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place man, step hands, wave, wing, can yell when I come my way, man, do bro, then, man,
do yell, yo, break, get break, hand, break, get break, food after run, I need a new place,
gel after run, I like how you shake, gellio, meet you, say I look sweet, conga, enough,
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Finger on deck with a funky sound
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Coming to you live from London,
it's the final day of Swiss Stage.
Today, four teams walk into the Copper Box arena, but only two will walk out with a spot in playoffs.
The great news is all four reasons are making an appearance.
I'm your host, Victoria, and I've got Minnie and Billy here with me.
Here we are, final day, four regions.
How are you guys feeling?
I'm feeling great. I can't wait for this energy foot game.
I think that's the banger of the day.
I think that foot can come out.
People are going to be a bit surprised for them, but that kind of head-to-head with like energy,
the kind of world champions, but
they kind of underdeveloped some love in that one.
And so many storylines when we consider the second
match as well of familiar faces
facing off against familiar faces, whether that's
been playing against, we won another
previously or playing together previously.
So yeah, it's going to be a banger day.
Oh, absolutely. I think we're going to get some really good
matches. The other good news is
because of this, playoff pick-ups are officially
back open. You've got until
the first game happening very
shortly to lock in
in your pick so you can head over to valorantesports.com
if you're here in the stadium with us
and I know you can't log into your account right now
or go directly into the Valorant client
before playoffs begin.
So how have your pickings been so far, guys?
I might have forgotten to lock mine in, so not very well.
OK.
I think that might have been a good thing.
Your credits have been kind of...
They've been better than yours.
Oh, that's true.
But we're talking about you.
How about you, Billy?
Yeah, I have been forgetting to lock mine in
every time I go back after the show and then I'm like not even thinking about
doing my pick-ups so I had a lot of predictions been so far my predictions
have been okay I think I've been yesterday my predictions were okay yeah yeah
I'm definitely the worst out there but let's look at the bracket so you guys
can see why it's been a little tough to predict at times so Vitality and Lev
of course are qualified to play us to pretty comfortable hanging until this
weekend, but today we got foot versus NRG, and we got global esports versus XLG. We saw the draw show
yesterday, of course no regional matchups this time around, but I think we are gonna have some
spicy matches. Yeah, some spicy matches, the condolences obviously is DRG full sense, like DRG
so close there, and then Premier doing everything he possibly could, but wasn't enough yesterday,
so unlucky for them. Yeah, I think that was the cool thing that we saw yesterday was all of the
the game. I think that's the
game. The game. The match is
went the full distance, and
that's what happens when you
get regional matchups and that
comfortability. Yeah like I
think we tried to like kind of
hype those games up because
obviously there's a lot of
familiar between both of the
teams that were playing one
another, but I think the fact
that it went the distance for
every single series, as we're
saying is what made it so hype
and being able to play on that
global stage against one
another. Well I have a game
for you guys since you miss
in knowledge with a little quiz I have here the rules are simple you guys each have a little
buzzer and when the question appears on the screen whoever buzzes first gets the answer first if
they get it wrong the other person gets a chance to reply so let's see who's going to get more
points what's the top mini is so ready I was going to hold it here you're a tiny bit short of the
me. So interaction time should be quick of the mind. All right, first question.
Finally fired. What famous fictional detective lived at 221 Baker Street?
Sherlock Holmes? You have to buzz. I buzzed. I didn't hear it. I missed it. I missed it. Okay,
Minnie. Okay, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes. You've got it correct. They're not many famous
detectives that are fictional here. Second question. What is the most played map here at Masters London?
I think I buzzed first.
I didn't buzz.
Yeah.
I'm going to go with Pearl.
That is correct.
That is correct.
Five times we've seen Pearl here at Masters London.
The next question.
How high is Big Ben?
I saw Billy's.
I didn't buzz.
Oh, you didn't buzz?
Your answer is a lot higher than Mini.
That is true.
Yeah, 200.
Ben is bigger than Mini for sure.
200 Minis.
200 Minis.
You guys are not going to answer this one?
Alright, let's look. 96 meters.
We're not putting in feet today.
And the next question is,
what agent has the highest pick rate here at Masters London?
Little mini.
That is also incorrect.
It is fate with a 15% pick rate.
I feel like we saw a lot of railing.
I don't know why. That's what came to my head.
Well, fate is interesting.
Yeah, yeah.
We're learning something today.
Now, what platform does the train to Hogwarts start
at King's Cross station while many are still on it. What is it?
Nine and three cores.
That is correct!
He was looking at the screen like, wait, that's true.
You're not listening to me. You're looking at the screen.
You should be looking at me. Don't be looking at the screen.
My contact, well, yeah, because you're reading it.
Billy's engaging with me. Guys.
Okay.
No cheating.
No cheating.
No cheating.
Yeah, you're cheating.
All right. Next question.
Which region has won the most global events?
to pick from. Tell me thought
process. Come on. All right,
Billy. Oh, I hate to say it,
but is it America's? Yes, it
is America's. Oh, what's this?
It's okay. We're in EBA. I think
it's what's his next. Do you
think is that next? Yeah, like
to win next region that's like
like america's one-stake-tall
yeah it's all right
what is the official national animal of
england
ah
we got a national animal
no i can't be
is it a giraffe
we who's we
hey i'm from england i'm from scotland so
okay billy
a lion
it is a lion
i'm an idiot
i am an idiot
I don't know. And you said that was such confidence there. Next question. How many over times have we had at Masters London? Many. Three. What? Here in London? Yeah. Why is that so ridiculous? Because it hasn't happened.
I was going to say, I don't think we've had any.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's zero.
So Billy has gotten that correct.
It's felt like a little bit of over times yesterday, but we had none so far.
All right.
The next question is, what animals are legally allowed to cross London Bridge toll free?
This is a creep.
I can't believe this is a thing.
Animals?
Animals.
Well, animal.
What animal?
Animal.
But like multiple of them are allowed to cross.
All right, Minnie.
It's not cats, but imagine cats were like go on cat. It is not a cat. A cat sees to itself
What are you on about? What how are you gonna stop a cat walking across it? I'll stop it. Where's your license, mate?
Mini's retirement plan. I'm gonna guess sheep. It is sheep. Why do you know these things? This is crazy
Billy she's stayed up doing her homework. It's general knowledge while Billy is totally whooping your butt right now
The next question is what is the highest number of kills dropped so far at Masters London? Okay for me
No Kiko with 39
In a single map you just have to get the number, but it's neither one of those players. Oh
High number kills dropped so far at Masters London overall in a map in a match
It should be
Like overall this is overall
I don't know I wouldn't I'd say so go
Saiyan are I'll just guess sign are but I have to get you the number of pills man. This is terrible the answer is 35
Who would you say this is yeah?
I would have said Kiko. I'm gonna drop it wasn't it?
It's not Kiko. I were gonna need to fact check this one after
Happy way word versus dear. Okay. Oh
Oh, okay. Okay. All right, we're showing Billy. Do you have a thank you speech victory speech?
Um, I don't really have a victory speech. No, just I knew I was gonna win. So light work really just another day in the office for me.
Good job. Congratulations. Now we want to ask you guys a question or a mastercard fan poll. Who do you think is most likely to make it to playoffs?
you guys are going to be a
tribute to your pain. You kind of
shared a little bit here. I
know you got some foot
supporters here. Well, I mean,
my heart take was that foot is
going to make top three. So I
got back my boys and say that
foot is going to be able to make
it to playoffs today as much as
energy is probably pretty
top of the board. It's going up
against you. What's your tick,
Victoria was a DRG and GE top
I think that the most I need to win today. You think so? Okay. Okay. Well, you guys can vote and share your thoughts and opinions with the hashtag
Valorant Masters on socials. Now today was actually a lovely day by London standards. It was kind of sunny. So let's see what Frankie's doing outside in the London sunshine.
Today is what we call a heartbreaker because it's the last day of the Swiss stage. And that means two more teams are going to be going home at the end of tonight. We'll also bring in our top seeds from our
four regions, which means our coaches will be choosing after yes, yet another draw show who
they want to play as we head to our playoff bracket. If you're coming to see us in London though today
or during the playoffs, I've got a recommendation for you. Take your photos in here. It's like we're
at the seaside. Oh, Frankie. A nice day. It's so great. That's a nice day for us, no? It's the
So far here at Masters London.
Alright, now we have to talk about NRG.
They have a reputation and that's beating EMEA all the time at Global.
Five times in fact, except one team, Mini.
Yeah, the greatest team. My team. They couldn't do it against me.
Alright, let's do some stage lows and it was an easy game, but they're so good.
I think their foot are a completely different team than we usually see in EMEA.
They're very aggressive and it's a kind of style that I think NRG are going to struggle with a little bit more than the typical.
that I might have been part of.
And then if you're energy
pioneering that you need to be
able to keep the streak alive
to avoid being eliminated today.
Let's not forget when we consider
them being the world champs
back at Champs Paris,
having a podium finish in
Santiago by placing third,
and now you could go down to a team
that coming into this event.
I think it's fair to say a lot of
people underestimated food up
until their opening matchup.
Definitely, I agree with you guys
on that one and a little bit of
hope for EMEA there.
Now this is really interesting,
like you were saying. So they lost to Vitality, but despite that, they had a really interesting round conversion rate.
Yeah, they had 81% round conversion rate whenever they got the first blood.
So you can definitely see that in their game plan, particularly on the defense, I want to say.
Constantly looking for those favourable fights and aim drills to be able to disrupt any team's kind of defaults.
And I think that that should be one of their strengths going up against a team such as NRJ today.
The problem though is that they got a lot of first bloods and they converted them.
they converted, but like if they're getting that many first bloods and they're still losing the game,
then there's something going wrong. And I think that that might be a little bit of an inexperienced
diff. Like Vitality or experienced team were able to close out some of these rounds, and I think
that's going to be the same story today. It's about can NRG, even if they go down in numbers,
kind of convert with their experience. Yeah, and NRG facing against left looked like they were
struggling with that sort of in-your-face play style. That is, would you say what plays like that too?
Yeah, exactly. I think that when I look back at all of energy's results, it's been a pack teams that they've been struggling with the most.
And I thought our team that I think plays similarly, they're going to be in your face with that double duelist.
And I think the energy prefer to play at a pace that's a little bit slower.
So I think that today it's about foot doing their usual stuff and being hyper aggressive if they get nervous at all, then just stop, just do that aggressive stuff.
And I think that's where energy are going to have some troubles.
Yeah, definitely. In fact, let's have a quick chat with them.
It'll gently got to have a chat with Sop and Zeus.
Jen here with Zeus of Foot.
Zeus, what was the first thing you guys discussed after the draw show yesterday?
And where are you looking to target energy?
We didn't talk about energy at all.
Because if you want to achieve a good success in an international tournament,
you have to face everyone.
So if we can get energy or XLG, it doesn't matter to us.
We will try to play our team game as a team and win the E-Infaits. That's it.
we're gonna try to win the aim fights.
All right, thank you.
Shoot back and play your own game.
Thank you.
Well, he doesn't seem very worried at all.
I like that attitude coming in.
And of course, on their teammates with Yeta J,
he played really well against Vitality,
even shining on his Astra debut.
Yeah, I think there's been a lot said about Softland,
even Sue stepping up with this tournament,
but Yeta J is the player that has been here before.
He's the experienced player of the team
and he was being performing extremely well,
which is great to see.
I think that he is the hype man and he is the person that if they get a little bit nervous at times
He's going to be one bringing them up and being the stable rock of this team
Yeah, for sure
He definitely offers a wealth of experience to this roster as you mentioned many the one that's been here before and I think it's
So exciting to see him jump onto that astra for the very first time on the global stage
But I think for me the cipher this is the agent that we kind of know and love him for back in EMA
And I think something that Vlad had mentioned on the astra and on pearl specifically was they didn't have a lot of confidence in that map
than the first half, which made them fall behind.
And of course, they were able to have that comeback in the end.
But I think it's the experience on Yetejay that we're looking at
to bleep through the rest of this roster
when we're considering all of his teammates.
What was that tattoo?
I'm not sure yet, a gorilla's one then.
I didn't see what that one was though.
It's like a little cat.
And he was shown after the audience there.
But let's hear Yetejay's own thoughts on that match
against Vitality in our HyperX player moment.
Hello guys, I'm E2J from FT Sports and we are in Masters London.
Yeah, we lose against Y30, of course I'm not feeling super good about that.
I'm so sad, but sometimes if you can't control yourself for good communication or against pressure,
that means you're gonna lose, so we really throw so many runs, but yeah, that's why we lose probably.
And they was really good, they always good when they play against us.
I'm thinking that he's been re-wrapped on.
The NJ just continues to not buy it. He knows he's not sticking it.
Right for rope back down again, and Durga will just look to escape.
Got to retain the operator, and the NJ claims it!
Of course I want to make playoffs, but better than my passion about that, for my team, for my roster, for these guys,
I didn't want them to see making a playoffs on international events because it's really
big experience and also very good moments for the people who are playing veterans.
So we can do it.
Now that we've had a few days at this event, one of the questions we had coming in of course
was about the agents and the neon nerves and coming into this, we had high hopes for Mata
especially since he struggled in the neon meta. On the other hand, we were worried about the neon nurse
against Sop, but things kind of turned out the other way, didn't it? Well, we got to see Sop on
the chamber on Pearl the other day, and he has said that he won't play anything, that he can offer
this team flexibility now. Of course, the kind of way that we've seen that so far has only been
the chamber, but I think when we consider the nerf changes and the kind of how neon looks right
now. It hasn't affected Sop whatsoever. On the other hand, for Mada, we're not really
saying that kind of champions level duelist that we would expect, Mini.
Yeah, coming into the event, we had our doubts about his form coming into the event, and I
said that it's going to be fine. He's going to be going to that jet in the whaling. He's
going to be absolutely fine. But right now, he is struggling a lot, and it's going to
be him having to pick things up. The only thing that's materially changed in my head
from when he was doing really well at Champs is the fact that they're going more towards
double duelist. He's not being set up as much by Ethan's chaos and so my eyes are now thinking
is this about Mada not suiting this system as much for energy? Is he a little bit less
comfortable playing with that double duelist or not having as much support utility? And
that is what I'm going to be looking at for this game because on this flip side, Sop doesn't
need that at all. Sop is going to be self-sufficient going in and doing his thing. So that's my
narrative for these two players.
And do not just forget the kind of style clash that we have here and what we've kind
Jen Lee got to have a quick chat with them,
so let's see how he's feeling coming into today.
Jen here with Moda of Energy.
Moda, going up against FUD,
what are your plans to deal with their fast tempo
and how do you neutralize their aggression?
I think the most important thing is just playing as a team,
playing how we know how to play
and doing things that we always do in practice
to shut down aggressive teams like that.
What they do doesn't really matter, it's all about us.
Sounds like a plan, thank you.
I am loving the Omen look. He's
sporting right now. But what do
you guys make of the energy he's
kind of mentioning about coming
into this match? I'm not so sure.
I think energy are a team that
likes the game plan. They're
going to be looking at footage.
So the idea is just by playing
our game kind of vibe. I don't
quite agree with. I think that
as well, if they're not doing
that kind of preparation, looking
at a team that's very aggressive,
then that's annoying because I've
already set this up as a team
that struggles against maybe that
the game. And I think that
is going to be a good way to
get into the game. Maybe that
aggressive style, and they need
to go back to the drawing board
after that left game and see
what went wrong in some of
those moments. Yeah, I think
during the left game, we kind
of saw adaptations, but almost
as though they were coming in
too late, which is what left
were able to capitalize on, and
I think foot will be able to
have a very similar approach
today. We heard from Madder
there how they're just going to
focus on their own game and not
let that kind of get in their
heads too much. But I think
that foot are such a
disruptive team that you're
going to be forced to be in
your own head with the way
a lot of confidence for a foot, but despite their performance against Lev, Scuba had a
really good day against them actually. Got a little haircut, can see a little better.
He was one of the players that I had with Mada, coming into the event with a little
bit lower form, but in the last game he was the player stepping up the most. I think now
it's looking at the full team and it's looking at who can step up right now, because it seems
like right now NRG are not in form. As players like Brock, who I think is one, should be
to be one of the best players
of this event, not playing like
his usual self, and players are
going missing all over the place.
Coach Bunker said that they're a
little bit tired, and he's going
to give them a bit of a rest, and
hopefully that's enough for them to
come in and be a bit more
rejuvenated in this game. I think
for Scuba, he is your trusty,
reliable anchor when we consider
this energy roster, and I think
for him, he needs to actually be
mentioned before how Foot are such a contact heavy kind of team before they actually decide
to explode out into those executes. So for him, he's not just relying on his own individual
performance, but also how much information can the rest of the team be able to find on
the map. He's mentioned that he struggled at times playing against this Chamber, Phoenix
and Jet, and these are all agents that Foot have been tapping into recently. And we've
also seen Foot take that extra space when they get into those post-fans situations,
which is where I'm slightly worried for NRG, I think, coming into this match today. In
back to mini you had some thoughts that I love the mini meta so basically I want
to hear you break down Lotus for energy. Yeah so Lotus is a very likely map
today and energy being very good at but I think that there is one thing that
Foot could do to disrupt energy defense completely. So here the key players are
gonna be Kiko on this mound and Mada on this A main so these are the things we're
gonna be looking at for and what energy are really good at is playing against the
teams have the double jewelist and the vice they've been winning all the time
against that, and that might be a composition that Foot looked to play.
And so if that composition decides to go towards C, then Kiko's going to fool off, and then
in reaction on the other side of the map, Mada's going to go up close and get all the
information on Rubble.
And what that means is that the energy are able to move their rotations to have four
on the BC side of the map, matching the attack.
So they're always going to have the same amount of players, and that is the same on reverse.
reverse if the attack decides to take out rubble control then Kiko can easily
contain this C position and once again energy can rotate over to B and A and
match the four players there with four of themselves. So the question is how do
you beat that? I think the answer is very simple. I think that the answer is
Viper. Right now energy are about eight and two playing Lotus but against Viper
one and two and the reason is because these Viper teams are able to take
mind control like normal but then in reaction Mada can't push down on
rubble because this Viper has already got the position with the Viper. I can always threaten
that there. So for today, big picture, what I'm looking at is, are F*** going to play that Viper
and punish NRG's defense protocols that are very set in stone? And if they don't play that Viper,
how are they going to deal with NRG's defense? Well, free coaching advice from Coach Mini here
at the analyst desk. Thank you so much for that. And earlier we asked which team you're backing
to make it out of Swiss today.
So the results are in.
It's, of course, one of these four teams
who's going to continue forth here
and overwhelming votes for global eSports.
You see, it's not just me.
It's not just me picking global eSports.
What are you guys, Minnie,
you're making a face right now.
I think there's going to be something.
The foot and energy game is a lot more of a banger.
I think the XRG, there's still some doubts
about that team coming in today.
And GE have looked fantastic this tournament.
Yeah, I think when you consider the performance
I was a little bit worried
about the intensity of this
event with the kind of approach
that they have when we consider
how they play regionally. But
yeah, I think 61%. That's
that's pretty high for GE and
fair enough for it. I think for
me, I'm a little bit worried that
foot are down at the 10%. Maybe
I've not been selling this foot
top three now. If enough, um, you
know what? I want to give you
your moment to sell foot. Okay,
because I think energy as the
reigning champs right now is
they are, you know, I think a
lot of people are very confident
I'm not sure I'm going to be
confident in them right now.
So tell us about foot. Tell us
why they're going to be winning
today. Listen, they've made it
back to their first international
event since missing all of them
last year. We've got a new era
of food. Quite literally new
era. You've seen all these young
players. Stop is going to stop
all over them. He's been crazy
this event. Okay. I'm coming
across a little bit bias here
right now, but I want to fall
bias. People usually would like
look at the experience of energy
and yet maybe it's a safe
to take a risk. I like it. It's 2-1 NRG today. Oh my god, I don't know, I kind of fell. Get off your box, get off your box right now.
Alright, well on NRG side, which Mini is believing in, let's get Brock's thoughts on their loss to Lev. Here he is in our HyperX player moment.
Alright guys, it's NRG Brock. So like against Leviathan, on the third map he could have came back, but we've let it slip away.
I think we threw a couple rounds, but that's about it. He just got to go next.
I think Leviathan came up with some new attack-side stuff on Pearl, at least.
We haven't seen that from them, so they adapted a little bit that we didn't see before.
I think it's time we want to fight into the spawn with the door closed.
It could be an option, but they're going to break it.
Immediately, that's going to tell NRG where this place is.
We're going to get robbed, locked in the load, and he's taking all of us!
The stage has been feeling really amazing here.
The crowd's good.
The fans are nice after meeting them off here, but yeah, it's been good.
To all the fans, thank you for the support.
really appreciate it. I think both of these teams are feeling a little bit of
tension, a little bit. This is a huge day. It's a do or die match right now.
Both of them want to be able to continue on in playoffs and it's been really
unfortunate for energy. Again, reigning champs fighting through Americas
through that lower bracket. These guys have not really had much of a break
coming into this event? Yeah, as I said before, Bonka with the experience of his coaching,
knowing that they need a little bit of a break, what is 4 extra shims going to do? Not a lot.
So I think that hopefully if they've taken a little bit of time off,
can rejuvenate a little bit and that form can look a lot better today. They have not looked
like the energy that I was seeing on that lower bracket one. Well, it is time for the skirmish,
the 1v1 showdown, and they've selected Zeus and Mada to represent their teams.
Alright, mana.
Hopefully, which mousepad does this get?
It's a breathable tips already from my mother.
Oop!
Operator, is that the evil sheriff?
Just go for the sheriff, though.
Sorry, I'm not taking...
Oh!
Ooh!
Okay, maybe mother needs more of a fright.
That was crazy!
I thought it was a gentleman's agreement with the sheriff and Zeus is coming in this...
I know, I know.
it's good it's good what she's just use the sheriff every time
it's use your sheriff demon over any I guess so well I didn't know I mean one
thing for Zeus is we always saw him as more of a rifler right like we see
salt jump onto the kind of snipers and then Zeus on the rifle but I mean he's
tough and hence with the sheriff that was a nice little warm-up yeah that was
what a way to start this match in fact let's see what they ended up doing in the
map veto
Let's do the map veto real quick for footverse energy footwonder skirmish yet. They're choosing the side team B
Foot pick team B energy is going the first map nice bit
All right split this band then foot is bending and breeze
Breezes also bands now energy picking big lotus
Okay, and inside for Lotus
Attack
Then your Mephik
Haven
Then Cypher Haven please
Defense
Okay, then we have Ascent, Fracture and Pearl left, Energy Bending first
Then Ascent
Ascent is banned, last two maps are Fracture and Pearl, and you are banned
We ban Pearl
Pearl is banned, Deciders, Fracture, Energy Pick in the side
Attack
Alright, then I will give you a quick recap
We start with Lotus, Foot attacks
Then we have Haven, Energy Defense
Energy defense and if you have fracture energy attacks everything correct. All right. Thank you guys. Good luck
Yeah, I think the energy are gonna really like that map pool there
I think that they got a lot of maps that they like foot going into Haven picking into that when energy
Have not lost that in stage one so far. So I do continue my energy kind of praise here
I think that Lotus like we saw that's a map the energy been winning a lot and the question is whether foot have done that
I think it's almost interesting that food didn't pick into a scent considering that almost looks like a weakness for energy
But obviously deciding to play that haven out as you mentioned undefeated on it so far
I think the fracture is interesting because that has also been the remaining map for energy throughout this event
So hopefully if we get to that point it's going to be a banner quick spreads
To one energy to one foot. All right. Well, I think I'm going to be joining mini on this prediction here
He's his homework's been pretty good. So I'm gonna copy it today
But it's good to point that the energy squad have been every single EMI team they face,
but Lev showed us that they didn't really love the heat when the pressure is on.
So, Foot bring that same firepower that we see from APAC as well, the same suffocating
aggression.
So, to do or die, match the force to issue.
Let's see who's going to come out on top and who's going to go to Heathrow.
to find out who will be surviving another day here at Masters London.
I think that first of all, in the game, we tried to win the title of the international tournament.
We are here to train very hard.
And then everyone is working hard to improve their mentality,
their mentality, their feelings on the stage.
We are here to take care of ourselves,
and then do our best,
and then go to the show.
When I was in XJ, I played with Raga, FBVM, who I was coach, so late now, I faced them in the end.
I think our dream is to continue to move forward, to win, to focus on the US.
It is to continue to win, to try to believe in ourselves.
For us, it's good matchup because it's Chinese region and it's like semi-final, they like to fight.
I want to bring the DRG to the next game, it's very exciting, I'm very excited to win the game.
Good luck guys, and I will destroy you today.
London, we will keep going.
But continuing to look fearsome but vitality just a cut above.
Not to suspect that it's going to be lingering in their heads.
It's always important to don't fight with your emotions.
You need to always feel them and just try to control them, especially on the clutch runs.
When the clutch runs, my heart is going to boom.
Let's keep you alive.
That's why I'm here.
This team showed you the best resilience on the planet.
The expectations, it's not really something we think about.
It doesn't matter what the situation is.
Our resilience will push us through.
You always play dual-dimensions.
You always stay alive.
I hope we can do it again.
We're really going under the pressure.
We're just going to play our game.
Let's run these guys down, bro.
Please.
And they're going to feel the pressure.
It's going to be a fun match and good luck.
Until the fight is over, give or not give up.
Today, you will see through shame.
London, make some noise!
It's first!
First is NRG!
the next one.
One then it's a do or die match in the last day of Swiss stage.
We got champion to winner energy facing this prestigious Turkish org and they really want
to show the world why they deserve to be here.
Yeah and I think that the Natiflis game is full with the aggression.
They've been looking amazing with that Sop, the spearhead of that, pick up the operator,
running it down.
He has just been all over everyone this tournament and I don't expect him to stop here.
It's exciting because we have such a clash of play styles in that respect.
You're looking at NRG as well, the journey that they've had to be able to make it to
this event.
Now finding themselves at a point of potentially being eliminated, they have to go from that
lower bracket back in America, it's all the way to be able to make it to this event.
they're up against an opponent that they have never played against but if I
read out the results of maps is here for energy 8 and 2 on Lotus 5 and 0 on Haven
3 and 0 in fracture I think that they have won this veto easily but I don't
want them to just rely on the map theory I want to see them stepping up
individually this is not look like the energy that won champs or went on a
deep run at Santiago I need to see the individuals here today stepping up
to the stage. We've got to
play. We've got to play individually,
but also just playing like a team
we saw in that opening game.
Everyone was in Kiko's backpack,
and then of course they had
their game the other day as well,
where we saw them starting to
step up and warm up to the stage.
But let's not forget this was a
chance winning team. We keep
going on about this because of
the experience that is on this
stage. You have four members of
that's a really good team.
This is a really good team.
This is a really good team.
This is a really great single
event last year when you have
that kind of narrative with
foot facing energy, who have a
reputation for taking down EMA
teams. The odds you could say
are stacked against them. This
is a completely different EMA
team. This is enough boring
tactical strategic, you know,
wait until the last 10 seconds
like the team. This is a team
they're fooling it up onto these sites so and that is the same with defense too. They're going to be
running at you no matter the side. And I don't want us to paint the picture that
they're just a team that will run at you and shoot at you. There's definitely some theory behind the
things they are doing. We spoke about the strength of this meta for them at the moment. The less
utility, being able to contact and walk up and go into these explosive site execs like we mentioned.
Energy needs to get ahead of the curve and be able to contain that. Find out as much information
is possible across the map. Do not let food get in your face. Do not let food be proactive because
that's exactly the approach that we have seen from this roster so far. Modus is going to be the
first destination up today. Maybe you were breaking in earlier some things. You want to see energy
adapt on. What are you making of what we have so far? So, foots are not running the Viper. They
have that composition. The double jewelers with advice that energy are fantastic against. So,
On this attack, the question for me is, when foot are grouping up with the 4, how are they going to deal with the fact that energy's rotations are going to match them?
I don't know how they're going to do it, they're going to have to show me something though.
Yeah, I mean previously they were running the Viper though, right? So this is a complete switch up coming into this event.
We are going to see Yetej jump onto that vise instead. We've spoken today about how incredible he is as a player.
Yeah, so the key thing with Energy's defense is to watch Mada and Kiko on these extremities.
As soon as they lose one of them, they're going to have the other and be able to match the rotations on foot.
And the question is, is Foot going to be able to just use that firepower and just overrun energy who are out of form right now?
That's right. Thank you so much. And taking us through Lotus, we have our casters, Akilios and Paper Thin.
Here we go, the final day of Swiss. Some more teams to be sent home, some more to qualify into the playoffs.
Avakylios, that's Paper Thin, and we're gonna be taking you through all of the action in this series right here in front of us
It looks a promise, a hell of a lot of action
No, you would think so and this is a really
Exciting matchup because you have the up and comers in foot versus the defending world champions
Of course in NRG, two teams that have never faced each other and Valoran history
Going up for the first time scuba under pressure does get some good damage in on the Zeus
That it does, tack down to eight
Now, kills gonna be found, paint shell gonna be locked in,
Cristal gonna be taken down the other chain.
Only able to heal back a single kill, but now a 2v4 and more damage suffered.
They took him to the corner, and that's just gonna be NRG completely overwhelming their opponents
in taking the opening pistol.
Just a really simple theory here for NRG.
Find a little bit of contact at the front of beat.
Pretend like you're peeling back, open up the door, set up the crunch.
Swoop through for the kills, but just can't do much about this one.
Just a well-read pistol round here.
Ahhhh!
Come on!
Come on!
Ahhhh!
Conqueror's already fired up.
He needs to keep that energy going.
Good start off the rip.
It's gonna be classics across the board here for foot.
I'm trying to find any way to deal damage.
It's gonna have to be forced into this one
given that they're on the attacker's side.
But it's still just gonna be a hasty hit.
A push forward.
This fight is utility still in position to hold them a bay
Yeah, so I just be a little bit of an orb collection than a change of ideas change of scenery
We'll be doing exactly that just trying to get what they can out of this round
I think part of the idea here early might be just
Trying to avoid some of that Brock you till in these early rounds and seeing if they could
Sneak through but energy step ahead of the game
I'm thinking that this is going to be a late hit onto C. So, Mada all alone on this side of the map.
He'll be under some pressure, obviously has the specter here to try to hold his own.
The opening spray going to be sent through, jump the spots and out.
Now the rotations can come through from NRG, but can they scale quickly enough?
No. They're going to look to pump the brakes again.
This is already kind of interesting from showing some different stuff than what they have so far in this tournament.
there it's a lot of puzzles. Oh no. There you are. Swooping forward. Lying just around
the corner is scuba. That judge in hand. Right in absolutely right in there. Can he
get the AC? He's going to be looking for it. To come back over the spot. The shot's going
wide. The energy. I mean trying to die in an ace, but you got to die. You got to take
down to find the one. But then we'll ball. The patience and energy from Scuba in particular
ends up paying dividends. Yeah, for sure. I think this is just really interesting stuff.
Four foot in terms of maybe showing a little bit more willingness to rotate around the
map than what we have seen previously from them. There are two that will try to take
some space early, consolidate it, maybe try to wait you out, see if you'll over rotate
on them and then make their hit after that but maybe trying to get an energy's head a
little bit here with some of these early ideas on these echos but like you said energy had
plans regardless. Clear the haunt. Can't take a fight.
We'll get flushed out, finds a bit of damage on the sociable but loses his life. At the
same time wanting to push forward grab that gun is able to do so just riding along his
own Viper wall. Makes his way out to safety but all this pressure is to really maybe
trying to shove them elsewhere, but as you can see, the deep angle that Kiko could have
had established outside of mound has been given up, so now he's playing back on the
site with that judge.
Yeah, so you've given up a lot of information control here as on RG.
You're kind of in a situation where you can either hedge your bets or try to gamble.
They're going to hedge their bets and confirm on the prowler.
Doesn't force anyone away or RG is still just going to be even there initially and foot
really taking their time here.
We want to be thoughtful and considerate against this NRG team.
You know, we talked about the high tempo pace that they can play at, but so far, showing
us a little bit of a different identity.
He's starting to remain all again going to be raised scuba doesn't go for the pop shots
It's like the answer is no, it's gonna be that top of the door coming through
Here's the corner and Zeus able to have him dead immediately really both now gonna be
connecting limiting that spray the frog is still in the line at one elimination
and Zeus cannot line up for the second Ethan able to strike him down
giving he and Kiko an opportunity to still try to clutch this out and get that bonus converted
Make it happen at 2B3, it's gonna be a double approach from the upper.
Social work down low to 40 health, it's gonna be taking point.
The paranoia will descend out.
Horses away for the moment, Kiko.
Gonna find him through that smoke.
CP to reposition over towards main.
The energy.
Able to find the shutdown and any more damage that Ethan could get.
Still be quite significant so they need to try to hold onto these two remaining weapons.
Tap of the defuse at this guy on board. He's trying to separate them and he does man to take it down to one.
What will deny the bonus conversion but at significant cost?
Yeah, this is really, really good for NRG frankly.
They come close to getting the bonus but they still drop all the guns but one there.
Nice early opening kill for sociable but Brock able to hold the line.
Even through the relay boat knew he was dead just had to try to do what he could.
he could. Still, Footgoat trying to keep the energy there. But NRG just really sturdy
in their defense and even with having to give up a ton of map space, Foot just kind of gambled
a little bit incorrectly towards the A site, loses some players, hemorrhaging that advantage
that they could have utilized but they'll stop. Stuck in the Vice Util and the Odin could
to deny a little bit of access.
It's a little bit more the back end of those thorns, but it's going to be quick revisions
through NRJ trying to get into position as Spike is brought to bear.
Plant now going to be coming through.
Ethan potentially rerouted as they have this triple stack on the water pole angle quad
actually with Zeus up top as well.
One C's paranoia.
We'd love to clear it.
The final one, the swinging, and it's the transfer to take down Susan Menair.
He's breaking their way right back into the second,
he's on the inside, he has something to say about it, he too killed the piece,
and now suddenly it's just Brock with that out in the hand.
Not under one to side, across is drawing that attention, and Brock overwhelmed and
running out of bullets, will end up falling.
What a massive rescue of the round.
It's football tied up two to two.
That's that individual firepower you're looking for on foot, on display.
Sop, big round here, big 3k.
And Christali with just a Guardian finds two.
You don't check that angle, they get tunneled in towards those players at the back of site.
So that's exactly what you want out of an Eon.
Being a distraction and racking in the kills.
Beautiful stuff.
Even though NRG looked like they had a shout into that after even hit him.
Belter of a transfer, oh my goodness.
Now, push back on to the attempt to set RG.
Sop gonna be forced away.
Game show, paranoia all gonna be invested.
Apples should not control outside of Rubble.
Allowing for modern to collect that orb.
So now it's gonna be one charge away from a showstopper.
There could be a tipping point in this round.
Sop is gonna be able to find Ethan.
Yeah, that's huge.
You're gonna open up a lot of extra space,
deny a lot of information.
I think he might have gotten caught on a jiggle peek or a jump peek.
Yeah.
Surely.
He wasn't just out into the open.
I think you're right.
I'm gonna try to maybe lean in towards B here.
Just brock it a classic.
Waiting them.
And just keeping that Utah pocketed.
Notice that they're not going to be super favorite going in with this one, but it's still going to be able to find soft.
He really rotates over, but the weapon's going to be juggled away.
He's gonna quickly scale off the back of this continuing to hear that breadcrumb trail of sociable dropping the guns back
I can't confirm the kill takes him low, but can't take him down
While our gene out all stood into the B site to push forward from foot at a see the TP from social
What was his way over the drop?
He can find another though the energy eliminated and suddenly that's a weapon that can be recovered
and our G are in with a shout now that show stoppers are real friends if it
gets to it just need to be able to hold his own here
tap at the door the rotate out Kiko trying to keep some attention tied on
this angle and he's got the attention of two the Christali will be able to catch
a glimpse gets the kill and that's the weapon now lost is modern scuba going the
approach here that rope coming in snaps on for the headshot that is a gorgeous
split from sociable.
Now it's just cool to try to see if you can get some more damage in.
Slow down the ballooning of this economy.
I don't put it down and push back, but it's going to be Zeus.
Right on that final shot.
His foot find themselves in the lead.
It still looks really nice for NRG.
I mean, the map reads are really good.
They're mirroring the rotations nicely up foot, but the gun's just not going to be there.
Oh, come on.
That's unfair.
Just a shoulder.
I mean, I knew exactly what it was, but it was even more impressive than I thought.
It was really nice. That's great reactions from Sop.
He's going to have an operator now, too. So does Matta.
Matta on that show, Sopper. Zeus still a couple away from his, but yet a Jay Crystalli there.
Definitely some nice ability to clear some space here.
He's going to be cleared for Sop to try and keep this operator position hidden.
But with that haunt not seeing anything, they're gonna feel comfortable taking a little bit of extra space.
See so you know Ethan's in there.
Just the other layers look like behind that, a lot of tucked in behind the box outside of stairs.
Still on a paint shell to potentially clear this angle. Force mod of the reposition.
Looks like they will just hold it for now.
Silently drift away once again looking like they might lean in towards C.
see. I'd love to see Sop create a little bit of noise or throw a fast lane or
something here to try to really sell this. I think that's why he might be the
one sticking around that he's expecting a jump peek from that site.
One goes out, has to pull back give up a little bit of space and Ethan oh you are
playing with fire. He'll be able to find him through the door. Reapproach back
through V-Main. Tap of this one it looks like but we're gonna go for this push.
Clearing out the box, smoke now at main, gonna be dissipated.
Still a paint shot, gonna be set, but double thorns situated.
You can either one to go up and over with the spray from Brock,
now they're gonna go flying in, but it's gonna be Zeus,
who's able to find it through that smoke after all.
Yeah, K, gets Kiko now, it's just Ethan trying to slow things down.
Reaching around the back here, soft.
Hicks into the main, finds Skuva, the elimination is in.
I think that if you're NRG, you're gonna have to try to go for the save,
especially given that you have this operator in play, but looking to establish a flawless round
as they move up four to two. Yeah, it works out well enough here four foot leaving soft
trailing with the op. It's a nice job just baiting that extra little bit of attention and
usually Brock, even when he's under pressure with an Odin somehow finds one, but this time can't
really get that spray to go. Can't figure out where those tracers are coming from.
He was fully blinded up as well, so he couldn't even see the damn things.
So ends up just holding down M1, hoping for any sort of contact that he can get.
He's completely unfavorable in that scenario, but Foot.
Another massive round for them here, and maybe that's enough to try to force out an early timeout from NRG.
We're going to start feeling a bit more desperate as time goes on if Foot can continue to rack up these wins, because this is NRG's map pick.
for sure. And it's a map that where Foot has kind of struggled on. We've
not seen it in this event yet, but you know, so far this stage hasn't been their
best map. And NRG on the other hand, 2-0 so far here in Masters London on Lotus. So
you've got to feel like you've got to do some damage. And again, NRG typically a team very
good on the defender side. You know, you think about the combo of the Odin, you know,
Kiko just going crazy, Mata very sturdy typically, but it's been a rough event
for some of those players, especially Mata.
He has really struggled compared to what
we're used to seeing from him, particularly on the global stage.
But in this Coinbase win condition time out,
I think maybe Bonkar just kind of reaffirming,
try to take a little bit more space early,
try to contest maybe a little bit earlier,
maybe especially at C-Mound or something.
But overall, they've had some OK reads.
They just haven't been able to convert individually.
So it could just be a time out just as much
kind of reset their mental a little.
I'm talking about it on social media as well.
The team not really ever having the chance to take a break.
Starting to feel that pressure as the expectations continue
to build up here.
Well, if there's any team that can thrive in those kind of
scenarios, that's what we often do say.
Let's see if they can prove us right.
We're put to be able to come out on top of this one because
if they take Lotus, then you start really favoring them.
to take this entire series.
Overdriving a night ball, gonna be available.
Pitt is available as well for scuba.
Keras, we just see that one off the rip
as they do manage to get a buy collected.
Fogged out over the top,
stop gonna be revealed to show top are gonna be sent
and that's gonna be rewarded too.
Massive value for Manna from beyond the grave.
Was a good shutdown shot from Zeus,
but it was a bit too late.
That's the entry power now taken out of the hands of foot.
And that's a showstopper denied from them in this round as well.
She's swinging in and Ethan able to hold the door.
Yedda J going to be taken down.
Looks like Christali going to try his odds with this one.
Four bullets remaining.
We will run out of them as well as out of health.
Scuman out back going that space.
Lobin on that sees to find no connection.
Social end, Christali.
What are they going to be able to work here?
It's Kiko.
Belling deep in towards spawn giving up this space energy
Making the call to just play for a retake. They have the steel garden. Yeah, they have the flank
That's really what you'll need to cover this site. Yeah
There isn't much util left here in the back pocket for foot haunt just comes back online
You do have the nightfall 30 seconds left gamble to invest it
now in energy. Gonna start to make their move.
Coach out so she may be with a path to work his way out into the spawn. It's still gonna
be risky though because he just doesn't have the information but could use that to avoid
this steel guard. There's a nightfall. Okay, we'll give him that out.
I'm sure there's no one on that approach at the stair side.
Now it's now starting to be made. He's able to backpedal away.
It's going to be Kristalli at Bandit in hand to try himself alive.
But a glimpse spotted there and scuba tagged down to 5 HP.
So we're going to the corner and Kristalli not quite watching for this.
No, neither scuba.
So she will now a drop by Kiko and Kristalli gets himself a second.
Ooh, that's a backbreaker. NRG's economy is going to be in the dumps.
Meanwhile, Foote is flush with cash, and that round when you get that early advantage, that
two for one on the showstopper, you take that rubble fight and you win it, but you can't
convert off the back of it with a 3v2 on the retake, with the steel garden in play.
Just an unchecked angle costs you dearly.
And for Foote, I mean, seeing Kristalli playing like this, he's a breath of fresh air because
while he has had good performances in this tournament thus far, that final map to have
them not be able to immediately qualify forward. He was having a very rough go of it on fracture.
But it's this huge relief here per foot because now they're going to have a showstopper
that they probably were wanting to get the orb for in the previous round.
Mada's going on a walkabout. Looks like this is widely prepared for though.
Mostly anticipating it from that A main side but paint shoulder trying to leave the charge.
Maybe the showstopper just invested off the back of that.
Stop scouting forward yet again is able to find Ethan.
Get him down with that outlaw.
Foot may be starting to assess that this is the stack.
They want to try to instill some doubt, make energy,
think that they're going for this pivot play.
And it just comes down to Mata and Yeta J here.
Oh, Yeta J, he's going to consider it.
I don't know.
starts to look at it and
Mada ends up pulling the trigger a little bit too quickly and
Yenice just wins the fight.
Mada now is dead, it's the weapon.
Go on, scoop up, finished off.
Social Bullets are a little bit more.
30 seconds left.
He was going to re-tap that door, open it back up and go out there for a brawl.
Steadwell out for brawl.
He's going to be coming towards him.
There's some noise made.
Yeti J just keeping them boxed in they're gonna try to fight this one together
But if you able to get them separated now if the paranoid flies through Kiko tucking into the corner
And yeti J looking for the elimination a solid shot there with that sheriff
We'll put yeti J down something in for being a flawless but soft will get himself a second and foot will move up six to two
I just love the patience and the discipline you're seeing from foot here on this attacker side
You know really using their time wisely not over committing to anything
Just a quick dip, take the kill, and out for Sop.
And yet EJ wins that huge battle on the extremities, knocks the, you know, hero rifle out of the hands of NRG.
Those contact fights, so important, but Foot has been so good at them.
I mean, you think back to their opening game against FullSense, where it was tons of contact fights,
and they were absolutely dominated by that team.
There's gonna be some of the ribbon is gonna be modified. You know, but even monitor don't it will find some kills
Three there on the Zeus Sop dead Ethan getting some revenge
Ray and pray is rewarded. Kostali gonna be tagged down to 10
Player advantage still gonna be established
He was a very good reply around here from NRG
Find the wind off this, but the showstopper committed as well.
Feeling damn good about your chances, as Paranoia is not going to be connecting, and Brock's
going to be able to find him, finishing the job, and now the spike's strained on the
other side of this wall.
This looks nigh impossible, no ultimate available for sociable to just try to pick this one
up.
from yet a jay
And you almost have to wrap all the way around the map and try to come from a different angle
He's getting an orb out of it. He's laughing there. They're having a kick all about this
I think they know that they're in a pretty screwed position
Thirty seconds left
See if they manage to work some magic smoke out again
There's the spam on the spike, so she'll be able to TP out, he's got it.
Park Park's got the push forward and once again it's stuck on the other side of the
door.
Spam through, get a gank, we'll fall and rock.
We'll come away with three kills to get NRG the same on the board.
And it's huge here for NRG because it keeps their economy stabilized now.
They were teetering on the edge once again.
That's a big win for Mada there.
Put gambles for the showstopper, you know, that they can use that to take control of A and then RG just stepping ahead of it.
Good idea. Stop, once again, sitting on the opposite. It was the overdrive.
That's a really great opportunity to try to commit that one. Let's help the can. It's going to be taken out of season.
to fight his number and mana. It's a kill as well. Another key advantage now to sort of the
round for NRG as they look to run this back. Now on the back foot, listen in the foot.
A flawless round for NRG who need to springboard their economy.
They look to close out these final two rounds of the half,
but immediately we're going to get time out called for the play.
Yeah, so I was just thinking the same.
You know, foot has a real opportunity here to make this potentially an 8-4 half.
You're going to have some cash left here for a buy-in.
This is a good opportunity to recover the round.
Definitely got some Kiko fans out here in London today.
Yeah, they're just winning the rubble fight and I mean, it's just completely
Setting foot back because they're having to fight these odd numbers advantages, which they did win one round like that
But they've already taken a lot of space by that point. So in the coin-based winning condition
I think just maybe talking about how you want to take that early aggression fight
How you want to control some of that early math space, you know
Where you want the utility land where you want your players to be placed because Sop has been just getting destroyed
with the operator in hand is trying to swing out and even has been ready to
receive every time. I thought that maybe we would just see Zeus you know tabling
that showstopper for the longest time until that pit came into play but
committed it just a couple rounds ago and scuba still has not had to utilize
this ultimate as they continue to try to run this one back giving up six rounds
consecutively to foot to even make the five or to tie it up would feel very good for NRG.
It was a good round to have some kind of idea for that ultimate for SOP to try to take this one over
to see what they're going to do. That's aggressive early. This kind of goes deep.
Josh is going to be popping Ethan, pushing forward to still able to find one, two, we'll take that back out to push in.
He's looking for a second kill, but cannot find the transfer. Meanwhile, Kiko had a problem.
He's going to be able to reply. Two kills found off the outing.
Is Yenisei now having to try to clutch it out, and he cannot.
Caught off guard by Kiko, and the aggressive play is immediately shut down.
NRG, one away from tying it up at the half.
Yeah, that's just that individual effort.
From the player who was arguably the best in America during stage one, Brock.
Even with three players getting hit by the haunt,
Foot can't capitalize. They can't get the round.
They get shut down again at that A-Rubble fight.
So, what got drawn up was countered well by NRG and by Brock in particular.
I mean, he's won away from a SteelGarden coming into this.
Ethan's gonna have another nightfall.
Yet, it does have a SteelGarden.
Steel Guard and Kristalli won away from a nightfall himself, so if you can get to this plant or just do this, grab the orb.
Pretty good chance to at least get into a post plant you would think is foot, but Mada's pushed up so far,
and Ethan hasn't seen anything over at B, but they're still thinking C right now, just off of that orb tap in the smoke.
Mada's given up a little bit of space. Kristalli's got an island in here.
Trying to fight fire with fire.
It's been a thorn in their side.
Rowler not going to get the spot.
Mada, how much value can he get off this position?
He's in his air as well, trying to play him in.
There's the piece. He's in the pattern one, but a little bit of a wider swing out from Sobbing.
He's usually able to collect that kill, but seems himself going to be taking loads.
The night ball now going to be invested over towards the B site.
They're trying to pivot on the back, and they just want to meet this woman on the way forward,
but that's exactly where the Odin is positioned.
in his position, and there's gonna be a SteelGarden in response, side of the top.
Eventually, he's able to find that kill as he can heal, get taken down.
Sees sent over, scuba, pushing his way forward, but behind the box is sociable,
cleans up the kill.
Rocking Kiko now, had a real plexus one.
Azuz gonna be pushed out into the open, finished offside.
Dad is praying, praying rewarded, just picking apart these loading three members,
And Brock's Odin, it hits a bit harder.
Another multi-kill round as NRG, tie it up six to six.
That's exactly what we've been looking for.
The trade, Mark Odin of Brock, lighting up the scoreboard.
Couple big, bulky count kill rounds in a row to tie it up.
Insane.
From dropping six straight over to foot
to then closing things out for four of their own.
Six and six is going to heal damn good for NRG considering how this had started.
Well, it's now going to be on foot to try to find that opening pistol.
As we get ready to go ahead and throw it down, though,
because we have another very special interview,
so let's send things down to Frankie on the floor.
I'm delighted to be joined by Battlecruise yesterday's girlfriend.
What's it like watching him here?
Because you rushed from the airport to see this game.
Well, I am so proud to see him.
I just came from straight from the airport, so I'm exhausted, but seeing him over there
makes me so proud, so I'm so happy for him.
Was it hard having to watch his earlier games from home?
Well, of course, because sometimes he gets more stressful watching from above.
It's pretty bad, yeah.
And what kind of conversations do you have with him after a win or a loss?
Well, we talk, of course, but he's not a toxic person, so we try to calm ourselves
and then keep our maturation pretty high.
And you've been together for seven months.
You actually met at a Valorant event?
Yeah, at a Valorant event, yeah.
Okay, and what did you find over exactly?
He's very kind and he's very powerful,
so everything is about him, it's perfect.
So you think that's something that helps his team as well?
It's not just his skills in the game,
it's actually that positive spirit he brings.
Yeah, he's a very positive person.
He doesn't let me to be a negative one.
and it expects to the team, of course.
And what do you think it would mean to him and yourself
to see him make it to the playoffs today?
Well, whatever he wins or loses,
it also makes me proud, whatever.
But if they make it to playoffs,
he will be so happy, so I will be so happy, so yeah.
You might have to book some more days off work.
Baschard, thank you so much for talking to me.
Let's get back into the game.
I love seeing the support here at Masters London, family members, level one showing up.
It's a root for their players up on that stage.
They know how stressful this can be.
They've seen their worst, they want to see them now at their best as we go into the second
half.
Big run back for NRG to make this six and six, but put, they combine their form on this
Defender sides still are in with a chance to take this map. Otherwise gonna have to try to make it work on Haven
And one key point here for foot is that you know like the desk was talking about you're running a double do this
So you're sacrificing either a vice or a viper this time they sacrifice the viper
That means you got to be a little bit more proactive on the match. You got to look for those contact fights bottom
He's gonna hop his way out
But space yeah, well, I mean this trap set up from foot not gonna be rewarded anything outside of being
They were looking to try to see if they could kind of do to NRG what NRG did to them on the first pistol
Turn away at the ready
That's gonna be a big one as well
The play is gonna be calm, but Mada is not
Sweeney said it gets a bit of damage, but trying to go for the quick position
Cannot break the angle fast enough
Gonna be chucked into Mada able to avoid that one as well as the spike now slowly creeping in towards B main
Yeah, this was kind of the plan all along if you couldn't make headway through seat.
I have a backup plan and I'm actually just gonna fake the rotate.
It's gonna be the spike pickup from Scuba.
It's gonna drift back in.
Plenty of time.
Just will foot give them the space.
Chris Dolly, running out Mata there.
Gonna be sent.
Call by that has a counter on it's own.
Clears the pile and now sends it in.
Out behind them.
Swing forward on the side.
Ethan's gonna be dealt with.
Sociable comes away with that elimination.
Mata taking so very low.
It's Mata that's calling the shoulders of Scuba
who's only gonna be able to farm the one.
But, will take the opening pistol the second half
as they move up seven to six.
Yeah, really nice coordination here.
Sociable, really nice paranoia timing.
It hits a lot of players onto NRG, even though it doesn't catch Mata, it completely stalls this hit-out.
Gives a little bit of hope here.
Khristali, big win there, coming out of the water.
And then they're just perfectly timed. They keep Mata pinned.
They've got two to try to disrupt the player on site.
This is just that. Very well thought out.
Not any buy-up to speak of here at all for NRG. Just classics.
by the paint shell. Ethan agreed to prowler.
Stop. Gonna have the Marshall. Bulldogs in there.
He had a J with just a sheriff. Stolly, not the inspector.
Knowing exactly where Ethan's going to be playing from, still one in the reposition.
Social Bolt doesn't want to take a chance. Get caught. Give over that gun. Zeus fell.
He's just gonna swing it from behind, he's able to find two kills, now a third as well, is that easy?
Wall is round. Slow at the start, but swift at the finish, foot.
Critical victory in that anti-eco. That's suffering anti-losses.
Yeah, that's really nice. You know you've got an effective crossfire set up with that door being open.
Because, you know, Zeus feels comfortable to push out because he knows the players on C site could see his back.
watch it so we can go to this run again good comms good coordination foot
really nicely gonna have a great bonus coming in here a couple Bulldogs the
judge upgrade for yet a J it's gonna be Chris Holly with the Marshall this time
South goes for the Spectre. They're gonna get aggressive here. Ethan pinned down.
Not gonna reveal that there's a power out in two. We'll be able to pound him down.
Elimination found a potential upgrade available. Should be rotate through that spot.
But now he's gonna be cutting back fast through. Waterfall trying to join in. Alongside South on the side of the map,
but he cannot sell the line. It's the bottom of the way. Side is the other J now. Stuck in tree.
The Thorns are trying to hold them in bay, and hearing some of this drips back towards
A main.
He gets a glimpse, but they're going to try to use that against him.
Flash is out though.
Tablet doors again, jumps to the corner, will find some damage, but cannot get that kill.
He goes some item with 14 HP.
Joe Stopper going to be lobbed in.
Nothing down there for Stolly.
He's going to get out and see if he will find two systems.
Taboo.
The Talon is just sociable.
Will get spammed to death.
Now it's just sociable, will get spammed to death,
three players surviving in NRG,
deny the bonus conversion,
decent passion, still some damage suffered, yes,
but hold on, some critical weapons like that Odin.
And it's seeing some of the changes here.
Judge not able to find that kill,
whereas maybe in a previous patch it could have.
That's a big difference maker there.
It opens up a lot of extra space,
But it's that little pause where NRG gets a glimpse.
They see Yedajay in that door, and they
try to use that against them.
Even though Foot kind of outmaneuvering them a little bit,
hit the showstopper out of the round.
So that's not too bad in that regard.
Overall, I think they have a decent read so far on how
NRG wants to play the map.
They've been in pretty good positions to at least do damage.
Sop is the sop up.
and he is going to be sliding back into the sea site.
But it's going to widely be avoided.
So taking the orb for Ethan, halfway into that nightfall.
All the approach coming through, and soon it's been spotted.
Big kill found for Kiko.
Doesn't even give enough the opportunity to try to respond.
This is going to make for a very difficult retake now
that they have that operator in hand.
Another try to zone.
Soft, scaling forward.
Smoke situated there.
One-way and monitor waiting patiently.
I don't know if it will fly through,
but he's still able to shut down the neon.
Soft now dead.
And foot are going to have to start assessing the save.
Especially when the sociable ends up falling as well.
Not ready yet.
actually escape is going to be the question. And RG could go on the hunt. They do have
the money behind this. They're going to tie this up at eight to eight, not allowing to
put the run away with their map pick.
Just kind of a eyebrow raising position to be in as a raise when you're sitting on top
of that box that you can be seen over the toxic screen. The timing's right. And it was
That just picks the map easy for NRG, and even though they pass over the operator to try to give some entry Mata, who's looked pretty decent here so far today, 12-12 on the scoreboard, that's good enough.
That's what you need out of your duelist to be going even or slightly positive with the way that NRG likes to play with this very methodical style that they have.
You'll take that, Brock and Kiko have been great once again
as they have been all throughout stage one in VCT.
Two, three split this time.
The fly now is just severely fractured.
So she bowl.
Pushing up quite aggressively, paint shells to fly.
And as Brock just spamming away.
That Oden really denies any
Sort of aggressive push that you might have wanted to try to accomplish meanwhile Ethan moving over
Towards the front of be can open the door here and make
Pretty challenging for push
With this bunch of white paranoia is going to be sent out
Ethan going to be locked in position for now and push board and sushi with the barrel and stuff with that chair
Now the show's on for immediately going to be invested
Does he come away with anything? Not sure where that one ended up landing
See it back either way it's a two player advantage and some weapons upgraded into the hands of foot
Now you can just hold his foot, you're happy to see B here because you've got ANC so you're
going to be able to create these flanks as long as you can deal with Brock Zodan.
Has been a problem, so he's just going to be chucking that Phantom over to sociable.
Getting into the healthier hands, getting the Florence to get behind the one and Archegos
by Thorna.
Now they've reached their way back into the C site, South Steel with an operator, Ken
We collected different weapons.
Hits the door.
Spike planted.
You might see if you can spot anything out, but it is just going to be a complete push to back sight for NRG.
How far do you go before you try to call this one off?
They're ready for the spam.
No way to get a safe diffuse relay both going through and that's one hell of a way to get rid of that Odin but now the off has to do it all.
Fast lane going to be set up. Swap over onto the path of the time started to bleed away.
Has he just been able to break this set up, still looking to himself a 3K and NRG get back into the lead.
Yeah this is all about the mid-rounding here for NRG. The decision to keep pushing past the B site. Absolutely beautiful.
because you catch foot right as they're setting up to start clearing angles with the fade.
And instead you get three kills for nothing and you open up the C site for the plant.
You keep pushing backspace, force foot into a horrible retake.
Even with a man advantage to boot, beautiful call there.
That is why even is a two-time world champion.
He's down with some of the weaker left in range, let's see if Foot...
I think he's gonna spy back in, but of course the operator is lost.
Take of that.
Oh man, Alts.
Keep Foot guessing, but Zeus, up and over the top, is still able to find one, drops back over safety.
Will just down his way over into the A site, doesn't end up eating quite a bit of damage.
Paints all now going to be sent from the slowdown in the free that he's not to be
Kiko
However, we'll immediately suss this out and have him rerouted
Meanwhile, the spike is still not been picked up. It's just now getting collected by Ethan
Says okay, we've sacrificed two players on the A side of the map C should be open
Yeah foot reading into this though. I mean with Kiko being so deep
There's so much to re-clear here on a you don't really garden. Yeah, and you don't really have the info
So it's gonna be a post plan. It's gonna be another
Odd man situation this time NRG
It's gonna get the student. Yeah, the still guarded and stop does have his although here exactly
And yet a jay watching for that flank at least for the moment, but the timing
He's gonna be down to Ethan.
Miraculous that he comes away with that one and not a chance to escape.
Overdrive is in now and soft as once that mod up rock practically having to backpedal away.
Spray and pray already rewarded.
Social will gonna be taken down.
They have to find him one forward in the wide sweep coming in.
Ethan able to find the one that abused now being stuck.
He's trying to take that Gestali from Gestali.
Can't just hold it.
We're tied up at nine to nine.
Well, this round here, 4 foot, they decide to go on top of that box again with the raise
and it does catch NRG just enough off guard.
You're able to get that opening kill onto the Viper.
So now they don't have that wall to scale further forward.
They try anyway with Kiko.
He gets isolated in a position where he doesn't have any more utile.
No more smokes, no more TP's to get out of that stairs position.
That was an all in spot and he couldn't connect.
foot a massive advantage and having that overdrive against Brock's ult.
A nice cherry on top.
Presidents being sure you're a lot of bit of presence actually.
Collar boom bot.
Get a James of trouble.
That falls out but at the K, Davis, Goodie County is back on the way with S-Tector in hand.
Manna.
We're diving for the rest of the scene.
Lock away for the moment.
He's over towards water, but double face in the maze looking to separate these players.
Ah, that's not an ADTP.
He's not living where he meant to.
He gives himself up on a silver platter.
And now suddenly, it's a player advantage found for NRG.
Mata, turning on the exit.
Mata backs around the corner.
Rebikes forward.
Bites the energy.
But Kastali still keeps it in.
With key advantages.
Spike down B.
Like now dropping his all-on Christali's
at look at Kiko's position, hearing this movement.
And he's not going to be prepared for this angle.
Kiko gets the final on NRG.
The first to make it to double digits.
Yeah, the situational awareness here from NRG
so, so good when they get that player advantage.
And Kiko finds that kill over at B.
He immediately just starts scaling into spawn.
Knowing that one way or another,
It's probably going to catch foot off guard.
Either he can come in for the post plan
if they're able to get established on to C,
or if they need to get over to B, he's going to have a flank.
Or if they're going to have a situation like that
where Christali has to wrap all the way in different direction,
it's actually NRG's timeout.
Yeah, curious about this one.
NRG going to be sending their second and final timeout
of this map.
Try to shore some things up, make the rest of this round
Okay, never mind.
Just an issue with our overlay.
It's the foot timeout after all.
Good, good, good.
It is the foot timeout.
That makes a lot more sense.
The butt car has sometimes just known some.
Sure.
You know, questionable is not the right word.
They usually work out.
Well, I mean, I get it.
If like, it's a hero play that wins you the round.
And therefore you're like, we shouldn't have won this.
We need to talk.
Like the macro game isn't there.
But in this case, I'm very happy with the macro game from NRG.
They're really working the map nicely.
And again, they're doing a good job of making it
so any early fight, any early contact that Foot has been
wanting to take, especially at C-Mound,
has widely been nullified, other than Ethan dying one time
by himself.
But outside of that, they've been working the map really
nicely, taking some of these aggressive pushes,
maybe finding a kill, then taking a pause, things like that,
that are making it really difficult for Foot
to find their confidence, find some of those blank angles of their own,
because they're often at man disadvantageous.
And that just means the map is so much harder for you to spread,
so much harder for you to control.
So, Ft. probably just, I think,
maybe talking a little bit about those extremities
or some kind of different way to get a player in.
The back lines of NRG is what I would like to see.
See if you can be a little bit disruptive,
kind of throw them off their game.
They're going to be on an eco, though.
It's just a bandit for Sop. Oh, no, going back over to the classic maybe.
Sociable, the only one with any kind of buy to speak of.
Scoob was just going for a Marshall. I mean, he knows this.
Have all of them dead pretty much to any shot.
Here's to see him not testing for at least the outlaw here.
Think about that battle.
That buy in the previous round, right? They had a judge in the spectre. It was desperation
They're trying to turn the tide, instead they're just digging the hole deeper.
And they're immediately recurring, scaling forward outside of A.
So stop.
Guarding to become aware of this, we'll leave the charge, they'll re-wrap around towards
stairs and the site.
Steel Guarded from Yetichae, still a world away, just now working his way through that
B Connector.
Shot to the legs, Zeus gonna be taking low, Cease is down, sliding though, and Safi is all on his own, the maid perfectly places Zeus will fall.
For moves, solid shot though, from sociable, we'll be able to find Mata, but can they get one of these guns is the question.
Get some something, another.
He had a jade just with the classic, needs to try to collect something and he will be able to use it.
Get that handle into hand.
He's gonna try to play this one out.
Knows that if he can get the clutch it's going to be monstrous 10 bullets at the moment in this one swings out now down to six
There's shorties
And the energy will not be able to be the hero that foot so desperately need
Well, it's not a bad idea to be honest from foot
They're they're matching the rotations pretty nicely. They kind of get a situation where they have a
a shot at this, but again, just too much damage done early and you've got nothing but classics, no armor.
Means that some of those front line players that you're gonna throw into that fight are very squishy.
NRG able to capitalize and they're gonna have a showstopper here coming into this. Zeus went away from his.
Christali does have the nightfall.
Some tools to work with.
Oh my god. What? I had him seized.
In that corner, look where that is.
Hell of a kill that he found.
Doesn't got a punch from Blood.
Trying to put that energy from moving up.
The map point entry.
Attempted for mono. He will get shut down.
Just fully blinded. Yeti-J.
Please be able to trade back these raises.
Gonna be under an immense amount of pressure to blind out.
From the baronoy to that dig!
Exhaustible!
Sets himself and Yeti-J up
for a wild success.
What was looking like a tragic start ends up being a brilliant finish as Foot did not allow for NRG to make it the 12th yet.
So it's, I think Mata got body blocked a bit by Ethan there as he was trying to set up for the blast pack entry with the showstopper.
That seemed to throw everything off. Foot perfect though with their response using that paranoia, using that vice utility to slow that hit down.
That's a huge turn here. Looks like it might be curtains for foot now. They've got some alts now
They've got some big guns that was just 10
I'll have to try to commit that shows up renters. Who has that in the back pocket?
That's a massive tide turn
Couldn't be aggressive a
Little bit deeper towards a but I gotta see much scuba's gonna tuck in meanwhile sociable
tough situation here. Obviously, you hope you can just TP out of this, smokes up and he's not
going to stick around and it's too long, it looks like.
He's actually got re-tagged by the frowler. It's a very good idea of where he ended up going.
Look at this warm steel garden available for broth. He's going to overdrive this time for
up. Paranoia will try to buy a bit of time.
So he's going to be right.
But at this noise, but is it going to be a pump fake?
So the answer is going to be yes.
They have a pretty good.
Potentially anti.
Steel garden set up because you can open that door.
Thirty seconds left. You can pinch.
Out of charges.
But there's taking long enough.
Right fall.
It's going to be set down.
So we're not going to get caught by that social.
And to get it taken out back side is Kiko Barnes, a very solid head shot.
Top now, the closest one, and he's able to play two.
He's trying to play for time, you're sliding in.
Put the pit of it over, he...
Time to play it now.
No, not gonna be important.
Kill him, it's out!
The Wings in from downtown!
And he Wings them around!
Eleven to eleven.
What? They tie it up!
Absolutely beautiful.
Stop the hero again for foot.
This double kill. Absolutely disgusting.
It looks like the pause was going to work out for energy.
They caught foot off guard.
They weren't quite ready.
Yeah, the time just not there.
Beautifully.
Beautiful reaction from foot on the fly in the chaos.
This is the end of the panic.
On the coaching staff's face.
I think they're saying stop. No, don't push.
But he's feeling it. I mean, if he doesn't get caught up on the wall of that side, I
think maybe he gets a third there, but could have done for now. Final time on call for
energy for wheels this time. They are neck and neck alongside, but the money, the economy,
it has been wheeled away at. We just invested that sealed garden, your showstop reviews
Just a couple of rounds ago as well.
So it's a pit, and I'm from the shadows.
I try to get you up to the mount point
and stop that from falling into foot's hands.
And there's tools here available.
We've already seen that Kiko willing to be aggressive with that
from the shadows to maybe create some extra angles
and things like that.
So is there going to be a set play in this round?
It's kind of my curiosity.
A lot of times we'll have players that will go in that space
between B and C in the back.
We're even into the back of sight or into stairs sometimes.
There's a cute little TP you can maneuver
where you find that stairs angle open on a timing
and catch teams off guard.
So, or it might just feel like, you know what?
We've got a modder.
He's got a judge.
He might just be able to brute force our way through.
But changing up some of that vice,
you tell moving it over towards me this round,
wanting to try to see if they can catch energy
the different idea but so far it's C all the way.
Okay, let's go ahead and listen to the energy.
Walk away, we're going to go back to front B and pop B.
Brock, I think you stay C.
Alright, I hear you.
They have A-Line, yeah?
They could have it.
No problem.
It's fun.
They don't.
They just got fucking started.
Retrieving flash.
We're going to start from here.
I'm prowling and we're going.
Was there a wall on C?
I don't know, there's probably a wall here, listen to me, listen to me.
Oh, Geo, TP across as soon as we power in, and the Omen flash is venting, I'm going ahead.
There's two, still see you guys, don't have to see it.
Here comes the exact entry from Mana.
He right on top of the solid, he's able to find him with that judge, but wall pop delays him even further.
Meanwhile, TP from Kiko, he's arrived over towards the spawn.
Maybe looking for a backstab attempt here, and it could be absolutely monstrous.
Meanwhile, he's brought around the plant to come through.
The pit is well invested into this.
The pit at one, and there he is, keep going to the plant.
Stop and transit, and he cleans up the other Jada boot.
2v3, Zeus's presence noted.
Associable will fall.
And this is a gargantuan, nigh impossible task,
and Zeus will have to just back away.
NRG. Taking their time assessing the situation and make a quick pivot and that will earn
them map point. Love the idea here. They kind of suss it together right as they're thinking
about making the execute that wait a minute. We didn't pop the vice wall yet. Okay, let's
still see if we can at least get model one, see if we can clear some space. You heard
them talking about, hey, let's send the paranoia in towards fence. It hits, it gets modded
It gets the Odin out of the equation.
Even though he's traded quickly,
that's thrown foot off guard.
They're trying to rotate.
And it's a quick decision to pivot by even
to go over to the C site.
Instead, use that TP that I was talking about
in that space between the back of C and B,
where foot just completely disregards it.
Nobody's looking for it.
And it's a great individual call from Mada
just asking for exactly what he needs
to get that entry through.
Yes, he ends up getting traded,
but that's that tipping point.
That's what just sets the rest of the round off kilter and allows for energy to capitalize so foot now needing to push this into overtime
Otherwise they're gonna be that zero one deficit and look at the very fast scale up
It's not a judge it's a bulldog around the corner with Zeus holding on to a vandal as well
Hearing that TP on the reposition, NRG will just slowly look the way out, but Scuba still
looking to hold his own, finds himself a second kill, and Zeus is tagged to 10.
Oh, they got painted into that.
What a read there from NRG.
He needs to go absolutely crazy and he can buy that nothing.
a lick of Gavin suffered by scuba everybody else pristine rightful now going to be sent out sociable to get caught by that
As the paranoia threw it out page allowed his back. He is dead scuba finds a kill in the energy
It's a low
It's finished to a very close amount energy
They take the open
Bit labor but once energy got there put underneath of them. They looked like the team. We know they are and now put
The backs up against the wall, meeting the fight away out of the corner.
Haven will have to be that staging ground.
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Gen here with Bunker of Energy, incredible macro from you guys, but just wanted to ask
you what is your read on foot and their tendencies after Lotus?
We're just trying to keep it simple, honestly. They're a pretty straightforward team.
And with that, they're just confident in their own game plan,
they're confident in taking gunfights and these things.
So we're trying to not overthink about that and just stick into our protocols.
All right, keep it simple.
Keeping it simple, easier said than done.
We did get to hear Bonkar screaming, doing his iconic howl before the game starts.
I think the best way to do
this is. Yeah, who's I had to
advice with girl who. Yeah
That's exclusively for
Bunker there, but this was a
highly competitive first map
here. I think energy ended up
dropping more rounds than they
probably should have, but they
ended up clearing through in
the end of Lotus. Yeah, I think
that composition. I think
energy have the much stronger
composition. I think they have
the better theory there, and I
think the only scraping through
a 13 11 there is a worrying
not scraping through the swiss stage, not scraping through a map win on a Lotus where I think they were the heavy favorites.
You also said that they were probably one of the better teams on LoL. It's one of the best teams in this swiss stage.
And I think that FOOT were able to kind of poke some holes through that throughout this match.
Well, one player that we were highlighting who's been performing fairly well, win or lose is Scuba.
So let's take a look at our HyperX Reflex moment of today.
I think he's going to be happy about this one.
Nice little judge clean up there from scuba.
Not necessarily the most beautiful round of all time, but got them quickly.
Yeah, job done.
I mean, anything to guarantee that second round.
We've seen foot be very, um, what's the word, dangerous in those kind of rounds previously
where they can't win out four spies and whatnot.
It wasn't a strange run-down today, they owed in undercourge that was catching foot off guard quite a lot in the series.
Yeah, definitely. And for Energy, we were talking about, you don't want to see them scraping by, but that's kind of what was happening, especially with their retakes, and also why it ended up being so close, Mini.
Yeah, they were a heavily advantage in some of these retakes, and they just couldn't close them out.
And I think that a team with the caliber of these players, the caliber of this team, losing 2v5s like this, not peeking together, not being able to out-aim foot, to me it's slightly embarrassing coming out from NRG.
Yeah, and you see some hero round plays coming out from foot as well, right? Being able to win out those rounds, and maybe we're needing to see a little bit more of that, but even this round in particular, NRG throwing a Vizal into the mix, where Costali's actually able to pick up a couple of kills and bounce it here.
not even tracking the back of the site. I don't really understand what is happening in some of these reds, honestly.
Fundamentals slipping away from NRG there as well, and yeah, they've been able to close out the map,
but I think, like you said, Minay, there was moments of desperation coming up from them,
where Foot had made them so scared to a point that they were having to invest ultimates into rounds such as that.
And I could see a few Kiko fans here in the audience, and it looks like the fan buff is coming into a bit of an effect here.
Yeah, it's been well once again, but I hope that it's like about everyone stepping up together.
I think there is a little bit of better individual form here for energy,
but clearly some of the fundamentals are still missing. Like this isn't the energy
that we've been seeing in those deep runs. This isn't the energy we saw in that lower bracket run.
There's still some problems. I think there is a side of relief from the energy fans coming out of that.
Oh, definitely. And foot must be kicking themselves a little bit here. Let's see what
what coach Vlad has to say ahead of map two.
Here with Vlad of FUD, Vlad, I feel like Lotus could have gone either way.
Why do you think it slipped away from you guys?
And what are some aspects of your game from Lotus?
Are you planning to continue on for Haven?
Yeah, to be honest, yeah, it could have gone either way.
Just one or two rounds, being more careful.
We could have won the game, actually.
On Haven, I don't think they stand a chance.
Okay, I love the confidence from you and for us, Haven awaits.
Oh, I love that confidence. Their foot is not dismayed after that first map loss.
Sometimes some teams, when it's so close, they can not really mental reset as well, but it looks like that is very happy with this.
Yeah, I mean, there's a reason why Foot picked this map, but NRG are undefeated on this map so far.
I believe it's three in zero, so there are no slouches there, but I do think that there
are definitely weaknesses in NRG's game.
I think that they are far too passive, especially on that defense side.
They don't push out early on.
They don't go for pushes out in the mid-round, and that is what foot excels at on this map.
I think they are a very good haven team because it suits that Turkish aggressive style.
I don't know about you, Mini, but I'm getting a little bit worried about this all.
We could have been able to close out that map.
It seems to be happening to foots so far throughout this event, but as you mentioned, NRG,
all this win rate on this map in America's three and I believe it was but
looking at this agents like that we have up here we're keeping an eye on Zeus
and Solve these have been the kind of stars of the show throughout this
series and then NRG we're gonna get to see Kiko on the Phoenix which we've been
running and raving about yeah but it's energy starting on this defense and as I
said I think they are way too passive when they play this map they are
flooding their rotations sideways if foot have a game plan here to beta a
little bit that will catch energy off guard. The other thing is that foot could
just go for the normal exec style and just overwhelm those sites but energy
might be quick enough with the rotation so that is the kind of chest match that
I'm looking to see here. I want to see energy pushing out a lot more though.
That is so interesting like you said. Energy is a really strong haven but even
you see the gaps in the strategy there. Let's see what happens as we send to the
second map. The destination is Haven.
Even indeed, but have looked very strong on this map thus far, but as it does with pointing out NRG,
no slouches either have not suffered a loss on it yet.
Will that continue? Or can foot push this to distance, send it all the way to a map three?
A settle on fracture.
Determine who goes forward and who goes home.
This needs to be a big one for the Turkish squad.
Yeah, I was really keyed in on this map if it was going to be picked by foot in the draft because they've been so good on it here, especially in London.
But in general, you know, NRG are really, really solid fundamentally, even though they might not be as aggressive as you'd like.
You're going to get some damage in.
Scoop without not going to stick around the whole plan here play for retake if you can't
Guess correctly on which side of the map they were going to try to rotate to are going to have that trip back there for yet a J
if they try to push into long but
Maybe just a clear of it. No, they're just going to try to go through garage big push coming in this paranoia
How many you connect on
Ways wall gonna be set up to try to escort them some of those forward sight lines paranoia now sent out soft
However taking that point contact will be over fun the first need that's gonna be taken down
But I have a fine one we get a quickie trade that out
trade it up
What Mary swiftly dispatch energy?
They find another pistol win for themselves starting off the map 1-0. Yeah, just a rough situation to break through their force
energy great both plant setups you have all your you till left still as a foot
so really slowing down keep those angles completely smothered and absolutely
really nice yeah just how you draw it up just trying to get up yep that keep it
going keep it going we'll see energy just gonna try another aggressive long a
push early at least try and funnel some of these orbs into Kiko.
Get that run it back available maybe.
Yeah, just a second charge, Sop.
Shifting over makes a bit of noise here.
Dropping down.
Herbal could absolutely recommend.
Kiko does have that one in hand.
I suspect that this is going to be a deep drone forward to try to spot this help.
Three player, high low.
Spearmaning this one. That's gonna be south. Eliminated.
Now the curve ball in. The headshot found.
Two's gonna be taken down.
Paranoia connecting. So it's just trying to spray and spray.
Holding on M1. The blaze won't have a chance of cutting them off.
And that's gonna be straight shot being found as Kiko and Mana will both be eliminated.
It's not recovered.
It was Ethan.
Just pushed up against the smoke. Trying to utilize the right clicks.
But eventually he's going to be found.
Keep weaponry still going to be carried over as Foot now shift into position to try to get this plant going in scuba
See if he is going to be able to make this a little bit of rougher around the edges for the steam
He got nothing found
Quietly get a jay
We'll be there for the counter swing so damage found a good round overall for energy
But still do manage to get the two-zero start. It's gonna go on a lot worse for foot
the blaze wall there man I don't know this coordination yeah that paranoia
hits so much maybe they just don't expect it to and they're just trying to
reset or something like that but oh man that could have gone so much worse
but they're lucky to come out of that it's unscathed they did and this is a
glass cannon off from Mata early on very quick into this wants to try to
to establish that presence on this defender's side.
Turn this ship around is, this time around though,
NRG has been showing tons of presence early long, eh?
This thing just gonna leave Brock to his own devices.
This one was being done a lot yesterday by FullSense,
just trying to get that operator into Primmy's hands
as early as they possibly can.
Well, they're not models gonna be able
to get that same amount of value.
More to pay.
We're up to be witnessed.
Let's swing in and Brock will be the first to fall
south and we'll find that he does get a little bit
of damage here by bottom out, able to strike,
Binding in there from that connector side face forward though in the back site
Zeus will clean one up a lot of flicker for timing as it does get being revealed by the drone
It has to get that space over. Let's keep going out clearing the trip wire
Let me put no yes, you are potentially being boxed in but he's gonna be rerouted back through B. I
Think you already got to consider a save here is energy. I
Don't think it's worth doing anything to looking for an exit, but maybe they're gonna go
The high low and hell
Molly out
Her fault will try to find something Zeus is gonna be taking down stuba from out in heaven able to find two kills
Modem, maybe
Who just goes nuclear
Four kills found on the cypher and RG deny what was looking like and a shared bonus conversion
Man
Got to eat my words here. This is crazy good stuff from scuba. I thought this had no chance
He's so clean with it
Oh my
Yeah, and you gotta be
Just rolling over at the moment. If you're fucked
God start getting concerned because hold pouring energy. They have the confidence
And now they've got the big guns
got the Odin they kept the off a little bit of damage off that initial spray
being thought about here four foot put that run it back
other critical to try to tie this up
shock forward in cases that trip here and be main but none to be found one
garage one situated on the site. You're in a good position here as NRG you've got
an alt cycle in your favor. Just can you get it to go before foot gets into
theirs? Let's go away on the other side of the map and foot just being very cautious.
The point is going to go unregistered. Mauna again is pulling back to a deeper
angle but NRG are getting the read. Stacking this side as that smoke is
Blue Paranoia connecting on to nothing. They're running back now. Got to be Santa Kerbal however
It's turned away from Zeus. Will end up finding that snapback and Modder just trying to go on a timing again
ends up getting caught
Great shot to be found
That shot start not gonna be fighting too much of anything as Seuss
Continuing to deliver finds a kill on an Ethan the operator again is coming to the market for Kiko
Who's gonna be forced to wait back around that corner and this time NRG will make the call
3v5, not gonna be good enough.
Backpedal away and go for the save.
His foot will move up three to one.
This is exactly some of the problems
that the desk was talking about here,
where because you're not taking aggressive early space,
because you're playing so passive,
playing for that quick retake off the back of the Phoenix ult,
you can't get anything out of it.
Foot just really disciplined in these post-planes,
as we've seen on this map time and time again.
Other than that, that bonus, they have looked really sharp, and they're going to come away with all their guns, only three left over, four NRG, so starting things off in the right foot, and yeah, immediately, Bonkart wants to talk this one over.
I think it's probably going to be a little bit of what we're already seeing you got to establish a little bit more presence at long a you've got to at least
Make them consider it so they just don't get sites for free like that. I get the idea
I I do where you're playing off of the Phoenix all you're like, okay
We've got that we could try to hit them while they're trying to plant see we catch them off guard with a timing, but
We got to be a little bit more proactive in the early part of the game
especially with that up there that can give you that early advantage.
Yeah, I mean, if Zeus is going to be snappy with these shots like he was in that previous round,
then right back is not going to be good enough for that entry.
So I'm just having to fight forward, take that aggressive space early,
as the retakes are not going to be nearly as reliable,
especially now that that alt has been expended.
And I really want to give Zeus his flowers on Wele.
He has been really good at it, especially on this map, the way he pilots it.
It's not just the shooting, it's the decision-making with the refrax and the timings on when he wants to go in, when he's going to get information, when he's pulling back, like all these things that he does really, really nicely that set foot up for success in the big picture scheme of things.
convincing one off the top of my head at this tournament so far as far as
Wele is concerned and I mean there's rays also nothing to shake a stick at.
Neural theft, the blades are nearly there for NRG, but the overall old cycle very
much favors foot at this point.
And your one away here from a convergent paths could be what there's
teeing up for here.
Shock dart isn't clear because the trick is in the porn.
Let's give you that convergent pass, but this is hip scuba.
He's not going to be hitting anything, saturating either.
And he will be able to strike completely unaware his arm, but finds it opening kill,
the Pinger Beelze, the Neural Teath immediately gets invested.
Of course, oh, in the backside, the Wood Sob is able to find that kill.
And Khristali comes away with two eliminations.
They should have been dead to right.
That's exactly Brock's thinking, though.
This is Spike, he's going to be playing them.
Kostali getting his fight in play, Mott and outscaling.
Porty able to find one tailwinds on the side,
avoids that damage from the garage side.
Two blades set.
Kostali able to find the quick scope in, but now a 1v1.
So he's pulling the reposition,
how much the Brock had heard that one.
He still thinks that he's in garage.
Now needs to play it quietly himself.
Stuck will fall and Brock gets them over the line.
The 3k on the Odin and RG take another step towards tying this up it's a
little bit messy but they get there the longer the early round idea here I think
they knew exactly what was going to be calling off that convergent pass because
of that setup that scuba has tucked into the corner knows that that convergent
pass is gonna hit that site not on the plat so he's able to just tuck in there
do some early damage and it's Brock again the hero with the Odin like the same
set up at school at Iran in the previous round, but they never went to that side of the map.
They didn't scout it.
Weren't conditioned for it at all.
It ends up being brilliant.
That was own Hunter's Fury online.
There was a consideration for free moment for that outlaw.
Knowing that NRG are not going to be able to pull those full armors on the majority of
the players, but Sop is just going to be dead off the red.
Beautiful.
That's what we're talking about, trying to get that early space.
Get that early pick too.
Little bit of a change in the setup this time.
Scuba further back.
Other trip could be connected between the boxes.
And we'll get the spot out, Zeus.
We need to remove that.
U2 gets cleared.
Spike can be brought forward.
And I'm just very...
Gonna be setting response, just delaying, allowing for energy to get completely corralled over on this side of the map.
Final pulse not to be found.
Swinging the window though, yet a J-Foddy won the curveball.
He's going to be turned away from the Kiko, still able to play at his feet and find that elimination.
Now in play for Stali, back pedaling out into that C long cubby.
Contra's very can find value from here.
Molly and his feet, Seuss.
Having to reposition, a hundred-ster is going to be used.
Ah, Lee, but Seuss has the transfer.
There's a bomb over the top, though, ends up getting picked, and now Kiko.
Brings this back into a 2v1.
A single shock dart, all that he's got.
Refuse being started, scuba to play for Tech, takes it though and isolates it down.
The retap is already held to half, he's waiting it out, swings it, wins it, and Christali will
pull up the Red Bull clutch to stave off NRG.
Oh boy, not for a moment there maybe NRG had got it done but put Abel to come up the works
here at Karai.
really slows things down and zoos what a position, but then a big answer back from Kiko some really nice individual moments on both sides of the coin
Christali plays that very very nicely
and a little bit of a
I'm not sure if they just guessed incorrectly there for energy on which side of the alley he was on
ends up playing on the wrong side gives that angle over
Kiko falls and then from there
Easy pick-ins, and now that owl-o, absolutely going to be online, but it's going to be Zeus just spraying into the smoke, finding one, Ethan now going to be taken down.
One point somewhere, many of this won't go far at all.
Everyone's over to the corner, but another Neuraltip's going to be invested.
They're trying to make their exit, but Monk hadn't escaped.
Rock, blinded up.
Downs around the back of sight, but Zeus is already there.
He'd fall all this round per foot to now start to snowball this even further.
He's almost got another convergent pass.
Yeah, I mean, this is kind of making it a little too easy here for foot.
Because you've shown this exact same play a couple times where you're going to try to
scale up Long A with a lot of players, and this kind of foot has an answer dialed in.
They've got the utile usage to get the reveals. They've got the spam early because they suspect that that could be the play just like they saw in a previous eco.
They are absolutely correct. So they are not fooled in the slightest.
Effectively a triple down from NRG on that strat.
Not sure if we lowered the lights, but Ethan's gonna be asking for those.
We need a little bit brighter at the moment. It's not been able to find any impact here. Zero and seven on this homing.
Rough look of it after being so solid. I'm lotus there
In the back of sight some has the blades available
Odin again run it back those gonna be committed very early and put say okay, that's fine
What's it come sprinting out Ethan now? Okay. We'll be able to find his first
to be. Kill on a
and so far scuba completely
as well. It's into this cubby.
It seems like there is some
suspicion from Sop as he's going
to push you forward to try to
clear out this angle and the
blades will connect. Planted
like that kill gets him into a
404 is a spike. He's going to
be planted just from the
shadows available for energy.
Wait a moment. He had a J laid
on this lurk. He plans to speak
He has the immediate dink into the Spraydown, Kiko now eliminated.
He needs some of this weaponry.
Again, for NRG, they need to find some value sooner rather than later.
Otherwise, they're going to have to go for a save.
Yetta J just jumping around the corner quickly.
Works his way out to safety.
Zythin will be able to find a second fight, the third, fight, the fourth.
Now, he's in for this one.
It's Yetta J.
He's going to hold the garage, and he does it.
Man-defined Mata.
What a way to come alive.
Zero kills coming into the round. He finds a 4k and gets energy up to three.
There you go. Somebody must have turned up the lights were even on that one.
He has lights out there. Oh man that 4k.
He has had some nasty ones today.
That's gotta be frustrating. I mean Foot reads this round really nicely. They've got a lot of the
flanks covered. They're trying to
really just hold the line in so many different of these
spread angles that NRG is trying to take.
And they win some of them.
I mean, Yadajay there out doing Kiko
after he gets Mollyed off the position.
Beautiful, but just got outdone by Ethan.
Ratchet's hat's gonna be dodged by one,
but not by Brock.
He tries to just hold his own.
Meanwhile, the operator's still gonna be here.
Wanna shove any foul.
Sop gonna be taken down.
He tries to up-dry over top of the box.
A little despair, man.
Ethan getting whittled away at his Zeus.
Says a nice little hello.
And he reaches a bind too.
Modem dead.
Kiko eliminated.
Zeus looking for that fourth. He cannot find him, but he's leading up his air.
And but, the answer right back. They shut down the heroics.
They give themselves a six round win.
Now they're turning up the tempo. Now we're playing some Turkish Valorant.
Getting in their faces and that's exactly what Zeus wants. Disgusting.
It's a straight for that final kill.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know.
Neither do we Vlad. What we're doing are damnedest.
I'll follow the chaos
They're gonna continue to replicate that the energy they're not gonna know what's going on either
Hey, if you don't know what you're doing then your opponent certainly doesn't either
Hi, they knew that though this could be a very deadly read
Checking around the top of the site nothing gonna be spotted there
And it's gonna be easy and dead is he ready for the bottle up though
Five first game of the quarter, the shorty gonna be drawn out, the cover of the wire is gonna be good.
Will just dive in, finding some damage and Brock is taking down to a sliver.
That is an immense amount of value, found here off the riff for putt.
The outlaw will get carried over, but all players, full HP, full armor.
And Scuba, I don't think he's gonna be ready for this tuck position from sociable.
He is not.
And now it's just Brock.
Yeah, we'll end up getting taken down his foot, secure a lead at the half with a chance
to make this nine and three.
This is so fun to watch.
I am such a fan of Sof on the Jet.
He has been lighting up the kill feed, but this right here, a great round because he
causes so much distraction.
It allows Zeus to rotate in, cover his back, and even though he gives his life for the
cause, he wins the round basically single-handedly there.
Little bit of help on the back side, sure, but he's buying all that time and space for what to come in collect some kills get the plant through might be having to convert three convergent bounce rather in this opening half.
I see the individual play, but though I think trying a different idea, Scuba's got the cam
in there will be heard that's the smoke tool
trying to bait him out of the patients happening on 10th all year this type
board in the smoking stop will be eliminated immediately spiraling the
neural theft gets to reveal the spike not planted now stranded it looks like
energy still yet some fight left in them as Christali on that reload will be
noted, but get a jail from window. Keep his back protected.
Realistically, what are you meant to do here? You would love to find
some damage. 30 seconds. They just have this completely locked down.
Sends a shot right between his legs.
Eventually, we'll get fished out as Kiko gets that elimination now.
It's just down to yet again. Try to stop this from being a flawless
And it's cool for the sage himself and it looks like that is going to be the choice at the end of it now
Does face back in the mid and Brock is in the final some flawless established at energy
Still with a chance to make this a seven to five. Well, that's massive for giving themselves a really good chance into it
because they were looking
Hore in the economic sense. They were all down to less than 700 credits. So it would have been a scrappy buy
for anybody coming into it but because they carry over all these guns they get
the flawless. Gonna come in with full armor, still have the op. It's gonna be
all rifles, full armor per foot, we're flush with cash. A couple ults to consider.
Kiko's run it back. Kristalli's, Hunter's Fury, Wolf Omen still have the TPs.
Haven't seen anybody go for anything too creative with those so maybe now is one
of those rounds. There you go.
be the hell. Rock's not watching this.
Social Wolf's been completely unread.
But there, the Reop heal ends up coming through.
Rock turns back, finds that kill.
Gets himself another stop.
It's gonna be eliminated.
He's taking low, but not taking down,
but the volume of response here from foot
ends up looking pretty decent,
but Zeus is down to one.
2v3.
Reposition, but Zeus is still able to find Mada.
The shot.
Now he's got that ult.
How to slow them down on this re-approach.
They're very wary of the Heaven position.
Hearing that Omen ult sent, Ethan now gonna start scaling his way forward.
Molly ends up getting a bit of damage, but just a smattering found.
Get a J swinging out a little bit wider.
Taking lower, taking out.
As Ethan will be able to find it, now it's gonna have to be a 1 HP clutch from Zeus.
Shot's found, conversion pass is gonna be sent.
Swing! Get through the shot, but it's eventually the spray from Kiko.
To deny the clutch and what a monsters one of that it would have been but energy
Man, it's just great together five rounds
Does Brock bounce a recon behind him there
Catch the vision
He doesn't look back and he's having to find that kill it ends up being everything for energy
So half-time break now. We'll see you guys on the other side
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What was the overriding takeaway?
We lost a few important clutch rounds and we learned to stay calm in the advantage rounds.
If we play together in the advantage rounds and win them, we think we will close the matches.
We're going to try to calm down in the rounds where we have the upper hand, and we're going
to try to close out the game where we have the advantage.
Alright, nice.
Tighten up the game.
Jen here with Scuba of Energy.
Scuba, what have you guys developed in your game plan to kind of deal with the aggression
and the Fest tempo?
Just all week in practice we've been working on fighting fire with fire so it's gonna be a slugfest out there today for sure
Sounds like a game. Thank you
Now time to go into the second half
They have NRG doing damn well to run back five rounds.
The pistol could be all that is separating them from a tied-up scoreline.
He closed out an anti-eco.
But now certainly still feeling comfortable on this map,
but the pressure is getting ramped up on them.
For sure.
And the foot is a tremendous defender side team on this map.
They play it really, really cleanly.
But still, it can be an attacker-sided, you know, favored map overall.
So it's just a matter of, you know, is Foot going to be able to maintain that pressure?
Now that they've shown this map a couple of times, is NRG going to have some ideas here
to give themselves that slight edge, and especially if they get this pistol,
then you start to think that this might just end in a 2-0.
Stop lucky to be alive unable to find any damage in response to that.
So just gonna be tagged at 14 and has to back away.
That's just gonna be a silent creep across towards C long now.
Really much all of NRG.
This is kind of where foot's leading a bit though.
I'm gonna have that cam for the early detection.
Definitely make the meal of this potentially but NRG just hurts to say it.
They're ready for a fight and instead it's a collection of the orb.
They get the paranoia out too.
That's huge.
A big bit of Utah now out of the hands of sociable.
He's going to be waiting for that next smoke to cycle up.
He's able to hold his own for one, but Zeus is also going to be taken out and that is
a critical lead now for energy in the pistol, which is going to double back over to C.
How'd you got two out of garage?
Do you think that worse?
There's one more over here on C. Maybe considering B, Trit set up for Scuba.
There's a spot there on the Crystalli, but Scuba can just hold the line on the back side.
The Blaze wall now situated.
Bannon just goes pushing forward.
I mean, Sop is making all the noise in the world.
He's interrupted.
There's a maybe bottom of the pot, but they end up not reading.
How performant he is.
Scuba's in the front of the Crystalli.
He's up.
He burnt to a crisp, but now it's down to Yedda Jang.
1v2!
And it kicks and isolated, but Scuba is playing that high low.
the kill takes around the energy one away from tying this up whoa man it gets
darn close it got for scuba there that's why you leave that player on that
backside to keep track of things nice to have the site for available and he's
having a really solid map 11 and 9 that's for the set no player now you
You got a Guardian, Kiko, Marshall Mada, Brock just a ghost, and Ethan with that Bulldog.
So, trying to keep it a little bit extra saved.
NRG.
You can get another orb, so they're doing a good job in the map.
Once you peek, and Ethan will get eliminated.
They're aware of that front left side presence of Zeus, but he jumps across, utilizes that
smoke to make a quick little exit.
We'll get a chance here for foot both the bottom guns are on this seaside. They read this nicely
There's now slotting aggressively
Board in garage, and it looks like energy just gonna try to take this and ended it be yet again
Slow methodical on this approach and foot gambling incorrectly on a but you're enough by
Trying to make a goal of this as Moda goes up and over.
That Marshal now going to be situated on the line, check in towards that A connector.
Zeus around the back not giving any set lines yet and the camera has not been toggled.
So far he's completely on red and now he's able to strike, he's going to be taken down.
Jump forward, shot, third going to be locked in, two players going to be revealed, rock
down, eliminated, scuba, he's looking for more, he cannot get it, Moda, however, hip
Firing like a maniac! It's not enough!
Switch is overwhelmed and Zeus goes unread, unscouted, and but denies the anti-Eco.
This is just an awkward post-plan here for NRG.
Stuck completely on site, the Marshall gets the value there.
This is so well done.
The moment he gets that kill on Kiko is when the camera spots him out and it's already far too late.
Yeah.
They're too aggressive. I mean NRG just not ready for it. Brock, thinking about the shock dart, thinking he had a little bit more time there too instead he gets revealed and gets taken out for free.
All these little timing moments for NRG, really off balance, but just all four players on B site like that is playing with fire, especially in an eco round, against an eco.
While there is a decent bit of weaponry here, it can still be very rough.
Piss off, unable to confirm the kill, the full armor.
Keeping Mata alive, still a chance to find some impact with that Guardian.
Zed-A-Jay is hearing these footsteps, he's trying to hold this line, the cage now popped.
Backpedals out, another cage, covering the retreat, Zeus.
Adler ready to try to go for the beat drop, he's down into this one with the spray, he's not gonna be connecting.
He's losing his life, he's a player advantage to damage Tal.
Xenargy still wanting to try to take the seaside, pushing to the back,
able to find one more before getting eliminated.
Yenakhen Khristali.
Spike down, C.
Look to keep put in this, but Kiko.
One of the hometown heroes is going to try to deliver on a clutch, but.
Tag the 14 to heal off the blaze wall.
Immediately the repositioning is going to be coming through.
The jump up into the window.
He doesn't push.
It's completely unread for a moment, but now stop.
Quite well aware and Christali has been given the time to rotate
all the way back through C long 30 seconds left.
25 seconds.
Not much more time to try to make it go over this and he
doesn't even want to make a lick of noise.
So he's only got eight bullets remaining in this magazine.
15 seconds remaining the work his way into the B site to try to get this plant
enacted 10 seconds left what a clutch this would be if he could pull it off
but he's gonna have to commit to it now the second to spare stop looking for the
up and over the cloud first in the shorty not to deliver on the kill it
barely finds the damage Christali now unfavorable has the recon has the shock
if he could plant it perfectly at Kiko's feet.
The first he has to try to get the read.
It's two bullets remaining.
Tucks forward in front of that recon.
The swing towards each other, the tap.
Trying to hold, this defuse, the half.
And Kiko has the head shot!
The Red Bull clutches, we just go blow for blow, back and forth.
Kiko has been one of the best players overall at this event
in just about every sense you can imagine.
And he's been phenomenal in the clutches too.
And he's done it here again.
And it is a catastrophic misread from Sop.
You're playing against the Phoenix.
He's got Util to heal himself back up.
I think you also might have expected him to be on the other side
a little bit closer.
A lot.
That Kiko just does ever so slightly well
that gives him that advantage.
Now it's into the outlaw here for Mada.
This is going to be one for sociable two.
So a lot of players, two well, two on NRG.
It'll be one tap to that gun.
I'm not only to see the clutch, but he also
gets three more charges.
So he's halfway to another right back.
Surprisingly, I would have been too shocked
to see a timeout call after the back of that one from foot.
Coach is just saying you have to play together.
for now, but we'll try to maintain this up-down, up-down.
It's going to be good damage bound,
but NRG just finds two kills in reply here on this C site.
Still pumping the brakes though, not looking
to rush into a commitment.
And Zeus does manage to take quite a bit of forward space,
but with just a classic at hand,
it's going to be rough to try to find any sort of value.
And Foot seem to think that this is going to be
a double back towards the A site.
take flight. Just a long enough pause and foot doesn't see anything, but I haven't seen
anything at A and still considering that it could go that direction. Now we realize that.
Certainly not. It's going to be another tough go of it. Stop with that share of it. Needs
to find a value, but maybe they're just looking for the push out. They're kind of remembering
some of the stuff that NRG did against them early on. In Lotus. Maybe just end up going
down to the spike. Seems to be the game plan. No other real firepower here. No chance to
try to hunt for some kills. This is going to allow for NRG to really start establishing
this economy as they tie it up at 8 to 8. And Mana will still just be able to find Zeus.
No credence lent to that potential angle of approach.
Remaining two players can just go down to the spike safely.
What a window of opportunity.
Give it over to NRG.
And if this ends up unfurling foot on this map, if this ends up being a 2-0 for NRG,
they are going to be kicking themselves.
Oh, that Kiko clutch will be the pivotal round.
It will be the turning point, to say the least.
Maybe. Might be getting the foot time out. I just wanted to wait the eco out before
they got into it. Wanted to go right into a rifle round. Some alts to toy with some
ideas here in the Coinbase win condition, but right now it just almost feels like you're
giving NRG chances when you shouldn't. You know, you're playing really well. You get
that eco win. Even going back to their attacker side, those last couple of rounds, you know,
go a little bit differently and they can be in so far ahead of a position that, okay,
well, you dropped those couple of rounds not as big of a deal, not as much of a concern.
And now it's red alert.
And they're aware that this is going to be rough. You see that outlaw for scuba.
Sop is going to be getting the operator online and he needs to be able to deliver with this.
We need to see a little bit more from Sop. I mean, he was electric on the Cheta on this
map and others so you need to see him get that confidence back you know we saw the one round
with some of the dancing with some of the moves style hasn't been there outside of that
been a little bit of a muted presence but Zeus on the other end has been outrageous he has been
incredible on that way like he's gonna need a little bit more of that magic maybe to get those
duelists really frying that's when foot's at their best.
Energy.
Get out of my way!
Considering anybody had tried to make a push-up out of window there
could go checking for it.
So just being really cautious in the early part of this round.
Our energy.
The three player stack here though, but the operator is not a part of that equation.
Yeah, it's just those moments if you can get the blades to go as Mata you could be a difference maker here
Let's go down to the sewers checks that quarter. He's gonna be very much not favor the paranoid
It's gonna be that vision people all
Zeus absolutely destroys them all
And what a call off the timeout what a play from Zeus replay right the hell now
That is a fantastic trap.
Oh my God, this Saturday.
Saturated through.
Right as Kiko pops the ult as well.
Unbelievable.
Perfect, perfect mate, perfect.
And they check baited him in that round.
That is for sure.
That's stellar.
What a timely paranoia too.
I mean, completely makes his armada.
No idea what's going on behind him.
Beautiful, beautiful.
An immediate counter-signal from Bonkar.
I know.
I think you just had to try to shrug that one off.
It was just such a strong, well-thought-out setup.
On that putt, shouldn't be able to get away with again.
No, no.
I mean, it's maybe he's hearing something in the comms
or who knows what.
I mean, he's taking some time out
that it kind of made us raise our eyebrows a little bit
in terms of the timing of them, but they've been effective.
He's been able to keep his team in it.
So say what you will.
He's done a pretty nice job.
Probably talking about the Alts here is my guess,
because Butte is sitting on a lot of them.
Talking about how to avoid maybe some kind of convergent
paths, you know, Hunter's Fury, Trap Play,
or there's a lot that can go wrong with that.
OK, you were the one who was looking
like you were going to have the stack deck as NRG,
but now you've committed to there.
You lose the knives.
You lose the run it back.
It does become a little bit more risky, Maas still going to be sticking with this operator from the attacker side.
And it might end up having a bit of a fight over it a long.
His foot now starting to lean towards that side of the map, maybe thinking that NRG aren't going to try to go see twice.
I'll just crunch that foot setting up for it.
Oh my god.
I'm amazed that he didn't get shot at all.
I am the same.
Never mind.
Oh, there he is.
He has absolutely been wrecked and now he's got an 18.
Scale 4, it allows for Sop to also get on that deep line now.
That's got a good amount of control.
Being said, though, last shot from the top of that cage,
he had a J now going to be paranoid.
Hopps another.
He's in a very invested position.
Fully bind it up.
And not even the fight to kill.
Huggers here, Howard from the Gestali sends it downtown.
He'll be able to get the finish on Kiko before he gets ready to get the heals through.
Not a holding.
That connector side finds the killed attack.
Coming in the hair, no air connecting, so he's able to find Moda, but it's not going to be traded out to.
It's going to be good for the one elimination, but now it's going to be sociable to try to clutch it,
and they have the near-old depth reveal.
It's going to be revealed again.
He needs to push forward, he doesn't just hold back.
And that just feels like frantic desperation.
Giving NRG a very easy kill.
They tie it up 9-9, the timeout's working for both sides.
Still, it's a great call to make a fast pivot to see off of Mata, seeing so much over on the other side of the map.
And they know that if they can get in there, hold the line.
It's going to be tough, even with that Hunter's Fury.
You know, this is the same problem now for Foot. They just invested two big ults, and they lost the round.
So it's just back and forth here. Neither team able to capitalize off of those advantages.
It's around and the operator TP forward.
Ethan, he's trying super for you.
Making his exit stops.
Only going to be good for one.
Cannot hit that transfer.
The take down Brock just puts him at 55.
The rotation is over from foot.
Trying to get the ducks in a row.
This attack will continue the drone to lead the way forward.
So she'll pull the tuck inside of the smoke here.
On the EGC.
Back in a backpedal.
Yeah.
Yeah, just that one player is enough, you know, with two kills already, if there's anybody
else on A, you're playing with fire.
That means that there's a possibility that they've already rotated in, so I think this
is absolutely a really nice call.
And Ethan does have his ult.
Looking for a B finish again.
Basically, another space, but it's going up.
up blaze wall a connector side spike now to be planted
dollars play this one quietly thought maybe he would go for the double shock
dart to say sociable in around the back with that teleport there's a camera but
no longer sociable is ill-flying scuba and suddenly it's put that have the
numbers advantage
Slow on this approach.
Reconstant the back side, keep going, scouting about that.
Finds yet a J. Time now for the bleed away.
It's Christali.
Has to try to clutch it.
The push coming in.
Finds the first.
Trying to go for the defuse stick, but the time is just going to be gone.
Ethan has it out.
Done.
And Christali will have the back pit allowed and RG established a one round lead.
lead now up to double digits.
It's the foundational pillar of NRG here.
Ethan able to get this round.
A nice little counter play to that pushup
that we've been seeing from Zeus.
Takes down one.
Patient enough with sociable.
Little bit of an error there with the positioning
to give sociable the first step of the TP,
but able to recover and make the most of it.
And then a nice smoke there to make it just untenable
for the stick.
They're not too far separated, but final call for foot.
Now disadvantage broke.
So try to figure out what they can do to get back
into this game.
They have the knives.
Yes, they have.
That neural theft available.
They need this.
It'll be a thrifty to go if they want to tie this up
and stop energy from running away with this.
They need Sop to deliver.
Yes.
I really want to see some kind of big explosive play here.
If what's been good off the back of their timeouts,
they've had a lot of really good shouts into these rounds.
So what's the answer going to be here?
I wouldn't expect some kind of long A play,
because they've been trying that a lot.
It feels like you'd be dipping into that well a little bit
too much.
But at the same time with the Bladestorm,
it's a great angle, a great opportunity.
If NRG commits to that fight themselves to maybe do some serious damage, it's like maybe a B pushout.
Could just sit and wait.
It's like they're gonna really spread the map here.
Maybe a crunch towards mid.
Could just be a walkabout from Sop.
Double peek from Grange trying to isolate a pick.
Standing ahead.
Karin only has sent very early associate bulls trying to take some space.
H gonna be popped.
Oh, gonna reveal off that one and they are very suspicious about his location.
TP's out.
He's gonna be smattering damage suffered by that shock dart.
Or the smoke's gonna be cycled in.
Bada here at back site instantly.
He's able to smash Crystalli.
And that's the banditle now on the floor.
Swing out those sops.
Able to find one.
He's there!
Comes away with three!
Hasn't been able to recover the weapon in Scuba so close to death.
He'll step down, invested, right click attempt, no, went to the back of the head.
They know exactly where Scuba's at, stop, what a way to rally back into this round.
Weapons recovered and on for an ace.
The scuba will look to try to pull off the Red Bull clutch.
The crowd starting to cheer for it, wanting to see this ace confirmed.
Third reposition.
And it's going to be held to shut it down.
Scuba isolating, finding more damage.
Yet again, now tagged up.
It's still 20 seconds to play with.
They will just set up a high low and the MasterCard thrifty will be
found just ridiculous we've been waiting for sob to come alive and this is an
unbelievable bladestorm nice tee up there with the saturate that right there
is gorgeous just simply stunning
And if there's one way to get the blood pump, then that certainly is it.
This is far from over, the money is still there for this buy.
No outlaw for the half armor punish.
As NRG is going to try to make this very aggressive.
Look at the fast rotates here though.
They're just stacking this one up and NRG immediately have to pump the brakes.
Call a cancel on this push.
I love this little leaving Brock behind.
Probably leaves an extra player over here four foot potentially, but they have kind of read into this nicely
This is good macro. I have the spike putting the three back over to CB a couple SMGs though
Gonna be an NRG's hands. So
We have them pondering
perhaps
It's gonna be a little bit more
Out onto the jet. Yeah, but over from Mada
They're able to find a punish quite just yet, will force a reposition tailwing over into the corner.
The spike gets planted and soft, ends up getting down.
Seuss now, eliminated, the duelist down.
And Archie!
They're gonna steal a corner away.
Get a J scales forward, is able to find Ethan, opens up the side a little bit more for them,
but the counter spam is going to be brutal.
It's a shock dart into the corner, ends up taking them low,
but Khristali just doesn't have anything else.
Mutile guard, but mana out of bullets!
He's in, ends up losing his life, but he can go now to run it back.
immediately invested, immediately shot down to Kristalli, finds a headshot, the push forward, Kiko eliminated.
Kristalli tried to do it all, finds the first, but the time again, it's just being bought, it's being drained.
Kristalli has to make his exit, and Archie, persevere through the round, and they once again take the lead.
I mean, I'm still thinking back to what Scuba said in the interview before the match,
about how they just want a brawl, you know, and we know that foot's gonna bring that fast tempo,
that aggressive style, and we just have to match it, and they do here just barely, but they do.
People to hold the line on the back side. Slugfest was the term that he used.
It was that. This is a mud fight. Hey, he could have a slugfest in the mud. That's true.
This is gonna be fun. Oh man.
Again, now look at the buy this time not with those knives to try to rely on right two sheriffs alongside these vandals
Both teams economy not quite
Stabilized even NRG has to buy down to a bulldog to get full armor for Ethan walk about not going to be able to find anything
The drone is just going to be cleared by Mata
It's difficult positioning for the start of the round so this doesn't give any real information over to foot yet
Trying to
Show a little bit of a different look because they've been giving up some of this sewer space early to NRG.
Foot maneuvers pop down in there.
Try to see if they could catch NRG sleeping.
Trying to push and try to open up the space for those rotates.
Instead, NRG just cuts out.
They just want to slip on through towards C.
Joan will give it away, but...
Oh, are they going to be ready for this fast reposition?
The smoke is pretty delayed, so they're already going to be able to scale forward.
That camera again situated, does scuba tap it, is the question, Seuss.
Maybe slipped in that, yes, he's managed to work his way forward into the garage.
Checking on the one, so attention can be tied to this angle,
and scuba's just going to be looking at the whole best line, a lot of them are now going to be caught.
Disappointing that counter-sling, but not from scuba's position.
He ends up falling. Flash connecting the neural path, going to be invested.
Player positions now reveal as Ethan holds them back with that paranoia.
Hiko taking point is gonna be good for one, but we'll get traded out.
Scuba now gonna spam down, so she won't be able to find that kill.
So, they're gonna beat them now, A to the 1, B1.
The tap and Brock is gonna be waiting for that confirmation to hold up the half.
Now, trying to play the time, but stop.
Hit the head shot, the defuse is in.
And foot tie at 11-11.
Oh, what a hero.
A couple big rounds here.
Foot still in this.
Tie it back up.
This is just, again, absolutely scrappy.
Just trades back and forth.
I mean, you've got to give both teams credit in that regard,
where everybody's in a position
where they could follow up off of each other.
And so it's really well coordinated on both sides.
NRG saying, hey, ease up, but the problem for NRG is the money.
That round right there was a big deal in that regard.
Mada does have his flade storm, it's at his turn to give us incredible performance like we saw from Sop.
He's just pushing up to a date.
Kiko though, he's already forwarded into the garage, and yeah, Christali's gonna be taken down.
Mada's just opened up his sight to spite now.
Now he's scooped up and the interception from Chico is completely unanticipated and Archie
Like a gorgeous map of Zeus. He's made noise around the back
He's gonna look the multi-face and take him down and they will be able to do just that
First of all cannot let up the shots and so now needs to be the hero again. I was a ghost
He's reading the pivot
Does he know I'm setting up this blaze wall could have made his way into the site
It is a master part of thrifty as NRG match point they get themselves to match point they break the bank of foot
This is madness over the map. They're just pushing individually. This is an ISO call. Look at this
He outdulls him with a ghost
insane stuff from NRG
Yeah, Vlad knows that one the face is starting with the window
The help being crushed they need to thrifty up their own if they want to push this into overtime
Double outlaws three players gonna be one tap for those
Absolutely brightening but quick
Going for an early hit not gonna find any contact. They're immediately gonna start rotating off of that
Like still drop back towards the spawn
Energy not needing to commit to anything quite just yet
NRG anticipated a push out. They just didn't guess the right angle. They were
thinking maybe a mid push, something like that. Looking for something a little
bit different. Just goes for something a little bit more standard. He goes one
away. Having that run it back. I was just curious if Zeus was gonna take a peek at
that. Feels like this is gonna have to be a wobble combo play that converging paths
the long side of the Hunter's Fury to try to shut this down and our G though still keeping their push disguised
The noise made out in the mid strip wire going to be cleared by the shock dart
It's trying to create as much confusion as many question marks on the map as they can
Your sphere is going to be called in Chris dolly trying to give back some of this pressure scuba looking forward sociable there on the corner
You'll find a little bit of that, yeah, the push out of the garage.
He looked for a little bit more, but now sees another player half the back put
away, the turn of the flash, searchable, able to find one, Kiko gonna be shut down.
The spray and pray from Yeta J is able to find Scuba and
Butch managed to personally, this map, this series is not over yet.
London strap in because we're going over time and we're getting our first one year masters London
our first overtime of the event
Hard to imagine it took this long, but
this is exactly what you wanted to see but just
Mirroring the rotation so nicely energy trying to do everything they could but to create a
confusion on the map
That clear that trip kind of gave away the script a little bit maybe
that's okay because a
Couple opportunities. It's gonna be foot starting on that attacker side both teams gonna have seven in that regard so slightly favored
Mata glass cannon
Start misses rock gonna have to re clear with the drone gonna see the way
That's a lot of info because generally where Zeus is
There's gonna be some more members behind it, trolling as well.
They are stacked up. This is going to be an absolute mess up a brawl.
And it's one. An NRG are coming on top of.
Soppin' suits. Eliminately, immediately dispatched.
As they get eliminated. And now, Foot gonna be scrambling, scratching their heads, wondering where in the hell they can find success on this map.
What a setup there. Having that extra layer with the trip wire.
He completely nullifies that hit and you're going to have to play for retake it seems.
Don't anticipate that Kiko's going to want to take a fight other than just make sure
they don't push, they don't take any extra space.
How do you try to fan out from here?
Still too away from a hundred theory.
Two pangol not going to be great.
The tripwire will alert the initial start of this flank.
Still have another one set up over at C longs.
It seems like with that in mind, they're going to just try to play within the site itself.
These fights up close and personal
Three player approach from garage paranoia gonna be sent down yet a jake lined it up, but not at risk
You can turn turn a curveball you could find success but the solid you don't find one touch back yet a jake comes away with tail
So she will find some shot and now it is all down the block to try to find this open
The 3v5 to convert it and foot now are up to that point
Patience pays dividends here and it's his own smoke that's really nicely fought off
by sociable to give him a little bit of an extra angle and scape out there so he can continue
to do damage and he does just that.
And it's going to be a quick pump.
The brakes have been pressed and RG going to quickly take some time to talk this through
You only get one here in overtime and you immediately want to make sure
This attacker side round is gonna be something that'll at least keep this overtime alive
Oh, I don't want to map this has turned out today
NRG with a timeout looking to try to get that reset
Spoiler alert looks like sup. We'll be going for the same thing here that glass cannon operator currently at hand
energy with the noted
They want this to and they want
to take a breather to go to fracture
Try to close it from here before energy
We need the rally back into this themselves up to 15
They want to close this enthusiasm or a fashion
now it's
Bet a lot of different looks that energy is shown on their attacker side, so
a little tough to kind of guess initially, but
Foot gonna hedge their bets a little bit putting the cypher you till crossed a d and garage
so they're trying to
They can
Garner a little bit of information and our G trying to see if there's anything
Nothing at long a and they're walking maybe a new trap
She's gonna have to strike very quickly here, but he's gonna be taking down
Able to deliver two kills
Backpedals away off that blind meanwhile sock checking forward so has an operator get some stuff into a rough position
But we'll be able to jump back in a key. Go. He's gonna jump up into the garage
And suddenly it's a 2v4 with Brock down the 30
Putting an immense amount of weight and pressure on the shoulders of scuba
Because I could just win it right here spike down B
The headshot found in Brock now
The best players for this team during stage one has to do it all.
He finds the first but eats more damage for health.
This issues be him dead and it is sociable find the foot, close out Haven, 14 to 12.
And that means we are going the distance, we are going to fracture.
This was a hell of a map, it came damn close.
But it's Foot who's gonna show the resilience
against one of the most resilient teams we have in Valorant.
The young upstarts force a fracture,
keep their chances for playoffs alive.
An incredible map here, an incredible series,
and fracture should deliver as well,
so do not go anywhere.
Give me that funky beat, y'all.
I
We have our first overtime at Masters of London with Foot bringing it to the full series.
Welcome back everyone.
I'm Victoria joined by Minnie and Billy and Foot survived another map.
Yeah, and there's off a hero around here like we saw on Lotus those post plants coming in strong from foot
It seems like when they're in those 3v5s in those heavy disadvantages
You can't count them out they're able to set up nice crossfires and get nice kills going on
I do have to question once again though energy
Fundamentally shouldn't be losing 5v3s as a world champion. Well, I mean Billy has an argument for this
I do with foot. Oh, yeah, I mean believer. Yeah
I think that they were able to
close out when the pressure
got to that much. You know, we
had we've heard from Vlad
previously about how all we
should be winning this map. We're
not quite being able to close
them out. But this time, finally
being able to close that out,
hoping to going to this third
map confident. Now stop was a
little bit quiet in the earlier
part of this map and he ended
up getting a little bit more
the game. I think that's a
big part of this map, and he
ended up stepping it back up
and Christy is another player
that also was super impactful
for every time he's on Haven,
he's performing well. Some big
clutches there for him here
received some nice executes on
the A side of the map from foot
in this game. I had criticized
energy defense that it was
often way too passive, and I
think that foot did a great job
punishing that by going towards
that A site and exacking there
because if you get the
the first plan and there we
saw a nice little way later.
So dash combo there to also
open it up. Yeah, definitely
very explosive team coming into
this and Zeus having such a
great performance as we've
already highlighted. It's really
nice to see that full confidence
coming in from him. And what I
really liked from foots game
plan coming into today was no
sort of overextensions, right?
We've seen so many times where
there's maybe moments where
they need to be a little bit
more disciplined, although I
was like a 2v1 where he jumped up with a short A against Fijo and then they ended up losing it.
So I think coming into this last map, if they can kind of find that balance of overextending
when they need to and being proactive in gathering that space on their attack, then also just taking
it back a little bit and remembering those protocols and being able to have that kind of
disadvantage. Now you mentioned this is Christali's map, but Zeus absolutely on form. Yeah, in EMEA
he was playing a lot of Phoenix, it wasn't going so well, but they managed to find the Wele and the
the way they for him has been
phenomenal every time he plays
it. And it's just beautiful to
see he's been up there with
something said that some had a
bit of a quieter game. It
doesn't matter this time around
because at this event, Zeus has
been performing. He's not just
being the soft show. Zeus has
been up there with him every
time. Let's not forget. Zeus was
part of this roster from kickoff
last year, so he's been there
from this older generation of
food to this new era of food,
and I think the way that he's
been able to settle in and also
the arrival of Sock. We're really seeing that confidence come through from him. 262 ACS on that
Wele. It's been really impressive for him to come on to this global stage and have the performance
that he's been having. What I really like is you were pointing out the very different styles these
T2 teams have approached to this, but it has been neck in neck every single round for both.
Yeah, exactly. I think that once again, the criticizing energy on that defense side for
doing a lot of flood rotations rather than pushing out again on fracture. That's something I'm also
to be critical of. They like
to play some kind of blood
style once again, and I don't
think that the map theory once
you do that, I think that it
suits foot style of play a lot
more in the sense that it's all
about pushing out and being
proactive, holding these sites
is extremely hard. And so going
on to this map. That is what I'm
also looking at once again for
energy defense. I think for food
defense specifically because
that's the side that they'll be
starting on. I'm looking at how
they're going to make
improvements in comparison to
on the defense there. However, in saying that the defensive protocols that they had against
full sense in the very opening series was really good. As we mentioned, taking control of those
extremities, Sop and Zeus being the star kind of players in terms of that, but then also Yetejay
being such a great site anchor. I think what it was is that foot are very aggressive on defensive
fracture like I love, but Vitaliy had the read. They just sat back and wait for it. I think that
it's about foot not being so one dimensional about those pushouts. I think it is the way to play the
map. It's just that you can't just do it so obviously. Yeah, don't just be taking
a main space. Give us some bridge crunches and things like this, not just
pushing out of one avenue, but actually gathering that and just denying
information from NRG as much as possible. You don't want them to be getting
into these post plant situations. It is also a map where that jet I do think has
its weaknesses. When you want to push out on this map, you want to have those
race satchels, you want to have that neon stand, you want to have ways to trap
people in and the jet doesn't provide that and so to me it ends up being about soft individual form
if he's just pushing out he's gonna need to win angels and the last map is a little bit quieter
he cannot be quiet on this map well because of how competitive is right now every single player
is gonna be needing to step up for fracture yeah exactly Zeus swapping well he's not swapped but
he's on the raise right now i'd love to see him honestly play the waylay on this map but he has
been decent on the rings. Yeah, I have to agree. And then when we look over towards energy side,
we're going to see Mada picking up that way. I'm intrigued to see how that looks.
We also see Brock being on this brimstone. Now, this is an agent that he's been having to pick up
across a couple of maps. Of course, we're very much used to this man on your screen right now,
being on that silver, being on that Odin, but has started picking up the brimstone device and
whatnot more recently. The attack side for the way, it's strange that he's not got too much support
here, but look out for him dashing into tower and then if there's nobody there he can continue to
go onto the site and they don't have to use much utility. If there's any danger in tower,
he can just saturate right back, saturate, refract right back out. And on the opposing side it is
usually Yetejay that is being a little rat in tower. We saw it so many times in their series
and on fracture so far throughout this. I think Kiko on the Phoenix, this is the map that Phoenix
is love. You've got four orbs on the map to farm. Kiko has been farming as well as a player.
I hope that he's able to get a lot of orbs on this half. He could be the defining factor
about going into this playoff. Yes, that's right. This is four playoffs. This is a do or die situation
here. This is the last life for these teams to move on. So what or energy? They really want
this energy. Rating champs, so much experience. You have so many expectations of them,
maybe you've been a little bit more critical of them,
but as you should be for a team that's already won a huge trophy
versus a Turkish team who's really trying to win it all for the very first time.
Now, fast aggressive teams, they work well with momentum,
so are its foot going to carry forward in this map,
or is it going to be energy continuing into playoffs
as we send it back to our casters?
A third and final map to determine it all.
It's best to simplify it, to boil it down, a best of one, determine who moves forward
and who makes their early exit from Masters London.
Foot pushed to the brink to manage to make it the fracture.
Will that momentum build up be enough to carry them forward?
They've been good in the pistols.
Let's see if that continues or if NRG can still come out on top.
Looks like again, foot looking for the north side crunch throughout the haunt, but there's
nobody there so they immediately turn their attention back over.
We're just looking for that clearance here, but a bit of damage is going to be found,
but he cannot take down Ethan, meanwhile the push forward into cantina is looking strong,
energy, overpun for Stolly, and so should Paul, and stop, we're all going to find some
kills on both camera.
Coming away with two.
Let's get tagged up, hands layered down onto the floor, Kiko able to get some healing in.
Well, Sop though, rescaling and the spike is going to be ushered toward the north side.
He will look to make this an A site plan, but he'll be able to get the spot out, Kiko now.
Pick the part, it's just Scuba with 16 health, doubling back through Arcade.
This just looks not impossible. I mean, Yetejay completely untouched.
Two players would go down to a single shot from the sheriff, but...
How are you meant to isolate?
So outnumbered finds the first and we'll get some damage in but cannot get the follow-up, but we'll find another opening pistol
Now this is
Gonna be one that maybe energy ends up kicking themselves about a little bit
They just keep pushing through and sociable
Stop holding both sides here
canteen and Chen
They say no we know you guys like to get aggressive
We are perfectly poised to push back, and they do more than that.
Huge, huge win here, 4 foot.
The defender side, I think, a little bit wanting against Vitality to compare to what we saw
against Full Sense, but I think you've got to kind of take some of those lessons you
learned from Full Sense and just take some fights.
We'll put that up and over and Yedda J ringing out a shot.
This is going to be known.
He's popped the push forward though and Kiko not clearing out that back corner of the site.
The spike down going to be on the floor.
Associable looking for a little bit more.
Will end up falling, but it's just Ethan dead.
As Yedda J will find himself 3 and put in a very clean anti-eco.
Exactly what you needed.
Some pretty quick rotations over.
Hold of the line on the site.
So foot.
Well poised.
Do some more damage potentially on this bonus. They're going to be carrying a lot over tremendous work there by sociable at the Bulldog
Yet a J
So so good at he just always seems to come up with these big multi-kill rounds when foot needs them
one right there just
Really clean. It's another really strong start for sociable as well on fracture trying to get that orbital strike online very quickly
Seems like in our G way area of a potential south side crunch
The other J is going to go on a walkabout. He's going to continue to scale forward.
There's a lot of here against the wall.
Hoggles the camera. He's able to spot it out.
They're not going to have the read at all!
There's the other J! Fines three!
The Neurot depth spotting out the two remaining players.
But now so well-favored to convert this bonus.
Chris Dali pushing forward, the tripwire in position.
Kiko gonna be one away from a run-up back.
He can find one more kill, might feel like he has to commit it, that he can commit it
into this round trying to get the conversion, but he will not be able to find that elimination.
Skuba trying to isolate them and pick them apart, but he cannot.
3-0 start from foot. It looks like that momentum has indeed carried forward.
Well, he does it again.
Another massive ulti kill for Yeta-J.
And they just don't quite read off of that cam.
He's got so many tricky setups.
You know, the desk was talking about, Billy was talking about how annoying he is in tower,
but this one catches him off guard as he slaps forward.
And he's so annoying on that cypher.
Every piece of Util, you never know if there's going to be him or somebody else playing off
of it.
going to the outlaw for SOP. They're gonna buy a little bit of time there.
Quick haunt exchange, so they're gonna be pretty well aware and they're gonna be
quickly rotating up on the other side.
Quick spot out, double dash up at a tower.
Very fast wraparound.
For Mada.
Cage will drop, he's gonna be spotted in the corner.
Tagged up, Christali just holding down M1, trying to find that elimination, but it's gonna be yet again just running and gunning.
Define the enemy IGL.
Mike brought Ford onto the site, but no closer to really giving this plant an acted
They're gonna try to commit for it now, but the players are just getting picked apart
Planned to the corner and rock will just be able to find two kills with the right click
Will a little bit of damage to slow down this
Loone up the economy, but it's still gonna be that 4-0 start in NRG
We might be looking at another early timeout call from on car on the other side
Yeah, I would think so. This is just really good stuff from foot. They're so fast rotate
They're so fluid on this map, and that's exactly what fracture needs.
That's what defenders need to do.
One of the things I kind of was worried about.
If you know, feeling confident that they have the read, absolutely.
But one of the things that some teams kind of rely on in this map
is like holding the line with the cipher and the brim and doing things like that.
And I think what got a little too passive gave maybe vitality a little bit
too much respect like what we're seeing here, making those early reads,
making those aggressive pushouts to try to get info quick.
They're doing it again here.
Depont at tree.
It's time.
NRG.
So try to confuse them by going to the other side off of that.
See if they can find any purchase, but.
Trip here.
It's not for yet a J to give them a little bit of extra info.
Not calling it out, Kiko.
Already has his all, so doesn't need the orb.
Sop of the moment. Staring in towards halls, there's the tripwire cleared.
Got a China trying to keep him protected. Sop is going to be touched with the corner, now scouted, outspotted.
Slips the net though. He up drops up over the top towards Dishside.
Meanwhile, she's going to be on for one, as J.J. just can take a dump, and Sop is rewarded to snap back on the ultimate!
He found Kiko, but Skuba will be able to find Seuss.
Intercepts him now, swap the weapons as the spike gets planted.
Oh, wasn't even a snapback. By the way.
Just totally picked the part. It's just going to be three players strong over in halls.
As this is pretty much impossible to break. I mean, he had the orbital strike now.
I feel pretty decent about the odds, but needs to be able to find that first kill,
and he cannot. Mono will be able to find that 3K.
The operator able to be carried forward and this is a big all-in gamble from NRG that ends up paying off
But it almost doesn't what a play here from sop
I mean yes energy gets the round nice work by Mata to lock down the post plan
But that maneuver there chase to deal with the Phoenix all dude. Oh my god
That was incredible movement from sop
It felt like that was going to be the round winning play, but yeah, and she's still able to persevere their own
orbital strike. Now it's going to be online as well as a nightfall and not as one away from a convergent path.
With all this pressure, foot's been creating, making it a little bit difficult to find that early orb quickly.
Rethink of ideas, of course with that op there as well.
Can always look to that to just give you that ult and have it for the close play potentially.
Here they go.
Red Folk is going to be connecting onto the 1, yet a jade back pedaling deeper into canteen.
He clears out the rest of the site.
Kiko eating a bit of spam early.
He'll be able to get himself healed back up meanwhile.
Scuba, bent around over towards that back side.
He's going to be Kiko coming away with two kills.
The search bullet yet again.
He's going to be taken down.
Christali, able to find the one, but nothing more.
2v4 now.
Spike still in tower.
Kiko already halfway to another on the back.
Love that.
Stop just trying to get deeper out onto this angle.
Find anything that he can.
Does he have a corner to tuck in?
No, he does not.
He's going to be burned to a crisp.
What a read, whether it's Brock, whether it's Ethan
making the call either way.
That secures the round win.
NRG, qualifying two in a row.
It's just incredible.
You're able to just barely find that open space
as hard as the defenders.
You've got to talk about how proactive you have to be,
but it is fractured.
So you end up not always being able to cover all your bases.
And NRG sniffs out the open space
It starts dissecting players, removing them from the round one by one.
Should be a little bit of time here to maybe consider going hunting if you so choose.
There's a little bit of money here, but a couple players pretty low on the side of foot,
softly at 150 credits, but does have the blade storm, so he's A-OK.
We got Zeus two charges from a showstopper feels like energy. Just taking the measured play did not try to
Want a round to be found they're sociable just dead from behind
Nice positioning there from Kiko
It's a great job. Hey, we've seen some really good reads on where some of these teams want to position themselves for their ults
And the other team has to counter quickly
Try to deal with it
So some really good preparation being shown.
Bladestorm is going to go.
Once again, looking for some kind of pressure.
I mean, this has been their kind of go-to plan here early.
Scoopa far enough around that corner
to not get spotted if his north side swing does continue.
Pulls off the camera for now, but now we'll have the spot out
as the cam gets cleared.
I know that he's going to be on that arcade side,
but seems like foot off the back of that haunt,
Sussing out that this is going to be another A-hit coming in.
She's going to be chucked out for Stolly.
I'm going to clear that prowler fast enough.
It's up.
Arriving has the tail went away.
The Virgin Pats ends up getting sent.
Monaco's diving forward.
From up and over the top, Suss cannot deliver a single kill.
Only a tiny lick of damage.
On to Kiko.
Zeus has arrived on the scene.
Stuck on site.
Paint shell.
Going to be good to get a good amount of damage
He pushes Brock into the open, but he narrowly is able to find that elimination.
That means that Zeus now down to 30.
He has to create some pressure around the back, but it's going to be Scuba on this flank now
arriving, fighting the first sociable with a tap, and he will quickly fall thereafter.
Scuba finds the final two and NRG one around away from tying things up.
And I wouldn't be too surprised now to see a timeout from foot.
We never did see one from NRG, they held it close to the vest.
and got to be kidding me, model.
That is ridiculous.
The nose go blinded up.
Gets the kill anyway.
And then Scuba, pressured early in the round
and just uses that against his opponents
to slowly work his way through to have the dagger
to seal the round.
And indeed, it will be Foots time out now.
Our coin base win condition.
I think you just got to stop going dish so much.
I mean, it's just been too much of that,
where they're trying to get those early crunches.
You know, Foot had a lot of success with this,
especially against full sense, but also a little bit
against Vitality where you're able to catch that,
you know, first player out a little bit,
maybe get that quick pick or at least force them back
to make the quick rotations.
And they try to do that here, but the fact that Sop
doesn't get any value out of that blade storm,
really brutal in terms of finding a win condition
for that round.
Yeah, I think a big part of this is just trying to pick
the players up a little bit more here.
Clearly have cooled off a bit, Zeus.
I mean, not expecting him to have the same level of impact
with his raises he was having on the way.
Lay, he's looked very, very strong on that,
but him at four kills, up right there with him.
And then, Crystalli again,
with a bit of a soft start into this map in particular,
there's a lot of things that you want to just try to key up,
tune up, and fix going into this next round.
Otherwise, NRG, they're gonna be breaking your economy again
and tying up the score line.
Brandon, you are starting from this defender's side.
There's still a lot to try to tally,
as Mata's gonna be able to continue with these operators
for quite some time. There's plenty of cash available to NRG and Kiko nearly has that next run it back.
Now, it's a pivotal round for Foot.
Showstopper in there. You get a buy-in.
You get this to go.
You're gonna give yourself a really good shout at it.
Even or positive half.
If you don't, NRG might just start streaking once again.
This time they're aggressive on the south side. I like this. I like this a lot more.
Look at his deep trip on B2 from Yedikim over at Gen.
Oh, the base board and Sopple just immediately find that kill.
Trip is now going to be cleared.
Come on up, checking back that operator at the ready.
Still no prowlers.
Try to face in this. They nearly line up.
Kostali lucky to not be taken down at the same time.
They're now going to be invested, but they are already well aware.
The board is waiting them on the other side.
Kiko, whoever, going to be found.
They're off that immediately chucked out
Seeing these players retreating back through the spawn associate is going to try to find the catch if he does Brock
Dad the spike now dropped
Scuba has to be careful on this recovery will be able to find this fight, but you still have Kristalli tucked back on the A site
It's his way up and over the top and
Assess which way they should go, but it's just gonna be down six feet under a
There's mana now
Spotted trying to clear this corner of the shot will whiff or fracks back around the corner, but yet a jay has him out
Done
Headshot down the operator gonna be lost and put people to maintain the lead
That's huge
Really nice timeout call here gonna get that early pick on the Ethan who's just not quite ready
for that full pushout
Yeah, J having a laugh over that one. Here's the crazy thing didn't need to use the showstopper there as foot
But you still got that in your back pocket.
It's one away from that nightfall.
Yeah, really nice round from Kastali.
Great hedging of your bet there is put saying, OK,
we've got control over B. Let's send one to eight
because we're giving up a little bit of space
in the mid towards our spawn.
That works a treat.
Over up on the north side.
So now NRG saying, OK, we know you're not
doing those dish pushes anymore.
We heard the top of the door, but let's give the space
Or collected crystalline now with a nightfall online.
You know, Jane trying to watch the camera has a tiny little gap
to peek through, but Blazewald is going to be set up as well.
I think they're going to try to pop the trip over on modest side
and then set up for the execute.
I see if they can pull some players.
Well, they might just change directions if he just gets enough
space for now. It's a massive scale forward in the tower.
You know, Jane.
Her fall is a little bit behind him, but still can't get the vision out.
So we'll end up getting picked apart.
Kiko out in front of this Molly, the rest of the team is going to be held back by it for the moment.
It'll be the honk. Start things off first, the clear comes in, tap of the plant, Nightfall at the ready.
You can however play in front Gen. Very much catch them off guard.
Looks like Sop at the same time, taking damage, he's down to 30.
Nightfall going to be sent, Kiko will end up getting marked, it's not quite enough of a spacing.
To be able to avoid that.
Chuck forward though, Ethan dead.
Paint shot now out.
Sanctuary will be able to connect, slowing it down a little bit.
Kiko still trying to fight his way out of this corner.
The current ball going to be sent through, but blinds himself up.
It's going to be the covering fire out from tower.
We're trying to keep him in this round and Scuba will be able to find Sop.
NRG rally right back into this one as operators are going to be collected.
One round away from tying this up.
Yeah, and it's just a really good counter read here from Ethan doing a nice job at the beginning of the round
Understanding that the methodology has changed for fun so we can change ours
Using that Phoenix really nicely to clear some space as Kiko that's huge there talked about what a problem yet a J can be
Eliminate him early from that V site makes it oh so much easier
They're gonna be carrying this double operator forward
Oh my.
No, there isn't going to be one on the other side.
So can give them some very favorable opening duels.
In fact, just a stinger for Yeta J.
Couldn't even buy up here.
This is going to get potentially a little weird.
Scuba.
Oh, and Mata.
He was quickly turned back around with a little bit of a delayed reaction.
And Sapa's actually able to find Mata.
Finds a further away player.
Now Scuba practically trying to find something that he can get.
And he's able to find the one kill, but Seuss was ready to back up.
That puts foot down in a key advantage position.
C's gonna be out, Christyly isolated, taken down off the decay.
Hedadj, however, still here with its stinger.
Is able to finish the job, swaps over the classic,
eventually will be fished out as Brock finds that elimination.
Now the orbital strike available for him.
This is Spike, we'll get planted.
Spike planted.
Launching smoke.
This guy smoked down, just trying to slot his way out towards main
and he's able to win the fight versus Zeus as well.
Now called in the orbital strike
She's sociable off of that plant the Molly gonna be layered in as well. Just no chance no way
To even try to hold this one a half
Guys don't cleared Ethan getting the spot the tap is he's just made this rewrap
Takes down Brock and now into the 1v1 the diffuse being stuck. Can he just hold the completion?
He absolutely can!
The Red Bull Clutch!
Esplut get up to six!
And he somehow manages to survive!
That is so unbelievably well played there by Sociable.
That smoke positioning, so good!
Reminds me of what Forsaken did on Sunset the other year.
He put it just a little bit in front of you,
and it makes a lot harder for the opponents to guess where you're at.
And he even gives himself an angle to play around the side.
That's got to feel good.
Attention, build them in the relief.
But it has still been some back and forth.
I'm sure the coaching staff would love to see
so we can second round wins to close out this half.
Actually still with an opportunity to front-tie this off.
Still are going to have money widely for another buy.
We'll lose this round.
He gets one away from the convergent pass there.
Social Bolt will have his ult, though.
They slow things down, Scuba tucked over Bench.
Can't try to get the up and over with this jet.
So tempting to just try to wait out Scuba there to see if he'll
even push around the other side.
Instead they do end up clearing the trip. Are they gonna try to take the zip here?
They just gonna hold Zeus in the back to watch for him.
This is gonna be waiting to try to intercept that flank.
They have a solid enough read on his position, but
they still need to be able to try to hold the line here.
At the A site, Sattery gonna be chucked in.
Sattery able to tuck back. The Otches that went out of the orbital strike.
Locks off, Ethan for the moment.
Cloudburst down, they fill this space, 40 seconds remaining.
It's gonna be Zeus now.
Here, within the site of paint, she'll have to ready,
could just chuck it into the corner,
he would find an immense amount of value.
It's gonna be soft, he'll come away with one.
Zeus now back towards stance, Bynes, Kiko.
Social, Bynes, Ethan, and Scuba can't find anything.
A flawless round to chain together another one,
and Futt, they get up to seven,
now looking for an eight and four half.
Yeah, just the stall and coordination here from Foot.
So, so nice.
Sociable again.
Doesn't need the light of the kill feed,
but he uses his ult to allow a reposition
to just completely fort this attack.
And then NRG's left guessing where they're
going to be on site.
And the reaction from Foot.
So, so clean.
So you still have just enough for most of a buy.
Scooba only on a Guardian.
Now you're going more of a default here for foot.
A little bit of a push out from Sop.
But everybody else just trying to hold it be just kind of
guessing that this is how energy is going to react.
But Manna strikes from behind.
Bit of a bait there.
He's trying to push for it.
You're all sociable not ready to get off the iPad.
Manna takes it out of his hands.
Amazing start to this round here for energy who very much need
this round win. Zip across to the south side from Khristala, Yedajay trying to push forward
through that cage. They will be able to find one. Skuba eliminated. But as that smoke will
fall, so too shall Yedajay have stopped. It's the last one. The 1v3. Looks for Ethan, finds
it. It's worked down the 12 health. Now the 1v2, the reposition. Kiko wrapping around
through canteen the Molotov there to buy some time a shout out to a squad that
could not qualify and stop widely feeling like this round is likely going to
be done and it is Kiko is able to get energy up to five maybe a little shout
out to Alfie Eric's birthday so that could be it but back and forth but
again really solid defender side stuff from the play I mean after a 4-0 start
you're gonna be feeling decent about that one for energy but this needs to be
I saw that Hatter was co-streaming today so I had to come and say hello how's it going
up here?
Good, you know it's a little bit more relaxed than being on the broadcast, but I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, don't get too comfortable. We need you back in PCT EMEA.
I'll be asking you about that after we finish this interview, because right now I need to ask you who you think is going to win,
because I was saying I feel like mentally it's going to be really tough at EMEA right now.
See, this is the problem that I've got, Frankie, because I've got EMEA in my pickings,
and I've got a foot jersey with my name on it behind you here, so whichever way you flip it, I'm a bit of a fraud.
But I think since we're in London, we've got to go with the EMEA team.
Oh, you don't want to go for the team that's got the British player on it?
I'm sorry, Kiko. I guess I'm going for it.
We're all sorry, Kiko, but you know what?
There are some big fans of Kiko in the audience,
and they're actually booing you right now, Hazard.
What do you have to say to your new-found enemies?
You know, not everyone can be loved. I'll just stick with it.
And you have such a lovely, kind, generous face,
But inside this man, part of steel, let's head back into the game.
He's going for foot and foot right now.
They're going for broke.
They're looking to lock up this win
over our reigning champions of NRG.
From themselves in third place at Masters Santiago,
and now we're staring down the barrel of potential elimination,
being denied access to the playoffs.
Still a shout here, still some hope, but it's going to take a really good defender side.
Foot, position themselves to go into that playoffs, to join Vitality.
The EMEA team, two would make it.
They can do it.
Regional pride, but definitely the pride of this young team, this young squad that came
together and have shocked the world here and this fracture first half I am
giving it a very high mark. Can this attacker side match? As if it can they
will be moving on here at Masters London for sure. Just a little creep up just
using that cyber cage. Kiko
Kiko friends right back to the
chance. Spur him on here, but
it's gonna be scuba. The opening
value of the paint. Something
right at his feet and ends up
being a one for one. Right in the
wrong. Don't get a J. Get to be
struck down. Ethan with that
frenzy. Gonna be favorite every
day. And now Kristallnick on as
well. A two v four. Socibal, not
quite slipping the net. Brock has
every idea. Every understanding
of this personality, but still
not be able to win out that fight so now brought back into a 2v3 this who's
just trying to group up they're just gonna slip through and go plant this on
a
and RG can continue with the pack mentality play together stay stacked up
try to get that retake going but it will not be able to prevent the plan from
coming through drop it over it's just taking a while though so now they're
realizing it yeah and this is still very slow soose is gonna roll an angle no
blast packs are trying to make a quick exit he has to find value here
still able to find two in that fight three over on the round sociable
happy to plant right out of time now has a drop down go for the commitment no
We'll just plant this stuff over the top.
Ten seconds left.
No Molly, no smoke.
So Sheriff on the other side, insatiable to peek in, tagged.
One more tap is all it'll take, and he needs a headshot.
Staying planted in this position, and he wins it out!
Mada expecting that he climbed the stairs.
He just stays tucked away and foot are able to find
Their second pistol on this map, now up 8-5.
Just unbelievable that they win this.
2vx situation, and Zeus says, I'm going to stick around.
There's maybe sojournable calls for it, either way, and it is the perfect read.
It's in the name. Zeus is doing God's work in that moment to be able to come away with those kills.
Also gives himself halfway to a showstopper.
It's unbelievable what a turn for foot.
Now it's going to take even more for NRG to dig back into this.
We've seen an eco here today, so maybe NRG has something in store, so perhaps the orb
to see if there's any kind of response, but NRG just gamble stacks.
So they are happy, a little bit patient, just looking for a crunch play there off the back
of the C's it looks like.
Instead, over to the A side.
Now for NRG the real question is, try to find a way to dive the spiker.
See if you can do some damage.
Just classic, so no buy up.
I'm going to clear the trip, so I'm going to be pretty well aware.
Slumps down.
There's even a secondary trip here, so we'll get confirmation.
Funny, a footsteps going to be heard again.
Catch them!
He's angled, established, resused.
This will be more than enough to delay.
They realize that this hall's angle is going to be stacked, so they will now just take the rope across
and die on that dish side.
Don't look to give over anything additional.
Two foot on this round, but soft.
He's like, well, I've got a Marshall.
And he's got a hit fire to come away with one elimination, so Ethan's going to be taken
down.
Scoob up.
Maybe with an opportunity to get you out of J. Off guard.
Yeah, J, yeah, surprise.
We're eliminated here with the rest of NRG.
Tempted the spike, three players surviving, Phantom the Bulldog going to be carried over,
but they can't ever cover that specter.
Okay, now we're into the real meat and potatoes here.
NRG if they're gonna start turning this around absolutely cannot afford to give over another bonus
What's been really good at converting those?
especially on this map, but
My memory serves me correctly. I think they convert of both bonuses against vitality still enough dropping, but
Today
They seem like they're in a little bit better form a little more confident a little bit better read a better better post
Triggered.
Lost the vitality widely came down to giving over at 42.
H-triggered.
They're not looking to make the same mistakes
through all the crunch coming through on this north side.
Launching smoke.
Smoke's coming to exchange.
Space widely is given up.
Rock over on that sand side, but not liking what they aren't seeing.
So we'll just go ahead and make a quick pivot across towards Kiko's campus.
He's situated.
Sapir on B.
Oh, he had a J.
Oh, Ethan!
Wise to it!
They're meant to find a wallbang, need a wall, flip wire.
We're gonna try to hold them back.
There's a little glimpse. They're on the side.
Azus trying to scale forward.
Place this one quietly and Kiko cannot hold down the sights.
Another spike can get planted.
That's a huge find.
Still have Prowler, still have C's.
Still have Molly.
I'm not going to get deep enough of the bottom will, he's down to the bottom of one stop,
I'm going to be training out now Zeus, he's right here from Jen, gets himself a second,
another paint shell built up, tossed into the corner, to give Ethan no hope, no recourse.
Whoa, will fall however!
Suddenly it starts becoming a hell of a lot more possible, looking for the hold there.
It's an up to half, but Ethan cannot get the flag across.
Zeus perseveres, and it's another bonus conversion for Foot.
They are so good at this map.
The positioning they're taking, the way that they're gonna flank out over towards
Jen here for Zeus, and that big crucial kill onto Kiko to get the space.
Nobody confirmed on the prowler on the entry, not much information given over to NRG.
And it's going to be finally a timeout taken here for NRG on this map.
Amazingly, this is the first one.
Having both here for this dependent side, maybe it can end up being a prune for them,
but they're going to be calling us ahead of a thrifty attempt.
So we take away the Coinbase win condition.
The cash is not there.
Meanwhile, there's a hell of a lot of it available to foot.
They nearly have a showstopper as well as that orbital strike online.
Yeah, I mean, now is the time for some trickery, for some kind of misdirections from NRG.
Maybe throw some close-range guns into the mix, see if you can bait them into going up in a tower,
and maybe Scuba could do something, or who knows what exactly is going to be talked about here, but...
Vitality was able to make the comeback themselves after being in a similar situation, where they lost two bonuses.
It's a little bit different to fair, but a little bit different score line, but NRG, again keyword for them has always been resilient.
Is that going to be enough here against a flip squad who's already shown they have some of their own on Haven?
The strategy, I mean, feels like they just need to find a gap.
It's a way to weasel the way into the doorway.
They can get that.
I know that they're very capable of breaking through.
We know that Foot absolutely can crumble under that sort of pressure.
For the moment, they are looking damn favored here.
That's not a...
If that's at your rate, we're gonna get them to one, faces in, meet them, that's not a damage.
This is gonna be a frack around the corner where there's a paint shell already and waiting
Zeus again, he'll find that kill, we'll get signed on the sky by Cronk, but he's not going forward, maybe we're damaged.
Or it's Fallen's teammate.
It's crappy affair, but one that foot comes out on top of.
Kiko, both at Sands, they're trying to pull off.
It's URV3 with the chefs.
Still that Molotov.
I have to ready for sociable.
He counts, Google, whittle away down to 10 health, Kiko again needing to deliver.
They want to pull off, but it would be absolutely miracle, but it's one up-geese, it's 11 rounds her foot, and it's a six round deficit for NRG.
We don't know more than we could do for him.
It's so scary right now. NRG is so massively on the back foot, gonna be coming into the fire.
Sop, love the aggression there. Deal with that player at the point of the attack. That gun unrecoverable. No problem at all.
They can just cover that doorway and there are those two all show stopper orbital strike
Do have some answers mod is gonna scoop up the operator
But is that gonna be enough here for NRG start turning the time
Fast-peak crunch set
No refract magic there is absolutely out into the open
Now we'll be able to find the timing, occasionally fall, looks for that second kill, but Sop is able to hold his own pops the blades immediately.
He's going to run it back, sprinting forward, trying to find anything that he can, but it's going to be an off shot from the flag.
Jump forward, Ethan, dead, and Zeus with another three piece!
And a chance at the fourth.
It's Kiko.
Will he hold his own for one?
have to be a 4k as well for him and he's not gonna look to try to play it out
we'll just try to retain the weapon but foot now advanced forward up to match
point energy are going to need seven rounds in a row just to push this to
overtime they're feeling it man this time they're just gonna go be the whole
way they're giving a little bit of breathing room at arcade and that's more
than enough and you've got to pump the brakes again as NRG you try to go for the operator
but there's no escape file there no refracts set up by the time the showstopper is coming through
NRG just has one more one more one more one more one more one more one more one more one more one more
come on come on it's so weird because i hear big time
you have to imagine how catholic this will be an organization and how do you see the global stage
and well over a year.
Now, a win away from getting themselves into a playoffs
with a very young squad and taking down the current reigning
world champions of NRG in the process.
What an achievement this looks to be.
A buy can be scraped together.
They still have that orbital strike.
The back pocket is sociable.
Nearly the nightfall online for Christali.
This has to be perfection.
This has to be miraculous, frankly,
for NRG to get back into this map.
No, it's going to take everything
that they can muster the best we've ever
seen from them if they can.
But it is a long, long road to get there.
And you're going to have to go through so much.
Alt cycles, great game planning, great execution,
the confidence flowing.
Zeus has been incredible these last two maps.
Absolutely brilliant performances on the raise and the way late
And he has been knocking it out of the park with these big multi-kill rounds
You want to be seen in starting
Watch job on the util and now a deep camera place in halls that cannot be clear to the moment
Foot will continue to scale forward
And our G still three players saddled over on the opposite side of the map
Block on the peak is able to find one Zeus dead.
He's gonna fall there and quick give it back through the defender spawn.
Now arriving is Kiko as well as Scuba.
Get over here, try to counteract this and stop again.
It's real short coming in for Zasheb and there's a massive over step is Kiko.
For my part, we'll be able to find the kill in the kills I put.
And I'm absolutely over cooking this one.
The narrow step will be committed for Sully able to find another kill to get some damage
and to weaken the buy for the defuses there and NRG managed to hold on by a thread.
We had just a nice recovery here for NRG when things looked like it might get a little
bit weird because of the early misstep of the utility clock.
The quick run and done, Ethan the reposition there to counter-sops movement, able to just
sit behind those smokes looking for that extra player.
You know, there's been a lot of crunches,
so he's got to be aware that maybe that's where they're
going to come from.
Still, though, no Alts invested four foot.
They're going to have a healthy buy still coming into this.
Little bit extra money in the tank, even.
Op does get forked over, though, to Mata.
He's going to have his off-rock with the orbital strike.
So a lot to work with now for NRG,
who seems to be playing a little bit more of a give
and then fight back at the point of attack kind of style.
And whereas that previous round was nothing but give from foot.
Right, getting a tip two over confident, the two overs Ellis looks like now some restraint being shown.
Just going back to defaulting triple push to secure the orbit dish.
It's just halfway to another showstopper mod at the same time, wondering where you should reposition to should be able to leave be now as NRG.
Proller did not connect with anything and Kiko has taken a ton of space.
So I think they've got a pretty decent read, just going to come down to execution.
We'll check into the arcade side, nothing going to be spotted, so Socialble can just join in with them.
Smokes at the ready, now going to be called down, Mada.
Converge attacks, he said that might just connect onto them here, everyone, and it will.
That's so safe, so now he's going to make his exit.
We'll be holding this up again, if he comes this way, he has his own there.
Check in towards main, get a J, dead.
He's able to find another, he's going to get a boom bar kill versus a tournament for that one, but the round is still going over into the hands of NRG and this time.
There are ults committed into this.
The sociable can pull off one ungodly clutch.
Got the spike.
The spike going to be recovered.
That first point of contact and then scuba as well.
Well, we're gonna force him away.
Time.
The time is just not gonna be there,
so Sociable will just try to hold on to this gun.
NRG sticking around for a little bit longer,
moving their way up to seven, five more to go as Kiko,
trying to find his kill, he will not.
Sociable, the last survivor.
I was curious.
Don't wanna think about the timeout just yet as foot,
We still have the more room, more mistakes before you have to call another time out to
talk about things.
You're going to have most of a buy here, sociable, only going to be able to go over to the Guardian
so we're going to hand that gun over to one of his teammates, see what they want to do
this time.
Just a nice little wombo combo there.
Right off the riff, it's still running back to gain space, but you're going to have to
push the tempo, but look at this layering of the cypher you took from scuba.
That's a good amount of information, games.
Look at that trip firing meanwhile, the executive ready to come through scuba,
trying to pay for it in the halls, a little botch there on the blast packs,
they get slowed up, and he didn't see what we were fighting to.
Just spraying into the smoke, this bike now stranding this round,
looking very much lost.
The cage will fall, the other J now spotted, not the wise about this swing,
Kiko will have him dead.
Social once again to try to hold on to the weapon, but this time it is just the Guardian
The economy whittled away at miss is a massive opening for NRG to try to get back into this map
It's gonna have to be an eco here on the next round for foot. It's sociable again looking to save this gun
And they are maybe on their way to doing the unthinkable
So you'd expect
That we're gonna get at least to nine here for NRG potentially
Barring 30 30 from foot.
I'm just curious when that timeout is going to come through.
That's the real big question now is it feels like it has to be after this round.
Yeah, I mean, I know our G now really starting to get some wind underneath their sails.
It's just a matter of you calling ahead of a thrifty attempt to do.
You try to just call it for the buy either way.
10 seconds left.
Not this round, then the next.
Well, that sociable yet.
Just getting another old charge three away from having that orbital strike online.
But NRG, given this wiggle room, given this opportunity, now it's just four more lines
to go to push this into another overtime.
I mean, I love those extra layers of trips.
It just makes it so easy.
So the smoke's up, starts spamming through.
Yeah, a little bit of a oopsie's on the blast packs from Zeus
It's been incredible
We're gonna have that guardian another one able to be bought in stop going with the Marshall couple shares Kristalli no armor
And I wouldn't expect you want to invest the ults here. Maybe you get oh
cheeky
The amount of damage, but
I was going to say, Guardian, higher penetration compared to that mandal will be able to find
a bit more damage in exchange.
I think it's going to be backpedaled away, it's not making sure that paint shell is
not going to clear him.
But it also decides to take the Orp for himself.
He passed us over to the Zeus, he would have had.
That shows stopper online.
Well, could just be thinking around ahead here, maybe.
Let's see what we want to do, but RG has got the strong side read.
As they check back through this holes, they pop the door, they scale forward and hogs out as well towards the spawn.
Yeah, they know.
This is going to give them a very good idea, so Ethan looks like he's going to go for the pivot and just leave Motto on an angle.
We can get a jail. Let's see.
Oh yeah, but over right in front of Brock and he's gonna take that one damn easily he'll found right of the rope
Going able to find the catch there. Who Minstrel is given now they're gonna be dead. That's Kiko!
Quickly, sit down two!
That Marshal not gonna be able to do a damn thing here
Keepers considers going for the push but doesn't want to give me the chance doesn't want to give him that freebie that a weapon
Now he has been found, it's just down to get a jet to try to stop this from being a law-listening.
He'll be able to do so, but he can't find the follow-up kick, go get the 3K, and RG get
three rounds away.
I think this is where that timeout has to come through for foot.
You've got three big ults, so whatever the coaches have drawn up for this situation,
going to be called in here.
You'd expect some kind of set idea off the start.
So as NRG, this disruption can continue.
The way that they've been mirroring, they've been matching foot,
they've been guessing correctly kind of where they want to end up,
especially with that Cypher Util.
Scoob has done a really nice job these last couple of rounds
of being in the right place at the right time.
It's a completely stymie foot from getting anything going
into these rounds.
So more of that.
They're really getting a good read now.
Onto this map, I mean, they're pushing for space,
and they're making quick rotations off of that information.
And like you said, it's three ultimates
to try to work with.
A nightfall available for Ethan on the other side.
They'll run it back, one charge away from Kiko
after that 3K in the previous round.
But if you cannot get this one to go as put,
if you commit everything into this,
you're draining all of your ults.
your bank account as well.
You are opening the door for NRG
to run this all the way back into overtime.
Four rounds in a row, already given over.
Three more to make what's worse nightmares come true.
I mean, they've already faced this pressure
and puts to a tall on Haven.
Now another gut check against the team
that has faced many of these before and come through.
Let's see what they can do.
A bit of a delay here towards Dish.
The hunt though, let's get cleared so there's going to be awareness that this isn't a crunch,
at least that's the initial thought.
Now attacking, now there's a big grand use of that night ball, goes out and the one in reply,
finds out, so let's go, what is Bada?
Snipes, who's out of the sky?
Stop, he's dead, he's dead!
He's able to find a second!
And the nightmare becomes reality!
That fuck cannot find a damn thing!
I mean, do you consider the save here? I think you have to but there's so much time
See, I'm able to find the one
Need at least three more before you'd be willing to commit an orbital strike into this
So I think in the end this is going to have to be the save
Love to have anything
then that Guardian to cling to, but everything is just a world away out of
rage. Body guarded by NRG.
We're not looking to give him a single pixel to take a shot at.
No, there's just no hope. No chance.
Checking for the plank.
And now they're going to hunt.
Finds the first.
Sides of plant his feet. We'll get a bit of that regen armor back in.
Already has the alt.
G should want to try to take this gun out of his hands.
Looks like sociable will be allowed to survive.
The pass awarding message on to the rest of his team.
But NRG are continuing to run this back as the economy again gets shattered.
Another two ultimates get committed into this round to no avail.
This is kind of telegraphed here by foot.
There's a deep hot early.
And Ethan clears it immediately just takes a timing on the nightfall that forces out the nightfall from foot doesn't hit anything
Whereas Ethan hits almost the whole team and then they can just position themselves to shut this down Kiko
Going out early, but delayed
Haunt gonna keep him at bay clear of the trip
Again
Caller with plenty of players nearby enough. We're on the back
He's going to be a tuck down into the sewers here.
Keep going, trying to see if he can catch anyone in transit, but he cannot.
Yolt expires, all players of foot now joining together.
He's lifting back towards halls, where it is just Ethan to try to hold this line.
God, you gotta be careful with the sound cues.
See, he's at the ready.
maybe looking to rotate and join him.
Ethan will reposition.
The door is shut.
Ethan, he's over towards that dish side, but now the noise is going to be made.
Stopping the way forward, the Black Pack entry again going to be denied.
As well as Scuba, it's next stop out of the sky!
So she will only be able to find the one.
Scuba still watching this angle.
Get a check this man, skirt his way across, tuck in to drop,
for Molly into the open, and social again, the last one standing.
The Malltop forward to try to cut them off on this approach.
He's able to find one, but the defuse is gonna be stuck,
and surely he does not commit the ultimate to this one.
Held to half, the offshot going wide, gets the dink,
but cannot secure the elimination.
NRG will find the defuse and find themselves one round away from pushing this overtime.
Just a brilliant hold here from Scuba and he did it. Scuba tracing him through the sky.
Man's out there shooting clay pigeons.
And that has got the fans here fired up. A lot of Kiko fans in the audience
want to see this go to overtime. You wouldn't have thought this was possible.
Six rounds ago, it felt all but assured. And here we are. One more chance.
Mada has a convergent pass. Everybody else, one or two away for NRG.
Some of the important lines
Wow, they will be able to figure out how to not able to find much damage
Now the neural depth to be committed the spot out here on the rotations three players as a set of map and immediately put
Over to be mona cave player here quickly being joined by scuba
And again that the virgin cats available could just absolutely cook them here
He wants to go for the re-peak, he wants to find a kill, the cloud feels expiring, bottom, he will find one.
Social dead, it's up now, having the trade.
The player advantage, but barely that is up, survives with two HP.
Operator now in hand, staring at the canteen, he stops Spilba, Zeus has the spray down, and out of nowhere!
But we'll close it!
Overtime, denied!
They eliminate the reigning world champions of NRG!
And But advance to the playoffs!
What a moment here for the young Turkish squad to take down NRG,
to send themselves into the playoffs, tooth and nail the whole way.
And it took the very last round of regulation,
But they are moving on and NRG showed us once again
They are resilient as hell, but it just wasn't enough this time
These players continue to be class on NRG but commiserations losing on playoffs is going to feel like a massive blow
But you know
After a brief break, we are gonna see these guys back on the grind and in all likelihood back on the global stage
They will be hungry for Shane Ivor from now, but are starving for a master's London trophy.
What a feast here today for Zeus. Absolutely incredible, absolutely instrumental on those
last two maps to get them over the line and then fitting that in that last round it's him to secure
it. They're quieted, the whole run back there for Ed Archie, but it is none other than Zeus
to absolutely silence their hopes, their dreams of pushing that into overtime.
A momentous win for this team, for the coaching staff.
And a big sigh of relief, you have to suspect.
Oh yeah.
But a day off, but a draw. Let's go ahead.
I think that this crowd is also grieving a sigh of relief for the boys from Furt right now.
I'm going to take Crossley once he's taken this photo, we've also got Scarlet translating
because Crossley has never done an international winners interview before.
Crossley, first of all, closing match and series AlfaFoot has been a bit of an issue in EMEA
and today you nearly went to overtime again, how did you manage to win the series in the end?
and they lost 6 rounds.
At the end of the game, we looked at our IGL,
we didn't play too slow, we quickly turned the game around.
We won 2-3 against Zeus.
It was a good game.
or even more kills, and then that's how it ended.
I mean, Zeus was on fire through the whole series.
I want to ask about Haven, though.
That OT win, on a forced buy,
that's how you got to OT, I should say.
Do you think without that,
you wouldn't have won this series
in terms of the third map as well?
Because it mentally reset NRG.
So, can we turn the game around?
You managed to win the first OOT in Haven, and you actually made a force buy and put the game on OOT.
So, wouldn't it have been possible for you to not come with that force buy? How did you end up in Haven?
We would have lost if we didn't win that big victory there.
Everyone made an extra game there, I didn't understand what it was.
Soap has a sword in the eco, he took the knives, and we won the map thanks to Oran.
Then we won the fracture, and that's it. Thanks to Soap.
with you there. It was absolutely a stunning team effort from Foot. Congratulations. Thank
you so much for talking to me. Thank you guys for watching. Stick around. More Valorant
coming soon.
What a win for Foot. They finally broke the EMEA curse taking down NRG today and we have
two coaches with us. We love them. We love watching them. It's Vlad and Bambino. We
We saw you guys holding each other.
That must have been really stressful coming into this.
Now, foot coming into this tournament,
I think it's fair to say some consider you the underdog
or the dark horse, especially compared to your EMEA teams
coming in, like Vitality and Heretics.
How did you feel coming into this tournament?
And how do you feel now that you qualified to play us, Vlad?
Yeah, I mean, thank you so much for the kind words.
I believe we were the dark horses,
the underdogs. To begin with, everybody expected so much from ProSense. We got kind of lucky
with the map beta and everything. We already discussed all about it.
Lucky or outsmarted?
No, I mean, I don't think we tried to outsmart them, but they kind of make us outsmart them,
right because I didn't feel like it because but energy is a champion of
Valorant for a reason we suffered but it's a it's a good feeling I guess
making it into playoffs yeah I'm sure it is and Vambino and I ask you you have a
twin brother big time of course he's a coach as well and he said he guys used to
argue about play style and he always used to argue that faster Valorant is
better now that you guys are adopting a faster play style the question is would
Would you like to admit that your brother was right all along?
I will never admit he's right in anything.
But what I will say is I do believe that playing the best Valorant for your team is what matters.
And I think this is a team that wants to play fast but no, big time is never right.
I guess Bambino from your perspective as well, you've had quite the time in EMEA when you
consider the teams that you've been on previously.
How does it feel now to be able to make it to a playoffs, especially with this roster
too, having so many rookies at their first global event?
Yeah, I mean, it's amazing, you know, like, truly after, you know, I did three years in
Koi and that was three unsuccessful years, right?
And, you know, I started to doubt myself.
I was something, am I the problem?
Is this ever going to happen?
You know, and I was lucky enough to be given a chance on this team, you know?
And I'm very, very grateful for that.
Grateful for the old, grateful for the owners for taking a chance on me.
And it just feels amazing.
I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else.
The guys are all, the guys are all great.
Well, you've been there from the very start of kickoff.
So I guess Vlad, from your perspective, coming in from stage one, how have you
managed to turn this foot team around. I mean of course it wasn't easy. We had
only one and a half weeks of prep time till stage one and of course Bambino
and I we put a lot of work in that sequence and then you know like till
four or five days ago before the first official two of the players didn't even
in Berlin with us, you know, it was really hard spacing to fill every gap in the season.
But we overcome everything.
We just overcome everything.
You absolutely did.
And I think it's fair to say also based on your reactions coming out of that, the energy
is definitely one of the big guys to take down.
And now that you've done it, now that you're in play-offs looking forward, are you feeling
like you're in a good place now or is just going to get that much harder?
Of course, like playoffs is going to be more harder harder than this
I don't expect any easy way to make it into
Finals, but I think like overall what we learned from this game will be the defining factor of either we win or lose
All right fair enough and Bambino you're one of the few
Representses here the regional representatives here in London
So you have any message for all the the London and the English fans watching today?
and you know, maybe the support foot now keep coming. Keep watching. You know, get on the streams.
You come here in the crowd. We have a Brit and not only that, the guys are just super likable.
The sweetest kids ever support EMEA or not a weaker region.
Well, if you guys get that trophy, it'll be the first in a long, long, long time. And then you
can put in big time. It's baseball. Congratulations so much guys. We're very excited to see you go
into playoffs without we are gonna go on a very quick break when we come back
it's gonna be global e-sports versus XLG which will be very exciting as well
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We're about to play Pop Off and this is how we predict who is going to win the next series
because to use prediction chickens would blow the budget.
So on my left, I have got Arthur, he's going to be representing XLG on my right, I've got Tyler, representing Global Esports.
All the boys need to do is basically hop these bellows, pump the bellows with their feet, and then it's going to pop up the balloon.
And whichever balloon pops first is the one that's going to predict the winner.
So basically boys, no pressure. You ready to pop off?
Let's go, bro.
Okay, ready?
Oh yeah, let's go.
All right, do soak on Trent Proud, boys. Let's pop off in three, two, one.
Oh, oh, the technique on Global Esports side has something to be decided.
I'm stepping back from XLG because Ardi is absolutely pumping those brakes right now.
I don't understand why this is not popping.
This is...
Oh, wow.
Well, I think, guys, it proves that size doesn't matter because you were distinctly small and
yet you still exploded. So congratulations to Global Esports because apparently Tyler thinks
you're winning. You'll have to tick around though to find out if that's the case.
the next match. It's going to
be XL G and G taking the stage
with a playoff spot on the line,
the very last spot. In fact, and
you guys, this is very
interesting. This matchup when
they wouldn't happen yesterday
of the draw show autumn. We
match up when they wouldn't happen yesterday. The draw show autumn looks
displeased. Actually, he's like, wait, they know us really, really well. In
fact, all of these players have played in the same region for a while. Yeah,
also, I heard that there were scrim partners too. So a lot of a lot of like
shared history here, a lot of familiarity and comfort, it seems. I think
the key thing I would highlight here is a crystal facing a lot of his former
team makes their on the third
road down 2024. Ascension
winners with XLG there. Yeah,
I really love the story we
have because you have players
that have either played with
each other or played against
each other. You have the time
and no man obviously losing to
some of their teammates now,
but then also some of the
people that they're going up
against in that China
Ascension 2024. And then, of
course, you have that infamous
FPX roster that managed to go
through every single global
event. So lots of familiarity
across the stage here. What's
really interesting as well as
from gold, the East Wars playing and VCT CN are the ones popping up off at this tournament.
Autumn, Crystal and Yurotan, all three of them absolutely performing here. Now we wanted to
learn a bit more about this history between the players, so we sent Jen Lee to catch up with
Happy Way. Let's see what she found out. Jen here with Happy Way of XLG. Happy Way, you will not
believe what Crystal told me. You need to trash talk, so talk to us about what you think of G.
I think Crystal is just a normal player because I already showed him his skin base, his fire power.
I think Norman battling him.
Oh, Norman's battling Crystal, right? I love this Crash talk. Thank you so much and good luck.
Oh, I love to hear it from happy way talking a little bit trash about Crystal.
How dare he?
But I think he can afford to.
He was the savior for XLG, especially on Split where he was massive.
Yeah, he was taking over the server on a different level in this game.
It was like 1v9.
He was just doing everything for this team.
If he wasn't on the server, XLG wouldn't have been here.
I said it before, I think that Happy Way has been the best player in the Chinese League
for the past two years. He is the person that I've been most impressed with time and time again.
Not only that, he has been the consistent member for XLG when we think about their performance at these global events.
He's always putting up crazy numbers. Maybe not quite as crazy as almost 400 ACS in a single map,
but I think that that just goes to show and highlight us to us about how much he was carrying them through that series against DRG yesterday.
And XLG definitely want to prove themselves this tournament.
a master Santiago they did get group without winning a match and I know this
is something we talked about this is not how XLG want to be remembered but
this time around they found a bit of form and of course the question is can
they make it on groups this time? Well I think the fact that they're playing against
opponents that they got some comfort in they've got some history in I think that
was a narrative we had yesterday that they looked a lot less nervous playing
against a team that they understood and I hope that shared history might
actually benefit XLG because of course there's been some nerves there there's
that's been a little bit of,
you know, when they said yesterday,
not performing to the same level as domestically.
So hopefully today is different.
Well, today is the same as the game before.
Well, they've definitely done better.
I mean, they got grouped at Santiago with not a single map win.
So at least this time around, they've been able to win a series.
And the fact that they have to send DRG home
now is a little bit sad because, of course,
that was a regional matchup that we must not forget.
And I think we need to remember that XLG
have made playoffs before back in champs,
but that was because they were China's first
But that was because they were China's first seed at least this time they'd be doing it on their own accord
But they need to stop believing in themselves
I've heard those rafters in this interview saying that he didn't think they're gonna get to playoffs like to me
That is crazy if I'm a coach there
I'm having a word because that is criminal to be so self-deprecating coming into this match
I'm gonna shake it out of him like stop it stop that they're gonna make it now
Heavyweight talks a little trash about crystal
It's a little bit funny because crystal has been one of the over performers for global eSports
especially on the killjoy and sova, but let's talk a bit about his agent pool here.
Yeah, the interesting thing is that obviously GE likes to play a lot of different comps, a lot of different agents,
but to me, Kristo is shining every single time he's playing that killjoy specifically.
I think obviously at this tournament, he's probably going to still be playing a lot of different things.
Like look here, his lurks on killjoy, that pearl, it was phenomenal for their match when it gets full sense.
That's why they got so many rounds so easily.
So in the future, maybe this is something they need to look into, maybe making it a bit more simple.
the game. It's like, you know,
you're not going to be able to
play a single pattern that
fade Crystal maybe is a
Sentinel lurker having to
play so many different roles.
It's it's really difficult to
coach like crazy. If you're an
entry player like the recent
pattern playing way late up.
Yeah, like that to me is
crazy. The carries close to
learn all these different
skill sets as a player. I
think for me when it comes to
crystal is it's nice to see
the unexpected players
stepping up right when we saw
the roster coming into this
event. I was looking at all I
was looking at apartment
on a stage such as this, which is really really nice to see.
Yeah, we're seeing a personality come out of Crystal that we haven't really seen even
on the Pacific stages where he is a lot more comfortable.
So let's see what he had to say to Jen ahead of this match.
Jen here with Crystal of GE.
Crystal, you know your opponents so well.
Identify XLG's weaknesses for us.
I mean, they're fire powers.
They have two good guys like Happy Vent Rarga and three guys who have not good aim.
So we will see what will happen.
The three players are their weaknesses?
I mean, yeah, for me, yeah.
Okay, okay, I like the Stresh talk.
Alright, Crystal, good luck today.
I can't wait to be saying that.
I mean, he was teammates with basically most of their team right now, so I guess it's fair to say.
And I wonder who will be doing this 1v1 skirmish going into this for the map veto.
and see you know who's gonna talk walk but talk that they keep throwing at each
other so let's see what happens one by one showdown okay we get crystal versus
happy way that's quite consider the amount of smack that Chris we have
mentioned the operator in this garbage no big fun looks as though crystal is
trying out a variation of weapons in this moment
crystal is eating it right now happy way by the bit right oh there we go
Crystal would throw a good shot there.
No, that's not acceptable.
This kind of that shot.
But yeah, I think one thing for Crystal for me is that with his familiarity with the players in the server,
like when I was watching Pat in Pacific, it seemed like every round he was getting reeds against Paper Rex.
I wonder if there is any of those tendencies that Crystal would notice from the players.
Obviously, it's a long time ago, but there's things in the logic that you can break down and understand,
and I'm hoping that he can be one of those players today being very vocal,
Or at least maybe on his lurks, maybe he's got a little bit more confidence today.
Yeah, that's a very interesting point about matches up.
Match ups between players who are familiar with each other.
Now with these results, XLG gets the map veto advantage here.
Let's see what they've landed on.
Alright, welcome guys.
Let's see the map veto for G versus XLG.
XLG won the skirmish, so they are picking their side.
Team B.
Alright, XLG picks Team B, which means GE is banning the first map.
Fracture.
Fracture is banned, and what is your map ban?
XLG.
Ivan Perl.
Perl is also banned, now GE is picking the first map.
Haven.
Haven.
And the site for Haven, please.
Attack.
Alright, and your map pick?
Map pick.
Lotus.
Okay, Lotus on the side for Lotus please.
Attack.
Okay.
We have Ascent, Breeze and Split left, G evening first.
Oh sorry, we'll be in Split.
You've been Split, okay.
and last two minutes we are assigned on breeze
bonassa
okay the sider is breeze GE is picking the side
defense
okay quick recap we start with Haven, XLG attacks
then we have Lotus, GE attacks and if we go to the sider map which is breeze
GE defense everything correct?
alright good luck guys
yeah I think the big thing from that veto is XLG getting their home map of Lotus
that is the map that they have been phenomenal on. So GE clearly coming in with a plan because
they're not banning it today and letting them go to that map.
And quick predictions?
2-1.
2-1, GE.
Oh, so it's a GE bus right now. I like to hear it, but for XLG, this is unfinished business.
It's a chance to prove that they can finally deliver on the global stage. And for Global
This is history. This is India's finest at their first ever Masters and loving every second of it.
We got old teammates, old friendships and everything on the line. Let's see who wants it more.
We are about to find out who will be surviving another day here at Masters London.
I think that first of all, through our own experience, we have achieved the top of the world champion.
We are here, and we are all working hard to develop our own mentality.
Our own feelings and feelings on the stage.
We are all working hard to create our own style.
I mean, XLG was my previous team. I've been with them for a century.
When I was in XZG, I played with Raga, F2A, and FWC, so right now, I face them again.
I think our dream is to continue to move forward, to win, to focus on our team.
But we need to continue to win, to try our best to achieve our goals.
For us, it's good matchup because it's Chinese region, it's like the same as Apex, we like to fight.
The next game, I want to bring the second season's wish, very confident, to win the game.
Good luck guys, and I will destroy you today.
London, we will keep going.
XLG started modestly as a group of friends in a PC cafe deep in northern China far from the lights of Shanghai.
Like a flower in the desert, they survived time and time again through ascension.
They're back at the Masters where they could finally qualify to playoffs.
But they're opponents today. It's global eastwards and Indian org making a historical run through Pacific and even today in London is a record broken
But while they're new to the international stage, they are far from new to XLG. They know each other so well, Disney
Yeah, let's not forget Crystal listed that ascension trophy in China back in 2024 with Happy Way, with Raga and now they sit on the opposite side
side so many familiar names that know and probably love each other from those days back in that region
and now they face off with one another and one of them will have to eliminate the other.
Yeah getting right back into this map Vito as we said before GE decided to buy map fracture
letting XLG go to Lotus. The first map of Haven is living a little bit iffy for GE here.
Not sure what composition they're going to end up with here probably something new that's what
what they love to do. And remember something that I said on the opening day when GE first
played was that this is a team that relies on crazy composition changes. We've seen
it within their own region and I'm curious how that anti-stratting works here. They played
in one of the late games yesterday and I said this intensity of this event might mean that
their moments were that this struggles. Yeah, XLG on that haven struggled against
the RG before. They were in many advantageous positions into the post-pads especially and
could not convert at all. So GE have seen that and thought we could do this. This is
an easy map for us.
This is a huge day for both of these teams. Right now there's only one playoffs spot left
and you can feel how much each of these teams wanted. XLG want to go the distance to brew
that VCT China is nothing to smirk at. We got Shanghai around the corner in
Champions for our next event and of course this Indian org of global
eSports has never gone this far before and if they make it to playoffs it's
gonna be absolutely incredible. I'm telling you guys they're gonna make top
four if they pass through today. Yeah I think both teams have a lot to prove
I think it's a good idea to do
fair, uh, both, you know, not
familiar with playoffs. XLG
only going there once because
they were the first seat of
China. It would be a new
spirit is actually after today
for either of these teams. And
let's see what agents are going
to pull in now. We know Frost
likes to make lots of
different comps from app. It's
the same kind of comp. They're
running Pacific's the double
Sentinel here. Very strange
composition not seen very much
here if XLG expected this to come through, especially towards that A site. I want to see XLG taking the map from GE, making the space feel really passive, and then throwing in some fakes.
GE don't have a lot of information here, they're going to rely on big bunker setups.
Yeah, for sure. I think having that double Sentinel approach is going to be really interesting for them starting out.
out. I believe that this is the first deadlock that we get to see in the event as well. Kind
of an underutilized set in all these days, but can also be used in a kind of initiating
way to be able to salvage the rest of his players. Now to take us to the final Swiss
match we are graced by Mitch Mann and Tom Biz.
Thank you Victoria. Yes indeed. One last spot in playoffs up for Graves and it's going to
be history made today on the London stage. For global eSports I think it's fair to say
They're coming in looking hot, but XLG looking to right the wrongs that have been done to their region
They've sent DRG home and now as they said they look to carry forward their ideas
You know for the boys they've sent back home a start here from XLG on the attack side of Haven and already wasting no time
You heard it from Crystal in the interview. They love to fight and this time the fights are going XLG's way
Even with Patman fighting out. He's so low to 2v1
to be a tough one on the other
side. Happy way has been
unstoppable, but a little bit
shaky for both of them in that
fight. It will be a pistol round
for XLG to start. And something
you mentioned like having to
carry on the sort of your your
And something you mentioned like having to carry on the sort of your your I guess the weight of your brother after eliminating him
That was the case for both teams both teams have to go through a regional team to get there
So I'm almost looking at this is don't waste it you have to send someone else home that
Well, we talk about those friendships and G as well
They're the relation that they have the full sense and now you come in with a different relation
We're hearing these guys are scrim partners. They they play each other a lot. So
So I want to see one of them maybe have a few extra ideas of how to beat the other because
that's where they will have practiced everything script partners previous teammates what half
of the players in this game used to play together in some form or the other going across teams.
So that ascension game had a lot of the players so it's definitely somewhere that they're
familiar with the bodies on the opposite side of the stage XLG have the pistol very strong
star from happy way. Spam through the door and a very awkward fight after. It's okay.
The weapons now on everybody else for XLG. We don't expect to see them lose all too much.
Nice game by Popman. Pretends to jump out of the window to draw in the fight. Good flash
though. Yuditan has his vision back and they're looking to fight this together. Raga has to
be careful. Doesn't know there's a player. Why this close as he is? This is getting costly
already. Still the numbers there for XLG. They don't want to lose anybody else. It's
guessing game as to where Crystal is at this stage of the game.
A bit of rifle retrieved there, some G's are not really the worry at this point.
And Crystal, if you can get one, it would be huge.
Just remove some of that additional weaponry, winning here should be impossible.
But damage not so much, especially if he waits for somebody to cover the plant, I like the
check.
Oh no, I don't, I don't like the check.
It was half-chipped by No Man, but eventually he will go back 2 to 0 for XLG, an important conversion.
Now they're looking to build into this map because I have a feeling the reason that GEE might have taken us here was after witnessing their display on this map versus DRG, which I'll be honest was very surprising from my side,
I thought they'd go into that match. Maybe not heavily favored, but at least like even competing on maps that
They feel a little bit less confident. Well, yeah
I think we saw it in the rest of the series as well where it wasn't much closer affair
But that first map I started to question everything I knew xlg in my mind. They were coming in as favorites
I think they made less mistakes in their opening games, but
drg trashed them. It was 13-4 when it comes to haven
already two on the board it's a strong start XLG take down Utaton as well this
is not going that poorly till autumn shows up to the site a double kill a
triple kill in fact before he finally falls and yet still we're into a 2v2
it was to run it back one of those kills that was traded out and especially
considering some of the weaknesses in play.
I plant for long.
Eventually.
I think Leo's leg got a little bit too early
and now he's kind of stuck in a horrible position.
They know exactly where he is and Harvey just patient.
Now knowing where the last man is standing
because of the ping, I'm not sure what went on there
from the side of Exoji.
Maybe try to bait someone in, but it didn't look like that.
You don't normally stick it all the way to the very end
and then let go of your baiting.
No, no, it's certainly a strange strategy.
I don't know what they were expecting to come their way
and around with no Olson limited utility on the other side,
but they're just conscious of the quick reaggressions
of deadlock utility, net, the shocks.
Who knows?
Who knows, or maybe they just stopped
diffusing a little bit too early,
or stopped planting a little bit too early.
Either way, a two to one score line.
Early half goes as it should, but now XLG come in.
They put all their credits into this round.
This is a full buy for the attack side
with very little margin for error,
But that can be said on both sides.
If we are going to have a lights out start to this half,
this will be the round that decides it.
See this flashing awful lot.
If you watch the NBA, there's the GX doing it
every single round, but it gets you that additional
little bit of space.
Normally, we'd come into a game and be highlighting
the duelist players, talking about the fiery side
of this matchup.
But I'll say that the players I want to highlight
in this game are all currently playing Sentinel.
It was Autumn who will flex later on
and happy way to be honest, to get them through split,
had to drop 35 kills.
For GE in both games, Crystal has been solid.
He's had at least one map where he looks like the best player
on the server, and it doesn't even look close.
Keep your eyes on him as this game goes on.
Patman with the early aggression down C long,
he's been embedded for quite a while,
and he's found himself the pick now.
C long no longer in the hands of XLG.
They look to fight deep towards the spawn,
and Marga's taking a double,
But they don't think there's more here.
They weren't ready for a hobby.
Three under his belt already.
And Leo won't last long.
GE looked like they were in trouble there.
Like they were backed against the wall,
but they came out swinging.
Yeah, it's a little bit unfortunate.
Like you see the fight forward from Robert.
They're able to take off both sides.
They go, OK, well, there was no re-swing.
I guess Harvey just a little bit further behind
on the rotation, but I almost wonder
if they think he was baiting it.
Just because of the gap that came in, but it worked perfectly.
Harvey then still had to hit all of the shots and that's exactly what he does.
Hunter's Fury online. Opponents economy completely reset.
And well in this round, other than some pistols and a stinger, not much to play with at all.
Yeah, they're gonna sit back and wait.
XLG thinking maybe there was some agression coming up, a smoke down on
short's going to deny that even if they crossed over having any kind of fight
in favor towards the B site and I think this is a good round for some
experimentation. You really have to get an idea of what G are doing with their
Sentinel utility when they have so much, but the problem is they have so much
they can just keep changing up those positions and the main problem will be
crystal. It's a very unusual comp to play against on this map and those sensors
are going to punish no man every time he wants to dash in to take space if he chooses the wrong site.
Nice job, Harvey. It's not necessarily been the highlight player individually,
but he's had a great start to this game, and mainly that's because they've had so many other
highlight players individually. I got the spike. Getting through. It's going to be awkward in there.
You've mentioned it. He tried to go over the utility that was blocking him, walks into
more utility, a nasty setup, and for Patman just working around the edge of the smoke,
they saw, okay, they've got all this utility, at least it's probably clear, and it wasn't.
Three to two, a flawless round, and a huge start from G, because they have just built up a hell
of a lot of credits after some much closer rounds. They're playing at Patman there as well, I mean,
Lysor ripped his head off with that Stinger, or at least his helmet, but manages to find the
correction just in time walks out of there with three kills and although the
round probably wouldn't get out of control even if he does lose that fight
it's an extra weapon carried forward and less chances for XLG to do damage a 2-0
start for that attack side but XLG now lose the lead G seemed to have complete
control credits come back online big buy coming in one away from a run it back
one away from a hunter's fury XLG have no shortage of opportunities in this round
But they're gonna go very directly to the B site. No utility waiting for them there, but instead there are bodies, a barricade of bodies, and they're finding nothing but picks.
Raga's taken out of the open, but he's right in the middle of the open. An easy conversion for Javi.
And a 2v5 this by-round, it's going nowhere.
I like that now they put the wall down as well.
It's almost dying to that spam.
As if it wasn't problematic enough
the B site
Execution not working and
starting to see the same troubles again a composition you look at the
The jet Phoenix and you go okay on the attack that should be deadly
I did it should be where you get the majority of your rounds right now
They are struggling to not even get rounds get kills
Happy way still alive though. I know that's why you always be careful picking up against him incredible
individual ability but we're asking a lot here.
The ult used, it'll give them indication that they can plant on B.
Sure, but from here, Happyway has to have a lot of confidence.
Leo's 41 HP. I mean my guy is in trouble but he has a hunter's fury.
Happyway needs to take down some players and buy time but now the hat comes off the head on the other side
and they know all about this man. It's a bit shaky and it'll finish that way as well.
Patman with a double to put GE on double the rounds of XLG a pistol gave him a leg up
But if all the fluff in the face ever since yeah, I think it is going to be a
Microscope onto some of the players in this game
It's a very weird scenario because I think the raga has been someone that you look regionally
He is fantastic like you someone that always seems to step up when it gets the international stage
It's look very different to the point where I think a lot of the time all of these like top 15 top 20 list
He normally made it and then nowadays probably not so much. I think looking at the coin base wing condition
He is someone I need to see more from especially on this Phoenix on the attack like they're gonna be feeding him off
So they're gonna be setting him up with no man taking space
So I can forgive a little bit more because he's diving head first into all of the utility
But if the follow-up is not there this Phoenix is
kind of wasted. You need to be getting kills to earn those extra orbs to get.
They'll run it back to get more kills. It always feeds into itself and the rest of
the utility that we've seen hasn't really done anything just yet.
It's definitely the right moment for a timeout. XLG, when it comes to these
buy rounds, like we said, they're not just losing the rounds, they're losing them
in a fairly dominant fashion. Even if you look at the timeline, they're
diffusing round six. Great, it was 4v2, 5v2 even, and they were given the space by
Well, this was someone where the defense came in and said let's secure the win instead of
just trying to crush them in the dust early on.
And if XLG are being given no opportunities to get back in, they've got to start creating
some.
It's early takes.
I think the pistol gave them that extra bit of a buffer.
But I can definitely understand why the player wants to have a little chat with the team.
They've already witnessed this get out of control versus their regional rivals in DRG.
I think we put GE on a slightly higher pedestal. Immediate...
It's about to save me.
If he hadn't stuck that, that would have been one of the craziest things I've ever seen in my life, but he didn't.
Rago, already with the trade though, and actually, happy way found another, this starts to get a little dangerous until Uniton finds a double.
Even still, these weaker weapons have put them into a 2v2 again. Patman is already walking behind, though.
Second they go for the plant, this is a problem, I don't think there's any way the rock can react to this
And now Happyway's left in an awkward spot once again, blinded up as he tries to retreat, there was no hope
Yeah, and that's the problem, right? The camera timing on short, when it's activated, didn't catch Patman
He got a timing, and the fact that there's a trip behind, but he's an element
So he can easily just teleport past that, it's exactly what they go for
go forth and GE find themselves wrapping up behind very quickly. Despite that, a small
blip of the radars will cost them the round, but they came in with weaknesses, they had
stingers and a bandit, and they made that look really good. If they got the plant in
there as well, Rorga has the ult and the rifle having been recovered, they can go take short,
fight back into the site with ease, go deep into the spawn, there's so many options for
them, but GE recovered that nicely. That is good though to see a little spark of life
from XLG on the low buy rounds.
All they have to do is bring that same energy
into the full buys.
Yeah, I think the only worries we have seen
a bit of that already with like some of the earlier low buys
that they can do damage.
It's just, do they now go back to
maybe some of the slower, more default rounds
that need to get rid of some of that utility?
And while Yudetan hasn't least been caught,
I didn't even think he'd get away with one.
Unfortunately, that's another sort of curse moment
for WS Leo.
he is one and seven and that hunter's fear he's not going to play a part in this round.
Well, Rargett used his flashes up to get a little bit of control towards garage trying
to cause problems for that defense. Create question marks on the map. For now at least
G's response is to play much more passive cover off these angles. They have to watch
the walk through the window. They have to be careful of the wraparound on B. As a result,
the fight comes in they're not going to be in the best position to do anything
about it you look towards this A site autumn is completely isolated he's got
two trips though covering long and a camera watching for the short walk up
he gets one and gets out his job is done and there's an easy reveal the second
trip not expected but happy way converts and life sores there for another
the LXLG are heating up and the A site plant is locked in
They found the weaker side.
Come on, they know exactly where Crystal is as well.
We get to see one of those crazy clutch moments for him so far.
And with the amount of credits that they currently have,
I wouldn't be mad to see him go for this.
His previous team basing off against him,
but with no spam being found, in fact, they're only found the other way.
Lysor to close things out with a triple.
And a third round on Brexit G after the pause.
That great opening pick as well.
Setting a player up top box and one down a little bit lower
makes it almost impossible for an off to get a pick and get out of there.
Regardless of who they're playing on the neon even more so
without applying time to get ready for the sprint.
Utaton found his pick but he got punished immediately.
XLG get control off of that then hit a lighter A site.
Shred every defender that was trying to flood back through.
Very nice round from the attack side.
And again, just showing us that they can get the work done when it comes to those buy rounds.
They don't use everything either coming through here with the Hunter's Fury.
Still that blade storm in the back pocket.
I think my only worry so far is that even going into the lay-round there, not a lot
of that utility's being broken.
Now, of course, that kind of came through because the Sova got eliminated immediately.
that they aren't going to start doing that and maybe just go for a more direct take
Already destroying
What was turned down by crystal, but he's still doing a lot to delay them
Second player further back is happy one last very long and crystal falls after one
XLG this is something that was mentioned on the desk gaps weaknesses towards this a site
The XLG been running into numbers there, and it doesn't even seem to matter
Definitely feels like the attack of practice code to get into spike planted and now in the post plan
Hunter's Fury is there, but it's on the site.
It's not likely to be used and they've lost.
Happy way and all coming in from the back lines.
We fight forward and no man brings the heat for the triple.
At this point, the offense safe is probably the best outcome,
but he's got to be quick.
30 HP is straight shot to take him down.
Okay, Uniton makes it out off the save, but XLG.
They are closing this gap round by round.
Yeah, it's time to see some of those individuals come online.
I think no man's definitely had some quieter series throughout the tournament so far, but the fact that he's heating up
The dash into enemies and manages to get a double kill puts them one away from their opponents
And for the defense they are going to be able to keep that
Operator in hand and get a revive into the next round that I
Wonder what is the moment that maybe we see a pause on their side because if the momentum starts to flip or more
Also, if they've just found the gap, that weaker side,
because even with the Sentinel in play and some clear knowledge
that it would be a push into that A site,
they definitely suffered.
Instead, though, they're just going to stack up
that side of the map.
Cover going out.
G, you're looking for a bit of control early with that operator.
The smoke makes it a bit more annoying for them.
It still seems like they'll get some control for XLG.
A different approach.
A side had been working, GE come up with a solution and now the other side of the map gets pressured
Let's listen in with XLG on this push
Kill him back side first
They're back side
Go out the corner, go out the corner
I know exactly
Okay guys
I go play open
I can't move B, I can't
I can't open up
I'm P2
They're both B, they're both B
They're both small, they're both small guys
I play ulti
Both B first
I play ulti guys
I don't have ulti
Go hard, go hard
Don't let them save up.
You have a problem.
No, let me pick first.
Go, go, go, go.
Go, go, go, go.
Go, go, go.
Go, go, go.
You have a break.
Hey, chill.
Saving, saving, saving.
Chill, chill, chill.
Saving.
You can't hit them.
You ran eight, you ran eight.
Well, you might have a couple of picks for Crystal and Utaton
in the end, but that only confirms
that they saved their rifles for XLG,
showing that that A site isn't the only one they know
how to get into.
A very direct play from them in this round.
And it's working.
I like the fact that they go for deeper aggression as well,
sensing that it wasn't being as well defended.
No smokes called in the end playing post plant. This is looking like a much more well-rounded
XLG attack side. Yeah, I think especially the fact that
They are just now getting more aggressive and challenging for some of those post plant control
I think when you have a composition like this if you sit passive you just don't really have the utility on those dualists to buy
Additional time for just being disruptive and I'm starting to notice that a lot of what G is trying to do on the defense
rather than actually playing into those retakes, which in some of the earlier rounds was actually working for them,
they're making hero plays to try and save a teammate that's isolated.
Like, Patman especially, I think this has been a bit of a flaw at times in his game,
where he wants to try and win the round and sometimes ends up being the one to throw it away,
but it was a gamble to try and make a play to help out his teammate on the site,
rather than almost lean into some of those retakes.
Yeah, we saw him run out of garage, he said.
Another direct play from XLG. This time more numbers and utility waiting for the
Munder's Fury. Still draws first blood and Crystal's thinking about emerging
from that smoke but he'll never make it close. Rarkas Spandman threw great
flash on back side and rumbling. Here's the current state of the defensive side
that jump over is even gonna be potentially heard and yes happy way
did. Either way he gets it right in the end. The off of unit time. Again should
beat denied the ability to save. XLG wanted to stop him last time and a couple of picks
later they gave up, but this time the net is already cast so wide. Happyway is sat on
the A side. He's about to have a freebie, you have to think. He's clearing it though.
Back hits the shot. Alright, fair enough, he's earned that up.
Yeah, he's been trying to be in the right place at the right time over the last couple
of rounds, but he's never been in position and unfortunately, wrong place, wrong time
once more cleaning up on that XLG side and I have to say I'm not sure what was
said in the pause via to be that little bit more aggressive be more direct but
her boy has definitely made a difference because I think rounds after round 60 took
the pause round 7 was an eco and then from then onwards they've won every
single round. Well one more to play for after a five round streak from GE their
leaned has been taken over by XLG and there's a chance that they could be trailing at the half-time
fighting to beat even Stevens. We move into the next and that's a little pixel angle for Crystal
with huge value. Target down and that's one part of their site pushes dealt with and the other part
has an operator yet. I found the opening. Blight storm back pocket out, hot man down.
down, immediate response, jump over the top, but I'm not able to find anything. Operator
going to be swinging in, it's not even needed. They are winning every single battle on the
XLG side and Crystal's ult is available, but it's one that only really works with reduced
numbers. I'm going to try and throw it in just to clear the back side, but there was
nobody there leaving everybody with knowledge of where he is and if he easily goes out in
the end for WS Leo. Seven to five from the position they were at. XLG have
climbed right back into this game. This has been an excellent resurgence from
XLG. Like I said, five and two down. They dug deep. They found solutions across the
map. They played a clean game and individuals are starting to heat up and
look confident. It definitely seems like GE could be in danger and you know what
It is a good day to be an XLG fan at least here in half number one
There is plenty more valorant to come but
You know speaking about XLG having a good all time
We're gonna go down to the stage where we've got a very special interview standing by we've got someone called laxi
XLG's mascot laxi you look stunning. Thank you very much. Oh laxi is here now
Now, XLG mascot, she's here to tell us more about the new map that's going to be revealed
on June 21st. What can you tell us, Laxie? I did not know you could do that on a map.
That is insane! I'm more excited than ever. Can you tell us anything about what inspired
This map, Laxie.
Wow.
Literally, mark it in your calendars right now, June 21st.
We've got an epic show match on the cards
for the grand finals.
Laxie, are you going to be playing in the match?
Oh, oh, Laxie's got hair appointment,
but it's fine because she'll be watching from the makeup chair.
Thank you so much, Laxie.
Thank you so much, XLG fans! Let's get back into the game!
Did you book it together, Tom?
Yeah, I actually also have a hair bun in my day.
Oh, okay. You're both going for the dye. Which team's colors are you gonna get in?
Blue.
My favorite team. All right, seven to five, XLG. They've got the lead at the halftime.
An impressive streak, matching what Jean put forward with five rounds of their own.
And now the lead is theirs and a chance to take it to G on their own map pick.
Remember, global eSports wanted to take Haven into the map pool, perhaps thinking that it
was a weakness for XLG who struggled against their regional rivals.
But you know what?
A lot has changed in a very short period of time.
XLG looking like they came here to play and not far away from winning.
Yeah, fortunately for G, they does seem like they're a little bit cursed with their map choice.
It happened yesterday. They're able to turn the series around, but
for this, you got to hope that
Come in with a solid attack side. It's been a rough start to the game for autumn someone who was
lights out
In their series yesterday, but there's still a second half to be played and the defensive side of this comp can be very difficult
Already Raga caught the same can be said for no man, but the answer poor on the side Lysol
Trying to hold the line but running out of bullets and won't it didn't have any friends to play with to stand
And they turn this pistol
Happy way has been very impressive so far, but Pat man's quick to put him in his place leaving Leo one versus four
You know, that's definitely not in his favor the deadlock wall certainly doesn't help out
I would say the trip behind but they certainly already know where he is
That'll be a clean up for GE and a chance to put things level at 7 to 7 if they can win the end the eco
Yeah, that's the thing. It'll be both teams having a pistol both teams winning five rounds in a row
Talking about them being scrim partners playing against each other regularly. It almost seems like this one's been mapped out
but I
Also do go in looking at GE on the attack
Like you kind of expect having that double centi to maybe help you out on the defensive side
But I also do think that a lot of deadlock compositions have potential on the attack at least to clear angles make things that a little bit more
awkward not leave you with safe space to stand in
So I definitely want to see
What ideas they have it will have put a lot of pressure onto you don't on
Over on that neon
It's gonna have to be that hard entry for the majority of rounds and at least in this one a bit of a slower paced default
of course maybe even expecting there to be a stack which there is although I
will say at the moment autumn is walking directly into it of course he's
normally a lurk player so this is kind of what you want from him oh it's a good
thing the wall was in the way there it didn't look like it was but you know
I saw him, I got shot in the head and not go down.
Autumn finds himself one, does some damage, loses a Marsil.
It is what it is.
If anything, confirmation for the rest of the squad
that the C side is the right way to go.
The spy can make it there.
It's been sprinting ever since he went down.
It's just now making it towards the site.
Deep position from Patman.
This is a big risk, but he should fly under the radar.
You never really expect someone to be embedded in a round
like this and it needs plenty of kills coming up for Patman.
Yeah, he also had nothing to lose.
I think that's the best thing about it. They kill him, they get a ghost, he's at least delayed them a little bit, and he can give the information over, and he even threw down a deepest note to go, like, okay, D-Ad, you need to play into this site from here, and instead he's able to farm them up.
7-7. Level once again. And for GE it's not the greatest of bonus rounds but
Patman getting that many additional kills means he can now invest into a
Vandal. They will of course be coming up against five rifles on the other side
though. You take a look at what GE have to work with for the next. I mean the
money is stacked very high after a light buy in the previous. Oh Patman! You might
have had a big play in the previous round but this one amounts to nothing
great response from Leo. An XLG at the man advantage to work with good stun but
there's a second layer to this defense. Rarga was standing by and that's
completely caught Unitan off guard. Rarga with another and the Molly buying
more time allowing them to break this wall or at least have it. Decently broken.
Oh, this is a problem.
They've done so much damage though.
Harvey is desperately low.
But even still, the bullet's not connecting.
Not able to get the gun though.
And Harvey is just trying to run for the hills.
I think realizing that, you know what, on 4HP,
planting pretty much anywhere on that site
would have been an immediate death sentence.
I think though he was hoping that maybe they rotate away.
That's all he really has is the element of surprise and if they just wait and play this
together on the XLG side, there is no element of surprise because at some point he has to
plan and it even seems like they're beginning to make the rotation. Maybe he was hoping
for a little bit earlier. They are very close by.
Yeah, the drone gets around in time so they're not even worried about the gong. They know
know exactly where he is. And now, well, now it is exactly pinpoint with the reveal up
top. I know he hasn't gone to mid. They got there in time to fill in that space. The dots
connected. Harvey is going to have to have a sensational performance and he almost had
it shot fired at each player. Luckily, they didn't land XLG are back in the lead. Yeah,
I am not a bad for a bonus round, but I also think it wasn't really the weapons that you
expected to do the damage in the bonus round. Patman with one of the only rifles fighting
alone and then Yuditan doing the same. It was definitely a bit of a, I guess, disjointed
more surprise factor start roundout from GE, which you can kind of expect in those low
buys, but now they come in with the full investment. Raga will, however, have to run it back online.
still yet to see the level we know we can from Raga on this Phoenix. With them being
in the lead, I don't think it matters so much.
With them being in the lead, even without seeing it exactly, the chance for him to have
his moment doesn't feel too far away. Virginia, it's going to have to be the right usage of
this double sentinel comp while on the attack. It can be hard at times, but it was certainly
a period where the double sentinels looked better on the attack side than on the defense
across a lot of the regions. Whether they can make it work is a different story. Autumn
is going to be spotted outside of A. They have no notion that no man is in this spot.
That cage is going to go down very soon and he could have himself a freebie. He wasn't
peeking. He's just holding the control. Oh, okay. It was a reaction shot from Autumn.
Like, you see the swing come out to maybe try and get an individual fight, and Autumn's
managed to get the kill, and we even had our own third person observer for that one. In
the form of Harvey. Even still, though, they're walking into what is the senti setup. The
spike on that side and still spread across the map is the rest of GE. A chance to maybe
try and respond over the top of this, but not coming in just yet, but immediate
double kills up for the global e-sports side. Rager's all not likely to do too much
in this moment as he was blocked out by all of the utility and then he's caught in the back by
Crystal anyway who closes it with three. A flawless round for GE into their attack side by
and guess what? Where level again? That was a really nice play by Crystal. He
He decides to play much further behind the pack, deeper into garage, and the response
a lot of the time from that backside has been to put the Paranoia through.
Lysor fires the Paranoia, I think it catches two or three players, but it doesn't catch
Crystal.
So once he goes to TP, the man in garage is clear sight lines on him, takes him down.
That avoided what could have been a really nice fight back from Lysor up on that plat.
8-8. XLG challenged and forced down to pistols. It should be global eSports taking themselves
the lead.
Well, that's going to help. I was going to say they've always been pretty good in these
rounds, but when you have that mid-trap and loser players so early on A, there has to be
that little itch scratching your brain that you need to rotate off of this mid-control.
But now that they are sticking around and there is potential for an isolated fight.
Looking at Patman is the one, because he does a lot, even in low buy, it's Patman I
feel like he likes to make some audacious plays, but for now at least I don't know they're
running back.
Yeah, they've gone to the players on A, a space has been taken there but the problem
This fight has to make it across already one pickup for XLG this early push getting them in a really nice
Decision crystals made it out wall behind as well just to contain and a 4v3 from this spot doesn't look too bad for GE
30 seconds a bit scary and
I'm gonna heal up a little bit happy ways managed to find one even damage
It would be nice, but we're starting to see the step up of autumn. Okay, Patman
Both of these players are in a bit of a shaky spot, but never mind autumn there to save the day after a very slow start to the game as well
He's now level a G find themselves back in the lead again
Yeah, that's four and one in this half for XLG
It was a solid start as we said with the two zero up on the pistol
But they took a while to get into that first half.
Five rounds straight from GE that they had to fight back through.
Now, GE get another very successful early half.
This time the pistol added to the equation.
And if this keeps on going, XLG are going to run out of time,
out of runway very, very quickly.
Calling for a timeout here.
Going to take a moment.
Well, you remember what happened in the last half.
He took a timeout.
They played one in the round and then they won five rounds in a row.
So yeah, I would say the players pause so far in this series have been pretty good.
Obviously, it is only the first of the lot.
But the second he kind of needs to have the same amount of impact.
But this time it's going into a buy round.
You've got the operator that will be coming up for no man as well.
You're going to have the rifles on the remainder.
My one worry is even though there's a hunter's fury on both sides,
and I'm looking at that deadlock hole, I feel like on attack,
especially if you don't hit anyone you can clear a ridiculous amount of angles with that ultimate
and especially if you are running like a i don't know a solo cypher setup which we have seen in
quite a lot rounds double jeweler's aggress somewhere solo cypher if that cypher gets caught
you're almost screwed up for it
let's see if xlg have over there figured this one out here on the defense
It's a flashing path winning the third round, but that's how you expect that early have to go
Anti-ego is all they've got under their belt an immediate idea from crystal to pop the ultimate closing the distance towards this A site
Target selection here. It's going down below. That's a perfect hit. Brog is going to be caught. Let's listen into this chaos
I have the drop base
Can you plant, get the ulti
Get the safe one
Can you plant?
Nice one
Long and short plant
I have flash
I can watch heaven on camp art
I have ulti guys
I have heaven on camp
I have CT also
I have this stun, they're not coming out yet
Hopefully gonna save
You got your pick, don't pick.
This is kind of exactly what I was talking about, isn't it?
They get the opener with that ultimate, they get into the post-plot.
Now, I will say, this time they actually went into the heaviest stack site,
but because two players were isolated out and it was only one player in,
there was no chance for breaking that all.
I also, there's one small detail that I really like from Crystal,
and that is he did not buy a rifle this round.
Because I see so many players running in with that deadlock hole,
and they just get shot in the face, and so you've just thrown away credits.
away credits he goes I know I'm gonna do that I know I'm gonna run straight in
I'm just gonna buy a stinger and then if I get a guy I can take his gun it's
giving them a little economic boost it's giving them an opener what I gotta try
and take the guns away and there is crystal with that rifle he's gonna
manage to take down no man with the art it's funny saying the guys in the middle
of the board right now crystal but his impact in every map is tangible and then
sometimes he just pops up with like a close to a 30 bomb yeah this is such a
a valuable player to have. Thinking back to yesterday, it was the Pearl up against Full
Sense, right, where he managed to flank like four players in one round. This guy has been
a menace.
Right, it's funny as well because for him, this game is personal. When he was on XLG,
of course, in the tier two, the import rule is two. When you get to tier one, it goes
down to one, and that meant they had to make a choice between him and Raga.
They chose Raga.
So now he has the chance to send them back in himself, send the players, send the Org
that didn't decide to keep him in more happy way.
Under serious pressure here, but he is going to survive.
One of the two rifles for XLG, but they pushed him off the site.
He'll be ready for the retake, although sporting a few scars from that earlier battle.
Here we go, wall broken, drop of the game. Flank gonna be attempted as well by No Man,
updraft used already to get over the trip. This is dangerous. Everybody from GE is focused on the
site. They have no idea that No Man's here. He updrafted just as they stepped out of range,
but now there's a smoke down on Long. He can't fight through that, and so the fight on backside is,
It's completely easy for GE, everything going their way to the top, and Crystal!
Bails him out again! 40 HP in it!
That flank had the potential to change the game, but they got just enough done before he arrived.
Give me the Crystal replay right now. Give me what he was doing in that moment.
Oh, if I saw that across the stage, I'd be so mad.
I do like the adaptation from GI. I think they started to realize that they were completely trapped.
completely trapped. Thank you.
Thank you for that replay.
My man is having a great time and climbing up that board.
11 to 8. This attack side has started to run away like the
first half, but it hasn't stopped. That's the difference.
Well, being their map choice expectation was that it would go in the direction of G, but it didn't look that way.
Okay, TP from Patman caught.
Braga's gonna immediately just send his ult through, caught by the stun. I made sure that didn't go any further.
Again, it feels like every round, Crystal has that high impact.
I saw him! What a shot! And he almost corrected as well!
G! Find themselves a 9 down, facing into the operator. It's only gonna get worse and now Bladestorm's activated.
No man is not losing this round not if he has anything to say about it Leo. It's easy as it can be
37 health on heavy
Managed to avoid the spray from Leo, but the shot from no man's a different story 11 for GE
But now 9 for XLG the gap is closing slowly
Not too far behind and a faster pace attempt in that round initially from G
It felt like when that didn't go to plan the the backup plan was
Just to try and retreat back into the B site and it looked like XRG from start to finish
were well aware.
Especially after the running back, even if you get caught, you cleared out a lot of that
space.
The operator of No Man finally able to find a couple of targets as well.
And again, we're going to see that pressure put towards C from them.
They're going to know early that it isn't this side of the map, it's just how early
to G decides to go the other way, or are they gonna walk back into this operator?
Right here.
Thankfully, I don't think anyone's rounding that corner before the drone clears it, and
the off-shock fire gives the game away.
Two players spotted, XLG, no, actually three, they know the solo was close as well, but
they're not ready for a unit time to just walk in!
What?
They, I'm so perplexed, they had so much information.
They saw him step forward, when last they looked at moments later, they're blindsided
by a man that told them he was coming.
Good stun too, Lysor dodges it, and, well...
There was no follow-up.
I'm not sure what the idea was there, but, uh, styling on him hasn't worked out.
The flank has though.
Yeah, no, a great round of review to tell, I will say, the fact that it seemed like he
also knew two players were there, it just went for it.
There was no teammate anywhere even remotely close.
That was just his step.
the man. It's meant to be just
went all right. I'm just going to
win this round. There was an up
there like that is a why I
completely agree. A crazy repeat
to go for that is literally a man
who doesn't give a damn like that.
That is what I've just witnessed
and what you know he's having a
good laugh about it because he has
just won them the round. That's
going to be infuriating as well
for exo G. You have the right
setup to stop him and you just
get wrecked. There's no table
strong enough to survive the
bash that it's getting after
without one. XLG. Oh no, the barrel pointing through for Autumn. He's being sold down the
river and that's at least going to be the man advantage for XLG in a crucial round.
Old used by GE. They get space, they find the seasight, but XLG are waiting as well.
They still have a camera for when they go for the retake. What they won't have is Rarga.
Eventually. He weighs not in a bad position, but it definitely seems like they know there
There could be a player here. He is still though. Leo's done well.
Trade back as well, putting it into a more advantageous position.
A singular kill will get Harvey his ult, but they are being flanked again.
Of course, all of that side utility is gone.
Well, so is Udo Tarnas while Harvey needs a clutch for the Aegis,
but he's already managed to. He's being revealed and flanked,
but the fight of France a little bit ahead.
Also against the last, but finally no man strikes from the back.
That one before shouldn't have even been close.
Well, you know, he makes it look pretty good.
This time the flank from No Man works out.
Thankfully he didn't have two targets to deal with.
12 to 10 and two chances.
Again though with how this started for XLG, I love the setup they went for.
Happy way is so smart to just tuck in.
Here's some utility being placed but doesn't jump the gun,
waits for his teammate to take a fight,
and then he's there to catch the player who's trying to trade onto his buddy.
to his buddy, very nicely done.
The change in emotions immediately.
It was very close.
It was very close for Bobby.
But again, it's only down to two rounds.
It's off especially.
It's felt very good.
Look at the outlaw by from Uniton.
It's nasty.
He's just been wall banged through that wall
on long down to 55.
But he's going to be able to one shot hit anybody,
except for Lysor.
in a happy way as no shields.
I guess clearly the credits on the other side of it have really been brought low just by
the amount of damage that was done by Harvey in the last round.
Even still though, G set up with multiple ultimates, but they're just waiting.
Especially with this double jewel, you expect aggression, you expect someone eventually
have to go looking for information. Come on, there it was. They didn't quite manage to catch the kill.
It's only a matter of time before someone faces Utaton. Despite making it back to the
seaside, here comes the peek off the back of the Hunter's Fury. They're trying to force players
out of position, and they've done that. But Crystal was the one to fall. A nice shot by No Man,
and that's immediately got G to cancel this push and look elsewhere. The meeting up with
with auto might not be the play that well that's an awkward reveal they're
not fully pushed up short that's good information from Leo to have I suppose
20 seconds left time ticking down braga in position but he's lost his teammate
now he's the only one remaining on this side but he gets support from above
shutting it down at least for now 10 seconds for the remaining players of G
to get in and they find both kills. No man, he maybe just needs to survive. In fact he does
it, he does it and he doesn't get away. Pat Matt catches him, GD will close their bad choice,
just about going with a lead for the second. A 13 to 10, well it was a close matchup in the end.
XLG came through, they started, they heat up after a bit of a slow start, but now only
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We need to listen to each other a little bit more.
We had about four ults there for a couple rounds on attack and everyone had like a different
idea and none of the ults were going to work together.
I think they just need to like hone in on one idea,
follow the plan, and we should be fine.
OK, I'm going to let you go.
Thank you, and go tell them.
Listen.
Probably a little bit stressful for global east
ports throughout that map there.
But at this point, game plan's been set.
It looks like global was really prepared for this.
But at times, you know, little small mistakes
cost them rounds.
Yeah, for sure.
I love how Frost is never happy.
That is how I like my coaches
because there's always room to improve.
So I love that attitude from him.
I think that G had that double 70 comp
and they like, what I would call a checkmate comp.
You don't know how to play against it.
It's miserable.
And I don't think X or G had the great plans today.
They weren't taking map control.
They weren't faking at the Sentinels.
They weren't breaking the utility.
There was a nice timeout that came in later from Havoya,
but it was essentially just a very simple,
let's just go A and try and win there.
And that worked, but yeah,
I think the tough loss for XLG.
Yeah, thankfully that timeout that came in
they'll kind of help them even up at the half towards,
yeah, towards that half there.
And then at the end, I think, yeah,
it's one of those ones where you're looking at Global Esports
and you're starting to look at the individuals here now,
stepping up when it really matters most, you know,
considering that elimination is on the line today.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, XLG did have good timeouts,
but overall, Global Esports reading that much better.
And there is a player that we've been talking about a lot.
It's Pat man yesterday. We're like, we need to put out the path signal, but it sounds like he's come and, you know, put on his
Pat suit and he's ready to go.
Yeah, he was a key player in a lot of these holds, I feel like. Of course, they had the Sentinel utility on the extremities,
and then he was just running around, doing his thing, flooding into these sites, anchoring really well.
And that's the part I love to see.
It's a good sign that Pat is turning up, because I think that as much as it's great that kind of these other players that we've highlighted,
Crystal and Yuditan and the likes. I think that goblins won't just feel like a completely
different team when you actually have the more experienced players such as Patman being
able to show up on the stage.
Yeah, it helps so much. You know, together he's sharing the calling with the IGL Javi
and I think this is what we want to see, you know, how they communicate together.
Yeah, I think we've been highlighting the players we don't usually see on GE stepping
up. If you have Crystal stepping up, Yuditan stepping up, Ultim doing his thing and then
and Patlin playing like he wasn't Pacific.
This team has got firepower and danger
if they win today going into the playoffs.
Yeah, that's right.
And that's why some of us have them going to top four.
I think this is definitely, I mean, jokes aside,
I do think this is one of the dark horse teams
of the tournament.
And again, while some of them are on the global stage
for the very first time,
a lot of the players have a lot of experience.
And it's just so interesting now
that we're seeing how these two teams
who are so familiar with each other are reading each other.
and now with Lotus on the horizon.
I'm very curious how this is going to be panning up.
The last time global eSports played Lotus,
last two times, wasn't great.
It wasn't against PaperXO, so maybe there's a case for that.
Yeah, PaperXO is pretty good, pretty good at Lotus,
so I'll give them a free pass.
But the interesting thing with G,
we're playing the exact same composition
XOG we're playing.
And it yonks it.
It yonks it from them.
It yonks it from them.
It yonks it.
So you can tell that they are scrim partners
and they were practicing it, it didn't really work out.
but I do want to hear what the XLG coach has to say
ahead of MAP2.
Garrett Koshivoya of XLG,
Voja 10-13, what's the score online?
What was supposed to happen on Haven for you guys
that kind of didn't happen?
I think we gave too much control for this Ifer
because he was solo-taker in other zones,
same as Batman when he was playing Omen.
I think we should take a little bit more deep space
in defense and overall we just maybe panic
in the crucial situation,
I think we are doing much better than yesterday so let's see how cool this goes.
All right thank you so much and let's head back to the server.
Okay would you guys agree with that they're doing much better than yesterday?
Because that's what could you?
Yeah I mean I also I also really agreed with his reads there like it seems like a voice always
giving good answers it's just that maybe sometimes the execution in the server isn't there.
On that defense they should have been taking a lot of space the attack side there
didn't have lots of utility so I think that there's always a little perception a little bit
But if perception coming out from him, it's just whether the team can execute on it or not.
Well, we were talking about Lotus just now, and you were saying that Global Esports, the
last time they played this, they were lifting XLG's comp, didn't work out.
Do you think this is going to come back out again today, because again, when you're playing
like XLG is a very different team than paperups on Lotus?
GE, I don't know.
I can never guess what they're going to come up with.
The fact that they've played the comp knows that they should know some of the weaknesses.
the game. They did lose 13
for this. Maybe they really do
do the week. Gee, Gee, Gee. I
think they've changed composition
like three times on this single
map alone. Never mind what they
change from week to week, and
that's why I was kind of talking
about as we went into that last
agent select is how sustainable
is that? Especially a global
event, and it looks as though
they are going to steer away
from the triple set nominee and
instead going for that double
the game. I mean, I'm not sure
what the game is going to be
about. I mean, they lost 13 for
playing XLG's calm. When G and
paper X were running this
composition, so maybe it's
going to be a very paper X
heavy strategy from them. Yeah
I mean, I'm intrigued to see
those anti strats come through.
We've spoken about how great
they are and doing that. But I
think autumn being on the jet
is a key component for me. We
spoke to him yesterday about
transitioning from that central
mindset into something like an
entry we saw on the Phoenix
their composition is all in so maybe it's the strategy is just ignore the
wolves dive over them and get in the face of XLG. Well it seems to be working
really so far especially on Haven we saw rounds like that getting in their face
and catching them off guard even though they do know each other so well. Well
Global East Sports is one map away to qualifying to play us. Let's see if XLG can
bring it back as we send it back to our casters. Thank You Victoria. XLG certainly
putting on a better face when it comes to Haven and now they come to a map where
we've seen them challenge NRG not too long ago. It didn't win it. It was a very
close affair. I think my hopes are definitely high that we can get a third
map out of this one. I definitely expect it. Gia trying to choose a paper X to
beat a comp that they were running. I've learned in life trying to copy paper X
is a gamble and a half.
Let's see if it works out for them.
Woo, the smoke they got while Happyware has just met
almost the entirety of the opposing team.
One player has just been stuck behind the wall, by the way,
all the way back towards the spawn, and they are still looking to fight.
Even further forward, Lysor is waiting.
Now that he's seen the aggression, that's where GE decided to go back.
Well, GE are now looking to fight at water,
But that net could be huge, they've got so many,
XLG should walk out of here with a lot of kills.
In fact, they very much do.
A one to zero start for the defensive side.
And again, this is where they were putting on
a very good show up against NRG on the defense.
So starting out with a pistol, definitely a good sign.
Yeah, for sure.
You go back to even before playing against NRG
and regionally, once they started playing this comp,
I think it was three different appearances.
They lost nine rounds total.
So I think it was a 13-2, a 13-0, a 13-7.
So this is a composition that teams in China
at least will have been trying to beat and failing.
And Jort, GE, obviously will have come in
and they know their scrimp on it.
They know the comp.
They know what's coming.
Doesn't necessarily mean that they're
going to have the ability to beat it.
Already done, a 5 specter by.
It means that, I'd say at least on the A site there's some vulnerabilities in this weapons range,
but on the rest of the map on B and C you can play a lot of close angles,
and of course in this round they're not up against much.
Oh yeah, those specters are going to shred anybody that they come up against
as long as they can get those first shots off.
Nice paranoia.
There's not going to be much of a chance for Uniton to even make it out alive.
That said, he survives a little longer, gets traded out on not bad damage if they can get a few more.
That looks questionable.
Okay, Habbi's done well.
Oh, Habbi's done very well!
He was caught there by the net and Crystal.
Now has a chance.
Still just a classic to work with, and no man will get him in the end,
but you know Tom, when you come in with five Spectres,
You don't want to be getting out with just two. Yeah, no you kind of expect that to almost come home as a
relatively clean round when your opponents have nothing to play with
It's just Harvey at the back of the site that made that one incredibly costly
That means there's not gonna be a lot of lot to play with here other than of course
The bounds of utility
That are available for XLG and I will say going into this map something that does excite me is seeing all to back on the
I think over the last couple of days, that has been where he truly shines already some aggressive space take.
A bit of a shaky fight initially, and in fact light, so has been able to bring this back.
So I was going to say an even scenario, but eventually Pat Mankoing.
Now with two pistols left to try to take these fights on such a big map as well, it's going to be hard to find any value.
XLG though have happy ways utility covering off-seat. They've got a camera outside that's giving a ton of information
Very deep control and a lot of utility sat on the B site. I'll be it without no man
I think two of those sensors won't do anything. So really
All they have to worry about is the A site all you have to worry about is Leo taking a fight
But tucked in this corner. There is that now they're gonna check it. Of course they are autumn first around the corner
Nicely done and now plant in the 3b1
I'm happy way. It now comes down to damage, and if he continues on this trajectory, they're
going to get the information very early that he could become from behind. That's the problem.
There is still the wall and plate, and there you go with it being tripped. Immediately,
I know that they can take towards the spawn. Just look at Crystal. He's already walked
all the way back around, and he's just watching in case he comes back through B. The rest
the players can just hold on to the cross. It becomes incredibly difficult. Now, the
one good thing about the base, you found a rifle. Has enough to buy into the next round,
but also you can start to question, do I just want to hold on to this gun instead?
Exits would be very valuable for him, but stepping into Crystal's angle has one outcome
and one outcome only. Two to one. And look, again, this is the early half we expect. You
You win the pistol, you win the follow-up antico, and now you come into this, the bonus, and lose it.
It all goes as expected.
When we talked about the defensive side for XLG, we know that in five rounds, when the footing is even,
it's a very good chance after what we saw up against NRG.
So this round is really where I expect to see that turn around.
You can see right away on the A site, they're going to try some aggression.
Raga's gonna put that slow down stopping G from taking space with a dash online. Autumn can still make it across
In fact the blast pack's got Utiton there the TP got Patman in there committing to this fight on GE side
There's a lot more bodies than they might expect here though. It's just that
The banished this car put already Utiton walking into angles is managed to find a couple in fact that's his third of the round already
Raga
But a couple of low enemies had a chance, but it's flying coming in. Yeah, they're both just waiting
They're almost just trying to bait that they're making sounds while not giving anything away
Let me be trying to get him to keep looking of our crystal. Maybe just a little bit early on that one
But they can now just rotate back in the other direction
Frog a given slightly more but off the change actually that's res
Yeah, but look who's waiting around crystal hasn't fled the scene instead. He's still waiting on the A site
to find himself to close to the round. The second for GE and the lead no longer in XLG's
hands. Solid round from you to turn as well. Oh yeah, by isolation. Some of that individual
brilliance that we saw, especially in the series versus that be a time. They won't
know. That is an early pause. Lose two rounds and immediately going to be seeing a pause
the game. And I think that's
what's called by XLG. That is
definitely a surprise. Of
course, we know that this
defense can be there. Coin
based wing condition. I'm
needing. To sort of really put
up rounds on this side, and I
will say the one thing I do
like about this composition in
terms of facing off against
XLG is that elevation that you
can take like even if you go
into woods, the seaside and
maybe have the sage wall. You
the rest and I think that's why this kind of works because you are basically going what is the crux
of this composition that is irritating is the fact that we can't take space okay let's go into
agents that can take that space at a risk at a pretty big risk at times but if you believe that
you can win those individual fights which I think if you look at Yuditan the way he played that
round he definitely believes he can this now becomes a bit of a counter to what they're
throwing out and maybe that's enough but avoid it to go okay we need to change
something now otherwise if this happens three or four more rounds we're
already in a bad spot yeah I agree with you entirely seeing that pause out
early is unusual you won't see it a lot it usually means the game plan from top
to bottom is not working and something drastic needs to change XLG adjustments
made hopefully but this will not be the round that at least the majority of the
time that we see the reward found for any of their labor GF full rifles they
have ults to fall back on even if you can get one of those out of them there
could be a win the seekers perhaps most likely or the showstopper but this should
be an easy follow-up from G and an opportunity to take the lead is there
up against just a couple of pistols no shields across the board making this
weapon in Audem's hand. Very, very dangerous indeed. But I like what XLG are doing, just
sitting back and setting traps, waiting for G to step into them.
Okay, well, see, because they're going to go out, that takes all of those positions
nowhere near as valuable. This is the thing, you might look at that and go, hey, they got
an ult out of them, but when they have as many as they do, you almost want to cycle
them a little bit. Having all five online is almost a waste at times, and if it makes
around like this cleaner helps you build those credits up that holds a lot more
value for the side of global e-sports than just having all of those ox for the
next round. Yeah as much as you'd love to have seekers to go into a site with the
showstopper you also have the skydog should help out. Just to find that
information to point the rocket in the right direction. Lysort blasts alive and
look if they didn't already hear the bucky firing earlier they certainly know
what they're up against now seeing that smoke bloom but for life's worth we can
see his chances of getting any kills are fairly low going down to the spike is
his play and even if he goes towards spawn he'll die to Utaton who does have
the showstopper already so giving him an orb is not the end of the world a little
bit of cash and a third round for GE. Well that's kind of the funny thing is like
I was looking at Orton but it almost tempted to go into that smoke it's like
no you have ult everybody other than Patman has ult who needs one or there
It really isn't any value in a new flame that's anymore.
Let him keep the bucket if he wants to.
And while in the end, Udo-Tun's position is enough.
Lead taken by GE.
But this really is looking like a swing round.
Four ultimates, well, almost online for both sides,
but four already on the XOG side.
Buy back up after the pause, which
was where we saw the turnaround in the first half
of the last map.
And I wonder if they're going to maybe play a slightly more
passive game, force their opponents to execute.
but that's not quite as worrying when you have these ults online.
You're looking at No Man.
The ability to get in there and just steal all of the other players.
GE have already made noise on this C site, and you can see XLG are ready to pounce No Man standing by,
thinking about the annihilation, but all the while,
Shadows travelling.
GE are scaling up now towards this A site.
Less heavily defended.
This is where the res is as well, so getting these picks early
is going to make it much harder for XLG to ramp back into things.
But the problem is that while they're creeping up here,
it seemed for a moment like XLG had a perfect read.
They haven't sent No Man This Way at least,
but Leo is still standing by.
Three players on the A site, the fake on C, better be good.
There goes that showstopper blinded up initially, but it hasn't slowed him down.
He might not get it with the showstopper, but he has found it elsewhere.
Rager's done well.
Rez, of course, available, but getting in for it is not going to be possible, and just
to make sure that space is confirmed, we are going to see utilization.
Actually, just an aggressive peek out from Crystal.
One player caught.
Rez used.
Resused. And that puts the favor back for the defenders. Oh, the stud actually caught him! That was enough for a trade-out!
And now normal man brings it back into a 1 vs 1, but I don't know if he's ever seen.
Autumn in this corner. He almost walked past him just moments ago, the spike, now, plant, and that's why he doesn't check that way.
It is a back and forth of sorts of resused and so much more, but it's GE still to come out on top.
Yeah, that's a really big blow to XLG.
G.E. now sitting with a ton of credits.
Outside of that, they've got a Bladestorm on Autumn,
who I think is going to come in here with an outlaw.
And XLG put all their credits into that last one.
They put Ultimates into that last one.
And even No Man, showing up in a big way, was not enough.
XLG trailing by two.
The pause changed nothing.
G have a chance to extend this even further. In fact, great net from no man. I mean, they really
didn't see that one coming. But for G, this is their opportunity to push up to five. And if it's
clean to build up an even bigger buffer of credits, XLG, it's sad, but in this round they almost need
to do damage. Yeah, but then the other side of the coin is some of those ults that were expended
in the last round can start to build back up. So either way, G, you've got to be very happy.
Four rounds already versus what is normally an incredibly tough
Comp to play into on the defensive side and you can't help but feel that
That miss shot on the stand-up player made all the difference in the last round
Harvey somehow able to save himself
Even still a bit a bit cagey from G
Know how important this is of course the team that the talking point was that
They never make playoffs and that's regionally where we're talking about
In Pacific now they are a map away
You get elsewhere and while thankfully autumn was well aware of the potential of a close position
The updraft in a small room does sometimes make it hard to hit flick up a little bit too high
I'm not even sure that's needed Pat man
I I mean he loved going for the TP plays last map this time you're up against an eco in a 5v3
And he's like I'm gonna go for the flight play boys fair enough. He's got himself two kills for his trouble
Hopefully we don't see that nice fire a little bit later on
The CE seemed to be feeling confident and the fall this round will certainly help five rounds already
Normally you'd be looking at that and going that doesn't feel like a death sentence for five in a row
This is a triple senty defensive side calm a
A lot of the time if they get to start on this side, you don't really need the other
side.
They have shown stuff in the attack as well, but this is starting to feel a little bit
detrimental.
That early pause kind of sold it, but they wanted to stem the bleeding.
It feels like Mitch, this has to be the time that they stop it.
Yeah, this has to be where they restore order to this defensive side, an operator in play
for Rarga, and so far, even think back to the last full buy they had, they looked so
good on the retake on A. So many pickups, no man was on a tear. It wasn't enough. Genie,
get Patman into position, push to Fone. He's looking to catch the rotations, and the rest
of the team is looking to bait them. Seekers go out. I need some info to work with, but
This is all a ruse, and now it's time to go for Patman,
but he's been spotted the prowler season.
Now, the element of surprise dissipates,
and you won't get a free sight anymore.
Now, they are calling for rotations back.
The off is coming into play.
The paranoia didn't land either,
but Patman shifts focus towards the B site.
That net is good.
It's caught you to time, but now he's got back up.
They're playing the high low.
It's across the map for G.
They're fighting everywhere.
It's going to be confusing for XLG
as to where the hit's coming in, but it doesn't matter.
They're finding all of the picks!
Happy way stuff very well.
I think he's the most likely to be isolated in that fight, but...
Getting two picks from it.
Still a...
A sensor here, but...
All that's really gonna do is give the game away.
Leo's...
Committed a little bit further.
Dropped the spike, you win.
Ten seconds left.
That's exactly what he's gonna do.
Eight seconds left.
Batman all he can really do is make this costly a nice quick double and while there's Leo at the end to close out the round
XLG
We'll find themselves a third
And now we expect to
See them build into this half a little
Obviously Leo's there in the end to close the round, but it's also
Before even the first shot is landed that he really earns his money in this one
The fact that he puts that prowler out to check if someone's outside a reveals Pat man who otherwise would have had an easy
Lurk that those players were starting to rotate Rager was running away from the A site
He would have had a 1v1 on a player that had no idea he was there, but Leo was curious and the prowler
Got them the early read on the play
Validated their concerns and now a three to five score line. It's it's not pretty but
Plenty of rounds left in this half to still shape up as a good one for the defense.
Rarga's on the angle and he will find that with ease, even the wall to slow them down on the tree play.
He's making sure he can't be surrounded. Allows him to lock in on the angle there.
There has been a TP across already, but and the slow is put into play.
He knows exactly how to play around his utility and even has support.
Although, Naman does have to be a little bit careful.
I definitely don't think he knows that Patman's already ahead of it, a chance maybe to just
wrap around and find that kill.
There's the first, the second player behind the wall at least.
Even still, that man of box is kept and there's re-aggression coming out from Leo as well.
Patman is just trying to do everything.
Spots the player.
Naman knows that he's there, but his teammates are all falling like flies.
We're watching a man play a masterful game of Ring Around a Rosie, but unfortunately his
teammates on, alive to help him out. Still in a bondage here for XLG.
At least get the plant, 2v3, someone needs to step out of the way and with the
nightfall going in, it's going to be a difficult round. Shot handed on the
rocket, but he's still alive up top. Now for long, heavy as well, the drop down
not heard though. Here's a big swing from Heavyweight and he'll get there in the
end. XLG, a fourth round locked in.
and now we're start to see this defensive side take shade. It's very
interesting because you go back and look at their games regionally you'd think
that maybe the 13-0 was 12 rounds on the defense, it's 12 rounds on the attack but
it's when they brought it here versus NRG where they struggle more on the
attack side so it it's obviously imperative that they still throw in that
solid hub but for GE clearly feeling like the attack especially when you look
of the competition there running with a double dual list.
Coinbase win condition feels like more of an attack
side and half needed.
Even still, though, in the lead, and it
did make me worry a little bit with how much Patlin was
able to get away with in the last round,
but a man that has definitely had some crazy individual
performance.
I think even regionally, not being one of their major
highlights over on the side of G is you don't want it comes to this event
He's been fantastic in fact especially I think back to like the game of fracture
Where it was him I believe versus Sato and it was that 1v1 operator fight that was going back and forward
We've seen a round like that in this map where he found three on the entry, but we haven't seen that same
Superstar just
Oh, Rarga on XLG picking up that operator, found them a lot of success in the previous
round, opening on A, slowed the play, massively got the rotates in, even traded out in the
end.
XLG, they're now one round behind, making up some momentum.
A few rounds left to go, the lead could still be there is at halftime.
Jeez attack. Trying to avoid Raga on A. They've walked into him on B but this time they live to tell the tale.
Again, in fact he was the one with the super majority of the damage.
Immediate, ult usage, not really a chance of response. And they almost finishing off Noman but...
That will be Harvey. And he had the spike. Oh that's really rough. That is a special delivery all the way to the C site.
What do you even do they haven't realized that they haven't noticed just yet that the TP can be taken Batman doesn't have old phone line
And no one's had to realize now they know
With the orb taken that that spike is not going to be there for long
It's stolen back and gee walk into the A site wide open for XLG
It's not a bad idea sure they're going to concede a plant and my source very low
But the main thing is to avoid losing players in these early skirmishes
Play that retake together and for now at least they've avoided any early flair from GE
Yeah, the Zooka be holds.
Showstopper. The Yudotan could be a real spanner in the works. They'd love to have that annihilation back online now.
He's just buying time.
They just holding it. He wants to try and deny them. It's a nice shot from Raga.
The man who was tagged earlier on but he's still able to survive.
The knives also not getting anything. Just yeah, but there we go.
Already a pick up crystal also on the other side of this has found another res
utilize the up top position apartment gets nothing and now all the remains is
crystal versus the whole team and a raga once again does he have enough time for
the defuse of the rest of the team run away it seems like they have it but just a
little bit too slow the spike will act as a red bull clutch I need to turn my
Volume up and how maybe they do as well. That's ridiculous point five as well much bigger gap than I thought
And they clearly didn't know either committing to that diffuse hoping that it won't be close enough for the realization kicked in
Before the spike and exploded GE doing just enough
Less than a second in it
But a sixth round finds its way into their back pocket funny thing guaranteed neck and neck at the half
It's the showstopper
Yeah, that was it just that he held it just for a little bit of time
Sometimes you look at that and go like
Maybe that's a Rosa all but
Earlier than I expected but right on time very well done
Looks like I saw putting a lot of stock towards this see hit they've got the right read
But they don't know it's just how right they are dog going through will keep them in position happy way
That's very, very passive utility. They're playing to punish G.E. when they take space.
And they're more so towards the C side after the plant, but...
Ooh! Oh!
Okay.
But in both cases, very nice early fights.
The Spamster as well.
That's where the Guardian really holds its value.
A nice trade back from Crystal though, and he does have his ultimate online.
Again, timing it correctly.
Could remove Wethemarie, but instead he's gone swinging.
And he's found Maraga, and not in the way he'd hoped.
Autumn in a 1v3.
He could reposition through the B site.
Still a lot to get through.
The ball now breaks, and Maraga already
watching on that angle as well.
Even making it on this cross is not going to be easy,
unless he can hit the shot immediately onto Leo,
and he cannot.
Maraga already back in position once again,
but he's just going to run through.
he make it through before his opponent stops him door needs to be broken 10 seconds
he's even hit I think that might have been through the wall yeah it was he's
left him down to 54 that's gonna make this a damn sight easier to slow the
paranoia even more so yeah you're dead the rights really nice stuff from XLG now
we are seeing again what looked like domination to start this out after the
the second round XLG slow down G starts to run away with it convincingly so in
some of the rounds. It might have been slow to get on the board, but there's no deniersm
now. One round less than the half. XLG can still make this an even book. It is starting
to feel like Haven once again where G1 at the block, strong. It's Rarga's off man. It's
just made such a difference. It feels like every round he's either getting the information,
but no put nothing punished if he misses the shot, or in the vast majority, he's got the
amount of magic and ends up and you can't push him after because he's using his u till the slow
yeah it's the slow the wall whatever he can put into play last round at the half and it's not the
prettiest from g either stingers for the most part of course they can still take the weaponry
away with that steel garden and the ultimate's not built up on the other side leo is is trying to
to get himself a little bit closer but unless he's getting a multi-frag likelihood is that
nightfall will not be used.
Get it on the clock.
In G.E.
We've got a very happy to sit and wait.
28 shots.
Yeah, we go to the classic eventually, honestly I think it would have broken just off of time
with with not that much difference, but
We got one mag left for you to talk. He's baiting the men. He's baiting the men and you know, he asked get two players seekers about to be used
See they're trying to put Lysor in and now looking to remove the weaponry
But obviously it does take a second or two
I saw it's just gonna have to run out of there and I like the thorns. The thorns forced him to take a lot of damage on the way out
Shield strip, but he's gonna go and at least get that heal back from Raga again
We've seen this net before this time. You've done very close. He will be called
But not before he gets one not a bad trade for the weaker weapons in this round
Still two rifles to work with Batman gets tagged doesn't even get the heel there steps into the smoke a little too early and Raga
Shuts him down as well with the recovered rifle. I look for the fight on heavy. He's not seeing the angle, but now he has
Slipping himself away to hopefully have that cover from Crystal, but the smoke up has blocked him out
He's got to be quick. They could be diffusing for all he knows, but they've given the game away now
Still no angle on the diffuser and finally he will strike the patience from crystal a flash still to work with sees them diffusing
He's got a swing in and he will
Reading it just in time for the Red Bull clutch
What a round coming out from crystal his teammates bought him the time for a mass wrap around all the way through on that flank
And just impressive stuff individually to not run at the end when you know that they could have been diffusing
Utilize that flash as well. That is just an intelligent player
in the clutch. Two round lead for GE who are already up a map. This is definitely looking
like XLG are in trouble. But I think they found enough towards the end that the second
half isn't exactly terrifying. For GE fans though, this is exactly the kind of performance
that they wanted to see. And certainly someone in the crowd is looking very happy today.
discovered an interview with Havie's mom.
This is Mary Bixley, it's Havie's mom,
but also the captain, I think,
of the Global Esports Fan Club here in London.
The funny thing is, Mary Bixley,
when your son said he wanted to be a pro gamer,
at first you were not convinced.
No, not at all, not at all.
He was always in internet cafes playing,
and so his friend said,
you have to watch him play, he's really good.
When I watched him play, I'm like, oh my God,
He is a professional player.
And now you get to see him play for the first time in person
in London.
What's this been like for you?
It took five years for him to get here.
And we all struggled.
We all had sacrifices, but we supported him all the way.
So once you knew he could do this, you never stopped believing.
You betcha.
Yeah.
Even his family, the siblings, his father, everyone.
And now it feels like your family has expanded, Mary Vic.
GE fighting all the way.
I wanted to ask you one quick question.
Yesterday in the press conference,
you asked the guys about their individual superpowers.
What's the team superpower of global e-sports?
Oh my, I think a lot of it has to do with mentality.
Big time, strong mentality.
But you know, it's really the passion.
If you don't have the passion, you're out.
And are people here feeling passionate
about global e-sports?
And I'm not surprised with Mary Vic on their side. Let's get into the second half.
Well GE certainly fighting in this series, pulling no punches and leading 7-5.
A chance to make it all the way to playoffs and all they have to do is take down XLG in one more half or one more map.
mentioned it throughout the team that has talked about being scrim partners
relationships throughout with crystal being an ex ex-lg member ex-lg being
the team that sent out yuditan and no man when they played on prior
rosters as well even autumn and Lysor have a connection with fpx but only one
of them can go marching on as they eliminated two other teams from their
respective leagues. Only one of them makes it into the playoffs and for GE
they are gonna hope to try and do it in two. But for XLG regionally that attack
side was strong but I do think they're gonna want to get a pistol. No man's got
to be careful. He's got the spike right now and the flank coming in and it looks
like the timing could be good to catch him. He's round of the corner just in
time. It's that it's Leo. He's really thrown to the wolves there. XLG
They lose themselves, they're fade.
They'll get the A site for this. Oh, maybe they won't. The walls blocked out the spike again.
No landing is isolated, it's trapped, and he'll make it back to his buddies.
Yeah, there was, there's been a few moments already that could have made this round incredibly spicy.
Instead, Taliyah sacrificed a post-plot, which is normally where this composition becomes so tough to break through.
through the wall already in position and a flank already spotted it may be a man
advantage but there aren't a massive amount of advantages for GE here this
can very easily flop in the other direction
Mysore tucked in the corner and a lot more than he bargained for coming his
This way, what a round from Uniton, that's going to get GE up to 8.
That's just nightmare, if you will, so gee, you want that boost into the half and a guy
runs around the corner, multiple people trying to face him off tap and he just absolutely
destroys them.
Quick enough to correct, but also a little bit disjointed from the other side, not quite
able to find those trades.
G that little bit of a boost and I said that is the last thing XLG wanted on their map choice a map
that regionally has been flawless over the last few months it would be back to back defeats on it
if they're unable to make a recovery but fact is recovery is not expected in this
They have the net line to start this out, but no one followed up and the Crystal now
surrounded, climbs himself in a bit more trouble.
Excuse me.
Crystal from further back firing in those shots and making it out and buying a little bit
of time.
The XLG are looking to change the direction, at least from what we're seeing.
A Sky Dog might change their mind.
They know now rotates have happened.
They know the sea site's a little better defended, but you're either going to rotate into space
that you've given up or you're gonna pump the brakes and just hope that GE start second-guessing themselves.
Expecting something. I like the angle he's taking, but unfortunately left a little bit open.
Another Utah Tom round, a showstopper online. The fact is that was still a little bit too close.
Yeah, the panic version of me was thinking, well, we have the showstopper. Maybe just throw it in
to win the round, but I think that was the the backup plan here. Let Autumn go, let him find the
pick. If he dies, then maybe we throw that showstopper in, but it wasn't needed. G find themselves in
It looks on the timeline like an easy one, but certainly anything but with the way that
And out the XLG now come in with a full by themselves losing this
The chances of making playoffs
They take a plummet real quick
Handed over to Harvey Yuditan is just gonna be playing with a showstopper this round waiting for someone to make contact and
If the stars align, they'll be put into play.
It really is as bonuses go, a weak one.
More pistols than purchase weaponry and for XOG this is feeling like the moment to deal back into this game.
They didn't got heavy shields on every single player, they didn't know what they're up against.
There goes the showstopper, there goes the freebie and a weapon that can't be picked up by Yuditan.
A really big kill as well not only for the weapon but for that utility removed XLG now flank is open
They've got to go and the decision is towards the sea site wall gone in they can make it onto crystal site a little bit quicker
That is a nice shot with the wall good in the way
XLG keep things even with the plant coming through. We've got to be wary of the spams, but
That's not a commonly spammed angle. Leo almost got a haircut
This is still where things get so much tougher for GE.
The post-plot versus what is now a double senty.
Still incredibly difficult.
Udo Tarnis taking that initial space,
but it's Raghav's flying to kill a no man with another.
And in fact, he doesn't even realize he gets the third.
I'm keeping my rear end.
A double tap through the smoke.
And what started out a little bit shaky from the showstopper
is four players staying alive for XLG.
That is a good way to break back.
Guys could definitely be a revival for XLG if they can have a bit of a streak early on.
That round is one they're expected to win, but...
That's what makes me feel a little bit better about XLG's chances.
The vibe check over that side of the stage looking good.
All smiles, all standing.
with the
bottom.
He's taking it out at least it's seen like he would.
Crystal gets shot in his place and autumn follows him to the spectator screen.
That's one hell of a start for XLG.
Yeah, I think you kind of have to say, this is the problem.
You're running that double duelist.
You're up against, as I said, a composition that in the post-plan is almost impossible.
Just look at the utility on the map right now.
a wall holding onto the cross. They've already put a sensor in the spawn, a second wall to
block off with the barrier. There's no way back into the site as it is. So what you're
going to see from GE is these aggressive starts. We want to deny them having all of those players
in the post pond. We want to deny them getting into the post pond in the first place. The
problem is you get wrecked like that and you have no choice. There is no way that they're
getting back in.
It does just look like a rare mistake from Crystal to step in. Gets unlucky that he's
spammed down but of course it's an angle they're spamming when autumn had been
caught out the way that he did autumn overstain is welcome in the smoke crystal
going down ahead of his utility what else can you do but save I can tell you
what else you can throw your weapons away yeah you have two choices one of them
much better than the other great net at the end
he's having a good time captain 3k got it in the last round but we look again to
if there's any sort of response, of course, that the problem for GE is that you get into that first proper buy round, you get slaughtered, offer it.
And in fact, that's a moment to take a pause. This is now both coaches in both halves that after losing two rounds, has taken a time out.
It is a very unusual book and I do wonder if, you know, in this matchup in particular,
being scrim buddies, you have a lot more learnings to draw from.
You have a lot more tendencies to predict to lean on.
They're talking to each other.
And I'll tell you what, Frost has got a lot to say.
He is rattling it off.
I think I'd get afraid every time I see our teams call their timeout.
This lift the headset slightly lower 10%
It's actually crazy that we could hear him from here
Yeah, in the in the venue. That's that wasn't that wasn't him talking to them. That was just him talking
I was talking in general. Yeah, he wasn't losing his mind in the time out
That was just his commentary of the game
But a two-round gap between these two for global eSports as you said three players surviving great
At least have those three rifles, but alongside them, there won't be a lot.
Automatic love to have a blade storm here, but three away, that's not really a feasible goal.
So for G, even with those rifles, this will be a weak round, but let's see what they talked about
in that time-out.
They're going to at least try and challenge for a little bit of early control, Harvey with an off
fangle. One that should be expected. That cam, I don't believe, has given things away
already the utilization of the annihilation. That crystal's gone and well, Harvey tries
to react. Yuletan has been a man at many moments. This would have to be one of the best of the
full squad running down on him and he had no support. They left Patman as the sole defender
I'll be on the other side of the map and he is only just making it over here.
Some credit's not in the best of positions.
With Artem being the last alive, maybe picking that rifle.
Getting out could be the right play.
Getting some damage in on top of it.
For now at least he's just sat down in the spawn waiting, expecting someone to come pushing.
the problem is why it's a lot of what you can see with this exo g com but it's
what I have seen when other teams have tried to run it is a lot of the time you
can need an alt to get you that entry like I think we witnessed it in this
round the annihilation takes a player away pulls someone in and it gives you
an opener and you can then react off that and you see people try and react to
that also so to be honest the worst thing the autumn can do is run it and
give them an all you don't want them to have a nightfall you don't want them to
have a race because then you can't sacrifice someone and then they come right back again.
So it's kind of an awkward spot where, yeah, the best thing I can do is die to the spike.
Raga's definitely having a much better time as well in terms of impact.
Even here, all that utility you had the sky flash, if the Nade goes through on any main,
he just walked past it.
And him walking past it and they were much quicker to actually fill in the space because
he was telling them, yeah, they made it.
Yeah, they flashed, but no one stepped forward.
And if no one stepped forward, they're either playing passive or they've rotated and left
This is a light side of the map.
Friendly chance here for Autumn.
Operator will be bought up.
Odin in play for Crystal playing towards the doors on A.
XLG shifted their focus to this C site.
And looking at this operator who's not
got a very favorable angle for smoking away.
The shot won't land firm either.
But even just hearing that Ops seems
to have made XLG reconsider.
Oh yeah, if you were going to run anything
that you might have seen NRG do,
I think it might be an Operator and an Odin, I think they might have been inspired in that case
The only problem is they would also then need, I think, Pat-Man to drop like 34 kills like Kiko did to get them through the map
He saw them there, they don't think he saw them, but that Pat-Man, boy, our name is perfect!
Unit Tom with a little jump peek and XLG just didn't react as a result
Look at the damage
Pappyway is almost dead and they've lost the player
The rocket just healed himself
I think so, Tom, because you use the heal and the happy way is to talk about maybe just
a reactionary decision, but seemingly the wrong one.
They've got to be so careful, but oh, maybe Raga was the right person.
Now he has that res online to swing through a little bit risky from you, Tom, and now
they get that resin play.
It's going to lead to a life-sorber.
Healthier!
Caught out his Patman!
It was starting so well for the side of GE.
But now they are a man down again.
Happy way still on 12 HP and now the Oden is starting to ring out, but he's backed out
of the site.
Those wallbangs wouldn't even get close to him.
And then they're all on the other player.
And the wallbeam trigger.
That's such good faith.
They're just going to go for the safe.
Sensing too much danger here in XLG.
themselves a ninth round as a result. It's just immediately Crystal starts
looking towards the ace. I got always fang in us. They're still checking for
all of these positions just because Leo just walked out and baited the wall.
Just a clever little piece. Maybe he was actually going to flank them until then,
but what a recovery from XLG. That round started with an unbelievable amount of
damage done off the back of the Nade and then from then onwards G just crumbled.
Like, it was, it was, again, just players trying to be a hero in these moments, like, a swing out of the smoke.
Then moments later, another swing out of the smoke.
They're being caught out in isolated fights, and that's exactly what XOG won.
It was looking like we were getting towards the home stretch for global e-sports.
Like, a 2-0 was on the horizon and growing closer by the second, but now, the shoes on the other foot,
Things have slowed down and a four-round streak has put XLG right back into this game.
Right back into this series and right back into contention or playoffs.
It's GE with a weak five, still the off, still the Odin.
But the rest are with pistols and they're isolated.
Uniton stands no chance.
He was kind of meant to be the second layer to the operator unfortunately.
He ended up being left alone.
Media called Strango back in the other direction but Rager is still here.
It seems guaranteed and once again once that wall about utility goes down that's at least
a nice spam.
Here's one of the few weapons but they now just going to opt to go back in the other
direction again.
Looks like my down below is going to come through.
Crystal trying to contain them but won't find anything from that spot.
No paranoia to work with to break back in.
That man has a cap in the wall but they should know by now.
You can possibly walk through, and now they most certainly do.
Hitting anything here should be tough to have in your own risking his life.
The rest of the squad is saving those weapons yet again.
Not worth throwing at a round like this.
Maybe if they found one more pick, maybe if something else had gone their way, they'd
try, but instead, the question is, will they be allowed to save them?
XLG are hunting them, at least in the case of Rargo, but he will need his demise.
They've got so many credits that it really has become irrelevant and as said with their outs being so impactful think about the resin that the prior round
I don't think he's gonna care if he goes down as long as he's getting those ultimate orbs
I also think this brings back an interesting conversation at the beginning of the veto because obviously I'm not gonna pretend
To know these things better than they know each other. There's grim partners. They probably know each other better than anyone else
when I was trying to predict the veto I thought the G would ban this map and risk playing fracture
It was something about the fracture of XRG that maybe they didn't want to play or they thought they had a
Counter on this map and from what we're seeing so far in this attack side. I'm starting to question if that's true
And the rounds will lead for XLG, a showstopper online for GE, an investment, full credits
and an operator that's been saved for so many rounds and now it has the early round impact.
Now it lands that blow to XLG to put them a man behind, their response is to scale up
in the seat and they will find this very free.
Yeah, they bait the wall. Crystal realizes that the eye can opt to try and fight alone, but once the utility comes in, it's going to be incredibly difficult.
Oh, that's a little bit risky, though.
Leo was trying to bait them in, and he succeeded.
Obviously, they're not planting towards the waterfall because of the Spans coming through on the other side, and even still, they just can't find the safe space.
Now will be the moment, though.
No man with a decent shot.
Showstopper now coming through, but it's Robert again!
You said he's been having a standout game, but this really is a step up, an immediate headshot.
Still, these fights are becoming more and more awkward.
A 2v2 down to just 1, but the legs are off the line!
Two kills for him, two rounds ahead, and XLG hightailing it towards Breeze.
Oh, that is a back break around.
G had it all.
They had the opening picks, they had the ults, they had the tags,
they denied the plan and they threw it all away over eager spamming with an
Odin 80 hole through a smoke and you don't think they'll shoot back jumping in with
a showstopper when nobody else is ready to go this is a team that lost their way
and now we might go all the way to Breeze as a result for XLG they find
themselves again against weaknesses. GE have invested somewhat, three rifles. But that shows
Stopper out of the equation. The Bladestorm no longer around. This makes life so much
easier for the attack side.
Oh, I like the aggressive push up though. The set strategies have not been working. That's
resort to just trying to punch them in the throat and walk up and they got past you.
It's only the one though. It looked like there was an opportunity for more than that.
He is still an advantage held, having not really with the weaponry to do too much here and with the TP to the back of the site.
A close part will ensue, but two of those Sentinels are gone.
It's only going to be No Man's Util this time.
Oh, Neo can run through on that dog, but he decides to go back where he have more players.
Wise move, goes to Cease, little further, then expect the top to cheat.
Now they'll have their ult to go through.
Weapons are going to be removed from the hands of XLG, and the push is about to come through.
Nelman gets caught off.
He plays himself.
And some killing him with his own Flash Heavy!
That's a big mistake!
And it's given a chance now, Rifle back off going for XLG, and they'll find a Flurry of Braggs!
12 rounds for XLG!
And she have got to be kicking themselves. They have thrown what could have been a lead
What could have been a competitive?
Maybe even a favored one and they've thrown into the wind one enemy. This is looking like the ultimate capitulation
the global e-sports
seven rounds in a row
Each one that goes by feels more and more like the one that will finally break the screen
that one definitely the peak of it but again back to back rounds where Lysol
steps up and now just one needed to take us to a third map G might look back at
this and be kicking themselves they could have had this instead they walk
into the blender three players gone a 2v5 needed and while this round is
He's looking like a breeze.
For GE, as you said, a third map now on the horizon, it seems almost impossible for them to fight their way back into this one.
It'll be devastating, knowing...
They're going to be slowed down even more by that U2 potentially.
Oh, they made it past.
But knowing that this could have been, if not a closed game, a much closer one, an extended look at what they're running into.
Crystal, okay, that's a double and a chance to break his teammate.
Alonso quite overdosed yet, but now it very much seems like it is.
The time too far gone, the slow on the spike, and more than enough bodies to throw at this situation.
It is 30-9, a resounding answer from XLG to Haven.
Global eSports will not find this 2-0 in back playoffs.
Still up for grabs after the break.
I
Welcome back to Masters London XLG absolutely refused to be defeated on map 2 and now we're
going to go the full distance onto Breeze and we didn't see this coming.
This was a complete turnaround halfway through Lotus.
Yeah, early on XLG we were doing a lot of rubble fights and it wasn't working for them
at all.
the defense is to just play
passive play back and let the
other team figure them out. And
then on the attack side, that is
usually where the comp ironically
gets his value because of those
post plants. And that's what
happened to there. Yes, that is
what happened just now. Now let's
check out our rising high speed
moment. There's this beautiful
clutch by Crystal again. He has
been absolutely on fire throughout
this, you know, this tournament
so far and let's let's enjoy a
a bit of this witty to clutch.
It was really nice.
I think it was just the fact that we kind of spoke about
Miliura, a crystal being the one that's playing with team mates
against egg team mates and all this stuff.
And I think that he handled this clutch like a pro,
especially when you consider the high pressure moment
of being able to lead at the half
by winning out that clutch many times.
Yeah, I think seven or five, they would have been okay with that.
I think they're obviously going into the other side.
As much as Comp does do a little bit better on their attack side,
but to be steamrolled like they did is surprising to me.
It is, and there was a point, though,
where it's almost like Raga finds his confidence again
when he remembers who he's playing,
like when he was playing against CRG yesterday,
and then I think here he's kind of like,
wait, I got this, I got this, I know GE really well.
I think for me, the main thing was,
we're speaking about how annoying
all of that Sentinel utility is on the defense,
but not only that, you have a Raga on an operator
with really only the sky to be able to clear out him
from those kind of positions,
We never really saw him taking a deep line as we mentioned. It was always very passive quite back
And then he could just chuck his slows whenever he felt any sort of pressure coming towards his sight
So he could reposition himself with the operator, which was really nice to watch and find that confidence once again
Yeah, the sage up tech is old school 2021 visors. We've seen it doing it quite a lot back down
And I think raxo G we're talking about those post funds
They didn't get into too many of them because they're winning rounds quite early
But when they did it fired off here. You can see the central utility coming in the sable
They'd love net the cash there's a few people there and then even here on B. There's trips in deep
There's rules in D
It's a nightmare to have to to retake against that's why I saw G trying to do some of those fights early
But it just didn't go their way XLG were just steamroading remember what I told you about XLG having a real great
understanding of the verticality of this map using those deadlock sensors where they know
going to be trying to break out
of and get onto that side.
I think having this triple
Sentinel composition,
like you said, Vinnie,
when you get into those post
plants, your attack just looks
easy. It looks completely flawless
at that point. And let's talk
about the other side of GE and
their comp there. They were
using XLG's comp last time,
using paperX's comp this time,
but do you, I think one might
argue GE was used to use the
C word choking. But I don't think
it was quite that. No, I think
on defense that comp is
extremely hard to play. There's no bunkering that happens much. I think that the reason
why teams like PaperX make it work is because they are literally PaperX. I think that not
playing the vice with the Viper on this map is criminal for most teams and I want to see
that more deeper into the tournament.
Now we are going to be going to Breeze. We did see global eSports play Breeze against
full sense. Yesterday, do you like their comp on this one? Is it mini approved?
It's mini approved. I quite like it. It's a little bit, I call it like wonky, so a little
bit weird, the Sage and the Chamber together. But Ultima was really impressing me yesterday
with that Chamber.
Yeah, I think so. I think as long as he can be that kind of key component of winning out
those first engagements, if we do see that Chamber again, yes, we will. And I think the
Sage as well has been proven to be such a great agent on this map. But on the other
side, XLG, going for that Phoenix in Jet, what do you make of this mini?
Well, I think it plays quite well for GE here. Having that Sage to slow down the Double
the Double Juris. The Double Juris comes often like to just go for the straight X-X and that is what GE wants.
They're either going to be running into an operator or into a Sage slow.
So I'm going to be interested to see what X or GE are going to do to kind of win that chess match.
I think what's interesting for me is we're so used to this team playing that wayly when we consider their Jealous.
But instead of going down a different route this time around.
Well, thank you guys. We are about to find out who the final play-up's qualified team is going to be.
be Tom, Mitch, how you feeling?
Feeling like we might have a good game of valorant on our hands.
Breeze. Look, it's been a back and forth affair on the first two maps,
but it all comes down to this. Breeze will block off playoffs for one,
send the other
fight amongst the best in the world to face those teams that had the deeper
seed who've been watching and waiting for their moment to face off against
squads like this for GE and XLG. As we said, a hard-fought battle. Some factors coming
online and offline. It's been up and down. This is what it all comes down to.
Compositional change. Seize the Phoenix. Come in instead of the Neon one, but well, that's
good to say the Jet as well, but never mind. That's already dissipated. A big part of their
previous series with Orton having a phenomenal game over on that chamber and
Yuditan being also a highlight showing that Neon definitely can still
position for Patman needs more than one and he gets it. In fact the third about to come around the corner the shocked out will do a
little bit of tickle damage but Yuditan is immediately there to drop the spike a
bit of an odd position from Leon that lurk with the sober and he's gonna get
Nothing. It will be a pistol round back onto the board. And I'll be honest with you, Mitch, up that last map
I do think it's fairly important that you get on the board early. Yeah. Yeah, definitely
I in general I'm less on mistake and they get back to even their opening series
Like this has been a factor throughout the entire tournament for them that they go missing sometimes
There are team that wins massive streaks of rounds and then
whether they get a little too loose or a little too tight, it's hard to tell but
The game plan needs to be switched up sometimes for GE a 1 to 0 start as you said the pistol go in their way
Patman with a big play up closer you can see a lot of risks taken by him based on what we've seen from them so far on this stage
What they face off against now is just classics not even a single upgrade for XLG
The chances of even dropping a weapon on the other side looking very low and add to that the fact that Patman as we've seen
He's got to pick with the sheriff that is his primary weapon. So even one kill is not going to be enough to have any damage in
There's one kill
Expected it's only a pistol on the other side never mind the fade away. They'll do almost no luck headshot for Batman
Single player drop with our rifles been retrieved
And now G can go in with a fairly strong purchase into this next round
He's got a lot of opportunities as well for the first full buy you should probably have
The Viper's pit on line because of this 3k and I think it was a 2k in the pistol as well
Indeed it was so he set up very nicely
They now have that pit on three away from it in the early stages, although maybe you'd want to see it on
Normally a jet a sage for the little bit of extra buffer
You're gonna use four players on a early on and looking for a serious fight
And even after they see the first they shouldn't expect it to be this stacked up and there's the second aggression
Beautiful stuff from crystal. Let's walk down in there with you. That's weapons on the ground to potentially be upgraded
And on the other side of things like maybe in a normal circumstance Leo would look to try and hold on to that ground but instead
Him having the spike means he has to retreat
early usage of the wall is what allowed them to gamble but Harvey after dropping
down went back up for a peek and now because of that they have lost all of
that control
but he's not landed the shots luckily he doesn't pay for it with his life
Utiton's spike planted could be behind them a little quicker than expected
they're certainly clearing it at least they were but Leo's now looking elsewhere
the wall breaks. He's just walking in to fill that space.
They'll come back to clear it though.
Has to hit a shot from Uniton and he will.
Another player around that corner that he doesn't know about,
but he's looking the right way for Lysor.
And it looks like he's got all the pieces of the puzzle.
Three players left alive for GE.
It's a very successful follow-up.
Yeah, I'll be honest with you.
That seemed like better positioning and a read on the scenario
than if someone had just used a Cypher.
He was just looking exactly where his opponents were standing
in every single moment. Solid round from Utaton and considering that was of course a bonus
round where a lot of it was Bulldogs. That is a huge round to take early on again. A hot streak
for GE in the early rounds. And for the other side of things, well, I initially saw a Leiser
invest into a rifle, but it's not going to be as much of a gamble. Pistols and a Stinger to come
into this round. With so many times we've seen GE, it feels like fall off a cliff face in terms of
that momentum you want to see them keep putting rounds at the board I feel like
XLG have a chance to fight back almost at any time especially after what we saw
in the last map this round shouldn't be one it's a lot of weaknesses for XLG as
you'd expect losing that third round is a death sentence for your economy
don't go for the the grouped up full site hits that we so often see it looked
like they're trying to check how GE are playing that early mid position, looking for aggression
out of the double doors and perhaps it was the second they heard that sage wall up they
realized yeah they're not fighting for this space. We're gonna have to hit a side hit.
That means running into a lot of dangers.
I'm gonna miss shots, well not for no man.
Able to get one, Harvey on the back says taking so much damage.
They've traded incredibly well and does Yuditan risk it?
Does he risk it?
He does, but just gets out of there with one.
Not an over face.
Pabin's gotta be careful of the fallback.
I believe that shot done did a lot of damage it did and assist onto Leo.
Even still, the position of happy way is not gonna be checked because of that.
He now has a rifle from Pabin, puts it into a 2v2 that if anything is fated at this point.
And now it certainly is!
Lago with both barrels is deadly as the last. It's 3-1 for XLG.
You know, you talk about that ability to fight their way back, to get back into the game.
How important it is for GE to streak those rounds when you see it here.
It's a MasterCard Drifty that gives the first round to the attacking side.
And again, think back to how GE lost the last map.
I think having these interuptive rounds is only going to hit them harder because of how the series has gone.
I was a little bit surprised almost to see Braga going back over to that Phoenix.
It's not been the greatest of agents, but if he starts hitting shots like that,
starts getting closer towards that, running back a little bit earlier,
They're going to be very happy in the Unitarn already about to challenge into a multitude of players.
Ultimony with the trade and Mont now, pinged up. They know exactly where Harvey is.
A lot of what he needs to do is just try and avoid the angle of Raga for a second or two more,
and that's exactly what he does. A swing back around, but then he's open to the wall.
Isolation of those players going well for XLG, and in fact, Patman's been caught again,
the last man standing. He's got a weapon you like, but a weapon he'd like to save even more.
I definitely don't like his chances here. Great flash as well, but through the trade at a minimum
for XLG. That's what they were looking for. China's number two, certainly not giving up on that
playoff spot. One round behind facing into a very light fight from GE. It should be at least
putting this equal early on. And the other thing I'll say is early signs Tom seems like
Happy Wayne might have Patman's number. A lot of those rotations, two rounds in a row
that he's sat there waiting for him and catches a freebie.
Yeah, I think Pam is going to have to maybe start taking a slightly safer route. Those
flanks has not been paying off and I think something that almost needs to be talked
about now is, in terms of regional strength, there's been a lot of talk about Pacific,
their depth in teams. If G lose this game, it will just be PaperX. They're the only one
left, a good one to have left them off. XLG certainly looking to try and make that storyline
become a reality already. Down to just two players remaining, the Patman, holding onto
the gun. Oh, so much more value, but happy way again, it's going to be the one to catch
him. He's trying to hold into middle, and now for Harvey, of course, in this case, only
having a Guardian. The kill holds more value, and there you go. Ultima online, he'll fall.
be able to buy into the next round. We got to see a pause soon from GE. XLG you're picking
up too much momentum and like I said thinking about how the last one ended. I just counted
it and I still can't remember. It was like eight rounds in a row or something ridiculous
from XLG. I didn't saw many of those rounds. Think about one of the last ones. Five versus
three for GE. One player runs in, dies, second player runs in, dies with a showstopper and
And all of a sudden it's equal footing.
It feels like at times, G are a victim of their own snowball.
They're being rolled over by an avalanche on XLGM.
And halting that momentum is being too difficult of a task so far.
No timeout.
They run right into this.
XLG fighting for the lead.
The team is taken by Lysor.
It makes them no idea.
It's huge for Lysor, but Patman, this time, needs a little bit more than just the one
the site has fallen and the plant.
Seems undeniable.
Hey, Yuditat has done well, though.
He's down to 30 HP.
He's winning a fight, turning it into an even scenario.
But these retakes, even when even, haven't been successful.
Rez will give them the advantage.
But it's also burning time off the clock
while they wait for a nice shot from Autumn.
But he's now low as well.
His post plan needs to be some shots connected by Leo.
He's got Braga alongside him.
but now Leo is all that remains.
He knows that at least for that moment,
there wasn't anybody on it.
Can he see the army?
Can Shockda needs to connect,
it needs to be perfect,
but it's the shots instead!
But Unitan again, the hero of the round
for GE will be there to close.
The man was 30 HP, he got a heal and ends up on 25.
That is a narrow margin,
but GE, a win is a win at this stage.
Unitan having to do so much work though,
it can't be relied on.
Yes he's had games where he is doing this every single round but we've seen
what happens when he slows down. He's currently set 9th and 3rd in a game
that they're only winning by one round. If he slows down XLG run away with this.
You can see the confidence as well. Like I saw a while that Hunter's Fury's going
on full TP behind them like he was great on the last map towards the end it
seems like he's brought that into this one. Viper's pit on one side, stack up a
players on the other. He'll immediately be needed because the spam almost gets rid of
Yuditan. Of course this has become a double operator setup. One obviously held the other
in the form of the Tour de Force. It gives a lot of angles that that attack side have
to be careful entering, but it's Yuditan instead who's going to be the one moving forward.
There's nobody covering this! But he's not quite able to get the kill.
It's a nice return by Crystal.
It's happy way down.
Maybe Patman can push to spawn this round.
He's got his pit up, so it's certainly not a likely play.
The love of God, no.
I wouldn't be surprised, though.
And XLG, again, we've seen this many times.
You lose that initial fight, pump the brakes, wait for overrotations, and if they don't
happen, well, you're going to have to push right into it, aren't you?
Here we go.
They run it back, put it into play.
to get through the slow, and Uniton's already pushed it, but hello, it's an awkward fight.
Philman gets nothing for his trouble. Uniton's there with another GE now, after slowing down,
after letting XLG in a 4 versus 2. Now a 3 versus 2, his numbers start to slip, you get spooked as Happy falls,
you get scared, and now I'm terrified! It's only autumn, 1 versus 2, a tour de force, but not a snowball!
CHECKS IT OUT!
How did they lose that? Genuinely, it's madness to XLG coming out of these rounds.
I think the first kill comes with Yuditan just stepping into a molotov and then they just
peek one by one by one. If there isn't a pause here, I almost will start to wonder if
the G-Coaching start just giving up because that is crazy that that round ended up slipping away from
them still no pause okay maybe he's broken the button on we go I suppose
G now forced down the pistols maybe they'll even save the pause for the
full buy see what they decide to do with this one early aggression wall put up
happy way doesn't seem too aware of the possibility of someone up on top didn't
seem spooked by it but now he certainly is everything is in this round for G E
like yeah they've got a couple of sheriffs they've got the headhunter as
well they've got a bandit everybody's capable of taking a decent fight not a
favorable one but a decent one the problem is the numbers for XLG once
they go to push and pull the map they can take so many fights on this map that
arranged and you're not winning those even if you trade headshots that on the
other hand's just close enough oh we've said it already the one guy who has been
The one guy who has been hitting is Yuditon.
Picking this round already, weapon retrieved but this is the problem.
I seem very aware of where the danger is in terms of re-aggression.
They're B-splitting though.
They're B-splitting, that means they're going to bring the spike to Yuditon.
It's two kills, it's a tough task in the flash.
Oh!
Just seal the deal!
What a nice try though!
Yeah, it's the fact that he hits the insta-shot. It was committing to playing his life.
The remaining two players don't have much to play with. The headhunter is definitely
the biggest threat, but the second we've seen XLG and these sort of post-plants, it's been
so incredibly difficult for their opponents to get back in. Again, Leo has a shock though.
have a snake bite as well. They just have post part utility that
that's going to make things incredibly difficult and lead
seemingly almost guaranteed unless autumn can hit some very
fast shots and he's not going to be able to happy way in a
deep position. Once again, it's a bit of a costly round for XLG
but with the streak still going, I don't think they'll mind.
No, no, no, I'm there. It is the timeout finally coming in from
G. This is ahead of a very important by round. You lose
here and XLG guarantee themselves more or less they would only be on six for the
shoot counters amongst you but it would be facing into a light buy and a good
chance to at least win the half to guarantee the lead. Now then you add to
that that XLG if they get out of this round without using the Viper's Pint with
the Hunters Fury their chances of winning this round if they do commit
those go up a little bit more and for GE this has to be an airtight plan coming
into this round because XLG have safety net after safety net.
Look at the coinbase win condition. I think it might have
just been rattled off by Frost in the coaching booth. I think
it's not so much round nine. It's the round before they had
such an insane advantage.
And let it slip away just by giving those individual fights
and there's no doubt that there are shooters on the side of
XLG.
No slouches for sure. Lightsaw has been having a great, I want to say a map and a half. You
really came alive towards the end of the last one.
Five of the last six now going the way of XLG. They could continue this streak further.
We've already seen it in the last map.
The problem is that round eight, like you said, this was the round that everything fell apart.
That was the round where GE had the advantages. And it's almost unforgivable for me because
I think they lost Lotus as a result of the exact same round.
It was 5v3, they threw ults at it, they threw themselves at it, but they went one at a time.
That wasn't the only round towards the end that they did that, it was the most egregious because of how it unfolded.
G, same mistakes being made.
XLG happy to punish them.
Now they move towards the A site in a crucial round for the Viper's pit for the post plant.
Passive position now from Pat, and had to fall back just in case.
seems like Lysor is at least considering that he could be in this corner.
Timing not the best for him, but Pac-Man unable to capitalise.
Now he has to move and Lysor has his number once again.
The span perfect and he's still dealing death from above.
Taking the lead in the kills department and well there's plenty more going their way in this round.
He just wants to save but Lysor is taking over.
pause taken into a buy-around and XLG are flawless.
On the upside, they use their pit. On the downside, they still have the Hunter's Fury.
They're close to a run-in back. They've got a massive economical advantage,
almost guaranteed lead at that high time. And Lysor looks like his confidence level has shattered
through the roof. This is devastating. It's a two-round gap. It doesn't seem that big of a
deal but six out of the last seven rounds there for XLG.
GE were 3-0 up facing an eco.
It should have been an easy 4-0 start.
Instead they've stalled out at that number after taking a while to get there.
And look at XLG's plan.
GE are on an eco.
We're going to sit in spawn and eventually they'll use their utile.
Eventually they might even push us and then we can just take the round.
There's some deep utility, which would get the game away.
Dron also been hard.
Alton, this is risky, but it needs to be, and that's a really nice shot.
Can he get away?
That is the real question.
They're being revealed.
Hunter Fury being expended at the same time, creating some disparity, and Lysor is genuinely
the best player right now by a margin for the map to challenge him.
Those two have been going back and forth in terms of individual brilliance.
Nice shot from Happyway though and with Autumn so desperately low 5 health he'd need to
be immediate with his reaction times.
Patman yet to find any sort of weaponry still just with the sheriff in hand and Happyway
around this corner might not be expected to be so desperately close in fact he won't
be.
He leaves Patman now with a gun in hand but still two players to find and even utility
being expended.
They're trying to hit him with the shot that's well vulnerable.
All he could really hope for is to create some space,
but he will not be able to.
Another round.
And now the half one as well.
G came through today after a breakthrough up against Fullsense.
Looked like that might have given them the confidence
to carry forward while XLG struggled
against a team that they know all too well.
It felt like today there were two different power levels
stepping into the server and maybe there were
at the start it felt favored to GE but now
the winds have changed in full effect.
One round left in the half here on Breeze,
XLG of a chance to lead eight to four
and the chance for playoffs looking better than ever.
bit of spam damage. It's the worst player to spam though. The Phoenix who has an ult,
he's gonna come right back into that game. Crap is actually the conversation after their
victory yesterday was, can they beat anybody other than their own regional rival or will
they now just bomb straight out of the tournament? And they're looking to really start asking
some questions of some teams of course those uppercedes get to choose who they
face and I'm starting to wonder if people won't want to choose them at times
they're an orthodox their compositions risky but they're the ones that make
it work and speak it a risky look at this man play finally we'll put him in
the dirt but there's a second layer every single time and for Harvey well
that one should be free it almost is him 36 hell but he'll get a heal one from
arrest. But look at the position of of Raga. Why would you expect him to be here?
The reveal coming from Main as well. You're fully locked in on that position.
He should cast an eye in this direction, but now to focus on Main it will be 8-4.
The team who started slow in this series woke up on map 2 and now have a
dominant lead in the third. XLG seem to be playoff bound. Oh yeah, off the big
3-0 down. It's crazy the way that they brought this back, but we need to find out if they can close it after the break.
No! Come on, boys!
Come on, boys!
Jhen here with No Man of XLG.
Now, GE seems pretty confident against you guys.
Do you think that's justified?
Not at all.
You know, the players that we have, I think,
you know, especially Uditan,
He's a really good player, but we have a happy way, so I don't think it's justified.
So happy way is better than Udotan.
Okay, let's see his reaction to that.
He's here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Gen here with Udotan of GE Udotan, what do you think are the win conditions for GE and XLG?
I think Fuebol will win the first match, 2-0 I think.
Oh, so it's going to be 2-0 either way?
Yeah, 2-0.
Interesting.
When it really stitched them up by playing that going into the third map, you know someone saved that as well.
Well, they were going into Mac 2, so he put it on.
No, no, no, saving for the final.
Well, here we are, 8 to 4 XLG.
Honestly, I am flabbergasted by the performance
they've had, 3-0 down, going into an eco.
And they come out 8 and 4 with complete control.
Lysor seems to have hit another power level entirely.
And he is raining down hell upon global eSports,
now have a big resurgence needed in his final map to keep their playoff streams alive.
They managed to do it on the attack side versus four cents, autumn crystal, and Udo Tarn for
the players to watch.
Autumn had a decent start to this game, but it does just feel like the wind has been taken
out of their sails and XLG are sailing strong with the wind at their back.
A pistol round almost feels like it seals it, but even still, considering once, it just
feels like the second XOG went around, they're just going to win five.
Like, there needs to be something that brings up the GE players, otherwise they will be
joining full sense.
That playing back to Pacific.
Well, this is it.
A pistol that carries so much weight.
is essential for GE to find this one. Rex LG, one step closer to playoff. Rock around
from Leo is good. He'll get a kill, but it's only the trade-off. They've lost. Happy way.
Have he ready to strike in mid? Finds another, but he's now under pressure. Surrounded and
he makes it out. The door is allowing him to slip back to the squad with a man advantage.
Yeah, a powerful post on
With so many players back towards main this corner position from you to a time might not even necessarily be expected it will but it doesn't matter
an immediate headshot
This man expected a two-oh, and if it was off his ability it might have been
You've been having a great game goes for a little more at this stage, of course
the clock
Becomes their greatest friend even still though they're losing a lot of members all at once
He almost needs to get this done now and Harvey will keep it in their favor a much needed pistol round for GE
Yeah, probably not the round you want to be winning by eight HP
But I look a win as a win and for GE a much needed one indeed again
This is where they have found the vast majority of their rounds in the first half
3-0 start. I even remember at 3-0. I said, you know, it just feels like at any point XLG can bounce back
Didn't really think we'd see it in the first half let alone in the fourth round, but
That's gonna be in the back of your mind is GE here. Yes, you win the pistol
But every little helps from this point forward
XLG
Actually, I mean autumn is in a ton of trouble all five players are here. There's a paranoia ready
he can TP back, but even then they should be on him.
So one player you kind of don't mind being in too much trouble though.
Maybe other than Patman, because the second he hears all those footsteps,
stunning to support him and they could just opt to high tail it in the other direction.
And that's exactly what their opponents think.
Okay, we've just given away the game on one side of the map.
Let's quickly rotate to the other all five players, now in mid.
Now I said the other sacrificial lamb would be Patman.
Only with a pistol, light shields, not a whole lot to play with.
And he's about to see half the team go through, well, a second three for fair play.
They didn't really need to get too much in, it's not going well for Orton, that's for sure,
but all they really lose is a ghost and a Marshal.
That's absolutely fine.
Yeah, not going too well for Orton, indeed.
5 and 12 on the chamber, it's a bit of a shaky map for him.
Maybe he needs to change, although you'd expect it on the defense, even with those numbers
to be put up.
XLG did a great job of avoiding it, and all those times it just rippin' his head off.
To be fair to Autumn, when they played in the last map, he was very good in the attack.
I remember him jumping into angles with the Operator, even versus Primmy, and he was able
to win those fights.
I think it's just a confidence thing.
He's been having such a rough game that he needs to break back in.
Looking to break into the A side quite quickly. This is the full buy from XLG. Ops on the other side of the map. Big tag up on a Utaton.
It's risky, it's spooky. Now the AWP is the one primed for the fight. A little early on the angle. He doesn't expect them to be that close, but Autumn just ran into him.
And they have no idea about Happy Way. He gets damaged on, but the kills, they need to follow and they do. At least one.
And there's no man's thorn!
He's tagged Crystal through the smoke!
And the shock dart closes, it may come.
Crystal's life has a timer on it,
and that timer is ticking the sands of time,
running low as Raga will catch him, rotating.
Nine on the board for XLG.
Four players surviving as well.
That's absolutely what money make around,
and no man's on his feet.
For those who don't know, there's a running joke with him that he always gets a 3k.
And look at this, the amount of damage he does to the final player.
Please don't fire me, please.
It's just, it's crazy, it's genuinely like it's rated at the stars.
3k!
Oh you know, 4k was taken anyway, Tec just had that title for quite a while, but
if he wants to claim the 3k, it genuinely seems like it's written in the stars.
This operator take it over and now in the right place to the right time again, of course, that was a bonus round for G but with the weapons they had
They might have hoped to do a little bit more damage, the operator seemed to maybe blind sign them a little bit that it came in so early
It won't again, they're definitely going to know it's here
Now it's on Autumn to find this space. They've sent the drone to A. It's a weak fake. It
hasn't pulled rotations for XLG. It hasn't made them panic. They still have first contact
on Happy Way for the right side. Push Rarga on the angle as well. A double swing will
come in just moments after. It's Snakebite lands, but this is, first of all, Snakebite's
a little deep autumn can't get back out of their patents on the wrap around and
he's been spotted but with happy way down it feels like a lot of the danger
for G is already gone and mere seconds later every other piece falls to that
was a great round from autumn I said like he's been having some real struggles
but to go swinging in onto that B site win the opening fight and then play
through the poison or the plan the second that could breathe some life
into the team just a small timing on it and then what happened finally getting a
little bit revenge catching players on the rotation after being caught throughout
the majority of that first half again and another solid start
all the side of GE and this turn into a victory or is it gonna be the same as
That's the last couple of maps where XoG find their momentum and then the map is theirs.
Well it seems like XoG's prime this round is to leave that A main hit alone, let them
take the space and instead fight back into mid.
Paranoia was being primed by Lysor but no one's there.
game and decide on the slowest play.
Slowest play possible, really, from Pat,
man, the man who comes into this round with a Viper's Pigeon.
Expect him to be with the Packing instead.
He sits behind lurking.
Now, wall goes down.
It's granted.
It's only to cover his cross back through.
But he is instead just containing the space behind them.
Everyone on site can be content that their back is secure.
And that allows them to fight forward
with great confidence.
Yeah, important to have him as that backstab.
It was something that you mentioned that he was getting caught on the other side often by happy way and now he's been able to do the same to him and I think that was what it was about.
Like you have to bear in mind these teams play each other regularly in their scrims and so to outmaneuver someone you're going to have to be smarter.
They're going to know some of your tendencies so playing much deeper, playing off-site with a Viper's pit, it's a little bit obscure but it's worked out wonderfully for G.
one round behind. The weaponry
going to be much more of an issue in this one for XLG.
Whether or not, there you go. It's such an off angle.
And if there's more than one player, he's almost definitely dead to rights.
But that just feels like a hard read on what his opponents were going to do.
The worrying thing here as XLG call a timeout is, again,
drawing the comparison of how so many GE maps have gone,
Early success and then they completely teeter out
We just saw it three rounds in a row to start the first half and then they got one from that point onwards
Now four out of five rounds have gone their way. They won the rounds. They should one and two
They won that they lose the third as you'd expect on your bonus and they fall right back into things now put XLG
down to an eco
And I would say the next round is where XLG can fight back, but then I think in the last
map and it was the eco where they bounced back into things where they completely shattered
GE. Yeah, something that has as well been a coin based win condition has been Havoya.
Go back to the first map. I think I think it was five rounds in a row. He takes a pause.
I think maybe they get one more and then they streak the rounds back. He has been someone
to sort of get them back in check to spot if things are going wrong. And he's done it
early as well like you even got back to the last map it was after they lost two
rounds immediately I know I need to take a pause in this moment and he's found
that moment once again of course it's not going into a buy-round but they do
have some interesting pieces on the table a rifle for no man
hunter's fury and even a couple of volts just one the way okay
It is definitely a round that G want to be cautious in.
I say G but I don't say Patman.
He's taking risks even in these rounds.
Go back to Lotus, go back to Haven.
We saw it as well, some TPs up against the Ecos as well.
But his reward is huge.
He's gotten himself double doors control.
He's pulled the rest of the squad back towards this A site.
And Molly's going to slow them down for a moment to paranoia though.
This could be deadly from Lysor.
round that wall but he won't have enough ammo to finish off the kill and in fact it
takes a while for Raga but in goes the hunter's fury it was aimed at Havi but
he survives and because of that gets himself a res puts this into a 4v2 and
again it was definitely a bump in the road but it looks like they've weathered
the storm. That's a good chance as well though. Hatham's position is not gonna be
expected it doesn't matter though no man will win the fight but there's happy
still just down to the classic a wrap around even coming in from behind if he
was to get anything it seems like the goal is maybe to just try and retrieve
the rifle but that's easier said than done. 9-9 G's fight back continues as they
will level up and get themselves onto the same score however this is where the
pause was for and honestly this got a little bit dangerous I think if it wasn't
having just the reactions to put himself up on the wall. He's probably dead and then that Hunter's Fury might have eliminated half of their team.
But honestly if the Hunter's Fury is tucked in a little bit behind that corner,
I think he gets the kill on the happy as well. That would have stopped the res from coming in. Never mind the man advantage.
They would have been neck and neck and XLG would have had a chance to get some rifles. It is worrying
with how things have gone before but as you said the pause was for this round.
XLG come into the previous and they do a pretty good job in the brawls.
This flash, it's not a pretty flash, it hasn't made it around the corner, old's gonna be
popped down with a chance of Varga going in through the wall of Utaton, and he has sent
the entire attacking side out of A main, they have no space elsewhere on the map either,
and the trap's gonna be broken, and I think even worse, they think Lysor is there.
They must have heard the TP, thank god they were spamming it.
Look at some of the control though in the defender's positions.
They've got deep presence towards B. They've got deep presence towards mid.
They're definitely not playing afraid at this stage of the map even after losing a streak
of rounds and by the looks of it.
Raga thought, well, you know, the last flash was so good.
I'm going to attempt this one again.
Forty seconds up and coming on the clock and a lot of this feels like Patman is a huge
paw off this one they might be looking to try and hunt him down 30 seconds left
fact that he avoided the fight he thinks that they've just left him as an
unaccounted for factor but Batman back turned to happy way it's an easy pick up
now to push out to site under heavy threat 15 seconds the plant needs to be
found fairly soon and there's more than enough players here to cover every
No 3K this time, but a flawless round for XLG is just as good.
Man, but every time we see the Void take a pause there's impact. Every single time.
The trap set up to start it off with the run it back.
The aggression in to mid, just a wait for Pat. And he has been annoying.
They've been caught by him multiple times. They don't flank through the spawn.
They just hold their positions. Much more patient.
And even no man just waiting and cased it were to go back to be but once they had the information
Crossed through they hold that ground
And they punish global e-sports of course the global e-sports have been
getting a lot of
rounds streaked together
Plenty of economy to buy into this one tore before seeming to help out a little more and Mitch they've got the Alts
Exactly at the safety nets. Maybe needed. It's double digits for XLG. They'd left B decently
open but rotate back in from happy way. Now one away from the Viper's pit as well. The
drones almost perfectly in sync coming out from both sides. But that midspace that was
just cleared by XLG, they don't know that Patman is flying under the radar. He has been caught
for free, and now man advantage for XLG.
Genuinely wonder if that was part of the pause hunt
to try and find that map.
The spam is doing so much damage.
Autumn was waiting for the right moment,
and it never quite came.
Already, that overdrive is going to be pulled into play,
but you have to bear in mind it ticks away pretty quickly.
Bladestorm also thrown in.
A lot of ultimates into the round.
McRistor's late position is going
to help out a little bit.
Losing teammates on the other side.
He has to try and expand that Hunter's Fury, and he will be able to do some damage.
A lot of damage, in fact.
So far, Mike just clear it instead.
He's found the TV, and there is Crystal again!
Another Red Bull Clutch to add to the collection!
Oh, this guy came to London in the zone.
I don't know what they're putting in Crystal's coffee, but this guy.
A Red Bull Clutch found here, and it's certainly not the first big round
We've seen from him again every series has had a map where he is by far the best player
But outside of that in every map. He's had these rounds. He's had these moments
And that keeps us even that keeps G
in with a chance
Vipers picked right away from happy way towards this B site
There's three players looking to fight a main on XLG. Meanwhile, the wrap is coming around. G have got a ton of space
Patman's being picked off right away. You can see XLG are wary of this Leo
They'll call with his bow and arrow out. Sound of favorable fight? This man's good from life's order, but least trade it back
And it looks like the rest of the team is so far behind
But at least a trade from autumn will keep this competitive
That's why it's spotted in middle and because no man's gone down
It's an immediate response from well both sides in that happy way it falls out of his pit
No, he could be surrounded and the other players have then got aggressive
in towards A main. Now it does mean that there's a pretty hefty opening on the B site. It looks like their decision
is to just try and play this one as a retake. Use that man advantage in their favor.
But it's very slow from GE. They are expecting there to be someone implemented.
There has been all the way through the map. Whenever they rotate, there is someone in an aggressive position.
And this is one of the first times that there isn't.
Yeah, in fact, happy way gave up the Viper's pit, he dropped it, and then just fell back
to the spawn.
He's covering off this mid push, making sure no one comes through there.
And if you know they haven't come that way, and they're not an AMA, and it's pretty easy
to guess where they might be.
The only problem is a chamber trip still behind the smoke, though, gonna cover it off.
Half covering.
Not able to sneak their way past.
This is huge for Lysor, but he won't catch the plant.
And now Autumn.
He's looking back.
He's worried about the window.
In fact, he's worried that they've done exactly this,
that they've made it past this trap,
but the bait is beautiful.
Rarga drew his eye and has left Crystal
in need of another gigantic play.
That spray looked good.
Life soars alive on 5 HP.
But Crystal might still have done enough.
Despite though being confused as we speak,
the man with five helped the man
who survived the battle with Crystal just moments ago.
Oh! Sticks it right around the corner!
11 for XLG!
And that's got to hurt. That's got to sting.
It looked like Lysor was dead to rights.
This is the problem.
Go back to the last map when the street continued.
Who was there? Lysor.
Look at this map. 24 and 14.
There's been impact players throughout but he has been the guy and if they are to make
it into the playoff stage, I know who will be getting the majority of the thanks.
There's no doubt about that.
GE will call their second pause.
It was a very close run.
Again, an incredible attempt from Crystal.
Seconds with a margin.
And an even finer margin of HP, 5 remained.
That doesn't mean too much now.
They'll invest into this one.
Both teams are going to have their economy on the brink.
In fact, this might be the difference between XOG
closing this in regulation and a potential overtime.
Well, that's the end of the time now.
G...
One more chance is to touch base with the coaching staff
unless XLG give them one.
One round lead for the defensive side and G come in here with a mixed spot. It's gonna be full rifles. It's gonna be a vifers pit
But you know time
Man top of the scoreboard
It looked like he was gonna play with this thinger. Thank God. He's got a drop. He's got himself a phantom
Back in the driver's seat. You would hope for G E or this will be an event that they will be quick to forget
If you sleep this night, it might disagree with you if some of these rounds have gone,
but it's both teams on the edge of making it to playoffs or making it on for the next
flight home.
Run it back.
Available.
Happy way.
It's just going to catch you the time.
tries to be a hero and instead has gone down immediately.
The judge still up close, still causing issues.
The trainer should be there, but he's still gonna
have teammate to play with.
Crystal though has got two in a second.
It would have to be an ace.
Three players were still on the other side of the map.
They maybe thought that those two could do some damage,
but they've almost won the round alone.
to make this to 12 for XLG started this series down a map needing the reverse sweep and Crystal
has been the man that's caused so many headaches for them.
Look how patient they are.
Where GE were in the lead on Lotus and they made some individual mistakes.
They were a little ambitious in the fights they took.
Well, it's a different story from XLG.
They took in, they played together,
and they win together 12 to 10.
Two chances for XLG to eliminate Global Esports.
Two chances for XLG to make it to playoffs.
The down on the previous map
had needed a fast streak of rounds, which they got.
they've been down in this second half as well with GE again seemingly finding
that momentum but once more the voyeur takes a pause the game turns on its head
and now the pressure is all on global e-sports I look like they came into this
game as the favorites eliminating false sense on their journey while XLG took
down DRG and now it all comes down to this happy way well plays and he's taken
out three that might just be the end crystal alongside autumn who's already
down to ten he's already gone and now crystal with the most impossible clutch
of the lot to keep globally sports in the tournament they know exactly where he
revealed, blinded, spammed, and eliminated!
It is XLG that goes marching on to the playoffs,
and GE will be heading home.
So many would have said that XLG's destiny
was a flight in a few days,
but destiny only binds you if you let it.
They came to this event underestimated,
but that time may be behind them.
them, Lysor, 25 and 14, they dug deep. And now a deep run could be in their future, making
waves on the international stage and history in the making.
It's super impressive. Govley sports fought hard, there's no doubt about it. They had
to go back versus their countrymen and then they had to fight their scrim partners. For
that meant fighting his old team and you can see there's still a lot of love for the guys on the other side.
Unfortunately, when you fight your friends, there is still only one that can go marching on.
And this time, the victor was XLG, a very impressive display, a show of resilience.
And I'll be honest, the coach that I think deserves a lot of applause, that was perfectly timed pauses all the way through the games.
the games and that has led them to a short break today off and then they're
right back to fight again in the playoffs. They've certainly earned that
rest down on that stage as I said many would have questioned how far XLG
could make it but it seems that story hasn't hit the end of the run just yet
a few more chapters still to be told for GE they can hold their heads high
they made waves here on the international scene but it's never a good
feeling to go home having only beaten regional rivals sadly I'll have to fix
that next time
a day to remember and plenty of highlight players that performed
massively for the side of XLG. They're definitely going to be going home tonight happy.
But there's still plenty more work to do. It is the beginning, but for now let's close out the day
with the Verizon Post-Match interview and Leo. We're surrounded by some very happy and satisfied
XLG fans but we've got to talk to Leo before he can go and meet them. Leo, first of all what was
What is your reaction to knowing you were going to be playing against Global Esports, given that you scream against them so much?
The first question is, when you knew that you were going to face G1 today,
what was your reaction after the training match?
I feel like it's like the usual.
Because I've trained with them so many times,
I feel like the best model is actually like in the training match.
I feel like we can just treat this game as a real case.
We scream a lot, so we just like take this game as a scream.
And Leo, tell me how you guys managed that comeback on Lotus.
When did you realize you could win?
I want to ask you, how did you realize that you are back in your current state?
I think Happy's performance is really important.
I think that from the moment we won the game, we knew that we can win.
I feel like Happy's performance is really brutal for us.
because after we plot this fight in the seaside,
we just knew that we can win.
Well, congratulations.
You did win, Leo.
You've made it to the playoffs.
I want to let you go and celebrate
with your incredible XLG fans.
They've been chanting for you guys all afternoon.
We'll see you on Friday, potentially, maybe Saturday.
Thank you so much.
I say Friday or Saturday because we don't know
when XLG are going to be playing next
because we've got to go to the draw show.
Thank you so much, Efe, for translating.
Leo, please go and meet the fans.
You guys come with me.
So, I'm not alone on stage.
Obviously, I'm joined with Nick for the draw show,
but also we're joined by the coaches
from our number one seeded teams from our four regions.
We've got Neil Zinho from Team Heretics.
We've got Autumn Coach of EDG.
We've got Alex of PaperX,
and we've got Josh, our team for G2.
And this is quite simple, isn't it, Nick?
You've just got to put your hands in the balls
and find out which coach gets to pick first.
Hey, everybody, yep, this draws as simple as it gets.
So I will simply pick a ball,
that coach will come up and pick their opponent
and then we will add them to the bracket.
We will do that in sequential order.
So the first pick will go here,
second pick will go here, and so on.
And then after that,
we'll determine the final schedule and move on.
Okay, shall we get our hands or your hands
specifically on some balls, please, Nick?
Let's do it.
Here we go. Let's crack it open.
Who picks first? It is Josh Artie from G2!
Let's all cast our eyes on who you're going to be picking.
Any thoughts?
I like how you're pretending to think hard about this.
You already know who you want going.
It's our last recruited playoff team, XLG. Any thoughts as to why? Why have you just chosen
a team that's still celebrating down there, Josh?
Honestly, I feel like we have a good matchup. I know the coach and all the players very
well and I feel like it'll be a good game for us.
Just a little bit of friendly banter. Nick, hands in the balls please.
I need you to say it into the microphone, please, Nick Crackett, EDG, bottom stroking
the chin.
I love that these coaches are making things dramatic.
They know.
Show it to the audience.
Autumn has picked foot.
Any reason?
fun. Looking fun. We love it.
That's what we're here to have, guys.
Fun and Nick, you're not.
You're here to do something very serious.
Hands in the bowl, please.
There we go. Nick well and truly milks that moment.
I don't blame him.
Hey, corrects. All right then, Alex.
Come on. This side.
I like Leo's idea looking for the 20.
You've already got three teams for Europe.
come on.
Come on.
All right, there we go.
Alex, did you just pretend that the audience chose that for you?
I was trying to see which one was louder.
What's that say?
I was trying to see which one was louder.
Okay, well, I mean, it's going to be a banging matchup.
I can't wait to see the aggression in that particular one.
And Nilsinho, wait, no.
Nick has to crack your name first.
Okay, sorry.
Yeah, those are the rules.
number. Come on Nick. Oh what are the chances? It's Team Moretics. All right now, there you go.
Oh what do you know guys? It's another regional matchup but it had to happen given that there are
three EMEA teams in the playoffs. Neil, does this surprise you? No honestly I can't
expected not to get a chance. I don't know why but yeah well I take one of like you said there's three
teams in the playoffs so yeah I'm happy. Well I can't wait to see when these matches are going to
be happening but that hasn't been decided yet because Nick needs to go backstage and have
a nata with the powers that beat from Riot Games so make sure you keep your eyes on the socials
to find out who'll be playing when. We've got a day off here to resect with people a little bit
of a break but on Friday we'll be coming back with the playoffs rocket you don't want to miss it
we'll see you then
well that was exciting i'm here with coach boya from xlg now i want your reaction from the draw
first of all who are you hoping would pick you like or who are you hoping to play against first
I really want the team here, because I think it's a comfortable matchup for us.
And obviously I didn't want you to pick us.
That's obviously why, because we've been struggling with the N18s,
but whatever happens, we're going to prepare better.
And I hope Raga is going to pop again and show them the real Raga.
What do you think it is that you struggle against the American team?
So why do you think that is?
I think it's about the style they play, because they used to play against the EMEA teams,
and this is the style that we're actually playing, at least we are trying to.
And also, I would say, because of the players' individual skill, it's a little bit higher.
They really fast in decisions, they have good macro and micro,
and those aspects actually make sense on international stage.
What is it about the EMEA style that you'd like to bring into this XLG team?
It's like when you're inserting someone, when you have like a full map control,
when you have a main pack playing around the map and two guys controlling other zones,
when you can hear rotations, just anyone can call you what to do and don't wait your
eyes out to tell you anything and this is how I see the EME, please tell.
Yeah, it's working very well for you.
Yeah, it is. Now this is very different than the last time you are on a global stage
Coming in, not as first seed, you're not there picking a team this time.
How do you think this will shake out a little bit differently?
Do you think this is an advantage that XLG has been going through the swiss gauntlet?
Actually, I think it's a little bit advantage because we had some practice on the stage.
Those guys have been waiting like one week, I guess, for other teams to join them in the playoffs.
Also, I'm happy that we could practice with different regions this time.
this time and maybe we get some more confidence because today my team looks very much better.
Yesterday's talks was something that was really mandatory before today's game and
yeah I think we have a little bit of match. I do want to ask about that. Do you guys have a
performance coach, a mental coach? Because we've been hearing these interviews with Rarga and
he seems to be suffering from confidence but when it comes out on the server he's so dangerous.
I mean, how do you manage that?
Actually, we've been trying different mental coaches.
Probably we didn't find the proper one.
We're still looking for someone.
And now we have a psychologist who's helping us out.
I think Todey Raga was doing fine because even from the morning his mental state was very, very good.
He's doing great.
And I hope this is the start of his bringing back form point, thank you.
When he answers some of those questions in a very direct way, is that just him being
him or is that actually part of the psychology where he's a little bit down on himself maybe?
I mean, I know a little bit more about Raga than anyone else in the team.
I would say there is nothing that counts from his childhood.
I don't want to leak it, but yeah, he...
I just want people to understand that he is that kind of player,
and we all know he can change himself.
He's just a question about the time.
Well, everyone should show Raga a little bit of love,
a little bit of patience, and he definitely showed up today.
And, you know, before we say goodbye,
you are gonna be facing against G2.
Unfortunately, you know, you weren't happy about that,
but do you have any words for Josh RT?
before G2, before this happens?
Um, Josh, um,
Trump was a prank from us.
Santiago was a warm-up,
and next match is going to be a real match, I hope.
I love to hear it.
I love to hear it.
I want to see XLG bring it to G2.
It gives them a bit of a challenge there.
Now, today we did have to say goodbye to NRG
and Global Esports.
matchups were so close and really, you know, really sad to send both of these things home.
Yeah, EME on top and then even the EME style working for Xochitl, what can we say?
Look at you just trying to claim everything.
I'm just rage baiting you.
I know.
You are.
You're so good at it.
But yeah, I think today went the distance.
I think it was even closer than all the regional matchups, you know.
We expected the regional matchups yesterday be close, but today you could see how much
I'm sure it was extremely stressful for you throughout,
but that's over.
You guys can take a break.
We are going to have a break tomorrow,
and the matches do begin again.
So check online.
Check our socials for the schedule.
These are the teams that it will be playing.
I hope you guys are excited by this draw show.
You can't blame Nick anymore, okay?
These teams picked who they want to play.
And do you guys have,
are you excited about any of the teams
that are going to be playing tomorrow?
Who they want to play and do you guys have are you excited about any particular of these matches besides your own wave up?
excited about every match because I want to see the form good form of each team and
I just hope it's gonna be really nice players
Yeah, people will enjoy it more. I think they will and many paper X love
I think for sure the fire power I said the level for the biggest firepower this team
I think that team of this
tournament alongside paper X,
and I think that's going to be a
fiery one. Oh yeah, that's going to
be super fun. I'm really looking
forward to playoffs, which will be
happening very soon. We're going to
take a little bit of a break.
Everyone's been working super hard
on this show, and this concludes
the Swiss stage of your host,
Victoria. We're joined by mini Billy,
who's backstage somewhere in
Pueva again. Congratulations.
Everyone have a good night and we'll
see you on Friday for playoffs.
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