there it is.
You can talk. Left him out.
What?!
Oh, come on! He's dying!
Come on!
Primmy!
It's only the second round, man. Take it easy!
It's like watching someone making a montage.
Like, genuinely.
It's like they're the guys who used to do like 360 no scope montages,
except he's just doing it on the master stage.
It's just filthy, like it's gonna be so depressing being on the other side of watching that guy have so much fun
That's disgusting. At your expense two to zero two rounds in
Something tells me primmy's not slowing down it. Hey, you guess what crazy he has got his blade storm
Yeah, seven kills will do that for you. The thing is they're buying this round
Isn't good. It's a very very weak bonus round
But I'm stuck out of this a little bit less nervous now, but permy's still drawing breath locally
He's on the wrong side of the map the hit should be coming in elsewhere
They've been aggression coming out of full sense though Pat man
Isolated for the time being they can't swing deep into him though unit on his further back
And now rotating in his own as well
So there's back up as they look to finish their game very nicely done by GE
And now all we have to do is avoid permy getting an ace
has enough draft to go over this wall it's exactly what he goes for there's the
first I'm already a little bit worried but now please just take the shot please
just take the shot autumn thank you thank you because that could have got
you know what they're waiting to make sure that Chris look we get the plan
it's actually very clever I understand why we're all just panicking guy like
well we don't want to do that just cuz he turns around and just takes your head
if you're gonna look like a fool, but that's actually very clever or management from global
people.
Yep, very nicely done.
I just think, let me live an extra second, there might be more orbs found, but it might
be for him.
Also, all jokes aside, if you play that scared against Simi, we've already lost the game.
100%, 100%.
They did the right thing, it just made me very, very nervous.
You're clenched.
A two to one.
Early half goes, so what do you think it should?
And now GE, Hunters Fury on high. Crystal sends in the drone right away. That could be go time for it. Mid split though from GE already with so much control.
They should be aware of this on the other side but with the Sage wall blocking them off those players on site are completely isolated.
And all of their own has bought them a bit more time, a bit more space to fight from.
Now their teammate starts to get an angle but the orb goes up.
Jitboi's good onto Utaton with the Hunter's Fury causing all those problems in that little laneway.
It's cleared out a lot of space. I thought maybe they wouldn't expect Cruz, but they dealt with him as well.
Gee. Now everybody's coming from this little choke point. It's shifting easy to keep them at bay.
But this late play by Autumn, it certainly will be.
He's had a decent start to this one and at this stage that operator walking back through,
Not really worth throwing it away.
Global e-sports.
Already having that decent recovery skill.
I don't think they're going to be getting that operator out of his hands.
I like though that we are seeing slightly more direct plays.
I think using that Hunter Shrie, which they managed to gather up in the previous round
to just get them the entry in towards the site, and then also just having that very
deep post-plunk on to be good execution from the side of Global Esports.
And economically, it is actually going to put the defensive side in a bit of an awkward
position here.
One enemy remaining.
Yeah, obviously talking about how they're going to buy up around this, it's not an easy
decision.
many things going for them having a res to bring a player back online obviously
the off-broad through they can afford the rifle on kalua but it would be such a
mix by that I think they're doing the right thing premium play blade storm
next round if needed everyone else came full of a full buy with minimal
investments kalua instead of going for the rifle goes for the Guardian to make
sure next round can still look proper that does mean that what should be an
and he's a great third GE, is on the cards, nice start by Patman, but the trades come in quickly.
All they need to do on GE's side now is finish into that A site, grab the plant and keep those fights nice and range.
The only player that can really take him in those stools will be Primmy, he's miles away.
And a res on line two.
They're not again, they want to throw anything into this one.
This one autumn again his positioning has been perfect over the last couple of rounds immediate trade when his teammate goes down in the form of pattern
Catching players as they look to lurk and once again for me has been completely nullified hasn't had
Any impact over the last couple of rounds because you've just not been in the right place at the right time
You've done well to avoid him of course
They want to try and remove this gun and they will do for players standing for global e-sports operator out of the round
I'm assuming it will have to be the Bladestorm to pad the gap.
Yeah, it definitely appears to be the case.
Now, the fourth lead taken by G.E. when Rimi's nine and two, second death being in the save.
They've done a great job of avoiding him in these last couple of rounds,
not giving him the chance to find those early fights.
And now, removing the off as well, as you said, has to be the Bladestorm for the next one.
There's not much you can do about Rimi in terms of stopping him from having a good game,
a good game, but if you can keep avoiding them like that,
it means you're playing into the sage, which for full sense,
as it worked so far, 2-0 up, and then a streak from GE,
the control lost early.
As we get into this, they'll be discussing their corn base
win condition for round six.
Well, that is the interesting thing.
You look over the last three months,
and this has not been a particularly good map
for full sense.
They've struggled.
I think it was in the group stage versus T1
and had a couple of hefty defeats after they played G,
but the one victory they do have in the last three months
is versus G.
So it was clearly one that, again,
they felt like was a good counter in this matchup,
maybe rather than having their own strengths.
I also want to see more from shit boys in this game.
So I think on the last map on Split,
he was fantastic with how he played a lot of that sage
utility.
I think on Breeze, it really does come down more
to the timing.
Obviously, a lot more avenues, a lot more
space to try and fight around that utility. It's not quite as close quarters as the previous map.
I think this will be much more of a true test of what their coach was saying about
his sort of intelligence on this agent.
Full sense. After the pause, Primmy pops the old, follows the drone down on mid.
Door's going to be opened by it, and he slips through. It's a nice cloak and dagger play.
might even have gotten away with it too, but they'd caught Kalua trying to contain that space on mid
With him falling expect it. This is the only thing store about to open the walls just gone down
Pat men's even looking the wrong way. It's all down to timing on that mid fight autumn has taken down the viathan though
And on the B site there's a big threat chip boys and cruise though seem to be dealing with it
You boys up on top of the wall. It's a nasty angle and he's got another from there
to take down three Spam decent but he won't get to fire that shock dart. The blade storm
finally comes through in full sense. It leveled the playing field. Well, yeah, question answered.
Slightly different way to what I was expecting with the slows being a huge part of the game
plan but there's something we've seen across quite a few regions. Just having those boosts
in awkward positions that can make it easier to find a lot of those opening kills and of
course again this just comes down to having that all management wanting crews
to have that ultimate coming up a little bit sooner the fact is that I think at
least in middle like what we saw some lucky it seems like they're definitely
aware of some of the tricks like when that drone went through he was actually
still spamming towards the door for a little bit so I don't think they were
caught off guard like that but just they were caught off guard instead by
That seems like G might want to go for a more direct play when we get back into the game.
But after Fullsense being able to fight their way back into that previous round, Gip Boi's
having a lot of success on the stage.
It's going to be an annoying wall to think about now when the push comes to shove and
the B-play.
And I like the idea, like I said, from Fullsense, sending the drone out, having Permi take the
space in the back of it.
It's been a really nice spot to fight for mid-late.
little unlucky to lose calo lose calo the way that they did.
He was obviously supposed to be point of contact, checking for exactly when
primmy can come back out and take those fights with the Bladestorm.
And because of winning that round, full sense come back into this with an operator online.
And primmy with that off, it's such a nightmare for GE early on.
You almost have to play direct because you want to use your utility to get around every
angle. If you don't, you're probably using a player sending them back to the spectator screen.
The trade-out for the space, Primmie's been unreal so far, like that first map was lights out
He started this one with style on the outlaw and now sitting 10 and 2 the Alps back in his ass
Yeah, I'd say in a lot of buy-runs though that the man to watch has been awesome
I think his lurk plays in positioning have made things a little bit more difficult
They're gonna come in with four ultimates as well on the global east side so
the chance for them to
build into a half that has looked good for them.
It's worth mentioning as well was their defense last time that they struggled on.
So already looking more confident and there's A site seemingly going to go under their control.
With a Viper's pit as well within the first 20 seconds.
If Viper's pit isn't even covering off the spike, it's just covering that left side
making this much more difficult to get back onto site.
You have to push left, you have to push exactly where GE are waiting for the battle.
apparently is good to start reveal doesn't catch happy and now all of them
able to step into the duel the trade out decent though full sense now pick up
the pace of the way back through trading as they go over the pit is the
danger the problem is that the plant is not inside it at least in order to work
with an estate bike sent in would change the game but there's none to work with
any more time taking fast enough if they can keep those players away from the
spike a swing out from unit on give it a chance the cruise might have ended a
time though a little bit too low he's got a run for the hills.
Nice post flying in. I think the full sense did well eventually to sort of clear out everything like get rid of the
pit.
But the fact was it was just the amount of time they scored. Like having this deep ball initially that needs to be broken
having a couple of players on contact and then all the while still having those players ready in the post.
and all the shot was needed was just to deny the refusal to crystal us exactly what was necessary.
Four of the last five rounds now going the way of Global Esports and you also have to bear in mind
they still haven't really used the ult. They just used the Vympers pit in the previous. Everything else is still available.
Mid fight for G.E.E. same thing for full sense. Paranoid is primed and ready. This is going to be a big swing off contact
And that contact's about to come through and maybe now it's a it's a little bit closer than expected
They're right at the door. No time for power. No, you
He only wanted to take down the man in the drone and instead he got the whole pack
Uniton is the last man standing and not for long
Right round from Leviathan. Yes, he threw his life away for it
But he got more than enough value out of that situation.
I think that was probably as much of a shock to him as it was for everybody else,
but also not connecting and that everybody else just not quite quick enough of the reaction.
A disturbance in their play and very quick reactions, 4-4.
Scoreline equalized once again, but the problem is with how close some of these rounds have been,
gee, just don't have the economy.
Yeah, sure, they still have those ultimates or at least a few of them to play with.
They don't have any guns other than a singular Guardian.
All sense.
Still primed for an aggressive spot, and I like that they've given it up after a couple of seconds.
This was the danger, right? If those pistols just come swinging out, now Kalua is in danger.
Rifle picked up, chip boys. Oh, it's nice.
Two taken down, Uniton the main one.
And that's the old god out of the round of the buy-in though, doesn't expect the late
fight to be coming up right behind him, so Patman gets a freebie.
It's a round from full sense where they're up against next to nothing, they go pushing,
they give aggressive fights.
She's here, and well, the round's not lost just yet, especially not with Primmy sitting
on the site.
But he's in a very uncomfortable spot with this operator.
Yeah, well, gosh, he's about to go, but speaking of uncomfortable, the pawn position, open
to main cruisers been making this push a couple of times so much so that all of
the
alive it should have been dead to rights but the pistol apartment not so kind
back to a 2v2 scenario planted you don't finish this man off and he will
punish you for it crystal left in a clutch
hunter's fury in a 1v2 would be a gamble he'd need one of these kills first and
Any sort of cross could be his instant demise, a shock that would be enough, but it's not quite gone.
Anyone near a cruise, a big round from him individually.
Gee, he had so much promise with the low buy, but it's full sense to come out on top.
I really want the replay to be ten different angles for me, just dancing around every shot fired his way.
It's a pulp fiction scene in the making, and it is what ends up winning them this round.
The tags were found, one more shell was needed, and then when they go back to finish off their
meal, he is there to punish them.
That's got to be tough for GE, a chance to take the lead here and instead full sense.
Now three out of the last four rounds going their way.
GE, this time it's a full buy though, they made the last one competitive, there's at
least a silver line in there.
It just has to do damage mentally, you're getting in positions where you can win these
rounds and then just a few things going wrong, the contact play but this time Ultim's won
the fight.
An important man down. Kalua's gone as well.
Taken full mid control.
If they go towards the B site, it would be the more stacked up.
But if they do their due diligence properly,
they may just find an open site.
Scott's gone through, and Jip's got curious, down and out.
Crews, yeah, good work to find one. But I don't think they're going to go push it into the pit anymore.
Spike, well just flee to the A site and cruise putting his pit into this round
gets nothing for it crossing on me it gets caught and dealt with GE right back
to winning ways five to five
I think again, I like all to managing to win that fight in the middle
Deleting the danger man and then any reaction was just very quick
Udutan started to really build into this map as well. You mentioned it at a quiet first one
When you go back to
That match versus Levy at town. He was a huge factor
Especially on fracture
With Pearl the next map in the series a map where go the least folks have looked phenomenal
Yuditon trying to get information, he's been eliminated immediately.
They saw the Orban mid here as well, no more noise outside B.
Now it's time to connect the dots and with that kill from Popman,
Jitboyz knows exactly what's coming his way.
Theraz might not get a chance to be used, but that's such a good bait!
Jitboyz uses his team HTP as a distraction,
grabs himself one, back for another, and he's not stopped yet!
Sure, Crystal takes that kill, but he's left a 56 HP, and when he...
Almost takes down Leopold, in fact, he'll wish he did.
He looked for a second like Gip Boys had done enough,
but G.E. again fight back this time for the lead.
I really am enjoying what I'm seeing from Autumn.
I think one of the criticisms, and it's something you'll hear a lot
from the fan side of things, is like,
are they scared of playing against Primmy?
And we've seen over the last, I want to say, six rounds,
that Autumn is absolutely not.
He's taken that fight head on, he's jumping into angles,
he's swinging into the battles versus Primmy.
And if I'm looking at a lot of the the deaths I think primmy has it probably comes from the hands of all to
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Gee after losing the pistol now look to do the same that their opponents did to them a climb back
With the potential for a victory in the half
Bladestorm online weaponry for the rest definitely still an advantage for G
Yuditon had already made it past.
They gave some false security to those defenders.
They didn't think that much space had already been taken.
But that's how quick Yuditon could be with his own wall
to cover him.
They've made it to the A site.
Yuditon's got another on back.
And now, full sense, stalled out completely.
They still have that res to work with.
With the micro all up, that's exactly
what they're going to go for.
Leviathan comes back into the round.
Freddy finds one, but Yuditon is third.
With three more on offer, he's looking to find him.
4k for you to turn a matter what a bit of a slower start will he showed up just in time the lead is for G
He at the half
Yeah, for sure
It's one of those games where it felt like G needed to build up a little bit of momentum
And I think the unit on it has definitely been
The player to watch over the last couple of rounds him and autumn have been impressive
The question is are they gonna be able to build into something?
Either way, let's check in with the HyperX player moment, a new top.
I think I lost because I had a little bit of regret.
I don't think I'm nervous because it's my first time.
It's rather fun.
I think I can focus only on the game.
I don't have any inconvenience.
When I come to the international team and practice with other teams,
I feel like I can get used to the players I used to not be able to see.
I feel like I can get used to the players I used to not be able to see.
the two round lead. Now we go to their defensive side, Tom. Where are your thoughts out? We've
seen new ideas from full sense, but when it comes to GE, are you expecting this defensive
side to stand up? Are we going to Pearl?
But that's the interesting thing. You look at the change of composition, and I feel
like that sage gives you a little bit more of an avenue to maybe just section off some
angles in your post plan, but it should have helped a lot more on the defense. Well, realistically,
the 4th sense defense wasn't fantastic and last time out their attack was what
was phenomenal so losing the neon I don't know if it necessarily helped them
as much in this half and I think the G short they had a really rough time last
time out but I think they're already looking a lot better than they did the
last time they played this series all seems like a third map could be on the
horizon but that's not our choice that choice belongs to full sense at the
global e-sports for seven rounds in that first half it was full sense finding
the pistol but still trailing by two now the next pistol underway primi has
been the star of the show pretty consistently when it comes to these a
4k to kick us off in the previous best
for now he'll avoid the flight they're going over and I didn't try to do it
again but in fact it's only the one player that's made over the rest of
Wrapping back around even still though.
Harvey has got away with a kill.
Onto Leviathan.
Gives them the man advantage.
Their opponents ducking in towards main just to try and have some semblance of space.
They have been able to put pressure in onto the back side of course.
That sage wall was used in towards middle of the reaggression from Geatboyz being attacked instead though it is primmy once again.
It was four kills in the last.
There's an opportunity for that again.
Again him and shit boys looking to do it but already onto the diffusel Patman sticks it to half
They now just need to clean up those remain a couple of kills and in fact they're not in the right position to deny this
Do you can't just diffuse in front of them?
They will take home and a drowned and even though everybody falls it means nothing
I'd love to see a telestrator for many on that one. Let me tell you that was a strange pistol full players on the site
But as the spike is being planted they send to
Two players back around towards double doors and that could be an okay play but look where
the spike is planted.
There's no way that you can deny that.
The whole reason that they got it to half and stopped was they're waiting for the swing
from main.
They're thinking someone's got to be coming right now.
The whole squad was double doors.
I don't know if they thought it would be a slow pace retake but that was a complete
misread the full sense losing out on that round come into this with I mean a
bit of the investment there's an outlaw for primmy everyone else rockin the
pistols still some decent amount of credits on primmy because he was gifted
that weapon cruise a good thing he also just understands what the win condition
of this round is as many of us do at this point
How many can he get? How much damage can he do?
Looking across there's only one player that can actually survive a shot from this outlaw.
And with him having full shields, he can survive a little bit more than they can.
A jump up, swing out, I think he's been spotted and he's been tagged up.
10 HP, hit by that outlaw, surely at this point there is no more damage to be done.
At least a pistol kill coming up for Jibbois, but considering the post-pond and the investment from the other side,
other side G handled that well good amount of kills for crystal I think that
if you use as well plus the planet to get that away so we're gonna be making
strides towards having that hunters fury online very early on and nine to five
scoreline for G how this started again
this has been a godsend for this squad remember losing out on this map so they'll
no longer be facing elimination they'll be tasting it
Each round here a step closer to a decider to seeing that pearl for full
sense. They're the ones that have to show us they picked this map for a reason.
As we said last time around it was GE who decided to fight here and based on
what I'm seeing looks like they're pretty happy to see this battleground again.
I'm yet to see a reason why I decide as opted to pick the opponent's choice.
Adaptations.
Not working so much, probably he's just going to try and pressure through and he's been dealt with because of it and aggressive push through, but because Jim Boyce was able to get the res.
He's going to bring back Leviathan, of course still some weaker weaponry in this round for the side of Global, but those two snipers.
Let's just say they can't be faced.
They're also most definitely not a surprise factor.
They had the outlaw in the previous round.
Almost dropped on the floor when they faced off against the pistols.
You know that they're going to have at least one here, if not both.
So full sense, play this very passive.
Nobody is peeking.
The sage wall is up to stop the push through.
Not billing for exits though.
That's exactly it.
D.E. have acknowledged that they don't have any chances to really deal any death blows
on the run back into sight, so instead they sit outside, starting out nicely with one.
sense have found a safe little cuppy to hide away and you know are so they think great work
to make this costly and it almost got worse. Yeah, they'll keep one rifle. They'll take down three
players considering that a res was also committed into that round from the side of full sense. I
think that G can be quite happy with the amount of damage that they've done. They're going to be
able to come up with a full buy of their own for the next round, although the the ultimates are not
Not quite there, a fair few of them are coming online.
We now look towards Falsense once more, is this going to be a momentum shift or if they
lose this round, are they going to be in a bit more trouble?
Falsense is here enough for a full on A hit right away, swinging into the angle and getting
out of there was autumn.
He spotted one, got a whole lot of information to work with, it's not going to drag the rotates
It's just yet, but G have just pushed up and been made full sense need to pick up the pace now as the back is wide open
Remy. Oh, he's gotten them again through the wall, but
Cristles made it away. He should be dead to rights
even still with
The two aggressive positions read was there the TP even paranoid off so the ultimate couldn't get anything
All sense of dumb water to get in a post plan without really
Taking too much damage for it
You can even see some of the hesitance on that flank coming through from Uniton.
He's on a long rotation back, maybe hoping that they start looking back in the other direction,
but instead, Killua has found a couple.
Trade immediate from Autumn, this fight could be everything, and Leviathan will win it.
That final trap play is a bit...
Underwhelming in the end of the remaining couple, they were almost waiting for that.
That was meant to be the moment the round flipped, but instead, that time has gone.
The remaining couple of players will flee to survive and pull scents are gonna
turn it into a couple rounds streak. Oh it's very much not over yet for GE. They
even get out of that round with 4 HP than their opponents. They were so close to taking it across the line. This kill is what
changed it. You said it could be everything and it was Leviathan keeping a
foothold for the main avoiding that blanket. You saw even for a moment he was
caught off guard by it at the timing it took so long to come in that they
started to think it wasn't a possibility. Bicking that up puts them
within two. Buy for GE is not great. The chance is fantastic, they give it a
gap in the wall this is a sneaky play. They've been conditioning GE and this
This time the wall is that little bit further.
They slip through it and move to the B site, catching the rotations, leaving Heavy completely
isolated.
The wall goes and lasts a second and Heavy lasts even less.
Oh!
Crystal!
He's given them a chance.
A 3v3 now from around the look-loss moments ago.
Gee, you're back in contention.
I like that Autumn's not taking more fights, but a kill there would have given them favor.
He's still managed to keep the players with the weaponry, but Primmy's timing here could be everything.
One player looking away, the drone being sent through and that one's for free.
And he's not being greedy with it either.
We talk about this man and his ability to run it down to disrespect opponents,
but in this case he knows how important these rounds are.
They are not in a massive lead, but in the round they most certainly are.
Patman to try and face versus three for him.
Credit's actually very low.
The purchase into the next round might be difficult, but there is no weapon to be saved.
Full sense. It's starting to climb on the attack.
That's three in a row now. That pistol round, the only thing that's keeping GE up there in the lead.
But it comes to buy rounds. Thinking back to the previous map, it was all about full sense until right at the very end.
In the final hour, GE showed up and it was too little, too late.
We're not quite at the point where that's on our minds again but after this
investment if things go badly maybe we will be, Autumn's denied any further
control here with the AWP. Nice slow right off Rip. That's gonna say I wonder
if after this one it might be a pause. I was starting to question if it would already be the case
maybe waiting for the operator to be in hand for Autumn but it hasn't found the
impact they desired. Heavy A present from the operator, the sage there as well.
Oh, a lot of almost one to punch the potential to a grass and then the potential to delay instead
They're really gonna need that delay because already a multitude of players looking at trying to split through in towards this a site
Tags already they know where all of this they know where happy is but the element them is a completely different story
Autumn's found himself an easy easy pick up and then Crystal and have he show up as well last player known to be in Maine steps
even heard now
information and they've got him boxed in.
Kahlua saving this weapon.
What's on his mind, but he doesn't know how tough of a task
that's going to be 35 seconds on the clock.
Five players alive for G 30 seconds.
Who to be fair, don't really want to lose too many more.
This being a clean round would help them out a ton.
And the high low setup in play guarantees it.
Double digits now for global eSports with a flawless round.
I think, again, just excellently played by the two defenders of that A-side.
Their job was basically just survive as long as possible and delay.
And I think happy not only having the wall initially that creates a pretty awkward angle to run through,
but then the slows, and by the time his teammates arrive, it's almost just that little bit too easy.
10-8, a break back for Global Esports, still two in the lead, but it's not alarm bells just yet for the attack side.
Although this one is their credits on the line, seeming like they might just be going for an all-in on B, they are not sending anyone anywhere else on the map.
No backup plan this time. In they go, the pressure onto GE, Patman's already taking tank 2 shopper's understury, but Utun lined them up without even realizing.
Oh, Autumn's desperately low, the HP traded, but if Leviathan gets greedy, he's gonna be in big trouble.
They're all here and the Shockdarts landed onto Primmy.
A big pick up, not just to remove that player, but to buy that little bit of extra time now,
as they look for the plant, Leviathan noses it off on the other side, but they don't seem to care.
They're swinging into it, they're looking for the fight up against Autumn.
Confidence on display, so close to finding the pick up, and in fact, Leviathan!
So close in the end, but not quite close enough.
11 rounds for GE by the narrowest of margins.
He only had one bullet left.
He has landed that.
One of the craziest conscience of all time.
He still seems to be laughing away,
but that is a seemingly a death blow.
11-8.
For the attack side, it leaves them with very little to play with. It's a death ball once again.
All five players in towards this A site, Primmy leading the charge with the Bladestorm.
Already an opener under his belt.
I'm not sure this is the moment you'd want an old in-out to Crystal,
about flying through the air would be scary. Already. They're gonna invest that fight with Pip,
but they've lost a couple on the other side with Spams.
The stun's gone in.
No one's following it up just yet, but that tag, that's crucial.
He's dead to rights.
Cruz has no chance anymore in the Bladestorm.
Won't last long.
Leviathan, almost the hero of the previous round,
but he hasn't got it in him again.
12, now for globally sports.
It's over time or all the way to Pearl.
They've looked a lot more confident on this map.
I think across the board,
Udo Tan has had his moments, no doubt.
It's in a lot from autumn all the way through the map, crystal as well.
And on the other side things that is a hot start from Frinnida.
The moments have now been few and far between.
Four rounds in a row needed.
Well, they're coming in with a res, but they used a lot of their ultimates over the last couple of rounds.
the Hunters Fury that seemingly didn't do too much, the Bladestorm in the last.
Already, what the silencer on this time?
It does help, it does help.
They're going to try this again, it's just been all in place.
Well that wall's not lasting long.
The full sense don't intend to just go sprinting through.
They've avoided the spam early on.
This age wall already
About start to the attack side now. They've fully cleared out middle the one thing they don't know is the G
You've taken all this space on B full control of the main
The cruise has caught Patman even with all that B information they go for aggro on it
That's why the crunch is at least rated it out
It's taken out
They're fighting for as well.
Crossing into this side now becomes so much more difficult. Instead, they have to fight it.
They have to go aggressively.
Premier's going to be fought back and he just about survives the shock dart.
It's not quite going to finish him off.
However, you don't turn on the flank wheel.
Looking for a little bit more overdrive.
Maybe there to close out this bad. Only one standing.
Gee, I'm not done yet.
They may have lost their map choice, but now they've won their opponents.
It lost their map choice 13 9 anything you can do we can do better they take this 13 to 8 for global eSports
The regional matchup proves to be in their favor on map number two and now we go all the way to pearl
We'll find out how this story ends. Who's going back to pacific a little early after the break
and
came back on Breeze, we got a very different outcome
than the last time these two teams faced off
and we got a full series on our hands.
Yeah, it looked like the fundamentals from GE
were on the server in this map.
Last time, I think that there was a lot of mistakes
being made, this time around, it looked like the GE
who were fighting as a team and together coming through.
It wasn't necessarily big moments,
it just feels like GE are the kind of team
that just win those just standard rounds,
they get the opening pick and they're just like snowball
through.
Yeah, we heard Frost previously speaking that's coach interview about some of those fundamentals kind of slipping away in map one
But as you mentioned many able to bring it back here in map two probably still being able to put up a decent performance
But I think the main thing here was on being able to shut down those first engagements
Yeah, would some on the attack side was getting some of these crucial kills to just win GE the round as soon as you got a kill
It just felt like GE were a completely in control
But it was you do time that turned things around from map one
He was going in entering and I think he was doing a really good job making space for this team
Definitely, I think the complete turnaround from map one right
We came into this map saying keep your eyes on this guy because he had a bit of a quieter performance of map one
But I think he definitely was able to come out swinging on this one the neon looking so so comfortable for him
Just as you said mention many being able to create so much space for his team and having the fragging power to go alongside that as
Well, we look at this
300 ACS for him. We highlight his debut at London being extremely strong and I was a little bit worried after map one that we
Just highlighted the player who had a little bit of a pop-up moment
But it looks like Udytaan is here to play and he needs to continue this form if GE want to take
Absolutely, but we also need some of the other players to continue to step up from global e-sports
We were talking about Patman earlier
He's still a little bit quiet as far as global e-sports usually performs and I wonder what's happening over here on the global stage
He did mention in his press interview
He wanted the rest of his teammates to step up and he would stop, you know babysitting so to speak
Yeah, there's something for us said that was really interesting
That was Pat doesn't have to perform at that level for him to get value and when I watched them on pearl
It was always about Pat getting great reads in that previous game
So I think if I'm frost here, I'm going to pattern saying look if you just make the comms good
If you're just focusing on that don't worry about anything else and the kills will come make sure he's got something to focus on
That isn't his kills. Yes, make sure that you can get that confidence back
Yeah, he's got plenty already from Pacific, you know, like let's focus on the game here
Make sure you get the win in and it's we move into pearl
This will be really interesting to see these two come head to head on this map now false sense
the game. It was a great
experience. It was a great
experience. Historically, whether
they were talent, whether they
are now his full sense are
pretty strong on Pearl, but we
saw Pearl from global East
Sports just the other day, and
it was shambles. It was
dominant. No, they donated
live on this map as far as I
can remember, and it was
crystal that was the player to
keep the eye on. He was
shambles for love. Yes,
on par when we saw it in the opening game. Yeah, usually bangers end on split, but for these two
teams they are extremely good on pro. I think it was big time who even said that he thought that
full sense was maybe the best pro team of the groups. GE though, extremely strong showing it
here at this tournament already and even in Pacific dominating it. So I'm expecting a banger
series for both these teams. Definitely, both of these teams have liked to lean into the Phoenix,
double duelist comps, and it looks like not too much has changed.
I know we could talk about priming, but this is the map that is, it impressed me the most
with this map.
When he's on the B long with that jet and the operator, he is dodging all the utile and
making it look easy.
It's so good that when he's dominating that space early, he'll just leave it, left, vice
stay there by themselves, and he's going to be dynamic around the map.
So I do wonder if GE will have a strategy here of just the voice priming, because he
He has been taking up most of the kills with that 4-4 sense.
Just avoid Primmy or utilize that utility they have.
Combine it.
The Fade utility, the Phoenix utility, molly him out of those spaces.
Use the Astra pools to be able to get him off of those main lines with that operator
as you mentioned Mini.
That is what they are going to need to do.
To be able to shut this operator and snipe her usage down from someone like Primmy.
Well, we have two teams, a Thai team and an Indian or here for the very first time on
the global stage.
It's elimination.
Who is going to continue through heading towards playoffs as you send it back to our casters Mitch and Tom
Well, it was a long journey to make it all the way here to London
But a long road ahead of these one of these teams all the way back to Pacific for full sense
They started this out with 13 nine domination, but especially considering how the early house went
She was on the other foot in the previous for me
Had a star map on split, but Utaton showed up for Breeze.
Now all that's left is Pearl, has full sense,
started the defensive side, look at GE,
Orb on B, and everybody ready to walk into a wide open A site.
The defense are just putting that pressure into middle.
They've left both sides open, but timing this over the top
is going to be important.
Otherwise, somebody would get trapped out,
and well, they still won't do.
It won't matter too much, though.
Orton took the Orb on the other side,
now has ended up as a lurker. He might be wrapped on himself, a wrap around from Cruz.
Yuditang very aggressive but now being spotted has to be careful. Look at the
discram retreat but he's kind of left his teammate behind.
Autumn now catching out one and in fact a second in that mid position.
He was ready for Cruz. Now gives him the man advantage and that's the signal
for Yuditang to fall back even still though avoiding Grimmy. That little bit more difficult
But it's right up in your face. They have managed to deny the diffuser zone and it wasn't half because of that that time
It's taking even further. It's awesome to get them that pistol round and G start off with a bang
It's interesting as well because G went towards B saw nobody there nobody fighting along no one pushing up
No noise in middle and so they decide to go into that A site no doubt from full-senses perspective
That's the exact opposite of what they want that wall is there to give you information
you're hoping that they'll at least send someone middle. The problem was when they realized they're
not sending someone middle, they were wrong. You actually have a very late play by Autumn.
The fact that he was being flanked and gets out with both of them is huge.
Closes out the round as well. That's a massive step up from him.
Another orb for Autumn means he's one away from the runnit back.
I think he will be getting in just a moment. I'm trying to bait.
Somebody in for the fight
Crystal spotted them waiting nearby, but it's kind of how many can you get here?
I've actually all gone past it. Never mind. He's gonna hear an awful lot of steps
Of course only has a pistol to lose that's why he's going to fight them
It's not the prettiest a sheriff of it's a primmy, but it's allowed his teammates to get into a post-bond
Now it comes down to cannonball sense do any more damage
Yeah, talking in here, I don't think it's even about damage, right?
We see them in a spot that G very much know they're in.
No one's going to be running towards them.
I think at least two have decided we're just going to go down to the spike.
And when you look at where the orbs are out for G, that kind of makes sense.
Autumn doesn't even want to kill.
He just wants to die so that coming into the next buy around, they don't even need map
control.
They can go straight for a direct play with the runner back.
He has a chance.
He has a real chance to at least go down to the orphaned one. There it is!
Run it back online.
A lot of people going down to that spike in the end, but...
Nothing but the next round.
There's gonna be an interesting one for G. How much do they invest into this one?
Considering this will be their bonus round, you don't want to go too low, but they did
have a fair few weaker weapons into that mix.
The main thing though is, as you mentioned, Alton with that running back immediate space
taken, it seems like they're just setting up for a very aggressive starting towards
his A site and only Leviathan here, but the rotation already in from his teammates.
taken a lot of space. It has to be something full-sensor wary of. They have no control over
middle, but for now at least it looks like he is a dagger already placed in their back. They are
none the wiser. Double doors is wide open. That's a perplexing gap to leave and to not even think about.
Gee, having advanced a bit, there's a problem being that the player is isolated. Crystal.
And where else could he have gone?
One of the mistakes being what about Primmy is making up for it.
He's got two under his belt already, chip boys with another spike down right in front of them,
but Crystal, he can surely not again.
He's caught four players off guard and a chance for an ace, but it's Primmy who stands in their way.
He'll be put to bed, no ace today, but that's around to be studied.
I
That's mental it seems like the entirety of the around full sense were blinded
But one man's vision was crystal clear that is insanity. I think it's because they see
The chip boys go through and I've cleared that spot
He must have just run away, but the one guy who didn't expect him to push with the one he already pushed
Crystal getting away with murder
I'm almost surprised. I'm almost surprised we didn't see a pause there for Paul
sense. That is such a massive oversight. I am. I'm very surprised. I really was
waiting for the graphic to pop up. That is insane. For him to even get the first
was ridiculous. It's a gap that they left open, but the second, the third, and the
fourth. Now he's got Primmy. Oh, that's a 3-0 start for GE up against pistols and
these kind of rounds. Primmy's normally the saving grace. He won't be this time.
shut down immediately and from here it is a very easy conversion especially with
cruise down now you don't even have the vice you told the worry about accelerate
into feed flash out of that smoke in the world to Royston
my father with the flash other electric start this map to do you we've seen it
before, but this is already feeling different.
Autumn on point, Crystal was highlighted on the desk.
Last time I'm playing this versus Leviathan, 21 and 10.
And again, they had a light sound.
Fax side, for full center, already gonna be starting to ask
the question, why did they pick reason?
Why did they take it here?
Doesn't turn around at some point.
And already Ultim once again, of course, he's gonna keep pushing this, he wants to try and earn up as many Orbs as humanly possible.
They are losing players along the way, but that Ultim is worth his weight in gold!
This now becomes dangerous though, more than dangerous!
The problem though is that Timer...
He is just trying to stick it over the line, there's no way!
Jorley not, thank you Jorley for stopping that!
For a second I thought they were just throwing!
I think it's more so, thank you to whoever said no, but I think he has that.
I think he might have enough time that was close, but
Quite close enough it's something we talked about the other day right when you're already dominating when you're already winning
Sometimes you you played that little bit of Lucy you make those mistakes and in this round
I think that's what we saw
for the orbs
Playing to take those kills and then realizing oh we could lose this round
I got there in the end and now we see the timeout from full sense. They are feeling the pressure
This is a good moment though. It doesn't mean just a blowout of a round.
The vibe at this timeout is a little bit different, but right there, that's a little injection of energy
into the full-sense side to at least grab a couple of the rounds closed out.
Yeah, of course.
The Coinbase win condition.
Primmy's operator on.
It's your boys with the run-it-back.
He's been on the stage the last couple of maps that has been thoroughly enjoyable,
but a very different role while playing this dualist.
position, the other goes marching on with a chance still to make it to the playoffs.
After the timeout, full sense come in, up on Primmy. He's on the A side,
and that's exactly where they're speeding up towards. Now in fact they're right on his tail,
but fearless is Primmy. He swings into that angle, takes it on, and goes back for more!
And a five versus three, well, I don't expect to see much more aggression now from full sense.
Everything's going their way.
I mean, downside is they've connected four over on this A site.
This is leaving a lot of pressure on Cruz.
He has his wall to cover that gap in the double doors.
It's good that they filled in that gap, I suppose.
Can't see that being a big problem.
Then it's usual to fight behind on B at least, but honestly surprised to see them even still
pushing.
also destroyed it chip is still fighting
they were falling back clearly having different ideas and
I don't know what everybody misses sometimes that wall almost saved them as well
it gave a little boop harder to hit full sense
four versus two a lockdown still to play against but no issues look this
reposition from cruise as well they know they're coming from lane so
up go the thorns and he goes long I liked it because he was containing
information but now he's swung it in.
Getting an opportunity. Lockdown now on Lines of Crystal.
He's been phenomenal in this map so far. Still a man advantage.
Locked at that operator. Now is the timing of the lockdown.
It just knows that, okay let's make sure that they can't even get it to half.
Activating those nanos, it has to be a push-up. In fact, they're just gonna go running towards
is trying to destroy it and instead they walk into Crystal!
Again, it seems to be his map, and only Primmy stands in his way last time.
He did it but it's the ace, but this time he'll take it home!
Crystal was ball and ball, but this time he is the jewel!
What a crazy map from Crystal so far.
You said it in the opening series, opening map I believe it was as well.
He was the trailblazer for this squad.
He's now had a 4k and an ace.
Currently on this map, 11 and 2.
And he's a big reason that GD5 themselves
shot 5-0 in the lead.
Full sense of gotta be kicking themselves.
This was a 5v3 and they gained those opportunities away.
That should have been their round.
From Primie finding 2,
he's got to feel hard done by the Eons up in a
One of the egg situation at the end.
There's no way out of that, he's getting hit by the outlaw.
It seems like, gee, they're just piling with the rotations,
they both had open and kill, and then they're just going back the other way.
Well, especially when you go this way, you don't see any of that utility from Vice.
So at this point, you know that Vice is probably set up on A, you've picked B,
you've opened it up, they're gonna over rotate.
Now the noise is being made on A, trying to make them think
about going back in the other direction, but those steps are heard.
They've just dropped down and you to turn
This is far from a one-round
To where the other is going you can see the defenders having to try and fight both sides of the map
It feels like it could have been a bit more simple
But you've been trying to push and pull
They're gonna push straight into another super brown
He's managed to go into water and it's gonna
Just as he comes back into position
A critical touch of sorts for Cruz
He hit the timing perfectly
That was messy
That was a confusing round to be a full sense player I'd imagine
The double from autumn should have reset the finding a third as well, but in the end, great
rebound cruise. He heard autumn round by and realizes he can just about catch him in the
ult. It's a devastating blow in the rounds, but global eastward still have such a big
lead. A red bull clutch gets them their first round beside a full sense. They are far from
out of the woods. The credits still extremely low on a lot of these players and GE could
use this as an economic reset. It feels like that round was over complicated. If you look
at the beginning they saw the perfect fake but then tried to refake the fake, re-hit
the hit and it ended up messy. Is that a sign of things to come? Or will they return straight
back to prominent ults on either side looking at the run it back for
jit boys if he could find the position but it has been a tough game for him so
far. This is a really nice setup. Primmy's keeping a main control even if he
dies they get to delay a little bit longer with the thorns and wrap back in
but it's on double doors this flash could be devastating I think jit boys is
gonna eat this for Giver. It's a three-course meal. Jit boys gone. The A site now under heavy threat
At least, Utaton's gonna be isolated when he goes through that board.
No, he spotted it in time.
They trip the wall, they make noise outside A, and now the wrap back again.
The double fake by GE, but it hasn't quite worked.
Full sense realized just in time that the play is still coming towards them.
On this B site, goes to steal Darned as well.
That's gonna make it even more difficult.
GE boots on the ground, back coming in, but they don't know about Leviathan.
Now they do, and he's got another!
I mean, there's no choice.
They even check in his back.
They know there's been lurks on lurks.
Late plays after late plays.
And that one felt much more like a mid round call.
Like the trip of the war, it did seem like
you do talk wanted to go through it gets caught.
And then they just decide to go back in the moment.
I think the steel garden was well placed.
But have he being the one player that wasn't caught by
ends up defending his teammates
as they make their way back into the site.
This time, the push and pull,
those rotations working out for global eSports and full sense falling further and further
behind.
Six to one down.
I decided, Matt, that if you go looking at like recent results, you'd think they'd be
mad to choose, but one that they'd be very comfortable on themselves.
However, unless something drastic changes soon, it seems like GE have their number.
Well, the problem is this was Ful-Sense's opportunity, losing this round, and their economy is shattered.
But winning it meant that GE were in that same position.
This could have been a 5-3 scoreline, almost guaranteed with that round win, but instead it has slipped away,
and GE now have a chance to extend that lead even further.
It is going to be Pistols, mostly Gondats on the side of Ful-Sense.
The only man with a rifle is Printy, but he's here and he's got four good enough back up
He swings in and mits the chaos
But GEEE
They only lost a single duel
That rifle from Printy had a chance
Everybody was focused on a different player
Audi swung it
Someone's ripped his head clean off leaving Cruz alone
One versus four
Listen this clutch could put the win
Well truly
sense of sales, but we all knew 7-1 was coming. Yeah, I think again. We're talking about even
at times when they're walking into the stacked up site, they're still able to win all those jewels.
I think Autumn is having one of the best performances I've seen from NBA on the utility or just
the individual brilliance. Him and Crystal both 13-3 and 1 as it stands. The next life player
their team has four kills. So they are they are genuinely carrying the rest of global
eSports kicking and screaming them up. I think they are your coinbase wing condition without
things have been going so far. On the other side of things, I think that is the second
pause now called by full sense. No more checking in and we're only eight rounds through.
A much calmer looking frost and you can understand on the other side,
a lot of tea to be spilled. Let me ask you, a lot of the fans at home have a little peek behind
the curtain because behind the curtain to our right is the coaching booth. It's quite a bit
away from a stop. And I think you heard it too. Last map. There was a point where
with the headset on, with the fans, with the game sound, I could hear Frost shouting. It wasn't
even a timeout. It was mid round. I could hear him. He's that loud and they were winning as well.
They were winning. Yeah. And it didn't sound like he was happy. But let me tell you,
what we just saw in the coach camp there is the most relaxed I've seen Frost look in,
I would say years. This is a regional matchup. Evidently it means something to him. How GE finished Pacific number three
But now they are miles ahead of the number two team soon to send them home if things keep going this way
You don't want to lose to your ex team twice. You don't want to have your your student
becoming the master
Man they made a lot of promises to the global eSports fans
and the team that had struggled to ever make playoffs.
And I'm talking regionally.
Now sit at a global event.
Now look to take their spot a little bit further.
And of course with the amount of kills that Chris has been getting,
there's no surprise he has the lockdown available,
a chance to clear out the back of the site,
even having that cosmic divide,
dangerous position is towards the back and this is a full set play I like this
the judge invested into just to take that deep control
yeah so it's quite gonna be through that screen unfortunately Cosmic Divide giving
a safe haven for you to talk for now but it's gonna fade soon so will that
smoke and then it's Breston the first team good but they only get one for it Pat
then the best of all the back into favor and he holds his ground
Oh, running into Pervy's a mistake, though.
The ult took through by Jit Boyce.
He's already on the spike.
He's going to get a half at least before he disappears.
And that's giving them a chance.
They're tapped again, but Jit Boyce goes down.
Crystal was camping on his ultimate.
Could he just diffuse this?
He could try, but they're already going to be on him.
Nicely done by GE.
Another danger dealt with.
And a huge lead built up already.
And there's plenty of this half still to go.
Again, I like the set play. You guarantee yourself a massive off the plant. I think Patten still had to do incredibly well.
He did.
Trading two for one.
And as you said, Crystal was just ready and waiting for his opponent. This map is one where...
I'm not necessarily sure you need to...
Just fair. You need to fair him.
15-3.
And it's actually scarier than like, Primi was on fire on map one, but individuals drop off.
The problem is Crystal is playing the cerebral game better.
He is behind them.
He had flanks when he might as well
typed it all down where he was, and they were still surprised.
For full sense, this isn't a fair representation
of how the series has been so far,
but we were worried about what happened when we got to Pearl.
There's still time to recover this half,
but the other side of the map is gone, and oh my god!
Padman!
He should have been in danger there.
There was four players with pistols swinging him,
blinding him, and he still comes out with three.
It seems like any danger in this round is gone already,
and it would have been dangerous.
There'd be rifles picked up, numbers even,
blade storm online.
Instead, it's primmy all by his lonesome.
Hey, now it's the make a decision of just like,
do I even want to just risk the rifle?
Sure, you have the blade storm.
It feels silly to not utilize it,
especially when you combine to the next round, but...
Let's be real, you've got Harvey with 8,700 credits, you are not damaging their economy
enough to make a difference in this half and you might be gifting Orbs over that maybe
get an extra orb online.
He's still going to try and maybe just show them that they should still be scared of him
but the fact is they are not.
Yudo Tama will put him down and an extra orb towards his overdrive and 9-1 in the lead.
No matter what you expected in this series, right now it's looking like an incredibly dominant conclusion.
Full sense desperately needs these last couple of rounds.
Now the problem is, they're grip on this series, they're grip on this final map.
It's tightening with every round that they find.
Crystal still sitting 15-3. Two players on their squad, a funny tie three times. Full sense. Struggling.
And the read this time, early towards the B site, they stack up three. Now seeing presence in A main.
Mass Exodus of the B site, they're going over to the right site, they're reinforcing the vice setup.
After seeing that initial contact, but gee, back off. Not funny.
But they're making this look like, frankly, they're making it look like a terrible fake.
It looks like they're throwing themselves at the A site with one guy going,
Hey, look, I'm here!
So that they can then hit the B site.
Here comes the prowler, here comes the noise, here comes Utaton.
So now they go, oh, we were wrong.
It wasn't B, it was A. No, it wasn't A.
It was B. And now the spike is going into the A site.
Now it's only going to be Cruz, but he still has his setup.
Oh, the force is not walking off the main body.
The force of Utaton is doing an excellent job at selling that fake.
And they need to kill him clean though
Cruz is still here. He's still waiting in order to dust just that
genuinely hasn't been missing all the way through the game a
post-part
They even have themselves a nightfall
How aggressive they want to beat spots faster it by that defensive side
Jet Boys has done well, but having those just as well evens things back up primi low
Patman still just
Sat up close aggressively a jump up here would
Seemingly mean demise.
He's going to go in behind them though.
He's timed it to perfection.
First comes easy, but he's not going to risk it.
Not going over aggressive.
Harvey's still just sat in the corner low from that previous battle.
And Pat Van is there again.
10 to 1.
9 more rounds than their opposition.
And this third map is looking more like G's map choice than any that have come before.
You come in around 11, you're out of pauses, and your opponents don't just sell a fake,
they sell two fakes perfectly.
Hook, line, and sinker.
Full sense found themselves attached to the line, and now they are being hung out to dry.
Two rounds is the best this could be.
And they'll start with four players on the A site.
Guess where GE are?
And they've just heard at least two.
pushing up on A and media response go to B. They probably even assume they're
walking into the vice setup but full sense four man push where their vice
setup is so this site is done no defense it's all for GE in the post plan.
Wow if you can't try to find the score line. Those have gone pretty well already.
Blue has gone well. This time trading much more effectively and it's gonna be
He left the crystal. He's in Oman's land, still in middle.
An opportunity for them to get towards the spike already, looking to try and
shroud his vision. He looks to try and run through, stuck in the mud.
Already that diffuser is going all the way. I don't think he can stop it this time.
At least, a semblance of hope. A final round being picked up by Falsense.
But Midge, they are so far behind.
They are miles behind. With two rounds in the first half,
seems like full sense, maybe close to booking their flights back home.
Gee, leading 10 to 2.
It's time for the half time break.
But before we get back into the game,
we're going to hear from Jit Boys and Havi.
Here with Jit Boys of full sense.
Jit Boys, what were the talks about bouncing back
mental resilience.
I just think that we had a very big talk last night and I do feel that that really had an impact on me
So I do believe that today is really going to be different from the last night
Okay, I wonder what was being said, but that's a question for another day
Here with Javi AK of GE now Javi you're going up against Cruz in the battle of ideal today
How have you prepped yourself specifically for this matchup? And do you feel ready?
I mean, of course you're ready. We're gonna get our revenge this time. I mean Hector both
Coached us on how to play macro. So really she's gonna know
With the mind games, she's gonna know like which is true and which is fake
So it's just all about the info game, and I'm pretty sure we're ready
Okay, so you can tell which one's fake
Thank you
Well the plane back to Pacific is being fueled the question is who are the passengers for now GE?
10 and 2 up
Haven't even started packing their bags with full sense
They're starting to think about jet lag again. This has been a devastating conclusion
But if they're gonna bounce back it starts with a pistol and if they're not gonna bounce back
It certainly ends with one cuz GE are already
They're definitely force-firing, otherwise they've just accepted the feed, so...
Gorgalee sports looking to level things up between the Orgs.
They faced in the late stages of Pacific, and it was a 2-0.
With the same first two maps, they managed to take Breeze and now on Pearl, they are massively in the lead.
They start to this pistol for full sense. They've got a lot of control. They know there's a lot of players on the other side, but they're not deterred.
Nice way to get in for these fights. Doesn't look pretty. Haby's already got himself a double the man talking in the halftime about revenge.
He certainly got in his own, Yuditan and Crystal, the last two alive, Crystal on full health.
Leviathan certainly ended but...
He's covering it.
Maybe a slight misread from the defense initially.
Leviathan definitely thinking about that flank, of course, there's been a major issue of this
game so far as the players backstabbing, but that type of the spike...
It seems like the players on G are just waiting.
They're waiting for that plant to actually go down.
Just in case he's selling a bruise,
just in case he's trying to get behind them.
Spike planted.
Instead, trapped within the spike.
Smoke has given him a gas, but opportunity!
But it's the headshot through the wall, I believe.
And Crystal once again is the one to save global e-sports.
That pistol round will be going their way.
a plon and that many kills it I will be gums back to this one if we don't see a
force by coming through from Paul Stence they have to yeah like they got the
plant out of it even without it you you have to 11-2 down you're not gonna win
around like this you're certainly not gonna win the streak of rounds needed to
get back into this game a full sense essentially out already for days numbered
The final hour drawing near and the four spy will be pulled into play all legs in this basket
50-50 in that last round and that could have given them a chance
Look at look at the amount of specters as well
They know that there's light shields coming in an opportunity to almost just
Just about gonna survive that's a really good combination coming out of the attack
But doesn't get quite as much as they would have hoped for
Bit of damage. All being retrieved. Defense obviously not taking any chances with their own mind.
Definitely having information of this split.
Flash out for Artem. Unfortunately, Primmy's already gone in.
He's taken it inside the cloud post and now found a spectre for another.
Utaton holds on to control of A main.
It takes away any sort of comfort ground for full sense.
Instead they have to fight for ground elsewhere. Space taken towards the defender's spawn to jump into the window spot.
The window spotted heavy won't get the kill though a lot of success for full sense in the four-spy and it seems like they've done just enough
They've come online
Right when they needed to
That is to them so far, but his impact in this round is negligible and you the time
Well, it might be time to save not because you want this weapon for the next but more so you don't want full sense to have it
Third round Tom
when do we start believing it feels like I think maybe a little bit earlier
because I do think that we've already seen capitulation at times from
global e-sports again I think back to that leviathan series where they played
split they were massively in the lead and then I think they only got one round
of their defense and that wasn't because it's a particularly bad
Cap limits just that they started getting in their own heads, taking too many risks.
Or maybe like 8 or 9, and they're still an absolute mile away.
That's whether or not these are repeatable. Also you have to look at their pearl and go,
wow, they have dominated teams on it over the last few months.
Even a victory versus Paper X, so they have beaten the best of the best.
That's unfortunate, but a singular weapon that could be used in this round and it's
gone.
One man that could take a shot off, Bremy, when he takes two.
That's a bit of an awkward fight.
Our member, Jans Kowloon, sent out.
He's got himself one.
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah, he's going to be putting the ground right afterwards.
As long as full sense can keep that up, at least trading it should be fine, but to be honest you want to see these rounds go by cleanly.
It's not like they need much money to bounce back, as long as they can buy for one more round it's fine, but you need it to feel convincing so it feels repeatable.
I guess the other thing you can say though is just some of these weapons you almost don't want into the next round.
When you're going to try and win that many in a row, I'm not sure I want to see a spectre coming in for Kahlua.
But at least for farming up those Orbs vs Eco.
That's exactly what you want.
Leviathan won away from his ultimate.
I don't think anybody would be saving a ball dog if he was to go down, so he's just going to go and grab that.
In a normal round that would be a silly or risky thing to do with this sort of round.
It's not too bad for Crystal though.
It's starting to build up some orbs of his own of course that has helped out
It would have been insane if he landed it, but not quite there four rounds on the board for full sense still
They need to double it before this gets interesting one day
We're gonna see the Odin bought to span that wall. I can't wait for it probably not to any success, but we'll see it
I'm sure
the round for full sense indeed a lifeline
Many many more needed
To go their way, but two in a row relatively clean here is the real test though autumn comes in with a run it back
rifles across the board for GE
Despite how the first map went this is a completely different story when it comes to the buy rounds or well pretty much any of the rounds
He have looked like the better team. There's been gaps there for full sense exploited at times. There's been individuals showing up
On the attack the previous half
This is great though. Deep Prowler came in from G, didn't see anybody outside A, they took the orb, they ran away.
Full sense, no, they've got a free side over there. All pretty has to do is sell the fake.
With the Cosmic Divide in play, him even just showing there is enough. He can back off now.
This is a great fake. G have fallen, hook, line and sinker and they're only just starting to realize.
And the best thing is he didn't even die. So now he can do sort of what we saw Altim doing on the other side.
on the other side, just at this late flank that they're going to have to try and clear.
With him also in position and the wall not being tripped, they know that they're pretty
much all coming in from a similar angle. He can either watch it to mid, or run it back
though, will look to lead the chance. Maybe pad the gap and already all the tips got two!
He shouldn't have got away with anyone near as much from there. They set up the strategy
to perfection, but can they hold on to the round? It's not looking likely. Primmy, Levi,
Levi, they've made that just one!
They sold their opponents!
And now, they look to see it all fall apart!
GE!
Somehow made that look easy.
The fact that they started on the wrong side of the map,
the fact that they got mated in so much,
it's the two flashes.
The first from Autumn got him that close,
the wall allowed him closer,
and the flash in,
two kills into his hand immediately.
And the fact that those two kills are traded out, but it's just his ult, so he's back in the round and ready to roll again.
For GE, this is why it felt like an inevitability. Full sense have to climb back through so many rounds.
And even there for GE with one ultimate, it was enough to turn the tide.
Even without it, if Autumn just ran in like that, job is done.
Full sense, eight in a row to stay alive at Master's London.
Nice start!
Good read, but the immediate response.
Crystal has been phenomenal.
No! You're not talking to me here!
But he'll trape!
For his life, two kills found.
Bladestorm was picked up by Primmy.
He puts them into an even scenario.
Patman already on a fast flank.
There's no utility to stop him at this stage,
but the positions at least for now are good from the attack.
There's still a lot of time for GE to work with.
Patman slowly making his way down long.
Soon the nightfall can go in.
This is the time to put it through.
Rowler starts, sees one in the corner.
Okay, no, now we're just going to launch straight in.
But Primmy has bailed him out again
to 4K with the Bladestorm
to give full sense of 5th-7th
in a row now for overtime.
God, I'll be honest, that's awesome.
Udyta might have just done it better than that.
That was so smart to play through the molly.
Damn, no idea.
If I were to play, it sort of just feels like a cheat code.
He's just got his 20th kill and they only have five rounds onto the board.
An unfortunate truth that although,
Primmy's still having his moments,
I almost feel like he'd need over 40 unless the rest of the team start to step up.
More players there.
It's a great flash from the bottom, but it comes in a little late.
Gipvo is disabled to punish.
They know.
I'm full sense aside that there are numbers on A. Leaving is the right call.
And whoop, that's probably not where that flash was supposed to go.
They will decide that, well maybe it was.
Initially, I thought he was going to put it on site to sort of fake out, maybe just buy them an extra couple seconds,
but it looks like he's going to hold the space late and then they'll go back there with the spike.
He can flash to deny any contact, any re-aggression, an extra Phoenix flash coming around.
Well, they don't have the Phoenix anymore, so that'd be tough, but a prowler going in, something like that.
Indeed, it'll pop it a little bit later, but very, very patient from this attack side.
As we said, late on, they go back to the A, but GE seemed to have their number.
That's the thing that when you're on the GE side
You don't really need to rotate just yet when you're in such a low-bibber cruise
as quickly farming up those eco-frags
Utitane has been able to get one
That puts his ult online
He's gonna risk it for a biscuit
Try and bring this round home with an overdrive
Oh he's left-faced!
He's so close to taking out cruise!
That was too health remaining for the IGL!
Well that shouldn't have been close.
Especially when seconds ago there was an overdrive fired off on the side.
The cruisers very lucky to be alive there.
Full saints continue to climb back, but this should have been an easy round.
In fact, they showed two players on that initial push.
It meant that Utiton was firing under the radar, and they didn't expect Patman to swing in like that.
But as frustrating as it is to not get more from that situation,
there are still six more chances for global eSports
to carry on their run here at London to send home.
Teeth have finished above them.
They also didn't throw in patterns off.
They still have plenty to play with.
And like a more direct play off the back.
It's off the running back.
Well, you can see the defenders are just trying to avoid it.
Sitting all the way back is there enough time for him to find anything now.
Instead, Primmy still in position.
Weaponry about to be taken away, at least from one.
Alton just waiting on the other side of it, a little bit risky,
but didn't want to be caught running across.
They're really trying to play ahead of this retake,
but they've got to be careful! The swing through only gets one.
But now the lockdown can be put into play.
The more passive post-plunk will have to be taken here.
Yeah, they'd already used their Phoenix utilities
and no chance to burn that lockdown alive.
And now in goes the Cosmic Divide locked out.
They've got to start making a move.
These players could already be on it, but it goes to Molly.
That's bought a little bit more time.
Crystal, a problem that top rope.
He's looking to swing through with his back full blind.
And he can't get the line.
And Grimmy slipped right past.
Full sense have found another.
Still a ways to go, but they're starting to believe.
Always during the last round, a little bit of frustration.
At what point does the doubt start to creep in?
They've just managed three rounds in a row, they need that total to go up to eight.
But the one thing I said in the last round was, hey, at least they didn't use all those ultimates on.
Which they have now.
It's offline.
You can hear from their own comms that they're starting to believe in this comeback.
It is the perfect time in my mind for a global eSports pause.
But I feel like if you're the coach on the other side this way you start going hey boys. Have you saw how far down we were?
They're now calling a pause. You are in their heads. You are in this game
And for Frost all it needs a man who's known for counters known for coming up with what can sort of solve an issue
He just needs one and his old team are out of here
He's a man every EMEA coach dreams of being the man with the counter
But with five rounds to go, he might not even need that.
One big round from Crystal, and he's had more than a few.
From Auden as well in this map.
Lapman's being there.
Abby showed up. He wants revenge.
But it's Utaton as well.
Last map, he was on fire.
And for now, they've done a good job of keeping him down,
but five more in a row.
Only one of those factors has to come online for GE,
And it's goodbye to full sense.
It starts here.
Attack side.
All of their edge in one basket towards this B site.
It's in a mid fight.
They're seemingly underway for G.
At least to start with.
Yeah, they have nothing to play with here.
It's just the pistols.
Ults.
Not online.
Of course there's always a chance, but it feels like a one percenter.
with a post bomb already in. Two waltz available, it needed. This one's expected to be clean.
Great work by Gip always. Even the Blaze going up to slow them down that little bit longer.
It's given an angle up top though. Cruz almost got completely caught off guard by that box.
There's a land okay, but Frimmi's there to clean up. Four in a row now and look this
This is starting to get a little bit spooky.
This was the moment I said, eight and nine rounds.
It is just one mistake for them to slip and fall all the way down.
But trust in a loose stone, they have a long way to fall, but for now at least the climb continues.
It is actually mad to look at the scoreboard and realize that Primmius is now the top fragger.
Like that's insane by how far behind they are.
The impact rounds that Lord Crystal Orton have had, he now has the most kills and the
longer this goes, the more G start to sweat, a game that was done, like it should have
been over a while ago.
Retrieving flash.
And as said, all they need is one round, their coaches had some time to talk, this was the
round they were talking about.
This is a gap again, GE have given it, but they know that they have, hoping that these
players can keep walking through, that they can force them to fight them.
Full sense of giving it up.
I don't know if they can find someone still around us, they keep numbers from GE towards
this A, Scytheful Sands are hitting the lighter side of the map, you do still have to go through
the utility, but the way they're going, they're bypassing it all.
All they can do now is deal with having to deal with Crystal, but that's an easier set
than done at times.
Oh! The grab well was sent in.
The start as well, and Crystal found himself two with a joke.
Cruz try as he might, he doesn't stand a chance, and now it all falls apart.
The fallback with a flawless round.
Global eSports send home regional rivals, and the taste of revenge is theirs.
Acosta Oman joined this team, not being able to play with his prior due to rules.
He's now become that diamond in the rough for Oman that had a phenomenal showing.
So many high impact rounds of well. I am sure that victory is going to taste so sweet
for the side of Global Esports. The team that beat them regionally falls in London.
Full sense unfortunately couldn't replicate their regional success.
And unfortunately today in London only one from Pacific could go marching on.
They're not through to the playoffs just yet, but they've left themselves a chance.
That's bittersweet for the boys to send home some of their regional rivals.
Some of the boys they're used to seeing week in, week out.
Well they won't see them for a while.
a long trip home for full sense, but a long road ahead of global eSports.
I'm definitely excited for the scene. We've seen a lot from them already.
There is definitely a highlight here today.
A man who was just phenomenal in that final match.
Pearl has definitely been where we want to see this guy play again and again.
And again, and I'm sure many teams are gonna start making that sort of question of whether or not we even go
But near this back because of how crystal has been playing. Yeah
Yeah, we have questions about who down on that stage today would be the danger man, but
In the end it was crystal clear
Let's send this down to the Verizon post match interview where Frankie is standing by with the man himself crystal
Crystal looks a little shorter when he's sat down on the stage, I'm just going to pat him on the shoulder.
Hello Crystal, can I pull you in for a quick interview? That's okay.
Congratulations on keeping your place here in London, how do you feel?
I mean, actually feeling good right now, like, we stepped back after the first match, so yeah, our mental back, so yeah, I feel feeling good right now, obviously.
What was the moment that things clicked for you guys on Breeze, because it was a difficult first few rounds,
rounds, but then something changed in the synergy of this team. What was it?
I mean, we know we cannot be like, please care right now, we need fight because like
for us it's super important to know like we can shoot back and we start shooting back, so yeah.
But Frost also told Jen Lee after your first map that you guys were
making mistakes as individuals rather than getting things right as a team.
So what was it about the teamwork that worked?
I mean, the first map, we don't communicate well between each other, so our chemistry wasn't perfect.
But we fixed it on the second map, we stuck a lot as a team, so yeah, it's helped us a lot.
I wanted to ask you about your performance as well, because you've got many fantastic players on this team,
but here at an international LAN, you have been incredible.
Pearl seems to be your specialist map. What is it about London that has just unlocked this Superstar status for you?
day to tell you? I mean for me it really is some big difference between regional
match and Masters. I don't feel any pressure here so yeah but Anton I feel
like so good here, good atmosphere, good time so good venue yeah. Good food? Yeah
obviously. Thank you so much for not slugging off the London food. Crystal
we'll see you play tomorrow. Good luck in the rest of the competition. Right now
though we need to find out who global esports are going to be playing. So we're
going to head on up to Nick and Nick. There are no regional matchups possible from these
balls over. Nope, not today. Okay, so we've got that over with. How is this going to work?
Hey, everybody. So today we're going to be doing the round three of the Swiss stage.
This is a pretty simple draw. The only rule that everybody needs to keep in mind is that
no repeat matchups will be permitted. In our case, the only one we need to watch out for
is XLG cannot play on our G. If that happens, we will simply swap the match up so we have
a valid draw. And the order of this is going to go pick one, pick two, pick three, and
pick four. So that's all we need to know before we get started.
Okay then. Well, let's get started. Get swizzling. Very technical term. I am not going to commentate
the balls, if only DB was here.
Let's crack it.
And here we got first, Global Esports.
And the boys are still actually taking photos right now,
so maybe they'll be keeping their ears peeled for this one.
So that's our first match up.
We're going to draw the second match up now.
So who is the other match up going to be starting with Nick?
Give it a toss.
Give it a whirl.
Give it a crack, Nick.
And inside the ball, we have foot.
So they will not be playing global eSports,
they'll be playing in our second matchup.
So we'll pop that on the board, and here we go.
Just two balls, just two opponents to decide.
you're going to be playing XLG.
I saw a look from Crystal.
And then let's make it official.
Who is going to be playing foot for that survival in this
competition?
And this one is going to be a Corker.
It is, of course, going to be NRG,
the current reigning world champions.
So good luck to all of these teams.
Nick is going to get it on the board and make it official.
These are the too much up to be seen tomorrow,
tomorrow but not necessarily in this order because Nick you've got to go back stage now
and work the schedule out. Yep so we'll get the schedule out as soon as we can so stay tuned on
social media. Fantastic you heard the man stay tuned on the Valorant Esports socials and we'll
see you on this stage tomorrow good night. Hello I'm joined by Autumn from Global Esports congratulations
Thank you only Aussie remaining here on the global stage
We saw your parents earlier watching and of course we have to talk about the draw show
You know before the results came out. Was there a team that you were hoping?
That would have been drawn honestly energy and XLG because
Like we're kind of friends with XLG and we scream against them a lot, but they also energy. Okay, also energy
Well, you got neither. I'm sorry, but any thoughts about facing XLG
I think it would just be fun. It would be a fun match. They're good. I think they're
a really solid team. It would just be fun to play against Raga and Happyway. He's insane.
But I think we'll close it out.
Yeah, you definitely know the XLJ players pretty well and Raga has had some comments
about his confidence. Do you think he's going to have that confidence facing against you?
I hope not.
I hope not, yeah.
Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to play up against F.
You don't want the smoke from Sof and Zeus maybe?
Nah, just we scrimmed against them, so I feel like they already saw some of our maps.
It's just not the best matchup.
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
And you know, there's a side of your teammates we have never seen before in Pacific,
especially from Yuritan, especially Crystal.
Honestly, I've never seen him scream the way he does, bellow the way he does,
And I feel like he's been very underrated along with Utiton throughout Pacific.
What is different here in London?
He's just, I mean, he's improved a lot from like stage kickoff.
I mean, he's improved a lot from kickoff.
Like his aim has been more consistent and like confident in clutches.
His clutch percentage must be so high.
He's winning all the clutches for us.
But honestly, after the first map, I said to the team, I was like,
you know, if we can get Breeze, Crystal's got us on on the third map.
And he does. He plays so well on KillJay, I'm so thankful.
Yeah, that's so interesting because we've been hyping up some of your other teammates.
So to see the rest of your squad step up and yourself as well coming into this event,
how are you feeling versus then versus now?
I mean, I was, I don't want to say anxious, but just to be shaky to get back on the international
stage again, but mostly just excited to play. It's kind of like sad watching all other teams
play the other events when you don't qualify. I'm just happy to make it here. Especially with
this team. I love my teammates and coach and everything. It's so nice. Yeah, the fights are
really great amongst you guys and I can see that happening and growing over the month. Yeah, for
sure. I wanted to speak to you about the kind of roles that you're playing as well. We saw you play
three different roles today, whether that was a controller, Sentinel or Phoenix on the last map.
How do you transition your mindset from playing a kind of reserved role and then moving into this
entry role on the last map? I mean it's just experience I think like I've done it for a
while so I just can like I'm just better at it than I mean like the average person I guess.
Okay. We're just just experience playing it. Do you think Frost has a favorite player based
on who plays the most agents or who can flex across the most so he can run wild with the
compositions? I hope not otherwise I might be playing a different agent every now and then.
It is you guys definitely are known for that. Moving ahead I know obviously we're facing XLG
You know, it thinks so well, and you make it to playoffs.
Which teams are you really looking forward to playing against?
I had ADG, because I was talking to Kangkang and I was like, you better pick us if we get through.
Yeah.
It was like, yeah.
Yeah, you definitely have some history over with the CN teams, for sure.
And your parents are in the audience. They were just behind you earlier.
Do you have a message for them that you would like to send out to the camera here?
I just love you mom, love you dad. Thanks for supporting me all the time.
I see them waving over there. Do they come to all your events? I don't think I've seen them in Pacific, right?
No, they haven't come to Pacific, but they did go to Master Shanghai before, but yeah.
Yeah, and it sounded like your mom watches every single one of your matches. She knows Vol.
They watch a lot of the games, even just when I'm not playing. They're really interested in Valorant.
We should get out on the desk today.
Yeah, break some of the plays down.
Maybe we will.
Well, thank you so much, Autumn.
Congratulations on the win today.
So full sense.
We'll be going back to Pacific.
Global eSports moves on for another day.
And everyone, we'll see you tomorrow for more Masters London.
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